论明代中叶的皇权之争

明代土木之变后,统治者在解决皇位继承问题时,出于抵御瓦剌的现实需要,采取了变通办法。这种办法违背了封建统治的的基本要求,客观上造成了最高权力不够集中的局面,从而导致了长达十几年的皇权之争。此后这种斗争日趋激化。直到天顺中期,随着最高统治权绝对集中的局面再次出现,这场斗争方始告一段落。

On the Struggle for Imperial Power in Middle Ming Dynasty

After the Tumu Rebellion, the rulers of Ming Dynasty adopted flexible methods in solving the inheriting problems of the thrones out of the necessity of defending the invasion of Waci Kingdom. But those methods, contrary to the basic requirement of the feudal rule, caused such a situation that the supreme authority could not be centralized in reality, which led to the struggle for imperial power as long as decades of years. This struggle became increasingly serious from then on but came to an end up to Tianshun Middle Period, when the supreme rule was absolutely centralized again.