The Reborn Duke of Ming Dynasty

Concubine Wang Guifei gave birth to a son, and Zhu Yijun was delighted with the birth of a son. Although this event, so to speak, makes people feel that it is really a celebration, and it is considered a big event, but in fact, no matter how you look at it, this matter Everything was a trouble, and it was a very big trouble, especially at that time, even though there was little movement, it involved a lot.

However, this incident finally came to an end with the birth of Zhu Changluo, but what ended was only such an incident. The real troubles also began at this time, and now, it is only This trouble was just beginning, so now it is not obvious that there is any problem, but everyone knows that if there is no problem now, it does not mean that there will be no problem in the future, and this matter will definitely cause a big problem in the future.

However, as I said just now, the troubles will be in the future, that is, we will talk about them later. At least now, there are no such troubles. Therefore, for the people in the court, this matter will cause troubles in the future. At least ten or eight years will pass, and there is no need to worry too much now, just wait quietly.

After the matter in the palace subsided for the time being, those people in the court again withdrew their gazes and focused on the things in front of them. The things in front of them were actually related to Zhang Juzheng, and Zhang Juzheng's This kind of change has had a very big impact. For example, people can clearly feel that it is much easier to do things now than before.

And even for Zhang Juzheng's "Testing Method" and "One Whip Method" that Zhang Juzheng valued very much, after such a change in Zhang Juzheng, he did not become slack because of Zhang Juzheng's relaxation. In fact, Zhang Juzheng's That kind of relaxation is only for the people in the court, but what he pays attention to, and about the things he advocates, it is naturally impossible for him to relax in the slightest.

In this way, the people below still have no way to get the slightest extra benefit from it. Therefore, they are still very unhappy about this matter and trouble the people above all day long.

And those people above have nothing to do. Originally, it was Zhang Juzheng who controlled the government, and they couldn't do anything at all, but at that time, even if they couldn't do anything, they secretly wrote down all these things, especially Zhang Juzheng. How to exercise power in the court, they have clearly written down every stroke, and in the future, once Zhang Juzheng leaves, then they will have very favorable evidence to drive Zhang Juzheng to the bottom. And in this way, the new laws established by Zhang Juzheng will be self-defeating.

But now, Zhang Juzheng has suddenly changed his appearance. Originally, Zhang Juzheng, who had assumed power because of the supreme power in his hands, has changed now. It has become a matter of facing the court. Zhang Juzheng can It is very reasonable, but in the face of the new law, Zhang Juzheng is unreasonable, such a situation.

And this caused some headaches for these people in the court. Where Zhang Juzheng can reason is indeed what the court should do. As for these, they have no way to catch Zhang Juzheng, and Zhang Juzheng can't reason. place, but it is true that there is no way to talk to him. In this way, they will have no way to trouble Zhang Juzheng.

Moreover, even if they hold the evidence they had before, looking at the current situation, these evidences are becoming more and more useless.

Why do they say that? The reason why they collected Zhang Juzheng's evidence before is because they saw very clearly that what Zhang Juzheng did in the court at that time could be said to have aroused the dissatisfaction of many people, including those already in charge of the government. The emperor, they can all see that the emperor is very unhappy with Zhang Juzheng.

But now, with Zhang Juzheng's sudden change, suddenly, all the people in the court who were unhappy with Zhang Juzheng seemed to have changed their appearance in such an instant. Of course, for these people, the people in the court It doesn't matter what people think of Zhang Juzheng, because even if Zhang Juzheng hasn't done anything, it's very easy for the people in the court to frame him.

The most important thing is what the emperor thinks of Zhang Juzheng. If the emperor is not happy with Zhang Juzheng, then it will be very convenient to settle the matter in the future. But if the emperor is not unhappy with Zhang Juzheng, and the relationship is still very good, I'm afraid, even if Zhang Juzheng did something wrong, it would be very difficult to trouble him.

But now, the situation is like this. Before Zhang Juzheng changed, the people in the court knew very clearly that the person who was most upset with Zhang Juzheng was Zhu Yijun, but they also knew that because Zhang Juzheng was in power now, let alone Zhu Yijun was dead, and even Queen Mother Li had nothing to do with him, so Zhu Yijun was able to hold back.

But now, Zhang Juzheng has made such a big change in just one night, and with Zhang Juzheng's change, Zhu Yijun has once again become as close to him as he had with Zhang Juzheng when he just ascended the throne .

Although this kind of thing happened in front of their eyes, they still couldn't believe it, and felt that it was too unreasonable.

But no matter what they think, what happened is what happened, and in this way, all their thoughts and plans will be changed because of the change of the situation.

It is not difficult to change, but for this matter, what is difficult for them is that Zhang Juzheng has suddenly become perfect in their eyes, and they have no way to do it, even if they have Zhang Juzheng in their hands. But now facing Zhang Juzheng like this, the emperor will never hold him accountable. In this way, they understand that even if Zhang Juzheng leaves the court in the future, there are still some things that cannot be changed. .

If you think about it, this "One Whip Law" allows the court to earn a lot of money every year, and the common people also agree with this matter very much. Of course, the reason why the common people are like this is also because of the current " The One Whip Law can be implemented in accordance with the regulations, and no one dares to act recklessly.

But today's emperor, Zhu Yijun's mind, most of the people in the court also understand, among other things, Zhu Yijun's favorite is silver, everyone knows this, although it is said that because the sea was collected a long time ago The merchant's tax bank made Daming both the national treasury and the emperor's internal treasury very full, and there was no shortage of money at all, but even so, for a person who loves money like Zhu Yijun, it is absolutely impossible for him to think that there is not enough money .

Therefore, people in the court also understand that even if Zhang Juzheng leaves in the future, as long as his relationship with Zhu Yijun is not too bad, then Zhu Yijun will not find a reason to liquidate him, and as long as Zhu Yijun does not want to move him , then a series of things such as "One Whip Method" and "Testing Method" done by Zhang Juzheng will not be affected.

Even in terms of the "One Whip" alone, as long as it can continue to increase the court's annual income, then Zhu Yijun will not touch it.

It can only be said that "One Whip" has been completely inseparable from Zhang Juzheng. If you want to move, you have to move both of them; but if one party can't move, then the other party can't move either. .

For Zhu Yijun, it is obvious that even if he wants to find a reason to liquidate Zhang Juzheng, if compared with the liquidation of Zhang Juzheng, which makes him feel better, it is really not as good as what "One Whip" can bring. If it's good, then Zhu Yijun won't do that.

And in this way, for these people in the DPRK, this is not good news.

As far as they are concerned, they are now doing everything possible to collect evidence that can trouble Zhang Juzheng, but in fact, as far as they are concerned, if it is really time for Zhang Juzheng to leave, if they do it, the main purpose is not to In order to avenge Zhang Juzheng.

For these people, this kind of revenge is very naive, not to mention that Zhang Juzheng had already left the court at that time, and it was impossible to threaten them anymore. If so, what's the use of revenge on Zhang Juzheng Well, it's just a bad breath in my heart, and it doesn't have any practical meaning at all.

What they are really concerned about is that while taking revenge on Zhang Juzheng, they can also associate the "One Whip Method" with Zhang Juzheng to stop it, and as long as the "One Whip Method" stops, they have to go back to the past. That method, and for the past method, these people are very familiar, and they can reap a lot of benefits from it.

But now, Zhang Juzheng can't move anymore, even if he leaves, these people can't move Zhang Juzheng, and since even Zhang Juzheng can't move, then the "One Whip Method" that is still bringing great benefits to the court, that is No matter what they say, there is no reason to stop it, and if they can't stop the "One Whip Law", they can't do anything, they can only be honest, even if they want to make some money, they can only charge the few Thousands and hundreds of taels of silver, helping others with small things, if they charge too much, they will naturally be afraid of people from Jinyiwei and Dongchang knocking on the door, and even, even if it is only such a few thousand and hundreds of taels of silver, they have to be careful Because if Jinyiwei or Dongchang want to trouble them, they don't need much, ten taels of silver is enough.

Therefore, this change of Zhang Juzheng is really a good thing for the emperor, the cabinet, and those who have no crooked ideas. For humans, this is not a good thing.

However, there is nothing these people can do about this matter. Even if they think about it, they can't do anything about it. They can only watch the "One Whip Law" continue to be implemented.

Therefore, these people no longer count on the evidence collected before, they want to make a final struggle, and the so-called final struggle is actually these people picking on Zhang Juzheng, although Zhang Juzheng has changed now, It became the same as when he just became the chief assistant, but this kind of change came too fast, and it was really uncomfortable for people to get used to it.

And for these people, they don't believe that Zhang Juzheng can do things so perfectly. In their view, even if Zhang Juzheng's transformation is very thorough, but because the speed is too fast, there will always be some flaws left That's right, otherwise it would be too unreasonable.

Therefore, they are now looking for Zhang Juzheng's remaining problems in this regard, and they are really quite enthusiastic about this matter. In fact, they always feel that they have never done anything so seriously, even I never took the exam so seriously.

Not to mention, since he searched seriously, he would naturally be able to find some things. After all, Zhang Juzheng is also an individual, no matter how perfect he thinks, there will always be such flaws, so these people also He found a lot of things that were not good for Zhang Juzheng.

Although they found it, it is still a question of whether it can be used. Therefore, these people listed all the things they found that were not good for Zhang Juzheng. , but it disappointed them who were originally full of confidence.

That's right, they found a lot of troublesome things about Zhang Juzheng, but upon closer inspection, none of them were useful.

Either the matter is too small to be worth mentioning at all, even if it is said, even people who hate Zhang Juzheng will feel that it is nothing at all, or those mistakes are mistakes for them, but for them Not so for others.

All the situations they found can be classified under these two situations, and they also understand that even if they put all these things in front of Zhu Yijun, even if Zhu Yijun is willing to look at them one by one, but I am afraid that at the end, Zhu Yijun will also feel, "This is nothing at all".

As a result, they were even more disappointed. Originally, they had hope, but this hope disappeared because of Zhang Juzheng's serious illness; after that, they were not completely desperate, and wanted to continue looking for some possibilities , but in the end, this kind of possibility is possible, but it is simply not feasible.

In this way, these people actually came to understand. According to this situation, even if they can find Zhang Juzheng's troubles in the future, it is obviously impossible for such troubles to cause any harm to Zhang Juzheng.

Obviously, the purpose of these people is not Zhang Juzheng himself. Although they also hate Zhang Juzheng very much, revenge on Zhang Juzheng is of no benefit to them at all. What they really want is to get rid of him, which is extremely troublesome to them. However, if Zhang Juzheng couldn't knock it down, how could they be able to move the "One Whip Method", and even, today's "One Whip Method" has developed to this point, I am afraid that At that time, even if they could really move Zhang Juzheng, they might not be able to move "One Whip".

Therefore, it can be said that these people have fallen into a dead end now, and in desperation, they can only retreat and walk the slow and long road honestly. Although they are very unwilling, they have nothing to do. The other way is to move forward slowly, or to turn around and back, and for these people, it is absolutely impossible to turn around and back, that is to say, the things in front of them now are actually only this one That's all.

In short, for these people in the court, things are probably like this now, and they have nothing to do with this situation, they can only watch helplessly.

However, it doesn't matter to others how these people are, especially Zhang Juzheng, he doesn't care about it at all.

Now, Zhang Juzheng encountered something.

Do you still remember the two chief assistants back then, Xu Jie and Gao Gong, one was Zhang Juzheng's mentor, and the other had a really big change in attitude.

Both of these two stayed in the court for a long time, but the final outcome was not very good.

Gao Gong passed away five years ago at the age of 65. This age, at this time, is not too short.

But in the year Gao Gong passed away, Zhang Juzheng went to see him, and the two old rivals cried in each other's arms.

But even so, Gao Gong still did one thing at that time. He wrote a special book, and that book was written by Gao Gong to scold Zhang Juzheng. Everyone in the book knows it, but in Gao Gong's book, although there are many correct places, most of them are his personal emotions expressed because of his dissatisfaction with Zhang Juzheng, which is nothing.

Gao Gong passed away, but Xu Jie, who was ten years older than Gao Gong, was still building. However, Xu Jie was already very old. When Gao Gong passed away at the age of 65, Xu Jie was already 75. As the saying goes, It has been rare since ancient times for people to be seventy, but Xu Jie lived to be 80 years old abruptly, but the lifespan of a person is always limited. In the end, Xu Jie, who was eighty years old, also passed away.

For this reason, Zhang Juzheng also asked for leave and went to Xu Jie's home to express his condolences. Speaking of which, if Zhang Juzheng hadn't relaxed many things, I'm afraid he wouldn't even have this time. No, I'm afraid he would die before Xu Jie. Not sure.

But this time, after Zhang Juzheng went to express his condolences, he came back as if he was a different person, becoming a little taciturn.

From the perspective of the people in the court, Zhang Juzheng was in a bad mood because of the death of his mentor.

But Zhang Fan felt that this was not the case, so he found an opportunity, and Zhang Fan also asked about this matter, and the answer he got was that Zhang Juzheng felt that his own life was not long.