My father is Jiajing

Today is the last day of the 45th year of Jiajing, and tomorrow is the auspicious day when Zhu Zaigui ascends the throne and becomes emperor.

Tomorrow, after Zhu Zaigui ascends the throne, the first edict to be issued by the new emperor will be the official change of the era name.

So, tomorrow will be the first day of the first year of Longqing in the era of Zhu Zaigui!
East Palace.

The East Palace was brightly lit that night, as was the Forbidden City next door.

This is especially true in the Huangji Hall, where the coronation ceremony will be held tomorrow. Many palace servants and eunuchs are still making final arrangements and inspections.

Officials from the Ministry of Rites were also there to give orders, ensuring that there were no problems with all the ceremonial equipment and details.

At the same time, even the inner city of the capital and the outer city where the capital's special district is located were brightly lit that night.

This night, in addition to celebrating the new year, everyone was also looking forward to the arrival of a new era.

Even at this time, the lights in the cabinet were not turned off, and all the cabinet ministers gathered in the cabinet.

Li Chunfang looked at everyone with joy, and finally his eyes fell on Zhang Juzheng.

Li Chunfang smiled and said, "Taiyue, this is your first time to be in the cabinet to watch the New Year. How do you feel?"

Zhang Juzheng stood up and bowed slightly. "Replying to Yuan Fu, to be honest, I am still very nervous and excited, as if I were dreaming."

Zhang Juzheng's words made everyone laugh.

This day seemed like a dream to everyone present.

They have been preparing for this day all this time and are looking forward to its arrival.

Now that this day has finally arrived, everyone feels it is a little unreal.

It shows that human hearts are sometimes really interesting.

Gao Gong smiled and said, "Taiyue, don't be nervous. Sit down and talk. Today is the day of the New Year. It's rare for us cabinet members to get together once."

If Gao Gong had said this in the past, it would definitely be wrong.

But now the court has also set up a cabinet minister in Nanjing, so every time the entire cabinet gathers in Beijing, in a serious sense, there is actually still one person missing.

Now Zhang Juzheng was granted permission to return to Beijing to attend the ceremony of the emperor abdicating the throne and the crown prince ascending the throne. This was indeed a rare moment for the cabinet to gather together.

Zhang Juzheng also bowed slightly to Gao Gong and replied with a smile: "Thank you, Vice Minister."

Then Zhang Juzheng sat back in his seat and continued chatting with other ministers.

Zhao Zhenji, Hu Zongxian, and Guo Pu were also filled with emotion when they looked at Zhang Juzheng, who was many years younger than them.

This is really the case of the new generation pushing the old generation forward, with each generation stronger than the previous one!

Zhang Juzheng is only 41 years old this year!

A young man who entered the cabinet at the age of 41, who here can compare with such potential?

Therefore, everyone can foresee that if Zhang Juzheng does not make principled mistakes and is not mediocre and incompetent, then sooner or later the position of Prime Minister of the Cabinet will fall on him.

Therefore, whether it was Li Chunfang, who was already the chief minister, or Gao Gong, who was the second chief minister, as well as Zhao Zhenji, Hu Zongxian, Guo Pu and others, they all had a very good attitude towards Zhang Juzheng.

They all wanted to win over the young Zhang Juzheng and make him stand in the same camp with them. Even if they failed to win him over, they would not be angry, nor would they ruin their personal relationships with Zhang Juzheng.

After all, everyone has to leave the center and entrust their work to others one day.

If at this time, one offends a young man who obviously has unlimited potential, it will be a devastating blow to one's own future and the future of one's descendants!

Therefore, at this time, Zhang Juzheng had become the "darling" of the entire cabinet!
Of course, Zhang Juzheng also understood his own advantages, so before he had a clear understanding of the situation within the cabinet in the capital, he would not easily bet on any party.

And deep down in Zhang Juzheng's heart, he also saw himself as the leader of the future cabinet.

So with this mentality, Zhang Juzheng would not be willing to be anyone's younger brother.

This is just like what happened in the original historical trajectory. Although Zhang Juzheng relied on Xu Jie's protection to become the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel and the title of Grand Secretary of the Eastern Pavilion, he was able to overtake others and enter the cabinet.

However, as Xu Jie was jointly targeted by Li Chunfang and Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng never stood out clearly to support Xu Jie to continue serving as the prime minister in the cabinet.

The reason why Zhang Juzheng did so at that time was, firstly, because of the historical reason that a new emperor chooses new ministers, and secondly, because he understood that Xu Jie was indeed not young at the time, and if he stayed in the cabinet all the time, he would definitely block others.

When you block other people's way, others will naturally block your way as well.

Therefore, Zhang Juzheng could only watch silently in the corner of the cabinet as Xu Jie was squeezed out by Li Chunfang and Gao Gong.

Then, he naturally inherited Xu Jie's power in the court and the country, becoming a potential candidate to compete for the position of head of the cabinet in the future.

Therefore, in the following years, Zhang Juzheng hid himself while instigating Gao Gong, who had blew himself up and returned home with Xu Jie, to come back.

When Gao Gong came back again, Zhang Juzheng joined forces with Gao Gong and squeezed Li Chunfang out, thus completing a crucial step and becoming the second-in-command of the dynasty after Gao Gong.

Later on, man proposes, God disposes. Originally, Zhang Juzheng could have lived on for a few more years and waited for Gao Gong to retire.

As a result, Emperor Longqing ruined himself, which made Zhang Juzheng very excited.

The ruler is young and the country is in doubt. What a great opportunity!

If he could ascend to power overnight at this time, he would certainly be able to realize his ambitions and take advantage of this opportunity to display all his political ideals and ideas.

Therefore, at this time, Zhang Juzheng chose to join forces with the eunuch Feng Bao to stab Gao Gong in the back, thus completing the most gorgeous turn, taking the supreme power of the Ming Dynasty into his hands, and starting the ten years that belonged to him!

But now this historical trajectory has been disrupted by Zhu Zaigui.

Although the disruption was not thorough enough, at least there would no longer be a situation where the emperor simply sat idle and allowed the cabinet to go against each other.

For example, Zhu Zaigui already has a clear idea of ​​the increasingly obvious dual-headed political structure between Li Chunfang and Gao Gong, and has thought about how to deal with them after he ascends the throne.

If the two of them still don't know how to restrain themselves and insist on using this "life and death" method to replace each other, continuing to fight in the cabinet and affecting the good competitive and progressive atmosphere of the court, Zhu Zaigui will definitely not let them have a good time.

After all, if this kind of thing is not controlled well, it will cause a bad example and a big mess, causing future senior officials and wise and famous people active among the people to begin to express their political opinions in an opposing way.

Then how far will the disaster of the Donglin Party be?
You must know that the Donglin Party disaster in history did not happen overnight.

Instead, it was formed after a long period of evolution and accumulation.

Moreover, at the beginning, although there were political disputes between the court and the underworld, they were still limited to debates on political lines.

We are not at the stage of life-and-death struggle, party-building against dissidents, and inability to distinguish between right and wrong.

At that time, all people with different political views could sit down and exchange ideas with each other, learn from each other, and absorb each other.

However, all these good habits were completely changed by the unscrupulous political struggles during the three reigns of Gia Long and Wanli.

During the ten years that Zhang Juzheng was in power, he even ordered the destruction of academies across the country in order to suppress other political opinions!
This may not sound like a big deal, but the timing really stirred up a hornet's nest!

As a result, for a long time, Zhang Juzheng was seen as a treacherous minister and a tyrant in the eyes of the gentry and intellectuals of the Ming Dynasty.

As a result, after his sudden death, not only did all his efforts and reforms fail, but the government and the public also wanted to settle accounts with his honor during his lifetime and his reputation after his death.

Under such circumstances, if we do not have a God's perspective to look at all the problems and consequences that occurred after Zhang Juzheng, if we cannot firmly believe that Zhang Juzheng's reforms were to save the Ming Dynasty.

His reckoning is a historical necessity!

There is no question of Wanli being selfish, ruthless, stupid, etc., which is just hindsight.

You must know that after Zhang Juzheng's death, no matter whether it was true or false, whether in the court or in the opposition, everyone was saying that Zhang Juzheng was a bad person, and they also listed a lot of evidence and stories to prove that Zhang Juzheng was a traitor who abused his power and bullied his master!

Under such circumstances, Emperor Wanli, who was born and raised in the deep palace and received traditional moral education, had no God's perspective and no vision.

How could he unwaveringly adhere to all the achievements of Zhang Juzheng's ten years of reform?
Therefore, when a person dies, his regime also dies, which is an inevitable result of history.

Therefore, we can only blame Zhang Juzheng and the cabinet ministers before him. They fought so fiercely for power and had no bottom line.

Otherwise, as long as there is one or several equally powerful political forces in the government and the country, they will be involved and influence each other.

Even Emperor Wanli's faith collapsed and he hated Zhang Juzheng's hypocritical style of doing things in one way in front of people and another behind their backs.

Emperor Wanli would not so easily liquidate Zhang Juzheng and overthrow all the political legacy left by Zhang Juzheng.

Therefore, with the lessons learned from history, Zhu Zaigui would never allow cabinet ministers to continue fighting each other during his reign!
If they don't listen to advice and insist on doing so.

Then Zhu Zaigui wouldn't mind expanding the Qincheng Manor a few more times to accommodate more people.

After all, Zhu Zaigui now has the talents of the entire Ming Dynasty in his hands, although these talents may not be as capable as Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng.

However, as long as these people can carry out the tasks and errands assigned to them by Zhu Zaigui, these ordinary talents can still make extraordinary historical contributions.

After all, Zhu Zaigui came to this era with a God's perspective and with a forward and backward vision.

As long as Zhu Zaigui did not take too big steps, he would reform according to political needs while developing science and technology and industry step by step.

Then, under his leadership, the Ming Dynasty will surely burst out with unprecedented great power!
Moreover, after living in the Ming Dynasty for seventeen years, Zhu Zaigui also deeply felt how great the energy contained within the Ming Dynasty was!

This is also a civilization on the eve of a technological explosion. Many smart craftsmen, inventors and scientists with sudden ideas are making great creations that may change the times and human history in their familiar corners or favorite hobbies.

Therefore, the ancient times of the Ming Dynasty are not ancient. It can even be said that the creativity and ideas of the Ming Dynasty in certain directions are far more magical and enlightened than people will imagine hundreds of years later.

It can even be said that the thoughts and creativity of the Ming Dynasty at this moment are richer than those of people hundreds of years in the future.

For example, there are always people who unconsciously and subconsciously think that the antiquity of the Ming Dynasty is the kind of decadent antiquity full of feudal morality.

But in fact, these talents are truly ancient. They live in an era that should be open-minded and creative, but they secretly bind their own heads.

These people use their shallow cognition and one-sided knowledge to imagine the rules and feudalism of the ancients, as if they really understand something.

They think that the behavioral logic and social morality of the ancients were just as they imagined.

But in fact, as long as you are willing to spend more time and energy, read more professional ancient documents and academic articles, or even read more original or photocopied calligraphy and paintings left by the ancients.

These people will find that the ancients were not only not ancient, but also very fashionable!
It is completely different from the ancient people and their lives that they imagined.

Therefore, the truly ancient and corrupt people have always been some self-righteous modern people, not the real ancients.

If the real ancients saw the ancient rules and morals imagined by these people, they might not be able to help but marvel at how perverted the thoughts of later generations hundreds or thousands of years later could be. It's really terrible!

So after Zhu Zaigui discovered the huge potential of the Ming Dynasty, he was really delighted.

Now he just needs to follow the procedures, formulate good rules and create a good environment. At this moment, the people of the Ming Dynasty will not let Zhu Zaigui down!

They will still be able to burst out with colorful modern scientific and technological industrial civilization!

Moreover, given that the Ming Dynasty already had a larger population and cultural heritage than Europe, perhaps in the future the Ming Dynasty would be able to create a more brilliant, more exciting, and more unexpected type of technology in a shorter period of time.

So in the eyes of Zhu Zaigui, the Ming Dynasty was not a decadent and corrupt era that needed to be saved!

But it is a brilliant era that is more hopeful and full of countless possibilities!
Zhu Zaigui couldn't help but feel extremely honored to be able to witness the dawn of such a great era.

So now Zhu Zaigui only needs to wait for the dawn, and he will be able to welcome the great era that belongs to him!

Let this great era bloom with the most beautiful, best, and most dazzling waves of the times in the new river of history!

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Asking for monthly votes~~~Emperor Jiajing is finally going to abdicate. (End of this chapter)