Wanli Youming

Chapter 78
"Why don't you say it, and they won't let the servant go?"

"Otherwise, it will be difficult to feel at ease!"

Zhang Juzheng said with a smile.

Tan Lun nodded: "That's right, there are still them. When the time comes, the Empress Dowagers of the two palaces will force the emperor together with them. I'm afraid the emperor will not be able to protect you if he wants to!"

Zhang Juzheng said with a faint smile: "If you can get a cup of poisoned wine from His Majesty in the future, then this life will not be in vain."

After Tan Lun heard this, he looked at Zhang Juzheng in surprise, and said, "Uncle, you are even more idiotic than me! So what if you let His Majesty be the emperor in their hearts?"

"That's not loyalty!"

Zhang Juzheng replied angrily, shaking his sleeves.

Tan Lun said: "But it may actually be a good thing for His Majesty."

"But is it a good thing for the people of the country?"

Zhang Juzheng looked back at Tan Lun and asked.

Tan Lun looked at Zhang Juzheng, gasped suddenly after a while, and said, "You don't just pretend to be His Majesty in your heart! In addition to Your Majesty, you also have common people in your heart!"

"The one who knows me is Tan Zili!"

Zhang Juzheng replied with a smile.

"Your Majesty also has the people of the country in his heart!"

Tan Lun suddenly replied, "However, the degree to which Your Majesty cares about the people of the country is beyond my expectations!"

"Your Majesty would rather offend your biological mother, rather believe in your uncle, and stick to the New Deal for the common people of the country. Is it because you are sure that if Ming Dynasty continues to follow the old ways, there will be only a few dozen national fortunes, so you are so reckless?"

"But the current situation on the surface is far better than that of the first emperor!"

"Even Zhao Neijiang felt that there would be no border problems in the future."

"But why, Your Majesty has such a strong sense of urgency?"

"Uncle, how did you teach?"

Tan Lun asked curiously after speaking.

Zhang Juzheng said with a smile: "This is not the merit of a servant, it is your majesty's wisdom, the country should have the most virtuous king after three generations!"

Tan Lun was taken aback when he heard this, and said for a long time: "From now on, I will quit drinking in the house and take Mr. Li's medicine seriously!"

Zhang Juzheng laughed after hearing this.

"Uncle, don't believe me!"

……

"Sir, did you really say that?"

Qianqing Palace.

Zhu Yijun was washing up under the service of the old maid, and learned from Zhang Jing what happened in the cabinet just now, that is, Zhang Juzheng said that he was "not a relative but a photo".

Zhang Jing said: "Go back to the emperor, yes, all the ministers and ministers who were present at that time heard it."

"Thank you sir for your kindness."

Zhu Yijun slandered with a smile, and said: "In this case, let the cabinet draw up a decree and pass it on to the Ministry of Officials, saying: "Zhen Yuanfu was ordered by the emperor to examine, Kuang Bizhen bowed, and Xun Demao wrote it. This is the nine-year performance appraisal of the first grade, and it is a gift. Yilong. Joined the Zuozhu Kingdom, promoted to Tai Tuo, received Earl's salary, and continued to be an official. In addition, he was given the due order, wrote an imperial edict to reward double salary for one year, gave a banquet to the Ministry of Rites, and Enyin's son was appointed as the Secretary of Shangbao Cheng, to praise me for my loyalty and hard work."

The biggest favor here is to give Zhang Juzheng the title of Taifu.

You know, Taifu is a first-rank official.

As a rule, civil servants at the level of auxiliary ministers will only be posthumously appointed to this official position after their death.

But now, Zhu Yijun has broken the rule for Zhang Juzheng, allowing him to be granted the title of Grand Tutor during his lifetime.

And this means that if Zhu Yijun wants to confer the title of Zhang Juzheng before his death in the future, he can only confer the title of Grand Master.

By doing this, Zhu Yijun also wanted to tell Zhang Juzheng that he was willing to let Zhang Juzheng carry out the New Deal for him, which was equivalent to letting Zhang Juzheng take the blame for him.

And for those who are responsible for themselves, how can an emperor be stingy?

Just like Wei Zhongxian can be said to be nine thousand years old, Zhang Juzheng's title of Taifu is nothing.

When Zhu Yijun made Zhang Juzheng the imperial edict and promulgated it, the courtiers naturally became more certain that Zhang Juzheng really controlled the absolute power, and as he himself said, it was not a relationship but a coercion!

"The minister leads the order!"

When Zhang Juzheng himself received the imperial decree, although he did not show joy, he did not reject it in fear, but shut himself in the room alone for a long time.

On the second day, when Zhang Juzheng went to court, he continued to deal with political affairs step by step as if this incident had never happened.

However, after this, the entire court was completely quiet.

The biggest thing was that Chen Zan resigned as the censor of Zuodu on the grounds of a sudden illness, and died suddenly in imperial prison with Liu Tai and Fu Yingzhen.

In short, after four years in Wanli, everything seemed to be calm.

The Qingzhang Tianmu in the north and south also went more smoothly.

Whether it is the royal relatives, nobles and other dignitaries, or the gentry and wealthy people, they all cooperate more with the court bureaucrats to clear their fields.

Even some dignitaries and gentry personally invited officials to clean them up as soon as possible, saying that they wanted to show their loyalty to the imperial court.

Therefore, at the end of June of the fourth year of Wanli, the Qingzhang of the north and south were basically completed.

A large number of hidden fields were cleared out, and a large number of taxes owed by powerful officials and gentry were also confiscated.

Of course, this does not mean that these powerful officials and gentry really began to change, and began to willingly let the court cut their own flesh.

It's just because they have a family and property, after realizing that the queen mothers of the two palaces can't suppress Zhang Juzheng, they know that unless they really rebel, they have no other way to suppress Zhang Juzheng at present.

But it is precisely because they have families and properties that they really dare not be willing to cut themselves to pieces like ordinary people who have nowhere to go, but dare to rebel.

As property owners, they have natural cowardice attributes.

After all, they are not the kind of real aristocratic family that raised a large number of tribes and had absolute control over every state and province like five generations ago.

You know, in today's Daming, in a wealthy area, there are many gentry families in just one county.

The key point is that these gentry clans are still incompatible with each other, competing for water and fields.

Even if they belong to the same clan, they still want to eat their own families and compete for the family property.

As a result, as long as the county magistrate has the means to subdue these people.

And let a county magistrate who came from another place but took the imperial order can become a real Bailihou.

And it is manifested in the court, that is, scholar-bureaucrats from all over the world are secretly wrestling and fighting each other for the number of Jinshi and various official positions in the court.

This kind of struggle began to appear in the early Ming Dynasty, such as the North and South List case.

In the late Ming Dynasty, it also intensified, and various parties representing local interests emerged, such as the Zhejiang Party, the Chu Party, the Donglin Party, and the Jin Party.

Later, it also evolved into the Eunuch Party and the Donglin Party, so that many civil servants were willing to recognize Wei Zhongxian, an eunuch, as a godfather in order to gain more benefits in order to succeed in the internal struggle.

It can be said that the landlords of the Ming Dynasty did not dare to challenge the imperial court because their power was too scattered.

Because once a powerful family rebelled, the wealthy family in the same town did not respond, but actively reported to the government, hoping to annex the family business of the rebellious wealthy family through meritorious service, and gain more power from the court.

Even, because they are far less powerful than the aristocratic families in the Han and Tang Dynasties, their ability to resist crises is weak, so they are afraid of turmoil, and their mentality of seeking stability is far greater than their mentality of annexing and expanding forces.

In many cases, these local wealthy families will also take the initiative to maintain the peace of a place for the imperial court, and even take the initiative to suppress the rebels for the imperial court.

It is not that no landlords have rebelled in history. For example, during the Chongzhen period, there was a rebellion in Jiangnan by the white-headed army composed of raw members.

As a result, the local gentry did not respond, but worked hard to encircle and suppress the White-headed Army on behalf of the imperial court. Even if the imperial court had no money at that time, they paid their own money and efforts to suppress the imperial court, so as to ensure the tranquility of the south of the Yangtze River.

For another example, in the late Qing Dynasty, Zeng Guofan slaughtered the people of Liangjiang at all costs in order to eliminate the chaos for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and even later, in order to avoid civil strife, he voluntarily surrendered his military power and worked for the Manchu rulers.

This is also the expression that the landlords of this era do not like turmoil.

Therefore, now they can only cooperate with the imperial court on the bright side, and dare not turn the table with the imperial court.

"Zhang Jiangling dared to act like this because the scholar-bureaucrats did not dare to oppose their own court!"

A certain cabinet minister who planned this matter behind the scenes whispered to Zhu Nanyong who did not go to Fuque behind.

"What Ge Lao said was that he originally thought that the Empress Dowagers of the Two Palaces could suppress him, but I didn't expect that the Empress Dowagers of the Two Palaces could not either!"

Zhu Nanyong said.

"Now it seems that we have to wait for the emperor to be in power in the future!"

The old man said.

……

Zhu Yijun is also thinking about how to preserve Zhang Juzheng and how to ensure that the fundamentals of the reformists will not collapse due to Zhang Juzheng's death in the future after he is in power in the future, thinking about countermeasures.

Zhu Yijun knew that no matter who supported Zhang Juzheng or opposed Zhang Juzheng, they all pinned their hopes on him.

While thinking this way, Zhu Yijun added the names of Ma Gui, Li Rusong, Qi Changguo, Chen Lin, and Liu Ting to the screen of the warm pavilion in his study.

Unlike the person who was to be eliminated, who was locked up by him so that no one would know, the person who was to be used was displayed directly and posted on the screen for people to see and to let himself know.

But Zhu Yijun felt that it would be easy for others to see the clues, so he simply added the names of Zhang Siwei and Zhu Nanyong to the screen.

　In the history of the Ming Dynasty, we can see that many major reforms in the Ming Dynasty were carried out by local officials in the local area without causing major turmoil, and even many of them were successfully presided over by a certain reformer when he was serving as the censor. So in fact, the local gentry The landlord is not as powerful as imagined.At least they will not openly rebel and fight against the government.

　
(End of this chapter)