"Why don't you tell me? They won't let me go."
"Otherwise, it will be difficult to feel at ease!"
Zhang Juzheng said with a smile.
Tan Lun nodded: "Yes, there are still them. When the time comes, the queen mothers of the two palaces will join them in forcing the emperor. I'm afraid the emperor won't be able to protect you even if he wants to!"
Zhang Juzheng smiled lightly and said, "If I can get a glass of poisonous wine from Your Majesty in the future, my life will be considered worthwhile."
After hearing this, Tan Lun glanced at Zhang Juzheng in surprise and said, "Uncle, you are more idiotic than me! So what if you let His Majesty be the emperor in their minds?"
"That's not Tadashi!"
Zhang Juzheng shook his sleeves angrily and replied.
Tan Lun said: "But this may actually be a good thing for Your Majesty."
"But is it a good thing for the common people of the country?"
Zhang Juzheng looked back at Tan Lun and asked.
Tan Lun looked at Zhang Juzheng, and after a while he gasped and said, "You don't just pretend to be His Majesty in your heart! In your uncle's heart, besides His Majesty, there are also common people!"
"The one who knows me is Tan Zili!"
Zhang Juzheng replied with a smile.
"Your Majesty also has the common people in your heart!"
Tan Lun suddenly replied and said: "However, the extent to which His Majesty cares about the common people of the country is beyond my expectation!"
"Your Majesty would rather offend your biological mother, would rather trust you, uncle, and stick to the New Deal for the common people of the country. Is it because you are so sure that the Ming Dynasty will only have a few decades of national destiny if it continues to stick to the old ways, so you are so desperate?"
"But the current situation is far better than it was during the late emperor's time!"
"Even Zhao Neijiang once felt that there would be no more border troubles in the future."
"But why does Your Majesty have such a strong sense of worry?"
"Uncle, how did you teach me?"
Tan Lun asked curiously after saying that.
Zhang Juzheng said with a smile: "This is not the merit of the servant, but because your Majesty has such wisdom, the country should have the most virtuous king in the next three generations!"
Tan Lun was stunned after hearing this, and said for a long time: "From now on, I will quit having sex in the house, quit drinking, and take Mr. Li's medicine seriously!"
Zhang Juzheng laughed after hearing this.
"Uncle, don't believe it!"
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"Sir, did you really say that?"
Qianqing Palace.
Zhu Yijun was washing up under the service of the old palace maid, and learned from Zhang Jing what had just happened in the cabinet, that is, Zhang Juzheng said that he was "not a prime minister, but a photo".
Zhang Jing said: "Back to your lord, yes, all the ministers and ministers present at the time heard it."
"Thank you sir for your kindness."
Zhu Yijun smiled and slandered, and then said: "In that case, I ordered the cabinet to draft a decree and pass it on to the officials, and said: 'I, Yuanfu, have been ordered to take the imperial examination. Yilong. He joined Zuozhu Kingdom, was promoted to Taifu, received a count's salary, and concurrently held an official position as before. In addition, he was given the due imperial edict, wrote an edict to reward double salary for one year, and was given a banquet in the Ministry of Etiquette. Enyin's son was appointed as the Secretary of Shangbaosi. Cheng, thank you for your praise and your loyalty and hard work."
The greatest honor here is to give Zhang Juzheng the official title of Taifu.
You know, Taifu is a first-grade official.
As a rule, civil servants at the auxiliary level will only be granted this official position posthumously after their death.
But Zhu Yijun now broke the rules for Zhang Juzheng and allowed him to be granted the title of Taifu during his lifetime.
This means that if Zhu Yijun wants to confer a title on Zhang Juzheng during his lifetime in the future, he will have no choice but to confer him the title of Grand Master.
Zhu Yijun also wanted to tell Zhang Juzheng that he was willing to let Zhang Juzheng implement the New Deal for him, which was equivalent to letting Zhang Juzheng take the blame for him.
How can an emperor be stingy about the person who takes the blame?
Just like Wei Zhongxian can be said to be nine thousand years old, it doesn't matter that Zhang Juzheng was granted the title of Taifu.
When Zhu Yijun's imperial edict to confer Zhang Juzheng as Taifu was promulgated, the courtiers were undoubtedly more certain that Zhang Juzheng really controlled absolute power, and as he himself said, he was not a minister but a minister!
"I accept the decree!"
When Zhang Juzheng received the imperial edict, although he did not show joy, he did not refuse in fear. Instead, he locked himself in the room alone for a long time.
When Zhang Juzheng went to court the next day, he acted as if the incident had never happened and continued to handle political affairs step by step.
However, after that, the entire court became completely quiet.
The biggest thing was that Chen Zan resigned from the position of censor of Zuodu on the grounds of sudden illness, and that he, Liu Tai and Fu Yingzhen died suddenly in the imperial edict.
In short, in the next four years of Wanli, everything seemed to be calm.
The clearing of land in the north and south also went more smoothly.
Regardless of whether they were royal relatives, nobles and other powerful people, or gentry and wealthy people, they all cooperated more with the court officials to clear their fields.
Some powerful officials even personally invited officials to clear their husbands as soon as possible, saying that they wanted to show their loyalty to the court.
Therefore, at the end of June in the fourth year of Wanli, the clearing of the north and south lines was basically completed.
A large amount of hidden land was cleared, and a large amount of tax owed by powerful officials and gentry was recovered.
Of course, this does not mean that these powerful officials have really started to change and are willing to let the court cut their flesh.
Just because they, who have a family and property, realized that the two queen mothers could not suppress Zhang Juzheng, they knew that unless they really rebelled, they had no other way to suppress Zhang Juzheng at present.
But precisely because they have families and property, they really don't dare to rebel like the desperate people who are willing to kill themselves.
As property owners, they are naturally fragile.
After all, they are not the kind of real family that had a large number of tribes and had absolute control over a state or a province like five generations ago.
You know, in today's prosperous Ming Dynasty, there are many gentry in just one county.
The key point is that these noble families are all incompatible with each other in appearance and spirit, and they compete with each other for water and land.
Even if they are from the same clan, they all want to exterminate the family and compete for the family property.
So much so that as long as the county magistrate has the means, he can subdue these people.
And let a county magistrate who comes from out of town but has an imperial order, can become a real Bailihou.
As reflected in the court, scholar-bureaucrats from all over the country secretly competed and fought with each other for the number of Jinshi and various powerful official positions in the court.
This kind of struggle began to appear in the early Ming Dynasty, such as the North and South Bang case.
In the late Ming Dynasty, the situation also intensified, with the emergence of Zhejiang Party, Chu Party, Donglin Party, and Jin Party, various parties representing local interests.
Later, it also evolved into the Eunuch Party and the Donglin Party, so that many civil servants were willing to recognize Wei Zhongxian, a eunuch, as their godfather in order to succeed in internal fighting, so as to obtain more benefits.
It can be said that because their power was too dispersed, the landowners of the Ming Dynasty did not have the strength to dare to challenge the imperial court.
Because once a wealthy family rebels, the wealthy families in the same town do not respond, but actively report to the government, hoping to annex the family property of the rebellious wealthy family through meritorious service and gain greater power from the court.
In fact, because they are far less powerful than the aristocratic families in the Han and Tang Dynasties, they have weak ability to resist crises, so they are afraid of turmoil, and their mentality of seeking stability is far greater than the mentality of annexing and expanding forces.
Many times, these local wealthy families would take the initiative to maintain the peace of a place on behalf of the imperial court, and even take the initiative to suppress the rebels on behalf of the imperial court.
It is not that there were no landlords who rebelled in history. For example, during the Chongzhen period, there was a rebellion by the Baitou Army composed of living members in Jiangnan.
As a result, the local nobles did not respond, but worked hard to encircle and suppress the White-headed Army for the imperial court. Even though the imperial court at that time had no money, they had to spend their own money and efforts to suppress it for the imperial court to ensure the tranquility of Jiangnan.
Therefore, now they can only cooperate with the court on the surface and dare not set the table with the court.
"Zhang Jiangling made sure that the scholar-bureaucrats did not dare to rebel against his own court, so he dared to act like this!"
A certain cabinet minister who was planning this incident whispered to Zhu Nanyong who did not go to Fugu behind.
"What Mr. Ge said was that I originally thought that the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces could suppress him, but I didn't expect that the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces could not do it either!"
Zhu Nanyong said.
"Now it seems that we can only wait until the emperor takes charge of the government in the future!"
The elder said.
…
Zhu Yijun is also thinking about countermeasures for how to preserve Zhang Juzheng and how to ensure that the fundamentals of the reformists will not collapse due to Zhang Juzheng's future death after he takes office in the future.
Zhu Yijun knew that now, both those who supported Zhang Juzheng and those who opposed Zhang Juzheng were placing their hopes on him.
While thinking this, Zhu Yijun added the names of Ma Gui, Li Rusong, Qi Changguo, Chen Lin, and Liu Wei on the screen of the warm room in his study.
Different from the people he wants to get rid of who are locked away from others, the people he wants to use are directly displayed and posted on the screen so that others can see and know about them.
But Zhu Yijun felt that this would make it easier for others to spot the clues, so he simply added the names of Zhang Siwei and Zhu Nanyong on the screen.
