Zhang Juzheng suddenly seemed to have gained strength, and straightened up, tremblingly trying to get out of bed to salute.
"No gift, sir!"
Zhu Yijun hurriedly walked over and supported him personally.
Seeing Zhang Ju's face under the dim light, with a sallow complexion and skinny bones, protruding eyes and difficulty in speaking, Zhu Yijun felt as if his heart was not being grasped for a moment, and said in a heavy tone: "Unexpectedly, Mr. So sick!"
Zhang Juzheng said: "I blame myself for being too late to take care of myself. I am also sorry for Your Majesty for failing to give Your Majesty enough time to adapt to the rule."
Zhu Yijun didn't know what to say for a moment. He wanted to let Zhang Juzheng retire early, but he felt that once he said this, he would disappoint Zhang Juzheng, so he just looked at the table and couldn't help but ask: "Mr. Why are you still doing things like eucalyptus and not recuperating seriously?"
Zhang Juzheng saw that Zhu Yijun was not a woman yet and said something that should or should not be said. He only asked himself why he was still writing, so he smiled with comfort and said:
"Your Majesty, forgive me!"
"It's not that I don't want to rest, but that this new way of governing the country needs to be written as soon as possible, otherwise I will be a failure to your Majesty and the country."
Zhu Yijun nodded after hearing this and said nothing more.
Zhang Juzheng took the initiative and said: "Your Majesty, the theory of the Gongyang School has re-formulated the view of seeking truth from facts and applying it to the world, and believes that in knowing and doing, both knowing and doing should be paid equal attention to. We should not think that we can know by looking at the heart. Act as one, and no longer learn; nor should you know what to do before, and you cannot use the monarch and minister for a moment to abolish the general meaning of ancient and modern Yi and Xia, but only know the difference between monarch and minister, not the difference between Hua and Yi, and then regard the thief as your father! I'm just a little bit away from finishing it, so I won't delay it."
Zhu Yijun was very familiar with what Zhang Juzheng said and knew that the propositions he proposed were similar to the thoughts that Wang Fuzhi concluded after many years of painful experience after the fall of the Ming Dynasty when his country and nation were lost to foreigners.
Wang Fuzhi's thoughts laid the foundation for the thoughts of later generations to end a hundred years of misfortune, which can be regarded as the premise for the nirvana and rebirth of an ancient civilization.
After all, according to the experience of later generations, China has its own civilization reality. It cannot be reborn simply by absorbing foreign culture. It must be based on the foundation of its own civilization and absorb new foreign learning at the same time. Otherwise, it will become acclimatized.
What Zhu Yijun asked Zhang Juzheng to do was to bring Ming Dynasty to nirvana as soon as possible. However, he asked himself that his foundation in Confucian classics was not enough, so he left this matter to a child prodigy who had been a child prodigy since he was a child. He was also a member of the Imperial Academy. He was one of the top elites of this era, and he also paid more attention to the pursuit of the country. Zhang Juzheng will do it.
"Thank you sir."
Zhu Yijun said this at this time, then took Zhu Ben out of his sleeve and handed it to Zhang Juzheng:
"Just rest for now, sir. I have approved your return to your hometown, and will order someone to carry you back, and send troops to escort you, so that you can return home safely."
"Sir, you have protected Ming Dynasty all your life, it's time to rest!"
Li Shizhen couldn't help but laugh from the sidelines and thought to herself: "Here comes the good medicine!"
Here, Zhang Juzheng hurriedly took Zhu Ben with trembling hands, murmured, forced himself to bow to Zhu Yijun, and then said: "Thank you, Your Majesty!"
"No more big salutes."
Then, Zhang Juzheng gasped and half-lyed on the collapse with Zhu Yijun's support, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty said that I have protected the Ming Dynasty all my life, which really makes me ashamed!"
"In my opinion, the only one who can protect the Ming Dynasty is Your Majesty. The one who has been protecting the Ming Dynasty can only be Your Majesty!"
"The world is as prosperous as it is now because of His Majesty's willingness to work diligently and love the people, not because of his ministers."
Zhang Juzheng was a little out of breath when he said this, and paused for a long time: "It's not because I am capable, there is no shortage of people in the world who are more capable than I am, and the fact that I can assist Your Majesty to revive the situation today is all because of Your Majesty's perseverance also!"
"Sir, you don't need to talk too much. It's time to rest."
Zhu Yijun hurriedly said something at this time, and said: "I just came to see you, and I will leave after seeing you."
Zhang Juzheng said: "Your Majesty, you don't have to worry about me being too tired to return home. The way of heaven is for people to live when they are alive and to die when they are dead. If my words are not fulfilled and my deeds are not completed, the King of Hell will not let me go." Otherwise, if I go to the underworld, I will have to change the system!"
Zhu Yijun had no choice but to nod and let Zhang Juzheng continue speaking.
Zhang Juzheng seemed to have opened up his chatterbox and said with a smile: "Your Majesty's understanding of the way of governing the country, if it is taught by heaven, even if you are not an emperor, you will not be willing to be an inferior person. To become an emperor, it is either the good fortune of the country or the country. Either it is the disaster of the country, but fortunately, His Majesty is very wise in employing people and is good at accepting people's advice, so there is no doubt that the blessings outweigh the disasters, and now it has been accumulated for many years, and it has been regarded as a great cause!"
"I still say what I said, Your Majesty is the lord of the world, and his words and deeds can either bless or harm the world."
"I would like to ask your Majesty to still think of the common people of the country and to act with caution. In this way, the world will be protected by your Majesty, and the only one who can protect the emperor is your Majesty! It cannot be replaced by a good general."
"There is no shortage of virtuous ministers and generals in the world at any time, but Yao and Shun were rare."
"Therefore, I ask your Majesty that if you encounter setbacks in the future, please do not act like you did yesterday or become discouraged. Both of these will lead to abandoning the world."
"But if you have to choose between the two, Your Majesty should be a man, not a coward. Just like before, the heroic spirit of young people should not be wasted. If Your Majesty becomes depressed, the Ming Dynasty will also be depressed..."
Zhu Yijun didn't know when he left the Zhang Mansion, nor did he know how many words Zhang Juzheng said, but the sentence that impressed him most was that the Ming Dynasty could only rely on him as the emperor to protect him.
What he said both inside and outside of the words was that Your Majesty, you have grown up. Don’t expect any wise ministers to shoulder the responsibility for you anymore. You have to shoulder the heavy responsibility of being the leader of the world by yourself. The wise ministers are just assistants.
Zhang Juzheng left his official residence in a sedan chair three days later, preparing to return to his hometown.
Before moving out of the official residence, he looked back at the Forbidden City for a long time before letting someone carry him out of the city.
However, as soon as Zhang Juzheng arrived at the canal outside the city, Zhang Jing was waiting here with a team of royal guards.
"Sir, our Zhang Jing is waiting here. His Majesty said: Master Zhang does not need to get off the sedan chair. He only needs to ask someone to lift the curtain and listen to what we have to say."
At this time, Zhang Jing came over, bowed and started talking with a smile.
Zhang Juzheng saw Zhang Jing leading a large group of royal guards, and suddenly asked with some disappointment: "Has Your Majesty changed his mind again and doesn't want me to return home?"
"Sir, you misunderstood."
Zhang Jing said with a smile, then turned around and ordered: "Bring it up!"
Not long after, three men were brought over.
One person was obviously a monk and was wearing a monk's robe.
One person was wearing a kerchief, which made him look like a student.
Another person was Zhou Hua, the housekeeper and servant who looked after the house of Zhang Juzheng in Jiangling, Huguang.
"So that Grand Master Zhang will know that these three people are the main culprits involved in digging your father's grave."
"Among them, your servant Zhou Hua led the way. He was heavily bribed by the monk Mingzhen, so he did such a disobedient thing!"
"But this was Monk Mingzhen's decision. Naturally, he did this because he was dissatisfied with the land clearing policy you presided over and cleared his temple land."
"As for the student member Wang Rugong, he went to Huguang from the south and specially spent money to organize people to criticize you. Basically, he spent money to print the tabloid articles in Huguang, and he also spent money to find people to write them."
"These people hide very deeply, but the Skynet is very sparse and does not leak out. No matter how they hide, their flaws will eventually be exposed."
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"Zhou Hua, the domestic slave in your house, finally couldn't hold it back a year later. He hired a young man as his wife, and also built a luxurious mansion. A big gamble even resulted in a loss of thousands of taels of silver. This is This aroused the suspicion of our Jin Yiwei, so we focused on him and dug out the person behind him."
"We are telling you this according to our decree, and His Majesty has also issued an order for you to make your own decision, and we are determined to advise the court on how to deal with these three people."
As Zhang Jing spoke, he handed over the deed in which Zhou Hua accepted a heavy bribe from the monk Mingzhen and the unveiling note written by Wang Rugong as evidence: "This is the evidence. Mr. Zhang, Grand Master, please read it."
Zhang Jingxiu took it and hurriedly handed it to Zhang Juzheng: "Father!"
Zhang Juzheng did not answer, but raised his eyes slightly to look at his slave Zhou Hua.
"Master, I was wrong. I was just temporarily obsessed with it. I was obsessed with it!"
Zhou Hua begged at this time.
