It was 1770 in the Yanhuang calendar, the twentieth year of Zhengde.
In a mountainside attic of Hongyun Winery in Nanyun Province, Liu Jin, who is nearly 70 years old, is carefully planning his autobiography at his desk, carefully considering the content written earlier, and thinking and thinking over and over again.
After the death of Emperor Hongzhi, Liu Jin moved to Nanyun Province to settle down. After that, he never went anywhere and stayed here.
Every day he took a walk among the beautiful mountains and rivers, exercised, read books, and wrote his autobiography. Liu Jin lived a very comfortable life in his later years.
Perhaps because he is no longer traveling around, Liu Jin feels like he is getting younger as he gets older. He exercises every day and his energy level is very good.
Or maybe it's because the climate and air here in Nanyun Province are really good, and Liu Jin can go to the hot springs here.
Liu Jin's childhood life was quite pleasant and comfortable. When he was in a good mood, he could also teach his son's studies.
Retiring here in Nanyun Province, when he had nothing to do, Liu Jin's concubines did not fail to bear fruit for Liu Jin. This old man had children, and Liu Jin's discipline of these young sons was relatively loose.
Some, unlike the previous seven sons, are extremely strict and demanding.
Moreover, in the past, Liu Jin, as an important minister of the imperial court, was very busy every day and did not have much time to spend with them. On the contrary, this old son gave birth to Liu Jin, who had plenty of time, so he also had a lot more time to spend with them.
"Old Wang~"
He has made extremely outstanding contributions and achievements in many aspects.
The first point is that he attaches great importance to technological innovation and progress, as well as education. He has established a large number of new institutions of higher learning not only in the provinces of the Ming Dynasty, but also in various places. All of these institutions are established and maintained with direct funding from the Ministry of Household Affairs of the Ming Dynasty.
, which greatly promoted the progress of Ming Dynasty's science and technology.
Although he reigned only half as long as Emperor Hongzhi, Emperor Hongzhi left a prosperous and good situation for Emperor Zhengde.
I have lost another old friend. In this world, I have lost another old friend. There are fewer and fewer days to talk and chat.
Because Liu Jin was a time traveler, he not only lived to the present and lived to the age of sixty, but also had many children and grandchildren. This is already a huge change.
Another aspect is to gradually strip away the control and influence of temples and religion on politics in the Us-Zang area, return it to the locals, and appoint exiled officials to the Us-Zang area to establish the same system as other areas of the Ming Dynasty.
At the same time, Zhu Houzhao, who loved the military and admired Huo Qubing since he was a child, further strengthened the welfare and treatment of soldiers, allowing Ming soldiers to gain more guarantees and dignity.
Whether the Ming Dynasty became more prosperous or turned from prosperity to decline was beyond Liu Jin's control. Everything had already been determined.
This alone made countless people in the Uzbek area feel grateful to Emperor Zhengde and deeply feel the divine grace of the Emperor of Heaven. They hung the portrait of Emperor Zhengde high in their homes and chanted sutras and chanted Buddha's name for him every day.
In addition, the Uzang area, which had always been ignored by the Hongzhi Dynasty, received great attention from the Zhengde Dynasty. The Zhengde Emperor Zhu Houzhao directly sent a large army to conquer Uzang, and completely liberated the Uzang area almost without any bloodshed.
"well!"
Liu Jin looked at the autobiography he had written, and there was a mention of Wang Shouren in it. Liu Jin also deliberately studied and figured it out carefully.
But Liu Jin obviously knows very well that his own era has passed, and now is a new era for young people.
Even in remote areas, one phone call can tell what is going on in these places, and manpower, material and financial resources can be quickly mobilized to do some big things.
"Wang Shouren!"
After a long time, Liu Jin sighed again.
Liu Jin felt that he had done everything he could do, and there was really no need to do anything else.
It can be said that the great changes that occurred in the Uzang area were all realized in the hands of the Zhengde Emperor Zhu Houzhao, which allowed the Ming Empire to truly achieve effective rule over this vast area, and also allowed this area that was originally a backward serf system to rapidly
developed.
Perhaps the only regret is that during the twenty years he was in power, no country dared to challenge the Ming Empire. For many years, the Ming Empire had only one million troops, a powerful army, a large number of battleships, cannons, etc.
But it's like practicing the art of slaying a dragon, but it's useless.
The Ming Empire has reached its current stage. It has laid the foundation for the most powerful empire in the world. No matter how the situation changes in the future and how turbulent the situation becomes, the Ming Empire will still be the most powerful country on the planet.
In addition, in the imperial examination, new students were allowed to take the exam. As long as the new students were admitted to colleges and universities, they were equivalent to gaining the status of a scholar and could directly take the provincial examination.
Let’s not talk about the study of mind. He is the master of the study of mind and the founder of the Yangming School. There are too many later generations and too many people have been influenced by Wang Shouren’s thoughts on the study of mind. This school has produced many outstanding people.
, even hundreds of years later, a large number of people around the world are still studying his ideas.
Character determines destiny!
On the one hand, Emperor Zhengde's temperament changed drastically, and he became moody. In the past two years, the chief ministers and ministers of the cabinet changed very frequently, just like a horse racing around.
Often because of some unimportant matters, Zhu Houzhao would directly ask cabinet ministers to resign and go home if he was not satisfied.
Such an accurate and bold prediction made Liu Jin admire Lao Wang after seeing this military book. It was amazing that he, a civil servant and a scholar who had been separated from the military for a long time, could have such advanced foresight.
But since he ascended the throne and became emperor, he has very little time to do these things.
Liu Jin estimated that Zhu Houzhao would not be around for long. At such a time, there was no need for him to wade into muddy waters.
Familiar people left the court one after another, coupled with his poor health, these made Zhu Houzhao become more and more angry and lose his temper.
This is Liu Jin's principle of doing things. When he goes to seek his political affairs, when he is not in his position, he will not seek his political affairs!
The only thing that needs to be done now is to properly assist the Crown Prince Zhu Zaicheng. Judging from Zhu Houzhao's situation, he simply won't be able to hold on much longer.
He indulges himself, no one can tell him.
These cabinet ministers and chief assistants have never been able to win Zhu Houzhao's heart like Liu Jin and Wang Shouren. Whenever something happened, Zhu Houzhao would blame them, and even once put the cabinet ministers in jail. In the end, he was civil and military
All officials begged for mercy, and Zhu Houzhao let him out.
He also found a lot of Taoist priests to make some longevity pills for him, which made the whole palace full of smoke. Many treacherous villains also had opportunities because of this, which made the loyal people in the government and the public very worried. Liu
Jin receives letters or phone calls almost every day.
Liu Jin was full of admiration for Wang Shouren, the last Confucian saint.
Therefore, even though many, many ministers wrote to Liu Jin, asking Liu Jin to persuade Emperor Zhengde and let Liu Jin come out to preside over the affairs of the court, Liu Jin did not respond or express at all, and never wrote or said anything.
Call Zhu Houzhao to mention this period.
Just as Liu Jin was thinking about it, the housekeeper hurried over and said, "Master, there is news from the capital that the emperor has passed away!"
If Zhu Houzhao could take good care of his body and listen to everyone's advice, he could definitely live longer. At least, living for another dozen or twenty years would definitely not be a problem.
In addition, during the reign of Emperor Zhengde, he placed great emphasis on infrastructure construction and people's livelihood construction, and vigorously developed electrical and telecommunications. During his twenty years in office, electrical science and technology developed very rapidly, and at the same time, electrical technology and technology began to enter thousands of households in a real sense.
household.
In the past, when Liu Jin and Wang Shouren were around, they could control all officials in the government and the public. In addition, both of them were powerful enough and influential enough, so all the civil and military officials obeyed them.
The development of telecommunications technology is also very rapid, and it has gradually spread to every corner of the Ming Dynasty, every town, and even every village has a telephone.
But when Wang Shouren left, the situation between the government and the opposition changed. The new cabinet ministers and ministers were quite capable, but their prestige was far less than that of Liu Jin and Lao Wang.
But Emperor Zhengde still made many contributions during his twenty years in power.
On the other hand, poor health was also the reason why Emperor Zhengde became obsessed with immortals and Buddhas. For this reason, he enshrined many so-called enlightened monks in the palace, and also learned from these monks to eat fast and chant sutras.
This is very useful for popularizing and promoting the new learning, and it also allows these students of the old learning to broaden their horizons and knowledge, and are no longer limited to traditional Confucian classics.
I have already said what I need to say, I have already done what I need to do, and what will happen in the future is beyond my control.
Although Zhu Houzhao was a good friend of Liu Jin and had a relationship between emperor and minister in the past, all of Zhu Houzhao's current situation was all caused by him.
The reason why Zhu Houzhao is where he is now is all destined.
In terms of military affairs, Wang Shouren also made outstanding contributions. In his later years, Wang Shouren had to deal with national affairs on the one hand, and on the other hand, he took the time to write a military book of the new era. This military book of the new era elaborated on the accompanying military affairs.
With the development and progress of science and technology.
Secondly, under the strong support of Emperor Zhengde, the Ming Dynasty reformed the traditional imperial examinations. Not only did it introduce a large number of new academic contents into the imperial examinations, it also forced those traditional academies, private schools, etc. to start
Teach newly learned content.
Even if occasionally Zhu Houzhao would ring Liu Jin and call Liu Jin, Liu Jin would chat with him about the beautiful scenery, food and beauties of Nanyun Province, and the good memories of the past. He would never tell him these things again.
Things that worry him.
Without the control of Emperor Hongzhi, he began to completely indulge, indulge in sexual activities, and took a large amount of tiger and wolf medicine to enhance his happiness, and his body was getting worse day by day.
In fact, Zhu Houzhao was indeed a powerful king. At least in Liu Jin's view, Zhu Houzhao was more powerful and smarter than his father, Emperor Hongzhi, and he also knew better about tactics and so on.
Many ministers in the court hoped that Liu Jin could come out to maintain the affairs of the court. At the same time, they also persuaded Emperor Zhengde not to be superstitious about those monks and Taoists, and to be close to virtuous ministers and far away from villains.
As soon as the housekeeper finished speaking, the pen in Liu Jin's hand fell on the desk.
In his autobiography, there must be content about Zhu Houzhao and Wang Shouren. How to write about these two people? Liu Jin also thought a lot in his mind.
At the time when Emperor Zhengde was here, Liu Jin knew very well that it was useless for anyone to persuade him, not even for him to persuade him.
As humans create more and more powerful and advanced weapons, the future war situation will undergo tremendous changes. He even boldly predicted in the book that in the future, the war between the two sides may be hundreds of miles apart.
It can be carried out thousands of miles away, or even thousands of miles away.
At the same time, it also promotes the development of new learning and allows more students to receive higher education.
Although he had already anticipated this day and had a premonition that this day would come soon, Liu Jin still couldn't help but sigh when he actually heard the news of Zhu Houzhao's departure.
This is a truly outstanding person. Not to mention the past and the present, at least there is only one outstanding person in the past few hundred years, Wang Shouren.
As long as this doesn't change, everything else doesn't matter.
In addition to his great achievements in these two aspects, Wang Shouren made contributions in philosophy, literature, education and many other aspects, leaving a large amount of valuable wealth to future generations.
As long as you can pass the provincial examination, you can become a juren, and then go to participate in the general examination as a juren. Finally, you will be named on the gold list, and then step into the court and become a serious Jinshi.
There were two people assisting Emperor Zhengde in handling state affairs, and everything was handled in an orderly manner.
At the same time, he became more and more arrogant, and no one tried to persuade him. Even the ministers did not dare to persuade him, because several ministers were directly demoted to the fringe areas by Zhu Houzhao after persuading him.
"Master, master!"
Liu Jin picked up the pen, thought about it carefully, and then began to write a eloquent eulogy for Zhu Houzhao, describing in detail the glorious life of Emperor Zhengde.
Wang Shouren is a little better, but how can he write so well? But what about the Zhengde Emperor Zhu Houzhao?
Zhu Houzhao is also a genius who likes to study machinery, electromagnetism, etc. If he were not an emperor, his achievements in the field of science and technology would definitely reach an extremely high level.
I finally retreated, so why would I want to wade into this muddy water again?
Thinking of Wang Shouren, Liu Jin couldn't help but sigh.
For this reason, a science and technology military yamen was specifically established under the Governor's Mansion of the Fifth Army, which specially convened a large number of new science and technology professors, engineers, etc. to study various powerful arms, weapons, and equipment.
Externally, Emperor Zhengde also made a lot of contributions and achievements. First of all, Zhu Houzhao attached great importance to military affairs and the development of military science and technology.
"Alas~"
Wang Shouren's departure also made Liu Jin lose one of his old friends, and also made the situation between the government and the opposition in the Ming Dynasty turbulent.
Even a tough guy can't stand to mess around like this. On the one hand, he indulges in excess, and on the other hand, he takes some tiger and wolf medicine, some health pills, longevity pills and the like.
Liu Jin can't help but admire such an awesome person.
Thinking of Zhu Houzhao, Liu Jin sighed again.
Zhu Houzhao also attached great importance to the Ming Dynasty's control and layout of the world. On the original basis, the Ming Empire successively set up military bases on important shipping routes around the world, laying out its control and influence around the world, so that the Ming Empire's army could once again
Delivered to anywhere in the world within 48 hours.
Liu Jin will do things well that he should do. Liu Jin will never get involved in things that he should not do or say. As for what will happen, Liu Jin will not care about it. Everything is like this.
On the one hand, we weakened the chieftain system in the Us-Tibet area, liberated the serfs, and gave ordinary people in the Us-Tibet area freedom and materials and land for survival.
These not only facilitated the Ming Dynasty's information and transportation, but also greatly strengthened the Ming Empire's control and rule over all parts of the country.
The other ministers were not very convinced, and the factional struggle that had been suppressed began again, but this was not the key. The key was that Emperor Zhengde's health had become extremely bad in the past few years.
A year ago, Wang Shouren also died of illness. Liu Jin did not go to the capital to mourn Wang Shouren. Instead, he wrote a memorial letter in memory of Wang Shouren and had it sent to the Wang family.
It's not always possible to make a difference or be effective.
Liu Jin stood up and looked east, towards the capital, and remained silent for a long time.
Compared with Emperor Zhengde in history, he actually made a lot of money. Historically, he died of a fall into the water when he was in his early thirties, leaving no descendants.
The earth would still spin without anyone else, and I am not omnipotent.
In addition, attention was paid to investment in the Uzang region, with particularly large investments in transportation and education. A large number of people in the Uzang region who received new education began to quickly integrate into the big family of the Ming Empire.
His departure also made Liu Jin sad for a long time.
However, he indulged himself too much, so he died early.
This made Zhu Houzhao very depressed. In fact, he had always wanted to find an opponent for a good fight, and even supported Spain for this purpose, hoping that Spain could unify Europe.
However, although Charles V of Spain was powerful, he was never able to unify Europe. He only occupied a lot of areas in Western Europe, but he was never able to defeat the coalition forces of the Holy See and the Holy Roman Empire, and he was never able to unify Europe.
Moreover, the Spaniards also knew how powerful the Ming Empire was and did not dare to provoke the Ming people, let alone give the Ming Empire any reason to start a war. They had always been very friendly to the Ming Empire.
There were too many things to write about in the life of Zhengde Emperor Zhu Houzhao. Although he indulged in excess and was very absurd, it could not conceal the great contribution he made to this country.
