Ancestral Temple, the place where ancestors are honored.
Everyone in the Ming Dynasty knew that it was a normal thing for ancestors to appear in a place like Taimiao.
‘Huh? Why is the wind blowing?’
Immortal Jiajing rubbed his eyes slightly.
When he looked again, in the center of the Ancestral Temple, six figures suddenly appeared out of thin air.
Especially the three standing on the left, except for the different complexions, look almost exactly the same. The other three are similar in appearance, but their ages are obviously divided into three generations: old, middle and young.
‘Peiyuan Clone Technique!’
Immortal Jiajing's heart was shocked, and a word popped into his mind: he has infinite yearning for immortal magic.
He had seen this profound magic from an ancient book given to him by Tao Zhongwen.
In order to speed up cultivation, cultivators convert one body into three bodies, and the old, middle and young people practice at the same time to get twice the result with half the effort.
(Copyright owner of ancient books: Tao Zhongwen)
Ji Boying turned slightly, glanced at the three Zhu Di and the three Zhu Gaochi, and frowned, what the hell is this little Zhu Si doing? Why is he not wearing any clothes in broad daylight?
‘Tsk, it’s too small.’
But this is actually no wonder Xiao Zhusi.
The other five people all rang in response to the wind chimes, and they had a few seconds to make some preparations before crossing over.
But Xiao Zhu Si was not prepared at all. He was airborne instantly. When Xiao Zhu Si reacted, his heart skipped a beat, and the heroic wind dissipated in an instant.
Fortunately, we are all men, so Xiao Zhusi is not as embarrassed as he imagined.
Turning around, the six people's eyes swept over the surrounding scene and the Jiajing Immortal.
As the emperor and the prince, they are certainly no strangers to the Imperial Ancestral Temple.
The eyes of Lao Zhu Di, Zhu Laosi, and Xiao Zhusi immediately fell on their own in the row of gods, which started with the two characters "Chengzu", and their eyes turned cold for an instant.
As for the three Zhu Gaochi, they searched all over the Ancestral Temple but could not find their tablets, and they were so angry that their back molars were bitten to pieces.
It's one thing to hear about it, but it's another thing to see with your own eyes that the tablet is missing.
"Brothers, can you..."
Immortal Jiajing's face was filled with an excited smile. When he saw the six senior brothers, he was very interested and took the initiative to greet them.
"No, I'm not that big."
Xiao Zhusi has stagnation of essence and energy, and this will make him the most angry.
Not caring that he was not wearing any clothes, he swung his fist as big as a sandbag at the Jiajing Immortal who came up to him, and punched the crane-like Jiajing Immortal in the lower abdomen.
‘Is this how everyone greets people in the world of immortality?!’
He opened his mouth and sprayed foam, and before the wide-eyed Jiajing Immortal could react, the other five people took action.
Let’s give these unscrupulous descendants a good beating first.
A quarter of an hour later.
Ji Boying stood next to Jiajing, who was already bruised and swollen, and enthusiastically introduced to him the identities of the three Zhu Di and Zhu Gaochi.
When he heard the names "Zhu Di" and "Zhu Gaochi", the Jiajing Immortal's heart skipped a beat.
Zhu Houcong has always been famous among the Ming emperors for his high IQ. How could he not understand the reason why he was beaten?
However, compared to changing the temple name, Jiajing Immortal is more concerned about another point.
‘It turns out that all our ancestors secretly practiced Taoism and became immortals!’
‘It’s really abominable that no experience has been passed down to future generations!’
"Okay, let's all go back."
Ji Boying glanced at the six people, especially the naked Xiao Zhusi.
After a moment of silence, he threw a medicine to him.
This guy suddenly lost his glory. If he doesn't fix it in time, he may have problems in the future.
"Master Immortal, this is..."
Xiao Zhusi looked at the small blue pill in his hand, curious.
"To add to the fun."
Ji Boying didn't say much. With a wave of his hand, the six people disappeared on the spot.
Then, he looked at Zhu Houcong.
"You must know the reason for the beating now."
"Now, let's talk about the administrative issues of your dynasty."
Ji Boying's face was solemn.
The Jiajing Dynasty was a very critical node in the Ming Dynasty.
This is why Ji Boying used Jiajing-Longqing as the dividing point between the second period and the third period when he divided the Ming Dynasty into three periods.
The Jiajing Immortal was stunned for a moment. Talking about the administration of officials? Shouldn’t the next step be to talk about being promoted to immortality?
But since Taoist Patriarch said this, Immortal Jiajing still endured his physical discomfort and listened carefully.
‘Huh? Why didn’t you say anything?’
Jiajing suddenly discovered that Daozu stood there and stopped talking.
It's not that Ji Boying paused specifically, but there were some minor problems.
"Reminder: The patch package has been delivered"
"Compulsory update is about to begin"
This time, Ji Boying didn't need to take the initiative to confirm. The light screen automatically appeared in front of him, and a large series of silver codes quickly passed by. This process lasted about three minutes.
When the patch update is finished, Ji Boying has not yet waited to check what is in the patch package.
"Latest update package detected"
"Whether to update"
"Yes" "No"
‘Update after mandatory patch?’
Ji Boying felt like smashing the keyboard, but with a thought in his mind, he confirmed "yes".
It was the same process again, and the silver code was circulating rapidly again. Compared with the patch update just now, the update package took twice as long, and it took about five minutes to finally complete.
Taking a deep breath secretly, Ji Boying quickly understood the patch content and update content.
‘What a piece of shit.’
The main content in this patch package: Once the time and space namer dies, the corresponding time and space entrance will be closed.
For example, in the Tianshun time and space, although the black Zhu Qizhen has stepped down, the Tianshun time and space is still named after his second reign, so the black Zhu Qizhen must not be eliminated. Once it is eliminated, the entrance to this time and space will be
will be closed.
In fact, Tianshun is not bad, but the biggest problem is Hong Xi's time and space, which has been accelerated for half a year. If no intervention is done, Hong Xi's life will only be three or four months.
The main content of the update package: the summoning function of heroic spirits.
‘Summoning of Heroic Spirits.’
‘Fancy.’
Ji Boying thought for a moment and roughly understood what the heroic spirit summoning meant. It means that he can summon people who have died in the current era of the current time and space, so that they can appear in the current time and space and continue to work.
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In other words, the summoning condition is that the person died in the current dynasty. For example, if someone died in the Jiajing Dynasty, then this person can be embodied in Jiajing time and space, but not in other time and space.
‘This is a dog system, even dead people are exploited.’
But for Ji Boying, this is a good feature. For example, he has always regretted not being able to see Hong Wu Chang Shiwan's style.
After thinking about it, Ji Boying looked at Jiajing.
"Your cabinet needs to be reorganized."
Ji Boying didn't say much and went straight to the point.
In Ji Boying's view, whether it is Xia Yan, Yan Song, or the latecomer Xu Jie, in terms of political ability alone, except for Yan Song, a waste who only knows how to make money with his son, Xia Yan and Xu Jie can indeed be regarded as good
It's the forefront.
But, this is the Jiajing Dynasty.
At this point in time, what the chief minister of the cabinet, who is in charge of the government, needs is not just pure governance ability, but also the courage to actively reform the old and eliminate the evil.
Xia Yan, Xu Jie and his like are all conservatives in power. From a historical perspective, the core of all the policies of these two men during their tenure as chief ministers was to maintain the Ming Dynasty and maintain the interests of the inherent class.
Of course, this also includes their own interests.
Xia Yan didn't say anything anymore.
Even if Xu Jiexu, who single-handedly promoted Zhang Juzheng and was praised by later generations, had 240,000 hectares of fertile land under his name that Hai Qingtian was forced to give up, there are clear records.
Let me ask, if even the chief minister of the current cabinet is blatantly taking the lead in land annexation, how can the national government return to the right path?
"Master, I also want to change, but there is really no one available."
Jiajing frowned, with a hint of helplessness in his expression.
Although he was dedicated to cultivating immortality, before that, Jiajing had also thought about strengthening the country and enriching the people, and also wanted to eliminate bad governance.
After all, he was not Wanli. Even if he did not go to court, he never relaxed about government affairs until his death. They are two completely different concepts from Wanli's complete failure.
However, with the death of one person and the occurrence of the Renyin Incident, Jiajing completely gave up on reform.
That person is Zhang Cong.
And Jiajing realized that if he continued to carry out special activities, it would probably cause more outrageous, dangerous and desperate murders than the fire in the palace, the Renyin Incident, etc.
Now that I have hid in the deep palace, where else can I hide?
"Man, I'll give it to you."
Ji Boying finished speaking.
In front of Jiajing, there is an old man with a white beard, who appears from the void.
This person’s name is Zhang Cong.
In some books, this great reformer, the idol Zhang Juzheng admired all his life, is actually written as a narrow-minded villain. His body is really black and white from the inside to the outside.
Book.
Zhang Cong was a famous late bloomer in the Ming Dynasty. He became a Jinshi at the age of forty-seven and started his career with great rituals.
The matter of the Great Ceremony may seem to be just a simple matter of status, but in essence, it is actually the ultimate game between the imperial power and the civil servant group.
Whoever wins will have the right to speak and will take the initiative in the next step.
Zhang Cong supports the great ceremony.
For him, the nature of the ceremony is not important. What is important is that it is an opportunity to rise to the top and to display his ambitions.
During Zhang Cong's seven years as chief minister, between three ups and downs, he carried out extremely thorough reforms to the Jiajing Dynasty's bad governance.
The first is to clean up the land of Xun Qi Zhuang; the second is to dismiss the guarding eunuchs; the third is to crack down on corruption and bending the law; the fourth is to strictly supervise the system; the fifth is to strictly separate the powers of the factory guards and the three law departments; the sixth is to reform the malpractice of the imperial examination;
Seventh, correct the title and ceremony of Confucius; Eighth, rectify the army regiments and camps; Ninth, reuse capable ministers and officials to solve the border crisis; Tenth, measure the land and simplify the tax and service system.
The ten reforms, coupled with the previous great ceremony, involve the Ming Dynasty's throne succession system, official selection system, taxation system, national supervision system, government organization system, national defense system, etc.
This change can be said to be the most thorough, three-dimensional and comprehensive system change since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.
Any one of them is a major event that benefits the country and the people, and is a strategy to eliminate the old and disadvantages. It is something that Yang Tinghe, Xia Yan, Xu Jie and others dare not think about or do.
Because this kind of shuffling system change will inevitably offend all the interest groups in the empire, the entire Ming Dynasty's powerful groups will try their best to kill Zhang Cong, and it will be difficult to leave a clear name in future generations. p>
Cleaning up the land of feudal lords and eunuchs was equivalent to making the powerful vomit out what they had eaten.
The eunuchs lost their power to guard the local area, the local administrative system returned to normal, and the accumulated abuses of the past century were wiped out. The eunuchs' rights and interests suffered even greater losses.
Strictly crack down on corruption and improve supervision. After the civil service group has been purged, under strict institutional constraints, they can no longer accept bribes so blatantly, and work efficiency has increased significantly. For officials who are accustomed to corruption and abuse of power,
Of course it is extremely painful.
What makes the civil service group even more uncomfortable is Zhang Cong's reform of the imperial examination. Under the implementation of the "Three Ways to Advance" method, the status of officials born as Jinshi has declined compared with before, and the promotion of people and annual tribute have also become a way out, which has greatly broadened the
It was under the influence of this employment route that Hai Qingtian became an official.
Under Zhang Cong's big stick reforms, the atmosphere in the entire Jiajing Dynasty quickly improved.
Especially after the reform of the national supervision system and the imperial examination system, the atmosphere quickly changed from impetuous and extravagant to one of shamelessness and honesty.
If it can continue and be carried out throughout the Jiajing Dynasty, then the Jiajing ZTE is imperative. It is by no means a ZTE like Hongzhi that only remains in the history books, but a real reproduction of the glory of the Ming Dynasty.
Unfortunately, after Zhang Cong died of illness and conservatives like Xia Yan came to power, all of this was lost.
Zhang Cong's political style is similar to that of the former Qin king. He dares to think and do things, and seizes the day. Anyone who stops his new policy will kill the Buddha if he blocks it, and the god if he blocks it.
Only this kind of person can turn a ship back onto the right track when it goes astray.
People like Yang Tinghe, Xia Yan, and Xu Jie, all they did was to keep the ship from capsizing on the wrong path, but the deeper they went astray, the deeper the harm they accumulated, and it became increasingly difficult for future generations to turn back.
There are always ministers who maintain stability, but ministers who are responsible for reform are rare in a century.
Because of this, Zhang Cong's reform intention has long been discovered by the civil service group, and the entire civil service group is extremely wary of Zhang Cong.
Before Zhang Cong wanted to join the cabinet, he could not get a recommendation from the courtiers. He could only accept Jiajing's decree and join the cabinet amidst the contempt of other courtiers.
But Zhang Cong obviously doesn't care about this. What he wants is to be able to do practical things.
Zhang Juzheng had great admiration for Zhang Cong throughout his life. When compiling the records of Emperor Shizong of the Ming Dynasty, he wrote: He highly recommended Xu Yongjia (Zhang Cong) because his talents and skills were similar, so he admired him and praised him.
When Zhang Juzheng came to power, he promulgated a series of new reform policies, including one of the whipping laws, which were largely based on Zhang Cong's reform foundation and strategy.
And there is one thing worth mentioning.
No matter Yang Tinghe, Xia Yan, Xu Jie, Gao Gong, or even Zhang Juzheng, the handsome guy who became famous throughout the ages because of the reform.
No matter what the top leaders of the Ming Dynasty's cabinet did during their time in power, their personal lives were extremely extravagant, and making money one by one was like a cramp in their hands.
When they were in office, these chief ministers also talked about fighting corruption and upholding integrity. They defeated big tigers and small flies one after another, but they never turned against themselves.
But only Zhang Cong leads by example and is honest and upright.
I served as the first assistant in Beijing for seven years. When I left Beijing, I just packed a simple luggage and left.
After seven years as chief minister, he did not even own a house or an acre of land in the capital. This is a famous reform official who deserves to be praised by future generations and who is dedicated to the public. He is by no means a villain in a book.
History can be joked about, but never nonsense.
Moreover, although Zhang Cong is a civil servant, he never forms a party for personal gain. Everything is done in public. This is the main reason why he has always been excluded by the civil servant group.
If the lotus comes out of the mud but remains unstained, it will naturally be broken.
When Jiajing Fire Line promoted Zhang Cong and had full trust in him, it was not just because Zhang Cong supported the ceremony.
After all, the people who supported Jiajing at that time were not only Zhang Cong, but also the monarch and his ministers cherished each other, the monarch and his ministers were united, and they had the ambition to eliminate the old and evil.
"Zhang Fuking!"
When Jiajing saw Zhang Cong, he was so frightened that he almost jumped up.
At that time, Zhang Cong wrote a letter requesting to change his name to avoid the taboo word "熜" of Zhu Houcong. Jiajing gave him the name Fujing and the courtesy name Maogong.
Not only Jiajing was stunned, but Zhang Cong was also stunned.
Looking at the surrounding scenery and the Emperor Jiajing in front of him, Zhang Cong looked confused and thought, "Hasn't I already been buried? Why did they dig me out of the coffin!"
Just when Zhang Cong was confused, a voice came.
"You have ten years to restart your New Deal, implement it and solidify it, and at the same time train your successor."
This new function of summoning heroic spirits has a time limit, that is, the summoned heroic spirit can only live for ten years.
The words fell.
Zhang Cong was stunned and subconsciously looked at Ji Boying.
He entered the officialdom at the age of forty-seven. From a second-class Jinshi to a humble official, he seized the right opportunity and became the chief minister of the cabinet in just six or seven years. How could he not be smart?
In an instant, he understood that the reason why he was resurrected was all because of the person in front of him.
It’s unbelievable!
"Taozu gave you a new life, but you still don't kneel down to thank me."
Jiajing was surprised and thought this was normal.
After all, Master is an immortal, divine and Taoist ancestor, and resurrecting an individual as a mortal is not something that can be easily accomplished.
‘It turns out there are really gods in the world!’
Although Zhang Cong got along with Jiajing, he actually didn't really agree with Jiajing's cultivation of immortality. After all, he thought it was too nonsense.
But at this moment, he believed it.
Thump, kneel down.
Zhang Cong, an old man in his sixties, gave Ji Boying a solid kowtow.
No one wants to die. He could live ten more years, and Zhang Cong did die with regrets because he could not find a successor who could carry out his wishes and carry out the reform to the end.
"It just so happens that the six cabinet departments of this dynasty are all in the Taigaoxuan Palace. It's better to choose a day than to hit it."
Ji Boying glanced at Zhang Cong and Jiajing.
As soon as the words fell, the three figures disappeared from the Ancestral Temple.
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Taigaoxuan Palace, Nine Heavens Thunder Altar.
Xia Yan, Yan Song, and their respective groups were already having a huge quarrel.
After all, we have already broken up. Either you die or I die. If we don’t tell the difference, we won’t be able to go home to be with my wife today.
Xu Jie remained silent among the crowd without saying a word.
His eyes accidentally swept over the thunder altar, and his pupils shrank sharply.
He was not shocked by the appearance of Daozu and Jiajing Immortal, but he was shocked by the dead man who made the entire civil servant group and the entire powerful group tremble and fear him in the early years of Jiajing.
He's back.
Xu Jie: ‘Fake corpse?!’
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Ten thousand words have been updated for fifteen consecutive days.
I am handicapped, so it takes me about 6 hours to write one.
I couldn't fall asleep at 5 or 6 o'clock today due to insomnia, so I got up to write, so I barely kept up with the pace at 12 o'clock.
I feel like I have a fever. If the update in the early morning tomorrow is postponed, brothers, just wait a little and try to be on time.