Chapter 59: The mountain monument collapses

No matter how much dissatisfied Duke Feng is now, he has to hold back.

It was not easy for him to meet Zhou Mengchen.

For Zhou Mengchen, every minute and every second are very important now. He retreated next year, and it will only be a few months before he retreated. The situation in Jiajing is not optimistic. Once Jiajing dies, the country is in a state of demise for three months. In addition, the new emperor ascended the throne, what happened before and after.

After Zhou Mengchen finished so many things, he should have a handover with Zhang Juzheng.

And there are very few days without any restraint.

There are almost not many days.

Zhou Mengchen urgently needed to make some arrangements. Moving the cabinet from Wenyuan Pavilion to outside the palace and establishing an independent yamen was one of them.

Duke Feng met Zhou Mengchen. The two were speechless.

Don't know what to say.

If the cracks that Jiajing intended to cause to both sides were false, but the deep ravines between the two are real. Li Ru's biggest characteristic is that he has self-knowledge. He is very clear that his status was given by the Ming Dynasty Royal Family. Without the Ming Dynasty Royal Family, with his ability, being a general may not be enough. Not to mention, suppressing so many famous masters and becoming the leader of the Ming Dynasty Military Minister.

Some attributes are imprinted in the bloodline since birth and cannot be changed.

It was like Zhou Mengchen could not truly surrender to the Ming Dynasty from the beginning. He might have traveled with others for a while, but there were always times when he was splitting up his escorts. The only thing that made Zhou Mengchen feel relieved was that he retreated early. Perhaps the rest was between Zhang Juzheng and Li Ru.

Duke Feng calmly reposted Huang Jin's words and then said, "The words have been brought to you. Whatever you want to do is Brother Zhou's business."

Zhou Mengchen said: "Actually, Your Majesty's future generations have been prepared. Qu Jingchun will retire next year and will major in the transcript of Your Majesty. I will tell him these things. What is the situation depends on Qu Jingchun's meaning."

Duke Feng said, "That's His Majesty's posthumous title?"

Zhou Mengchen said: "The Emperor of Heaven."

Compared with Emperor Shizong Su in history, Zhou Mengchen has raised a lot. After all, he highly praised Jiajing, which is to evaluate himself. Zhou Mengchen does not feel over-profitable today, because in Zhou Mengchen's view, no matter what Jiajing did in the first forty years, now the last ten years have brought the Ming Dynasty politics to another direction.

That's enough to evaluate.

It can be said that those who study history in later generations must use the Jiajing Dynasty as a dividing point in the Ming Dynasty. They just don’t know whether this dividing point is mid-term to late, or early to mid-term. It depends on how long the Ming Dynasty has lived in the history here.

After hearing this, Duke Feng murmured a few words and pondered repeatedly. The Emperor Shizu was the founder of a new era, an emperor who connected the past and the future in the dynasty. For example, the ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty, Kublai Khan, was Cheng, and the peace of the people and the establishment of politics was Cheng; the punishment of the people was overcoming it was Cheng; the assistance of the ministers was finally Cheng; the rule of righteousness was overcoming it was Cheng; the rule of righteousness was overcoming it was Cheng; the rituals and music were clear and it was Cheng------.

What Zhou Mengchen values ​​is to ensure peace to the people and establish politics. Isn’t it just his reform?

Of course it is a beautiful posthumous title.

Duke Feng had nothing to say.

As it turns out, this matter has not been in vain.

But in a few days, Jiajing died.

However, Jiajing died silently. In the last few days, Jiajing was unconscious for a long time and awake for a short time. In the last few days, he only woke up once, and only opened his eyes and looked at the world without any hesitation.

Even the imperial physicians were not sure, and Jiajing still had no consciousness.

Of course, if you forcefully wake up, you might be able to leave a few words, but Zhou Mengchen did not give in.

Zhou Mengchen did not do anything to Jiajing's illness, but he was so sick. Of course, if you really want to say that Jiajing's illness is in the liver, it may not be as angry as Zhou Mengchen.

But he didn't intervene directly.

In this situation, Zhou Mengchen was unwilling to let Jiajing leave anything, wouldn’t it just embarrassing?

So, one day, Jiajing tilted his head in a coma and lost his vital signs.

The mountain monument collapsed.

The cabinet has been prepared for a nationwide funeral and a state funeral for 100 days.

As the news came out, the people in many places cried bitterly, and some even fainted.

Among them, there are the most old bases of Zhou Mengchen in Heshuo Province, Datong, Jiangnan, etc.

This is something that makes Zhou Mengchen feel very embarrassed.

Superstition about the emperor has always been that the farther away from the emperor, the more pious he is. The closer he is to the emperor, the less he cares, because everyone around the emperor knows that the emperor is just an ordinary person.

Although Zhou Mengchen was in charge of various chaos before the Jiajing New Year, the situation improved after Zhou Mengchen took office and even achieved immediate results.

For example, Datong.

Before this, it was a poor place that no one would want to go to, but now it is the second largest city in the north to Beijing. Even Tianjin cannot compare with Datong because of its rapid development of ports.

Because Datong is the starting point of the New Silk Road.

There is also the industrial system of Datong itself, which makes Datong unique.

The people in these places are certainly grateful to Zhou Mengchen, who is Zhou Mengchen's most loyal supporter. Almost all the people are not right at all, otherwise they would be beaten up by crowds in the street. But it does not mean that these people do not love and respect Emperor Jiajing.

Yes. I also know that the upper-level officials know the subtle relationship between Zhou Mengchen and Emperor Jiajing. How could the people below know that when they came, it was Emperor Jiajing who was wise and powerful that sent the unparalleled Master Zhou to them.

Zhou Mengchen's good work was a considerable part of the contributions of Emperor Jiajing.

Therefore, these people have enjoyed the blessings of the Qing Dynasty for more than ten years and are naturally grateful to Jiajing. Therefore, the collapse of the Jiajing Mountain Mausoleum is the most painful thing for the people in these places.

This also proves that Zhou Mengchen had observed before, what is orthodox and what is clear about the people's hearts. What is deeply rooted and unshakable, this is.

If Zhou Mengchen really wants to rebel, he may become a lonely man.

This is also the reason why Zhou Mengchen took such a path.

Of course, although the death of Jiajing is of great importance, the more important thing is that the grandson ascended the throne.

Perhaps in order to satisfy his bad taste, Zhou Mengchen did not do anything randomly and directly identified Wanli from the year names sent by the Ministry of Rites. The newly ascended emperor was definitely not the same as the Wanli Emperor in history. His biological mother was not the same.

Even Zhou Mengchen did not pay attention to the Li family who became the empress dowager in history because of his son. After all, history is accidental. If history changes slightly, there will be nothing to Li family.

After Jiajing died and Emperor Wanli ascended the throne, next year was the first year of Wanli, and things were settled.

Zhou Mengchen doesn’t have much time left.

His time in the cabinet can be counted by days.

Although, after he retreated, he followed the Crown Princess, no, now the Empress Dowager will not return to her hometown immediately, but will be a veteran and important minister, the Grand Tutor, in the palace for several years before he will die.

However, in politics, it is inevitable that Zhou Mengchen will retreat to the second line.

Therefore, Zhou Mengchen spent all his other time on the intercourse with Zhang Juzheng.

On the one hand, he told Zhang Juzheng all kinds of things in full.

Although Zhang Ju has been in the cabinet for many years, he is only in charge of some of the things that only the cabinet chief knows, Zhang Juzheng is not sure about.

After Zhang Juzheng was given to him, he would give him some time and Zhang Juzheng would naturally be able to figure it out.

It just took a little longer.

With the help of Zhou Mengchen, Zhang Juzheng naturally had to quickly get into the role.

When everything is almost done.

Zhou Mengchen said: "In a few days, it will be the State Conference. I won't go to this State Conference. You can go on my behalf. But are you ready for your State Outline? Can you let me see it?"

Zhang Juzheng said, "Just just wanted to ask Brother Zhou to taste it, so I would like to give me some advice and see if there is any problem."

Zhang Juzheng spent countless efforts on his outline of state affairs, but now the power of the cabinet chief is too heavy. Even if Zhang Juzheng was very nervous for a while, he felt that he was not sure. If Zhou Mengchen was willing to see it, he was naturally very willing.

So, Zhou Mengchen smiled softly, then opened it and looked at it, and was stunned for the first page.
Chapter completed!