In Mozi's view, the struggle between the emperor and civil servants has begun again, which is also a feature of the Ming Dynasty and is inevitable. Without a prime minister, if the emperor wants to do something, he must go directly and confront the ministers head-on.

The result of this is that if you lose, the emperor's prestige will be less. If you win, the ministers will not realize that the emperor is wise, but will think that the emperor uses his power to force this, and it is a tyrant or a foolish monarch.

And if there is a prime minister, there will be a buffer between the emperor and the ministers. Once something is wrong, the first direction of the ministers is to take power, the prime minister is a treacherous minister, and the emperor is a wise man. This is all the prime minister’s fault!

And when the emperor is dissatisfied with the government, should he change to the prime minister?

The entire Wenguan class is too powerful to move lightly, but the prime minister is just a person. As long as he is not satisfied, the emperor can change it casually, and he can always change it to someone who satisfies himself.

Then the prime minister charges in front and the emperor stands behind. After the anger and dissatisfaction of the ministers accumulate to a certain level, then change the prime minister lightly. What a simple thing!

Thinking of this, Mo Zi shook his head slightly.

The emperor is still very young and likes to do carpenter work, so his body must be very healthy. This means that even if he fails, he can never attend court for decades like his grandfather, Emperor Wanli, and use this non-violent and uncooperative method to disgust civil servants for at least thirty or forty years!

Even this time he would do more than his grandfather. For thirty or forty years, he would not approve the resignation of civil servants, not approve the civil servants' appointment, and not approve the promotion of civil servants. This future is foreseeable. In other words, regardless of the outcome, the top leaders of the Ming Dynasty will sooner or later be in chaos.

"So, even if some fellow Taoists here are lucky enough to become a Cabinet Grand Secretary, you will never have enough time and energy to do something, because no matter then, the top priority is no longer doing anything, but trying to maintain a balance between the emperor and the civil servants so as to keep your official position!"

"After talking about the top leaders, let me talk about the middle leaders. Nowadays, officials in the Ming Dynasty fail to pass the Jinshi exam and have no future in the officialdom."

"The future of the third-class Jinshi usually stops at the prefect, and the second-class Jinshi also depends on whether they can enter the Hanlin Academy. If they cannot enter the Hanlin Academy, it is also difficult to truly enter the core of the Ming Dynasty. But is it so easy to enter the Hanlin Academy?"

"I won't talk about things like Hanlin Academy that are shadowless. Even Jinshi, even the third-level Jinshi who don't seem to have a bright future, are not ordinary people who can pass the exam. The Jinshi exam is only once every three years, and the juren from the two capitals and thirteen provinces in the country gathered together to have two or three hundred Jinshi quotas."

"Even if you pass the Jinshi exam and become a middle-level official, do you think you can do what you have learned? Nothing! You still have to face party struggles! The disputes between the Donglin Party, the Qi Party, the Zhejiang Party, the northern and southern people, the Shanxi merchants, and the salt merchants, there are countless struggles waiting for you every day."

"As for failing to pass the Jinshi exam, the future of the Juren masters can be at most stopped at the county magistrate. It is better to join a certain sect early, become a true disciple, and strive to be the elders and the heads of the sect."

"So this is also the reason why I refuse the imperial examination. With my qualifications and understanding, if I focus on the imperial examination, it will be sooner or later to get the imperial examination, but how much time and energy will it take?"

"Five years?"

"ten years?"

"Twenty years?"

"It seems that you have also discovered the problem. In addition to ordinary knowledge, Xuanmen also has extraordinary knowledge. Who doesn't want to be extraordinary? Who doesn't want to be immortal?"

"To be honest, the main purpose of my visit to the Ming Dynasty was to learn the knowledge of this world, and secondly, to learn the martial arts of this world and achieve extraordinary results. If I could benefit all the people in this process, it would be even better."

"With this twenty years of taking the Jinshi exam, I have enough confidence to become the leader of a sect."

"Don't think that the leader of a sect is nothing, nor do you think that the so-called leader of a sect is just the leader of dozens and hundreds of rangers."

"Take the Huashan Sect as an example, the Huashan Sect is the representative of the gentry in Guanzhong. Most of the outer disciples of the Huashan Sect come from the landlords and powerful people in Guanzhong. They include the son of the landlords, the son of the Xiucai family, and the son of the Juren master."

"As for Jinshi, to be honest, there are generally fewer Jinshi in the north than in the south, and there are even fewer Jinshi in Guanzhong. Every three years, when you are not lucky, they are often only single digits. Therefore, even those Jinshi masters often send their sons who are not qualified to study at home to Huashan to study one or two martial arts."

"In other words, the Huashan School has a connection that spreads throughout Guanzhong. Through these connections, the Huashan School has a variety of businesses. For example, they are the largest smuggling leaders in Shaanxi and Gansu. They smuggled iron, cloth, silk, salt, and tea to the Mongolian grassland. I don't have too detailed information in my hands, but this item alone, the annual income is the profit starting from 100,000 taels of silver!"

"In addition, the sects of all sizes in Guanzhong are more or less related to the Huashan Sect. Either their ancestors were founded by disciples of Huashan Sect, or the leader's son was an inner disciple of Huashan Sect. Even the martial arts halls of all sizes in this county are dominated by outer disciples of Huashan Sect."

"Even our Taoyuan Town is no exception. The martial arts hall in the town is an outer disciple of the Huashan Sect. His responsibility is to teach Huashan martial arts, take root in the town, enhance the influence of the Huashan Sect, and bear the responsibility of different sizes, such as finding seeds of genius."

"The Huashan Sect has more resources than the prefect. Although it is not as good as a magistrate like a governor, it is relatively independent. There is no emperor or a grandson of the cabinet, and the six ministers are suppressed."

"More importantly, in addition to the above powers, the White Dao faction in this world is also one of the participants in the world's politics."

"I'll give an example!"

"When Zhang Juzheng reformed, there was a turning point. Before that, even though Zhang Juzheng could not be famous all over the world, he praised him. Even those civil officials who opposed him only felt that his reform was too impatient and only cared about the interests of the court without considering the interests of the gentry."

"But these officials of the Ming Dynasty did not have ambitions. Not all officials put their own interests first. There are always some who have ideals, abilities and willingness to sacrifice the interests of gentry to strengthen the court."

"However, after the turning point, Zhang Juzheng's reputation became completely bad, and fewer and fewer supporters were supported. His approach became more and more domineering, just like a terminally ill person. Since then, he has been arrogant and domineering. In order to increase his momentum, he openly criticized and scolded Emperor Wanli, so that Wanli's mother once proposed: If you can't be the emperor well, just change your younger brother!"

Therefore, from a personal point of view, there is really no problem with Emperor Wanli killing Zhang Juzheng. He is just a super powerful minister who often criticizes the emperor, and even gives the emperor the illusion that if you can't do it, you will change the emperor.

Wanli could not take revenge on his mother and did not take revenge on his younger brother after he was in power, so he had to take revenge on Zhang Juzheng.

Huo Guang was so kind to the Han Dynasty and made such great contributions. After his death, Emperor Xuan was still barred by Emperor Xuan. He did not see many people saying that Emperor Xuan was not a thing at that time!

However, Emperor Xuan would make a show, and after completely killing Huo Guang's family, and completely clearing Huo Guang's influence, he pretended to say that Huo Guang was a national hero.

The difference between Wanli is here. It’s not that he can’t kill Zhang Juzheng’s family, but that he should find some time to pretend to perform after killing Quan’s family.
Chapter completed!