Chapter 2276, sit back and watch the situation change

The departure of Emperor Zhengde marked the end of an old era and the beginning of a new era.

Crown Prince Zhu Zaicheng ascended the throne of the Ming Dynasty very smoothly, and changed the Yuan Dynasty to Yongsheng. 1771 in the Yanhuang calendar was the first year of Yongsheng, officially starting the history of the Yongsheng Dynasty.

Zhu Zaicheng is already in his early forties, which is when he is in the prime of life.

He has always followed the path that Zhu Houzhao once walked, starting from a small county magistrate and working step by step, county magistrate, prefect and then chief envoy of a province.

At the same time, Emperor Hongzhi personally selected teachers for Zhu Zaicheng's education. The teaching team, with Wang Shouren as the main teacher, also allowed Zhu Zaicheng to receive a new type of education.

Zhu Houzhao also attached great importance to him and sent Zhu Zaicheng to serve in the army for three years. He exercised in the army and became familiar with military aspects.

Since childhood, he has been trained strictly according to the Ming Dynasty's successor model, and his performance has always been quite outstanding, which satisfied both Emperor Hongzhi and Emperor Zhengde. The civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty also praised him highly.

Although Zhu Houzhao had more than 200 sons and many brothers, his status as prince has always been unshakable. Of course, this also has a lot to do with the prince system of the Ming Empire. From the day he was born, he

He is destined to be the successor of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Zaicheng, who was young and powerful and received an extremely strict education, began to reveal some of his thoughts and intentions from the day he ascended the throne of the emperor.

Winter is extremely cold, with heavy snow and ice in Qiongzhou. At the same time, there are also years of drought, floods, locust plagues, earthquakes, etc., and famines are raging.

As for the affairs between the DPRK and China, I only learned about them through newspaper reports, and I didn’t care about anything else.

Zhu Zaicheng was also very aware of this, so this was also an important reason why he supported the conservative officials, because compared to the newly emerging trends and thoughts, traditional Confucian thoughts and theories were obviously more suitable for the rule of the feudal dynasty.

But these various extreme climates still had a huge impact on many aspects of the Ming Dynasty.

Even if his eldest son Liu Xin and his younger son Liu Qing often call or write letters, which mention some things about the government and the public or some things about the Ming Dynasty, Liu Jin has no relationship with them and will not comment on them.

Beak.

Except for a few small towns dedicated to deporting prisoners that can be connected to the outside world in the summer, there is no contact or communication with the outside world at all.

Liu Jin, who was retiring at Hongyun Manor in Nanyun Province, had truly become a hermit. After the death of Emperor Zhengde, Liu Jin never had any correspondence or other correspondence with any ministers in the court.

The rapid development of capitalism gave the soil for new ideas and new ideological trends, and various ideas and ideological trends spread rapidly throughout the Ming Dynasty and even around the world.

Although the Ming Dynasty is the sovereign state, the South African colonies can listen to some of Ming's words, but when the Ming Empire brings warships and cannons to the gate, the South African colonies will naturally not let others slaughter and bully them.

Liu Jin nodded with a smile, and then boasted: "Don't say anything else, if this manuscript alone is placed hundreds of years later, do you believe that it can be auctioned for at least one million taels of silver?"

However, since Emperor Yongsheng ascended the throne, the Ming Dynasty seemed to have gradually entered a troubled period.

Furthermore, Liu Jin also felt that this new emperor might not be as generous and kind as Emperor Hongzhi and Emperor Zhengde, so he had to wade through this muddy water by himself, so as not to be in trouble later.

Zhu Houzhao has driven away many cabinet ministers and chief ministers in the past one or two years. The cabinet ministers, six ministers and so on are like passing through the ranks. They have been changed over and over again, but no one can satisfy Zhu Houzhao.

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"Letter, letter, my autobiography written by Liu Da Zhuangyuan, not to mention one million taels of silver, but tens of millions of taels of silver, hundreds of millions of taels of silver are all worth it."

This makes Xu Waner and Li Zhen very fond of it. They have nothing to do in their old age, so it is still a very happy thing to take care of the baby at home.

Judging from the current situation in Siberia, wherever you are exiled, you will basically be waiting to die, but your death will still be extremely ugly, because it is too cold, and the area for hundreds or thousands of miles is an uninhabited area.

This made Emperor Yongsheng even more angry, and he even directly issued decrees to various vassals and colonies, demanding that the spread of these treacherous and unethical doctrines and ideas be strictly prohibited.

For the first time, I truly realized that besides the Ming Empire, there was another country in the world with such a strong military strength.

The Li family opened a large number of trading houses, hoping to do business in various industries, but unfortunately, various industries in the Ming Dynasty were already occupied by people, and it was difficult for latecomers to squeeze in.

When the South African colony dispatched a large number of warships, artillery, a powerful army, and even the air force, people all over the world came to know the powerful strength of the South African colony.

I can be idle as long as I can, take good care of myself, and write my own books. As for what the Ming Empire will become, Liu Jin no longer cares.

Liu Jin now has a mustache, and the hair on his head has become snow-white, but he has not lost any hair, otherwise it would be ugly.

The winter was bitingly cold and frozen for thousands of miles. Many of the criminals who were exiled to these places were frozen to death. How many had their hands and feet frozen to death?

I am almost seventy years old, but I can still live a good life for a few days and worry about these things.

For example, in order to seize some oil fields, they directly killed people and forced them to transfer them to themselves at low prices. In the Golden Continent, they even wanted to seize gold mines, silver mines, copper mines, etc.

But the Li family is different. They rely on the queen and the emperor's support, protection, and pampering to do whatever it takes.

They began to continuously spread the ideas and doctrines of their own school all over the world, using overseas colonies and vassal states as their base camps, and continuously penetrated into the Ming Empire.

The reason why such things happen is mainly because with the rapid development of capitalism and the rise of new learning, new ideas and new trends of thought are constantly emerging.

Liu Jin immediately laughed, and then looked at Xu Waner, time is not forgiving, the once great beauty has now become an old woman, but fortunately she has always been in good health.

This is not an emperor who is content with being unknown, but an emperor with his own ideas and goals.

At the same time, it also vigorously publicized the mistakes made by Emperor Yongsheng, especially his favoring his relatives, wantonly destroying the existing rules of the Ming Dynasty, allowing his relatives to be arrogant, domineering, plundering, ignoring the king's laws, and wantonly destroying the system of the Ming Dynasty.

After not being in the government for many years, the officials in the government have been replaced one after another. What I said is no longer effective. What's more, once the emperor and his courtiers came, the new emperor may not really like him.

"Haha, I finally finished it!"

Moreover, Zhu Zaicheng specially sent people to Nanyun Province to invite Liu Jin, hoping that Liu Jin could come out and continue to be the chief assistant of the cabinet and lead all officials to assist him.

Various new ideas and new trends of thought spread rapidly around the world, which greatly shaken the rule of the traditional feudal dynasty.

"Look how happy you are!"

For this reason, Zhu Zaicheng even actually annihilated several important figures of the nine clans of the Gongjia sect, which severely dealt a blow to the development of the Gongjia sect's doctrine and the spread of its ideas.

When Xu Waner heard this, she immediately said speechlessly.

During the more than ten years of the Yongsheng Dynasty, for more than half of the time, extremely harsh and extreme climates occurred in various parts of the Ming Dynasty and even around the world.

He is already old and he is still bragging.

Because during this period, the Ming Empire even had a serious conflict with the South African colony, and the two sides almost came to war.

However, this was rejected by Liu Jin. He had finally found some time to spare, so he refused to go out in this muddy water because of his old age and poor health.

They also used some people who were friendly with the Li family to demote these upright ministers to remote areas.

I am actually a veteran of the Hongzhi Dynasty. During the Zhengde Dynasty, I was only in the government and the public during the first few years. After that, I have been traveling around the world.

First of all, the first thing he did was to exile all the monks and alchemy Taoists who were raised by Emperor Zhengde in the palace to the desolate Siberia.

Ordinary people still care about national affairs, let alone Liu Jin.

Zhu Zaicheng even issued a comprehensive order to prohibit the spread of relevant schools and doctrines in the Ming Dynasty. Anyone or any organization that spreads such doctrines will be regarded as treason and the nine tribes will be killed.

On this day, Liu Jin was very happy as he held the autobiography he had just finished writing.

Of course, their most important thing is to tell some stories about Liu Jin's youth to the little ones in the family.

Liu Jin put down his pen, ink, paper and inkstone, lay down comfortably on his master's chair, and began to read the latest newspaper.

Since Liu Jin, Xu Waner, and Li Zhen grew older, Liu Jin's children and grandchildren also discussed sending some of the children in the family to Hongyun Manor to stay with them.

Under the tense situation between the two sides, the whole world even stopped breathing.

"Um!"

"Master, today's newspaper has arrived!"

The Yongsheng Dynasty began to have some problems that had appeared in previous dynasties, such as arrogant and domineering relatives.

"Haha, of course I'm happy!"

In addition to the issue of his relatives, Zhu Zaicheng also began to gradually favor the traditional conservative civil servants among them, which caused the conservative civil servants to resurgence, while many practical officials who emerged from the new school were suppressed.

With developed science and technology, a developed economy, and a strong military, it is the most powerful country in the world besides the Ming Empire.

However, wherever there is oppression, there will be resistance.

They indulged their relatives to the point where they became arrogant, lawless, and unscrupulously destroyed some of the existing rules and systems of the Ming Dynasty. They even openly resisted paying taxes, so that the work of the tax yamen was greatly affected. They had nothing to do with them.

any solution.

All these made Zhu Zaicheng hate them very much. As soon as he came to the throne, he exiled them to Siberia and never came back.

If it were the Ming Dynasty in history, it would have already entered the end of the turbulent dynasty at this moment. Various peasant uprisings continued, and it was time to change dynasties due to natural and man-made disasters.

At this time, Liu Jin's housekeeper brought several newspapers over.

Even under the control of Zhu Zaicheng and Empress Li, Empress Li's Li family was extremely arrogant and domineering, bullying men and dominating women, and even had huge conflicts of interest with many nobles in the court.

This kind of doctrine is heresy and treason, and should be severely attacked and punished.

Xu Waner, who was coaxing the baby to sleep, looked at Liu Jin and shook her head helplessly.

There are many people who accept the Gongjia school of thought and trends, especially young people. After everyone has read books and knows more, they naturally think more and see more clearly.

In addition to rectifying the smoky harem, exiling the monks and Taoists, and cleaning up the eunuchs who bewitched Zhu Houzhao, etc.

These monks and Taoist priests did not know how much money they had deceived from Zhu Houzhao. The money was secondary, but more importantly, they made the palace into a smoky mess, which also brought a lot of stains to Zhu Houzhao's later years. The refined elixir also made Emperor Zhengde

Go faster.

Naturally, they also gave a lot of support and connivance to the Li family, just like Emperor Hongzhi and Empress Zhang's two younger brothers Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling.

The first point is that the severe weather of the Little Ice Age began to really show its force. Counting the time, this is actually the end of the Ming Dynasty in history, when the Little Ice Age was the most serious and powerful.

This actually aroused the Li family's desire for revenge and fueled the Li family's arrogance. They even openly beat the ministers who impeached them in the Hall of Supreme Harmony.

It took me more than ten years to write this autobiography. When I finished writing this autobiography, Liu Jin was already an eighty-year-old man.
To be continued...