Zhang Juzheng, the First Assistant of Wanli
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Zhang Juzheng was the third person in Chinese history to implement strict reforms after Shang Yang and Wang Anshi, and the first person to see the results of reforms during his lifetime. This book mainly tells the story of Zhang Juzheng's experience of supporting his young master, establishing a new policy, rectifying the administration of officials, sorting out finances, strengthening the army, dredging water transportation, rectifying education, and recruiting talents during the Wanli period. After ten years of hard work and rigorous reforms, the Wanli Dynasty became the most powerful period in the 276 years of the Ming Dynasty, but in the end he suffered "humiliation of death." This book narrates the ups and downs of Zhang Juzheng's life in the form of a novel, showing a vivid picture of the ups and downs of the fallen dynasty and the ups and downs of the officialdom of the fallen dynasty, and a tragic song of the aspiration of a hero holding the sky with one arm in the last days.
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