Ming Dynasty: the End of the Curtain
by Fan Jun
About This Novel
If we return to the Ming Dynasty, how should we find the crisis roadmap for this dynasty? In other words, since when did the end of the Ming Dynasty quietly close? Perhaps we can start from the Wanli Year. What happened during the Wanli Year is really difficult to describe in one sentence. When Matteo Ricci, an observer of the national conditions of the late Ming Dynasty, came from Nanjing to Beijing along the Grand Canal, he sincerely marveled at the outward beauty and nobility of a dynasty. But Matteo Ricci would never have imagined that in the Forbidden City, a man named Zhang Juzheng was panting and carrying out reforms to turn the tide. This reform was so thrilling that in the end he became the victim of the grudges between two men, Zhang Juzheng and Emperor Wanli. The reform failed, the reformers suffered a reckoning, and vigorous palace battles continued for decades, until Emperor Wanli threatened a long strike - he would no longer go to court.
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