Great Ming: Zhang Juzheng, You're Still Too Conservative

Liu Ke transmigrates to the Ming Dynasty and becomes the Jiajing Emperor!

"They say the Ming Dynasty's decline began under the Jiajing Emperor. Now that I've become Jiajing, I should naturally purge corrupt policies and restore the Ming Dynasty! But how can I bring it back to prosperity?"

"Zhang Juzheng's reforms? His approach just patched up that old, battered ship called the Ming Dynasty and kept it afloat a little longer!"

"It's the forty-fifth year of Jiajing, 1566, and we're in the latter half of the sixteenth century! This is the age of exploration and colonialism, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the Scientific Revolution!"

"Zhang Juzheng's reforms were still too conservative!"

"The Ming Dynasty must not fall behind the times!"

"The Ming Dynasty is currently a feudal monarchy! According to the course of history, capitalism comes after feudal monarchy! But capitalism is anti-monarchy! Even a constitutional monarchy doesn't go far enough, and the monarch ends up a mere figurehead! If opposing monarchy means opposing me... Holy crap! Am I supposed to oppose myself? Am I going to end up stripping myself of my own power?"

It suddenly dawned on him: This was a crooked path, a dead end!

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.