In 1521, candlelight flickered in the Forbidden City, Ming Wuzong suddenly passed away, and a power vacuum quietly fell. At that time, Zhu Houcong from Anlu, Hubei Province was still a 14-year-old boy, but he was pushed to the throne by fate - and now the person sitting on this throne is a modern soul.
When he opened his eyes, he saw three immediate dangers:
• Militaryly, the guard system has long been rotten to the core, the roster of border troops is empty, the Mongolian cavalry are grinding their teeth in the northern Xinjiang, and the Japanese pirates in the southeast are staring at the wealthy coast;
• Politically, the cabinet and the Supervisor of Ceremonies are locked in a life-and-death struggle, local officials regard corruption as commonplace, and the poisonous seedlings of party strife have quietly broken ground;
• Economically, the commodity economy has just emerged but is stuck in backward technology. The national treasury relies entirely on land tax. Do you want to develop industry? Not even a decent piece of iron can be smelted.
With the memory of modern civilization, this "fake Jiajing" grasped the ink pen tightly. By reforming the military and political affairs, making inventions, and reinforcing systems, he would make this Ming Dynasty ship, riddled with holes, turn abruptly into the channel of industrial civilization - history, and start to veer off course from this moment on.
