[Travel + Machiavellianism + Hardcore Reform]
Shen Yue, a history student, opened his eyes and became the Zhengde Emperor Zhu Houzhao who was scolded as "absurd".
There is no system, no superpowers, just half a book of "History of the Ming Dynasty" and some basic modern common sense. But the mess in front of him was worse than the history books: Liu Jin controlled Dongchang, and his private treasury had more gold than the national treasury; civil servants shouted that "the ancestral system cannot be violated" and secretly annexed thousands of hectares of fertile land; Mongolian cavalry harassed the border, vassal kings separated their regimes, and Japanese pirates wreaked havoc in the south of the Yangtze River...
Shen Yue gritted his teeth: If he doesn't succeed, he will forcefully change it!
Fighting against the eunuchs, he had Jin Yiwei watch him for three years, digging out irrefutable evidence of corruption from the cracks in the accounts, and even missing gold bricks in the walls when he ransacked his house;
In order to defy the civil servants, he took the "Fish Scale Atlas" to the south of the Yangtze River, calculated the taxes on the land, and used his work to spread the land into the land to stun the "ancestral faction";
When the army was strong, he squatted in the firearms camp to refine the saltpeter, polishing the rifling with hammers, so that the Franco machine gun could shoot three miles farther;
At the foot of Yingzhou City, he personally led the new army to play "three-stage attack" and defeated the little Mongolian prince: "I will not dare to invade the South for ten years!"
Everyone laughed at him for being deviant, but he smiled as he looked at the sweet potato fields that had been successfully planted, the new water transport ships, and the new troops in training.
Later historians lamented: "Emperor Zhengde had no chance, but with his knowledge and determination, he was able to drag the Ming Dynasty back to Kangzhuang from the cliff - outrageous, but so refreshing!"
