After Zhang Zhe passed away and became Zhang Juzheng, the most painful thing was not that the shadow guards chased him, nor that the reform was blocked, but that his son Zhang Jingxiu committed suicide in prison holding a fake picture in order to protect him. His wife refused to forgive him until her death because of the argument of "stealing love", and even Wanli, his protector, had a death edict in the end.
He set up the flag of "maintaining the New Deal for ten years" because he wanted to let the people have food to eat, but he forgot to give his son more companionship; he tried his best to prolong his life, but found on his bedside that the people closest to him had already left him.
When Wanli read "Reform Sequel" in his later years and shed tears, and when Qi's army retreated from the enemy with the artillery he built, what Zhang Zhe left in history was not only the achievements of a chief minister, but also the regret of "taking the world as his own responsibility".
