A fan of "The Ming Dynasty 1566" (the world view is a fusion of novels and history, so this book not only covers the conversion of rice into mulberry, but also the story of King Jing becoming a vassal)
In the winter of the 39th year of Jiajing, there was no snow all winter, and the celestial phenomena warned. Zhou Yunyi, the chief eunuch of the Qin Dynasty Supervisor, was killed at the Meridian Gate with a cane because he bluntly said that "the treasury is empty and the people are in dire straits as a warning from heaven." The Ming Dynasty was already an old tree with rotten roots and dead branches. The strict party is corrupt, the treasury is empty, Japanese pirates are rampant, northern barbarians are spying on the border, and there is also a monastic emperor. The people are struggling to survive under the double crushing pressure of tyranny and natural disasters. Everyone knows the country is sick, but no one knows how to fix it.
Yan Song said: It will be good if I, the strict party, control the government. Xu Jie said: Just wait until the Yan Party falls. Gao Gong said: Just punish all corrupt officials.
At this time, a civil servant from four hundred years later opened his eyes to Zhang Juzheng's successor, the new top scholar Shen Shixing.
He came from later generations and could see further than anyone else in this era. This huge empire needed not only a strong dose of medicine, but also a reborn operation. The scalpel must be held in his own hand.
From "changing rice to mulberry", a reform spanning decades has quietly begun!
