Great Ming Jiajing: The Quest for Immortality

It's satisfying, but killing so many people without considering the workings of the imperial court is very illogical. It's in stark contrast to the other one, "Jiajing Cultivates Immortality," one doesn't use any brains, and the other uses too much. It would be better to balance these two out.

That's right. In other cultivation novels, I don't know what to do with the successful cultivation. It's like they didn't cultivate at all. Is the power they get just for show? Yes, the power is most threatening when it's not being used, but how will you know it's threatening if you don't use it? Without the little boy's explosion, would we have today's nuclear deterrent?

This one's pretty awesome! A cultivation novel where the protagonist crushes everyone.

Seeing this makes me think, I'd rather read history books. This pretentious talk of literary talent and cultivating immortality is just crazy.

I don't understand. The cabinet already knew that Jiajing had successfully achieved immortality through Taoist cultivation. Was Xu Jie trying to commit suicide? And the cabinet didn't seem to care at all about Jiajing's successful Taoist cultivation and regaining his youth? They were still thinking about money? Isn't immortality more important than money?

There are currently no results of successfully cultivating immortality.

After reading so much, it suddenly occurred to me that with the protagonist being so domineering, had Jiajing already seized all military power? Otherwise, why haven't we seen the classic civil official rebellions seen in other Ming Dynasty novels? Can any experts explain this? 🤔

The author chose a timeframe before Zhang Juzheng even entered the cabinet, which made me quite awkward. At that time, Zhang Juzheng was probably still a lecturer at Prince Yu's residence. Zhang Juzheng only entered the cabinet after Yan Song's downfall, along with Gao Gong. At that time, Li Chunfang and a few others were also involved.

Since they've all cultivated immortality, they should naturally rely on overwhelming force and be decisive in their killings. If we kill all the corrupt officials and scholars, we won't have to worry about any intellectuals rebelling. Intellectuals have only ever dared to play petty tricks; I've never seen any of them succeed in rebellion. At most, they might stage a coup or assassination.

Everything else is fine; the emperor was decisive in his actions. But what if the people's hearts are not with the emperor on May 1st? In ancient times, how could an emperor be wrong? 😂 If an emperor was immoral, it would only be because he had treacherous ministers instigating him. So even if a rebellion was launched, the cry would be to "purge the court of corrupt officials," not to "purge the emperor himself."