After transmigrating as Zhang Juzheng's youngest son, Zhang Yunxiu is in a panic.
In a year, his new father will die, leaving the family ruined and destitute. In two years, the Manchu barbarian Nurhaci will launch his Thirteen Armies uprising and begin his bid to seize the throne. In seven years, England will defeat the Spanish Armada and embark on its bloody primitive accumulation.
Factional strife will intensify, land will be monopolized, the frontiers will fall into chaos, and a silver crisis will erupt. One crisis after another hangs over him like a sword poised above his head.
Yet four hundred years later, when people open the history books, they are astonished to discover that in the ninth year of Wanli, history suddenly split onto a new path.
That year, the Great Ming's first comprehensive newspaper, the Wanli News, appeared out of nowhere. It deconstructed Wang Yangming's philosophy and sparked an earth-shattering intellectual revolution.
That year, modern medical theory was proposed for the first time, and the plague that had plagued people for millennia was finally brought under control.
That year, the gentry got their first taste of the righteous iron fist of macroeconomics.
From that year onward, the Wanli reforms, which had seemed on the verge of collapse, unexpectedly ushered in a transformation unlike anything seen in a century! The steam engine, sweet potatoes, flintlock guns, and all kinds of other inventions and discoveries appeared one after another!
From that year onward, the stubborn and self-willed Wanli Emperor became absorbed in artistic pursuits. Zhang Juzheng, who had been struggling alone to hold up the storm-tossed Great Ming, was astonished to find the burden on his shoulders growing a little lighter.
The son once dismissed as a disgraceful rebel somehow ended up shouldering half of the Great Ming!
This book is also known as The Chief Architect of the Great Ming Industrial Revolution, Zhang Yunxiu: A Dutiful Son to His Loving Father, The Civil Officials' Living Ancestor, and My Comics Matter More Than Memorials
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The emperor is portrayed too favorably, with the problems primarily attributed to the gentry. However, the core issue is the centralization of power in ancient feudal governments. To ensure eternal rule, emperors inevitably centralized power, leading to an excessively powerful bureaucratic network. This is because bureaucrats were the emperor's tool for maintaining rule.
If the protagonist doesn't become emperor, then he will definitely carry out a comprehensive reform to limit the emperor's power. It's useless if the protagonist simply copies technology from later generations and adds a few reforms. If a country wants to produce a large number of original inventions, it must undergo systematic changes in many aspects, including its ideological foundation…
Everyone has already mentioned the advantages, so I'll talk about what I personally consider to be the disadvantages: the protagonist is too arrogant and unruly, has no respect for his elders, and is more roguish than composed. That's all.
Zhang Juzheng demonstrated that even a capable and idealistic powerful minister could not save the Ming Dynasty; he would only ruin himself, leaving only the option of usurping the throne or establishing a republic.
Author, please revise this.
The writing style is readable, but the framework is lacking. The plague section was written too slowly. If you want to develop modern medicine, there's no need to make the plague section so long. Moreover, it never really satisfies the reader. Killing the two censors felt like a half-hearted ending and didn't feel satisfying at all.
I am Shennong, and to be honest, it's a real shame that this novel is buried by lack of popularity.
Rating: Five stars The content is engaging and relaxing, but the only drawback is that it only updates once a day, which is too slow. The lack of factual errors and the fact that it reflects reality might be the reason for the reduced updates? (Could the tedious research process have led to the reduced update frequency?) Among all the history articles, this one is top-notch. I truly admire how vivid and lifelike Zhang Juzheng's writing is.
A high-quality grain and forage product! Worth reading.
It's no easy feat for the author to imbue the protagonist's surroundings with a vibrant energy amidst the decline of a dynasty 😃😃. The deep-seated constraints of ancient feudal ethics are too heavy for most readers to bear; they wouldn't want such a somber and somber tone.
The Ming Dynasty's problem was that the land couldn't support so many people; the Manchu Qing Dynasty, on the other hand, achieved its rule through enslaved people. The only solution was to expand the territory and establish fiefdoms.
This is what you call heavy taxation. In the south, it wasn't even considered paying money. When the Qing Dynasty came, how much did they pay? It wasn't even a tenth of what they paid to the Ming Dynasty. The north basically bore the brunt. How could anyone do such a thing? Why was the south so powerful?
It's rambling and doesn't get to the point; that's not how you save Ming.