Traveling Through the Ming Dynasty: from Chief Assistant to Prime Minister

A person who ends the first assistant He is not here to be the chief assistant. He is here to end the first assistant. Zhang Juzheng's close disciple, the five-year-old prince's attendant, and the youngest minister in the cabinet - Wang Yuqiu looks like everything except a loyal minister. Everyone thought he was a member of the Zhang Party: Xu Jie tested him, Feng protected him, and Chen Hong sent people to watch him day and night. Everyone thought he was vying for the chief minister's chair: Xiao Jingyang, who had worked hard in the Common Hall for four years, threw all the savings of three generations of his family into the Qianqing Palace just to block his way. But what Wang Yuqiu really wanted to fight for was never the first assistant. He has seen the deepest rot in this empire: every whipping method will be tampered with, every clean-up will be replaced, and every memorial will be placed under the wine pot. And all this is not because Zhang Juzheng is not ruthless enough, nor is it because Feng Bao is not experienced enough, but because - what the Ming Dynasty lacks is not capable ministers, but something that makes capable ministers dead and decrees are still being passed. He will spend fifteen years doing one thing: Transform this empire from human rule "under one person" to a system "above the system." Burn the "Chief Assistant" chair, stained with blood and ink, to ashes, and then erect a new one - called Prime Minister. Before Zhang Juzheng died, he held his hand and asked him: "Who are you doing this for?" Wang Yuqiu did not answer. But he had already thought about it: to serve as an official for everyone who does not need to kneel down in three hundred years.