Weighing the Ming Dynasty: Emperor Taiyue's Master

Come to China Literature's website to read more of my works! At the end of the Jiajing period, the court was plagued by corruption. Zhang Baigui took on the important task of mending the situation. He implemented the five major policies of examination, clearing land, eradicating floods, rectifying border defenses, and reforming scientific examinations. He single-handedly withstood the slanders jointly imposed by the clan, nobles, and scholars, and exhausted his energy to reverse the decline of the dynasty. After his death, he was counterattacked by the powerful, ransacked the family, separated the clan, and tampered with the national history, bearing a century-old infamy. During the Apocalypse, the emperor was determined to bring order to the chaos. He ordered historians to revise history, delete all the dirty work of traitors and sycophants over the past century, and completely preserve the laws of reform and peace of the people. He wrote the core conclusion of "If an individual minister has no fault, the whole world will bear him down". The imperial court set up an exclusive sacrificial temple, and the people of the two capitals and thirteen provinces spontaneously built temples to worship him. The emperor granted him the unique title of "Wenzhong Liege", and the Academy of the World revered him as the sect of the Ming Dynasty, completely correcting the distortion of the centuries-old polite tradition.