Eight years of Wanli!

In the eyes of later historians, it is a watershed, a watershed in the Ming Revolution, it even marks the end of an old era, and of course the arrival of a new era.

The coup d'état, which later generations called the "Gengchen Incident", was the boundary of this watershed. Although the "Gengchen Incident" is a ridiculous farce from any point of view, it is full of interpretations of the so-called "Xiucai rebellion will not succeed in ten years". But this farce is not entirely meaningless. "Gengchen Incident" is undoubtedly the most direct collision between the reform forces of the imperial court and the conservative forces, before that, as the first assistant Zhang Juzheng has been cautiously responding to external resistance to reform, in the face of others' resistance to reform, he sometimes even had to choose to retreat, but with the occurrence of the "Gengchen Incident", everything has changed. Once upon a time, the Jiangnan gentry clique, which was so powerful that Zhang Juzheng was afraid, played a "rebellious" role in the incident, giving him an excuse to clean them up, thus completely paving the way for comprehensive reform.

It's just that for all kinds of people who are in the watershed and are deeply involved in the incident, I don't know what people in later generations will say about them. There is no awareness of what kind of changes this event will bring to Daming, but one thing is for sure, the planners are only implementing their plans according to their own interests. According to their own positions and needs, they got everything they needed in this "coup".

Either Caesar or nothing!

In this coup d'état, once again, such a scene is played, some will become heroes, others will become rebels. All the character changes, in fact, are just differences due to victory and defeat.

In the "Gengchen Incident", Zhang Juzheng seemed destined to play the role of a winner. No matter how "passively" he faced all this, but when he realized the danger, he immediately made the most decisive decision, of course, with the support of the emperor and the empress dowager, he asked for the transfer of Qi Jiguang into the capital, although less than 2,000 Qi troops arrived in the capital by car that day, but they still shattered the illusions of the conservative forces with a devastating momentum, and successfully completely disintegrated it at the moment when the coup was just staged.

In the early morning of February 18, when the people of the capital were still waiting for the dawn to come, nearly 20,000 well-equipped Qi family officers and soldiers rushed to the capital by forced march overnight, and took over the Beijing camp in the early morning. So much so that these people had to be locked up in the yard.

On this day, Zhang Juzheng, as the first assistant, finally got rid of the constraints of others. And the price is that a large number of opposition parties are imprisoned, and it does not really matter whether they are involved in a coup d'état, the important thing is that this is a good time to deal with political opponents, and Zhang Juzheng naturally will not miss such an opportunity.

However, even so, Zhang Juzheng also took the time to meet those "rebels", when the depressed Zhang Siwei was led into his public room, he looked at Shoufu sitting in the hall, and when Zhang Siwei was about to beg for mercy, he listened to Shoufu say.

"Oops, Ziwei has worked hard, Ziwei has worked hard!"

Zhang Siwei looked at Shoufu puzzled.

"Shousuke, you ,......"

Without waiting for him to speak, Zhang Juzheng walked forward and waved at him.

"If it weren't for Ziwei going deep into the enemy camp and using countermeasures, how could Zhang be aware of the disobedience of Shen Xingshi and others, Ziwei has made a great contribution to my Ming Dynasty this time!"

Yes!

Zhang Siwei's eyes widened violently, and he stared at Zhang Juzheng and said in horror.

"You, you, Gangneung, Gangneung, you and I have been friends for many years, you, why do you hurt me like this!"

"Hurt you!"

Staring at Zhang Siwei, Zhang Juzheng sneered.

"If I want to hurt you, why do I say these things to you? Do you know what sin you have committed? The crime of social rebellion, even if it is to punish your nine clans, it is the lightest, is it, do you Zhang Siwei really want Zhang to ask someone to punish your nine clans? ”

Although Shousuke's reminder made Zhang Siwei's back break out in a cold sweat, he still said in trepidation.

"Jiangling, how can I Zhang Siwei He De, be able to use counter-plots, if this matter spreads, how can there be a place for me in this world, and even Shanxi Shilin will probably ......"

"What else will be? Will it not be tolerated by Jiangnan Shilin? Hmph, Zhang Ziwei, if you weren't so confused, how could you be like this when you got to this point? ”

Staring at Zhang Siwei, Zhang Juzheng scolded angrily.

"At the beginning, you did not hesitate to kill Zhang's little girl in order to cover up people's eyes, and Zhang didn't care about you, but you took revenge, for your own selfishness, and did not hesitate to collude with the rebellious ministers and plot against you, but even so, Zhang still left you a life, do you really think that Zhang would not dare to kill you?"

"Ziwei first thanked Shoufu for not killing!"

Facing Zhang Juzheng, who was angry, Zhang Siwei, who knew that he could only be at the mercy of others, said to Shoufu's gaze.

"It's just that Ziwei doesn't know, why did Shoufu leave his little brother's life, is it ......?"

With a long sigh, Zhang Siwei spit out two words.

"Salt tax!"

Then he smiled wryly as if he had figured something out.

"If I expected it to be true, Shoufu must want to borrow my hand to rectify the salt tax, now I am no longer tolerated by Jiangnan Shilin, and then I interfere in the salt tax, and then it will definitely not be tolerated by the villagers, when the time comes, the only thing I can rely on is Shoufu, Shoufu is really calculating......"

Shaking his head and sighing at Zhang Juzheng's shrewdness, Zhang Siwei sighed.

"The reason why I was involved in it that day was because of the salt tax, but today Shousuke wants to borrow my hand to rectify the salt tax, which is ...... This is really a trick! ”

"You can say no!"

Zhang Juzheng, who had a cold face, said casually.

"You Zhang Siwei refused, there are other people who can do this for Zhang, you are not the only one who understands the salt tax, when the "opening of the Chinese law", the salt merchants exported grain in exchange for salt, and wanted to provide tens of millions of stone rice grain for the nine sides, and now? Every year, you only pay hundreds of thousands of taels of salt tax, the salt law is corrupted like this, and your Zhang family and Wang family are inseparable, hum, now Zhang is giving you a chance to wake up, are you willing to ......"

After sneering, Zhang Juzheng stared at him and said.

"Do you think someone in Zhang cares? But I think you Zhang and Wang must care! ”