When the group of eight people fell asleep in the silence of the night, they seemed to have returned to a place that was extremely familiar in their dreams.

They dreamed again of the magnificent palace and the majestic palace guards.

It's just that at this moment, a group of eight people were completely dispersed back to the Ming Dynasty and North Korea, and Li Jiwei, who was the general Li Rusong, and Zhu Tingting, who was the princess, returned to the north of the Ming Dynasty.

Guo Weihua also returned to the Ming Dynasty in his own capacity, while Zhao Kun, Bi Chao, Wang Zhiguo, and Mu Changdong eventually returned to the small country of Korea.

And this time, with the return of the people in the dream to their original identities, a special historical journey story officially begins.

At this moment, the Ming Kingdom, which is in the prosperous era of the Ming Dynasty, hides all kinds of crises under the surface of singing and dancing.

Because His Majesty the Wanli Emperor was in the territory of the Ming Dynasty at this moment, the first year of the slack of government finally began, and it was because of the slackness of the Wanli Emperor.

It prompted the Ming Dynasty to slowly enter the point of decline and even decline from the heyday of prosperity, and it was at this moment that the initial period of the decline of the Ming Dynasty began.

Because His Majesty the Wanli Emperor on the issue of establishing a crown prince is very different from the proposal of the civil and military officials.

So at this point, His Majesty the Wanli Emperor began to neglect the government, and thus refused to go to the dynasty for 28 years, and finally made the Ming Dynasty lose its self-reform.

and many opportunities to re-understand the world, because in the extremely open world, the road to be taken by the Ming Dynasty is getting narrower and narrower.

In the end, in the change of history, it also led to the final decline of the Ming Dynasty, and the Wanli Zhongxing of the Ming Dynasty was just a flash in the pan in the eyes of everyone.

In the context of the rise of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty adopted a positive attitude, which made the Ming Dynasty develop rapidly in the trend of history.

The development of the Ming Dynasty has always been inseparable from the famous minister Zhang Juzheng of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhang Juzheng, as a minister, worked hard for the great cause of the Ming Dynasty.

In the ten years of Zhang Juzheng's first assistant, he made outstanding political achievements, and Zhang Juzheng, who was born in Jingzhou, Huguang, first received Gu Lin's praise before gradually making his fortune.

As a member of the Gu family, Gu Lin was once famous, and he was a very famous cultural person in Nanzhili.

At that time, Nanzhili belonged to an extremely important cultural and economic center in the Ming Dynasty, but Gu Lin's identity was not just a cultural person.

He is also a politician and has served as an official of the Nanzhi Subordinate Department, a local prefect, a prefect, a political envoy and even a governor, and Gu Lin was among the top ten cultural people when the officials of the Ming Dynasty were promoted.

Later, after Gu Lin, who was the governor, met Zhang Juzheng, because Zhang Juzheng was young and talented, it was also passed down as an extremely famous story among the people.

And the person Zhang Juzheng has to thank all his life is this Gu Lin, and this Gu Lin is also a discerning genius who recognized Zhang Juzheng's talent.

And Gu Lin is an extremely important benefactor to Zhang Juzheng, and when Zhang Juzheng was sixteen years old, he was admitted to the lifting of people, which was also an extraordinary person at that time.

At the age of twenty-three, after being admitted to the Jinshi, he entered the Hanlin Academy and became the prince, and his extraordinary qualities were different from those of mortals, and for the later Wanli Emperor, he resigned from the post of Gao Gong on the seventh day of his accession to the throne.

Zhang Juzheng was selected to enter the central cabinet of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhang Juzheng, who was very appreciated by everyone at this moment, finally became the first minister.

And Emperor Wanli, who ascended the throne at the age of only ten at that time, also relied heavily on Zhang Juzheng, the first auxiliary minister.

And at that time, a person who was better with Zhang Juzheng was Feng Bao, the celebrant supervisor, and Feng Bao and the later Empress Dowager Li also valued Zhang Juzheng very much.

Therefore, in the future, whenever there is any internal affairs, Feng Bao will plan it, and foreign affairs will rely on Zhang Juzheng, the first auxiliary minister.

The person behind the double guarantee of both internal and external cultivation was the Empress Dowager Li at that time, and the country's government affairs were also advancing step by step under the auspices of Zhang Juzheng.

Under the gradual reform, the country is entering Wanli Zhongxing, and there is a very huge development inside and outside.

However, since the early days of the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the loose style of officialdom has also been very serious, which has greatly affected the dynamics and development of the entire court situation.

The birth of Zhang Juzheng, the first auxiliary minister, comprehensively rectified the habit of officialdom and rectified the style of officialdom in the whole territory.

And after Zhang Juzheng rectified the stubborn disease of officialdom, he was pushed into the turmoil, and under the impeachment of Liu Tai, the imperial historian in Liaodong, Zhang Juzheng, who has always been famous, was in a very passive situation.

And Liu Tai, who is Zhang Juzheng's student and subordinate, came forward to impeach Zhang Juzheng, which made Zhang Juzheng disheartened.

Although Liu Tai's impeachment is basically true, Zhang Juzheng at that time belonged to the country to do his best for the country, and at this time, both Zhang Juzheng's friend Feng Bao and the later Queen Mother were extremely supportive of Zhang Juzheng.

Even Emperor Wanli thought that it was good to be able to do things carefully for the country, and those who came out to oppose Zhang Juzheng had ulterior motives and bad intentions.

But the scholars of the Ming Dynasty have a history of being impeached by officials, but Zhang Juzheng is not like other people with grace.

Later, in the investigation of Zhang Juzheng and the imperial court, Liu Tai was seriously rectified, which made the officials feel a little puzzled.

Later, because Liu Tai made a small mistake, but suffered a huge punishment, he was sympathized with by hundreds of officials.

And then another incident made Zhang Juzheng fall into an extremely passive situation, and the death of his father, which seemed to be very simple, developed into a very important historical event because of Zhang Juzheng's social status.

According to the folk customs of the past dynasties and the legal provisions of the Ming Dynasty, anyone who receives the obituary of the elders in the family must observe filial piety for 27 months.

During this period, there were strict rules that no meat was allowed, no music was heard, and government officials were required to resign from their official positions and return home to observe filial piety.

However, at this moment, Zhang Juzheng was selfish and unwilling to keep filial piety, and finally stayed in Beizhili to continue to assist Emperor Wanli as an official.

This also caused a lot of waves in the officialdom, and many people immediately resigned and went home to keep filial piety from the initial support for Zhang Juzheng to the later approval.

However, at this moment, Zhang Juzheng won selfishness but finally lost morality, and all those who opposed Zhang Juzheng's stay in the cabinet were punished to varying degrees.

This also made the civil and military officials have a lot of disgust with Zhang Juzheng at this time, and at this moment Zhang Juzheng not only has more than ten years of hard work during the Wanli period.

He was also a hard-won auxiliary minister in the early years of Wanli, but Zhang Juzheng's final ending was so bleak.

Zhang Juzheng's contribution to the Ming Dynasty was reflected in the reform of the tax law, rectifying the official style and reversing the unfavorable situation of the Ming Dynasty's financial deficit.

And the next few things accumulated a lot of resentment for His Majesty the Wanli Emperor, first when His Majesty the Wanli Emperor was sixteen years old.

was accused by Zhang Juzheng of being publicly accused of mispronouncing the syllable of a word, which was unthinkable to the eunuchs, palace maids and accompanying ministers present.

Because no one dared to accuse the emperor of his mistakes in front of the emperor, but Zhang Juzheng really did it.

Maybe Zhang Juzheng will be a little afraid later, because even Zhang Juzheng's words and deeds have laid the groundwork for his disadvantage.

The second is that His Majesty the Wanli Emperor was eighteen years old, because he made a small mistake, and was reprimanded by the Empress Dowager Li, the queen mother, and by the way, he took Zhang Juzheng with him and educated His Majesty the Wanli Emperor by the way.

His Majesty the Wanli Emperor can only endure patience in every possible way at this moment, but he has also planted a heart of hatred in the future.

Although the Empress Dowager Li and Zhang Juzheng were very well-intentioned about His Majesty's education methods of Emperor Wanli, they seriously hurt His Majesty the Wanli Emperor's self-esteem.

At this moment, His Majesty the Wanli Emperor also had a rebellious mentality, and after His Majesty the Wanli Emperor married at the age of twenty, Zhang Juzheng finally passed away.

With the death of Zhang Juzheng, Feng Bao, who had been good friends with Zhang Juzheng, was also completely liquidated by His Majesty the Wanli Emperor.

According to the recommendation of some ministers and the results of the liquidation, it was found that Feng Bao's assets were simply rich and rivaled the country, so Feng Bao was full of Wanli.

Subsequently, His Majesty the Wanli Emperor carried out a complete liquidation of his former mentor Zhang Juzheng, and in the eleventh year of Wanli, all the titles that had been given to Zhang Juzheng had been revoked.

In the twelfth year of Wanli, he personally sent two teams to raid the house, and they were presided over by Jinyiwei and the Criminal Department in Beizhili and Zhang Juzheng's hometown respectively.

But only 20,000 taels of silver came out of his house, which not only made Zhang Juzheng's political enemies a little disappointed, but Zhang Juzheng's political enemies were also everywhere at this moment.

Officials who hate Zhang Juzheng abound, after all, Zhang Juzheng offended many officials who were enriching themselves when he was purging officialdom and enforcing tax laws.

Subsequently, what was shocking was that His Majesty the Wanli Emperor also announced to the world that he issued an edict condemning Zhang Juzheng, and Zhang Juzheng also avoided the final outcome of being opened and whipped because of his own merits.

In the next forty years, no one dared to mention Zhang Juzheng's matter, which shows that His Majesty the Wanli Emperor hated Zhang Juzheng.

And an auxiliary minister who has made so many contributions to the country has suffered such treatment, which also caused the Ming Dynasty to enter a period of complete decline in the later period.

Just when the Ming Dynasty of the great state gradually entered the point of decline, in that era of change, the Ming Dynasty had blessings and misfortunes waiting for His Majesty the Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty.

And whether the Ming Dynasty, which is dependent on blessings and misfortunes, can re-enter the glorious Zhongxing period depends on the choice of His Majesty the Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty.