Ten years before Wanli ascended the throne, Zhang Juzheng, a famous minister, served as the first assistant, and implemented a series of reforms, which made great social and economic development and created a situation of "Wanli Zhongxing".

At this time, it was the twentieth year of Wanli, although Zhang Juzheng had passed away for ten years, and the reforms implemented by him ended ten years ago.

But the residual profits brought by "Wanli Zhongxing" still make the court look full of flowers, and it doesn't look like there is a sign of the country's demise.

As for the Hu people, Li Rusong only quelled the Bibai Rebellion a few days ago, and the threat of the Hu people is not as good as that of the Japanese and the Southwest Tusi, how can they have the ability to invade the Central Plains?

At this time, Nurhachi had just conquered the five provinces of Jianzhou, and had not yet unified the Jurchens, only circling around the Changbai Mountain and the Yalu River, and was not taken into account by the imperial court at all.

Therefore, in Wanli's eyes, although there are some wars in the surrounding areas of the world at this time, the overall singing and dancing is peaceful, not to mention more than 50 years, even after a hundred years, the world will not die.

Yu Yan had to explain: "Your Majesty, although the dynasty at this time was at its peak, there was a dispute over the national capital that caused the cabinet to derelict its duties, and there were three major battles of Bibai, Banzhou, and aid to the DPRK to empty the treasury, plus the repeated climate of the Heavenly Dao, so that disasters arose, and the Jurchen rose in the white mountains and black waters, and there will be great disasters under the ups and downs." ”

Wanli said: "The worship has been settled; Although Banshu has not been decided for three years, it is only a disease of ringworm and scabies; The War to Resist Japanese Aggression and Aid Korea is not in the country and there is no threat; The so-called Jurchen is just a slave of the Li family, and it should not be a big trouble. The worries of the immortals, I'm afraid it's ......"

In the DPRK and China, the most common routine used by ministers to get him to accept advice was to be alarmist, as if he would die if he did not listen to the country, but until now, the country is still in good shape.

He originally thought that Yu Yan, as an immortal chief, would definitely be extraordinary, but he didn't expect that he would be the same as those mediocre and incompetent ministers.

If it weren't for the fact that the other party flew away, collapsed a section of the palace wall with a wave of his hand, and offered treasures to restore his youth, he wouldn't have bothered to listen to these nonsense.

Yu Yan smiled bitterly, Wanli said that the battle of Banzhou was just a disease of ringworm, but the fact is that this battle has been fought for three years, and it will be fought for another eight years, during which countless money and food will be spent.

There was also the Anti-Japanese Aid Korea, which had just begun at this time, and then it was intermittent and lasted for more than seven years before it ended.

These two battles plus the rebellion of Bibai, known as the three major expeditions of Wanli, although they all occurred outside the country and on the frontier, the direct impact on the Central Plains court is not great, but the war costs money, and the war is fought on three fronts for many years, even if Wanli's family foundation is thick, there is a time when it is spent.

When the treasury was exhausted, natural and man-made disasters broke out together, there were displaced people inside, and there were Jurchen knocks outside, and the imperial court naturally took care of one thing and lost the other, and was tired of running for its life until the last drop of blood was drained.

However, continuing to say these things will only annoy Wanli, so Yu Yan decided to say it differently: "Putting aside the external troubles for the time being, the cabinet's constraints on Your Majesty are imminent, Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven, but you can't help but go down to the ministers, do you know why?" ”

"Why?"

As soon as I heard this topic, I was interested.

Yu Yan: "In the eyes of many people, there are two biggest reliance on the power of the prime minister or the power of the civil servant to compete with the monarch's power.

First, they value their names more than they value profits, they are not afraid of being deposed or killed, and some people even deliberately invite their names to sell their names, exchanging their lives for a name in history.

The second is that they like to form a party, reprimand one to come out in a group, and depose one of them who can collectively carry the burden and stop the court. Among them, the mind is similar to the law does not blame the public. ”

"Isn't it?"

In Wanli's view, Yu Yan's summary of these two points is in place, the reason why he neglected the government, on the surface, was because of the establishment of the prince, but in fact, because of some of the actions and ideas shown by the ministers in the establishment of the prince, he was disgusted, so that he had a rebellious mentality.

Yu Yan smiled: "The reason why they like to invite names to sell directly is because they belong to the same class, and others will not let their names fall into vain."

Just imagine, if they sold out straight but no one helped spread the word, would they still be so stubborn?

In the same way, they like to form a party, but also because they belong to the same class, His Majesty reprimands one, and the others will have a feeling of cold lips and death, and they will automatically stand together. ”

Wanli: "What is the magic method of the immortal chief?" ”

Yu Yan didn't answer directly, but asked a question: "May I ask what Your Majesty thinks of the Martial Arts Sect?" ”

Wanli: Why is "......" so jumpy?

Yu Yan didn't wait for him to answer, and said to himself: "Maybe in the eyes of Your Majesty and the imperial court, the people in the martial arts are just a group of lawless recklessness.

But in my opinion, the civil ministers represent the gentry class, and the martial arts sect represents the local heroes, especially the famous and upright, either themselves are powerful or have close ties with the heroes.

In the DPRK, the local tyrants did not have much power, far weaker than the gentry class, but in the people, the powerful forces were only slightly weaker than the gentry, and if there was the support of the imperial court, they might not be able to compete with the gentry. ”

In the eyes of the bottom public, there is no difference between the gentry and Haoqiang, both are so-called big families, but in fact, the gentry mostly take the road of imperial examinations, while Haoqiang likes to practice martial arts, and the difference between the gentry and Haoqiang is a bit similar to the division between Korean and Chinese martial arts.

In normal history, Haoqiang is definitely inferior to the gentry, and after developing to a certain height, he will automatically transform into the gentry.

But in the martial arts world of Xiaoao Jianghu, because Haoqiang has mastered extraordinary force, the importance of martial arts inheritance is not weaker than the importance of the imperial examination, coupled with the influence of talent, although Haoqiang and the gentry are not opposites, but they cannot be confused.

Therefore, Yu Yan's idea for Wanli was to use the Dongchang to take charge of the martial arts, use the martial arts to make the strong and strong, and use the pride to force the gentry, so that the court formed a balance from top to bottom, rather than the gentry and civil officials being dominant.

If Wulin's loyalty to the imperial court reaches a certain level, he can even select some masters to enter the army and compete with the nobles and generals to form another balance.

It doesn't matter if his class theory is correct or not, after all, he didn't study politics.

He said so much, the real purpose was to encourage Wanli and let Dongchang and Jinyiwei cooperate with him to spread the storytelling version of "Smiling Proud Jianghu".

Of course, nominally, he used "Smiling Proud Jianghu" to disturb the situation in the rivers and lakes, so that Dongchang and Jinyiwei could fish in troubled waters, so as not to control the success of Wulin, but he became a public enemy.

Wanli was untouched by the prophecy of the death of the country, but praised the proposal of using local tyrants to contain the civil and military officials, and immediately sent Zhang Cheng, the governor of Dongchang, that is, the eunuch master who was as fast as a ghost and was stunned by Yu Yan's several cannons, to fully cooperate, and let another eunuch Chen Ju next to him contact him in the center.

If Yu Yan wants to contact Wanli for something, he can find Chen Ju directly, without going through Zhang Cheng, let alone breaking into the palace.

If he breaks in again, it is estimated that Wanli's newly increased lifespan will be scared away.