Qin Tai lives in a strange world, an era that borders on absurdity. There are many, many abnormalities in this world, and almost everyone has changed their taste. The emperor was deified, at least in the eyes of ordinary people and low-level officials and soldiers, the emperor was not only mysterious but also really seemed to be the son of God. However, in the eyes of some minions or ministers who spend all day with the emperor, the emperor is not only not omnipotent, but also inferior to ordinary people. Without the eunuchs and palace maids, the emperor could not take care of himself, he was simply a deaf, blind, and fool. If the emperor did not have eunuchs and palace maids by his side, the emperor would die of starvation, thirst, freezing or heat within a few days. If there were no ministers to help the emperor review and come up with ideas to deal with military affairs, even if the emperor was not tired to death, he would be annoyed to death by endless things. That is to say, as long as the operation is done properly, one or several ministers can join forces to influence the situation. One or a few eunuchs could control the emperor's daily life. If the ministers who control the situation and the eunuchs who control the emperor's daily life join forces, the emperor is a puppet in their hands.

There is an old saying in ancient times: "Once a son of heaven is a courtier". In fact, this is not only the case, but even in any department. When a new official takes office, he will establish his authority and rectify it, and at the same time install his own cronies, he will eliminate or adjust some disobedient subordinates. Therefore, as long as this chief has a certain ability, he will control this department after taking office for a period of time. When the time comes, it will be what the chief says, and few people dare to raise different voices in this department. This is the real "Yiyantang", that is, the chief responsibility system, and all the credit and responsibility belong to this chief. A yamen is like this, a military camp is like this, a central organization is also like this, a cabinet is also like this, and an inner palace celebrant is also like this.

As a result, the prestige of this chief in his department is too heavy, and other officials cannot intervene. After a long time, this department does not listen to other people's greetings, and this chief "has a big tail". In order to prevent officials from controlling a department for a long time, causing this department to become the private wealth of this official, both the emperor and the cabinet must carry out "investigations" and "rotations" of the heads of departments at all levels under them. The so-called "Jingcha" is the annual examination of the internal officials of the ministry, and the officials of the Ministry of Officials, who are recognized by everyone, are sent to conduct an annual examination of the chiefs. Every time you go to a department, you should not only make an appointment to meet with the head of the department or the yamen, but also visit the subordinates of the department and the ordinary people at the grassroots level. So as to determine the results of this commander and record them in the file of this chief. The grades are divided into three grades, excellent, average, and poor. If the annual review is "excellent", it will be named and commended once. If it is "excellent" for two consecutive years, the official department will record it, and priority will be given to departments with more oil and water in the coming year. If you are "excellent" for three consecutive years, you will be promoted to one level or upgraded to other departments while clearing the previous three records and returning to zero. If you comment on "Ping", it is neither good nor bad, and each department head can serve up to three consecutive terms, that is to say, one term is three years, and a chief can be the chief of this department for a maximum of nine years. If the annual examination given to the chief by the ministry is "poor", he will be criticized by name once, and the chief's salary will be deducted twice in a row, and if he is given three times, he will be directly dismissed. If this chief wants to become a current official again, he will have to go through the back door, otherwise his political future will be lost. The so-called "rotation" means that officials at the same level are transferred to each other in various departments and yamen, and it will take more than ten or twenty years to complete a rotation.

Although this practice prevents the chief from controlling a department or yamen for a long time, it also suffers the subordinates of these yamen. The superiors rotate like a marquee, and the subordinates who have no time to adapt are treated as the chicken that kills the chicken to show the monkey, and those who have a flexible mind have to heed again and again to honor the superior, and sometimes the filial piety is not good or not in place, it will also have the opposite effect. Almost every time a new official takes office, a large number of people will be unlucky, either losing their jobs or losing a lot of money, and sometimes there will be lives if the rectification is more severe.

In order to maintain his position and go further, the chief should contact his superiors or officials. In order to be stable, subordinates have to contact their superiors in an attempt to save their heads and jobs. Officials who have stepped down want to be reinstated, and officials who have been dismissed from the ministry want to continue to be officials, so there are private deals. Yan Song, the servant of the Ministry of Officials who was in charge of the Ministry of Officials back then, saw this point and secretly joined forces with Emperor Zhu Houxi of Jiajing. Yan Song is the pioneer and the host on the surface, and the Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi is in the back to command and supervise. The two men secretly controlled the Ministry of Officials, allowing some officials to privately use money to buy off the "Jingcha" officials. Some suspended officials are also allowed to spend money to get out of work again. Later, it developed to the point that some white people could directly spend money to buy some small officials, and some wealthy people could spend some money to buy a fictitious official position to live an official addiction.

Qin Tai had secretly calculated, according to his incomplete statistics. Yan Song, together with Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi, made a net profit of 37 million taels of silver in just three years, just by reinstating some suspended officials and selling them to some wealthy people to vacant official positions. At that time, the country's annual tax revenue was only more than 20 million taels, which shows how much they have earned. Most of these people who used money to buy back their official positions were corrupt officials and mediocre officials, and they spent so much money to buy back their positions, and of course they had to make up for it more in their own territory. Almost all the same, in order to get back what they lost, these copied officials intensified their exploitation of the common people under their rule. Yan Song and Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi are actually exploiting the hard-earned money of the people in disguise, and they are in the crisis of the Ming Dynasty. In other words, the main culprit of the Ming Dynasty is that in addition to Yan Song, the number one corrupt official, Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi himself also has a lot of responsibility. He clearly knew what the consequences of doing this would be, he also knew whether this matter was right or wrong, and he knew how harmful this matter was to Zhu Mingxia, but none of this was as good as the temptation of white silver.

Qin Tai privately summed up this Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi, he is an emperor whose selfishness is greater than everything. For the sake of his mother's status, he did not hesitate to work against all the ministers, and for this reason, many officials were angry and killed. In order to be able to live forever, Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi did not hesitate to order a large area to recruit thirteen or fourteen-year-old girls into the palace. It is said that after these girls entered the palace, they did not eat well and slept well. In the first year, a tenth died, the second year more died, and by the third year there was less than a third left. No matter how you say that these girls are also the children of Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi, that is, the children of Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi, do they have parents who care so much about their children? Because Emperor Jiajing Zhu Houxi spent money like running water, the inner palace was financially tight. Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi didn't want to find a way to open up revenue and reduce expenditure, but instead teamed up with Yan Song to do this kind of thing. Slimming the country and fattening itself, hurting the country and fundamentally raising its own money bag, this kind of thing that harms others and is not beneficial to oneself can be done, Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi is really hopeless. For the sake of so-called immortality, Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi could not go to court for 20 years, did not meet with courtiers, and dealt with military affairs face-to-face. In order to condone Yan Song and let Yan Song continue to make money for himself, Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi was able to hand over all national affairs to this Yan Song, who did not distinguish between public and private, and let Yan Song harm the people of the world. In order to consolidate his position, Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi acquiesced to the party dispute between Xu Jie and Yan Song, and watched the two factions fight back and forth for their own interests. For the sake of his own face and interests, Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi even allowed the eunuchs around him to meddle in local affairs, and even grabbed power internally.

For the sake of personal interests, regardless of the life and death of the people, persecuting the people under his rule is "unkind"; It is "disloyal" to sell the interests of the country for the sake of one's own comfort; Ignoring the foundation left by the ancestors, cutting off the family and the country is "unfilial"; It is "unjust" to betray others for the sake of one's own position and provoke disputes that do not hesitate to ask. This kind of disloyal, unfilial, unkind, greedy, vicious, lustful, ruthless, hypocritical, and treacherous emperor, not to mention the entire Ming Dynasty, is also unique in the entire Chinese history. In addition, Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi was superstitious about Taoism and indulged in alchemy and cultivation all day long. It can be said that Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi is a unique and unique alternative emperor. The existence of this kind of emperor is the misfortune of the people of the world, the misfortune of the Ming Dynasty, the misfortune of the Zhu family, and the misfortune of China.

"It's not that this emperor doesn't know, it's just that he doesn't care. He always felt that once he attained enlightenment, everything would be solved. Once he is immortal, once he can live forever as an emperor, everything can be slowly changed. The dissatisfaction of the common people with him can be eliminated. The country can be strong again. External troubles are no longer a problem, it's a big deal that the old man went to his home in person, and wiped out the other party with a flick of his fingers. It doesn't matter if the child is disobedient, it's a big deal to lock him up or kill him directly. Anyway, he himself will never die, it doesn't matter if he has offspring or not, there will be more children in the future. But he never thought that a person could really never die? He has done so many wrong things, how can he or his descendants change it? What did he leave to his descendants, and to his people? This is the incisive comment of the old drunkard master on Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi not long ago. Of course, only Qin Tai and a few of them were present at that time.

Because of this, Qin Tai felt that this Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houyu had reached the point of common indignation, and if he didn't wake up Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi, he would be a courtier who was not up to standard. Originally, Qin Tai didn't dare to do this, he also hesitated and regretted it, Da Ming is an official, is he the only one who understands? Would he dare to do this alone? Why do you want to be this "head bird"? But when he was forced to such a point by Meng Xiaoshi and other eunuchs, when he decided to use the status of the first emperor, he figured everything out. This is an opportunity, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, to use the status of the first emperor to teach the Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houyu a lesson in the tone of the elders of the Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi. forced Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houyu to correct some mistakes, forced Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houyu to reflect on his mistakes, and forced Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houyu to take responsibility for the wrong things he did. Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi can not want the common people, he can not want his descendants, but he will never and dare not want his ancestors. Because once Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi does not want or does not recognize the words of the first emperor, he is not a descendant of the Zhu family, and he is not qualified to be the emperor. Once the emperor's throne is gone, even if Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi can live forever, what is the use? Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi's ultimate goal is to be an emperor who will never die, the emperor is his foundation, and he hopes to never die. If the throne is gone, what is the use of never dying? Therefore, Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi will definitely promise everything for the throne and will definitely correct everything with an open mind. In this case, it is not only a blessing for the officials of the DPRK and China, but also a blessing for the common people of the world. As long as the world is restored, even sacrificing Qin Tai alone is worth it.