Obviously, what Zhang Juzheng said to Zhu Yijun in the official residence before leaving Beijing touched Zhu Yijun deeply.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun is determined to fulfill his duties as an emperor, guide the people of the Ming Dynasty in a direction and establish new hope.

As long as there is hope, people will not be weary of the world, and even despise life and ignore respect for others.

As long as there is hope for the country, there will be no decline in the country's fortunes, and there will be no situation in which the world will be destroyed.

And when Zhu Yijun was thinking about how to start the first step of his own governance after being in power, Zhang Juzheng's suicide note on governing the country was also sent to the imperial front.

Zhu Yijun took a serious look at it.

He had to admit that Zhang Juzheng had indeed written a new book on scriptures in accordance with the ideas of the two monarchs and ministers on theoretical construction, and he had finally logically linked the theory of seeking truth from facts with the theory that the world should respect the Han dynasty in a way that borrowed the words of the sages.

Zhu Yijun thinks he can't write.

After all, the construction of ideological theories is not an easy task.

"Your Majesty, now that Yuanfu has returned, and Your Majesty is also well-versed in articles, should the lecture be banned here, and only be extended and viewed regularly in the future?"

When Zhu Yijun received the ideological book on governing the country written by Zhang Juzheng, Zhang Siwei also began to ask Zhu Yijun whether to continue to read on this day.

"Now that Mr. is gone, there is naturally no need for the system of lecture and reading to exist anymore, and it can be regarded as letting the world know that I have completed Mr. Teach me."

"It's just that after Xu Jie's entry into Beijing, remember to draft the Taoist Decree, and ask the ministers and ministers and those Confucians of the Hanlin Academy to go to the Guozijian with me, and let Qi Jiguang of the Privy Council and Li Rusong, Ma Gui, and Chen Lan of the pro-military guard go with me."

"There are also Shen Li, Wang Xijue of the Ministry of Rites, and Wang Shizhen of Taichang Temple also went with Hu."

Zhu Yijun spoke at this time, and instructed: "Tell them that anyone who has a private message article left by Mr. to discuss governance and ancient and modern knowledge can bring it." ”

Zhang Siwei and Shen Shixing were a little surprised.

And Zhang Siwei also took the initiative to give up his hand at this time and said: "Your Majesty, Xu Jie is a traitor and a thief who has failed the emperor's grace, how can he go to such a clear place as the Guozijian with Hu and insult the country?" Therefore, the minister believes that Xu Jie can't be allowed to go, this person should be punished as soon as possible, so that he can understand the law and discipline and uphold the people's hearts! ”

"Need him to go!"

"He and Mr. are both key figures in the Three Dynasties Yuanfu, and he Xu Jie, who used to be a representative of Qingliu, but the ending is very different;"

"If he doesn't go, how can he let the Qingliu people have a deeper understanding of governance?"

Zhu Yijun asked.

After hearing this, Zhang Siwei had no choice but to say yes.

Xu Jie also arrived in Beijing on the sixth day of the ninth month of the tenth year of Wanli.

Zhu Yijun specially announced that he met him at Yuntai Gate.

And when Xu Jie himself entered the palace, he was not very embarrassed about his experience at this moment.

No matter what, he never thought that he would one day enter the palace as a prisoner to face the saint.

Xu Jie began to think of the time when he was the first to enter the palace in the past and was called by Honglu, when he was still a young man who dared to speak out and hate.

Then, Xu Jie thought of the days when he was a minister in the same palace as Yan Song, and he was trembling and cautious at that time.

Xu Jie naturally also thought of the days when he had set things right through the edict of Jiajing, and the days when he practiced the rule of "returning the lord with prestige, returning the ministers with government affairs, and rewarding the public with punishment".

At that time, he was quite complacent, and he was the leader of the Shilin in the Lingji Palace.

But Xu Jie never thought that he had been cautious all his life, and in the end he still couldn't die well.

"I thought I could die well."

Xu Jie muttered to himself, and then asked himself:

"But why has the situation become a situation where I can't end well."

Xu Jie couldn't help but think carefully about the reasons that caused him to become a prisoner.

One is that he himself was vicious and deliberately connived, because of his family's unscrupulousness and greed for money, his Xu family gradually became the general backstage of smuggling pirates through his power.

The second is that people's hearts are unpredictable, and some people have planted their sins on him.

For the former, Xu Jie asked himself if he had indeed failed to strictly discipline his children, but he also had to admit that he also had his own greed, mainly because he really didn't expect the imperial court to suddenly change direction and move towards expansion, sending troops to occupy several important trade lands in the Japanese Kingdom, cutting off his financial routes, and taking advantage of his defects of ignoring his daughter's personal dignity, and directly found out about his Xu family.

Xu Jie originally thought that according to the inherent laws of history, the Ming Dynasty, which had gone through two hundred years, should only become more and more conservative.

After all, not to mention external expansion, even Xia Yan was beheaded by Jiajing because he advocated the recovery of his homeland.

But the facts did change, and the Ming Dynasty did not develop in the direction that was beneficial to him, a big bureaucratic and big landowner.

As for the latter, Xu Jie could only sigh that Jinyiwei worked harder than before, and lamented that the emperor really loved his Mr. Zhang, so that when he asked the bottom of the matter, Xu Jie, was also about to be harmed by the villain.

"The sinners have seen Your Majesty!"

When Zhu Yijun saw Xu Jie, who was pale and dressed in a white prison robe, kneeling in front of him, he ordered: "Give him a chair to sit on." ”

"Your Majesty, Sinner."

Xu Jie kowtowed at this time.

Zhu Yijun said: "You don't have to thank me, I just see that you are really old." ”

"Your Majesty is as benevolent as heaven, and it is the minister who has failed Your Majesty."

Xu Jieyan said.

Zhu Yijun laughed: "It's all this time, what are you still saying these words, if you Xu Huating really have me in your heart and have a society, you won't just let the strategy of opening the sea be done by Gao Gong, and let Qingzhang Tianmu and other things be done by my husband." ”

"What Your Majesty said is that the minister is cowardly and selfish, not enough to compare with Gao and Zhang Ergong."

Xu Jie responded to Zhu Yijun very obediently.

Zhu Yijun said: "But your words are good, with 'Weifu to return to the Lord, to return the government affairs to the ministers, to reward the public with punishment', and now some people advocate 'things belong to the six departments, words to the six departments', the core is the power of the virtual cabinet, so that the emperor can do nothing, after all, although the blessing is returned to the Lord, but the government affairs are returned to the divisions, and the rewards are returned to the public, so, unless the ministers of the world advocate reform, otherwise the Ming Dynasty can only continue to follow the old ways until the death of the country." ”

"What Your Majesty said is that this is all a manifestation of cowardice and selfishness."

"The minister himself has no courage to innovate and eliminate evils, and turn the tide, but he doesn't want to be scolded for being mediocre because of this, so he caters to the first emperor and the people of the world and said such a thing, which clearly shows that he has no desire to rule alone, but he is actually using this to cover up his heart of not daring to revitalize the society."

"The minister is really a villain!"

Xu Jie began to take the initiative to belittle himself in front of Zhu Yijun.

"Don't belittle yourself so much, you still have merit."

"At least you cultivated my husband, and you also pushed the boat to save Hai Rui, no matter whether your real purpose is noble or despicable, but in terms of behavior, you are doing it right, and I and the people of the world can only affirm it."

"I don't want to hear how you count your own when I see you today, don't bend your mind just because I can kill you and take you away; And just because the people are no threat to you, you can just ignore them. ”

"I announce that I see you today, just to know how the young man who dared to stand up to the powerful ministers and dared to speak out and hate, gradually became a traitorous minister who was full of benevolence and morality, but had a belly full of male thieves and prostitutes; I want to hear your own analysis. ”

Zhu Yijun said.

Xu Jie heard Zhu Yijun say this, and fell silent.

Seeing this, Zhu Yijun continued to ask: "Is it because of the supreme imperial power, or because of the Wang Xue that you greatly admire, or because of the world style after the great prosperity of commerce." ”

Xu Jie opened his mouth to speak.

But Zhu Yijun said first: "You don't have to rush to tell me now, go back and think about it yourself, and when I ask you again, you must tell me the truth." ”

"In this way, I may let you go with dignity."

Zhu Yijun said and left the Xuanzhi Gate.

Xu Jie stood up, bowed to each other, and spit out a word tremblingly: "Yes!" ”

Then, Xu Jie also staggered out of here.