In the sixteenth year of Zhengde, on the night of March 14, the spring cold was still expected.

Located in the Xingwang Mansion of Huguangbu Political Envoy Si'an Luzhou, a handsome and deep-eyed young man looked at the full moon in the sky.

The palace was richly furnished, but he was dressed in crude linen clothes.

“…… I hope that people will last a long time, and they will be together for thousands of miles. ”

He chanted Su Dongpo's words softly, with melancholy and sadness in his tone.

"Your Highness." The man who spoke was in his twenties, round and chubby, white and clean, "Do you want to offer grandpa again?" ”

"yes......"

The boy's answer was a bit perfunctory.

Where was this on his mind?

As an accountant 500 years later, Zhu Houxi is now thinking about his friend Lao Qin, who is a lawyer.

The original son of King Xing, Zhu Houxi, was indeed extremely filial, and Zhu Houxi, the only son, fainted from crying, so that he could come to five hundred years ago.

According to the etiquette system, the filial piety period is twenty-seven months, which gives him enough time to confirm the fact that the soul is pierced. A year and nine months have passed, and he has completely adapted to this status.

Now, the problem that has been haunting Zhu Houxi's heart may have come to face it.

Lao Qin once said: At the age of fifteen this year, he should be confused by the emperor's throne that fell from the sky, and after ascending the throne, he became the famous Jiajing Emperor, which provided rich material for countless literary and artistic works in later generations.

Lao Qin loves Kan Zhu Ming the most when he drinks, and because of a TV series masterpiece, Lao Qin has played a lot of Jiajing with him after watching it.

Whether it is Lao Qin's mouth or in that TV series, Jiajing, the emperor, is really indescribable.

In the position of the emperor, he did a good job, and in the end everyone was obedient at his feet.

In the face of the time when all kinds of contradictions were difficult to suppress, he pressed them down with his personal skills and reformed them.

But if you stand in the position of ordinary people, it's not too much to say that he is a faint king, right?

Now Jiajing has become himself.

Zhu Houxi is a layman, and he only has money in his eyes. If conditions permit, he also longs to read countless women.

But this crossing is so powerful, the life of the Prince of Guarantee has met all kinds of low-level needs, not to mention that he will become the emperor who dominates the fate of countless people?

Give you a chance, you want to use it.

Zhu Houxi knows very well that there is an infinite heavyweight gap between him, who only listens to the instructions of his superiors to do a good job in finances in a small company, and the highest-level court political wrestling.

If you really want to talk about brains and political talent, Lao Qin once said: Jiajing himself hangs and beats the vast majority of people.

This is the question that Zhu Houxi has been in a dilemma for more than a year: should he finish his life with the harem, or fight with those top politicians to make a new Ming Dynasty?

It's difficult, it's been more than 100 years since the founding of the country, just like people reaching middle age, and many problems have begun to be revealed. How easy is it to rejuvenate a second spring?

Zhu Houxi looked at the moon, and Lao Qin's roaring face seemed to appear in it: The shame of the traverser, let me come!

Zhu Houxi misses Lao Qin very much now: why didn't he come over with him and stay by his side as a eunuch to help the staff officer?

"Your Highness?" Zhu Houxi's companion eunuch Huang Jin said with concern, "Grandpa Xian has been gone for almost two years, and you are always so sad and not good for your health. ”

Zhu Houxi has been hiding his thoughts for more than a year, and in the eyes of others, he is naturally depressed.

"I'm in good health." Zhu Houxi smiled at Huang Jin, "I work with Lu Bing every day to strengthen my body." ”

Huang Jin smiled honestly: "Lu Xiaozongqi said that his father Lu Dianzhan praised His Highness's method for being very effective, and long-term persistence does have the effect of strengthening the body. ”

"Just run." Zhu Houxi paused and asked, "Is there anything abnormal in the mansion in the past two days?" ”

"It's all ...... as usual," Huang Jin hesitated, "It's just that after the New Year, many wealthy businessmen from neighboring prefectures have come over, and I heard that it is all for the marriage of His Royal Highness and the county lord, and Lord Changshi has been busy recently." ”

Zhu Houxi looked at him and nodded silently: "Tomorrow, you will secretly talk to Lu Dianzhan and ask him to pay more attention to the guards arranged by Xie Changshi's side to see what Xie Changshi does." ”

“…… The slave and maid know. Huang Jin's expression was worried, "Your Highness, let's wait until the king is successfully attacked, and then choose the opportunity to ask Your Majesty to play." King Ning's rebellion had just been put down, and Lord Changshi was elected by the imperial court after all......"

"I know what I know." Zhu Houxi smiled and comforted him, "It's not too early, Huang Jin, you go and rest." As usual, I just went to sleep while watching and writing, and I didn't have to wait. ”

Huang Jin, a eunuch who grew up with him since he was a child, has become accustomed to the current living habits of the prince, and he has to be served by someone if he does not have all the food and clothing, and he always has to practice calligraphy for a while before going to bed.

After offering his grandfather, it was like he had suddenly grown up, and looking at the lights that he would always turn on for a long time at night, it made people feel that he was very lonely and distressing.

"Your Highness, don't be tired."

After this command, Huang Jin left.

And Zhu Houxi took out a small box from the bookcase in the room and opened the lock.

Inside, there are several booklets that have been bound.

Zhu Houxi looked at these and muttered to himself in his heart: Don't cultivate immortals, don't abuse palace maids, beware of the hospital, don't play in the water, the safety factor of being this emperor is actually quite high.

On the top of the booklet, the cover reads: "Lao Qin once said"

Lao Qin talked to him, and Zhu Houxi recorded it here.

He may not be as politically gifted as the real Jiajing, but he also has something that Jiajing doesn't have.

Turning the page of "The Imperial Bureau", Zhu Houxi spread out a blank page and slowly sharpened the ink first.

He is good at dealing with information and data, collating, analyzing, and statistical.

Lifting the brush, Zhu Houxi wrote a new line.

[Temple Examination Postponement]: This is an opportunity, and I should wait until I take the throne before holding the temple examination.

[Wang Qiong, the secretary of the military department, was reappointed as the secretary of the ministry]: The emperor rarely went to the court during his serious illness, but he actually dragged his sick body to appear in the court in order to release this hand......

Zhu Houxi knew that he might not have as many eyes as those courtiers, but he would be the emperor!

The etiquette and rules that those people uphold can be precisely the weapon that determines their own fate.

Monarchs and ministers, are you surprised?

What he recorded was what he had seen in the newspaper and used it to analyze some key information.

There were other booklets in the box, containing memories and knowledge he had come up with from five hundred years later that might be useful.

Let's try to do something right, such as paying more attention to the ocean, more attention to firearms and other technologies in the Age of Discovery, and to manage disasters such as floods well.

For example, I should be regarded as the most professional accountant in Daming now, right?

Find a way to improve the financial situation of the Ming Dynasty, presumably Zhu Youzhen will give him crazy praise many years later.

After completing these daily combings and records, Zhu Houxi put down his pen and nodded with satisfaction.

I don't have enough talent, so I work hard to make it up.

So the next first level, after being elected as the emperor, in order to grasp the power, the great rites, even if you copy according to the strategy, what are the key points?

He couldn't remember.

At this moment, Zhu Houxi misses Lao Qin very much!

……

More than 2,000 miles away in the Forbidden City, an old man with white hair and a crimson python official uniform was led by a eunuch and was already approaching the Qianqing Palace.

The python robe is added, which means that he is a very good minister, glorious and rich, not to mention sitting on a python?

This old man is Yang Tinghe, the first assistant of the cabinet at this time.

He gathered his hand hidden in his robe and asked softly, "Bachelor Liang, Bachelor Jiang, and Bachelor Mao, when will they arrive?" ”

When the little eunuch heard this, he immediately bowed his head and replied, and his footsteps did not stop: "Returning to the pavilion elder, it should be almost there......"

The tone of the little eunuch was uneasy, the kind of unusually respectful and even a little frightened.

He couldn't help but be afraid.

Zhu Houzhao, who has been seriously ill for half a year, survived the cold winter and finally died tonight.

The emperor had no children, and before the new monarch ascended the throne, Yang Tinghe could be regarded as the de facto ruler of the Ming Dynasty.

Yang Tinghe nodded, walked more calmly, and pondered with his brows locked all the way.

The student who gave him a headache for sixteen years was not in the leopard room or Xuanfu, and returned to the Forbidden City, but he would never open his eyes and open his mouth to say new ideas and thoughts.

Between monarchs and ministers, between teachers and students, the ...... of the past and the present In the past few months when Tianzi was seriously ill, scenes had actually appeared in his mind thousands of times.

This day still came, he was sad with some relief, and he had some strange expectations for the future, and he also suppressed the dark desire for power in the depths of his heart.

Eunuchs can't be so easy to cause trouble anymore, and the cabinet and the six ministries had better have only one substantive core.

The most important thing is that the new emperor can no longer be as willful as Emperor Zhengde.

Yang Tinghe has been thinking about the question of who will succeed to the throne for a long time, but he has already made up his mind.

Along with this issue, what needs to be considered is how to reverse the maladministration of these years.

The Qianqing Palace is approaching, and the cold moonlight shines on the inscriptions that are hanging up in the palace one after another.

Yang Tinghe looked up at the eaves beasts on the ridge, they were quietly holding the full moon.

In his eyes, the moon seemed to be faintly bloody.

Yang Tinghe knew that this was because he had already developed murderous intent: no matter what, at least he could use the time before the new monarch ascended the throne to eradicate some traitors!