More than two years have passed in the blink of an eye! A lot has happened in these two plus years! The first is that the old emperor died and the new emperor ascended the throne. The new emperor is Zhu Yijun, and the year name is Wanli!

With the death of the old emperor and the accession of the new emperor to the throne, it is natural that there will be a battle in the court! Gao Gong is crazy by nature, and he thinks that he is a minister who cares for his life, and his qualifications are old, so he is inevitably a little arrogant!

If he just said the past, but he almost held the power of the entire court in his hands, he would have offended too many people! Especially when he tried to control the inner court, he insisted on promoting Chen Hong or Meng Chong to be the eunuch in charge of the seal, which completely offended Chen and Li, the two empress dowagers and Feng Bao!

Rights are a good thing, everyone wants them! So where can everyone allow one person to take it all! At this time, one of the famous prime ministers in Chinese history, Zhang Juzheng appeared! With the convenience of being Zhu Yijun's teacher, he was able to enter and leave the palace, and reached an agreement with Empress Dowager Li and Feng Bao very smoothly, forming a solid iron triangle alliance!

Zhang Juzheng first quietly helped Feng Bao ascend to the position of the eunuch with the help of the edict, and then superficially helped Gao Gong when Feng Bao and Gao Gong attacked each other. But in fact, Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao have a very close relationship, and the two sides have formed an alliance and have colluded inside and outside, wanting to put Gao Gong to death!

When Mu Zong died, Gao Gong said when the country was in danger: "How can a ten-year-old prince rule the world." After Zhu Yijun ascended the throne, Feng Bao picked a time to tell him this sentence! When Zhu Yijun heard this, "The suspicion of authoritarianism is deep in the heart of the emperor." After that, he did not ask whether the background of Gao Gong's remarks was true, that is, he was dismissed from his post on June 16, 1572, and Zhang Juzheng replaced him.

After the high arch stepped down, it was naturally the cleaning of the personnel! After some tossing, a situation was formed in the imperial court in which Zhang Juzheng controlled the outer court, Feng Bao controlled the inner court, and Empress Dowager Li mediated in the name of the emperor. The government has finally become stable!

The government is stable, which means that Zhang Juzheng and the two of them can free up their hands to do some practical things! Zhang Juzheng began to try to push his ideas one by one in the imperial court, and Feng Bao also had a tighter and tighter grasp of the inner court!

In comparison, Zhang Juzheng's wrist is more beautiful! He used a more calm method to eliminate some people who opposed the reform, and let the entire court turn smoothly.

And Feng Bao is much more ruthless! Those who opposed him were either killed or driven out of the inner court, or sent to a remote place to die. This is also a major feature of the struggle in the inner court! Anyway, they are all rootless people, who doesn't have to leave any affection for whom!

As for Empress Dowager Li, with the advantage of being Zhu Yijun's biological mother, she completely suppressed the other queen mother and became the real master of the harem! And because the emperor was young and couldn't take care of the government, she moderately delegated power to Zhang Juzheng. As a result, under the joint efforts of the three of them, Daming actually appeared a little bit of Zhongxing!

It's just that none of these three people took into account the feelings of the little emperor! Zhang Juzheng taught Zhu Yijun to be strict! Once you can't memorize the book or make a mistake, you will be beaten up, and the lightest is a severe reprimand! So the little emperor was so scared that the last thing he wanted to see every day was Zhang Juzheng!

As for Feng Bao's control of the inner court, he is in power! To put it mildly, the emperor's life and death are just in his thoughts, and his respect for the little emperor is only superficial! Although Zhu Yijun is young, he can also detect Feng Bao's contempt for him in his bones, and naturally he doesn't like Feng Bao.

Her mother, Empress Dowager Li, tried to teach the little emperor to be an emperor through the ages, and she didn't want the little emperor to intervene in the government too early, so as to weaken the power in her hands, so she naturally cooperated with Zhang Juzheng's strict requirements for the little emperor.

The poor little emperor lived a miserable life under the umbrella of these three people, but he didn't dare to speak, so he could only whisper a few words to the personal eunuch around him every day, and his life could be described as extremely depressing!

The little emperor is not happy here, but Gu Ningbo's life is indeed thriving! Let's talk about snow sugar first, in the past few years, Zhang Shunping has signed contracts for the purchase and sale of sugar beets with many farmers. Pay by quality and quantity! You can even pay a deposit in advance for farmers! This allows farmers to grow sugar beets with great care, so the yield is good!

Liu Guangyuan even secretly communicated with several merchants in the south, and was able to purchase a batch of syrup, not to mention, but also to ensure the supply of lemon fruit! With sufficient raw materials, coupled with Liu Haojia's continuous improvement of technology, the cost of snow sugar has been further reduced, so it is easy to swallow the Jingshi market!

While Zhang Shunping opened up the snow sugar market in the south, he did not exterminate all the businesses that produce sugar! Because that would offend too many people! So he gradually turned these people into raw material suppliers by gentle means, and at the same time assigned them the distribution rights of snow candy, so that they could sell it as agents in their respective cities. Through this method, Snow Sugar provided the Liu family with an endless stream of wealth!

Then it's time to eat and eat. After several years of steady development, Shiwei Zhai has become a must-have in Beijing, and its reputation has even spread to Jiangnan! Anyone who comes to Beijing is proud to have a meal in Shiweizhai!

This huge fame has certainly attracted a lot of coveted eyes! Many people have set their sights on the Liu family's secret recipe! They used all kinds of means to buy the seasonings used by the chefs, and even poached two chefs! But they have never been able to decipher the specific ingredients of this seasoning!

However, spices such as chili peppers were learned by these people and began to be used in their own restaurants. However, Gu Ningbo's Mansion did not lose much benefit! Because these spices have already been planted by Liu Haojia on a large scale, they can only buy them in Gu Ningbo's mansion if they want to use them! So no matter what these competitors do, in the end, it is Shiwei Zhai who benefits!

After having money, Liu's father's first thought was to hurry up and buy land! But this idea was stopped by Liu Haojia! Because the price of land around Jingshi is extremely expensive, and most of these lands are owned by nobles and big families, if you want them to sell their land, it is like cutting off their lives, how can you buy it!

So Liu Haojia commanded his mother according to the plan, and united with the head mother of the Xungui family to open a garden called Qingya Xiaozhu! The so-called elegant Xiaozhu is a women's club!