"In addition to the above two, there is another cattle man who wants to mention first, that is, Li Shizhen, who wrote the compendium of materia medica, let's mention it first, I won't go into details, and I will explain it in detail when I mention famous doctors later."

"Then there is Yan Song, who is very famous in later generations and appears in many film and television dramas, this one mostly appears as a traitor."

"There is also a great talent Xu Wei, I remember that there is a TV series called Xu Wenchang's biography, which is mainly about him, he and Yang Shen and Xie Jin are known as the three great talents."

"Okay, Emperor Jiajing, let's talk about it here first, and then, because of the limited time, let's skip Emperor Longqing, who has not reigned for a long time, and go directly to Emperor Wanli."

"This is another emperor who has not been in court for twenty years."

A lot of people are counting it.

"There is an Emperor Jiajing who has not been in court for 20 years, and there is another person who has not been in court for 20 years, adding up to 40 years, and the Ming Dynasty has not collapsed, which is really rare."

"How did they do it?"

"Don't go to court? So what? ”

At this time, I also want to say that the Ming Dynasty is really special, where is the special? Special in the special out of the different emperors.

"Speaking of Wanli, I think he is a prime example of educational failure."

"Emperor Wanli's biological mother, Empress Dowager Li, is very strict, especially for Wanli, and in order to let him receive a good education, he was handed over to Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant, to teach."

"Zhang Juzheng, he is really a capable minister, and he is also very loyal, he also wants to teach the young Wanli, but we also know that the ancient scholars and doctors educated students mainly to beat and scold, of course, Zhang Juzheng definitely did not dare to beat the emperor, but his requirements for Wanli were stricter than those of the Empress Dowager Li, and he was severely reprimanded if he was a little bad."

"Who didn't love to be naughty when they were young? Which doesn't want to go out to play, although Wanli is the emperor, but the young emperor also loves to play, this is nature, if Zhang Juzheng understands education, can guide this, maybe he can really teach a generation of Mingjun, but unfortunately, he only enthusiastically according to his own method to teach, which makes Wanli behave in front of people, looking at a very smart and benevolent hero, but deep down, he has long been annoyed, and has a full hatred for Zhang Juzheng. ”

"The Ming Dynasty has gone through several generations of defeated emperors, and by the time of the Wanli Dynasty, it was already scarred and riddled with ills, and it was time when it had to change the law, and it could not continue without changing the law."

"And after Zhang Juzheng became the first assistant, he began to preside over the law change."

"The change of law from the first year of Wanli, to the end of the death of Zhang Juzheng in the tenth year of Wanli, the main content is the examination law and a whip law, Zhang Juzheng changed the law to the Ming Dynasty for several decades, so that the financial revenue has increased significantly, but also improved the strength of national defense, but also made the private economy active, but unfortunately, the change touched the interests of the big landlords and wealthy classes, after Zhang Juzheng's death, it was abolished, or ended in failure."

"If the change can continue, maybe the fate of the Ming Dynasty will be changed, but unfortunately, there is no if in this world."

The First Emperor remembered that he had talked about Zhang Juzheng's changes before, saying that his changes were very effective.

The First Emperor has been thinking about which direction Great Qin is going to go, and whether Great Qin wants to change the law to survive? How to change the law?

He has been paying attention to the content of the changes in various dynasties and generations, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but ask: Fairy, what is the content of Zhang Juzheng's changes?

Carefree saw it at a glance.

She was quite excited, quite happy.

This is the First Emperor.

The First Emperor talked to her and asked her questions.

What's the matter, even if she doesn't sleep tonight, she has to give the First Emperor a good answer, otherwise, she won't be able to see so many people who traveled to the Ming Dynasty to raise the First Emperor.

"Well, Zulong asked a big question, then let's answer it well."

Liu Che was furious when he heard this: "The fairy is eccentric, and I won't answer my questions." ”

That was said, but he still bred up and listened carefully.

After all, who doesn't want to know the content of the change, in case which one is better to use.

Li Shimin was also concentrating on listening.

He also wanted to hear if there would be good content here that was suitable for Datang.

"Let's first let's talk about the crises we faced during the Wanli years."

"One is the issue of land annexation, which is inevitable in all dynasties, all along, the people will get the land in the hands of the founding of the country, but in the middle of the dynasty, the problem of land annexation began to become more and more serious, and the land will flow from the hands of the people to the hands of the big landlords and wealthy families, which makes the people's lives increasingly difficult, and seriously affects the national tax revenue."

"Of course, in addition to the Song Dynasty, which I said earlier, there was no Juntian when the Song Dynasty was founded, and the land has always been concentrated in the hands of Haoqiang, as for the reason, everyone who understands it."

"The second point is the problem of Caizheng, that is, the tax we are talking about, first of all, a set of data, during the Hongwu period, the summer and autumn taxes were 24.73 million stones, 4.71 million stones, and in the Zhengde years, it was 22.16 million stones, 4.62 million stones, and after Jiajing, the taxes were still falling, and there were only more than 18.22 million stones of rice and more than 4.62 million stones of wheat left."

"You know, the population in the Jiajing period was much larger than in the Hongwu period."

But why is there less tax revenue when the population increases? This is related to the first point, the land annexation is serious, and the other is the huge clan population of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang established the ancestral system, to give preferential treatment to the clan, but there are only a few people in the clan during the Hongwu period, and by the end of the Ming Dynasty, the clan population has exceeded one million, so many royal relatives and nobles, where can the state finance afford it? ”

"The third point is the issue of military spending, which is also closely related to the first two points, the financial crisis, the country has no money, and naturally military spending can only be reduced."

"At this time, the border troubles are serious, there are Mongols and Jurchens in the north who often invade, and the seaside is constantly plagued, if you want to be stable, you have to strengthen the border defense, these are all asking for money."

"And the rule of officials is becoming more and more loose, and corruption is becoming more and more serious......"

"In response to these, Zhang Juzheng began to change the law, he proposed the examination method and a whip method, this examination method, is aimed at the rule of officials, the general content is to let the six departments and the Metropolitan Procuratorate to record the affairs that their officials need to handle in the three account books, and the officials handle the affairs according to the above records, and the six departments and the Metropolitan Procuratorate inspect and register, and conduct inspections month by month, which has formed a very perfect official examination system, and changed the previous assessment system that relied on the Ministry of Officials to operate."

"The examination method controls the six departments through the cabinet and the six departments with the six departments, so that it can effectively control officials at all levels from the central to the local level, and clear the obstacles for future reforms."

"Then there's a whip."

(End of chapter)