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Chapter 2016 Will

As the administrative center of the Ming Dynasty moved to the West Garden, even though the three halls of the Forbidden City had been rebuilt, it still seemed like there was only a beautiful empty shell.

But today is obviously different from the past, but there is a hint of anger invisibly. An official is walking along the palace road through the three halls and heading straight for the Ganqing Palace.

"Master Master!" Zhang Juzheng came to the front hall and saw Xu Jie, and said with a breathless look.

A deep sense of confusion surged in his heart. He didn't understand why Xu Jie suddenly called him from the Hanlin Academy, nor why he came to the Ganqing Palace.

Xu Jie's eyes fell on his favorite disciple, but he asked lightly: "Taiyue, how should you treat me as a teacher?"

"The master has recreated his grace to his disciples, and I always remember it!" Zhang Juzheng immediately knelt on the ground, responding with sincerity.

Although he was a Jinshi in Jiajing for 26 years, he wasted nine years of illness and was fortunately protected by Xu Jie, so that he could stay in the Hanlin Academy forever.

A few years ago, when King Jing was driven out of the capital, he was arranged by Xu Jie to enter the Prince Yu's Mansion to serve as the lecturer of King Yu, and now he is a fifth-rank Hanlin Bachelor's degree.

He was able to have such a good position and opportunity, but it was inseparable from Xu Jie's cultivation and support. Especially when entering Prince Yu's mansion gave him a great opportunity to join the cabinet and become the prime minister.

Xu Jie immediately stepped forward and helped Zhang Juzheng up from the ground with satisfaction and said, "Taiyue, you don't need to be polite to your teacher, get up quickly!"

"Thank you, Master!" Zhang Juzheng's eyes maintained that loyalty, and he also stood up from the ground and said.

But no matter how he thinks of this teacher in his heart, he now wants to go to the next level, but he cannot do without the help of this teacher. Although he is now the teacher of King Yu, there are several teachers in Prince Yu's mansion, and Gao Gong, who is as good as his father, is as tall as King Yu.

Xu Jie looked at Zhang Juzheng with a smile, and then said seriously: "The emperor is no longer able to do it. The period of the limit is within today, and it will not even last for two hours!"

"Ah, this..." Zhang Juzheng didn't care about playing the role of a good student, and glared at the eyes in shock and said in a daze.

Although he had heard of it for a long time and even speculated that Jiajing might not be able to survive this winter, these were just speculations after all. Now that he heard this exact news, he felt a little happy, but he was still more shocked.

Emperor Jiajing, who had been in power for forty-five years, has really come to his maturity today.

After all, Zhang Juzheng was not an ordinary person. After only a moment, he asked with enlightenment: "Master, you are so eager to summon your disciples into the palace, but you don't know what can you do to serve?"

Seeing Zhang Juzheng's reaction so quickly, Xu Jie looked at Zhang Juzheng's eyes with satisfaction and said, "The emperor has closed the five gods now. Our top priority is to draft a will!"

At the beginning, he was not going to draw a will with Guo, Lin and Gao. When Gao Gong was staring at Li Chunfang, he had already made a decision in his mind.

According to common sense, he should naturally ask Li Chunfang to draft the will, but he can also break the rules. Li Chunfang dragged Gao Gong and Guo Pu, and he and his disciple Zhang Juzheng draft the will.

That's right, he first moved the emperor to Wanshou Palace, and then called Zhang Juzheng here. This move was foolproof.

"Disciple, please obey the teacher's order!" Zhang Juzheng suppressed the ecstasy in his heart and secretly swallowed and spitted.

Four years ago, he was a Hanlin editor, and now he is just a fifth-rank senior minister. He also has a large group of civic officials with status and qualifications above him.

Now, he is fortunate to be one of the two civil officials involved in drafting the will. How can he not be happy?

"Very good, then I'll tell you to write it!" Xu Jie pointed to the blank edict on the table next to him and said with joy.

"Disciple, please obey the order!" Zhang Juzheng nodded gently and stepped forward to hold the brush that had been prepared long ago.

Xu Jie had already had a draft, so he immediately recited: "The imperial edict said: I have been in charge of the ancestral temple for 45 years. I have enjoyed the country for a long time and have not been there for many dynasties. I have not yet risen, so why would I hate it again!"

Looking at the entire Ming Dynasty, although Jiajing lived a shorter lifespan than Taizu and Chengzu, he was the longest-reigning emperor of the Ming Dynasty due to his young age.

Xu Jie turned his head and looked at the direction of the bedroom, and continued to recite: "I just remember that I have followed the laws of the family of saints and inherited the teachings of the emperor. I have to be punished by the thought of reverence and helping the people. It is only because of many illnesses and long-term pursuit of immortality, which leads to the traitors taking advantage of the opportunity to deceive the villain. I pray that the earth and the buildings will be prosperous every year, and the sacrifices in the suburbs will not be close to each other. The rituals of the wise will be abandoned for a long time. It is not only a constitutional constitution, but also a disagreement."

The Ming Dynasty's will is somewhat similar to the eight-legged essay, and it has already had a fixed format.

Generally, we review our political achievements during our reign and review our mistakes during our reign. Now, we directly deny the two wrong things of great etiquette and practice.

Zhang Juzheng wrote quickly, and seemed to write on the will without any distractions.

Because he denied the two major mistakes during the reign of Jiajing, Xu Jie naturally proposed remedial measures and said: "Since he ascended the throne, he has made suggestions to offend all ministers, the remaining ones summoned them, and the dead are surrendered, and the prisoners are released and reinstated. The alchemist and other scholars checked the crimes of the crimes, and all the punishments and regulations, work and other matters that are not exhausted by the people are stopped."

In this will, it is undoubtedly citing Hai Rui's first half of view that "the emperor mistakenly acted, and the ministers misunderstood", which can be said to have pushed all the mistakes to Jiajing, while the officials' faults were completely eliminated.

Not only that, officials who were convicted of their memorials earlier were also "rehabilitated" and "restored to the official position" at this time. This move undoubtedly greatly safeguarded the overall interests of the civil servant group.

In fact, the will of the will is like a strategic review and adjustment. Like the will of the will of the Zhengde, it completely denies the relevant reforms of the Beijing army and directly restores the old system to the Beijing army.

Xu Jie blamed all the mistakes on Jiajing, and then corrected Jiajing's behavior of practicing Taoism. In addition to "checking the crimes of the relevant alchemists and correcting the punishments", he also stopped buying and buying the work.

It is precisely because this will actually completely deny the act of practicing Taoism, and at the same time admits that the fault of the officials who submitted memorials and commentators can be regarded as a "remedy" measure.

Zhang Juzheng played the role of a writer, but he wrote the content of Xu Jie's oral words on the will.

"Master Yuan Fu, it's probably inappropriate for you to draft the will in this way!"
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