More than two years have passed in the blink of an eye! A lot of things have happened in these two years! The first is that the old emperor passed away and a new emperor ascended the throne. The new emperor is Zhu Yijun, with the reign name Wanli!
As the old emperor passed away and the new emperor ascended the throne, a fight between dragons and tigers was inevitable in the court! Gao Gong was arrogant by nature, and he thought he was a minister who cared about life and had senior qualifications, so he was inevitably a little domineering!
It would be okay if he was just domineering, but he offended too many people by holding almost all the power of the imperial court in his hands! Especially when he tried to control the inner court, he insisted on nominating Chen Hong or Meng Chong as the chief minister of etiquette.
Eunuch, this will completely offend the two empresses Chen and Li, the empress dowager and Feng Bao!
Power is a good thing, everyone wants it! So there is no room for 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 exit the palace.
We successfully reached an agreement with Empress Dowager Li and Feng Bao, forming a solid iron triangle alliance!
Zhang Juzheng first quietly helped Feng Bao ascend to the position of eunuch with the help of the imperial edict, and then ostensibly helped Gao Gong when Feng Bao and Gao Gong were attacking each other. But in fact, Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao had a very close relationship, and the alliance between the two parties was already internal and external.
They are colluding together to put Gao Gong to death!
When Mu Zong passed away, Gao Gong said: "How can a ten-year-old prince rule the world?" When Zhu Yijun came to the throne, Feng Bao chose a time to tell him this sentence! When Zhu Yijun heard this, he said, "Absolute power."
The suspicion was deep in the heart of the emperor." Afterwards, without asking Gao Gong the background of what he said, whether it was true or not, he dismissed him from office on June 16, the sixth year of Longqing (1572), and replaced him with Zhang Juzheng.
After Gao Gong stepped down, there was naturally a purge of personnel! After a lot of trouble, a situation was formed in the court where Zhang Juzheng controlled the outer court, Feng Bao controlled the inner court, and Empress Dowager Li used the emperor's name to mediate. The government finally became stable!
The stability of the government means that Zhang Juzheng can free up his hands to do some practical things! Zhang Juzheng began to try to push his ideas away in the court one by one, and Feng Bao also had a tighter and tighter control over the inner court.
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In contrast, Zhang Juzheng's skills were more beautiful! He used a relatively calm approach to eliminate some people who opposed the reform, allowing the entire court to turn smoothly.
But Feng Bao was much more ruthless! Anyone who opposed him was either killed or kicked out of the inner court, or sent to a remote place to wait to die. This is also a major feature of the inner court struggle! Anyway, they are all rootless people.
, no one has to show mercy to anyone!
As for Empress Dowager Li, who took advantage of being Zhu Yijun's biological mother, she completely suppressed the other empress dowager and became the real master of the harem! And because the emperor was young and unable to manage the affairs of the harem, she moderately delegated power to Zhang Juzheng. As a result, the Ming Dynasty was dominated by the three of them.
With the combined efforts of the two, there actually appeared to be a bit of a renaissance!
It's just that none of these three people took the little emperor's feelings into consideration! Zhang Juzheng always taught Zhu Yijun harshly! Once he couldn't memorize the book or made a mistake, he would be beaten. The lightest one was a severe reprimand! So the little emperor was frightened every day.
The one I don’t want to see is Zhang Juzheng!
As for Feng Bao's control of the inner court, he has great power! To put it bluntly, the emperor's life and death depended on his thoughts, and his respect for the little emperor was only superficial! Although Zhu Yijun was young, he could also sense that Feng Bao's deep feelings for
His contempt is naturally due to his dislike of Feng Bao.
His mother, the Empress Dowager Li, tried to teach the young emperor to become an emperor through the ages, but she did not want the young emperor to interfere in the government affairs too early, so as to weaken the power in her hands. Naturally, she cooperated with Zhang Juzheng's strict requirements on the young emperor, and she could not make mistakes every day.
He insisted on controlling the little emperor tightly!
The poor little emperor was living a miserable life under the influence of these three people. However, he did not dare to speak out and could only whisper a few words to the personal eunuch beside him every day. His life was extremely depressing.
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The little emperor's life here is not happy, but life in Gu Ningbo's house is indeed prosperous! Let's talk about snow sugar first. In the past few years, Zhang Shunping has signed sugar beet purchase and sales contracts with many farmers. Payment is based on quality and quantity.
! You can even pay farmers a deposit in advance! This allows farmers to take more careful care of their sugar beets, 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, and also ensured the supply of lemon fruits! With sufficient raw materials, and Liu Haojia's continuous improvement of technology, the cost of snow sugar was further reduced.
It was low, so it was easy to swallow up the Jingshi Market!
When Zhang Shunping opened up the snow sugar market in the south, he did not kill all the sugar manufacturers! Because that would offend too many people! So he used gentle means to gradually turn these people into raw material suppliers, and at the same time, he also
Assign them the distribution rights of snow candy and let them act as agents to sell snow candy in their respective cities. Through this method, snow candy provides the Liu family with endless wealth!
Then came Shiweizhai. After several years of stable development, Shiweizhai has become a specialty in the capital, and its reputation has even spread to the south of the Yangtze River! Anyone who comes to the capital is proud to have a meal at Shiweizhai
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Of course, this huge reputation has attracted a lot of coveted eyes! Many people have set their sights on the Liu family’s secret recipe! They used various means to buy the seasonings used by the chefs of Shiweizhai, and even poached two of them.
A chef! 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 profit! Because these spices had already been cultivated on a large scale by Liu Hao.
If they want to use it, they can only buy it from Gu Ningbo's house! So no matter what these competitors do, Shiweizhai will benefit in the end!
After getting money, Liu's father's first thought was to seize the time to buy land! But this idea was stopped by Liu Haojia! Because the land prices around the capital were extremely expensive, and most of these lands were owned by nobles and wealthy families.
, wanting them to sell their land is like cutting off their lifeblood, how can they buy it!
So Liu Haojia commanded his mother according to the plan, and together with the matrons of a group of noble families, they opened a garden called Qingya Xiaozhu! The so-called Qingya Xiaozhu is literally a women's club!