After the death of Emperor Jiajing, the seven-year-old Crown Prince Zhu Zaihen ascended the throne, and Empress Dowager Fang became regent. The following year, the reign was changed to Longxi.
The political center of the Ming Dynasty finally returned to Wenhua Palace from Xiyuan Renshou Palace and returned to normal.
Qin Dewei became a young master and was responsible for supervising Emperor Longxi's studies.
Empress Dowager Fang often summoned Qin Zhongtang alone in the back hall of Wenhua Palace to discuss issues related to the emperor's studies, but the details were not known to outsiders.
The Queen Mother of Japan asked: "How should people in the future evaluate the Aijia?"
Qin Zhongtang replied without hesitation: "The Empress will definitely become the prototype of the heroine drama! Even hundreds of years later, she will definitely be a household name!"
Queen Mother Fang asked with great interest: "How come you are so famous? What are the stories in the play?"
Qin Dewei replied in detail: "My dear, you are the third queen of Emperor Sejong. In the story, the second queen must have been deposed because of you, and then you successfully became queen.
If you use your palace fighting skills, you will definitely kill the prince's biological mother, Concubine Wang, and you will frame the other beloved concubine, Concubine Duan, to death through palace changes.
Later, when Emperor Sejong was in a coma, you relied on your superb methods to launch the palace transfer case and the attack case, blocking the Queen Mother Zhang and fully seizing the palace power.
After Emperor Sejong woke up, he felt threatened by you and tried to depose him. You offered him a red pill again, and then he died inexplicably!
At this point, you have finally become the supreme empress dowager, with all the power over the world and controlling the course of history! And the three incidents of moving the palace, attacking, and red pills that you led will be known as the three major cases of the Ming Palace!"
Queen Mother Fang was depressed after hearing this. These stories were too ridiculous and did not tell the truth at all!
Qin Dewei said even more angrily: "What are you unhappy about? I am definitely more unlucky than you in this story!"
Queen Mother Fang said in surprise: "Is there still you in my story?"
Qin Dewei said angrily: "In the story of the heroine, I must be a licking dog with no bottom line! I will only live to lick you all my life, and I will die licking you!"
Queen Mother Fang suddenly felt that this story was quite good.
The first year of Longxi.
In spring, in Satsuma, Kyushu Island, Japan, Yan Shifan stood on the beach, looking melancholy into the distance.
Lu Tiang, the commander of the Japanese raids in the Ming Dynasty, walked up to Yan Shifan and urged: "Get ready to board the ship and return home!"
Yan Shifan sighed: "Why don't even the Japanese people respect me?"
Lu Boring helplessly looked at Yan Shifan, who was one-eyed, neckless, fat, and lame. How could such a distinguished appearance be respected by Japanese people who were accustomed to being strong?
Moreover, Yan Shifan made suggestions to wipe out the Japanese country, but he made no positive contribution to the Japanese people. It is said that he had a bad habit of abusing Japanese girls.
Yan Shifan added: "Anyway, I'm not going back to Ming Dynasty. Give me a ship and I'll go to the other side of the sea to see Korea."
Lu Bo asked in astonishment: "Why are you going to that poor and remote place?"
Yan Shifan replied: "I heard that everyone there is a licker from the Ming Dynasty, and they talk nicely. I'm going to see if I can get enough respect."
Lu Ti curled his lips and said, "It's up to you, but you have to write a letter to the family for me to take back, lest your majesty think that I killed you in a foreign country."
In autumn, the leader of the Beilu chieftain An Da believed that the Ming Dynasty had changed its emperor and that it was a time of instability, so he attempted to break through the border wall and go south deep.
As a result, the Ming army raided their home base again, and Anda's base camp suffered heavy losses, which triggered the rest of the Northern Lu forces to prepare for action.
Qin Zhongtang in the capital received a letter from "good brother" Xin Ai Huang Taiji. In the letter, Xin Ai Huang Taiji worriedly asked if he attacked Anda, would it violate Ming Dynasty's filial piety? Will his title of Marquis of Shunyi be changed?
Will it be cancelled?
Qin Zhongtang sent the letter to the Hanlin Academy, asking the Hanlin scholars to quickly argue that even though Xin Ai Huang Taiji attacked his biological father An Da, it did not violate filial piety.
The second year of Longxi.
It is the year of the National Examination Competition again, and thousands of talents gather in the capital to compete for two to three hundred bachelor's degree places.
Qin Dewei, a bachelor, insisted on his own way, fought against all opinions, and lived up to the expectations of the people and became the examiner, setting a precedent for a bachelor to serve as the examiner of the general examination.
The final result of the top students in this subject is that Li Chunfang is the number one scholar, Gui Youguang is the second best, Wang Shizhen is the third best flower, and the top two is the winner.
This list was ridiculed as the "Qin List" by people at the time, but hundreds of years later it was called the "Imperial Examination Heyday" and the "Golden Generation".
Seeing that his nephew Qin Dewei became his teacher, Li Chunfang, the number one scholar, once wanted to give up the title, but in the end he had no choice but to face the reality with tears.
Wang Shizhen and Zhang Juzheng had a dispute over "successor", but in the end Qin Zhongtang asked Zhang Juzheng to study at the Military Aircraft Department.
Wang Shizhen was angry and wrote eighteen volumes of literary criticism, a quarter of which ridiculed Zhang Juzheng for his poor literary talent, saying that he was not as good as Xu Wenchang.
Longxi three years.
Many old friends such as Wang Tingxiang, Zhang Chao, and Wen Renhe passed away one after another. Qin Zhongtang wrote many epitaphs and felt lonely in his heart.
Xia Yan, the chief assistant, couldn't bear it anymore and finally couldn't bear it anymore and resigned completely.
Qin Dewei failed to retain him many times and wrote many poems praising Xia Yan, but Xia Yan wrote many poems to attack Qin Dewei. Later generations generally believed that Xia Yan was too narrow-minded and not as broad-minded as Qin Dewei.
Xia Yan believes that if Qin Dewei had not seized power, his achievements would have been higher and he would have become the unique first assistant of the Ming Dynasty.
Longxi four years.
Yan Song became the first assistant, which seemed to be a good thing, but unfortunately the second assistant was Qin Dewei, and the good thing turned into a bad thing.
But Yan Song is still persevering, and he believes that there will be a turn for the better!
Because Emperor Longxi always had to rule as an adult, countless historical experiences have shown that whenever an emperor comes of age and takes charge, he will definitely have conflicts with his previous powerful ministers!
There are also countless historical experiences that show that old powerful ministers who hold huge interests are often killed by the grown-up emperor!
And this is his chance for Yan Song!
The fifth year of Longxi.
Under Yan Song's careful planning, Qin Dewei lost his job of supervising the emperor's studies after a teaching accident, and Yan Song took over the job.
Yan Song felt that he was one step closer to the other side of his longing. Yan Song believed that as long as the emperor took charge, everything would be completely different.
The seventh year of Longxi.
Emperor Longxi, who had only been in power for two years, suddenly said, "I'm going to pursue my father," and he died without a cure.
Yan Song aged twenty years overnight, his heart was broken, and he abandoned his official position. After returning to Jiangxi, he went to Longhu Mountain to become a monk.
Seven years after Longxi.
Qin Dewei had to take over as the chief minister and take full power. Because no one was willing to join the cabinet and work as colleagues with Qin Dewei, the phenomenon of a one-man cabinet emerged for several years.
The first thing Qin Dewei did when he became the chief minister was to discuss plans with the Queen Mother Fang to choose the next emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
Some ministers said that Emperor Sejong was unlucky and suggested that another junior member of the clan should be selected to take over the throne.
But Queen Mother Fang only said one thing to Qin Dewei: "I still want to be the Queen Mother!"
In the end, Qin Dewei strongly promoted the principle of brother-in-law and chose the third son of Emperor Sejong and the younger brother of Emperor Longxi, the thirteen-year-old King Yu Zhu Zaijing to succeed him.
So Empress Dowager Fang is still Empress Dowager Fang. Hundreds of years later, there are a few more episodes of the heroine drama: a certain underage emperor disrespected a certain powerful empress dowager, and as a result, a certain powerful empress dowager assassinated the underage emperor with the help of the chief assistant.
died.
After that, Qin Zhongtang worked as the chief assistant for another twenty years, retired gloriously, and passed the title of chief assistant to Zhang Juzheng. At the same time, he also handed over the most difficult hard-core issues such as land and tax system to Zhang Juzheng to gnaw on.
Zhang Juzheng, who was maliciously dumped, could no longer work after five years. Then Qin Zhongtang made a much-anticipated comeback, reconciled the mess, and made amends.
In this year, the Ming Dynasty's navy opened up the South Seas, defeated the Folangji people, and conquered Luzon Island. World history opened a new chapter.
Sweet potatoes, peppers and other crops were finally brought back to the Ming Dynasty from Luzon Island, and Qin Zhongtang finally had the spicy hot pot he had been dreaming about for decades, feeling that his life was finally complete.