Chapter 170
Zhang Juzheng sat on the main seat in the hall, listening to Lu Haoren, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and Lu Tiaoyang talking about His Majesty's congratulations for him. The birthday characters written by the young Zhu Yijun were hung on the wall behind the chief assistant.

In the second year of Wanli, Zhang Juzheng was not domineering, but among the cabinet, the only person he regulated was Lu Tiaoyang, who never spoke. In the second year of Wanli, it was the year after Zhang Juzheng's examination was promulgated, and the follow-up reforms were brewing in his heart. At that time, Shoufu felt that the scenery in front of him was boundless.

"Shoufu, Your Majesty's grace to Shoufu is nothing more to say. I heard from Mr. Feng that His Majesty wrote the word "Shou" a dozen times. He was not satisfied with it, and he was not satisfied with it. I just picked one and I can take it. Who else can have such a holy family, full of civil and military officials?"

Lu Tiaoyang's words made Zhang Juzheng, who has always been gentle and gentle, could not help but smile.

At this moment, Qi Jiguang brought Nie Feng into the house, and Qi Shaobao was the one who was pulled up by the first assistant. Zhang Juzheng saw him and waved repeatedly, motioning for Qi Jiguang to come to his side.

"Qi Jiguang, you have beheaded another 130 Tatar heads outside the Jimen Pass. Well, I have greatly increased the prestige of the Ming Dynasty. Your Majesty listened to it and liked it. Haha, you have always been frugal, and I don't want any birthday gifts from you." , drink a few glasses of wine with me today, and just recite poems for fun in front of a few adults."

Zhang Juzheng looked at his number one student in the army, happy in his heart, glanced at Nie Feng, thinking that he was Qi Jiguang's personal follower, but secretly praised this young man's extraordinary temperament, and didn't take it to heart.

At this moment, Qi Jiguang glanced over and saw that the high platform behind Zhang Juzheng was already full of rare treasures that could be sent by the officials here. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart. , I'm afraid it's to frighten Dashou's chief assistant.

"My lord, Qi Jiguang has a big gift this time. I have a strange person in Jizhou who claims to be able to see clearly what will happen a hundred years later. I bring this person here to congratulate my lord. The strange person is called Nie Feng, and he is the person beside me!"

At this time, inside Zhang's house, the tables were filled with civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty. It was said that Qi Jiguang, who was always good at handling affairs and was favored by Zhang Juzheng, brought a fortune teller to celebrate his birthday. Whispering, looking at Nie Feng, in front of so many first-rank and second-rank officials, but his expression remained unchanged, he couldn't help being curious.

"Ah? Can you see things that will happen a hundred years later? Qi Jiguang, I thought you belonged to Wang Yangming's school, but I didn't expect you to believe in the nonsense of the countryside. Well, I'm going to be happy today, Nie Feng, right? Tell me, what should I do, Zhang Juzheng?" ?”

"Haha, Mr. Zhang is the first assistant, I think he can still stay in the office for nine years!"

In one sentence from Nie Feng, Zhang Juzheng looked like he was about to lose power in the tenth year of Wanli, and the people at the table full of birthday celebrations were all stunned.

Seeing the pupils of the strange man in Jingzhou shrinking in front of him, the young man couldn't help praising Zhang Juzheng secretly, that's Zhang Juzheng. He sighed in his heart and played the video that he had made that was so embarrassing.

"Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty, worked hard to save the Ming country from its collapse. He just condescended and tried his best to rule. He only ransacked his home after death, and his children starved to death. The corpse of the first assistant was castrated and flogged. The only one who treats Zhongxian like this is Wanli of the Ming Dynasty!"

"After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, hundreds of officials waited and watched. Emperor Chongzhen knocked on the door of the ministers at night. If there was no response, the root of the disaster was the Wanli Dynasty!"

The video that was played once by Qi Jiguang appeared in Zhang Juzheng's mind again. From military affairs to the defeat of the Ming Dynasty, the short 10-minute video made Shoufu seem to have spent a long and tormented time.

All the guests were present, only to see that the first assistant was stunned after hearing Nie Feng's nonsense, and then his face became paler and beads of sweat dripped down his face, all of them were terrified.

"Zhang Juzheng's eldest son, Zhang Jingxiu, committed suicide. The second and third sons were sent to the army. The whole family was closed for more than ten days. The whole family died of starvation. No fewer than 20 people died of starvation. It is rare for loyal and loyal ministers through the ages to experience such a situation!"

When he was in Jizhou, Qi Jiguang was already deeply shocked when he saw this video. Now, Zhang Juzheng himself, listening to Nie Feng's narration, and watching this video again, naturally he could only think of "creepy".

In the video edited by the boy, a little girl from the Zhang family was so hungry that she kept scratching the Jiangling Zhang mansion with her slender nails. Zhang Juzheng fainted almost on the spot at the birthday banquet.

After a video was played, looking at the calm Nie Feng and the always calm Zhang Juzheng in front of him, he couldn't help but overturn the table in front of him.

"What a righteous man in Jizhou, so brave, so brave, Qi Shaobao, this is the birthday gift you found for me? I'll accept it!"

Zhang Juzheng glanced at Nie Feng, his hands were trembling. He was about to wave his hand to ask the servants to drive Nie Feng out with Qi Jiguang, when he suddenly recalled the video just now. Although it was just a brief mention of the matter, it seemed to be clearer than himself.

"Boy, you said that my New Deal has made great achievements. What a joke. Do you know what a New Deal is? I, Zhang Juzheng, have reaped the former emperor's old system. What is a New Deal?"

When Nie Feng heard that Zhang Juzheng was testing himself, he couldn't help laughing.

"The first assistant passed the examination to teach the officialdom. A whip method enriches the Ming Dynasty's treasury. All the people in the world, regardless of their household registration position, should use their land to pay taxes in silver. This move by Zhang Gong took a fancy to the key points of the Ming Dynasty's long-standing shortcomings. Nie Feng admired it! "

"Arranging internal armaments, strengthening the frontier army externally, Mr. Zhang, with so many measures, can't we talk about the New Deal?"

At this time, everyone celebrating his birthday could no longer understand what Nie Feng and Shoufu said. The young man obviously didn't say anything. Why did Shoufu react so much? What kind of new policy came out?
Everyone couldn't understand Nie Feng's words, but Zhang Juzheng heard them clearly. The young man actually expressed his plan in his heart more clearly than he did!

Such an act of gods and ghosts made Zhang Juzheng, who believed in Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, seem to have seen the appearance of a fairy Buddha. After hearing what Nie Feng said, his face was no longer pale, but it was ridiculously red, and his face was no longer sweating. It was just his lips. Trembling badly.

"Okay, good congratulations. Today Zhang finally knows that there are really strange people in the world. Colleagues, I'm sorry for being rude today. I have something important to discuss with Nie Feng and Qi Jiguang. Everyone, please go back first. Today's birthday banquet, Zhang will come another day." please!"

Zhang Juzheng suddenly dismissed the guests. Everyone was surprised, but no one dared to ask more questions. They all stood up and left. Before every civil and military officer of the Ming Dynasty came out, they looked at Nie Feng. They didn't know why this young man had the ability to let the chief minister. so frightened.

"By the way, you go and call Li Chengliang in at the door, tell him about something important, um, this dish looks good, Ah Jiu explained that there are several good dishes in the emperor, I want to try it!"

Seeing that Zhang Juzheng was under his control, Nie Feng couldn't help smiling and went to the table, giving orders like a master, picked up a pair of untouched bowls and chopsticks and began to pick up vegetables.

(End of this chapter)

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