I was reborn before the divorce

Six years later, the treasury of the Ming Dynasty had accumulated 4 million taels of silver, and the grain was enough for the next few years. It can be said that the country was pacified and the barbarians were subdued. Before this, the Ming Empire had never been so powerful.

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In the early winter of 1572, Xie Yun was very busy for several days in a row. He basically left early and came back late. He came back earlier last night and was alone in the study to handle official business. Later, it was a little late, and seeing that he had not returned to the room, Shen Lingyi brought him a bowl of snacks. He didn't eat much of the snacks, but thought of Shen Lingyi as a snack. He put his arm around her and sat her on his lap. The two of them were intimate for a while, and Xie Yun said, "I have something urgent to do in Jeju. I will go there tomorrow and come back in three or four days."

Shen Lingyi was slightly stunned.

"Tomorrow? Can we leave later?"

Tomorrow is the Lantern Festival, and the Queen Mother has verbally ordered her to go to the palace for a banquet. She wants Xie Yun to go with her because she has never been to the palace alone. Faced with the cumbersome etiquette and the Queen Mother's complicated mind, she is very reluctant to go to the palace to see the Queen Mother.

Xie Yun was silent, and said: "What's wrong, what do you want?"

"On the Lantern Festival, I need to go to the palace to meet the Queen Mother. You know, deep down in my heart, I am always afraid of the people in the palace..."

Shen Lingyi was always inexplicably afraid and wary of the royal family. She kept her distance from those who could control her life and death. When she had to enter the palace as a first-rank imperial lady, at least she knew that Xie Yun was in the Forbidden City and could protect her at any time.

However, Xie Yun said today that he was going to Jeju, which was a day's journey away from the imperial capital.

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His wife had expressed her concerns to him several times. She said that once she entered the palace, she would have nightmares about her husband and children being separated. It was true as she said. There were many nights when she woke up screaming while sleeping, and Xie Yun knew it.

"I know that my husband has something to do in Jeju...you can go on your own." Shen Lingyi hesitated and said with a smile.

Xie Yun glanced at her and said nothing. He just leaned over and kissed her on the cheek. He then stood up and hugged her and said, "Then I won't go tomorrow. I will go to the palace with you."

Shen Lingyi's face flushed with heat. She actually felt that she had too much to do. Perhaps, in the entire imperial capital, there was no other woman who was so timid that she let her husband accompany her because he was busy.

Xie Yun's expression remained unchanged. At this point, he already understood that he had finally caught the little loach in the cracks of the rocks in the ditch.

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Apart from the fact that entering the palace was the order of the Queen Mother and could not be disobeyed, Shen Lingyi rarely went out to enjoy the sights by herself. The scene of her sister Heng being nearly kidnapped a few years ago was still horrifying... This had to start with her husband, Xie Yun, the biological father of her sister Heng.

I believe that most people know Wang Anshi of the Song Dynasty from the term "Wang Anshi Reform". Reform can also be called reform.

After Xie Yun became the Prime Minister, he implemented several major reforms in the face of the empire's poverty and weakness.

The slogan Wang Anshi shouted during his reform was "Don't be afraid of natural disasters, don't follow the example of ancestors, don't be pitied by people's words." It seems to be very refreshing, but it is just a fancy wooden frame. It is useless in actual combat. At that time, the situation of treacherous officials in the Song Dynasty and the country was in turmoil was simply that some people took money they shouldn't have taken and some people took too much benefit by using their power. Bargaining in the vegetable market can still make people red-faced. If someone wants to redistribute the wealth of the world, how big a war will it be?

The country is in a difficult situation. There must be some unreasonable aspects of the old system, but there must also be many reasonable aspects.

In history, the most famous reform should be Wang Anshi's Reform. Of course, as everyone knows, Wang Anshi failed.

Why did he fail? I won’t go into details about this topic, which could take up a 200,000-word paper. In short, Wang Anshi failed because he thought he was smart.

In this world, everything that exists must have its rationality, otherwise it would never be born. The system is the result of the hard work of countless predecessors. The system makers and executors are all smart people, so these systems can remain unchanged for hundreds of years. In the old system that people are accustomed to, a self-proclaimed smart person suddenly came out and broke this balance.

It would be strange if others don’t let you meet them shirtless!

Wang Anshi didn't quite understand this truth. He hated the old system and the bunch of idlers in the Northern Song Dynasty. But what he didn't know was that the old system might be stubborn and unreasonable, but it was also the crystallization of the great wisdom of countless predecessors. Those who formulated and implemented the system were all incomparably smart people, much smarter than all those who thought they were smart. It was rigid and cumbersome, but it was effective.

So this guy was very ambitious and was working on the Qingmiao method with great enthusiasm, but in the end it couldn't be used, so it was all in vain.

But Xie Yun is different. He doesn’t have much hope of changing the world, and he doesn’t have the hobby of daydreaming.

He and Wang Anshi lived in completely different environments. Wang Anshi lived in a good time, and the leader at that time, Song Shenzong, was an extremely restless person, basically the same type of person as Wang Anshi: ambitious but incompetent.

Song Shenzong dreamed every day of crossing the Yellow River and liberating the Han people. He wished that the Song Dynasty would become rich and powerful overnight. So when Wang Anshi proposed reform, he had both the people and the money. Song Shenzong was very supportive.

In comparison, Xie Yun had a much harder time. After he passed the imperial examination and became an official of the Ming Dynasty, he had suffered a lot and seen the world from a young Hanlin to a university scholar. He had survived in the cracks for decades, and he could never be said to have lofty ambitions.

If I can improve the people's livelihood a little bit, my life will not be lived in vain.

So at the beginning of the reform, he held on to a principle - let himself live, and let others live. Specifically, I will not destroy everyone's rice bowl, and everyone will not rebel against me. I will reform, everyone will be less greedy, eat their own rice, and not interfere with each other.

To change without reform is reform.

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But there is no difference between reform and war, and blood will definitely be shed. Those whose interests have been touched by Xie Yun also want to take revenge on this cabinet prime minister who turned them from the privileged class into the proletariat.

Fortunately, God blessed Shen Lingyi and his two children, and nothing happened to them. However, because of those messy and vicious people outside the court.

As a result, Shen Lingyi no longer traveled alone. As time went by, he naturally began to complain.

"You said you were enjoying life, but in the end you don't dare to go anywhere, huh..."

Xie Yun, who was repeatedly pestered by his wife, expressed his delight and agreed to his wife's suggestion to go to Suzhou and Hangzhou, appreciate the lotus in West Lake and watch the tide in Qiantang River.

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