The third year of Wanli’s reign, in spring.

The Grand Secretary Zhang Juzheng reinstated the practice of keeping the Veritable Records (Qiju Zhu), assigning the duty to the Hanlin historians on a rotating basis.

From that moment on—

Shen Nian, third-ranked Jinshi from the year Xinwei of the fifth Longqing reign, Bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, Compiler at the Hanlin Court, Zhang Juzheng’s most outstanding disciple, and lifelong nemesis of the Wanli Emperor,

—thus began his career as court chronicler.

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That day, the young Wanli Emperor got drunk and missed an imperial lecture.

Shen Nian straightened his back and wrote:

“His Majesty, drunk, missed the imperial lecture. The Empress Dowager and the Grand Secretary rebuked him sternly, even speaking of dethronement.”

That month, a large number of eunuchs were appointed as mining and tax commissioners, extorting wealth from the people.

Shen Nian raised his chin and wrote:

“Before the throne, I declared: ‘The disasters of monopolies and mining taxes are entirely the Emperor’s fault.’”

That year, the Wanli Emperor neither performed the suburban sacrifices, nor paid respects at ancestral temples. He refused audiences, ignored memorials, and ceased court lectures.

Shen Nian and his fellow historians cried aloud:

“Better to die speaking than live in silence. The greatest honor of a court historian is to be killed by the Emperor.”

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Shen Nian said:

“I must be ill. I can’t sleep at all.

I have contracted Zhang Juzheng’s illness—the burden of holding up a collapsing sky—

but I was not destined for Zhang Juzheng’s fate.

In a daze, I saw the Grand Secretariat reduced to two people:

one drafting memorials—that was me;

one issuing imperial replies—that was also me.”

No, you are not a scholar!

Aren't scholars all gentle and polite, and don't even dare to kill a chicken?

Why are you so vicious?

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The completed book "There's Something Wrong with My Wife" is a daily romance novel that you can read if you are short of books.

Di Qingyue, a demure and unmarried woman, dreams of entering the primordial world. Believing it to be a dream, she is fearless, seducing all the handsome and cool men of the primordial world, ruining the entire Investiture of the Gods and causing it to deviate from its original course, all for the sake of getting married. Unfortunately, fate intervenes. Upon waking from this dream, standing on the Investiture Platform, she realizes that everything she has done was like a real dream. She questions herself: Should she marry or not? And what kind of god should she be appointed to?

Becoming a prisoner of war in the Roman camp, what awaits Orville is a magical version of the ancient world with a confusing timeline.

Several Roman emperors gathered together, the Normans in Northern Europe began to plunder hundreds of years in advance, the successor of Alexander's great cause appeared in Greece again, Gaul broke out a national uprising unprecedented in a century under the leadership of a saint, the Germans were constantly driven into Rome by mysterious nomads from the East, and the Queen of Egypt returned to the throne with the power of Rome... Under the seemingly stable rule of the empire, undercurrents surged.

Citizens and slaves, self-employed farmers and large landowners, Augustus and generals, the Senate and civilians, the army and wizards... Every contradiction is tearing apart this empire that is gradually growing but beginning to bloat.

Either choose to turn around and attack Rome, which is trapped both internally and externally, and become a national hero of the locals, or choose to save Rome and become a Roman hero who continues Rome.

Before making these choices, Orville thinks he can survive first.

(Semi-fictional historical text barrier-free reading)

What are Joan of Arc's three good points? Kindness, ignorance, and easy to seduce. Whether it's Black Joan, White Joan, Young Joan, Blue Joan, Red Joan, or whatever Joan of Arc is, they're all mine! What? You say there's no Red Joan or Blue Joan? They just look the same, so it's fine.

Multi-episode film and television | A universe of multiple dramas merged.

Transmigrating into "The People of the Alley," he becomes the clever and mischievous Lin Dongzhe.

From a young Go master who dominated the Chinese and Japanese Go worlds to a technological giant leading the times, he has traversed the nineteen lines of Go and the business world.

When the warmth of "Reply 1988" meets the everyday life of "The People of the Alley", the turbulence of "Like a Flowing River", the brilliance of "Blossoms" and the sharpness of "In the Name of the People" intertwine here... What kind of hurricane will a small butterfly unleash?

[1v1 + Mother's Remarriage + Spiritual Spring Space + Palace Intrigue + Stepbrother's Domineering Love] Tang Banruo, who possessed a spiritual spring space, was reborn into the world. When she was just a month old, her mother was falsely accused of killing her illegitimate son and was divorced and kicked out of the general's mansion. Her mother took Tang Banruo and bought a nunnery. From then on, the nunnery became famous far and wide for its flourishing incense offerings! Her mother had the money to buy more than 2,000 acres of land around the nunnery. With the help of the spiritual spring space, the mother and daughter quietly became wealthy landowners who had no worries about food and clothing!

A mother and daughter accidentally rescued the injured Marquis of Zhenbei while digging for ginseng in the mountains. Qin Zhan, 35, had his old house on fire and set his sights on a young and beautiful woman, insisting on marrying her! Tang Banruo followed her mother in her remarriage and also gained the favor of her domineering stepbrother, becoming a little princess who could do whatever she wanted in the capital!

The male protagonist, Qin Anbang, is the eldest son of the current Prince Chen. He was raised from childhood by the Qin family, the widowed and childless Marquis of Zhenbei...

When Lu Xinran woke up, she found herself transmigrated into a book and became the real heiress, a vicious cannon fodder who always tried to outdo the fake heiress.

The fake heiress was pampered and elegant, while she was vulgar and rude, a disgrace that the Minister's family was unwilling to mention.

While others were eager to see the Minister's mansion make a fool of itself, Lu Xinran, who had transmigrated into the book, was only interested in gossiping and arguing with everyone and everything.

Her birth mother thought she was vulgar, and she retorted angrily in her heart, "She was born of a mother but not raised by one, is that her fault?"

The servants were snobbish and looked down on her. She opened the gossip-eating system: ["Stealing things from the master's storeroom every day, how come they haven't been handed over to the authorities yet?"]

She was mocked for being impolite when she went out for a stroll, and she retaliated by commenting, "You know, your whole family knows. Your mother and grandfather gave birth to you, your father was cuckolded, and you still call him father, not brother. You're so polite!"

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One day, everyone in the capital suddenly realized that as long as they stood with the second daughter of the Minister's mansion, they could have a juicy story to tell every day, and one different one every time!

As a result, Lu Xinran discovered that she had become inexplicably popular, and everyone liked to crowd around her whenever she went out.

Inside the mansion, her birth mother also hesitantly made new clothes and jewelry for her. The female lead and her mother became the closest of sisters, and the mother even wanted to give the male lead to her!

No need for that, she doesn't like big, fierce dogs, she prefers small, cute dogs!

The person who overheard her thoughts quietly changed their makeup the next day, stunning countless people in the court.

[No system + farming infrastructure + no CP + slow pace]

Yongxin County has been poor for a long time and never thought that it would become rich one day.

The wealthy families had been rich for so long, but they didn't expect that once County Magistrate Lu came, they would have to make a choice: either become poorer or become richer. Even a fool would know what to choose, but Lord Lu's game had a threshold!

The wealthy families in Longyou Prefecture were trembling with fear. Who was really making the money? By the time they came to their senses and were about to raise their banknotes to join, Master Lu had been transferred to Beijing!

Ministers and Aristocratic Families: Damn! This wave is coming for us! Run!

Lu Zhen: Since you’re here, why not stay for dinner?

There is no CP in this article, all the plots serve the plot, and the background is a fictional era, so please don't criticize.