Zhang Juzheng is a political novel,it depicts the carefulness and subtleness,the dexterity and complex,the ebb and flow,and many changes of totalitarian politics,and is a kind of historical fable of Chinese totalitarian politics.

However,it is a historical fable about the memory of the Cultural Revolution.

Popper held that historical irregularity led to unpredictability in history,that the"Oedipus effect"destroyed accuracy and objectivity of historical prediction,and that the "hypothetical deduction" expounded the impossibility of the prediction.