Emperor Ming Dynasty

Chapter 851 Revision History
"Arrogance, arrogance, this is disrespect to Emperor Taizu—"

After Sun Kewang established the so-called Great Dian Kingdom, several small nearby countries did not say anything. After the news spread to Yunnan, there was an uproar.

The entire officialdom in Yunnan was filled with indignation. The civil servants who originally wanted peace now felt rather eager for war.

To imitate the cabinet, six ministries are fine, and the year name is actually taken up with Emperor Taizu. For Confucian scholars who admire the Central Empire, it is no less than a son riding on his father's face to shit.

All of a sudden, there was an endless stream of memorials to the cabinet, and the station was almost running out of steam.

The news quickly reached Beijing. At this time, the north has become a snow country, with a backlog of snow, and there is a feeling of a storm.

There are so many houses in disrepair in the capital, and hundreds of them collapsed and damaged. Many people are homeless and suffer from cold and hunger.

As the emperor's feet, the capital city is the most benevolent place in the world, so naturally this cannot be tolerated.

Shuntian Mansion hastily arranged to build houses, delivered charcoal, and cooked hot rice porridge, which can be regarded as continuing the lives of the victims.

However, the 11-year-old prince, Zhu Cunqu, was entrusted by the emperor's order to distribute a large amount of firewood, rice, oil, salt, clothing and furniture to the victims.

For a time, it won the applause of the whole capital, and the voice of praise was endless.

The top and bottom of the cabinet are also extremely satisfied.

The emperor is accumulating prestige for the prince. This is a good thing to stabilize the country, and it is naturally worthy of approval.

With the support of the eunuch, Zhu Cunqu walked carefully on the muddy ground. This was another condolence from him.

Although it was only on the surface, he was extremely serious, his little face was tense, and a lot of mud was already stuck to the bottom of his trousers.

The female officer on the side was trembling with distress: "Young Master, you can't be so ignorant, it's freezing in this weather?"

"Auntie, it's fine." Zhu Cunqu sat in the carriage, excited: "The outside world is very interesting, more fun than in the palace."

"Master——" the female officer laughed angrily, and hurriedly changed his clothes herself, and the clothes were tidy again in an instant. The warm woolen coat made him plump, his complexion was rosy, and he was exceptionally good-looking.

"Auntie, can we go to the royal brother's house?"

He wanted to open the curtain several times and peek at the scenery outside the car, but was stopped by the female officer because he was worried about the wind, and Zhu Cunqu suddenly felt bored.

At this time, he suddenly thought of Zhu Cunhao, the king of Qin who had just left the palace.

Regarding the once threatening eldest son of the emperor, the female officer's face changed slightly, but she said calmly: "My lord, we have to go back to the palace. The empress is waiting for us in Kunning Palace."

"It's cold outside, it's not too late to play again after a while."

Zhu Cunqu heard the perfunctory, but he was helpless, the underage prince was no different from the ordinary prince, and he couldn't exceed the rules in the slightest.

Even, in the East Palace, he was under more surveillance and control.

After returning to the Forbidden City, Zhu Cunqu returned to Kunning Palace to greet the Queen.

Sun Xueniang is very precious to her son, she looks left and right, even though he is absolutely safe under the protection of everyone in her heart, but she has to check it herself to be safe.

"The prince performed very well today." Sun Xueniang smiled, her eyes narrowed, and she patted his head: "I will continue to maintain it in the future."

Zhu Cunqu nodded in satisfaction.

On the side, the second princess wearing a yellow and white sheep jacket, nicknamed Zhinu, was concentrating on licking candied haws without the etiquette of a princess.

"Brother, keep it up." The older sister, who was a year older, said in a pretentious manner.

"Sister, where did you get the candied haws?" Zhu Cunqu swallowed, enviously asking.

"Father sent it." The second princess said casually.

"Bring one for the prince." The queens said one after another, and the maids dared to act.

Soon, Zhu Cunqu also fell into this folk delicacy and couldn't extricate himself, and only at this time did he show a little childishness.

After installing the earth dragon, the gate of Wenyuan Pavilion was closed tightly, and the thick curtain divided the inside and outside of the house into two worlds.

Chief Assistant Zhao Shu is 58 years old, he is in good spirits, but his temples are slightly frosted, telling his difficulties.

In this ship of Ming Dynasty, the emperor is the captain, and the chief assistant of the cabinet is the person in charge of the rudder. Not only must he have a long-term vision, but he must also handle state affairs carefully.

Compared with the prime ministers of the Tang and Song Dynasties, the chief assistants of the Ming Dynasty worked harder. Not only did they have to deal with the six ministers and cabinet colleagues, but they also had to deal with the emperor and the supervisor of ceremonies, which was physically and mentally exhausted.

"Wow——" Suddenly, the door curtain was lifted, and a gust of cold wind passed through, making Zhao Shu shiver uncontrollably. He hurriedly put on his coat, feeling helpless.

If you wear it, it will be hot, and if you don't wear it, the occasional cold wind will bite your bones.

Lu Daqi came in a hurry, holding a stack of memorials in his hand: "Kuishou, Shangshu in Hebei Province, Yunnan, requesting the imperial court to send troops to Burma—"

"Oh?" Zhao Shu put on the presbyopic glasses that were gifted to him by the emperor, showing the emperor's favor.

Lu Daqi looked at it, and a trace of envy flashed in his eyes.

Why wouldn't he want to own such a pair of glasses?
Zhao Shu looked at it seriously, and it took a quarter of an hour before he put it down, put his hand on the palm, and his face was calm as usual.

Sun Kewang fled to Burma to become the king. This is definitely a jaw-dropping event, but after all, it is a place of alienation.
"Yan Ruo, what do you think?"

Seeing that the question was directed at him, Lu Daqi shook his head without thinking, "Sending troops is impossible."

"The imperial court used troops in the northwest and spent millions of dollars every month. The borderlands in the southwest are far away in Burma, where the miasma is full of insects and snakes. I am afraid that if there is an army of [-], [-] will fall on the road."

"However, you can let Yunnan try it out, first be courteous and then fight. If it doesn't listen to persuasion, then let's settle the score later!"

Zhao Shu's eyes never moved from Lu Daqi's body.

"Having said that, after all, it involves the great grandfather, the cabinet cannot be decided lightly, and the holy judge must be respectfully requested."

Zhao Shu made a concluding speech.

Subsequently, on the proposal, the cabinet gave two options:

For those who are conservative, reprimand them and order them to reform. After threatening, the court will act later.

For the radical ones, the ceremony is also followed by the soldiers, but the scale of the army is limited to Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, with a limit of 2 people, and the troops are sent to learn a lesson.

But the time is at the end of next year, or the year after.

Zhu Yixi looked at the two drafts and fell into deep thought.

"Why is Sun Kewang's vitality so tenacious?"

"It's been six years, and it took so long to plan in Myanmar before going south in one fell swoop. It really is an ambitious man."

However, it is not realistic to go to Burma to fight.

The horror of the Savage Mountain killed many expeditionary troops.

Moreover, there are still many chieftains in Yunnan Province who have not changed their land and returned to their native land. For Myanmar, it is really beyond the reach.

"That's it."

Zhu Yixi shook his head and said with a smile, "Give Sun Kewang a chance!"

"As long as he is willing to become a vassal, as in North Korea, there will be an extra loyal vassal state, why don't I have such a mind?"

In a sense, Sun Kewang can be regarded as expanding the living space of the Han people and spreading Chinese culture, which can be regarded as another good deed.

Travelers are more open-minded than these natives.

Moreover, unless a foothold is obtained in the Malay Peninsula, such as Singapore, the expedition to Myanmar can only be a dream.

"Your Majesty, the prince is here—"

At this time, seeing the emperor stretching his waist, Liu Afu who was beside him hurriedly handed him a cup of warm tea.

The earth dragon in the study was burning hot, the hot tea was not as good as the warm tea, the emperor drank it with a gurgle, very happy.

"Oh? Let him in."

Zhu Yixi nodded.

Soon, the prince, who still had some snowflakes on his head and shoulders, stepped into the palace nimbly:
"Son's greetings to the royal father."

"Get up!"

The emperor looked at the dirty snow on the prince's skirt and the appearance of being wet by the snow, the battle in his heart showed more elements, but he was still quite satisfied.

From this aspect, it is also a good habit to seriously perform.

"Going to condolences to the victims today, what can I gain in my heart?"

At this time, the emperor became like his father, and he couldn't help but think about it.

"My son just thinks that the people are very pitiful. They need money for food and drink, and money for heating. They are on the road of food and clothing every day. Now they are suffering from natural disasters. It is really pitiful..."

Zhu Cunqu said seriously with a sullen face.

"Yes, it is enough for you to have such knowledge now."

The emperor praised it, and then added: "For the common people, the government is their last resort."

"When encountering a disaster, they first think of their relatives and friends, then their clan, and finally the government. If the court ignores it, the consequences will be disastrous—"

"As a king, you must always have a benevolent heart and implement benevolent government."

Speaking of this, Zhu Yixi suddenly asked again: "Do you know who the benevolence is pointing to?"

Zhu Cunqu was taken aback, hesitated for a while, and then said: "People."

"What are common people?" The emperor continued to ask: "Ordinary farmers are common people, tenants without land are also common people, and small people who are busy in the market are also common people."

"Similarly, those scholars are common people, and the landlords and gentry with vast mansions and vast fields are also common people."

"Who do you mean by the people?"

Such a deep question made Zhu Cunqu confused.

The emperor got off the desk and said unhurriedly: "The king is the boat, the people are the water, the water can carry the boat, and it can also capsize the boat. Let's find out, who are the people referring to?"

As he spoke, he stared at his son, the future successor, and asked in a deep and decisive voice:

"Do you know whether there are the most civilians or the most landlords in this world?"

"Father, there should be the most common people. There are always more poor people than rich people in this world..."

"That's right." The emperor nodded and said, "So, the people in the books, the people in the way of Confucius and Mencius, refers to these ordinary people."

"All governance should be based on them and focus on their interests, and should not be biased, otherwise it will be easy to cause big troubles."

As he said that, the emperor left the prince with a sigh of emotion: "Emperor Sizong was overthrown by water in the 17th year of Chongzhen."

"From the Liao pay in the last year of Wanli to the last three pay, a large number of people were crushed to death, which made the trespassers rampant all the way, soldiers entered Beijing, and the country was destroyed..."

Zhu Cunqu's face was full of shock, he kept absorbing the emperor's words, stimulating the words in a short period of time, enough to create an indelible impression on him.

"Go back! Don't catch a cold."

Asking him to go back and absorb it, Zhu Yixi felt that he still had more to say.

At this time, he opened the window, and it was full of wind and snow outside.

It can be said that there is no feeling in the house yet, once it is opened at this time, there will be howling wind immediately.

"This is a blizzard!"

The ground was covered in white, and the cold wind choked him, making him unable to breathe for a while.

"Go, go for a walk."

Zhu Yixi suddenly became interested, but when he arrived at the door, the cold wind from the collar immediately made him die.

"That's it."

He would rather get angry in the study than suffer from ice and snow.

The next day, the issue related to Burma was widely publicized in the imperial court, and everyone talked about it in a surprised and inexplicable tone.

The anti-king in the country suddenly went to the foreign domain to establish a country. Is there anything more absurd than this in the world?

Soon, the cabinet suppressed the spread of the matter.

Just because of another thing, it attracted the attention of all scholars.

The imperial court is preparing to revise history.

And this revision is about the 300-year history from Hongwu to Chongzhen [-]th, and the political content in it is enough to shock everyone.

It was no less than a shocking earthquake.

You know, in the early years of Shaowu, civil servants in the imperial court constantly proposed to revise the history, so as to clarify the audiovisual.

After ruling the world for ten years, the imperial court only thought of compiling history. This is obviously extremely late, and it also shocked many people's jaws.

Since the past dynasties in China, it has been popular for the later dynasties to revise the history of the former dynasties, so that a tradition has been formed.

There are only two important reasons for this:
One is to establish the legitimate orthodox status of the previous dynasty, because only by establishing the legal orthodox status of the previous dynasty can one establish one's own legitimate orthodox status.

This is very simple, such as Zhu Yuanzhang, even if the Yuan Dynasty starved his family to death, in order to rule, he had to hold his nose and admit the Yuan Dynasty instead of going back to the Song Dynasty.

Without him, if you go back to the Song Dynasty, Yunnan, Guizhou, Gansu, Ningxia, Youyun, and Liaodong will not belong to the Ming Dynasty.

Such a loss is too great.

Second, it beautifies the rationality of its own rule.

After establishing the rationality of the previous court, since the previous court was reasonable, why would you replace him?

So this question needs to be explained by history books.

For example, how did the previous dynasty end up making people angry, how the upright officials of the previous dynasty ended in misery, and how the common people lived in dire straits.

Faint rulers and treacherous ministers always appear one after another.

In this way, it shows that the previous dynasty was originally orthodox, but it was finally abandoned by the sky and the people, and it was reasonable and legal to replace it by itself.

The typical one is the Five Elements Replacement Theory.

For the Shaowu court, it must be the Chongzhen Dynasty that needs to be written most.

Different from the whole-hearted smearing of the Manchu Dynasty, the Shaowu Dynasty had to use exquisite writing to reasonably pass the whole world to Emperor Shaowu.

Naturally, that was mixed.

To put it simply, although the Mandate of Heaven has declined, the Dao of Heaven still has pity on Daming, so the Great Ming will never be cut off, and it will be revived again.

Therefore, the blame for the demise of the Ming Dynasty was borne by the Wanli, Tianqi, and Chongzhen dynasties.

(End of this chapter)