Bury the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 305 Are they not in decline?
Both Howard and Overstraten thought Tojo was talking nonsense.

This kind of religious village that can harm a country to death is enough to be called a treasure handed down in any family, and it can even make a family flourish for hundreds or even hundreds of years.

As for the background of Tojo Kojiro's family, Howard and Overstraten are not incomprehensible when they got this kind of textbook.

But if this kind of textbook is the kind of rotten thing on the street, anyone can buy it home with money...

Howard shook his head with a smile, and said, "Tojo, according to what you said, wouldn't even children in Ming know these methods?"

Tojo Kojiro sneered disdainfully: "How can a nobleman of Ming Dynasty use such a low-level method?"

These words made it impossible for Howard and Overstraten to continue—although everyone knows that you, Kojiro Tojo, are Daming's licking dog, but who would have thought that you can be so good at licking and ignorant? With conscience, such a powerful method is called low-level!

After thinking about it, Howard couldn't help but ask, "Then what are the names of these books?"

Tojo Kojiro said: ""The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", just this book is probably enough for you to learn - if you have friends in Daming, you can try to ask them to help you buy this book Book."

Speaking of this, Tojo Kojiro couldn't help but said: "Of course, it would be best if you know the Chinese characters of Ming Dynasty. If you don't know the Chinese characters, you probably won't learn much."

For Kojiro Tojo's statement, Howard and Overstraten somewhat disagreed.

If you don't know Chinese characters, you can't read "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms"?Isn’t that a joke? After all, there are many people in the Ming Dynasty who make a living by interpreting. If they translate "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", wouldn't they still be able to understand it?
But Kojiro Tojo laughed and said, "Why, you don't believe what I said?"

Seeing the suspicious expressions on the faces of Howard and Overstraten, Kojiro Tojo continued on his own: "You don't understand the Ming Dynasty, and there may be many kinds of words or even a single word in the Ming Dynasty. It means that if you didn’t learn the Chinese characters and Mandarin of the Ming Dynasty from an early age, it would be very difficult to understand "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms."

"Of course, it doesn't matter whether you believe what I said or not. Anyway, I have already told you what I can tell you."

Howard was unwilling to argue with Kojiro Tojo on such an "insignificant" issue, so he nodded immediately and changed the topic again: "To be honest, we are also very curious about the Ming Kingdom, especially the history of the Ming Kingdom. Can you tell us more about it?"

After hearing Howard's question, Tojo Kojiro suddenly became energetic.

Speaking of his understanding of Ming Dynasty, Tojo Kojiro was not at all ranked in the Wa country, even if he had some understanding, he could not be compared with those Chinese masters at all.

You must know that many of those Chinese lords were descended from Song people who had migrated to the Wa country during the Song Dynasty. They learned the culture and knowledge of Tangkou in the Central Plains much faster than those ordinary Japanese slaves.

In addition, Tojo Kojiro's background is not very high, and what he can understand is not only a few books, but also what he heard from others.

Like the Tokugawa family, this kid suffered a lot from Daming, and after returning to the Wa country, he naturally chose to boast that Daming was extremely powerful, otherwise, wouldn't it appear that the Tokugawa family was incompetent?

Therefore, Tojo Kojiro was brought into the ditch by this messy news.

Now, Kojiro Tojo was going to rely on the information he had heard from the roadside agency to bring Howard and Overstraten into the ditch.

Tojo Kojiro said: "The history of the Ming Dynasty was first told by the Great God Pangu, and then by the Nuwa Empress who made people out of clay, and later spread to the Emperor Fuxi, the Emperor Shennong, and the Emperor Xuanyuan. How many years?"

"After the three emperors, there were five emperors. After Yu, there was Daxia. Xia died in Shang, Shang died in Zhou, Zhou unified in Qin, Qin II died, unified in Han, Han was divided into three kingdoms, unified Yu Wei... until the current emperor re-established Ming Dynasty."

"In the history of Ming Dynasty, the Yellow Emperor conquered Chiyou, Cheng Tang destroyed Xia, Wu Zhou conquered Shang, Qin conquered six kingdoms, Han expelled Xiongnu... The Yuan Dynasty fell to Emperor Gaozu of Ming Dynasty, and today's emperor destroyed Qing."

After Tojo Kojiro roughly told the history of the Central Plains Hall that he knew, Howard and Overstraten were completely dumbfounded.

If you want to name a particularly awesome emperor, there are indeed a few in Europa, but compared with the emperors of the Central Plains that Tojo Kojiro said...

Those so-called great emperors in Europa simply couldn't see it!
Overstraten even took out the pen and paper that he carried with him, and kept writing and drawing while asking Kojiro Tojo various questions.

After Tojo Kojiro finished answering the question, Overstraten also stopped writing and drawing, and then said with a confused face: "This is impossible! Tojo, are you sure about the subjugation and founding of the country you said?" Are the times correct?"

Kojiro Tojo nodded, and said: "Of course, I'm pretty sure what I said is correct—in fact, if you want to know, you can also ask someone to buy history books for you from Daming. The history books of the Ming Dynasty all record a clear time and place."

When Kojiro Tojo said this, Overstraten became even more confused. Except for the three words "impossible" that were still muttering in his mouth, his whole face was almost full of confusion. Forced and unbelievable.

Howard asked curiously: "What happened?"

Overstraten held up the piece of paper on which he had been writing and drawing for a long time, and said with a confused face: "I made a statistics on the rise and fall of all dynasties in the history of the Ming Dynasty——If Kojiro Tojo If I remember correctly, if what he said is correct, then look at this curve."

"The highest point represents when a country was just established, and the lowest point represents when they perish."

Howard nodded and said, "Is there anything wrong with that?"

Overstraten's face was full of despair: "No? Of course not."

"Starting from the earliest point, you can easily see that all their points are in a rising state, and even those dying points are still very stable."

"If you have to find two low valleys, they are the Yuan Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty. According to Tojo Kojiro, the Central Plains halls in these two periods are in a state of being invaded, which is the low valley of the low."

"But……"

"The period of the Yuan Dynasty and the period of the Qing Dynasty basically only lasted about 100 years. According to Tojo Kojiro, it means that the Hulu have no national fortune for a hundred years."

Speaking of this, Overstraten pointed to another curve below and said: "See, this is the curve of the entire Europa-from the beginning, this curve has been very stable, very stable."

Howard frowned and said, "Isn't stability good? Isn't Ming's curve also very stable?"

Overstraten shook his head and said, "It's different."

"The curve of the Ming Dynasty or the curve in the history of Tangkou in the Central Plains can prove that their national power has always been in a state of continuous rise, including when a certain dynasty of theirs perishes, their national power is still rising. This is what I just said. Ask Kojiro Tojo the reason for those questions."

"The only decline was when the Ming Dynasty was wiped out by the Qing Dynasty last time, but soon, their national power was on the rise again, and this time the decline was only about 150 years - with a few Compared with the thousand years of history, 150 years is obviously nothing."

"And the curve of the entire Europa has been hovering very stably, and has never risen. On the contrary, there were several crazy falls in the middle, and the only rise happened recently."

"Of course, this question is not very important. The important thing is, don't you see that these two curves will only go further and further apart-the curve of Ming Dynasty has been rising, and the curve we have just risen has fallen into another Without circling, there is no possibility of catching up with the Ming Dynasty curve."

"If you want these two curves to coincide, either the national power of the Ming Dynasty will suddenly decline, or the national power of the entire Europa will suddenly rise. Apart from this, there is almost no third possibility."

Howard snorted, looked at the piece of paper drawn by Overstraten for a while, and then said: "So, do you think we, Europa, have a chance to rise?"

Overstraten shook his head in despair, and asked back: "What do you think? Do you think Ming will allow us Europa to rise?"

Seeing Howard and Overstraten babbling a lot, but he didn't understand a word, Kojiro Tojo couldn't help snorting, and asked, "Are you researching?" what?"

Howard glanced at Overstraten, and did not speak until Overstraten nodded slightly: "We are discussing, the national power of the Central Plains is so strong, don't they have time to decline? Or, Is there no possibility of them declining in the future?"

Tojo Kojiro was stunned by this question.

After racking his brains for a long time, Kojiro Tojo shook his head and said, "No."

"Historically, the Tangkou of the Central Plains did decline twice, but as I told Osang just now, the Yuan Dynasty was destroyed by Emperor Gao, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty was destroyed by the Holy Emperor, regardless of whether it was Yuan or Qing , basically only occupied the Central Plains for about a hundred years."

"As for the future... the future, I can't see it, but I really can't think of any reason for Ming to decline."

"Is the emperor in a daze now? In the Ming Dynasty in history, there were many emperors who ignored the government. Some of them liked to fight crickets, some liked to cultivate immortals, some liked to do carpentry, and there was even an emperor who was killed. The enemy was captured alive."

"However, the emperor who didn't go to court for decades had the three major campaigns of Wanli. Our Japanese country was also one of them. The one who liked to fight crickets once conquered the grassland. Even the one who liked to do carpentry, he was at that time The ruling empire is also very stable."

"Let me tell you this, if it wasn't for the fact that there were traitors in the Ming Kingdom, plus the continuous natural disasters at that time, then the Ming Kingdom would not have lost to the Qing, do you understand?"

Howard and Overstraten didn't understand this, but they were very interested in the fact that there were traitors in the Ming Dynasty, especially that an emperor had been captured alive.

Howard said: "In the history of the Ming Dynasty, has an emperor ever been captured alive? Then he must have paid a lot of ransom before being released?"

Tojo Kojiro glanced at Howard, shook his head and said: "There is no ransom for a single penny, on the contrary, the tribal leader who captured the emperor alive married his sister to the captured emperor Take good care of the captured emperor."

Howard was taken aback, and asked, "Why? Since he was captured, he should pay a ransom before he can be released. What is that tribal leader thinking?"

Tojo Kojiro said: "Because the tribal leader who captured the emperor is also a subject of the emperor's majesty, he himself recognizes this. Even if the emperor is going to attack them, they still recognize this."

"More importantly, this is an unsolved case in history. Now no one can tell what happened here. As long as the current emperor doesn't pursue it, the truth of this matter can only continue to be hidden in history. among."

Howard and Overstraten were even more confused.

The two of them never imagined that such a bloody plot would happen in the history of the Ming Kingdom...

After thinking about it, Howard still said: "In any case, the Ming Kingdom also had a history of being destroyed by the Qing Dynasty."

Tojo Kojiro shook his head and said: "Ming was never destroyed by the Qing—before the Qing army entered the customs, the capital of Ming was destroyed by the people of Ming, and the capital at that time was There is plague, and there are no soldiers left."

"Including those small Ming countries later, they were also taken advantage of by the Qing army because they fought endlessly with each other. The Qing army that attacked them also suffered many failures. Later, they replaced the main force with the Han army. That’s how those small Ming kingdoms were wiped out.”

"As for why the Han army helped the Qing army to fight... it was because the Qing army at that time was still a subject of the Ming Dynasty. They were allowed to enter the Central Plains in the name of avenging the dead Han emperor, and the Han army helped them. It's not surprising either."

Howard and Overstraten were even more confused, and even their three views were greatly impacted.

After being silent for a long time, Howard said: "I will find a way to get someone to buy me a copy of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". In addition, we have to speed up the recruitment of labor."

(End of this chapter)