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Chapter 97

"When we talked about the Song Dynasty, we said that the Southern Song Dynasty was destroyed by the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty. After the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, it was a bloody suppression and brutal rule of the Han people. After the Yuan Dynasty entered the Central Plains for more than 90 years, there were uprisings everywhere. Dingding the world."

Wuyou released many pictures, all of which were about how the Yuan Dynasty ruled the people.

"During the Yuan Dynasty, the people of the world were divided into four classes: Mongolians, Semu people, Han people, and Southerners. The Han people and the Southerners were untouchables. To kill a Han people, you only had to pay the price of a donkey. In order to rule the Han people, they set up facilities in various places. Bao Zhang, when Han people marry a bride, she must accompany the Mongolian Bao Zhang on the first night. This makes most families drown their first-born children in order to keep their bloodline pure. In order to prevent Han people from rebelling, even kitchen knives must be shared by several families... "

"Under such oppression, there was a lot of dissatisfaction among the people. These dissatisfaction accumulated together, just waiting to explode one day. In the late Yuan Dynasty, political corruption, power officials and chaos, coupled with the incessant internal wars for power and profit, caused the entire Yuan Dynasty to decline rapidly. At this time, the people began to revolt."

"Zhu Yuanzhang grew up in such an environment. His family has been farming for generations. Both his grandfather and father were hiding in hiding because of tax arrears. It can be said that the family is really poor. Throughout history, Zhu Yuanzhang's origins are among the many emperors in the past dynasties. He can be regarded as the poorest and lowest class. He was able to ascend the throne from a beggar to become an emperor. He is really a bit like the Shuangwen hero in later novels, and he can be called a legendary figure of his generation."

Under the sky, many people were listening carefully.

Zhu Yuanzhang had already called all his sons to the palace, and everyone gathered together to listen.

Hearing that Wuyou praised him as a legend, Zhu Yuanzhang grinned.

"Listen, listen to everything, your father and I were so difficult back then. I couldn't even eat and almost starved to death. It's not like you don't have to worry about food and clothing now..."

He has never been shy about talking about his origin.

Wuyou smiled: "Our Emperor Hongwu has been grazing cattle for the landlord's family since he was a child, until natural disasters such as drought and locust plague occurred in his hometown for two consecutive years. His parents and eldest brother died one after another. At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang was too poor to bury his parents. , thanks to a piece of land given to him by his neighbor Liu Jizu, at that time he and his second brother wrapped the bodies of their relatives in clothes and buried them on that land. Later, in order to survive, they were forced to separate from his second brother, sister-in-law and nephew. .”

"In order to survive, Zhu Yuanzhang went to Huangjue Temple to become a monk, ringing the bell every day to chant Buddha, sweeping and offering incense, but such days did not last long. At that time, there was a famine, and the host had no choice but to disperse them. Zhu Yuanzhang, 17 years old I had to start begging for a living."

"During the three years of begging, Zhu Yuanzhang traveled to many places and gained a lot of knowledge. Three years later, he returned to Huangjue Temple. It took another few years to do this until he went to Guo Zixing's Red Temple. Scarf Army, he was appreciated by Guo Zixing in the Red Scarf Army, and he married his adopted daughter Ma Shi to him, and after that, Zhu Yuanzhang's road to escape. "

"He was actually just looking for food and a way to survive. Who knew that the world would force him to become an emperor..."

"In 1355, Guo Zixing died of illness, and Zhu Yuanzhang began to develop his own power and became a hero. After that, he defeated Zhang Zhicheng, Chen Youliang and other ministries, annihilated Fang Guozhen, and established the Ming Dynasty."

"This is what I said before that the Ming Dynasty started with a bowl."

"Zhu Yuanzhang was born in poverty. He knew how difficult it was for the people. After he came to the throne, he always encouraged farming and mulberry production, encouraged production, and did light work to make a living with the people. However, he also extremely hated corrupt officials and hated the corruption of officials extremely. A very strict legal system is in place to prevent corruption.”

"At the same time, he promoted education and put emphasis on imperial examinations. He himself is a workaholic and can work day and night just to strengthen his control over the whole country. In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang should be the most diligent emperor. "

"Of course, he also has many shortcomings."

"Let's first talk about the incident where Zhu Yuanzhang reversed history."

"The first thing is human sacrifice. After Qin Shihuang used pottery figurines to represent human sacrifices, there were very few human sacrifices. Until the Tang and Song Dynasties, they were almost extinct. However, in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang restored the human sacrifice system."

"In order to prevent foreign relatives from making trouble, when he chooses daughters-in-law for his sons, he always chooses the daughters of civilians or small officials. Don't let it go... I don't know how to say it. Anyway, I think he is too unkind and cruel. He wants to use women to give birth to your old Zhu family's children and carry on the family line. When the use is over, they have to be buried with them. Forget it, you can’t complain, you have to dress up and die happily, I’ve never seen someone who doesn’t treat people like this.”

Zhu Yuanzhang's face now looks very ugly.

He stared at the sky, and said with a bit of anger: "I let them be buried, and they will enjoy the blessings in the next life. Is it wrong?"

"And this can indeed prevent relatives from having monopoly."

In the dynasties before the Ming Dynasty, many people did not understand or even hated such practices.

Liu Che frowned: "The one with the surname Zhu is a bit unethical. They said I was a scumbag before. Compared with him, I am already extremely handsome. At least I will not let my concubine be buried."

If Liu Che knew that he would kill Mrs. Gou Ge in his later years, I wonder if he would be able to say such a thing.

"Let's not talk about how cruel and inhumane things like life and death are. Let's say that he married his son the daughter of a commoner or a small official's family. Letting his daughter marry a commoner's family can indeed prevent foreign relatives from making trouble, but , also broke the connection with the important ministers, there is no connection by in-laws, no blood ties, if something really happens, who is willing to work for him?"

"The triangular relationship has always been the most stable. If there are no foreign relatives, no honors to restrain, no matter what happens to one of the civil servants and generals, the entire court will lose balance. When one of the parties is in a dominant position, the one sitting on the throne , I’m afraid I’m going to be at the mercy of others.”

"In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, civil servants took a dominant position, which made the emperors have no choice but to cultivate the power of eunuchs. This also made the eunuchs exclusive in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, and reached its peak in the later period. There was even the emergence of a Nine thousand years old with shrines all over the world."

"Nine thousand years old?"

Zhu Yuanzhang slapped the table angrily: "I specifically set the rules. I don't want the eunuchs to have exclusive power. Why are there nine thousand years old? Nine thousand years old. What a nine thousand years old."

"We talked about Zhu Qizhen, the son of heaven before. After Zhu Qizhen passed away, the temple name was Yingzong, Yingzong... Do you find it ironic that such an emperor should have a temple name like Yingzong? What is Ying? Morality should be called Ying, and knowledge should be called Ying, this can be described as a beautiful posthumous posthumous title, but if we look at Zhu Qizhen's actions, how can he be worthy of the temple title of Yingzong?"

"But why does he have such a good posthumous title? It's because he abolished the burial system. This alone attracted a lot of praise after his death. Until later generations, some people still praised him because of this matter. It can be seen that at that time, the emperor Everyone is deeply disgusted by the burial system."

Zhu Yuanzhang's face turned the color of pig liver.

He felt hurt by the fairy's words.

Called the Son of Heaven, that unworthy descendant actually erased the past and received a lot of praise just because he abolished life and death?
Could it be that he was really wrong?
"Everything has advantages and disadvantages. Don't throw away all the advantages just because you see the disadvantages. Just like the Song Dynasty's emphasis on civility and neglect of military affairs, it is tantamount to walking with a limp and is self-destruction. way."

"The same is true of Zhu Yuanzhang's human sacrifice system. Let the concubines be buried and leave young children unattended. What will these children look like? When the royal family and palace are all uneducated children, the Ming Dynasty still has What future?"

In one sentence, Zhu Yuanzhang was completely discouraged.

Hearing those words sentence by sentence, and pondering them in his heart, he had to admit that what the fairy said was right.

"This man was martyred... let him be crippled."

At least we can't let that so-called emperor overturn the case because of this matter.

After telling some things about Zhu Yuanzhang, Wuyou changed the subject: "We have also talked about Ming Chengzu before, so we won't repeat it here. Now let's talk about those weird emperors of the Ming Dynasty."

(End of this chapter)