People in the Ming Dynasty are lawless

Chapter 703 Zhu Yuanzhang is a great emperor!!
This is why Chen Han feels that the old man is particularly wronged, because many people have no idea what the situation was in history, and they only believe that the so-called old man is a very cruel person.

These people only regard the way the old man dealt with those individuals as a failure of his personal morality. They don't even consider what the situation was like at the time. They don't know what the situation was like back then, and they don't understand why he had to do that.

I always feel that once I understand a little bit of something, I can understand the whole picture.

In fact, they simply did not understand how difficult the situation the old man faced back then was. At that time, he not only had to endure the unreasonable demands of those meritorious officials and nobles, but he even had to endure the desire of those civil officials to steal power.

Many people don’t understand these things at all, or even don’t know them at all. They have never read history books, and they have never looked at the records of this period of history in those history books.

They think they are very powerful and know everything. They even think they are more powerful than many experts in literature and history and understand Zhu Yuanzhang better than he does.

They think that after watching a few TV dramas and reading a few novels, they can comment on Zhu Yuanzhang's strategies back then without any hesitation.

In fact, they don't understand at all why they did this back then. They don't understand why Zhu Yuanzhang, at such a difficult age, tried so hard to maintain the status quo. Why he had to do this back then, and why he had to let all those generals die.

Many people think that this is the result of Zhu Yuanzhang's inflated desire for personal power. Many people think that those civil and military generals secretly resented the northwest because there was something wrong with Zhu Yuanzhang.

But they didn't realize one thing, that is, Zhu Yuanzhang was also a normal person. He was not born cruel, and he was not born suspicious. When Zhu Yuanzhang was fighting for his empire, he was so high-spirited and a man who firmly believed in his ideals.

He is by no means a cruel person, nor would he kill so many brothers who had fought with him to establish the empire just to concentrate power on his own. After all, he is a normal person, not a madman.

And you have to know that when he was handling those major cases, he was not an old man in his seventies. He was still young and strong. He had already started doing those things when he was in his forties and very energetic.

From this we can see that Zhu Yuanzhang had already made up his mind to make these Huaixi nobles and even those brothers who had done evil for the concubine proud, and it was not the time to be confused.

On the contrary, he was very calm, and it was precisely because of his calm handling of the matter that those incidents did not lead to major disasters, and those nobles who held power did not end up in a difficult situation.

Really speaking, Zhu Yuanzhang's biggest mistake was to help Zhu Yunwen ascend the throne, because Zhu Yunwen was indeed not a qualified successor at that time. He did do some things that were excessive and shameful to everyone. He really let everyone see how useless an emperor could be to become like that.

It is precisely because Chen Han knows Zhu Yuanzhang very well that sometimes he really feels that Zhu Yuanzhang is a particularly pitiful man. He conquered the country, he made the Ming Dynasty so prosperous, and he led the Ming Dynasty onto a better path, but no one would feel sorry for him, and no one would think that his life as an emperor was difficult.

Because most people thought that an emperor like Zhu Yuanzhang must have held great power from the beginning. No one dared to obstruct him, no one dared to say no to him, and no one dared to stand firmly in front of him.

However, this group of people have no idea what the situation was like back then. The situation was exactly the opposite. It was not at all what everyone imagined that the so-called emperor's authority was extremely powerful.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the power of the Secretariat was actually very great, because its power came from the Qiexue system of the Yuan Dynasty.

The biggest feature of this system is that military generals use the military power in their hands to achieve the ability to control government affairs.

The power of the Zhongshu Province at the beginning of the founding of the country was a legacy of the Yuan Dynasty. Because of this, the Zhongshu Province has great potential. It can not only directly participate in the national ambassadors, but also make its own decisions on personnel appointments and dismissals.

It is possible to completely bypass the emperor, so this actually constitutes a complete threat. How could a person like Zhu Yuanzhang, who was deeply influenced by Han culture, allow the power of the prime minister to threaten the power of the emperor, so he had to get rid of the Secretariat.

This is the fundamental reason, but few people pay attention to this fundamental reason, because everyone thinks that after Zhu Yuanzhang becomes emperor, he must have great potential and no one can shake it.

So anything you do that is not in compliance with this system is because you have too strong a desire for power, and that is why such things happen.

Because of this, you should be responsible for everything that happens in the future.

It is precisely because of this that this person is an irresponsible tyrant.

It is precisely because you are an irresponsible tyrant that you have done so many things, killing your own brothers.

This is what is going on in the minds of those who try to understand this matter very simply. They always think that you are just pursuing your own power desire, so you make up so many lies and so many things to prove that you are right, but in fact you are completely wrong.

But those people simply don't understand how difficult it was for Zhu Yuanzhang back then. They don't know at all. Zhu Yuanzhang back then was actually always under great constraints. These constraints were the real reason why Zhu Yuanzhang retaliated against those who had set obstacles for him after he gained power. Speaking of revenge is not very accurate, because he did not do it for revenge, but rather to purge those legacy. If he did not do it, then after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, even in the later period, it would still be like the Yuan Dynasty.

Such a dynasty was already extremely corrupt and a failure. If the Ming Dynasty was allowed to remain like the Yuan Dynasty, there would have been a crisis of national destruction within the Yuan Dynasty within 90 years.

It is precisely because of these reasons that Zhu Yuanzhang would never allow the Ming Dynasty to become such a dynasty, so he made so many irrational behaviors under such circumstances. But now it seems that he is very rational. It is precisely because he is very rational that he would never let the Ming Dynasty follow in the footsteps of the Yuan Dynasty.

But in the eyes of many people, they simply cannot see the real deep-seated reasons behind all this. Those people seem to be blind and do not take it seriously at all. It can even be said that they do not understand the rules of operation and do not understand why Zhu Yuanzhang did this back then.
In fact, to be honest, they have no idea about the operating rules of the dynasty after Zhu Yuanzhang founded the country. They don’t understand why it operated in this way.

This is because many people do not understand that the relationship between the Yuan Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty was not just a transitional one. It can even be said that there was no torn relationship at all. There were many things inherited between them, but because they inherited the systems of the Yuan Dynasty, there were many gaps in the implementation level.

Zhu Yuanzhang was a person who was very willing to restore the systems of the Han and Tang dynasties, so he would never allow such a thing to happen. Precisely because of this, the cleansing process naturally had to be very broad and thorough.

But many people do not know the deeper reasons behind this, so they simply regard Zhu Yuanzhang as a tyrant, which is very unfair.

It is precisely because Chen Han understands these injustices that he feels very sympathetic towards Zhu Yuanzhang.

Now seeing Zhu Yuanzhang slowly turning into an old man in a cage, Chen Han didn't know why he suddenly felt very reluctant, as if he saw a close relative of his, who had always been able to see him sitting there basking in the sun.

But one day, a phone call came in saying that your relative had passed away. I felt very confused at the time, and of course, I always felt very emotional when I thought of these vivid scenes later. I can even say that I would twitch every time I dreamed about it at night.

Chen Han is a person who is easy to get emotional, especially for the old man Zhu Yuanzhang. In fact, he has been reading history books and found that Zhu Yuanzhang is not a tyrant as many historical TV dramas or novels have arranged. Instead, he is a very hardworking and accomplished emperor.

He really couldn't stand some people who thought they were superior and felt that they could judge such a great emperor in history after reading a few books. He couldn't stand some people who thought they were very powerful and great and felt that they could judge Zhu Yuanzhang's achievements.

To be honest, those people are not even worthy of carrying Zhu Yuanzhang's shoes, but they can still be complacent and still stand high and low to point fingers at the so-called dark dynasty of the Ming Dynasty.

Because they had no idea of ​​the deep-seated reasons why Zhu Yuanzhang cleaned up those engineering statues, they had no idea how these deep-seated reasons came about. They simply felt that there was an insurmountable gap between the Ming Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty, which was impossible to cross.

However, the relationship between the Yuan Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty was actually very close. In fact, because the system had an inheritance relationship at the beginning, the Ming Dynasty relied on some systems of the Yuan Dynasty for a long time. It also led to the differences between the rulers of the two dynasties. It was the differences between the Han people and other ethnic groups that led to the collision of civilizations and the occurrence of various catastrophic events.

In fact, this is a reason that is very easy to see through, but these people don’t understand it at all. They think that you, Zhu Yuanzhang, are a tyrant. After you founded the Ming Dynasty, everything is new. You deal with others according to your own ideas within the new framework.

If you kill someone just because he doesn't listen to you, that is the behavior of a tyrant.

There are actually many people like this who are diodes and binary opposites in society. Precisely because there are so many of them, many people have a very low opinion of Zhu Yuanzhang. Precisely because of these factors, Chen Han has always sneered at these people. These people have no idea what history is all about.

Of course, Chen Han never thought that he was a very remarkable person, nor did he think that he could interpret all of Zhu Yuanzhang's actions at once. He just felt that such a great emperor like Zhu Yuanzhang should not be slandered by those people in such a disrespectful tone.

Zhu Yuanzhang was not a perfect emperor. He did have many shortcomings, such as being suspicious. He was indeed like that.

However, these shortcomings cannot prove that he was not a good emperor, nor can we say that he was a tyrant, because when Zhu Yuanzhang reformed the entire Ming Dynasty, he had actually eliminated the problems left over from the foreign rule of the Yuan Dynasty. If he had not eliminated them, it would have been impossible for the Qing Dynasty to truly follow the Ming Dynasty's systems when they entered the Central Plains.

It can even be said that if Zhu Yuanzhang had not cleared up the problems left over from the Yuan Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty could have completely followed the systems of the Yuan Dynasty after entering the pass. Then what would the entire Central Plains dynasty have become? It would have truly been a dynasty ruled by a foreign race.

At that time, the Han people really had no chance to raise their heads.

All Han people are able to preserve so many traditions and have so many living habits. In fact, they all have to thank Zhu Yuanzhang for this. That’s why he is said to be a very great emperor. For the Han people, he is actually even greater.

Because of his appearance, we Han people are still able to retain our Han customs, and because of his appearance, we Han people will not lose our orthodoxy.

This is his greatness, but some people do not understand that these things still need to be resolved. You are now emphasizing the unity of various ethnic groups, but it should be pointed out that unity is unity, but if the great traditions of the Han ethnic group are not preserved, if the things of the ancestors are not preserved, in fact, many times our current progress may be very slow...

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