The six-dimensional pictures of emperors of all dynasties were exposed, and the ancestors panicked

Chapter 794: Grab it! Instantly...

[Evaluation B level, three points]

{From the Beijing Incident in 1842 to the Changwu Incident in 1911, the conflict between Christians and Christians lasted for a full seventy years, and can be said to have lasted throughout the entire late Qing Dynasty.}
{It lasted for a long time, generated a lot of disputes, and caused a lot of bloodshed, which was far beyond any other diplomatic incident in the same period.}
{And the result of a conflict over teaching plans is often a lose-lose situation.}
{Just like in the Tianjin Incident, foreigners lost their lives and churches. The people who "knew how to fear officials but not foreigners" lost their heads. The moral saint Zeng Guofan lost his reputation. Empress Dowager Cixi and Prince Gong Yixin lost their sense of security.}
……

Great Qin.

Ying Zheng has always understood one thing.

"Qin and the six states are similar but different."

“There are conflicts in culture, economy and system.”

"Since King Zhaoxiang, the Qin Dynasty has been preparing for unification."

"So after unifying the six kingdoms, it is necessary to destroy their spirit."

"Looking at the situation the other way around, do you think that if overseas countries want to successfully introduce their culture into China, would they think of interfering with China's judicial system?"

Liu Bang didn't even have to think about it.

"meeting."

Ying Zheng put his hands behind his back and chuckled:

"It's always been the same, isn't it?"

"Because we are all human beings, we all think the same way. So we do things the same way."

"The only difference is the difference in time and geography."

"The imperial court is an existence that survives on authority."

"The inviolable dignity of the imperial power and the inviolable authority of local officials."

"This is the most important component of the ruling order."

“It is also the key to making hundreds of millions of people obey.”

"And interfering with the judiciary is challenging the ruling order of the court and damaging core interests."

"Liu Bang, the Han Dynasty lasted for 400 years...so majestic."

Liu Bang felt very nervous after hearing this.

But Ying Zheng did not have any ambiguity in his meaning, he was really sighing.

"Four hundred years... it rose by comparison with the Qin Dynasty."

“But in the end, the authoritarian path was taken.”

"Liu Bang, you said to put the people first."

"You dare to let the people look up to you, but can you guarantee that the emperors of all dynasties will let the people look up to you?"

Ying Zheng looked at Liu Bang, who bowed his head and said nothing, and for the first time he spoke cheerfully:

"You can't, and you can't guarantee it."

"After all, if it could be guaranteed, the Han Dynasty would not have lasted only four hundred years."

"Authority is the foundation of all reason."

Liu Bang raised his head slowly and said with a smile:
"Your Majesty is right. Authority is the foundation of the court's survival."

“But authoritarianism cannot be the root of long-term governance.”

"After all, the imperial system finally came to an end."

"Long live the people."

Ying Zheng's smile gradually disappeared.

That sentence echoed in my mind again.

Long live the people.

……

The period of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty
Liu Qi looked at Liu Heng who was in a daze, and felt curious as if Liu Che was digging the ground.

"Father...what's wrong?"

Liu Heng calmly left the chat group.

"Nothing... I just have a deep understanding."

Liu Qi wanted to ask more, but Liu Heng changed the subject and said:
“The most profound knowledge is always rhetoric.”

"It is said that a good speaker is flawless."

"As long as it is ambiguous, it can be interpreted arbitrarily at a later date or in the future, and it will have the best of both worlds."

Liu Qi stroked his chin and thought:

"The art of ruling from the south?"

Liu Heng picked up a stone from the ground with a smile.

"More than that, it's just like you play chess."

Liu Qi's face turned dark. He couldn't get over this.

“Every move you make does not necessarily have to be determined at the exact position you make it in.”

“The results will be seen immediately.”

"What we are aiming for is the general trend, and what we are using is the great use."

"It does not seek a linear one-to-one correspondence, it..."

Liu Qi covered his head with his hands, looking painful.

"Stop reading it, Father! I don't understand! I don't understand!"

Liu Heng stopped talking and looked at him with a smile.

"One day, you will understand."

……

The period of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty
"Now I understand what your great father meant."

Liu Qi held little Liu Che in his arms and recalled every word and action of Liu Heng in the past.

"In fact, in my eyes, your grandfather is very soft and sticky."

"You can do anything, and the credit and benefits belong to others."

"Like a fool."

Liu Qi felt complicated.

"I didn't understand it at first. After I took this position, I understood some of it, but there is still a lot I don't understand."

"now I understand."

Little Liu Che scratched his head and asked curiously:
"What did you understand?"

Liu Qi looked at little Liu Che and suddenly understood why Taizu was so powerful and why Liu Che was able to sweep across the Xiongnu...

"As a monarch, all things are decided by him, and he is the one to whom all things return."

"If you can not regard yourself as a monarch and regard yourself as a small person, and always have no desires, you will be detached from gains and losses and do nothing."

"If you do things this way, many people will come to you, and the more people come to you, the greater your achievement will be."

“When there are many people involved in a big matter, there must be someone who is in charge.”

“This person may create the beginning, control the middle, summarize the end, or make good the end.”

"This person must be superior to others in virtue, knowledge, intelligence, and scholarship. Everyone is happy to follow him, so he can accomplish great things."

"The key point is that it must be accomplished by the masses, so the credit should also go to the masses."

"At its core, it's about achievement and human effort."

"This person is also one of the masses."

"Its power is also part of the collective power."

……

Tang Dynasty and Gaozong period
Li Zhi knew from the beginning that Cixi was not an ordinary person.

Most people can't do what the Prince of United does to deal with the regent.

After all, no one can be sure whether Tongzhi will die suddenly after taking office.

But she did it, and she did it beautifully.

"We know we can't provoke the foreigners, so we have to send officials who are well versed in foreign affairs to deal with this matter."

"At the same time, let someone with a good reputation become the villain, so that the firepower of opponents in the court will be directed towards this person."

“So as to relieve myself of stress.”

"Cixi's political tactics are truly perfect."

Li Zhi had a feeling.

If it weren't for the serious internal and external troubles, this woman might have become the queen.

Chang Sun Wuji suddenly said:
"In fact, it is not impossible to release Wu Zhaoyi..."

Li Zhi picked up the teacup and took a sip, saying nonchalantly:
"I never said I would keep her locked up."

Changsun Wuji:...

Damn...you don’t even want to act anymore?

"Injuring one thousand enemies and losing eight hundred of our own... not very good..."

Your Li family asked her to chop a lot of things, right?

Li Zhi said calmly:
"Do you dare to bet?"

I'm not sure now, do you dare to try it?

Changsun Wuji twirled his beard and said nothing.

If this thing makes sense, of course you can give it a try.

but……

He thought about the woman's temperament.

This thing is unreasonable!

……

Ming Dynasty Jiajing Period
"boom!"

There was a loud noise!
The Forbidden City shook three times.

The eunuchs and palace maids who were busy in the palace were doing their work with a normal look on their faces.

In front of Tianyi Gate, the original clusters of flowers have disappeared.

Instead, there was a large training ground made of compacted loess.

"The Qing court was a typical one that wanted everything and more, wanting to have everything."

A small stone fell from the sky.

It hit the helmet with a clang and made a crisp sound.

Zhu Zaigui adjusted the helmet on his head and stared in a daze at the three-meter-square deep pit in front of him.

He doesn't understand...

You can say whatever you want, but why do we always blow up the parade ground?

It doesn't cost anything to make up for it! "I want to let the court and the people vent their anger towards the foreigners, but I don't want the foreigners to think that it was the emperor's intention. I also want someone to understand and support the foreigners, so that the matter will not be one-sided and have more serious consequences."

The sound from the sky slowly descended.

She wore a golden lotus crown on her head, the pistil of which was dotted with a ruby, and a white jade cloud hairpin passed vertically from her back to her front.

A plain white dress with dark floating cloud patterns.

It sparkles in the sunlight.

Wearing a purple Taoist robe.

Zhu Houcong's eyes were bright, he twirled his beard with one hand and shook off the dust on his shoulder with the other.

"We are still trying to strike a balance in this situation."

"The Qing Dynasty already had a way to die."

Zhu Zaigui suddenly shuddered and looked around.

Zhu Houcong frowned and said dissatisfiedly:
"I'm talking to you, why are you looking around?"

Zhu Zaiqi pulled his belt up again and asked in confusion:

"My son just feels that something is watching me in the dark..."

Zhu Houcong got angry when he saw his cowardly look.

The hand twirling the beard was shaped like a tiger's claw, and the purple lightning was twisted into a ball of light.

He looked at the thunder that contained endless power and said disdainfully:
"Powerful!"

"No matter who it is, as long as they dare to show their head."

"I'll just grab it!"

The thunder dissipated, and Zhu Houcong was calm and natural:

"instantly……"

"Turn into dust..."

Zhu Zaiqi nodded and asked curiously:

"Why not refining?"

Zhu Houcong paused and looked at Zhu Zaigui with an unfriendly look.

"Because I've had enough of the elixir...why do you want to try it?"

Zhu Zaigui waved his hand to indicate that he didn't want to.

Zhu Houcong snorted coldly.

Silence fell between father and son again.

After a moment, Zhu Houcong said:

"In the past few years, I have tried my best to pave the way for you."

"As for you, you should ally with ministers when necessary and build up forces when necessary."

"I am not Emperor Chengzu, I will not lie to you with these words."

Zhu Houcong took a look at the chat group and immediately quit.

Looking at his eldest son who was looking down at something, he sighed:
"Five years... it's not long, but it's not short either."

"Make good use of this time."

Zhu Zaiqi nodded and said in a muffled voice:
"Son, I understand..."

Then there was another moment of silence.

"Look at you, you look so exhausted."

Zhu Houcong was not used to this feeling, and he directly hit Zhu Zaigui's armor with a dustpan.

"No, without a strong body, how can you rule the Ming Dynasty?"

"From today!"

"I will train you well!"

Zhu Zaigui was beaten back three steps, holding his armour with his hands on his hands, his eyes wide open.

"Training?"

He looked towards the deep pit and swallowed.

……

Ming Dynasty - Tianqi Period
Zhu Youxiao spat with a look of disdain on his face.

"Bah! Fight me!"

"Do you have the ability to do this?!"

"Parallel imports!"

He glanced up and snorted.

"Not stupid at all, not serious at all."

……

Qing Dynasty and Qianlong period
Qianlong had a dark face.

The ministers did not dare to ask.

He looked a little smiling at the beginning, but then his face became darker and darker.

It’s like she’s dead now... Oh, yes... The Queen Mother died a long time ago.

……

【People's livelihood and economy: Tongzhi Restoration. 】

……

Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period
Even Kangxi thought this was ironic.

"Can the Qing Dynasty still be revived?"

Yinzhen thought about it and realized that it was possible.

After all, it has fallen to the extreme point. A slight rebound will not be a big deal for ZTE.

……

On the canopy.

Amid the joyous sound of firecrackers.

The gates of all major government offices, shops, and wealthy homes had already been decorated with lights and colorful decorations.

From the high walls came the sound of firecrackers, as well as all kinds of tempting aromas and pleasant orchestral sounds.

The snowflakes avoided the heat inside the wall and drifted to the side.

It lived in a small hut made of old mats and rotten boards under the wall.

In the shabby sheds huddled dying beggars and refugees.

A pale and thin face, deep-set, lifeless eyes, and a body wrapped in sack or tree bark.

Not far away, there were frozen and starved corpses lying there.

……

[Unlike all previous revival, land is no longer the criterion for judging the economy at this time.]

[China's per capita arable land dropped sharply from seven mu per capita in the early Qing Dynasty to three mu per capita during the Qianlong period, and then to two mu per capita during the Tongzhi period.]

[Without arable land, people would flock to handicrafts or the service industry for survival. A large number of Chinese in Guangdong and Guangxi relied on Guangzhou as an external port for survival, forming several trade routes along the Xijiang River in Guangxi and the Ganjiang River in Jiangxi.]

[These trade routes supported a large number of craftsmen, coolies, boatmen, pirates, merchants and other occupations, and also gave birth to the printing and dyeing, ceramics, tea and silk businesses in the Pearl River Delta cities such as Guangzhou and Foshan. ]

[The First Opium War broke up the trade line centered on Guangzhou. After the opening of the five ports, opium and Western industrial products entered China again, destroying the fragile peasant economy of the Qing Dynasty. All the people on the Xijiang and Ganjiang trade lines were unemployed, and the cloth, clothes and shoes woven by Chinese handicraftsmen suddenly could not be sold.]

[A large number of unemployed people rebelled in various places in order to survive. ]

[The most important sign of the Tongzhi Restoration was that the internal "turmoil" was finally resolved and the foundation of the Qing Dynasty was preserved. ]

[But what does the foundation of the Qing Dynasty have to do with ordinary people? ]

[If you insist, there is some relationship. ]

[That is, the failure of uprisings in various places solved a large number of unemployed refugees who could not survive and thus revolted, and also relieved the pressure on land. ]

[Landlords can annex more land, and tenants can plant more land and earn more money and food.]

[Evaluation: D level, one point]

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Ming Dynasty - Longqing Period
"Jiangxi..."

Zhang Juzheng looked at the sky and sighed.

The reason why Jiangxi was able to dominate the world during the Song and Ming dynasties was precisely because it was located on the main axis of Beijing, the Grand Canal, the Yangtze River, the Gan River, the Pearl River, and Guangzhou.

After the Opium War, the focus of Sino-foreign trade gradually shifted from Guangzhou to Shanghai.

The axes of the Grand Canal, Yangtze River and Gan River will be quickly abandoned.

Hangzhou and Suzhou were relatively less affected, while cities along the canal such as Yangzhou and Huai'an had to exit in disgrace.

Another area severely affected was Jiangxi, where the commercial transportation route from Jiangxi to Guangdong completely declined.

"The livelihood and clothing of a trade route is worth tens of millions."

……

【Employing people to know people: going abroad. 】

【Western countries broke into the Qing Dynasty twice before it was forced to open the door and leave. China is moving towards the world, and the world is moving towards China.】

[The Qing Dynasty's expedition to the West began in the fifth year of the Tongzhi reign (1866). In the spring of that year, the Inspector General of Customs, Robert Hart, was going back to China to get married. He asked Yi for a six-month leave and suggested that the Qing government send people to the West for investigation.]

【This was exactly what Yi wanted, so he petitioned to send someone abroad for inspection and was approved, thus leading to the unprecedented event of the Qing Dynasty sending Bin Chun and others abroad.】

[In the 1872th year of the Tongzhi reign (), the first batch of thirty "young children" went to the United States to study, which was known in history as "young children going abroad."]

【The trend of studying abroad during the Tongzhi period was inseparable from Yung Wing. From the eleventh year of the Tongzhi reign to the first year of the Guangxu reign (1875), a group of people went abroad every year, and a total of four groups of people went to study in the United States.】

【The children arrived in the United States and became a sensation in the American news. The American president even received them. The Chinese students left an impression of being "smart, capable, and well-mannered" on the Americans, who said they were "the honor of China."】

【Yung Wing proposed and arranged for them to live in American civilian families. American teachers, doctors, and gentlemen took Chinese children to their homes. Each family took great care of the children, provided them with good food and accommodation, and cared about their studies and lives. They became a bridge for cultural exchanges between China and the West.】

[However, these have little to do with Tongzhi. ]

[Evaluation: D level, one point]

……

{This is a pretty good official statement. In the Qing court's design, they are just tools of a powerful country, but in reality, they are real people.}
{In order to make these powerful tools obedient, the Qing court sent officials such as Chen Lanbin and Wu Jiashan to supervise them, and repeatedly emphasized to the children that the court sent them abroad "to let you learn foreign skills, not to let you forget the rules of your own country"}
{“Foreign Kung Fu” is a tool, which is to learn how to build ships, guns and cannons. “National rules” are values, which are the Four Books and Five Classics, the “National Laws and Regulations” and the “Imperial Edicts”, and it is to kowtow to the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty at a designated time.}
{But everyone knows the story of Meng Mu's three moves. The environment has a great influence on people. The children went to a new American school, not a traditional Chinese private school. Their "talk and thoughts all day long were completely different from the old education." }
{Playing baseball, playing football, wearing suits, cutting hair into braids, joining clubs, and going to church are all contrary to things like the "Sacred Instructions".}
{Later, Wu Jiashan summoned the children to the Qing Dynasty's embassy in Washington for a lecture. When the students met Wu, they did not kneel down and bow. Wu's subordinate Jin was furious and accused them of "each student forgetting his origin and disrespecting his teacher. It is difficult for them to become talents, and even if they do, they cannot be used by China."}
{Later, Wu Jiashan reported to Li Hongzhang, accusing the children of betraying traditional Chinese culture. He also said that even if these children became talented, they would be of no benefit to the country, and they could not shoulder the important task entrusted by the court to "learn from the Westerners' knowledge of instruments and numbers to defend the way of Yao, Shun, Yu, Tang, Wen, Wu, and Zhou rituals." }
{The young children who terminated their studies and returned home felt deeply distressed. After ten years away from home, many of them had grown from children to young adults, but what awaited them in their homeland was not glory, but humiliation and rejection.}
{Finally, after leaving the country for ten years, he was already a traitor when he returned.}
{It is the period between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five, when values ​​and outlook on life are formed.}
Friends who have seen this know that I like to use the emperors of the early Han Dynasty to express my personal opinions.

Why?
Because although there is no physical freedom during this period, there is still freedom in thought.

Without the taming of the latter, the debate in the front still has an echo.

It is actually easiest for us to resonate with this at this moment.

……

Let's use the wording more rigorously. Among all the dynasties, this is the period that is most likely to resonate with us.

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(End of this chapter)