History live broadcast: My audience is the ancestors

My charming but short-lived ancestor: Alas, Zhao Zhen had Sansu, Bao Zheng, Fan Zhongyan, Wang Anshi, Ouyang Xiu, Fu Bi and many other celebrities under his command, but unfortunately there were only a few famous generals.
Wan Ning can’t sleep acridine (Guan): Yes, so this is the regret of the Song Dynasty! The aspiring emperor has no famous generals, but the famous generals cannot meet the wise master!

Who in the clouds sent me a brocade book: Ahhhhh! What you said reminds me of Yue Wumu!

Wudubuyi: Alas, under the high pressure of the Song Dynasty's policy of advocating civility and restraining military force, military generals really didn't have many opportunities to come forward.

My charming but short-lived ancestor: Alas, this is the regret of history!
When Su Yue saw the comments, she also sighed and said, "Okay, I know the Song Dynasty had a lot of regrets. Then let's take a look at the prosperous age of the Ming Dynasty!"

The Hongwu Period was a period of governance that occurred during the reign of Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty. It was one of the three major periods of governance in the early Ming Dynasty.

In 1368, Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne of emperor in Yingtian Mansion in Jinling, and the Ming Dynasty was officially established.

During his reign, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered farmers to return to farming and rewarded them for reclaiming wasteland;

A large-scale establishment of immigrant settlements and military settlements;
Organize farmers from all over the country to build water conservancy projects;

He vigorously promoted the planting of mulberry, hemp, cotton and other cash crops and fruit crops. He also enriched the people and suppressed the powerful;

Order the emancipation of slaves;

Reduce and reduce tax burdens and severely punish corrupt officials;
Send people to various parts of the country to measure land, conduct household registration checks, etc.

In the era of Zhu Yuanzhang, the land used in the national yellow book to collect land tax amounted to 850 million hectares (the th year of Hongwu).

Throughout the Hongwu period, the people were abundant and the treasury was overflowing.

At that time, Shao farmers were engaged in land reclamation, the land was free of waste, people were engaged in their own business, and farming was vigorously established, so the superiors and subordinates were in good hands, and the army and the people were prosperous.

At the same time, it also lifted the restraint system of industry and commerce on craftsmen during the Yuan Dynasty, and lifted the humble status of tenant farmers in the Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties and the fate of life and death punishments determined by their masters. For the first time, China's industrial and commercial craftsmen and tenant farmers were recognized as equal in law. human rights, and are no longer slaves at the mercy of others.

In the early Ming Dynasty, through Zhu Yuanzhang's efforts, social production gradually recovered and developed, and national power grew rapidly. Because the reign name was "Hongwu", it was called the Hongwu Rule in history.

My charming and short-lived ancestor:? ? ? Is the Hongwu ancestor not worthy of a prosperous age?

Wan Ning can’t sleep. (Guan): I don’t know, but is there any difference between a prosperous age and a ruling age?

Who in the clouds sent me a brocade book: Is there a difference between the two?
Don’t let the world grow old: I don’t know, aren’t these two casually divided?
Su Yue saw the comment area and said: "The difference between a prosperous age and a ruling age? Don't you know? Then come and take a look!"

The starting point for us to distinguish between governance and prosperity is that governance and prosperity are respectively a verb and an adjective.

The so-called governance refers to the fact that the emperor, after a certain period of recuperation, rescued the country from the initial turmoil and decline, and allowed the society to temporarily enter a period of stability and prosperity.

Therefore, we can see that most of the reigns were actually in the early stages of the dynasty. Although some were in the middle, they were basically after a period of turmoil in the country.

In addition, influenced by Confucianism, if ancient monarchs could follow the path prescribed by Confucianism to implement benevolent governance and demonstrate a benevolent philosophy of governing the country, ancient scholar-bureaucrats often referred to this period as governance.

Among them, the most typical ones are Zhaoxuan Zhizhi, Hongzhi Zhongxing, etc.

Of course, if the monarch is from an ethnic minority and can vigorously promote Chineseization, respect Confucian classics, and intellectuals during his tenure, he will be respected as the ruler and dominate the world.

Such as Jin Shizong's Dading rule and the prosperous era of Kangxi and Qianlong. Different from this, the word Sheng is an adjective.

The prosperous age mentioned in ancient times generally refers to a period when the country was extremely powerful and the people lived a prosperous life.

It must meet the requirements of the prosperous age, including but not limited to the following aspects: vast territory, huge population expansion, rapid economic development, surrender of surrounding barbarians, and long-term political order stability.

With such a threshold, many periods in ancient China are basically excluded.

Of course, the theory of the prosperous age is mostly a title used by ancient literati to praise virtues, which does not mean that a certain period of time will lead to great rule of the world. For example, the prosperous age of Hanwu soon turned to the brink of crisis, the prosperous age of Kaiyuan was followed by the Anshi Rebellion, and the prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong was followed by the late Qing Dynasty. crisis.

Therefore, when the ancients talked about the prosperous times, in addition to the sense of pride in living in a prosperous era, it also used the method of wearing a high hat to urge the monarch to be diligent, love the people, and carry out benevolent government?

I can’t sleep at night (Guan): Soga! How could I not be different?
My charming but short-lived ancestor: If we say so, the prosperous times may not necessarily turn from prosperity to decline, right?
Who in the clouds sent a brocade book: Yes, wasn't the rule of Renxuan behind the Yongle era?
Wuduyi: So this is just a matter of probability!

I send my thoughts to the bright moon: I agree! Very much agree!

Seeing that they had no problem, Su Yue said, "Okay, then the next one is what you call the prosperous age of Yongle!"

The Yongle period was a period of prosperity that occurred during the reign of Zhu Di, the founder of the Ming Dynasty. It was one of the three major periods of prosperity in the early Ming Dynasty.

Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty had a great talent and a broad strategy. After he came to the throne, he worked hard to develop the economy, promote culture and education, and took many measures to vigorously develop the economy, making the world well-governed, the country prosperous, and the territory vast.

The reign of Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty was called "Yongle". Later historians called this period the Yongle era, and even praised the period as "far beyond the Han and Tang Dynasties". For more than thirty years before and after the Yongle era and the subsequent Renxuan rule, China's feudal society The heyday of the late period.
Politically, Ming Chengzu perfected the civil service system.

Because Taizu of the Ming Dynasty abolished the prime minister system, the emperor directly led the six ministries, down to the smallest detail.

During the reign of Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty, the prototype of the later cabinet system gradually formed in the court. When the emperor was busy with state affairs, the cabinet secretary would handle state affairs for the emperor in accordance with the emperor's instructions.

This system influenced the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and even the West.

In 1421, Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty officially moved the capital of the Ming Dynasty to BJ.

Establish jurisdictional structures in local areas, such as setting up provinces or management departments in the northeast, northwest, and southwest, setting up Hami Guards, Guizhou establishments, etc.

Economically, vigorously develop agriculture, build water conservancy projects, dredge the Grand Canal, and reduce tax burdens.

In terms of military affairs, he personally conducted many military expeditions to Mobei and south to Annan. He also established three battalions of the imperial guard in the capital, which were the main force of the Ming army's foreign campaigns.

Promote the country's prestige to the outside world, vigorously develop overseas exchanges, send Zheng He to the Western Ocean to manage the South China Sea, send Chen Cheng as envoy to the Western Regions, and create a situation where all nations come to Korea.

In addition, Ming Chengzu ordered people to compile the "Yongle Dadian".

This is an encyclopedia-style classic that contains all classic books since the pre-Qin Dynasty.

Such classics also objectively back up those ancient books, preventing many books from being lost.

The imperial examination system was also improved.