Video spoilers history, starting with the blitzkrieg on Poland

Outside the sky.

Li Shimin was a man of both civil and military achievements.

I was also dumbfounded at this time.

“And this is only 60 points?”

"What does a 100-point Zhu Yuanzhang mean?"

"Look at the territory of the Ming Dynasty, it's not bigger than that of the Tang Dynasty."

"How come we only got 60 points after recovering Chinese land?"

"Is it to expand the territory?"

……

In the doubts of many people.

The music on the sky curtain became even more majestic and passionate.

[This requires mentioning Zhu Yuanzhang's contribution to rebuilding China. ]

[That was the most dangerous period of time for Chinese civilization! It was almost completely torn apart!]

【And this...】

【This is not an exaggeration! 】

[This matter has to start with the An-Shi Rebellion. ]

【Since the An-Shi Rebellion. 】

[The north was repeatedly ruled by nomadic peoples, and the language, culture, and economy were completely barbarized. ]

[From the flames of the An-Shi Rebellion to the dust of the fall of the Yuan capital. ]

[The Han people in the north and south experienced the separatist rule of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the rule of the Liao, Jin and Yuan dynasties, and the humiliation of the Song Dynasty's migration to the south.]

[This period can also be regarded as the longest period of division between the northern and southern Han peoples in Chinese history.]

【Since the An-Shi Rebellion, the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun have almost ceased to be owned by the state. 】

[When Zhao Kuangyin was crowned emperor, the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun had already become horse pastures for the Khitans.]

【After the Jingkang Incident, the Huai River became the boundary between the Song and Jin dynasties. 】

【Under the rule of the Yuan Dynasty. 】

[The Han people in the north and south were even divided into different classes, and the imperial examinations, laws, and taxes were all unequal.]

[This tactic of differential treatment has further deepened the internal contradictions among the Han people.]

[The division between the northern and southern Han people is not only a geographical division, but also a fault line in cultural identity. ]

【Wearing foreign clothes and riding and shooting became a daily routine, Khitan and Mongolian languages ​​were integrated into dialects, and even the strange phenomenon of "Han people with foreign names" appeared.】

[The northern Han people speak a Hu-style Chinese, while the southern Han people retain the ancient pronunciation.]

[Both parties couldn't even understand each other's language! ]

[Nomadicization in the north.]

[The South still adheres to the legacy of the Han and Tang dynasties and regards the North as an occupied area. ]

[Even the customs of marriage and funerals show obvious differences.]

【Don’t think this isn’t scary! 】

[The Hutus and Tutsis live together peacefully, with the same language, appearance and bloodline.]

【Just a few decades of colonial rule. 】

【They completely broke up and slaughtered each other.】

【What's more, the Han people in the north and south have been separated for hundreds of years? 】

[It was at this dark moment that a lowly person who had once herded cattle, worked as a monk, and begged for food stepped onto the stage of history.]

[Beggar Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang emerges! ]

[He not only wants to use force to end the chaotic times, but also to complete an ultimate task that even the Han and Tang dynasties could not completely solve. ]

【Re-melt the divided China into a whole. 】

【Let the Han people in the north and south speak different dialects, live different lives, and even remember different histories. 】

【Re-recognize each other as compatriots. 】

[This silent reconstruction of civilization does not have the drama of the Battle of Red Cliffs or the legendary color of the Zhenguan Reign.]

【But it was the project that truly laid the foundation for modern China. 】

【Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, a legendary emperor who changed the fate of the nation. 】

[So, does he really deserve such a high evaluation? ]

……

Outside the sky.

Qin Dynasty.

Ying Zheng's eyes turned serious.

Split.

This is the word that Ying Zheng least wants to see.

"Han Er is speaking nonsense!"

"I didn't expect that the situation in China would be so bad at that time?"

"If that is really the case, then the Qin ancestors have made great efforts to unify China."

"But it's all in vain!"

"Zhu Yuanzhang unified China, but the China under his rule was already so divided."

"In this state, China can be temporarily unified even if it is due to military reasons."

“But once the military declines.”

"It will fall apart immediately."

"There won't be the slightest bit of cohesion."

"I have spent a lot of effort, but I have not yet completely integrated the world."

“And the chaotic separation at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty.”

"Can Zhu Yuanzhang achieve integration?"

"If Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty in the future could really unify the world."

……

The sky continues.

[There is no need to introduce too much about Zhu Yuanzhang's counterattack story of making a fortune and founding the Ming Dynasty. 】

[In short, in the first month of 1368, at the founding ceremony of the Ming Dynasty at Purple Mountain in Nanjing.]

[40-year-old Zhu Yuanzhang announced in his prayer to heaven:]

[“I believe that since the end of the Song dynasty, the emperor of China has been destined by heaven to be the ruler of the world in the desert. His descendants have been ruled for more than a hundred years, but now his destiny has also ended.”]

[Then the Ming Dynasty launched a northern expedition, swept through the Yuan court, and recovered the Han territory. ]

【The great cause of unification was accomplished militarily. 】

【But what Zhu Yuanzhang was facing at this time. 】

[It is a civilizational fault line that is more terrifying than geographical division. ]

[It is a more severe challenge than the Northern and Southern Dynasties! ]

[The northern Han people have been deeply influenced by the barbarians, and the southern gentry are conservative and self-contained. ]

[Hundreds of years of political division have evolved into a complete breakdown in language, customs, and identity.]

[In the north under the rule of the Jin and Yuan dynasties, the Hu language was mixed with the Chinese language, and nomadic customs permeated the market;]

[And the Southern Song survivors who lived in the south of the Yangtze River are still reciting poems about the warm wind that intoxicated tourists.]

[The Han people in the north and south have long been strangers in cultural cognition. ]

[The northern Han people are called "Han'er". ]

【The Han people in the south called themselves "Song people."】

[Does it look like the Hutu and Tutsi? ]

[It can be said that at this time, the Chinese Han civilization is facing the danger of complete division! ]

[When Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself emperor in Yingtian in 1368, he faced a mess of cultural fragmentation. ]

【His first reform touched people’s hearts.】

【Restore the clothing system of the Han and Tang dynasties, prohibit foreign clothing and foreign language, and turn Nanjing into a test field for cultural revival.】

【Retro innovation is actually a unified aesthetic. 】

[When civil and military officials attended court in wide-sleeved robes, the Chinese clothing that had disappeared for four hundred years regained its vitality.]

【Through the "Da Ming Ji Li", 136 ritual processes were standardized, allowing elites from different regions to rebuild their identity in a unified ceremony.】

【Reconstruct the Chinese sacrificial system and standardize the architectural form. 】【The return of this cultural symbol has injected a shot of adrenaline into the divided national consciousness. 】

In addition to reshaping cultural identity,

[The economy is also pursuing unification, and the measures are equally drastic. ]

[Issued Ming Baochao to unify currency, dredged the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal to rebuild the logistics artery, and implemented the road permit system to break the regional blockade. ]

[While implementing the equal-field system in Jiangnan to curb land annexation. ]

【Implementing the military settlement system in the north to restore agricultural production.】

【The dredging project of the Grand Canal has become an economic link between the north and the south. 】

[The silk and tea from the south of the Yangtze River and the furs and skins of war horses from the north of the Great Wall meet on the Grand Canal.]

[It has formed a unique economic ecology of "Northerners eat rice, Southerners use leather". 】

[What really demonstrated Zhu Yuanzhang's strategic vision was the population replacement project he invented.]

[The powerful people in Suzhou and Songjiang were moved to Fengyang, and the great families in Shanxi were moved to Jianghuai.]

[About 47 households were relocated from Hongdong, Shanxi to Hebei and Henan, and 14 wealthy households in Jiangnan were forcibly relocated to Fengyang and other places.]

【The military household system allowed the garrison troops to bring their families with them to garrison in other places.】

[This seemingly cruel migration is actually breaking down regional barriers.]

【It's like pouring milk into coffee.】

【Use administrative power to force cultural mixing. 】

【After two generations of efforts, the proportion of southern dialect areas dropped from 68% at the end of the Yuan Dynasty to 53% in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and the Mandarin area expanded by 42%. 】

[The reconstruction of the imperial examination system also showed Zhu Yuanzhang's good intentions.]

[In the case of the North and South Lists, Zhu Yuanzhang's handling of the case showed superb political wisdom. ]

[The chief examiner was immediately executed, and the examiner was personally held to conduct a re-examination, which calmed people's hearts.]

【Build a common discourse system between the North and the South at the knowledge level. 】

【And the most amazing thing. 】

【This is Zhu Yuanzhang’s redefinition of “Chinese orthodoxy.”】

【When Zhu Yuanzhang proposed "expelling the barbarians and restoring China" in his "Edict to the Central Plains". 】

[It is not about repeating simple nationalist narratives, but about building a cultural identity that transcends regions.]

[The ritual of worshipping the emperors of all dynasties was extended from Nanjing to Kaifeng. While the Confucius Temple in Qufu was being rebuilt, a branch of the Imperial Academy was established in Beiping.]

【This nationwide layout of cultural infrastructure has allowed the concept of China to break through the Yangtze River for the first time. 】

【Zhu Yuanzhang used one generation to complete a historical process that would have taken hundreds of years of natural integration.】

【He successfully transformed military victory into cultural identity. 】

【Sublimate regime change into civilization reconstruction. 】

【It allowed the Han people in the north and south who had experienced the rule of Khitan, Jurchen and Mongolia to find their common spiritual homeland again.】

[This deep integration has allowed China to avoid a permanent European-style split.]

【It laid the earliest foundation for the modern Chinese nation community. 】

[In this era when regional prejudice has not completely disappeared, looking back at the great integration 600 years ago may give us new inspiration. ]

【Zhu Yuanzhang's wisdom in integrating civilization. 】

【To this day, it is still nourishing the land of China! 】

……

The sky screen video ends here.

Barrages of comments flew out one after another.

"Now I understand. He is definitely not an ordinary person."

"Whenever there is a crisis, a powerful person will come from the sky."

"The Han people all speak the language of the Hu people, but they curse the Han people from the top of the city. Old Zhu has made great achievements!"

"After Yashan, there is Yuanzhang, who rebuilds China!"

"I didn't understand his achievements in rebuilding China before, but as I learned more, I realized how high his status was and how great his achievements were."

"Vietnam was not taken back by the Northern and Southern Song dynasties. Once the Yuan dynasty invaded, no one else would recognize you."

"For the Han people in the Yellow River Basin, by the time the Ming Dynasty was founded, they had been ruled by a foreign race for more than the 90 years of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty."

"The Yanyun region was lost for 600 years, and the North China region for more than 100 years. What does that mean?"

"It has only been 600 years since Britain left France!"

"Zhao Gou's words, "The southerners return, the southerners return, the northerners return," completely removed the north from the Han cultural sphere. "

"The Ming Dynasty! Sweeping away the decadent trend of the Han people since the end of the Tang Dynasty!"

"Zulong Yingzheng created a great unification, Ming Taizu restored the ancestral system!"

"Others may have been able to overthrow the Yuan Dynasty, but Zhu Yuanzhang's contribution to rebuilding China was truly great."

"I, Chen Han, refuse to accept the defeat! I, Chen Youliang, will be the one to restore the Han Dynasty!"

"Chen Youliang? He has ambition and ability, but his military is too weak. Even if he could unify the country, it would probably only be the territory of the Northern Song Dynasty."

"The Ming Dynasty is really important. If it had remained a nomadic regime, Han culture would have been basically cut off."

……

Outside the sky.

Qin Dynasty.

He has never had a good impression of the later Ming Dynasty, and even regarded Zhu Yuanzhang as his rival Ying Zheng.

At this moment, they actually applauded from the bottom of their hearts.

"Fake...Ming Dynasty! Yes!"

"Zhu Yuanzhang, very good!"

Ying Zheng tried very hard and seriously to express his approval of Zhu Yuanzhang's behavior.

The ministers around saw Ying Zheng taking the lead and applauded.

And he expressed his approval of Zhu Yuanzhang.

They all reacted immediately.

Following Ying Zheng, they applauded towards the sky and the Ming Dynasty that would come more than a thousand years later.

In the court of the Qin Dynasty, the emperor and his ministers applauded collectively, and the applause was thunderous!

Until the continued applause.

Ying Zheng then said slowly:

"If I were just a commoner who rose to prominence in troubled times, I would eventually unify the world and become the emperor of China."

"If this is the only achievement, then I would only think that his personal ability is very good."

“But it doesn’t feel like anything great.”

"Because when it comes to unification, there is only the first time and the countless times."

"My Great Qin swept across the six kingdoms of Kanto that had a foundation of hundreds of years, and for the first time truly unified China."

“It’s groundbreaking.”

"No matter how powerful the emperors of later generations are, they are just imitating my steps."

Of course, Ying Zheng must first ensure the superiority of the Qin Dynasty.

But then, Ying Zheng changed the subject and said:

"But Zhu Yuanzhang did much more than that."

"The Qin Dynasty may perish, but the spirit of the Qin Dynasty to unify the world and China cannot perish!"

"When Zhu Yuanzhang took over, China was almost permanently divided."

"He not only unified China politically, but also unified China culturally and spiritually."

"Unite……"

“I really appreciate this.”

"And I also know that just doing this is already a huge achievement."

"In the entire history of China, perhaps..."

"Its significance is second only to the first time I unified China."

It can be said that from this day on, Ying Zheng truly recognized the Ming Dynasty of later generations.

Recognized Zhu Yuanzhang.

And Ying Zheng also said silently in his heart: Old Zhu of the future, I still think I am better than you.

But if there really is a ranking of the greatest emperors of all time, I wouldn't be surprised if you were ahead of me.

On this great historical stage of the Emperor, you are qualified to compete with me. (End of this chapter)