Reborn Regent of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 180 Eight Weeks of the Zodiac

This was also the first time that Zhang Shouren met a famous historical figure, and he was a great Confucian who was well-educated and well-educated, but even so, he didn't feel the slightest excitement in his heart.

The longer the time traveled, the deeper the feeling in Zhang Shouren's heart.

The local politics, financial system, and military system of the Ming Dynasty, in his opinion, the more he understood, the worse he felt.

However, the elite members of the ruling class of the Ming Dynasty, that is, the class from scholars to scholars, showed that their abilities were far inferior to their status. [

From the pre-Qin period to the Han and Tang dynasties, "scholars" were the country's bosses. Up and down they were proud of the lords, but they were able to deal with the common people. They could uphold state affairs with literature, and they could attack the Xiongnu with martial arts. Pure civil servants or pure military commanders were not regarded as serious "scholars." "!"

Like Zhang Liang, he has a lot of wit and tricks, and he can fight waves. Su Qin Zhang Yi and his like are all masters of fencing.

The famous generals and ministers, in fact, Lian Po is not a pure general, and Lin Xiangru also has the ability to lead troops.

In the Tang Dynasty, the prosperity of scholar-bureaucrats reached its peak.

A scholar-bureaucrat can be a commander-in-chief for a border general, and after making great contributions, he can enter the court as a prime minister.

Such a prime minister, who understands military affairs, political affairs, and both civil and military, is the real prime minister!

The vitality of China was actually maintained until the Tang and Song Dynasties. Although the martial arts of the Song Dynasty seemed weak, the combat effectiveness of the Song Army was not weak.An army of one million, well-equipped, and all professional soldiers supported by the central government. Song's steppers, god-armed bows, how can the equipment of the Ming army be comparable?

Among other things, more than one million professional soldiers were recruited, and the treatment was generous. The financial resources of the Ming Dynasty alone could not be compared, and the difference was too far.

In agricultural countries, the degree to which the central government mobilizes human, material and financial resources is very important.Why is the economic foundation and huge manpower of [-] million people lost to the small country of England with a population of several million?

That is because during the Opium War, the material and financial resources mobilized by the Chinese government from the [-] million peasants were far less than those of industrialized countries with a large number of industrial workers. , it doesn't make any sense at all.

The collection of taxes and the use of manpower in the Ming Dynasty were not as good as those of the Southern Song Dynasty, let alone the Northern Song Dynasty.

The weakness of the Song Dynasty lies in the fact that the civil service group is too strong and the royal family is too weak. Its army is not useless. In terms of equipment and combat effectiveness, the Western Army of the Northern Song Dynasty and the four ZTE generals at the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty are all very powerful. A strong army, but the Mongols are invincible in all over the world. It took nearly a hundred years to destroy the Southern Song Dynasty, and it was still under the premise that the Southern Song Dynasty's center was unbearable.

This kind of weakness of Ming was concealed under the atmosphere of a big country unified by the central government, but Zhang Shouren, as an insider, could already see it very clearly at this time!

Political chaos, official corruption, military powerlessness, financial near-bankruptcy, local displacement, and people's misery...

This is a standard phenomenon of national subjugation. Of course, the most responsible person is Chongzhen, but the huge and complex civil servant group below, including the candidate scholars, from Juren to Xiucai, a huge group of elites, also has an undeniable responsibility.

Rigid in thinking, ignorant and ignorant, the answers are only excerpts from the scriptures, and usually can't even ride a horse, sitting on a sedan chair carried by others, not to mention horseback riding and archery, which are skills that scholar-bureaucrats must master!