Ming Dynasty: Traveling through the harem, Zhu Yuanzhang was dumbfounded

Chapter 68 The Root of the Qing Dynasty’s Destruction

The three looked at Yang Chen, wanting to see how he would explain next.

Yang Chen hissed and said:

"Let me start with sweet potatoes and corn. These two are high-yield crops. Even without fertilizer, the yield per acre is higher than that of rice.

They are also very drought-resistant and do not need too much water to survive. These two things should currently be found in Western countries, which is what you call Europe.

As for the Little Glacier, let me put it bluntly. It is a kind of extreme weather, which means that the climate will become extremely cold.

The Ming Dynasty fell because this climate was particularly severe in the north. A large number of cattle, sheep and horses in the north were frozen to death, and people were starved of food and their ambitions arose.

So under the unification of Nurhaci, they began to raise their flags and march southward. "

"I see. No wonder the Ming Dynasty suffered so much. It seems like it was God's fault."

After understanding the details of the Little Ice River, Zhu Yuanzhang closed his eyes and tried to regain his normal state of mind as much as possible.

He has heard these things many times and feels that way.

The only thing that made him feel regretful was that he didn’t know what would happen to the Han people after the Central Plains was ruled by the Qing Dynasty.
During the Yuan Dynasty, the Han people had the lowest status and were constantly exploited by those above them.

This led to the demise of the Yuan Dynasty in less than a hundred years.

Now that the Qing Dynasty is moving south, he is very curious about how Yang Chen's era eliminated the rule of foreign races. Could it be that the Qing Dynasty was the same as the Ming Dynasty?
With such confusion, Zhu Yuanzhang asked tentatively:
"Since you are from six hundred years later, can you tell us how the Qing Dynasty was destroyed?"

Yang Chen took a look at Zhu Yuanzhang's expression and knew that the other party wanted to know how the Han people regained the Chinese land.

"The overthrow of the Qing Dynasty was a natural result of the historical trend. I have said that a dynasty's rule will never exceed three hundred years, and the same is true for the Qing Dynasty.

However, unlike other dynasties, the Qing Dynasty, as the last feudal dynasty, had strong control over the people!
A great man once said that class struggle has always existed in China, and the Qing Dynasty was caused by the landlord class and the powerful class constantly and forcibly suppressing the peasant class.

As a result, people from all over the country finally woke up at the same time. They launched peasant uprisings, used the new foreign ideas, and overthrew the feudal Qing Dynasty.

In fact, it was the Qing Dynasty's own fault that caused such a thing to happen.

They underestimated the determination and courage of the Han people when they were oppressed, and they also underestimated the Han people's fighting talent.

Once provoked, it will be a life-and-death situation!"

Hearing Yang Chen's words, Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly stood up from his chair and said passionately:
"Good! Well said! We Han people are invincible! If these foreign races hadn't taken advantage of our weakness, how could they have taken away our kingdom!"

"Your Majesty, you are too narrow-minded. We live in this Central Plains and we are not the only Han people. We are an integrated and inclusive nation. Perhaps you will understand in the future."

Knowing that the Han people would still control the government in the future, Zhu Yuanzhang was not unhappy with Yang Chen's rebuttal.

Emperor Hongwu was not so narrow-minded as to be so petty.

In fact, it’s mainly because he has been exposed to too many things these days.

This suddenly raised his threshold for accepting other people's rebuttals.

There was no way. Yang Chen's mouth was really annoying. If he didn't do this, he would really worry that he would be angered to death by Yang Chen one day.

"I won't argue with you. Tell me how the Han people overthrew the rule of the Qing Dynasty? Did they kill their royal family to avenge us?"

Zhu Yuanzhang's excited look made Yang Chen's mouth twitch.

After all this time, his hatred for the Qing Dynasty still exists.

After thinking for a while, Yang Chen finally told the story. "To be honest, the Qing Dynasty was not overthrown by the Han people alone, but there were external influences.

When the Manchus ruled the Central Plains, they found that many Han people in the folk liked to study things that had never been discovered by people.

In addition, their ancestor, Nurhaci, was killed by a cannon, so this made the Manchus hate the Han people's inventions.

During his reign, the Qing Dynasty followed Your Majesty's maritime ban policy and implemented a policy of seclusion on this basis.

It is strictly forbidden for the people to communicate with anyone from the outside world.

Originally, the technological level of the Central Plains was already ahead of the world, but after their reckless operations, the Central Plains civilization fell behind the rest of the world by a hundred years.

In order to fool the people, they even claim that these technologies are just gimmicks and should be abandoned.

During the Qing Dynasty, the Qing emperor knew that the outside world had grown very powerful, but in order to maintain his position, he still chose to conceal it.

He knew very well that once the Han people became intelligent, chaos would break out, and heroes would emerge in times of chaos.

If another hero like Your Majesty appears to drive out the Tartars and restore China, the Qing Dynasty's rule will come to an end.

As a result, despite all their calculations, they did not expect that the outside world had already set its sights on the Central Plains, and they opened fire to open the country's closed-door policy.

They forced the Qing Dynasty to sign various humiliating treaties, and for their own interests, they endured it again and again, constantly ceding land in the hope that the other side would let the Qing Dynasty go.

All later generations are so dashing.

Tang poetry, Song lyrics, Yuan opera, Ming novels, and Qing dynasty treatises. "

"It's really a wild boar skin! How stupid! Just because the Han people are smart, they are on guard against the Han people and implement a policy of isolation. How ridiculous! It's really ridiculous!"

Zhu Yuanzhang vented his disdain for the Qing Dynasty, but Yang Chen muttered quietly.

"Ahem. Your Majesty, in fact, the Qing Dynasty is imitating your maritime ban and that's why they closed their country to the outside world."

"Hmm? What do you mean? Do you think we are the same as the Qing Dynasty?"

"I didn't say that."

When asked this by Zhu Yuanzhang, Yang Chen suddenly stopped talking, but Zhu Yuanzhang had no intention of letting him go.

The pair of cold eyes stared at him, and then ordered Zhu Biao:
"Biao'er, take this bastard back home and don't let him run around. It's up to you to decide how to deal with him."

Zhu Biao seemed a little unresponsive when he suddenly received such an order.

Fortunately, he came to his senses quickly and remembered the key points.

"But father, what about my second brother? You have also seen the future of the Ming Dynasty. If we do not reform and reorganize the laws, I am afraid that in the future the Ming Dynasty will still be exploited by corrupt officials, endangering the court and harming the people of the world!
As for the sweet potatoes and corn, these things Yang Chen mentioned may seem small, but they can actually save the Ming Dynasty from disaster. We can't underestimate them!"

Zhu Yuanzhang seemed very impatient with his son's kind advice.

He suppressed his temper and said:

"Alright! It's not like I don't know about this, but I'm really upset now. It's all because of this guy. Nothing good comes out of anything he says. You can ask him to handle these things yourself. I don't want to see him now."

After saying this, Zhu Yuanzhang angrily left the platform and Wenhua Hall, and disappeared at the door in the blink of an eye.

(End of this chapter)