Ming Dynasty: The Crocodile King of Han Prince Zhu Gaoxu's Family

Chapter 89 The Ming Dynasty’s life span is six hundred and a half!
Zhu Zhanhe was seen holding a brush and walking directly to the rightmost end of the spread out white cloth. He picked up the pen and wrote down the title of the first question: "A Theory of the Fall of the Ming Dynasty - The Life Limit of the Dynasty - Six Hundred and a Half Years!"

The black ink on the white fabric was particularly eye-catching, especially under the gaze of everyone present.

Immediately afterwards, Zhu Zhanhe copied the contents of the memorial again, but added slightly.

Xia Dynasty: about 470 years, with kings, and the average reign of a king was years;
Shang Dynasty: about 554 years, with kings, and the average reign of a king was years;

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Qin Dynasty: 15 years, with two emperors, and the average emperor's reign was less than eight years;

Western Han Dynasty: 210 years, with emperors, each reigning for an average of years.

Xin Dynasty: 15 years, one emperor;
Eastern Han Dynasty: 195 years, with fourteen emperors, and the average emperor's reign was less than fourteen years;
The Three Kingdoms: Wei: 46 years, with five emperors, and the emperors reigned for an average of nine years;

Shu: 43 years, two emperors, each reigning for an average of years;
Wu: 59 years, with four emperors, each reigning for an average of years;
Western Jin Dynasty: 51 years, with four emperors, each reigning for an average of years;
Eastern Jin: Reigned for 103 years, with emperors, each reigning for an average of ten years.

Southern and Northern Dynasties: Southern Dynasties (Song 59 years, Qi 23 years, Liang 55 years, Chen 32 years);

Northern Dynasties (Northern Wei 148 years, Eastern Wei 16 years, Western Wei 22 years, Northern Qi 27 ​​years, Northern Zhou 24 years)
Sui Dynasty: 38 years, with two emperors, and the average emperor reigned for years;
Tang Dynasty: 289 years, emperors, with an average reign of years;
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms:

Five Dynasties (Later Liang 16 years, Later Tang 13 years, Later Jin 11 years, Later Han 3 years, Later Zhou 9 years);

Ten Kingdoms (Former Shu 18 years, Later Shu 31 years, Southern Wu 35 years, Southern Tang 38 years, Wuyue 71 years, Min 36 years, Southern Chu 44 years, Southern Han 54 years, Nanping 39 years, Northern Han 28 years)
Song Dynasty: The Northern Song Dynasty lasted 167 years and had nine emperors, with the emperors ruling for an average of years.
Southern Song Dynasty: 152 years, with nine emperors, each emperor reigned for an average of years;
Yuan Dynasty: 98 years, emperors, the average emperor's reign was less than nine years!

Zhu Zhanhe wrote down the length of all dynasties before the Ming Dynasty, the number of emperors, and the average length of each emperor's reign.

"If we remove those dynasties that failed to unify China, the only ones left are the Qin Dynasty, the Han Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, and the Yuan Dynasty." Zhu Zhanhe casually crossed out those dynasties that failed to unify China, pointed to the six remaining unified dynasties, and circled them to mark them as important.

"The two Han dynasties should be viewed separately, because Emperor Guangwu can be said to have risen from humble beginnings and fought for his kingdom again, not to mention that there was a Xin Dynasty in between. So they cannot be counted together." Zhu Zhanhe further explained the issue of the two Han dynasties.

"Among all the unified dynasties, only the Tang Dynasty lasted the longest! It lived for 289 years! In fact, regardless of whether there was a unification or not, the Tang Dynasty had the longest lifespan since the Qin Dynasty!" Zhu Zhanhe crossed out the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties again, and emphasized the number 289 for the Tang Dynasty!
“Even with the might of the Heavenly Khan, the Tang Dynasty only existed for less than three hundred years. What about our Ming Dynasty?

Grandpa’s achievements can only be said to be comparable to those of the Heavenly Khan! Then can my Ming Dynasty break this three-hundred-year curse? " Zhu Zhanhe flattered Emperor Yongle, just to make the old man feel better and not get really angry!
Sure enough, Zhu Zhanhe's words made Emperor Yongle smile slightly.

"Thanks to the Tang Dynasty's tyranny, even at the end of the Tang Dynasty, it was still able to forcibly prolong its life for 27 years with the help of the Qin Wang Pozhen Music!

I wonder who will save the Ming Dynasty when it reaches that critical moment!" Zhu Zhanhe's words were well-reasoned and convincing.

There was a moment of silence, and Emperor Yongle muttered to himself, "My Ming Dynasty has its own destiny! We will never repeat the mistakes of the past!" Emperor Yongle's words were weak, but Zhu Zhanhe disagreed.

“Grandpa, destiny is not here!

If there really is a destiny in every dynasty, it was in the Han Dynasty! It was in Emperor Guangwu of Han!

He is the true destiny! That destiny is a meteorite falling from the sky! It is like a mountain of falling clouds! It is the submission of the world! It is a frozen river on an autumn night! It is twenty thousand men defeating four hundred and thirty thousand men head-on!
This is destiny! Grandpa! Destiny is in the Han Dynasty!
If it weren't for the will of heaven that allowed Emperor Zhaolie of Han, Liu Bei, to successfully build the Han Dynasty for the third time, how could there be the Tang and Song dynasties in later generations? They were just Liu Yuan, Liu Shimin, Liu Longji, Liu Kuangyin, and Liu Bilie!

So, if I were to say, since Emperor Guangwu, Emperor Zhaolie was the only one who was destined to succeed. As for the others, it can only be said that they were just lucky!" Zhu Zhanhe's words were a bit embarrassing.

"Liu Yuanzhang? Liu Di? Liu Gaoxu" At this time, everyone suddenly heard a slight voice. Everyone turned their heads and saw the Prince of Han looking at them blankly and muttering to himself.

Everyone stared at Prince Han in amazement, their faces full of disbelief.

"I...!" It was obvious that Emperor Yongle also heard his son's mumbling. His face turned black and blue in an instant. He picked up the cup on the small couch and threw it at his son, ready to teach him a lesson with an angry look on his face.

"I was wrong, I was wrong, Dad!" Prince Han looked at his angry father and realized that he had said something wrong, so he quickly apologized.

"Father, calm down. Let's get down to business. He'er, keep talking and don't listen to their interruptions!" Crown Prince Zhu Gaochi saw his father's anger and the situation was getting off track, so he quickly spoke up to dissuade the angry Emperor Yongle. He glanced at Prince Han with a look of disappointment and reminded Zhu Zhanhe to continue his explanation.

"So, based on the experience of previous dynasties, the maximum lifespan of our Ming Dynasty will be within three hundred years!

At present, after my great-grandfather Emperor Hongwu, Emperor Jianwen, and my grandfather have been on the throne for twenty years, my Ming Dynasty has already passed fifty-five years!

If we take the maximum of 300 years into consideration, the Ming Dynasty still has 245 years of life left!

Judging from the reality, the actual lifespan of our Ming Dynasty may be even shorter!" Zhu Zhanhe spoke to the many bigwigs, and finally said thoughtfully.

"Shorter? How shorter?" Prince Han was eager to know how much time it would take! This was also what Emperor Yongle wanted to know most. Daoyan also looked at Zhu Zhanhe thoughtfully.

"An estimated two hundred years!" Zhu Zhanhe said the answer in his heart. It was slightly less than the actual Ming Dynasty's Tianshou period of 276 years, because there were too many uncertain factors.

"Two hundred years? You just said that the average Tang Dynasty emperor reigned for about thirteen years. Two hundred years means there will be fifteen or sixteen more emperors after me, right?

If we subtract Zhanji and your generation, does that mean there are only thirteen or fourteen emperors left? Or maybe even fewer?!
By that time, my Ming Dynasty will be destroyed?!!!” Emperor Yongle stared blankly at the glaring words on the hanging white cloth, feeling as if every word was piercing his heart!

(End of this chapter)