Zhu Yuanzhang Returns from Modern Times

Chapter 63 The best prosperous era we have ever seen
The Ming Dynasty is about to fall?!

What Zhu Yuanzhang said instantly dealt a critical blow to his sons.

Zhu Biao, Zhu Gang, and Zhu Di were all so confused that their heads were buzzing.

They never thought about the fall of the Ming Dynasty.

After all, the Ming Dynasty had only been established for eight years, and it was a time of great prosperity with strong military and military strength.

Although there are some problems, but overall it is still very good.

But now, they heard that the Ming Dynasty was about to perish!

Moreover, the person who said this was his own father, the emperor who founded the Ming Dynasty!
At this moment, one can imagine how great the impact was!!
Only Prince Qin Zhu Chong remained calm, completely unaffected by his father's earth-shattering words.

Anyone who sees this will praise His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin for his magnanimity and composure.

"Father, how could the Ming Dynasty possibly perish?"

Zhu Biao was stunned for a while, and couldn't help but look at Zhu Yuanzhang and ask, his expression seemed unnatural.

Even in recent times, he has heard a lot of shocking and vicious words from his father.

But at this time, he was once again shocked by his father's words.

Zhu Gang and Zhu Di also turned their eyes to their father.

Waiting to hear what comes next.

"What? Our Ming Dynasty is going to perish?!"

It was also at this time that King Qin Zhu Chong said these words with a look of shock on his face.

This caused Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Biao and Zhu Di to couldn't help but look at him.

"How can it not be destroyed? There has never been a dynasty that has not been destroyed.

From the Qin Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, many dynasties have perished, otherwise our Ming Dynasty would not have emerged.

Our Ming Dynasty will inevitably perish in the future.

Moreover, if nothing changes, it will only last for two hundred years at best."

Zhu Yuanzhang decided to teach his sons a lesson, instilling some of the knowledge he had learned in modern times and increasing their sense of crisis.

"This... is impossible? Only two hundred years at most?

Can’t even reach three hundred years?

Is this too short?

Why can't our Ming Dynasty exist for five or six hundred years?"

Zhu Di couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head: "Two hundred years is not a short time. Three hundred years is a hurdle. So far, no dynasty has ever crossed this hurdle."

Zhu Di seemed to have heard something unbelievable, and immediately began to calculate in his mind the duration of existence of various dynasties.

And then……

He scratched his head, looked at Zhu Biao and asked for help: "Brother, um... is what father said right?"

Most of what he had learned in the Omotodo Hall was returned to his teachers before he finished his studies.

It is really difficult for him to calculate the existence time of each dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but look at the fourth brother again.

This performance is indeed very typical of the fourth brother.

When asked to study, he insisted on feeding pigs.

If you study hard, you won't end up with the name Yongle in the future.

This reign title was used by Fang La who rebelled in the past. It is easy to imagine the intentions of those who suggested that the fourth brother use the reign title of Yongle.

This is to say that the fourth brother rebelled and seized the throne from his nephew, and he is a traitor.
As a result, the fourth brother was not educated enough and did not see through the sinister intentions behind this.

He spent his whole life under the reign title of Yongle.

However, having said that, the fourth prince was quite capable after becoming emperor. He swept away the series of chaotic policies caused by the bastard Zhu Yunwen and led the Ming Dynasty to glory.

He was later called Emperor Yongle, and together with himself, he became one of the most outstanding emperors of the Ming Dynasty.

The two words "Yongle" shine brightly because of the fourth brother.

When people in later generations mentioned Yongle, the first person they thought of was the fourth brother and the series of brilliant achievements he had made.

Even I did not blame the fourth brother for starting the rebellion, but instead thought that the fourth brother did a good job, didn't I?

Therefore, as an emperor, personal morality is secondary. The most important thing is to do your job well.

When you are an emperor, you must achieve corresponding political achievements, which is the right thing to do.

“The Qin Dynasty lasted fifteen years, the Western Han Dynasty lasted two hundred and ten years, and the Eastern Han Dynasty lasted one hundred and ninety-five years.

The 51st year of the Western Jin Dynasty and the 103rd year of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

The four dynasties of Song, Qi, Liang and Chen together lasted only 169 years.

The Three Weis in the north, plus the Northern Qi and Northern Zhou, also lasted for more than a hundred years.

The unified Sui Dynasty, like the Qin Dynasty, perished in the second generation and existed for a total of thirty-seven years.

The Tang Dynasty lasted a total of 289 years, not to mention the small dynasties of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, which lasted a total of only 72 years.

The two Song dynasties lasted a total of 319 years.

The Yuan Tartars who followed behind will not have the fortune to last a hundred years..."

The person who spoke was not Zhu Biao, but Prince of Jin Zhu Gang.

As the best in the main hall, he showed his academic nature as soon as he opened his mouth, and he could easily tell the existence time of various dynasties.

After saying this, he raised his chin slightly towards the fourth brother.

Nothing was said, and everything was said.

"Brother, is that so?"

Zhu Di ignored the third brother and asked his eldest brother Zhu Biao for confirmation.

Zhu Biao nodded with a strange look on his face: "Yes."

Obviously, he was also surprised by this answer, which he had never noticed before.

If his father had not pointed it out clearly today, he really would not have noticed that no dynasty had lasted more than three hundred years!

Zhu Gang and Zhu Di both fell into silence.

"The Han Dynasty wasn't just four hundred years, the Song Dynasty was over three hundred years too. Isn't that longer than that?"

King Qin Zhu Chong scratched the back of his head and asked with some confusion.

"The Western Han Dynasty was later usurped by Wang Mang, who established the Xin Dynasty. Later, Emperor Guangwu revived the dynasty and established the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Although they were all Han, they were destroyed once in the middle and could not be considered a complete dynasty.

The same principle applies to the division of the Song Dynasty into the Northern Song and the Southern Song."

Zhu Yuanzhang began to explain.

Zhu Chong suddenly understood.

"Father, why has no dynasty lasted more than three hundred years?"

After a period of silence, Crown Prince Zhu Biao looked at his father Zhu Yuanzhang and asked.

Zhu Gang, Zhu Di, and Zhu Chong all turned their attention to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "There are many reasons for this problem, and I will only tell you one of them today.

As for the rest, you can think about it more and see if you can get the answer yourself."

Old Zhu started giving homework to his sons.

Having been educated for many years in modern times and then educating students for some time, Zhu Yuanzhang has mastered many methods of educating people.

For example, directly telling students the answer is far less effective than letting them think hard and come up with the answer themselves.

Even if they don't get the correct answer after much thought, telling them the answer later is much more effective than telling them the answer directly.

The memory will be more profound.

"I will ask you about this matter in a while, and you can tell me the results of your thinking then."

It is not enough to just give students homework to think about, some people will not take it seriously.

Then at this time, adding a future assessment would be perfect.

Sure enough, after Zhu Yuanzhang said this, Zhu Di and Zhu Chong both shook their bodies one after another.

There is a clear difference in attitude.

Since returning to modern times, Zhu Yuanzhang's attitude towards his sons has changed a lot.

Biaoer is naturally still the best, and his status is irreplaceable.

But for his other sons, Zhu Yuanzhang also decided to pay more attention to them, devote more effort to them, and better train them.

He also had some considerations about the future of his sons and wanted them to take a completely different path from their previous life.

Try your best to resolve the harm that the princes and royal family members bring to the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time give the princes as much freedom as possible and not treat them like pigs.

"The reason we mentioned is a superficial reason, not the fundamental reason.

Many people could not survive and had to rise up and overthrow the country.

Whenever a dynasty fell, there were always victims everywhere.

Without the participation of many people, it is not easy to change the dynasty.

This is why we say that the Ming Dynasty is not only the Ming Dynasty of the Emperor and the Ming Dynasty of the Zhu family, but also the Ming Dynasty of the people! "

"Father, what you mean is that if the emperor stands firmly with the people and relies on them, a dynasty can last for more than three hundred years?"

Zhu Biao summarized it and looked at Zhu Yuanzhang and asked seriously. ...

In the distance, some officials were rushing towards Zhu Yuanzhang.

This is someone who pleads for the Minister of Rites Niu Liang and asks Zhu Yuanzhang to forgive Niu Liang.

The emperor was going to execute the Minister of Rites for such a trivial matter.

This is a crime of chaos and must be stopped!

"We don't know either."

Unexpectedly, in response to Crown Prince Zhu Biao's question, Zhu Yuanzhang did not acknowledge it outright, but said these words.

“However, history has proven that relying on eunuchs, relying on external relatives, aristocratic families, scholars, officials, and military generals will not work.

Unable to break through the three hundred year dynasty cycle.

Throughout history, changes of dynasties have always been successful only when public resentment was boiling and many people rose up in rebellion.

If that's the case, why don't you make changes, not rely on the people, but share the world with the people and put the people first?"

As he said this, some words unconsciously emerged in Zhu Yuanzhang's mind.

"People... the people! Only the people are the real driving force behind world history!

The country is the people, and the people are the country!"

After hearing these words, Zhu Biao and the others were shaken.

The look in his eyes changed from shock and thought to some doubt and then to determination.

If their father had said this in the past, they would never have felt so deeply.

He even felt that his father was wrong and that he was praising the people too highly.

It is so high that it is completely inconsistent with the status of ordinary people.

But now, after the trip to Zhongdu City, they saw so many things they had never seen before.

I was exposed to a lot of things that I couldn’t learn from books.

Now, when I listen to and think about what my father said, although my understanding may be different and the degree of understanding may be different, I can really take his words in.

“The country is the people, and the people are the country…”

Zhu Di murmured this sentence over and over again. The more he repeated it, the more interesting and reasonable it seemed to him.

Although it is just a short sentence, it makes people think about it endlessly. It is a truth that can be followed throughout one's life.

What is a country, what is most important to a country, and who should be relied upon to govern the country well...

They had not thought about these issues systematically before.

For this reason, we do not have a very clear and systematic understanding of these things.

Now, after hearing what his father said, combined with his personal experiences and various observations in Zhongdu City, everything suddenly became different.

Although Zhu Biao and others still had some doubts in their hearts, it was unrealistic to expect them to accept all of this in a short period of time.

But Zhu Yuanzhang was convinced that he had planted a seed in the hearts of his sons.

This seed will eventually take root and sprout.

Under their continued influence, it will thrive and become something that affects their lives.

“There doesn’t seem to be much difference between a dynasty lasting more than two hundred years and one lasting three hundred years.

Especially the Tang Dynasty, which was only a dozen years away from reaching the threshold of three hundred years.

But just these short decades have become an insurmountable chasm.

There is a saying that goes "A journey of a hundred miles begins with a single step." I think it is very appropriate to apply it to this matter.

If the country wants to break away from the three-hundred-year dynasty cycle, efforts and changes in various aspects are needed.

What we are talking about is relying on the people and making the Ming Dynasty a Ming Dynasty for the people. This is just an important direction.

In addition, efforts in many aspects are needed and one must try one's best to achieve it.

For example, developing agriculture, industry, and commerce, and finding a reasonable distribution method..."

As Zhu Yuanzhang spoke, scenes kept appearing in his mind.

There are drones spraying pesticides, large tractors plowing the land, and combine harvesters harvesting ripe wheat...

There are high-speed trains whizzing by like silver snakes, spaceships being launched and people stationed, and all kinds of factories producing all kinds of industrial products...

With logistics coming and going, cities and streets are lined with shops and a wide variety of goods.

The various shopping apps on mobile phones offer a wide variety of products. There is nothing you can’t buy, only things you can’t imagine…

This is the real golden age!

Compared with it, whether it is the reign of Emperor Wen and Emperor Jing, the reign of Emperor Taizong, the Kaiyuan era, or his own reign of Emperor Hongwu, or the Yongle era of the fourth brother, they are all far, far behind.

After seeing the best scenery, I will naturally work towards this goal after I come back.

I have lived my life over again and experienced that prosperous era in an immersive way. If everything remains the same and I still stand still, then I would be living a dog's life!

I must break the three hundred years of rule of the dynasty!
We must lay a good foundation for the Ming Dynasty!

Let the Ming Dynasty change because of you!
"Life is difficult, and the three-hundred-year dynasty cycle is difficult to break..."

After hearing what their father said, Zhu Biao, Zhu Gang and Zhu Di all nodded with heavy hearts.

Before they learned from their father about the 300-year cycle of a dynasty, they did not realize how difficult it was for a dynasty to exist for 300 years.

But now, even powerful nations like the Han and Tang dynasties could not overcome this hurdle.

Thinking about breaking through this three-hundred-year cycle again made me feel very tired.

This can be said to be an impossible task!
What the emperor said at this time touched their hearts.

"Father, this is something that even the Han and Tang dynasties couldn't accomplish. It wouldn't be shameful if our Ming Dynasty couldn't accomplish it..."

Prince of Jin, Zhu Gang, was ready to comfort his father.

But he heard the voice of his father Zhu Yuanzhang, which paused for a moment and then sounded again.

“But, so what?

Why can't our Ming Dynasty surpass the Han and Tang Dynasties?

Break the three hundred year cycle of the dynasty, and see what I, your father, will do!"

Zhu Yuanzhang unconsciously put his hands behind his back and stood proudly!

A strong aura emanated from him.

He turned to look at his sons again, and pointed his hand at them one by one in the air.

"It depends on what you do!"

The words of comfort that were about to come out of Jin Zhu Gang's mouth stopped abruptly.

He looked at his father with some surprise.

Zhu Biao and Zhu Di were also shocked.

The heaviness and pessimism in my heart were instantly shattered!
No one expected that the emperor would suddenly change the subject and say such words!

I looked up at my father standing tall with his hands behind his back. For a moment, I felt that his body was rapidly rising taller and taller!

It seems like a thousand-foot-long light is blooming.

This is a hurdle that even the Han and Tang dynasties could not overcome!

Just thinking about it made them feel heavy-hearted and unable to muster any courage to fight back.

But my father directly declared war on him in this way!
He truly deserves to be called the father who fought his way up from the bottom!
He is worthy of being the father emperor who drove out the Tartars, restored China, and recovered the land of the Han people!

Just when they couldn't help but feel excited and admired and wanted to say something.

But he saw his father pointing his finger at him and saying, "It depends on what you do!"
At this moment, even Qin Wang Zhu Chong, who was always slow to react, felt his heart beat violently.

My breathing became rapid subconsciously!

Zhu Biao, Zhu Gang, and Zhu Di felt a warm current spread throughout their bodies instantly, and goose bumps appeared on their skin!

The thing that was originally extremely heavy and weighed on their hearts was shattered at this moment!

I can't cover their eyes anymore!

It gave them endless fighting spirit and strong confidence.

It seems that this three hundred year dynasty cycle is just like this!

Just look at what my father and I do!

"Father, can we really... break it?"

After connecting his full of passion with reality, Zhu Biao retreated slightly and looked at his father Zhu Yuanzhang and asked.

Zhu Gang and Zhu Di also kept a close eye on their father.

"of course can!"

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded vigorously.

A smile appeared on his face, but his voice was firm as he said, "Nothing is difficult in this world as long as you are willing to climb!
We won't be cowardly deserters, and you shouldn't be cowardly deserters either, then this thing will definitely be accomplished!
Our goal will definitely be achieved!

Our Ming Dynasty will definitely surpass the Han and Tang Dynasties!"

The slightly receding passion of Zhu Biao, Zhu Gang and Zhu Di was once again fully aroused by their father!

As for Qin Wang Zhu Chong, when his father Zhu Yuanzhang pointed his finger at him and said, "It depends on what you do," he was completely aroused and his anger did not subside at all...

"Your Majesty, the Minister of Personnel, Zhan Tong, the Vice Minister of Rites, Zhang Chou, the Deputy Minister, Zhu Mengyan, and others request an audience..."

Eunuch Wang's slightly anxious voice sounded.

Zhu Yuanzhang's face instantly darkened, and murderous intent surged...

(End of this chapter)