Ming Dynasty: Teaching The Prince Dragon-Slaying Skills At The Beginning

Looking at the clear and orderly blackboard in front of them, with clear context, covering the development and changes of centralized power in the past 3,450 years, Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, their eyes were filled with excitement. It's a shocking color.

Under this extreme shock and the mental trance caused by it, Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes faintly felt that their perspective was being pulled upward, pulled, and then again. Pull!

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This illusion of having their perspective elevated makes them feel extraordinarily familiar!

Then they remembered that the last time Yan Changqing explained the development and changes of monarchy and prime ministership over thousands of years, they also had similar illusions that were both true and false.

Then I lowered my head and looked down, and as expected, I once again saw the long river of history.

It's just that this time's history has undergone new changes compared to the last time we saw it.

If we say that the last long river of history was mighty and majestic, it carried the great tide of historical development and changes between monarchy and prime ministership over the past millennium. From the past to the present and then to the future, it rushed forward in a straight line. If you go.

So this time, the long history of centralized power, which covers 3,450 years, is not only more magnificent and majestic, but also rotates up from bottom to top in a spiral and wave-like strange posture. !!!

In the vast and majestic history of centralized power:

The mysterious and difficult-to-examine Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties, the overbearing and harsh Qin Dynasty, the Han Tianzong who dominated the barbarians, the eight kings of Jin who were ruthless and chaotic, the Sui II who was very happy with his achievements, and the Tang Khan who came from all nations to come to court, The coins of the Song Dynasty, which valued culture over martial arts, and the barbarians of the Yuan and Mongolia who were not enlightened... were both ups and downs among them!

At the same time, Yan Changqing's cold and indifferent voice also came from above Zhu Yuanzhang and the princes such as Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, and Zhu Di:

"If we say that the system established by the Xia, Shang and Western Zhou Dynasties in which the king was the co-owner of the world and the princes and vassals screened the four directions, it was a feudal dynasty with loose central power.

"Then, the struggle for hegemony and mergers among princes during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods were the negation of the feudal system of Xia, Shang and Western Zhou!"

"After the Qin Dynasty unified the world, it implemented a unified centralization of power, collected local power in the central government, and controlled various regions with counties and counties. The royal family named Ying had no sizeable title, and 'one capital master can dominate the world.' This is another reference to the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period. The negation of disputes between princes during this period〃[!"

"The interrelatedness and mutual negation of the previous, middle and latter phases just formed the first wave-like 'positive, negative and combined' stage of great unification and centralization of power."

Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes followed Yan Changqing's explanation and lowered their eyes, focusing on the Western Zhou Dynasty, Spring and Autumn Period, Warring States Period, and Da Qin in the long history below.

I saw that the three historical dynasties of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the Qin Dynasty were connected to each other. During this period, the great unification and centralization of power formed a wave-like rising stage posture from low to high!

“The prefectures and states of the two Han Dynasties existed in parallel, inheriting and adapting to the unification and centralization of power of the Qin Dynasty.

“However, in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the decentralization of power or regional separatism by governors in Fangzhen based on the large land holdings of the gentry was a negation of the centralized power of the Qin and Han prefectures and counties.”

"In the Sui Dynasty and the early Tang Dynasty, the re-establishment of centralized systems such as states and counties, government troops, and imperial examinations was a repudiation of the decentralization of local powers in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties."

"Therefore, from the beginning of the Qin and Han Dynasties to the early Tang Dynasty, the connection and successive negation of these three stages constituted the second wave-like stage of 'positive, negative, and combination' of great unification and centralization."

Yan Changqing above the void, tap your fingertips, and the vast and majestic river of history below, from the Qin and Han Dynasties to the early Tang Dynasty, are connected and highlighted.

Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes all saw this wave of unification and centralization of power.

The unified centralization of power, which was originally on the rise during the reign of Emperor Yingzheng of the Qin Dynasty, obviously declined a lot after the reign of Emperor Liu Bang of the Western Han Dynasty, and then rose again during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che.

It was not until the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Western Jin Dynasty that it suddenly dropped in stages, and then a long time passed, until the early Sui and Tang Dynasties, when it once again formed a new rising stage.

This ups and downs is a wave.

Seeing this, Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes vaguely understood what Yan Changqing said, "the wave-like 'positive, negative, and combined' stage of unified centralization." What does it mean?

“The separatist or semi-separatist regimes of vassals and towns in the middle and late Tang Dynasty [were caused by the imperfection of certain parts of the local power structure of the prefecture and county system.”

"Since the Anshi Rebellion, the military, financial, administrative, and supervisory powers of the feudal towns have been controlled by military, financial, administrative, and supervisory powers. They can recruit their own soldiers, can appropriate taxes such as "sending envoys", control "branch counties," and appoint their own officials and support officials. Coach."

“This kind of separatist or semi-separatist regime of vassal towns caused internal emphasis and external emphasis, which was obviously a denial of the unified centralization of power in the Sui Dynasty and the early Tang Dynasty.

"The Song Dynasty and the Song Dynasty reversed the way of segregation of vassal towns in the late Tang Dynasty, based on the resumption of power, and they did so thoroughly."

"Not only did he 'acquire his elite soldiers', 'control his money and valleys', 'cut down his branches and counties', and 'seize a little bit of his power", he also used the four supervisory departments of Luzhuan, Tixing, Changping and Appeasement as tools to seize the power of prefectures and counties. and supervise local officials.”

"Therefore, it should be the continuation and development of the feudal system in the late Tang Dynasty."

“The rulers of the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties inherited the system of the Two Song Dynasties and continued to implement the policy of seizing the power of state and county officials and concentrating all powers in the central government as much as possible.

"It is only in the process of centralization that the special tool of the provincial system was used to create centralization with provinces as the hub."

"."Therefore, starting from the Sui Dynasty and ending with the Yuan Dynasty, the connection and successive negation of the three stages constituted the third wave-like stage of 'positive, negative, and combination' of great unification and centralization."

As Yan Changqing's calm words fell, the vast and majestic river of history below, starting from the Sui Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty, was also connected and highlighted.

Similarly, the centralization of unified power, which was originally on the rise in the early Tang Dynasty, obviously declined suddenly in stages after the late Tang Dynasty.

A long time passed after that, until the Song and Yuan Dynasties, before a new rising stage was formed again.

Between these ups and downs, there is another big wave in this long and long history!

"Throughout the ages, the development of unified centralization has always been developing in a wave-like state of successive negation, from centralization to decentralization, and then from decentralization to centralization."

“During this process, there may often be dynasties that ‘fail to learn lessons’ and ‘have no memory’ and go back to the ‘old path’ of centralization and decentralization. "

"But equally, we can see that after each experience of the 'old road' of decentralization, the next round of centralization tends to become more centralized.

Ugh!"

"This process is the process of spiraling and wave-like progress during the 3,450 years since the great unification and centralization of power!!!"

Rumble!!!

Yan Changqing's words seemed to reveal some unspeakable eternal truth, and the vast and majestic river of history was shaken at this moment.

The three previous great waves of unification and centralization are connected end to end at this moment!

The long history of great unification and centralization that has lasted for 3,450 years, at this moment, is in a spiral, wave-like majestic posture [rapidly rotating from bottom to top!!!

But in the blink of an eye, it has spanned the ages, and finally rose to the same level as Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, and then drowned them in it in an instant!

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