Ming Dynasty 1627

Is killing Wei Zhongxian something that humans can do? You are equivalent to Liu Chan killing Zhuge Liang as soon as he ascended the throne.

You are an emperor who has just ascended the throne. You have no foundation of your own and yet you become your biggest helper? You are such a talent! Wei Zhongxian is nine thousand years old! A eunuch is basically the one with the greatest power. Would he fight tooth and nail if he knew he was going to die? You have money, soldiers, officials, even you eat and sleep under his supervision. He can take care of you easily, and then you can just find a clan relative to succeed you.

The rise and fall of the Ming Dynasty Group (1368-1644) Chapter 1: Entrepreneurship and listing (Hongwu and Yongle Dynasties: 1368-1424) Founder/Chairman: Zhu Yuanzhang (Hongwu) Core asset: An invincible army. Business model: Overthrow the brutal Yuan Dynasty (defeat the monopoly giants of the old market) and provide the core public product of "order and stability". Company structure: Absolute dictatorship: As the sole major shareholder and CEO, Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the prime minister (CEO) and had to do everything personally. He compiled the detailed "Huang Ming Ancestral Instructions" ("Company Basic Law" and "Employee Handbook") in an attempt to regulate all behaviors of future generations. Cost control: Implement the "guard system" (the military is self-sufficient, reducing defense costs) and "physical finance" (reducing currency risks). Internal purge: Through the brutal "Four Major Hongwu Cases", the heroes and elders who might threaten the imperial power were purged (purge of early partners and senior management team), ensuring that 100% control was in the hands of the Zhu family. Company expansion: Chairman: Zhu Di (Yongle) Strategic shift: From internal integration to aggressive expansion. The capital was moved to Beijing (the company headquarters was moved to frontier markets), Zheng He was sent to the West seven times (to carry out large-scale overseas market promotion and exploration), and the "Yongle Dadian" was compiled (to build the company's knowledge base and brand soft power). Rating: This was the company's golden age. The founder is talented and ambitious, with a clear vision and strong control. The company is full of vitality, and its market share (territory) and brand influence (international reputation) have reached their peak. Chapter 2: The Rise of Professional Managers and the Decommissioning of Chairman (mid-term: Renxuan to early Wanli) Company situation: After the founder dies, most of the succeeding chairman (emperor) have mediocre or young abilities and are unable to handle daily affairs as diligently as the founder. Key changes: The formation of the "cabinet" system: The emperor selected talents from senior secretaries (Hanlin bachelors) to form a "cabinet" to assist in processing official documents. This is equivalent to the beginning of a team of professional managers (CEO office). "Biote Draft" and "Approval of Red": The cabinet bachelors put forward their opinions on the memorial ("Biao Draft", which is equivalent to the manager's submission of the plan), and the emperor may give instructions with a red pen ("Publish Red", which is equivalent to the chairman's approval). In the later period, the emperor often gave the power of "approving the red" to the eunuch (secretary of the chairman or director of the office). Evolution of corporate governance structure: Chairman (Emperor): Gradually "off the job" and become a symbolic leader. Board of Directors/Managers (Cabinet): Power is increasing day by day, especially with the emergence of a powerful "CEO" like Zhang Juzheng. He implemented the "One Whip Method" (financial and tax reform), which greatly improved the company's operational efficiency. Board of Supervisors (Eunuch Group): With the power of "approving reds", the Si Li Supervisor has become an important force to check and balance civil servant managers. Evaluation: The company has entered the stage of "separation of ownership and management rights". When the chairman of the board (such as Jiajing and Long Qing) is lazy or young, relying on a team of excellent professional managers (such as Zhang Juzheng), the company can still operate efficiently and even have a "ZTE". However, the internal power struggle (party struggle) also began to intensify, and there was serious internal strife among managers (civilians), supervisory boards (eunuchs), and local branch managers (local officials). Chapter 3: Company Collapse (Late Period: From the Middle to Late Wanli Period to Chongzhen) 1. The chairman is completely disabled and the company's strategy is lost: Emperor Wanli: The long-term absence from court (no board meetings, no approval of documents) has led to paralysis of company decision-making, a large number of senior executive (official) positions are vacant, and the corporate governance structure exists in name only. 2. Internal cultural breakdown and factional fighting: Party struggles are heating up: Donglin Party, Zhejiang Party, Chu Party, Eunuch Party and other factions are engaged in endless internal fighting in order to compete for control of the "manager" team. They no longer care about the overall interests of the company, but the private interests of their own small groups. This is equivalent to company executives arguing and impeaching each other in meetings every day without any intention of running business. 3. Deterioration of financial situation: Cash flow is drying up: On the one hand, land mergers are serious (major shareholders and early shareholders are frantically occupying company assets), resulting in a shrinking tax base (source of income). Budget imbalance: Revenue decreased, but expenditures increased sharply ("Liaodong Branch" military expenses after the war against Jin, "Northwest Branch" stability maintenance expenses to suppress peasant uprisings). The company was unable to pay salaries to low-level employees (soldiers and petty officials), and even laid off employees on a large scale (Li Zicheng, a laid-off employee at the post station, is a typical example). 4. Deterioration of core assets and underlying riots: The military (company security and development department): The military is underpaid and has low morale, and even joins the ranks of robbing companies (people). The military went from protecting a company's assets to becoming a liability that consumed and destroyed the company. Employees/consumers (farmers): Unable to survive under heavy taxes (corporate exploitation) and natural disasters (deterioration of market conditions). Eventually, a large-scale "employee riot" (peasant uprising) broke out, directly impacting the company headquarters. 5. Competitor mergers and acquisitions: Just when the "Da Ming Group" was in internal chaos and insolvent, a small but well-disciplined and highly combat-effective startup company outside the customs - the "Houjin Group" (later the Da Qing Group) launched a strong merger (invasion) offer. Eventually, due to internal divisions (led by branch managers such as Wu Sangui) and external attacks, the Daming Group became insolvent and declared bankruptcy (1644). Summary: The root cause of Daming Group's bankruptcy From a company perspective, the fundamental reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty lies in: Failure of the corporate governance structure: The final decision-making power (imperial power) cannot be effectively implemented and supervised, resulting in system failure. Failure in building corporate culture: The official culture of "Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism" later became a tool of party struggle and lost its role in uniting people's hearts. The profit distribution mechanism collapses: Wealth is excessively concentrated in the top elites (royals, nobles, big landowners), resulting in the inability of bottom-level employees (peasants) and middle management (low-level officials) to survive, and the entire system loses the power to maintain operation. Unable to respond to changes in the market environment: In the face of external challenges such as the "Little Ice Age" natural disaster, changes in silver input (impact of globalization), and emerging competitors (back finance), the company has been slow to respond and has inappropriate strategies.

The protagonist has just ascended the throne and does not analyze the situation to sort out the situation of the court, nor does he meet with the eunuchs and foreign ministers to win over his younger brothers. There is nothing in terms of military power, human rights, political power, and financial power. There are no civil and military officials. The situation in the court, parties, civil and military officials, eunuchs, nobles, and the inner palace do not know anything. You don't know who your enemies are and who your friends are. You don't want to stabilize the situation at the beginning, but start trouble as soon as you get up. You are the emperor, and it is best for you to just keep growing. Eunuchs are naturally the emperor's own people, but in the end, they start with their own people. You want to change the eunuch leader all the time. What do you want to change it for? Can you command the people below? What is the source of your power? It is really the emperor's power. Believe it or not, all the people you mentioned will die the next day. I don't know if you dare to kill the emperor. Killing your eunuchs is not easy. Wei Zhongxian, you kill me when you say it, and you use words to force me. There are so many eunuchs under my command, and you don't even have a soldier. If you push me hard, I can call a few eunuchs to kill you that night. I really can't figure out why the protagonist is so hostile to Wei Zhongxian. He has only met Wei Zhongxian a few times and does not understand his political stance. Normal people would know that sending Wei Zhongxian to fight with civil servants would allow the protagonist to reap the benefits. The author also kept researching historical data. What's the use of checking historical data? He doesn't even understand the most basic logic of political struggle. Shouldn't the normal start of the game be to win over nobles first? With the support of nobles, you will have military power. If you don't have soldiers, what will you do? The title of your book, Ming Dynasty 1627, has lowered the quality of the TV series Ming Dynasty 1566. It's like how other people filmed political struggles. If you changed the title, I wouldn't necessarily comment. After reading more than a dozen chapters, I just couldn't stand it anymore. . .

The author, you wrote that the emperor wanted to reform, establish a new government, and build a new army, and you also found a bunch of information and showed it to the ministers. Do you think this will get them to fully support the emperor's reforms? You wrote that there would be opposition, but you still underestimated the power of the opposition! These opposition groups are the ones who occupy most of the land and wealth-producing resources of the Ming Dynasty, such as royal relatives, officials, nobles, landlords, and business groups that operate maritime trade and land-based salt, iron, grain, cloth, etc.! If you want to reform without a bloodbath, it is impossible to succeed! Look at the two chapters 400/401 in the novel about the overthrow of the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty from the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. It is so right: No class that will betray its own class will support the reform, because this is shaking their foundation and shaking the foundation of the feudal dynasty! Zhang Juzheng's reforms only touched part of their land and official administration reforms. What will be the outcome? If the emperor wants to reform, he must have his own new pro-army army, and he must also be careful to prevent his enemies from using various means to kill him, his concubines, and children! Political struggle is the most cruel! Either you die or I die! It is impossible for you and I to help the emperor reform together, and it is not possible for the emperor himself to directly come forward to reform, but to use ministers such as Wu Qi Bianfa, Shang Yang, Wang Anshi, and Zhang Juzheng to reform! The person Chongzhen can use is Sun Chengzong! Let him stand on the platform to implement your reforms. Reforms need to be boiled in warm water step by step, and they must be backed by their own army. Let Sun Chengzong work for a few years at first, and then change to people like Hong Chengchou or Sun Chuanting, or Lu Xiangsheng to carry out more radical reforms! This is a more reasonable solution

There are three sources of joy for me in writing this book: 1. To restore the real late Ming Dynasty in my mind, to see how the protagonist's actions in this relatively real world would disturb him and what kind of story would come out of it, I only preset the nodes and not any plot in the middle. The protagonist must use all his own methods in this real script to reach the goal node I set. 2. Read the comments from book friends. Some comments are more literary than me, and some comments are more interesting than me. Colorful! 3. This is the milestone of this book. This post is dedicated to this and will be updated from time to time. On July 8th, the book was published. No one was listed on the list. He put his hands in his pockets and stood like a follower. July 10th, first time on the list, new book list - historical category - 80th place July 13th, the end of the first week, new book list - historical category - 50th place July 20, end of the second week, new book list - historical category - 30th place July 27, the third week ended, the new book list - historical category - 13th place, the new book list - overall list - 80th place. July 28, new book list - overall list - 55th July 29, new book list-total list-44th place On August 1st, the new book list - the total list - 33, the monthly ticket list - the total list - 498, the recommended list - the total list - 330. On August 3, the monthly vote list-total list-437, the recommendation list-total list-289. Every monthly ticket and recommended ticket Every comment and reward I can see all of this, and it gives me a lot of encouragement. As the saying goes, a big roc rises with the wind and soars ninety thousand miles. Friends, see you at Lingxiao Palace!

There is a book called The Leisurely Life of Qin People. You can read it. To get these vested interests to agree and cooperate with the protagonist to save the Ming Dynasty's New Deal is not to use data and evidence to say that they will agree and cooperate unconditionally. There is no interest or benefit, and it is impossible for everyone to agree and cooperate. At most, some people are those who died in battles and committed suicide when the country was subjugated in history. The others can at most superficially agree or cooperate. When it harms their interests, they will definitely oppose and resist the New Deal. These people don't care whether the Ming Dynasty dies or not, and the world perishes. These people only care about their own interests!

In fact, if the emperor dared to do this at this time, he would die unexpectedly if he could not survive for thirty chapters, either falling into the water or dying of illness.

There is no problem in killing Wei Zhongxian, but killing him at this time is really too brainless. The rabbit bites people when it is anxious. It is impossible to tell how many Wei Zhongxian people there are in the entire palace, including overt and covert guards. You didn't even do anything, didn't clean up the palace, and just killed me. If I were Wei Zhongxian's man, I would definitely find a way to kill you, or you would die anyway. Whenever you push someone to a dead end, don't expect them to close their eyes and wait for death. Jiajing almost died at the hands of a palace maid. Don't those palace maids know that they would be cut to pieces if they did this?

I killed Wei Zhongxian at the beginning. I thought there was some clever trick coming up...