The Battle of Jingnan: Reform, Vassal Reduction, Political Strife and Rebellion in the Early Years of the Ming Dynasty
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In the late Hongwu years of the early Ming Dynasty, Prince Zhu Biao suddenly passed away. The waning Zhu Yuanzhang succeeded to the throne for the emperor's grandson Zhu Yunwen, setting off a bloody purge of heroes. The "benevolent and weak" Emperor Jianwen insisted on reducing the vassal vassal, and the Yan King Zhu Di, who was dormant in Peiping, brazenly raised troops in the name of "Qingjun side", triggering the four-year Jingnan Campaign. This uncle-nephew duel, involving the collapse of the system and the game of human nature, finally shook the mountains and rivers with gold and iron horses, and rewrote the fate of the empire with the flames of Nanjing. How did the enfeoffment system produce negative consequences that could backfire on the country? Why were the literati ideals of Jianwen's New Deal no match for the cavalry of Yan and Fan? What kind of imperial anxiety was hidden behind Zheng He's seven voyages to the West? From the bloody emperor's magic in the Blue Jade Case to the rain of millions of arrows in the Baigou River, from the tug-of-war in the city of Jinan to the swan song of the slaying clan at the tip of Fang Xiaoru's pen, every move in the chess game of power hides the tearing and rebirth of civilization. This book shows the tragedy of idealists and the counterattack of pragmatists under autocratic imperial power through the life and death choices of generals and civil servants during the change of power and the rise of the eunuch group. This is not only a history of dynastic wars, but also an in-depth analysis of the legitimacy of power, institutional dilemmas and the struggle of human nature.
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