Great Ming: I, Zhu Xiongying, Refuse to Be a Dutiful Grandson
大明：我朱雄英不当孝子贤孙
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- Completed
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- 579k Words
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- Historical
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- Historical High-Concept
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The assessment of Zhu Yuanzhang is very fair. He was simply a mean-spirited and ungrateful hypocrite. He was a man from a humble background who married Empress Ma, a wealthy heiress, and then plotted to seize her wealth. Empress Ma and the later Huai-Xi nobles helped Zhu Yuanzhang conquer the country, which is why he became emperor.
The deaths of the Crown Prince, Lady Chang, Zhu Xiong Ying, and Lady Ma are shrouded in mystery and cannot be definitively assessed. Historical records are too limited, with their deaths only mentioned in a sentence or two, and these records may have been edited.
This is a true "feel-good" novel, and a mind-bending one at that! 😎 To be honest, I didn't really feel Zhu Yuanzhang was that great. He wasn't a key figure in the resistance against the Yuan dynasty, all his wealth before ascending the throne came from Empress Ma, and after becoming emperor, he was ruthless, slaughtering meritorious officials and displaying a small-farmer mentality.
At that moment, a voice came from outside; it was Zhu Di shouting through a large tin megaphone. "Listen up, Zhu Chongba inside! You are surrounded! Immediately raise your white underpants, come out and surrender, and earnestly leave the palace to beg for food and pay off your debts! You have the right to remain silent, but every word you utter could be your last words!"
It's satisfying and logical. There's been too much hype surrounding Zhu Yuanzhang, but he wasn't actually that exaggerated. While some of his strengths are overlooked, the overall assessment is still very positive. The main issue is that those strengths didn't ultimately lead to good results, so avoiding them doesn't really matter.
Reading this novel gave me a truly terrifying thought: could Empress Ma's death have also been a murder, with Zhu Yuanzhang's tacit approval? After all, Zhu Yuanzhang was a son-in-law who married into the family, essentially making him a live-in son-in-law.
It's difficult to comment on national affairs from different perspectives, but Zhu Yuanzhang's extremely negative influence on family matters became a model for later generations of concubines, mistresses, and illegitimate sons. As long as the legal wife and legitimate sons and grandsons were killed, he and his sons could be made legal wives.
666, Everyone's praising Zhu Biao as the most secure crown prince, saying that if he rebelled, Zhu would get himself implicated; everyone's praising Zhu Xiong Ying as the most powerful imperial grandson, saying that if he rebelled, everyone would support him. Hey, look, someone actually wrote that! 😂
Flowers bloom and wither, filling the sky with blossoms; it is you who appear and disappear, sometimes visible, sometimes hidden. [Savor it carefully.] Mornings come and go, yet I can never erase your face from my memory. [You can savor the moment.] I sigh softly at the fleeting nature of life and the passing of words; how many years have come and gone? [Consider carefully] Who will write about the regrets of half a lifetime? Only the author should hurry up and write [for you to savor].
Looking at those who ultimately benefited, several major cases in the early Ming Dynasty are shrouded in mystery. Zhu Yuanzhang may have been too confident, thinking he could control everything. He didn't expect the civil official group to come at him so decisively, proving that they couldn't outmaneuver him, nor could they control his descendants.