300 Years of the Ming Dynasty (Classic Original Version)

Sort out the complete history of the Ming Dynasty from the founding of the country by Hongwu to the death of Chongzhen. The whole book takes major historical events as the main line: Zhu Yuanzhang's founding and centralization of power, the change of throne in the Battle of Jingnan, the navigation and civil governance in Yongle's prosperous era, the Tumubao Revolution and the reversal of the national destiny, Qi Jiguang's pacification of the Japanese pirates, Zhang Juzheng's reforms to become stronger, and then the Donglin party struggle, the rise of Hou Jin, and the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty, recreating the prosperity, struggle and collapse of the Ming Dynasty. Without piling up complicated characters, it focuses on wars, institutional changes, court games, and border conflicts, and understands the underlying logic of the rise and fall of a dynasty.