Reposting an old story.
Blurb:
One day, mysterious screens suddenly appeared across various dynasties. Everyone panicked, until the screens began showing videos and they realized people from the future were discussing history.
[Hello, viewers! Welcome to our livestream series taking stock of famous historical figures. I'm your new host, A Li, an amateur history enthusiast. Without further ado, let's jump into our first episode... Who will be our lucky subject?]
The emperors: Who will it be?
[Here's a hint: mid-Ming Dynasty, the Peach Blossom Immortal, and enlightenment at Longchang.]
Ying Zheng / Liu Che / Li Shimin / Zhao Kuangyin: What do you mean, mid-dynasty?!
A Li: The middle of the Ming Dynasty, dear viewers~
[Episode One: Tang Bohu and Wang Yangming: One Imperial Exam, Two Different Lives]
Tang Bohu: Do I really have to take the metropolitan examination?
Wang Shouren: Who can say what the future holds?
[Episode Two: Tang Xianzu and Feng Menglong: As the great house crumbles, how many beautiful days and lovely scenes are lost to the sorrow and cruelty of reality.]
Tang Xianzu / Feng Menglong: Thanks for asking. We think the Ming Dynasty can still be saved.
[Episode Three: ...]
[Episode Four: ...]
In the end, people across the different timelines all said: Thank you for the warning from the future!
Please read before starting:
1. There are some unhinged, highly opinionated bits. The author is very biased toward historical figures they like, so don't read if that bothers you.
2. This is a parallel-universe setting, and the different timelines don't affect one another. Also, the author isn't a professional, knows only a little about history, and isn't an expert, so please just read for fun. People have different opinions about historical figures. The story reflects only the author's personal views, so please discuss rationally and agree to disagree.
3. Each emperor has their own timeline. During certain periods, especially near the end of a dynasty, information about related people will be protected. For instance, when the end of the Qin and the beginning of the Han are discussed, the worlds of the First Emperor and Huhai won't be able to see Liu Bang's name or specific details about him.
Theme: Study hard and make progress every day.
"After □□, those who have made great achievements don't know how to become an ancestor, and whoever has virtues don't know how to be a filial ancestor. For example, there is still Emperor Jing. On the occasion of Ji Geng, when we conquered the emperor, we wore our hair and left our hair. What is his virtue? It is said that he knows people and calms the people. Those who do not restore him are rational. Those who change the prince are emotional." 🥺 Yuyu, don't talk about yourself like that! In fact, no one has any objections to you, Prince Yi. The ministers who signed the agreement were not impressed by your dozens of taels of gold. Prince Yi is really that easy. An emperor in Wanli would not be stingy about giving tens of taels of gold to his ministers. After all, he gave his precious son Fu Wang 40,000 hectares of fertile land casually.
I still can't bear to see Jingtai unhappy, but it's hard for him to be happy (crying)
🤩 Fans of the Han Dynasty praised the blurring of the names of the emperors and ministers of the early Han Dynasty during the Qin Dynasty 💪 💪 💪
Zhu Houzhao was indeed a very special kind of emperor, with a terrible reputation in history books, but do you want to say that he left any fatal problems that could not be solved for his successors? That really can't be said (his father Xiaozong had such a good reputation, but he left a problem for his successors: the civil servants were too weak). He even personally led the troops to repel the Tatars, so that they did not dare to invade the border for more than ten years. During his reign, there were no records of major peasant uprisings and people's hardship, indicating that people's lives were generally stable (although he died young, he still reigned for sixteen years. If his rule brought anything (fatal problem, not completely unreflected); in private life, Zhu Houzhao was always considered a licentious emperor, but this record formed a subtle conflict with the fact that he had no heirs, and there was no record of even the pregnancy of his concubine or the death of his child. Therefore, in theory, if he did not have fertility problems, then he might actually be a very abstemious or completely uninterested person. There are too many contradictory contents in the records about Wuzong. No wonder later generations will doubt the historian's position. It can only be said that he is not a wise emperor, but he is definitely not a faint emperor. If I must say it, it should be said that he is an emperor who does not meet the traditional emperor standards at all.
Everyone in the Southern Song Dynasty: It looks so familiar. Isn't this just a replica of Jingkang... Except you obviously have Emperor Jing who survived.
Nowadays, many people accuse Zhu Qi of slandering Yu Qian. Zhang Juzheng and Yu Qian are the ones who are scolded the most. 💔 Very confused
😂 Of course it's your good little son Li Zhi, Erfeng! Li Shiji changed his name to Li Ji in the Gaozong Dynasty.
Ah, no, the Jiajing ceremony event was not like this, because the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty was the nine-temple system, that is, the Ancestral Temple could only support nine emperors at most. What if it couldn't support more? From going to Houyi to the temple, only emperors at the ancestral level would not be allowed to go out. When the Jiajing generation arrived, it was Zhu Di's turn to go out, but Yongle was the source of their lineage's legal system, so they absolutely could not go out. So what should we do? So Jiajing promoted Yongle to the ancestral generation, but Jiajing also wanted to enshrine his own father in the Ancestral Temple. What should he do? So he took out Pangpang Renzong after Yongle.
I don't know if anyone thinks your prince is outstanding, but it's just "dazzling" anyway [covering his face, laughing and crying] He killed hundreds of civil and military officials twice and hundreds of thousands of troops by himself, but it was so "dazzling"... After reading the history of the Ming Dynasty, he was the one who impressed me the most after reading the history of the Ming Dynasty...
Without Zhang Juzheng and Qin Liangyu, these two people can really extend the life of the Ming Dynasty.