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The decline of the Ming Dynasty began with the Wanli Emperor, ended with the Chongzhen Emperor, and continued with the four Southern Ming Emperors. During the twilight period of nearly eighty years, the Ming Empire rushed towards the cliff like a giant with its head cut off. If in the twilight period of the empire, someone, even just one, did one thing right and achieved results, the Ming Empire would definitely be different, and history would be different. But history cannot be assumed. Instead of sighing with regret, we are chewing on the old saying "Everything depends on man-made things"! If you want to know how the Ming Empire went "crazy", how it went to the cliff and the road of no return, and how the Ming Empire spent its twilight period, this book will help you decipher this little-known historical secret.

After the Anshi Rebellion, a group of Tang people stepped onto the stage of history. There are emperors, civil servants, eunuchs, and warlords here. The emperor has the ambition to revive the empire, the civil servants have the desire to revive the dynasty, the eunuchs have the desire to be slaves, and the warlords have the desire to be patriotic and loyal to the emperor. It is a pity that the emperor's ambitions were not realized, the sincerity of the civil servants was not fulfilled, the eunuchs' emotions were not released, and the warlords' wishes were not implemented. So, everything went to the opposite direction naturally.

The Qing Dynasty was the last dynasty in China's feudal society. This book lists the little-known historical events of the Shunzhi, Yongzheng, Kangxi, Qianlong and other emperors of the Qing Dynasty. From officialdom to the words and deeds of emperors, from imperial tidbits to court affairs, the author reinterprets and comments on the representative events of the Qing Dynasty from a scientific and historical perspective.