Taking Stock of the Ming Dynasty

Chongzhen was a very diligent emperor, but he had too little experience and was fooled. The protagonist now plays a very important role. He guides Chongzhen on how to do it better. Chongzhen should not be considered a coward.

To be honest, I read a lot of novels from the late Ming Dynasty and the late Song Dynasty, and I realized a truth. If you are not in the system and have a good background, it is basically nonsense. If you don't get the number one scholar, you won't even have the ability to enter the capital circle. If you want to attract attention by doing some business and get an official title, you really think too much. In ancient times, etc. The hierarchy is insurmountable. If you start a small business to make money, someone will immediately ask you to die and hand over the recipe. If you find a backstage that does not exist, and the officials will protect each other, you, a civilian, will not be taken seriously. No matter how advanced your ideas are, as a civilian, you will have no say and may even be killed. This is a structure that is consistent with history. If historical texts are not particularly sophisticated, it is better to use the system flow to write well. At least there is a helper. In ancient times where classes are solidified, if there is no system to write a lot of modern things, it is really too long.

The authors who wrote about the end of Ming Dynasty were all heroes. Influenced by corrupt Confucian culture, most of the stories involve the author fighting and killing three acres of his own land, and the story ends with a hiccup, which is really boring. There are not many people in the ocean of the planet. Compared with the ancestors who used knives and fire, and used their feet to continuously expand unknown lands, the author uses pen to write hope and does a good job.

When Chongzhen died, he cursed all his ministers for the subjugation of the country, but he forgot how many loyal ministers and good generals died in the battle between the Manchus and the traitors for seventeen years, and how many people died in the Ming Dynasty. Chongzhen was mean, unkind, self-willed and indecisive. Except for killing one Wei Zhongxian, had he ever done anything worthy of praise? He was the most responsible for the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

When I was running the country at the age of 6, I thought I was going to kill someone who didn't even have enough brains.

The rise and fall of a dynasty is ultimately a matter of profit distribution. What data is not data?

During the Chongzhen period, could there be 400 to 500 million people in Europe? Isn't this nonsense? The United Kingdom had a population of four to five million at that time. Russia, the most populous country in Europe in modern times, had more than 100 million people, and Germany had 80 million. Is it interesting to force a pull-up? It took you so long to prepare the steam engine technology, but you didn't even come out for a few years before it was leapfrogged to the third generation. Can this thing be built just by saying it is made? How advanced was European technology at that time?

If Emperor Chongzhen hadn't been ignorant and easy to fool, how could the ministers who had killed three emperors in eight years have allowed him to take the throne?

After Chapter 1000, we will start to forcefully increase the strength of Europe, which is boring.

The book is very good, but the score is so bad. I feel it is much better than those books that are super failed at the beginning. The most important thing is that the protagonist of this book has always been very calm. There are many things that are not acceptable in history books. Zhu Cixiang in this book can tolerate it, and does not go to the court to play political tricks. Instead, he draws in eunuchs and royal guards to ensure his own safety, and then cultivates confidants. Otherwise, I feel that the grain merchant section will be drowned.