The Chief Grand Secretary

It is recommended that viewers who are introductory to the study of Ming history or above should not read it. There are too many poisonous points. The basic settings are full of conspiracy theories, and even created a new conspiracy theory that the Nanjing bureaucratic interest group has seriously threatened the imperial power. . .

Da Da shared his work experience by writing a book

Looking at the current situation, I feel that I have returned to the common problem of historical literature, which is to develop colonial ideas in China. In fact, colonialism is an extension of bandit culture, and its core is to rob and plunder! China's national conditions are not suitable for colonial culture. China's clan system was already an excellent international system at the time. The clan system lasted for more than a thousand years and collapsed only after China was knocked off the altar. Let's look at the duration of colonial culture. It collapsed in less than two hundred years. I think the author can consider China's current international system, cooperate and win-win, and lead the entire East Asian cultural circle to implement unionization. The entire Chinese cultural circle resists the expansion of Western culture, instead of becoming a colonizer. It is difficult to imagine how the Chinese can become colonizers.

I just read a few chapters and found that the author likes to talk about how these clans defeated the Ming Dynasty, but in fact they couldn't do such exaggerated things. According to Huang Yujia's paper "Research on the Issues of Clan Remuneration in the Ming Dynasty", the Ming Dynasty's clan salary system was not static, but would continue to be reduced as the number of clan members increased. Zhu Yuanzhang himself, in the late Hongwu period, cut off more than two-thirds of the prince Zonglu and the county king Zonglu who were determined in the early years. In the Hongzhi year, the salary and food for all clans were cut in half on the grounds that there were too many clans and the country could not afford them. The remaining half will be converted into treasure notes and distributed. In the Wanli year, it was simply stipulated that the total amount of Zonglu would be frozen and never increase or decrease. In other words, no matter how much the clan population increases, the total clan salary will no longer increase. After the "Eternal Quota", the actual payment of Zonglu in the Ming Dynasty was only more than 1.56 Million taels of silver. The amount is not small, but it is definitely not enough to bring down the Ming Dynasty's finances. And even after this reduction, the Ming government still adopted a procrastinating attitude towards the payment of Zonglu. According to Liu Zongzhou, at that time, "Some people below the prince were given only half of their salary, some were given two or three tenths, some were not allowed to be in charge for many years, and some were not allowed to be in charge for three to five years, and all the clans were in great difficulty." So in the late Ming Dynasty, the living conditions of the lower-level clans became extremely miserable. General Congjin and others of the Fengguo Dynasty in the Datong Dynasty once complained: "The clan's salary is too much, and the ministers have only one meal for several days, and they are in all kinds of hardships. Some people over thirty have not married, and have been exposed for ten years without being buried. They either beg in the market, work as civilians, move to other places, or die of hunger on the road. Even though they are members of the clan, they are very poor people."

Emm, I was a little confused after reading the first few chapters. I was born as a Jinshi, entered the Hanlin Academy, and then spent tens of thousands of money to send a county magistrate? I originally thought that it was understandable that a magistrate was sent from outside, but the magistrate was the Imperial Academy. . . . . Are you sure the data in this book has not been refreshed?

To be honest, this book is my favorite among the historical texts I have ever read. I tolerated the interruption of updates for the first few times, because I am also an online writer, and I know that there are times when inspiration runs out, or things happen in real life. But you🐴, the fact that you update one chapter a month has nothing to do with Ta Ma's exhaustion of inspiration. It's just that I don't take this book seriously, and I don't treat the readers as human beings. The pink turned black, very disappointing.

It's strange that there are fewer and fewer books that I can read. I really read the monthly rankings one after another. I don't know if it's because I'm getting older or my taste in reading has changed. Why do I feel like there is a generation gap with most readers? I'm only in my twenties! Most of them are novice articles, passionate articles, routine articles, without any common sense. They pressed my brain to the ground and rubbed it. It was too outrageous! The updates that can be read are slow. Post a post to ask for help. I want high-end and sophisticated ones. Please help me recommend novels. Thank you. The only ones I can read now are Bai Bai's new book, Canghai's new book, Millennium Era. I don't know what happened to Mosquito, but it hasn't been updated for several months! It's also good to wear Golden Finger, but it's a pity that it's a eunuch. Old Long, who wrote Zhu Tianwen, simply stopped writing. Feng Chaohuang's Shuleziwen doesn't have the same sense of surprise as before! Also, those who have read the Ming Dynasty book Shofu should be able to read it! That's all. The amount of updates on these books is totally insufficient. Do you guys have any recommendations?

The struggles I wrote about above are quite interesting. But since the revision of the national constitution, it seems to have become a bit uninteresting and cliche, and has begun to suffer from the same problems as most historical texts. . Personally, when I read this plot, I felt that it was whimsical and completely divorced from reality. The national constitution of that conception has nothing advanced except for restricting the imperial power. I don't know how it is different from the decline of imperial power when the Donglin Party took power. Unless the protagonist is considering the interests of the ruling class, but the plot says that the protagonist intends to be idealistic. You can insist that it has improved because the new officials are more moral and capable than the old officials, but that is a rule of man rather than a rule of law. How can the system be improved after a long period of change? It is speculated that the author may have other ideas during the two days of interruption. My personal suggestion is that if you have nothing to write, I suggest you end it as early as possible and have fun instead of dragging it out in the end.

It's okay for the author to want to eat patriotic food, but you can't force it, okay? Invasion is when one country invades another country by force - who is the aggressor country in the Xu Hai incident? No! If you have to trick Xu Hai into being a traitor, why don't you ask Xu Hai for 20,000 taels of silver? If Xu Hai came to rob me on the orders of a certain Japanese big name, you would be justified! Otherwise, is he considered a traitor? Then, no matter who the aggressor country is, it is even more important to directly identify Xu Hai as the invader. Don't you think it's funny? The Japanese daimyo have been fooled into thinking, and the Muromachi shogunate has become a decoration without the participation of the Japanese upper class. When a group of Japanese refugees were hired by Chinese maritime merchants, they actually represented Japan's sovereignty? Or did the Chinese invade China? Just bullshit, pure bullshit, forceful bullshit. As long as the author can write more reasonably, I won't be so angry💢

Westerners have proven that the earth is round, there is no Chang'e on the moon, and there are no gods in the sky. The divine right of kings actually collapsed. Since there is no divine right to the king, the power of the king can only come from the people. Since it is granted by the people, the people can hold a meeting to take back these rights. The best way to restrict the lawless emperor is to convene a meeting of the gentry and those who pay more taxes to discuss how the money should be used. Limit the power of the monarch based on the will of the people. Yan Song's approach is too vulgar and backward. Now is the age of global navigation. We will first hold a meeting in Jiangnan to see if everyone is willing to raise taxes to fight the Japanese. If not, forget it. If you are willing, everyone will pay taxes to raise troops and assess the Japanese pirates. It all depends on everyone. This is justifiable.