The Great Ming Under the Chongzhen Emperor: Starting at Coal Hill

To be honest, the sentence "One hundred thousand soldiers and one hundred thousand soldiers" after the last sentence is too flattering to the scholars of the late Ming Dynasty. It's really one hundred thousand people and one hundred thousand insects. They are all the seeds of corrupt officials. Let me show you that by the end of the Ming Dynasty, all living members will disappear, and the Ming Dynasty can last at least another 100 years.

It feels like the familiar swordsman is back. It's similar to the beginning of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds between Hun San and Chu Han. Looking forward to the follow-up, and one more thing, you should have come back to write historical articles long ago. You always complain that the anti-war articles are dancing in shackles, why don't you move. The tree moves the dead and the person moves the living. I like the bloody war scenes you wrote the most! It doesn't have to be about the Anti-Japanese War theme! Personally, I think the heroic protagonists in the historical novels you wrote before are more attractive and better-looking, including the protagonist Zhu Ma! They are all like the founding emperors. They are so well-written that they should use their own strengths!

I found some pictures of armor weapons. The first picture is from the early Ming Dynasty. The second picture is from the mid-Ming Dynasty. The third picture is from the late Ming Dynasty. Restoration and redrawing of the 4th Emperor's Patrol Map. The 5th and 6th were the elite of the Nine Sides in the late Ming Dynasty.

Why did the Ming Dynasty collapse? Because no one paid taxes, the world was annexed by the gentry. If you don't tear it down again and make them pay taxes, it will be over.

The author uses modern ideas to describe the story of the late Ming Dynasty, without the weight of historical literature at all. We choose to completely ignore the differences in status between kings, ministers, people, slaves, generals, princes, etc. Many words could not have been spoken by the minister at that time, but the author wrote them out without any worries, which is very dramatic. The author has a deep understanding of military affairs, at least better than me, but the author's understanding of Confucianism, imperial examinations, and Confucian scholars in the late Ming Dynasty seems to be very shallow. Perhaps the author understands, but for the sake of readers and the market, he ultimately chose to castrate himself. The author's writing style is very good, but he seems to have chosen to give up quality in order to keep it updated. There are many places that should be very flavorful based on the author's level, but in fact these places have not been carefully crafted because the author is in a hurry. This is my biggest experience after reading this book. I paid to read the first half, but after several reviews, the author himself persuaded me: This book is not suitable for me. It's a pity that a good book and a good author chose to castrate themselves.

When Chongzhen was still alive, he sent five people to Beijing to serve as kings: Wu Sangui, Gao Di, Liu Zeqing, Gao Jie, and Tang Tong. Wu Sangui and Gao Di honestly accepted the order and entered the pass. However, after entering the pass, they crawled slower than a tortoise. Until Chongzhen hanged himself, they had not left the boundaries of Yongping Mansion. Liu Zeqing reported that he was loyal and patriotic, and originally wanted to fight to the death with Li Chuang. Unfortunately, he fell off his horse and was injured two days ago, so he might not be able to come. After hearing the news, Chongzhen sent someone to comfort Liu Zeqing. Liu Zeqing was very moved and immediately ordered his troops to flee south. As for Gao Jie: "What are you talking about? I can't hear clearly without my glasses." Only Tang Tong brought eight thousand people to Beijing, and Chongzhen rewarded him with four thousand taels of silver. Tang Tong thought about it, Li Zicheng recruited eight retired general soldiers in Yulin and gave them 50,000 taels of silver. The average person was more than 6,000 taels. As a serving general soldier, the emperor only gave me 4,000 taels. Although it was a little less, it was still acceptable. Then he learned that the four thousand taels were awarded to his entire army, half a tael of silver to each person, and forty taels to himself. Moreover, Chongzhen also sent him a eunuch as a supervisor. Tang Tong was so angry that the three corpse gods jumped violently, and the five spirits soared into the air. After leaving the palace gate, he threw the things Chongzhen had rewarded on the ground: "In the eyes of the emperor, I am worse than a slave!" He immediately rushed out. As a result, there was no one to guard the capital, and Chongzhen was hanged on the coal mountain. So, if Chongzhen arrives in Nanjing, can Zuo Liangyu, Huang Degong, Gao Jie, Liu Zeqing, and Liu Liangzuo be given more military pay than Emperor Hongguang? Can we give them a larger territory? You don't get much military pay or land, so you expect to rely on "legitimacy" to invite hundreds of thousands of soldiers to die? If Gao Jie and Liu Zeqing were willing to die, they would have died in Beijing. If Zuo Liangyu was willing to die, the grass on their graves would be three feet high now, so why wait until now. Tiduoduo is considered a bully. Let's just say that Zhun Ta, who went south from the Shandong branch, with the two generals Ke Yongsheng and Xia Chengde, even the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion, only had more than 10,000 people. The hundreds of thousands of Ming troops in the north of the Yangtze River had the ability to annihilate these more than 10,000 people? Obviously not, otherwise, could the Qing army be allowed to enter the fortress and plunder six times? Li Zicheng cannot defeat Duduo's main force. The Jianghuai Ming Army allows Li Zicheng to defeat the remaining remnants. How can they be expected to achieve any results. With Chongzhen's temper, Shi Kefa might have been imprisoned in imperial prison immediately after the Suizhou Incident. No matter who is the emperor in Nanjing, whether it is King Fu, King Lu, King Gui, the prince, or Chongzhen himself, the time they will be emperor does not depend on themselves, but on how long Li Zicheng can persist in the north. As long as the Qing army was free and had time to attack Jiangnan, the Nanjing court would have to blow out the lamp and pull out the wax.

Before Chongzhen went to Meishan, his wife and daughter both died. If he ran away from Meishan, what would the two sons think (should they prevent patricide), and what would the nobles think? From this we can imagine his character that he can recruit people even when he comes to Nanjing. Basically, he was sentenced to death in the first chapter. Even if you dress up as a prince, you can win the hearts of the nobles by paying 2,000,000 yuan to the king. At the beginning, the hearts of the people are broken. How to play? Just pure intention? In order to post this comment, I also spent 15 points to buy a chapter.

I feel that this book is generally good, but I did not consider one issue: after Emperor Chongzhen's 17 years of hard work and the deception of countless loyal ministers, who would still dare to believe his promises?

The front is pretty good. Since the victory in Xuzhou, when dealing with issues in Yangzhou, they have been belittling the eunuchs and praising the merchants and civil servants. During this period, blindly suppressing one's own slaves and showing favor to other forces is a sign of very immature politics. Maybe it's because the author is on the government and business side, and the core ideas of these chapters have changed drastically, so let's wait and see for the time being.

This is the novel about the late Ming Dynasty that suits me best. It doesn't cover military affairs or internal affairs, and it doesn't ruin the entertainment of the novel. It couldn't be better.