There's Still Hope for My Ming Dynasty

Most of the late Ming Dynasty articles analyze the factors that led to the demise of the Ming Dynasty, including civil servants, gentry, eunuchs, frontier troops, slaves, refugees, etc., But in the end, the emperor and the vassal kings were as clean as white lotuses. I couldn't understand it, but I was shocked 🤫

I think this book is good. It is already considered a very rigorous historical time travel text, and the author also has reference to historical materials. It is really good. I hope it will continue to be good and don't let the protagonist just push it all the way. I have read some outrageous historical time travel novels. They built guns when they came out, evened the land, popularized Arabic numerals, equality between men and women, and compulsory education. I was numb. They turned a blind eye to the shortcomings of the small-scale peasant economy when they did this in the feudal era, and even if they did it, they had to make a slow transition. But they are not, they are just mindless white texts, too rushed. This is the current situation of most historical literature. But I think this book is pretty good. It knows how to weigh the pros and cons, and it does everything step by step. It is more realistic. It is very good. Come on, the author (ง •̀_•́)ง

The previous reading was pretty good, but when I saw the protagonist directly accepting without modification the Western religion that forbids followers to worship gods and ancestors, which is the root of Chinese culture, and allowing them to preach, it was a bit unacceptable, and I wanted to abandon the book.

When traveling through the Apocalypse, don't focus on talking and arguing in court. It's useless. The bureaucracy in the late Ming Dynasty was rotten to the core, and no matter how good the policy was, it couldn't be implemented. The first step is to clear the inner palace. Knowing that the apocalypse dissolves in water, one's own safety cannot be guaranteed. The emperor's every move, the foreign ministers and the queen know everything, and there are no secrets in all policies and military actions. What else do you expect? Therefore, clearing the inner palace is the first priority. The second step is to reorganize the factory guards. The factory guards are the emperor's personal daggers. Only by sharp daggers can they defend themselves and fight back. Wang Anluo Yangxing's relationship with Dong Lin is too close. This sword is no longer useful and must be replaced quickly. The third step is to reorganize the ordnance camp, improve the treatment of craftsmen, and improve the quality of firearms. If a craftsman wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his weapons. The fourth step is to rectify the Beijing camp. The Beijing camp is the emperor's sword. If the sword is not good, the emperor's words will have no deterrent effect. It will not be able to form a deterrent to border towns such as Jizhen, Liaodong, which have become warlords. If the central government is unable to punish the local areas, the central authority will be lost. The execution of the emperor's orders depends entirely on the mood of the local governments. The fourth step is to rectify the officialdom, use the preliminary force formed by the factory guards and the Beijing camp, implement the examination method and the final elimination system, kill a group of models, and make the bureaucrats nervous and serious. The fifth step is to rectify the border town and build fences. Use the money from corrupt officials who confiscated their homes and Shanxi merchants to make up for the wages owed to the Nine Borders, crack down on empty wages and grassland smuggling, cut off the collusion between courtiers, Shanxi merchants, and officers in border towns, and prevent the courtiers from jumping over the wall and letting go of the border defenses to lure the Manchus and Mongols into the customs, plunder the capital, and intimidate the emperor. The sixth step is to establish the Royal Martial Arts Hall and the Royal Academy of Sciences, and begin to cultivate its own administrative and military teams to replace the old bureaucrats and military officers in the future. The seventh step is to rectify the nobles and clans, relax the ban on ordinary clans, and no longer provide subsidies for titles below the prince, allowing them to eat freely. The eighth step is to rectify the navy, rebuild the shipyard, increase naval investment, combat piracy, develop maritime trade, and profit from maritime trade. The ninth step is to improve people's livelihood, reduce the burden on farmers, and cope with the upcoming disasters of the Little Ice Age. Never increase taxes, halve the Liao salary, crack down on all kinds of bad taxation habits, cancel the messy exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, collect fees and tariffs, and transfer fiscal revenue from farmers to businessmen. The tenth step is to abandon the government-run system of salt and iron, drive down the price of salt and iron, and increase market vitality. The eleventh step is to rectify financial banks, crack down on loan sharking, establish a central bank, and issue silver coins. The twelfth step is to re-measure the acres of land, divide the land into acres, and let the officials and gentry pay the grain as one, attack the officials and gentry, force the landlords' money to invest in maritime trade, industry and commerce, and make the gold and silver buried underground flow in the market. The thirteenth step is to cancel the distinction between officials and staff. To join the cabinet department, one must have grassroots management experience. Officials who excel in the assessment can be promoted to officials, and officials who fail the assessment are demoted to staff. The fourteenth step is to add a military aircraft department or a general staff department, separate military and political affairs, civilian officials will no longer participate in the military, and civilian officials will no longer lead troops. The military supervision system was changed to the military education and propaganda system, and scholars who failed to pass the Jinshi examination were transferred to the army and township grassroots. The fifteenth step is to gradually dismantle the garrison, organize and train the new army, and restart the land granting system for military merit. All the newly conquered lands in Northeast China, Hetao, Western Regions, Taiwan, and Nanyang will be granted land to soldiers, which will increase the motivation for the army to fight and expand the market for raw materials for merchants. The sixteenth step is to reform the official system, separate the functions and powers of the six ministries, and transform the six cabinet ministries into the direction of the Prime Minister's Yamen and the sixteen ministries, with refined and professional responsibilities. The seventeenth step is to improve the construction of the rule of law and introduce modern legal systems such as patent law, industrial and commercial law, marriage law and civil law. To sum up, after gradually mastering military power, the state system was gradually transformed from a backward feudal society that was not adapted to productivity to a capitalist state system that was adapted to productivity.

This book is very good, although it has some obvious shortcomings. 1. Except for rebirth, the author has not opened any obviously unreasonable plug-ins, which is quite in line with my taste. If you don't come up, just build steel and guns, and then open a modern military academy and other messy things. 2. Respect social customs. You cannot create new ideas in Confucian culture, you can only transform them, so scholars should continue to use them. I think it is quite reasonable. 3. The shortcoming is that it is not refreshing enough. Personally, I would like to see more market aspects written in the article. That is, with the reforms implemented by the emperor, the changes in the lives of ordinary people can also be written about other places, and cannot always be written about the changes around the capital. For example, with the opening of the sea, Guangzhou has changed. After all, there are more Southeast Asians from here, such as how Taiwan will face the indigenous people in the subsequent development.

The mud-legged rebel rebelled without a job. You are attacking the Jiangnan gentry, nobles, and powerful landlords. Now the clan is also going to attack. Everyone is against you. So who is supporting you?

This is a map of the situation when the protagonist traveled through time and became Emperor Tianqi when he first ascended the throne. You can refer to it (reprinted from the History Museum)

If he didn't fail, Zhu Youxiao was basically hopeless. There were people holding him back inside and outside, there were powerful enemies outside, big troubles inside, and God was sending disasters. If he wanted money or no money, he would be a second-rate man, but he himself was still an idealist. He didn't know how to do serious things, and he was the first to do random things. Unless there is a hardcore army that kills people and a group of unpaid talents to help you survive for a few years, there is hope.

After reading it, I found that the author's politics are negative and he has a wishful thinking that some people are good and some people are bad. Just like Xu Guangqi, Xu Guangqi loved money. The so-called military training in Tongzhou was because he bought a lot of wasteland in Tianjin and Hebei, which needed labor, and Pang Di of the Jesuit Society had been sending money to Xu Guangqi. Of course, Ye Xianggao received the most. The essence was that the comprador family of Ye Xianggao's group took advantage of the maritime embargo and smuggling from foreign countries. After he became an official, his whole family converted to the Jesuit order. Source of information: "Xu Guangqi's Family Letters" and "Three Mountains Theory"

It's also not good to travel through the emperors without any sense of historical reality! Zhu Youxiao didn't like carpentry, and Zhu Houzhao wasn't smart, out-of-the-box, or martial. The emperor who is in his teens or 20s, because of your experience in later generations, is always playing tricks with the court ministers all day long, and he thinks he has mastered the emperor's mind, and is very thoughtful. You think too highly of yourself and underestimate the ancients! They are still those middle-aged and elderly people who have been immersed in officialdom for decades and have doctorate degrees or above. If you were so good, you wouldn't still be coding now. You should be a successful businessman or be in a high position. Your IQ and EQ are both low, and you are only equivalent to a child born in the Ming Dynasty or a scholar at best, the kind that doesn't go well!