Ming Dynasty: the Most Ruthless Tyrant in History

I saw this work was put on the shelves immediately. Let me write down my feelings after reading it! I think what you wrote is the best novel during the Tianqi (Chongzhen) period of the late Ming Dynasty! The clearest and most practical. First internally and externally, first stabilize the army and then govern. When I was a foreign (civilian) official, I was exposed to all the wind and rain, but I remained unmoved. Step-by-step changes! Everyone has a misunderstanding that the power of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was suppressed by civilian officials, as if Apocalypse and Chongzhen had no power. In fact, nothing could be done in the Ming Dynasty without the consent of the emperor. Imperial power has not been emptied out! Look at what happened during the Chongzhen period. Taxes can be collected. Although the army has troops to support bandits, the emperor can mobilize them. Otherwise, Li Zicheng would not have been beaten to 18 cavalry, and Zhang Xianzhong would have been recruited! They launched attacks against Jiannu again and again, killing civil servants like chickens! In short, before Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty for 16 years, the entire bureaucracy and military system were still operating normally! (Unlike the late Eastern Han Dynasty and the late Tang Dynasty, when taxes could not be collected and the army was not obedient at all, aristocratic families could lead troops directly into the palace to kill the eunuchs, and the eunuchs could change the emperor!) Why do people think that imperial power is suppressed by civilian officials? To put it bluntly, it is the constraints of feudal ethics. As long as the emperor is shameless and does not care about his posthumous name, in fact, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty can do whatever he wants! Don't think that the history books state that the prime minister was abolished and the emperor's centralization of power reached an unprecedented level. It is empty talk! But in ancient times, that person didn't care about his posthumous reputation, that person didn't care about his face! When it comes to power, you are big and I am small. There is a natural struggle (struggle for power) between the emperor and his ministers. The emperor is alone and the ministers are a group of people. No matter how smart the emperor is, there is nothing he can do. The emperor could only use relatives, eunuchs, and cruel officials. Even if he knew it was a chronic poison, he would still take it! The Ming Dynasty had an inner court (factory guard, 24 bureaus), which was a very good system. Unfortunately, most of the eunuchs did not do enough and did evil things, but the emperor still had to use them to ensure the power of the previous emperor! Except for the idiot Chongzhen! The author writes about the new army that has started anew. I think it is excellent. The ministers have no way to interfere with the money spent from internal funds. Maybe they want to reap benefits in the future! Only when the new army is well trained can it promote changes in the Beijing camp! Look at the Ming Dynasty Emperor Zhu Houzhao who fell into the water and fell ill, the Jiajing Fire, the Palace Incident, the Guangzong Hongwan Case, and Tianqi who fell into the water and fell ill. It would be too dangerous to directly move to the capital camp! The ministers do not want the emperor to control the force. What kind of life did Hongwu, Yongle, and civil servants live? We are all human beings, so who can deceive whom? Emperor, you want to restore the past, it is impossible! Therefore, the author wants to directly solve the Beijing camp problem, but it is impossible! The author writes about setting up a bank, which is also an excellent idea. This business did not exist in the Ming Dynasty, and Tianqi still had some money at this time, so it should be easy to do it! The emperor of the Ming Dynasty still had an imperial shop! What a good condition? (The emperor does not have to have perfume, glass mirrors, and soap. In fact, the emperor can go directly to the beach, build a salt-drying factory, dump them to death, and send troops to protect them. Otherwise, eunuchs will be easily killed and pirates will easily come ashore. As long as they are "shameless", who can stop them) In this way, with military power and financial power, the emperor can be protected! It can be reformed slowly. As for government finances, let the civil servants have a headache! Isn't it the truth that their civil servants say when it comes to governing the world? After removing the Liaoning salary and reducing taxes for the people all over the world, we stand on the moral high ground and throw the blame away! Let them have a headache! You can let it be said that whoever solves the financial problem can be in the cabinet and stay in the cabinet for a long time. If you don't believe it, you can't play with them! Civilian infighting, as long as it does not affect Liaodi, the new army, and the new internal fund business! Don't worry about it for a year or two, just make a good balance! (Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di set up a really good system for the consolidation of imperial power. It's a pity that a little emperor, Zhu Qizhen, Sanyang, was the biggest destroyer of the power of the Ming Dynasty emperor) The Ming Dynasty was short of money. If you have money, everything will be easy! As for why there is a lack of money, this is what everyone calls the civil service group, party disputes, eunuchs, corruption, land, lords, nobles, commercial taxes, natural disasters, man-made disasters, maritime affairs, and other reasons! I have written too much because I think the author's novel is too in line with my taste! The emperor should do the emperor's work! Normally there is no need to end at all! Never imitate Chongzhen! There must be something wrong with the above personal opinions! 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In fact, from a modern perspective, being a tyrant does not necessarily mean killing people. Is it scary to kill three or nine tribes? Haha, those who killed the ten clans can leave descendants, they are so afraid. Zhu Yuanzhang killed corrupt officials so ruthlessly that they were not afraid. As long as there was an imperial examination system, new scholars would become officials. There is a saying among civil servants that as long as you govern the world, you need civil servants. Even if Kangxi was awesome, he still had to write a letter of submission to the civil servants. But there is a criminal law in modern society, and they will definitely be afraid of it, especially if it is used in ancient times. That's the criminal record of the person's file. As long as you have a criminal record, your children will not be able to pass the public examination. In ancient times, it could be aggravated. As long as there was a criminal record, members of the clan were not allowed to take public exams within three generations. Especially in the Ming Dynasty, those who cheated the court. After leaving the field, he became a good man again. If he is given a criminal record and his relatives are not allowed to take public exams, do you think they will still dare to be so arrogant? Seriously, it will be directly punished by implicating the nine tribes. The disciples, students, teachers and their relatives are not allowed to take the public examination. If Zhu Yuanzhang changed all the people he killed to this kind of punishment, it is estimated that no one would blame him for killing too many people.

Zhu Yuanzhang's establishment of the Jinyiwei system can be said to be a knife over the heads of officials. It serves the purpose of monitoring officials and is the eyes and arms of the emperor. However, once it is relied on, it will become the target of attacks by officials. They demand to be abolished. No one wants to be an official. Jinyiwei can be slandered by officials, so it is not even named. If it is the Anti-Corruption Bureau, who dares to propose the withdrawal? Explain that you are not clear.

How dare you drag me like this when you have nothing to do with me? Who among the emperors of the Ming Dynasty doesn't know what happened to his predecessor? It's useless to be different. Any cat or dog can travel across the world and kill everyone. What right do they have to do whatever they want?

You have to learn to play Jiuzu Xiaoxiaole

I basically don't believe that modern people can change the fate of a subjugated country by traveling through time and becoming the emperor of the late Ming Dynasty!

Traveling back in time without plug-ins, it is basically impossible to change history. Even if you know the direction of history, small trends in history can be changed, but the general trend cannot be violated. Without plug-ins, it will not work. Even if it succeeds for a short time, it will be the death of people and the government. With only plug-ins, you can be unreasonable and change your destiny.

How could you survive in ancient times without using any golden fingers! I can't understand what others say. He was tortured to death and his whole family was implicated. A late dynasty cannot be saved by a small group of people, let alone by one person. I would rather believe that someone in the world has a golden finger than believe that a person who became emperor in ancient times can save an undying dynasty. Not using the golden finger is more absurd than using the golden finger.

No one likes the rule of secret agents, so the emperor and his subjects have been at odds since the Ming Dynasty. Talent is the most important thing for a country at that time. Do you think you can do well just by traveling across time? History books are specious and may not necessarily be correct. Do you think that if you travel through time, you will be omniscient and omnipotent and have the vision of God?

Why do some people always think that the fall of the Ming Dynasty was solely the responsibility of the scholar-bureaucrats? It's as if the emperor could manage the Ming Dynasty well without the scholar-bureaucrats holding him back! In fact, if the imperial power is not restrained, it is the only way to die. In that case, the emperor can do whatever he wants, and the Ming Dynasty will be gone in a few decades!

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No, you leave this ring alone, find out something, get angry, and let the inner court handle it. If it doesn't handle it well, you will commit suicide and apologize. The courtiers will handle it. If it doesn't handle it, just let it be dealt with. I have been writing this back and forth. I have fallen into a cycle. I am starting to get annoyed before I see it on the shelves.

——Power is always an either/or thing Reform can be from top to bottom, but power is from bottom to top. If you want to reform, you must have power, military power and financial power. When the emperor is weak, these things are firmly in the hands of officials. To get them back, we must not learn from Zhu Youjian, who trusted civilian officials and controlled the world with civilian officials. What next? The crooked-neck tree in Meishan is the only ending, because the power has been transferred from the emperor to the officials. After gaining power, which person in power will spit out the power he holds? Isn't this funny, reform? Where to start? Do I revolutionize myself? Therefore, we can only take another approach, strengthen control from the bottom up, and control the military power and finance. We can pressure the officials from the top down and let them follow the planned path, because they no longer have the capital to resist. If they make concessions with the officials from the beginning, and want to take back power, the officials will definitely fight back. What should we do? Sacrifice to support your own people? If the boss doesn't help the younger brother handle something, who will follow you in the future? Zhu Youjian is an example. What you say is worse than farting, and the more you do, the more you make mistakes. Whoever does the work for you, the gangsters know that they have to protect their right to speak. Why don't you take advantage of the new official's enthusiasm at the beginning, and later the officials will know your tricks, and you still want to do something? I'm afraid you haven't been weaned. ——Many people think that there must be some kind of harmony between the emperor and his ministers from the beginning. I just want to say: The emperor of the Ming Dynasty was easily soluble in water. If he didn't fight at the beginning, he would still want to fight later? Is it more difficult to change the emperor or is the power in your hands more tempting? Another point is that during the three years when Wei Zhongxian came to power, the Ming Dynasty suppressed Huang Taiji. If he had not died, the Ming Dynasty would not have fought gg so quickly, and the civil servants would not have lost their checks and balances and treated the emperor as if he had nothing, so that the water was too cold... Question Foreign Language [History: Calendar + Records, there is no history without an accurate calendar] In the Western calendar, October 1582, 5-14, the whole 10 days disappeared. Is this because I was unable to modify the calendar before or was I unable to discover my own calendar errors? As long as there is some research on the stars, the calendar will not turn a blind eye to such a big loophole for a long time. This is equivalent to saying that there is no strictly prohibited stargazing research, and no stargazing research = no advanced mathematics = falsification of mathematical equations (history requires accurate calendars and mathematics, without these, certain events can be recorded , are all hooligans, and bypassing research that requires some advanced mathematics is even more hooligans) ps: Any settlement that has been long enough has city walls. Even nobles with small titles in the West at least know how to build castles, and the length of civilization can be seen in the remaining city walls. , This thing is too difficult to fake. A civilization with city walls may not necessarily exist for a long time, but a civilization without city walls must not exist for a long time, because the cost of war in ancient times was too low. Civilization must exist for enough time and develop and grow. Without the protection of city walls, it is impossible... Zheng He made seven voyages to the West, not only leaving stone monuments in Africa, but also becoming cultural relics in foreign museums (you can visit this tour) [You can check the above information by yourself, sometimes, things that seem reasonable are scary to think about] Benefits👇

Many people came up and attributed the demise of Ming Dynasty to the civil servant group. I suggest reading more books. Don't simply blame all problems on a group that cannot be represented. I will briefly mention a few issues: 1. Issues with the state and county system. ① Local finance, there was basically no local finance in the feudal dynasty, less than 20% was retained, and it often occupied local finance (Yanglianyin in the Qing Dynasty was essentially a supplement to local finance, but it was later embezzled and misappropriated). This money needed to pay wages, repair various facilities, distribute rice and grain to famous people, hold examinations, handle cases, be responsible for post station maintenance, disaster relief, etc. Not counting the meal money and office money given to the clerks of the superior departments, in order to deal with all kinds of officials who want to make trouble in the name of inspection, office money and gifts are given to the superior leaders. There simply wasn't enough money. (Therefore, there are various additional levies on the basis of fixed taxes, and there are various fees for handling cases in the office. These are the financial reasons for corruption) ②Personnel relations: Superiors have absolute control over subordinates. If you say you can't do it, just wait to be dismissed. The county magistrate also has control over the people below him, and everyone wants to please him by giving money and gifts. ③Gentlemen group: These people are local snakes. There are many assets locally. It can mobilize many people. People believe whatever they say. There are also people in the family who are officials and are very influential in the officialdom. For example, if the county magistrate affects their interests, they can slander the county magistrate and impose excessive taxes, and then incite the people to cause trouble. The county magistrate's superiors and supervisors are all their people. The superiors and subordinates are not afraid that you will not obey. ④Legal system: The law is actually very strict on corruption, and it is basically related to corruption. If one of your scribes or servants commits a crime, not only will he be punished. Regardless of whether the county magistrate knew it or knew it, he would be fined, demoted or dismissed, and the prefect would also be unlucky. If something goes wrong with the county magistrate, the prefect, Taoist officials, administrative envoys, and inspectors will also punish him. What would happen in this situation? That must be the protection of officials from top to bottom. 2. The problem of local clerks and servants. These people, who directly face the people and are actually the base of the country's rule, are not formally included in the country's rule system at all. ① The personnel quota is only a few dozen people in a county, but hundreds of people are actually needed, and the extra people can only be hired temporarily. And if there is no establishment, it depends on the county magistrate. There is a certain degree of personal dependence. You can't go against the Shangguan's ideas, even if he is a corrupt official (although in reality, because the county magistrate is a wandering official and the clerk is a local, he will be fired and wait until the next county magistrate comes and changes his name) ② The salary is very little or not at all, and the few who are paid only have 6 taels of silver, which is only enough for one person to eat two meals a day, not including other expenses. You can imagine what these people rely on to survive. (Corruption, blackmail, collusion with powerful people, or hereditary descendants of powerful people) This situation makes it impossible for the government to effectively restrict powerful people. ③ Many county officials are new officials who have just taken office and have no governance experience or ability at all. They can only rely on intermissions and long-term followers. There are many official tasks that are very complicated, and the book messenger has been doing this for decades, so it is very easy to deceive the county officials. 3. Economic issues. ① Over-densification of the economy, too many people and too little land, makes manpower worthless. We will only continue to increase labor input in intensive farming on the land, and have no idea of ​​​​developing new technologies. Because there are more people in the textile industry, family auxiliary labor can participate. The income from weaving is only twice that of the weaver's rations. The cost is very low, and there is no idea of ​​​​developing new technologies at all. Moreover, the research and development of new industrial technologies will cause many people to lose their jobs. Officials and gentry are afraid of problems, and ordinary people are afraid of losing their jobs, so they will refuse investment in new technologies. ②Many people are talking about opening up the sea. You have to know that there are 120 million people in China. It is a huge market. At that time, the nearest Southeast Asia, India, and Europe could not satisfy the sales of these multiple products, and only a few families could make profits. ③Taxation. Do you think industrial and commercial taxes can be collected if you want? Which products are taxed? How to set standards? How to measure other people's income and profits? Who do you rely on to collect it? How to supervise? How to prevent others from tax avoidance? This problem is a troublesome thing even today. Moreover, if you collect industrial and commercial taxes, others will ask you to convene a three-level parliament (don't forget how Charles I and Louis XVI were cool). The UK relies on tariffs to obtain tax revenue from the import and export of goods. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, an agricultural country like China could maintain its rule by relying on agricultural taxes. It was difficult to do anything to affect the rule for the sake of industrial and commercial taxes (agricultural taxes are also problematic. Due to transportation, technology and communication problems, there is no way to increase taxes, because the taxes you want to increase are already squeezed by local officials and gentry on the people)

The author's writing is okay, but he repeats the same thing again and again, and most of the chapter is narration. I don't know where he learned this bad habit. . . Metaphorically speaking, it's like reciting the Tightening Curse by Tang Monk, which gives you a headache. There is so much to write about in a history, major and minor events, and characters. I want to see the plot progress, rather than the narration and chanting of scriptures. . . If it doesn't work, just make a circle and circle XX. You don't spend money to read a book because you want to read something about Chelulu

Personally, I think the emperor is only the one who has military power, and the others are puppet emperors or semi-puppet emperors.

I haven't seen it on the shelves yet, but Zhu Youjian has too many roles. Is the protagonist his father or his mother? With so much effort in cultivating him, do you want to give him the Zen position? After training him like this, if he is not allowed to become emperor in the end, believe it or not, he will kill the protagonist in minutes.

I see that many people on the Internet have been criticizing the Ming Dynasty. In fact, the existence of the Ming Dynasty is crucial to the Han people. Since the Anshi Rebellion, the Han people have been in civil strife. After finally ending the civil strife, they were crushed by various alien races. Then came the division of the north and south in the Yuan Dynasty. The bloody spirit of the Han people was almost gone. The Ming Dynasty The creation of another unified dynasty of the Han people, the restoration of Chinese clothes, the sun and the moon, the dawn of tomorrow, without the creation of the Ming Dynasty, it is conceivable that the Han people have been in civil strife for more than a thousand years since the Anshi Rebellion, and have been ruled by foreigners for more than six hundred years since the Yuan Dynasty. There is still room for the survival of our Han people, so the creation of the Ming Dynasty is very necessary

Now that we have reached chapter 74, let me briefly talk about my views on this book. I feel that this book does not feel exciting, that it does not have that hearty feeling. You can slowly lay out the chapters and have a few dull chapters, but you can't live without a climax, right? Even if you have a climax, you can only bring it through with a few shallow strokes. When you catch Zhang Wenda, can't you write a few more strokes? It would be better for you to go elsewhere, and after you arrest Minister Gu Ming, you should at least write down his inner thoughts. . . . . . There are a lot of complaints! In short, this book is like taking a shit, and it is still a long way from Jinyi Night Walk!

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, in this situation, my suggestion is that if changes are made to the army, it is recommended to have an elite officer corps plus gray animals. This does not mean to belittle the soldiers, but human life is really worthless at that time. If you dare to give me a salary of one tael a month, and if you have cornbread, someone will work for you. And the suggestion is to use a relatively fast speed to produce a breaking gun, add paper shells for fixed ammunition, and a bayonet to queue up and shoot. In that era, human life should not be taken too seriously. At that time, the main contradiction in the Ming Dynasty was the contradiction between people and land. If there were too many people and too little land, we could consider recruiting more refugees, and then mainly carry out queuing training and obedience training. After training for about 2 to 3 months, we can go to the battlefield. Then the other one is to go to Macau to find Portuguese craftsmen, or to buy some three-pound to nine-pound artillery through Portugal. Then they will be copied and distributed to the army. It does not need to be distributed too much, as long as it is enough. It doesn't matter what the reputation is, as long as you have an army, you can suppress it with force. Just try to ensure that the civilians below can stay alive and not starve to death. Then another point is the south. You can consider going to negotiate with businessmen in the southeast to increase the status of businessmen and try to create a mixture of imperial power and capitalism. Although imperial power may be emptied by capital, as long as the emperor can control the army, there is no need to be afraid of this. Negotiating with businessmen is mainly to borrow money from businessmen, let these businessmen unite to form a bank, and then directly borrow money from them in the name of the court, and then lower the interest. As long as you borrow enough, the Ming Dynasty will not fall. Because if the Ming Dynasty died, these businessmen's money would be wasted and they would have no way to pay it back. So they are definitely one of the groups of people who least want the Ming Dynasty to perish. Then the next point is the nobles of the Ming Dynasty. Try to train them into the kind of officers who line up to shoot. They can fight stupidly. Don't have too high expectations. Don't even expect them to run to the front line to lead the attack. It will be good if you can ensure that these people can supervise and command the battle in the rear. You can recruit middle-level officers. If you try to control Jinyiwei and Dongchang first in terms of politics, clean Jinyiwei and Dongchang first to ensure their loyalty, and then clean the palace. Not to mention requiring the entire palace to be cleaned, at least make sure that those around you and those who cook for you are loyal to prevent them from being easily soluble in water. Then, the factory is mainly composed of people drawn from the Jinyiwei. The predecessor of the Jinyiwei is the army, mainly because most of the Jinyiwei are drawn from the army. Although the combat power should not be too strong, at least it can still kill people with a knife. Well, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were about 50,000 people in the Jinyiwei establishment. Even if it was reduced by half, there would be 10,000 to 20,000 people who could kill people with knives. This is enough. After taking control of the Jin Yiwei and cleaning the palace at this time, we can start to clean up the civil servants. It can be said that the Ming Dynasty at that time lacked everything, but there was no shortage of people and people who could serve as officials, so it directly purged and then promoted lower-level officials. With these 10,000 to 20,000 Jin Yiwei who can cut people with knives, it will be enough for you to control the capital. The premise of everything I said about the army is that you must ensure the loyalty of the capital. As long as the capital is loyal to you, you can do everything I said above about the army. And the most important thing is to try to raise the status of merchants as much as possible, not to mention the same status as shikigami, at least it cannot be too low. If you can create a mixture of imperial power and capital, then you will be successful. And during this period, as long as you hold Liaodong and ensure that Liaodong does not fall, you can start to expand to the south. The southern peninsula has enough land for farming and plenty of trees for shipbuilding. First go to Macau to contact the Portuguese, and then find a way to contact the Spanish in the Philippines, and get the ship designs or ships from them. If you can't get them from the Spanish, go to the Dutch. And regarding the design direction of the boat, it is recommended to have a Western-style hull and Chinese-style sails. In addition, as for artillery, there are special naval gun carriages with four small wheels. And at this time, it is simply unrealistic to equip a large number of rifled guns. The Industrial Revolution is also unrealistic. At the very least, the Industrial Revolution will take nearly 200 years to complete. The handicraft industry of the Ming Dynasty was very strong. Historically, it was not until the opening of the Suez Canal that the handicraft industry of the Qing Dynasty was defeated by industrial products. Therefore, the handicraft industry in the Ming Dynasty was not too bad. Then the primary goal is to produce 200,000 to 300,000 flintlock guns within ten years. It's enough for you to arm a large enough army, and it's time for you to completely eliminate the slaves.

Looking at the comment section, most of them are here to find fault, not to read the novel for entertainment? Maybe you will be satisfied if this book is pornographic 🤭

The book is really good. The only flaw is the title. I have always felt embarrassed about book titles with punctuation marks. Most book titles with punctuation marks basically make them drop ❌

What rubbish, the inner drama is a big recommendation, the whole story is nonsense inner drama. Bullshit

Mianfu

The writing is amazing, keep it up, it will become popular

You know

It's well written. If the protagonist doesn't start anew and play with others in the old system, no matter how good his brain is, he will be dragged into the mire. We have to find another way.

I have written very well until now

This is more than 1,000 chapters. How many years has passed?

The writing structure is so good, I just can't write this feeling.