The Late Ming Turmoil: The Han King Reclaims the Realm

Let me explain first, in this novel, Chongzhen was 'missing', 'missing' and 'missing' after the city was defeated in Beijing! Say important things three times. Originally I really didn't want to spoil the story, but there are always people asking logical questions. I have been working on the outline for several months, and I have taken all the logic into consideration. But I can't just list the outline from the beginning into the main text, as that wouldn't be a complete spoiler. Also, I will not delete comments or ban anyone as long as they don't directly curse people. If the comment is only deleted but not banned, then it is 100% caused by the system and has nothing to do with me. The system has set many sensitive words, and there is nothing I can do about it. I am always on tenterhooks when writing every day, hiding here and there. If I accidentally write a sensitive word, I will be caught by the system in less than half a second. The following is the text: From the 14th year of Chongzhen to the first half of the 15th year, the Songjin War occurred, and almost all the 130,000 elite Ming troops were wiped out. The result is a complete loss of control internally and externally. Chongzhen became seriously ill and sought medical treatment, so he recruited Zhou Yanru back to be the chief assistant again. After Zhou Yanru took power, he recalled a large number of deposed officials, mainly members of Donglin and Fushe. Donglin rose for the second time in the Chongzhen Dynasty. Chongzhen incomprehensibly cooperated with Zhou Yanru and vigorously suppressed the factory guards, who began to become disloyal. At the same time, Chongzhen instructed Chen Xinjia, the Minister of War, to negotiate peace with the Qing Dynasty. I think Huang Taiji and Chongzhen are sincere in the peace talks this time and really want to achieve them. But in the end, Chongzhen could not withstand the pressure from the government and the opposition and canceled the peace talks. Then it's a two-sided battle. The novel begins in the second half of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen. The background of the story is that the Ming Dynasty was internally divided and the political struggle became more and more fierce, gradually leading to a life-or-death struggle. The outside was attacked from two sides, and all the elites were exhausted. Moreover, the people's hearts and minds were completely lost. The people in Henan were already eating pots of pulp in their baskets to welcome the king's master. The people in Shanxi were not far away from eating pots of pulp in their baskets to welcome the king's division. At this time, Daming was hopeless. Therefore, the main line of this book is to conquer the world again, not to save the Ming Dynasty. Reconquer the world and choose base areas: Northeast, Gyeonggi, Shandong, and Henan will all belong to the Qing Dynasty. There is no way. There are three directions left to choose from: northwest, southwest, and southeast. In the northwest, Azig and Duduo will lead the main attack. They will definitely not be able to defend it and will not be considered. In the southwest, historically Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo were able to defeat a dozen enemies mainly by relying on Yunnan and Guizhou. Wu Sangui could also rely on Yunnan to raise troops to rebel. Therefore, I think that if we can capture Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, as well as part of Huguang and the Hanzhong part of Shaanxi, we can definitely give the Qing a fight. Southeast, as for why not choose Southeast. Anyway, from my personal point of view, Southeast cannot be defended no matter what. There is still a team in Nanjing, and civil servants are fighting among themselves, which cannot be controlled no matter what. Between Donglin, Fushe and the remnants of the Eunuch Party; between officials originally in the south and officials who escaped from the north and the south. It's not just that you have the aura of domination or the right to make them stop fighting among themselves. Argument: Did Chongzhen control the internal fighting? Even Chongzhen himself could not stop the civil strife among the civil servants. How could Chongzhen's son stop the internal strife among the civil servants after the fall of the Ming Dynasty? The only way is to get rid of most of them and start conquering the world from scratch. There are also the gentry in the southeast, who are powerful and deeply rooted. But from the sixteenth year of Chongzhen (1643) to June 1645, they were not very willing to support Chongzhen. In this period of time, the identity of Chongzhen's son is really useless. The gentry and people in the southeast are eager for the death of Chongzhen himself. Why don't you come here and tell them that you are Chongzhen's son? Argument: In the fourteenth and fifteenth years of Chongzhen, the Ming army almost lost every battle in Henan, and was pinned to the ground and rubbed by Li Zicheng. Why is this? The essence is that the people and gentry in Henan no longer support the Ming Dynasty. Especially the people, it would be more appropriate to say that they hated Chongzhen to the core. At the beginning of the 17th year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng marched eastward from Shaanxi. Shanxi, Shandong, and the capital region came to see the wind, and the gentry and the common people were eating pots of pulp to welcome the king's army. The gentry and people in the north are already eager for Chongzhen to die quickly. Now you run to them and tell them, I am Chongzhen's biological son, and I have a righteous name. Isn't it funny? After the city of Beijing was destroyed, Chongzhen's corpse was gathered up. "Thirty of the ministers cried and worshiped, and sixty of them worshiped without crying. The rest looked down upon him." ' Not to mention other places, even the officials and gentry in the capital have this attitude. What a king and father, what a righteous name. Not to mention avenging the king's father, only a hundred people were willing to pay homage to Chongzhen's body. The rest is passed by with disdain. The same is true in the southeast, as evidenced by the fact that Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong reigned for less than a year. For most of this year, I was still negotiating with the Qing Dynasty. When it comes to real fighting, it collapses at the first touch and falls in the wind. As soon as Zhu Yousong ran to Wuhu, he was kidnapped by the civil and military ministers to ask for credit. Isn't it obvious enough how much the southeastern gentry did not support the Ming Dynasty? In the end, even Duduo couldn't stand it anymore: How could you ministers lock up your emperor with iron chains? Why don't you resist? What are you doing in such a hurry? The people and gentry of the Ming Dynasty really resisted in May 1645, after Dorgon issued a nationwide order to ban hair. This is what some gentry and common people care about, and this is the reason for their resistance. As for avenging their father-in-law, it is really not that important in their hearts. Argument: Suppose, if the Qing Dynasty did not force hair removal and change of clothes, would there be so much resistance later? Does the autumn wind sweep away fallen leaves and spread the message to determine the world? For example, Yan Yingyuan is a true national hero. After Chongzhen's death, did he resist the Qing Dynasty? Did he avenge his father? Does he have this idea and statement? Is it because Dorgon had to force his hair to be shaved and changed into a uniform, so Yan Yingyuan led all the gentry and common people in the city to defend Jiangyin? There is another key issue: the troop sources in the southeast are really bad, and there is no hope at all. There is no need to prove this, the historical facts are there. Only the Zheng family can still fight, but their primary goal is to preserve their own strength. If they really work hard to regain the Ming Dynasty, then... The summary is: if Chongzhen himself goes to the southeast, the southeast gentry will not really contribute. It would be even more useless for Chongzhen's son to go. As for not writing in the novel, Chongzhen's son went to the southeast, used his domineering spirit and righteousness to influence the gentry, common people, and scholars in the southeast, and then built up elite troops to defeat the Qing army. From my personal point of view, this is pure obscenity. Another point is that there are two main lines in this novel: one is to destroy the Qing Dynasty, and the other is to completely eliminate those in the southeast who are unwilling to pay taxes and those who are obsessed with party fighting all day long.

1. Reform 1. If we want to carry out in-depth reforms, there will definitely be fierce conflicts with the officials, gentry, and powerful people in the southeast. Whether it is Zhang Juzheng's reforms in the Ming Dynasty or those reforms carried out after the Qing Dynasty captured Jiangnan, it has been proved that it is simply impossible to carry out reforms in a harmonious manner. On this issue, the Qing Dynasty was right. Only when the officials and gentry are frightened and defeated can the officials and gentry accept the reform honestly. Moreover, as fierce as the Qing Dynasty was, Yongzheng was turned into ashes. If he had been gentler, he might have been hacked. There is a very important reason why Zhu Cizheng was not allowed to go to the Southeast in the novel. If your entire team and supporters are all from the Southeast, why should you reform? The ministers are all from the Southeast, the military generals are also from the Southeast, the middle and low-level officials and generals are also from the Southeast, and those who pay taxes and provide food and grass are also from the Southeast. Then who are you going to reform? Once you reform, you will fall into the water. My idea is to follow the Qing Dynasty's thinking, first occupy the southwest and part of the northwest, wait for an interest group similar to the Eight Banners and loyal to the emperor to be established, and then gradually regain the southeast and gradually carry out reforms. Each time a part of the territory is recovered, and then reforms are carried out on this part of the territory. In this way, the resistance received will be lower. 2. Military Reform With the Ming Dynasty's garrison soldiers and hereditary system, the status of military generals was far lower than that of civilian officials, and they were unable to fight large-scale battles. It is tiring enough to correct these three shortcomings. 2. Science and Technology Tree Ma said: Productivity determines production relations, and the economic base determines the superstructure. Just talking about steam engines and light bulbs, we must also consider the explosion of productivity, and production relations will definitely change drastically. After the death of Chongzhen, the world was in chaos. At this time, we had to fight with several forces, so I tried to write it optimistically in the novel. It would not take more than ten years to completely pacify it. After the world is pacified, all wastes are waiting to be revitalized. It is necessary to recuperate and carry out certain reforms to eliminate the bad policies of the previous dynasty and to write optimistically again. It will not take more than ten years. How to balance the heroes, how to smoothly transfer imperial power to the next generation, and how to distribute benefits after the war are all difficult problems. If an explosion of productivity is superimposed at this time, production relations will change drastically, and the economic base will determine the superstructure. To be realistic, if things like this get mixed up, it's easy to get away with it. So my point of view is that the development of science and technology should be appropriate, just enough to bring the world back. Then, basic education will be popularized across the country, maritime restrictions will be lifted, and foreign exchanges will be increased. Just pave the way for future technological development. 3. Cannons and Firearms In the technology tree, cannons and firearms have the most development value. 4. Farming and explosive troops The soldiers and generals who could fight in the late Ming Dynasty were not from Liaodong, but basically from Shaanxi and Gansu. Sun Chuanting's Qin Jun, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Li Dingguo, Jiang Yu, Li Chengdong, Gao Jie, etc., After Chongzhen's death, a large group of Shaanxi people were left to cause trouble. Those who can fight in Liaodong will definitely not be able to win over them, so for the source of troops, we have to look at Shaanxi and Gansu. In addition, we also need Shaanxi and Gansu to raise horses. This is also the reason why I chose Hanzhong as my starting point. The southeast is too far away from Shaanxi and Gansu. If you go to the southeast, you will be out of reach. You won't be able to get involved in Shaanxi and Gansu for a while. The troop sources in the southwest are suitable for mountain warfare, so they are suitable for attacking Annan. With the Red River Delta in Annan, you can farm safely. Although Annan is surrounded by mountains on three sides and the sea on one side, transportation seems a bit inconvenient. But thinking about it on the other hand, it will not be easy for the Qing army to break in, especially since the Qing army's navy is not very good. Let me write this first, and I will revise it later when I think of it.

Kill the Qing Dynasty very hard. The Qing army invaded and massacred too many people. Those who say the Qing army massacred 100 million people are a bit stupid. In the late Ming Dynasty, more than 90 million people died, and the Qing army massacred a total of 8 million people. Later, in the Taiping Rebellion, more than 100 million people died and millions of people were massacred.

The author is on the right track. You have no soldiers in the south, not to mention just the prince. Even the emperor is useless. The cake in the south has been divided by the gentry. They are a group of blood-sucking worms who only talk about justice. They are pure waste.

Ming Shizu, Guangwu Zhongxing, how to arrange the protagonist's achievements, let's take stock after the end is almost over, after all, vanity, everyone must have it, give the Ming emperor a little shock, the history of the Qing Dynasty is only Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, etc., Shiquan Kung Fu is too much

It's really ink, there are more than 70 of them. I'm still staying in the capital, and I'm going to join the feudal clan before I leave. I really have no patience at all.

This is my second book, already an old book with two million words. I have some experience, so I will be a pioneer this time in the whole job. In the late Ming Dynasty, most of the stories from the perspective of the emperor's family have Chongzhen or Prince Zhu Cixiang as the protagonists. With Zhu Cizheng, the fourth prince of the emperor, as the protagonist, I found a book at the starting point and it was completed with 120,000 words. So I really have no reference, I have to cross the river by feeling the stones. This book opens in August of the 15th year of Chongzhen. By this time, the Ming Dynasty had already begun to dance with demons. The previous chapters strive to restore the real situation at that time, and then try to reasonably deduce whether a comeback can be completed. When it comes to the character's personality, stance, and experience, we try to restore the original appearance of history and do not try to reduce intelligence. Neither climb the technology tree nor engage in horizontal thrusting of cannons and tanks. There are too many historical materials about the late Ming Dynasty. I will put all the historical materials used in the commentary. You can decide for yourself whether to accept them or not. My own judgment method: 1. If a matter is mentioned in official history and unofficial history, and there are no other historical materials that provide a contrary account, then it is considered credible. 2. If official history does not mention it, multiple unofficial histories mention it, and other historical materials do not provide contrary accounts, I will regard him as credible. 3. I will make inferences based on some historical data. Try to make inferences based on human nature and common sense. Give three examples: 1. For example, there is such a thing recorded in "Jin Gong Yi Lu", "Chongzhen Palace Ci Annotation", "Yutang Hui Ji", "Sin Wei Lu" and other books: Chen Wenzhuang Renxi was abandoned by the relatives of the Zhou emperor. When he was young, he saw Renxi and was surprised by her appearance. He said to his father: "Young lady, a noble person in the world! Let me teach her with Tongjian!" This book is the most detailed. The queen and the emperor looked at each other and removed their eyes. Later, when he saw the name of Chen Wenzhuang, he pointed to it and said: "This is the place where my family is visiting the flowers!" The superior was not happy and said: "Since this is your family's Imperial Academy, why don't you think of getting the elder of the pavilion?" Later, he explained it by talking about other things. Chen Renxi, the boss of Donglin, lived in Zhou Kui's house and worked as a teacher for the young Zhou. Zhou Kui was just a fortune teller at the time. By analogy now, it is equivalent to a well-known professor from Tsinghua University who inexplicably went to the home of a small vendor who set up a street vendor, lived in his home for a long time, and became a tutor for his daughter. And he also vowed to the peddler: "Your daughter will become famous all over the world sooner or later, and she will become rich and powerful." Is this something a normal person would do? I firmly believe that there must be a monster when something goes wrong. Is this historical data credible? I think it's credible. First of all, this historical material has multiple sources. Secondly, if this historical material is made up out of thin air, then as the Queen Zhou and Chen Renxi, as the boss of Donglin, have many disciples and old friends, it stands to reason that someone should clarify it for them. But the fact is that there is no other historical data to contradict this statement. Therefore, since it has multiple sources and there are no historical materials that people at the time objected to, I think it is credible. 2. Examples of reasonable inferences on the issue of draft cheating: The historical data are as follows: "History of the Ming Dynasty·Biography 2·Concubine 2" clearly records: Shenzong Xiaoduan Queen Wang was born in Yuyao and was born in the capital. In the sixth year of Wanli (1578), she was conferred the title of Queen... The concubine Liu who was conferred on the same day was Zhao Fei. She passed away in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen (1642), at the age of eighty-six. Based on the age estimates from Ming historical records, it can be seen that Concubine Liu Zhao was twenty-one years old when she participated in the Wanli election. According to the regulations of the Ming Dynasty, the age of the show girls participating in the post-election must be between thirteen and sixteen years old. I think Liu Zhaofei cheated very obviously. This is like the current upper limit of age for the public service examination is 35 years old, but a person passed the public service examination at the age of 40. He still insisted that he did not cheat. Is that still interesting? This is a conclusion drawn through reasonable deduction from historical data. 3. The third example is Concubine Liu Zhao. When Chongzhen was still King Xin, he chose Princess Xin. Or "History of the Ming Dynasty·Biography 2·Concubine 2": Yi'an suspected that the queen was weak, so Concubine Zhao said: "Although she is weak now, she will grow up.", Because she was registered as Princess Xin. "Records of the Siling Ceremony", "Records of Jin Palace", "Chongzhen Palace Ci", etc.: After the Zhou Dynasty, he was selected into the palace and ranked third. "Suzhou Prefecture Volume 149": The emperor first wrote to the king, asking for a lady, and his name was included in the book. Later, he asked himself if he was not selected, and was given a feast. The Queen Mother (Concubine Liu Zhao, who holds the Queen Mother's seal here) looked down from behind the curtain and said, "This woman can earn the royal family's salary and is truly my wife, so she established her." To summarize: Empress Zhou entered the final round in King Xin's selection of concubines and ranked third. The Zhou family was weak in stature, and her appearance obviously did not meet the criteria for selecting a concubine. Queen Zhang of the Apocalypse did not want to choose the Zhou family. Concubine Liu Zhao insisted, and even though she felt there was no hope, Concubine Zhou was selected as Concubine Xin. Through the above three examples, this is how this book uses historical data. As for why there are so many harem historical materials involved, one is that the actions of these concubines in the late Ming Dynasty are really hard to watch. Second, in the Chongzhen Dynasty, the inner court and the outer court were too closely connected, and palace fighting and political fighting almost became one. To explain the political struggle clearly, we must also explain the palace struggle clearly. Thirdly, some people will definitely say that I am blindly criticizing historical figures, so I have to list all the historical materials I have seen. Everyone should use first-hand historical materials to discuss issues, and don't use those short essays that have been passed through countless hands as arguments.

I'm still in the capital now, hehe, and then I started paying for it. If you want to pay for the plot, then I guess I'll make the decision. I'm still in the capital now, and I really can't stand it anymore 🙄

In the introduction, I feel that the protagonist thinks too highly of Dong Lin. If the enemy does not come, I will fight among myself. If the enemy comes, I will surrender. Who can see this characteristic and not be confused? 🙂

I'm not being bribed. I really think this book is a masterpiece. It doesn't open technology trees indiscriminately. It's really not suitable to open technology trees in ancient times. Occasionally, it has to be in line with the society at that time. This book doesn't open technology trees indiscriminately. It's very in line with the social and national conditions at that time. It's very well written.