The Late Ming: Rebuilding the Realm from the Northwest

After reading the comments, there are so many fans. I can't say anything bad about the Zhu family 😁. In my opinion, the quality of the Zhu family's emperors is not very good. For example, Zhu Yuanzhang loves the people. Does his excessive issuance of treasures also love the people? Anyway, I can't find his policies that love the people. I can find some that harm the people. I can only say that he is a qualified feudal emperor and has nothing to do with greatness.

I came here because of your reputation. I heard that your wife is groggy?

It's a waste of 30 yuan for me. You're going to find a prostitute to be your woman. You're going to accept her as your concubine and I won't say anything. Damn it! I can't stand it anymore, garbage.

One of the first leaders of the peasant army in the late Ming Dynasty was Zhang Cunmeng. The first reason why he is like a time traveler is that he collected a lot of characters like a collection of cards who later supported most of the history of peasant wars in the late Ming Dynasty. Zhang Cunmeng's men are divided into eight teams: The first captain has an eye for money, and his real name is unknown. The second captain lights Dengzi, whose real name is Zhao Sheng. The third captain, King Li Jin, whose real name is unknown. The fourth captain Xie Chuan, whose real name is Tuo Yangkun. The fifth captain Zhang Fei, real name Zhang Wenchao. The sixth captain, the King of Troubled Times, whose real name is Guo Yingpin. Captain Seven will not accept you at night, his real name is Wang Wenyao. The Eighth Captain's real name is Li Zicheng. There are many people who are not captains but are also important figures. No need to say more about those from the eighth team, only those from other teams. Li You, the uncle of Wuyang in Shun Dynasty, was in the second team, and Wu Ruyi, the uncle of Taiping, was in the fourth team. The three brothers Wang Guangen, Wang Guangxing and Wang Guangtai are members of the fourth team. Black Evil God Li Maochun is in the second team, Huang Chaowu Dading, Tiger Yang Xiutou, Food King Wang Youjin, Jinlong Zhao Yunfei (originally nicknamed "Little Chuangjiang", but after meeting Li Zicheng, he felt that he was at a disadvantage and changed his nickname), Kuimu Wolf Liu Yingfeng is in the fourth team, Great Heavenly King Gao Jian, Feitianlong Zhe Zengxiu, and Four Heavenly Kings Li Yangchun are in the sixth team. Liu Zhong and Gypsophila Gao Ruli were also Zhang Cunmeng's subordinates, but they are not sure which team they were from. But the problem is that Zhang Cunmeng has so many fierce men under his command, but he himself is the weakest. The second reason why Zhang Cunmeng is like a time traveler is that he is very obsessed with establishing a base. Zhang Cunmeng followed a textbook approach and chose the location to establish his base near Mizhi, Li Zicheng's hometown. The reason is that this is the junction between the governors of Yansui and Shaanxi in the Ming Dynasty. There are mountainous areas to hide the army and farmland to develop production. The people are oppressed, most of the strong men have rebelled, the mass base is good, and there is a local Li Zicheng to lead the way. Aren't these conditions the same as those in Jinggangshan? Then, just as Jinggangshan faced the Hunan-Jiangxi Congress' suppression, Hong Chengchou, the governor of Yansui, and Zhang Fuzhen, the governor of Shaanxi, came together to encircle and suppress Zhang Cunmeng. Zhang Cunmeng discovered a fatal problem: he couldn't beat him. The captains all believe that it is unwise to fight a boss like Hong Chengchou as soon as we leave the Novice Village, and we should move. However, Zhang Cunmeng perfectly replicated Li De's command and defended his territory to fight the Ming army head-on. So, Ma Ke, who was just a captain in the Ming army at the time, led three hundred cavalry and defeated Li Zicheng and his group of future bosses. Zhang Cunmeng found out that he really couldn't beat him, so he gave up. At that time, there were two allies fighting with him, one was named Double-winged Tiger and the other was named Zijin Dragon. Zhang Cunmeng killed the Double-winged Tiger with his own hands, captured the Zijin Dragon and presented it to the Ming army, and surrendered to the Ming army. However, none of the eight captains refused to surrender, and they all broke up with Zhang Cunmeng. One captain died in the battle, and the other seven captains each fled to Shanxi with their own teams. Except for the seventh captain Wang Wenyao who joined Li Zicheng, the other six teams quickly developed into a powerful force in the Shanxi Peasant Army within one year. Among them, the fourth, sixth and eighth teams expanded particularly rapidly. Later, Zhang Cunmeng's old troops accounted for almost half of the peasant army in the late Ming Dynasty. Zhang Cunmeng fell into a bad end and was quickly killed when Hong Chengchou eliminated the peasant army and surrendered generals. He is both bad and useless, but he is able to gather a large group of masters as his subordinates; he defies everyone's opinions and engages in various tricks that are divorced from reality, and when he loses, he is the first to betray his teammates and surrender. It is very consistent with the characteristics of a time traveler who relies on street stalls to guide his actions.

I came here because of the reputation. First of all, literary and artistic works need to be oriented to readers and audiences. After the founding of New China, there have been many literary and artistic works that reflect how to transform from ghosts to humans and how to transform prostitutes in the old society. But the problem is that what I read is Shuangwen, and there is no reason why this kind of transformation must be placed in the position of the heroine. The subject itself is to challenge the reader's value recognition. Here is the most critical question: Do you want your family members to have prostitutes? If you don't want it, does that mean you don't support equality for everyone? I don't think so. This is a simple value recognition, a simple opposition to this kind of existence, and transformation also requires you to clarify the subject matter. For example, if you want to write this aspect of literature, you can imitate Lao She and write "Longxugou", instead of trying to force readers to accept this value recognition in the Shuangwen novel circle. This kind of separation of themes is what everyone hates the most. When I read a cool article with my co-author, I still have to watch the protagonist marry a prostitute and transform her. What's the difference between me and me reading a cuckold article in a cool article? The essence is to challenge readers, and since you choose to challenge, you will definitely be scolded. Let me explain one more thing here. It's not that I don't support the reform of prostitutes in the revolution, and the subject matter and works cannot deviate from it. This is just like how we will criticize the emergence of unparalleled gods and men in works that are bitter and hateful, such as anti-Japanese dramas. For the same reason, it is not wrong for you to commit literary youth in a part that is obviously a cool novel. Of course, I just come here because of the reputation. I just don't complain about it.

It is recommended to change the name to "Late Ming Dynasty: Is the Founding Queen a Prostitute?" Zhu Damai

I haven't read it yet, but I can already avoid lightning by reading the discussion thread. Why does Feng Tui do this kind of thing🙂

The author euphemistically describes how the old Zhu family was so rubbish, how the Ming Dynasty system collapsed, and then he rebelled and became emperor The question is, even in this book, can the author design a good system for a feudal country? Can you guarantee that your descendants will be able to implement this system? Can you guarantee that the last years of your dynasty will be darker than the old Zhu family? Can you guarantee that you will not encounter natural or man-made disasters? Nothing can be guaranteed. You keep saying how rubbish others are, but in fact you are just like that. So what qualifications do you have to say something about others?

First, when it comes to exploiting industry and commerce, Chongzhen is at least worthy of two apocalypses. After Chongzhen came to power, he killed Wei Zhongxian, cleaned up the party members Wei Zhongxian had arranged in Chaoguan, and immediately replaced him with his cronies, and raised taxes at Chaoguan. In addition, Chongzhen also restored the commercial tax in Tongguan and Xianyang, Shaanxi, which had been abolished by Wei Zhongxian. It also collects miscellaneous industrial and commercial taxes such as deed taxes, fishery taxes, bamboo and wood taxes, bridge taxes, incense taxes, etc., And levies taxes on seagoing ships, as well as taxes on salt, indigo, and linen produced in Guangdong and Fujian. Borrow teeth to exchange posts for tax increases, increase customs clearance, and increase salt taxes. In the early days of Chongzhen, it was just a tax increase. In the middle of Chongzhen, it was changed to Ming Dynasty. All houses in the city were directly taxed. If you have a toilet in your home, you have to pay a penny. Second, crack down on landlords who don't have much power, Niu Jinxing said, just give me your ID number. Since these people have no power, how much land can they hide and how much taxes can they owe? The wealthy gentry were only afraid of the peasant army, not the official army, because they all had official backgrounds, and soldiers could not easily offend them. But these small landowners and rich peasants who had no power but some family property were in bad luck. The peasant army came and thought they were rich people and killed them; the official army came and saw that they had no background in the court and were richer than ordinary people and killed them. This led to a large number of small landowners such as Niu Jinxing, Chen Kexin, and Deng Yanzhong defecting to Li Zicheng at the end of Chongzhen. If Chongzhen took money from them as soon as he came to power, the result would be that they would choose to rebel ten years in advance. A large number of scholars joining the peasant army will accelerate the discipline rectification and establishment of the peasant army's program, and their understanding of the government will also be greatly enhanced. Third, the Ming Dynasty has long been in arrears with the clan's salary. The biggest damage caused by the vassal kings is not the salary, but their titles. Because of the protection of their title, Prince Fu and Prince Lu dared to control even the salt industry, which was the country's economic lifeline. As long as the industry is run by the royal slaves, serious businessmen can't get involved. The royal palace can annex land much faster than ordinary gentry. Regardless of whether farmland or shops fell into the hands of the feudal king, the government would not even think about taxing them. As long as the feudal lord is still in power, this problem cannot be solved. Even the lower-level officials dare not touch the prince's property even if they have ten thousand courages. Unless Chongzhen can recall all the vassal kings to the capital. But the vassal king is not a fool. If Chongzhen wants to take them to the capital and dig out their roots, it will be doomed for the vassal king anyway. There will always be a few who resist. Cowards like King Heng and King Lu may be captured without help, but people like King Zhou are very likely to fight to the death. Even if only one prince resists, with the financial resources of a royal palace, it is not a problem to raise tens of thousands of refugees within a month in a disaster year. If the imperial court wanted to suppress it, it would probably cost tens of millions of taels of silver. Therefore, after Chongzhen captured King Tang and killed King Zheng, he did not get any money from them at all, but instead asked their close relatives to attack the princes. The problem of feudal kings can only be solved by rogue bandits, not the court. Fourth, with the management level of the late Ming Dynasty, it was difficult to even collect agricultural taxes as the basis of the country. How could it be possible to extract heavy taxes from industry and commerce while also encouraging industry and commerce. Besides, how does "encouragement" mean encouragement? You can't just issue an imperial edict saying that industry and commerce are glorious, and everyone will rush to do it. There must be something practical about it. For example, because food production has decreased, labor costs have increased, and craftsmen have demanded higher wages, does Chongzhen have the ability to lower food prices in the city? Not to mention that Chongzhen couldn't do it at all. Even if he could do it, it would only harm the interests of the big landowners who sell grain. How could he do it. For another example, someone planned to build a hydraulic spinning machine project, but there was a conflict with the water for irrigation of farmland, and a fight broke out with the local people. This was a real case that happened in the Song Dynasty. Could Chongzhen punch the landlords, kick the peasants, and steal water to support industry and commerce? Chongzhen could not even provide these real support. Chongzhen could not even stop his own officials from exploiting industrial and commercial people. Fifth, military reform, only weapons, but also the military system? Are we going to investigate the issue of eating empty pay and drinking the blood of soldiers? Are we going to investigate the occupation of the land at the guard station? If there is no change or investigation, the army will continue to be in bad shape no matter how bad it is. Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming have already proved this. If it is changed or investigated, and the interests of the military leaders are affected, wouldn't it be good for people to use it as the Han military flag to enclose the land? Sixth, overseas colonization, this is just a joke. The only place the Ming Dynasty could colonize was Southeast Asia, and the mainstay of Southeast Asia's economy was spices. The Ming Dynasty couldn't even figure out how to suppress smuggling along its own coast. How could it go to Southeast Asia to suppress smuggling? How can we have a monopoly without anti-smuggling? How can we make money without a monopoly? Seven, all the gentry in the world were studying Confucianism. The emperor suddenly said that he would no longer take the Confucian classics, but instead take the science test. An emperor who has cut himself off from the landlord class can still be an emperor. He can either pull a pole to make a revolution or climb a tree with a crooked neck. Obviously, Chongzhen could only go to the Crooked Neck Tree. Eight, imitate Zhu Yuanzhang in killing officials, but there is no need to imitate Chongzhen. Looking at the contemporaries, is there any monarch in the world who is better at killing his own men than Chongzhen? Chongzhen's fate has proved that he can only kill people but does nothing. Summary: The Ming Dynasty has passed, and it is difficult to return. The energy has been exhausted, and there is no way to recover.

I came here because of the reputation. It turns out that the author dreams of marrying her🐔