Pillar of the Great Ming: Starting as an Upright County Magistrate

Lao Zhu was the first anti-corruption person in history. He is hated by the scholar-bureaucrat class to this day, so much so that 9.5 Out of 10 TV dramas are against him.

Traveling back to the Hongwu Dynasty, as long as you don't rely on the nobles of Huaixi and are not greedy for power, Zhu Yuanzhang will not do anything to you. After reading various historical materials of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang weakened the Huaixi nobles in various ways after unifying the north and the south, from reducing the political influence of Queen Ma to using the old officials of the Yuan Dynasty to supporting the civil servants in the south of the Yangtze River. As long as you don't get involved in these struggles, you can still live a good life in the Nanjing court. The most important thing is not to think about getting close to Zhu Biao. He has no rights himself. He is relatively late among the princes who have power. From this, you can see how strong Zhu Yuanzhang's desire for power is. Moreover, he does not have his own set of East Palace team, and he actually uses the same team with Zhu Yuanzhang. It can be said that everything Zhu Biao does every day is under Zhu Yuanzhang's supervision.

The characteristic of this kind of book is that the introduction says that pig's feet seek peace and stability, but he takes all the limelight and does all the big things one by one.

I see that in many novels nowadays, officials are called adults. Before the Qing Dynasty, the word "adult" was mostly used for elders. In the Ming Dynasty, county officials were generally called Li Xianzun, Li Butang, Li Zhongcheng, etc., All of which were surname + official position to show respect for authority. After the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the word slave became a special word for Manchu ministers or Han ministers under the banner of the Han army. Generally, Han ministers were not qualified to be called slaves, they could only be called ministers, and they could only call each other "sir" to express their dignity.

Being an honest official under Lao Zhu, it seems that I can't survive on my salary alone.

In the Hongwu Dynasty, it was better to be an ordinary doctor. Don't be too good. If you are too good, you can easily go to the palace to treat diseases. Being an official is risky. No matter if you are a worker, you are afraid of being implicated in participating in projects. If you are an educator, you will be easily arrested as an official. Farmers are easy to be arrested for corvee labor.

How come the Ming and Qing dynasties are two different regimes? The essence of the Qing Dynasty was a colonial regime. You understand the Yuan Dynasty, right? Cixi once said that we should protect the Qing Dynasty but not China. He is not someone from our country. How can he be so naive? Do you understand that what the scholar-bureaucrats miss is the foreign regime? It's too tiring for this clan to pretend to be a gentleman every day, so why don't we just act like a gentleman?

This sentence by Zhao Yi of the Qing Dynasty is very pertinent: Gai Mingzu is a person who has the qualities of a sage, a hero, and a thief... It is difficult for us to evaluate Zhu Yuanzhang absolutely. We should not criticize Zhu Yuanzhang absolutely, nor can we worship Zhu Yuanzhang absolutely. After all, as a modern person, as a socialist citizen, it is a bit ridiculous to advocate such a thing to a feudal autocratic emperor.

The author's writing style doesn't look like he has just started writing books. To be honest, he has changed his vest a lot...

Sorry, such officials were not allowed to exist during the Hongwu period.