Great Ming: From the Start, Giving Zhu Di a Guide to Avoiding Pitfalls

A book that offers naive historical interpretations, simply copying online information without original thought, will not succeed. Frankly, some readers know more about history than the author. For a work to stand out, the author needs to be proficient in various historical details. When readers see details they didn't know and learn something new, they'll be convinced. That's how history gurus rise to fame.

Everyone says the third chapter is the "golden three chapters," but in the third chapter, Zhu Di didn't react at all to the mention of Emperor Chengzu of Ming. I'm starting to suspect it was written by AI.

I looked at what the author wrote, and it's all Manchu scholar-officials criticizing the Ming Dynasty. Objectively speaking, from an international perspective, the early Eastern Han Dynasty (with its four emperors) and the Ming Dynasty represent the most powerful periods in Chinese military history. Could a single Tang Dynasty have captured its capital nine times? The Song Dynasty was weak.

You've misspelled the nine-character strategy of "build high walls, store ample grain, and delay declaring oneself king." It was Zhu Sheng, not Liu Bowen, who proposed it.

Wow, that's amazing! Such high output right after release? I've been on Qidian for so many years, and this is the first time I've seen dozens of chapters released at once.

Why not mention Emperor Xiaozong when discussing incompetent rulers? Emperor Xiaozong was the most utterly tyrannical of them all.

Zhu Di's only flaw was failing to understand Zhu Biao's methods. Zhu Biao was like a bull trying to drink water but forced to obey (killing all dissenting civil officials). However, he overlooked one crucial issue: Zhu Biao died early, rendering all his calculations futile. He was forced to kill a group of nobles.

The problem of Zhu Di's sons was easy to solve: a genuine enfeoffment system. Let the ambitious and capable princes go out and conquer, whether it be to Europe, Annam, or India. The same applied to Zhu Di's other two sons, who were just loafing around.

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Gu Cheng initially served as a personal guard of the Hongwu Emperor, and later rose through the ranks to become the Left Commander-in-Chief of the Five Military Commissions. In the first year of the Jianwen reign, he followed Marquis Geng Bingwen of Changxing in the campaign against the Yan rebels. After a defeat, he was captured and surrendered to the Prince of Yan.