This Chongzhen Is Far Too Extreme

1 Keyboard warriors say that when Chongzhen abolished the eunuchs, he cut off his hands and feet. Even this argument is wrong. Chongzhen's trust and appointment of eunuchs far exceeded Tianqi and his ancestors. Gao Qiqian, Lu Weining, Fang Zhenghua, Wang Mengbi, Du Xun, Yan Siyin, Niu Wenbing, Yang Maolin, Li Zongxian, Chen Dajin, Han Zanzhou and others supervised the armies. Not to mention the famous Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen, as well as Zhang Yixian, who was able to supervise the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Industry. Those who are interested in learning about the late Ming Dynasty can check the list of the suppression of Wei Zhongxian and his party members in the first year of Chongzhen. Ninety-five percent of them were civil servants who defected to Wei Zhongxian and rebelled against the imperial power. There were less than twenty eunuchs killed in total. During Wei Zhongxian's administration, he gathered a group of local parties that opposed the Donglin Party, known as the eunuch party. In essence, it was not a eunuch group, but a civil official group. Chongzhen wanted to move to the civil official group from the beginning, and the eunuchs had always been Chongzhen's sword. 2 The so-called theory that Wei Zhongxian can collect taxes The arguments are all wrong. There are a lot of arguments, which is simply outrageous. During the period from the first year of Tianqi to the fourth year of Tianqi, although the Donglin Party was in power, although it could not be said to have done the right thing, at least there were no large-scale popular uprisings in various places, and the intensity of the uprising did not intensify. Starting from the fourth year of the Apocalypse, the shortage of military pay in Liaodong began to increase exponentially. A lot of information about this can be found. From one million taels in the fourth year of Apocalypse to millions of taels in the sixth year of Apocalypse, this was something that even Donglin did not dare to think about during his time in power. The Lingong border deficiencies ranged from five to six years to more than 200,000 yuan; the Jinglu border deficiencies ranged from two to three years; the Guzhen Beijing Transport owed a total of more than 159,000 taels of silver from the 47th year of Wanli to the 6th year of Tianqi. At first, the armies were still selling their clothes and selling arrows, but now they are selling their wives; at first they were begging for food on the streets, now they are deserting the army; at first they were talking in the sand, but now they are shouting openly. Because of Wei Zhongxian's collection of debts, democratic changes occurred one after another, which directly led to the economic collapse in the Chongzhen year. Because the people have rebelled, taxes can no longer be collected. During the reign of Wei Zhongxian, the nominal income of the Ming Dynasty was rising, but this rise was a collapse, which was like drinking poison to quench thirst. It caused indelible and huge harm to the economy, and the economic benefits generated were not used in the right way. On the contrary, Liaodong's military expenditure began to be missing in large amounts. This directly led to the transformation of local warlords in Liaodong, and the military leaders began to rebel against Beijing. 3 Should Yuan Chonghuan be killed? Whether Yuan Chonghuan should be killed is not a question at all. As an emperor, does he need a reason to kill? But you can't kill while others are trying to save you. After Liu Bei took refuge with Mi Zhu with all his worth, he turned around and killed everyone in Mi Zhu's family because he had already obtained the money. Do you think it's okay? Can Liu Bei become Emperor Zhaolie if he does this? If Liu Bei was forced to defect to Cao Wei at Huang Quan and killed all of Huang Quan's family, would anyone still fight with Liu Bei? Say Yuan Chonghuan, damn it, are you really not teasing me? Mao Wenlong frequently exchanged letters with Hou Jin, and even prepared to join the army. Regardless of whether it was true or not, at least Mao Wenlong had complained many times because of Chongzhen's reduction in military expenditures on Pidao. He even led his troops to Shandong to massacre people to make money. I can't comment on whether Mao Wenlong should die or not, because the location of Pi Island is indeed important, but it has become a warlord and has no longer obeyed the orders of the emperor and cabinet. He has repeatedly killed enemy civilians for money and exchanged letters with the enemy. In this situation, should a normal person choose to appease or kill? It's me, I will definitely kill him. Yuan Chonghuan was just Chongzhen's black glove, who later killed Mao Wenlong. Yuan Chonghuan wrote several times to appease Dongjiang Town and allocate food to them, but Chongzhen kept refusing to give them, which directly led to Dongjiang Town Mao Wenlong's adopted sons to defect to Houjin, and later the Sanshun King incident occurred. 4 The dangers of the Donglin Party are even more divorced from reality. Regardless of whether the Donglin Party has any benefits, at least the Donglin Party did not have any impact on the situation in the late Ming Dynasty. Because Donglin's time as the ruling party was too short, it was too short to have much influence. Donglin Academy was opened in the last year of Wanli, and he was also transparent during the Taichang period. Tianqi came into power in the first year of the year, but the party itself has no clear rules and regulations, and it is not a modern political party. It does not even have a charter for you to do your thing and for me to do mine. There is no way to define which is the Donglin Party and which is not. We can only say which ones are like the Donglin Party and which are not. For example, netizens said that the water is too cold, Qian Qianyi, Qian Qianyi said that he was the party leader, but during the four years of Tianqi, he only served as the director of the Zhejiang Education Department for one year. Is there anyone who can be such a party leader? Who listens to him? In the first year of Chongzhen, he served as deputy director of the Propaganda Department for half a year, but was defeated in the political struggle and was unjustly imprisoned for several years. Does this look like a party leader? In the entire thirty years of the late Ming Dynasty, Qian Qianyi served as an official for a total of two years and spent three or four years in prison. Is there any party leader who has been in prison longer than he has been an official? Not even mentioning that the water is too cold is just a joke, and it is not consistent with the facts at all. It is said that even the leader of the Donglin Party is a fabrication. Don't you understand what this party is? A political party with no modern significance at all had no influence on the situation in the late Ming Dynasty. A party that only lasted three years in the late Ming Dynasty had only a single influence. In the 17 years of Chongzhen's reign, there was no overt party struggle at all. Chongzhen was just a man of his word. Whoever he trusted would be the ruling party. Donglin was not trusted. Han Guang, the only one who had a relatively friendly relationship with Donglin in the 17th year, only served as the chief minister for half a year. Everyone else was considered Donglin's political enemy.

In the late Ming Dynasty, the clan had no political power and was constrained everywhere. It was impossible to spend too much financial expenditure on support. In the 32nd year of Wanli (1604), Xu Guangqi recorded that "there are 130,000 people who belong to the country, but no less than 80,000 people are alive." By the time of Chongzhen, there were at most more than 100,000 or 200,000 clan members registered. Moreover, in the fifth year of Tianqi, the quota has been set at 1.62 Million taels of silver. The great vassal kings of the late Ming Dynasty were too impressive.

Eunuchs are just eunuchs, just say it directly, I respect you as a man. Now I am acting erratic and betraying the trust of my readers. From asking for leave at the beginning of October to say there was something going on at home, to being beaten by my roommate after a fight at the end of the month. Are you talking nonsense, talking about others 👻Nan, I think you are the 🐢 man, this is so disgusting, if you want to do it, you are acting like a bastard!

Judging from the first few chapters, the author's historical background is quite weak. A series of events that occurred when Chongzhen ascended the throne were actually the general outbreak of the financial collapse of the Tianqi Dynasty. The dispute between Yuan Chonghuan and Mao Wenlong. People who understand history through jokes think it is Qin Hui and Yue Fei. In fact, it was the Tianqi Dynasty that encouraged Mao Wenlong to count the people of Pi Island as soldiers, but the Chongzhen Dynasty could not come up with the money. Before the Yuan-Mao dispute, the conflict between Mao Wenlong and the court became increasingly fierce. The court had long investigated and found out that there were only more than 20,000 soldiers in Pidao, but Mao Wenlong wanted to continue the hundreds of thousands recognized by the Tianqi Dynasty. The two parties had been arguing. The imperial court wanted to send people to Pi Island to investigate, but Mao Wenlong responded by leading troops to Shandong by boat to demonstrate. During this period, Yuan Chonghuan stood in the middle, saying that Mao Wenlong had made great contributions. Although Pi Dao falsely reported his troops, he did not have only 20,000 troops. Let's talk about Yuan Chonghuan. Yuan Chonghuan is rare in historical passages, so he looks scared out of his courage. However, the actual history is exactly the opposite. This man is so courageous that he dares to do anything for what he wants to do. Talking back to the dispute between Yuan and Mao, Yuan Chonghuan thought that Mao Wenlong would be used in the future, so he put in good words for Mao Wenlong in the court. However, he later found that he could not control Mao Wenlong, so he immediately changed his attitude and killed Mao Wenlong himself. Let's talk about wooing the Mongols. Yuan Chonghuan knew that Mongolia would fall to the Jin Dynasty, but Yuan's character was that even if I knew that the Mongols would fall to the Jin Dynasty, I would be impeached, but I would need you Mongolians in the future, so I would still win over you. Why should we win over the Mongols? Because as of the first year of Chongzhen's reign, soldiers in Ji Town were in serious arrears with pay, and everyone in the court knew that the soldiers in Ji Town were vulnerable, so they could only use the Mongols outside Ji Town as a barrier. The problem when Chongzhen came to the throne was that he had no money. But having no money was not just the Donglin Party's corruption. It was also the eunuchs, nobles, and civil servants in the Ming Dynasty who were all corrupt. There is a saying that Li Zicheng paid 70 million in late Ming Dynasty, but this statement also said that two out of ten officials, eunuchs, and nobles accounted for three tenths. It's not that Chongzhen didn't reuse eunuchs in the late Ming Dynasty. The ethics of eunuchs were actually quite low. On the contrary, the civil servants who supervised these officials had good ethics and had good KPIs.

No matter how emperor you are, if you can't change the land annexation issue, your country will surely perish. Your family will continue to expand and acquire land without paying taxes. As an official, you will continue to annex land without paying taxes. All taxes must be paid by the common people. The common people have no land and no income. What can I do if I don't rebel? As long as the fundamental problem is not solved, Li Zicheng and others will continue to appear. We can't kill all the people, then there will be no one left in the Ming Dynasty. Who will support the country?

As title. I can't think of it anyway.

The author's fatalistic setting is very good. Otherwise, after traveling through time, it would be inappropriate to be close to China or not. This setting cleverly avoids this problem 🙂

Can the author pay attention to the language used? You are writing a novel, not posting on a forum. You use swear words every three sentences, which really affects the reading experience. Especially since you are writing a historical novel and you are constantly cursing. It feels like the grade has dropped from Machiavellian to Young and Dangerous. It is a bit low, to be honest.

Two months after he ascended the throne, he led an army of five thousand to Shaanxi and issued an order to kill nine out of ten. Or kill the ruler of Shaanxi and treat people as fools? What is the absolute power of the emperor? The local noble family does not have the armor to protect the courtyard?

Chongzhen is really stupid. Don't mention anything about Xiao Glacier. Don't mention anything about the Donglin Party. He just destroyed his minions when he came up. He's just like a retarded person.