The Ming Dynasty, 1627
大明王朝1627
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- Ongoing
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- 1.6M Words
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- Historical
- Subgenre
- Song-Yuan-Ming Dynasties
- Updated
- 5mo ago
- English
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Well written! It's clearly written by someone who was once an emperor; it feels very real and matches my own experience as an emperor. Keep it up! ✊
Let's start a challenge thread. I'm a bit broke. 100 Coins for the first post, payment goes up to 100 posts. There's a limit to the number of guild leaders. This is my first time doing this. Please forgive any shortcomings, brothers.
Let's finish this on the 50th floor first. Don't let the book die of neglect. 😁
Author, what did you say at the beginning?
I remember you wrote this book out of anger because of the author of "The Wise Ruler Wanli," because he kept delaying updates so long that you couldn't stand it anymore. So you wrote this book, and now you and he have both stopped updating. I suspect you two are sleeping in the same bed every night.
The Great Ming Rescue Mission Management Board v1.0
This is hilarious! I'm definitely the first history writer to do this! I can't believe anyone else is as bored as me, hahaha!
Regarding someone's praise of the Song Dynasty's finances
I didn't really want to say anything, after all, it's one thing for someone to go crazy, but he actually said that because the Qing Dynasty inherited the Ming Dynasty's system, some of the Qing Dynasty's backwardness should be attributed to the Ming Dynasty. This kind of statement, which openly whitewashed the Qing Dynasty, made me laugh in anger.
The circle is full of people who openly criticize Hongwu.
I just don't understand. You read a Ming Dynasty novel, so even if you're not a Ming Dynasty fan, you're at least a casual reader. Why are you, a bunch of Ming Dynasty haters and Hongwu haters, reading this stuff? They denigrate the Ming Dynasty as utterly worthless, claiming it only abandoned territory and exploited farmers economically.
Why were there so many troops in the early Ming Dynasty?
Some might argue that the early Ming dynasty had a large army, but the people of the Ming dynasty had similar questions. For example, Yu Shenxing, a Grand Secretary of the Cabinet during the Wanli reign, lamented in his book: "We now find it so difficult to mobilize even a few thousand soldiers, so why did the Han and Tang dynasties easily send hundreds of thousands of troops?
The Ming Dynasty perished because it was rotten at its core.
The fundamental reason for the Ming Dynasty's demise was its backward system. From the outset, Zhu Yuanzhang established a slave-owning state. Lacking formal education, he was heavily influenced by the Yuan Dynasty, whose slave system was also practiced by the Mongols.
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Respectfully submitted to the author
We were overjoyed to hear that your writing had resumed, a welcome update like rain after a long drought. We rushed to spread the news. However, upon reaching the pages, we found only the word "update" hanging below the title page; the new chapter remained veiled, not a single word to satisfy our longing.