Daming: Lend the system to Emperor Hongwu at the beginning

Chapter 131 Zhu Yuanzhang's Brainstorm
However, Li Hongzhang and Cixi's response disappointed Zhu Yuanzhang.

They don't have the determination to fight with their backs, let alone the courage to fight with blood.

They chose to cede land and borrow troops.

In Zhu Yuanzhang's view, this is extremely stupid.

Because what they will lose in doing so will be dignity and courage.

But this is the most important thing for an army, a regime, and a nation.

This is what he despises the most about the Manchu regime.

Perhaps they have never been integrated into this land, and have understood what the core spiritual pillar of the people on this land is.

More than 200 years later, they are still the same group of barbarians who started in the frontier.

They don't understand what it means to throw their heads and blood, they don't understand what it means to fight for every inch of the Han family, they don't know what it means to serve the country with loyalty, and what is the backbone of the nation.

They can't possibly understand.

Because the Han people have always been domestic slaves in their eyes.

A group of domestic slaves talked about their family and country, and about the backbone of their nation.

Household slaves were meant to be enslaved.

This is the tragedy of this era.

In Zhu Yuanzhang's view, it was not the Qing Dynasty that caused the tragedy of this era.

In the final analysis, this regime is just a coincidence. Maybe even they themselves can't figure out how they occupy the Great Ming Dynasty.

But Zhu Yuanzhang understood that he had personally experienced the end of the Ming Dynasty, and he understood that a large part of the reason why the Manchus were able to rule the world was that the gentry in the world chose them.

They needed the Manchus to solve the growing peasant uprisings for them.

This is also the reason why when the Manchu Qing went south, the southern gentry hardly resisted, and almost all the cities were handed down.

In the end, only peasant rebels like Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang, and the pirate Zheng Chenggong were the ones who chose to resist the Manchu Qing.

Of course, this was before the hair shaving order was promulgated. As for after... what's the use, it's too late!
Every time Zhu Yuanzhang sees the real history of the late Ming Dynasty in this plane, Zhu Yuanzhang will feel a strong sense of irony.

Because these gentry were supported by the national policies he formulated when the Ming Dynasty was founded.

The various preferential treatment policies for scholars formulated by themselves in the early Ming Dynasty, not only did not make scholars appreciate Daming, but became the root of the downfall of Ming Dynasty.

They are too greedy.

This is also the reason why he is so determined to wipe out the world's gentry in the plane of the late Ming Dynasty and the current plane of the late Qing Dynasty.

Because he knows very well that these people are the real cancer in this country.

Relying on the imperial examination system, the huge cancer growing in the body of this nation.

Maybe the system let him come to the end of Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty to make up for the mistakes Daming made.

"Berwen, if you were Li Hongzhang, how would you deal with my army of hundreds of thousands?" Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly felt moved, and calmly handed the information sent by Jin Yiwei to Liu Ji next to him.

"If you only consider it from a strategic perspective, there is nothing wrong with Li Hongzhang's idea of ​​borrowing troops from Tsarist Russia."

"Of course he hasn't done enough. If I were him, I would have dispatched capable confidants to the south at the same time. The gentry in Anhui, Henan, Shanxi and other places have just been overwhelmed by Bi Bingfeng. It is the time when people's hearts are floating. If If someone went to lobby, they might be able to persuade the local gentry to rebel and threaten His Majesty's food path."

"In this way, the front attack is frustrated and the rear food supply is unstable. Maybe it will force His Majesty to withdraw his troops."

Liu Ji stroked his beard and opened his mouth. When he said this, he glanced out of the corner of his eyes and found that Zhu Yuanzhang was still expressionless, staring at him with piercing eyes.

According to Liu Ji's understanding of Zhu Yuanzhang, he immediately concluded that it was because his performance did not satisfy Zhu Yuanzhang.

This made Lao Liu tremble all over, and his brain began to work at a high load in an instant.

"But there's one big problem with this move."

"The Manchu move undoubtedly sought the tiger's skin and lured the wolf into the house."

"Those Tsarist Russians are willing to send [-] troops into the pass to fight us to the death, not just for the small land north of the Ussuri River, they are looking at the entire Northeast, and even Xinjiang and Mongolia."

"So, after this battle, regardless of victory or defeat, Manchu Qing will become a puppet regime controlled by Tsarist Russia in Northeast China."

"Your Majesty must make plans for this!" Liu Ji said loudly.

"I see!"

"Go down first!" Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand.

Liu Ji walked out of the hall with a puzzled face, he felt that there was nothing wrong with his performance!
Why does Lao Zhu seem a little unhappy?
When Liu Ji left, Zhu Yuanzhang stood up, frowning and paced back and forth in the hall, thinking silently.

"Liu Ji is smart, but he belongs to the former officials of the Yuan court. When thinking about problems, he is actually the same as those gentry. The first thing he thinks about is profit and loss. There is no national or national righteousness at all!"

"In other words, the righteousness of the country and the nation is also a part of the gains and losses in their eyes, and it can be discarded, or it can be traded."

"This is the most fundamental cognition in the subconscious mind of most scholars."

"The so-called family, country and world."

"Family first, country second, and the world afterward."

"Family comes first. This family is not a small family, but a family."

"When the interests of the family conflict with the interests of the country, [-]% of scholars will choose the interests of the family, or be forced to choose the interests of the family and abandon the interests of the country."

"As long as the interests of the family are not destroyed, the life and death of the country, what is the gain or loss of interests?"

"This is also the root cause of the Ming Empire's demise."

"If this kind of thing was put in the past, it would be basically unsolvable!"

"Because even if you can kill all the gentry in the world, a new class of gentry will still gradually form over time.

"Unless the state can break the family's control over family members and completely eliminate the gentry class!"

"This kind of control is reflected in all aspects, but in the final analysis it is a word of filial piety."

"And the root of filial piety comes from Confucianism and Taoism."

"This is the common choice of the rulers of all dynasties since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty deposed Confucianism as the only school of thought!"

"That is to say, if the gentry class is to be eliminated completely, the first thing to be eliminated is Confucianism."

"Confucianism is the foundation for the rulers of all dynasties to carry out unified and effective rule, especially after the Sui and Tang Dynasties began to implement the imperial examination."

Zhu Yuanzhang figured out all the joints, and a bright light flashed in his eyes.

The emperors of all dynasties did not dare to do, or could not do, it does not mean that Zhu Yuanzhang could not do it.

After all, the current Ming Dynasty is experiencing an industrial revolution with great productivity development.

The future Ming Dynasty will be a brand new era.

In such an era, perhaps it would be out of date to govern the country only with filial piety and Confucianism alone!
"Family country world, family country world!"

"Perhaps it's time to redefine this sentence." Zhu Yuanzhang murmured.

(End of this chapter)