Daming: At the start of the showdown, Lao Zhu was stunned

Chapter 18 The Death of Ming Dynasty
"Hum!" Zhu Yuanzhang snorted sullenly.Undoubtedly, Zhu Su's "powerless" conclusion completely broke his defenses.

"That's the case, if there are loyal ministers and good generals in the court, they will not go to the point of subjugation!"

"There are so many generals who lead the army, are they all traitors?"

"By the way, what about the nobles, we founded the country and granted so many nobles who share the same kinship with the country, why no one stood up to help protect the country?"

"Could it be that they all lost their children and grandchildren!"

Zhu Su raised his eyes and looked at Lao Zhu, and thought that they are not dead, but in a few years, you will be the one to do the same.

Few incense sticks lasted until the end of the Ming Dynasty.

But at this time, Lao Zhu was running away, and Zhu Su didn't dare to mention this.He avoided the seriousness and said lightly: "At that time, Daming didn't have many good generals who could be used."

"At that time, the civil servants had already held important powers, and they kept suppressing the status of military commanders. Everyone in the Ming Dynasty knew that civil servants were expensive and military commanders were inferior. The trend of Wu despising civil affairs became more and more intense. So much so that in the late Ming Dynasty, a military general of the sixth rank saw a military general of the seventh rank The magistrates of the highest grades have to bow and bow, but the magistrates are arrogant and don't bother to return the salute."

"A military general leads an army, and he must be severely restrained by the civilian officials. The literati supervising the army who don't know the soldiers overstepped the command of the general, and the general dared not disobey. After reprimanding, the board was raised high and then lowered gently."

"In the reign of Chongzhen, there were not even a few generals who could command the army. The commanders of the army were often held by civil servants. Distorting black and white. Partisanship against dissent, unscrupulous!"

Zhu Yuanzhang was dumbfounded.He never thought that his Daming would turn into what Zhu Su said after more than 200 years!
"Where are the guards? We set up guards and designated military households. We can raise millions of soldiers and horses for the Ming Dynasty! Even if half of the military households died in successive years of disasters, the remaining half will be sent to a pig as the commander. , is enough to completely wipe out Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and his ilk?"

Zhu Su shook his head. "Heh... the military system of the guard."

"Li Zicheng came from a military household in the post office."

"Military household in the post station?" Lao Zhu opened his eyes wide with anger. "Military households have fields and jobs. As long as I live in Ming Dynasty, they will have iron rice bowls for generations. Why should they oppose it?"

"Since Ming Taizu... that is your...after the military discipline of the guards was abolished, the non-commissioned officers annexed the land of military households unscrupulously, and gradually became landlords. Military households who lost their land are limited to household registration status, and can only be military households from generation to generation. They cannot make a living elsewhere. Lu, gradually reduced to a servant of a non-commissioned officer, and will never see his future."

"Because of this, more and more military households would rather flee their nationality and become refugees than be slaves for generations. There is a serious shortage of staff in the guards, and there is not one out of ten."

"Furthermore, by that time, the military households will no longer be as brave as their ancestors. They have been farming for generations, and their training has been slack. How can they know how to march and fight? Their combat power is low. Often dozens of rogues can defeat thousands of guards. military."

"Furthermore, there have been years of natural disasters, and the military households in the guards have no food to eat, and they also have deep resentment towards the imperial court. Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and other rebels climbed up and shouted, and all the refugees and military households were in trouble..."

With these words, Zhu Yuanzhang's pupils trembled. He took two steps back and sat down on the ground.

The disadvantages of the guard are as far as this!
This is one of his most proud national policies!He once thought with great joy that as long as the system of guards was implemented, Daming would never suffer from soldiers, which would be enough to keep the country of Daming forever...

Unexpectedly, Li Zicheng, who was born in a military family, became a sharp knife that stabbed Daming to death!

Thinking of his bold words at the court meeting, saying, "I raise millions of soldiers, I don't waste a grain of rice from the common people." Lao Zhu felt that he was panicking!

He raised millions of soldiers, but he raised them for the rebels!

"So, Li Zicheng, a military household, led countless refugees from military households in my Ming Dynasty, buried my foundation in Daming, and took away my Zhu family's country, right?" Old Zhu's voice couldn't hide his exhaustion.

The national policy that he was most proud of turned out to be wrong... This deeply hit his self-confidence.

"Yes, and no." Zhu Su shook his head.

"It was indeed Li Zicheng who lost Ming Dynasty. But it wasn't him who ended up in power."

"It's not him?" Zhu Yuanzhang was shocked again.What he heard today was too bizarre, he leaned out while leaning on the armrest.

"Didn't you say that Daming died due to internal and external difficulties, and there were Li, Zhang and others..."

Speaking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes brightened fiercely.

"So, the one who won this country died at the hands of foreign enemies?"

"Could it be Meng Yuan?"

Old Zhu's hands were bulging with blue veins.The killing intent in my heart could no longer be suppressed.Meng Yuan!Meng Yuan!Could it be that in our lifetime, we didn't eradicate the evil of Meng Yuan, and let it come back again?
"It's not Meng Yuan." Zhu Su shook his head again.

"It's Jianzhou Jurchen."

"Jianzhou Jurchen?"

Old Zhu was dumbfounded.

"What kind of bastard is this?"

"Jianzhou Jurchen is a minority living in Liaodong. They live by fishing and hunting." Zhu Su replied

"It was just a small tribe, and I, Da Ming, have been very kind to it. But after its rise, it has harassed the northern border of our Ming Dynasty several times."

"In the end, taking advantage of the chaos in China, a squirrel came behind, stole the artifact, and took away my Han country!"

Old Zhu's eyes almost dropped from shock.He hurriedly asked: "What about Li Zicheng? What about Zhang Xianzhong?"

"They defeated me, Ming, but a small tribe picked peaches?"

"Li Zicheng and his party...are just rogues after all."

"After they captured the capital, they felt that the overall situation was settled, so they enjoyed themselves recklessly. They 'cowed salaries' from the officials and the people, and got 7000 million taels of silver."

"However, after only 42 days, they lost the capital and fled in panic."

"Trash, rubbish!" Old Zhu was heartbroken, but he hated Li Zicheng.Immediately he thought of something again, and said bitterly: "It's such a waste, the Ming court is helpless!"

Zhu Yuanzhang took a few breaths.Zhu Su looked at him worriedly, afraid that he would die of anger in this Qianqing palace because he was too angry.

Fortunately, Lao Zhu is still in his prime at this time, so he can bear it for the time being.He clutched his chest, raised his eyes and looked at Zhu Su: "So, the Jianzhou Jurchen came to rule our country?"

"Yes." Zhu Su nodded.Thinking of the ten days in Yangzhou and the three massacres in Jiading, Shenzhou has been in turmoil ever since.China can no longer keep up with the pace of the world, but the Jurchen emperor boasted of "the prosperity of Kangxi and Qianlong" and "the perfect old man" on the flesh and blood of the people...

Until the powerful Western ships bombarded the country, the old hag still wanted to trample all the Chinese people under her feet, and shamelessly declared: "It is better to be with friends than with domestic slaves" "Measure the material resources of China, and be happy with the country"... …

Thinking of this, Zhu Su couldn't help clenching his fists!

(End of this chapter)