Daming Jingtai: I am the eternal benevolent king

Chapter 437 In the eyes of others, I can only compete for three out of five, but can’t I be the first?

Sixty-eight years of emperor's career has worn away all Zhu Qiyu's emotions.

He had long since transformed into a machine.

If it weren't for the machine, how could he have lived step by step for sixty years without complaining or having any emotions. No matter who lived or died, he would just watch with cold eyes.

He had long since become a machine.

Since Jingtai was eight years old, he has been running wildly on the road to becoming a machine. It took about ten years for him to perfectly evolve into a machine.

Emotions have been severed long ago.

Therefore, the biggest secret to longevity is ruthlessness.

Love is not longing.

Zhu Qiyu cut off his love affair with the birth of the Four Dragons. He never thought that in such a tightly controlled harem, his beloved concubines would actually try to change the prince's relationship with a civet cat, which almost made his throne unstable.

He has given countless powers in the world to his children, what more do they want? Do you want his life?

Those who come for power, those who come for territory, those who come for troops, and those who come for money.

Forgot all! They are all white-eyed wolves!
Why should I still think about you?

Zhu Qiyu chose to live longer.

Frankly speaking, he considers himself to be the second best emperor to his children in the history. The first is Taizu, and the second is him.

They all want something!

But cruelty is one of the secrets of longevity. Which one should I choose, between living alone and caring about my children?
You can’t choose to have them all, you can’t have your cake and eat it too, your daughters are all debts from your previous life. The more you think about them, the more trouble they will cause you, and you will never have peace of mind.

Don't talk about the emperor of a country. Isn't there a prince in the country? No minister? How come you have time to play with women and no time to serve your biological father?
How do you know to write to your father when you need something?

Maybe, Emperor Taizu really loved his children and grandchildren.

Concerned? Why do you care about them? They don’t care about me! Why do you care about them?
When I am so tired, who can do the work for me for a day?
When I'm walking on thin ice, who can help me?
Why do you only know how to take and not what you want in return?

Love is easy to break, but family ties are hard to cut off.

From then on, Zhu Qiyu cut off the thread of love with his sword and never was trapped by love.

You are just like the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, you are all tools of me, Zhu Qiyu. I can kill you if I want. Whoever I want to give power will have power. Whoever I don’t give it will be trampled under my feet forever and will never be able to turn over for generations to come. .

Later, the concubines in the harem died one after another, and he didn't even read the letters they wrote to him. He even burned them all without reading a single word, to avoid destroying his Taoist faith.

They all reach out!
Who wants to ask their father if he is feeling well? Who can come back and take care of his father for two days?
Who can?

Look at Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty. How did they treat their children?
But people are just not satisfied.

The so-called affection of those women was not for him, but for his throne and his power.

When I get old, people despise me just like outsiders.

Only then did he realize that no one in the world truly loved him, all they loved was the power in his hands.

Those concubines in the harem only have power in their eyes.

He wondered if Emperor Taizu would be sentimental when he felt that he was too kind to his children when he was old, but did not receive any reciprocation from his children.

Do you think I am an old scalper? Do you think I am a fool?
Zhu Qiyu never felt that he owed anything to his children. On the contrary, all his children owed him something. Who would repay it?

Why should I give you this most precious treasure in the world?

Zhu Qiyu not only cut off love, but also cut off family ties.

It’s true that love feeds the dog.

However, he never expected that he would be deceived.

If he was just an ordinary man, he might not even be able to get a wife.

My favorite fourth son returned to the country to succeed him as the crown prince. Didn’t he also pretend to care about him? What I like most is the chair under his butt! Is it him, an old man who is dying of age?

Not to mention those daughters, none of them entered the palace to serve their biological father. Because he refused to give his daughter a vassal state, his daughters all hated him.

No one remembers how much their father loved them when they were children.

Zhu Qiyu did invest emotionally, but he invested very little. He is a person who is extremely able to restrain his emotions. He is cold-blooded.

Zhu Qiyu was so restrained in his later years, firstly for the development of Ming Dynasty, and secondly for his children, but who of these children have ever understood him? Who knows the pain in his heart?

He seems to love his son and care about his daughter, but several of his daughters have died, and he doesn't even move his eyes. Three of the sons of the outer vassal have died, how could he not know?
But he pretended not to know, and his heart was calm.

He always thought that he was good to his concubines. He had sex with them, was very kind to everyone, and tolerated their shortcomings. He thought he had done a very good job.

He has raised Zhu Jianqi for more than sixty years. When he is approaching old age, won't he still be unfilial?

So it cuts cleanly.

No one cares about his feelings, no one considers the difficulty of his throne, no one considers the joys and sorrows, they just compete for power through him.

I am your father!

As people get older, what they need is companionship!
When you were young, I grew up with you. When I am old, who will accompany me to grow old?

Why was Zhu Qiyu able to cut off the thread of love? So many emperors in history were trapped by love and could not let go of love, just because their love was too deep.

They always say that there are no cruel parents in the world.

I am an emperor, yet I am so sad when I am old!
What about ordinary people?

Zhu Qiyu didn't understand why old people commit suicide every year now. He thought it was because the system was not good, social security was not good, and there was something wrong with the court.

Now I understand that children are unfilial.

In this world, can children repay even one ten thousandth of the love parents have for their children?
No!

Not to mention being disliked for being old, being disliked for not having money, being disliked for being ugly, being disliked for not cooking well, everything is disliked.

After all, I shouldn't have had this evil obstacle.

Zhu Qiyu is in charge of world power and is the emperor of the world, so he is still despised.

The fourth child took care of him for ten days and then fell ill. Who could take care of him?

Which son can do it instead?

Among the daughters outside the palace, who can come into the palace to serve their father for a few days? When you enter the palace, you just ask for something, and if you don't give it, you get angry. No one knows how to be filial.

Zhu Qiyu calculated that he had not seen his daughter for about eight years.

It was the 60th year of Jingtai's reign, and his sixth princess was lawless outside the palace. He refused to listen even after being told several times, and was finally sued to the Fengtian Palace.

In anger, he brought his son-in-law and grandson, whipped his son-in-law and three grandsons to death, and escorted her to prison. From then on, none of his daughters dared to enter the palace.

Since then, he has strictly restricted the rules of the princess, restored the old system of the Hongwu Dynasty, and strictly prohibited his relatives from entering politics, the military, and business.

In fact, after the Yongle Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty's legal system was more lenient towards princesses. In the Jingtai Dynasty, princesses were even allowed to participate in politics to a certain extent.

Because Zhu Qiyu needed the power of the princess to balance the power of the civil servants.

The reason why there were so many rebellious princesses in the Tang Dynasty was because the Tang Dynasty needed the power of princesses to balance the power of aristocratic families, and the marriage between princesses and aristocratic families. This resulted in princesses becoming representatives of the royal family and aristocratic families, and thus having political rights.

During the Jingtai Dynasty, Zhu Qiyu wanted to use the princess and his relatives to form a new force and form a situation of separation of powers with the nobles and civil servants.

But it ultimately failed.

It's mainly the princess's power. She is a hopeless case. The family formed by the princess and the descendants of civil officials and nobles is a mess. Some of them sided with the nobles, and some sided with the civil officials. No one was willing to help her father.

Zhu Qiyu didn't pay special attention to his relatives. He originally planned to wait for the princess's power to take shape before supporting his relatives.

Combining the two forces.

The main reason is that these princesses feel unbalanced after marrying outside. All their brothers are in foreign vassals and have become emperors of a country. They also have royal blood, so why can't they also have a vassal state?
After the feminist trend, princesses are all extreme feminists. They believe that men and women are equal. The old emperor said that men and women are equal, but in fact they did not achieve equality because they did not have a feudal kingdom.

Therefore, for a long time, they have been fighting against the imperial power and their father.

Let the old emperor's arrangements become empty.

After that, the old emperor stopped talking about supporting his relatives, which caused the power of the princess and the relatives to collapse. In the end, the three powers of civil servants, nobles, and eunuchs were separated.

The princess was unreliable, so Zhu Qiyu simply slowly took back his political power.

But none of these daughters are fuel-efficient lamps. If they want this today and that tomorrow, if the feudal country cannot get it, they can take advantage of the old emperor.

The old emperor would not give it to him, so he would collect it from the people.

They don't dare to plunder the common people. It can't be said that they don't dare. The main reason is that there are too few and they don't like them. They specialize in plundering capitalists.

But when the wool comes from the sheep, the people still pay for it.

Zhu Qiyu had no choice but to scold him from time to time. The relationship between father and daughter was extremely bad.

In recent years, he didn't want to see his daughter if she didn't enter the palace. Anyway, he hated her.

However, the princess's authority was getting smaller and smaller, and he was already limiting the authority of the entire clan.

He had seventeen daughters, eleven of whom are still alive today, one of whom was tortured to death by his consort. He had his consort late, and his children and grandchildren were also buried together.

The other five are considered dead.

As for the funeral, he didn't know because the court officials didn't tell him.

However, when the princess dies, the consort must be buried. This is the rule of the Jingtai Dynasty, and the princess and the consort must be monogamous and have no concubines. Children who are not the princess must also be buried.

This kind of children are all born secretly, so there is nothing wrong with being buried.

When Gu'an died, Fang Han was still alive, but he also hanged himself. There was no exception and he had to be buried.

Of the remaining eleven, two are now lying in bed, seriously ill, and may not make it through the end of the year.

He knows it all.

If no one reported it to him, he just pretended not to know.

He thought that he had done his best to his daughters. Not one of his seventeen daughters was filial, yet he allowed them to enjoy wealth and wealth. He was already too qualified as a father.

When my daughter dies, my son-in-law goes down to accompany her. Isn’t he a good enough father?

As a father, he does not have to ask for anything in return, but the old father also needs to be cared for. If he is blindly asked for something, he will be angry.

When Zhu Qiyu no longer cared about his children's debt, he completely turned into a ruthless machine. From that moment on, nothing in the world could stop him, and no one could stop him from living a long life. pace of.

Let's talk about Concubine Tan, the only remaining concubine in the harem. The two of them seemed to be together for warmth, but in fact Zhu Qiyu was always worried about Concubine Tan.

In his eyes, Concubine Tan was just a high-level tool that made him comfortable.

She is just a tool to serve him, but Concubine Tan is a high-level tool who can get close to him without being suspected by him.

The reason why he trusts her is not because of feelings, but because of the deep ties of interests. He can live comfortably in Tan Fei, and his sons can get the benefits of the Ming Dynasty in Tan Fei, as well as Tan Fei's mother clan. Can live a nourishing life.

Looking at the mother clan of other concubines, as the nobles in the palace died of illness, they lost their wealth one after another, and some even went out to beg for food.

Because the princess cannot be supported by the power, her relatives are naturally unable to recover. She relies entirely on herself, and the palace will not give her any support.

The relationship inside and outside the palace forced Concubine Tan to take good care of the old emperor.

Zhu Qiyu no longer believes in feelings.

He only believes in profit.

The longevity of an emperor is the most difficult thing in the world. The average life span of an emperor is less than forty years.

There were few emperors in the Ming Dynasty who lived beyond the age of forty.

Zhu Qiyu lived to be ninety years old.

To rule out conspiracy theories, you must strictly control yourself, diet, exercise, desires, emotions, and mentality, and these are the foundation of longevity.

Zhu Qiyu's accession to the throne was not early.

Qin Shihuang ascended the throne at the age of 13, Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty ascended the throne at the age of 24, Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty ascended the throne at the age of 32, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ascended the throne at the age of 16, Tang Taizong ascended the throne at the age of 21, Tang Gaozong ascended the throne at the age of 22, Tang Xuanzong ascended the throne at the age of 27, Song Renzong ascended the throne at the age of 13, and Yuan Shizu was 45 years old ascend the throne.

Ming Taizong ascended the throne at the age of 43, Ming Renzong ascended the throne at the age of 37, Ming Xuanzong ascended the throne at the age of 26, the orthodox emperor ascended the throne at the age of 7, and Zhu Qiyu ascended the throne at the age of 22.

Judging from the average life span, Zhu Qiyu only served as emperor for more than ten years and died.

But Zhu Qiyu is stubborn.

Compared with all the emperors throughout the ages, Zhu Qiyu was the most stubborn.

In all aspects of civil and martial arts, they could not compare with the Qin Emperor, Han Wu, Tang Zong, Song Zu, Genghis Khan and Taizu.

"Your Majesty." The eunuch called because the old emperor had been dazed for too long.

Only then did Zhu Qiyu come back to his senses: "Help me go back to the palace."

In the evening, when Zhu Youyi entered the Yangxin Hall to pay his respects, he suddenly asked: "Great Sun, if you rank the emperors of the ages, where can I be ranked?"

Zhu Youyi was shocked. The old man was taking an exam for him?
"My grandson thinks that Grandpa Huang is firmly in the top three." Zhu Youyi gave him a high evaluation.

But Zhu Qiyu didn't say anything. Could it be that I thought of it first? Don’t others think I am number one?
"Tell me the top three in your mind." Zhu Qiyu asked with a smile.

Zhu Youyi took a look at him and said cautiously: "My grandson thinks that Emperor Taizu will definitely be in line, and Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty should also have a place."

In this way, the top three spots are all available.

This guy is sloppy, meaning Taizu is first, Zhu Qiyu is second, and Li Shimin is third.

It's clearly a lie.

"Tell the truth." Zhu Qiyu was unhappy. Doesn't this clearly show that he is touting my achievements? My achievements are real, do I still need to praise them?

"My grandson really thinks so. The reason why the emperor's grandfather cannot be ranked first is because you are a descendant of Emperor Taizu. How can you surpass your ancestors?" Zhu Youyi said clearly not sincerely.

"Rankings are based on ancestors. According to what you said, Emperor Taizong should be ranked in front of me!" Zhu Qiyu was angry.

"My grandson knows his mistake!"

Zhu Youyi knew that he could not be fooled, so he gritted his teeth and said: "My grandson thinks that Qin Shihuang should be ranked first, Tang Taizong is second, Emperor Grandpa is third, Emperor Taizu is fourth, and Emperor Guangwu of Han is fifth."

"Who is more powerful, Genghis Khan or Emperor Taizu?" Zhu Qiyu asked.

"Emperor Taizu must be more powerful. Although Genghis Khan conquered a lot of territory, it is because his descendants are better and his cavalry is more powerful. Moreover, Mongolia is good at fighting but not good at running a country. Our Emperor Taizu is good at fighting, employing people and running a country. , is an all-rounder in military and political affairs.”

"My grandson believes that Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty is more powerful than Genghis Khan. If Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty is given a world map, Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty can also open up the world."

Zhu Youyi’s idea is interesting.

"You said that Emperor Taizu was powerful. Emperor Taizu also knew this vast world. Why didn't Emperor Taizu conquer the world? He even set neighboring countries as countries without conquest. Why?" Zhu Qiyu asked him meaningfully .

Some people say that Zhu Yuanzhang is a petty person. He was born as a farmer and could only see one-third of an acre of land.

There are also people who died in the Hongwu Dynasty after the Ming Dynasty.

The system of the Hongwu Dynasty was destined to destroy the Ming Dynasty.

"Back to Grandpa."

Zhu Youyi said seriously: "If a country is strong and warlike, it will perish. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the country was extremely poor and desolate. The Mongols plundered this land. After the great war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, there was a great famine and starvation everywhere."

"If Emperor Taizu raises his troops and fights again, he will definitely be able to conquer a wider territory."

"But the Ming Dynasty will be lost."

"The Ming Dynasty must die in the second generation."

"My grandson has always believed that the second generation of the Qin Dynasty died because Qin Shihuang used military force. The Qin army was so strong that it was rare in history. In the final analysis, it was the military merit system."

"However, after Qin destroyed the six kingdoms, Qin's military system collapsed, and the people had no land to divide."

"And the old aristocracy is still annexing land on a large scale, causing the soldiers who fight for the country to have enough to eat, not to mention the fiefdoms, and it is difficult to have a full stomach."

"So, Qin will inevitably perish."

"If the Qin Dynasty destroyed the six kingdoms, not in one lifetime, but in a step-by-step manner, and eating them bit by bit, the Qin Dynasty might also have a two-hundred-year-old kingdom."

"In other words, the last afterglow of Shang Yang's reform is the destruction of the Six Kingdoms."

"If Qin Shihuang does not destroy the six kingdoms in his hands, Great Qin will have no chance to destroy the six kingdoms."

Zhu Qiyu nodded slightly, this opinion was correct.

At the end of the Qin Dynasty, even the old Qin people abandoned the Qin State, because under the military merit system, it was a terrible thing to have no land to divide.

It was true that the six countries were destroyed, but they gained the deep hatred of the six countries.

It just shows that the first person to eat crabs will not end well.

This is also Zhu Qiyu's military merit system. We should look at the whole world. Only the land of the whole world is enough. And the military merit system must be abandoned at the appropriate time, otherwise sooner or later it will cause fire.

This is also the reason why he enfeoffed the land and did not directly manage it.

Qin's destruction of the six kingdoms was exactly the same as Zhu Qiyu's annexation of the world.

With the national power of Qin, it could not occupy so much territory. Therefore, after Qin Shihuang destroyed the six kingdoms, he had to build roads and build large-scale construction projects. If he did not do this, he would not be able to rule the six kingdoms.

Too anxious.

Don't worry, Qin Shihuang was already considered to have lived a long life at that time. It all depends on the virtue of his future kings. If Qin Shihuang doesn't do it, it's hard to say whether future generations of Qin can save it, let alone unify the six countries.

So, this is a historical problem.

Even a great man like Qin Shihuang found it incomprehensible, let alone others.

Don't think that Qin Shihuang didn't know that such a great emperor who shocked the past and the present could imagine him as a god. How could a god-like figure not even see such low-level problems?

The Han Dynasty inherited the foundation of the Qin Dynasty, and it took more than a hundred years to recuperate and recuperate before the world could regain its vitality and allow the world to recognize the Han Dynasty and identify with unity.

Fortunately, the Han Dynasty pursued rule by inaction in the early days, otherwise the country would have collapsed long ago.

Finding it correct from the perspective of later generations just proves the brilliance of our ancestors.

Or rather, the famous figures in history are all top-notch people. What you can see is that they are better than you. Don’t underestimate the wisdom of that era. In fact, any great and brilliant era , political wisdom is extremely high, even higher than now.

Let’s just say that the Dachi Road built by Qin Shihuang is today’s high-speed rail?
The main roads in Yunnan and Guizhou were all opened by Qin Shihuang and are still in use today. This kind of top talent in history has extremely terrifying political vision. The Qinghai-Tibet Line was the first to be built by Emperor Taizong of the Ming Dynasty.

How many systems were left over from the Qin Shihuang era, and they are still in use today. This system is far ahead of future generations.

"So Sun'er believes that Emperor Taizu stopped the war in order to allow the people to recuperate and restore prosperity to the world."

"This just shows that Emperor Taizu had excellent political vision."

"The Mongols are indeed good at conquering and fighting, but they do not govern the place. The serious desertification in Mobei and northwest is the result of the Mongols' evil deeds!"

"They didn't manage it. They stayed there for a while and then left after destroying the soil and water. As they moved westward, they naturally needed to fight along the way."

"That's why Meng people are good at fighting, because if they don't fight, they won't have food to eat."

"But the home of us Han people is here and will always be here."

"They can leave, but we can't."

"Therefore, Emperor Taizu did not continue to expand his territory, but chose to accumulate national power and slowly restore the prosperity of the Han people."

In the early Ming Dynasty, many provinces were deserted, with no human beings living in them for thousands of miles.

The Hongwu Dynasty forced many forced immigrants to make many provinces prosperous again.

The task of carrying forward the past and opening up the future will be left to future emperors.

But Emperor Taizu never expected that future emperors would be so unreliable.

When Emperor Jianwen came to power, he cut down the vassals, and Emperor Taizong began to suppress the country again, which almost brought the country to collapse. Instead of continuing, the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty was briefly interrupted.

The entire Yongle Dynasty was always engaged in foreign wars.

In the north, Nu'ergandusi was established, and several prefectures in Guizhou were captured, and Annan was captured. Zheng He's voyages to the West had too many achievements.

But what did it bring to the Ming Dynasty? The people were in poverty and life was worse than death.

If Emperor Renzong had not strongly supported the government in the central government, I am afraid that the Yongle Dynasty would not have been able to sustain the war, and the Ming Dynasty would also have died.

However, Renzong's so-called support was not obtained from the people.

It is equivalent to saying that borrowing debt from the people will be repaid by future generations.

The so-called rule of Renxuan is not as good as what is written in the book.

Why did Emperor Xuanzong stop conquering? With Xuanzong's ability, he could completely take over Annan again, because there was no money and because it had no practical value.

Before there are cold-resistant seeds, the entire Liaodong is useless, let alone the entire Northeast.

Before there were corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes, the entire north wanted to be abandoned.

Before the formation of the Red River Plain, Annan was a completely bad land.

Let alone North Korea, whoever wants it will be in trouble.

Therefore, from a practical point of view, these places are useless. War will increase the burden on the people, because the Ming Dynasty collected taxes from the people, and collected agricultural taxes.

How much money can you make from farming throughout the year?

They have to be exploited.

Therefore, Emperor Xuanzong has been opening up the sea and making voyages to the West. It is precisely because of the money from the West that the court has overcome the dilemma of the Yongle Dynasty's constant wars.

Emperor Xuanzong had been paying off the debts of the Yongle Dynasty, and it was only in the Zhengtong Dynasty that they were basically paid off.

However, Emperor Xuanzong died suddenly.

The orthodox emperor, who was only nine years old, ascended the throne, and then his voyages to the West stopped.

It was because Empress Dowager Zhang was in charge of the government, and the so-called three most virtuous elders in the Ming Dynasty, San Yang, were in power.

They frantically stole the imperial power, stopped their voyages to the West, and cut off the royal family's financial resources.

But no one has landed in the West?

No, it turned into a group of gentry going crazy.

As soon as the imperial court announced the opening of the sea, the Japanese pirates went crazy to seize the border. The entire southeastern coast of the Ming Dynasty did not stop for a day.

Why did the Qing Dynasty cease?
Because the Qing Dynasty killed all the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, it stopped.

This is Emperor Taizong's fault.

He was not in the right position, and his exchange of interests with the gentry formed a gentry group.

Zhengtong Dynasty also sailed to the sea once.

The boats didn't come back, but the people drifted back from the sea.

Who believes it?
That's the sea. You can float on it and I'll take a look.

When a wave hits you at the beach and you can't get up, how about swimming back from the sea and writing fairy tales? Robinson Crusoe.

Why was Jingtai Dynasty able to open the sea?

First, Zhu Qiyu was ruthless. He killed as many Jiangnan gentry as possible and moved away as many as he wanted. Second, he was willing to transfer his interests. Opening up the sea was not done by the imperial court, but by all the people. The imperial court had the big share, the common people had the small share, and the court sent troops to protect them. Maritime merchants.

To support the proposed policies, business is allowed and officials are allowed to do business.

Only then can we open the sea.

Set key points and allow officials to do business.

Without this, no one can open the sea, and whoever opens the sea will die. It will be useless even if Taizu comes.

Even if Zhu Qiyu can concoct ten major cases, he will not be able to open the sea and he will die.

Zhu Qiyu not only allowed officials to do business, but also rewarded the family businesses of the Jiangnan gentry to officials. Not only did he allow it, he also encouraged you to do it.

Therefore, Jingtai Dynasty opened the sea.

Some people may have forgotten that the first wave of immigrants from the south of the Yangtze River, but whether they were alive or dead, a ship was filled with death. No matter whether they were alive or dead, the number of people who arrived in Jiaozhi was counted as many as they were.

Later, he suddenly became extremely gentle, treating the Jiangnan immigrants like his ancestors.

why?
Because Zhu Qiyu was warned.

If he was allowed to immigrate so roughly, few Jiangnan gentry would survive, so some people went crazy and warned Zhu Qiyu.

That year, there was a catastrophe in Hebei, floods in Henan, and the entire capital was shaken.

That’s why Zhu Qiyu pinched his nose and gave in, changing his immigration methods.

Don't think that Zhu Qiyu is a benevolent king.

When he chose to immigrate that way, he was letting those people die.

However, those people also asked the emperor to die, so Zhu Qiyu chose to compromise and changed from rough immigration to gentle immigration.

The Jiangnan gentry who moved over turned from criminals into masters. In the past, they were domineering and domineering people.

Zhu Qiyu gave them so many benefits.

Not for free.

It's because his throne is threatened.

From that time on, Zhu Qiyu was no longer a tyrant.

From then on, he acted carefully, put on a hypocritical face, and began to say that the world is all Han, the Chinese Miao people are all Chinese people, immigration is a top priority, and no Chinese people can die during the immigration process!
wait wait wait.

He was afraid.

His throne was not threatened, but his life was threatened.

So, from then on, he began to compromise, becoming a saint and a good person, no longer killing people, and no longer being a tyrant.

If you continue to be violent, you will be violent to yourself.

If you want to survive, you have to learn to cooperate and learn to act, hello, me, everyone.

anyway.

The backbone of the Ming Dynasty was interrupted by Tumu Fort.

The emperor became a prisoner and became the laughing stock of the world. The imperial power was lost, the family wealth accumulated for decades was lost, the border passes were lost, the strong army that had been raised for decades was lost, everything was lost.

Before Tumubao, the Ming Dynasty had always been victorious in its foreign wars.

It can even be said that the tribes in Mobei were so frightened by the Ming Dynasty that they did not even see the Ming army. They ran away after hearing the news, which shocked the desert.

The Ming cavalry swept across Mobei for about seventy or eighty years.

Lian Ye was stunned by the defeat of Tumu Fort. He did not expect that the Ming army was so vulnerable.

Since then, Ming Dynasty has become conservative in its foreign wars, and it has never stood up even if it was beaten.

so.

It’s not that Taizu was incompetent, but that his descendants were incompetent.

It's also God who doesn't bless the Ming Dynasty.

During this period of the Ming Dynasty, everything was wrong, everything was not going well, and there were strong enemies everywhere. The Ming Dynasty encountered the strongest Mongolian tribes, the strongest Japanese country, and the strongest Jurchen, and there were constant natural disasters. Bad luck everywhere.

I won’t talk about what the emperor is like. In fact, the emperors of all dynasties are similar, and there are stupid emperors everywhere. But the rise and fall of a dynasty is not determined by one emperor. The general environment, courtiers, and monopoly classes all determine the rise and fall of a dynasty.

It can’t be said that Ming Dynasty was unlucky. It can only be said that bad luck always happens together.

Bad luck only picks out the miserable.

Every time Ming Dynasty was unlucky, it was a collective misfortune like a swarm of bees, rushing together to do everything.

"Do you think Emperor Taizu's national policy is correct?"

"Incredibly correct." Zhu Youyi replied.

"Then I have been fighting all year round and have not continued Taizu's strategy. Then I am wrong?" Zhu Qiyu was testing him.

"Grandpa Huang, your words are wrong."

"In the early Ming Dynasty, it was completely different from now."

"In the early Ming Dynasty, when the country was weak and the family was poor, the most important thing was to recuperate and recuperate, not to fight."

"But now, the country is rich and the people are strong, and the war is a war thousands of miles away. It does not affect the homeland, and the homeland can still live and work in peace and contentment."

"Another point is that at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, taxation was entirely supported by agricultural taxes."

"Nowadays, the Ming Dynasty relies on industry and commerce to support its finances. The current finances are hundreds of millions of times that of the early Ming Dynasty, which is not the same as before."

"Another point is that the first industrial revolution of the Ming Dynasty has ended. It is a good time to expand externally and exchange primitive accumulation for the results of the second industrial revolution."

"Sun'er believes that the country cannot maintain peace for a long time and then lose its military strength. Instead, it should fight all the year round to maintain the combat effectiveness of the army."

"In the past, our country was short of money and food, so it could not sustain a long war."

"Now our country has sufficient military supplies. Not only is it not lacking, it is also very rich. We should fight more and train more to strengthen our troops, so that the world will always surrender at the feet of my Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Youyi's opinions are okay.

Zhu Qiyu nodded: "Then, how can I be inferior to Qin Shihuang and Tang Taizong?"

"My grandson thinks that the reason why the emperor is inferior to Tang Taizong is mainly because of Tang Taizong's extreme military talent, coupled with the prosperous Zhenguan era, so Tang Taizong is a role model for emperors of all generations."

"Then let me ask you, which one is greater, the prosperous age of Zhenguan or the prosperous age of Jingtai?" Zhu Qiyu's eyes narrowed.

"Grandpa Huang, this is incomparable."

Zhu Youyi said speechlessly: "The prosperity of Zhenguan's prosperous age lies in rising from the ruins, but our Jingtai prosperous age is the continuation of glory."

"Hahaha." Zhu Qiyu laughed and immediately stopped: "Don't be cunning, tell the truth."

"In terms of prosperity, the Zhenguan era is far inferior to the Jingtai era."

This is true.

"My military talent is far inferior to that of Tang Taizong, but in terms of employing people to govern, am I not better than him?" Zhu Qiyu asked again.

Zhu Youyi couldn't get rid of this.

Are you really good at competition? Are you better than others?

Even a three-year-old child knows about the twenty-four meritorious officials of Lingyan Pavilion, but not many people know about your one hundred and fifty meritorious officials in Ziwei Pavilion.

To talk about the emperor who was the best at employing people, the first one would be Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, followed by Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty.

It’s Emperor Taizu again, and then you.

"Oh, according to what you said, turning waste into treasure and turning a group of wastes into famous ministers and generals, isn't that my credit?" Zhu Qiyu asked him.

Is this okay?

You are too shameless.

Zhu Youyi wants to flatter him, but the old emperor won't allow him to flatter him, so don't flatter him, there's no way to talk about it.

"Grandpa Huang, if my grandson is calculated in points, Tang Taizong has 99 points and you have 98.99 points. There is only a slight difference."

"Just 0.01?"

"It's just a hair away." Zhu Youyi smiled bitterly.

"Then how can you catch up with this hair?" Zhu Qiyu asked carefully.

"My grandson thinks that if Grandpa Huang lives for another two years, he can shorten the distance between two hairs and surpass Qin Shihuang by the way."

Zhu Qiyu was surprised: "According to your opinion, Qin Shihuang scored 99.01 points?"

"Correct."

"Then why is Qin Shi Huang higher than Tang Taizong?" Zhu Qiyu asked.

"Sun'er believed that the First Emperor was above unifying the six countries and unifying China, which was of epoch-making significance."

"That's not right. During the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, China was unified. It was nothing more than the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Four hundred years of troubled times. Qin Shihuang could at most end four hundred years of troubled times, just like Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, who ended the troubled times."

Zhu Qiyu argued: "According to your logic, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty should be the only emperor through the ages. Why isn't he?"

"Grandpa, that's not the case. The emperor started from the First Emperor."

"Yes, the title of emperor started from him, but it was just a different title. Isn't the Emperor Zhou the emperor? Isn't Yu the emperor? Isn't Chengtang the emperor?"

Zhu Qiyu asked: "It's just a title, Grandson, you have to see the essence through the phenomenon, and you can't just follow what others say."

"The era of the Imperial Grandfather, the First Emperor, was different from the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties."

"The Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties were a system of slavery and feudalism. The Emperor of Zhou was indeed the Son of Heaven, but not the Emperor. The power of local princes was as great as that of the Emperor."

"The First Emperor abolished feudalism and established counties and counties. There is only one emperor in the world, and he is the real emperor."

"There's a fundamental difference there."

"Therefore, the First Emperor is a well-deserved epoch-making first person."

"Okay, I won't argue with you about this. Since you said he is the first person in the era, then am I not the first person in the era?"

Zhu Qiyu asked: "Before me, who could control the world? Before me, how much territory did China have? How much territory does it have now! Was there an industrial revolution before me?"

"Grandfather, that's not the case."

Zhu Youyi said seriously: "What the emperor's grandfather said about controlling the world, during the Han and Tang Dynasties, China controlled the world. Before the Ming Dynasty, we were also the center of the world and the world's hegemon, but we didn't have this term at that time."

"Now the Ming Dynasty is indeed the world's hegemon, but I, the Ming Dynasty, do not actually control these territories. In essence, the Jingtai Dynasty is the same as the previous Ming Dynasty."

"My Ming Dynasty is still the center of the world and the overlord of the world. This has been the case in the history of our Central Plains Dynasty."

Zhu Youyi was very proud: "The territory of the Ming Dynasty under your rule has indeed reached the highest level in history."

"But grandfather."

"Most of the territory you control is the Dusi and Xuanwei Division of the Ming Dynasty. We took control of it in the early days."

"And during the Han and Tang Dynasties, our Central Plains Dynasty also had these territories."

"What we are discussing today is of epoch-making significance. The Ming Dynasty's support system and the Mongol Empire's territory are not much less than yours, which means that someone has completed it before you."

"The fact that Mongolia belongs to China shows that our ancestors have already achieved this achievement."

"So my grandson thinks it is not an epoch-making achievement."

"The success of the Industrial Revolution is indeed of far-reaching significance, but grandfather, it is difficult to say whether the Industrial Revolution has epoch-making significance. My grandson believes that it will take at least thirty years to see the results."

Zhu Qiyu is a little angry. I just can't put my feelings first?
"Grandpa Huang, my grandson has said that if you live for another two years, you will definitely be number one."

"Why?" Zhu Qiyu was annoyed.

"Because there has never been an emperor in history who could reign for seventy years without being sluggish at all, and there has never been a great emperor who could lead a dynasty to such an extreme position."

Zhu Youyi kept saying that he did not want Zhu Qiyu to give in.

He feels that he is living a good life now by cooperating with the old emperor. He does not want Zhu Jianji to ascend the throne and he will live a life of dependence on others.

Zhu Qiyu pretended not to understand: "Then you continue ranking."

Zhu Youyi was slightly disappointed: "My grandson thought that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty could be ranked sixth..."

"You ranked Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty behind Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty?" Zhu Qiyu discovered that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had become sixth, and it would be no problem for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to sit in the top five.

"My grandson thinks that Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty was indeed more accomplished than Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty."

This is strange.

The historians, including Zhu Qiyu, all agree that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was taller, so why did he say that Emperor Guangwu was taller?

(End of this chapter)