Spoiler History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 641: Regret and Reconciliation

[Among this Neo-Confucian force that implied reform, Zhu Xi was the academic leader, and there was also a political leader of the time, Zhao Ruyu.

As a result, Zhao Ruyu and Han Tuozhou failed in the struggle, and the Neo-Confucian scholars also fell collectively, and Han Tuozhou created the "Qingyuan Party Ban".

After Han Tuozhou's victory, he gradually relaxed the ban on political parties in order to seek support for the Northern Expedition.

However, Han Tuozhou himself was good at internal fighting but not external fighting. Eventually, the Kaixi Northern Expedition turned into the Taihe Southern Expedition, which led to the separation of his head and body, and the change of power. Then the Mongols rose, and Jin Xuanzong went on a mad expedition to the south. There was basically no peace. It was not until the reign of Lizong that the country was finally a little stable, and Neo-Confucianism began to rise again.

It was not until the Yuan Dynasty that the Mongols deliberately highlighted the righteousness between the emperor and his subjects in Neo-Confucianism and downplayed other aspects, causing Neo-Confucianism to move from being holistic to being one-sided.

But this is going too far. Lizong is better known for his posthumous affairs:
Twenty-one years after the death of Emperor Lizong of Song, Yang Lianzhenjia, with the support of the Mongol prime minister, stole countless treasures from the Song Tombs.

Yang Lianzhenjia came from Lamaism. He made the remains of Emperor Lizong of Song into a drinking vessel and carried it with him.

A hundred years later, Emperor Hongwu ordered Xu Da to lead a northern expedition and pierce the Yuan capital from the inside out. This magic weapon became a trophy again.

When Emperor Hongwu was discussing the change from Song to Yuan Dynasty with scholars, he lamented that the emperor of Southern Song did not have any deep hatred with you Mongols, and it was too cruel to treat Song Lizong in this way.

Eventually, Emperor Hongwu solemnly buried his skull back in the original mausoleum and repaired the Six Tombs of the Southern Song Dynasty. Later, he ordered the Zhao clan members who had changed their surname to Huang to avoid the Mongols to restore their old surname.

During Xu Da's Northern Expedition, Li Wenzhong captured Yuan Zhaozong's only son, concubines and princes. Zhu sent them to the grave of his grandfather who had participated in the Battle of Yashan as tribute. He also wrote an article to mourn his grandfather who had joined the army to fight the enemy, described his own achievements, and finally offered "Only my grandfather's heroic spirit is still alive, please enjoy it!"

It can be said that the saying “When the royal army conquers the Central Plains in the north, do not forget to inform your father during the family sacrifice” has been truly realized.

Later, Xu Wei, one of the three great scholars of the Ming Dynasty, visited the Six Tombs of the Song Dynasty. He lived in an era when the Japanese invasion of the Ming Dynasty was the most serious. Worried about the country and the people, he thought of the humiliation of the Southern Song Dynasty and wrote angrily:
"The bones speak in the middle of the night, and the ministers meet in the underworld. If we hear the words of Mu Ling, we will regret the day we made peace with the enemy."

From this, we can see that the views of ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty on Dai Song were very similar to ours today. 】

〖Alas, I wonder if Lu You’s descendants lived to see the day when Zhu Yuanzhang would conquer the Central Plains.

Do you think Lizong can be considered a wise king? Of course not, but he is not a foolish ruler either. If I have to say, I think he is a normal person.

Brother, for the emperor, being a normal person is already a very high evaluation.

Yes, the main reason is that Lizong ascended the throne suddenly. He was originally a member of the royal family and had been on the throne for seventeen years. Then he was pushed to the throne by Shi Miyuan and then suppressed for nine years. If he had not been abnormal, he would have surpassed at least 80% of the emperors.

Since Zhu Yuanzhang had such an attitude towards the Song Dynasty, why did he still recognize the Mongolian orthodoxy?

The Ming Dynasty inherited half of the Neo-Confucianism from the Yuan Dynasty. According to Zhu Xi, it was perfectly legitimate for the Mongols to conquer the world. Your father-in-law is really illiterate, isn't he? He doesn't even mention the harm caused by Zhu Xi.

Come on, haven't you heard that Neo-Confucianism gradually became one-sided? Zhu Xi himself emphasized the distinction between Chinese and barbarians, and he didn't even recognize the Northern Dynasties. How do you think he would recognize Mongolia?
In general, Zhu Yuanzhang was a qualified politician and it is not appropriate to evaluate him with such black-and-white statements. In addition, I personally think that this is also a shortcoming of the academic work of Zhu Yuanzhang's reign. He failed to academically characterize the legitimacy of the Mongols and Yuan Dynasty, which led to controversy among the government and the public throughout the Ming Dynasty.

Zhang Fei: This Hongwu Emperor is really a great hero! But according to this, how could the Japanese invasion of China last for hundreds of years?

Li Shimin: I have only one thing to say, the Tang navy has already entered Japan.

"Rang Zong? Huai Zong?"

After savoring it for a while, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but feel the blood vessels in his forehead throbbing:
"Could this screen be a trick played by a demon?"

Let alone the fact that the short word "Rang Zong" might contain endless blood and gore, what does "Huai Zong" mean? Do you think he has never read the classics?

Therefore, the first thing that Emperor Ming thought of was those street magicians. If they didn't get rewarded, they would either use foul language or make fun of the people. How despicable!
Empress Ming had to stand up and comfort her:

"Since they all say that it is the original temple name, it means that it was changed because of something that happened, and the original Shenzong Sizong does not seem to be a fake."

She was more inclined to believe that what the light curtain said was true. After all, Kunning Palace was a heavily forbidden area. If there was some evil spirit who had the means to come here and create such a scene, he must have been scheming for something. Why wouldn't he show up for an hour?
Moreover, the scenes described and shown on the screen were familiar to ordinary people, but many were unheard of. Picking out just one of them was enough to make one rich and famous. In addition, among the miscellaneous books she read in her spare time, there were also some immortals revealing the secrets of the immortals. Therefore, she had some guesses:

"Maybe these are just jokes made up by that young man..." "We know!"

Emperor Ming suddenly turned around and suddenly realized:

"It must be that the descendants of the Mongols have entered the Central Plains again, and they are not happy that we killed their great grandfather, so they changed the temple name to humiliate our Ming Dynasty!"

This statement...hmm...Empress Ma frowned and thought for a moment:
"Then will future generations still call him Emperor Hongwu?"

Zhu Yuanzhang looked like there was nothing to be surprised about:
"Then doesn't this person know the original temple name of the Zong Huai Sect? Maybe this young man is grateful for our achievements, so he doesn't call us by the changed name."

Queen Ma thought for a moment and tilted her head:

"Eighty-eight?"

"Ok?"

Zhu Yuanzhang turned around with a look of "What's the matter?"
Queen Ming laughed in her heart, but she kept a calm expression on her face and said:
"Then you need to remember it well, if all this is true."

"Of course, we all remember it, and the girl wrote it down herself, so we can recall it when we look at the paper later."

Zhu Yuanzhang was very confident. It was not that he was not smart when he was young, but that he had no books to read.

After looking back, Ming Tianzi's brows relaxed a lot.

He knew about the Yi School of Neo-Confucianism, but he never thought that the Southern Song Dynasty was just one step away from reform.

So what if the reforms are really effective?
Looking up and thinking for a while, Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head again: Even if the reform is successful, can a horse appear out of thin air?

The Southern Song Dynasty had no horses, so even if it could create a flower, it could only last a few more years at most.

But he also thought of the alien battlefield that made him excited. If the science could make that big gun, who knows...

And then, listening to and watching the young man solemnly calling him "Hongwu Emperor" and talking about his achievements, the feeling was also extremely wonderful.

From Queen Ma's perspective, her husband's mouth corners unconsciously raised, and many wrinkles appeared at the corners of his eyes.

I even heard him mumbling to himself: "How can he be called one of the Three Talents of the Ming Dynasty? There are so many people with the same name as Xu Wei, and I don't know where they are now."

However, it was difficult to maintain this smile when I saw those words floating out.

Let’s not talk about his shortcomings as Hongwu, but those two names…

What the man named Zhang Fei said made him feel comfortable all over.

But the other one...

Zhu Yuanzhang's tone was filled with obvious doubt:

"When did Emperor Taizong of Tang conquer Japan?"

And... "Can these Japanese pirates really become a disaster for our Ming Dynasty?"

And... "Can you write on this screen?"

After thinking for a while, Emperor Hongwu turned around:
"Sister, can you lend me this money?"

(End of this chapter)