Spoiler History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 730 A Big Drink

After Zhao Kuangyin comforted Qian Chu, he began to feel a little upset.

As for the affairs of Emperor Yuan’s brothers, what does it mean that “they are different from Zhao Da and Zhao Er”?
Previously, this younger generation lamented the pain of the founding monarchs of the Tang, Yuan and Ming dynasties losing their wives, but Zhao Kuangyin still remembered his first wife, He, and had just paid tribute to Wang a month ago. Who has not experienced the pain of losing a loved one?
Of course, he was also heartbroken for his younger brother. He had really thought that he could rely on his brother, but now...

For a moment, Zhao Kuangyin didn't know to whom to talk about his worries.

But in the end, Zhao Kuangyin suddenly remembered something:
"Wasn't Emperor Gaozu Tang the founder of the Tang Dynasty?"

……

In the Huagai Hall, Zhu Yuanzhang felt his blood boiling for a moment as he watched the three kings of the Ming and Portugal being listed separately by future generations.

But after the enthusiasm cooled, there was worry:

"We remember that Zhengde was the one who issued the ridiculous order to ban pigs, right?"

Queen Ma nodded slightly and said:
"Instead of excusing it, future generations will say that this order was a fight with..." She lowered her voice a lot when she said this: "a fight with the civil officials."

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded. Power struggles have always been common in all dynasties, but in this context, he watched a small country come across the sea and do whatever it wanted, and then he saw that the Ming Dynasty he founded had a vast territory but was busy fighting for power and was "completely defenseless" against border affairs.

A complex emotion immediately filled his heart, as if he had worked tirelessly to mine, forge, and forge a fine sword, and was about to use it to create an unprecedented achievement, but on the battlefield he was directly wounded by a rifle fifty steps away, feeling absurd and unwilling.

Driven by this mood, I couldn't laugh even when I heard later generations mocking the Mongols for being obsessed with sex, drinking excessively, and killing indiscriminately.

He was even more familiar with the imperial examination system. In other words, before the imperial examination was launched in the third year of Hongwu, he and his ministers had already studied in detail the differences between the imperial examinations in Song, Jin and Yuan dynasties, and read the opinions on the imperial examination submitted by officials and the public.

Therefore, Emperor Ming tried to relax and comment from time to time:
"At the beginning of the resumption of the imperial examinations, the Hu Yuan court was still able to select candidates from both lists equally. But even so, the Hu people only needed to write 500 words for their essays, while the Han people had to write at least 1,000 words."

"And when the time comes, there will be only a few Han people selected by Hu Yuan in the imperial examinations. I wonder if those scholars who still admire Hu Yuan are all stupid and still want to work like slaves for the Hu people?"

Queen Ma smiled with her lips pursed, meaning that her husband now knew that he was the emperor and that there were ministers present, so he knew to restrain himself, otherwise he would definitely jump up and scold her.

But after complaining, she looked at her husband and admired him:

"It would be great if we could have two people in Hebei who won three prizes in a row during the Hongwu Dynasty."

This idea is very simple. In recent years, the number of scholars in the north who forcibly crossed the border to join the Hu Yuan has decreased a lot, but the number of scholars in the north who went south to Yingtian Prefecture to take the imperial examinations is not too many. It can be seen that many scholars in the north are still hesitating and waiting.

Under such circumstances, if there could be a talented person in the North who could win three first places in the imperial examinations, it is possible that the culture and governance of the North would flourish.

But this situation can only be thought of, and the probability of it actually happening is not much higher than the sudden appearance of this light curtain.

"The Qian family is indeed prosperous, but what does this "father" mean?"

"I'm afraid this title is probably used to highlight his achievements." Queen Ma guessed.

This made sense. Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, his face full of envy. He stared intently at the portrait of a man with a very different style that slowly faded away, and a red-lettered iron certificate that had been safely stored appeared in the picture.

Hearing that this thing was actually related to him, Zhu Yuanzhang did not hesitate:
"Qian Yongqin, go check this name."

The matter was recorded by the Imperial Guards. Empress Ma was a little curious: "Emperor Chongba also issued a certificate of immunity from death, but none of them survived to the future generations?"

"This young man is talking about the iron certificate that can really help people avoid death, not that this is the only one that will be preserved in the future."

Zhu Yuanzhang heard this clearly, and after a moment of hesitation, he analyzed:

"The barbarians who call themselves Qing are in power, so they will not easily give up with the Ming Dynasty. I am afraid that the family that has obtained our iron certificate will not be welcomed by the Qing people."

Zhu Biao felt a little heavy when he heard his father mention Hu Qing. He simply smiled and said:

"The iron certificate of the former Tang Dynasty is still useful to my father. Hu Qing is so stingy that he doesn't even recognize my father's iron certificate."

At this point, Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and nodded:
"Our Ming Dynasty inherited the Han Dynasty, and the Tang Emperor can be considered the Ming Dynasty's predecessor. The predecessor's imperial edict must be accurate."

"Let alone our iron certificate, as long as it does not involve rebellion, how can we not recognize it?"

Li Wenzhong on the side said with a smile:
"This iron certificate has such a use in future generations. The three of us must instruct our families to keep it well and pass it down to future generations."

In the second year of Hongwu, Your Majesty conferred titles on six dukes and twenty-eight marquises, and granted them all iron certificates of immunity from death.

He, Li Shanchang and Xu Da were all listed among the Six Dukes, and all had iron certificates of immunity from death.

[In fact, in 1314, compared with the "Yanyou Restoration of the Imperial Examination", more people in the Yuan Dynasty paid attention to the "Yanyou Manager".

Manager Yanyou is a name summarized by historians of later generations. The manager is not the manager we are familiar with, but the one who calculates taxes and grain after checking the acreage of land. To put it bluntly, he wants to re-measure the land.

For dynasties in the feudal era, there are only two things that are truly vital: one is measuring the land, and the other is checking the population. Only when you have mastered these two data can you be called a normal dynasty and have the ability to make development plans. After all, even if you live in a small family, you have to know how many people there are in the family and how much money there is, right?
But as we said before, the essence of the "Official Promotion Law" is for local governments to share the imperial power, which is naturally suitable for forming cliques and colluding with each other. If local officials are not promoted by the court, then no matter what you want to do, it will naturally be as difficult as ascending to heaven.

Faced with Yuan Renzong's order to manage land, local powerful people colluded, concealed or falsified the amount of land, and registered a large amount of land in the names of the poor.

The ultimate purpose of measuring land is naturally to collect taxes. Therefore, local powerful people took Yuan Renzong's tax collection order to find the poor people whose land was attached to them and extorted taxes from them.

The result was that the Cai Wujiu Uprising broke out in Ganzhou, Jiangxi the following year. Although it was eventually put down, Yuan Renzong was well aware that the management of land could no longer be carried out.

Yuan Renzong, whose ambitions were gone, became addicted to pleasure. Just five years later, he died of alcoholism at the age of 35 after nine years in power.

In fact, up to now, the successors of the Yuan Dynasty have always been abnormal. Kublai Khan was a promoter of sinicization, so even if his son died, he would pass the throne to his grandson. However, it was his eldest nephew who ascended the throne, and when the eldest nephew died, his younger brother ascended the throne. Moreover, it was agreed that the younger brother would succeed the older brother and the uncle and nephew would succeed each other. It can be said that it was a mess.

As for Emperor Renzong of Yuan, according to Han etiquette and Kublai Khan's will, he should pass the throne to his eldest son. However, the throne was given to him by his elder brother as promised, so he should abide by the agreement and pass it to his eldest nephew.

In the end, Emperor Renzong of Yuan decided to drive his eldest nephew away and pass the throne to his own son, Emperor Yingzong of Yuan.

As a result, Emperor Yingzong of Yuan was even more reckless than his father. As soon as he came to power, he clamored for reforms, wanted to cut down on officials, supervise lawlessness, protect the poor, and make the Yuan Dynasty great again.

For the Mongolian nobles, whether the Yuan Dynasty was great or not was another matter. What was most important was that their rights and interests were violated. So after a simple conspiracy, a group of people carried out the Mongolian noble tradition:
In September 1323, Mongolian dignitaries killed Emperor Yingzong of Yuan and his prime minister, physically stopping the reforms, which is known in history as the Nanpo Incident.

At this point, the Yuan Dynasty was on the road to destruction and it was impossible to reverse it. 】

(End of this chapter)