Spoiler History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 734 Da Yuan's Coffin
However, Li Shanchang was shocked and also a little amused:
"Qi Ba is a good word, but it was used to mock people later."

Li Wenzhong patted his thigh and sighed:
"If this is true, then there are only a handful of ordinary people in the Mongols."

"Toghto was considered a good minister of the Yuan court, but wasn't he also demoted and killed by Emperor Shundi of the Yuan Dynasty?"

"Even so, this Emperor Shun of Yuan is still a rare one among the Hu Yuan emperors, but he is still not even a fraction as good as your Majesty."

Li Shanchang couldn't help but curl his lips secretly. Who are you, Li Wenzhong, speaking so loudly to?

As expected, Zhu Yuanzhang on the other side of the chair laughed and said across the air:
"We accept Bao'er's good words, but we still need to come up with specific rules for the matter of the navy and the plan to pacify the Japanese pirates."

Then Li Shanchang saw Li Wenzhong with a bitter face and answered loudly:
"That's how it should be!"

Then he also complained in a low voice:

"This Hu Yuan had a large army, but he didn't know how to check the weather before going out to sea. He sent hundreds of thousands of troops to the Dragon King for nothing."

"But you made us suffer from the Japanese invasion, and made us suffer here to write the book regulations."

However, despite what he said, the civil and military officials present could still discern the respect that His Majesty expressed in his words.

The navy was very important when fighting for the world, but with the demise of the Mongols, the navy's military achievements became less and less. At this time, General Xu Da only needed part of the navy to transport food and grass to defend Peking, and it was not used at all at other times.

After all, the center of the remnant Yuan Dynasty was located in Mobei and Helin, which was a thousand miles away from the nearest coast.

And now that His Majesty wants them to come up with a charter, it is obvious that he wants to reorganize the navy.

"This Li Baoer." Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but laugh and scold when he saw his nephew taking advantage of him, and then he also sighed:

"When I read the history of the Yuan Dynasty, I heard all these things and it was hard to believe them."

"With such policies, the Yuan Dynasty was able to survive for nearly a hundred years, which shows how rich its foundation was."

Upon hearing this, Empress Ma immediately lowered her head and held back her laughter.

She still remembers the anxious look on Zhuge Liang's face when the country was first founded, fearing that he would fail to do well and let down the ancestors of the Chinese nation.

At that time, the History of the Yuan Dynasty had not yet been completed, so she studied the various records of the Yuan Dynasty and broke them down every night to tell Chongba about the politics of the Yuan Dynasty, which eventually boosted her husband's confidence:
No matter how badly we do, it won't be worse than Hu Yuan.

But now, judging from the comments of later generations, what my husband has done has far exceeded our original expectations.

[Tuotuo, who sacrificed his own relatives for the sake of justice, naturally became a powerful minister.

However, with the example of his uncle, and Tuotuo being quite familiar with Han culture, he pushed forward the Three Policies after taking power, and after completing them, he declined, saying that he was in poor health and needed to recuperate, and asked His Majesty to seek someone else. These Three Policies were called Tuotuo's Reform in history, and the content was quite down-to-earth.

The top priority was to restore the imperial examination that was abolished by his uncle. This was to tell the scholars not to make trouble. Even if you are discriminated against, the channel for becoming an official to turn your life around is back, right?
The next priority is to redress unjust cases and reduce taxes for the people. If you owe too much tax, it will be written off directly, and as long as you can farm in peace, it will be fine. This is naturally to quell the peasant uprising.

The last one is the compilation of history. It took two and a half years from compilation to completion for the Song, Liao and Jin dynasties, a magical time.

Now we always joke that the Yuan Dynasty was the only dynasty that, seeing its own demise, suddenly remembered that the history of the previous dynasty had not been compiled, so it hurriedly compiled a history book to deal with it in a sloppy manner.

This statement is actually not quite correct. After all, if a country is really going to be destroyed, who would have the leisure to compile history books?
And for Tuotuo at that time, if you told him that the Yuan Dynasty was going to be finished, he would finish you right there and then.

Tuotuo's purpose in compiling history was very simple, because he was the most sinicized among the emperors and prime ministers of the Yuan Dynasty. The essence of compiling history was to complete the last piece of the puzzle of the legitimacy of the Yuan Dynasty, so he compiled it so quickly, because Tuotuo valued the political significance of compiling history rather than its literary significance.

However, the fact that the repair was so fast was certainly not because of Tuotuo's high level of knowledge, but purely because he was just a supervisor. But on the issue of which of the Song, Liao and Jin dynasties was the legitimate one, it was indeed Tuotuo who made the final decision that all of them were legitimate, which was of great significance.

When it comes to compiling history, Zhu Yuanzhang probably referred to Tuotuo's approach, which is why he compiled the "History of Yuan Dynasty" so hastily. In essence, Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to use this "History of Yuan Dynasty" as the final nail in the coffin for the Yuan Dynasty.

There is also a view that the real time of the demise of the Yuan Dynasty should be the 21st year of Hongwu, when General Lan Yu led 150,000 Ming soldiers to sweep the court and completely annihilate the small Northern Yuan Dynasty court in Buyuer Lake. According to this calculation, a book of Yuan history directly pushed the time of the demise of the Yuan Dynasty forward by 20 years, and its political significance is quite obvious.

However, although Zhu Yuanzhang and Tuotuo made similar choices and were not able to compile history books in depth, they lived in completely different time points.

When Tuotuo was compiling the Three Histories, the leaders of Liao and Jin had long been buried in the yellow sand, and the Southern Song Dynasty had been destroyed for sixty years. The historians summoned by him were all serious Yuan Dynasty literati who praised the great Yuan Dynasty, so Tuotuo could choose historians with confidence. However, as the Song, Liao and Jin Dynasties had been destroyed for so long, many historical materials had been lost.

At that time, the Northern Yuan Dynasty still had the ability to challenge the Ming Dynasty. Some of the literati under Zhu Yuan's command who defected from the Yuan Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty might have privately called Zhu a "gang of bandits" a few years ago. Naturally, they were unreliable, so the historians had to be abandoned for compiling history. Instead, literati like Song Lian and Wang Yi were chosen, and they were asked to find "recluses in the mountains and forests" - in other words, frustrated literati in the south of the Yangtze River.

Such a group of people had never been in the officialdom of the Yuan Dynasty, nor could they speak the various languages ​​commonly used in the Yuan Dynasty, so they could only play the role of glue and paste. A typical example is the biography of Tuotuo in "History of Yuan Dynasty", which records that in the 14th year of Zhizheng, Tuotuo arrived in Gaoyou, surrounded Liuhe and won every battle, which greatly reduced the "power of the bandits."

Who was this thief? The Veritable Records of Ming Taizu clearly remembers that in October of that year, Zhu Yuanzhang was ordered by Guo Zixing to lead troops to rescue Liuhe, but in the end he was indeed defeated by the Yuan army and had a strategic retreat.

This also forms a strange comparison group with the three histories of Song, Liao and Jin.

But also because the revision was done quickly and urgently, and the group of gluemen in the early Ming Dynasty were also very conscientious, the historical value of "History of Yuan Dynasty" among the Twenty-Four Histories is very high. After all, it is just copy and paste, and they are basically first-hand historical materials, which is another rare advantage.

After completing the three tasks, Tuotuo originally planned to retreat and wait and see to avoid following in his uncle's footsteps.

But five years later, Emperor Shun of Yuan Dynasty changed three prime ministers in succession. The government could not be said to be half-dead, but it could only be said to be a mess. Moreover, the Yellow River also suffered a flood, cutting off the Grand Canal, the lifeline of the Yuan Dynasty.

The Yuan Shun Emperor was at a loss and could only ask Tuotuo to come out of seclusion:

If you don't think of a solution, our Yuan Dynasty will be finished. 】

(End of this chapter)