The six-dimensional pictures of emperors of all dynasties were exposed, and the ancestors panicked

Chapter 554: Laying the foundation for modern prosperity
On the canopy.

The soldiers in red robes waved their sharp blades.

A silver-like blade flashed by.

The round head was shot away by the blood.

The old woman holding the iron pitchfork fell to the ground.

The rolling head hit an object and stopped.

It was a young child with only a thin strip of flesh attached to its neck.

……

[In March 1466, Admiral Bai Gui mobilized a large force of troops to counterattack from the four directions of Nanzhang, Yuan'an, Fangxian, and Gucheng. The four armies advanced in parallel, supporting each other, and soon broke through the enemy's defense line.]

[Liu Tong led his troops to fight in Shouyang, where he was surrounded by the Ming army and was killed after two days of bloody fighting.]

[There were more than 5,000 family members of soldiers and generals in this chaotic army, most of whom were old, young, women and children, and they were all killed by the Ming army.]

[His general Shi Long led his army to Sichuan, captured Wushan, Dachang and other places, killed Kuizhou Tongpan Wang Zhen, and then massacred the entire Kuizhou city. ]

【After plundering the area, they occupied the Wushan area. 】

……

The period of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty
Liu Qi couldn't help but feel a little sad for the Ming Dynasty.

"Officials are not officials, and the people are not people."

"Refugees are also civilians..."

Little Liu Che hugged his legs and looked at the sky.

"It was wrong from the beginning."

"We are all citizens of the Ming Dynasty. Why should we regard the people of one place as enemies..."

……

The period of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty
Liu Bingyi sighed deeply.

"He regards his subjects as enemies and the people as grass."

"It was clearly at its peak not long ago."

"Just because I entrusted the world to the wrong person, it ended up in such a tragic situation."

"Massacre in the city..."

A sign of national destruction.

……

Bai Gui adopted the tactic of division and disintegration, and lured Shilong's general Liu Changzi with high positions and generous salaries. With his cooperation, he attacked Wushan and wiped out Shilong's troops. 】

【Shi Long and 600 family members of the rebel army were executed.】

[Liu Changzi, who was the first to rebel, was also among the traitors who were executed.]

[After the war, Bai Gui wrote to the court: The chief culprit has been captured, the remaining evildoers have been wiped out, the country is peaceful, and the people are living happily.]

[During the entire battle, the Ming army beheaded tens of thousands of people, but "four to five out of ten were old, young, women and children"]

【Wherever the government troops went, they captured refugees and either sent them back to their hometowns to do hard labor or put them in jail for treason.】

[Many officers even sold these "captives" as slaves to powerful families.]

[After the war, the Ming Dynasty established a thousand households in Fang County and stationed troops there.]

[In the surrounding counties and prefectures, various institutions such as Tongzhi and Xunjiansi were also established and heavily guarded. ]

[The war to quell the rebellion seems to have been accomplished. ]

……

Cao Wei.

"How can it be possible to succeed!"

Liu Bei put the wine cup on the table!
Blushing, he shouted:

"Are they still soldiers of the Ming Dynasty?"

"Execute the chief culprit! Capture the rebels!"

"Who is to blame for the refugees' inability to survive? How dare you do such a deceitful thing!"

Cao Cao laughed with a somewhat confused look on his face:

"Xuan De! If you don't impose severe punishment as a warning to the world, wouldn't that be telling those rioters that treason is not a crime?"

"That's a grave crime of establishing a separate country!"

Liu Bei waved his hand violently.

"Stop being vague here!"

"Everything should be based on justice!"

“If the refugees can live in peace, will they get itchy and rebel?”

"Rebellion is a serious crime!"

"But what's wrong with the elderly, the weak, women and children? Do they have any choice?"

Cao Cao narrowed his eyes and calmed himself down.

"They don't have a choice?"

"If you choose the wrong path, you will have to bear the consequences!"

"You want the benefits but don't want the disadvantages? How can there be so many good things in the world?!"

"If you accept the benefit, you will bear the disaster!"

“This is the law of nature!”

Liu Bei stared at him blankly for a while.

Just when Cao Cao thought he had won.

"Bah! You fart!"

"What favor have they received?"

Cao Cao wiped the saliva from his face and was about to refute when he saw that the man had already fallen on the stone table.

He was still mumbling:

"Fuck that, Cao thief farted..."

Cao Cao glanced at him and looked around.

Sun Quan, who was standing by, had fallen to the ground at some point, holding onto the stone pillar tightly.

Zhuge Liang on the side sat upright, but his lowered head told him that this man was also drunk.

Cao Cao shook his head and drank the last bit of wine in the cup.

"So you can't succeed, Xuande."

……

Period of Jihan and Emperor Huai

"wrong again."

Zhuge Liang fanned himself with a feather fan and sighed repeatedly.

"Magic can control ministers but not the people."

“Public opinion is like boiling soup.”

"The more you cover it with a lid, the more it will backfire."

"Brutal containment is never the solution."

Liu Chan scratched his head and asked tentatively:
"Father, shouldn't we register all the people as commoners now?"

Zhuge Liang's eyes lit up, he stopped what he was doing and looked at Liu Chan.

"How did your Majesty come up with this idea?"

Liu Chan said hesitantly:
"Emperor Gaozu pacified the world by using this method to appease the princes and the rebellious people."

Zhuge Liang stroked his beard happily.

"Your Majesty is smart."

Liu Chan touched his head and smiled foolishly.

……

[History has proven countless times that killing to stop chaos does not work. ]

[In October 1471, Li Yuan and Wang Hong started an uprising in Nanzhang, Huguang, and called themselves "King of Taiping"]

[This time the scale was even larger, and history records that "millions of refugees joined the bandits"]

【This time, the rebellion was caused not only by man-made disasters, but also by natural disasters. 】

【According to historical records, in the third year of Chenghua, Shandong suffered from drought.】

[In the fourth year of Chenghua, there was drought in Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Hebei. ]

[In the fifth year of Chenghua, the Yellow River burst its banks, causing severe floods in Henan and Huaibei.]

[In the sixth year of Chenghua, the Qiantang River burst its banks, causing floods in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and droughts in Anhui, Shaanxi, Gansu, and Sichuan.]

[Continuous natural disasters caused a large number of victims to flee famine and flock to the rich Jingxiang area. ]

[In the sixth year of Chenghua alone, there were more than 900,000 refugees in the Jingxiang area.]

……

Liu Song.

Liu Yu saw it all.

"The Ming Dynasty is now just an empty shell."

“That’s not even a penny.”

Liu Yilong felt deeply sad for Zhu Jianshen.

Natural disasters are actually not that scary, this thing can cure it.

What’s scary is the man-made disaster!
The biggest man-made disaster was his stupid father, who was rarely seen in a thousand years.

……

[In the autumn of the sixth year of Chenghua, the Central Plains region, which had just experienced drought in the summer, suffered another disaster. A flood broke out in the Guanzhong region, killing hundreds of thousands of people.]

[A large number of disaster victims once again fled to the Jingxiang area in groups, and took this opportunity to raise the banner of justice again. ]

[Unlike the last time when Liu Tong fought while farming, the refugees from Jingxiang used the Jingxiang mountain area as their base and started a mobile guerrilla war.]

[For a time, the momentum was huge and the whole place was in an uproar]

……

Tang Dynasty: Emperor Xizong (Emperor Zhaozong ascended to the throne early)
Li Ye loosened the button on one side of his round-necked robe.

The collar is draped diagonally to form a lapel.

"An Shi? That's not right..."

A rebellion of this magnitude occurred during this period.

All he could think of was the An-Shi Rebellion.

But it is different from the Anshi Rebellion.

Except Gaozu.

Taizong, Gaozong, Empress Wu, Ruizong, and Xuanzong.

But no one treats Hebei Yan area differently.

……

{So, the court did nothing in the past few years? Just watched?}
{Hey! How can you say you did nothing?}

{Bai Gui, the Minister of War, advocated strict implementation of the "Baojia System" in the Central Plains, and ordered the provincial procuratorates to count the population of their provinces. However, if any household registration escapees were found, the "responsibility system" would be implemented.}
｛Minister of Revenue Yang Ding advocated immigration to the Hetao region, which would ease land conflicts in the interior and strengthen border defense, killing two birds with one stone.｝
｛Zhang Bin, the Minister of Rites, advocated reducing taxes in various places to reduce the number of farmers evading taxes.｝
{Is this the solution?}

{Why didn’t the problem get solved?}

{Ah, that's because the specific implementation involves the coordination of the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of Justice and other departments.}
{The "ministers" didn't want to take responsibility, so they passed the buck to each other, kept arguing, and never came to a conclusion. That's not right, Zhang Bin's repeated suggestions to reduce taxes were finally settled.}
……

Ming dynasty.

"silverfish!"

Zhu Yuanzhang slammed the table angrily!

"How can we govern the Ming Dynasty with such a bunch of termites?"

"hateful!"

"You said we should be lenient with them! Look!"

"How can we be lenient with them!"

Queen Ma patted his back.

"Don't pretend. Zhu Qizhen lost all his court officials twice."

"It would be great if someone could help the Zhu family put down the rebellion."

"If you end up like Emperor Xizong of the late Tang Dynasty, I wonder if you will cry!"

Zhu Yuanzhang forced himself to snort coldly:
"That's also the incompetence of our descendants!" "What does it have to do with us?"

Queen Ma rolled her eyes at him silently.

See you cry that day!

……

[When the news of the rebellion reached the capital, Zhu Jianshen, who had not attended court for a long time, became extremely anxious and summoned his ministers to discuss the matter for the first time.]

[Xiang Zhong, the Right Censor-in-Chief of the Censorate, was appointed as the Admiral, and the governor of Henan, Huguang, Jingxiang, Shandong, and Zhejiang provinces, with a total of 250,000 troops, was sent south to suppress the rebellion.]

[To show his trust, Zhu Jianshen made an exception and did not send a military supervisor to Xiang Zhong. He appointed Xiang Zhong to take full responsibility and allowed Xiang Zhong to act at his discretion.]

[In July 1472, Xiang Zhong's army arrived in Xiangyang.]

……

Song Dynasty Xiaozong Period
"It's time to say it or not."

Zhao Shen pointed at the skylight and said to Yue Fei:

"This move of his does show some sincerity."

"Much better than his father."

Yue Fei hesitated to speak.

He felt that Zhu Jianshen might not like this kind of "praise"

After all, compared with Zhu Qizhen.

Emperor Liu Houzhu was a wise ruler, and Emperor Hui of Jin was a benevolent ruler.

The only three who could compete with Zhu Qizhen were Huizong, Qinzong and Gaozong.

Qin II is not qualified, and Emperor Yang of Sui is not even worthy of being at the table.

He couldn't be happy about winning.

Losing to him was…very difficult.

……

[Xiang Zhong first spread the word that he had brought a "million-strong army", then sent spies into the Jingxiang mountain area to deceive the refugees by saying that the court would recruit them and promised that the court would recognize the land that the refugees had cultivated.]

[Most of the refugees in Jingxiang were poor peasants without weapons. They believed this and left the mountains and forests, carrying their elderly and children with them.]

[In just one month, 400,000 people surrendered to Xiang Zhong.]

[Then Xiang Zhong's army divided into eight groups and attacked the rebellion. They fought a decisive battle with Li Yuan at Zhushan, where Li Yuan was defeated and killed.]

[Wang Hong moved to Junzhou, Hubei, where he was captured and executed by Xiang Zhong.]

[Compared to Bai Gui's military exploits of "beheading tens of thousands of people" a few years ago, the results of the Ming army this time were somewhat "inferior."]

[More than 1,000 people were beheaded and 83 people were killed in battle.]

[However, the number of refugees recruited was astonishing, reaching 938,000.]

……

Yanhan·Mingdi period
Liu Zhuang's face turned pale.

He looked at the sky without saying a word.

Liu Lun also frowned and said nothing.

Deceive?

Has the country become so dishonest and shameless?

The solutions are already on the table!
Still cheating?!

……

Han Dynasty - Emperor He Period
Liu Zhao looked at Deng Sui.

"Is this really a country that will drive out the Tartars and rebuild China?"

Deng Sui remained silent.

Liu Zhao withdrew his gaze and looked towards the sky.

"Beyond the Han and Tang Dynasties?"

Why are you?
……

[After the war, the Ming Dynasty once again adopted a brutal policy: all the refugees who were recruited were sent back to their hometowns.]

[Even local residents who had already obtained legal household registration had their property confiscated and were sent into exile.]

[In the following months, Xiang Zhong drove away a total of 1.5 million local refugees, and then as a reward, he ordered his officers to occupy land in the Jingxiang Mountain area.]

[Liang Jing, the military official, recorded this tragic scene in his memorial.]

[“The soldiers were driven forward without any discipline, resulting in loud complaints and bloodshed. This was even more brutal than the invasion by barbarians.”]

……

During the Song Dynasty and Renzong Period
Zhao Zhen sighed repeatedly as he watched.

All the ministers looked at each other in bewilderment.

"This... is this the Han world?"

"Stop talking about it. No one would do such a thing except at the end of the dynasty!"

"They go back on their words and break their promises... How can the people of the world trust the imperial court?"

"Rebellious ministers should be severely punished!"

"Punishment is punishment, but you can't make random remarks based on the imperial decree! This is the moral code of the world!"

"The emperor has allowed him to do what he wants. What can you do?"

"Bullshit! The emperor was raised by a woman and doesn't know the ways of the world! Are the ministers in the court also just eating and drinking?"

"Look at what they did before! They blamed each other and refused to take responsibility!"

"They are clearly children looking down on the emperor!"

"But...what the emperor did..."

Everyone thought of the things that Zhu Jianshen had done against the ministers.

"...the court is unstable, bringing disaster to the people..."

……

Liao Dynasty - Emperor Shengzong
"Stop spitting blood."

Yelu Longxu crossed his arms and said dissatisfiedly:
"We are not so cruel to our own people."

Empress Dowager Xiao was almost in despair when she saw her foolish son.

Find your seat?

Admit that you are a barbarian?
"Stupid thing."

Yelu Longxu nodded in agreement.

"Yeah, that guy in the sky is really stupid!"

Empress Dowager Xiao turned and left without saying a word.

"? Mom! You don't want to watch it anymore?"

"full!"

Yelu Longxu scratched his head.

"Are you full? When did you eat?"

"Didn't you see it?"

……

[Soon after Xiang Zhong suppressed the rebellion, the imperial court built fortresses in the areas around Jingxiang for protection, and granted land to the surrounding princes and garrisons in an attempt to prevent the influx of refugees.]

[But just one year later, a large number of refugees poured in again and had a bloody conflict with the local garrison.]

[“Going into the mountains to find food is unstoppable”]

[In the 1476th year of Chenghua (), the number of refugees in the Jingxiang area reached more than .]

[They often fought with the garrison troops and vassal kings, and bloody incidents occurred from time to time.]

[In the first month of that year, Zhou Hongmo, then the chief academician of the Imperial College, submitted a memorial to Zhu Jianshen after a detailed on-site investigation.]

【《Refugees》】

……

On the canopy.

Zhu Jianshen sat on the dragon throne and looked at his ministers.

"This is against our ancestors' rules! Your Majesty, you must not disregard our ancestors' laws!"

An old minister nodded and cried bitterly.

A number of ministers also expressed their support.

"Your Majesty, this is a lie that misleads the people! We should execute him to thank the world!"

"Your Majesty, such talk of ruining one's family and saving the country is not credible!"

"Your Majesty! I impeach Zhou Hongmo, the chief academic officer of the Imperial College, for making irresponsible comments on state affairs!"

Faced with the anger of his ministers, Zhu Jianshen showed no sign of surprise, he looked to the other side.

Several ministers with patches embroidered with tigers and leopards stepped forward to refute the argument.

The court was suddenly in chaos.

Zhu Jianshen watched the scenes before him.

No sadness, no joy.

……

The core idea of ​​"On Refugees" is that the refugee problem "cannot be stopped" and "can only be managed by taking advantage of the situation"

[The specific operation is to suggest setting up prefectures and counties in the Jingxiang area, recognizing the legal household registration of local refugees, measuring the land, counting the population, compiling household registration, and using appeasement policies to solve the refugee problem.]

[As soon as this memorial was submitted, it immediately caused an uproar.]

[Wan An, Shang Lu and others in the cabinet firmly opposed it on the grounds that it violated the ancestral system. ]

【However, officials such as Bai Gui and Xiang Zhong from the Six Ministries who had personally experienced the refugee rebellion strongly supported it.】

【Finally, Zhu Jianshen expressed his support for this proposal.】

……

Tang Dynasty and Emperor Gaozu's period
Li Yuan was puzzled.

"What's wrong with you?"

"You love to talk about the ancestral system so much!"

"Zhu Yuanzhang is the same, where did he get so many ancestral rules!"

"A bunch of ministers, all of them are just eating for free!"

……

Datang.

"You see it."

Li Shimin pointed at the sky and said:
“We should be pragmatic and adapt to the times.”

"If Zhu Jianshen doesn't know how to adapt and sticks to the ancestral system."

"Then the Ming Dynasty will face the situation of the late Tang Dynasty."

Li Chengqian nodded.

"But... the rift between the monarch and his subjects has widened again, right?"

Li Shimin twirled his beard.

This Ming Dynasty... is hard to judge...

Zhu Yuanzhang did too many things, both what he should have done and what he shouldn't have done.

……

[In February 1476, Zhu Jianshen sent the Chief Censor Yuan Jie as an imperial envoy to Jingxiang to set up Yunyang Prefecture and Huguang Xingdusi, and register all refugees in the Jingxiang area.]

【A total of 113,317 households.】

【Four hundred and forty-eight thousand eight hundred and forty-four people.】

【According to personal wishes, you can either naturalize in the original place or return to your place of origin.】

【Wu Yuan, the prefect of Wuzhou, Henan, was appointed as the first prefect of Xunyang, and "capable officials and good officials were selected from all over the country to serve in Jingxiang." 】

[After some appeasement, the Jingxiang region, which had been in turmoil for more than a decade, finally saw peace, and 400,000 refugees were legally settled there.]

[From then on, the Ming Dynasty's fiscal revenue increased by at least 14,000 dan of tax grain each year.]

[The originally uninhabited area has developed at an extremely high speed. 】

[Jingxiang, the stomach pain that had lasted for more than ten years in the Ming Dynasty was completely cured. ]

【The prosperity of modern times is actually based on this. 】

(End of this chapter)