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

Chapter 606: Longqing Restoration

Chapter 606: Longqing Restoration
Qing Dynasty Yongzheng Period
"It's a cycle of cause and effect..."

Yongzheng looked at the words "playing house" on the sky curtain and suddenly felt sad.

The Ming Dynasty was caught in a vortex of struggle between the emperor and his ministers and could not extricate itself.

Isn’t that the case with the Qing Dynasty?

No matter what the Qing emperor did, he could not change one fact.

I am the one who comes.

We must protect the people, but we are also afraid of them.

"The Eight-Nation Alliance..."

Yongzheng roughly understood why.

But can the maritime ban be lifted?
I'm afraid that after it opens, it won't be the Eight-Nation Alliance anymore...

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Qing Dynasty and Qianlong period
The cabinet fell into silence.

Qianlong twirled the jade beads in his hand without saying a word.

Doesn’t he know what the world situation is like?
Since Emperor Kangxi, some royal children have learned overseas languages and received Western education.

Western physics has long been popular among high-level scholars, as well as methods of manufacturing firearms.

From the Tianqi period to the Chongzhen period, the purchase, research and manufacture of the red cannon caused our ancestors a lot of trouble.

Everybody knows everything.

But the problem is that this world is different from the prosperous times of the past.

Now we are using the few to control the many.

"Let one person rule the world, not let the world serve one person."

Qianlong began to mutter again.

Heshen lowered his head three points again.

……

[According to historical records, Emperor Longqing was a man of average intelligence, tongue-tied, indecisive, and often silent.]

[Some ministers even thought that the emperor was a mute, and some suspected that he suffered from a mild mental disorder.]

[Historical books do not leave much space for Emperor Longqing Zhu Zaigui. In this limited space, there is no evidence that he was a wise and decisive ruler, nor is there any evidence that he was a mentally retarded mental patient.]

[It is said that Zhu Zaigui never uttered a word when he was in power. All comments and decrees were handed over to the Grand Secretaries, while he himself symbolically sat on the throne like a clay statue of a bodhisattva.]

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Song Dynasty: Zhezong Period
Zhao Xu looked at the words on the sky curtain and shook his head.

"With the current situation in Ming Dynasty, it's better to do nothing."

Zhengde and Jiajing actually did a lot.

Especially Jiajing.

With the things he did, he could gain a good reputation if he could just put things right.

What more is there to do?
“Isn’t this a kind of inaction governance?”

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Ming Dynasty - Longqing Period
Zhu Zaigui looked at the sky and said nothing.

Is it wrong to be quiet?
I don't know how to govern the country, so what do you want me to say?
If there are people who are capable of governing the country, let them do it.

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[“Correct the habits of scholars, correct the corruption of officials, ensure the people’s livelihood, and increase the country’s financial resources”]

【These are the words in the imperial edict of Longqing's accession to the throne. 】

【And his governing style is also based on these four sentences. 】

[In the Ming Dynasty, the examination of officials was divided into two types: the imperial examination and the external examination.]

【The imperial examination is a system for examining officials in the capital.】

[After the Hongzhi reign, it was generally held every six years, in the years of Si and Hai.]

[External inspection, also known as pilgrimage inspection, is a system for inspecting local officials. It is generally held every three years in the years of Chen, Xu, Chou, and Wei.]

【The number of inspections of officials during the Longqing reign far exceeded the regulations.】

[In the first year of Longqing (1567), officials in the capital were inspected. In the second year, local officials were inspected during the imperial court visit. In the third year, officials in the capital were inspected. In the fourth year, officials in the imperial court were inspected. In the fifth year, local officials were inspected during the imperial court visit.]

【According to the old system of the Ming Dynasty, officials in the royal palace were not subject to inspection. However, the princes of the Ming Dynasty occupied land in the local area, committed crimes, and their servants bullied the people by taking advantage of their power, and they ran rampant in the countryside.】

【Therefore, Longqing stipulated that all officials in the palace, except for the good doctors, music masters, and ritual officials, should participate in the inspection.】

[It is rare to see an emperor in the Ming Dynasty attach so much importance to the inspection of officials as Longqing did. ]

【Due to the strict inspection system during the reign of Emperor Longqing, the administration of officials during the reign of Emperor Longqing was relatively clean and the style of scholars was relatively pure.】

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Great Sui.

Yang Jian pretended to wipe the corners of his eyes.

"The Ming Dynasty finally has a normal emperor again."

Dugu Jialuo rolled her eyes at him.

"If Jiajing hadn't laid the foundation for him, it would have been so easy for him to evaluate officials."

Yang Jian put down his hand and said helplessly:

"You can't say that you are wrong."

"But it also depends on whether the one who ascends the throne has the intention."

"If the one who ascends the throne doesn't have that intention, what's the point of laying the foundation?"

"Whose founding emperor has a foundation as solid as mine!" "The foundation I have laid can be compared with that of Emperors Wen and Jing!"

The more Yang Jian spoke, the more excited and angry he became!

"And then! Such a bastard appeared!"

"No matter how solid the foundation laid by our ancestors is, it can't stop the descendants from being bastards!"

"If it was Emperor Liu, our Sui Dynasty would not have perished in the second generation!"

"That Tang Dynasty! They're using my money!"

Dugu Jialuo was flustered when she saw Yang Jian was really crying this time. She kept wiping Yang Jian's tears.

"It's okay, it's okay. We'll have Shimin in the future."

Yang Jian sobbed a few times.

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Northern Qi Dynasty: Cultural and Propaganda Period
"His Majesty?"

Li Zu'e looked at the emperor, who was lying on the ground with his butt sticking up and writing with his head down, with a strange look on her face.

Gao Yang said without even turning his head:
"I suddenly realized it."

"The so-called first suppress and then praise is to hit someone with a stick and then give him a sweet treat."

"Without Jiajing's torture of the ministers, I don't believe they would be so easy to talk to."

"These are all valuable experiences contributed by the Ming Dynasty!"

"I want to record it truthfully!"

“These are priceless treasures for future generations.”

"If Da Qi encounters the same problem in the future, we will have a solution now!"

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【There are three main aspects in the construction of "ensuring people's livelihood and meeting national needs". 】

【First, exemption and relief. 】

[After Longqing ascended the throne, he immediately announced the exemption of half of the land tax in the first year of Longqing, and at the same time exempted the arrears of tax before the 43rd year of Jiajing.]

[According to statistics, in the first year of Longqing alone, 9,098,609 shi of tax and grain were exempted.]

[In the future, the annual exemption will be around 2-3 million koku.]

[During the Longqing period, there were many natural disasters, especially frequent floods and earthquakes.]

【However, after a disaster occurs, Longqing is usually able to provide immediate relief. 】

[This has had some comforting effect on the people after the disaster. ]

【Second, curb mergers.】

【Hai Rui was ordered to be the Right Assistant Censor-in-Chief and inspect the ten prefectures of Yingtian. “Strive to crush the powerful and patriotic, and support the poor and weak. If the land of the poor is taken by the rich, it will be taken back.”】

【Third, be considerate of businessmen.】

[Issued an imperial edict to investigate and abolish the government's unauthorized collection of taxes on bridges, roads, and customs crossings.]

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{I won’t tell you how much of this is Gao Gong’s contribution, you can think about it carefully.}
{The Ming Dynasty has its own Adou and Xiangfu!}
{You used this metaphor a little too early, but it is subtly true to some extent.}
{In fact, this is just my personal guess. I seriously suspect that Zhu Zaigui was pretending to be ignorant even though he knew the truth.}
{Look at the top players who are active at this moment.}
{Whether it is Xu Jie, Gao Gong or Zhang Juzheng, each of them is a shrewd, capable and ambitious political maniac.}
｛Zhu Zaigui may have seen the fate of Zhengde and Jiajing, so he did not want to get involved in the struggle between the emperor and the civil officials.｝
{So Zhu Zaigui acted like an invisible man during his reign. He never made any important political decisions.}
{You see, by doing this, we can avoid getting involved in the power struggle between the emperor and the civil officials.}
{But Gao Gong did say in his recollections that Zhu Zaigui was like a mentally retarded person who did nothing.}
{Could this be the result of Gao Gong's personal views and resentment? After all, as the prince's teacher and a minister in the cabinet, he opened up a new track.}
{A cabinet minister who was favored by the emperor but was impeached by the censors.}
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[Maybe it’s because of his personality, or maybe it’s because of his governing philosophy. ]

【Emperor Longqing did not seize power like Emperor Jiajing, but instead gave enough trust to Xu Jie, Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng and others. 】

【Thanks to the actions of the three prime ministers, social contradictions in the Ming Dynasty were eased during the Longqing period. 】

[The north achieved reconciliation with Mongolia, and the south quelled the Wei Yinbao rebellion in Gutian, Guangxi, which had lasted intermittently for half a century.]

【Therefore, Longqing is also known as the ruler of the revival, and the Longqing period is also known as the Longqing New Deal. 】

【But the good times didn’t last long.】

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Ming dynasty.

The smile on his face disappeared before it could fully bloom.

Zhu Yuanzhang was not in a good mood.

"Damn it! This is really a disaster for the next thousand years!"

Empress Ma ate watermelon seeds and said:

"You lived a long life, didn't you?"

Zhu Yuanzhang rolled his eyes, reached out and grabbed a handful of melon seeds, ate them, and said, spitting out the skin:

"We are not good people!"

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