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【He is the pioneer of the dynasty】

【He is also a pauper emperor】

【He was born in troubled times, his parents died】

【He has no background, no background】

[The dynasty he established with bare hands has always been the object of research by historians]

[Inventory of the historical emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty]

The new inventory in the Sky Mirror slowly opened. When Ming Zhu Yuanzhang saw this inventory, he suddenly sat up from the dragon chair: "Grandma, it's finally my turn."

"Our family has long said that without our emperor's inventory, is it still called an emperor's inventory?"

"Our family should be a figure in the history Mingjun, hehe, our family is already curious about how Mr. Wu Chen will take stock of me."

"The best thing is to lower the welfare so that our family can live a few more years and make more contributions to the people of the world."

Seeing Zhu Yuanzhang's excitement, the emperors of other planes couldn't help curling their lips: "This guy looks very reckless, and the Ming Dynasty probably doesn't look too bad."

The rogue emperor Liu Bang looked at Zhu Yuanzhang who was dancing excitedly with his hands and feet, and he also had a look of contempt on his face. Can't he really keep a low profile?It's just an inventory, and besides, whether it's a reward or a punishment hasn't been determined yet.

Following the opinions of the plane dynasty, the inventory was carried out slowly.

Everything he has is earned by himself.

He has gone through untold hardships, avoided death countless times, got up from the pile of dead people and moved on.

Almost with his bare hands, he built a vast empire with his courage and determination.

He gave his youth and energy, he killed many people and did many wrong things.

In Huangjue Temple, accompanied by the bright moon, a single lamp

In the city of Haozhou, be cautious and work hard
On the shore of Poyang Lake, the blue waves are thousands of miles away, and the flames are soaring into the sky
In the vast desert, gold and iron horses, swords and yellow sands!

Create an empire, preserve the world's grand rules, and glorify future generations!

He galloped his horse, the rivers and the earth were trampled under his feet, and the beautiful mountains and rivers were left behind by him.

This life is enough, enough!
Less poor and more ambitious,
Thousands of troops are raging like fierce wrath!
I am mighty and powerful!
I am mighty and strong in the world!
The Ming Dynasty was the last feudal dynasty established by the Han people in Chinese history, which existed for more than 270 years.

The economy and culture reached the last peak of feudal society.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, officials were greedy and harsh. The Ming Dynasty was established by peasant uprisings. In the early years, it quickly recovered from the decline of all industries at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and was directly overthrown by the peasant uprisings.

Taking the ancients as a mirror, we can know the gains and losses. Both the rise and fall of the Ming Dynasty originated from the administration of officials.

And Zhu Yuanzhang should be studied most is his official administration
In the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, the court was corrupt, and the officials preyed on the common people.

"A minister who collects money internally, and an unknown teacher who prospers externally, is addicted to profit and militarism."

The once prosperous Yuan Empire finally collapsed under the resistance of the people at the bottom.

The rebel army led by Zhu Yuanzhang won the political power, so they had to take the people's hearts into consideration. After entering the capital of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang summoned the officials and elders: "The Yuan government harassed... those who are inconvenient to the old government should be eliminated, and the officials should not be corrupt and violent to our people."

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, due to more than 20 years of war, the social economy was severely damaged.

In particular, the Shandong and Henan regions were most severely damaged by the war.

In the 15th year of Hongwu, Gui Yanliang, the governor of the Jin government, Shi Zhishi, said: "The Central Plains is the heart of the world, and it is called a rich land. Due to lack of manpower, it has been barren for a long time."

It can be seen that the rampant corruption and the destruction of war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the people's livelihood and economy have reached an intolerable level.

Zhu Yuanzhang is the only emperor in Chinese history who won power with civilians.

His background enabled him to understand the sufferings of the people and his instinctive hatred of corrupt officials, and many of his measures to punish corruption in the future were related to it.

The rectification of officials in the early Ming Dynasty curbed the trend of official corruption to a certain extent, which was conducive to the recovery of the economy and the consolidation of the political power.

As the supreme ruler, Zhu Yuanzhang played an exemplary role.

"Ming Shilu · Taizu Shilu" records that Zhu Yuanzhang wore a plain robe and straw sandals to walk outside the palace to be exposed to the scorching sun in order to pray for rain after a long drought. Later, he returned to the palace to continue fasting.

As a commoner emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang had a simple side to the people's livelihood, so the atmosphere of the court in the early Ming Dynasty was not extravagant. This top-down approach to promoting a clean government has achieved certain results.

The reformer Wang Anshi advocated that "if the officials are bad, there will be laws and they will not abide by them; if the laws are not good, there will be wealth and no management."

In the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang took great pains to rectify the administration of officials, such as the selection and assessment of officials, in order to prevent fraud and lawlessness in the selection of talents, and to ensure the effectiveness of the investigation system.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the recommendation system was implemented.

"Since the 17th year of Hongwu, the world's pilgrimage officials were ordered to be honest and capable officials...the Beijing officials were ordered to have more than seven grades of civilian positions, foreign officials to county magistrates, and each of them selected one person they knew, and they were promoted according to their ability. , Gai also tried to do it occasionally."

This book has undoubtedly had a great impact on the officialdom since the end of the Yuan Dynasty.

In the early Ming Dynasty, there was a great improvement in the administration of officials, and the people's livelihood and economy were significantly improved. In the 28th report of the Chief Secretary of Huguang, "430 fruit trees have been planted in the counties and counties, and the national estimate is more than one billion." The withered economy in the early Ming Dynasty had After a certain recovery, people's livelihood has been recuperated.

The bureaucratic measures in the early Ming Dynasty had disadvantages in the system, which paved the way for the corruption of the bureaucratic administration in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

First of all, severe punishment and abuse of the law have led to instability in the bureaucratic system, and corruption has been repeatedly banned.

In the early years of Zhu Yuanzhang's reign, many corrupt officials including innocent people were executed, but the corrupt behavior of officials could not be stopped, only restrained and concealed.

"At the beginning of the founding of the country, Taizu punished Yuan Ji for corruption, severely punished corrupt officials, and exposed all those who violated the law in Shenming Pavilion as a warning...Those who are listed in the three "Gao" as Ling Chi, Xiao Shi, and Punishment, don't worry about it. Hundreds, tens of thousands below the abandoned market."

Severe punishments and harsh laws failed to put an end to official corruption. "At that time, the world was first settled, and the people were obstinate and officials were corrupt. Although ten people abandoned the market in the morning, there were hundreds of people in the evening, but they still did it."

Strict laws certainly cannot cure corruption, but have shaken the foundation of official governance.

Ru Taisu sternly criticized that only one or two percent of the government's capable officials are still alive, and the rest have lost their lives in previous purges.Ru Taisu accused that the remaining people working in the government are incompetent people who are not worth mentioning.

In fact, the imperial power system is the root cause of corruption.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang put great emphasis on the integrity of officials, the leniency of the royal family and nobles undermined the country's legal system.

Zhu Yuanzhang issued a decree that any honorable family who acquires land, real estate and livestock from civilians by unjust means or by failing to perform contracts shall be fined half of the meritorious official's salary for the second offender (there is no penalty for the first offense).

This decree, in effect, allowed heroes to commit heinous crimes with impunity.

Nobles can enjoy extra-legal pardons, and the privileges of the royal family are beyond the jurisdiction of the court. King Fan can even try criminal cases within his jurisdiction, while ordinary civil disputes can only be handled by judicial organs.

As a symbol of imperial power, the emperor himself could also serve as a source of corruption, undermining the foundations of imperial rule.

The anti-"mining tax" movement of the civil class during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty is an example.

In order to ensure its profligacy, Ming Shenzong sent eunuchs to various places to collect taxes starting from the 24th year of Wanli.

"By the middle of Wanli period, mine envoys came out everywhere... However, at that time, the big peng and the small prison guards were running around the post, sucking the marrow and drinking blood to make offerings."

Among them, those sent to mines are called "Mine Supervisors", those who go to towns or major traffic arteries to collect taxes are called "Tax Envoys", those who go to Guangdong to search for pearls and gemstones are called "Pearl Supervisors", and those who go to Lianghuai to search for salt taxes are called "Tax Envoys". Salt Supervisor".

These mine supervisors and tax envoys set up separate government offices, forming their own system, ignoring the government under the banner of the imperial court, and arbitrarily exploiting merchants and people, and even the situation that "there is no need for mines and no need for taxation" often occurs.