Ranking Pass History: Inventory of the Top Ten Great Players in History

[Eat his mother, drink his mother, and don't pay for the King Chuang! 】

[Inventory of the top ten anti-kings in history and the first place]

[Li Zicheng, the Chuang Wang at the end of Ming Dynasty! 】

As soon as the title was played, Zhu Yuanzhang became excited.

Finally, I have made an inventory of my Daming's anti-king.

My old Zhu would like to see what this Li Zicheng is capable of, that he can be ranked No. 1 among the top ten anti-kings.

Is he more powerful than the soaring general Huang Chao?
However, the initial text comments made Lao Zhu black-faced.

[Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang conquered the north from the south, expelled the violent Yuan, and ruled the world. He can be called a great hero in China's thousands of years of history.But Zhu Yuanzhang also planted several mines for his descendants.

The first thunder: the strategy of banning the sea.

This method of self-cutting off the arm not only made the Ming Dynasty lose tens of millions of sea trade taxes every year during the Song Dynasty, but also allowed pirates and smuggling to flourish, causing troubles in the southeast for more than 100 years. Most importantly, it directly made the Ming Dynasty Missed the opportunity of the age of great exploration, and handed over the opportunity to discover the new continent to Xiyi.

The second thunder: Divide the princes.Give military power and financial power to the vassal kings all over the country.The seeds of Jingkang's disaster were directly planted.

As a result, Zhu Di succeeded in usurping the throne.

After Zhu Di came to the throne, because he was worried that other feudal kings would follow suit, he deprived the feudal kings of all their powers.It started the "pig raising" policy for more than 200 years.

The vassals of various places are not allowed to interfere with local administrative and military affairs, nor are they allowed to read and write.But they are allowed to annex land without limit and bully men and women.

This kind of stupid pig raising policy directly turned the excellent blood of Emperor Hongwu into a pile of waste.

In the troubled times of the late Ming Dynasty, facing the peasant army and the Manchu army, except for one Tang Wang Zhu Yujian who was imprisoned in Fengyang, the actual performance of nearly a million Hongwu descendants was a group of fools.

But if we look into the reasons why the vassal kings refused to give gold, silver and food to the guards to boost morale, this board will still hit Zhu Di in the ass.

The vassal kings were worried that they would support the government army with money and food. Even if they repelled the peasant army, they would be impeached by the censor of the court according to the laws and regulations set by Chengzu.

Third: Kill the heroes.Abolish the prime minister.

The consequences of massacres of heroes did not only lead to the surrender of a large number of civil and military officials in the late Ming Dynasty, but few of them served the country loyally.In the end, it was the remnants of the two peasant armies that defended Ming Dynasty.

The regular Ming army became the Green Battalion soldiers of the Manchu Qing, and made great contributions to the unification of the whole country by the Manchu Qing.

This is, of course, an illusory theory of retribution.

The real consequence of massacring heroes was that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty had extreme distrust of his officials.

Because of the extreme distrust of his officials, so-called cronies must be used to monitor them.

Who is the emperor's confidant?

eunuch.

Only these eunuchs who are attached to the imperial power are the only cronies of the emperor.

This led to a ridiculous consequence: Zhu Yuanzhang was well aware of the historical lessons of the eunuchs' monopoly in the Han and Tang Dynasties. When he was alive, he strictly prohibited all eunuchs from participating in political affairs, and even the eunuchs he used were illiterate.

But in the Ming Dynasty, the disasters of eunuchs came and went one after another, which could not be stopped at all.

The power of many eunuchs is not inferior to that of the middle and late Tang Dynasty.

The reason for this result is actually quite simple.

It was because Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the prime minister system, which led to an unprecedented concentration of imperial power, but it also brought a negative result.

The emperor's workload was too great.

Zhu Yuanzhang, a model worker, has to deal with more than 400 things every day on average.In the 17th year of Hongwu, he processed 8 memorials in 3291 days.

Lao Zhu is a competent emperor, but Lao Zhu forgot one thing, he can be so diligent, can his descendants be so diligent?
If his descendants are unwilling to be so diligent, and there is no prime minister who can handle government affairs, who will these memorials be handed over to in the end?
There is only one answer, the eunuch!

Not to mention those strange emperors in the middle and late dynasties, even the famous Ming Chengzu Zhu Di began to use eunuchs in his later years.

The eunuchs can read and read, and deal with government affairs, starting with Zhu Di! 】

[According to the above analysis, it can be seen that Lao Zhu did plant three landmines, but it was Ming Chengzu Zhu Di who really made these three landmines truly exert their power.

Because he was not in the right position, he wanted to raise the princes of various places as pigs.

Because he was too lazy to deal with political affairs in his later years, he gave the eunuchs the right to approve awards.

Ming Chengzu Zhu Di's achievements in his life are great, but some of the policies he formulated are the same as Lao Zhu's sea ban policy, because they have become the so-called "unchangeable" ancestral system, which caused the Ming Dynasty to lose a lot when it faced the crisis of subjugation. Flickering space. 】

As soon as the text was counted here, Lao Zhu in the Qianqing Palace could no longer bear it.

"Zhu Di! Our family doesn't blame you for usurping the throne, but if you dare to raise your brothers and nephews like pigs, you can't blame our family's whip."

The furious old Zhu called Zhu Di, who was in a daze, to the back garden, and without any explanation, he whipped him violently.

Zhu Di was directly pumped into bed for more than a month.

On the plane of Yongle, Zhu Di looked at the accusations against him on the light and shadow projection screen, and his face was also ashen.

"Our family raises the feudal lords like pigs, obviously out of respect for brotherhood. Why did Dr. Tongtian accuse me instead? Is it the right thing for me to kill all the feudal lords from all over the world?"

University scholar Xie Jin said cautiously beside him,

"Your Majesty, the point of Dr. Tongtian's remarks is not here. The point is the millions of descendants of the Tian family. According to the salary levels of the vassal princes established by Your Majesty, how much silver is needed to feed them a year?"

Zhu Di nodded heavily.

"Since this is the case, I can no longer cherish the relationship between brothers and nephews.

Pass on my will!

Called the vassal kings from all over the country to Beijing to discuss matters.Restart "Tweet Order".And limit the unlimited enclosure of vassal kings everywhere. "

The reason why Li Hao accused Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, the two most powerful emperors of the Ming Dynasty, at the beginning of his review was not to pick a bone in the egg, but because all Chinese dynasties had a bad problem, which is the so-called "ancestral system cannot be changed, The ancestral system cannot be violated."

If you disobey the ancestral system, you are disloyal and unfilial.

Once this kind of big hat is put on, even the emperor can't resist it.

In the Song Dynasty, the reason why emphasizing literature over military affairs became an unchangeable national policy was because it was formulated by Zhao Kuangyin.

In the Ming Dynasty, except for the brief opening of the sea ban during Zhu Di's period, other emperors have been strictly implementing this stupid policy.Although in the late Ming Dynasty, the policy of sea ban existed in name only.But at least in name, it is still an unchangeable ancestral system.

Throughout the dynasties of the past, some policies formulated by the founding emperor can often last until the period of subjugation.

The weirdness is also here. The founding emperor's new policies often learned the lessons from the demise of the previous dynasty, which were very effective and played a positive role.

With the changes of the times, these new policies became the shackles of the new dynasty, and even became the cause of disaster for the country.

Even if some clear-headed emperors wanted to change the ancestral system, they often died in the curse of "unfaithful, filial and respectful ancestors".

The reason why Li Hao took the trouble to criticize Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di before talking about Li Zicheng is precisely to keep them from going crazy in their later years and planting these mines of loyalty and filial piety for future generations.