Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

The Ming Dynasty was an era where capable people emerged in large numbers!

This is the pinnacle of the entire feudal period in China!

The real Ming Dynasty is like a hexagonal warrior, with no shortcomings in all aspects!

She can compete with strong men, she dares to compete with the domineering Tang Dynasty, and she can compete with the Fu Song Dynasty in prosperity. Although she is not as brilliant as the Spring and Autumn and Warring States culture, she also gave birth to the last sage of Confucianism!

She has no marriage between the Han and Tang dynasties, no coins from the two Song dynasties, and no compensation from the treaty dynasty!

Forgive me, it was my fault to use Daqing to insult her.

"I am Shengqing", what is this crap thing?

Garbage that is not collected in the garbage dump!

Daming is a hexagonal warrior with no shortcomings in any aspect.

His martial arts stood at the pinnacle of China.

The brilliance of her culture is second only to that of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Poems, operas, novels, military songs, technological prosperity...

——They all stand at the pinnacle of history!

Her people's livelihood and welfare are so high that they dare to touch any era, and her political enlightenment is unparalleled in time and space!

She made me, a spring and autumn fan, bow to her and had to bow down to her peerless grace!

This is a court that the 268-year slave dynasty spent a full 260 years covering up the truth;

Since the Qin and Han dynasties, this Han dynasty is the closest to modern times and has the least preserved first-hand historical materials;

Even under the rule of an anti-human group, this dynasty has a sky-high illiteracy rate...

The tip of the iceberg that has not been destroyed, the peerless elegance in a few words, the successive efforts to resist the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty...

All of this tells the world that the real Ming Dynasty is far beyond what future generations can imagine!

The real Ming Dynasty, even with my background and the information I spent three years collecting, has been defeated time and again by the excavations of my colleagues who are determined to restore the glory of the Ming Dynasty!

Every time I see a new piece of information, the description of the Ming Dynasty in my mind has to be overthrown and reconstructed again...

Every archaeological excavation about the Ming Dynasty and every discovery of overseas Ming Dynasty classics can overturn the existing conclusions about the Ming Dynasty!

This is the current situation of the Ming Dynasty!

——An era that the Manchu and Qing court spent the entire regime covering up, but still could not cover up its glory!

The same is true for river management.

Mingting still stands at the highest peak of history!

"Shu River flushes sand" became a model for later generations to manage the Yellow River.

Canal management has become a water transportation method adopted all over the world!

After the mid-Ming Dynasty, the pattern of canal locks was basically fixed.

Gathering water from the rivers along the Shandong Canal and pouring it into the canal has become a consistent approach to canal management.

The water lock was used to ensure the water volume of the canal, and together with the canal, it was successfully applied for World Heritage!

Nanwang serves as a water diversion, and the number of ship locks on its north and south sides is basically equal.

There are 27 gates to the south of the water divide and 23 to the north.

Even, in some places with large drop, double gates and triple gates are designed.

(The Panama Canal in America adopted this approach from Song Li in the early Ming Dynasty.)

The Qing court suffered from the legacy of the Ming Dynasty until its demise.

The only exception was the mid-Kangxi period, when the Yellow River burst its banks and the sediment rose, so the Luoma Lake-Zaohe section had to be dug.

That is to say, it avoids the Yellow River channel south of Suqian, completely separates the Yellow River from the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and ends the history of the Grand Canal "borrowing the Yellow River for transportation."

This is the only contribution of "Wo Shengqing" to the Grand Canal...

It has to be said that the predecessors planted trees for future generations to enjoy the shade, and "I Shengqing" got a big advantage in vain, which protected the entire Qing Dynasty for nearly 300 years...

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And what’s unbelievable is——

Emperor Yongle actually completed the construction of such a huge project in only 20 days!

That is just 200 days!

This is the magnificence of Emperor Yongle in the early Ming Dynasty!

Such a large project took only less than seven months!

The short time taken, the high engineering efficiency, and the long running time are enough to put all the regimes in later generations to shame!

Early Ming Dynasty...

What a splendor!

The prosperous age of Yongle...

What kind of prosperity that must be!

You know, Zhu Di's dredging of the Grand Canal was not as simple as enslaving the people.

Emperor Yongle conscripted a total of 40 civilians.

Not only were wages paid to so many people, they were even exempted from taxes!

The tax reductions and exemptions alone amount to more than 110 million dan!

You know, during the Yongle period, the highest tax revenue from the central government was less than 3800 million shi!

In other words, while Yongle was fighting in the north and south, he reduced 30/[-] of the annual revenue of the treasury just to manage the canal!

Although according to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, about four-tenths were retained by local governments and used as local expenses.

Therefore, the actual proportion will definitely not reach such a high level.

(In the Ming Dynasty, not all of the tax revenue was sent to the capital. Instead, after it was collected, part of it was directly reserved in the local area.)

However, what you need to know is that in Yongle during this period, money was flowing like water.

Emperor Yongle was blasting Mongolia to the north, and was sorting out the newly conquered Vietnam to the south.

Zheng He was sailing around the world with his ships.

Internally, they are still building the Forbidden City in Beijing, Wudang Mountain, pacifying Japanese pirates, compiling the "Yongle Dadian", and building the Nurgan Capital Command Department in the Northeast, which has jurisdiction over Heilongjiang, Ussuri River, Udi River, Sakhalin and other places, and the Northwest The Hami Guards were set up, the Guizhou Provincial Envoy Department was set up in the southwest, and the Three Kings Monk Officials were set up in Tibet...

It can be said that Zhu Di's steps are so big that no one in the entire human history can match him!

This is the style of Emperor Yongle.

Whatever "tyrants" did in history, Zhu Di did it all!

Whether it is large-scale internal projects or frequent external wars, history has no equal!

Even, there is no one who can even compare with him!

The number and frequency of Zhu Di's foreign wars put them beyond the reach of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty!

The huge internal infrastructure construction put Emperor Ming of Sui Dynasty to shame!

In the 11th and [-]th years of Yongle, the Yellow River, Wei River, Branch River, Tu River, Old Yellow River, Dagu River, Shahe River, Luanshui River...and so on were once again repaired and dredged!

However, it was precisely such an emperor who created the prosperity of the "Yongle Age"!

I have to say that this is a miracle in human history!

(This just proves the huge profits from Zheng He’s voyages to the West!

It also explains from the side the purpose of the civil servants and gentry groups in restricting imperial power throughout the Ming Dynasty. )

In only two hundred days, the Grand Canal was repaired.

In the 13th year of Yongle reign, Zhu Di ordered a halt to grain and sea transportation.

In the 14th year of Yongle reign, several large trees with a diameter of more than one foot were discovered in Sichuan.

In the past, the canal would have been absolutely impossible to transport!