Chapter 2319 Daming Hypothesis
2336, Ming Dynasty hypothesis
There is a saying that the reason why Zhu Biao died young in history was the conspiracy of scholars from the south of the Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty.
Because at that time, both Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao wanted to move the capital of Jinling to Fengyang.
The latter is the most beneficial to Jianghuai nobles and the biggest blow to Jiangnan scholars.
In order to stop him, they simply attacked Zhu Biao.
Of course, this is also related to the fact that Zhu Biao has enough prestige to intimidate the nobles. Once Zhu Biao inherits the throne, the founding nobles of the Ming Empire can still continue their dominance in the court, and they will definitely make the Ming Empire It is more difficult for scholars to enter the center of power in the court.
Adding these two reasons together, scholars in the Ming Empire really had no reason not to take action.
They succeeded and stopped him, but they did not take into account Zhu Yunwen's unbearable fate, the abandonment of Zhu Yunwen by the nobles of the Ming Empire, or the rise and ruthlessness of Zhu Di.
Especially the latter, if they directly used the Fang Xiaoru ten clans as a deterrent, wouldn't the scholars of the Ming Empire immediately feel weak in their bones?
Wasn't the capital moved with just one order?
For the scholars of the Ming Dynasty in the Yongle era, Zhu Gaochi was their only support. It was inevitable that even if Zhu Di wanted to change the crown prince many times, he would not succeed.
They feared Zhu Yuanzhang as a tiger, and also feared Zhu Di's ruthless continuation, but they could never let the new generation of the Ming Empire belong to Zhu Gaoxu.
No one knows whether Zhu Gaoxu was really as stupid as recorded in history, but there must be some smear campaign by scholars in the Ming Empire day by day.
Without him, it was just to ruin Zhu Gaoji's status in the hearts of the people of the Ming Empire, forcing him to have no possibility of succeeding Zhu Gaochi.
The danger and cruelty in the process of changing imperial power are simply incomprehensible to outsiders, and outsiders are also unable to understand the full picture.
The Ming Dynasty no longer needs to worry about this. What about the aloof Hongwu Emperor Shou Yuan? Even if it is uncertain whether Crown Prince Zhu Biao can take over one day, why bother thinking about it?
Wouldn't it be better to give all your loyalty to Zhu Yuanzhang?
In this way, the new Ming Empire became more smooth and comfortable.
Even scholars in the Ming Empire knew that some things were better not to be calculated easily.
Besides, this era is completely different from the past. Those warriors and scholars could still despise them in the past, but what about now?
If someone really gets angry out of shame, he can completely destroy your entire family. Even if you look down on him in your heart, don't you still need to give him the respect you deserve on his face?
They are grateful that there is still the path of hundreds of schools of thought for them to choose, and they also know that if their cultivation is not enough, even if they have a thorough grasp of the way of being an official, the possibility of getting a high position is still slim.
At this time, would it be better to choose an emperor like Zhu Yuanzhang?
At least Emperor Hongwu really saw your talent and not many people dared to object to your re-employment.
And if you cultivate enough, don't you need to worry about those messy things? They can't find you either.
Even if you don't enter the Ming Empire as an official, it is still your own choice.
Look at Zhang Sanfeng on Wudang Mountain. Who in the entire Ming Empire would not respectfully call him an immortal?
As the Optimus Prime of the Ming Empire in the current comprehensive martial arts world, this is recognized by all the people of the Ming Empire. Hasn't he already left his name in history?
Before Zhu Yuanzhang connected with the heavens, his attitude towards officials was not much different from that of pigs and dogs.
He wants to kill his own officials. The most important thing is not whether you have actually been corrupted or bribed, but that he wants to kill you and even your whole family.
For example, in the Blue Jade case, didn't Zhu Biao disappear at that time? Didn't Zhu Yuanzhang want to hand over the power of the Ming Empire to Zhu Yunwen and help Zhu Yunwen eliminate all possible threats in advance?
At this time, the blood connection of the former Crown Princess Chang became a sin.
Even if you are a blue jade seal wolf living in Xu, you must come to a clean end. It's not that you can't be tolerated, but that you are so righteous that you can't be tolerated.
The collected evidence indeed proves that Lan Yu is capable of death, but did Zhu Yuanzhang really not know about this evidence in the past?
His family is clean. In the past, they were just playing blue jade boards. It was just Zhu Biao's need. Zhu Biao is gone, so what do you need?
Who will die if you don't die? Who will die if those Huaixi nobles don't die?
Of course, what Zhu Yuanzhang did also left a huge hidden danger for his grandson Zhu Yunwen, that is, the military generals simply didn't bother to pay attention to you Zhu Yunwen, and would not contribute to your country at all.
He, Zhu Yuanzhang, should be glad that his son was entrusted with nine borders, otherwise if Zhu Yunwen continues like this, sooner or later the Ming Empire will fall.
This is no joke. Zhu Yunwen was under the guidance of Fang Xiaoru at that time, and he was really reversing the course of history.
Could it be that the policies of the Zhou Dynasty that govern the country more than 2,000 years ago were still suitable for the Ming Empire at that time?
There was also the well-field system. Once it was implemented, it would be strange that the Ming Empire at that time would not rebel.
He, Zhu Yuanzhang, must thank Zhu Di for cleaning up the mess for him. Don't think that the so-called historical records of civil servants have really become the truth.
The interpretation of history is not just about historical records. It is like Sima Guang's Zizhi Tongjian. There are so many private goods included in it. If you regard these as a guide, you will really be a fool.
The saddest thing about the history recorded by civil servants is not that their positions are biased, but that they do not understand military affairs at all, and most of the time they do not understand the various effects of a war.
There is a hypothesis that if Zhu Biao had not died young, the Ming Empire would not have become what it was in history.
In history, among the emperors who succeeded Zhu Di in the Ming Empire, which one did not die due to unknown causes?
There may be some coincidences among them, but no one believes that all of them are coincidences.
Is the Ming Emperor really insoluble in water?
The cruelty of the struggle in the court can never be known to those who have not experienced it personally.
Some people say that after Yu Qian was killed by Zhu Qizhen, the generals of the Ming Empire lost their true spirit;
Also, my empire is about to collapse to support you, but it ends up like this. Who will not feel cold?
Some people say that after Zhang Juzheng was liquidated, there would be no civil servants who would selflessly contribute to the Ming Empire.
This sentence also makes sense. For any change maker, who doesn't know that he needs to tie his head to his waist?
Didn't Shang Yang, the first reformer in history, also end up being torn into pieces?
Don't those latecomers have any idea about this?
They knew it, but they still entered the game without fear. Even if they failed in the end, they worked hard for it and there were bound to be many improvements.
But what's the result?
For your own selfish reasons, your emperor chose to liquidate my entire family after my death. What should the subsequent ministers think?
Even among the later civil servants, there were those who had the same thoughts as Zhang Juzheng, so they probably wouldn't dare to do it, right?
When the civil servants and military generals are paddling and following the trend, how can this Mercedes-Benz vehicle of the Ming Empire slide into the abyss bit by bit? This is also the real reason why there is a saying that Zhang Juzheng died and the Ming Dynasty died.
People risked their lives to burn themselves for your Ming Empire. It's okay if you don't thank them. You also add insult to injury after their death. What do you want others to think?
Isn't this the reason why the Ming Dynasty died in Wanli?
In the ancient dynasty period, the biggest reason for the demise of a dynasty may not be the emperor, but if you say that they are not one of the reasons, no one will believe it.
The Ming hypothesis can only be a hypothesis.
Even if the Zongwu Ming Empire is now connected to the heavens, Zhu Biao, who originally died young in history, is still alive. This is not a verification of the hypothesis.
Perhaps one day in the future, Zhu Yuanzhang will pass the emperor's throne to Zhu Biao, but that is also in the future. Even now, Zhu Biao is still immature in the eyes of many people, and is not at the same level as the old-timer Zhu Yuanzhang.
Don't think that this is just the understanding of some people. On the contrary, even the people of the Ming Empire are clear about this.
Maybe they still don't know the Zhu Yuanzhang recorded in history?
It can be said that any common people in the Ming Dynasty know it clearly.
After modernization and transformation, the comprehensive urbanization of the Ming Empire may still be somewhat inadequate compared to the truly modern world, but after so many years of transformation, the promotion of education has been successful.
Not to mention 100% literacy, but not far behind.
Zhu Yuanzhang also understood that there are some things that you cannot ban at all. The people of the Ming Empire are bound to be curious about everything in the future. Even if you ban it, people will learn about it through various channels.
The more this happens, the easier it is for some messy things to get involved. Isn't Zhu Yuanzhang himself clear about the shamelessness of literati?
Rather than letting those shameless literary thieves bring in private goods during the process, why not get it right in one step yourself? Aren't you curious?
Then I might as well print the subsequent history into a book and sell it on a large scale.
Zhu Yuanzhang did not even make any changes to these Ming histories, and even if they smeared Zhu Yuanzhang, he simply ignored them.
But some things are like this. The more upright you are, the more people will respect you.
I may not have actually seen our Emperor Hongwu, but you can't paint him with a shoehorned face just to discredit him, right?
As long as you doubt one detail of something, you will doubt many of the records.
The smearing of some things seemed very advanced at the time, such as the big-foot theory about Queen Ma.
When the Qing Dynasty was revising the history of Ming Dynasty, it was a point of ridicule for an era.
But now?
Even the Qing Dynasty couldn't find anything to smear Queen Ma, so they could only smear her like this.
It is also because of this detail that the popular reputation of Empress Ma of the Ming Dynasty is very prosperous, sometimes even surpassing that of Hongwu Emperor.
Not to mention other things, which one of the hundreds of officials in the Ming Dynasty is not Qingqing?
How important Empress Ma's long life is, isn't it already described in great detail in history books?
Later generations jokingly said that when Empress Ma died, all the officials cried so much that they must have died and were even more sad than their own mother. Only these officials knew best. That was not a joke, but a fact!
Now that people in the Ming Empire have begun to doubt Ming historical records, what should they do?
It was necessary to find other explanations of the history of the Ming Dynasty, so many Ming history books in later generations became best-sellers within the Ming Empire.
These books are just books to any non-Ming Empire world, but to the people of the Ming Empire, they are the greatest advice!
Almost everyone can find the existence of some stubborn diseases in their own world. If you find it, if your court is still indifferent to it, is it possible?
Just like land annexation, students who have been educated in any modern world understand that it is blood-sucking and a stubborn disease that will definitely lead to the demise of a dynasty. But these modern people understand it clearly. To put it bluntly, it still has nothing to do with them.
But for the people of the Zongwu Ming Empire, it was a major event that they had to find countless ways to prevent. This is how their current progressive taxation of land came about.
They know that even if some things are stopped, people will still take advantage of loopholes. Over time, it is very likely that large-scale land annexation will still occur.
In this case, I might as well clarify the profit losses after large-scale mergers.
Your farmland is only a hundred acres, so I can only tax you 10%.
If you have more than 100 acres but less than 1,000 acres, I will increase the tax by 10% and turn it into 20% of the tax. If you can still accept it and continue the annexation, then my tax will also increase accordingly.
For example, if the land exceeds 1,000 acres but is less than 10,000 acres, the tax rate becomes 30%.
Ten thousand acres to one hundred thousand acres, 40%.
One hundred thousand acres to one million acres, 50%.
If one million acres goes up, my taxes will also go up by 60%!
No one is a fool. I need to hand over half of my income to you. Do I get a good deal?
I have worked hard for a year, but most of it does not belong to me, so why bother?
This actually has another effect, which is to deal a blow to the clan.
For the sake of profit, even the most united clan will distribute the land within the clan to each household.
But once some things are distributed to each family, the chain that originally linked all interests is completely broken.
After it has become the private property of each family, if you want to take it back, it will break the law. The Ming Empire will not joke with you at this time.
Zhu Yuanzhang himself no longer abolishes public affairs for personal reasons, could he possibly allow you to break the laws of our Ming Empire?
This is an issue related to the continuation of the Ming Empire. Maybe you will be allowed to cause trouble?
At this time, even if Zhu Yuanzhang was asked to kill his own son to scare the monkeys, he would probably not hesitate at all.
Compared with the continuation of the Ming Empire, Zhu Yuanzhang would probably have to chop it off himself even if he was in tears.
Didn't you see that after his second and third sons were sent to Liu Haolong's army for training, they no longer had any intention of returning to the Ming Empire?
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