"Of course I know the executive and the contractor, one is the imperial army, the other is the puppet army, as for that lonely ghost, what are you talking about, I don't understand!" Ling Yun said.

The crane immortal and Ling Yun are from the same world, of course they understand what the imperial army and the puppet army mean, but the memory of the outside world has become a distant existence, and he suddenly mentioned it at this moment, and he couldn't help but be stunned, and then said: "Hmph, that lonely soul and wild ghost are a group of people who are extremely resistant to Japan and do not descend to the sun. ”

"According to what you say, Tao Yuanming is also an incompetent person, right? Lao Tzu and Zhuangzi don't grow crops, they don't sell anything, they spend all day long, they brag nonsense when they see people, leave a few chat records, and call them "Tao Te Ching" and "Zhuangzi", according to what you said, they are really useless in this world?" Ling Yun said.

"Don't think that you can crush me with the big names in history, in this world, any truth is not that celebrities are right, they have left masterpieces, the world praises, but what, if the world learns from them, retreats to the mountains, does not do anything, waiting for others to support, then the world does not know how many people will starve to death in vain, let alone what the world will turn upside down! What's more, the masterpieces they left behind are just leisure time, used to kill time, can they really rely on their writings to govern the country? Isn't that child's play, which dynasty advocates the way of Lao Zhuang, and if it loses its blood, it will die sooner or later!" retorted the crane immortal.

"Hahaha, I don't read much, you don't want me, the way of Lao Zhuang seems to be the pursuit of inaction, advocating the Tao of nature, and even some people interpret the way of Lao Zhuang into the religious concept of birth, but in fact, whether it is Lao Tzu or Zhuang Tzu, their thoughts are deeply engraved into the heads of the rulers of the past dynasties, and have never eliminated this profound influence, in the early years of the Han Dynasty, because of the war in the last years of the Qin Dynasty, began to advocate the rule of inaction, so that the people could recuperate, and finally there was a full treasury in the era of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and the rich accumulation of several generations finally supported the eternal cause of attacking the Xiongnu in the north, you dare to say that the way of Lao Zhuang is uselessOn the contrary, in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, natural disasters occurred frequently, and the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youzhen, did not understand the importance of recuperation with the people, but tried his best to suppress the bandits, the bandits were originally the officials forced the people to rebel, and the military expenses required to suppress the bandits were astonishingly high, which further increased the burden on the people, causing more people who had no way to live to join the ranks of the bandits, resulting in more and more bandits, more and more military spending, and falling into an unsolvable dead loop. Lingyun said.

"I don't agree with what you say, what is the more bandits are suppressed, then I have to ask for advice, do you think Zhu Youzhen's countermeasures are wrong, what do you think, if you don't suppress the bandits, will these bandits automatically lay down their weapons?"

"Bandits are indicators, but the Ming Dynasty is terminally ill, like a decaying and crumbling building, only one finger can be gently knocked down, at this time, still care about some holes in the house, instead of thinking about how to consolidate the beams of the building, how to make the whole building not fall? Although the bandits are swarming everywhere, but these bandits are not to overthrow the Ming Dynasty, after the Chongzhen Emperor hanged himself, the Southern Ming Dynasty was under the strong attack of the Qing Dynasty, and it was maintained for decades, which shows that the rule of the Ming Dynasty is not to the point where a wave of bandits and rabble can be completely wiped out, the reason why Li Zicheng was given the opportunity to attack Beijing City, but Chongzhen did not grasp the opportunity, the requirements of the people in the world are very simple, nothing more than a full meal, who can let them not starve to death with whom, all Li Zicheng's slogans, nothing more than breaking into the king to open a granary and other simple to women, children and children can know, this Chongzhen did not doOf course, Li Zicheng and the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty were not coveted outside the Guan, nor even Li Zicheng, who attacked the city of Beijing, but Chongzhen himself, who did not let the people of the world even have something to eat, so what was wrong with overthrowing him? Of course, Li Zicheng and the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty were not a good thing, but without them, the Ming Dynasty would surely perish, because it had failed the expectations of the people of the world. Lingyun said.

"No, no, no, those who died in the Ming Dynasty, not the Ming Dynasty, but those officials who have strong enemies outside, above the court, and only manage internal fighting, they cannot fulfill their duties, military attaches cannot suppress rebellions, resist foreign enemies, and civil officials cannot assist the government and govern the world, therefore, the Ming Dynasty lost the world! In the Ming Dynasty, the party struggle was more fierce than any dynasty, and the emperor's laissez-faire connived at the struggle of the bureaucrats, and the Ming Dynasty was ruined by the party struggle, and the coffin can be closed!" The crane immortal retorted.

"You also said that the Ming Dynasty was in the party struggle, the party struggle has never been broken, you said that because of the party struggle and the Ming Dynasty died, then why the Ming Dynasty nearly 300 years of the country, the first 300 years of party struggle has not died, but it was the end of the Ming Dynasty party struggle to die? This shows that the party struggle accelerated the fall of the Ming Dynasty, but it was by no means the most important reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty. If you think about it, in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, there were many wanderers, what was the reason? Of course, natural disasters were part of the reason, but in China's thousands of years of history, which year was the whole country in terms of wind and rain? Every year was either floods or droughts, and even locust plagues, and earthquakes and mudslides, so why were the results caused by natural disasters so serious at the end of the Ming Dynasty that the entire empire collapsed with a bang? The fundamental reason for this was nothing more than natural disasters as well as man-made disasters. First, the descendants of the Zhu family are all noble, enjoy the support of the people of the world, they do not do farming and labor, although they can only be active in the palace in the fiefdom, but enjoy the glory and wealth no less than the emperor in the Forbidden City, all the Zhu royal family are fat and big-eared, when Li Zicheng broke through the northwest, he caught a prince, enough to have three hundred catties, put it in the pot, and fried a large pot of oil, this is all people's fat and people's ointment! Tens of thousands of acres of land can support a prince, and all the taxes of several provinces cannot meet the needs of a king, not to mention, under the king, there are countless royal families of all kinds, all of which are supported by the harvest of the people's fields, so how can they not starve to death the people? Even in a bumper harvest year, the people are still yellow and thin, barely making ends meet, where can they have enough to eat? This is only the first reason, the royal family of the Ming Dynasty sucked too much blood. ”

"The reason for the demise of the second Ming Dynasty is that the corrupt officials are too greedy and the emperor is too poor, here the emperor is poor, not that the emperor is worse than those princes and first assistants, the emperor who sits in the palace, of course, is clothed and fed, and lives a luxurious life, but he is still very poor, poor because the local tax and silver have not received from the imperial court, so that the emperor lacks due control over the locality, poor because the silver has fallen into the hands of the bureaucracy, the emperor has a good relationship with the family, When the officials of the dynasty lacked tough means, and in the Chongzhen Dynasty, it was even more so, they could not get silver from the people, because the people had been squeezed to the point that they had no food to eat and no life to live, and their silver had been exploited layer by layer, and all the descendants of the royal family and corrupt officials were taken clean, and after the money fell into the hands of the descendants of the royal family and corrupt officials, Chongzhen got rid of Wei Zhongxian, and there was no black hand who could help him get money from it, the army had no money, where could they still fight for the emperor, and the capital was breached, it is not surprising!"

The third reason is precisely that the original system of the Ming Dynasty was distorted, so Chongzhen thought that killing Wei Zhongxian was curing the disease, but in fact he only removed a broken beam and pillar for the Ming Dynasty building, and did not find a new beam and column to support the building, which led to the stagnation of the entire imperial machine and finally went to its demise. The biggest drawback of the Ming Dynasty is that many of the old systems established by Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, are no longer suitable for the development of the late Ming Dynasty, and the vigorous market economy urgently needs a new management model, but the emperor of the Ming Dynasty has no idea of innovation, and what he did is nothing more than tinkering on the basis of the Taizu Hadith. For example, in the Ming Dynasty, all taxes and silver were not collected by the central government, because considering the inconvenience of tax and silver transportation and the loss of grain collection, the collection of money and grain was the responsibility of the local government, and the supply of the army was also handed over to the local government, which led to the weakening of the power of the imperial court. However, with the existence of the factory guard mechanism, the possibility of this local power being greatly reduced greatly has been greatly reduced, because the eunuchs of Jinyiwei and the East Factory and the West Factory can directly inspect the world in the name of the emperor, collect taxes and silver from mines, tea, silk, porcelain and other commodities, and then hand them over directly to the emperor. And Chongzhen directly killed Wei Zhongxian, which also meant giving up the factory guard mechanism, and as a result, he did not have the eloquence of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, but he boldly removed this rotten beam and column, and the new beam and column were not supported, which led to the destruction of the building, and the collapse is of course the right thing to do, which is the biggest reason for the death of the Ming Dynasty!"

"Wei Zhongxian is just a traitor and a thief, hmph, what good things does the eunuch have, do you really think he is a loyal minister and a good general? Chongzhen got rid of him, in my opinion, there is nothing wrong, but it is very happy, so that those loyal ministers have a bad breath, the death of the Ming Dynasty is separated by more than ten years, it can be said that Wei Zhongxian's death and the fall of the Ming Dynasty have nothing to do with it, you don't have to whitewash this traitor, you and him are just a raccoon dog!"

"Hahaha, Xia Worm can't speak to the ice, Well Frog can't speak to the order, this is not bad, self-proclaimed loyal ministers, honest and upright, of course easy to do, but can not be afraid of infamy, for the emperor and hundreds of officials against the enemy, gather the wealth of the world to enrich the treasury, not afraid of being scolded, this kind of capable minister is not comparable to those loyal ministers who sell their fame and reputation!" Ling Yun said.

"Then according to what you say, every dynasty can survive by relying on traitors and villains, not loyal ministers and good generals? Then you should tell me, why do historians praise loyal ministers and good generals and spit on traitors and thieves in various subsets of scriptures and histories in the history books, instead of the other way around?" asked the crane immortal rhetorically.