The summer sun is shining from among the lush towering ancient trees, and the wailing that is still hysterical seems to be protesting against the coming night, but no matter what, the day belonging to the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum is coming to an end.

The Ming Tomb is located in the Purple Mountain of Xuanwu District, Nanjing, and is the joint burial mausoleum of Zhu Yuanzhang and Queen Ma of the Ming Dynasty.

In the evening, the tourists gradually dispersed, and between the Ming Tower and the treasure top in the depths of the Ming Tomb, two middle-aged people seemed to be tired of walking, sitting on the stone next to the treasure top and chatting.

Under the top of the treasure is the sleeping palace of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, by the Cultural Relics Bureau and other relevant departments using advanced precision magnetic measurement, the tomb is well preserved and has never been stolen, and the mystery has always shrouded the Ming Tomb.

In other words, after 600 years of wind and rain, Emperor Taizu Hongwu still rests peacefully underground.

"Adong, why do you think the Ming Dynasty died?" The tall man took out two cigarettes and handed them to his companion, then took a deep breath.

"It must be inseparable from corruption, and the people have no way to live! However, it is said that the party struggle was also very strong at that time, and there is a saying that Ming died in the party dispute. Sun Zhendong followed and lit a cigarette and said casually.

Since the end of the Apocalypse, the perennial drought in the north of the Ming Dynasty has led to the extinction of grain, and the imperial court not only does not provide disaster relief but also levies taxes, so that the northern people who can not survive have unveiled the uprising one after another, starting from Baishui, Shaanxi, and the spark soon showed the trend of burning the prairies.

From Wang Er to Zijin Liang to Wang Jiayin, Chuang Wang, Chuang General, Eight Kings, and then what is not muddy, flying on the grass, and starry sky and other rebel armies have sprung up in the northern region.

In the process of suppressing the thieves by the officials and soldiers, they fled in all directions, and in the process of escaping, they robbed all the resources that could keep them alive, turning the north of the Ming Dynasty upside down.

During the period, the Jianyu was detained six times, plundering the people of the border towns of the Ming Dynasty, and the main force of the official army was delayed by the peasant army for a long time, coupled with the serious arrears, the official army also began to plunder the civilians, and the completely rotten Ming court stepped into the abyss.

Later, even famous generals like Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng, and Qin Liangyu were powerless to return to the sky, and the stormy Ming Empire finally collapsed in internal and external troubles.

The big man took a deep breath with his cigarette butt and said: "This is a bit one-sided, according to my research, there are at least five factors in the fall of the Ming Dynasty, one is political corruption, the second is the high concentration of land, the third is financial bankruptcy, the levy of three salaries, the fourth is the disrepair of water conservancy leads to frequent famines, and the five military systems are corrupt." ”

"Yo, Professor Chen has started to lecture, come on, student Sun Zhendong has sat on the small bench, please show the professor." Sun Zhendong sat on the side of a stone and said.

He didn't have time to argue with Chen Ping, as soon as he learned a foreign language, wouldn't it be humiliating for him to challenge other people's careers with his hobby.

Chen Ping ignored Sun Zhendong's ridicule, but looked at the quaint and dilapidated mausoleum Baoding and said: "The Ming Dynasty began to go downhill, it should start from the civil fort in Zhu Qizhen of Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty, and it was completely rotten in the last years of Wanli.

Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun reigned for nearly half a century, but he did not go to court for 30 years, and the central organs of the imperial court were in a state of semi-paralysis for a long time, which also contributed to the increase in corruption among officials of various factions.

The Eunuch Party, the Qi Party, the Chu Party, the Zhejiang Party, the Donglin Party and other friends appeared during this time, kicking off a decades-long power struggle.

Zhu Yijun was also very greedy for money, and during his reign, he sent eunuchs to various places to loot in the name of mining and taxation. ”

When Sun Zhendong heard this, he wanted to complain about Zhu Yijun, he thought that Emperor Wanli was better than his grandson, so he said: "Lao Chen, I heard that Wanli did this because he didn't trust those keyboard warriors, and in several counterinsurgency wars in the later period of Wanli, Zhu Yijun paid out of his own pocket. ”

The officials of the various factions attacked all officials who did not belong to their faction, just as the keyboard warriors who later occupied the moral high ground and attacked society.

In the end, the Donglin Party, which represented the big landlords and bureaucratic gentry, stood out as a dominant family and became the spokesperson of the gentry group, and what they defended was no longer the suffering of the people and the social welfare of the country, but the power in their hands and the gold and silver in their pockets.

They colluded, embezzled and corrupted, filled their own pockets, strangled loyal ministers, wronged military generals, and turned all efforts to restore the Ming Empire to ashes.

"Hehe, you don't think so for example, for example, someone pointed to your house and said that there is a mine here, tell you to move out quickly and do not give any compensation, and the officials have a very good relationship with him, what should you do as a civilian?" Chen Ping was not annoyed at all, he knew the history of the Ming Dynasty too well.

"I, Nima, why? If you want to demolish my house, you have to pay me 18 million no matter what! Sun Zhendong said very unhappily, and at the same time motioned to Professor Chen to continue telling the story.

"Why, just because he is doing things for the emperor, no one will pay attention to you even if you sue the government.

Wanli's three major expeditions exhausted the last bit of the court's pitiful savings, and more than ten years later, the battle of Salhu was a fiasco for the imperial court, and Wanli handed over the mess to the crown prince Zhu Changluo with a kick of his legs.

Taichang Emperor Zhu Changluo served as the crown prince for twenty years, and after only one month on the throne, he also saw the king of Hades with a kick on his legs, so the mess fell into the hands of the carpenter emperor Zhu Youxiao.

Emperor Tianqi reigned for seven years, and also worked as a carpenter for seven years, learning from his grandfather and ignoring government affairs, so that almost all the power fell into the hands of the eunuchs, among whom Wei Zhongxian was the most. ”

"Wei Zhongxian, I know, I watched a movie called Embroidered Spring Knife, and at that time, Wei Zhongxian had goosebumps when he laughed at Lao Tzu." Sun Zhendong recalled Wei Zhongxian, played by Jin Shijie in the plot.

Chen Ping ignored Sun Zhendong and continued:

"When Emperor Chongzhen succeeded to the throne, this mess was even worse, although compared to his brother and his grandfather, Emperor Chongzhen did work harder, at least in government affairs, Zhu Youzhen can be compared with this one under our feet, but this ability is not a star and a half.

At this time, the politics has been corrupted to the point of no return, and the land annexation is also serious to the point of outrageousness, taking Sichuan as an example, Sichuan's fields and Shu Wang's mansion accounted for seventy percent, and they are the most fertile, the military tun accounted for two percent, and many people only accounted for one percent, but the people had to afford the land endowment of the whole Sichuan.

However, this is only the clan, in addition to the clan, there are also relatives, and then there are bureaucratic landlords, the so-called gentry families, although they are not as good as the clan's relatives, but they are many and powerful.

So we saw TV dramas at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the court was always short of money, which gave people the impression that the Ming Dynasty was very poor, but in fact, the Ming Dynasty was very rich, but the money was not in the hands of the people.

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen is also unlucky, reigning for 17 years, there are disasters every year, there is no money to repair water conservancy, resulting in the ability of the people at the bottom to resist natural disasters greatly reduced, drought, waterlogging, locust plague, plague one after another, it is impossible to survive, the imperial court not only does not provide disaster relief, but also adds the so-called three salaries such as Liao, Suppression and Training. ”

Hearing this, Sun Zhendong couldn't help it again: "Made, isn't this the official forcing the people to rebel?" Left and right are dead, if I am sure it will be the opposite, since the bureaucratic landlord has money, then go and rob him. ”

"Hehe, you listen to me, and later the imperial court abolished the post station in order to reduce expenses, so that hundreds of thousands of post guards who were already struggling to survive became unemployed vagrants, and Li Zicheng was a post guard at Yinchuan Post in Mizhi County, Shaanxi Province at that time.

In desperation, Li Zicheng joined several other groups of rebel armies that had already formed a scale at that time, raised their arms and shouted, and Kyushu collapsed from then on.

Alas, although Chongzhen can't be completely blamed for this, this kid was only a teenager at the time, but he still had to carry this pot, there was no way, who made him the king of the dead country? ”

Chen Ping said this, and the indescribable regret on his face did not escape Sun Zhendong's eyes: "A good hand of cards is played like this bird, what do you regret?" The change of dynasty is also deserved! ”

Chen Ping didn't refute it, he had a peaceful personality and rarely got angry, seeing his old friend ridiculing him like this, he just glanced at Sun Zhendong, and said meaningfully: "Is it really good to change the dynasty?" If you had to choose, would you rather die standing or live on your knees? ”

"I ......," Sun Zhendong said.

He wanted to blurt out that he must choose to die standing up, but then he felt that standing and talking did not hurt his back, as the old saying goes, it is better to die than to live, and it is really at that juncture, how many people have the courage to die generously?

After thinking about it again, Sun Zhendong understood what Chen Ping meant, and dared to love Lao Chen who said that he was the successor of the Qing Dynasty!

He still knows the allusion of keeping his hair but not his head, if he wants to live, he has to shave his head, and if he wants to live, he has to kneel down and call the master, even if it is shaved into a mouse tail the size of a copper coin on the back of his head.

The descendants of the Han family naturally refused to give in, so there were the Ten Days of Yangzhou, the Three Massacres of Jiading, the Guangzhou Massacre, the Kunshan Massacre, and the Sichuan-Shu Massacre......

In just a few years, the Qing army's iron hooves passed through thousands of miles, no one lived, the population was reduced by tens of millions, and high-yield crops such as potatoes and corn were finally promoted, which gave rise to the so-called prosperous Kangqian era.

But at the same time, the waist of the Han people can no longer be straight, thinking of that period of history, Sun Zhendong felt aggrieved in his panic, he stood up and looked at the treasure top in front of him and said: "Hmph! If I had to choose, I would neither want to live on my knees nor die standing up, I would live, live standing! ”

When the avalanche occurs, no snowflake is innocent, he knows that in that environment, individuals simply cannot stay out of the situation, his attitude has always been clear, that is, my life is up to me, and only by fighting can I have a chance to change the unjust fate.

The diameter of the treasure top in front of is about 400 meters, according to the ups and downs of the mountain, the huge stone is built under the building, the upper is built with Ming bricks, the stone wall on the opposite side is also engraved with the seven big characters of 'the tomb of the Ming Taizu of this mountain', the handwriting is blurred and I don't know how many years have passed.

"We've known each other for more than 20 years, and you're still this character, it's been hundreds of years, even if you're unwilling, what's the solution? Can you still travel through the past? Chen Ping also stood up and looked at the top of the treasure.

The two grew up playing with mud in the same village, and then they were admitted to the same university, and they both coincidentally got the opportunity to stay in school to teach.

Chen Ping is a history major, and just a few years ago, he was appointed as an associate professor in the Department of History, specializing in national history.

Sun Zhendong is a foreign language major, and he is also a foreign language maniac, not only taking English classes in the school over the years, but also teaching Spanish, French and Russian part-time, and at the same time studying Mongolian, Japanese and other language departments, so that he has a vast Mediterranean Sea above his head just after entering middle age.

"Don't say it, I've read a lot of novels recently, and according to my statistics, the chance of crossing is the highest when there is thunder." Sun Zhendong scratched the sparse hair on the top of his head and teased.

"Then you'd better buy a lightning rod and put it on your head, and try your luck on the roof of the building when it rains, maybe you can really cross it." Chen Ping showed a rare smile.

Sun Zhendong naturally knew that Chen Ping was joking, but he was not angry, and followed the topic: "Old Chen, if you can really cross over, which dynasty do you want to go to?" ”

After reading a lot of novels, Sun Zhendong is very interested in this topic.

"Naturally, it's the Ming Dynasty, what about you?" Chen Ping almost didn't hesitate and said with great certainty.

He has studied national history for most of his life, and knows that no matter which dynasty there is corruption, oppression and exploitation, but it is still the Ming Dynasty that he admires the most.

In his opinion, the descendants of the Han family drove out the Meng Yuan, and there were three hundred years of the Ming Dynasty.

In the past three hundred years, the Ming Dynasty has experienced countless invasions by foreign enemies, but it has always adhered to the ancestral precepts of not paying tribute, not being a minister, not making peace, the Son of Heaven guarding the country, and the king dying in Sheji, until Chongzhen hanged himself and committed suicide, and his head was iron enough to make the macho man cry.

Sun Zhendong disdainfully despised his old friend and said, "You can get it, with your body, it is estimated that you will not live for three days through the past." ”

After saying that, he seemed to think of something again, and continued:

"But, I recently read a novel, and the era I traveled through was really the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the hero of that book turned out to be with AK.

If you also have a hundred AKs, you might be able to live a few more days. ”

"Hmph, you also believe in the novel, what is it to fight and kill, if I can really travel through the past, I will definitely choose to enter the dynasty as an official, and carry out a vigorous reform from top to bottom, so that the Ming Dynasty will be reborn, so that the people will have something to eat, and let the Chinese nation stand in the East again, proud of the European powers.

The crossing itself is already incredible, and I still want to go with a gun, so why doesn't the author go to heaven! Chen Ping teased after saying his thoughts.

"I want to be able to travel through the past and designate a rebellion, anyway, the Ming Dynasty is rotten, we only kneel to our parents in this life, so as not to hold the stinky feet of the court."

While complaining about the unsatisfactory work and the ups and downs in life, the two ridiculed the sand sculpture author who took AK to the end of the Ming Dynasty, and they didn't realize that the clouds in the sky were getting deeper and deeper.

"Strange, Lao Chen, why is the sky suddenly cloudy?" Sun Zhendong looked up at the sky and frowned.

I saw that the sky was overcast, and the strange wind blew the ancient trees back and forth, and in a panic, they ran around with pee, and the dark clouds became darker and lower, converging towards the treasure top in front of them.

"It's a dog, what's going on?" Sun Zhendong's eyes widened, and he glanced at Chen Ping and found that he was also full of horror.

The two of them also looked at the weather forecast last night, and it was clear that there was no rain today, although it was June now, and they all said that the June day was a child's face, but this became too fast.

At this moment, lightning and thunder suddenly thundered on the top of the treasure top, as if the end was coming.

"People...... There is someone on top of the throne! Chen Ping stammered and looked in the direction of Baoding.

I saw that in the strong light of lightning, there were three people standing in the dark clouds on the top of the treasure, and the three people seemed to have no entity, just standing on the top of the treasure in the ethereal air, and the old man at the head seemed to be still smiling in the direction of Chen Ping and the others.

"Lao Chen, I said let's run." Of course, Sun Zhendong also saw the vision on the top of the treasure, although he couldn't see his face clearly, but judging from his dress, the old man headed by him was likely to be the owner of Xiaoling.

He vaguely saw the two people behind the old man nodding frequently, and seemed to bend down and hand the old man something.

Could it be that he bragged to Lao Chen just now and was heard? Sun Zhendong said in his heart, just now the two of them were comparing at someone's grave, and they also teased other people's children and grandchildren.

Oh, my God! Lao Tzu will no longer brag in the future, Sun Zhendong is in a state of confusion, he doesn't want to startle the snake, and he is worried that Lao Chen will react slowly, so he specially reminded him.

"Run!" Sun Zhendong snorted, grabbed Chen Ping's arm and was about to run out.

However, the two of them did not run a few steps, and found that there was a light flutter under their feet, as if some force had sucked them towards the cloud of the treasure top, and the two were terrified and wanted to cry out for help, but found that their voices were as dumb as if they could not make any sound at all.

At this time, an old voice suddenly sounded in the minds of the two:

"Hehe, I finally met a person who knows history, how can I let you run, I heard your conversation below, since you really want to return to Daming, then just as you wish!

Here are the gifts from Boren and Tiande, go to Daming to give full play to your residual heat, I wish you good luck! ”

After speaking, Sun Zhendong only felt that his body was involved in a strange wormhole, and his body was constantly sinking, and he wanted to pull Chen Ping's hand, but Chen Ping didn't know where he was rolled, his head was dizzy, and then he fainted.

“emmm…… Looks like something has gone wrong! One of the boys just now seems to have a tendency to rebel?

Alas! That's it, each child and grandchild has its own blessing, so be it! The old man sighed and waved his hand, and the three of them disappeared immediately.

The dark clouds over the top of the treasure dissipated in an instant, the ancient trees also returned to calm, and the sunset also emerged half of its head through the cracks, as if nothing had happened.

"Ahh Ghost! Ghosts! ”

Uncle Ma, the inspector of the scenic spot who squatted behind a bush, shouted, like a mourner, opened his teeth and claws, and ran to the security booth of the scenic spot in a panic......