Many people have the impression that the Ming Dynasty was not as powerful as the Han and Tang Dynasties.

In the hearts of the Chinese people, including Wei Bao's heart, the Han and Tang dynasties are the benchmark of the heyday in Chinese history.

In the Ming Dynasty, many people's intuitive impression was dark, and most of the emperors were mediocre.

The Ming Dynasty is not comparable to the Han and Tang dynasties, and one reason is that the Ming Dynasty no longer has the support of the wealthy class of the Han and Tang dynasties.

The farther back the era, the more innocent, and even the more passionate.

Not to mention the tragic war of the princes in the pre-Qin Dynasty, Wei Qing and Huo Qu in the Han Dynasty broke the Huns, Ban Chao threw his pen from Rong, swept the East Asian continent in the early Tang Dynasty, and Wang Xuance destroyed a country by himself, which was really exciting.

Especially in the Han Dynasty, these two things are great operations that have been selected for the textbook level and have become household names.

However, in the Ming Dynasty, except for Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di's beating of the Mongols, it seems that there is no shining point for the rest of the time.

As everyone knows, the change in 1449, the change in 1550, the eunuch messed with the government, and was beaten by Li Zicheng, I really can't see it, and Qi Jiguang can still talk about it.

But if the Ming Dynasty really only had such a nest, it would not have been able to support it for 300 years.

In the late 15th century, Ming Xianzong completed the same feats such as the Chenghua plough court and Wang Yuewang directly breaking the royal court, so that the Jurchen Mongols could not raise their heads, but these feats were buried in the corner of history and few people knew about them.

Therefore, the reason why the Ming Dynasty and the Han and Tang dynasties are so different is that the changes in the upper group are a big reason.

The Han Dynasty is the era of scholars and relatives, for the scholars, several generations are officials, scholars, born in this kind of family since childhood, ordinary people do not have to worry about food, clothing, housing and transportation at all, starting from a higher starting point, vision, insight is absolutely very comparable to others.

The so-called "three generations of nobles" is such a truth.

There is no need to worry about the hard life of ordinary people, and even officials do not have to work hard to take the exam, so they can concentrate their energy on making meritorious contributions, and the power is naturally extraordinary.

Don't talk about relatives, the emperor is his own relative, for those who have aspirations, is there anything more ambitious than this? The heart determines the height of life.

As for relatives, with the support of relatives Han Wu, Wei Qinghuo can boldly try to work hard when he is sick, and if he fails, he will not only be ashamed of himself, but also have a dull face as a relative of the emperor, and this sense of responsibility in blood is naturally not comparable to the relationship between ordinary ministers and the emperor's "workers and bosses".

As for Ban Chao, the Ban family is a prominent and Confucian family in the Han Dynasty, and the whole family is a historian, can this kind of family background be an ordinary person? It was he who said from Rong, one was unhappy, he quit his civilian job, and he wanted to join the army and pacify the Western Regions.

As for the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin himself came from a noble, and Li Jing belonged to Li Shimin's group, so their courage naturally could not be under Wei, Huo, and Ban Chao.

With the later years of Gaozong, the elimination of meritorious services in the Wu Zetian era, and the great achievements of the aristocratic group, the power was all in his own hands, but it also caused a lack of generals, and the foreign war in the Wu Zetian era fell into a low ebb, and even suffered a crushing defeat to the Khitan, a tribe next to the Great Wall.

In the Xuanzong Dynasty, in order to reverse the decline, Hu people began to be used.

The environment of the border fortress where the Hu people live is harsh, and battles occur from time to time, not the stable Central Plains can be compared, and the Hu people who grew up in this environment are naturally good at fighting, so in the 8th century, the combat effectiveness of the Tang army has been restored.

In the Ming Dynasty, the equal emphasis on civil and military affairs was the direction pursued by people, and they felt that there was a problem with learning from things, and they wanted to explore the true meaning of philosophy.

Are you famous, high school? If you don't have fame, you can study for exams, and if you don't have fame, what do you say about making meritorious contributions?

In this way, countless young people with lofty ideals were finally suppressed by the conservative preaching of their parents.

Therefore, a series of bold operations of the Han and Tang dynasties, compared with the overall "dull and dark" stereotype of the Ming Dynasty, the so-called "no Han and Tang Dynasty's cultural and martial arts" can be understood.

And those top figures who excelled in the Ming Dynasty, look at when they were in the Jinshi, Yang Tinghe, 20 years old; Wang Yangming, 27; Yan Song, 25 years old; Xu Jie, 20 years old; The most prestigious Zhang Juzheng, 22 years old, was deliberately suppressed by the provincial examiner before to polish his heart, otherwise he would probably be 19 years old.

When they were young, they had already accomplished what others had not done in half a lifetime or even a lifetime, and the starting age of their careers was very close to that of the scholars of the year, and the scholar class could generally become officials in their 10s.

In the face of this terrible achievement, parents dare not and cannot laugh at their ambition, without the heavy burden of taking the exam for half a lifetime, their mentality, vision can be farther, and it is more likely to make contributions.

"Heroes are teenagers, and they should become famous as soon as possible", this is the truth.

However, are their achievements really beyond the reach of ordinary people?

This kind of genius is few after all, and their existence cannot hide the fact that the probability of a noble son from a poor family is lower than that of a wealthy family.

The more complete and sound the system, the more stable and stable the overall structure will be, which means that in this system, it is more difficult to get promoted by rockets, and the more important it is that you really have super skills, rather than the family background behind you.

Under the imperial examination system, in order not to make mistakes and be stepped on by political opponents, you will gradually move in the direction of seeking stability, and the higher you go, the more difficult it is to maintain the enthusiasm of the newcomer to the officialdom.

If something happens, no family can forcibly protect you.

In the pre-Qin era, before the complete collapse of the ritual system, what identity was born is what identity, nobles are nobles, commoners are commoners, there is basically no possibility of mobility, it depends entirely on blood.

During the Han Dynasty, the Qin Dynasty purged all the upper echelons of the nobles of the Six Kingdoms, and after they quickly collapsed, it was equivalent to a large power vacuum caused by the upper echelons at once, and the social order was reshuffled, and the commoners had the possibility of entering and exiting.

But the inspection system relies on the recommendation of talents from all over the country ---- recommend, and there is a lot of tricks in it.

As the peace lasts for a long time, the local clans begin to rise, and they will naturally use the resources in their hands to win greater benefits for themselves.

Woo local officials, recommend their own children, and exclude civilians.

In the future, when his own children become magistrates, they will be co-opted by local clans, or they will simply recommend their own descendants.

In the reciprocating cycle, the state bureaucracy slipped into the hands of a small group of people, who were the so-called "scholars".

In addition, the emperor is not a fool, since the probationary system has slowly changed its taste, in order to fight against the gradually rising scholars, the emperor is too lazy to select talents through formal channels, who knows if the formal channels are not the spokesperson of the scholars, and instead promote relatives and eunuchs for their own use.

As a result, the fight between the two Han scholars, relatives, and eunuchs was particularly strong, and the civilians eventually ate melons outside the door.

Cao Wei, the Southern Dynasty, the Shi clan was massacred in the Hou Jing Rebellion in the middle of the 6th century, and the "Heyin Change" also occurred in the north a little earlier, and the Shi clan of the Northern Dynasty was also cleared by Er Zhurong and other traitors, and the rotten old forces who were drunk and dreamed of death withdrew from the stage, leaving room for the development of the new forces.

There is finally hope for a unified China, and only the new forces full of vigor can shoulder this heavy responsibility.

The emerging Yang family finally completed this historical mission.

However, if the system is not reformed, and the soup is not changed, sooner or later it will fall back into the gloomy era when the scholars are drunk and dreaming of death, and the common people cannot get ahead.

Standing on the high plane of unifying the whole country, it is naturally impossible for the Yang family not to recognize the potential crisis.

In order to prevent the recurrence of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the dark age of the emperor class, the Sui Dynasty officially launched the imperial examination, which had a prototype as early as the Southern Dynasties, but there were deep-rooted scholar forces, and in the end there was no splash.

It is too risky to support relatives and eunuchs, and killing a thousand enemies will cost us a hundred, in this case, we might as well try to pull ordinary people in to fight with the scholars.

Of course, for civilians, the dark ages that have been civilians all their lives are finally coming to an end.

The death of the Yang family allowed the Li family, a relative next door, to quickly replace the Yang family and reunify China.

The reforms of the Sui Dynasty came to an abrupt halt because of the rapid collapse of the regime.

So, the Li family took over the banner.

The whole world was beaten down by Li Shimin, with this kind of ability, he naturally would not be afraid of any scholar or not, and he was only 29 years old when he ascended the throne, and he was in the prime of life, which subordinate dared to rebel against him.

Zhu Yuanzhang was already over 50 years old when he truly unified the country, and in terms of the life span of ancient times, it was impossible not to consider the issue of succession, and the willingness to kill the heroes would be very strong.

Therefore, Li Shimin's Tang Dynasty and Zhu Yuanzhang's Ming Dynasty had a different pattern from the beginning, Li Shimin could fully trust his heroes and continue to fight and fight, and the powerful Longxi military group continued to shine in the sky of the seventh century.

Most of the achievements of the super Datang, which will be proud of by future generations, were won when this group was shining.

However, Li Zhi is not Li Shimin, he does not have the prestige of unifying the world, and Li Shimin's loyal cadres are a burden that threatens the imperial power for him.

It is also impossible to take out this group in one step, and it can only be eliminated slowly while using border defense.

Because Wu Zetian was from a relatively humble background, Li Zhi resolutely abolished the Wang clan who was born in a big clan and established the Wu clan as the queen, on the one hand, to slap the eldest grandson Wuji who supported the Wang clan in the face, and on the other hand, to declare war on the still powerful Shi clan.

Li Zhi is not only coveted by Wu Zetian's beauty, but in front of the Longxi Group and the family, they are real allies and a real husband and wife who share weal and woe.

Therefore, Li Zhi knew that Wu Zetian had a strong desire for power, but he did not take her away until he died.

And Wu Zetian, even if he raised a bunch of male pets, even if he really usurped the throne of the Li family, he still asked to be buried with Li Zhi until he died.

Because, her heart will always belong to her husband, and she is grateful to her husband for giving her the opportunity to be famous through the ages.

The deep relationship that has been established after fighting together for many years is by no means two sweet words that two handsome young guys can reach.

After returning to the Li family, she thought that she was not ashamed of Li Zhi, so she chose to sleep by Li Zhi's side.

After Gaozong, the post-martial era of the Longxi group and the still existing family cleansed for half a century.

Since the time of Wu Zetian, ordinary people can finally officially enter and leave the court, and Di Renjie, Yao Chong and others have sounded the clarion call for civilians to govern the country.

But the family did not disappear completely, on the contrary, with the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, together with the emerging military group, that is, the warlords who divided the country, they continued to entangle the bones of the Tang Dynasty.

After more than 200 years of struggle, the Song Dynasty finally completed the historical mission of civilians governing the country, and the nobles and wealthy clans were completely swept out of the center of the historical stage.

In the Song Dynasty, it is well known that in view of the lessons of the previous generations, the state power can no longer be interfered by those scholars, eunuchs, and warriors, and the only option is the imperial examination literati.

The scholar was weak, and the power was not hereditary, and the security of the throne was undoubtedly greatly improved.

Only the emperor in the world can be hereditary, and what family can threaten the interests of the emperor.

So from the Northern Song Dynasty onwards, the country became a country of scholars, that is, scholars, and doctors, while the atmosphere of the Song and Ming dynasties generally tended to be conservative and the expansion was weak.

The era of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di in the Ming Dynasty was an exception, because their thrones were brought down from the bloody storm of the battlefield, and no one could restrain them from making decisions.

It is precisely because of such a background of the times that the ambitious Song Shenzong has become an outlier of the times, and Wang Anshi's efforts to enrich the country and strengthen the army have finally sunk into the sea and passed away depressed.

His predecessor, Renzong, who was as plain as water, became a benevolent monarch through the ages and was highly praised.

Ming Xianzong forcibly suppressed the opposition of the minister, and tried his best to override the public opinion, so that Wang Yue and the others went east and west to defend the territory, but what he didn't expect was that it was he who was portrayed as the image of Ming Jun, but he was the son of Pingping.

Xianzong and Wang Yue, who tried to make progress, were just like the gods and princes of the previous dynasty, and no one understood what they did, and even slandered them. When Wang Yue was impeached, no one in the Manchu Dynasty interceded, and Xianzong was even said to be a giant baby who only knew how to rely on Concubine Wan.

Wang Anshi is even worse, most of the Ming Dynasty is saying that he is the culprit of the destruction of the dynasty, an unforgivable "demon".

Fortunately, Wang Yue's ambition can be understood by one person in the world, and his career is an eternal monument in the hearts of some people.

The surrounding environment of Han is different from that of Tang, and Ming and Han and Tang are even more different.

In the Han era, there were great enemies in the direction of Northeast Asia, no, there were long-term enemies in the northwest direction and in the direction of the steppe.

In the Tang era, Northeast Asia already had a complete and mature local government, and the force was not weaker than that of the steppe, and a stubble of local power sprung up in Northeast Asia, and the northwest and steppe directions were not much better than those faced by the Han, and the southwest had begun to appear as a great power.

The Han era did not have such a tricky multifaceted competitor as the Tang era, and if the central power, which rose rapidly after the collapse of the Tang Dynasty, had strong military force and quickly collapsed the surrounding local powers, without giving the other side the possibility of integration, the latter dynasty would have fared much better.

Hu has no hundred years of national fortune, before the Song Dynasty was a curse shrouded in the surroundings, the Central Plains military output will be killed and disabled almost a little better, typical such as Goguryeo, the first local ethnic power in Northeast Asia will be wiped out like this, and some ethnic groups will call themselves Hui or Buyeo after Goguryeo? Integrate a Goguryeo person? No way.

But during the Song era, the north and northeast were integrated with the Mongols and Jurchens.

The reason is very simple, the Jurchens beat Zhao Song and boiled the lamp oil for the Zhao official family in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Does Han Tang need to face the enemy behind this huge sense of identity, no.

Just a self-attached North Korea in the name of Goguryeo is not a good stubble.

The consequence of Meng Yuan's promotion of Wang's Goryeo was that when Zhu Baba got up, it was just that the border of Northeast Asia was squatting on the border of a country with a foot of 100,000 horses.

In the early days of the Li Dynasty, which was established by referring to the Central Plains system, while rubbing with the border of the Ming army, he was discussing the entry into the Central Plains, and finally held back more than 500,000 military personnel.

Even in the late 16th century, when the military system collapsed and the three capitals collapsed, there were still 200,000 troops under this kind of goods, resulting in more than 100,000 books could only ensure large and medium-sized cities and major communication routes, and in fact never had the ability to occupy the entire territory.

At the time of the chaos, the Manchurian army was even faster in and out, forcing Korea to surrender and immediately withdrawing its troops.

The Ming Dynasty is only the regime that the Korean Peninsula has to face, not the Tang Dynasty, let alone the organization of the enemy that the Han Dynasty has to face, so how long did the Liaodong Dynasty and the Central Plains Dynasty lose under the base before it was regained by Daddy Pig. How many years has North China been lost? How many years has the whole of China been lost.

If you think that the pattern of the pig father is rotten to give birth to babies, can you give China a Han Dynasty or Tang Dynasty, and the pattern and environment around China come out? Even Japan, which was only sporadically brought in the Han and Tang dynasties, was able to send more than 100,000 troops across the sea in the Ming Dynasty, and the pattern you asked for was too funny for future generations.