【0943 From prosperity to decline】

Jin Jun issued a lament of "shaking the mountains and shaking the Yue family's army".

In 1140 AD, Yue Fei once again waved his army to the Northern Expedition, this time with the goal of recovering the Central Plains and recovering the sixteen states of Youyan.

Yue's army successively recovered Zhengzhou, Luoyang and other large cities, and defeated the Jin army again and again, and the army pointed at Zhuxian Town.

This moment is only 1 millimeter away from recovering the Central Plains.

At this time, it has been 202 years since the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun left the control of the Central Plains Dynasty.

Marshal Yue was killed by Qin Hui on "trumped-up" charges. He died before he left the school, which made the hero cry.

Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Liu Guangshi, Zhang Jun, these are many brave and resourceful generals who died before they left the army.

In 1258, the Mongol Khan Meng Ge personally led a large army to attack the Southern Song Dynasty, and the main force of the army entered Sichuan.

After more than 300 years of hard work, after sacrificing many emperors and countless generals, in 1271 AD, not only did not recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, but even the whole of China became the world of ethnic minorities.

In this year, the Yuan Dynasty was established, which was too desperate.

It has been 333 years since the loss of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun on this day.

This is the greatest pain of the Han nation.

Wen Tianxiang was captured and finally killed, leaving the poem "Who has not died in life since ancient times, leaving Dan to take care of the sweat".

In 1279, the last army of the Southern Song Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty launched a life-and-death decisive battle in Yashan, and the whole army of the Song army resisted to the death Prime Minister Lu Xiufu in desperation, so he had to carry the little emperor Zhao Yu, who was only 8 years old, to jump into the sea in Yashan, and died of martyrdom.

The 100,000 people of the Song Dynasty also threw themselves into the sea and died one after another.

On this day, the sun and moon were dark, and floating corpses were everywhere.

In the first year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, sent the generals Xu Da and Chang Yuchun to lead the army to defeat the main force of the Yuan Dynasty, recover the capital of the Yuan Dynasty, and then recover the entire territory of the sixteen states of Yanyun.

On this day, it has been 430 years since the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun left the control of the Han nation.

When Xu Da and Chang Yuchun's military flag appeared on the city wall of Beijing again, this moment has been waiting for 430 years.

At this moment, countless emperors and generals who had failed to succeed in their careers could finally smile at Jiuquan.

The Central Plains was recovered, and the sixteen states of Yanyun were recovered.

Once again, the lineage of the Han nation has been continued.

From this moment on, the Han people will use their bodies and blood to protect this lofty mountain and high city.

On top of these lofty mountains, the Great Wall of China was built to protect the land and the people.

From this moment until 1644 AD, Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself in the coal mountain of Beijing.

In 276, the sixteen states of Yanyun were under the rule of the Han national regime.

The Central Plains regime no longer gave its own women to the leaders of ethnic minorities in exchange for temporary reluctance.

There is no longer an emperor who shamelessly calls the emperor of a minority a big brother.

From the nineteenth year of Yongle, the first month of 1421 A.D. to 1644, the Son of Heaven of the Ming Dynasty guarded the country in the northernmost part of the country, until the death of the last Son of Heaven, after the death of two generations of kings of the Qing Dynasty, the third king of the Qing Dynasty entered the Shanhaiguan.

The dignity of the Ming Dynasty's national power, beyond the ages, its control of the north and the south of the West Fannan Island, the Western Ocean, no Han harmony, no Tang alliance, no Song Dynasty's year-old coins, and no brothers' gifts of the enemy.

This is the place that the Ming Dynasty likes and respects most in later generations.

In the end of the Ming Dynasty for 276 years, there was no harmony, no compensation, no land, no tribute, the Son of Heaven guarded the country, and the king died.

In the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongol rulers were brutal and unscrupulous.

In 1351, the Yuan court requisitioned more than 100,000 peasants and soldiers to control the floods of the Yellow River.

"Governing the river" and "changing money" led to the outbreak of the Red Turban Army uprising.

In May 1351, the Red Turban Army uprising led by Han Shantong and Liu Futong broke out.

In 1352, Guo Zixing responded, gathered a crowd to revolt, and captured Haozhou.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who was born as a civilian, was invited by Tang He to defect to Guo Zixing, made many military exploits, was highly respected and trusted by Guo Zixing, and married Guo Zixing's adopted daughter Ma as his wife.

In 1355, Liu Futong established Han Lin'er as the emperor, the country name Song, the year name Longfeng, and the king of Xiaoming.

After Guo Zixing's death, Zhu Yuanzhang commanded Guo's troops, and King Xiaoming appointed him as the left deputy marshal.

In 1356, Zhu Yuanzhang occupied Jiqing (present-day Nanjing), renamed it Yingtianfu, and captured the surrounding strategic points to gain a foothold. Zhu Yuanzhang adopted Zhu Sheng's suggestion of "building a high wall, accumulating grain, and slowly becoming king" to continuously strengthen his strength.

In 1360, the main force of Chen Youliang was annihilated in the Battle of Poyang Lake. In 1361, Zhu Yuanzhang was named the Duke of Wu by King Xiaoming. In 1363, Chen Youliang was defeated.

In 1364, Zhu Yuanzhang was called the king of Wu and initially established political power, known as "Western Wu" in history.

It is different from Zhang Shicheng, the king of Eastern Wu who occupied Pingjiang Mansion.

In 1367, Zhu Yuanzhang captured Pingjiang, Zhang Shicheng committed suicide, and later destroyed Fang Guozhen in Zhejiang.

On the fourth day of the first month of 1368, Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself emperor in Yingtian, with the country name Daming and the year name Hongwu.

After the Northern Expedition and the Western Expedition, in the same year, with the slogan of "expelling Hulu and restoring China", he ordered Xu Da, Chang Yuchun and other generals to go on a northern expedition and capture Dadu, Emperor Yuan Shun fled north, and the rule of the Yuan Dynasty in the country ended.

After that, Zhu Yuanzhang successively eliminated Mingsheng in Sichuan and Yuanliang in Yunnan, and the king of Zaravarmi and Naha in Liaodong were exterminated.

Eight times he sent troops deep into Mobei to break the army of the Northern Yuan.

After Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, he adopted a policy of lightly dispensing with light taxes and restoring social production.

During the reign of Zhu Yuanzhang, he ordered the peasants to return to farming and reward land reclamation; large-scale immigration to Tuntian and Juntun; organize farmers in various places to build water conservancy; vigorously advocate the planting of mulberry, hemp, cotton and other cash crops and fruit crops, he also enriches the people, suppresses the strong; ordered the emancipation of slaves and maids; reduce the tax burden and severely punish corrupt officials; Send people to all parts of the country to measure land, check household registration, and so on.

Establish the Lijia system at the local level, cooperate with the implementation of the Yellow Book of Household Registration and the "Fish Scale Atlas", and implement the collection of taxes and labor and the maintenance of local law and order.

Politically, it is necessary to rectify the rule of officials and punish corrupt officials and corrupt officials.

During the reign of Ming Taizu, the social economy was restored and developed, and the history is known as the rule of Hongwu.

At the same time, Zhu Yuanzhang sent troops to the north to invade Mongolia many times, won many victories, and finally broke the Northern Yuan Dynasty in the Battle of Yuerhai and eliminated foreign troubles.

After Zhu Yuanzhang pacified the world, he was a great hero, and he was also suspicious of the hero.

Zhu Yuanzhang took advantage of this to promote the Hu Weiyong case and the Lan Yu case to clean up the powerful and illegal exploits.

In 1380, Zhu Yuanzhang killed Hu Weiyong on the charge of perverting the law without authorization, and killed Chen Ning, the imperial historian, Tujie and others, abolished Zhongshu Province, and no longer set up a prime minister.

In 1390, Li Shanchang was given to die, and more than 70 family members sat to die, totaling more than 30,000 people.

After that, Zhu Yuanzhang used the name of the general Lan Yu to be arrogant and domineering, and more than 15,000 people were punished by the clan.

In addition, the empty seal case and the Guo Huan case are collectively known as the four major cases in the early Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang strengthened the imperial power through a series of means such as cracking down on meritorious heroes, setting up Jinyi Guards, and strengthening spy surveillance.

In 1398, Zhu Yuanzhang died.

Due to the early death of the crown prince Zhu Biao, the imperial grandson Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne, and the year name was Jianwen, that is, Emperor Ming Hui. In order to consolidate the centralization of power, Emperor Jianwen conspired with his cronies Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng to cut down the feudal domain.

The kings of Zhou, Dai, Qi, and Xiang were successively deposed as concubines or forced to commit suicide.

At the same time, in the name of border defense, the elite soldiers of Zhu Di, the king of Yan, were transferred to eradicate the king of Yan. Under the suggestion of Yao Guangxiao, Zhu Di raised troops in the name of "Qing Jun's side, Jingnei's difficulty", and after four years of war to seize the throne, he finally led the army south to capture the Beijing Division, which is known as the Battle of Jingnan.

Emperor Jianwen's whereabouts in the Miyagi fire are unknown.

In 1402, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, ascended the throne and changed his name to Yongle.

After Zhu Di ascended the throne, he vigorously suppressed dissent, and former Jianwen ministers such as Huang Zicheng and Qi Tai were killed.

Among them, Fang Xiaoru's "Zhu Shi Clan" and Jingqing's "Melon Man" are the most tragic.

Ming Chengzu also restored the Jinyi Guard, which was later abolished during the Ming Taizu period, and he also set up another spy organization, Dongchang, which established the factory guard system.

In 1405, Zhu Di renamed Beiping Beijing, called Xingzai, and set up Beiping Guozijian and other yamen. In 1416, Zhu Di announced the idea of moving the capital, and the next year began a large-scale construction of Beijing, which was completed in 1420 and moved to Beijing in 1421.

During the Yongle period, martial arts flourished, and the Ming Dynasty recovered Annan and set up a political secretary for Jiaozhi. Zhu Di personally led his troops to Mobei to fight against the Tatars and Warat after the division of the Northern Yuan.

At the same time, the autonomy of the three guards of the Uliangha Mongols, Duoyan, Taining, and Fuyu, was granted. Zhu Di also suppressed the Uliangha Mongols in 1406 and 1422 in order to maintain stability in the region.

In the northeast, Zhu Di also appeased the Jurchen tribes in the northeast, set up guards in the attached Jianzhou Jurchen and Haixi Jurchens, and sent Yizhan to pacify the savage Jurchens in the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River.

In 1407, he set up a Nuer Gandu Division in Tallinn on the other side of the street on the opposite side of Gangmiao Street, and in 1413, he inspected Sakhalin Island and declared the Ming Dynasty's sovereignty over this place.

Zhu Di pursued an active diplomatic strategy, and from 1405 onwards, he sent Zheng He to the West to conduct political and economic exchanges with various countries, increasing fiscal revenues and pushing the tributary system to its peak.

Its fleet was unprecedentedly large, reaching as far as Somalia in East Africa, expanding the influence of the Ming Dynasty on the countries of the South and Western Seas.

"History of the Ming Dynasty" evaluates the national strength of the Ming Chengzu period as "far away from the Han and Tang Dynasties".

After Zhu Di's death, his eldest son Zhu Gaochi ascended the throne, namely Mingrenzong, with the year name Hongxi. Its rule tended to be conservative and solid, and he appointed "three Yangs" (Yang Shiqi, Yang Rong, Yang Pu) and other virtuous ministers to assist the government. During his reign, he was open-minded, developed production, and rested with the people. He pardoned many of Emperor Jianwen's former ministers, redressed many unjust prisoners, and abolished many harsh policies.

Militarily, the armament was repaired and the large-scale use of troops during the Yongle period was stopped.

Renzong was already old, and he died after only one year on the throne.

After Renzong's death, the eldest son Zhu Zhanji ascended the throne as Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty and was named Xuande.

After ascending the throne, Emperor Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty quickly quelled the rebellion of the Han king Zhu Gaoxu. Xuanzong implemented the political state of Germany, and successively sent Zheng He and Wang Jinghong to the West, and continued the concept of governing the country of Ming Renzong, implemented the policy of heavy agriculture, helped the famine and punished corruption, continued to reuse the "three Yangs", rested the army to support the people, and punished the famine and punished the corruption, so that the Ming Dynasty was stable and the social economy developed rapidly.

The national strength has reached the extreme, and the history is called "the rule of Renxuan".

Xuanzong is also good at calligraphy and painting, and some paintings have been handed down.

However, his reign was not without drawbacks, because Xuanzong liked to raise crickets, many officials competed to auction horses, and were called "the son of heaven".

At the same time, Xuanzong set up an inner study hall to teach eunuchs to read, which laid hidden dangers for the eunuchs in the Ming Yingzong period.

In 1435, at the age of thirty-eight, Xuanzong died.

In 1435, the nine-year-old Zhu Qizhen succeeded to the throne, that is, Ming Yingzong, with the orthodox name of the year. At this time, the eunuch Wang Zhen began to interfere in the affairs of the court, and in 1442, after the death of Empress Dowager Zhang, who had curbed Wang Zhen's power, Wang Zhen seized power in a big way. After the death of the patriarch and important minister "Sanyang", Wang Zhen was even more domineering, and removed the iron plate left by Ming Taizu prohibiting eunuchs from interfering in politics, and called him "Weng Father" in the court, and Yingzong trusted him.

Wang Zhen has been in power for seven years, and his family property has more than 60 treasury of gold and silver.

At this time, the problem of displaced people in the Ming Dynasty was very serious. During the Orthodox period, the issue of displaced people spread almost all over the country. It broke the grassroots Lijia control system established at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty.

In order to extract more silver, the Ming Dynasty stepped up the exploitation of miners, and imposed a blockade on some mountainous areas of Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi, and in 1444, Ye Zongliu and Deng Maoqi launched an uprising, which dealt a heavy blow to the ruling power of the Ming Dynasty in Fujian and Zhejiang.

In addition, during the Orthodox period, Yingzong and Wang Zhen launched successive conquest wars against Luchuan, and hundreds of thousands of people were requisitioned in the battle of Luchuan in the Ming Dynasty, resulting in the exhaustion of the army, the deficit of the treasury, and the emptiness of the defense of the Mongol Warat in the north.

In 1449, the leader of the Mongol Warat tribe also led his army south to invade the Ming Dynasty. Wang Zhen instigated Yingzong to gather 500,000 troops to march in person.

When the army returned to Tumubao, it was caught up by the Wara army, more than half of the soldiers were killed and wounded, Yingzong was captured, and Wang Zhen was killed by the chaos army, which was known as the "Tumu Change" in history.

This was the turning point of the Ming Dynasty from prosperity to decline.

After the civil change, Yu Qian, the squire of the military department, supported Zhu Qiyu, the younger brother of Dai Yingzong, to ascend the throne, that is, the Ming Dynasty Sect, and changed the Yuan Jingtai.

Yu Qian was promoted to the secretary of the military department, and decided to stick to Beijing, rectify the border defense and actively prepare for war, and then the troops of the king of service in Nanzhili, Henan, Shandong and other places arrived one after another.

In October of the same year, the Warat army approached the city of Beijing. Yu Qian led the Ming army from all walks of life to resist bravely, repeatedly broke the Wara army, and also led the army to retreat first. [88] The Ming Dynasty won the battle to defend Beijing, and Yu Qian stepped up efforts to consolidate national defense, refused to sue for peace, and repelled several invasions by Warat the following year.

In 1450, Yingzong was also released.

However, Daizong was reluctant to send an envoy to welcome him because of the issue of imperial power, and later trapped Yingzong under house arrest in Nangong, and deposed the crown prince Zhu Jianshen, and set up his son Zhu Jianji as the crown prince. Soon Jianji died of illness, and Daizong refused to establish Zhu Jianshen as the crown prince again.

As a result, Yingzong and Daizong were seriously opposed.

In 1457, Shi Heng, Xu Youzhen, Cao Jixiang and others allied to support the restoration of Emperor Yingzong in order to seek merit.

Taking advantage of the serious illness of Ming Dynasty Zong, a coup d'état was launched. Xu Youzhen led the army into the Forbidden City, Shi Heng and others occupied Donghua Gate, established Yingzong in Fengtian Temple, changed the Yuan Tianshun, and was known as the change of seizing the door.

After that, he deposed Daizong as the king of Yu, and arrested and died in Qian. After the restoration of Ming Yingzong, there was a slight new policy, abolishing the martyrdom restored from Ming Taizu.

Later, Xu Youzhen was exiled due to an internal coup, and Shi Heng, Cao Jixiang and others were killed because of Cao Shi's rebellion.

In 1464, Yingzong died, and the crown prince Zhu Jianshen ascended the throne, that is, Ming Xianzong, and the year name was Chenghua.

During the Xianzong period, he reused the cabinet minister Li Xian and others to assist the government, and re-clarified the government since the seizure of the gate to gain the support of the government and the opposition.

In order to rehabilitate Yu Qian, restore the Emperor Jingtai Emperor. But after Li Xian's death, Xianzong favored Wan Guifei, who was seventeen years older than him, and favored the eunuchs Wang Zhi, Liang Fang and others, and neglected political affairs.

In his later years, he was good at magic, so that the traitors were in power, the West Factory was rampant, the dynasty was corrupted, and the people were not able to make a living. Xianzong directly issued the edict and sealed the officials, which was for the sake of serving the officials, which caused fraud to become commonplace, and it was not until the time of Xiaozong that all of them were abolished.

In 1487, Ming Xianzong died, and his son Zhu Youzhi succeeded to the throne, that is, Ming Xiaozong, with the year name Hongzhi.

During the reign of Xiaozong, he "renewed the government and opened up the way of speech", so that the bad habits since Yingzong were removed, and he was known as the "Lord of Zhongxing". [98] Xiaozong first dismissed all the traitorous and redundant officials in the Chenghua period, arrested and punished them, and selected talents and people to be entrusted with important tasks.

Xiaozong was diligent in political affairs and visited the court twice a day. Ming Xiaozong strictly controlled the eunuchs, and Jinyiwei and Dongchang also acted cautiously, and the rule of law lenient. Xiaozong practiced frugality, did not build much construction, and reduced taxes. The history of the Ming Dynasty called Xiaozong "frugal and systematic, diligent and loving the people", under its governance, the politics of Hongzhi during the period of the Hongzhi Dynasty, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and the history called Hongzhi Zhongxing.

In 1505, Xiaozong died, and his son Zhu Houzhao ascended the throne as Ming Wuzong, with the year name Zhengde. After Wu Zong ascended the throne, he had great pleasure and built a leopard house for his own enjoyment. At this time, there were major events such as the invasion of Tatar Dayan Khan outside the Ming Dynasty, the rebellion of King Anhua and King Ning, and the popular uprising.

In 1520, Wuzong went south to play under the pretext of rebelling against King Ning of Jiangxi, and went to Nanjing in the name of the general Zhu Shou, and personally captured Zhu Chenhao, the king of Ning, who had been defeated by Wang Shouren. On the way back to Beijing, the class teacher fell into the water and contracted illness while boating in Qingjiangpu in Nanzhili, and died in the leopard house in 1521.

Because he had no children after his death, Xiaozong was extinct.