Zhu Ao finally knew why so many emperors in history were short-lived, especially the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, who died before their thirties, usually did not exercise, and their private lives were so rich, how could their bodies be able to bear it? In addition, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty believed in Taoism and liked to mess with pills, so it was strange that he could live a long time.

What is more clear is the father and son Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di. If you are in good health and don't take drugs, you will naturally live longer. If Jiajing takes less pills, he may be able to break the longevity record held by Lao Zhu, but unfortunately, this emperor with many eyes like a hornet's nest is still confused by the art of immortality.

In view of this, Zhu Ao secretly set a course for himself, running and exercising every morning, noon and evening, riding and archery, knives and guns and other crafts can not be cut, and in the future, he will build a swimming pool in the palace, swim every day, and make some bikinis for the concubine and the palace maid to wear and swim with him. This picture, it's cool and crooked when you think about it.

Of course, this would have met with opposition from some Confucian civil servants, who always believed that the emperor could do nothing but read books every day, and that everything was against the teachings of the sages. Regarding this kind of argument, Zhu Ao will only answer: I bought a watch last year, is it okay to have my body as the capital of the revolution? Without a good body, how can you govern the country? Sitting there all day long, how many recitals have been criticized by widows? The widow has approved all the twists and turns, and the widow has done the work alone, why do you spend so much money to support you?

And reading, books should be read, can't you read for half an hour a day? Do you still want the widow to read all day long? Is it difficult for a widow to be admitted to the Jinshi Examination?

Riding and shooting, knives and guns, swimming, and reading, are all a kind of skill, there is no distinction between high and low, but the use is different, Zhu Ao feels that it is necessary to implement this value at the beginning, otherwise those who read will be spoiled, forming the so-called "everything is inferior, only reading is high" The world's argument will be troublesome, when the time comes, many practical skills people do not learn, but focus on chewing words, inviting fame, and focusing on retreat, so how can this society progress?

What's more, now is the era of cold weapons, fighting a war mainly depends on hand-to-hand combat, hand-to-hand combat requires soldiers to have good physical fitness, if everyone thinks that only reading is a serious profession, and exercising has become synonymous with being old and coarse, and there is no interest, then Su Guo will become like the two Song Dynasty, poor and weak, and send money everywhere to avoid disasters.

Zhu Ao is not in the habit of giving money, because he likes money very much.

Having a good body is always the most important, even in modern society, those developed countries in Europe and the United States, while attaching importance to intellectual education, they also attach great importance to the exercise of students' physical fitness, their physical education classes are real, not indoor classes, so their physical strength is indeed better than other places, which is also a big advantage for them.

The work of exercising must be put on the agenda, and it must be persistent, not only to have determination, but also to give the schedule to the queen and concubine for them to supervise and remind, no woman does not want her husband to have a good body, so Zhu Ao believes that they must be very happy to supervise.

Not only do you have to exercise, but you also have to urge him to exercise when you have a child in the future, Zhu Ao wants to add such a clause to the ancestral training: All the kings of the Su country must always strengthen their physical fitness, at least until the heir is twenty-five years old before he can die, otherwise he is unfilial piety, and he will not be allowed to enter the imperial tomb after death.

The reason why we have to set up such a rule is because, according to the general law of human growth, people will no longer be naïve as soon as they are twenty-five years old, and they will no longer believe that others will always help you selflessly, and they will not like to watch the kind of TV where the protagonists are all bad people and have a happy ending in the end, and they begin to understand that interests can change a person's position and morality.

To put it bluntly, it's not so easy to fool anymore. Otherwise, like Tianqi and Chongzhen, he became the emperor at the age of sixteen or seventeen, his mother and concubine were already dead, and Li Xuanzhi was also run away by the Donglin Party.

The apocalypse is a little better, at the beginning of the trust in the Donglin Party, the result of the situation in Liaodong is defeated again and again, first lost Liaoyang and Shenyang, and then lost Guangning, the Ming army once retreated to the Shanhai Pass, as a result, those so-called "Zhongzheng Ying Dynasty" Donglin Party, instead of reviewing their own mistakes, put forward constructive opinions, but a kind of attitude about my, not only put the responsibility on the front generals, but also fight with each other all day long, you impeach me for having a problem with my style of life, I impeach you for not being handsome enough and insulting the royal decency, Take scolding as a career, in order to win the name of loyalty and integrity, and do not do practical things at all.

Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Apocalypse is actually very smart, and those who don't believe in it can go to the "Records of Ming Xi Zong", read word by word, and you will find that he is very smart, knowing that sooner or later these people will do bad things, so he repeatedly issued edicts to stop him: "Now that the enemy is coming to the door, you are still busy arguing and not doing business." In the future, if anyone impeaches another person without cause, I will punish him. ”

As a result, it was useless, and the ministers acted as if they hadn't heard it, and they scolded whoever they should scold, and regarded scolding as the biggest cause, as if the louder they scolded, the greater their ability. And whoever is the bigger the official, the more scolded he will be, the work is always easy to make mistakes, no matter how good you do, if others try to find fault with you, you can always find a bunch of shortcomings.

The Donglin Party people love to do this the most, and they don't like it when they are in power, and they will be scolded every time they issue a decree. But let's not forget that in the Ming Dynasty, the biggest official was not Shangshu or Shoufu, but His Majesty the Emperor.

His Majesty the Emperor loves to scold a lot, and some historians in later generations always talk about the ministers of the Ming Dynasty with relish, thinking that the ministers of the Ming Dynasty are the most backbone, not afraid of scolding the emperor, not afraid of being killed by the emperor, because once the emperor is killed, he will be famous in history.

In fact, they didn't see a crucial point, those people dared to scold the emperor and dare to brush the tiger's whiskers, not because of backbone, but because of organization.

The civil officials of the Ming Dynasty were all organized people, of course, it is not excluded that Hai Rui is a lonely hero, but he is definitely a very minority. Once something happens to an organized person, the organization will definitely save you, otherwise the organization will not be strictly organized, the people's hearts will be weakened, and it will not be able to make all the civil officials huddle together to fight against the emperor.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, even if the emperor particularly hates a speech official and wants to kill him if he goes out to recite his name, it will not be possible, because the people below will not carry it out, and will continue to advise until the emperor changes his mind. The head of the cabinet can seal back the emperor's edict, and he will definitely return the emperor's order as if he did not hear it.

Wanli suffered a lot of such losses before he went to court in a fit of anger. And the person who scolded the emperor will lose his official position at most, but he will gain a great reputation, and when he makes a comeback in the future, his career will also rise like a helicopter, not because of his backbone, but because this is a very profitable business no matter how he looks at it.

After two years, the Emperor of the Apocalypse finally saw the true face of this group of so-called moral gentlemen, and began to alienate them and cultivate his own team, but looking around, he was so lonely, his father and mother were dead, the queen was born poor and had no power, and the only elder in the family, Li Xuanzhi, was also squeezed out of the cold palace by the Donglin Party and withdrew from the political stage.

The Emperor of the Apocalypse found that he had become a real loner overnight, no one stood with him, and the ministers below were all people who were inextricably linked with the big landlords and big businessmen in the Jiangnan region, and some of them were even big tyrants in their own families, they colluded with each other to get all the money that should have been handed over to the treasury into their own pockets, making the treasury empty, the situation on the front line was defeated again and again, there was no money to increase troops, no money to build new equipment. The situation is very tight, and they are still in the rear, continuing to squander the wealth of the country.

The Emperor of the Apocalypse was furious and wanted to increase taxes to raise money for military training, but these people advocated an increase in agricultural taxes under the banner of the ancestral system. This plan was categorically rejected by the Emperor of the Apocalypse, because in the Wanli period, an agricultural tax had already been increased in order to fight Nurhachi, and if it was added, the burden on the peasants would be too great, and it would be easy for the backyard to catch fire.

The emperor wanted to increase the commercial tax and make money from the rich and oily people, mainly the big landlords and big capitalists in Jiangnan, and they had already dealt with this, and they spent a lot of money to set up a political organization called the Donglin Party to control the imperial court, and always refuted the idea that the apocalypse wanted to increase the commercial tax on the grounds of violating the ancestral system. The Emperor's desire to make money to enrich the treasury was frequently frustrated. It's really an international joke, Nurhachi has hit the doorstep, what is the use of the ancestral system? Could it be that Mr. Zhu Yuanzhang can still crawl out of the grave and beat Nurhachi violently?

Just when the Emperor of the Apocalypse was at a loss, a bad old man stretched out a hot hand to him, and this person was Wei Zhongxian. Coincidentally, Wei Zhongxian's original name was Li Jinzhong, and he was the personal eunuch of Li Xuanzhi who was squeezed away by the Donglin Party, and I don't know if it was Li Xuanzhi's secret arrangement, or how it was a misfortune, in short, the old Wei Zhongxian walked into the sight of Zhu Youxiao, the Emperor of the Apocalypse.

After that, Gonggong Wei, who had long passed the golden age of his career, was out of control, first squeezing out Wang An to control the inner court, and then getting rid of the Donglin Party to control the entire empire, and levying commercial taxes to enrich the treasury, and then giving huge support to the Liaodong Army and Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang Army. Gunpowder alone transported 90,000 catties to Liaodong.

The world said that Sun Chengzong's Guanning defense line was powerful, and it was not broken until the fall of the Ming Dynasty, and Yuan Chonghuan's Guanning iron cavalry was powerful, and it was the first strong force in the late Ming Dynasty. But they often ignore that the so-called defense line and the so-called iron cavalry were not conjured up by Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan out of thin air, but piled up with money.

Where does the money come from? Of course, it was Gonggong Wei who did it. The world says that Sun Chengzong is very good at Tuntian, and he can earn 150,000 taels of silver a year, which is very remarkable. Seven million taels. If you just point to Sun Chengzong's Tuntian, the Liaodong Army estimates that the pants will be pawned, what kind of battle will they fight?

In addition to the defense line and iron cavalry, all the knives, guns, armor, firearms, etc. had to be smashed with money, and even the Hongyi cannon that wounded Nurhachi was bought with real money, and the price was not cheap.

Even Li Yunlong, who is so wild in the war, knows that he wants his subordinates to engage in equipment and side jobs, not to mention the Ming army in Liaodong, without these family backgrounds, he Yuan Chonghuan dares to fight with the Houjin United with bayonets? Dream!

However, the Ming Dynasty, which had just revealed the image of Zhongxing, ended because of an accidental fall of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, and the fall of the Apocalypse is indeed a bit strange, but it is difficult to say whether there is any conspiracy in this, because there is no evidence to support it, this article will not be held aside for the time being.

After Chongzhen came to power, he didn't do anything, he went up and first did the Wei Gonggong who worked hard for the old Zhu family and worked hard to make money, and also withdrew all the eunuchs such as the eunuchs and mine supervisors from all over the country to the palace, completely abolished the industrial and commercial tax, suppressed Dongchang and Jinyiwei, and fully trusted the ministers, thinking of being a pro-virtuous minister and a distant villain as recorded in the history books, and Zhongxing Daming, but he was ruthlessly beaten by these so-called upright and selfless ministers.

Since killing Wei Zhongxian was not enough, Chongzhen also wiped out his henchmen, the so-called eunuchs, which made him completely lose control of the situation. Because the so-called eunuch party is actually the imperial party, Wei Zhongxian is a fart, just a dead eunuch, if it weren't for the emperor standing behind him, who would dump him? I'm afraid no one wants to sweep the streets. Since then, most of the holy decrees issued by Chongzhen, especially those involving the collection of commercial taxes, have been vetoed by the Donglin Party, which is inextricably linked with the capitalists in Jiangnan, and Chongzhen has no choice but to do so, and finally dies of poverty.

The eunuch party is actually a descendant force cultivated by the emperor of the apocalypse, completely obeying the emperor's leadership, whether it is to make money or people, it will not stand on the opposite side of the emperor like the Donglin Party, and use the ancestral system to get along with the emperor.

Secondly, if all the eunuchs of the prison army were withdrawn to the palace, they would lose control of the army, and they would also lose their eyes and ears, and they would not be able to understand the situation on the front line. Even if you don't dare to do this blatantly, you will definitely not be able to work hard before when you start a war. Before, there were prison guards staring at the back, and no one dared to play tricks, because the prison army was the emperor's eyes and ears, which was equivalent to the emperor staring at the back.

However, Chongzhen withdrew these prison troops, and the generals in front naturally cheered, because no one was staring at them to work, they could be lazy, but if they could fight a battle or not, they would not fight. When I went back, I told the emperor how powerful the other party was, how disadvantaged our side was, and found a bunch of excuses to avoid punishment, and the emperor didn't know anyway.

Emperor Chongzhen's removal of the prison army was an important factor in the fall of the arrogant army in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, taking the example of the northwest, in fact, it was not Li Zicheng's kind of homeless people who rebelled at the beginning, even if they made trouble, they did not make a big mess, because they were purely a rabble.

The backbone of the Northwest People's Revolution is actually the soldiers, according to the record of "Ming Ji Beiluo", at first a group of bitter soldiers owed a person to pay the money, the person who relied on his own fame did not take them seriously, forced each other, and finally forced these soldiers to kill the person with a knife, and turned against his mother.

If Chongzhen hadn't withdrawn the eunuchs from all over the country and suppressed the Jinyi Guards of Dongchang, maybe there would have been no popular uprising in the northwest. Because we know that when the northwest first started to suffer from the famine, it was when Chongzhen first came to power, and he had the old foundation left by his predecessor, and he still had a lot of money, so he immediately ordered to take out 100,000 taels of silver to provide disaster relief.

As a result, as soon as the money arrived in the northwest, it was put into his own pocket by the group of officials, and less than 5,000 taels of 100,000 taels of silver were spent on the common people, not to mention drinking porridge, and he couldn't even eat chaff, it was just too deceitful, what else could he do if he didn't do it?

The reason why these officials are so bold is entirely because Chongzhen withdrew all the eunuchs in these places, restrained the people of Dongchang and Jinyiwei, and let them stay at home. This is a completely self-gouging out of the eyes and cutting off the minions. There were people from Dongchang squatting in this area before, although those who were officials would not be as honest as Hai Rui, but at least they were okay, and they would keep the big head for the common people and get a little advantage for themselves, otherwise it would not be a joke if they were arrested by the people of Dongchang. There are also those fierce soldiers, who are actually very jealous of Dongchang and the eunuchs of the prison army, with them in charge, these soldiers may not dare to make trouble and dare not participate in the chaos.

And now, this group of Yama kings is finally gone, how can they be worthy of their ten-year cold window if they don't take this opportunity to make a profit? How can he be worthy of his fearful life all these years, so he took all the money for disaster relief. The soldiers also became lawless, and for the sake of money, there were frequent incidents of wages, mutinies, and even outright rebellions. The situation in the northwest is now eroded and out of control.

Chongzhen's original intention was good, he wanted to learn from the famous kings in the history books to make great efforts to govern the country and prosper the Ming Dynasty, but he didn't know who wrote the history books? It's all written by those literati, who will speak ill of themselves and dig their ancestral graves? Therefore, throughout the history books of China, the prosperity of a dynasty is entirely because the ruler is a corporal and respects them as scholars, and the demise of a dynasty is either the monarch is mediocre and cruel, or the eunuch interferes in politics, or the dictatorship of foreign relatives, or the division of military generals, anyway, there is no responsibility for them, and even if there is, it is because the emperor did not appoint them well.

In fact, this lie is not difficult to see, if a person promotes himself without any shortcomings, it must be false benevolence and false righteousness, and people with a little social experience can see through it, but Tianqi and Chongzhen were too young when they came to power, one was sixteen years old, one was seventeen years old, you book friends, think about what you will do when you are sixteen or seventeen years old? I'm afraid that nothing else will be good except for picking up girls and playing games.

People at this age are too naïve, too bad, always believe that there is true love in this world, and believe that all they meet are good people, so they are the easiest to be deceived.

Tianqi and Chongzhen, the two poor children without a father and mother, were deceived by a group of old slippery heads under their hands when they were the most naïve and easy to trust others, which finally led to internal and external troubles and lost the property left by their ancestors.

This can't blame them for being stupid, this is a common problem of children at this age, if Emperor Taichang did not overindulge in lust when he came to power, and insisted on it for more than ten years, and when his sons all grew up and were no longer easy to be fooled, then the history of the Ming Dynasty was likely to be different.

Although Emperor Taichang was supported by the Donglin Party, some information shows that he did not fully believe in the Donglin Party, but the situation forced him to reuse them, otherwise he would not have named his favorite concubine Li Xuanzhi as the imperial concubine before his death, and let her play the role of the queen mother to help Zhu Youxiao suppress the Donglin Party.

After all, Taichang was already thirty-eight years old at the time, and at this age, you still expect him to trust others unconditionally, and it is not realistic to have a heart-to-heart relationship with others. It's a pity that he died before he could seal it, which also allowed the Donglin Party to seize the opportunity to launch a coup d'état. They won't take a Li Xuanzhi in their eyes, but if the other party becomes Emperor Li's concubine, no one dares to mess around and want to rebel?

Chongzhen's failure did not lie in killing Yuan Chonghuan, a cadre, nor in deposing Sun Chengzong, he had many talented people, such as: Hong Chengchou, Lu Xiangsheng, Chen Qiyu, Sun Chuanting, Fu Zonglong, Wu Sangui, Zu Dashou, Cao Wenzhao, etc., their talents were no worse than Yuan Chonghuan and Sun Chengzong. The scene at the end of the Ming Dynasty was very different from the end of other dynasties, where all the talented people died, or the emperor did not do much to cause the country to die. And the Ming Dynasty was precisely a country where the diligent Ming monarch led a large number of talented civil servants and military generals to die.

The reason is that Chongzhen killed Wei Zhongxian, killing him is not counted, but also killing the team he worked so hard to build, which led to the complete failure of his control over the court situation. Jiangnan has a lot of money, and he is so rich that he can't collect it, and all of it goes into the pockets of high-ranking officials and wealthy businessmen; There are many soldiers in the northwest, brave and good at fighting, but they can't control it, and many people have participated in the rebel army of King Chuang. To kill Wei Zhongxian is to kill someone who can help him control the entire empire. Since then, Chongzhen can no longer grasp the full power of the Ming Dynasty to fight against the enemy, and the state apparatus of the Ming Dynasty has failed, so although there are many talented people under him, it is difficult for Qiao women to cook without rice, and they can only follow him step by step to the abyss of destruction.