Chapter 81: The Ming Dynasty in the Seventeenth Century
Turning the pages of the history of the Ming Dynasty in the 17th century, we can see that it is simply a tragic combination, and the literati, who are part of the ruling group of the country, are still engaged in infighting, completely ignoring the dying dynasty, which is already in danger.
With peasant uprisings inside, Houjin Guanguan attacking cities and plundering land, and being in the Xiaoice River period, in this extremely harsh environment, Chongzhen, the ruler of the Daming Dynasty, has to be said to be one of the few most diligent emperors in Daming since the founding of the country.
But it was such an emperor who was so diligent that he cared about the people's affairs every day when he slept every day, but he became the deceased king in the history of the Ming Dynasty, and finally when Li Zicheng attacked the capital, he hanged the crooked neck tree in the coal mountain.
I have to make the people of later generations sigh, this emperor is too diligent, is there a disaster of the country, those predecessors in Guan Chongzhen, either ignore the supergang every day to play in the imperial garden, or are obsessed with alchemy, carpenter work, etc., to his hands, finally out of a normal point of the emperor, began to care about national affairs every day, the country is dead, I am afraid that Chongzhen himself did not understand what was going on until he died.
At this time, the time has entered April 1641, the eunuch faction of the Ming Dynasty has been suppressed since Chongzhen ascended the throne, and the imperial court has become the dominance of the Donglin party.
It was precisely because of the opposition of the Donglin Party members, coupled with the implementation of the policy proposed by the Donglin Party to increase agricultural taxes and increase fiscal revenue, that the peasants, who had already entered the Xiaoice River period and had reduced harvest yields, had to take up hoes, firewood knives and other weapons to resist.
At this time, the Donglin party people are still immersed in their own utopian dreams, and they don't see that the building will collapse into the country, maybe in their eyes there is only interests and no country, history also clearly tells us that most of the Donglin people do this, Li Zicheng came to surrender the peasant army, and Houjin came to continue to surrender, which is not a shame for them at all, just like the modern company closed down and continued to change one.
Liu Yun's analysis of the history of the late Ming Dynasty made Zhang Tianwen completely see the true face of the Donglin Party, aren't these people typical speculative hypocrites like Yue Buqun, and they still talk about righteousness all day long, and they really run faster than anyone else when something happens.
"Traitors, these are traitors, and this old man Wei Zhongxian has been infamous for hundreds of years." Zhang Tianwen sighed.
"Hehe, Wei Zhongxian can't say good or bad, at least he takes money to do things, and the poor civilian class is more aware of the difficulties of ordinary people, so after he took office, he immediately implemented a policy to collect industrial and commercial taxes, that is, during this period, there was the germ of capitalism in Chinese history, and the financial revenue of industrial and commercial taxes to the state was greatly increased, so that the country had money to support the border war."
"Hey, we were all deceived by the TV series, damn it, I thought it was just a hand-tossed devil drama that was more fake, but I didn't expect this historical drama to be fake."
"Looking at history, you can't just look at superficial things, but also look at deeper things, Lao Wei is really so bad that the country is in a miasma, why there are almost no peasant uprisings in the Apocalypse, and as soon as Chongzhen came to power, the eunuch forces were uprooted and the world was in chaos, and the uprisings continued, which is worth thinking about."
"Minister, according to what you say, Chongzhen still has some rhythm that he won't die if he doesn't die."
"The imperial power of feudal society is about balance, the reason why so many emperors who are not doing their jobs in the history of the Ming Dynasty can be so idle is not to rely on balance to maintain their rule, when two equal forces compete against each other, the emperor as a third-party force as long as he tilts slightly, he can easily use the other party's hand to easily suppress the side that does not listen to his own words, of course, this kind of suppression is also to the advantage, otherwise it will be dangerous to lose the balance."
"Minister I think you should be Chongzhen's political adviser, as far as your views on history and analysis of the Donglin Eunuch Party are concerned, as long as you succeed in making Chongzhen listen to our Daming, you will not die, and Houjin will not enter the customs." Zhang Tianwen said with a sycophant face.
"Nonsense, also political adviser, it's good if people don't kill you, you're saying that you think the Donglin Party is so easy to deal with, Chongzhen If it is so easy to persuade a person, he won't hang himself on the coal mountain, and he won't have to fight with Li Zicheng in Nanjing for the time being, so ah, don't even think about it, let's make some money during this period, as for the longer-term plan, that's what the leaders of the Executive Committee should consider, not us, the Department of Homeland Security."
"Minister, I'm just talking about it," Zhang Tianwen was preached by Liu Yun, and replied with some grievances: "Then let's negotiate with the Zheng family this time, and it's no problem to sell arms to them, but I remember that this Zheng Zhilong took refuge in the Tartars in history." ”
"Although Old Nikolai's temperament is not very good, it can't be said that his temperament is not good, it can only be said that he finally collapsed, he wants to get more practical benefits in the new court, so he still made Beitou when he knew that his son did not agree with him Beitou, but his son is a good person, and the purpose of our trip is to contact the future national surname."
Zheng Chenggong, an anti-Qing fighter, and a national hero who recovered Taiwan and defeated the Dutch, basically no one knows, and at this time, the national surname has not officially stepped onto his political stage.
In fact, Liu Yun took Zhang Tianwen to Daming on the Zheng family's ship this time, one of the purposes of which was to negotiate about the export of weapons, and the second was really to meet the legendary figure of the Zheng family, if possible, hoping to guide the future national hero to contact more modern knowledge through his own thoughts.
Preventing the Manchu Qing from entering the customs This is basically the consensus of many people, but the premise is that the people must have this strength, in Liu Yun's view, to prevent the Manchu Qing from entering the customs, it is necessary to consider whether to continue to support Chongzhen or after his death, select a Zhu family agent from the southern regime, this question has been debated in the executive committee without a clear answer.
But it is certain that the contact with the Zheng family on the southeast coast at the end of the Ming Dynasty is very in line with Australia's interests, so under this premise, Liu Yun personally went to Daming.