Research on Zhao Jin, Taizu of the Han Dynasty (1)
Who is the most powerful empire, who can enjoy the glory of a word, the Western Han Dynasty, the Eastern Han Dynasty, the former Han Dynasty, the Later Han Dynasty, the Northern Han Dynasty, the Southern Han Dynasty, and the Zhao Dynasty are called "Han", generally speaking, in the literature and records, if there is no special indication and context, the Han Empire and the Han Empire all refer to the dynasty that stood on behalf of the Ming, and the other dynasties should have the prefix of the front and back, the east, west, south, and south. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The legal system of the Ming Empire was based on "expelling the Tatars and restoring China", so it had incomparable justice and rationality.
Tracing back to the long era from the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties to the Song Dynasty, there is the darkness of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the bloodshed of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and the weakness of the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties, however, after every darkness, there will be a great revival of Chinese civilization, which is better than the previous generations, the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and even the Two Song Dynasties.
Of course, everywhere in the world, regardless of the Chinese barbarians, are extremely expected, you know, the grandeur and revival of the Chinese civilization, the beneficiary is not the Chinese nation itself, the barbarian aliens will be wet with rain and dew, from the hair to the blood to the clothes and poetry, from the barbarians to the Chinese.
Some sour and rotten literati ridiculed that this kind of benefit is just the extermination of foreign races, but compared to what the Francophiles did to the local natives in the far west, this kind of benefit is great mercy, to live, to live, to live better, this is what the people want at all.
The Ming Empire lived up to the expectations of China and foreign peoples, no one thought that the rise range of the Ming Dynasty was so short, after Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang and Chengzu Zhu Di, the Ming Empire's military aggressive offensive became defensive, and was beaten to the city of Beijing by the Mongolian tribes who did not have much strength, and even captured the emperor in the field, and then in the next nearly two hundred years, the enemy hit the capital many times.
Cultural, economic and other aspects are similar to the military, the barbarism of the early Ming Empire was extremely serious, many policies of the Meng Yuan, the Ming Empire did not learn from each other's strengths, but absorbed those dark and imprisoned things, it is a bit ironic to say, there is a Ming generation, the period of economic and cultural prosperity and development coincides with the period of decline in the central control of the Ming Empire.
Commercial trade is even more of a joke, the world needs the production of the Ming Empire, and the Ming Empire also needs the world's gold and silver, but the official did not get any benefits on this, and even caused a tragic war.
For many people, it is very simple to refute the above shortcomings, the Ming Empire lasted for more than two hundred years, and in these long years, the legal system of the Zhu Ming royal family has not shifted and changed, and the main territory of the empire has not been reduced, which is good enough for an empire.
But this kind of good enough is based on the overall decline of Eastern civilization, when the powerful Eurasian Mengyuan Empire has been scattered into tribes, deserts, forests, islands everywhere warlike barbarians are still in ignorance, in this case, the Ming Empire, which maintained a sufficient size and is not so degenerate, has a rare longevity in Chinese history, but it has been rotten for a long time.
Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang is a hero, he has made great achievements, Zhu Yuanzhang is a genius, he established an all-encompassing system, this system throughout the Ming Empire.
It's just that this system can only be barely operated by Zhu Yuanzhang himself, and his children and grandchildren can only repair and revise it, and then make more and more mistakes, and this system even lowers the evaluation of Zhu Yuanzhang himself by history, thinking that many of his designs are because he was born in a desperate peasant family, with limitations and narrowness.
For example, Zhu Yuanzhang has an instinctive aversion to all kinds of taxes, and even blames officials who are good at collecting taxes, but in the Ming Dynasty, all kinds of taxes and servitude made the people miserable, and there were constant riots and turmoil, but most of these taxes and labor were exploited and divided by the local gentry and officials, and the finances of the central government of the Ming Empire were tight and fragile, and they could not afford to raise elite soldiers with sufficient combat power.
Not to mention the criticism of the clan system, since the time of Zhu Di, the royal descendants of the Ming Dynasty did not make any contribution to the empire, but exploited and sucked blood in the local area, they occupied a large amount of land and shops, but from the payment of any taxes, in order to make up for this shortfall, the Ming Empire can only more cruelly exploit the common people, and the cycle repeats, a vicious circle.
Ming Taizu is such a hero and genius, designed such a system that has been criticized and belittled, some people may say that these systems that have been criticized and degraded contain great wisdom, otherwise, how did the Ming Empire come from this more than 200 years of life.
Because of this, everyone has the same suspicion about Zhao Jin, the Taizu of the Han Dynasty......
Zhao Jin, the Taizu of the Han Dynasty, is different from every emperor in Chinese history, since the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, those who call the emperor emperor, or fight to win in troubled times, or those in high positions have never relied on armed forces similar to militias to seize the world in this "peaceful" era.
In the thousands of years of Chinese history, there are beggars, nobles, and soldiers among the people who have become emperors, of course, those who inherit the throne are not included in it, but there has never been such a background as Zhao Jin.
According to the official records of the Han Empire, Zhao Jin was born in a hundred households of Xuzhou Wei, a middle-level member of the hereditary officer system of the Ming Dynasty, but a more authoritative statement, Zhao Jin's father was an executioner, and his mother was the daughter of a butcher, so that people from a family were destined to be lowly servants, although they would have a good life, but their political status was not high, and they could not enjoy full civil rights.
In the era when Zhao Jin was born and raised, the Ming Empire was as bad as ever, but it was not bad enough, and Zhao Jin's father's gray income was enough to ensure that they had a very decent life, and the people around them would also maintain enough respect for the Zhao family......
Moreover, in the process of Zhao Jin's growth, he rarely left the Xuzhou area, and under such a life experience, how the idea of seizing the world came about made later researchers extremely curious.
Although the Han Empire advocated simplicity and robustness, the official texts describing Zhao Jin were always full of various myths and legends, such as the big tree that grew in the small courtyard of the Zhao family, such as the red light that looked like a fire on the roof of the Zhao family, for example, when Zhao Jin was sleeping, someone was dazzled and mistaken for a dragon, and the Yellow River flood once had the shadow of a dragon enter the Zhao family.
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