Volume VI Overhead Ming Chapter 1 Current Situation
The Sui Dynasty lasted for a total of 23 years from the destruction of Nanchen to the peasant uprising, and the Sui Dynasty became a division for nearly 300 years since the elimination of Nanchen, and Yang Jian used his ability to compose the "rule of the emperor." It also created a situation in which the imperial examination system weakened the monopoly of officials by the big families, and Yang Jian died and Yang Guang succeeded him. Yang Guang is also a talent, personally led the army to attack Nanchen, eliminated Tuyuhun to conquer the Khitan, feasted the Turks, conquered the Ryukyus, conquered Goryeo three times, built the Grand Canal, and his book collection business, when he was the boss in Yangzhou to be the emperor for 20 years, a total of 130 books, more than 17,000 volumes. It's just that the brain hole is too big, and the things that take 50 or 100 years have to be completed all at once, and the result is that the steps are bigger, the eggs are torn apart, and the Sui Dynasty is finished.
The Tang Dynasty maintained unity for 250 years from the pacification of the Liang Shidu forces to the Huangchao peasant uprising. The Tang Dynasty experienced 21 emperors and 289 years of national fortune. Li Yuan can become the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty is not an idiot, but his son is too famous and powerful, and his eldest son Li Jiancheng and second son Li Shimin are both very powerful figures, one is good at internal affairs and the other is good at military. It can be said that either one is a candidate to be the emperor, but it's a pity that being together is troublesome. It is best for Li Shimin to make a start, personally kill his brother and force his father to abdicate, leaving an example for his descendants. The Li Tang royal family in the back has been rebelling. The Tang Dynasty was the largest dynasty in the Central Plains, and it was also the only unified dynasty that did not build the Great Wall. The Tang Dynasty had the rule of Zhenguan and the rule of Yongwei. It is also a generation of empress Wu Zetian, and Li Longji's Kaiyuan prosperity is even more chasing Li Shimin's Zhenguan prosperity. During this period****** was captured by Jieli Khan, such as Chang'an. Xue Yantuo was directly destroyed, and after the pacification of Goryeo, it was divided into nine prefectures, 42 prefectures, and 100 counties, and set up the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate in Pyongyang to unify it. Until after the Anshi Rebellion, the national strength of the Tang Dynasty declined sharply, although there was also the master of Zhongxing behind, but there was no power to return to the sky. With the division of feudal towns, the dictatorship of eunuchs, and the annexation of land, the Tang Dynasty was usurped by Zhu Wen in 907, and the Tang Dynasty perished.
The controversy of the Northern Song Dynasty has always been very large, if it is counted as a great unified dynasty, it is 148 years from the elimination of the Northern Han Dynasty to the southward migration of the Song Dynasty to maintain unity, but the sixteen states of Yanyun have been under the control of the Liao State. And there is also the existence of the regime of the Liao State next to it, the Liao State has been converted from a nomadic to an emperor system at that time, and the Western Xia has also split out, and the suppression of the warriors has also reached the extreme, which is also wonderful.
The Yuan Dynasty maintained unity for a total of 72 years from the pacification of the Southern Song Dynasty to the peasant uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and the Yuan Dynasty was the largest territory in the history of the flower planters, if the Tang Dynasty did not count those vassal states. From the beginning of Temujin, he has been constantly waging wars in the Western Liao, Western Xia, Eastern Xia, Jin and Southern Song Dynasty. The Yuan Dynasty had strong combat effectiveness and was always very confident in himself, so he rarely looked down on the Southern Song Dynasty at that time, and he divided people into four classes of Mongolia, colored eyes, Jurchens, and finally Han people. There was also Ran Min on the occasion of Wuhu, but the Yuan Dynasty never had it, until finally the Yuan Dynasty had more and more harsh taxes on the Han people, and the national oppression was the same, and finally the peasants revolted. And the Yuan Dynasty was also fighting for power and profit, and was still obsessed with the power of Kublai Khan. In the end, Xu Da captured the capital of the Yuan Dynasty, and Yuan Huizong fled north.
The Ming Dynasty maintained unity for a total of 246 years from the death of Pingding to the peasant uprising, which is the dynasty second only to the Tang Dynasty in the Great Unification Dynasty, and he broke the previous order of unification from north to south, he created a strategy from the south to the north, Zhu Yuanzhang is also the second great unification dynasty founded after Liu Bang is not an aristocrat, and even his experience is more legendary than Liu Bang. And his subordinates are also full of talents, Liu Bowen, Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, Li Shanchang, Lan Yu and others. Among them, Liu Bowen is known as a person no less than Zhuge Liang, but Zhuge Liang did not let Liu Bei unify him, but Liu Bowen let Zhu Yuanzhang establish the Ming Dynasty. Zheng He's voyage to the West was the Red Sea coast and the east coast of Africa. The war with Japan in the war of aid to Korea during the Wanli period was the last glory of the Ming Dynasty, but it also laid the pattern of East Asia for the next three hundred years. The Ming Dynasty was a great unified dynasty that succeeded the Han and Tang dynasties. In the Ming Dynasty, there were no relatives of the Han Dynasty, the town of the Tang Dynasty, and the old coins of the Song Dynasty, the Son of Heaven guarded the country, and the king died in Sheji.
The Qing Dynasty lasted a total of 152 years from the pacification of the rebellion of Hezhuo to the Xinhai Revolution, he was the last unified feudal dynasty of the flower family, and it was also a dark era, politically implementing the first worship of Manchuria, enclosing land, shaving hair and changing clothes, moving to the sea, writing prisons, etc., militarily pacifying the peasant army and the Southern Ming regimes and massacring the city (see the Manchu Massacre for details), and gradually controlling ??,the country. In the middle and late periods, due to political rigidity??、 culture **** ??、 closed off the country? , ideological imprisonment, scientific and technological stagnation and other factors gradually lagged behind the West. After the Opium War, it was invaded by many foreign powers, and its sovereignty and territory were seriously lost. It also began the exploration of modernization, and started the Westernization Movement and the Wuxu Reform. The First Sino-Japanese War and the Eight-Nation Alliance's war of aggression against China further deepened the national crisis, and the late Qing Dynasty was reduced to a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. In 1911, the Xinhai Revolution broke out, the Qing Dynasty rule collapsed, and the Qing Emperor issued an abdication edict, which ended the Qing Dynasty.
Wan Guifei, Ming Xianzong Zhu Jianshen's favorite. Later generations mostly call her Wan Zhen'er, and her real name cannot be examined.
In history, Wan Zhen'er was the first person to be named an imperial concubine when she was alive, and she was the first concubine in history to have a nickname after death.
Her status in modern times is very embarrassing, because whether it is in movies and TV series, novels or some literary works, she appears as vicious, murderous, and vicious, even Ming Xianzong Zhu Jianshen is afraid of her. But is that really the case?
Wan Guifei entered the palace at the age of four, and when she was nineteen years old, Wan Zhen'er took care of the two-year-old crown prince Zhu Jianshen. At that time, the Ming Dynasty was the change of Tumubao. The Ming army won the battle to defend the capital, and the Wara army withdrew. The following year, the Warats sent the captured Yingzong back to the Ming court. And at this time, Emperor Jingtai became the emperor, of course, he was unwilling to return the throne to his brother, after all, which prince did not want to be the emperor at that time.
Therefore, as soon as Yingzong arrived in the capital, he was imprisoned. In 1452, when Zhu Jianshen was five years old, his uncle Emperor Jingtai abolished his crown prince and demoted him to the king of Yi, and since then Wan Zhen'er and Zhu Jianshen have been in the same situation as prisoners. Five years later, Emperor Jingtai was seriously ill, and there was a "change to seize the door", Ming Yingzong was restored, and the twenty-seven-year-old Wan Zhen'er returned to the palace with the young lord who was ten years old and restored the status of the crown prince. In the next six years, I don't know when, there was a relationship between the crown prince and Wan Zhen'er. In 1464, Yingzong died, and the sixteen-year-old crown prince ascended the throne as Xianzong, the empress Wu. The place of Xianzong's love is still Wan Zhen'er. One day, Queen Wu used the old rod to hit Wan Zhen'er. When Xianzong heard this, he was furious and deposed him as queen. In the second year of Chenghua, Wan Zhen'er, who was Chinese New Year's Eve, gave birth to his first son for Emperor Xianzong, who made Zhen'er a noble concubine, and the prince died when he was ten months old. Since then, Wan Zhen'er has no children. Xianzong reigned for twenty-one years, and had more than 20 children with his concubines, but he never had feelings for anyone other than Zhen'er. In 1476, Xianzong named Zhen'er as the imperial concubine, with a status above the concubines, and Zhen'er was forty-six years old that year. In 1487, Wan Zhen'er died of illness at the age of fifty-seven. When the news of Zhen'er's death came, Xianzong was so sad that he couldn't speak. finally spit out a sentence: Zhen'er is gone, and I will not be there soon. A few months later, Ming Xianzong was so sad that he went with Zhen'er.
Wan Zhen'er and Zhu Jianshen can be said to be in trouble and prosperity together, and their relationship is not something that ordinary people can imagine. And there is no record of Wan Zhen'er's murder in the "Xianzong Record", because Mao will appear in the Qing Dynasty more than 200 years later, if Guo Wan Guifei does this, it is obvious that she is doing the heir of the Ming Dynasty, which is definitely a matter of principle of right and wrong for the feudal dynasty. No matter how much Xianzong dotes on her, he will not tolerate this kind of thing, and there are still Empress Dowager Qian and Empress Dowager Zhou in the palace, and in the Ming generation, the Empress Dowager has a very high status in the harem. Empress Dowager Qian Chenghua died in the fourth year, Xianzong's mother Empress Dowager Zhou lived longer than Xianzong, even if they didn't care about other things, it was impossible for this kind of major event related to the country to stand idly by, not to mention that Empress Dowager Zhou had always disliked Wan Zhen'er. And as an emperor, especially after the change of emperor in the Ming Dynasty after the change of Tumubao, how could he not know the problem of the heir, even if Wan Zhen'er is how he pampers him, if he dares to do such a rebellious thing, there are few harems in history who dare to do this, and the ministers of the Ming Dynasty are not vegetarians, if Wan Zhen'er is really so powerful that she can kill pregnant concubines and palace maids in the harem at will, she would have become the queen a long time ago. And the Queen Mother Zhou and Qian are both there, how can Wan Zhen'er have a chance. And Ming Xiaozong's dislike for Wan Zhen'er is also very well understood, Xiaozong has witnessed his father Xianzong ignore his biological mother since he was a child, but he cares for the old woman of Wan Guifei, since he was set up as the prince at the age of six, to the emperor for a total of 12 years, indignant has a long history, taking the opportunity of the previous dynasty to repair history, embarrassed to scold his father, scold Wan Guifei a few words, for his mother to be angry, is human affection.
As for why Wan Zhen'er became like this, Zhu Jianshen, as an emperor, only doted on Wan Zhen'er, who was 17 years older than him, and wanted her to become the queen. What do you make the other concubines and queens in the harem think, what do the two queen mothers of Qian and Zhou think, and what do the scholars and doctors of the court think. Therefore, Wan Zhen'er's reputation during the Ming Dynasty was not very good, but it was only bad, but in the Qing Dynasty, she became a vicious and jealous woman.
The Ming Dynasty has experienced seven emperors since the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang defeated Zhang Shicheng, Chen Youliang, Fang Guozhen and others and drove the Mongols out of the Central Plains to establish the Ming Dynasty, and the current emperor is the eighth emperor, Zhu Jianshen of Ming Xianzong.