Last time, he talked about Zhu Yuanzhang's indelible historical achievements in unifying the world and reshaping the Han nationality, and mentioned that strengthening cultural self-confidence will help avoid the destruction of the country and the extinction of the species.

Whenever later generations mention the Ming Dynasty, they will feel very strange. For the Ming Dynasty, people only have the impression of "the emperor who does not love the dynasty" and "the eunuch who kills the loyal and good and covers the sky with one hand", but from the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang to the deceased monarch Zhu Youzhen, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty are all different and have strange personalities.

Six of these emperors were particularly stubborn, each with their own unique iron fist or personality disorder. In the 276-year history of the Ming Dynasty, under the rule of these six wonderful emperors, the national political system, the establishment, implementation and process of domestic and foreign policies have changed again and again, reflecting the evolution of China's national fortunes in the past 2,000 years represented by the Ming Dynasty, and analyzing the logic of the Ming Dynasty's "one bowl at the beginning" and "one rope at the end".

The deeds of these six Ming Dynasty emperors are Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di, the builder of the Forbidden City, Zhu Houzhao, the male protagonist of Ming Wuzong Zhu Houzhao, the emperor of Xiuxian Zhu Shizong, Zhu Youxiao, the emperor of Ming Xizong, who did not love the country but loved carpentry, and Zhu Youzhen, who died because of too diligence (that is, Emperor Chongzhen who hanged himself on the coal mountain). The life experiences of these six Ming emperors illustrate that the "way of heaven" is inferior to the "fixed number".

Zhu Yuanzhang, as the "founding emperor" of the Ming Dynasty, not only excelled in civil and martial arts, but also had a very ruling skill, such as "Daxing Literary Prison". Although the Ming Dynasty Hall is as lively as a bazaar, and the courtiers can fight each other if they disagree, and the emperor Lao Tzu is also happy to watch the bureaucrats fight each other, and feels that the bureaucrats will not be allowed to unite to fight against their imperial power, but Zhu Yuanzhang sometimes cares about playing with words, because he is born and has a sensitive heart.

It is said that there are some stories in the wild history that say that Zhu Yuanzhang is the most taboo to be mentioned in the past, because he has not only been a monk and a beggar before, but also rebelled, so when he heard the words "bald", "light", "thief" or homophones, he was unhappy, thinking that he was satirizing himself and wanted to kill someone.

However, there are also historical records that show that he did not shy away from his poor background and tragic teenage experience. In normal times, he does not hesitate to use his life experience and life experience to discipline the princes, so that they do not forget their family roots, and it is estimated that the ugliness of the family will not be publicized. In fact, you can say it yourself, but others can't.

To this end, Zhu Yuanzhang set up the "Jinyi Guard", the purpose of which is to secretly monitor who is deliberately saying their "ugly words" and "bad words", and put the Jinyi Wei above the law, purely obeying the emperor's orders and being controlled by the emperor himself, specializing in spying, detective, and informing, and can bypass the law to directly arrest people, secretly torture people, and even put people to death. Although Zhu Yuanzhang later found that Jinyiwei had done too many bad things and abolished it, it was later restored by Ming Chengzu Zhu Di.

In addition, Zhu Yuanzhang killed the founding fathers of the People's Republic of China in order to stabilize the strong position of the old Zhu family and avoid causing his grandson to fall in power a hundred years later.

At the beginning, the generals and ministers who followed Zhu Yuanzhang to raise troops, except for a few who died in the army, the rest either died in prison, or were given to commit suicide, or were suspected of being poisoned by Zhu Yuanzhang. In fact, it is inevitable that emperors like Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang who were born in cloth will fight fratricidal with their brothers who rebelled together after ascending the throne, after all, the degree of psychological distortion of those who fight from the bottom of society is indescribable.

The consequence of Zhu Yuanzhang's killing of the minister was that there was no one to have a successor, and finally caused the "Jianwen Emperor" Zhu Yunwen to be easily seized the throne by the fourth uncle "Yan Wang" Zhu Di. Perhaps, this is something that Zhu Yuanzhang never dreamed of. However, since the throne was passed back from his grandson to his son, it didn't matter if it was still in the hands of the old Zhu family.

At the same time, Zhu Yuanzhang "restrained the honorable officials very strictly, and did not abuse the common people." Zhu Yuanzhang was extremely cruel to officials, and the most famous rule was that if he embezzled 60 taels of silver, he would be stripped of his skin and grass, which reflected Zhu Yuanzhang's distrust of the bureaucracy and his extreme hatred of corrupt officials.

However, during the Hongwu period, the land was cleared, water conservancy was built, farming was rewarded, taxes were reduced or reduced, corruption was eliminated, and the rule of officials was improved, so that the common people benefited from it. It can be seen from this that Zhu Yuanzhang is a "lone husband" rather than a "thief of the people", even if he gathers all his power in one, he has not done anything bad to bring disaster to the country and the people.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang's most tragic failure was that he ingeniously and personally wanted to prove that he was both a "lone husband" and not a "thief" of the people, but he was completely denied by the facts, because his son usurped the throne of his grandson, and his great-grandson took the enemy lightly and defeated the army and was taken prisoner.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty has lasted for 5 generations since the founding of the "Hongwu Emperor" Zhu Yuanzhang (proclaimed emperor in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province in 1368) to the reign of "Xuande Emperor" Zhu Zhanji. In the middle, except for the "Jianwen Emperor" Zhu Yunwen because of the forcible cutting of the domain, he moved the "cheese" of his fourth uncle "Yan Wang" Zhu Di, so that the latter rebelled in anger, and was forcibly overthrown and replaced by Zhu Di through the "Battle of Jingyan", the other emperors basically did something about it.

First of all, after Zhu Yuanzhang was proclaimed emperor in Nanjing, Jiangsu, the country name was "Daming", and the year name was "Hongwu", and then sent troops to the Northern Expedition, overthrowing the "Great Yuan Dynasty" established by the Mongols by force, and establishing the "Ming Dynasty", laying a solid foundation for the "Ming Empire" in the following years. This is obvious to all, and there is no need to say more.

"Yan Wang" Zhu Di changed his name to "Yongle" after successfully seizing power, and during his reign, he inherited his father Zhu Yuanzhang's "Eight Expeditions to Mobei" and "Five Expeditions to Mobei", and fully supported Zheng He to go to the West five times, promoting trade and friendship between the Ming Dynasty and Southeast Asian countries, and solidifying the relations between the Ming Dynasty and Southeast Asian countries.

At the same time, Zhu Di, known as "Chengzu", also completed the compilation of the "Yongle Canon" headed by Xie Jin, the "Book of Rites" and the "First Auxiliary Minister".

Xie Jin's greatest achievement in his life is that he personally presided over the compilation of the "Yongle Canon", which is also a major contribution of Xie Jin to the history of Chinese cultural development. As the general person in charge of compiling this book, Xie Jin, he participated in the political affairs of the court during the day and the revision at night, leading the whole book tirelessly.

Xie Jin is knowledgeable and talented, leading 3,000 compilation and repair personnel to be handy, and personally reading the materials, checking the classics, and carefully supplementing and surveying the proofreading. After four years of cooperation, the manuscript was edited in November of the fifth year of Yongle (1407), and Zhu Di wrote the preface himself.

This volume is a huge volume of 22,877 volumes, 60 volumes of examples and catalogs, bound into 11,095 volumes, with a total of 370 million words, and as many as 7,800 kinds of works such as classics, histories, sub-books, collections, interpretations, Taoist classics, northern operas, southern operas, plain dialects, medicine, engineering and technology, agriculture, and zhixian.

"Yongle Dadian" is the largest book of its kind in China, and in the history of world culture, it is known as the earliest compilation, the largest and the most extensive "encyclopedia". In addition to editing the "Yongle Canon", Xie Jin also has a variety of talents, and has also made many achievements.

Xie Jin has not only achieved outstanding achievements in academics, but also in poetry, calligraphy, and prose. He is full of talent, and he can't rest himself, especially the five-word poems, and there are more than 500 existing poems. His ancient style songs are unrestrained, rich in imagination, similar to Li Bai, and the quatrains of the poems are also close to the Tang Dynasty. He is also good at calligraphy, the small Kai is exquisite, the grass is good, the use of the pen is exquisite, unexpected.

His works include "Baiyun Manuscript", "Dongshan Collection", "Taiping Songshu" and so on. There are 16 volumes of "Xie Wenyi's Public Collection" and one volume of "Miscellaneous Descriptions of Spring Rain", and three volumes of "Biography of Ancient and Modern Martyrs". Xie Jin is knowledgeable, talented, and has made a lot of achievements for the integrity of officials, especially in the field of culture. Xie Jin is a generation of "romance" created by history, and he is also a great "talent" of autocratic destruction.

Xie Jin was born in 1369 and died in 1415, the word gentry, also known as the gentry, the name "spring rain", also known as "Xiyi", for the later generations of Wenfeng Town, Jishui County, Jiangxi. Xie Jin has been brilliant since he was a child, and he has been well educated by his parents, and he is young and talented. When he was 5 years old, he was taught by his father, and he should be recited. At the age of 7, he was able to write poems and have old idioms; At the age of 10, he recites thousands of words a day; At the age of 13, he was able to read four books and five classics, running through his righteousness, and was called a "prodigy".

In the twentieth year of Hongwu (1387), Xie Jin participated in the "Township Examination" in Jiangxi and achieved the best results, ranking first on the list. The following year, he went to Kyoto for the examination, and the article commented on the current political head, which won the praise of the chief examiner.

Xie Jin has the talent to govern the country and secure the country. When he first entered the office, he clearly expressed his political opinions, showing his righteousness and ability, and was very favored by Zhu Yuanzhang and often served him. Zhu Yuanzhang often praised Xie Jin for "having the talent to help the world through economics and the strategy of governing the country and leveling the world".

In the first year of Yongle (1403 AD), Zhu Di, the ancestor of Taizong, ascended the throne, promoted Xie Jin to "Hanlin Attendant", and Huang Huai, Yang Shiqi, Hu Guang, Jin Youzi, Yang Rong, Hu Yan, etc. entered the "Wenyuan Pavilion" to participate in the maintenance, and was ordered to president the "Taizu Record" and "The Biography of the Daughters".

At this time, "Ming Taizong" (Emperor Chengzu) trusted Xie Jin very much, and once said to the ministers: "The world cannot be without me for a day, and I cannot be less Xie Jin for a day." But the emperor's favor change does not understand the integrity of being upright and upholding justice, because he still has to oppose things that are not in accordance with etiquette.

Therefore, when Xie Jin was in the court, he judged the scholars with virtue, said good when it was good, said bad when it was bad, and did not hide his views. Xie Jin is not only knowledgeable and talented, but also upright, upright, and not afraid of the powerful. He repeatedly went up and down, cheated on the government, and impeached the traitorous villain, which led to his life's ups and downs, sometimes favored, sometimes out of favor, sometimes promoted, sometimes degraded, until he offended the king of Han because of Zhu Di's establishment of the crown prince, and was persecuted to death.

His family's property was confiscated, and his wife, children, and clan were exiled to Liaodong. Later, in the first year of Chenghua (1465), "Ming Xianzong" ("Emperor Chenghua") Zhu Jianshen rehabilitated Zhaoxue for Xie Jin, and restored his official position, and also posthumously presented the "court doctor" and gave him the nickname "Wenyi".

For hundreds of years, Xie Jin's "name Xuanhe" has moved the sea. Vulgar Confucian doctors, long words, and rumors, all excuse the bachelor". This is also the best way for people at that time to revere and cherish Xie Jin, because he was upright and upright, and dared to point out the pros and cons of the government in person and argue with reason.

"Emperor Hongxi" Zhu Gaochi is Zhu Di's eldest son, with a bloated body, a slight lame walk, and someone to support him when he walks, and his image is not good, so he is not treated by his father Zhu Di. Zhu Di always wanted to abolish the elder and establish the young, but because of Xie Jin's hard persuasion, he did not set up another prince. But this emperor is definitely a kind-hearted king.

During Zhu Di's reign, in order to consolidate the "Jingnan" regime, he killed countless people, brutally killed his nephew "Emperor Jianwen" and a group of former ministers, and some were even exterminated by the "Ten Clans" (Fang Xiaoru). After Zhu Gaochi succeeded to the throne, he changed his name to "Hongxi" for "Mingrenzong", and issued an order to put things in order, and all the ministers and family members who were punished and confiscated as slaves because of the "Jingjing martyrdom" in the "Jianwen Dynasty" were pardoned as ordinary people, and land was given to them to cultivate on their own, so that they could live and work in peace and contentment.

"Ming Renzong" Zhu Gaochi also asked these ministers if they have descendants, those who have official positions will be restored, and those who have no official positions will be given bereavement pensions! At the same time, Zhu Gaozhi sighed in front of the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty: "Many ministers during the establishment of Emperor Wen were killed, but people like Fang Xiaoru are also loyal ministers!" ”

Therefore, the term "loyal minister" should be used in a way that does not distinguish between monarchs and positive and negative directions. When Zhu Di was in power, those ministers who strictly implemented Zhu Di's policies, decrees, and were loyal were "loyal ministers" to Zhu Di.

In the same way, during the reign of "Emperor Ming Hui" Zhu Yunwen, those ministers who strictly implemented Zhu Yunwen's policies, decrees, and loyalty were also "loyal ministers" to Zhu Yunwen, but the monarchs they were loyal to were different, and the objects of the orders they carried out were different, and it didn't matter who was right or wrong!

"Mingrenzong" Zhu Gaochi responded to the words of ordinary people, "Good people don't live long." Due to physical problems, Zhu Gaochi only served as emperor for ten months, and died on May 29 in the first year of Hongxi (1425).

"Ming Xuanzong" Zhu Zhanji is the son of Zhu Gaochi, the year name "Xuande", and he is also a benevolent king, but his reign is too short, and he died of illness due to overwork at the age of 38, otherwise he may rewrite history. He rebelled against his uncle Zhu Gaoxu's usurpation of power, and tolerated him many times, but only imprisoned him in prison as a punishment.

As for the "King of Han" Zhu Gaoxu was killed in the end, it was because he died by himself, and he always wanted to learn from his son Zhu Di tried to usurp the throne, so he was imprisoned in prison for reflection, but when his nephew went to visit him, he took the opportunity to stumble and try to fall down his nephew. You must know that in the feudal dynasties of the past dynasties, the emperor will never tolerate anyone who dares to rebel, no matter who it is, even if it is the prince or the prince, and will kill without forgiveness! Therefore, Zhu Zhanji can really be regarded as a benevolent emperor.

Zheng He went to the West a total of seven times, the first five of which were achieved when Zhu Di was in power, but he only went to countries in Southeast Asia, which is enough feat. The last two were completed during Zhu Zhanji's reign, because these two trips to the West went further, not only to India, but also to the coastal countries of East Africa, and even to Mecca, the holy land of Islam. And Zheng He (Ma Sanbao), who is a "Muslim", also personally went to the "Heavenly Side" for pilgrimage!

At the beginning of Zhu Zhanji's rise to power, he often went to the people for private visits. Once, when he passed through the fields, he saw old peasants working in the fields, and he went to them and asked them why they were working so hard. The old farmer replied, "We sow seeds in the spring, plough in the summer, and harvest the rice in the autumn." If you are lazy at any time, you will not be able to settle down for the year, and you will not even be able to pay the rent. I have to support my wife and children, so I have to work non-stop every day."

Zhu Zhanji asked again: "Then you can rest in winter, right?" The old peasant replied, "In the winter, the government will send down the conscription, and we will have to build roads, bridges, and water conservancy......

After returning to the palace, he wrote an edict overnight, and described the above experience to the effect, and finally said to the ministers emotionally: "The people work so hard to make a living, and how can we not cherish the people's power?!" ”

Looking at the above emperors, although Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di killed too many people, they all wanted the Ming Dynasty to be passed on smoothly, and some extreme measures that had to be used seemed understandable. The latter emperors treated their ministers well, cared about the people's weal and woe, and made the state machinery operate normally, so that the national order tended to be stable, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. Therefore, the ancients said that "it is easy to fight the country, but it is difficult to defend the country", and its credit may be better than the former.

They are all worries about the Ming Dynasty's Guozuo and Sheji, which promoted the progress of the history of the Ming Dynasty, and for the Ming Dynasty, they are all positive energy and worthy of recognition.

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