Last time, I talked about the three years since Emperor Chongzhen was in power, and he improved people's livelihood according to the original proposal, which not only solved internal and external troubles, but also ushered in the prosperous era of the Ming Dynasty.

Due to the policy of the Ming Dynasty after the establishment of the country and the Yuan Dynasty to the left, with the passage of time, coupled with the "Tumubao Change", the Ming Dynasty's national strength decreased sharply and the national situation declined. According to later statistics, the territory of the Ming Dynasty shrank rapidly from the initial 9.97 million square kilometers to 3.5 million square kilometers, which can be called a cliff collapse.

However, at this time, the ruling class of the Ming Dynasty did not think about how to develop the people's livelihood and restore foreign trade, but instead adopted the policy of "closing the country to the outside" and "emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce", and the Ming Dynasty society, which had widely appeared "capitalist sprouts" and was about to embark on the development path of "commercial capitalism", was returned to an "agricultural society".

However, even so, the agricultural policies of the Ming Dynasty during this period were not necessarily much better. Due to the increasingly serious land annexation, the "reserved land" of the "military households" was also annexed by the officers by various means, and finally under the oppression of harsh taxes and heavy labor, the situation of countless "yeoman farmers" became more and more difficult. In addition, Zhang Juzheng, the prime minister of the emperor, came up with a "whip method", which caused "grain cheapness and injury to peasants", causing a large number of farmers to go bankrupt and be forced to become "hooligans".

In the Ming Dynasty, the degree of expropriation and extortion of peasants in various periods even far exceeded that of the "Mengyuan Imperial Court", and even in the relatively enlightened "Longqing Period", the government also used "top fines" to deal with civil offenders, and even punished the "criminals" until their families were ruined! Therefore, the embarrassing thing is that after the establishment of the Han Dynasty (Ming Dynasty), among the people in the south of the Yangtze River, some of the state capitals were focused on and missed the Yuan Dynasty after the retaliatory tax hike because they did not wait to see Zhu Yuanzhang who begged for food and transited.

Many scholars even sighed that they felt that they were in the south of the Yangtze River and cared about Mobei, and even hoped that the Mongol cavalry could go south again to defeat the Ming army, and it was best to overthrow the rule of the Ming Dynasty and abolish a series of harsh taxes imposed by Zhu Yuanzhang on it. Especially in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the exploitation and oppression of the people at the bottom of the society by the Ming Dynasty government reached the point of no return, not only the notorious "three rings", but also an additional tax of 9 percent per mu.

On the eve of the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the government's tax on the people at the bottom was 9 cents per mu plus 2 cents and a half cents to deal with the financial crisis of the imperial court. As a result, the Ming Dynasty was able to collect more than 6 million taels of silver from the Jiangnan region every year, accounting for almost thirty percent of the Ming Dynasty's finances!

But as a result, the imperial court neither trained the soldiers well, nor solved the Liaodong problem, but the peasant rebel army fought more and more. At the same time, the "Manchu cavalry" outside the pass also repeatedly entered the pass and plundered. This makes the people of the world wonder, so many "three rings" are levied, but where is the money spent?

Not only were the peasants in the Central Plains and Jiangnan dissatisfied, but even the people in the coastal areas were also unhappy, because Zhu Yuanzhang once ordered that "no sails should go to the sea" or "no boards should go to the sea"! Whether it is the main offender or the accomplice, after being caught, they will all be executed, and even the nine clans will be exterminated before stopping!

Of course, there are always some people who want money and don't want their lives, and even dare to go against the imperial court, not only blatantly going to the sea to fish and do business, but also colluding with the Jianghu sects, reckless heroes, etc., as a result, they were sent by the imperial court to increase the pressure, and after being caught, they were all executed by Ling Chi, and the nine clans were exterminated! In other words, Zhu Yuanzhang used bloody and violent means to force the common people who had been fishing for generations in the Yuan Dynasty to desperation, and finally all became "pirates"!

As for later, who were the famous and surnamed "widows" who were killed by Qi Jiguang's "Qi Family Army"? In fact, the big leaders Wang Zhi and Xu Hai knew that they were Chinese as soon as they heard their names, and hired a group of Japanese ronin and samurai to fight against the officials and troops of the Ming Dynasty, and they also fought under the city of Nanjing. Dozens of Japanese ronins chased thousands of Ming Dynasty officials and soldiers all over the streets, which was simply embarrassing, which was completely comparable to the Kuomintang army in later generations!

So, why did the "Qi Family Army" swing the "Mandarin Duck Formation" during the battle? It's not because you can't beat the Japanese ronin when you go head-to-head, so you can only beat the group and kick it. However, in the years when the "Longqing switch" was opened, the so-called "Japanese robbers" who were originally a disaster along the coast miraculously disappeared. What's going on here?

It turned out that a large part of the so-called "Japanese robbers" were "foreign merchants" among the coastal people. And the imperial court's "closing the country" and not allowing people to do business is cutting off other people's financial routes, which is equivalent to killing their parents, can they not rebel? Now that the coastal people have a way to live, who is going to rebel?

In the same way, after the Qing Dynasty unified the world in later generations, the reason why it was able to sit firmly in the country quickly was to learn the lesson of the fall of the Ming Dynasty and try to give the people a way to live. For example, in the fifty-first year of Kangxi, Emperor Xuanye of Kangxi, the "Holy Ancestor of the Qing Dynasty", once issued an edict, saying: "Whoever breeds people will never be endowed." ”

In the "Yongzheng period" of the Qing Dynasty, the policy of "spreading the land into the mu" was implemented. Later, in the "Qianlong period", Emperor Qianlong of the "Qing Gaozong" reigned for 60 years, fighting wars everywhere, repairing gardens, and going down to the south of the Yangtze River. He spends money so lavishly, but he is still reducing or exempting peasants' taxes. A total of more than 120 million taels of silver!

Although the Qing Dynasty is not good, and the Ming Dynasty is not good, but the feudal dynasty is that virtue, but if you have to choose from the "rotten pile", the Qing Dynasty is much stronger than the Ming Dynasty in many aspects. Otherwise, how could the "Manchu Qing Dynasty", with only one minority with a population of only a few hundred thousand, rise up and replace the Ming Dynasty with a population of more than 100 million to unify the world? If the Qing Dynasty is really worthless as later generations evaluated, it will definitely not be able to sit on the country for 268 years, only 8 years less than the Ming Dynasty!

Therefore, under the totalitarian rule of the Ming Dynasty, even if there were no coastal fishermen and fornicating with Japanese criminals at sea, there would have been peasant uprisings such as Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong. This is all destined to be this fate since the "Ming Taizu" Zhu Chongba, even if the Qin Emperor Han Wu, Tang Sect and Song Ancestor are invited, it will not help!

In a different time and space, Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen can be regarded as carrying the "black cauldron" to the ancestors and ancestors of their old Zhu family, and after Li Zicheng's peasant rebel army broke through Beijing City, he automatically chose to hang himself under the crooked neck tree on the coal mountain, which can be regarded as saving a little pitiful face for the "Ming Dynasty" whose faith collapsed.

But in this time and space, because Zhu Youzhen stepped into the "immortal path" by chance, and worshiped under a "fairy" who is unfathomable, not only learned a variety of "cultivation methods", but also his own concubines also achieved the "Jindan Zhenren" with himself, and had the legendary thousand-year-old life!

Therefore, when the news of the "emperor's wedding" spread, all those who had heard of the "Ming Dynasty", "Ming Dynasty", "Ming Empire", and "Ming Empire" were all shocked, and no matter whether the matter was true or not, they all responded, especially the heads of the tribes in the territory of the Ming Dynasty and the monarchs of the surrounding vassal states.

At the beginning, after Zhu Yuanzhang, the "Taizu of the Ming Dynasty", established the Ming Dynasty in Nanjing, Jiangsu, he immediately sent troops to the Northern Expedition to the "Mengyuan Court", which not only drove the invincible Mongols out of the Central Plains, but also sent troops to chase the Mongolian tribes in the desert steppe many times, and put the "Northern Yuan Court" in one pot, almost completely destroying the "Golden Family". Because in the early Ming Dynasty, not only did the Mongol tribes such as Tatar and Warat force be forced to pay tribute, but also contributed to the seven times "Zheng He's voyage to the West".

Therefore, all the various forces that are concerned about "international affairs" are dumbfounded by this, and almost all of them yearn for the powerful and rich "big country in the East" - the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, in this historical period, the number of vassal states that took the initiative to be subordinate to China was the most, and if you count the overseas trade tributary states, the number has already exceeded 100!

At that time, the "vassal states" of the Ming Dynasty in East Asia included Korea, Wa (Japan), Annam (northern Vietnam), Champa (southern Vietnam), Mandelek (Burma), Ryukyu (Okinawa Prefecture), and Chenla (Cambodia), and in Central Asia, there were Timurid Khanate, Yarkand, Kacheng, Hari, and Yesemihei.

By the time of Zhu Di, the "vassal states" of China included Korea, Japan, Transluzon (the Luzon Peninsula north of the Philippines), Sulu (the Philippines), Siam (Thailand), Manchurian (southwestern part of the Malay Peninsula), Champee (now the east coast of Sumatra, Indonesia), the Malacca Dynasty, the Lion State of Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Humata (southern India), Guri (Kozhikode, South India), Mugudushu (Mogadishu, Somalia), Central Yemen,

Sariputta (in present-day Red Sea), Yangbo (East Africa), Suma (Somalia), Maxima (Tanzania), Sangyel (Zanzibar), and Western Flower Cooking Country. Of course, you can also understand the vassal states of the Ming Dynasty according to the "Wanli Ming Huidian" in the late Ming Dynasty. The Wanli Ming Huidian stipulates that tributary states are classified as follows:

"Southeast Yi" (above) includes 18 countries including Korea, Japan, Ryukyu, Annam, Chenla, Siam, Champong, and Java; "Southeast Yi" (below) includes 44 countries including Sulu, Manraka, and Ceylon; "Beidi" includes 8 parts of the Mongol-Tatar tribe (at this time, the Mongol Warat tribe had been divided or even nearly declined);

"Northeast Yi" includes 2 parts of the Jurchen Division; "Xirong" (above) includes 58 countries including the Western Regions states in the Han and Tang dynasties; Xirong (below) includes 14 countries of Tibet. These "vassal states", including the "tributary states", sent their respective missions to congratulate the Ming emperor after learning the news of the imminent wedding of the Ming emperor.

The envoys of various countries either took boats, or rode horses, camels, elephants, etc., but fortunately, they hurried and hurried, and finally arrived in Beijing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, before the ninth day of September in the fourth year of Chongzhen. However, after entering the territory of the Ming Dynasty, I found that the Ming Dynasty had changed a lot, and it seemed to be more lively than when I came to pay tribute.

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