Li Shimin: I'd rather kill a thousand by mistake than let go of one, ruthless! The Yongle Emperor is quite ruthless!

Zhu Yuanzhang: Fourth? If you don't find out what happened, you killed people, or for women, you killed thousands of people, you are really enough!

Kangxi: Zhu Yuanzhang, don't you think Zhu Di has completely inherited your decisiveness? Especially at the beginning of his ascension to the throne, in order to eradicate dissidents and strengthen the dictatorship of the imperial power, he was very ruthless, and he was very much like you.

Zhu Yuanzhang: ......

"What happened to Zhu Di? Two words "brutal", his brutality also happened in one thing. ”

"Zhu Di was both excited and frightened in the face of the results obtained after years of forbearance and bloody battles."

Even under the banner of "Qingjun's side", what he did was tantamount to rebellion, not only violating the system of his ancestors, but also being poked in the backbone by the world. ”

"In order to consolidate his rule and block the mouths of Youyou, he lied that he was the son-in-law born to Empress Ma, and in addition, he also killed the ministers left over from the previous dynasty, and the core figures of the Jianwen Emperor's ruling group headed by Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng were all murdered."

"Zhu Di didn't even let go of their family, and Fang Xiaoru, who swore to follow Zhu Yunwen to the death, was put in prison and sentenced to capital punishment and killed ten clans."

"Although it is very common for the new emperor to take the throne and start to solve ministers who are not loyal to him, there are still a few who are as cruel as Zhu Di."

"More than 800 people were killed because of Fang Xiaoru's affairs alone, and some of the others who were exiled and killed on the border are even more innumerable."

"Zhu Di seems to hate Zhu Yunwen so much, he would rather kill 3,000 by mistake than let go of one, as long as the person who is involved with him will end up miserable."

"At the same time, Zhu Di also abolished all the reform policies of Emperor Jianwen and restored the strict rules and regulations and laws and regulations of the Ming Taizu period."

"From an outsider's point of view, this series of suffocating operations makes Ming Chengzu Zhu Di look like a tyrant."

Qin Shi Huang: No one is perfect, who can be without fault?

Wu Zetian: Who can be inseparable? What is Mingjun? What is a tyrant? Diligent government and love the people, hard work, selection of talents can open up the way of speech, it is for the Ming monarch, the common people, torture to govern the country, credulous slander and appoint villains, it is for tyrants, and Zhu Di's mistakes are just brutal!

Zhu Di: Tyrant? Will I care? In terms of life, I myself admit that I can't be regarded as a good person, but from the perspective of the Son of Heaven as the king of a country, am I not a good emperor worthy of the name?

Fan Zhongyan: It is difficult to be a pure good person, and it is even more difficult to be a good emperor admired by all the people, but no matter what, the Yongle Emperor is still an emperor with courage and achievements.

"The taxes are too high, the people are wasted, isn't it caused by the Emperor Yongle?"

Zhu Di: Alas! You know us, you should understand, I have also reformed agriculture, why am I called "the emperor on horseback", I just want to repel Mongolia, the war has no support, causing the pain of the last people, I really don't know if the five expeditions to Mongolia are right!

"Alas! I don't understand you either, because you have suffered the people for the sake of fighting, and if you don't fight, the people will be stable, and the consequences may cause the destruction of the country, and I can't see this clearly. ”

"No matter how you look at it, this agriculture is something that all dynasties want to develop."

"In ancient times, the economy of small, subsistence farmers was very fragile, and if a natural disaster occurred, farmers could be on the verge of bankruptcy."

"But in ancient times, agriculture was the basic premise of social development, and ensuring agricultural production was a subject that every emperor needed to face.

"Zhu Di grew up in the military camp since he was a child, and learned to lead soldiers to fight with many famous generals, who is brave and strategic, and is a rare military genius."

"In the four years after the Jingyan Battle was launched, he personally led his troops and fought to the death against the hundreds of thousands of troops of Emperor Jianwen."

"Years of combat experience have taught him that the army's food and grass supply is very important."

"Whether it is for the sake of the people's peace and contentment or the strengthening of national defense capabilities, we should vigorously support the development of agriculture."

So he encouraged the peasants to reclaim wasteland, supervise production, and in order to prevent the peasants from going bankrupt, he also gave some subsidies from time to time, and also sent people to deal with floods.

"This series of measures greatly promoted agricultural production, and the grain tax levied by the state also filled the treasury, and the tax payment of farmers reached the peak of the Ming Dynasty at that time."

"On the premise of improving the tuntian system and attracting merchants to provide grain at the same time, sufficient food and wages were prepared for the troops on the border."

"It's good to have a stable and sufficient source of food, but it's a waste of work if you can't transport it, so he began to build canals and dredge waterways to ensure convenient transportation."

"Although his original intention was to ensure the supply of food and military supplies in the capital of the Ming Dynasty, it also invisibly promoted economic exchanges between the north and the south."

"You see that even in the modern era of advanced science and technology, the importance of agriculture has only increased, and from this point of view, Zhu Di is still very far-sighted."

"His support for agriculture is even more than that of Zhu Yuanzhang, who was born as a farmer."

"Confucianism has been revered since the Han Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty was no exception."

"Through the selection of talents through the imperial examination system, a certain degree of fairness has been achieved, and it has played a positive role in the construction of the Ming Dynasty in all aspects."

"This is beneficial to the people, but unfortunately because of the war, they began to work hard and lose money, and increased taxes."

Zhu Di: The Yuan Dynasty is a pimple in my heart, I can't let go of some residual momentum and let them grow, isn't the Great Song Dynasty a lesson from the past?

Liu Che: If it were me, I would have been fighting, the previous words are right, Zhu Di is not a good person, but he is a good emperor.

Meng Yi: If you can't look at the immediate interests, the emperor should have a deeper thought, and the farther you go, the better.

"The Yongle Emperor's mistakes are basically all about it, it's just that the upper position is not right and brutal, but he is a good emperor."

"Finally, let's talk about Zhu Di's management of religion."

"At the beginning of the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Buddhism was prevalent, and excessive propaganda of Buddhist ideas was very detrimental to social stability and could not stimulate people's enterprising spirit."

In order to change this state, Zhu Di began to rectify Buddhism, but did not adopt a "one-size-fits-all" policy, and in the process of restricting its development, he was relaxed and relaxed. ”

"In this way, religion can not only be used by him, but also become an important tool for maintaining his rule, killing two birds with one stone."

"The religious policies he adopted were well recognized and emulated by successive rulers."

During the Ming Dynasty, politics, economy, and culture reached its peak, and for a time, "Weide was revered, and the Quartet was served", which attracted many overseas countries to come to worship, hoping to establish friendly relations with the Ming Dynasty. ”