allonlinenovel Chapter 218 Is it really to win people’s hearts?
Chapter 218 Is it really to win people’s hearts?
[If you have watched the previous video, you may still have an impression of Lao Zhu’s cruelty.
Now what we want to talk about is what Lao Zhu thinks?
No matter how many conspiracy theories there are about the “North-South List” case, none of them can compare to Zhu's idea.
Immersive experience as Zhu Baba.
The "North-South List" case occurred in the 30th year of Hongwu. At that time, Zhu Baba was 69 years old and in the twilight of his life. The next year, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Hongwu Emperor, would pass away.
It had been five years since the death of his high-ranking crown prince Zhu Biao. The grandson Zhu Yunwen, whom he had cultivated with all his heart, was only 20 years old. He did not know whether his good grandson Zhu Yunwen could take on the responsibility of the Ming Dynasty. After Zhu Yunwen was appointed as the grandson, Zhu Baba began to pave the way for his good grandson so that the Ming Dynasty could be handed over to him more safely.
There are founding heroes in the court, generals who hold military power, and ambitious vassal kings outside.
So there was the last of the four major cases in the early Ming Dynasty, the Lan Yu case, which implicated tens of thousands of people. It can be said that by the 30th year of Hongwu, almost all the heroes who had followed Ba Ba to conquer the world had been killed.
Therefore, he seemed to have become more merciful after the Lan Yu case. He also repeatedly said to the Crown Prince Zhu Yunwen: "I govern in a chaotic era, so the punishment must be severe. You govern in a peaceful era, so the punishment should be light. This is what is meant by light punishment in some times and heavy punishment in others."
＜69-year-old Zhu has too many things to worry about＞
＜upAren’t you a Ming fan? Why are you using Lao Zhu’s negative pictures? This mango has a long face. Be careful that Lao Zhu will kill all your clans!＞
＜Humph, what if you kill all ten of my clans? ［dog head］＞
＜My youth is back. Who still remembers that Yu Yu hasn’t been called Hongwu Emperor for a long time. He has been calling Lao Zhu or Baba all the time. Hahaha＞
＜Calling him Lao Zhu is not enough, he started calling him Zhu Baba!!!＞
[Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang: I have really changed. I have killed all those who used to act arrogantly in front of me. This time I only dealt with a few individuals.]
[Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang: Ah, no, my portrait has not been passed down?!]
[Ming Hongwu 29th year Zhu Gang: What kind of ugly pictures are these! My father is a man of great dignity, and he has the aura of an emperor]
[Ming Hongwu 29th year Zhu Su: It’s only Hongwu 31st year, father!!! ~]
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Ming Dynasty Hongwu 29th year
Everyone in the palace had different thoughts, some worried about their own fate, some worried about their future, and some truly felt sad for the emperor...
The princes who are interested in winning the throne have become more active in their thinking. I think our father should appoint a crown prince now.
Zhu Yuanzhang was quite open-minded and calm about the fact that he only had two years left to live.
In the past few years, thanks to Guangmu, he has done a lot of practical things, and once he was busy, the blow of the prince's death was much smaller.
"Father, Guangmu is really bullying, nonsense..." Jin Wang Zhu Gang still stood on the side of his father. He did whatever his father asked him to do. He was happy to do any dirty and tiring work.
"Huh? What nonsense are you talking about? Wasn't your father's name Chongba before?" Zhu Yuanzhang pretended to be angry and no one dared to answer.
"When the world is at peace, punishments should not be too severe. You should keep this in mind. The princes who break the law are guilty of the same crime as common people. From now on, you should be careful with your words and actions and act accordingly. If you bully men and women again, you will be imprisoned and your fiefdom will be revoked!"
After saying this, he focused on a few evil princes who committed crimes.
The evil prince: Trembling, I dare not, I dare not, except for my own father, who will care about their life or death? The meaning of directly removing the fiefdom is just to find a good excuse to reduce the power of the feudal lords!
Zhu Su observed his father's health with his current half-baked medical skills. Well... he was quite energetic. This... didn't look like a sign of illness.
Zhu Di was confident again. His father really loved him. He raised a triumphant smile and thought, who else could be the crown prince?
Zhu Chong thought silently, according to history, he should have died last year... now he has survived the death knell?
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[From the uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty to the unification of the world, the country was stable and he was getting older. Zhu Baba was always worried about whether his descendants could sit firmly on the throne and become emperors.
Therefore, in order to stabilize the country, he took a series of measures to greatly strengthen the emperor's power.
In the 9th year of Hongwu, there was the "Empty Seal Case", in the 13th year of Hongwu, there was the "Hu Huaiyong Case", in the 18th year of Hongwu, there was the "Guo Huan Case", and in the 26th year of Hongwu, there was the "Lan Yu Case". The government was cleaned up, more than 70,000 to 80,000 people were arrested and executed, the prime minister was dismissed, the Secretariat was abolished, and the power of the Huaixi Group was severely destroyed. In the "South and North List Case" in the 30th year of Hongwu, only Bai Xindao, Zhang Xin, and Chen? were executed, and Liu Sanwu and Song Cong were sent to guard the border.
It is obvious that the purpose of this case is not to attack the meritorious officials who founded the country. The dissatisfaction of the northern scholars this time made Zhu realize a problem, the people's hearts.
After the Tang Dynasty, the northern Yanyun area was ruled by foreigners for hundreds of years, and after the Southern Song Dynasty, the land of China was ruled by the Yuan Dynasty for nearly a hundred years. The Mongols were close to the landlord class, so the interests of the landlord class and the nobles were consistent, and they vigorously oppressed the vast majority of the lower-class people.
Kublai Khan praised the teachings of Confucius and Mencius and promoted Neo-Confucianism. He granted privileges to Confucian households and established Confucian schools in various places. "The teachings of Confucius will be passed down through the ages and should be respected by those who have a country."
In the early Ming Dynasty, after the restoration of the imperial examination system, southerners almost monopolized the examination. Relatively speaking, the opportunities for northern Han people to enter officialdom were not as great as during the Yuan Dynasty. This inevitably caused northern scholars to miss the Yuan Dynasty.
You must know that after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there were still many literati from the landlord class in the country who were loyal to the Yuan Dynasty and regarded themselves as the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty.
"I am in the south of the Yangtze River, but my mind is in the north", "I faked my death and pretended to be mad in order to be relieved of my post", "I was determined not to serve the new dynasty so as not to forget my homeland".
Perhaps Zhu Yuanzhang thought that "people in the north have been subject to the Yuan Dynasty for a long time, and worried that the remnants still have thoughts about the old Yuan Dynasty, he wanted to use the fake name of the imperial examination to win them over."
This case was an opportunity.
But, did the Yuan Dynasty’s forces really scare Zhu Yuanzhang?
Is this really the way Zhu Yuanzhang wins over the northern scholars? 】
＜The greatest achievement of Zhu Yuanzhang was the unification of the north and south and the reconstruction of Chinese culture＞
＜I understand. The literati have started to band together again. The North-South List case was caused by these literati banding together, so their deaths were not unjust. This operation has never stopped from the Eastern Jin Dynasty to the Southern Ming Dynasty.＞
＜The Yuan Dynasty ruled for nearly a hundred years, and northerners have long been brainwashed. Places like the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun are the ones that miss the Yuan Dynasty the most＞
＜Hehe, they just felt that the Ming Dynasty gave too few benefits, and the entire Yuan Dynasty had always indulged the landlords and nobles [eating melon]＞
＜Alas, the struggle between the north and the south in the Ming Dynasty was fierce, with disputes in all aspects of politics and economy＞
[Kublai Khan: I have nurtured scholars for so long in the Yuan Dynasty, and at the end of the day, I still have so many loyal ministers [eating melon]]
[Tang Taizong Li Shimin: I understand Guangmu's words. You Mongols don't care about the lives of the common people at all.]
[Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of Han: Once again mentioned the landlord class, which is similar to the powerful]
[Emperor Wu of Han Liu Che: This vast land was enslaved by foreign barbarians, but no one resisted, and they were content to accept their rule and remain chaste for them. This is truly a shame!!!]
[Song Shenzong Zhao Xu: Alas, factional strife is a sign of the country's demise. It was like this in the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty.]
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Liu Che expressed his support and understanding for the various methods used by Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty! If he were in that situation, he would also kill, kill, kill, kill them all!
Haha, those old ministers and old men are not afraid of being criticized by their ancestors!
It's disgusting that we are Han Chinese but we are servile to the barbarians.
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"It seems that advocating Confucius and Mencius is right, and it is beneficial to governance!"
Kublai Khan didn't care at all about people other than landlords and nobles. To the Mongols, they were just slaves who could be killed or beaten at will, just like livestock.
Hongwu Dynasty
Marquis of Wuding Guo Ying and Marquis of Changxing Geng Bingwen looked at each other. They were among the ones who survived, right?
Yingguogong Fu Youde sighed inwardly, it's over!!! He must be one of the obstacles that His Majesty cleared for his grandson!!!
Duke Cao Li Jinglong consciously stood on the same side as Duke Wei Xu Huizu. He was confident that Duke Wei must be a member of the Prince of Yan's party, and he must unwaveringly support His Royal Highness the Prince of Yan this time!
Duke of Liang Lan Yu: You’re going to die anyway, right?