I watched Er Chuang’s short video, and everything went numb!

[Korean countries have made a lot of movies to reflect social and political issues. ]

[There are many movies about fighting against Japan and the Eastern powers, but they dare not film about the US troops stationed in South Korea. ]

[This is the very strange reality of Korean countries. ]

The barrage flew out:

"Korean countries' pitiful self-confidence can only be used to make movies."

"They hit hard in the movies, but they are dogs in reality."

"They dare not provoke the US troops stationed in South Korea when making movies. They have been slaves for too long and can't stand up anymore."

"..."

The plane of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Shimin remembered the Korean movie about the Tang Dynasty that he had watched before.

In the movie, Korean countries slandered him in various ways.

At that time, he was very angry, but now he thought it was ridiculous.

……

[Rather than saying that the Korean country is an independent sovereign state, it is better to say that it is a large concession invented by the Eagle Sauce Country. ]

[The attitude of the Koreans towards the Eagle Sauce Country is both weird and disgusting, both hateful and envious. ]

[They generally believe that the Eagle Sauce Country is the watchdog they found, which seems illogical. ]

[But if you add the strange self-esteem and vanity of the Koreans, everything seems to become reasonable. ]

……

After the last paragraph.

The video on the giant screen is finished.

Watch the whole video.

Many ancient people in the past dynasties had a very bad impression of the Korean country.

They think that this is a spineless, despicable and shameless stealing country.

……

On the giant screen in the sky.

Video refreshed.

A new video appeared.

[In-depth analysis: Where did the great Ming Dynasty fall? ]

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The Hongwu plane of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao looked at the short line of characters on the giant screen in the sky, and their hearts were shocked at the same time.

Then.

The two of them focused their attention at the same time, staring at the giant screen in the sky.

As for the reasons for the fall of the Ming Dynasty, some of them were mentioned in the previous video.

But those information were fragmented and unsystematic, and there was no way for Zhu Yuanzhang and others to have a comprehensive understanding of the reasons for the fall of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore.

Zhu Yuanzhang and others were very interested in this "in-depth analysis" video in front of them.

As for the ancients in other non-Ming planes.

At this time, many people also became interested in this new video.

Of course.

Their mentality was much more relaxed than Zhu Yuanzhang and others, they were just curious.

……

[Copper and silver gradually became the common currency of ancient human society due to their own scarcity. ]

[But for some silver-poor countries such as China, this will inevitably arouse the desire of domestic merchants and adventurers for silver. ]

[In 1567, forcedDue to the frequent attacks of Japanese pirates and smugglers along the coast, the Ming court realized that the demand for smuggling could not be banned, so it was better to relax the tax collection. 】

[So, the Ming court lifted the maritime ban, which was the Longqing opening in 1567. 】

……

"The emperors of later generations lifted the maritime ban?"

In the Hongwu plane of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned for a moment.

Then he thought about it for a while and felt that this was a good thing.

After accepting the baptism of many knowledge from high-altitude giant screen videos, many of Zhu Yuanzhang's concepts were slowly changing.

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[The legalization of trade quickly attracted European colonists, mainly from the Banya Kingdom. 】

[The huge amount of silver from South America gradually became the main currency for private transactions. 】

【In 1583, as silver was widely circulated in the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Juzheng implemented the "One Whip Law" throughout the country, requiring taxes to be converted into silver and handed over, which in disguise recognized the official currency status of silver. 】

【At that time, the southeast coast relied on developed handicrafts to make porcelain and silk to exchange for foreign silver, which enabled the gentry in the southeast coast to control a large amount of currency. 】

【If you have money, you want power. The literati in Jiangnan gradually formed a group called the Donglin Party, and then there was the "Fushe" called the Little Donglin. 】

【This is a political group called the Imperial Examination Cram School, but in fact it is the mouthpiece of the Jiangnan landlords. 】

【They attempted to control the selection results of the imperial examinations by shaping social high reputation and other means, so that more literati in Jiangnan could enter the court. 】

……

The plane of Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Di's face darkened slightly, and he snorted coldly:

"Rebellious ministers, you don't know how to live or die!"

This Donglin Party actually wanted to interfere with the imperial examinations and control the results of the imperial examinations, which made Zhu Di very angry.

The imperial examinations were to select officials for the court, which was such an important matter. These people dared to interfere with the imperial examinations and attempted to form a clique in the court for personal gain.

In Zhu Di's eyes, this was a capital crime!

If they were under his command, these people would not be able to escape death just for this reason.

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[Here you may ask, isn't the imperial examination fair? ]

[First of all, the educational resources in the Jiangnan region are superior to those in other regions, and students in the Jiangnan region have an innate advantage in the imperial examinations. ]

[Secondly, cheating in the imperial examinations was not the first time in the Ming Dynasty. In the 30th year of Hongwu, when Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang was alive, the famous North and South List case occurred. 】

[If they dared to do this during the Taizu period, how much better can it be now? 】

[According to records, Fushe bribed examiners and manipulated the imperial examinations, and no less than 400 members passed the imperial examinations during the Chongzhen period, which led to differences in the composition of the court members. 】

[For example, during the Chongzhen period, bureaucrats from Nanzhili and Zhejiang accounted for one-third. If divided by the Yangtze River, 76% of the Shangshu came from the south. 】

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Da Ming Hongwu plane.

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned slightly.

There will definitely be problems if the ratio of officials from the north and south in the court is so disparate.

There are too many officials from the south. Once they form a group, they will easily suppress or even suppress officials from the north.

In this way, not only will the power in the court be unbalanced, which is not conducive to the emperor's control of the overall situation, but it will also trigger conflicts between the north and the south.

"Stupid"

Zhu Yuanzhang cursed the emperors of the Ming Dynasty in his heart.

Obviously, the emergence of this situation is inseparable from the incompetence of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty in later generations.

If it were a smarter emperor, he would never allow this to happen.

Just like the North-South List Case, it is important to crack down on cheating in the imperial examination, but in a sense, it is not that important.

Under the circumstances at the time, what was really important was that the northern students must not be left with nothing.

According to people in later generations, this is called a political stance issue.

This is more important than the truth.

……

[This situation of a large number of Jiangnan scholars serving as officials led to a polar reversal of taxation in the Ming Dynasty. ]

[After all, you can let me serve as an official, but you can't let me plunder my hometown as an official! ]

[In addition to politics, there is also military. ]

[After more than 200 years of land annexation, the military household system in the early Ming Dynasty existed in name only. ]

[Generals began to use their power to seize soldiers' fields or force soldiers to build their own private residences. ]

[Gradually, soldiers became generals' private soldiers. ]

[And the court tacitly approved the generals' behavior for the stability of the border, which gradually led to the warlordization of the border. ]

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The plane of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Shimin sighed in his heart.

Whether it was the Fubing system of the Tang Dynasty, the Fubing system of the Ming Dynasty, or the citizen militia system of ancient Rome and the fiefdom system of the Ottoman Empire.

This military system closely linked to land eventually collapsed due to land annexation.

But Li Shimin was not thinking about solving land annexation and maintaining the Fubing system for a long time.

But...

"Industrial Revolution, Conscription System..."

These words emerged in Li Shimin's mind.

According to his observation, almost all countries after the Industrial Revolution in later generations adopted the Conscription System.

So he felt that after the Tang Dynasty started the Industrial Revolution, the Fubing system should also turn to the Conscription System.

Although Li Longji's Conscription System in later generations failed, it was in the context of an agricultural society.

Thinking about it.

Li Shimin's thoughts gradually became clear.

...

[But. 】

【No matter how greedy the generals were, they could not support the same number of servants as the border troops. 】

【Therefore, after the land was annexed and they could no longer be self-sufficient, ordinary military households needed money from the court to make up for it. 】

【According to records, in 1500, when military households were still self-sufficient, the military expenditure on the border was 50,000 taels. In 1573, it soared to 2.8 million vehicles, and in 1586, it soared to 3.6 million vehicles. 】

【By 1619, an additional 5.2 million vehicles were dispatched on top of the existing military expenditure, which was only enough for the 180,000 troops and 90,000 war horses on the Liaodong side, and could not take care of the other eight of the nine sides. 】

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Looking at the military expenditure figures on the giant screen in the sky.

Many ancient people from all dynasties were stunned.

The military expenditure of the Ming Dynasty was expanding too fast.

And the amount was too huge. (To read the novel, go to Fulu Novel Network!)

No wonder many previous videos mentioned that the Ming Dynasty was poor.

How could it not be poor to bear such a huge military expenditure?

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【Obviously, the explosion of military expenditure and the trend of warlordization made the Ming army increasingly dependent on silver as its fighting will. 】

【To be specific, when there is no money, it is like shooting three arrows on the battlefield, and when there is money, the Ming army is invincible if it is less than 10,000, and more than 10,000. 】

……

Many famous generals in the past dynasties can understand this situation very well.

It is not only the army of the Ming Dynasty that will be like this.

This is true for most armies in the world.

Serving in the army and fighting in the war is to earn money by risking your life.

Who will risk their lives if they can't get money?

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【But between 1587 and 1604, a small country called the Sun Never Sets brought a group of pirate ships and defeated the powerful Ban Ya Kingdom's Invincible Fleet. 】

【This made South America, as a colony, start to use silver to fight against the Sun Never Sets in order to support its mother country. 】

【Then, in 1592, Toyotomi Hideyoshi led 14 little devils to land in Korea, and the Wanli Korean War broke out. 】

【These two wars caused a sudden decrease in the amount of silver flowing into the Ming Dynasty, which in turn led to a series of chain reactions. 】

【At that time, the central court formed a situation of two major groups, the Donglin Party and the Eunuch Party, fighting against each other. 】

Barrage flew out:

"Here it comes, the largest and most destructive party struggle in Chinese history!"

"The demise of the Ming Dynasty is definitely related to these two parties."[]

"Reply--So was it the Donglin Party or the Eunuch Party that destroyed it?"

"Reply--The Eunuch Party, isn't it said that the Eunuch Party is in chaos? At least the Donglin Party are gentlemen."

"Reply--Forget it, the Donglin Party is not a good thing. For the Ming Dynasty, the Donglin Party The harm is even worse than that of the eunuch party. ”

“Reply——Yes, those people of the Donglin Party did nothing but engage in party struggles and exclude dissidents, and their methods were also very despicable.”

“Reply——Both parties are bad birds, both are cancers of the Ming Dynasty, but relatively speaking, the eunuch party can at least make some money for the emperor.”

“Reply——Two equally rubbish things, don’t judge who is better, in the final analysis, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty at that time was too worthless.”

“…”

The Hongwu plane of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang’s face darkened slightly.

He agreed more with the words in the barrage that the people who should bear the greatest responsibility for the Ming Dynasty should be the people of the Ming Dynasty.The Ming emperor at that time.

Allowing these two extremely harmful parties to form in the court was the emperor's greatest incompetence.

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[This kind of party struggle that disregarded policies and only aimed at attacking opponents spread to the grassroots level across the country, resulting in frequent intervention in command and the disaster of changing orders every day. ]

[For example, in the Liaodong border defense, Sun Chengzong, the Minister of War, had been outside the Great Wall for four years, and once beat Nurhaci crazy and showed signs of self-destruction. ]

[But after the eunuch party took power, they immediately impeached Sun Chengzong because he looked down on the eunuch party and replaced him with an official named Gao Di. ]

[This Gao Di had never had experience in leading troops before, and after he arrived, he fully implemented the eunuch party's view that ".. the Ming army could not defend outside Shanhaiguan". ]

[Ignoring the safety of the people outside the Great Wall, all the Ming troops were withdrawn into Shanhaiguan, and the 200 miles of lost land recovered by Sun Chengzong were given to Nurhaci. 】

【This lovely act of aiding the enemy has only one purpose: to oppose political enemies. 】

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"Asshole!"

"You ruined my Ming Dynasty, you deserve to die!"

In the Ming Chengzu plane, Zhu Di was furious.

He now knew who this man named Nurhaci was. He was the one who unified the Jurchen tribes outside the Great Wall, and the ancestor of the Qing imperial family.

The predecessor of the Qing Dynasty, the Later Jin regime, was established by this man.

According to what was said on the giant screen at this time, the Ming Dynasty was about to completely wipe out this man, but it was destroyed by the eunuch party.

This naturally made Zhu Di extremely angry.

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【Similarly, the eunuch party headed by Wei Zhongxian frequently interfered with the command, and took bribes, and the main idea was "do not work hard in normal times, but win the battle and grab the heads." 】

【This atmosphere made the frontier soldiers begin to be disappointed with the Ming court, and then gradually evolved into anger against the Ming court in the years of unpaid wages and hard military life. 】

【Nurhaci's successor Huang Taiji keenly perceived the dissatisfaction of the Ming army with the Ming dignitaries. 】

【So, he changed Nurhaci's extreme nationalism and chose to rule the world with Han scholars and officials, and implemented measures such as "equality between Manchus and Han". 】

【These preferential policies changed the previous barbaric and brutal image of the Jurchens and gradually eroded the determination of Liaodong soldiers to resist the Jurchens. 】

The barrage flew out:

"Although I hate the Manchu Tartars, I still have to say that he is a smart man."

"Huang Taiji is still capable, but he is caught between Nurhaci, the founding emperor, and Dorgon, who brought the Manchus into the pass, and his presence is not strong."

"..."

Some ancient people in the past dynasties nodded slightly.

With such ability to judge the situation, this Manchu ruler named Huang Taiji is indeed capable.

……

[It was under such internal and external troubles that Emperor Chongzhen came to power. ]

[Chongzhen first killed the eunuch party, but this did not solve the corruption problem within the Ming Dynasty. ]

[On the contrary, because the eunuch party was defeated, the Donglin Party quickly revived and took controlHold the power. 】

[After all, politics is about balance. The power space given up by the eunuch party must be filled by someone. 】

[But after the Donglin Party came to power, politics was not clear. 】

The barrage flew out:

"A group of people who only know how to engage in party struggles and know nothing about governing the country, what achievements can they make?"

"Reply - What's more terrible is that the Donglin Party is very extreme in party struggles. They are strict with others and lenient with themselves. After completely pulling others down, they will beat the fallen dogs, which completely destroyed the balance of the political arena in the late Ming Dynasty."

"Reply - just oppose for the sake of opposition, and can't even do it without discarding words because of people, and still brag about being a clean stream."

"..."

Looking at the huge screen in the sky.

Many emperors in the past dynasties shook their heads.

Such a group of people can be said to be of no help to the country.

……

[On the contrary, because they were born in the imperial examination system, had never had any practical work experience, had been in the central government for a long time, and were detached from the grassroots, they had high aspirations but low skills. ]

[They idealized and moralized some issues, and then used laymen to command experts, and did not pay attention to the actual problems reflected by grassroots officials. ]

[For example, peace talks with the Later Jin. ]

[At that time, knowledgeable people in the military believed that the Ming army lacked the ability to fight the Eight Banners Army in the field, and it was meaningless to send the inland Ming army to Liaodong to die. ]

[Therefore, it was necessary to cease fire with the Later Jin and improve the Ming army's field combat capabilities, so that it would be possible to defeat the Eight Banners Army in future field battles. ]

[But this suggestion was immediately criticized by the Donglin Party with the moral model of Yue Fei's anti-Jin. ]

[In a word: whoever proposed peace was Qin Hui of the Ming Dynasty, and whoever proposed a ceasefire was a traitor. 】

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“A bunch of corrupt scholars!”

In the Hongwu dimension of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly.

He felt that as long as the Qing Dynasty could be defeated in the end, it was okay to negotiate peace temporarily.

Historically, the Tang Dynasty also signed the Treaty of Shanyuan with the Turks.

Did this affect the Tang Dynasty's later destruction of the Turks and the capture of the Turkic Khan and dancing in public? .