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17 years after Zhu Youxiao's death, the Ming Dynasty, which had been entrenched in the east of the world for 300 years, suddenly collapsed. Normally, the most directly responsible person and the biggest suspect should be Chongzhen, but Chongzhen's popularity is good, everyone doesn't want to talk about him, he was industrious and thrifty all his life, and everyone can't bear to say that he was martyred in the end, plus the Qing government intentionally or unintentionally guided everyone not to talk about him, and soon everyone's eyes were fixed on the previous legal person of the Ming Dynasty - Zhu Youxiao, suspecting that Zhu Youxiao gave Daming a chronic poison, and intentionally or unintentionally pushed the responsibility for Ming's death on Zhu Youxiao's head.

After analysis, historians believe that the Ming Dynasty has begun to go downhill from the Wanli period, entering a sub-healthy state, and the victory of the three major marches of Wanli is just fat, and the Ming Dynasty needs to replenish the qi and soothe the liver and stomach laxatives to detoxify and recuperate. And Zhu Youxiao continued the route of Wanli, tossing hard without knowing self-love, and intensified the overdraft, resulting in the hollowing out of Daming's body, and the deficiency turned into a real disease and finally turned into an incurable disease. This incurable disease broke out and deteriorated rapidly after Chongzhen came to power, even if Chongzhen underwent surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, interventional therapy, and targeted therapy for Daming, but Daming was at an advanced stage and could not be saved. Historians believe that Chongzhen is a backstabber and a victim, and the culprit of Ming and Ming is Zhu Youxiao, and Wanli is an accomplice.

The historical evaluation of Chongzhen is inaccurate, and it contains a large number of public opinion guiding factors of the Qing government, which will be discussed later, and only Zhu Youxiao is analyzed here. With such a big crime on his back, is Zhu Youxiao wronged? Somewhat, let him take full responsibility must be to bear the blame for others. The history books believe that Zhu Youxiao made three major mistakes: First, he messed with the relationship between men and women, and there was a problem with his style of life; third, he reused traitorous ministers and had problems in the management of cadres; and third, he had a problem with his work attitude by messing with his sideline business.

What the history books say makes sense but is not all right, so let's analyze them one by one.

1. Life style problems

Everyone knows that there is a problem with Zhu Youxiao's life style, but we should think about a question in advance: Does the emperor's life style have anything to do with whether he is a good emperor?

Whether the emperor is good or not, according to his work performance, can be divided into three levels: the highest level is the civil and martial arts, the country and the people, the rejuvenation of the nation, and the expansion of the territory; the comparative level is to keep the ancestral foundation, the rules and regulations are followed, the obscene development, no waves and no slow; the lowest level is tossed hard, the people are not able to make a living, the mountains and rivers are broken, and the country is ruined.

The Chinese like to associate merit and morality when grading emperors, which is habitual thinking, but it is also a common-sense logical error, because merit has little to do with morality. However, this kind of superiority and disadvantage meets the subconscious emotional needs of the Chinese people, and the root is the kind and simple good people complex of the Chinese people. For example, when an emperor's country is ruined, our first reaction is to associate his private virtues to see if he has a chaotic relationship with the opposite sex, whether he is drunk, whether he is extravagant and wasteful, whether he is cruel and murderous, etc.

According to this standard, people soon found that Zhu Youxiao met the first criterion, so they thought that they had found the key to the demise of the Ming Dynasty, and then began to crusade against Zhu Youxiao, criticizing him for losing the country for the sake of women, and Xia Wei who favored his sister Xiwei, Shang who favored Daji, Zhou Youwang who favored Zhou You, Tang Xuanzong who favored Yang Yuhuan, and Song Huizong who favored Li Shishi were listed as negative examples together.

Although the above examples are true, the conclusions drawn are not correct, just like the experiment of the crab's hearing on the legs, it is entirely possible to draw absurd conclusions with facts and reasoning, because there are also cases with facts and reasoning but opposite conclusions, and many successful emperors have the same chaotic private life: Qin Shi Huang destroyed the Six Kingdoms and married all the queens and concubines of the Six Kingdoms. The princess, feeling that the palace was too crowded, built a large number of buildings and built the Afang Palace; Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's cold palace was bigger than other emperors, he deceived Chen Ajiao with the golden house and then stuffed it into the cold palace, married Wei Zifu and then liked the new and hated the old and entered the cold palace, and then forced Wei Zifu to let the new concubine make room for the cold palace; Tang Taizong married 30 years older than him, Empress Xiao, who married six times, hugged a full ten gold bricks, and killed her brother to marry her sister-in-law; Tang Gaozong Li Zhi married his stepmother Wu Zetian, etc., these practices are more excessive and perverted than Zhu Youxiao, but they are all emperors through the ages and have created their own prosperous times. It can be seen that the emperor's life style and work performance really have nothing to do with it.

This incident also illustrates a truth: character is of course very important, but sometimes it is also a burden, so there is a "gentleman can be bullied". Benevolence is not a unified soldier, righteousness can not accumulate wealth, many times character is an obstacle to performance, so we look back on the past and find that my brother's mentality and appearance are no longer the brother of the year, but he is still the same poor, we can attribute it to "my brother's character is too good".

The second question is, is there a problem with Zhu Youxiao's cadre management?

Of course there is a problem, and a blind person can see that there is a problem. As an emperor, cadre management is the most important problem that Zhu Youxiao needs to solve, he doesn't need to roll up his sleeves and work hard, he can be full of food and idle all day long, he can be flat and rotten, he can not understand the profession, he does not understand management, he does not understand management, and he can even be politically retarded and mentally incompetent, military incompetent, and morally corrupt, but if he can do one thing well, he is a good emperor: recruit talents from all over the world, and hand over professional things to professional people to do. Obviously, Zhu Youxiao didn't have this ability, he looked away, and entrusted Mr. Wei with the management of this skilled talent, but released a group of real management talents, and let a group of champions, Bangyan, Tanhua, and Jinshi be led by a semi-illiterate. In terms of cadre management, Zhu Youxiao did too badly, which led to countless tragedies of family destruction and death, and he deserved to be scolded by the world.

The last point – and the one that people talk about the most – is the question of Zhu Youxiao's work style, and his greatest hobby is carpenter's work.

Every time this article is mentioned, the old and young relics of the Ming Dynasty grit their teeth, all of them are written and written, and they hate it deeply, and they put it side by side with Tang Zhaozong Li Ye's love to watch monkeys, and denounce it as a scandal, believing that this is the most important reason for the decline of the country. The former loves to be a carpenter, and the latter loves to watch the monkey Tang Dynasty finish, both of them are the second emperor, and they dug a big pit for the next one.

In fact, Zhu Youxiao and Li Ye are quite wronged, it is the ministers who see that they can't hold the fire, and they are people with intentions who forcibly buckle their hats. A pile of wood and a monkey, non-toxic, harmless and no side effects, how much can plants and animals do. The prosperity of the country needs a hundred flowers to bloom, a variety of skills and skills, a variety of art forms can coexist, carpenters, monkeys and the management of the country are just different in the social division of labor, there is no distinction between high and low. Carpenter is a craft that everyone can not live without, from the crib at birth to the urn when leaving, the carpenter has accompanied from the coming to the go, and how many years after death; Governing the country and leveling the world is placed at the same height, a grassroots folk artist has impressed the country's top leaders and all the high-level with his superb performance, which is a huge achievement in itself, and it is a very superb technique, I admit that I can't read, but are you sure that the monkey is better than me? If you are not convinced, you have to train a monkey to compare and compare, even the champion is not necessarily smoother than the monkey I trained.

There is another question here: Li Yu loves to write words, and Song Zhengzong loves to draw and write, both of whom are kings of the dead country, so why no one criticizes these two hobbies? This is the idea that "everything is inferior, only reading is high" is making a mistake. The old society did not respect skills and the working people engaged in skilled work, and the nature of the book was that the students used their right to speak to oppress hooligans in other industries, which was a typical industry discrimination and professional bullying. This kind of erroneous public opinion has always been dominant, not only the ordinary people can not stand it, even the emperor is also frightened, Li Ye loves the working people and supports the prosperity of culture and art, emancipates the mind and faces difficulties, opens up a green channel for the growth of skilled talents, and the enshrinement of monkeys will not harm anyone's interests. Similarly, in Zhu Youxiao's approaching the masses to be grounded, breaking the mindset, changing traditional bad habits, and engaging in carpentry to rejuvenate the country, there is nothing wrong with this. But the readers stopped doing it, they thought that liking monkeys and carpentry was more terrible than killing people, so they used the topic to play and used Zhu Youxiao and Li Ye as negative teaching materials for the destruction of the country and the loser, and they were tightly nailed to the pillar of shame in history and could not be pulled down. It can also be seen from here that being an emperor is sometimes more comfortable than being a village hooligan.

Does Zhu Youxiao have any other problems? Of course, his biggest problem is that he has no sense of responsibility and does not seek political power in his position. He has no job in his heart, only two people: the one who loves me, and the one who knows me. He lives in the small world of these two people, and the carpentry is the perfect world, and he makes up the wings of his dreams to fly freely in it. It is no problem to love eunuchs, love old women, love carpentry, true love is not guilty, worship is reasonable, his fault is not to love the post and work, to do some things that should not be done, not to do any serious things, with preferences will be the power in his hands and the blood and sweat of the people generously given to the old eunuchs and old women. Administrative inaction itself is dereliction of duty, and if you don't want to do it, let others do it, don't occupy the pit and don't take advantage of it. The higher the position, the greater the responsibility, Zhu Youxiao's inaction has made countless people endorse, enjoying the worship of the people of the whole country but bringing disaster to the country and the people, and the final result will inevitably be to shed dry tears and hurt his heart to the end.

Zhu Youxiao was wrong, so did the ministers do the right thing? Not to mention those courtiers who tended to be inflammatory, even those loyal ministers and courtiers were also wrong—they were wrong because their emotional intelligence was too low.

In the relationship between the monarch and the minister, the monarch is subordinate to the minister, the monarch is subordinate to the minister, the monarch can be willful, the minister must accept his fate, the monarch can choose the minister and the minister cannot choose the king. The courtiers cannot expect the emperor to be self-disciplined, and must fight and compromise within the scope of tolerance for the emperor, watch people cook, measure their clothes, and scientifically maintain the relationship between the two sides. If the ministers encounter an emperor who is as tenacious as a model worker, who pursues excellence and is willing to contribute, he does not need to use any brains to formulate a strategy and strictly implement the principles and policies of the court. The most enjoyable way is to work hard and speak up; when you meet an emperor who does nothing, the ministers are also at ease, you are a monk and a long life, you smoke and drink, play monkeys and leopards, and I govern the country to achieve national rejuvenation, and the two sides do not interfere with each other; if the ministers are unlucky enough to meet the emperor who is unconsciously poor and short-tempered and can't listen to people's words, they need to show some emotional intelligence, courage and wisdom, and coax them to come, through telling jokes, In short, in addition to encountering very few emperors who do not enter the oil and salt, the ministers can always find a suitable way to get along with the emperor, or with a white face and a black face, and those who can do things are good ministers.

It is obvious that the carpenter emperor is the kind of person who has poor consciousness and tricks to die, and subconsciously turns on the fork in the road, and needs the courtiers to take the direction of the overall situation and pull the right path. If you want Zhu Youxiao to take the right path, the best way is to push the boat down the river, do what he likes, affirm Zhu Youxiao's hobby, and award him "China Good Craftsman" Certificate, and take advantage of the situation, the carpenter spirit will be popularized to all craftsmen such as blacksmiths, masons, shavers, etc., sublimated to the spirit of craftsmen, set off a national entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship project to learn to catch up with the super upsurge, to build a platform for the development of the majority of craftsmen to provide a stage, and finally realize from skills to technology, from technology to management, from natural science to social science, so as to drive a new round of development of the country, pay off the debts owed by the Wanli Emperor, and then save some belongings for future generations.

What is sad is that Zhu Youxiao ran into a group of courtiers with too low emotional intelligence. They don't know how to seek truth from facts, they don't know how to be flexible, they don't understand the sophistication of human feelings, they don't understand the curve to save the country, they can't suppress the fire when they see Zhu Youxiao, and they reprimand Zhu Youxiao with a heavy face at every turn. These behaviors are ostensibly to share the emperor's worries, but in fact, they are misplaced and offside, which is what the courtiers should do to the monarch.

The emperor is also a human being, and he is still a child, he needs to be understood and recognized, and he needs to be praised and respected, so even if Zhu Youxiao knows that Wei Zhong is a sycophant who is full of lies, he is willing to reuse it. He is a little stupid, a little stupid, but not exactly a bad person, he knows in his heart that these courtiers are good people and say good things, but he really can't accept these bastards emotionally, he has a headache when he sees these ministers, he is sick to his stomach when he sees them want to pour chicken soup, and he quickly detours when he sees these people from a distance.

It is the nature of young people to play, and it is against the sky not to let young people play. The more he can't get it, the more eager he becomes, the more he oppresses and resists, and the stricter the teacher's demands, the more Zhu Youxiao longs for freedom, and he would rather die if he is not free! Zhu Youxiao is getting more and more tired of studying, and his rebellious mentality is serious, and he gradually becomes a troubled teenager, breaking the jar and breaking down, from desertion to absenteeism to long-term absenteeism to finally dropping out of school, and his relationship with the teachers is completely broken, and he eats, drinks, and has fun with all his heart.

In this way, a group of important ministers of the court known as the elite of the empire, a group of righteous gentlemen who have read sages all their lives, a group of smart people who have defeated countless opponents, with ideals in their chests and righteousness in their hands, but they lost to a eunuch and a woman in the struggle for the emperor's support, and a group of sixth children could not beat two old eight, seeing that the emperor was riding a horse and whipping proudly on the road to death, they not only stinked Zhu Youxiao, but also sent the Ming Empire to the ditch, and the books were read to the dog's stomach, and the pig was especially wise and victorious!

From this incident, we can draw a conclusion: EQ is sometimes more important than IQ, ordinary people with low EQ cannot find a target and cannot be promoted, and if the EQ of the court is low, it may bring disaster to the country and the people.

Final conclusion: Zhu Youxiao, a good carpenter who was delayed by the emperor's position, an emperor who was delayed by the minister, a willful, selfish, shameless and pitiful child.