Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

Zhu Biao saw his father open a notebook.

On the title page, you can vaguely see the words "Supplement to the Ancestral Instructions".

Some painful memories suddenly emerged from his mind, and looking at the unsurprised look on his mother's side, Zhu Biao also vaguely guessed:

"Daddy, this is..."

The queen shook her head, her face full of disapproval:

"I want to record all the shortcomings of the Ming Dynasty so that future generations will use this as a warning not to commit the same again, thereby extending the Ming Dynasty."

Sure enough, Zhu Biao felt his heart heavy for a moment, as if he would never be happy again. Even the magical light curtain in front of him could not move his face in the slightest.

The conversation with his mother was also clearly heard by the other brothers, so Zhu Di grinned, Zhu Zhen's face was full of pain, and Zhu Zhen, who was jotting down his thoughts in a notebook, also shook his hands.

But few of them dared to say anything. After all, their father was famous for his stubbornness, especially at this critical moment. If he said too much, he might be punished. If he wanted to express his dissatisfaction, he could only...

"Chongba, there are countless ills in this family, and if it lasts for a hundred years, the ills will surely be replaced by new ones. How can a thousand words be enough?"

"The sons are all still here..."

Zhu Yuanzhang curled his lips slightly, but immediately said as if he was praising his merits:

"But later generations also said that among the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, there were very few drinkers. There was only one case of drunkenness and he was almost accused in the Ancestral Temple."

"Isn't this because we wrote in the ancestral precepts that 'drink less wine, eat at the right time, and don't be too full in the afternoon'?"

"If we continue to introduce new problems from the old, then we will add one more thing, which is to truly eliminate them."

So Queen Ma stopped talking for the time being, and Zhu Biao simply said directly:

"But Dad, you never thought that the descendants of the Ming Dynasty would not listen..."

"you dare?!"

Zhu Biao scratched his head, but his momentum was clearly down by three points.

So Tomorrow Zi turned his head to the other side again and looked at the other Second Sons:

"Or do you dare?"

As a result, several people remained silent and kept their eyebrows low.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded with satisfaction:

"You all obey, and when your descendants see that you all obey, they will not dare to disobey."

"Besides, both our achievements and Biao'er's achievements are our pillars. Who dares to disobey them?"

But Zhu Biao still felt that something was wrong:

"But if we can really follow what dad said, then our Ming Dynasty will definitely not die in a few hundred years."

Zhu Yuanzhang continued to write without raising his head:

"Didn't your mother say that? That's because diseases can be replaced with new ones, just like that elixir."

"But as long as we can know the ills of a thousand years from now through the light curtain and write about them, won't our Ming Dynasty be safe for a thousand years?"

"The Ming Dynasty died because we wrote too few ancestral teachings!"

Empress Ma held her forehead: Yes, you have justified your statement. Now it is true and it is difficult for anyone to say.

[Wokuotai drank himself to death. To put it bluntly, its influence still remains on us today.

The most direct impact is of course the subsequent governance of the Ross area.

Although the second eldest son's Western Expedition produced rich looting results, the army withdrew earlier due to the death of Ogedai. Therefore, the Mongol Khanate only established a strong position here and did not directly establish a ruling-level advantage.

Later, Mongolia's third Western Expedition was also the last Western Expedition, and the focus was simply not here.

Therefore, the method adopted by the Kipchak Khanate that ruled here was basically to try to instigate hatred among the Slavs in the Rus' area, thereby establishing their superior position.

But as time went by, the aftermath of the Mongol Khanate's twists and turns due to the successor issue continued to spread here, and the Kipchak Khanate inevitably declined rapidly. The principalities of Poland and Lithuania took the opportunity to rise and began to confront the Kipchak Khanate. .

There is a theory in history that because of the Mongolian Western Expedition and the development of navigation, cultural and technological exchanges between the East and the West have greatly accelerated the pace of the world as a whole entering modern times.

The world is rapidly becoming a whole with frequent exchanges. As a result, nationalism and national identity are becoming increasingly difficult to form.

This argument holds that the past six hundred years in modern times have been the last window period for nationalism and national identity. If you seize the opportunity, you can create a unified country and win more living space for ethnic groups. Otherwise, it is likely to be divided and disintegrated. For example, the Ottoman Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Tsarist Russia, etc.

Judging from this argument, the Kipchak Khanate, which lasted for more than two hundred years, was subtly stuck in this window period.

The Slavs, who were originally descendants of the Rurik dynasty, split into countries that conquered each other after the collapse of the dynasty. If the normal process is followed, the conquests between the countries will cause the East Slavic tribes to merge into a new nation.

And if Mongolia can conquer all the Eastern Slavs, the Slavs will also have the opportunity to unite with a common enemy under the rule of the Kipchak Khanate, and eventually establish a new country on the ruins of the Kipchak Khanate.

However, due to Ogedei's sudden death, the eldest son's Western expedition was suddenly suspended, leaving the half-conquered Eastern Slavs awkwardly stuck here.

When facing the Kipchak Khanate, the rising principalities of Poland and Lithuania failed to destroy each other's strength. As a result, they were constantly attacking each other. Through this window period, the Slavs quickly formed nationalisms belonging to the three regimes. .

Later, although Tsarist Russia reunified Eastern Europe and tried to reunite the East Slavs as a subject, such attempts did not achieve any results in the face of the huge differences in living habits and cultural cognition among the three parties.

The former rule of the Mongols over the Slavs has penetrated into their bones, and the hatred and hostility brought about by this rule have also been engraved into their blood.

To this day, there is still a very popular proverb in Europe:

Cut open a Russian and you will find a Tartar inside.

This short sentence shows the cultural conflicts within the Slavs today vividly.

As the saying goes, all history is contemporary history, and the experience of the Slavs is certainly not an isolated case. It should be said that this situation is widely present in the areas ruled by the Mongols.

But there are very few countries and nations that can truly reconcile the contradictions.

And this is why the four words "reconciling the north and the south" are included in the achievements of Emperor Hongwu.

It is difficult to describe his brilliant achievements in ancient and modern times in just four words. 】

Zhu Yuanzhang, who was supplementing the Zuxunlu, stopped writing and sighed again:

"This younger generation understands how difficult it is for us."

I still remember that the younger generation briefly mentioned the relationship between the Hu Yuan Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty last time, and described it as thorny, which was simply appropriate.

The Han Chinese Zhang Tiangang was an official in the Jin Dynasty. After the fall of the Jin Dynasty, he wanted to die for the Jin people and ridiculed the Southern Song Dynasty.

Such similar situations were everywhere when the Ming Dynasty was first established, which was why he felt that the problem was complicated.

From the Anshi Rebellion to the end of the Hu Yuan's escape to the north, there was chaos for 600 years, and Hebei and the south had long been in a state of "not knowing each other".

On this basis, when the Ming Dynasty was first established, there were quite a few northern scholars who remembered the grace of Hu Yuan, and either refused to serve as officials and retired, or simply fled north to serve the remnant Yuan.

In this case, it is even more difficult to simply define Hu Yuan as rebellious. After all, what he wanted was for the north and the south to be united in the same spirit and heart and return to the unification of China, rather than representing the southern Han people to conquer the northern Han people.

The emperor must treat everyone equally, otherwise what is the difference between him and the Hu Yuan who divided the people under his rule?

However, we only need to wait a few more years, until the scholars in the north who have been bathed in the Ming Dynasty grow up to participate in the imperial examinations, and gradually enter the Ming Dynasty court.

Those old people in the north who followed the Hu Yuan regime had forgotten themselves.

And now he was excited by the recognition of his achievements by future generations:

This day is not far away.