Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

"I really want to...see with my own eyes what the West looked like at that time."

Kong Ming was not as sentimental as his master. He just sighed sincerely as he looked at the arrows on the light curtain that connected the entire map more and more closely.

Pang Tong on the side thought for a while:

"Kong Ming thinks that there is something different about the Western countries at this time?"

This is nonsense. After all, Pang Tong has also been watching the light curtain all the way. In the future, when talking about the history of China, people will often talk about Western affairs.

But looking back from watching the light curtain to the present, there are not many things that can be talked about in the Western countries since the Western Han Dynasty, and most of them are concentrated in the same period as the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties.

For more than a thousand years, the Western countries have been similar to China, busy with the affairs of neighboring countries, but it seems that overnight, these countries began to appear all over the world.

While Pang Tong was still frowning and trying to summarize, he heard Kong Ming beside him saying leisurely:

"The younger generation said before that the Black Death was even worse than the typhoid epidemic three years later, which shook the church's rule."

"Now we know that the church can command the countries and grant the emperor a crown, follow the church and falsely proclaim the words of God, which is extremely noble."

"The Mongols went west, and our Eastern learning entered the West, or... the people's wisdom was opened, and the dispute with the church's words of God began."

"All things are like piling up soil, piling up to form a mountain, and wind and rain arise."

At this point, Pang Tong also understood:

"Kong Ming wants to see this wind and rain with his own eyes?"

"Don't you think Shi Yuan doesn't want to see it?" Kong Ming asked back.

Although they said so, they both understood that the wind and rain they were talking about were the unprecedented changes in the Western countries.

Judging from the fact that a sage in the West wrote "Elements of Geometry", the systems and studies of the East and the West are different, and all things are concentrated in this short period of one or two hundred years. It is probably because of the collision of one thing after another that the unprecedented great changes in the Western academic system have occurred, which is what Kong Ming just said "wind and rain".

After the two were silent for a moment, Kong Ming smiled:

"This matter happened a thousand years ago, what's the point of worrying about it? Let's see if the younger generation can take us to see it."

"The current priority is to unify all states and form the Han Dynasty."

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The expressions of the monarchs, ministers, fathers and sons in the Huagai Hall also became serious.

The previous Song Dynasty affairs can still be said to be the affairs of the previous dynasty, but the conquests of Kublai Khan mentioned now are all things within a hundred years.

Not to mention that the young man also talked about the impact of the conquests of Emperor Shizu of the Yuan Dynasty on the Ming Dynasty, all of which determined that they must be taken seriously.

Among them, Li Wenzhong beat his chest and stamped his feet:

"Why don't you repeat the story of the Yuan Dynasty's conquest of Japan? I haven't seen the great general of the conquest of Japan yet!"

That's what he said, but who doesn't know that this is a show for His Majesty?

For a moment, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't know whether to rebuke his nephew for calling himself the great general or to rebuke him for his attitude that the Ming Dynasty must conquer Japan.

But seeing that he was still howling, he simply waved his hand in disdain:

"Li Wenzhong, stay for the banquet later and tell me about your plan to conquer Japan!"

Although he didn't call him by his usual nickname, Li Wenzhong was still very happy.

Zhu Biao frowned as he watched the hundreds of years of chaos in Burma described by later generations:

"It's hard to rule the Yuan Dynasty, let alone the newly established Ming Dynasty?"

"And according to this, does the Ming Dynasty have to help them unify?"

"Why is it so troublesome?" Zhu Biao turned his head and saw his excited brother Zhu Di, who continued:

"Since their kingdoms are attacking each other, they are not united. Since they are not united, why don't they join the Ming Dynasty?"

"Order brave generals and capable officials to slowly advance the kingdom southward and annex the territories one by one. At the same time, they need to start sea vessels to go around the place where the Portuguese entered Burma, attack from the north and south, and slowly rule the country based on the rich land of Khimbe. If they devote fifty years of work, the South China Sea can be safe."

Zhu Biao pondered, and Zhu Yuanzhang was a little surprised.

The feasibility of this strategy still needs to be questioned, but it reveals that the land should be controlled first and then governed, and finally the people should be made the people of the Ming Dynasty. Then the land will naturally become the land of the Ming Dynasty. It will only take a few decades to make this place... how do you say it? Yes, become a sacred and inseparable part.

Although the strategy is a bit immature and whimsical, after all, the fourth child is only 21 years old, and it is a surprise that he can have such an idea.

This immediately made Zhu Yuanzhang want to test him:

"What about Java?"

In response, Zhu Di pointed to the strait west of Java without hesitation and said:

"From the map, the survival of the South China Sea depends on this. If we implement the strategy of controlling the sea, the Ming Dynasty should use the Central Plains to control Jimei, and then use Jimei to defend this strait."

"If this strait is not lost, it will be difficult for the enemy in the west to enter, and the countries in the South China Sea will become the internal countries of the Ming Dynasty. Let them fight each other, and eventually they will all become vassals of the Ming Dynasty."

It is also not a particularly brilliant strategy, but it is the most useful countermeasure in military strategy, simple, direct and quite practical.

This is quite a surprise to Zhu Yuanzhang, and he couldn't help but say loudly:

"Xu Da brother, it seems that the Beiping government has added another seat to discuss military strategy."

[In addition to the Yuan Dynasty's unsuccessful foreign wars that added to Kublai Khan's troubles, the death of his wife Empress Chabi also dealt a blow to Kublai Khan.

In the feudal era, there were many emperors and empresses who lived in harmony, such as Emperor Yuwen Yong of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and Empress Ashina, Li Yu of the Southern Tang Dynasty and Empress Zhou, and the famous pure love war god of the Ming Dynasty.

Let me add here that "Emperor Taizong of Song Dynasty Forced to Favor Empress Zhou" is a wild and unofficial history. It's okay to listen to it for fun, but don't take it seriously. After all, Li Yu was miserable enough.

But there are not too many who can help each other politically besides being in a good relationship, such as Li Shimin and Empress Zhangsun, Zhu Yuanzhang and Empress Ma, and Kublai Khan and Empress Chabi can also be considered a pair.

Kublai Khan married Chabi very early, so early that no one thought that Kublai Khan would one day ascend to the throne.

We have mentioned before that when the eldest son was on the Western Expedition, Ogedei died suddenly. At that time, Empress Naimazhen was the regent and eliminated dissidents to pave the way for the unlucky Khan Guyuk. At that time, Chabi repeatedly advised Kublai Khan not to disobey and that only by surviving could he win.

Later, Mongke ascended the throne, and Kublai Khan, as Mongke's younger brother, was also reused. He conquered Dali with great success and opened a government in the south of the desert with great momentum. Mongke had already begun to suspect this younger brother. At the critical moment, it was Chabi who suggested Kublai Khan to find his brother, play the family card first, and then resolutely hand over the military power to retreat and advance.

Later, the war against the Song Dynasty did not go smoothly. Kublai Khan successfully returned to the throne, and then Menggega was in Diaoyu City. Kublai Khan was overjoyed. After a struggle, he successfully broke up the Mongolian Empire, which was in appearance but not in spirit.

When the Southern Song Dynasty fell, Chabi also persuaded Kublai Khan to stay again and again. She advised Kublai Khan to treat the surrendered ministers well, advised Kublai Khan not to treat Zhao harshly, advised to reuse capable ministers, and advised not to kill indiscriminately. She almost regulated Kublai Khan like an old mother. It can be said that this queen was the biggest guarantee for the relative stability of the political situation in the early Yuan Dynasty.

However, it is more strange that Kublai Khan admired Li Shimin in history, and Zhu Yuanzhang admired both Kublai Khan and Li Shimin.

The three were all founding monarchs, but the three emperors were very similar in some destinies, such as their respective queens.

Li Shimin lived to be 51 years old and lost his wife at the age of 38; Zhu Yuanzhang died at the age of 71 and lost his wife at the age of 54; Kublai Khan died at the age of 80 and lost his wife at the age of 66.

What is also similar is that the three founding monarchs all tenaciously overcame the pain of losing their wives, but a few years later, they all faced the death of their favorite princes.