Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

[There is an old saying that there is nothing new under the sun, and the power struggle in the feudal era was actually similar.

For example, Yuan Wenzong was a weirdo, and his queen was no less generous.

Yuan Wenzong gave up the throne but then regretted it and poisoned his eldest brother to death. During this palace struggle, Yuan Wenzong's queen Buda Shili also murdered Yuan Mingzong's queen with the eunuchs and pushed her into a fire pit of roasted sheep. Burned to death by small fire.

Later we also learned that Yuan Wenzong had a seizure before his death and said that he would give up the throne to his nephew.

It's okay for Yuan Wenzong to have convulsions. After all, he is going to die. It is understandable that his brain is not normal, but it is more incomprehensible for the Queen Bu Da Shi to have convulsions at the same time.

You two husband and wife worked together to kill Yuan Mingzong and his wife, and now you want to promote their son as emperor. You are really not afraid of death.

Moreover, the Empress Dowager's fortune-telling did not end there. Emperor Yuan Shun, who was promoted to the throne, was only thirteen years old, so the affairs of the government were naturally attributed to fortune-telling.

But the 28-year-old Empress Dowager felt that being in power was meaningless. After some searching, she promoted a man named Boyan to be the prime minister to manage the affairs of the government, and she soon got into bed with Boyan.

And this Boyan is, not surprisingly, also a weirdo.

During his career as prime minister, he basically adhered to a simple principle:

All Han people are traitors, and anything related to Han culture is a disaster.

According to this principle, Boyan, who held great power, began to continuously propose government decrees for Emperor Yuan Shun to stamp.

The Han people perished because of the imperial examination. This is not good and should be banned! Emperor Yuan Shun nodded.

The Han people practice gun and stick martial arts. This is dangerous and should be banned! Emperor Yuan Shun agreed.

The Han people like to gather people to sing operas. This is easy to gather people to discuss politics. It is forbidden! Emperor Yuan Shun followed.

There are too many Han people. Let’s kill all the people with the five surnames of Zhang, Wang, Liu, Li, and Zhao! Emperor Yuan Shun followed...wait!

Emperor Yuan Shun was shocked. You think I didn't die quickly enough.

Boyan, the prime minister, was facing an endless stream of peasant uprisings in various parts of the Yuan Dynasty, and this massacre of the five major surnames was a clever plan thought up by the highest prime minister of the Yuan Dynasty, and its level can be imagined.

Because of this incident, Boyan and Emperor Yuan Shun completely fell out. Both felt that the other was unreasonable, and the conflicts became more and more public. All of this was seen by Boyan's eldest nephew, whose name was Tuotuo.

Tuotuo felt that his uncle Boyan's level would overturn sooner or later. When the time came to liquidate, our family might not be enough to kill all the ten clans, so in order to save himself, he wanted to kill all his relatives out of justice.

At that time, Tuotuo himself was Boyan's right-hand man. After his jump, he hit it off with Emperor Yuan Shun. The two smart people conspired to deal with a mentally retarded person, and there was basically no chance of a mistake.

So on this day, Boyan, the lover of the Empress Dowager and the only prime minister of the Yuan Dynasty, went out of the city to hunt leisurely. When he came back, he found that the city gate was closed.

Not only that, the people who defended the city also had strange faces. His eldest nephew Tuotuo, who had always been his right-hand man, even threw an imperial edict from the city gate:

From now on you are a senior official in Henan Province, hurry up and take up your post.

Boyan, who had lost his external brain, was at a loss. He waited outside the city gate until dark and no one came to pick him up, so he could only prepare to take office dejectedly.

However, the position of high-ranking official was just a temporary measure to get rid of the arrangement. The purpose was to free up time to sweep the capital again to clear out all Boyan's party members.

So before Boyan arrived at the border of Henan, Tuotuo, who had already finished the matter, asked Emperor Yuan Shun to follow up with an imperial edict:

Uncle, it’s hard to be a high-ranking official at your level. Yangchun County in Nan’en Prefecture (Guangdong) is short of a county magistrate. You are just the right person. Hurry up and take up the post.

To put it bluntly, he was sent to Lingnan.

At his wits' end, Boyan actually diverted to Nan'enzhou, but he became more and more angry as he thought about it. When he passed by Jiangxi, he was so angry that he died.

The first thing Emperor Yuan Shun did when he finally came to power was no surprise. He directly expelled Buda Shili, his mother-killer and benefactor, from the capital and removed all his titles. Later, he added a death order.

Tuotuo also officially changed from deputy to chief, and began the last struggle of the short-lived Yuan Dynasty: Tuotuo changed. 】

In the Guangzheng Hall, Zhao Kuangyin, Zhao Pu and others looked at each other. In the end, it was the official Zhao Song family who obliged and broke the silence:

"Our Song Dynasty was actually given up by such a Meng Yuan..."

Everyone knows what happened to the Song Dynasty by the Meng Yuan Dynasty, and the emotions in Zhao Kuangyin's words are also clear.

Zhao Pu and others each have their own ideas, but in comparison, Li Yu, the true lord of subjugation, is more calm:

"For me, it is not a bad idea to end up in Bianliang, but I am absolutely unwilling to let my descendants commit themselves to such an absurd dynasty."

When Zhao Kuangyin was upset, he couldn't help but play with the jade axe. When he heard this, he simply tapped the ax handle on the armrest of the chair:

"Not to mention that Congjia doesn't want to, I definitely don't want to either."

"It's a good thing that the Yuan Master understood some things when he told this, otherwise we guys don't know how many more bones would have been lost in vain."

Zhao Kuangyin didn't think Yuan Ting could do it like killing all five surnames, but if such a ridiculous order was really issued, it would definitely cause hundreds of thousands of casualties and more displacement in the initial stage. .

There is also the chaos surrounding the replacement of the throne in the Yuan Dynasty. Not to mention unheard of, in the words of later generations it should be considered quite outrageous.

And from the perspective of a bystander, even if there were explanations from later generations, Zhao Kuangyin did not understand where the Mongolian base for refusing to be Sinicized was. This suggestion of massacring all the people of the five surnames in the country could be proposed by someone who ruled the world?

Not to mention Yuan Wenzong's operation of giving up the throne first and then killing his brother, and the fact that his queen supported his nephew who had the hatred of killing his mother to ascend the throne as emperor.

The more he thought about it, the more Zhao Kuangyin felt that his temples were pounding, and in the end he could only grit his teeth and sigh:

"Emperor Hongwu, well done!"

Zhao Pu stood up at this time and comforted him:

"Officials don't have to worry. I have said this several times, but now I have to say that neither civil servants nor military officials should be neglected. Then we, the Song Dynasty, will be able to unify China."

"And if that Meng Yuan's Cavalry has any merit..."

Zhao Kuangyin certainly understands this:

"In the past, King Wuling of Zhao was able to ride on horseback and shoot in disguise to defend against the enemy. I can also imitate him."

"However," Zhao Kuangyin also shook his head:

"After all, Meng Qi can only show off his strength for a while. If he is to lead hundreds of years, he should study gunpowder. This is not what Meng Yuan is good at."

Qian Chu couldn't help but interjected:

"The prosperity of the Mongolian and Yuan commerce is mostly inherited from the Song Dynasty. I am willing to lead the sea trade of the Song Dynasty!"

Grandfather Qian Liu was well-known among the people of Zhejiang and Zhejiang provinces and was known as the Sea Dragon King because he was good at water conservancy.

Qian Chu very much hopes to make this name worthy of its name.

Zhao Kuangyin nodded in agreement. In fact, he had thought about this matter for a long time. After all, the commercial taxes in the Northern Song Dynasty listed in later generations increased sharply and could even exceed the land tax. It would be false to say that he was not interested.

However, out of instinct, Zhao Kuangyin did not believe that this thing could really benefit and cause no harm, so after careful consideration, he planned to follow Jia Sidao's example when his reform was hampered, and pick one or two places to try out the commercial tax strategy.

You know the advantages, but you also need to know the disadvantages, only in this way can you be stable.

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Li Shanchang has read "History of the Yuan Dynasty". Although the name is awkward and the records are brief, it is not a problem for him.

He was shocked once when he learned about the history of the Yuan Dynasty from others, and he was shocked again when he read the history of the Yuan Dynasty in person.

But even now, when I hear later generations talking about the history of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, the shock has not faded much.