Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

The atmosphere in the Huagai Palace was somewhat awkward.

Before Zhu Yuanzhang came back to his senses from his deep thoughts, he saw the Crown Prince Zhu Biao stand up and kneel down:

"Your son will apologize to your father for your teacher!"

"I hope your father will consider your teacher's old age and his hard work for our Ming Dynasty for many years..."

"Okay, okay, get up!"

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand unhappily:

"Since we have followed the request of Biao'er and the Queen and did not execute him before, we will not pursue him again at this time."

Before, Song Lian's grandson Song Shen was involved in the Hu Weiyong case. According to the law, Song Lian was to be sentenced to death. It was only because of the Crown Prince and the Queen's strong intercession that he was pardoned and moved to Maozhou.

For Zhu Yuanzhang, the sudden news that his wife and son would die before him has changed his mentality a lot.

There is really no need to cause a rift between his wife and son because of an old man who is already over 70 years old.

Moreover, taking a step back, the History of Yuan Dynasty has been written for ten years. He did not find these mistakes after reading the book casually. Those famous teachers and scholars who are familiar with the classics did not find any problems? I am afraid that is not entirely true.

From this point of view, the governance of the Ming Dynasty still needs a lot of effort.

Compared with these things, it is not worth mentioning to investigate the omissions of a 70-year-old man ten years ago and worry about his life and death.

Before today, he thought that the Ming Dynasty was thriving and he was happy with his family harmony, but now all this is like a dream.

There are Japanese invasions in the near future and Annan chaos in the far future, and there are worries about Portugal in the far future.

There is the death of his wife in the palace, and there are traitors outside the palace.

Facing these, the emperor of Ming Dynasty could not help but feel confused, but the more so, the calmer he became.

After hearing what his father said, Zhu Biao finally stood up with a sigh of relief, and suggested:

"Since there are omissions, please revise the History of Yuan Dynasty."

Zhu Yuanzhang pondered over this suggestion, and finally shook his head:

"Since our Ming Dynasty has finally wiped out the remnants of Yuan Dynasty, there is no rush to revise it. You can use your Donggong scholar to check it carefully."

"When the remnants of Yuan Dynasty are completely wiped out, there will be a lot more students in our Ming Dynasty, and once the Northern Yuan Dynasty is destroyed, those people, hey, will have no one to rely on."

"By then, it will still be in time for supplementation or revision."

"Besides, even if we revise it now, using the same glue and paste, what difference can it make?"

Zhu Biao naturally knew who those people his father was talking about, and sighed in his heart, feeling that there was really no good way except waiting.

Perhaps only when the small Northern Yuan Dynasty is completely destroyed and those who only know the emperor's orders but not China have nowhere to go, it will be the best time to seriously repair the coffin of Yuan.

On the other side, Emperor Ming began to think about other things:

"This plowing the courtyard and sweeping the holes is really good. Our Ming Dynasty should plow their tents and sweep their rat holes to deal with the remnants of the Hu Yuan! Make them have nowhere to hide!"

"However, it will take another eight years for our Ming Dynasty to wipe out the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty? Brother Xu Da..."

The emotions contained in Zhu Yuanzhang's call are particularly complicated.

Taking the 21st year of Hongwu as the boundary, I am afraid that Xu Da and his brothers have died at this time, otherwise it would be difficult for Lan Yu to take over anyway.

And Zhu Yuanzhang knows very well what kind of general Lan Yu is. He is braver than strategic, less strategic than martial. He can stand on the battlefield with his sharpness, but his leadership is difficult to show in the military tent. I am afraid that after the fishing sea, there will be a general who will sit on the throne.

Of course, the most important thing is that Zhu Yuanzhang clearly knew how persistent Xu Da and his brother were in destroying the Yuan Dynasty. After all, the two of them often talked about the regret of Liuhechuan.

"Your Majesty, I am willing to sign a petition for a four-year period!" Xu Da stood up suddenly.

As a result, it was Zhu Yuanzhang who comforted his brothers:

"There is no need to do this. The remnant of the Yuan Dynasty is already in a dying situation. Compared with the safety of your brothers, it is not worth mentioning."

"If your brothers are healthy, the remnant of the Yuan Dynasty will only be destroyed."

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"All of them are legitimate with Liao and Jin."

Zhao Kuangyin had already known this result, but his thoughts at this time were different. Not only was it difficult to calm down, but he was even a little angry:

"If you hadn't had the disaster of Gaoliang River, why would my Song Dynasty suffer such humiliation?"

Perhaps this will be seen by future generations, but in the eyes of Zhao Kuangyin, who was determined to restore the land of Yanyun and the unification of Han and Tang, it was a kind of humiliation to make the Song Dynasty and the two Hus.

But there was no room for rebuttal to this humiliation. After all, as later generations said, the two Song dynasties controlled Hebei for less than two years in total. How could they have the right to enjoy the legitimacy of the Central Plains dynasty?

Zhao Kuangyin's words were merciless, and Kong Jiong's head drooped even more.

This immediately made Li Yu and Qian Chu a little curious. It sounded like the Gaoliang River disaster was the most important thing for this bald brother to become emperor?

They had to find out.

[After Tuotuo returned to power, he faced the situation that the Yuan Dynasty was about to be destroyed.

Faced with this situation, Tuotuo planned to completely quell the flood from the root, thereby solving the problem of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

But at that time, the opposition in the Yuan Dynasty was also extremely fierce, and the opposition was also very reasonable, which can be basically summarized into two points.

The first problem faced was naturally the lack of money. River management itself was an unparalleled large project, and the manpower and material resources required were astronomical. The Yuan Dynasty at that time suffered from the same problem as the Song and Jin Dynasties, that is, the over-issuance of paper money led to the continuous depreciation of paper money. The economic system was already in tatters and was simply unable to bear the cost of river management.

The second problem is naturally the hidden danger of unrest caused by conscription. It is fine if you gather hundreds of thousands of people to repair the river normally, but if you can't pay them or provide them with food, these hundreds of thousands of people will make trouble, and then our Yuan Dynasty will be doomed in a matter of minutes.

But Tuotuo was determined: "Some things are difficult to do, just like some diseases are difficult to cure. Since ancient times, river disasters have been difficult to cure. Now I must eliminate the disease."

This is actually a particularly Confucian method. From ancient times to the present in the history of the Han Dynasty, repairing water conservancy has always been the top priority of governance, and controlling the Yellow River is the top priority. From this point of view, Tuotuo is quite good at Confucianism. Like traditional Confucian scholars, he regards the control of the Yellow River as an important means to eradicate the malpractices of the government.

For the problem of financial crisis, Tuotuo's method at that time was to change the currency method.

Although the circulation of gold and silver among the people was prohibited in the early Yuan Dynasty, paper money was still based on silver. Tuotuo's change of the currency law changed the standard to copper, and set paper money as the main currency and copper coins as the subsidiary currency, and these were circulated together with the old paper money, but the face value of the new currency was twice that of the old currency.

In essence, it was buying banknotes with new money, using new money to scrape the old money of the people, but it lost the silver root, and it was very easy to open the door to excessive issuance. Prices rose tenfold in just two years.

Tuotuo's new law was another shovel of dirt on the head of the Yuan Dynasty. 】