Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

This later version of strategic retreat is a good one.

But because this statement reminds me of the words "the thieves are very angry" recorded in "Yuan Shi", it is not so good.

And after this bad mood was passed on to his son Laosi with a slap on the back of the head, Tomorrow's mood suddenly became a little brighter:

This matter of correcting the history of the Yuan Dynasty is imminent!

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"Does Chengqian remember my shame on the Wei River?"

The memory couldn't be more clear, and Li Chengqian suddenly remembered his former father.

The thunderous voice asked him to remember the shame of the Turks, and the stern words asked him to understand the troubles of the Yi and Di.

Every time he talked about border troubles, Li Chengqian felt trembling in his heart, and he also became curious about the Turks. How could they make the god-like Aye unable to win?

But fortunately, these situations were quickly reversed.

Aye no longer frequently spoke harshly to him. Jieli Khan, who had been scolded so many times, was also captured. Li Chengqian even went to see him. He was so sick in a good house. It was full of stench and looked nothing like the heroic figure he once thought he was.

Li Chengqian nodded:

"Old General Li sent out troops under His Majesty's order. He made a surprise attack on a snowy night to chase the enemy northward. In one battle, he defeated the enemy and captured his thief chieftain, thus exalting our prestige in the Tang Dynasty."

Li Shimin laughed: "Never mention the word "老" in front of General Medicine Master."

After saying that, he asked again: "At that time, the heavy army was outside, how did I deal with myself?"

Li Chengqian tried his best to recall:

"I often lament the fear that the army will encounter disaster, and I can't sleep at night looking for my mother to complain..."

"Ahem!" He coughed loudly and glared at several ministers with smiling faces with a fierce look. Li Shimin said unnaturally:

"I'm talking about how the administration is going? Are you suspicious of General Medicine Master?"

That's not true. In fact, Li Chengqian recalled that his father's sorrows and worries were never shown in the court, and all government affairs were in order, no different from ordinary ones.

And even if he was worried, he was always worried about the unpredictable weather, and never said that General Li would support his troops and respect himself.

Thinking of this, Li Chengqian subconsciously glanced at Yuchi Jingde, who was sitting on the side. It is said that when this general surrendered to Aye, he persuaded the killers to be executed. In the end, Aye overcame all the opinions and appointed him as the commander of the army. have……

Logically speaking, he should have thought of General Yuchi's reputation on the battlefield at this time, but for some reason the words Xuanwu Gate came to his mind first.

Li Shimin over there naturally didn't know what his son was thinking. At this moment, he was really feeling a little relieved. He stood with his hands behind his back and said:

"As a ruler, the first priority is trust. If you lose trust with your generals, you will be defeated. If you lose trust with your ministers, you will decline. If you lose trust with history, you will perish. If you lose trust with the people, you will lose trust in the world. You should be cautious in what you say and do."

These words made Li Chengqian wake up immediately, and suddenly he remembered what his mother had told him not long ago that Aye ordered Lang Bingbi to remember the Xuanwu Gate.

Whether it is the classics of the sages or martial arts and military strategies, they all have teachers, but these things have always been tabooed by people around them. Maybe... I can ask my father about it when I come back from Hebei?

[Tuotuo was poisoned to death in 1356. Although theoretically the Yuan Dynasty still had twelve years of reign, it had basically entered garbage time.

Because whether it was Emperor Shun of the Yuan Dynasty who indulged in various Tantric practices of "double cultivation of men and women," or whether it was the warlord regent of the Yuan Dynasty who drank too much, killed people, and messed up the harem, it must not be of interest to the grandfathers of the audience.

So let’s just fast-forward directly to the stage of nailing the coffin of the Yuan Dynasty:

Why did the Yuan Dynasty, a dynasty with an unprecedented territory, lose the world?

Scholars of all ages have discussed the reasons for the demise of the Yuan Dynasty, and we have all mentioned it just now.

Sinicization is too shallow, the excessive issuance of banknotes, the transfer of power are always accompanied by bloody storms, the management of the Yellow River led to the uprising of the Red Turban Army, etc. When talking about these reasons in the past dynasties, they basically said that if these problems were solved, then the Yuan Dynasty might still be able to survive. A few more years.

It lasted a few years rather than hundreds of years. It can be seen that scholars who hold this opinion also know that these can be regarded as the reasons for the demise of the Yuan Dynasty, but whether they are the main reasons still needs to be questioned.

On this issue, Lao Zhu, who personally watched and swept the Yuan Dynasty into the garbage heap, must have the most say.

One of the more common sayings nowadays is that Lao Zhu believed that "the Yuan Dynasty lost the world by being lenient". At first glance, it sounds like it is because the gentlemen of the Yuan Dynasty were so magnanimous, but it is just because you people are unappreciative and ungrateful.

This statement is only found in the "Emperor's Precepts" in the seventh edition of Hongwu. However, in this earliest version, as long as you read it from top to bottom, you will know that Lao Zhu's words of tolerance are definitely not referring to the world, but to the tolerance of the Yuan Dynasty's laws. .

To understand this statement, we can combine it with the statement "Hu Yuan was lenient and lost, and I have to be fierce to bring peace to China" in the "Collected Works of Mr. Chengyi Bo Mr. Liu" in the "Collected Works of Mr. Chengyi Bo".

As well as the remarks about "removing the appeasement policy of the Yuan Dynasty" in the Hongwu edition of "Huang Ming Ancestor Preface".

In essence, they are saying that the laws of the Yuan Dynasty were too lenient, to the point of being lax and without taboos, rather than being lenient.

If there are still people who think that the Yuan Dynasty was lenient, then Lao Zhu's parents, eldest brother, and eldest sister who died of starvation or illness would probably have something to say.

In the same way, the great scholar Song Lian also said in the history of the Yuan Dynasty that "the criminal law of the Yuan Dynasty was based on benevolence", which seemed to be praising the U.S. Dynasty.

But then he said, "The fault lies in being lazy and not knowing how to check." The benevolence here has nothing to do with kindness. In essence, it means the same thing as the "lenient" Zhu Yuanzhang said, that is, inaction.

The most typical example of this kind of "leniency" is the well-known tax farming system, which subcontracted the whole country out, and through cooperation with local "big families", "chiefs" and "nobles", these local snakes were appointed to help them manage the local areas. As long as the local areas paid enough taxes, the central government could turn a blind eye. This is also the reason why the Yuan Dynasty paid less attention to the imperial examination and more attention to the promotion of officials.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the biggest hidden danger of this is that the officials do not care if the landlords do evil, and the central government does not care if the officials do evil. The central government has no enforcement power at the local level. This is also the direct reason why Yuan Renzong's "Yanyou Manager" could not be implemented at all and was directly launched.

Moreover, if you look back at the history of the Yuan Dynasty, you can see that after Yuan Chengzong came to power, he also wanted to rectify the officials, but a random investigation found more than 18,000 corruption cases.

In this environment, it seems not strange that Fan Mengduan wiped out the central officials of a place with only five people and acted arrogantly behind closed doors.

Moreover, the most famous organization in the Yuan Dynasty was the Qingfeng League in Qianshan, Jiangxi. This should be the earliest large-scale organization that printed counterfeit money in history. The founder Wu Youwen directly dragged both the black and white sides of Qianshan Prefecture into the water. This led to the fact that even though everyone knew that this was a den of counterfeit money, it still got away with it for more than ten years.

Here we can directly apply the teacher's words: "Governing the country is governing the officials... If one by one is shameless, corrupt, and does whatever he wants, and the country has no way to punish them, then the world will definitely be in chaos."

The Yuan Dynasty was precisely the worst in grassroots management in all dynasties, and the country was destroyed because of the four words of lax official administration.

Therefore, what Lao Zhu said about the Yuan Dynasty's lax laws and lax management, combined with the reasons mentioned above such as shallow sinicization and excessive issuance of paper money, is almost the main reason for the demise of the Yuan Dynasty.

So far, we have finally turned the page in this issue, and the next issue is - an unprecedentedly complex country. 】