When the Dragon Country was in the Yuan Dynasty.
The descendants of Genghis Khan once rode on the heads of the aborigines of the Dragon Kingdom and tyrannized them.
At that time, after they killed a Yan Huang, they only had to pay a donkey to the family of the victim.
Even in terms of taxes, they were given special treatment.
The good land was occupied by them, but the taxes that the descendants of the Yellow Emperor had to pay were much more than their own people.
This was called " tax discrimination."
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All of this was an inevitable result after Genghis Khan led them to rise to power in that way.
They relied on their astonishing military talent to create an unprecedented empire.
However, their political skills were extremely backward.
They expanded outward and did not have any political ideals, just like the Dragon Country School of Thought's idea of hanging the people and punishing criminals.
They didn't even have the motivation brought by religious ideas, such as the spread of the Christian and Muslim gospels to the ends of the earth.
There were only two reasons for their expansion: One was to plunder wealth, and the other was to satisfy their desire to conquer.
They looked down on the alien races, so they were classified as third-class and fourth-class citizens.
In their eyes, the aborigines of the Dragon Country had no other use other than providing them with a fixed amount of land tax.
In a war, the difference in treatment would be even greater than usual.
The corruption of their officials, like their initial martial arts, was unprecedented in history.
The heavy taxes of the empire were also one of the factors that contributed to corruption. From the early to the late stages, the taxes had increased by almost a hundred times!
The greater persecution was the land grant system. They would give the conquered farmland of the Dragon Country, along with the original residents of the Dragon Country, to the royal relatives, princes, princesses, or meritorious officials.
After the destruction of the Song Empire, the rewards were given to dozens of households, hundreds of households, and hundreds of thousands of households.
Each household had three people, and they had received 300,000 serfs at once!
It had become a property that he could use at will.
The people of the Dragon Country lived like this for nearly a hundred years.
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It was only after the Ming Dynasty was established that people were able to get rid of that kind of life.
However, Zhu Di, who had followed the army to the north many times, had witnessed such a tragic scene very early on.
The people riding on the horses drove the Central Plainsmen away like they were prey and shot them to death.
Even after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, they had never given up trying to enter the Central Plains again and restore their former rule.
Zhu Di swore that he would never let that happen.
Especially after he successfully seized the throne from his nephew.
As an emperor who relied on rebellion to rise to power, he had no choice but to use his achievements to prove that he was more suitable to be the emperor than his nephew.
This seemed to be a common problem for all the people who inherited the throne abnormally.
The performance of such emperors was generally not bad, and it was interesting to talk about it.
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During Zhu Di's twenty-two years in office, he had led the army five times to personally conquer the nomadic tribes north of the Great Wall!
They even moved the capital of the empire from the south to the north in order to fight against them!
It allowed the Ming Dynasty, this firm and unyielding dynasty, to truly achieve the goal of the Son of Heaven guarding the country's gates and the King dying for the country!
Moreover, Zhu Di also had four descendants who were like his left and right arms to assist him in his career.
Especially his eldest son, Zhu Gaochi.
When Zhu Di was still in Jingnan, he was a god-like figure who successfully defended the base camp for him.
After Zhu Di ascended the throne, he also helped him manage his internal affairs in an orderly manner. It could be said that all the civil servants in the court were from his sect.
This allowed Zhu Di to be free and concentrate on the military affairs that he was best at.
As for Zhu Di's second and third sons, they were both fierce generals who had followed Zhu Di for a long time!
With three such sons, coupled with Zhu Di's own great talent and strategy, he had the capital to continue to be invincible on the grasslands!
Compared to when the Ming Dynasty's founding emperor was still in power, he was not inferior.
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However, another problem arose.
As Zhu Di grew older, his three outstanding sons began to fight for the throne.
This seemed to be a problem that every long-lived and outstanding emperor would face.
Zhu Di also had a headache because of this.
The worst thing was that when he rebelled, he wanted to encourage his second son to fight for him.
Zhu Di also told him,"The prince is sick. You should encourage him!"”.
Not only did he cheat his second son for the rest of his life, but he also cheated himself when he was old.
Because this sentence completely aroused the second brother's ambition to fight for the throne.
Zhu Di probably had the thought of making him the Crown Prince.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have asked his officials who was the most suitable person to be the Crown Prince.
There wouldn't be another famous saying from Xie Jin: "Good Saint Sun! Great Ming can prosper for three generations!"
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And this good grandson, Zhu Zhanji, was the son of Zhu Di's eldest son, Zhu Gaochi.
He was also the last of Zhu Di's four good descendants.
At the same time, it was because of his birth that Zhu Di made up his mind to raise an army to pacify the disaster!
And he did not disappoint. Later on, together with his father, he created the famous "Rule of Renxuan" in the history of the Dragon Country.
However, his second uncle was a little more miserable. Because he was not satisfied with the father and son being the emperor, he rebelled several times in succession.
In the end, he even used a shocking sweeping leg to trip his nephew, the emperor, and was roasted to death by fire, turning into a roasted vermilion.
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However, that was after Zhu Di's death.
When Zhu Di was still alive, he had accompanied Zhu Di and fought all the way to the banks of the Wo Nan River, which was also the territory of the current Furious Bear Country.
I've been to Wolf's Mountain.
He witnessed the birth of the only emperor in the history of the Dragon Country who had achieved the "Wolf Seal".
In the end, when Zhu Di died on the way to the fifth northern expedition, he had been by his side.
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When a white-haired old man was still riding a warhorse and stepping onto the road to war.
In the end, he died on the battlefield that he regarded as his home.
The audience watching this historical projection from all over the world could not help but be moved.
Especially when Zhu Di said,""Wouldn't people miss such a country?”At this time.
Everyone felt that Zhu Di had not let down his ambition to die on his horse!
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The ninth of the ten great human emperors, Emperor Yongle Zhu Di!
He deserved it!
He was the guardian of his people!
He built the Yongle Grand Ceremony and sent Zheng He to the West!
Five Conquering Mobei!
He alone had done what many emperors could not do in their lifetimes.
He had left a deep mark in history!
The sun, moon, mountains, and rivers were eternal! The Ming Dynasty will always be there!
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