What a tyrant!
The atmosphere on the entire ship suddenly became oppressive.
Zhu Yuanzhang narrowed his eyes and his aura became fierce.
"How can I be considered a tyrant?" he snorted coldly. I was born in the wilderness and was forced by the extreme cold since I was young. If it wasn't for the imperial court forcing me to die, I wouldn't have risen up.”
"When I was a general, although I didn't eat and live with the soldiers, I was still worthy of everyone.”
"If I become the emperor, I will definitely not let the people suffer and starve in the future.”
"Because I know what it feels like to starve. Back then, the world was in a great disaster. For several days in a row, my father starved to death, my elder brother starved to death, my eldest brother's eldest son starved to death, and my mother starved to death. After that, I knew that I must never starve again.”
Hearing this, many of the audience members could not help but nod.
"Speaking of tyrants, Zhu Yuanzhang really isn't a tyrant.”
"That's right. Zhu Yuanzhang himself was born poor and weak, so he naturally knew what the people wanted. When he was in power, the lives of the people were indeed much better than before.”
"But that doesn't cover up Zhu Yuanzhang's atrocity. It's not nonsense to kill meritorious officials.”
Some people agreed, but there were also some who disagreed.
The bullet comments became lively again.
On the screen, Lin Yi slowly spoke again,"In the 31 years of the reign of the Great Ancestor, he successively launched a large-scale purge of corruption. About 150,000 corrupt officials were killed, and among them, the Hu and Lan cases alone implicated tens of thousands of people.”
As soon as he said this, Zhu Yuanzhang narrowed his eyes again and was about to speak.
Lin Yi changed the topic." Thus, to the officials, Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty was a tyrant, but to the people, Zhu Yuanzhang was a good emperor.”
"Someone once said that Ming Zu had the nature of a sage, a hero, and a thief.”
"But let me say it."
Lin Yi turned to look at Zhu Yuanzhang with a serious expression."Zhu Yuanzhang is the soul of the Great Ming Dynasty! He is a wise ruler from ancient times!"
Great Ming Nation Soul! Eternal wise ruler!
This was what Lin Yi thought. Although the word 'eternal wise ruler' was too heavy, Zhu Yuanzhang was worthy!
However, the audience in the live broadcast room was in an uproar. This phrase was too much.
Ming, is a sage.
Not only did it require extraordinary intelligence, but it also required noble moral character. The number of people killed by the Ming Taizu was also unprecedented.
Xie Jin once wrote a letter of ten thousand words to persuade Taizu: "There is no law that does not change, and there is no one who does not make mistakes.”
It could be seen.
How cruel Taizu was back then.
How could he be worthy of the title of a wise ruler?
"Great Ming's national soul? Eternal wise ruler? Even if Zhu Yuanzhang, the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty, restored China's status and prestige, he should not be praised like this, right? Is Lin Yi crazy?"
"Even the First Emperor, Ying Zheng, was only called the Eternal Ancestral Dragon, not the Eternal Wise Ruler. Why is Zhu Zhongba called the Wise Ruler?”
"Zhu Zhongba indiscriminately killed meritorious officials. He doesn't deserve the title of a wise ruler at all!!”
"Bloodthirsty, unjust imprisonment, and illiterate. If Zhu Yuanzhang can be called a wise emperor for thousands of years, then what about the other emperors? Eternal wise ruler?"
It was no wonder that the netizens were so excited.
Narrow-minded, perverted, bloodthirsty, fatuous, brutal, unjust imprisonment, slaughtering of meritorious officials, illiterate, jealous of scholars…These were all labels that had long been attached to Zhu Yuanzhang, the great ancestor of the Ming Dynasty.
In fact…
In many literary and modern films and television works, Zhu Yuanzhang also appeared as an ungrateful, mean and heartless tyrant who treated human lives with contempt.
Naturally, not everyone could accept the fact that the ancient sage was bestowed upon such a sovereign.
Lin Yi knew this very well.
The deep-rooted impressions, as well as the related cultural films and television works, had a great impact on the audience.
The denouncement of the literati and the modification of the Manchu Dynasty were definitely a credit to this.
Yes.
Although Zhu Yuanzhang was wrong.
However, he was still worthy of the title of a wise ruler!
He, on the other hand, could not convince the audience in the little time he had left, but it was the truth.
This was history that they should face!
How could he not believe it?
At this moment, in the conference room of the Institute of History.
"Great Ming's national soul! Eternal wise ruler!"
Lin Yi's voice resounded throughout the conference room of the Huaxia Research Institute. Old Master Zhao's chest heaved up and down again.
His breathing was a little hurried.
The fans of Da Ming clenched their fists tightly.
The Ming Dynasty was deeply misunderstood.
The Manchu Dynasty definitely contributed greatly!
As historians, they should not be biased towards any dynasty.
However…
The Ming Dynasty was an exception!
They couldn't witness the past of a dynasty with their own eyes, but every stroke recorded in history was the most precious one for them to understand this dynasty.
However…
There were various documents passed down from the Ming Dynasty, but many of them had been tampered with by later generations.
Especially the documents of the late Ming Dynasty, they were a mess.
For example, Ming Shi Lu, the revised Ming History of the Qing Dynasty, and so on.
Although the truth of history would be covered up to a certain extent, some objective facts could not be changed, and no one could cover up the sky with one hand!
A large number of folk documents, including notes, diary, letters, etc., could not be destroyed by the Qing Dynasty.
This also indirectly confirmed the problems that existed in history.
What they needed to do was to eliminate the interference in the historical data and restore the truth of history as much as possible.
For example, the Ming Dynasty was ruled by eunuchs.
According to unofficial records, there were more than 100,000 eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty. In fact, there were only 10,000 eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty.
Although there were indeed more eunuchs than in the past, there were also a few famous eunuchs who were in chaos.
However…
The intelligence collection and monitoring of the East Chamber eunuchs had played a positive role in balancing the cliques of the court officials and ministers. It was not recorded in historical records that they had killed innocent people and killed loyal officials.
Another example was the ban on the sea.
Until now, many people still blamed Zhu Yuanzhang for the country's seclusion and retreat.
But in reality.
The reason why the Ming Dynasty banned the sea was because the remnants of the Ming Dynasty were active at sea.
Piracy and smuggling were quite serious.
Later, the activities of the pirates became even more rampant, and the Ming Dynasty was forced to completely ban the sea. However, as the pirates were eliminated, the Ming Dynasty gradually opened up. By 1566, the Ming Dynasty's sea trade was already very prosperous.
The real reason why China had closed off its borders and was abandoned by the rapidly developing world was because of…
Qing Dynasty!
There were too many such modifications.
This included Zhu Yuanzhang, Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty.
It was also slandered by a large number of scholars.
It was said that Zhu Yuanzhang was cruel and bloodthirsty, slaughtering all the meritorious officials. Some even said that Zhu Yuanzhang killed all the meritorious officials.
Yes.
Xu Da, Tang He, Li Wenzhong, Deng Yu and Chang Yuchun's son Chang Mao all died well.
Among the leaders of the various forces at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang was the one who emphasized the most on not killing those who surrendered and civilians.
However, in the History of the Ming Dynasty compiled by the Manchu Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang was dwarfed and even vilified.
As for the matter of killing meritorious officials, Zhu Yuanzhang had indeed done it.
But were these heroes really innocent?
Of course.
It was undeniable that some of Zhu Yuanzhang's methods were a little too much. They exceeded the necessary limits and produced a certain degree of negative effects.
However, it could not be denied.
Zhu Yuanzhang's iron fist had created a team of honest and efficient officials!
This was definitely the action of a wise ruler!
Looking at the overwhelming doubts, many fans of Ming history also exploded.
"You're illiterate? Have you ever seen the poems written by Zhu Yuanzhang? Have you ever seen Zhu Yuanzhang's hand drawings? If Zhu Yuanzhang was illiterate, I wouldn't dare to say that all of China was illiterate, but the vast majority of China's people were definitely illiterate!”
"Zhu Yuanzhang was born in a poor family, and he had witnessed the suffering of the lower class under the tyranny of the Mengyuan and the oppression of corrupt officials and despotic tyrants. Even if the meritorious officials had violated the law and bullied the people, Zhu Yuanzhang would not let them off.”
"Zhu Yuanzhang did not tolerate corruption at all. His strict style of cracking down on corruption led to the dissatisfaction and hatred of a large number of bureaucrats, which led to the slander of many scholars. Later on, the Manchu Dynasty even continuously slandered and smeared Zhu Yuanzhang's image.”
“……”
The entire bullet screen was like a debate.
Many Ming fans complained about Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
It also made some viewers who didn't understand the history of the Ming Dynasty fall into a daze.
Slander.
Ugly!
When these words first appeared, they definitely did not believe it.
However…
When a large number of comments filled the entire screen, many viewers began to have doubts.
If it wasn't true…
Why would there be so many people speaking up for Ming Taizu?
Could it be…
The Zhu Yuanzhang they knew was completely different from the real Zhu Yuanzhang?
Everyone looked at the screen again to hear Lin Yi's explanation and also to see Zhu Yuanzhang's thoughts.
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