"Let me ask you, who destroyed my Great Ming?”
Hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's words, Zhu Biao and the other five's eyes lit up!
That's right!
As long as he knew who had destroyed the Ming Dynasty, wouldn't it be fine to find them and eliminate them?
How could he have forgotten about this when he was so angry?
As expected, the older the ginger, the spicier it was!
Compared to Imperial Father, they were still a little inexperienced.
"Imperial Father is wise, your son is inferior!”
"Royal brother is right! I, Zhu Di, can't catch up to my father's wisdom!”
"Your son is the same as Fourth Brother!"
“……”
Listening to Zhu Biao and the others crazily flattering Old Zhu, Fang Yunfei glanced at Zhu Yuanzhang.
Boss Zhu, oh Boss Zhu, you're already so old, why don't you know anything?
You're picking on me!
You've asked two such stimulating questions in a row. Do you think I'm familiar with you?
"Don't worry, as long as you tell us who caused the chaos in the Great Ming Dynasty, not only will we not punish you, we will even reward you greatly. I'll guarantee you prosperity for generations to come!"
"If anyone dares to harm you, I will immediately confiscate his family and behead him, destroying his entire family!”
Seeing Fang Yunfei's troubled expression, Zhu Yuanzhang mistakenly thought that he was worried about revenge, so he patted his chest to ensure Fang Yunfei's personal safety.
The Northern Yuan Tartars had already been beaten by the Ming army, hiding in the snow and shivering.
Corrupted officials were also swept away by the court's harsh laws.
There were no foreign invaders outside, and there were no rebellions inside.
In Zhu Yuanzhang's knowledge, those who could overthrow the Ming Dynasty were nothing more than those who held great power and proud soldiers.
As long as we find and kill these people's ancestors, won't our Old Zhu's empire last for tens of thousands of years?
"Your Majesty, it's hard to say!"
Fang Yunfei thought for a moment and said as tactfully as possible,
"It's like the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, when the heroes fought for hegemony. Even without His Majesty, the Mengyuan Empire would still fall into the hands of Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng.”
"Just like the destruction of Mengyuan, the decline of Great Ming is also the trend of the times, and cannot be stopped by human strength. So even if I say a few names, it's useless!”
The fall of the Ming Dynasty was an inevitable result of the conflicts between the various parties.
It could be said that even without Li Zicheng and Huang Taiji, there would still be Zhang Xianzhong and Dorgon. Even if there were no Chuangjun and Houjin, there would still be other peasant uprisings and foreign invasions.
Unless the root of the problem was solved, simply killing a few people would not change the direction of history.
Moreover, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were all commoners. Where would you find their ancestors?
They couldn't just cut down the people surnamed Li and Zhang like the Mengyuan court, right?
"Bastard! He actually used Bao Yuan to compare me, Great Ming. His heart is worthy of punishment!”
"How dare you! Your Majesty's majesty is very powerful. How could Zhang Shicheng and Chen Youliang be compared to him?”
"Men! Drag this demon away and interrogate him carefully. See which traitor sent him!”
“……”
Emperor Hong Wu was proud of three things in his life!
The first was to expel the Tartars and rebuild China.
The second was to defeat the heroes and dominate the Central Plains.
The last one was to marry Empress Ma, a virtuous empress who had lived for thousands of years.
Therefore, in order to highlight Emperor Hongwu's great talent, Meng Yuan, Chen Youliang, Zhang Shicheng, and the others were all typical negative existences.
Not to mention a positive evaluation, even a little objective evaluation of these forces in Great Ming was considered extremely political incorrect!
Now, Fang Yunfei was openly comparing Da Ming and Zhu Yuanzhang with Meng Yuan and the heroes of the late Yuan Dynasty. This was simply a heinous crime in everyone's eyes!
Not to mention the hot-tempered princes like the King of Qin and the King of Yan, even the usually gentle and refined Crown Prince Zhu Biao was furious!
"Shut up!"
Emperor Hongwu stopped the five princes who were furious.
He walked in front of Fang Yunfei with a dark face and said word by word,"You're saying that our Da Ming will end up like those Tartars 'Meng Yuan?”
"Other than not forcefully dividing the people into four classes, everything else is similar to Meng Yuan.”
"Natural disasters and man-made disasters have caused the people to be hungry and naked. However, the officials and gentry of the Ming Dynasty were rich and heartless.”
"Under the pressure of hunger and cold, the people rose up in revolt. Many of the government troops who could not survive also participated.”
"The Great Ming Dynasty is full of rebellions everywhere.”
"The Imperial Court struggled for more than ten years before being destroyed by the Shun Army!”
Fang Yunfei said according to the records in the history books.
In the late Ming Dynasty, the corruption of the government and the natural disasters in successive years made the lives of the people at the bottom very difficult. It could be said to be hell.
However, those high-ranking officials and nobles were indulging in debauchery!
Not only did the gentry officials not pay taxes, but they also plundered the people's wealth and oppressed them.
The generals who were supposed to defend the territory not only ate empty salaries and drank the blood of the soldiers, but also raised thieves to protect themselves for the power in their hands.
The people who suffered from the disaster had no one to treat them, and the soldiers who fought desperately could not get their pay.
When people couldn't survive, they would naturally resist and fight back. They would turn the anger in their chests into weapons and slash at the masters who were usually high and mighty!
In this situation, who was Emperor Hongwu going to kill?
Who could he kill?
"Bastard! My Great Ming…"
"How did my Great Ming become like this?!”
After hearing Fang Yunfei's description, Emperor Hongwu was instantly shocked and furious!
He had always thought that even if Great Ming perished, it would be at the hands of the imperial relatives and powerful officials like the Han and Tang dynasties!
He had never thought that his Great Ming would actually be overthrown by the people!
The reason why the world was in chaos at the end of the Yuan Dynasty was because of natural disasters and man-made disasters, as well as corrupt and cruel officials.
In April of the fourth year of the Yuan Dynasty, four of Zhu Yuanzhang's eight family members starved to death in half a month!
Not only did the local government not provide relief to the people, but they also increased their food and pay.
The wealthy merchants and gentry even annexed land everywhere, issued usury, and took advantage of natural and man-made disasters to make a fortune.
Make a fortune from the national disaster!
People really couldn't live anymore, so they started to rebel!
According to Zhu Yuanzhang's original words, as long as there was food to eat, who would be willing to risk their lives?
Because of this, after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Hongwu not only loved the people of Dawn, but also hated those corrupt officials and wealthy businessmen!
The wealthy merchants and nobles were restricted in all aspects.
Officials who embezzled 60 taels of silver were skinned.
The commoners went to the capital to report to the officials, but they had to be provided with food and accommodation by the yamen along the way.
Zhu Yuanzhang could be said to be the only emperor in the history of China who had achieved the goal of " suffering the officials to make the people feel better."
He did not expect that history would repeat itself more than 200 years later. Everything that he had destroyed with his own hands had returned in an even more severe manner!
How could Emperor Taizu not be enraged?!
"Imperial Father, please calm down! Imperial Father, please calm down!"
"Your Majesty, please calm down! This person must be spreading lies to confuse the public! I, Great Ming, would never do this!"
"Father! It was all your son's fault. Your son did not educate his children well, causing future generations to live in misery. I hope Imperial Father will take care of your dragon body!"
“……”
Seeing Zhu Yuanzhang's thunderous anger, Zhu Biao and the others quickly tried to persuade him.
"Brat, is my Great Ming really as useless as the Mengyuan Imperial Court in its final years?”
"Did those last rulers also abandon the foundation that our Old Zhu built for them and run away?”
Emperor Hong Wu suppressed his anger and asked.
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the few emperors were dissolute and immoral. Not only did they have no way of governing the country, but they were also as timid as mice. They were even unwilling to defend the capital that their ancestors had painstakingly built.
When the Ming army arrived in the north, the Emperor of Mengyuan immediately took his wife, children, gold, silver, and jewelry to hide in the grasslands. He had no intention of resisting!
Zhu Yuanzhang used to mock Tiemuzhen and Kublai Khan for jumping up from the ground in anger if they knew that their descendants were so cowardly.
If his descendants were like those Tartar Emperors.
Wasn't this a slap to his face?
"You can't say that. Although the emperors of the late Ming Dynasty were not very good at governing the country, they still had a backbone.”
"The last emperor, Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, did not run away like the Yuan emperor after the Shun army broke through the capital. Instead, he chose to live and die with the capital.”
"Although he hanged himself in a coal mountain, he still managed to preserve the last dignity of the emperor of Ming Dynasty.”
"The Son of Heaven guards the gates of the country, and the king dies for the country!”
"This is also an important reason why later generations of Chinese children admire Big Ming.”
Fang Yunfei said sincerely as he thought about the ending of the Ming Dynasty.
"Humph! At least he didn't completely embarrass our Old Zhu.”
After hearing that Chongzhen would rather hang himself in Mei Mountain than abandon the city and escape, Zhu Yuanzhang finally felt a little better.
Prince Yan Zhu Di, Prince Jin Zhu Wei and the other four brothers also looked at Zhu Biao in surprise.
She did not expect that such a gentle and modest gentleman like her big brother would actually be so strong in his bones!
Even his descendants after more than 200 years would rather break than bend.
The Crown Prince is indeed our good big brother!
"By the way, where is this coal mountain?”
"Zhen wants to see the place where the last emperor of Ming Dynasty hanged himself!”
"This is a warning to future generations.”
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