Night, the empty hall is very quiet, only Zhu Yunyun writing pen, and Zhu Yuanzhang flipping folders sound.
Today only a few moments of leisure, in the East Palace out after Zhu Yunyun by the Chinese scholar Liu Sango and Hanlin scholar Fang Xiaoru, taught an afternoon of history.
Mainly learning for the former dynasty of the gains and losses of the Great Yuan, Chinese people are very good at absorbing lessons, while deeply reflective people. Especially the readers of this era, they can always make up for the shortcomings of the previous dynasty in this dynasty, so that it can not become the shortcomings of the current dynasty of Daming political affairs.
In their narrations, Zhu Yun Yun also saw another side of Dayuan. Although only ninety years of national fortune, and in the end of the dynasty in the world people are not bored with the starving people in all directions, but there is also a good side.
Liu Sango and Fang Xiaoru, two people, is in accordance with the standard prince education, to educate Zhu Yunyun. A qualified emperor, the heart can not be biased. A qualified emperor, the heart can not be radical, not to mention biased, regardless of any problem, see the bad side at the same time, but also to see the good side, and to be recognized, praised.
Such an emperor will not be stubborn and arrogant.
In the Yuan Dynasty, commerce was developed, especially maritime trade, and the ports along the coast were inhabited by merchants from all over the world. Whites, Persians, even blacks. Sea trade, which began in the Song Dynasty, reached its peak in the Yuan Dynasty, when Chinese silk, tea, porcelain and other goods were distributed to the world through vast fleets of ships.
Cultural tolerance and diversity coexisted, especially in folk culture, opera and literature. And before Yuan Chengzong, the political situation in Dayuan was still relatively stable, and the first few generations of Yuan emperors, actively close to the Han culture.
But from the time after Yuan Chengzong, the center of the Yuan dynasty fell into infighting, with emperors and powerful ministers killing each other, and ministers and ministers being incompatible with each other. The emperor leaned towards Han culture, which offended the old aristocracy of the Mongol Yuan.
Han culture, that is, the centralized monolithic culture, the world's affairs of the emperor alone to say, while the Mongolian Yuan still remains a large number of tribal forms and power. The centralized culture also made the emperor more inclined to use Han Confucian ministers, which also touched the interests of the Mongolian Yuan aristocracy even more.
Therefore, Dayuan was completely turning back history in the middle and late periods.
And although the trade and commerce of Dayuan was developed, but the tax of Dayuan were fixed tax, all wrapped up in the hands of the colorful tax officials, the local merchants were rich, and then produce a large number of land annexation, and these people collusion between business and the government, do not pay taxes at all, to the central government finances to bring great damage.
At the same time, due to the lack of control of the central government of Dayuan over the localities, it also led to the centrifugal separation of these powerful families from the imperial court, and even open rebellion.
For example, the Pu family of Quanzhou in Fujian Province, a family that had settled in Quanzhou since the Tang Dynasty and was descended from Persians, held Quanzhou's economy through maritime trade, and also held local power at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, with tens of thousands of Persians in their hands, comprising an army of tans.
Quanzhou had been an important source of finance at the end of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty. Later, for the sake of interests, these Tibetans also started to fight against the Yuan Dynasty when the world was in great turmoil, and had the ambition of annexing the whole Fujian Province at the same time as they caused trouble to one side.
They were later suppressed by the Yuan's Fujian Pingzhang Yan Duobuhua, but what the Yuan got was the dilapidated Quanzhou harbor, which needed time to recover.
The Po family was killed by Yan Duobuhua, then by Chen Youding, one of the three loyalists of Fujian, and finally by Zhu Yuanzhang, and their direct lineage was cut off. And their Po family's side branch was also Zhu Yuanzhang engraved in the sin of the people on the record, strictly prohibit them from studying to be an official, not allowed to participate in the examination.
The reason why Zhu Yuanzhang so hate them, in addition to the Po family ruined Quanzhou, but also because this family has extremely disgusting black history.
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The Persian Pu family settled in Quanzhou in the Tang Dynasty and made their fortune in the Song Dynasty. At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Bo Yan led the Mongol army to the south, and the Pu family tried to kill the young Emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty in order to please their Mongolian masters.
Later, the Southern Song ministers realized that they had escaped, but in anger, the Pu family killed nearly 3,000 members of the Zhao-Song royal family and the Southern Song ministers in the city of Quanzhou.
It can be said that from the beginning to the end of the dynasty, the failure to form a stable, qualified and effective regime, and the failure to form a strong centralized power was one of the major root causes of the demise of the Yuan.
Even if we think about it, this reason was on top of the land annexation.
In addition, although the culture was prosperous, it must be said that it was also a kind of sad prosperity. A large number of Han Confucians were not utilized, so the only way to lament the darkness of the dynasty was to create art.
The Great Yuan was plagued by both natural and man-made disasters, and was also unpopular. The darkness of the government, the annexation of land, the excessive power of local ministers, and the difficulty of control by the central government all contributed to the downfall of the Yuan Dynasty.
Liu Sango and Fang Xiaoru's teaching is to let Zhu Yunyun recognize these things, and at the same time and some of the policies of the dynasty, some of the policies of the previous dynasty compared with each other.
Zhu Yunyun originally came from the later generations of the education system, the ability to reflect on a very strong, insightful and often cited a three. Who doesn't like smart students? The two Hanlin scholars caught him and taught him a lot.
If Zhu Yuanzhang did not stop, I'm afraid that the darkness will not be dismissed.
However, Zhu Yunzhang didn't have any relaxation in his coursework because he was a modern soul. Although he wasn't very educated, he still remembered what his teachers said when he was studying at that time.
His history teacher once said that although the Qing Dynasty was not popular, there was one point that must also be recognized, it did not have a dim king.
If you analyze the Qing emperors according to the manager's point of view, most of them were qualified.
This is because before they became emperors, they all went through a rigorous education, hard study, for the successive dynasties have a deep understanding of the gains and losses, in the power of the emperor and the heart of the emperor can really achieve centralization, the power of the death grip in the hands.
So they took all the ministers and turned them into lackeys.
And the emperors of the Ming Dynasty were all more individualistic, they and their ministers shared power with each other, which made the party struggle become one of the factors of the downfall of the Ming Dynasty in the middle and late period.
Zhu Yun Yun studied hard not to turn his ministers into lackeys or to become the only dictator in the world. Rather, it was because he had to study if he wanted to realize the ambitions in his heart and to continue the glory of this ancient country.
First of all, he must become a qualified emperor in order to become an outstanding emperor, so that he can have the ability and prestige to drive this country, in the right direction.
(All of the above is water, haha)
"The shortcomings of the two tax laws of the Dayuan, the local acres of land books are mixed, the local big families arbitrarily annexed land without recording, only the poor small family's field. In the long run, taxes are added to the poor people, making the people lose their homes ........"
Zhu Yun Yun bit the tip of his pen and wrote on the paper attentively about the insights from today's lecture. Like writing a thesis, squeezing out one word at a time. This thing can't be fooled, the two gentlemen are going to read it tomorrow.
And those two smelly and hard readers, can not care if you are not the king of Wu, the coursework is not well written, counting up a little face is not given.
In their words, your father, the crown prince was subjected to Mr. Ruler, you more what?
Suddenly, the light in front of him brightened, Zhu Yunzhang looked up, Zhu Yuanzhang is smilingly looking at him.
"Royal grandfather, you finished reading the zhang folders?" Zhu Yunzhang laughed.
"Da Sun, are you tired!" Zhu Yuan put the candle flame down and laughed.
Zhu Yunzhang nodded and sighed with a bitter smile, "Tired!"
"No matter how tired I am, I am not as tired as farming!" Zhu Yuanzhang laughed twice, "Although the readers are sometimes not things, but their learning we have to learn, especially these learning of ruling the country. Fighting the world rely on military generals, ruling the country rely on civil servants. An emperor who has no learning at all cannot be a good emperor!"
Zhu Yun Yun suddenly smiles, blinking his eyes and laughing, "Imperial grandfather, you don't have much learning either, but you are also a good emperor!"
"That's because your grandfather is walking on thin ice and being careful." Zhu Yuanzhang picks up Zhu Yunzhang's writing and looks at it, "Well, our great grandson's writing is good!"
Said Zhu Yuanzhang, the wrinkles on his face all opened up with a smile, "In the afternoon, after your class was over, two Hanlin scholars praised you in front of us. Haha, Da Sun, you gave grandpa a long face!"
The pride and self-satisfaction in his words, just like an old man who has taught his grandchildren well.
Zhu Yun Yun laughed, "Grandpa, grandchildren don't just learn for you either, but for our Daming."
"Good!" Zhu Yuanzhang laughed, "Well said, learning for our Ming. Ambitious!"
Casually, sitting next to Zhu Yunzhang, "These days study tired, every day to learn late at night. There is nothing you want, rare, with the royal grandfather said!"
Zhu Yunyun think, opened his mouth and said, "Grandpa, stay in the palace every day is not interesting, tomorrow we go out of the palace to walk around to go?"
"We thought it was a big deal. Okay, tomorrow we'll go out for a walk around the palace!"
At this moment, the royal hall is full of grandchildren's affection.
But in this deep palace, affection is a luxury, more rare things.
The only thing that is eternal is the calculations of people and their calculations, in the East Palace where Zhu Yun resides.
A dark shadow looked at the two sleeping princesses, then bypassed the dozing eunuchs on night duty and quietly entered Zhu Yunyun's study room.
After a while, the dark shadow once again tiptoed out and walked into the middle of the east palace garden.
"Eunuch Shuangxi?" The dark shadow spoke.
Shuangxi, who had been knocked unconscious by Zhu Yunyun's slap, came out in a dark corner and asked, "It's done!"
"It's done!"
"Go back and wait for the Queen to reward you!"