Chapter 124 Shengming Research Topic

"Cough cough cough." An old man and his assistant were tidying up the computer next to the projector. He then pinched the laser pen in his hand, coughing twice, and said, "Today, I am lucky to explain the history to all classmates." The old man pressed the table with one hand, and his whole body was leaning on it, looking quite cynical. "I am Kong Youwen."

"I don't boast. I, Kong, is also a bit important in the Ming history world. However, I have expressed some personal views on the current state of Ming history research. Learning is not tolerant of carelessness, and learning history is even more so, and I have to bear historical responsibility. Why do I say this? It is because there are many extremely absurd statements in the Ming history world about the Ming Gaozong issue, which is a time traveler, a person who comes back from the future, etc. I do not deny that Emperor Gaozong of Ming is a very promising king, but these messy things will not add color to Emperor Gaozong, but will only smear. Especially those Beijingers who extremely recommend Emperor Gaozong of the Emperor has reached a point of being crazy and disregarding the scientific reality, they are simply a group of old and young people."

"Okay, let's talk about Ming Shi. I just said something is a bit unrigorous."

"To be precise, the Ming Dynasty has not yet perished, and there is no question of leaving the old and the young."

"The Ming Dynasty was the longest-standing one among the unified feudal dynasties. It has been nearly seven hundred years since Taizu founded the country to the present. There are 27 emperors in total. Two of them are not counted. One is Jianwen and the other is Xun Emperor during the Great Revolution. This is discussed later."

"The entire Ming Dynasty was divided into the First Ming, Sheng Ming, Zhong Ming, late Ming, and Hou Ming. Later Ming is the Modern. After the Great Revolution, more than a hundred years ago, although the country had been renamed China. Some feudal factors were removed, the Zhu family was still the royal family of the Ming Dynasty. The latest hot topic about the royal family is that the idol of the second princess Qingcheng Princess debuted today? I don't know much, you can understand it."

"The focus of today's class is the peak of the Ming Dynasty. Historical circles have objections to the division of the peak of the Ming Dynasty. Six emperors said, and eight emperors said, essentially, it is the rule of Renxuan. Is it considered the peak of the Ming Dynasty? My personal opinion is very clear, not counting. I even think that the peak of the Ming Dynasty should have started with Emperor Gaozong's in charge of power. This was already discussed in the early Ming Dynasty before, but I don't remember the students who read through the notes."

"The so-called Six Emperors are Emperor Gaozong, Emperor Zhongzong, Emperor Wenzong, Emperor Wuzong, Emperor Suzong, and Emperor Dezong."

"From Emperor Gaozong's leadership, he began to build Hebei water conservancy. To Emperor Dezong's weakness and incompetence, King Yi advanced eastward, surrounded Yizhou, and the north and south borders, all of which were owned by the Yi Kingdom. The court lost control of the overseas vassals. This hundred and fifty years was the prosperous period of the Ming Dynasty."

"Of the six emperors, three are the most important. The first is Emperor Gaozong. He created a prosperous era for 150 years and laid the foundation for the entire Ming Dynasty in later generations. It can be said that although the Ming Dynasty was born in the hands of Emperor Taizu, the family law that passed down to the Great Revolution was the family law of Emperor Gaozong."

"The second is Emperor Wuzong."

"Among the Ming emperors, the four emperors with the most powerful martial arts are Taizu, Taizong, Gaozong and Wuzong."

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To a certain extent, Taizong could also eliminate this ranks."

"Taizu founded the country and built a foundation. In the previous courses, Emperor Gaozong's martial arts mainly have two points. First, pacify the grasslands, eliminate border troubles, and push the northern territory of the Ming Dynasty to the near-Arctic Circle, laying the foundation for the economic recovery of the entire northern region. Second, the development of the South Ocean. Today, the three Western provinces and the seven Nanyang provinces all became the territory of the Ming Dynasty during this period."

"And Emperor Wuzong even had the idea of ​​dominating the world. This world is not the ancient traditional view of the world, but the entire earth."

"Emperor Wuzong ascended the throne at the age of 30. Before ascending the throne, he presided over the battle of destruction of Japan. After ascending the throne, he even expeditioned Watsai and Ottoman, pacified Islam, marched into Europe. He also sent partial troops to attack Africa and Yinzhou in the north and south. However, although the first industrial revolution was very mature at that time, and even the use of railways, telegraphs, iron-armored ships, and other technologies greatly increased the national strength of the Ming Dynasty, the decades of war during the Wuzong period still exhausted the treasury since Emperor Gaozong, and the court deficit reached 3.7 billion yuan."

"In fact, Emperor Wuzong pushed the Ming Dynasty to its peak, but also left an abyss for his successors."

"Emperor Suzong's greatest achievement in his life was to continue the prosperous era of the Ming Dynasty."

"Although Emperor Wuzong had stopped fighting everywhere in his later years, the court was still heavily in debt and difficult to maintain. Emperor Suzong was ordered to take a series of measures. The most important thing was the financial reforms, paper currency reform and other series of modern financial instruments. It made the national debt an unshakable foundation for the Ming Dynasty. It worked hard to reduce the debts of the Ming Dynasty from 10.7 billion to 7.3 billion yuan in the late Wuzong period. There was even a possibility of eliminating the deficit."

"It's a pity that Emperor Suzong died too early. He was reigned for only fifteen years, and Emperor Dezong succeeded to the throne."

"Emperor Dezong has a good reputation, whether it is the folk or the literati. Especially when he opens the TV series, even if he closes his eyes, he can see a series of TV series about Dezong. Dezong seems to be busy dating every day. When it comes to governing the country, Dezong is not an incompetent person. But at the critical moment, he did not solve the problem of the Ming Dynasty."

"The financial market in the Ming Dynasty collapsed. The economic crisis during the Dezong period can be explained by the later cyclical economic theory of Mr. Huang Zongxi, but I won't say much about it here."

"In short, during the Dezong reign, the economy collapsed, and Dezong had to invest large-scale funds to stabilize the domestic situation, not caring about the foreign vassals, and the court had no money. At that time, the court's national debt deficit had been reduced to 3.5 billion yuan, and the court's annual surplus was around 300 million yuan. It can be said that in another ten years, the court emerged from the deficit caused by Emperor Wuzong."

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"Unfortunately, after the economic crisis, the Ming Dynasty's national debt never had less than 100 billion yuan. It grew explosively until it was irreversible."

"More importantly, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty had complete monarchy before, but after Dezong, it entered the Middle Ming Dynasty. Internally, the game between the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty and the capital interest groups became mainstream, and the Ming Dynasty lost control of the vassal states externally, making the vassal states conquered each of them a fact. The lands captured by Emperor Wuzong lost control of all the control of the land except India."

"And the Indian war was the only highlight of the imperial court in the Middle Ming Dynasty. This is discussed later."

"The key to the division between the Middle Ming Dynasty and the Late Ming Dynasty was the complete failure of the game between the Ming Dynasty royal family and capital forces, which forced Emperor Sizong of Ming Dynasty to move the capital to Nanjing, completely losing control of the court, fierce party struggles in the court, and weak external expansion, which further aggravated internal exploitation. In the late Ming Dynasty, the rivers were declining, and they also achieved the predecessor of the great revolution."

"The thirty years of the great revolution, there were 23 vassal states, which were eliminated by internal and external forces during the Great Revolution. When the revolutionary government achieved a comprehensive victory in the mainland of the Ming Dynasty, it was found that the Emperor Ming was still a good sign for the power of the vassal states overseas. So we chose Emperor Xun and re-established as Emperor. However, from then on, Emperor Ming was just a sign. Now that the overseas vassal states have returned to our control, the royal family has become less and less present. There were proposals for abolishing the emperor in several parliaments."

"And because many regions have a deep affection for the royal family, they have to be rejected, especially in Beijing, where the deep support for the royal family is unimaginable."

"From this perspective, Princess Qingcheng may have other ideas when she debuted as an idol. After all, the older generation who had feelings for the Ming Dynasty have almost gone. How many years can the Ming Dynasty royal family last? It is actually based on the votes of the young people today."

"It's been a long way off."

"Back to the point, why do modern Beijingers still support the Ming Dynasty royal family so much? If you want to ask this question, you must first go back to the Gaozong period."

Kong Youwen pressed his hand and pointed at the projection behind him with a light point, saying: "This is the grain output bar chart of the entire Ming Dynasty's entire north. From the chart, it can be clearly seen that the grain in the entire north began to increase rapidly in the middle of the orthodox period. If it were specifically for the Hebei region, it reached its peak around the 45 years of Zhengtong. The grain self-sufficiency rate in the entire north reached 100% in the Shaozhi period after Zhengtong. Before Zhengtong, the grain output ratio in the north and south of the Ming Dynasty was about three to seven, but after Zhengtong, he wandered around four to six, which was a very remarkable achievement."

"This is the fundamental strategy of Beijing that Emperor Gaozong implemented from the beginning, which is actually the fundamental strategy of the north. Although it did not change the historical reality that the southern economy surpassed the north after the Tang and Song dynasties, it was the time when the north and the south were most evenly matched. Many of them were due to the investment of the Ming Dynasty royal family in the north. Especially at the foot of Beijing, Beijing, Tianjin, Zunhua, Zhending, and other large cities, a large and small city formed an economic circle that was not inferior to the Jiangnan area. However, this economic circle could still be maintained during the Zhongming period, but when Emperor Sizong moved the capital to Nanjing, the decline of the north was irreversible."

"So northerners, especially Beijingers, were linked to the rise and fall of the Ming royal family for a long time. This is why even the emperors of the Ming Dynasty moved back to Nanjing, they still missed Beijing. The thoughts of Emperor Sizong of Ming may not be the thoughts of homesickness."

"The Ming Dynasty rose to Emperor Gaozong. Before orthodox, the Ming Dynasty was just two eras. But some people say that the Ming Dynasty fell to Emperor Gaozong. Although I think it is nonsense, I cannot help but say that some of the truths are made."
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