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Chapter 1189 Li Yan's Enlightenment (Part )
Li Yan sighed deeply. His previous plan was a bit extreme and his stance was a bit biased. Now, after changing his perspective and considering many aspects, his overall pattern and vision have been greatly improved.

Truly stand at an absolute height and look down at the chess game.

The common people are his own people, and the children of the nobles are also his own people. He cannot completely regard them as enemies and attack them without regard for the consequences. The corpses scattered all over the battlefield in Hebei are not the scene he wants.

At the end of the day, they are just spoiled kids.

If there is no other way, you can only kill them simply; if you have the ability, you can naturally deal with them calmly.

Perhaps I can try to disperse them and slowly weaken them, rather than killing them all. Under the overwhelming trend, they were able to stand in the north for hundreds of years, slowly supporting the Han clothing, re-establishing the Han country, and restoring China, which was also a merit.

In the struggle for power with the emperor, they were the opposite of the imperial power, and in the protection of the Tang Dynasty and the defense against foreign invasion, they were also obliged to do their part. Many generals from aristocratic families died in the northern battlefield.

This complex position made them sometimes friends and sometimes enemies of the emperor.

Then, in the process of dealing with them, one's own strategy must also be adjusted accordingly, and one must not be as extreme and overbearing as Emperor Yang of Sui. If Yang Guang had not forced the nobles into a corner, they would not have completely abandoned the Sui Dynasty.

After all, Yang Guang was too ruthless, which disheartened the nobles, so they did not even consider the solution of replacing the new emperor, and directly overthrew the Sui Dynasty and cut off the roots of the Yang family.

Although Yang Guang's motives were good, and he was doing it for the long-term stability of the country, after all, which emperor doesn't want peace and prosperity for the country and the people? Even if a despicable person is rotten to the core, once he sits on the throne of the emperor.

He must also want his kingdom to be stable and his descendants to enjoy wealth and prosperity forever.

But the people of the world will not accept your good intentions and never resist. While governing the world, you must also take into account the demands of all parties. Instead of just saying that you are playing a big game and asking the people of the world to be more patient and understanding.

In the end, you get into trouble and still blame the world?
There are people outside people, and there are days outside the sky.

Li Yan felt that he couldn't be too confident, thinking that he was the smartest person in the world and that no one could guess his intentions. There were so many talented people in the aristocratic families, and no matter how clever he was, when their strength was constantly being damaged.

Naturally, someone will find clues to take action from the perspective of who benefits.

There are many smart people in the world. If you treat others as fools, you are the truly stupid one.

It is better to leave some leeway when working, and not to do things too extreme. You can collect more land and wealth, kill as few people as possible, and drive them to the northwest fiefdom, leaving some affection for them, so that they can get along well in the future.

Justice is in the heart of the people. The aristocracy is powerful and threatens the imperial power, which makes the people bear too heavy a burden. As the emperor, I should take action against them to fight for the survival of the people and consider the long-term interests of the nation. This is a natural and upright thing to do;

If we kill too much and eradicate the roots, it would be too much.

The way of heaven is vast, but there is always a way out!

It gave the farming people the beautiful Central Plains with green mountains and clear waters, and also gave the nomadic people the endless grasslands and deserts; it gave the ordinary people a minimum of one acre and three mu of land, and naturally it would also give the children of the aristocratic families a way to advance to a higher level.

Compared with people of this era, I am very superior in one aspect. People in the Tang Dynasty could only refer to the history of the first 1,500 years since the Zhou Dynasty, while I can add the next 1,500 years, a total of 3,000 years of history.

Some things need to be looked at more deeply and in the long term.

When Zhu Yuanzhang founded the country in later generations, he killed too many people so ruthlessly to ensure the succession of the country, and many innocent people were implicated. Many meritorious officials were guilty of original sins while they were alive, and they were often confiscated, exterminated, skinned, and tortured, which made the officials feel cold towards the Zhu family.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty when Chongzhen fell, all the officials in the court abandoned the court they had served for nearly three hundred years, changed their clothes and hats, shaved their heads and pledged their loyalty, accepting the enemy as their father, which was a tragedy.

In history, when the great unified dynasties of the Han nationality such as Qin, Han, Jin, Tang and Song fell, people's hearts were not as divided as when the Ming Dynasty fell, and everyone pushed down the wall when it fell.

I am afraid it has something to do with Zhu Yuanzhang's ruthless and wanton massacres in the early days of the founding of the country.

The style of conduct of a founding emperor will have a profound impact on later emperors. Zhu Yuanzhang set a very bad precedent by being too cruel to his subjects and showing little kindness.

Don't say that meritorious officials and relatives are harmful to the country. It was a last resort. Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin's release of military power with a cup of wine also solved the problem of arrogant soldiers and fierce generals. In the final analysis, it was still the old Zhu who was petty and regarded the Ming Dynasty as his own ancestral property and was unwilling to share it with others.

No one was as righteous as Zhu Yuanzhang in expelling the Tartars, restoring China, and gaining the country; but it is also an objective fact that he was stubborn and suspicious, slaughtered meritorious officials, and was mean and ungrateful. The people are the emperor's subjects, and the officials are also the emperor's subjects. That is, officials cannot bully the people, nor can they treat the officials as cattle and horses in the name of protecting the people.

China was submerged for a hundred years, and now that the orthodox Chinese culture has been restored, everyone cherishes it very much.

In the early days of the Tang Dynasty, Qin Wang Li Shimin, Yan Jun Wang Luo Yi, Lu Jiang Wang Li Yuan, Yi An Wang Li Xiaochang and others rebelled. During the reign of Zhu Yuanzhang and Hongwu, there were countless arrogant soldiers, brave generals, meritorious officials and relatives. But in fact, no civil official or military general ever rebelled.

If it is said that Emperor Gaozong of Song Dynasty only wrongly killed one Yue Fei, then Zhu Yuanzhang wrongfully killed countless Yue Feis.

These were all trumped-up charges. Even those who rebelled in later generations were Zhu Yuanzhang's own children and grandchildren, and had nothing to do with civil officials or military generals.

Old Zhu thought that once he had power in his hands, he could do whatever he wanted in the name of the interests of the country and the nation. How much of his patriotism was for the public good and how much of his selfishness was for his own benefit is left to future generations to understand.

Don’t you know that the laws of heaven are clear, the laws of earth are majestic, people can be deceived but heaven cannot be deceived, cause and effect are obvious and there is a destiny.

People can be killed, but the adverse effects caused by this are lingering.

The impact of this kind of cold-heartedness is long-lasting and engraved in the bones, and will be passed down from generation to generation. The emperors of the Ming Dynasty in later generations inherited the ancestral system and displayed this atmosphere to the fullest, not treating these ministers who assisted them in governing the country as human beings at all.

Fang Xiaoru, who directly accused Zhu Di of treason and usurpation, Yu Qian, who saved the collapsing empire, Zhang Juzheng, who extended the Ming Dynasty's national fortune for a hundred years, and Yuan Chonghuan, Xiong Tingbi, Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng and others on the Liaodong front, all had a bad end.

A loyal minister of the country cannot have a good end, he dies and his clan is destroyed, his descendants are not even protected, how can people not feel chilled?
With such a mean and ungrateful king, naturally, he also honed his ministers who were tit-for-tat. The ministers of the Ming Dynasty never showed mercy to the emperors of the Zhu family. There were many ways of death, such as self-immolation, poisoning, drowning, studying abroad, staying at home, etc.

The king regards his subjects as grass, and the subjects regard the king as an enemy!
The Ming Dynasty had backbone, toughness, ruthlessness and dominance, but it lacked a sense of righteousness, which made such a huge empire lack resilience.

Why would the descendants of the Chinese nation, who had struggled to crawl out of a hundred years of the barbarian rule, prefer to be enslaved again under the Jurchens rather than uphold the righteousness of their race and restore the Ming dynasty? Can all the responsibility be blamed on the aristocratic families and scholars?
Take Fang Xiaoru, for example, who was executed along with his ten clans. Was his crime really that serious?
Regardless of Fang Xiaoru's true character, he defended the orthodoxy and denounced Zhu Di's rebellion, which was a manifestation of his pride and loyalty to the emperor. What was wrong with him? Shouldn't such a harsh imperial law as the execution of ten clans be used on the most heinous traitors?

The power of the emperor is a public instrument. How can it be used at will based on the likes and dislikes of one person? If the emperor himself does not abide by the rules, how can he expect his subjects to abide by them? If the emperor himself is cruel and murderous, how can he expect his subjects to be loyal and patriotic?

It was really too much to use such a cruel punishment on a loyal official who defended the rule of law. Even if Fang Xiaoru was wrong, he was definitely not guilty of the crime of killing all his clans.

Zhu Di always compared himself to Li Shimin, but he was far inferior to Li Shimin. No matter how hard-headed Fang Xiaoru was, he was not as hard as Wei Zheng. What did Li Shimin do? Facing Wei Zheng's rebuke, Li Shimin did not get angry, but instead had Wei Zheng released and blamed him for the sake of the country.

Wei Zheng was forced to be a loyal minister of the Zhenguan period, and his portrait was hung in the Lingyan Pavilion, ranking fourth among the twenty-four heroes, before Li Jing, Fang Xuanling and other famous ministers, Qin Qiong, Yuchi Gong, Hou Junji and other former generals of the Qin Palace and the heroes of Xuanwu Gate.

What does this mean?
This shows that Li Shimin believed that Wei Zheng's achievements surpassed those of the old generals of the Qin Palace; and that Wei Zheng's virtue was also superior to those of Li Jing and Fang Xuanling, who were capable ministers of governing the country.

The reputation of the monarch and his minister complementing each other has been passed down through the ages and praised by everyone.

Zhu Di originally had such an opportunity. Fang Xiaoru was the Wei Zheng of the Ming Dynasty. As long as he could be subdued, the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty would turn to Zhu Di and recognize him.

But Zhu Di chose to kill him in anger and exterminate all ten of his clans.

You know, a man of integrity like Fang Xiaoru was not only a loyal minister of the Jianwen Dynasty, but also the backbone of the Ming Dynasty. Even his behavior had transcended his own position and school of thought, becoming a bright color for the entire Han nationality.

Although Fang Xiaoru's behavior cannot compare with Zhang Shijie, Lu Xiufu and Wen Tianxiang of the Song Dynasty, it is also worthy of praise.

Zhu Di beheaded them and executed their ten clans, and at the same time, he personally broke the bones of those who blasphemed the book. While making them feel humiliated, they also lost their reputation and integrity, and became servile and despicable people who only care about whoever feeds them.

This is not only a loss for a generation of blasphemers, but also a loss for the Ming Dynasty and the entire nation.

This invisible loss is no less than the unjust killing of Yue Fei by Emperor Gaozong of Song Dynasty, which has caused grief to the entire Chinese land. Dying at the hands of one's own people is the most frustrating and heartbreaking.

Zhu Di probably had some credit for the Ming Dynasty's policy of opening the door to thieves.

In fact, in Li Yan's opinion, although Zhu Di was strong in military strategy, his literary strategy was indeed weak. When the Jingnan army entered Yingtian Prefecture and Zhu Yunwen burned himself to death, the world had already changed. The ministers of the Jianwen Dynasty were also the ministers of the Yongle Dynasty. How could a blasphemer not see the general trend?
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