Ming Dynasty: Traveling through the harem, Zhu Yuanzhang was dumbfounded

Chapter 67: The Zhu Emperors Are Afraid of Water
"The famous generals are Sun Chuanting and Qin Liangyu, the two Ming generals I know best.

The former gave up writing and took up military service for more than ten years, working tirelessly for the Ming Dynasty. Unfortunately, although he defeated Li Zicheng several times, he failed to completely kill him.

In contrast, Sun Chuanting's troops had been completely wiped out after years of bloody fighting.

They were all old, weak, sick and disabled, and all the young people joined the rebel army.

In addition, Chongzhen in the rear was always suspicious of him and would bring him back to the capital and imprison him at any time.

When danger came, he was entrusted with the position of governor of the border army.

His last battle with Li Zicheng took place in Ruzhou. At that time, Li Zicheng was in high spirits, while Sun Chuanting's Ming army was already exhausted, hungry and thirsty.

He tried to get the court to allocate funds, but Chongzhen told him that the treasury was empty and unable to allocate funds, and asked him to find a way himself.

Before the war, he invited wealthy gentry around Shaanxi and asked them to support the Ming Dynasty and held a fundraising banquet. Unfortunately, these people were unwilling to help.

Finally, he took the only food he had and shouted towards the capital: "Your Majesty! The Ming Dynasty is no longer safe! He who wins the hearts of the people wins the world, and the hearts of the people are food! They are an endless supply of troops! But I, Sun Chuanting, have no money, no food, and have given up writing to join the army for more than ten years! Who am I, Sun Chuanting, fighting for! "

During the war, he discovered that there were many fertile fields, but no taxes could be collected on them, which made him extremely angry.

Knowing clearly that the powerful and evil gentry were occupying military land, they could not levy the levy or kill the people who should be killed, because all the fertile land belonged to the royal princes.

"When Chuan Ting died, the Ming Dynasty fell." This sentence was recorded in the "History of Ming Dynasty" in later generations, which shows its importance. "

To briefly talk about Sun Chuanting's deeds, Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to have seen a scene of a Confucian general standing in the background of war, watching the enemy army attacking alone but being unable to do anything.

He knew very well that when fighting a war, what was at stake was the family's wealth and the transportation capacity in the rear.

Once there are no resources to support the front line, defeat is only a matter of time.

Just as Sun Chuanting said, the people's hearts are their food. The rebel army has the support of the gentry, but the imperial court behind him, Sun Chuanting, has long been eaten away by termites, leaving only a shell.

The gap in strength is too big, how should we fight this battle!
"In addition to Sun Chuanting, there was another female general named Qin Liangyu, who was from Zhongzhou, Sichuan. Don't underestimate her because she was a female general. She served under three generations of emperors in the late Ming Dynasty.

She is also the only female general in history who was awarded the title of marquis for her military achievements. The "White Spear Soldiers" she led were even comparable to Yue Fei's army.

He suppressed numerous powerful rebel forces in the south, and even led his men to the northern front, beating Nurhaci so hard that he dared not move forward even a single step.

Even when Nurhaci sent his most valued son Dorgon to fight, he was beaten by Qin Liangyu and dared not show up.

However, if she was not there, unrest would break out in the south, so Qin Liangyu had to be transferred back to the south from the north.

Unfortunately, when she was away, most of the south had been occupied by Zhang Xianzhong. In addition, Qin Liangyu was already in her fifties, so she could only guard her hometown to avoid being slaughtered by the other side.

Zhang Xianzhong was also afraid of Qin Liangyu and did not dare to overstep his authority, fearing that the other party would lead the white-flag soldiers to attack his rear.

So the two sides confronted each other like this until the Qing Dynasty entered the country. "

"Our Ming Dynasty is doomed just like that?"

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes were dazed, and he still couldn't believe that his dynasty was replaced like this.

He really wanted to be as angry and powerful as a lion, but the people in the late Ming Dynasty were so miserable.

Uprisings in various places rose up and attacked the imperial court. The Ming army resisted on the front line but received no support from the rear.

This situation is so similar, isn't it when he was the commander-in-chief and resisted the Yuan court?

"What happened later? The foreign races retook the Central Plains. Our people, did they..." Zhu Yuanzhang asked in a not very confident tone, but Yang Chen was straightforward.

"Yes, of course, it was the Qing Dynasty that finally completed the unification, and the Southern Ming regime that survived by chance during the Ming Dynasty also disappeared in the long river of history not long after its existence.

It is really a pity to say that the fate of the Ming Dynasty at the end of its reign was hard to describe.

At that time, the South had already introduced high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes and corn, but before they could be planted throughout the country, the Ming Dynasty fell.

If there were no internal worries, if there were no external troubles, and if we could hold on a little longer and survive the extreme climate of the Little Glacier, perhaps the common people would be able to have a hot meal and would not rebel.

The Ming Dynasty would not have perished just like that.

However, the demise of the Ming Dynasty was only a matter of time.

After all, the imperial court, the machine that runs the country, has been invaded too deeply by termites, unless a wise and heroic ruler is born.

Otherwise, he could not be saved at all, but people in the court would definitely not allow such an emperor to appear in the Zhu family, because according to historical records.

During the Ming Dynasty's royal family succession process, several people drowned or were killed by quack doctors."

Listening to Yang Chen's sigh, it seemed that he knew that future generations also felt sorry for the disappearance of the Ming Dynasty.

When he heard the latter part, Zhu Yuanzhang's old eyes suddenly brightened up, and he stared at Yang Chen with murderous eyes:

"What did you just say? Our descendant emperor could actually be killed! Are you serious?"

A dull voice suddenly sounded in his ears, and Yang Chen realized that Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to have changed completely, which made him take it seriously.

"Ahem. You must calm down first. These are all speculations of later generations. Some say that emperors have died of accidents since the middle of the Ming Dynasty.

The truth behind these is really a bit strange, and conspiracy theories were born, but let me make it clear that two emperors did die by drowning. "

When Zhu Yuanzhang learned of this, his mind was working wildly.

He is the emperor, so he naturally knows how cruel the struggle behind power can be.

During the Three Kingdoms period, someone killed the king in the street, which completely opened the floodgates for the killing of kings.

If they can do this in front of others, no one knows what kind of tricks they can use behind the scenes. There is nothing new under the sun.

Zhu Yuanzhang knew very well how dirty people could be because of their desires. Even ghosts and gods could not look directly into people's hearts!

"If anyone dares to target our descendants behind our backs, we don't mind sending them to see Yama in advance!"

With squinting eyes, Zhu Yuanzhang's action indicated that in the near future, there might be another large-scale death incident in the Ming Dynasty.

"Yang Chen, just now you said that Ming Dynasty had bad luck, and what are the sweet potatoes, corn, and small glaciers behind it? What are these things?"

Compared with Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Biao was able to grasp different key points.

He had never heard of sweet potatoes and corn, but he heard Yang Chen describe them as high-yield crops.

Why did the Ming Dynasty fall? Wasn't it because the people had no food to eat?

Sun Chuanting has already said that the people's hearts are food. Without food, the dynasty will inevitably perish!

(End of this chapter)