Sky Curtain: The Overlord Charges into Battle, Shocking Emperors of All Dynasties

A hair-shaving edict?

Money rat tail?

These few words, like massive boulders weighing tens of thousands of tons, crashed down across the ages, creating towering waves.

Previously, when Tianmu described the brutality of the Qing army and the massacre of Jinan, they had already seen the Qing army's hairstyle at that time.

His entire head was shaved bald, leaving only a short braid at the back of his head, like a rat's tail.

It was truly hideous.

The meaning of "sky curtain" is that

After the Qing army occupied the Han Chinese territory in the Central Plains, did they actually force all Han Chinese people to adopt this hairstyle?

"Our bodies, hair, and skin are gifts from our parents!"

"This is an absolute insult to the men of Han Chinese culture!!"

"Have all the Han people of later generations died out? Pick up your swords and fight back!!!"

Liu Che roared like a madman. The thought of future generations of people having to shave their heads like that filled him with dread.

"Of all the dynasties that fell, why did the Manchus have to take over the Ming Dynasty?!"

"That Da Shun was just as useless as Huang Chao; he couldn't even defeat a small tribe of a few million people."

"I refuse to believe that the Qing army is so capable!"

Liu Che's furious mood permeated the entire hall, and even the officials in the hall were infected by this mood.

They all clamored to send troops to completely annihilate the Xiongnu, to wipe out the ancestors of these foreign tribes, to uproot them completely, and see how they could then harm their descendants.

Short of food and money?

At worst, they could just follow the example of the powerful clans during the Zhenguan era and provide the money and manpower.

Could it be that they are inferior to their descendants?

Even if their emperors couldn't compare to Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin, during the Zhenguan era,

Then we must also prove that the ministers during Emperor Wu's reign were no less capable than those during the Zhenguan era!

Yang Wuhai, you have to pay the lion's share.

Who made you the Hongnong Yang family, a family with a thousand-year history?

Yuan Dynasty

Kublai Khan touched the top of his smooth head, a perfect bald patch.

With strands of hair falling loose on both sides, this is the most common hairstyle for Mongolian men called "Pojō".

Kublai Khan was actually quite satisfied with his hairstyle; at least it was cooler, wasn't it?

He's gotten used to this hairstyle and doesn't want to change it to a Han Chinese hairstyle anymore.

He never even considered how to change this thing.

This is completely unnecessary. Customs differ between ethnic groups anyway.

As long as they don't rebel and pay my taxes on time, isn't that enough?

Throughout the Yuan Dynasty, there was never any forced change of hairstyle from Han Chinese to Mongol.

There is a clear boundary between the two.

Therefore, compared to the Qing Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty could actually be considered a better foreign dynasty.

At least they didn't intend to change the culture of the Central Plains.

This corresponds to that saying,

The world is just a giant makeshift operation, and in the end, it's a process of competing to be the worst.

Hongwu,

Zhu Yuanzhang had completely gone mad; that murderous aura only appeared when he learned that the Ming Dynasty had once again been destroyed by foreign invaders.

He originally thought that after the Qing Dynasty took control of the Central Plains, the worst outcome would be the same as the Yuan Dynasty.

That was already what he considered hell on earth.

Even though he was often hungry and cold, he still remembered who his ancestors were.

He knew he was a Han Chinese and that he still had hair on his head.

Meanwhile, the group of warriors under Zhu Yuanzhang who had fought alongside him since the end of the Yuan Dynasty had their eyes bloodshot and were grinding their teeth.

If it weren't for Zhu Yuanzhang still being there to oversee things, they would have already stormed out of the palace gates.

Leading his personal guards, he headed straight for the Jurchen prisoners being held.

Some people even harbored resentment towards Lan Yu.

It's all Lan Yu's fault for killing them so quickly; otherwise, they wouldn't have wanted to kill the Jurchens to vent their anger, and they would have had to find them among the prisoners.

Now Zhu Yuanzhang is worried about one thing.

As mentioned before on the screen, the Qing Dynasty had twelve emperors. Doesn't this mean that the saying "barbarian dynasties never last a hundred years" didn't come true during the Qing Dynasty?

More than two hundred years have passed, and this hateful Qing Dynasty is once again trying to forget the culture of the Han people.

How many people will remember that they are Han Chinese, that they are Han men who wear their hair in a bun and tie their hair up with a hairpin?

In comparison, Qian Qianyi was at least somewhat conscientious; at least he realized his mistake and returned to the right path.

There was a man who was the seventeenth-generation descendant of Fan Zhongyan, the very same Fan Zhongyan, the famous Northern Song Dynasty official who uttered the famous line, "Be the first to worry about the world's troubles and the last to enjoy its pleasures."

[His seventeenth-generation descendant was quite remarkable. During the Ming Dynasty, he passed the imperial examination in Shenyang at the age of 13, enjoying the privilege of exemption from corvée labor. His family was also extremely wealthy, so he had no need to worry about money at all.]

In the end, Fan Wencheng, the seventeenth-generation descendant of Fan Zhongyan, rose to the position of Grand Secretary of the Inner Secretariat, was granted the title of Grand Tutor and concurrently Grand Preceptor of the Crown Prince, was posthumously honored with the title of Wensu, and was enshrined in the Temple of Worthies.

The court officials of the Song Dynasty looked at Fan Zhongyan with envy.

He possessed so many qualities that these scholars envied.

Leaving aside the fact that he was able to write the timeless line, "Be the first to worry about the world's troubles and the last to enjoy its pleasures," which has been remembered by later generations for thousands of years,

This was, after all, Fan Zhongyan's own ability and his own ambition.

This posthumous title is "Wenzheng"!

This is the highest praise a scholar can receive.

All they sought was to be remembered in history, and to receive a good posthumous title from the emperor after their deaths.

Fan Zhongyan got his hands on all of this.

"Fan Qing has truly made a name for himself in history. Not only has he achieved perfect merit, but his descendants have also lived up to his expectations."

Emperor Renzong of Song, Zhao Zhen, sincerely congratulated Fan Zhongyan, and was genuinely happy for his minister.

When Zhao Zhen spoke, even the court officials who were secretly jealous of Fan Zhongyan suppressed their bitterness and envy and offered their congratulations to Fan Zhongyan.

The congratulations from the crowd came one after another, but when they reached Fan Zhongyan's ears, it was as if there was an invisible, thick barrier blocking these words out.

This did not change the solemn and sorrowful expression on Fan Zhongyan's face at all.

In addition, there were a few exceptionally intelligent individuals, such as Zhang Fangping and Fu Bi.

They all looked at Fan Zhongyan with solemn expressions, some even with pity.

Following Tianmu's usual practice, this is clearly another sarcastic remark.

The ministers of the late Ming Dynasty, however, came to their senses.

The Ming Dynasty has never had a position of Grand Secretary of the Inner Secretariat.

Fan Wencheng was a scholar from Shenyang during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. He failed the imperial examinations multiple times. After the Qing army captured Fushun, he voluntarily surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, becoming one of the earliest Han Chinese scholars from Liaodong to submit to the Manchus.

After Huang Taiji ascended the throne, he regarded him as his chief strategist and began to reform the Later Jin dynasty by imitating the Ming dynasty's system.

[Afterwards, he repeatedly presided over the efforts to persuade Ming Dynasty taxi drivers to surrender and implemented counter-espionage strategies. When the Ming Dynasty was about to fall, the Qing army originally only wanted to plunder, but Fan Wencheng strongly urged Dorgon to enter the pass and seize the world.]

[Afterwards, he neither resisted nor spoke out against the shaving order; he was powerless to stop the Manchus' land enclosure and massacres.]

He can be considered one of the greatest contributors to the Qing Dynasty's establishment of its rule. He retired gracefully after achieving his goals and died peacefully, fulfilling his life's ambitions. He was posthumously honored with the title Wensu and enshrined in the Temple of Worthies.