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

Sun Zhixie, I'll fuck your ancestors!!!

These heartfelt words flowed continuously from the mouths of the ancients, offering greetings to Sun Zhixie's family.

Later generations were too reserved and too conservative.

Are the later generations perhaps too well-educated, that they actually give face to a villain like Sun Zhixie?

He only bullies those who came after him because they were educated and intellectuals.

In the early years of Chongzhen's reign,

An eerie atmosphere descended upon the imperial court.

Even though it was noon, the intense sunlight streamed through the windows and through the palace doors, bathing people in a warm glow.

Sun Zhixie felt the light emanating from his body, but instead of warmth, he felt a chilling coldness that broke out on his skin.

He finally got his wish; Sun Zhixie finally caught the big fish he had been waiting for.

While he may not be as prominent as figures like Qian Qianyi, his actions were truly infuriating.

But the bad news is, this person turned out to be himself.

At this moment, Qian Qianyi, who was far away in Changshu, felt as if he had grabbed a lifeline while drowning, and was extremely grateful to Sun Zhixie.

He's afraid to go out now, for fear of being beaten up by angry mobs.

Now, the vermilion gates of his Qian mansion are covered in excrement, stinking horribly.

If Tianmu hadn't said he would later support the anti-Qing struggle, the mansion gates would probably have already been broken down.

Sun Zhixie looked at the eyes of his colleagues around him, which seemed to want to devour him alive. Even the ministers who were formerly part of the eunuch faction now wished they could kill him.

Just kidding. Being a fellow member of the eunuch faction in the past doesn't mean we want to be traitors.

Anyway, the canopy didn't mention our situation.

We must quickly and justly cut ties, or we'll get ourselves into trouble!

"Traitor!! Villain!! Rebel!!!"

After a heart-wrenching roar, a figure struck first, his slender frame unleashing astonishing power as he punched Sun Zhixie in the face.

It's as if the war horns have sounded, and someone is leading the charge.

The Ming Dynasty imperial court instantly turned into a scene of armed conflict.

All the court officials rushed towards Sun Zhixie, while those on the periphery who couldn't break in served to bolster the crowd.

He continued cursing, spitting as he flew towards Sun Zhixie on the ground.

As Zhu Youjian watched the martial arts contest unfolding in the main hall, he felt not exhilaration, but rather a sense of frustration.

Sun Zhixie's actions naturally deserve to be punished by a thousand cuts, or even by slow slicing.

But he is still an official of the Ming Dynasty, and how to deal with him should naturally be decided by the emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

This situation is strikingly similar to that of the fourteenth year of the Zhengtong reign, when court officials beat the commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard and Wang Zhen's cronies to death in court.

In the eyes of these civil officials, what exactly is I, the emperor?

Zhu Youjian's face darkened, becoming somewhat gloomy.

He now just hopes that Tianmu can mention more loyal ministers and generals, or even a few traitors.

Consider it eliminating incorrect options.

Zhu Youjian currently only knows Lu Xiang-sheng, and he has about ten years left.

It should still be possible to save everything.

I, Zhu Youjian, will never become a ruler who brings about the downfall of a nation!

Before long, the surrounding courtiers dispersed, their faces showing much relief. Suddenly, a dark red, fleshy mass appeared on the polished palace surface, still vaguely resembling a human figure.

It was indeed Sun Zhixie, who was clearly already dead.

...

Is this what a civil official is like?

The ancients under the sky certainly broadened their horizons.

Even if they had considered the possibility that the civil service might dare to seize power, or even murder the emperor, they couldn't find the words to describe such people who were ungrateful, shameless, and would bring endless harm.

Powerful clans have low upper limits and high lower limits, while civil service groups have high upper limits and low lower limits.

The more I think about this sentence on the sky, the more correct it seems.

They accepted that the upper limit was high, since the powerful families did indeed prevent those below from climbing up, but they never expected the lower limit to be so low!

"A traitorous official like him dares to be ranked alongside Fan Zhongyan?"

The person who said this was none other than the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty. He curled his lip, showing utter disdain that Sun Zhixie could be ranked alongside Fan Wencheng.

In the eyes of the Qing emperors, officials who had enjoyed the Ming dynasty's salary and then surrendered were nothing short of traitors and traitors.

For this reason, Emperor Qianlong included all of these people in the "Biographies of Traitorous Officials".

Although a distinction was made between the A and B levels, a traitor is still a traitor.

Once a traitor, always a traitor!

Sun Zhixie was utterly disgusting and shameless. He took the lead in shaving his head and changing his clothes, which conveniently prompted Dorgon to implement the same policy.

Follow-up comment: I didn't originally intend to rush things, but then I saw that the Han Chinese themselves had proposed shaving their heads and changing their clothes.

Follow-up comment: Keep your hair, lose your head; keep your head, lose your hair.

Follow-up comment: This directly triggered the Hair Protection Uprising among the people of Jiangnan, and millions of people died tragically because of Sun Zhixie's words.

Sun Zhixie's fate wasn't as good as he imagined. He thought he was going to be promoted, but in the end, he was demoted and sent back to his hometown of Zichuan on some random pretext.

Follow-up comment: In the end, he was captured alive by the rebel army led by Xie Qian. His whole body was pierced with steel needles, pig bristles were inserted, and his hair was transplanted. He was then dismembered and executed by slow slicing. All seven members of his family, including men, women, and children, were killed without exception.

Follow-up comment: The key point is that the Qing government didn't react at all, refusing any posthumous awards or compensation, basically giving nothing.

Follow-up comment: The Qing Dynasty emperors despised his shameless flattery of the enemy and his poisoning of the people, considering him to be two-faced and of low character.

During the Qianlong era, the "Biographies of Traitorous Officials" was compiled, labeling all those who betrayed the Ming and surrendered to the Qing as traitorous officials, regardless of their great contributions.

Follow-up comment: They thought they would be treated well like in the Yuan Dynasty, but they didn't expect that the Manchus didn't treat them as human beings at all.

Follow-up comment: These people deserve it. The Qing Dynasty was able to stabilize itself, and many of its ruthless policies were even proposed by Han Chinese.

Follow-up comment: Despicable. These people are just spineless, afraid of death, or maybe they're only good at bullying their own kind.

"hehe"

Ying Zheng understood perfectly, and scoffed. He could naturally see through the Qing dynasty emperor's intentions in doing this.

During the Qianlong era, a considerable amount of time had passed since the Qing Dynasty seized power. Naturally, at that time, the promotion of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism was essential.

Ironically, these traitors played a significant role in the establishment of the Qing Dynasty.

"The Qing Dynasty didn't actually despise these people; it was simply that their regime was now stable and they no longer needed to win over these surrendered officials."

"At this time, we must pay attention to integrity and value loyal ministers."

"Perhaps the Qing Dynasty would even hold ceremonies for those righteous men who died resisting the Qing and sacrificing their lives for their country!"

"I just don't know if the Qing Dynasty itself acknowledged those massacres, and how many people in later generations will remember them!"

Ying Zheng realized that the civil officials of the Song Dynasty were probably a new phenomenon and still retained some of the scholar-official spirit.

By the Ming Dynasty, they had truly lost all sense of shame.

There might even be more shameless things to do.

"If Confucius saw his disciples like this, he'd blow up his grave!"

Liu Bang's words revealed that he had no fondness for Confucian scholars to begin with, and he found even more repulsiveness in later generations of Confucian scholars.

The attire and speech of the scholars on the sky were clearly those of Confucian scholars and the words passed down from Confucius.

"I think the imperial edict says that the Han people contributed greatly to the establishment and system of the Qing Dynasty. Could it be that the Qing Dynasty was able to conquer the country with the help of the Han people?"

Ying Zheng asked suspiciously, because he genuinely felt that everything the Qing Dynasty displayed at its inception lacked the grandeur of a newly established dynasty.

Even the Yuan Dynasty in later generations was conquered by a foreign ethnic group.

But considering Kublai Khan's emphasis on talent, the large number of Han Chinese he won over, and the generous treatment he received, this is the kind of person who could conquer the world.

Given the harshness of the Qing dynasty, it's likely they didn't pay a single penny, relying entirely on threatening them with knives.

What other methods could they possibly use after cutting corners like that?!