Sky Curtain: The opening scene explains the four major cases of the Ming Dynasty plus the early Ming

prisoner!

When these two words came out of Zhu Dijun's mouth, they were like two invisible mountains, pressing down on the hearts of all the emperors in the myriad worlds and timelines!

The most expensive and most luxurious... prisoner in the Forbidden City!

What a vicious, yet so accurate, judgment!

The Yongle Palace of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Di's body had stopped trembling. He simply stood there, all emotion gone from his bloodshot eyes, leaving only a deathly silence.

He recalled his life of military campaigns, how he had seized the throne from mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

I recalled my own lofty ambition when I moved the capital to Beijing, and the emperor guarded the nation's gate.

I recalled my five expeditions to the northern deserts, seven voyages to the Western Ocean, and the compilation of the Yongle Encyclopedia, which forged a glorious career!

In the end, everything he fought for, the empire he left to his descendants, turned out to be nothing more than a magnificent prison built for a group of "accountants" in his eyes.

And his descendants are like caged birds.

absurd!

ridiculous!

sad!

Why...?

Zhu Zhanji, the future Xuande Emperor, spoke in a hoarse voice, voicing the question that perplexed all emperors.

Why did it turn out like this?

"When our Great Ming Dynasty was founded, Emperor Taizu, a commoner, drove out the barbarians and restored China! Emperor Chengzu ascended the throne after the Jingnan Campaign, and his military prowess was unparalleled!"

"Has my Zhu family ever mistreated any scholar in the land?"

"Why do they go to such lengths to trample imperial power underfoot?!"

That's a great question!

In the live stream, the sea of ​​anger paused for a moment because of this question.

Yes, why?

Why did the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty harbor such deep hostility towards the imperial power, especially towards the Wu Xun clique?

Above the screen, Zhu Dijun's gaze swept across the comments, as if he could see through everyone's doubts.

"Family members, you've hit the nail on the head."

"The formation of any large corporation does not happen overnight."

"The reason why the Ming Dynasty civil official group dared to 'want more, want more, and want even more,' and why they dared to plan such a shocking case as the Tumu Crisis, which involved the murder of the emperor and the killing of his ministers, was because their fangs, their ambitions, and their 'orthodox tradition' had already been fattened up to an enormous degree hundreds of years ago."

Zhu Dijun paused for a moment, and then he said something that surprised everyone.

"Those of you who are knowledgeable about history have probably already guessed what's going on here."

"The real rise of the civil service group began in the Song Dynasty."

"So much so that many people on the internet jokingly say that the Song Dynasty fell because of Zhao Kuangyin, and the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, to some extent, also indirectly fell because of Zhao Kuangyin!"

"The one we often talk about... Zhao Da!"

boom--!

One stone caused a thousand waves!

If revealing the truth about Tumu Fortress was like throwing a boulder into a calm lake...

So now, Zhu Dijun's words are no less than detonating a deep-sea nuclear bomb!

Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Di, and others from the Ming Dynasty era were all stunned.

The Song Dynasty? Zhao Kuangyin?

What does this have to do with their Ming Dynasty?

Emperors like Liu Che of the Han Dynasty, Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty, and Ying Zheng of the Qin Dynasty, all of whom were great men of talent and ambition, also had their brows furrowed.

They can understand dynastic changes, but how can a founding emperor from hundreds of years ago shift the blame to a completely different dynasty hundreds of years later?

That's a really far-fetched argument!

[“Holy crap? Jun-ge, that's a huge leap! He jumped straight from the Ming Dynasty to the Song Dynasty?”]

["Zhao Kuangyin: I just ended the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, what the hell did I do to deserve this huge, centuries-old blame being slapped on me?"]

"That makes sense! 'Punishment does not extend to high-ranking officials' and 'Sharing the world with scholar-officials'—didn't that originate in the Song Dynasty? Those civil officials in the Ming Dynasty, always spouting 'ancestral rules,' were probably thinking about the 'ancestral rules' of the Song Dynasty!"

"Don't talk nonsense. Zhao Da's release of military power over a cup of wine and his emphasis on civil officials over military ones were intended to end the chaos caused by military men during the late Tang and Five Dynasties period. His initial intention was good!"

In the first year of the Kaibao era of the Great Song Dynasty, in Bianliang, the capital city of Tokyo.

Zhao Kuangyin, who seized power through the Chenqiao Mutiny and established the Song Dynasty eight years later, was looking at his vast empire with great ambition.

He saw the sky and the magnificent scene of later generations, and his heart was filled with longing and pride.

But when Zhu Dijun uttered those words, the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty was completely stunned.

Did the Song Dynasty fall to us?

Did the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties also indirectly perish because of us?

Zhao Kuangyin was so angry he almost jumped off the dragon throne, his square face turning bright red.

"Outrageous! Absolutely outrageous!"

He pointed at the sky and started cursing.

"I ended the chaos of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, sparing the people from war and restoring unity to the land! And yet, these descendants not only fail to remember my merits, but actually blame me for the downfall of four dynasties?!"

"I will not take the blame for this!"

He was angry, he was confused, and he felt an immense injustice!

However, above the sky, Judy Jun seemed to hear his roar.

The scene shifts, and a clear chart appears before everyone.

The title was strikingly clear: "[The Rise of Civil Officials in the Song Dynasty]!"