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

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The grotesque madness of the civil and military officials inside the Hall of Supreme Harmony was clearly presented to every modern viewer through the backdrop.

After a brief silence, the chat in the live stream exploded!

"Holy crap! Holy crap! What am I seeing? A court of high officials dividing up the spoils right here? This is even more disgusting than fighting over cabbage at a market!"

"They've gone mad! Brother Jun has gone mad! These ministers have gone mad too! They're treating the entire Jiangnan region like a piece of fat meat, letting a pack of hungry wolves devour it!"

Amidst this wave of shock, countless long-dormant trolls, like sharks smelling blood, suddenly emerged!

"Heh, do you see clearly now? This is the 'Emperor of All Time' you've been praising? A complete hypocrite!"

"They put it nicely, saying things like 'I will use my crippled body to prolong the life of the Ming Dynasty,' but what happened? They turned around and sold out Jiangnan, then held a spoils-sharing party with a bunch of corrupt officials! Disgusting!"

"What's the difference between him and those gentry? No! He's far more terrifying than the gentry! The gentry embezzle in secret, but he directly legalizes robbery, turning the imperial court into the biggest den of bandits!"

"It's over, the Ming Dynasty is completely finished! Its very foundation is rotten! An emperor leading the way in dividing the spoils—it's a step backward in history! A tyrant! A despot!"

The trolls' comments instantly stirred up a huge wave of controversy.

However, their triumph was short-lived, as an even more overwhelming torrent of bullet comments completely engulfed them!

["Is the person upstairs blind or brain-dead? Is Brother Jun selling out the 'country'? He's selling out the home of those traitors!"]

"If you don't understand, don't spout nonsense! Brother Jun made it very clear earlier! The ships are being nationalized! The land is being distributed to the people! This is digging up the roots of the gentry, winning over the hearts of the people and the nation's most powerful weapons! What's left is just the hard-earned money that those corrupt officials have plundered from the people. What's wrong with taking it out now?!"

"A stroke of genius! This is a fucking stroke of genius! You think this is just a simple division of spoils? This is a 'pledge of allegiance'! It's about dragging all the potential opportunists in the entire northern officialdom onto his pirate ship!"

"That's right! After eating the meat and drinking the blood, who the hell would dare to get off the ship? Anyone who dares to betray Brother Jun will be torn to pieces by the forces of Jiangnan if Brother Jun exposes what happened today! They have no choice but to go down this dark path and become Brother Jun's sharpest and most obedient blade!"

"Using the money of traitors to buy a brand new court that is loyal only to the emperor! Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant! This move directly turns potential internal resistance into the greatest advantage! A brilliant strategy! This is the most sophisticated brilliant strategy!"

……

Beneath the sky, dynasties have come and gone.

When countless emperors and generals witnessed that absurd and insane scene in the Hall of Supreme Harmony, they were first stunned, and then fell into a long silence.

They are not the modern-day haters.

Being at the center of the power vortex, they almost instantly grasped the ruthlessness and brilliance of Judy Jun's move.

Looking at the frenzied figures on the map, Qin Shi Huang, Ying Zheng, muttered to himself:

"Using the flesh and blood of the enemy to feed one's own hounds... This son is just like me."

Emperor Wu of Han, Liu Che, had a glint in his eyes:

"What a brilliant phrase, 'our wealth'! With just one sentence, a bloody purge has been transformed into a righteous act of reclaiming lost property! If I had possessed such courage back then, why would I have worried about the difficulty of implementing the Edict of Grace?"

Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin, frowned deeply. After a long while, he sighed to Changsun Wuji beside him:

"Fuji, do you understand? He's not sharing the spoils, he's sharing the blame. He's making everyone an 'accomplice,' so that from now on, the ruler and his subjects are one, with no more checks and balances. Such cunning is chilling."

Emperor Gaozong of Song, Zhao Gou, trembled all over and turned pale as he watched.

He seemed to see that if Yue Fei had had such means back then, binding all the northern generals to his war chariot, then what would the so-called "twelve gold tablets" be?

At this moment, Zhu Dijun's seemingly crazy actions were transformed into a textbook example of imperial tactics in the eyes of all those who truly understood power struggles!

……

The Ming Dynasty, during the Hongwu era.

The atmosphere inside the Fengtian Hall was extremely oppressive.

"Damn it!!"

Zhu Yuanzhang slammed his hand on the dragon throne, and the solid wood cracked under his blow!

His eyes were bloodshot as he stared intently at the map of Jiangnan in the sky, which had been divided up into a mess. His chest heaved violently, and he trembled with rage.

"Fourth brother!!"

He grabbed Zhu Di by the collar and spat on Zhu Di's face.

"Take a good look at yourself! This is your fine descendant!!"

"The land we fought so hard to build! The land we snatched back inch by inch from the Mongol Yuan dynasty! And he... he just distributed it like pork to those corrupt officials?!"

Zhu Yuanzhang's voice carried a deep-seated anger and heartache.

That is the most simple and sacred feeling that farmers have for the land.

In his view, Zhu Dijun's behavior was wasteful! It was treason! It was handing over the Zhu family's ancestral property to others!

"He's insane! He's absolutely insane!!"

Zhu Di was so dizzy from his father's shaking that his face was full of embarrassment and confusion.

"Father... Father, please calm your anger... Your son... Your son doesn't know either..."

Zhu Di was also extremely frustrated.

Just moments before, he had been moved to tears by the descendant's poignant declaration, "With my crippled body, I will prolong the life of the Ming Dynasty."

How come the style of the painting changed so suddenly?

The reversal was too fast; even he couldn't keep up.

But as he looked at the descendant of "himself" on the sky, with that calm and cold face, a strange feeling rose in his heart.

wrong.

This young man named Zhu Dijun is definitely not a hot-headed fool.

He must have had a deeper purpose in doing this!

"Father, please don't be anxious."

Zhu Di explained with difficulty,

"He...no, Dijun isn't that kind of person! Look at him ahead, every step is calculated and meticulous! He definitely...definitely has a backup plan!"

……

The Ming Dynasty, the Yongle era.

Inside the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Di's face was no better than his father's, so gloomy it was almost dripping with water.

The nascent appreciation and recognition of his offspring had vanished, replaced by deep confusion and discontent.

His gaze, sharp as a knife, shot towards Zhu Gaosui, who stood below, his legs trembling with fear.

"Third brother!"

Zhu Di's voice was icy cold.

"What exactly does your descendant want to do?"

"One minute they were all ready to sacrifice themselves for the country, bravely facing death in the southeast, earning us countless tears. How come the next minute they're dividing up the nation like a pie?"

"Is he acting? Acting for me, acting for the whole world?!"

Zhu Gaosui knelt down with a "plop," sweating profusely, and unable to speak properly.

"Father...Father...Your son...Your son is innocent!"

He felt like crying!

What kind of nonsense is this?!

First, she doubted whether Judy Jun was her descendant, and now she's questioning why her descendant did this! How am I supposed to know?!

Zhu Gaosui screamed wildly in his heart:

"My good descendant! My dear ancestor! Say something! For your great-grandfather's sake, for my peanut, for my peanut's sake, if you don't explain, your father will be chopped off by your great-great-grandfather!"

Just when the relationship between the ruler and his subjects, father and son, was on the verge of collapse.

A calm, unwavering voice slowly rose to the occasion.

"Amitabha."

Yao Guangxiao, dressed in a black monk's robe, had somehow walked to the center of the main hall.

He faced Zhu Di on the dragon throne and slightly clasped his hands together.

"Your Majesty, please calm your wrath."

Zhu Di looked at his chief strategist, barely suppressing his anger: "Master, are you going to defend him too? How can my empire be divided up like this!"

Yao Guangxiao shook his head. His eyes, which seemed to understand the ways of the world, remained calm, but instead gleamed with a strange light.

"Your Majesty, you are mistaken."

"The later Emperor Jingtai was not selling out the country."

Yao Guangxiao's voice seemed to carry a calming power.

"He's using the money of a national traitor to buy a brand new... Ming Dynasty court, loyal only to him!"

"Your Majesty, please consider this carefully. If we don't do this, won't those civil and military officials in the north be bribed by the gentry in the south, becoming an obstacle to your implementation of the new policies?"

"The Tumu Crisis can be seen as a collaboration between the civil service groups in the north and south. Now that they have been split apart, they have become mortal enemies."

"The civil and military officials in the north have the blood of the gentry of Jiangnan on their hands, and they eat the flesh of the gentry of Jiangnan. Their relationship with Jiangnan is now one of irreconcilable enmity! Do they have any other choice but to follow Your Majesty's descendant?"

"Furthermore, Your Majesty, what he distributed were fields, shops, gold, and silver... these were all the private property of the gentry. But what truly concerns the foundation of the nation—the large ships that sail the seas—he nationalized! And he gave land to the countless displaced people, thus winning their hearts and minds!"

"He's taking a huge gamble, binding everyone's interests tightly to his own cause! From now on, those who obey him will prosper, and those who oppose him will perish!"

Every word Yao Guangxiao uttered struck Zhu Di's heart like a heavy hammer.

Zhu Di's anger gradually subsided.

Instead, there was a deep chill rising from the soles of my feet and... an extreme shock!

He looked again at the young junior sitting on the dragon throne in the sky, coldly observing everything.

At that moment, he finally understood.

What martyrdom, what dying for one's country...

That was all just preparation!

This is his real killer move!

He used the greed of the people to build his own supreme authority!

This descendant...

Even more ruthless than myself!