When Wang Tiqian heard Wei Bao call him uncle, his heart warmed, he smiled slightly, and made a gesture of invitation, still saying, "Lord Wei is polite." Lord Wei first, please. ”

Wei Bao hurriedly said: "Uncle, this will torment me, if you don't invite first, we can only talk here." ”

Seeing that Wei Bao was so polite, Wang Tiqian knew that if he didn't go first, Wei Bao would never go first, so he had to smile and nodded, "Then the old slave will trespass." ”

"Uncle, don't you do this? How can I bear it? Wei Bao can have the small achievements he has now, and my uncle has made great efforts, and I am grateful in my heart. Wei Bao said in a sincere tone.

Wang Tiqian said with a smile as he walked: "Lord Wei is too polite, the old slave has never done anything." Lord Wei was born with outstanding talents, and it is all Lord Wei's own ability and efforts. ”

"Uncle, you've already entered my mansion, so don't be a lord, okay? Xiaobao was really uncomfortable listening to it. Wei Bao smiled wryly.

Wang Tiqian smiled slightly, and did not take another sip of a lord.

Entering Wei Bao's mansion, Wei Bao asked Wang Tiqian to sit on the top.

Wang Tiqian was about to excuse himself, but after pushing for a long time, he saw that he couldn't push, so he also sat down with a smile, "Sir, you are too polite." ”

"Uncle, if you talk like this again, you want me to kneel and talk." Wei Bao said with a bitter face.

Wang Tiqian waved his hand, "Okay, you are a smart person, and the old slave will not beat around the bush, you must be very curious to know what the old slave is here for." ”

Wei Bao nodded, it was true, Wei Bao wanted to know Wang Tiqian's intention.

"Xiaobao, you call me uncle, I am a eunuch, I can't ignore it, whether you are sincere or false, I am very happy." Wang Tiqian suddenly changed his tone, and no longer called Wei Bao a lord, nor did he call himself an old slave.

Wei Bao felt a sigh in his heart, although Wang Tiqian hadn't said anything clearly, but Wei Bao immediately guessed Wang Tiqian's intention.

Wang Tiqian is afraid that he just wants to fight against Wei Zhongxian, right?

Wei Bao didn't know why Wang Tiqian suddenly became tough? It's not like Wang Tiqian's usual style.

"Uncle, just say it. I'm stupid, I don't like to guess riddles, and we can say anything clearly, and I will never disobey my uncle's intentions. Wei Bao smiled indifferently.

Wang Tiqian nodded and said, "Your good opportunity has come!" Your resignation is a very good move! ”

The stone in Wei Bao's heart was half lowered, and when he heard Wang Tiqian say this, he knew that he had guessed correctly, and Wang Tiqian probably really wanted to fight against Wei Zhongxian.

What is the reason for the fall of the Ming Dynasty, there are different opinions, and the benevolent see the benevolent and the wise see the wise.

However, there must be a "party dispute" that cannot be avoided.

There is no doubt that the party struggle in the middle and late Ming Dynasty caused great damage to the country's political, economic, military, and social aspects.

Throughout the more than 200 years of the Ming Dynasty, the various parties that emerged can be divided into two types: the eunuch group represented by the eunuch in charge of the eunuch, such as Wang Zhen, Liu Jin, Wei Zhongxian, etc.; and the civil official group represented by university scholars, such as the Yan Party, the Donglin Party, etc.

Since the Emperor Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor gradually decentralized the imperial power, which fell into the hands of the eunuch group and the civil official group, and since then the emperors of all dynasties need to balance the two power groups, otherwise there will be hidden dangers.

For example, Ming Yingzong relied on the important eunuch Wang Zhen to cause the defeat of Tumubao, and eight years later, he united the eunuch group (Cao Jixiang), the civil official group (Xu Youzhen) and the army (Shi Heng) to successfully restore it.

Before Jiajing, no matter how the situation changed, the imperial power represented by the emperor was in the dominant position, that is, the emperor could choose to delegate power to the eunuch group or the civil official group.

In this case, the imperial power was not mortally threatened.

However, the situation changed during the forty-five years of the reign of Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty.

Ming Shizong had no good impression of eunuchs, so not only did he not rely on eunuchs, but also dealt with them ruthlessly.

Therefore, during the entire Jiajing period, there were no eunuchs like Wang Zhen, Liu Jin, and Feng Bao, who were famous and powerful.

In this way, the struggle for power is basically between the imperial power and the civil bureaucracy.

In the last years of Jiajing, Yan Shifan was beheaded, Yan Song was demoted to a commoner, the Yan Party was destroyed, and Xu Jie's promotion to the new cabinet chief assistant.

This political struggle was not only a change of power within the civilian clique, but more importantly, Xu Jie's change in the distribution of power between the imperial power and the civilian clique.

From the Xu Dynasty onwards, the imperial power gradually lost control of the civilian clique.

After the operation of Xu Jie, Gao Gong, the influence of the civil official group on the imperial power was further deepened.

In the first year of Wanli, in 1572, Zhu Yijun, who was only ten years old, ascended the throne, and Zhang Juzheng served as the first assistant of the cabinet, perfectly unifying the imperial power represented by Mingshenzong and Empress Dowager Li and the eunuch group represented by Feng Bao, and the Ming Dynasty ushered in the so-called "Wanli Zhongxing", which is claimed to have lasted for 70 years of the Ming Dynasty.

But this "separation of powers" and the fact that the imperial power is not dominant is very dangerous.

After Zhang Juzheng was liquidated, the Wanli Emperor further delegated his power to the civil official group, which led to the party struggle in the late Wanli period.

Since then, the situation in the country has taken a sharp turn for the worse.

Ming Xizong turned to the eunuch group in order to counter the civil official group, and Wei Zhongxian took the lead, forming a huge political force.

In the original history, in order to counter Wei Zhongxian, Ming Sizong relied on the civil official group.

Although Ming Sizong wanted to reap the benefits of the fisherman and reconsolidate the imperial power, there was no doubt that he was unsuccessful, and Emperor Chongzhen was unable to control the civilian clique no matter how much he centralized power.

This separation of powers, regardless of whether it is reasonable or not, is definitely not Zhu Yuanzhang's original intention.

Zhu Yuanzhang completely abolished the prime minister system since ancient times with the help of Hu Weiyong's case, and the six ministries were directly responsible to the emperor.

This move actually took the power of the civil bureaucracy into the hands of the emperor, and greatly consolidated the imperial power. For eunuchs, Zhu Yuanzhang is even more distrustful.

Clearly disgusted with eunuch interference. Therefore, he explicitly ordered that eunuchs should not be allowed to read and write, and listed this as an ancestral teaching. In this way, all the power in the world is concentrated on him alone, which is the ideal state that Zhu Yuanzhang dreams of. But then the burden on the emperor would be too heavy.

In the final Ming generation, the emperors who can be conscientious and diligent in royal affairs are Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di.

Although Zhu Di set up a cabinet, the civil officials at that time had not yet formed a power group. When Zhu Di died, he left a perfect "Three Yangs" cabinet for Mingrenzong Zhu Gaochi; Akihito reigned for only one year, and when he was dying, he asked the cabinet of the "three yangs" to ask for orphans.

Zhu Zhanji, who ascended the throne of Ming Xuanzong, is also considered virtuous, and it is also decent to rely on the "Sanyang" cabinet to handle government affairs; But he likes to fight crickets, and he is not as diligent as Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di.

At this time, the cabinet shouldered the heavy responsibility of entrusting orphans, further expanded its power, quickly formed a power group, and even appeared the so-called "vote proposal", which directly divided the imperial power.

In order to balance the civil official group and share his own tasks, Ming Xuanzong decided to rely on the power of eunuchs.

But due to Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestral teachings, the eunuchs in the palace were all illiterate. So in the first year of Xuande, Ming Xuanzong ordered the establishment of an "inner study hall" to teach eunuchs to read and write.

From then on, Zhu Yuanzhang's power that Zhu Yuanzhang had worked so hard to concentrate on the emperor was divided within thirty years of his death.

The inner study hall set up by Ming Xuanzong directly laid the root of the bane.

The great eunuch Wang Zhen entered the palace at this time, and quickly gained reuse by virtue of his own cultural level, and was favored by the crown prince Zhu Qizhen.

After the death of Xuanzong, Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne as Ming Yingzong.

At the instigation of Wang Zhen, Yingzong alienated the civilian-official group and suffered the defeat of Tumubao, which directly led to the decline of the Ming Dynasty from a strong state.

Zhu Yuanzhang's founding system was very ideal, and in his own opinion, it was also very effective.

But there is no doubt that the system he created is flawed, and some parts violate the laws of development of human society.

In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, various problems emerged one after another and broke out in a concentrated manner. There is the responsibility of the king of later generations, but there is also the responsibility of Zhu Yuanzhang himself.

His own household registration system was directly related to the large-scale displacement of people in the late Ming Dynasty.

If the kings of later generations can also be as diligent as Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, and faithfully implement Zhu Yuanzhang's system, then the fall of the Ming Dynasty is inevitable.

This is why a country needs to constantly reform to adapt to new national conditions and new levels of productivity.

If Zhu Yuanzhang had a spirit in the sky, he would surely be able to understand this.

Some of the practices of the monarchs of later generations that violated the teachings of the ancestors are also excusable.

But one of his biggest concerns is undoubtedly the absolute possession and control of power.

Even if there are mediocre and incompetent kings in the future, whose talents and virtues are not enough to match absolute power, it is impossible for human beings to force them.

But if Zhu Yuanzhang knew that he had only been dead for thirty years, the emperor's absolute power would have been broken, and not because Xuanzong was mediocre and incompetent, but because he wanted to be lazy, Zhu Yuanzhang would definitely be able to be angry and cheat.

The Ming Dynasty was the last dynasty in Chinese history to be unified by the Han Chinese.

For this dynasty, the cruelty and murder of the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang; There were many bad deeds among the follow-up emperors, and the desolation of Ming Wuzong was rotten; Emperor Jiajing's alchemy into immortals; Emperor Wanli did not govern the court for 20 years; Emperor Xizong loved carpentry, and trusted the eunuch Wei Zhongxian; Emperor Chongzhen's suspicions; Even Ming Xuanzong, who opened the rule of Renxuan, also loved to fight crickets.

The high-pressure and cruel spy rule, the number of spy agencies is the largest in all dynasties, such as Jinyiwei, East Factory, West Factory, etc.; In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the great eunuch Wei Zhongxian brutally purged the Donglin Party.

Taking a careful inventory of history, the Ming Dynasty was a dynasty that was seriously misunderstood, or even deliberately blackened.

The real Ming Dynasty is like this, the Ming Dynasty is the overthrow of the Yuan Dynasty's alien rule, the Yuan Dynasty, the two Song Dynasty after the strong Chinese Han dynasty.

The reign of the Ming Dynasty lasted for 276 years, and if you do not add up the Han Dynasty in the East and the West, and the Song Dynasty in the North and South, the Ming Dynasty is the second unified dynasty of the Han Chinese in Chinese history after the Tang Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty ruled a vast territory, and changed the dilemma that the Chinese Han people were constantly threatened by foreign tribes in the northern and southern Song Dynasty and were in a corner of peace, and from the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, they used their strong military strength to conquer the south and the north, reversing the situation of foreign wars in which the Chinese Han nationality had been weak since the Song Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty had the most advanced political system in the world at that time, the cabinet system.

Starting from Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Dynasty officially abolished the prime minister system and replaced it with the cabinet, which was later imitated by Britain and France, and its cabinet chief assistant was the prototype of the prime ministers of these countries.

When the Ming Dynasty encountered major decisions, a single department could not decide, and it had to be discussed in front of the emperor.

It was this system that ensured the basic functioning of the state administrative bureaucracy in the Ming Dynasty when many emperors were not very diligent in their administration.

The Ming Dynasty already had the germ of capitalism.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to China's inherent agrarian economy, there were already various handicraft workshops on the southeast coast, and the large workshop owners even employed as many as 1,000 workers.

If the Ming Dynasty had supported it for another 50 years, the development of Chinese history would have been very different.

The Ming Dynasty is the most backbone dynasty established by the Han nationality in China, from the beginning of the founding of the country to the end of the country, the Ming Dynasty has never signed an alliance with foreign peoples, does not take the initiative to beg for peace, treats foreign enemies, and the attitude of the Ming Dynasty is to fight to the end from beginning to end.

In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, during the famous Tumubao Rebellion, the Wara Department besieged the Jingshi and held the hostages of the former emperor, but neither of them brought the Ming Dynasty to its knees. In the end, under the blow of the Ming Dynasty, he finally broke the siege and returned the emperor's hostages.

This point has not been done by the strong Han Shengtang that we praise Acura, and the shame of the siege of Baideng and the Turkic iron cavalry was also washed away by the strong Han Shengtang after the initial consolidation and development.

The Ming Dynasty had many vassal states and had a strong influence overseas. Externally, the Ming Dynasty has always been the de facto negotiator in Northeast Asia. During the Wanli period, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who unified Japan, invaded Korea on a large scale, but the Ming Dynasty saw through Toyotomi Hideyoshi's invasion of Korea and saw through that Toyotomi Hideyoshi's invasion of Korea was just a springboard for subsequent plots against China.

Despite the difficulties at home, the Wanli Emperor eventually decided to send troops to Korea and drove the Japanese back to their homeland.

The Ming Dynasty had the most splendid ideology and culture in Chinese history since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

There were many people in the Ming Dynasty's ideological circles and they were open-minded.

In the final Ming Dynasty, Wang Yangming, Wang Tingxiang, Li Zhen, Huang Zongxi, Wang Fuzhi, Gu Yanwu and so on appeared successively, and these people formed their own schools and integrated each other, pushing Chinese ideology and culture to a new peak.

How was such a Ming Dynasty misread and blacklisted?

Among them, one of the most important reasons is the deliberate ugliness of the Qing Dynasty, which rose from the Ming Dynasty.

In order to consolidate its own rule and completely cut off the hope of the vast number of Han people to revive the Ming Dynasty, the Manchu Qing Dynasty carried out a premeditated and systematic large-scale deletion and scandalization work in the aspects of folk customs, ideology, and culture. In terms of folklore, the Han people were forced to keep Manchu hairstyles, and issued the infamous order of "keep your hair without your head, keep your head without hair"; In the ideological and cultural sphere, we have vigorously suppressed and imprisoned intellectuals, vigorously promoted literary prisons, and arbitrarily criticized every word in literary works, making literary creation a daunting path for readers, extremely restricting academic freedom, and seriously restricting people's thinking.

In order to escape the risk of literary hell, scholars no longer care about political, economic, and scientific development, but only blindly bury their heads in the eight strands of literature, resulting in ideological rigidity and regression in science and technology.

Especially during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the Manchu Qing Dynasty carried out a systematic catastrophe on Chinese culture when it was compiling the Siku Quanshu, burning and tampering with the books that were dissatisfied with the Manchu rule and unfavorable and remembering the Ming Dynasty, which was actually a castration of the cultural classics of the previous dynasties.

The Qing Dynasty government summoned the imperial literati to spend a hundred years revising the history of the Ming Dynasty, and tampered with and deleted the history of the Ming Dynasty according to its own wishes, resulting in a big gap between the history of the Ming Dynasty and the real historical facts that we see now.

Later film and television works are full of a large number of positive depictions of the Manchu Dynasty, such as the Kangxi Emperor and the Yongzheng Dynasty, but there are few positive depictions of the Ming Dynasty.

The founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang killed the heroes and rectified the rule of officials, at best, it was just another reshuffle in the distribution of power at the upper level, and it was the people from the lower classes who got the benefits; The criticized behavior of several emperors of the Ming Dynasty did not affect their decision-making and judgment on major national affairs, and the outstanding characteristic of the Ming emperors was that they were not confused about major events.

The famous three major expeditions in the Wanli period were also carried out under the personal decision of Wanli; The treacherous and evil Wei Zhongxian persecuted his political opponents, the Donglin Party, and the cruelty of the political struggle determined that the two sides could only fight to the death.

However, comparing the ruling performance of Wei Zhongxian and the so-called Qingliu Donglin Party, during Wei Zhongxian's administration, state affairs were controllable, and there was no large-scale peasant uprising internally; externally appointed Sun Chengzong and others who were not his own party, and took an offensive against Houjin; After the Donglin Party came to power, the state affairs were all bad and out of control; The so-called Jinyiwei, East Factory, West Factory and other secret agencies are more demonized.