Without kings, generals and celebrities, was the Ming Dynasty really that bad?

Some people say that Zhu Yuanzhang was cruel and easy to kill, Chang Yuchun killed and surrendered, and Tang Bohu could only paint, so in 276 years of the Ming Dynasty, there were no monarchs, generals and celebrities. Is that really the case?

Was there a monarch in the Ming Dynasty?

According to "Notes on Twenty-two Histories", during Zhu Yuanzhang's reign, more than 60 people were corrupt and stood in the land temple, so many people thought that Zhu Yuanzhang was too cruel to officials.

In Feng Menglong's San Yan Er Pai, Qin Zhong, an oil dealer, spent three taels of silver, with a gross profit of 20 taels, leaving 16 taels, which means that Qin Zhong, an adult male, only spent 1 2 taels of silver a year. Corruption of 60 taels means that 60 people have no food a year. If you were among those 60 people, would you still say that Zhu Yuanzhang was too cruel?

After Zhu Yuanzhang won the world, there was no great construction. Every day, he thinks about how to put an end to corrupt officials and allow people to sue the court. This is not a wise monarch. Good for corrupt officials, bad for the people, is it a wise monarch? Sun Minghui lived in Zhu Yunwen to suppress eunuchs and change the historical name of the previous dynasty's malpractice? Wen Jian's New Deal? .

During the reign of Emperor Judy of Yongle, he abolished tyranny, made an expedition to Mongolia to stabilize the north, and compiled the Yongle Grand Ceremony. His sons, Ming Renzong and Sun Zi, rehabilitated unjust imprisonment during his reign and devoted themselves to farming and mulberry. The history of people's happy life is called Ren Xuanzhi. Although Ming Yingzong and Zhu Qizhen were captured in the Northern Expedition, martyrdom was abolished before their death.

Ming Daizong and Zhu Qiyu reused Yu Qian's newly-built garrison, successfully solved the siege of Beijing, and reduced court expenses at ordinary times, and evaluated that future generations had no shortcomings except lust for power.

During Zhu Jianshen's period, Ming Xianzong's population reached a historical peak of 70 million, and it defeated the Nuzhen forces militarily and sent troops to Tatar to recover the Hetao area. Some people call this period. Chenghua Zhongxing?

Zhu Shitang, Emperor Xiaozong of the Ming Dynasty, worked late into the night every day, confided to ministers, felt like a family, restricted the power of eunuchs, was cautious about criminal law, and deleted the severe and severe laws in Daming Law.

Although the historical evaluation of Zhu Houzhao in Ming Wuzong is not very good, he is proficient in Tibetan and Mongolian, riding horses and shooting arrows. The Battle of Yingzhou? Mongolia has been afraid to invade for decades. Take the initiative to understand foreign civilizations.

Although Zhu Houzong, Emperor Shizong of the Ming Dynasty, liked to cultivate immortals, he improved the cabinet system. After decades of absence from court, the country still operated normally. He reformed the imperial examination and abolished the inheritance rights of lords from generation to generation. At least half a monarch, right?

A *** 16 emperor in the Ming Dynasty had at least eight and a half emperors. Although the other emperors have their own hobbies, they can't be said to be bad emperors, so it is obviously wrong to say that there is no monarch in the Ming Dynasty.

Unknown general of Ming dynasty?

The nameless Ming Dynasty will be the biggest joke, not to mention how the founding generals drove the Yuan Army out of the Central Plains. For Qi Jiguang, he is an unprecedented star. According to his predecessors' experience and his own cognition, he created the Yuanyang array.

1555, Yuanyang array first appeared. In Ninghai, the enemy was beheaded for half an hour, and 300 soldiers were killed or injured. After the war, 1500 people, 1000 people rushed to the front, working day and night, beheading 308 people of 4000 enemies, drowning countless enemies, and only 3 people were killed in this battle.

156 1 In April, Qi Jiguang moved from Ninghai to Changsha, and the size of a month was 13. 1562 captured Hengdao in three hours, beheaded 2600 Japanese pirates, and sacrificed 13 people. Break 60 Japanese camps in one night.

After the Japanese army was pacified, Qi Jiguang entered northern Xinjiang and established a chariot camp according to the characteristics of cavalry. In the first battle, 8,000 people wiped out 30,000 cavalry of Dong Huli, and in the second battle, 8,000 people wiped out 50,000 cavalry. Since then, Mongolian tribes have not dared to knock off for decades.

There were no celebrities in the Ming Dynasty?

Some people think that Tang Bohu is the representative of the literati in the Ming Dynasty, and he is just a painter with a bad official career, so he is an unknown official in the Ming Dynasty. But the person who said this didn't know that Yu Qian understood the siege of Beijing, and Xu Jie couldn't beat the reform of Yan Song and Zhang, did he?

In addition, there was a saint in the Ming Dynasty who could be compared with Confucius and Mencius. He is Wang Yangming. Wang Yangming was determined to be a saint since he was a child. When I grew up, I realized Taoism in Longchang and put forward the concept of the unity of conscience and knowledge. He thinks that the sky is man's desire and man's need is the sky.

During the reign of Zheng De, thieves from southern Jiangxi were everywhere, and the court could not suppress them for a long time. Even government officials have the eyes and ears of thieves. After Wang Yangming took office, it took only a few months to suppress the bandits who had plagued the court 10 for many years.

15 19 Wang Ning Rebellion, Wang Shouren immediately started recruiting after hearing the news, and defeated Wang Ning with 60,000 chosen men in just 35 days, ending a long-planned rebellion.

In his life? Psychology? Thirty-eight volumes of Wang Chengwen's Book of Public Rights opposed to following the Tao of Confucius and Mencius unconditionally, which had a great influence on the thoughts of the middle and late Ming Dynasty and other Asian countries.

In the era when Neo-Confucianism prevailed, Wang Yangming broke the shackles, made contributions, and stood firm. His achievements are not inferior to those of Confucius. If such people are not celebrities, are there any celebrities in history?