Is there anything better in the Ming Dynasty than in the Qing Dynasty?

In chronological order, the Qing dynasty was later than the Ming dynasty, so it is reasonable to say that all aspects of social development are much better than the Ming dynasty.

So what advantages does the Ming Dynasty have over the Qing Dynasty?

Official selection system

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The selection of officials in the Ming Dynasty was mainly based on imperial examinations. After Yongle, scholars all over the world tended to take the imperial examination. In the early Ming Dynasty, it was also an important source to select outstanding students from Guo Jian, imperial academy.

Being an official in the imperial examination is regarded as the right way to be an official, supplemented by a small number of imperial academy diploma students and donating classes. In addition, the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty formed an atmosphere of being proud of the imperial examination background and despising the donation of officials. The important officials of the central and local governments are all from the imperial examination, and the cabinet and the suggestion are even more expensive. It is impossible to donate officials to be magistrates.

Although the Ming Dynasty attached great importance to the imperial examination, it also brought many disadvantages, but in general, the imperial examination provided a fair channel for scholars to study and make progress, and officials from the imperial examination had been educated for at least ten years, so knowledge was not a problem, and there would be no jokes in the Qing Dynasty that the magistrate could not read and the governor could not read official documents.

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In the Qing dynasty, there were a large number of donated officials outside the imperial examination-that is, spending money to buy officials aboveboard! !

The donation system in Qing Dynasty began in Shunzhi, completed in Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong, and flooded in Xianfeng and Tongzhi. Together with imperial examination and shadow attack, it is the three ways to select bureaucrats in Qing Dynasty.

Although the donation system has the function of "supplementing subjects" and stabilizing the feudal ruling order, it also has serious drawbacks. After the establishment of Kang, Yong and Gan Dynasties, these disadvantages were fully exposed. Every time a donation case is set up, people who donate money to sell officials and titles are flocking to it.

After all, donating officials in the Qing dynasty turned officials into a good business, and the cost of donating officials was actually not much. In the three dynasties of Kang, Yong and Gan, it only takes four or five thousand taels of silver to donate a magistrate. At that time, there were more than one million people in the society with tens of thousands of assets, and the magistrate of a county was a very powerful vassal, in charge of money, food and prison litigation. There is a huge amount of oil and water to be fished. Filial piety is not corruption, and the cost of donating officials can be reduced within a few years.

Think with modern thinking. If you pay/kloc-0,000,000, you can buy off a mayor aboveboard, and then you can embezzle unscrupulously, and all the enterprises in the city will be searched in your name. This is simply an absurd plot.

Foreign war

The Ming Dynasty can regard today's Japan as the most praiseworthy Wanli. Japan was defeated twice under the rule of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a master of the Warring States Period, and the then head of state was still being scolded.

In the Ming Dynasty, a pirate army defected to Zhao 'an court halfway, and it was able to drive the Dutch small steel cannon, known as the sea coachman, out of Taiwan Province Province, which had ruled for decades (the effect was better than that of the Boers who colonized South Africa and the British Empire).

The Ming Dynasty was captured by the descendants of the legendary golden family, and an emperor set up another emperor without paying compensation or cutting land, and then worked until the former emperor was used and released.

In a prosperous time, under the leadership of an emperor of past dynasties, the Qing Dynasty drew with the expeditions of second-rate and semi-European countries far away from its headquarters and "granted" land.

Thirty years after the Westernization of the Qing Dynasty, Japan, which was founded later, occupied the best weather, geography and people in its territory for hundreds of years. If it were not for the interference of the three countries, even the old base area of Liaodong was occupied.

scientific and technological level

Ming:

Li Shizhen's compendium of materia medica

Song Ying Xing's Heavenly Creations.

Xu Guangqi's Complete Book of Agricultural Management

Xu xiake's travels

Introduction to Fang Yizhi's Physics

Zheng He's nautical chart, Herb for Saving Weeds, Tree Planting Book, Comparison of Algorithms in Nine Chapters, Geometry Original.

Yongle

Qing:

Science and technology, such as chemical physics = strange tricks, gadgets

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"Everyone in the world is not straight for a long time, Your Majesty." The person who said this sentence may be the governor of Yingtian in the Ming Dynasty.

In the Qing Dynasty, there were no famous ministers. As the saying goes, "The emperor is wise, and I deserve it." All the mistakes are my fault. After the Ming dynasty, the backbone of literati was drained, and orthodoxy and legalism were taken away by the emperor who was both a political leader and a religious leader. The criteria for judging right and wrong are all with the emperor. What is right is right, and what is wrong is wrong. Who are you? Everything has to be the wise of the emperor, and the civil service group has completely become the tool of Aisingiorro.

finally

The average hair in Ming Dynasty was more than that in Qing Dynasty!