Chapter 49 5. The waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, political corruption often resulted in faint emperors. For example, Wu Zong is the Emperor Zhengde.My favorite thing to do is molesting women and playing war. I love doing these two things the most.He molested women, and he took to the streets to moleste women in micro clothes.Three thousand beauties in the harem were not enough, and they went out to moleste women, and were caught and sent to the county government.You said that the monarch and his ministers met each other, and they didn't know how to escape.Then it is to open a shop in the palace to do business, and to open a shop behind Shenwumen to do business.Weighing that piece of meat in your hand, it weighs three catties and three ounces, and you won't miss it on the scale.The emperor does this all day, weighs the meat, and weighs three catties.Open a business and ask eunuchs to buy his things.Originally, the eunuch's salary was meager, so he came to buy his things.Then he had to buy cheap and sell expensive.He squeezed out just this little money, what do you call it.

Then what he likes is to play and fight. He changed his name to Zhu Shou, and made himself the mighty general of Zhen Guogong, what a big governor.Later, a minister said to him, saying that the emperor is a king, and the governor is a minister, and they should not be confused. You are too absurd.He said that I have the ability to take the head of a general among millions of troops.Then the minister will perform him for us.In the teaching field, more than a thousand soldiers of the Ming army drew their swords out of their sheaths and bowed their bows.Surrounding a captured Mongolian soldier tied to a horse, the emperor rushed in and chopped off his head.This is called taking the head of a general in a million troops.Millions of troops, my own, is bound by the general, I don't know if it is the general, but it is tied anyway.The emperor gave him a knife, which proved that the emperor had played with the knife before and did not knock off his arm.The emperor led tens of thousands of armored soldiers out of the pass, out of the Great Wall, and fought against the Mongols.How many Mongols were beaten? A hundred or so.He led tens of thousands of people, rushed, killed, wiped out others, and then went back to repay the merits, and he was promoted to another level.The general, the great general, the commander-in-chief, the commander-in-chief, the commander-in-chief of military affairs, and the general officer are promoted, that's all.After ten years, he passed away after ten years in office.Faintness, death without heirs.

The emperors of the Ming Dynasty competed with one bastard, and one with a short life.In their twenties and thirties, they would die from excessive drinking and sex. After all this kind of stuff, no one survived Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang lived to be more than 70 years old. No one could survive him, except Ming Chengzu who was about 60 years old.Sixty is considered a long lifespan for the emperors of the Ming Dynasty. You see, Lord Qianlong lived 89 years, which is almost 90 years old.Sejong, who succeeded Ming Wuzong after his death, is a Taoist priest who spends all day making alchemy in the palace. The fuel used for alchemy in a year costs more than 200,000 taels of silver. What the hell, I can't burn the wax.More than 200,000 taels of silver for alchemy.Not going to court, never going to court, ministers have not seen him for decades.He reigned for more than forty years, ascended the throne at the age of fifteen, forty-five years.Sometimes when there are important matters in the country, if you ask him, he gets impatient and hands out a handbook, which no one can understand.Because on his handwriting, he can write a few words for you.Nonsense, what the emperor wrote is a heavenly book, can you understand that it is still called a heavenly book?Finally, the emperor finally took the elixir and became a fairy.Mercury poisoning, immortality, mercury poisoning.Sejong is such a thing.

After Sejong was over, Mu Zong came to the throne, and Mu Zong was not bad.Unfortunately, he was short-lived and died in seven years.Seven years later, when he died, Shenzong ascended the throne, that is, Emperor Wanli.Shenzong is really a god, really a god.He just does one thing, counting money, counting money on the kang all day long.These are the genetic genes that Zhu Yuanzhang gave to his descendants, all of whom are wealthy landowners.You can see that Li Houzhu and Song Huizong are all shining with indelible brilliance in the history of Chinese art.The emperors of the Ming Dynasty, look at his stuff.Emperor Shenzong seems to have been out of the Forbidden City once in his life. He went to the Ming Tombs in Changping to see his grave.I came back and counted the money.Dig a big hole behind the palace where he lived, and buried three million taels of silver.He was obese, and then he was coiled on the Kang all day long, and his left leg shrank.So every night the eunuch helped him limping around to the edge of the pit to see if my money was still there?It's still there, so I can sleep well, otherwise I won't be able to sleep.In the end, all the money was stolen by the eunuch.

So why did the Ming Tombs excavate his grave first? Dingling, dig first.There are many good things in his grave.Changling was afraid of "Yongle Dadian" and did not dare to dig.Other emperors don't have as many things as him, he has saved money all his life, think about it, he takes everything to his own house.Said that coal was found in this place, and a guard eunuch was sent to bring money to their house.The silk is good in that place, and a eunuch is sent to guard their house.The silver in the palace turned black, became brittle and oxidized, and there was nothing in the treasury except rat droppings.So at that time, I fought with Nurhachi and Houjin.The war said that, we have no money, there is no money in the treasury, please ask the emperor to open the money.no.This is a national war, why do you ask for internal money, why do you ask me to pay?Why should I pay for fighting for the country?I don't pay.If you don’t have money, you can increase taxes, and you can just ask the common people to pay more taxes. I won’t pay this money.Later, the minister said, this country belongs to you.The emperor said that I didn't see the rivers and mountains, but I saw the silver.He hid tens of millions of taels, and there was nothing in the treasury, and then he raised taxes with the people every year.The more taxes are raised, the more people will rebel, that's all.

As soon as he died, his son Guangzong came to the throne.This buddy Guangzong was too bright, and died in twenty-nine days.After ascending the throne, the first edict was to choose beauties, eight beauties were selected, and they died in twenty-nine days.After Guangzong's death, his son Xizong came to the throne, an outstanding carpenter, and other emperors went to his workshop.It is said that the chair the emperor sat on and the bed he slept on were all made by himself.No matter how high his craftsmanship is, he makes a screen by himself.Tell the eunuch to sell it to me outside the front door for 10,000 taels of silver, no bargaining is allowed.Of course you can't say that the emperor did it, ten thousand taels of silver, no bargaining is allowed.Within an hour, the eunuch brought back the ten thousand taels of silver notes.Just say that his exquisite workmanship is worth the price.

It is said that there was a Guandi Temple behind the Zhonghua Gate, but of course it was demolished when the house was built.The Guandi in the Guandi Temple was made by Ming Xizong himself, so when he was in power, he ignored the government and worked as a carpenter all day long.The eunuch Wei Zhongxian has exclusive power.Since the middle and late Ming Dynasty, eunuchs have been monopolizing power.Great eunuchs such as Wang Zhen, Liu Jin, and Wei Zhongxian monopolize power.This is the most corrupt manifestation of the government.During the Eastern Han, Tang, and Ming dynasties, eunuchs ruled over power.This Wei Zhongxian only picks up the emperor to talk to him when he is working, so there is no disaster.You don't see how busy I am. I don't have a place to sleep tonight. It's none of my business to cause a disaster. I haven't finished the bedside table yet. You can figure it out.So this Wei Zhongxian monopolized the power, Wei Zhongxian didn't know a single word, but he was able to stand side by side with Confucius and worship the Confucian temple.Shrines were built for him all over the country, and then the emperor issued an imperial decree, that is, how should I and the factory ministers be.The emperor is long live, Wei Zhongxian is nine thousand years old, like Yang Xiuqing, nine thousand years old.So you can imagine how corrupt his government is.In this case, a peasant uprising broke out.