"If Wei Zhongxian doesn't die, will the Ming Dynasty be immortal?"
As soon as these words came out, everyone was stunned on the spot.
They didn't understand what Li Xiao meant at all.
Isn't it very clear who Wei Zhongxian is?
A eunuch, but he was arrogant and domineering, oppressed the people, deceived his superiors and formed cliques.
Not only did he interfere in government affairs, but he also acted arbitrarily.
Even the harem of Emperor Xizong Zhu Youxiao was turned upside down by him.
Wei Zhongxian and Hakka secretly killed many of Zhu Youxiao's princes.
For this reason alone, killing Wei Zhongxian a hundred times would not be excessive.
Wei Zhongxian is obviously a treacherous villain who harms loyal people and is good at power and chaos.
He was a treacherous official who was despised by the court officials and the people of the world, and everyone found him and punished him.
Everyone in the world knows this and agrees with it.
Everyone even felt that the Ming Dynasty's mediocrity and corruption were largely due to the existence of Wei Zhongxian.
It's because Wei Zhongxian is good at dictatorship and employs nepotism.
He made random comments on national affairs and appointed sycophants who had no bottom line, which completely plunged the already corrupt officialdom of the Ming Dynasty into turmoil.
It also indirectly led to the poor life of the common people.
Because of the inaction of the imperial court, Wei Zhongxian's arbitrary actions allowed local officials below to act recklessly and exploit the common people.
The entire Ming Dynasty was plunged into dire straits.
Such a treacherous and powerful official could not be killed.
This is not nonsense.
It's okay to say that Wei Zhongxian cannot be killed temporarily, because Wei Zhongxian can indeed play a certain balancing role in the court.
But it is simply unbelievable to say that if Wei Zhongxian had not died, the Ming Dynasty would not have perished.
A treacherous minister who brought trouble to the imperial court, a domineering eunuch, could it be possible to rely on such a person to save the Ming Dynasty from fire and water?
Without traitors like Wei Zhongxian, maybe the Ming Dynasty would not have reached this point and become like this.
If Wei Zhongxian dies sooner, Ming Dynasty will return to normal and get back on track sooner.
But when it came to Li Xiao's words, it turned out that Wei Zhongxian would not die and the Ming Dynasty would not be destroyed.
Is it possible that Wei Zhongxian, a traitorous official, can really save the Ming Dynasty?
"What a joke!"
"It would be best for the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty, and the people of Ming Dynasty to eradicate traitors like Wei Zhongxian as early as possible."
"Wei Zhongxian's death is a great thing for our Ming Dynasty."
"Isn't it a pure fallacy to say that if he doesn't die, our Ming Dynasty will not perish?"
After a brief moment of shock, Zhu Youjian looked at Li Xiao with a speechless expression and spoke.
Zhu Youjian couldn't understand what Li Xiao said.
What does it mean that if Wei Zhongxian does not die, the Ming Dynasty will not be destroyed?
In Zhu Youjian's view, it was because of the emergence of traitors like Wei Zhongxian that the Ming Dynasty perished.
Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Youjian had similar views.
In Zhu Yuanzhang's view, the destruction of any dynasty was due to the corruption of the court and officials.
Because there were treacherous ministers in the court who deceived the superiors and deceived the subordinates, causing the world to be in chaos and the people to complain.
Over time, if the people lose their support, the dynasty will be overthrown.
And Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch, was the eunuch who disrupted power and was the culprit of all this.
What Zhu Youjian said is absolutely correct.
Wei Zhongxian's death is the best thing for the Ming Dynasty.
The demise of the Ming Dynasty is indeed related to whether Wei Zhongxian dies, but it should be that the sooner Wei Zhongxian dies, the less likely the Ming Dynasty will be destroyed.
Rather than what Li Xiao said, the Ming Dynasty would not perish unless Wei Zhongxian died.
"Li Xiao, we don't understand what you mean either."
"Isn't this Wei Zhongxian a treacherous minister and a great disaster?"
"Isn't it best for people like this to die early?"
"How can you say that if Wei Zhongxian is not dead, the Ming Dynasty will not be destroyed?"
"Wei Zhongxian has no benefit to the Ming Dynasty. He will only continue to corrode the foundation of the Ming Dynasty and make the Ming Dynasty unpopular."
Zhu Yuanzhang said aloud.
He also didn't understand Li Xiao's words.
Fortunately, the person who said this was Li Xiao. If someone else had said such outrageous words, Zhu Yuanzhang would have already started to scold him.
After hearing what Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Youjian said, the expression on Li Xiao's face did not change at all.
It is reasonable for Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Youjian to have such thoughts.
After all, they are all members of the Ming Dynasty royal family and have served as Ming emperors.
Their position is also the same.
But people in later generations are different.
People of later generations looked at it completely from the perspective of bystanders.
In other words, the perspective of people in later generations is truly objective. Of course, there are some subjective elements, but it is still relatively objective.
For example, Li Xiao looks at this issue completely from the perspective of a bystander.
Therefore, his thoughts and views are completely different from Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Youjian.
"Brother, you are right."
"Wei Zhongxian is indeed a treacherous official, and the turbulent situation in the Ming Dynasty has something to do with him."
"But the time when Zhu Youjian punished Wei Zhongxian was indeed not a good time."
"In that situation, Wei Zhongxian really couldn't be killed."
"Once you kill Wei Zhongxian, everything will be ruined."
As soon as Li Xiao finished speaking, he was interrupted by Zhu Youjian.
"How can it be!"
"If I don't kill a traitor like Wei Zhongxian, how can I keep him to harm our Ming Dynasty court and prey on our people?"
"No matter what the situation is, Wei Zhongxian is a serious problem. Why don't I get rid of it?"
After speaking, Zhu Youjian looked at Li Xiao, his eyes full of doubts.
He now has some doubts about Li Xiao's identity and position.
Although Li Xiao said that he was from the future world, why did he keep saying that he killed the wrong Wei Zhongxian?
This is something he cannot understand.
Li Xiao even said that later generations would blame him for the demise of the Ming Dynasty, saying that he was the king of the Ming Dynasty.
This is something Zhu Youjian cannot understand.
He has obviously done everything he can.
Whether it was the execution of Wei Zhongxian, his efforts in the Liaodong war, or his counterinsurgency against the northwest rebellion.
He has already done his best.
But things developed into a situation he least wanted to see, and he had no choice.
He was obviously useless to the court, and the Ming Dynasty's treasury was also very poor, so he couldn't get the money out at all.
Coupled with the famine caused by natural disasters in various places, the Ming Dynasty was on the verge of collapse.
All this has nothing to do with him, Zhu Youjian.
As an emperor, he was diligent, conscientious, and almost devoted himself to his work.
And after Li Zicheng broke into Beijing, he hanged himself directly and lived and died with the Ming Dynasty.
He had no intention of escaping, nor did he abandon the people in the capital.
In Zhu Youjian's own opinion, he not only retained his majesty as an emperor, but also sacrificed his life for the country.
In any case, he is not a king who subjugates his country.
He especially believed this.
And from an objective perspective, future generations will be even less likely to evaluate him in this way if they look at the overall historical situation.
They should be able to understand his difficulties, his misfortune as an emperor, and his inability and powerlessness as the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
Instead of just putting the hat of the king of subjugation on his head.
Not to mention that he couldn't even kill Wei Zhongxian.
All this is simply nonsense.
"Li Xiao, now I even doubt whether you are from the future."
"What is your relationship with Wei Zhongxian? Why do you always speak for him?"
"I don't believe that after understanding this period of history, future generations will say such outrageous things as Wei Zhongxian cannot be killed."
"Who are you?"
"Why do you keep smearing me?"
Zhu Youjian looked at Li Xiao and asked his own question.
Everything Li Xiao said later was detrimental to Zhu Youjian.
At this moment, Zhu Youjian also completely expressed the doubts in his heart.
He would not suffer Li Xiao's slander in front of Zhu Yuanzhang in vain.
If Li Xiao could really point out the problems in his governance, then he would have nothing to say.
But Li Xiao kept saying that he should not kill Wei Zhongxian.
This made Zhu Youjian very puzzled.
If a treacherous person like Wei Zhongxian cannot be killed, then who else can be killed?
What Li Xiao said was simply nonsense.
Hearing Zhu Youjian's words, Li Xiongzhi on the side quickly yelled: "Be careful when you talk to my brother Xiao."
"We're not even sure who you are right now."
"You said you were the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and you are?"
"Since you are the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, then our brother Xiao is right to say that you are the king of the country's subjugation."
As Li Xiao's loyal Ma Zi, Li Xiongzhi would of course jump out to speak for Li Xiao.
Hearing Li Xiongzhi's words, Zhu Youjian frowned and was about to refute.
But Li Xiongzhi didn't give him a chance at all: "Shut your mouth and just listen to our Brother Xiao."
"Don't say anything until Brother Xiao has finished speaking."
"Otherwise, I"
With that said, Li Xiongzhi raised his arm to indicate that he would not be polite to Zhu Youjian.
Seeing this, Zhu Youjian closed his mouth knowingly.
He looked at Zhu Yuanzhang for help, as if he wanted Zhu Yuanzhang to stand up and say a few words for him.
But Zhu Yuanzhang stood there without speaking, obviously on Li Xiao's side.
Faced with Zhu Youjian's doubts.
Li Xiao didn't say anything more, but gave him a cold look.
His eyes were full of disdain.
Zhu Youjian, the last emperor, has naturally been evaluated by future generations for a long time.
As he said himself, although the decline of the imperial court cannot be completely blamed on him, it also has a lot to do with him.
It is true that the Ming Dynasty he took over from Xizong Zhu Youxiao was already riddled with holes.
But it has not yet reached the moment when the building is about to collapse.
In fact, as long as it is operated well, Ming Dynasty may not be able to survive for decades.
But Zhu Youjian failed to keep Daming alive, but directly let Daming die.
Later generations' evaluation of Zhu Youjian is that he was very happy with his achievements, his heart was as high as the sky, and his life was as thin as paper.
The best representative whose ability is not worthy of his ambition.
Although he really wanted to be a good emperor and save the Ming Empire from danger, his ability was indeed insufficient.
And many critical and fatal decisions were made.
The Ming Dynasty died in his hands, and it can be said that it was not unjust at all.
Zhu Youjian was indeed unlucky to have inherited such a mess.
But the Ming Dynasty at that time was not in a desperate situation, at most it was a bit difficult.
If the emperors in the early Ming Dynasty worked hard to save wealth for future generations, then the emperors in the middle period were completely playboys who only knew how to squander their wealth.
But when it comes to Zhu Youjian, it's even worse, that is, Daming's family fortune has been squandered.
He needs to do everything himself.
But no matter what, he still had the strong fixed assets of the Ming Dynasty.
Not everything is lost, he still has the position of emperor.
But he failed to grasp all this.
Although the difficulty was a bit more difficult, he didn't do anything to turn the tide.
In fact, he didn't have to do anything at this time.
There is no need to think about what you want to do for eternity, what kind of savior of the Ming Dynasty, etc. You just need to be a qualified emperor.
As long as we work hard to stabilize this situation, prevent the internal problems of the Ming Dynasty from worsening, and prevent the already precarious Ming Dynasty from deteriorating.
However, under internal and external troubles, natural and man-made disasters, Zhu Youjian still made many wrong decisions.
It was these wrong decisions that completely caused the Ming Dynasty to collapse.
Zhu Youjian himself was not aware of these wrong decisions.
Even at the moment when the Ming Dynasty fell, he did not realize it.
In other words, he has realized it, but is unwilling to admit it.
Or maybe they don’t dare to admit it.
In short, Zhu Youjian was the first person responsible for the demise of the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Youjian cannot shirk this point.
As for the question of whether Wei Zhongxian should be killed or not, Zhu Youjian made a mistake.
Because after Wei Zhongxian's death, a series of problems emerged that would later be fatal to the Ming court.
However, Zhu Youjian didn't realize this.
"Zhu Youjian, stop talking."
"I know that no matter what I say, you won't admit these problems."
"But I can tell you responsibly that I am a person from the future."
"I can also tell you responsibly that future generations will see you as the king of subjugation."
"Furthermore, future generations will feel that your timing to kill Wei Zhongxian was indeed wrong."
Li Xiao said in a deep voice.
Facing Zhu Youjian's doubts, he didn't care at all.
After passing by, Li Xiongzhi scolded him and Zhu Yuanzhang ignored him.
Zhu Youjian also became quiet.
This time, he did not refute or defend himself.
But he listened honestly.
Seeing that Zhu Youjian did not interrupt him, Li Xiao continued:
"I never said Wei Zhongxian shouldn't be killed, but I said you had the wrong time to kill him."
"Don't say that you had no choice but to kill Wei Zhongxian at that time."
"You hurriedly killed Wei Zhongxian. Although you have gained enough prestige and popular support in the short term, it will be a big problem in the long term."
"Because you have never considered how to check and balance the Donglin Party in the future!"
(End of chapter)
