"Humph!" Zhu Yuanzhang snorted dullly. Undoubtedly, Zhu Su's conclusion of "nothing can be done" completely broke his guard.
"Even so, if there are loyal ministers and good generals in the court, the country will not be destroyed!"
"With so many generals leading armies, are they all traitors?"
"By the way, where are the nobles? We founded the country and granted so many nobles who share the same family with the country. Why does no one stand up to help protect the country?"
"Could it be that they all have no descendants?"
Zhu Su raised his eyes and glanced at Lao Zhu, saying in his heart that they are not extinct, but in a few years, they will be almost destroyed by your own hands.
Not many incense can last until the end of the Ming Dynasty.
However, Lao Zhu was going berserk at this time, and Zhu Su did not dare to mention this. Then he avoided the important and said lightly: "At that time, the Ming Dynasty did not have many good generals who could be used."
"At that time, the civil servants had already assumed great power and were constantly suppressing the status of military generals. Everyone in the Ming Dynasty knew that the civil servants were noble and the military officers were cheap. The culture of military affairs over military affairs became more and more intense. So much so that in the late Ming Dynasty, a sixth-grade general guard saw a seventh-grade general. All the magistrates who are polite will bow and bow, but the magistrate is arrogant and does not bother to return the courtesy."
"When a military general leads an army on an expedition, he must be severely restrained by civilian officials. The civilian supervisors who do not know the soldiers will overstep the command of the generals and the generals will not dare to disobey. However, if this leads to a defeat, but it is handled by the generals who are military attaches, the supervisors will be punished at most. After some scolding, the board was raised high and then gently put down.”
"By the time of Chongzhen, there were not even many generals who could lead the army. The commanders of the armies were often civilian officials. Even so, the high officials in the court were extremely afraid. In order to exclude dissidents, the civilian officials did whatever they wanted in vain to take care of the important affairs of the court. Confusing right and wrong. Those who agree with each other and oppose those with different opinions will use any means necessary!"
Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned. He never imagined that his Ming Dynasty would look like what Zhu Su said after more than two hundred years!
"Where is the guard station? If we set up a guard station and designate military households, we can raise millions of soldiers and horses for the Ming Dynasty for generations to come! Even if half of the military households die in successive years of disaster, a pig will be assigned as the commander-in-chief for the remaining half. , is it enough to completely wipe out those Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and the like?"
Zhu Su shook his head. "Ah...the military system of the guard station."
"Li Zicheng came from a military household in a post office."
"Post military household?" Lao Zhu's eyes widened angrily. "Military households have land and industry. As long as I am here during the Ming Dynasty, they will have iron rice bowls for generations to come. Why should we rebel?"
"Since the Ming Dynasty Taizu...that is, you..., the military discipline in the guards has been weakened, and the non-commissioned officers have unscrupulously annexed the land of military households and gradually become landlords. Military households who have lost their land are limited to their household registration status. They can only remain military households for generations and cannot make a living elsewhere. Lu, he gradually became a servant of a sergeant, never to be successful."
"For this reason, more and more military households would rather flee their country and become refugees than remain slaves for generations. The guard station is seriously short of personnel, with not even one out of ten left."
"Furthermore, by that time, the military households will no longer be as brave as their ancestors. They have been farming for generations, and their training is poor. How can they know how to march and fight? Their combat power is so low that a few dozen bandits can often defeat thousands of guards. military."
"In addition, due to natural disasters in the past years, the military households in the guard station had no food to eat, and they also had deep resentment towards the court. The rebels such as Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others climbed up and shouted out, but all the refugees and military households followed..."
These words made Zhu Yuanzhang's pupils tremble. He took two steps back and sat down on the ground.
The shortcomings of the guardhouse are so serious!
This is his most proud national policy! He once thought with great joy that as long as the guard system was implemented, the Ming Dynasty would never be in trouble with soldiers, which would be enough to protect the Ming Dynasty forever...
Unexpectedly, Li Zicheng, who was born in a military household, would become the sharp knife that stabbed Ming Dynasty to death!
Remembering that he once made bold statements at the court meeting, saying, "I raise millions of soldiers without costing the common people a grain of rice." Lao Zhu felt that he was so irritable!
He raised millions of soldiers, but he raised them to help the rebels!
"So, that military householder Li Zicheng led countless military households and refugees in my Ming Dynasty, buried the foundation of my Ming Dynasty, and took away the country of my Zhu family, right?" Lao Zhu's voice could not hide the fatigue.
His most proud national policy turned out to be wrong... This deeply affected his self-confidence.
"Yes and no." Zhu Su shook his head.
"It was indeed Li Zicheng who killed the Ming Dynasty. But it was not him who finally took over."
"Not him?" Zhu Yuanzhang was shocked again. What he heard today was too bizarre, so he leaned out while holding on to the armrest.
"Didn't you say that the Ming Dynasty died due to internal and external difficulties, with Li, Zhang and others..."
Speaking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes suddenly turned fierce.
"So, the one who won this country died at the hands of foreign enemies?"
"Could it be Meng Yuan?"
Lao Zhu's veins popped out in his hands. The murderous intention in my heart could no longer be suppressed. Meng Yuan! Meng Yuan! Could it be that, in our lifetime, we failed to eradicate the evil Meng Yuan and let it come back again?
"It's not Meng Yuan." Zhu Su shook his head again.
"It's Jianzhou Jurchen."
"Jianzhou Jurchen?"
Lao Zhu was confused.
"What kind of nonsense is this?"
"Jianzhou Jurchens are a minority ethnic group living in Liaodong. They make a living by fishing and hunting." Zhu Su replied
"It was just a small tribe at first, and our Ming Dynasty was very kind to it. But after its rise, it harassed the northern border of our Ming Dynasty several times."
"In the end, taking advantage of the chaos in China, a oriole came behind, stole the artifact, and took away the Han Dynasty from me!"
Lao Zhu was so shocked that his eyes almost fell out. He asked anxiously: "What about Li Zicheng? Where is Zhang Xianzhong?"
"They defeated me, the Ming Dynasty, but were plucked by a small tribe?"
"Li Zicheng and his party... are just rogue bandits after all."
"After they captured the capital, they realized that the overall situation was settled, so they enjoyed themselves wildly. They paid the officials and the people, and got 70 million taels of silver."
"However, only forty-two days later, they lost the capital and fled in panic."
"Trash, trash!" Lao Zhu was heartbroken, but he hated Li Zicheng even more. Immediately he thought of something else and said bitterly: "This is such a waste, but the entire Ming court is completely helpless!"
Zhu Yuanzhang took a few deep breaths. Zhu Su looked at him worriedly, fearing that he would be too angry and die in Qianqing Palace.
Fortunately, Lao Zhu is still in his prime at this time and can still bear it for the time being. He covered his chest and raised his eyes to look at Zhu Su: "So, the Jianzhou Jurchen has taken over our country?"
"Yes." Zhu Su nodded. I think of the ten days in Yangzhou, the three massacres in Jiading, and China has been in chaos ever since. China can no longer keep up with the pace of the world, but the Jurchen Emperor boasts about the "prosperity of Kangxi and Qianlong" and "the perfect old man" on the flesh and blood of the people...
Until the powerful ships and cannons of the West opened the country, the old witch still wanted to trample all the Chinese people under her feet, and shamelessly declared: "I would rather be with friends than with domestic slaves" and "measure the material resources of China and the happiness of the country"... …
Thinking of this, Zhu Su couldn't help but clenched his fists!
