The short videos I watched from all dynasties

【At the end of the Yuan Dynasty: "Expel the barbarians, restore China, establish rules and regulations, and help the people."

Background: At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, corruption and exploitation were rampant, financial difficulties and land annexation were extremely serious, and the people were miserable.

Zhu Yuanzhang was born into a poor peasant family. He worked as a beggar and a monk before joining the Red Turban Army. He eventually established his own power, unified the south of the Yangtze River, and launched a northern expedition against the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty.

Significance: This sentence also points out that although the Mongols and Semites are not Han people, as long as they are "willing to be subjects, they will be supported the same as the Chinese." This is a relatively enlightened ethnic policy.

Ending: It took nearly 20 years to eliminate other peasant uprisings, defeat the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty, and complete the unification. 】

＜Looking at the peasant uprisings only during the feudal dynasties, only Zhu Yuanzhang succeeded in the end.＞

＜ “Those who submit to me will live in peace in China forever, and those who betray me will flee to the border areas.”＞

＜It took more than 400 years for the Yanyun area to be recovered, the glory of the Ming Dynasty＞

<It is undeniable that Zhu did not do some things well due to his own limitations, but his contribution to rebuilding China cannot be erased>

＜The Ming Dynasty was a flourishing dynasty in terms of both civil and military affairs, but unfortunately the succession failed twice. Otherwise, the Ming Dynasty could have been as prosperous as the Han and Tang Dynasties…＞

＜ The first person to succeed from south to north! Zhu Baba! The most righteous ruler of the country, Ming! ＞

＜ In fact, Zhu was not only fighting the Northern Expedition at that time, he was also fighting both the north and the south. Zhu was really cool［eating melon］＞

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The light curtain in front of me always complains about my shortcomings. It's rare that the light curtain praises me.

The sons around him also praised their father for his unparalleled talents in both civil and military affairs, and that no emperor in history could compare to him.

"The most righteous ruler is the Ming Dynasty."

Even Zhu Yuanzhang was surprised by this evaluation. Even though the Ming Dynasty had many faults, it was still recognized by people in later generations.

The name Zhu Baba...well...is really weird and speechless.

The emperors of other dynasties were so jealous, especially the emperors of the Song Dynasty. They succeeded in the Northern Expedition, recovered the Yanyun area, and restored the Central Plains. Alas, they were so envious.

Kublai Khan was so angry that he was about to die. These future descendants were so useless and trash!

"A beggar monk overthrew the rule of the Yuan Dynasty!"

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【Late Ming Dynasty: "Equalizing the land and exempting taxes" / "Open the city gates to welcome the rebel king. When the rebel king comes, no taxes will be paid."

Background: In the late Ming Dynasty, land annexation became increasingly serious, the civil service group was unable to curb it, party strife and natural disasters occurred frequently, and the central financial crisis intensified.

The drawbacks of the post station system in the late Ming Dynasty became apparent, and Emperor Chongzhen streamlined the post stations, which led to Li Zicheng being dismissed. When the Later Jin Dynasty moved south, they transferred troops from all directions to Beijing to protect the capital. Their lieutenant general withheld the soldiers' salaries, which led to a mutiny in the army.

Significance: "Equal distribution of land and exemption of grain tax" was not only the slogan of the peasant army's uprising, but also a political program. This slogan satisfied the wishes of the people, and therefore the uprising army was deeply supported by the people.

In the face of successive years of severe drought and disasters, the imperial court did not allocate money for disaster relief, but instead stepped up the collection of taxes. Faced with the cruel reality, the people became more supportive of Li Zicheng's slogans, and more and more people joined the rebel army.

Ending: Established Dashun, entered Beijing, Qing troops marched south, led troops to resist, and were eventually destroyed by Qing. 】

＜The peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty represented by Li Zicheng is worthy of admiration. They provided support for countless poor peasants who were oppressed in the late Ming Dynasty and eventually overthrew the Ming Dynasty together.

But even if the King of Rebellion succeeded in resisting the Qing Dynasty and establishing a new order, he would only become the next Zhu Yuanzhang. This is the class nature of feudal society.

＜I don’t want to see the end of the Ming Dynasty. It’s really hopeless. It’s hard to stabilize the country. It’s not successful or not＞

＜I really don't understand the officials of the Ming Dynasty at that time. Many of them committed suicide for their country, but no one was willing to donate money. The central government of the Ming Dynasty had no money, or rather, the treasury had no money. Those officials were all very rich.

Furthermore, the Ming Dynasty had reached that point but still did not touch the royal family. There really was something wrong with the royal family support system that Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di had.

There is also something called "an ancestral law that cannot be changed", which is like a brick. Ming officials would take this out when they wanted to refute the emperor.

The entire history of Ming Dynasty looks so depressing＞

<If Li Zicheng had a base, he would not have been like this. Facing the Qing Dynasty, he had no power to fight back and ended up fleeing everywhere. Alas, the King of Rebellion is not Zhu Yuanzhang after all>

＜The most miserable are the lower class people. There is no one among the people and soldiers who surrender or not. They all just follow their superiors and do whatever they want. The Qing Dynasty at least gives them food to eat, but the Ming Dynasty doesn’t even have food＞

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"Hmph, of course Li Zicheng can't become a figure like my father. He's just a loser!" King Xiang Zhu Bo complained about Li Zicheng, saying he was just a bandit.

"Although he failed, he is still a respectable person."

Zhu Yuanzhang was in mixed feelings. He had experienced such tragic conditions at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. Wasn't the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty just like his own?

Everyone was surprised that Zhu Yuanzhang was not angry about Li Zicheng's overthrow of the Ming Dynasty, but instead expressed regret.

"The Ming Dynasty should have perished. It would have been great if Li Zicheng's Shun Dynasty had successfully resisted the Qing army and saved China."

How to describe the late Ming Dynasty? Let’s compare the bad to the bad…

Emperor Yongle Zhu Di reflected on his own clan system and wondered what went wrong. The real reason for the Ming Dynasty's demise was that it had no money...

"The chaos at the end of the Ming Dynasty was not much different from the present." Zhang Juzheng sighed, the internal troubles were really serious.

Guangmu's words that the Ming Dynasty actually perished during the Wanli reign were deeply engraved in the hearts of Emperor Wanli and his ministers.

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[Late Qing Dynasty: "One family under heaven, sharing peace", "No place is unequal, no one is hungry or cold"

Background: The increasingly corrupt rule and exploitation of the Qing Dynasty aroused public indignation everywhere. After the Opium War, in order to pay war reparations, the Qing Dynasty plundered the people at will. Corrupt officials and local tyrants took the opportunity to oppress the people. Coupled with constant natural disasters, the people were living in misery.

The invasion of foreign capitalism brought new disasters to the people at that time, and uprisings such as the Taiping Rebellion, the Nian Rebellion, and the Hui Muslim Rebellion broke out.

Significance: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom proposed a complete set of programs, systems and policies. It was a great anti-feudal and anti-aggression peasant movement and the pinnacle of peasant movements over thousands of years.

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom persisted for 14 years, and its influence expanded to 18 provinces, affecting half of the territory of the Qing Dynasty, severely damaging the Qing Dynasty and having a certain positive impact on the subsequent anti-Qing movement.

Ending: Suppressed by the Qing army. 】

Although the Kaneda Uprising failed, it had a profound impact on the history of the next century.

＜I read Qian Mu's book before. There is a point in the book that there were no scholars in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The Qing government successfully separated the intellectuals from the grassroots people, so the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement ultimately failed＞

＜The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom failed, but the Qing Dynasty regime began to shift to the hands of the Han people, and the armies were the Hunan Army and the Huai Army＞

＜Religion is not the way to achieve uprising＞

＜Zhang Taiyan's "Song of Expelling the Manchus"

After two hundred years of hell, I suddenly met the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan

The Manchus fled to Rehe, and Zeng Guofan became a traitor

The Hong family killed all the Han family members and the Han family was destroyed, but the monkeys still became emperors.

＜Hong Xiuquan was not as bad as people think nowadays. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom really lacked a unified leadership with a sense of the overall situation. After entering Nanjing, they became isolated and suffered from serious internal friction.

Its ideas and goals were out of touch with the social reality at the time, and it did not have broad social support, which doomed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to failure.

＜Before the Qing Dynasty was destroyed, it was already in chaos. There were all kinds of luxury and pleasure, and people were crowned kings...＞

＜Even if it fails, so what? Its significance has been achieved, leaving the seeds of anti-Qing in everyone's heart＞

＜The Qing Dynasty is really shameless, colluding with foreign forces to suppress the peasant uprising in China [eye-catching]＞

＜Hot Knowledge: The Taiping Rebellion is engraved on the Monument to the People’s Heroes＞

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Qianlong frowned. Where are the Eight Banners? Why are they the Hunan Army and the Huai Army? How can the political power be transferred to the hands of the Han people?

During the Daoguang reign, Hong Xiuquan, who failed the imperial examination, had returned to his hometown. He never expected to hear his own name on the light curtain. It was not a good thing to appear in this place.

Then he said goodbye to his brother and sister-in-law, changed his appearance and went back to his hometown to teach.

When Lin Zexu read the later part that said the Qing Dynasty colluded with foreigners to suppress the revolution, he became extremely disappointed with the current rule.

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"The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's policies seemed good, so why did it fail?"

"I don't understand what the light curtain said."

"The Qing dynasty is almost over, and we have to think about what's next."

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