When I was in college, I bought a book. It was written by Mingyue that year. The things about Ming Dynasty 1 Ming Dynasty can be more or less comprehensively understood from the history of the development and evolution of the Ming Dynasty he described.
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The rise and fall of the Ming Dynasty are also widely discussed in history. Some people praise a certain emperor in power in the Ming Dynasty and call him a wise ruler. Some people also try their best to belittle a certain emperor during the Ming Dynasty's rule, and all kinds of criticism and insults are endless.
Looking at the early and mid-terms of the Ming Dynasty, the economic and cultural development of the country in all aspects, and the ability of the emperor to govern the country, everyone should be able to understand the general information from the historical records of various versions of history books, and their achievements are still quite outstanding and significant.
However, in the middle and late Ming dynasties, the entire dynasty began to go downhill quickly, and various shortcomings and problems of the management system of the entire dynasty were exposed, and the contradictions between various classes in the country became increasingly serious.
The founder of the Qing Dynasty also saw that the Ming Dynasty had reached a period of destruction and decay, so he quickly raised his troops to attack the Ming Dynasty and overthrew the Ming Dynasty in a very short time.
Speaking of the middle and late Ming Dynasty, it was a difficult time when people were living in poverty and struggling. This can be seen from the living environment and living conditions of the people in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.
In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, in the homes of ordinary people in the border areas of the Ming Dynasty, they had basically lived a poor life without food for more than ten years. However, due to the lack of war, it is relatively happier to be able to live together in a family reunited.
In ancient times, it was very common to get married. Poor families often used the form of marriage to tie the knot, that is, you were engaged to your neighbor's daughter, and your sister was engaged to the man in the neighbor's house.
However, the internal and external troubles in the late Ming Dynasty were already very serious. In order to continue to gather numbers to fight against foreign invaders, the court has been recruiting troops from all over the country to fight wars.
So many children from poor families were conscripted into the army, but at this time, the children of servants from the official family were not recruited and did not go to the front line to fight.
Even if you are conscripted, you have no military uniforms, weapons, and no salary to get. These military equipment are all subject to spend money to buy.
When I joined the army, I found that I couldn’t eat enough or wear warm clothes at all, and I had to fight desperately with the enemy every day. So many people began to get tired of fighting and wanted to escape from the army. But where should I run?
Normal, the military's food and war preparation materials were continuously supplied by the court, but due to the corruption of the court, many food and supplies were fed by corrupt officials.
Those servants from official families who rely on their power can shout and beat and scold soldiers from poor families at will. At this time, many soldiers were already dissatisfied. Does such a corrupt court still have to sacrifice their lives for it?
went to the battlefield. Facing those Jurchen soldiers who were fat and extremely powerful, most of the soldiers were like grass, and were simply vulnerable. After a battle, countless soldiers in the Ming Dynasty were killed or injured.
In a blink of an eye, the soldiers who survived dozens of wars of all sizes did not escape the bad news from their homes. The parents of many soldiers died because they were old and sick, but had no money to see a doctor, and their property had long been divided up by local eunuchs.
These soldiers who lost their beloved parents were suddenly completely destroyed, and their hearts were ashamed. They began to resist passively on the battlefield, and finally one day they were unfortunately captured by the enemy.
allows these Ming Dynasty soldiers who chose to surrender after being captured and chose to surrender after being captured and surrendered, which never expected was that the leader of the Jurchens, Huang Taiji , had very generous conditions for the prisoners to treat the prisoners and surrendered soldiers. They gave them food, drink, wear, live, and land. They also gave them wives.
and also made a promise on the spot that every soldier who went to the battlefield to fight the wise king for the Jurchens, each of whom died in battle would be given a pension of 100 taels, and various expenses for handling the funeral. Anyone who makes military achievements on the battlefield will be granted official titles and the property he snatches belongs to him!
Although many Ming soldiers who were captured and forced to surrender were still unwilling to give up, they finally chose to compromise in the face of the huge wealth and irresistible conditions given by the Jurchens. So they changed into old military uniforms, put on new military uniforms, returned to the battlefield, waved weapons in their hands, and charged against their former colleagues.
surrendered Ming army followed the Jurchens and attacked Yangzhou City , and then blew the officials who had bullied them in the past one by one, and the Ming Dynasty was destroyed in the end. Later, this part of the Ming army was collectively called Eight Banners Han Army !
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