On the tenth day of the fifth lunar month of the thirty-one year of Hongwu (1398 AD), Nanjing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, was the Forbidden City...

The sunset scattered golden light from the sky, quietly illuminating the walls of the Forbidden City.

The shadow of the city wall was stretched out and pressed heavily on the entire Forbidden City, pressing the palace with carved railings and eaves, pressing the dazzling crystal glazed tiles, pressing the vermilion wall, pressing the golden dragon flag... The entire imperial official lost his color. Even the imperial palace road covered with blue bricks was further darkened by the black shadow, showing a vast and lusty nature.

At this moment, the Forbidden City was filled with a sad atmosphere. This sadness radiated from the Forbidden City, covering the entire capital, and then radiating to every inch of land under the rule of the Ming Dynasty.

The reason is very simple...

The founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty and the talented and powerful Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang have already arrived...

Among the Ganqing officials, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was 71 years old, lay on his back on the dragon bed, surrounded by a group of eunuchs, and his appointed crown prince Zhu Yunwen was kneeling beside the bed. As for his group of concubines, he was not even qualified to enter the Ganqing Palace, and could only cry outside the wall of human guards formed by the Dawen Guards.

"Good grandson... you are gentle, kind, shy... you are a good person, but you are not the ideal candidate for being an emperor... I am really worried about giving the Ming Dynasty to you... Zhu Yuanzhang has already turned his back, and he said with difficulty: "But your father is the eldest son of me and Empress Ma. The eldest son inherits the country is the best way to maintain the orthodox inheritance of a country. Zhu Biao is dead, and I can only hand over the Ming Dynasty to you... You... don't let me disappoint... Let the Ming Dynasty established by the United Nations have been stable, and the descendants will last for thousands of years..."

"Yes..." Zhu Yunwen responded on his knees and quietly listened to his grandfather's last words. However, he knelt for a long time and did not hear Zhu Yuanzhang say anything again. Beside the dragon bed, a dry and wrinkled hand drooped softly...

"The emperor has passed away..." The eunuch spread from afar with a crying shout.

Within a few days, this sentence spread throughout the Ming Dynasty... The whole country was shocked...

People can't help but think: Without that wise and great emperor, without those firm and steady helmsman, can the Ming Dynasty really be stable and the descendants have been for thousands of years?

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In the dark, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that he was floating in the air. He was dead, but his soul did not ascend to become a Buddha, nor did he fall into the underworld. With his deep love for the Ming Dynasty, he survived his soul. Unfortunately, he could not do anything, so he could only float in the air, quietly watching the passage of time...

Not long after, he saw the "Jianwen Reform", and Zhu Yunwen relaxed the severe punishments and laws he formulated a lot. He felt very angry at first, and I died, but his descendants actually changed the laws I formulated? This was simply outrageous! However, as time passed, he found that the "suggested reform" had achieved good results and the people benefited a lot.

He couldn't help but ponder in the sky: Are severe laws really better than loose laws? Will I do something wrong?

A year later, the vigorous Jingnan Campaign began. King Yan Zhu Di rebelled and his troops headed straight to Nanjing...

Zhu Yuanzhang was furious again, damn Zhu Di, I have only been dead for a year, and you started to rebel, completely ignoring the system of inheritance of the eldest son I decided to endanger the inheritance of the country and the country! You are simply a bastard, and even if you let a person like you win the world, you will not be able to sit steadily.

Four years later, the Jingnan Campaign ended, Zhu Yunwen was defeated, and Zhu Di became the emperor. He transformed from a rebel to a great master. He personally conquered Mongolia five times, sent Zheng He to the West, edited the "Yongle Encyclopedia", dredged the Grand Canal, and moved the capital to Beijing... Everything he did proved his talent, with great achievements in civil and military affairs, and his talent was not inferior to his father back then.

Zhu Yuanzhang was shocked again, and he couldn't help but think again: Can the inheritance system of the eldest son really stabilize the country? In this way, it may not be possible.

Floating in the sky to watch the secular days made his vision wider than when he was an emperor. Slowly, Zhu Yuanzhang's mentality began to calm down, no longer angry about trivial matters, no longer insisted on his own point of view. He began to quietly watch the development and prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, and appreciate the prosperity of the country he created. He began to be a bystander, a thinker, and a learner...

He saw a lot of things...

Because the wages he set for the officials were too low, the officials became corruption, and even the torture of peeling grass could not be stopped. He also saw that the military household system he invented became increasingly powerful. The millions of Ming troops planted fields for hundreds of years had become farmers. He saw that the Jinyiwei, East Factory, West Factory and other spies were rampant and illegal, making the Ming Dynasty chaotic; he also saw that because of the sea ban, Zheng He's achievements in voyages to the West disappeared, and the Westerners drove a large ship that could sail thousands of miles and brought wealth back to Europe continuously...

He saw the peasant uprising everywhere in the war, and also saw the Manchu Iron Cavalry eyeing him; he also saw the strange emperors of the Ming Dynasty playing with crickets, learning carpenters, not attending court for decades, fighting for status for parents and verbal battles with ministers, and named himself a general, practice Taoism and wearing Taoist robes, and died of excessive poisoning after taking aphrodisiacs...

Those ridiculous, strange, stupid, and all kinds of reasons... made the Ming Empire, which he established, collapsed in March of the 17th year of Chongzhen (1644 AD) and turned into ashes!

Seeing the destruction of the dynasty that he had worked hard to establish, Zhu Yuanzhang's emotions that had not been angry for many years were once again excited: Don't be proud! The Qing Tartars, like the Mongol Yuan, you will be driven back to the grassland in just over a dozen years! Look, how many righteous men who are anti-Qing and restoring the Ming Dynasty on the land of Shenzhou? My Ming Dynasty will never fall like this...

He sneered in the sky as the Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains, watching the Manchus manage the country tremblingly, worried that they might be driven back to the pass at any time, but... what he expected and what the Manchus worried about had never happened. In a blink of an eye, three hundred years have passed... The patriots who anti-Qing and restoring the Ming Dynasty have died, and the Qing Dynasty's country has begun to stabilize, and then they began to experience the same process as the Ming Dynasty, from prosperity to corruption to depravity... Then Western powers came, and the entire Chinese nation was trembling under the guns of foreigners. The Qing Dynasty, which had been standing for three hundred years, fell down overnight, ending a new round of dynasty changes...

I see……

"I have realized it!" Zhu Yuanzhang sighed to the sky: "I don't want to be a bystander again. God, please let me become a Buddha!"

"Becoming a Buddha? How easy is it? Since you don't want to be a bystander anymore, then go to the prosperous world and go back to the trendy world... How about being a trendsetter in history?"
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