In recent years, some non-historians of history have emerged in China, such as mingyue of the year of "Those Things of the Ming Dynasty", the drunkard of "Sui Chaos", the Ah Yue of "New Song", and the author of "When is the Bright Moon - The Sigh of the Ming Empire", Shan Gao Yuekuo, who have some common characteristics
1. Non-history class: Drunkard and Ah Yue are engineers, and Mingyue and Yamagao Yuekuo were civil servants.
2. The tone and narrative are more lively than those of ordinary history books, but they inevitably become exaggerated and rendered.
3. I like to discuss history from the perspective of wild history and inference, and readers who like it will read it with relish, and readers who don't like it will think that it is not rigorous enough.
The title of the book, "When is the Bright Moon - The Sigh of the Ming Empire", does not depart from the naming principle of the overturned history book: the language is not surprising and endless, and the cover and text of the book directly expose the five major historical doubts:
Are the Eight Banners really sharp?
Is the peasant army really overwhelming?
Was the Ming Dynasty really vulnerable?
Is Yuan Chonghuan really a national hero?
Wasn't Zhu Youjian the king of the subjugated country?
Therefore, there is no doubt that this book is a popular historical reversal book without compromise, and the author clicks on the side to illustrate some of the following views:
I. Yuan Chonghuan is not an anti-Jin hero, he is just a speculator who wants to take advantage of the contradictions and gaps between war and peace talks to seek official positions and interests for himself, and even sells out national interests to preserve his own position of power. For example, the author mentions that Yuan Chonghuan and Huang Taiji reached a secret consensus to let Huang Taiji send troops to the city of Beijing, only because Yuan Chonghuan wanted to use peace negotiations to ensure his position as the chief military and political officer in Liaodong and even in the Ming Dynasty.
Second, Wanli is not a lazy emperor, the author Yamagao Yuekuo believes that the Wanli Emperor who has not been in the dynasty for decades has not abandoned the government, and the author believes that the so-called deliberations of the upper dynasty are all empty talk and high talk of some imperial historians, similar to today's TV talk shows, Wanli will not waste time if he does not go to the dynasty.
At first, Emperor Taiji had no plans or ideas for annexing China at all, and it was entirely due to Chongzhen's series of decision-making mistakes.
However, the author pushes most of the responsibility for the decline and fall of the Ming Dynasty to the Donglin Party and the "party struggle" it launched, and there is still much praise for eunuchs such as Wei Zhongxian, and I cannot agree with these arguments, the factors of a country's decline should be multiple and interlinked, but the author pushes all the responsibility to the Donglin Party, he believes that the Wanli Emperor's laziness in the government was caused by the members of the Donglin Party, and he believes that the military diplomacy failure caused by some personnel struggles between the Apocalypse and Chongzhen is also the harm of the Donglin Party. He believed that the Wanli Emperor would not trust the central government but trust the eunuchs around him, also because the members of the Donglin Party controlled the imperial court, and even in order to demean the Donglin Party, even Wei Zhongxian was described as being a man of good manners, which made people feel quite puzzled.
I don't think the Donglin Party bears the biggest or even sole responsibility for the decline of the Ming Dynasty, and I don't quite believe that the Qing Dynasty founder Huang Taiji did not have the ambition to annex China, and the reason why he did not launch a large-scale southward conquest of the Ming Dynasty for more than a decade must have its economic, logistical and non-military considerations; as for Yuan Chonghuan, who is an indirect anti-typical traitor, I agree with this, because the Qing history writes him as if he were a lone minister who has been wronged has its own political purposes. One is to demonize Chongzhen so that the Qing Dynasty will have more legitimacy in destroying the Ming Dynasty, and the other is that the female true heart knows that Yuan Chonghuan's random decision-making has helped Jurchen quite a lot of accidents.
The author's words reveal his extreme disgust with party struggle, and also reveal the excessive glorification of the so-called authoritarian centralization of power, which makes people wonder whether the author has instilled his biased ideology in the comments on historical people and things, because the Chinese Communist Party is absolutely disgusted with party struggle, China's political mainstream is a centralized power from top to bottom, and the competition between different parties is absolutely not allowed, or even stigmatized, so when we read the works of Chinese authors, Be quite careful that the author will turn the ideology of paranoia into a description of people and things, and if he does not maintain a skeptical attitude, he will really accept all the contents of the book.
Having said so many people, some are embarrassed, and finally put the genuine link of "When is the Bright Moon - The Sigh of the Ming Empire", after all, it is not easy to write a book ↓↓↓
"Sighs of the Ming Empire" genuine ¥42.8 purchase