Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang is a legendary emperor in the eyes of the world, people's evaluation of him is also mixed, some people say that he established the Ming Dynasty, opened a new era, and himself was born in a reckless way, such achievements are really admirable, and during the reign is also to work hard to govern the country and the people, can be regarded as a generation of Ming Jun.
However, some people say that he is suspicious by nature, ungrateful in order to protect the imperial power, kills many innocent loyalists, and the means of rule are even more decisive and cruel, so people always have great differences and opinions on Zhu Yuanzhang's views.
I don't know that Zhu Yuanzhang had other unknown contributions in other aspects, such as the appearance of counterfeit money when the new coins of the Ming Dynasty were issued, Zhu Yuanzhang invented a method, that is, to add an extra word when minting coins, and this practice actually solved the world's problems, so that the corrupt officials at that time had nowhere to seek private interests.
The Iron-Fisted Emperor
Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang can be said to be a well-known figure in history, even the emperors of later generations have deep admiration for him, can rely on the poor birth in the chaotic world, how many dynasties have risen and fallen through the ages, and Zhu Yuanzhang alone has such achievements, but it is also this kind of birth that Zhu Yuanzhang suffers from loss for his own throne, after all, and the achievements of many brothers who were born into death are not under him, afraid that these generals under his command will one day be like Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin, who will be yellow robes and seize their thrones. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang, who ascended the throne as empress, became more and more suspicious.
For his own worries, Zhu Yuanzhang also had a solution to his adviser Liu Bowen, and the method proposed by Liu Bowen was also to emulate Song Taizu and let his subordinates release their military power with a cup of wine, and give them enough rewards to lead their families to resign and return to their hometowns for the elderly.
After all, these people have worked hard for most of their lives to make outstanding contributions to the Ming Dynasty' Jiangshan, and in the end they did not get the high-ranking official Houlu, but they had to resign and return to their hometown, which no one could accept, so no one could understand Zhu Yuanzhang's thoughts, and no one would be willing to do so.
Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang is not a good stubble to provoke, he does not buy it, then he can only use his own methods to eliminate possible rebel forces, he through fishing law enforcement to investigate and punish some courtiers who may have the idea of usurping power and usurping the throne, coupled with the decisive character of killing, for a time many heroes have fallen, such as the Hu Weiyong case and the Blue Jade case at that time, which involved tens of thousands of people, and these people died tragically under the knife.
After years of suppression and governance by Zhu Yuanzhang, the courtiers of the court also gradually understood that Zhu Yuanzhang, who once lived and died with them, had become an emperor who was blinded by the iron fist, and naturally he was responsible for the work within his duties, no matter what kind of outrageous moves, it had to be said that although Zhu Yuanzhang had killed many people in order to consolidate his imperial power, it was undeniable that this had a huge effect on the development of the Ming Dynasty and the stability of the regime.
The problem of money has arisen in economic construction
In addition to political governance and strengthening, Zhu Yuanzhang has also introduced many policies for social construction and improvement of people's livelihood, although he is very cruel to his courtiers, but as a civilian Zhu Yuanzhang has personally felt the suffering of the people since childhood, so when he reigned, he was very concerned about the suffering of the people at dawn, and if you want a country to be well run, then economic construction is the top priority, and the first and most important problem in wanting to develop the economy of the Ming Dynasty is to issue new currencies. In turn, it gradually shifted to an economic system exclusive to the Ming Dynasty.
And in the process of issuing a new currency, there is a very serious problem, that is, in the issuance of a large number of counterfeit money in the issuance of a large number of counterfeit money, these counterfeit currency from different manufacturing institutions, the material used will be doped with some lead metal other than copper, such coins in the appearance of no difference, but the quality is much worse than the official issued new coins, and these people who seek private interests will buy counterfeit money low and sell high, from which to earn the difference, which one in and one out of the profit is very large, More of this money went into the hands of local corrupt officials.
Such a thing not only happened in the Ming Dynasty at that time, but even in the whole world is a common phenomenon, although copper coins are not particularly valuable currency, but in ancient times it was a strategic metal, which represented the role equivalent to today's paper money and coins, which has a great role in promoting the development of the entire social economy.
At the same time, the production and life of the common people can also be continued through this, so if this phenomenon is not well contained, or there is no corresponding solution, then the economy of the Ming Dynasty may face a paralyzing situation, so Zhu Yuanzhang also came up with an "exclusive method"
Coins plus a word, corrupt officials are difficult to seek personal gain
Zhu Yuanzhang came up with this method is to add a word to the currency, in addition to the copper coin on the front of the four big characters written "Hongwu Tongbao", but also in the other parts of the currency to add the province where the coin is located, because in ancient times every province has a word representing it, such as the abbreviation of Beijing is "Jing", Shandong is "Lu", the purpose of this is to better find the provinces where the counterfeit money appears, once the province appears counterfeit money, the corresponding responsibility will be attributed to the governor of which province.
Although these corrupt officials are mercenary, they have a unified characteristic, that is, they are timid and afraid of death, for them money is important, but far less important than their lives, they do not want to end up with a life to earn and spend, so in order to avoid Zhu Yuanzhang's surrender on their heads, almost all will try to prevent the appearance of counterfeit money in their own provinces, so that there is no need for Zhu Yuanzhang to go through a lot of trouble, these people will do their best to deal with this matter.
This method invented by Zhu Yuanzhang has also been well used in later generations, and even imitated by some other neighboring countries, it has to be said that this method had a very good effect at that time, and it had an extremely important role and significance for promoting the currency reform at that time and cracking down on the emergence of counterfeit money, which also laid a good economic foundation for the later development of the Ming Dynasty, and also made those corrupt officials who sought illegal benefits have nowhere to hide.
epilogue:
From this point of view, this Hongwu Emperor who killed decisively in history is not a reckless man who only knows how to fight and kill in our eyes, but has a commendable wisdom and mind, so Zhu Yuanzhang can become the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, which is not well known to us.
After all, to govern the Ming Dynasty well and lay the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, how to say that Zhu Yuanzhang is not a mediocre person, but this matter is not so prominent compared with many of his other deeds, and naturally it is not understood by future generations, so many times we have to judge a historical figure from multiple angles.
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