Why did the Qing emperors look so much stronger than the Ming emperors, and what was the reason for this?
For the first time in history, the Ming Dynasty inherited Zhu Yuanzhang's succession to the throne, and Zhu Yunjiao adopted the principle of establishing love. Zhu Yuanzhang's stupidity led to the Battle of Jingnan, the lives of the people in the north were ruined, and countless loyal subjects died without injustice. Since then, it has been a long stand- As long as it is the eldest son, whether it is the Guangzong who died in a month, or the carpenter Xizong. It was not easy for the ancestors of the Qing Dynasty to survive, either killing people and robbing things, or being killed and robbed. Therefore, it is necessary to make the best people leaders. Nurhaci's sons and nephews were all masters, and Emperor Taiji, who was stronger than all other sons and nephews, became emperor.
Why is the Apocalypse so weak that Daming is fine, and Chongzhen's ascension to the throne is not as good as a year? The Ming Emperor who was tolerant of civilian officials was highly evaluated, relatively speaking, his power and ability were low, and he adopted high pressure on civilian officials, and the early Tai and Chengzu had high political talents, and the emperor, the political structure of the civil servants, and the martial arts balanced each other, and the civilian officials could only be used as stepping stones, the change of the Civil Fort and the collapse of the Wuxun, the civilian officials held military power, administration, public opinion, and the imperial power used eunuchs to balance the civil officials in several dynasties, and the civil officials who were controlled by the Xian, Wu, and Xizong were controlled by public opinion, and the civilian officials who revised the records of the Ming Dynasty and the remnants of the Eastern Forest who repaired the history of the Ming Dynasty and the Manchu Qing officials were more miserable. In fact, these emperors were more intelligent in their political power and in the context of the environment at the time than most Qing emperors.
However, the political structure of the Qing Dynasty was stable, the clans, manchus, and Han were mutually restrained, and the Manchu Qing was able to unify and stabilize the whole country from a backward and small population, suppress and divide Mongolia, completely remove the threat of Mongolia to the Central Plains for hundreds of years, bring Xinjiang and Tibet into effective management, and lay the current territory, which is incomparable to the Ming Dynasty. Emperor Taiji, Kangxi, and Qianlong are more accomplished emperors, and Yongzheng's words can be regarded as heroic and heroic, just like Ming Xianzong, giving their respective dynasties a hundred years of lifespan.
In the traditional discourse system, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty is not superior, the reason can also be seen from the above dimensions: the entire country's household registration and taxpayer population, the total amount of tax revenue from Yongle began not to increase but decrease; the entire country's territory from Yongle began to be gradually eroded, Yongle after the external expansion is not at all, even ming wuzong is basically pure defense; (in fact, this is largely a system of pot, but under the traditional discourse system will often be attributed to the emperor's personal light and dark angle) personal morality, In addition, things such as self-destruction of the Great Wall (killing loyal heroes) would also be lowered in ancient times (Zhu Qizhen), and the evaluation of the use of eunuchs to do things was also very negative (Zhu Qizhen, Zhu Houzhao, Zhu Youxiao), plus the Ming Emperor's education system was not systematic (such as the illiterate Zhu You school).
And the demise of the Qing Dynasty lies in the corrupt government, this rotten word, not to say how chaotic the political situation in this country is, how corrupt the officials are, but to say that his political system, economic system, social system, all aspects are backward, decadent, and directly mythologize the monarch, and all the people in the entire Qing Dynasty court are no longer officials of this country, but slaves who love Xinjue Luoshi. But the Ming Dynasty is not like this, no matter how strange the emperor of the Ming Dynasty is, there will always be a few first assistant ministers who will rise up and restart the state apparatus, such as Zhang Juzheng and Yang Tinghe, and the Qing Dynasty in addition to the first few, such as Aobai, in the middle and late period, where there are real pillar ministers, and most of the mistakes in the middle and late Period of the Qing Dynasty, in the final analysis, is that Yongzheng set up a military aircraft department.
Why does it seem that the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty is much stronger than the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, from these dimensions, most of the emperors of the Qing Dynasty do not have particularly big problems, the education is strict, the personal moral requirements (or strict requirements) when cultivating are very strict, the territory is still large, and the later Shoucheng is still doing a good job. Therefore, under that evaluation system, on the contrary, Yongzheng, who implemented a major change in the system, received a lower evaluation (such as the death of his brothers, such a thing was very influential in personal evaluation in ancient times, but Yongzheng's personal ability is really strong, so no one dares to evaluate him as a faint king) It is also very normal.
In summary, I think that the level of emperors in the late Qing Dynasty was not very good, resulting in virtue and lack of talent (Jiaqing, Daoguang, Xianfeng, Guangxu, etc., here the virtue refers to the high standard requirements for a scholar under the traditional Confucian system), but the core problems faced by the Qing court were not all dynasties, and many times the contradictions of the country would be attributed to external factors (three thousand years of great changes), but it would not be easily considered to be caused by the emperor's darkness, as in the Ming Dynasty.