<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" > preface</h1>
The Tang Dynasty poet Liu Yuxi once wrote in his work "Reward Lotte Yangzhou First Meeting on the Table": A thousand sails have passed on the side of the sinking boat, and the sick tree is in front of Wanmu Chun. This is a poem that describes the experience, the countless pains, and the imminent sight of the light, but also reflects the change and transformation of the dynasty from the side. In China's feudal society, countless dynasties have continuously changed to promote the unity and progress of Chinese civilization, but it is worth mentioning that the records of this aspect of dynasties in everyone's knowledge points are only known to everyone as the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, qing, and so on, but they do not know that there is a great Xia kingdom between the Yuan Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty.
The Kingdom of Bactria has never existed in the memory of many people, but in fact, it is a country that really existed in history, but because it existed for too short a time, it has not been recognized by historians and people in later generations. The founder of the Great Xia Kingdom was called Ming Yuzhen, and Ming Yuzhen saw the situation that the Yuan Dynasty was about to perish, so he entangled some people from poor backgrounds, such as peasants and some people who were devastated by the war, formed a rebel army, occupied some important areas, and chose Chongqing as the capital of his country, so the Great Xia Kingdom was built. But then he died halfway, Zhu Yuanzhang, as an emerging monarch and regime, naturally annexed the Great Xia Kingdom, and since then, there has only been the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties in history, and there is no Tang, Song, Yuan, Great Xia, Ming, and Qing.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" > First, the Bactrian kingdom was very successful when it was founded</h1>
The history of our country is 5,000 years, and there are many great powers, which have left us with extremely profound and far-reaching influences, and many dynasties that have existed for only a hundred years have also been recorded in the historical record for our cognition and reference. However, the Great Xia Kingdom was not recorded in the historical record, but it was real. The Kingdom of Bactria was located between the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, when Ming Yuzhen could not stand the corruption of the Yuan Dynasty and the continuous promotion of war, so he entangled some people to form a rebel army, and participated in many wars, occupied some areas, and later he chose Chongqing as his Kyoto, the Kingdom of Bactria was born and established, and it is worth mentioning that the State of Xia established by Ming Yuzhen was even larger than the Western Wu established by Zhu Yuanzhang at that time.
However, Ming Yuzhen alone to fight is too hard, the ability of the rebel army is not as good as the regular army, it is difficult to rely on weak manpower to seize more land in the land of China, in order to be able to achieve victory faster, Ming Yuzhen chose to cooperate with Zhu Yuanzhang, who established Western Wu at that time, and set out for a crusade against the Yuan Dynasty. According to this situation, the Great Xia Kingdom established by Ming Yuzhen may have a greater chance of success, after all, his country occupied a wider area and stronger strength at that time, and the small country that Zhu Yuanzhang established at that time was not enough, but unexpectedly, Ming Yuzhen actually fell seriously ill in the middle of the crusade against the Yuan Dynasty, and died as a result, so the ruling power of the Great Xia Kingdom also appeared turbulent because of Ming Yuzhen's death.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="7" > second, it is demise before it has officially risen</h1>
As the saying goes, a dynasty is most afraid of the dragons and leaderless, and at the same time, everyone knows the truth that the thief captures the king first, an organization or a country, but whenever his leader has an unexpected situation, then the country or organization will collapse with an extremely rapid momentum, many organizations are because the people are scattered, there is no leader and the collapse of the results, the Great Xia Dynasty is no exception. Since Ming Yuzhen had no heir, the Kingdom of Bactria became more and more turbulent with his death, until finally the Yuan Dynasty was finally overthrown by rebels everywhere, Zhu Yuanzhang began to expand his domain and power at a very rapid pace, in order to be able to unify the world, Zhu Yuanzhang launched a war against his former partner the Great Xia Kingdom, after all, since ancient times, the emperor can only have one, can not have two countries and two regimes.
Zhu Yuanzhang's power was already huge at that time, so not long after, the Great Xia Kingdom of Hongwu was destroyed by Zhu Yuanzhang in the 4th year. If Ming Yuzhen at that time could improve the system of his own country and establish an heir earlier, presumably the Great Xia Kingdom he established would be the last dynasty to replace Zhu Yuanzhang, and it might not be Zhu Yuanzhang's world and the world after that, but unfortunately he was busy with the conquest all the way, and did not realize that he might die in another country to lead to the tragedy, and what is more tragic is that the world he worked so hard to fight was finally invaded by his former allies, not killed by the Yuan Dynasty, but destroyed by his own partners. It was a cruel thing, and what was even more embarrassing was that the Bactrian Kingdom had really existed, but historians did not blindly admit it.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="10" > third, historians do not want to mention but have existed</h1>
The reason why historians and later generations are reluctant to acknowledge the existence of the Bactrian Kingdom, and even directly erase the existence of the Bactrian Kingdom on the periodic table of dynasties, is mainly because its existence time is too short, and it is too insignificant compared with the long-standing historical regime of the Ming Dynasty, and it is not enough to be remembered by future generations. Therefore, the situation of the Great Xia Kingdom is quite embarrassing, if it does not exist, but it has really participated in some wars, which has a certain effect on overthrowing the brutal rule of the Yuan Dynasty, but if it is very useful and memorable, it is half-abandoned, and there is no follow-up.
It is precisely because of the short period of existence, coupled with the fact that the Great Xia Kingdom did not have an overly perfect system and did not carry out serious management, so in history, the next dynasty of the Yuan Dynasty was the Ming Dynasty established by Zhu Yuanzhang instead of the Great Xia State. It is worth mentioning that the Bactrian state mentioned here is not Western Xia, but a new regime established by the Red Turban Army. In fact, Ming Yuzhen also has a certain advantage in establishing a dynasty, because he was originally a minister of the imperial court, and he held a certain amount of political power in his hands, so it was reasonable for him to have the opportunity to establish his own country, but unfortunately, he did not study all the politicians' strategies and policies in place, and after his own accident, he completely ended the dynasty he had worked hard to build.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="13" > conclusion</h1>
According to the records in the history books, it can be seen that Ming Yuzhen was a very frugal and like to study and literature, although after his death that year, his son inherited his position, but under the tracking of Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, his son was naturally self-defeating.
The author has always believed that if he lived a few more years with Ming Yuzhen's talent, I am afraid that the establishment of the Ming Dynasty would not be so smooth, and perhaps his strength in the country could still play a few more rounds with the Ming Dynasty.