The preface of the new edition
goes without saying: Why is Zhang Hongjie's history beautiful? /1
Preface to the first edition of 26 Zhang Yihe: an alternative biography of historical figures that excites me/4 Ding Dong: Understanding the helplessness, wisdom and tactics of the ancients/ Chapter 6 Born in troubled times: Hungry children Zhu Chongba The most hasty birth Hungry children Zhu Chongba Why are they getting poorer? Fertility passion of China people? Famine country? Blood-sucking officials? Poverty gene of China culture? Zhu Yuanzhang's spiritual foundation? Farmer-style thinking? Farmer-style frugality Chapter II Rogue career: the only way for the founding emperor/ 29. An unexpected blow to adolescence. Becoming a monk is to eat. Sixteen-year-old leaves home for a long journey. Three years of Jianghu Road. From a docile subject to a cunning beast. Chapter III emerged: the difference between one thought and another took the road of rebellion/39. The life decided by two pieces of wood. From monks to pro-soldiers, from soldiers to officers, retreat for progress, Independent development, unscrupulous means and shrewd mind, real power and false reputation, murder by using a knife, Establishing Authority Chapter IV One Party: Three Magic Weapons for Zhu Yuanzhang's Success/56 An Extraordinary and Smooth Road to the Emperor The First Film Emperor in the Late Yuan Dynasty and Early Ming Dynasty The Measures to Reduce the Burden for the benefit of the people The policy is the highest, the cultural celebrities are bought off, and the outstanding decisions are made. Chapter V: Winning the world: training top men on the battlefield/ 7 Zhang Shicheng is still Chen Youliang, the last arch-enemy, a self-taught militarist, why did xiao ming wang Northern Expedition to the Central Plains and Zhu Yuanzhang slaughter the heroes? Chapter VI Consolidating the political power: building a peasant utopia/84 4-year-old enthronement, our peasants' own emperor, four ideals of peasants, two inducements for national subjugation, disguised land reform, Strike against landlords, Daming officials under the low salary system, the biggest immigration action in human history, power determines everything, solve the problem of people's clothing and food, Zhu Yuanzhang's utopia exploration, collectivism "dream of great harmony" Chapter VII establishes the system: Ming people have a "hukou book"/ 18 "Poisonous Spider" Zhu Yuanzhang The strictest hukou system The secret of Xuanwu Lake The Lijia system: The hoops of the loafers past lives of the hukou system No officials allowed to go to the countryside The Ancestral Instruction of the Ming Emperor "Don't change a word" Zhu Yuanzhang's view of happiness Chapter 8 governs the heaven and the land: from dressing and wearing hats to women's hairstyles/ 129. Wonderful Book "Taiping Ritual System" The first line of ideological defense No strange clothes, No spitting, Managing women's hairstyles Why do you want to wear clothes and hats Chapter 9: How hooligans educate the people/ 139. The Ubiquitous Imperial Power Zhu Yuanzhang's Most Worried Thing The Mobile Propaganist of Hong Wuchao, the new play Pipa, a strange open letter The educational system of the Ming Empire The terrible school rules of President Zhu "One size fits all" are bound to "blow all the wind" Chapter 1: No rebellion: from deleting Mencius to kowtowing to the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty/155 Mencius annoys Zhu Yuanzhang. Preventing the spread of toxins, special feelings for the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, constructing the theory of Zhu's destiny, creating the theory of Zhu's kindness, and my rebellion is justified. You are guilty of rebellion. Liu Bowen's tragic end. Chapter 11: Arbitrary destruction: soft and hard means to intellectuals/167. "Carrots and sticks". The sensitive words of Hong Wuchao, the first writer of Daming. Foreign literary inquisition. Killing literati at will. Chapter 12: Anti-corruption storm: I would rather kill a thousand by mistake. Don't let go of one/177. The greed of sixty-two skins and grass. The low salary system is the fundamental reason. Da Da, mobilizing the masses to catch corrupt officials, the "childish disease" of "radicalism", the biggest wave of punishing corruption in history, would rather kill a thousand by mistake. Don't let go of an anti-corruption cycle. Chapter 13 Death List: the whole story and details of the heroes of the crazy massacre/ 191 Six Duke and Twenty-eight Emperors after the Founding of the People's Republic of China The Gold Medal of Exemption from Death The consideration behind showing kindness to the heroes The cruelty to the civil servants and gentleness to the military commanders The Prime Minister Hu Weiyong was "rebelled" Revoked the viceroy's mansion: the military system was greatly reformed, only his own son could be trusted, and the massacre plan was to escort the prince, and his son grew up. The time is ripe. The death of Li Shanchang, the first hero. The white-haired people send the black-haired people. The "death list": Aquamarine, Feng Sheng, Fu Youde ... The cultural background of the Aquamarine case. Chapter 14: Returning home with clothes: Special care for Fengyang folks/217. A major news, Two special figures in front of their parents' graves Liu De, an enemy in those days, almost became a way of repaying the gratitude of the capital Zhu Yuanzhang, a special group of the Ming Empire, hosted a banquet for Fengyang's fellow villagers in Nanjing Palace, the Prince Education Base: Fengyang Zhu Yuanzhang's special policy towards his hometown, but there was a nine-year famine in ten years Chapter 15 Zhu Yuanzhang's death: the last terrible order/ 234. Death of the strongman The Last Terrible Order Women of Zhu Yuanzhang The End of the Martyrdom System Daming: The End of the Degenerated Dynasty Looking at the Fate of the Ancestral System in the Ming Dynasty from the "Yellow Book Library"/245. Brainstorming the Yellow Book System The Empty Shell of the Ancestral System The whole county is the ultimate fate of the centenarians.