Chapter 273: The Fifteenth Year of Wanli
One night was about to pass, and Zhang Chu was still looking for any relevant information about Emperor Wanli Zhu Yijun in history books, and he used up a lot of bookmarks.
After he completed all the preparations and created a new word document on the desktop, he was thinking about what title to use to write this paper.
At this time, an idea suddenly hit his heart, and the words "Fifteenth year of Wanli" suddenly popped up from his head!
No wonder I subconsciously chose Emperor Wanli among so many emperors in the Ming Dynasty. No wonder I wanted to write some unique history, but it turned out that it was all the memories at work.
In his previous life, he had never read the complete collection of "History of Ming Dynasty", but he had read "Fifteen Years" and "Things in the Ming Dynasty" several times. Of course, he did not remember the specific content, but he had a simple impression of these people and these things.
It was this vague impression that kept pulling him. If it weren't for the sudden enlightenment of his head just now, maybe he wouldn't have thought of that novel yet!
On Earth, "The Fifteenth Year of Wanli" was circulated in the circle of history enthusiasts for many years, and even reached the point where "it would be in vain if you didn't read it for fifteen years in your life."
This is a famous work by historian Huang Renyu and a best-selling academic book.
It can be said that in prose, it has the highest historical level; in history, it has the highest prose!
"The Fifteenth Year of Wanli" neither describes the rise and fall of a dynasty in accordance with the context of time like the chronicle historical books, nor does it want to introduce the life of each character alone in the biography of historical books. Instead, it cuts history into a cross-section, and like a documentary director traveling through the past, slowly unfolds an emperor and five famous ministers at that time in a group-like narrative technique, reflecting the complete face of Chinese society in the 16th century.
Moreover, like a leopard in the tube, from various details, we observe what events contained or revealed that the Ming Dynasty was about to come to an end in the appearance of singing and dancing in 1587.
Although "What Things in the Ming Dynasty" is also a formal history, it is more biased towards novels. As for writing short papers, it is obviously more academic.
This is a book that is between academic and commercial. It is listed as a textbook in many universities in the United States and is also a recommended reading for teachers from various universities in China.
Huang Renyu, the author of this book, is a Chinese-American. When the 15th Year of Wanli was first published, it was also in English. Finally, he translated it into Chinese, so that those foreigners could better understand the history of the Ming Dynasty.
"What Things in the Ming Dynasty" is very popular, but "The Fifteenth Year of Wanli" is not weak. It has been printed many times since its publication, and has become popular again and again.
Even in the famous anti-corruption drama "In the Name of People", Secretary Gao Yuliang's favorite book is this book. The popular TV series once again pushed this historical work from the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty to the hot list.
People from all walks of life will gain different benefits after reading it. It is obviously the most appropriate to choose part of such a work to write a paper!
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It was late at night, but Zhang Chu didn't feel much sleepy. Although he had forgotten the content of this work, fortunately there was a system.
He is a little hesitant now. Can the professor accept this novel way of writing history? If he worked hard to type, he would probably vomit blood if he failed!
Time is limited and indecisiveness is not his personality. After making up his mind, he starts typing and must write things before the deadline.
[April 1587, in China, the 15th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, Dinghai, the leader of the stem and branch, was born in the pig. The world was peaceful that day, and there was no major event throughout the year. Even though the climate was a bit abnormal, such small disasters and small disasters, due to the large size of our country, seem to be inevitable every year.]
He was not in a hurry at this moment, nor did he have time to write down all the contents of "The Fifteenth Year of Wanli". The content of his paper is the first chapter of the work, Emperor Wanli.
In the eyes of many people, including Zhang Chu himself, the ancient Chinese emperors, as supreme rulers, naturally had power with almost no boundaries. They would do whatever they wanted and do whatever they wanted.
Therefore, many people's dream is to return to ancient times to be an emperor and enjoy all their glory and wealth.
But from Wanli, Zhang Chu saw that this was not the case!
In ancient times, if you wanted to become a good emperor or a wise monarch, you should not only be diligent in the government affairs, always care about the country and the people, but also be subject to countless constraints and controls.
Many emperors were passionate when they were young and wanted to work hard for the country, but when they were older, they could feel the helpless feeling. Even when the emperor faced the entire national system, there was nothing he could do. Some people became foolish monarchs, while others became tyrants!
Even without the chief minister Zhang Juzheng, Emperor Wanli found that he could not compete with the entire civil service group and could not even make decisions about establishing a son as the crown prince. In the end, he simply ignored political affairs for decades.
The crackling sound rang in the study, and Zhang Chu planned to stay up late to finish writing this thing, so as to save the night and dream too much.
Sleeping comfortably during the day, Matcha is much more active after late at night. After seeing Zhang Chu pressing quickly on the keyboard, it jumped, jumped from the chair to the computer desk, lying on the keyboard with confidence, looking at Zhang Chu with an innocent look on his face.
"Matcha, don't make trouble, come down quickly."
He reached out and wanted to lift the matcha from the keyboard, but the little guy turned a deaf ear and stuck out his tongue to lick the hair on his body, and even rolled around the keyboard.
One by one, garbled characters appeared in the document. Zhang Chu was so scared. If the thing he wrote was deleted by the cat, would the professor believe this reason?
The older he grew, the less he was. Zhang Chu took Matcha down and put it in his arms. He touched Matcha's head, "This is not naughty. I'll play with you when I finish writing."
After saying that, he deleted the garbled things and continued to write them hard.
I haven't experienced this late-night homework practice for a long time. Zhang Chu felt very familiar. I almost always had this kind of dormitory when I was studying in my previous life.
All homework or papers were quickly produced the day before the deadline, and now I am just repeating that approach!
Matcha is not a cat that can only be kept calm. After staying in Zhang Chu's arms for less than a few minutes, he jumped to the ground, his tail was raised high, and he walked towards the living room with an authentic cat step.
Originally, there was only a few thousand words required, but Zhang Chu found that he actually wrote more than 10,000 words in one breath according to the writing style in "The Fifteenth Year of Wanli", which was much beyond expectations.
"I hope the professor won't give bad reviews just because I wrote too much."
Obviously, these things do not have high scores if they have more words. After Zhang Chu saved the manuscript, he printed it out on a4 paper and bound it with the printer in the study.
After he was busy, it was almost four o'clock in the morning. He yawned and even lay on the bed and fell asleep without even taking care of washing!
Chapter completed!