Zhu Youjian's transformation in basic policies is still commendable. The joint efforts of the peasant army to fight against the Qing Dynasty began in the Longwu period. However, facts have proved that without Dashun, Daxi and other peasant army remnants of the peasant army, the Southern Ming regime would definitely not last for twenty years.

Secondly, Zhu Youjian proposed the policy of eliminating party struggles and using the principle of giving up Gongming. Before ascending the throne, when he was appointed as the governor of the country, he personally wrote three articles "Article Gentleman", "Rongzheng" and "Scholars".

It says: "In the governance of a country, civil and military affairs must be harmonious with the superiors, and militia must be harmonious with the subordinates. Otherwise, the way to defeat is to be defeated..."

He also said: "I am determined to pacify the whole party, but I am only in the court's strict lies and the punishment of greed. Recently, I am in the court, and I still feel confused about the unwavering. I want to start a battle of water and fire, but I am very afraid..."

Longwu's opinion on the use of people and choices is not to blame the past, and he will only be hired as long as he participates in the anti-Qing Dynasty. In this regard, Longwu's insights are much more wise than those of the backbone figures of Donglin and Fushe who claim to be righteous gentlemen.

Finally, Zhu Youjian's policy strategy proposed is also remarkable. He is more concerned about the people. In order to alleviate the sufferings of the people, one of his key points in his governance was to rectify the administration of officials and severely punish corruption. It is stipulated that "small greed will be spoiled, and big greed will be killed."

When he heard that the military and civilians who were forced by the Qing court to shave their heads were fleeing south and were killed by the Southern Ming official army, he issued a special edict saying that "if you have a hair, if you have a hair, if you have a hair, if you have a refugee," he strictly prohibited the indiscriminate massacre. This policy is in sharp contrast with the Qing court's "leaving hair but not a head", and is obviously more popular.

As for Zhu Youjian's personal character, it is even more rare among the kings of the Southern Ming Dynasty. Huang Daozhou once described the character of Emperor Longwu in a letter, "I don't drink alcohol today, I am very knowledgeable about officials, and I understand the past and present. I think it is also high, but I have never seen the light."

After ascending the throne, he still served himself very frugal, wearing a local cloth and yellow robe, and was as peaceful as poverty.

If this kind of emperor was in a peaceful and prosperous era, he would definitely be the wise king, and it would be much better than the emperors of the Qing Dynasty mentioned by those experts in Qing history and the so-called experts who cleaned the land for the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, the history of the Ming Dynasty is no longer credible because there are too many literati and poets who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. In order to clear away their ugly selling behavior, they deliberately distorted and exaggerated the disadvantages of the Ming Dynasty, thereby beautifying their "feat of abandoning darkness and turning to light."

It has to be said that they are the ugliest group of scums in the Han Dynasty since the Southern Song Dynasty.

But they succeeded, at least now, many people think that the late Ming Dynasty was a hell of politics and poverty on earth.

But the fact is not the case. Even after the Ming Dynasty fell, before the Qing army headed south to occupy Jiangnan, ordinary Ming people still lived a wealthy and comfortable life.

Zhu Youjian is a tragedy. According to the logic of some Qing history experts, the reason why the Ming Dynasty perished and the Qing Dynasty was established was that the Ming emperors were all incompetent and had extravagant and lazy, while the Qing chiefs and actual supreme rulers all had wise and thrifty life, diligent and loving the people... etc.

These people described the personal character of the supreme ruler as the ultimate factor that determines a dynasty. Not to mention that many emperors of the Qing Dynasty were obviously exaggerated and exaggerated by these Qing history experts, while the emperors of the Ming Dynasty were obviously belittled by these people.

Just to say, if the fate of an empire is determined by the emperor's personal qualities, then just make a Puritan the emperor.

In fact, Zhu Youjian is good in terms of ability, personal qualities or his political policies, so why did he fail in the end? Obviously there are other reasons.

The most important one of these "other reasons" is that Zhu Youjian did not control any reliable and loyal armed forces. Even Zhu Yihai, the King of Lu, had the armed forces of Liao Zhongping, but Zhu Youjian did not.

His edict was promulgated to Guangdong, Guangxi, southern Jiangxi, Hunan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places. Although it was recognized, it was only an apparent recognition, but in fact, it was still the only way to do its own things.

For example, in Fujian Zhu Youjian was controlled by the brothers Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Hongkui. These two pirate brothers simply regarded Longwu as the banner in their hands. They had no right to national rejuvenation in their hearts.

He Tengjiao, the governor of Huguang who was leading troops, only knew how to use Emperor Longwu's trust to regard Hunan and eastern Guizhou as his own forbidden body, and his power and blessings were his own.

Guangxi Governor Qu Shishi was intended to support Gui Fan and be in harmony with the Longwu court.

In short, Zhu Youjian basically has no powerful figure who sincerely assists him in revival.

From the second half of last year to the beginning of this year, it was the period when Wu Zheng rose.

Wu Zheng's rise was not because he really had strong strength, but during this period, the Qing Dynasty, Duoduo, Luke Dehun, and Ajige successively withdrew their troops to the northwest, and the Qing army in the south was empty, while the remaining troops of the Dashun Army and He Tengjiao and Du Yinxi reached an agreement on the joint Ming and anti-Qing. It was when Huguang's troops were in full swing.

This is why Wu Zheng rose with thousands of troops in Lianghuwei Station.

Zhu Youjian actually saw this, which was also the purpose of his sending envoys to Shaoxing Prefecture several times, intending to recruit King Zhu Yihai of Lu to serve his subordinates and jointly fight against the Qing Dynasty.

However, Zhu Youjian's ambition was higher than the sky, but his life was thinner than paper. Zhu Yihai and the ministers of Shaoxing Prefecture ignored him.

This cannot be entirely blamed by Zhu Yihai and others. According to the laws inherited by the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youjian was indeed unable to inherit the Ming Dynasty because he was a "commoner" and not the King of Tang.

This has to start with Zhu Youjian's succession and title of Queen Tang.

His childhood experience made Zhu Youjian hate evil and his heart was a bit extreme.

After being named Queen of Tang, Zhu Youjian showed his strengths and had many conflicts with important officials of the Chongzhen Dynasty on issues such as the exchange of royal family members, which offended many people.

In order to avenge his father's poisoning to death, he killed two uncles, King Fushan, Zhu Qijun and King Anyang, in the ninth year of Chongzhen (he was seriously injured but not dead).

In August of that year, the Qing Dynasty prince Ajige led his troops to attack Beizhili and other places. The Qing army entered the Sierra to defeat Baodi and approached Beijing. The capital was martial law. Zhu Youjian was eager to submit a memorial to seek imperial edicts to serve the king, but Emperor Chongzhen refused. He ignored the iron rule of "the vassal kings do not take charge of the troops" and recruited soldiers and led a thousand guards from Nanyang to the north to serve the king.

When he arrived in Yuzhou, he was impeached by the governor Yang Shengwu, and Emperor Chongzhen ordered him to return.

The Ming Dynasty was extremely strict with the vassal kings. According to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, the vassal kings could enjoy themselves in the palace, but they could not raise troops to support generals and leave the vassal subordinates. Even though Zhu Youjian's motive was pure, Emperor Chongzhen was still furious. Later, he issued an edict to depose Zhu Youjian as a commoner, sent the Jinyiwei to imprison Zhu Youjian, and changed his brother Zhu Youjian to the King of Tang.

Therefore, strictly speaking, Zhu Youjian is not King Tang, but a deposed royal family member.

Not qualified to inherit the ancestral temple.
Chapter completed!