"Your Majesty, how should I change the Yuan Dynasty?"
Prime Minister Zhang Bi first asked Chen Li on the throne.
In fact, this was just a formality.
The scholars in the Ministry of Rites had already prepared a booklet for Chen Li.
As long as Chen Li opened it, he would have multiple options for him to choose from.
Unexpectedly, Chen Li was not in a hurry to answer, but asked the ministers of His Highness: "When the late emperor was still alive, his country name was Dahan and his reign name was Dayi.
I would like to ask why the late emperor used Dayi as his reign name. " "This" Zhang Bixian was at a loss for words, and naturally the other ministers couldn't answer.
Firstly, no one knows what Chen Youliang’s true thoughts are about this matter.
Secondly, Chen Youliang thinks that although Chen, Han, Xu and Song Dynasties had reasons for the incident, from the perspective of traditional morality based on Confucian etiquette, it is still an unjust act. .
However, Chen Youliang chose the word "Dayi" as his reign name.
Therefore, ministers usually avoid the venerable taboo and generally do not mention this old matter.
Seeing that the ministers were speechless, Chen Li brought up the old story himself: "Back then, the late emperor, who was still a former general of Xu Song Dynasty, sailed a boat to attack Wu, but Xu Shouhui tried to assassinate him, but the late emperor discovered it in advance and killed him.
This incident But he was slandered by various enemies as the first The emperor conspired to kill the king, but anyone with any brains would know that the late emperor had great power and could not kill Xu Shouhui at any time, so he had to take him to Caishiji, a front line thousands of miles away, to kill him. ” Chen Li glanced at the silent ministers and suddenly became excited: "But the late emperor.
His righteousness is not a righteousness that these old Confucian scholars can understand.
The late emperor's righteousness is also the righteousness of the Han Empire and my righteousness, that is, Expelling the northern barbarians, restoring Han rule, and restoring our Central Plains is a matter of great national interest.”
"Therefore, in order to inherit the legacy of the late emperor, our Han Dynasty is not Chen Han, not a dynasty with one surname, but a nation state that inherits the Chinese legal system for thousands of years.
Therefore, I decided not to set a year name, but to mark the Yuan Dynasty with a dynasty name.
The orthodox dynasties before the Yuan Dynasty used the dynasty name as the country name.
But starting from our Han Dynasty, the country is the dynasty, and the current dynasty is the Chen Dynasty."
If Chen Li's words were spoken in the court of Zhu Yuanzhang of Yingtian Mansion, the officials below would definitely think these words were ridiculous and refute them.
However, most of Chen Li's court officials were old men from martial arts backgrounds, and they were not brainwashed by so many Confucian theories.
When Chen Li's ears were smooth, he felt that what he said was good.
This can also be seen from the country names.
Zhang Shicheng and Zhu Yuanzhang both relied on Confucianism and relied on the landlord class to determine the country's name based on the "geographical feudal state".
Because they mainly controlled the territory of Wu in the pre-Qin period, Take Wu as the country name.
According to the convention of "geography", the meaning of "China" is also different from the word "China" which is a concept of nation-state in modern time and space.
The former refers to a large piece of China's homeland that occupies the main area in the territory of Qin and Han Dynasties.
Each dynasty can call itself China, the country of Middle-earth, regardless of anything else.
Before the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, this was no problem.
Even if there are the Five Hu Kingdoms, Liao and Jin, etc., they do not occupy a clear majority of the territory, and there are still reasons not to recognize them as orthodox.
However, since the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, when judging by the "geographical" method, the controversy has become greater.
Look at Han Shantong, Xu Shouhui, Ming Yuzhen and other leaders of the peasant uprising.
The first two names were both of the Song Dynasty.
Among them, Xu Shouhui was tampered with by Zhu Yuanzhang's historian, simply because Xu Song preceded the Han Song Dynasty, which made Zhu Yuanzhang, who succeeded the Han Song Dynasty, feel that he was unorthodox.
In fact, Tianwan was only the reign name briefly used by Xu Song.
Later, he felt it was unlucky and changed it to Tianqi and Tianding.
Chen Youliang used Han as the country's name, and Ming Yuzhen simply chose the earliest one, using Xia, which was the earliest recorded in historical records, as the country's name.
The leaders of these peasant uprisings were not named Zhao or Liu, and the place where they raised their troops had nothing to do with these titles.
Why did they reuse the previous dynasty's country name?
Perhaps this is just due to their simple nationalism.
They reuse these country names just because they feel that these dynasties are the countries of the nation to which they belong.
Their simple nationalism was undoubtedly born under the national oppression of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty.
Now, Chen Li abruptly added a nation-state concept of "Han" to the geographical concept of "China" and the family dynasty concept of "a certain dynasty".
It is more than five hundred years ahead of Liang Qichao, but because of the different historical environment and background, the scope is narrower than that of the latter.
At the same time, on the Spanish Peninsula 40,000 miles away, the Spanish's 800-year Restoration War was coming to an end.
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The Principality of Muscovy, 30,000 miles away, also launched a counterattack against the Kipchak Khanate, one of the successors of the Mongol Empire.
On the European continent, a series of European nation-states are also being formed.
This is the historical turning point where the gap between Eastern and Western civilizations formed.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang, the original historical victor in time and space, still acted as a historical repeater at this important moment, allowing Chinese civilization to continue to rely on the old, weak and rotten body of Confucianism to stand still.
Two hundred years later, let the historical tragedy happen again to our descendants.
Perhaps, this is the historical mission of Xia Hua's soul traveling to Chen Li.
Just when Chen Li ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, a mansion in Yingtian City was completely black and white, with soul-calling flags hanging all over the courtyard.
Zhou Dexing's body lay in the coffin on the mourning platform.
Although the body has been cleaned and there is no blood stain, his face is still full of flesh and blood, which is really hideous and terrifying.
There was an endless stream of civil and military officials from the state of Wu who came to express their condolences.
This week Dexing is not an ordinary general.
He, Xu Da and Tang He have been herding cattle with Zhu Yuanzhang since they were young.
Their close relationship is no less than that of biological brothers.
They are the "group of relatives and friends" in Zhu Yuanzhang's Huaisi Group, and they are the core of the core.
Of course, in the original time and space, after success, Zhu Yuanzhang still did not hesitate to get rid of two of them.
Xu Da and Tang He, who were dressed in linen and white, hugged each other and cried, their fronts wet with tears.
After the two of them heard the news of Zhou Dexing's death, they rushed back to Yingtian from their base without stopping.
"The King of Wu has arrived," a palace eunuch's sharp voice rang out.
Everyone hurriedly knelt down on both sides and said in unison: "See King Wu, King Wu is a thousand years old."
Zhu Yuanzhang's face was haggard and solemn.
He walked to the coffin with powerful steps, lifted up Xu Datanghe who was kneeling next to him, and said angrily: "I will kill the derelict Beiying guard general and the hypocritical Han prince Chen Shan'er."
Peel .
The Han army took advantage of our army's great victory and succeeded in a sneak attack.
When the next spring came, Gu immediately launched his army and laid waste to Huguang.
He vowed to cut the corpses of Zhang Dingbian into thousands of pieces.
Revenge."
After the three of them had a conversation, Zhu Yuanzhang left.
But he never revealed how Zhou Dexing died.
This was also a secret that he asked those who participated in the war that day and those who knew about it to strictly keep it
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