Each volume of this book is very thick. There are two main reasons for the huge size of the book.
One is that the Ming Dynasty used to use large characters in vertical format. Even the original text reached 3 million words.
The other is that in addition to the original text, it also adds historical maps, various pictures, vernacular texts, annotations from past dynasties, comments by historical celebrities, and analysis of research results by professional historical researchers. These contents are vast and complex.
If Yaoguang hadn't used computers and the Internet to collect data and edit it, it wouldn't have been completed in two years.
These different contents are printed in different font sizes, fonts and colors to distinguish them.
And these things are dozens of times more numerous than the original text.
This set of books has just been published.
The complete set of the "Compilation of Tongjian Collection of Chongzhen Zizhi of the Ming Dynasty" is a large volume one foot square and ten centimeters thick, with a total of one hundred volumes.
The binding of this set of books is very luxurious, the paper is white and thick, and the typesetting and printing are clear and beautiful. It can be said that it is refreshing for the people of the Ming Dynasty.
Each of these 100 books is packed in a camphor wood (insect-proof) book box. There are ten boxes in total.
As soon as the sample book came out, it was already sold out.
Scholars in the Ming Dynasty were all knowledgeable, and this was a good thing that could be passed down to their children and grandchildren.
In fact, until modern times, this chronicle-style history book, written by a team of leading politicians in the Northern Song Dynasty and completely recording the 1,360-year history of China's rise, has been a must-read on the bookshelf of all politicians and businessmen.
Why is this book so valuable?
Because dogs can’t change from eating shit, neither can people.
The human heart and human nature have never changed.
There is essentially no difference between people today and people in ancient times.
The only difference is that material and culture are more developed and complex, and living conditions are better.
When we encounter problems in life, work, or doing things.
The first thing that comes to our mind is whether this problem is an old problem or a new one.
If it is an old problem, have previous people solved it and how many solutions are there?
If there is, we will pick the most suitable solution and use it.
It's like an open book exam, the answers are all in the book.
If there is no solution, have you tried any solutions?
What inspiration and reference value do these programs have for us?
What if it’s a new problem?
Generally there are no new questions.
What has already been done will continue to happen, and what has been done will be done again. There is nothing new under the sun.
The first batch of 5,000 sets of this set of books was to be printed. The first set was sent to the Yang Mansion Library for collection.
Xiao Niangpi is a good reader and loves books.
Ever since Yang Fan issued an order at the Secretariat and started compiling this book two years ago, she has been paying attention to the progress. She has allocated funds in a timely manner and solved various difficulties. She has provided a lot of assistance in terms of manpower and material resources.
After editing this set of books, she felt like a treasure.
This time I brought a dozen books with me. In my spare time, I read them with gusto.
In particular, the research views of many later generations of experts were refreshing to her. She felt that she had gained a lot, even received an enlightenment, and felt that her intelligence had improved.
Yang Fan systematically studied both simplified Chinese characters and vernacular Chinese. This book also uses both traditional Chinese characters and classical Chinese, as well as simplified Chinese characters and vernacular Chinese.
The original text of this book was in traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese. The translation was in simplified Chinese and vernacular. This made Ming scholars very dissatisfied.
The Ming Dynasty also had simplified Chinese characters and vernacular Chinese, which were mainly used by the lower classes. Many of the simplified Chinese characters we have today have been around since ancient times and are nothing new.
These people are busy trying to survive and have no time to learn complex traditional Chinese characters and classical Chinese.
In fact, the people of the Ming Dynasty spoke and wrote in much the same way as modern people. Those who can even guess can basically understand modern simplified Chinese characters and vernacular Chinese.
Moreover, Yang Fan presented a simplified and traditional dictionary with Chinese pinyin along with the book. There are 5,000 commonly used words in the dictionary and dictionary.
Yang Fan asked Yao Guang to take the lead in compiling this book in order to learn ruling experience for himself. Now it has become a good thing that the ladies can't put down. They all begged for a set for themselves.
When the Queen heard about it, she also sent Aunt Tao to come and take away fifty sets in a cart.
Civil servants, scholars, students, and gentry from the capital and various places also went to Xinghe Bookstore in the provincial capital to place orders. Even though a set sold for as much as 500 taels of silver, they all rushed to buy it.
Yang Fan estimates that 5,000 units will be sold out soon.
Even Mrs. Taozi wrote to Xiao Niangpi, hoping to order ten sets and put them in the library of her private manor in Japan.
Yang Fan looked at this big book, waiting for the next chapter of Xiao Niangpi.
"Sir, I discovered that at the beginning of each dynasty, the military service system was a compulsory service system. When the middle period began, it became a mercenary system. And this change coincided with the rise and fall of the dynasty. And once
After it became a recruitment system, local governments began to be divided. The imperial court and the emperor began to gradually lose their military power."
Yang Fan nodded, this is a repeated fact in history.
The changes in the military service system and the recruitment system coincided with the transfer of imperial power to local power governors.
The destruction of central power coincided with the rise and fall of dynasties.
Starting from the Han Dynasty, the military service system was adopted in the early days, that is, serving as a soldier was compulsory.
Probably when the dynasty was most prosperous, most of them were changed 60-90 years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, when the national power reached its peak.
The imperial court then began to decline. Various problems and conflicts continued to accumulate and erupt over time. Social conflicts also gradually intensified.
What if there are outstanding rulers on the way down and carry out reforms? This dynasty can generally last for more than two hundred years, close to three hundred years. If there are no good rulers to carry out reforms, or reforms fail, it will accelerate its demise and become a short-lived dynasty.
The two-tax system reform in the Tang Dynasty, Wang Anshi's reform in the Song Dynasty, Zhang Juzheng's reform in the Ming Dynasty, and the Tongguang Zhongxing and Westernization Movement in the Qing Dynasty all extended the life of the dynasty.
The shortest one was Wang Mang's new dynasty, which was overturned after more than 20 years of random changes and chaos.
Similar examples include Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, Prime Minister Tuotuo of the late Yuan Dynasty, etc.
The Mongols are the funniest, they have never done anything good to the people, they are all evil people.
But it was during the reign of Emperor Yuan Shun, the last emperor, that he finally did a good deed, which was to build the Yellow River.
As a result, one eye of the stone man was gouged out, which incited the Yellow River to rebel and caused the country to be lost.
The same is true for Chongzhen now. If he doesn't do anything, he just lies down. Just like Wanli, if the slaves can make peace, they can make peace.
There is no need to accept the Liao salary, the eunuchs are no longer pursued, and there is no need to exchange fifty for the bachelor, just make do with it. I guess he can have the luck of Cixi, and after he naturally ascends to heaven, the next generation of the Ming Dynasty will fall
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His efforts hastened the end of Ming Dynasty.
Once a country's national strength reaches its peak, there is a common phenomenon, which is the adoption of a recruitment system. That is, the mercenary system. This is a quite interesting historical phenomenon.