69novels Chapter 261
Chapter 261
The announcement of the Top Ten Virtuous Monarchs, the happiest person is Wang Mang, he occupies five places!
Next, of course, is the time to announce the special rewards.
"The Dahua Dynasty occupies five places on the list of the top ten dynasties, and special rewards: randomly summon characters twice, a gold mine, 100,000 spears, and 100,000 bows and arrows!" "The Dahua Dynasty occupies two places on the top ten sage list, and special rewards: 100,000 spears and 100,000
armor.
After hearing the special reward, Wang Mang couldn't help but shake his head and smiled: "It's a pity that Liu Bang and Liu Xiu died, otherwise these two people might be on the list."
Zhen Mi, who was coaxing the young Wang Yun on the side, couldn't help but smile when she heard this: "Your Majesty is really greedy, if Liu Bang and Liu Xiu are on the list, then there will be no places in other dynasties~" Wang
Mang smiled and was noncommittal.
Others don't know the exploits of Liu Bang and Liu Xiu, but he knows Wang Mang better than anyone else.
If Liu Bang is alive, it is really hard to say whether he can be on the list, but Liu Xiu should be fine.
It's a pity that Liu Xiu is dead and can't appear on the list.
"There is also a list, let's see which new list will be this time!" Wang Mang changed the topic and looked into the air.
The golden light in the air flashed, and the list of virtuous monarchs disappeared, and then the golden light re-condensed into another list.
At the same time, the voice of the avenue also sounded: "Next, the top ten faint monarch list will be announced."
As soon as these words came out, all the emperors and people in the world were immediately shocked.
The Faint Monarch List is much more terrifying than the Virtuous Monarch List, and if they or the emperor they are in the dynasty are Faint Monarchs, then they have to think about their own safety.
At this moment, everyone in the world is waiting for the release of the gold list.
The lethality of the Faint Monarch List is much greater than that
of the Virtuous Monarch List! The people are not afraid of the Virtuous Monarch, but they are afraid of encountering
the Faint Monarch! Only Wang Mang raised his eyebrows, thinking about what the scoring criteria of the Faint Monarch List were.
After so many lists, he already has some understanding of the ranking of the gold list, and the other party is scored according to certain criteria.
Simply put,
an incompetent monarch.
However, what does it mean to be incompetent? The traditional view is that if a king does not do his job properly and eats, drinks and has fun all day long, he will be a dumb king.
If we start from this definition, more than 80% of the monarchs in history can be called faint kings. But "promising" emperors like Chongzhen and Zhao Gou are not faint monarchs.
Some people think that the king of the dead country must be the faint king, otherwise why would the country be destroyed?
Although this theory seems reasonable, it cannot stand up to scrutiny. Of course, there are those who are stupid and incompetent, but there are also some who are controlled by powerful ministers and cannot help themselves.
For example, Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty was controlled by powerful ministers all his life until the final death, but I am afraid that he cannot be said to be a faint monarch.
Some gentlemen take the initiative to kill people if they don't move. For example, Qin Shi Huang, Qin II, Shi Hu, Gao Yang, Xiao Baojuan and so on. These people may not be competent, but it is more appropriate to call them tyrants.
There are still many monarchs who have made achievements in the early stage, and some people can even be called Ming monarchs in the early stage, such as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty and Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty (Qianlong), and there are some problems with calling these people the Dum Jun in general.
There were also some monarchs who had intellectual problems, such as Emperor Sima Zhen of Jin Hui who was mentally retarded.
Someone told him that the common people couldn't eat, and he actually said, "Why don't they eat meat soup?"
This kind of person is of course incompetent as an emperor, but he is born with disabilities, and it seems unfair to classify them as faint kings.
Therefore, in Wang Mang's view, the criteria for selecting the top ten faint monarchs are as follows:
1. Abnormal intelligence is not counted. It is reasonable for a person of abnormal intelligence to do something stupid, but a person of normal intelligence is stupid to do something stupid.
2. The wise in the early stage and the mediocre in the later stage are not counted. It is a natural law that people become more and more mediocre the older they get. It was the same for both the emperor and the commoners. It's just that the commoner's Alzheimer's disease only harms himself, and the emperor's Alzheimer's disease will harm the world.
3. Tyrants don't count. While many tyrants are violent and incompetent at the same time, there are also many tyrants who can do things when they are not mad or unable to go berserk.
Therefore, such as Emperor Yang of Sui, he can be called a tyrant, but he is not qualified to be a faint monarch.
4. Rankings are based on the degree to which their actions affect future generations. There are many monarchs who are mediocre, incompetent, and unscrupulous, but their actions have not caused serious consequences, and they cannot be said to be faint monarchs.
5. Folklore, fictional characters do not count.
For example, Liu Chan, the queen of Shu, has always been considered by the folk to be a typical of the faint king.
This is mainly influenced by "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". In the early part of Liu Chan's reign, Zhuge Liang was the de facto ruler of Shu Han. After Zhuge Liang's death, although Liu Chan appointed Huang Hao, he did not get to the point of chaos in the government. So he couldn't get into the top 10.
Wang Mang thought of this, and the definition of the faint monarch in his heart was already very clear.
At this time, the gold list also released the ranking of the top ten faint monarchs
: "The tenth place on the top ten faint monarch list-Zhu Youzhen (Ming Sizong Chongzhen, Ming Dynasty)" "
Reward: one silver mine, 50,000 spears. "
Unlike other faint monarchs, Sizong does not have the characteristics that are usually shared by faint monarchs.
For example, he is not good at women, he is not good at money, he does not have a plaything to be a calligrapher or a little carpenter, and he does not have unrealistic fantasies about becoming an immortal.
His only ideal was to revive the dynasty as a Ming monarch who would go down in history. But his abilities are just too poor. And he is self-serving, mean, and unkind.
For the people only know looting. Obviously, there is already a famine, not only will it not be relieved, but it will be expropriated even more severely. It provoked peasant uprisings everywhere.
He didn't know how to work out the foreign war, and he just wanted to eliminate Houjin in one fell swoop, but he was suspicious of the talented minister, and finally even Yuan Chonghuan, the only one who had the ability to turn the tide, was killed by him, and in the end, there was only a group of minions left under him who were less capable than him.
In the end, when the rebels besieged the city and he wanted to escape, only one eunuch Wang Chengen accompanied him, and the eunuch guarding the city gate refused to open the door for him.
Chongzhen was probably the only one who betrayed his relatives and left his relatives to this extent, and in the end he had no choice but to hang himself on the coal mountain.
When Wang Mang saw Chongzhen's name, he immediately confirmed the conjecture in his heart, so the Jin Bang was judged according to the standards he thought.
Although many people in later generations whitewashed Chongzhen, Chongzhen was indeed a self-righteous and mean person, otherwise in the end, everyone would not have betrayed his relatives, and only one eunuch followed him.
I just don't know how Zhu Yuanzhang will feel when he sees this ranking.
At this time, in the Ming Dynasty and Fengtian Palace, Zhu Yuanzhang's gloomy face could drip water.
"Hmph, I didn't expect my Daming to have such unscrupulous descendants
!" "Xu Da, you personally take someone to arrest Zhu Youzhen for us!" Zhu
Yuanzhang is a person who can do whatever he wants, and when he saw that his descendants were on the list of faint kings, he directly ordered the other party to be arrested.
If it weren't for the fact that killing the other party would give others this place, he would not hesitate to kill Zhu Youzhen!
"Yes!" Xu Da responded and immediately went down to arrange this matter.
PS: Pinyin typing is more anxious, sometimes there are too many characters will also make mistakes, if you find a typo or where to make a mistake, please leave a message, I will correct it in time.