"Indeed, it was precisely because Taizu Sheng expelled the Northern Barbarians and established the Great Sheng Dynasty that everyone took this matter for granted. But if you look at the Roman Empire, it didn't just fall apart once and never stand up again. Yet?"

"Yes, if there really was such a person in the Roman Empire, his name in the West would probably replace Caesar, right?"

"Thinking about it this way, if the Great Sheng Dynasty had not reshaped China, and the entire Central Plains had been ruled by foreigners for more than six hundred years, it would be hard to imagine what it would be like!"

"During the Qi Dynasty, even the traditional areas of the Han people such as Yanyun, Liaodong, and the Hexi Corridor could not be defended. Later, not to mention, the southerners became the lowest class. Even Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong and Guangxi were full of Hu merchants. Given time, maybe The Central Plains will be completely transformed into barbarians, and if the Great Sheng Dynasty had not appeared, there might have been another extremely terrifying chaos!"

"If you look at it now, you will know that the fishing village that has been separated for more than a hundred years is restless, and the island that has been separated for seventy years is smoky. Sheng Taizu took over, but the north and the south have been separated for more than two hundred years, and Yanyun has been separated for more than four hundred years. The Hexi Corridor that has been separated for more than 500 years is Yunnan that has been lost for more than 800 years!"

"Yes, if there hadn't been the Great Sheng Dynasty, I'm afraid that the ridges of our Chinese people would have been broken! I'm afraid that the southerners and the northerners would have become two different ethnic groups. Don't think it's impossible, there are examples in the world It’s everywhere.”

"It is said that times create heroes, but during the darkest moments in our Chinese history, how many heroes like Sheng Taizu were produced?"

"I don't like the saying that times create heroes. This sentence certainly has merit, just like if Taizu Sheng was born in a peaceful and prosperous age, he would only be a tenant farmer for the rest of his life, and heroes would have no place to play. However, over-emphasis on times making heroes, But it fell into a kind of emptiness. As long as 'the hero does not come out', it is understood that 'the time has not come'. But many times, it is the hero who finds the opportunity, and it is the hero who creates the situation!"

"So, I, China, are too lucky. Whenever China declines and China sinks, there will always be a hero who turns the tide and helps the building from falling! However, it is precisely because of this luck that Many people regard the emergence of these heroes as inevitable and do not know how to cherish them at all!"

"Not only do they not know how to cherish them, but they also constantly look for various angles to criticize and smear them. It is the executioners with butcher knives in their hands, stained with blood, that have become the targets of corruption."

"It's great. It's great to be able to say these words to Taizu Sheng..."

This short sentence made the audience feel as if they had traveled hundreds of years and arrived at that magnificent era where heroes emerged in large numbers.

The shots in the movie also changed accordingly.

Chuzhou City, Rebel Army.

It was from here that the young Sheng Taizu embarked on the journey of his mission step by step.

From the first time Sheng Taizu fought against the Northern Barbarian army until he left Chuzhou City with the "Twenty-Four Generals of the Two Huaihe Rivers", the plot of the "rebel" identity was completely displayed in front of all the audience.

Especially at the end, when he resolutely took away twenty-four people and decided to make his own way, many viewers were surprised.

Although this is recorded in official history, it is indeed not known to most ordinary people.

The video officially adopted by "Ansha" was not Huo Yunying's video, but the video of another martial arts player.

This may be because in Huo Yunying's video, although the customs clearance was faster and smoother, it was not close enough to the image of Sheng Taizu at that time.

The video of this player not only shows Sheng Taizu's nervousness, embarrassment and other complex emotions when he first entered the battle formation, but also well reflects the whole process of his continuous growth and rapid emergence in the battle formation.

Moreover, the content of the movie does not stop there.

The role of "rebel" ended when Sheng Taizu left Chuzhou City, but it continues in the movie.

After Sheng Taizu left Chuzhou City, he relied on these twenty-four people to continuously recruit nearby rebels and bandits, either using tricks, relying on his own personality charm, or attacking directly... Soon, he A team of three thousand people was formed.

From twenty-four generals to a rebel army of three thousand people, to a separatist force that dominated one side, and finally unified the Central Plains and began the Northern Expedition...

The movie does not record the details in detail, but uses war scenes one by one to briefly introduce the general process of Sheng Taizu's "expelling the Huru and rebuilding China".

Watching this rebel army continue to grow, the players are all excited.

In particular, this also shows the difference between Sheng Taizu's rebel army and other rebel armies: strict military discipline and orderly rewards and punishments. Perhaps this is the biggest difference between Sheng Taizu and other peasant uprising leaders.

…

After some turmoil, the scene returned to the battlefield near Tula Mountain in Woodlands.

A smile appeared on Taizu Sheng's face, as if he was recalling his glorious past again.

He nodded slightly and continued to ask: "Is there a second point?"

Meng Yuan said without hesitation: "Of course.

“This second point is naturally ‘Establishing principles and disciplines to help the people’.”

Compared with "Expelling the Huru and Rebuilding China", this second point is obviously not so loud.

Taizu Sheng nodded slightly, obviously acknowledging what Meng Yuan said, but he still said: "It is what every founding king should do to recuperate and recuperate."

Meng Yuan nodded: "Even so, if you want to say that those who can truly understand the sufferings of the people and understand the 'difficulty of people's livelihood', the seniors should be second to none among the emperors!

"During the previous dynasty, the tyrants were rampant, and the tenant farmers were like pigs and dogs, and the rich dared to kill them exclusively. The landlord's crime of beating the tenant to death was reduced to one degree, and he could even be whipped and driven, treated as a slave, and even had his children.

“If the tenants have a boy, they will be enslaved; if they have a girl, they will be a maid.

“In fact, before the Dasheng Dynasty, the status of tenant farmers was no different from that of serfs!

"We are accustomed to feudal societies without serfdom, but in fact we are the outliers. Almost all feudal societies around the world have embarked on the path of serfdom, and the so-called civilized West has been carrying out reforms to abolish serfdom until modern times.

"When Dasheng was first established, it could be said to be devastated. North of the Huaihe River, the Yellow River Basin, Liaodong, and the northwest were almost all white land. There was not much population in the entire north of the Yangtze River. There were even grazing horses and soldiers in the Luoyang Basin.

“The Yellow River is overflowing and the people are in dire straits. With such a scene of ‘more than one hundred people surviving’, ordinary people can’t even talk about survival, let alone the rise and fall of dynasties?

“Thirty years after the founding of the Great Sheng Dynasty, more than 40,000 pond weirs were opened, 4,000 rivers were dredged, and 5,000 canal embankments were built in prefectures and counties across the country!

"Dujiangyan, which had been abandoned for hundreds of years, has come back to life, and the Yellow River has stopped flooding for two hundred years. Hexi, which was completely slaughtered by the Northern Barbarian army, has a population of less than 800,000 and less than 100,000 hectares of farmland. In the third year of the founding of the Dasheng Dynasty,

Ten years later, the 80,000-strong army in the northwest would have enough food to support them for three years. Their cultivated land and population would exceed the peak of the Qi Dynasty!

"Tenants in the Dasheng Dynasty were not serfs, but common people. They had certain legal rights and personal freedoms and could not be manipulated at will. Not only were they freed from personal dependence on the landlord, but they could also terminate the tenancy contract according to their own wishes.

"In the early and middle periods of the Dasheng Dynasty, 'rich people did not dare to buy too much rent. At that time, the scholar-bureaucrats were afraid of the Qing Dynasty, and all the eunuchs returned with no money. There was no trend of mergers and acquisitions by powerful powers. The people had limited land, few families, and no valuable grain.'

“The rights that Dasheng regained for the tenant farmers lasted for six hundred years!

“There is even a stipulation: virtuous, upright and heroic people are allowed to tie up evil subordinates from various places and old and cunning people in rural and urban cities and send them to the capital; if anyone dares to stop him midway, his head will be displayed to the public!

"If you look at it from the perspective of the landlords, gentry, and powerful officials, your Majesty is of course unforgivable, and you wish you could eat him alive. But if you look at it from the perspective of the common people and poor tenant farmers, after being oppressed for hundreds of years, you finally have something to lose.

How should you feel when such an emperor appears?"

…

Meng Yuan's words once again aroused cheers from the audience.

"That's so good! It makes my blood boil!"

"Yes, everyone says Sheng Taizu was a tyrant, but no matter how cruel he was, he was still the real savior to officials, powerful gentry, and ordinary people!"

"Those who say cruelty are talking about empathy. People are superior to others! When corrupt officials embezzle money to control floods, countless people in the downstream drown.

When students who study hard from poor families cannot be loyal to the country... aren't the common people and students who study hard from poor families pitiful?"

"Yes, think about what life Taizu Sheng lived in those days. For generations, his ancestors and grandchildren were refugees and tenant farmers at the lowest level of society. They had no roof to cover their heads and no place to stand on. They even gave two kilograms of pork to a scholar to give him a name.

Sorry! There are still people saying that bureaucrats and landlords are pitiful?"

"Hey, it is precisely because Sheng Taizu started with a bowl that he understands the sufferings of the people better! He is indeed merciless when it comes to killing officials, but how many emperors can do better than him to the people?"

"Originally, I thought that doing little corvee and underpaying taxes and making a living for the people was a matter of course after the founding of the country. But in the long history, how many dynasties have really been able to do this?"

"Yes, Taizu Sheng was also a feudal emperor and could not escape the laws of history, but among the emperors, he was considered the best."

…

When the camera turned, the scene of Taizu Sheng in his late years was seen reviewing memorials.

This section uses the lens of Chu Ge.

There are mountains of memorials and seemingly endless work...

An old body, stubbornly persisting like this, maybe if he had to review one less memorial and deal with one less thing, this huge empire would not collapse suddenly, but he just kept persisting and refused to say anything.

Relax.

Several key points encountered when playing the role of "Emperor" were also well presented, allowing the audience to follow Chu Ge's perspective and understand why some people had to be killed.

The previous performance of the "Emperor" identity did not actually explain the results of this hard work.

The players were busy for a long time, but in the end they just saw the number "Guo Zuo Extension" and were qualified to pass the level.

But at this time, through Meng Yuan's introduction, the changes in farmland, population, water conservancy facilities and other data were intuitively displayed in front of all the audience.

Finally, there is an overhead shot.

The originally deserted and dilapidated mountain villages have become densely populated again. The displaced farmers are either busy with spring plowing, working diligently, or feeling the joy of harvest...

A scene of prosperity.

…

A slight smile appeared on Taizu Sheng's face, as if he was more satisfied with the second point mentioned by Meng Yuan than the first point.

This is not to say that the second achievement is greater than the first, but that expelling the barbarians and rebuilding China is certainly Sheng Taizu's greatest achievement, but this achievement sometimes overshadows other achievements.

Therefore, many people have ignored Sheng Taizu's outstanding talents in restoring the economy and governing the country.

Meng Yuan's second point highly affirmed Sheng Taizu's excellent ability in governing the country. The words "understanding the difficulties of people's livelihood" are obviously a very high compliment.
Chapter completed!