The Great Ming Under the Microscope has six stories, which are: "The Scholarly Bastard Must Die - The Beginning and End of the Silk Case in Huizhou" "The Choice of Pen and Gray - The Defense of the Dragon Vein in Wuyuan" "Who Moved My Ancestral Temple

Da Ming Under the Microscope is a historical documentary literature first published in January 2019 by Ma Boyong. The book is a piece of documentary literature in which the author unearths six dusty stories from a series of rare folk archival documents from the Ming Dynasty.

Synopsis

I. The Scholar Must Die - The Beginning and End of the Huizhou Silk Case

Describes an old case in which the people of Shexian County rose up in protest after being subjected to an unfair tax. In the Ming Dynasty, the Huizhou Prefecture governed six counties: She, Yixian, Xiuning, Wuyuan, Qimen, Jixi. Among them, Shexian County is the largest, accounting for half of the total economy, and is the seat of Huizhou Prefecture.

The Ming Dynasty court taxes would have been heavy, the early years of the court to Huizhou sent "people silk silk" 8780, should be equalized by the six counties, but because of the grass-roots officials, change the subject of Shexian County completely bear. Shexian people in the case of no knowledge, scrimp and save, for no reason more than 200 years of miscellaneous taxes.

One person's accidental discovery and revelation, so that after learning the truth of the Shexian County people of all colors with the higher government and the remaining five counties, launched a few years of circling game, and ultimately evolved into a riot.

Second, "Who Moved My Ancestral Temple - The Winds of Law and Politics in Yang Gan Yuan"

The story of the Ming Dynasty is about how the people of Huizhou skillfully used the judicial means of repeated battles, and how the evil monks "forcibly touched the porcelain" and took the money by force. The book witnesses the saga of the ingenious use of the Ming judicial system at the grassroots level through a civilian perspective.

Three, "pen and gray choice -- wuyuan dragon vein defense war"

Wuyuan dragon vein case tells wuyuan county a dragon vein repeatedly destroyed, "lately the autumn examination is not vibrant," the imperial examination Not vibrant, all because the dragon vein feng shui is broken, triggered the kiln burns ash and prohibited to take the stone up to hundreds of years of protracted tug-of-war.

Four, "Transparent - the first archive of the Ming Dynasty"

Tells the story of the Ming Dynasty from the establishment of Zhu Yuanzhang to Chongzhen hanged himself on the coal mountain, 276 years of history, there are more than 260 years and the archive is closely related.

Zhu Yuanzhang in order to better manage the dynasty from the hands of the Mongols, in the fourth year of the Hongwu officially began the household registration and management, after ten years and began the land inventory, the establishment of the system of lijia, with the implementation of the yellow book of service yellow book of household registration and fish scale atlas to strengthen the management of the grass-roots level.

The Yellow Book, which integrated the household register, land and corvée, was a mountain of centralized power in the Ming dynasty. At that time, the capital of the Ming Dynasty was Nanjing, and the preservation of this yellow book was finally selected after several studies and research on the four islands of Xuanwu Lake, isolated from the outside world, which guarded the 60 million people of the Ming Dynasty with their swords and spears and eventually perished in the war after the Qing Dynasty entered the country, becoming the last spark of the dynasty.

Fifth, "The Feast of the Xuxu Officials - The Case of the Fraudulent Small Officials in Peng County"

Portrait of a small lawsuit, but attracted countless Xuxu officials greed definition, Xuxu officials fierce as a tiger, trouble and harm to the wickedness of the exhibition.

Sixth, "the orthodox years of the four souls"

Depicting four innocent people, the wrongs suffered in vain not to mention, encountered a reliable official can be exonerated to return home, but was wrapped up in the court struggle to the death of the injustice.

Works Appreciation

"Under the Microscope of the Great Ming" is a historical documentary work, although non-fiction but better than fiction. The author begins by analyzing six cases of grass-roots governance in the Ming Dynasty, dissecting the ins and outs of the cases and depicting six dusty stories of grass-roots governance in the Ming Dynasty.

The six stories have ups and downs, interesting details, and thought-provoking endings. The peaks and twists of each case are so intertwined that you can't leave them behind. The déjà vu scenarios keep coming back to haunt you as you watch.

The book is a perfect sketch of the decline of the Ming dynasty. How can any egg be left intact when the nest is overturned? With the fall of the Ming, the vivid characters in the case, and the fame and fortune that they had worked so hard for, all came to a bleak end with the end of the Ming.

The above references? Baidu Encyclopedia - The Great Ming under the Microscope