"Well... I don't know what's so offensive about this. If the construction of the Great Wall was wrong, then can I assume that you don't care about the lives of ordinary people living near the Great Wall?

If the Great Wall had not been built, what would the people do when the nomadic Xiongnu harassed the people along the border? Would they wait for the Xiongnu's sword to fall upon them, or would they unconditionally give all their food and everything they owned to these Xiongnu bandits?

Zhou Jia's question made many people silent. The people living near the Great Wall covered their faces and cried. The Huns came to them from time to time to extort money. How could these ordinary people have the strength to fight against the Huns?

As Zhou Jia said, they either gave everything they had to the Huns in exchange for a chance to survive, or used their lives to protect everything they had now. Who really cared about their feelings and life and death?

Even the common people and children from poor families that the court usually referred to did not include these real people at the bottom of society.

Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty: [The Great Wall should indeed be built, but how many innocent people were killed or injured by his abuse of manpower? How many people were forced to flee their homes just to build an imperial mausoleum?]

Zhou Jia raised an eyebrow.

Zhu Yuanzhang.

In the past, Zhou Jia might have been very angry at Zhu Yuanzhang's words, but now Zhou Jia no longer cared about his words. She smiled lightly and said, "Speaking of abusing the people's power, come, let's have a good talk!"

She sat up straight and rolled up her sleeves, looking like she was ready to do something big.

Ying Zheng stared at the four words "Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty" with a strange look in his eyes. He could feel that this person had a lot of opinions about him, and he was curious about what achievements this person had.

"When people talk about Ying Zheng, they can't avoid mentioning three things: first, the Qin Straight Road he built; second, the Great Wall and the imperial mausoleum he built, as well as the much-misunderstood Afang Palace; and then there's the extensive renovation of his own residence. In addition, there are also the various water conservancy projects he built, such as the Zhengguo Canal and the Lingqu Canal.

So I want to ask the noble emperors of later generations: Haven't you done the same things that Ying Zheng did? Haven't you built roads? Haven't you built water conservancy projects? Haven't you renovated your homes?

Putting aside whether or not Ying Zheng's Afang Palace was built, let's just talk about Li Shimin's Daming Palace, Zhu Yuanzhang's Nanjing Palace, and the Forbidden City Palace that was constantly renovated. Didn't these require manpower? Isn't this a waste of people's power?

What? Is it because the palace of the previous dynasty wasn't magnificent enough to show off your noble status? You want to build a new palace to show off your wealth? Are you allowed to build it, but Ying Zheng isn't? He just renovated the Xianyang Palace, where previous emperors lived, and you say he's building a massive project. Building the Afang Palace was an abuse of the people's labor. In short, everything Ying Zheng does is wrong."

As Zhou Jia spoke, she became more and more angry.

"To put it bluntly, if he's the First Emperor, why can't he build his own imperial mausoleum? What's wrong with the First Emperor building a bigger mausoleum? It's ridiculous. Using someone else's imperial system and enjoying the rights that come with it, only to then criticize their founder?

If you have the ability, why don't you use the imperial system created by others? Isn't this just crying out for help when you pick up the bowl and then scolding your father when you put it down? You are a whore and still want to be praised. Some of you have such a big face.

If you have the ability, you can create your own system and then use it to criticize Ying Zheng. Otherwise, if you criticize someone in front of the emperor, you will be lower than him. When you see him, you should still respectfully call him "brother."

tyrant.

It turns out that later generations considered him a tyrant.

Ying Zheng sneered, let him be a tyrant, no one can stop him from doing what he wants!

There were suddenly fewer comments, as if they were frightened by Zhou Jia's sudden change of expression.

"How unreasonable! How can a woman be so presumptuous! You must never learn from her!"

Zhou Jia's sudden scolding made many men in Wan Chao change their faces, including many emperors. Among them, the First Emperor, who dared to point at their noses and scold them like Zhou Jia did? If it were in their dynasty, Zhou Jia would have been beheaded before he could even finish his words.

Many scholars were even more angry when they saw Zhou Jia being so rude, and many old scholars fainted from anger.

"This woman... this woman..."

"How can a woman like her understand national affairs?"

"Women's opinions, women's opinions, how will future generations educate their children?"

However, there were still many girls who looked at Zhou Jia on the screen with envy as she calmed down. They were taught since birth to be ladies, to follow the three obediences and four virtues, and to regard their husbands as their gods. They never dared to interfere in men's affairs, let alone talk about and evaluate an emperor in front of everyone like Zhou Jia did.

"This girl has a personality that suits my taste."

Tang

A middle school student's nightmare. The poet Li Bai was drinking and boating on the lake at this moment. Seeing Zhou Jia like this, he laughed heartily, "This later generation can actually raise such an interesting descendant. I wonder if I'll ever get the chance to meet him."

Song Dynasty

Li Qingzhao looked at Zhou Jia and said with a smile, "I'd like to get to know this girl."

Zhou Jia didn't know how much of a shock her transformation had given them. She breathed a sigh of relief and calmed down a little.

"I don't mean to target any particular person, because I'm targeting a group of people. So if you want to identify yourself with them, I have no objection. To be honest, Ying Zheng has indeed always been called a tyrant. The feudal monarchy existed for two thousand years, and Ying Zheng has been called a tyrant for two thousand years.

And when I was studying history in school, no matter whether you believed in your heart that Ying Zheng was a tyrant or not, you had to write that Ying Zheng was a tyrant on the test paper, so that you could get points. My teacher told me this at the time, and it really left a deep impression on me.

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