How to evaluate Zhu Yuanzhang's merits and demerits

1, he completely unified China. After more than 20 years of hard fighting, his army wiped out the separatist regimes of Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng in the south, and then launched a large-scale Northern Expedition, which finally overthrew the rule of the Yuan Dynasty and unified China.

2. Vigorously develop the economy. After Zhu Yuanzhang established political power, he implemented the policy of reclamation, and the state supported grain, planting and farming livestock for an unprecedented time.

3. Long-term anti-corruption. He stipulated that officials who embezzled more than 62 should be shot, insisted on "Gao Qian" from his side, and never tolerated the officials he trained. At the same time, he mobilized and supported people's supervisory officials and formulated a "big high" plan to eliminate corruption. Long-term and resolute anti-corruption, although not all corrupt officials were killed, but in the end there was no great greed.

4, vigorously set up education. Take a series of compulsory measures to build schools and select academic officials, take the ability to participate in and discuss state affairs as the basic selection criteria for academic officials, and take whether to attach importance to and run education well as an important indicator to measure the political achievements of local officials.

Zhu Yuanzhang's fault:

1. Zhu Yuanzhang used major cases such as Hu, Li and Lan to punish Lian in order to rule Zhu Jiachao, among which Hu killed more than 30,000 people.

In the anti-corruption struggle, we not only took the opportunity to eliminate dissidents, but also invented the criminal law of "peeling and weeding", which was extremely cruel.

3. The establishment of the Royal Guards and the implementation of the spy's terror rule have made officials feel uneasy, even if they want to resign and return to their hometown, it is difficult to do so.