Chapter 80 Rebellion(2/3)
If you commit a crime and have a great edict in your family, you can reduce the crime by a first-class level.
For ordinary people, the Great Edict is an amulet, but for officials, it is a death-induced talisman.
The attack on the Daqiu is generally aimed at all officials and people, but the focus is on punishing corrupt officials. More than 80% of the items belong to the one aspect of governing officials.
Therefore, after the death of Emperor Taizu, the Ming Dynasty gradually lost its function and became a grain of dust in history.
Now that Emperor Taizu has returned to the world, his killing nature and ruthless administration have led to the poor fate of officials in the world!
"very good!"
Seeing this, Zhu Yuanzhang nodded with satisfaction and said, "Since you have no objection, then this matter has passed!"
"Next, we'll talk about our rules!"
"The Ming Dynasty has raised scholars for three hundred years, but nowadays, taxes and taxes cannot be raised, money and food are not enough to make ends meet, and internal and external troubles are everywhere, and wars are everywhere!"
"What the hell is wrong?"
After looking around, Zhu Yuanzhang asked, "Tell us well!"
The scene was still silent and no one dared to speak.
Before you understand Emperor Taizu's intentions, who dares to use his life to challenge Emperor Taizu's sword is sharp?
At this time, if Taizu regarded the chicken as the chicken that killed the chicken to warn the monkey because of a wrong sentence, it would be too unfair to die.
Therefore, although the ministers wanted to say a lot, none of them spoke.
"Very good, you don't even talk about it, so let's talk about it!"
"Everything comes down to just four words!"
"Land annexation, class solidification, and two-level differentiation, the rich become richer, and the poor become poorer!"
"You literati have worked so hard to get up from the bottom, turn around and turn around, and exploit your former companions!"
"The common people can't even eat and don't cover their clothes. Of course, they have to stand up and rebel. We are the most clear-cut in this regard!"
"At that time, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang stood up and shouted, "Why would you rather have a genital king, prince, general, and minister," which kicked off the rebellion for our Chinese people!"
"Actually, the people's requirements are really low. They can eat enough and not starve to death. They will not rebel!"
"But you literati don't give them a chance to survive!"
"Officials force the people to rebel, but the people have to rebel!"
"We have read the history of the Ming Dynasty, know everything about our future generations, and we have racked our brains and thought about countermeasures!"
"At this point, if we want to save the Ming Dynasty we have worked hard to build, there is only one way to go!"
Looking at everyone, Zhu Yuanzhang said eight words with a calm expression that scared everyone: "The land will be returned to the public and redistributed!"
After reading the book "Five Thousand Years of China", Zhu Yuanzhang saw many things that he had not seen before.
He has indeed thought hard about how to continue a dynasty for a long time.
Since Qin Shihuang Ying Zheng unified China and the Qing Dynasty was destroyed, dozens of formal dynasties rose and fell like a carousel.
No matter how wise or capable the founding emperor was, the fate of a dynasty could not last for three hundred years.
Hua Baichang has experienced a history of the rise and fall of feudal dynasties for more than two thousand years. A curse appeared in the recurring rise and fall of dynasties of all dynasties.
The rise and fall cycles of dynasties of all dynasties are only three hundred years.
What exactly is the reason that these feudal dynasties cannot escape the "law of rise and fall cycle"?
Zhu Yuanzhang once considered this.
He believes that establishing dynasties on the ruins of peasant uprisings will allow society to enter stability.
Looking at those dynasties that could last forever, they must have experienced the process of peasant uprising and overthrowing the old dynasty.
Both the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty were established on peasant uprisings, and the Tang Dynasty was also established on peasant uprisings in the Sui Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty was naturally the same.
These dynasties that could be established by peasant uprisings existed for a long time and were far better than those dynasties that were obtained by usurping the throne.
Because only in this way can the production relations and class contradictions of the entire society undergo a new adjustment. If the dynasty continues to survive under the disadvantages of the previous dynasty, then this dynasty will definitely not last long.
This is also the importance of the ancients saying, "Go to the world with horses" lies.
At the end of the dynasty, the reason why a large-scale peasant uprising broke out was that the rulers forced the people to a desperate situation.
The entire country's treasury is empty, and various famines, famines and the harm caused by war, which makes the largest number of farmers unable to survive.
From chaos to great governance, it takes nearly hundreds of years to go from agricultural land in China.
When dynasty rule enters the middle period, there will be a prosperous period that lasts for decades.
Any dynasty that can exist for nearly two or three hundred years will inevitably have famous prosperity, such as the Wenjing rule of the Han Dynasty, the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, and the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, etc.
During this period, the status of the dynasty gradually stabilized, the people's arable land gradually increased, the country's national strength was strong, the society was stable, and the culture gradually flourished, officially entering a prosperous period.
Although the duration of each dynasty's prosperity varies for a long time, the years of these decades have further deepened and met the characteristics of the "law of the cycle of rise and fall".
The inertia of the rulers emerged, and the state regime frequently reformed.
Throughout history, there is a saying in China: "When the prosperity reaches its peak, the decline will come, and everything will turn back." Next, all dynasties will face a period of burnout and a period of decline.
With the death of the founding emperor, and after several emperors' hard work, many emperors were born in glory and wealth.
They have never suffered any hardships and do not know the burden and pain brought to the people by tying up taxes. In addition, during this period, they will govern the country according to their own methods and propose various new reform systems.
In this way, new crises will arise in the dynasty.
The strong national strength in the past could only support a country for about 100 to 150 years at most.
If no new reforms emerge, the demise of the dynasty is inevitable.
The three stages before, middle and last are basically the inevitable paths that most feudal dynasties have taken.
This is also the inevitable reason why dynasties in previous dynasties cannot exist for more than three hundred years.
In addition to the objective factors of the development of the dynasty, the geographical location of China and the characteristics of the farming civilization also determine the existence of the three hundred-year curse.
China is located in East Asia. Although the land is fertile and rich in resources and is unique, it is not perfect.
It can be said that China's geographical environment determines that in the feudal dynasty era where transportation and technology were extremely backward, it was difficult for the Central Plains dynasty to break through the limitations of territory, which directly determined the upper limit of China's arable land.
Although Chinese farmers have pushed agricultural civilization to the extreme, the limited amount of cultivated land determines that during this period, only so many people can be raised by land.
So, this fell into a vicious cycle.
Even with Zhu Yuanzhang's ability, he could not solve this problem.
but.
When Zhu Yuanzhang saw the modern history in the book "Five Thousand Years of China", he suddenly became enlightened.
All land is collected into public ownership and distributed by capitulation, for example, each person can be divided into five or ten acres of land.
Whether it is a powerful person, a hundred officials or a peasant, everyone only has the right to use the land but does not have the right to ownership.
At the same time, we will vigorously develop light industry and commerce to drive the development of the entire dynasty's economy through commerce.
I have to say that when Zhu Yuanzhang saw this, he was moved.
But one time and another.
There are hundreds of years between modern society and the Ming Dynasty.
Whether it is people, things or times, they are completely different.
The system in modern society may not necessarily apply to the Ming Dynasty.
If this system is implemented rashly, it may cause some bad consequences.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang just buried this idea in his heart and did not tell anyone, even his first wife, Empress Ma.
However.
The emergence of the "Shenwu Daming System" given by the ancestors of the human race brought a glimmer of light to the attempts of this system.
Now, he has arrived in the late Ming Dynasty.
Facing a last dynasty full of holes, it was the late Ming Dynasty he founded himself.
Is there any more suitable place to test in the world?
If it can be tried in the late Ming Dynasty, if it can be applied without causing disagreement in the local environment, it will not be too late to move it to the world in the early Ming Dynasty!
So, Zhu Yuanzhang naturally expressed his previous ideas in front of all the officials.
That is, the land is taken over to public ownership and distributed according to the cap!
However, his words were like a thunderclap, which exploded in the Qianqing Palace, blowing everyone up.
‘The land is redistributed!’
These heavy eight words, like a mountain, pressed on everyone's hearts, making them breathless.
"Your Majesty, you must not!"
"Your Majesty also asks you to take back your life and think twice before you act!"
To be continued...