Han Du suddenly fell silent.
What else could he say?
Digging a hole to bury yourself is the best portrayal.
But now he couldn't keep silent. After thinking about it again and again, he knelt on the ground and answered Zhu Biao gratefully.
"My lord, don't you dare not try your best!"
"Hahaha, okay, I'm relieved to have my beloved help me!" Zhu Biao smiled and helped Han Du up from the ground and sat up.
Han Du had a smile on his face and felt numb in his heart. I was really possessed by something evil today, that's why I said these words to Zhu Biao. It's okay now, just dig a hole and bury yourself. Is it so easy to solve the problem of food and clothing? How many years did future generations have to work hard to achieve this under such conditions?
No, what I just said was too full. Now I have to find a way to change it.
Han Du's mind was spinning, and he suddenly thought of a way, "If you want the people to have enough food and clothing, does your Highness have any regulations?"
Zhu Biao was stunned when he heard Han Du's words, "Characters?" He had never thought about this. There isn’t even a charter. Isn’t this matter just a castle in the air, just a thought?
Zhu Biao suddenly felt a little embarrassed, "My feelings were ups and downs just now, it was all in vain." But just because he didn't have it, it didn't mean that Han Du didn't have it. Since he brought it up, maybe he really had it?
"I haven't thought about this carefully yet. Do you have any drafts? If so, let me know."
Han Du shook his head, "I don't have any details, but I have an immature idea. Maybe I can tell His Highness."
Zhu Biao smiled and nodded slightly, looking at Han Du as if he was all ears.
So Han Du continued: "I looked at the history books and found that in some short and special years, the people were still able to have enough food and clothing."
"Oh? When? I am also familiar with classics and history, so why have I never seen it before?" Zhu Biao asked in surprise. Zhu Biao was talented and talented, and he was proficient in all the classics and history. The great scholars who taught him were always amazed by his rich knowledge.
'It's not that you haven't seen it, it's that you haven't noticed it. If I hadn't experienced a certain forum and some kind of tempering, I wouldn't have known it. If I have never seen them holding a magnifying glass and constantly searching through thick history books, interpreting history from various tricky angles, I will not notice it. ' Han Du thought speechlessly.
After sorting out his thoughts, Han Du continued: "Yes. In the decades after the founding of each dynasty, the people's lives were actually the best, although they may not necessarily be able to have enough food and clothing. , but it’s not much different.”
Zhu Biao thought about it carefully and found that it was really what Han Du said. At the beginning of every dynasty, the life of the people was not bad, and the same is true for the current Ming Dynasty. If the people's lives are extremely difficult now, let alone the father issuing treasures, even if the father holds real money and silver, he may not be able to have food and supplies to conquer the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty.
Moreover, a few decades after the founding of each dynasty, there will be a scene of prosperous times. This indirectly shows that the lives of the people before that were actually pretty good, at least not worse than during the prosperous times. Otherwise, it would be impossible to support them. A scene of prosperity.
Zhu Biao nodded, feeling that what Han Du said was reasonable, and suddenly sighed and said: "It's a pity that they all declined later. In the later stages of every dynasty, corrupt officials were rampant, and foolish kings appeared frequently. How could the world not be in decline? My father, the emperor, deeply Feeling the harm caused by corrupt officials to the world, he enacted severe punishments and laws; he also taught me to be considerate and loving Ming and the way of an emperor, in order to hope that I could become a wise king."
Han Du moistened his throat and said, "Your Highness is naturally a wise king. But I believe that the decline of the world has little to do with wise kings and foolish kings."
Isn't Chongzhen a wise king? Although not as wise as Lao Zhu, Chongzhen got up earlier than the chickens and went to bed later than the chickens. In terms of diligence, he even works harder than Lao Zhu. Although his political methods are not as good as those of Lao Zhu, they are still better than many conservative monarchs in history.
But as a result, the Ming Dynasty was not dead.
To be honest, the demise of a dynasty really has nothing to do with the wise king and the cowardly king.
So what if he is a foolish king? The power of the world is enough to support one person. At the peak of the Ming Dynasty, the population was almost 10 million. Even if each person gave the emperor ten cents a year, that would still be ten million taels of silver.
But during the Chongzhen period, how much was the annual income of the imperial court? Just two million taels.
If Chongzhen had an annual income of 10 million taels, there would be no need for wild boar skins. Not to mention entering the customs, whether the old nest can be kept depends on Chongzhen's face.
When Zhu Biao heard Han Du's argument that went against common sense, he frowned and said in confusion: "It is a well-known fact that a wise king will prosper a country and a faint king will destroy it. Why does Aiqing say that the rise and fall of a dynasty has nothing to do with whether the emperor is wise or not? Then you What do you think it’s related to?”
Seeing that Zhu Biao seemed unconvinced, Han Du stopped covering up and said bluntly: "It has something to do with the land."
Zhu Biao's expression changed, "Land?" This was another place he didn't expect.
"It's the land. The old dynasty fell and the new dynasty was established. In this process, there will always be wars, and the wars will last for more than ten years, or even decades. I wonder if His Highness has discovered that when the old dynasty fell, the people Often there is no land, and even if there is, it is only a very small amount, which is not enough to support the whole family. But after the war, the first thing is the sharp decrease in population, those who died in battle, disease, famine, Displacement, everything is reducing the population.”
"The population has greatly reduced, and the demand for food has naturally decreased. Coupled with the establishment of the new dynasty, land will inevitably be redistributed. Just like the Ming Dynasty, the emperor once issued an order to encourage private reclamation. All land that was reclaimed It belongs to the person concerned. One family can cultivate thirty or forty acres of land, and on average each person has seven or eight acres of land. As long as the people work harder, the land will be more than enough to support them."
"But why do people have no land at the end of every dynasty? There are no tiles above and no ground below."
"Why?" Zhu Biao asked eagerly. He seemed to feel that Han Du was telling something extremely important, something that no one had discovered for thousands of years, a curse that had only lasted two to three hundred years since the Han Dynasty and had never been broken.
"There are two reasons. One is land annexation. In the early days, the people had land in their hands, but after all, they were small families with small families, and their ability to withstand natural disasters and man-made disasters was extremely poor. Although the people also knew that the land in their hands was precious, they sold it No more, but they will always sell the land in their hands for various reasons, such as serious illness, etc. No matter what time it is, almost all dignitaries are frantically acquiring land."
"Why is this happening?" Zhu Biao sweated on his forehead, eager to know the answer. Because he discovered that the current Daming Dynasty was just like what Han Du said. The dignitaries are indeed constantly acquiring land. Even Han Du, didn't he buy a few barren mountains?
In the past, Zhu Biao was unaware of this. He felt that it had been like this since ancient times and there was nothing strange about it. But today Han Du told him that land annexation was one of the reasons for the decline of the dynasty, and he could not take it lightly.
Han Du said without hesitation: "Because land has huge profits. Lu Buwei said it well, business has three times the profit, and land has ten times the profit. I dare to ask Your Highness, in the face of ten times the profit, how can those high-ranking officials not flock to it?"
"If the skin is gone, how can the hair be attached?" Zhu Biao roared angrily, "Don't they know the harm to the world? They enjoy everything the court gives, but they want to do such things that are harmful to the court. ?”
Han Du saw Zhu Biao getting angry and knew that he was angry. Family, country and world. In the hearts of those high-ranking officials, who doesn’t have family first and then country? They will only care about the interests of their own family, but will they care about the interests of the country?
Seeing that Zhu Biao's anger had calmed down a little, Han Du continued: "Your Highness, they really don't know. And even if they knew, they would do this. The benefits are too great for them to ignore. And people They are all lucky, and they always think that they will be the luckiest ones. It is like the sky is covered with arrows, and they clearly know that under the rain of arrows, people and animals will die. But when they really face it , and always think that he will be the one who survives.”
Zhu Biao looked miserable. This was indeed an unsolvable problem. He muttered to himself in a daze, "Is there no way out?"
Han Du shook his head, "There is no good solution. I only have some immature suggestions."
"My dear, tell me quickly." Zhu Biao suddenly felt hope amidst his disappointment.
A little advice is better than no clue. Although this kind of problem has existed in all dynasties in the past, no one has ever thought about it deeply.
Now Zhu Biao can only place his trust in Han Du. When Han Du told his father about the pros and cons of Baobao for the first time, he found that Han Du could think what others didn't think and think what others didn't think. If Zhu Biao was asked who was most likely to solve this problem among the people he knew, then the first person Zhu Biao thought of was Han Du.
Han Du raised a finger and said, "First, use severe penalties to prohibit land annexation. But this can only be done by the emperor, because His Majesty is the founder of the country and has enough prestige to overwhelm everything. In fact, His Highness can also do it. I’ll try my best, but the effect will probably not be as good as the emperor’s.”
Zhu Biao nodded, this is indeed a feasible method. As for Han Du saying that he would do it, it would be effective without his father, and he didn't care that Han Du said that he was not as good as his father. Because this is in Zhu Biao's heart, and he thinks so too. My father, in commoner clothes, raised troops and fought hundreds of battles to establish the world. Let alone him, it was unprecedented in history books.
