"You said it can't be broken?"
Thinking about what Lao Wu said, his own Ming Dynasty was only more than 270 years old. Lao Zhu turned pale.
"Fifth brother, isn't it?" After all, it was Prince Zhu Biao who read more books.
"In ancient times, the Xia Dynasty existed for five hundred years, and the Shang Dynasty also existed for six hundred years. The Zhou Dynasty lasted for eight hundred years."
"The Han Dynasty also lasted for 407 years. Why are these three hundred years said to be a curse?"
"The Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties happened in ancient times." Zhu Su shook his head. "The king at that time was, to put it bluntly, a tribal leader. He could barely maintain his position by relying on the favor given by his subordinates. It is not the same as the emperor today."
"The Zhou Dynasty has been around for eight hundred years, but during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were so many vassal states. Do they listen to King Zhou?"
Zhu Biaoxin said so. "But the Han Dynasty..."
"The Han Dynasty was broken in the middle." Zhu Su said. "The Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty are not the same thing. To put it bluntly, it's just that the emperor of the later Han Dynasty happened to be named Liu."
There's nothing wrong with that either. Thinking about it this way, there is really no dynasty that can last more than three hundred years.
Zhu Biao couldn't help but feel horrified.
"Could it be that this is God's will?" he asked Zhu Su. "Is it God who doesn't want this dynasty in this world to exceed the number of three hundred years?"
"What's not going to heaven? Brother, you think too much." Zhu Su waved his hand wordlessly. "At most this is some kind of historical law, it's not that mysterious."
"Oh?" Zhu Yuanzhang heard the key point. "So, you know what this pattern is?"
The law of dynasty’s demise! If we know this rule and then extrapolate it, wouldn't it mean that as long as we break this rule, we can break out of this three-hundred-year-old curse?
"I do know a little bit. But I can only read the details." Zhu Su said, thinking that with the blessing of all the great gods on Zhihu Qidian, I will use the knowledge you poured on the Internet to deceive the famous Emperor Hongwu!
"In later generations, it is generally believed that there are two reasons." Zhu Su stretched out two fingers. Zhu Biao, Zhu Yuanzhang, and Queen Ma all looked solemn and listened attentively to the bragging of Boyi, the fifth son who was more than ten years old.
"The first reason is the theory of land annexation."
"Land annexation?" Lao Zhu frowned.
"Yeah." Zhu Su nodded. Turning to look at Zhu Yuanzhang: "Father, you just said that if you had a mouthful of food to eat, you would not conquer the world with your head in your belt."
"Then why do we have no food to eat?"
"Why else?" At this point, Lao Zhu gritted his teeth. "It's not those dog officials in Yuanting who are forcing us common people to have no way to survive!"
"Your great ancestor and great grandmother were both forced to death by those dog officials who forced them to donate and pay taxes!"
Uh, this script isn't quite right. Zhu Su sweated secretly and continued to guide: "Then dad, why was it that our family was able to bear it before, but by the time of the great ancestor, we were forced to be unable to bear it?"
"Before, our family had some land, but it was sold to Landlord Liu, who took care of it for a while..." Lao Zhu reacted. "You mean...Tian?"
"Yes!" Zhu Su nodded. “Because the fields are all in the hands of the landlords!”
"It's precisely because the people have lost their fields and can't survive, so they have no choice but to fight hard!"
"Most of the peasant armies after the Ming Dynasty were also in this situation."
"But, dad has also drawn up the fish scale book..." Zhu Biao was still confused.
"That thing is useless!" Lao Zhu waved his hand irritably. After the military household system, he once again discovered another flaw in the system.
"Those gentry have many ways to get people to sell their land and produce."
But no, when my family was in the Qian Yuan Dynasty, didn't they take the initiative to sell their land to Landlord Liu to deal with natural and man-made disasters?
I even let landlord Liu let the cow go!
Now that I think about it, aren't those landlords and tax collectors just working together? The tax collectors were forcing taxes, so the landlords took advantage of the situation and bought all those acres of land into their own hands at a low price!
"So this is the view." Zhu Su continued. "The so-called dynastic reincarnation is actually the merger and redistribution of land distribution."
"Landowners may be exempt from taxes, or they may have the power to prevent tax collectors from imposing taxes. However, the country's grain tax can only be borne by a small number of free farmers."
"If there is a natural or man-made disaster, free farmers cannot make ends meet, so they can only sell their land to landlords in order to survive. As a result, landlords have more land in their hands, and farmers become tenants."
"This is a slow and vicious cycle until most of the country's land is occupied by landlords. The people have no hope. At this time, someone will stand up and shout..."
As soon as these words came out, Lao Zhu suddenly shuddered.
Doesn't this scene refer to the end of the Yuan Dynasty?
He and Queen Ma looked at each other. The couple, who had experienced the situation at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, couldn't help but be secretly frightened.
"To put it bluntly, it is a problem of uneven land distribution." Zhu Su concluded.
"Then in the early days of the dynasty, why was the country always in peace and the people safe?" Zhu Biao asked. "There is only so much land in total, so why at the beginning of the dynasty, there was not enough land to divide..."
He groaned and had already reacted.
Zhu Su sighed. "Why else, 'Nearly half of the world's registered permanent residents are dead'. Similar descriptions are not uncommon in history books."
"Isn't it the same with our Ming Dynasty now?"
Lao Zhu's heart sank. According to this statement, the reason why I have been so complacent in recent years that the country is peaceful and the people are peaceful is because too many people died in the war?
But he couldn't refute it. Because he knew in his heart that Lao Wu's conclusion was correct.
People's minds are settled... Although there are only a few words in the history books, what behind them is that too many people died in this land of China!
Thinking of his dead parents and brothers, Zhu Chongba, who had now become the emperor, actually felt his nose was slightly sour...
"We'll take note of it," Lao Zhu said quickly, fearing that his wife and children would see him crying. "Boss, please go back and check the history books to see if this is one of the reasons for the collapse of the country in every dynasty."
"Look back, let us think of a way and use the strength of two generations to completely put an end to this land annexation!"
"Yes." Zhu Biao responded loudly. In fact, there was no need to look it up. He had already gone through it in his mind. Indeed, before the collapse of the country in every dynasty, one could find records similar to "The rich have fields stretching across the country, and the poor have no place to stand."
It's just that these have never been linked to "dynastic reincarnation" before.
Well, in what era are there no rich people?
"...There is another reason, what is it?" Lao Zhu asked Zhu Sudao. "Let's talk about it together. Let's find a way to cook it together!"
"Is there another one..." Zhu Suxin said that this was much more complicated than the land annexation theory. "Another reason is that Ming Dynasty will suffer greatly from it in the future..."
"That is,"
"Heaven! Tao! Reincarnation! Samsara!"
