"What is land annexation? What is a dynasty? ”

When Zhu Yunwen threw out these two questions, there was already silence in the Wenhua Palace, and even Sange, Xie Jin, Yang Shiqi and others were dumbfounded.

These two questions, to talk about the ancients, are very few that modern people can answer in all aspects.

Because these two questions are the same as "what is the Tao", they belong to an empty proposition, that is, people who have not gone to school can say one, two, or three, and everyone has different opinions in their eyes.

In fact, when everyone is looking through the history books, they will find that when the dynasties were about to fall, there was such a sentence in the history books: "At the end of a certain dynasty, land annexation was serious." ”

What exactly is a land annexation?

In fact, the problem of land annexation cannot be avoided in any country or at any time in the world, including modern China, the United States, and Europe.

Because the essence of land annexation is, in modern parlance, the unlimited appropriation of society's limited resources.

This is an unsolvable puzzle that no one can solve, and this problem has arisen since the dawn of mankind.

The ancestors drilled wood to make fire, to create civilization, since the beginning of the Yellow River Valley, the Chinese nation began to face this problem, when the beasts are no longer able to threaten the survival of human beings, when the weaving clothes began to keep out the cold, the reproduction of the population began to show an explosive trend, the ancestors relied on hunting has been unable to fill the stomach, to farm.

As the population grows, arable land will be tight, so it is necessary to open up the land.

With the evolution of time, in the Qin and Han dynasties, how was the land of the Chinese people described?

It is bordered by the grassland in the north, the desert in the west, the East China Sea in the east, and the barren in the south.

You will find that it is not the lack of military strength that hinders the ancestors from expanding their territory, but that these four directions are not land that can be farmed. Therefore, our ancestors stopped the pace of expanding the territory. This is the land complex of our Chinese nation.

However, the land is limited, and the reproduction of the population is gradually increasing, and once this land is accommodated to the upper limit, it will lead to some people having no land to grow and no food to eat, so these people will have to kill the landed people.

In modern parlance, this kind of behavior is called the contradiction between the proletariat and the propertied class, and history has clearly recorded that the propertied class will not be the opponent of the proletariat at any time.

In ancient times, the Han Dynasty monopolized Confucianism, overthrew the hundred schools, and put Confucianism on the altar of culture, and the Song Dynasty, together with the scholars, further established the status of the literati, which was the political compromise of the people in power to the literati group for the sake of the stability of the regime, and also accelerated the speed of land annexation.

For example, Zhao has only three people in his family, he and his parents, and his family has ten acres of land.

In the fifth year of Hongwu, Zhao's hometown was in a drought, and the land was out of production, but Zhao's family had a lot of surplus grain enough for his parents to eat, but the villagers did not store grain, so they begged Zhao's family and proposed to sell their ten acres of wasteland to Zhao's family in exchange for food.

With the passage of time, because natural disasters cannot be avoided, ordinary farmers have to pay taxes on grain, and once natural disasters come, they are bound to sell their land, sell their children and daughters to make a living, so that the land under heaven will gradually be transferred to the homes of those who study.

In the 30th year of Hongwu, Zhao lived in a provincial political envoy, lived a good life, married more than a dozen concubines, gave birth to more than a dozen sons, these children have no worries about food and clothing since childhood, study with peace of mind, plus their fathers are feudal officials, half of them have become civil servants, and the other seven or eight children, Zhao will hand over the family's acres of land to them to take care of, and be an ordinary small landlord.

And these children began to gradually improve, which is the prototype of the birth of the family. It also belongs to the intermediate stage of land annexation.

When Zhao's descendants and grandchildren multiplied, so that they had to divide the family, they changed from a behemoth Zhao family to countless small Zhao families, each of which has one or twenty acres of land, but the leader must be famous, why? Because you don't have to pay taxes!

In this way, dozens of Xiao Zhao families began to flourish, taking the route of the ancestor Zhao, and when it came to a natural disaster, they would engulf the land of their neighbors, so that each Xiao Zhao family became strong with the passage of time, and then split.

This is the final stage of land annexation.

In the end, the wealthy gentry who occupied eight or nine tenths of the land of the entire country did not pay food and taxes, which led to the collapse of the country's finances, and caught up with natural disasters and were unable to provide disaster relief.

The country is often at this time, and it is no longer able to quell the uprising, and the gentry of the family take the opportunity to gather strength, and when the rebellion subsides, the family has become a climate, and the big guy is impossible to be satisfied with only being a family.

The Han Dynasty was unable to pacify the Yellow Turbans, implement the state pastoral system, let the princes of the world rise together, and finally Cao Cao unified the north, and his son Cao Pi discussed with other families, you see everyone is a family, I am the strongest, this emperor I will do a good job first?

The other families said then you have to do it, what do we get?

As a result, the Jiupin Zhongzheng system was born, and Cao Pi made a political compromise with the Saga Group.

In the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty opened the imperial examination and attacked the right of the family to recommend officials, but the result was that the family was opposed, and Li Yuan, one of the families, took advantage of the chaos to become the emperor, destroyed many families, and had the Tang Dynasty.

But the governance of the country depends on scholars, Li Tang had no choice but to support a group of new families, with the progress of time, in the end, this group of new families occupied the land of the world, and the common people had to rebel.

In order to be the emperor, Zhao Kuangyin bullied orphans and widows, and wanted to gain political public opinion support, so he shared the world with scholars.

But the old Zhao family is very smart, vigorously develop capital trade, the country was once rich to more than 60% of the world's GDP, and the gatekeepers of the capital are richer than the king of a European country, which greatly eases the speed of land annexation, but the ridiculous thing is that it is enough to laugh and be generous enough to be killed by a foreign race.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the clan law of the Ming Dynasty led to the crazy intensification of the speed of land annexation in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, and finally the country.

In the Tatar Qing Dynasty, relying on sweet potatoes and other crops, they fed the people of the world, but the country was extended, but the ideological trend of Western learning was mighty, the people's wisdom was awakened, and finally the imperial system was abolished and the country was destroyed.

Modern society is still developing rapidly in another form.

Proportion of social resources.

Less than 1 per cent of the population owns more than 90 per cent of society's wealth and social resources.

We can see that the generation of my parents (born in the 60s and 70s) is all on the same starting line, has eaten a big pot of rice, and then caught up with the wave of reform and opening up to do business in the sea, relying on their own ability to stand out, the rich people in the 21st century are basically self-made, like Zhao, who made progress in one fell swoop?

Naturally, when the social process reaches the stage of big waves, the proportion of elite retained children will gradually exceed that of children from ordinary families.

The process of land annexation itself is irreversible, and Zhu Yunwen does not think that he has the ability to avoid land annexation, which is undoubtedly a fool's dream, but he must think of a way, when the land annexation reaches a certain node, to carry out human intervention, pull the progress bar of the land annexation back to the original point, and let him go through it again.

There is no doubt that the first question thrown by Zhu Yunwen made the talents of the entire Cultural Hall open their mouths and could not answer it.