321 The Age of Peace and Prosperity

At this time, someone immediately thought of the Huotang Club, and a few people complained, didn't you say that the people in your Huotang Club had specially deduced it a while ago?

What else do you say that now the Qing Dynasty is shaving hair and making it easy to wear, and there is also a horse race in the north, which has made the people's resentment boiling, so as long as you send someone to the mainland to erect a flag, you can recruit people, and you can attract a lot of hungry refugees or something just with food, now it seems that the situation that Brother Zhu said is quite different from your deduction!

Seeing that everyone had such doubts, Zhu Beiguo began to focus on the issue of immigration from the mainland, and he told everyone that this was also the topic he was most concerned about and thought about the most.

Zhu Beiguo believes that there is indeed an unavoidable fact here, that is, it has only been less than 20 years since the Manchus entered the customs, and under the condition that the foreign enemies have not been completely eliminated and the people's hearts have not been stabilized, the court feels that its foothold is undecided, so the sense of crisis is very strong.

But it is precisely because of this sense of crisis that the Manchu court did not have too much hasty and high-handed rule over various places, and some of its practices were quite wise and enlightened.

If you are interested, you can go to the computer data room to check, there are a lot of historical information about how to be honest, how to engage in good governance, and how to be enlightened.

Speaking of this, Zhu Beiguo looked at the unconvinced faces of a group of young people around him, and added to the audience with a smile, Of course, you don't have to worry about these things, as long as a dynasty lives long enough, there is always no shortage of touters, and there is always no shortage of so-called wise and martial monarchs, this is the characteristic of official history books, as for the real historical facts, only God knows.

Obviously, many of the so-called good governance in this area were blown out by later generations, and of course, it cannot be said that all of them are sycophants.

Think about it, this Qing Dynasty, relying on hundreds of thousands of people to finally enter the Central Plains to rule hundreds of millions of people, there are not a few wise or smart rulers?

Isn't there a relatively intelligent and effective ruling class?

Who believes it?

Of course, there are also several key practical factors that have played a decisive role in stabilizing the Qing Dynasty. One is that in the first few years of entering the customs, the Manchu Qing Dynasty did a lot of things to kill people and establish authority, and they did it very, very cruelly, to put it in layman's terms, it scared the people.

For the relatively civilized and gentle Ming Dynasty, the rule of the new dynasty can be described as harsh and efficient.

Another important reason is that the land is barren due to the sharp decline in population, and the contradiction between man and land is eased.

Third, the Han people, who account for the vast majority of the population, can usually accept the change of dynasty with a calm mentality, which is also one of the very important deep-seated reasons.

Because the people of our Great Celestial Empire have always lacked pure religious feelings, there will be no desperate religious wars with others for the sake of faith, and there will be no appeal.

Those who can call on the common people to fight are either because they are hungry, or to satisfy their ambition to get ahead and have a wife and children.

In that era, on the whole, people's concept of the country and the nation was also very indifferent, and the so-called sense of belonging to the country was only to recognize their own emperor at the level of interests.

Therefore, in history, whether it is the Lao Ji family, the Lao Liu family, or the Lao Li family, the Lao Zhao family or the Lao Zhu family, as well as the Tuoba family, the Erjin family, the Murong family, the Aixinjue Luo family, etc., are all like lantern shows in the marquee.

Ordinary people, as long as their lives can go on, whoever sits in the world will sit down, and I will wait for the egg?

Therefore, the problem lies here, because even if it is a royal family, in fact, there is no real sense of sacredness in the minds of the people, since changing the emperor is also the same as changing clothes, so everyone is accustomed to it, where will there be a sense of belonging and sacredness? Who would have a sense of belonging to clothes, right?

Everyone was silent for a while, and they were silent and thoughtful.

At this time, Zhu Beiguo talked about the rise He actually stood up from his chair and continued, unlike that Japan has an emperor, from Shenmu to modern times, a surname and a lineage have been passed down for two thousand years, because this is rare, therefore, the existence of the imperial family is obvious to all to the sense of national belonging and cohesion of the Yamato nation, because people feel that this is a proud inheritance, a representative of a nation's lineage and bloodline, a symbol.

On the other hand, in this Eastern Empire, it is precisely because in this big land that there has never been an imperial family of all generations, so the position of this emperor not only does not have this sense of sacredness, but also is believed by a group of people to "have a kind of prince and general Xiangning?" The careerists covet it anytime and anywhere, and they all know that one day maybe it will be our turn to sit in this flowery country!

Because the emperor does it in turn, in the end, even the royal family loses its cohesion and sense of belonging to a nation.

So the Han people became more realistic, as long as there is a stutter can live, even if it is pig food, they will accept their fate, as for the shaving of hair and easy to wear to make the people's resentment boiling, there are yes, but that also mainly happens in the rich Jiangnan region.

After all, Jiangnan is rich, rich in humanities, and there are many intellectuals and literati, of course, such people have some arguments about the country and the country, but what does all this matter to most ordinary laborers?

Zhu Beiguo talked about this eloquently, and found that there were more people around him listening, so his spirit was higher, and the words were out of control when he opened the box.

"Think about it, if you are an ordinary person, now you can dig food out of the ground, and there is no chaos, who will have nothing to rebel against, right? As for shaving your hair? Then shaving your hair is easy to take! It's just a shaved hair, and a lot of meat, right?

Coupled with the sharp decline in population, a large area of ready-made land is waiting for you to reclaim, as long as the government does not toss the people to live a stable life, this is not a peaceful and prosperous era, so what is a peaceful and prosperous era!?

On this point, there used to be an authoritative historical statistic: there were nearly 200 million people at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and in the middle and late Kangxi decades later, the national population was less than 100 million! Attention, this is still the result of the so-called Kangxi Sheng's recuperation!

Of course, this number can only be used as a reference, because whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the Qing Dynasty, due to the existence of poll tax, there are a lot of supernumerary black households, according to authoritative estimates, about half to half, because the transportation and communication conditions of this era are like this, going out twenty miles away is hiking, the traffic is basically walking, the communication is basically by roaring, and there are many closed places in the deep mountains and old forests, so the population statistics are very inaccurate.

This situation was not until the Yongzheng year when the "apportionment into the mu" was carried out, and it became meaningless to conceal the population and evade taxes, and the official population statistics began to rely on a little bit.

However, if we still use the original household registration to look at the demographic changes, at least one thing can be explained---- that is the killing and fleeing in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties reached an unprecedented level in history! This level of killing and fleeing is probably comparable to that of the late Song Dynasty.

Therefore, the current policy of the Qing court is to have more Huairou than Weihe, in other words, with the contradiction between population and land greatly reduced, it is really not difficult for everyone who survives to find a piece of land to cultivate and make a living!

Moreover, the original Ming Emperor's relatives and wealthy families occupied a large area of fertile land, and now, in addition to a large part of the land enclosed by the Manchu Qing bannermen, there are also many people who have fallen back to the people, and the number of yeoman farmers has increased, and the social contradictions have been greatly alleviated because of the large decrease in population.

Although this is the so-called relief achieved through brutal killings, the great collapse of the social order and the great destruction of the productive forces.

In this view, I ask you not to dwell on this, there is no way, this is the historical destiny that this nation cannot get rid of......"