Chapter 374: Blind Spots

The yellow scarf that swept the world is just a disease of ringworm and scabies, and now it is almost cured, so where is the root of the big man's disease?

There are great wisdom people in the world, and they all know that the land annexation is serious, and this is only the Han Dynasty, and this is the case at the end of all the Chinese dynasties.

The number of the aristocratic class of the feudal dynasty was rising geometrically.

The number of the exploited poor is rising exponentially.

And there is only so much arable land.

After a long period of peace, the number of people increased, and the phenomenon of food supply exceeding demand gradually appeared, and no matter how many people of the aristocratic class increased, it was impossible to save money and suffer from it, and in order to supply their own extravagance and profligacy, it became inevitable to annex land and intensify the exploitation of the poor.

The number of poor people is also rising, and the exploitation is getting worse and worse, and in the end, even food and clothing have become a problem, and when there is a natural disaster, they starve to death in patches, and those who do not want to die can only rebel.

Sometimes the rebellion is not to overthrow the imperial court, they don't know a single big word, and they haven't even been out of the village a few times, they don't have such a high retribution, many times, in order to accept Zhao'an, and Zhao'an's things are eaten in one bite.

But will the aristocratic class of the feudal dynasty give it? If it is given to you, then how can he manage the poor people below who have not rebelled, and the number of poor people has grown to the point where the land can hardly be supported.

For example, he only has 100 acres of land, and his family has three landlords, and there are 10 tenant farmers in his family, one of whom cultivates 10 acres, and half of the income of the tenant farmers is handed over to the landlord.

There is a lot of land, and if you pay half of the rent, you can also have enough food and clothing, and you can naturally have no less offspring.

Then came the second stage: after 30 years, the new generation became adults, and because of the multiplication of the population, the landlord's family had wives and concubines, and the three families became fifteen, and the tenant farmers had enough food and clothing, and the ten families became thirty, but the land was still 100 acres.

The fifteen members of the landlord's family did not work, and they were used to luxury since childhood, and it was impossible to be thrifty.

The number of tenant farmers has become thirty, and since then the per capita has become three acres and three, and the phenomenon of insufficient labor is gone, and there is no abundant food and clothing, but it is still food and clothing.

The third stage came: another 30 years passed, and under the strong reproductive ability of the Han people, the landlords' families that occupied their wives and concubines became 65, the tenant farmers became 100, and the per capita became one mu.

When there is no more food and clothing, tenant farmers can only get up early and be greedy for darkness, intensively cultivate but seek more harvests, and in order to satisfy their stomachs, they have to eat wild vegetables and fruits, hunt and fish to earn extra money.

And the landlord class, with a rent of 100 acres and half to support 65 people, cannot be drunk with money, so let them suffer? No way!

In order to continue to live a good life, two roads became a choice that could be seen at that time, one was to increase the rent, anyway, the labor force was overflowing, and there was no fear that no one would help to farm the land, and the other was that the big landlords swallowed the small landlords, and the small landlords swallowed the homesteaders, and the more land, the more rents naturally increased.

In the fourth stage, another thirty years, so that ninety years have passed, and one hundred acres have become one hundred and fifty acres through annexation.

As for land reclamation? Since the beginning of Yanhuang, the Central Plains has been developed for thousands of years, and all that can be cultivated has already been almost opened, and there are many in the south, but it is impossible to let these landlords leave their hometowns.

The landlord's family maintained the advantage of having a large number of births, and multiplied to 200 tenant farmers, and the number of tenant farmers reached 300.

One hundred and fifty acres of land, supporting two hundred landlords, has become difficult, not to mention that there are three hundred tenant farmers, I am a landlord, who can cry for myself if I suffer?

Rent increase! Fifty percent is too little, not enough to make ends meet, seventy percent is not much, and it is better to ninety percent! What can't you live? That's your business, the land is mine, you don't plant and there are people who plant, tenant farmers don't plant, and there are family concubines who plant!

Annex! All the yeoman farmers who have no power have been annexed, and they have annexed you, and they don't need you to be tenant farmers, eat the air!

The yeoman farmers could no longer live, and the tenant farmers were starving and hanging for their lives.

Those who couldn't survive began to rebel, the purpose was to have a bite to eat, and the landlord class itself was not enough, how could it be given to you, so the tenant farmers became their force to suppress the rebels, and the tenant farmers defeated these rebels with a numerical advantage!

When people die, there will naturally be fewer people to eat, and the trouble seems to be alleviated.

In the last stage, more than 100 years after the Taiping, the landlord's family became 500 people, no matter how the land was annexed, but it was 300 acres, although the tenant farmers could not afford to marry concubines, and many could not afford to marry wives, but under the huge base, they became a thousand!

300 acres of land, 500 landlords, 1,000 tenant farmers! How to raise it? It was difficult to raise the landlord class, the yeoman peasants were gone, and there was no way to annex them.

Rent increase has become the only way out that can be seen, and those who do not want to rent can quit, anyway, the landlord has a lot of concubines.

The tenant farmers became tired and tired, unable to support themselves, and their families starved to death every year, and in the year of natural disasters, families starved to death.

If you don't want to starve to death, you have to rebel, and if the tenant farmers rebel, there will be no one to help him to quell the rebellion, and the pampered landlords and concubines have gone to the front line, but the tenant farmers' numerical advantage, as well as the huge pressure of starvation if they don't rebel, let them often sweep the world, just like Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, such as the Yellow Turban.

However, the lack of knowledge also limits their horizons, so that they are often only the provocateurs of troubled times, but not the beneficiaries.

The world is in turmoil again, and the land is facing another reshuffle, until enough people die, so that the fixed land can feed the population at that time, and the winning landlord class can squander it luxuriously!

This kind of war, which took decades to settle, is a small chaos, inheriting the previous dynasty, such as the Western Zhou and Eastern Zhou, the Western Han and the Eastern Han, perhaps such a war is too short, not many people die, and it often decays quickly.

And it took hundreds of years to calm down, that is, a big chaos, one in a hundred, the last dynasty will bear the blame for this war, such as the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, how the royal family was corrupt and greedy, how traitors stood in the way, how the royal family was corrupt and greedy in the last years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and how traitors stood in the way.

A new dynasty is derived, so many people have died, and the war has been raging for hundreds of years, and it is difficult for people to think about peace and prosperity!

In this way, the small chaos of more than 100 years and a few decades, the great chaos of 300 years and 100 years, the Chinese Dynasty, the successive dynasties have continued and maintained.

These Cao Xing, who are familiar with thousands of years of historical knowledge, know it well.

As the third prince of the third dynasty after the third prince of the fourth world, the Yang family, as the second largest landlord family today, has reached a great reincarnation in three hundred years, and the Yang family with first-class strategy also knows very well!

Cao Xing's purpose is to tell him that we are all people who understand, and victory is often on the side of people who understand.