The image left by Zhu Yuanzhang in history is extremely cold.

He was cold-blooded and ruthless to the people, to the ministers, to the old friends, and to the wives and concubines. Only in front of his children and grandchildren, he is full of kindness, gentleness and consideration. In order to ensure the happiness of his children and grandchildren, he racked his brains!

Zhu Chongba set the lowest wage standard in Chinese history for the officials of the Ming Dynasty (basically Ming Dynasty officials cannot live decently if they are not greedy. History is known as the most bitter group of civil servants in history! ）

However, Lao Zhu's standard for his children and grandchildren is planned according to the first-class breeding pigs.

After the prince was crowned as a prince, he received 10,000 stone per year (about 20 million yuan), which is NNNN times that of the highest first-class officials, not including the rewards given to the royal family, a large amount of land and other rewards (the value is only less than hundreds of millions of yuan).

Members of the royal family do not have to engage in any occupation, and every descendant of the royal family, all consumption needs are borne by the state. From the age of 10, I began to receive a high salary and enjoy the benefits!

When getting married, the state distributes houses, crowns, wedding expenses, and so on. There is also a generous funeral fee after death!

Having many sons and being blessed was originally the only creed of the Chinese. Squandering and reproduction are the glorious tasks that Zhu Yuanzhang has set for his children and grandchildren. Therefore, the Zhu royal family was born with righteousness, glory and openness, and joy.

However, for other members of the Ming Dynasty, the refreshment of the royal birth record again and again means that the burden of every common person has increased again and again.

The increase of many breeding pig princes led to the increase of the royal palace and the expansion of the enclosure. The best land in the world is more and more concentrated in the hands of the royal family!

Many royal palaces own tens of thousands of acres of land, for example, King Ji is in Changsha, with 7.8 million acres of land. More than half of the land in Henan Province is owned by the royal palaces. Such examples abound all over the country, and the Ming Dynasty abounds!

The living space of the people at the bottom is constantly compressed, and they are complaining!

In this way, the descendants of the pig royal family are not satisfied. They often collude with local giants to monopolize the industry.

All the most profitable industries in the region are mostly monopolized by them. All scarce natural resources, such as land, forests, and mines, proved to be profitable, and members of the Ming imperial family would seize them by begging the emperor or stealing them.

In addition, the princes in various places often cried poverty to the emperor and asked for all kinds of special benefits.

Through all kinds of tricks and plunders, the royal family has accumulated the most wealth in the world.

The average population of the Ming Dynasty was about 60 million to 70 million, and members of the royal family and officials, as well as landlords, accounted for only about 10% of the total population.

However, it is these 10% of the population that occupies about 90% of the rich resources of the Ming Dynasty. The gap between the rich and the poor can no longer be described as unbalanced, but as a hanging bomb!

The fall of the Ming Dynasty, the wild boar skin Qing army was only an external cause, and its fundamental reason was Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong and other peasant armies.

So, where did the continuous strength of the peasant army come from?

It is because of natural disasters that the above people, who account for 90% of the resources, annex land and make the people miserable. forced the friends to Liangshan, and they could only work in rebellion!

In fact, the Chinese people's demands are really not high. As long as there is a bite to eat, there will be no rebellion!

According to historical records, at the beginning of the peasant army uprising in the late Ming Dynasty, the governor Yang He planned to appease and provide grain relief. As soon as the peasant army heard that the government and the emperor had a grain subsidy, they immediately stopped fighting, appeased and surrendered, and stopped making trouble.

However, the Donglin Party of the pit father, at this time, God has come to mend the knife.

Layers of corruption have been deducted, and "the number of people saved is less than one-tenth." In the end, the Northern Shaanxi People's Volunteer Army made a comeback, swept the north and south, and was out of control!

Famine leads to rebellion, which in turn destroys order, and when order is out of order, there are fewer people to grow food. This is a vicious circle: the more chaotic it is, the less people grow food; The more no one grows food, the more chaotic it becomes.

Then everyone finished playing together, all cheap wild boar skin comrades!

The rhythm of this egg pain, you said that Zhu Zilong, the copycat Emperor of the Apocalypse, can you not feel a faint sadness?

"It's just that I didn't pay the pigs on time for two or three months, so they came to make trouble for me? Hmph, keep not posting! "Zhu Zilong is angry, he is not afraid of god-like enemies, but he is afraid of pig-like teammates.

He threw the wages of these princes on the dragon table, and decided to stay in the middle and not return.

However, because of the ancestral system, at most it is to owe the wages of the pig kings, but it is difficult not to pay wages in the end.

Zhu Zilong touched his temples, thinking a little nerve-wracking, how to do his best to let the people of Daming have a bite to eat?

As long as there is even a bite to eat, the people will not rebel.

Well, there it is.

In the next minute, Zhu Zilong put away all the approved folds, returned to the dragon bed, fainted again, and returned to the main body.

At this moment, Zhu Zilong, who woke up at home in Shandong, opened the hidden laptop, clicked on the file, and Zhu Zilong finally found the content of the relevant document he was looking for.

This is one of the real historical materials of the Ming Dynasty that he has stored in various aspects of the Ming Dynasty, and this post records about peanuts, corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes and other high-yield crops in the Americas. The deeds before and after the introduction to the Ming Dynasty were cause and effect!

In 1492, when Columbus discovered the New World, crops cultivated by the Indians such as sweet potatoes, corn, potatoes, tobacco, and chili peppers quickly spread throughout the world, including China (which was introduced in the late Ming Dynasty when it was about to die). ）

Around 1588, the English began to colonize Ireland and robbed the good arable land, and the Irish could only grow something to survive on the barren land where water was scarce, and there were often famines.

But potatoes have changed all that. The Irish, who ruled by the British, found that the barren land produced enough potatoes to feed their families and livestock with little effort. So in 100 years, Ireland's population skyrocketed from 3 million to 8 million!

In the same year, Germany, Russia and France also planted potatoes vigorously, thus ending malnutrition and periodic famines in northern Europe.

However, when these things were introduced to China, it was in the last few years of the late Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty was finished before it could be planted on a large scale throughout the country.

In the end, all the wild boar skins were cheapened in the Qing Dynasty, and the so-called prosperous Kangqian era was actually the biggest lie.

It was just because these high-yield grains officially began to be promoted in China, and the Chinese did not starve to death, allowing the Qing Dynasty to barely survive the most difficult period of the early minority domination of the Han people and stabilize the regime!

If the Ming Dynasty can hold out for more than ten years, oh no, even if it lasts a few more years without destroying the country.

With the large-scale popularization and application of these high-yield grains, the peasant army in China will not be able to do much, and there will be no internal strife, and it will go all out to deal with foreign enemies. If you fight with the wild boar skin again, it's really hard to say who wins and who loses.

Of course, when the Ming Dynasty fell, sweet potatoes were actually introduced relatively early, and some provinces began to grow them in small and medium-sized areas.

According to the records of historical descendants, the year before the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the power of sweet potatoes has been revealed: "about 10,000 catties of one mu of upper land, about 78,000 catties of middle land, and about 5 or 6,000 catties of lower ground." "And you can grow several seasons a year!

The better paddy fields in the Ming Dynasty only had a yield of about 720 catties per mu, and the average yield per mu was only 240 catties. What does this mean? It means that the population fed by the land can be increased several times! The extra fields can be planted with other crops, and more cattle, sheep, pigs and dogs can be fed.

It's a few years late, alas!

No matter how much the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty is a bastard, no matter how garbage the civil officials are, and no matter how civil strife the people are, as long as the Ming Dynasty is orthodox, it can hold on for a few more years. Relying on these high-yield grains alone, there will still be a lot of turning points!