Chapter 204: The Agrarian Revolution Continued

Qian Yu smiled: "If I say that the rise and fall of the past dynasties has nothing to do with whether the Son of Heaven is mediocre or not, it is just the inevitable result of irreconcilable social contradictions, do you agree?" ”

Qinglong was stunned, the rise and fall of dynasties is related to social contradictions? Are you kidding?

He shook his head and said, "Doctor Qian, although the position of Holy Master has great power, not everyone can do it. Since the establishment of the White Cloth Sect, there have been a total of seven Holy Masters, do you know what happened to them? ”

"They're all honorably retired?"

"They're all dead!" Qinglong said, "Because of ignorance." ”

"What? Ignorance can kill people. Qian Yu was puzzled.

Qinglong said: "Of course, ignorance doesn't kill people, but because of ignorance, let me teach a big loss of vitality, and I am asking for a dead end." ”

Qinglong's words were not very clear, and Suzaku explained on the side: "Doctor Qian, you also know that the White Cloth Sect is a head-killing business, and if you are not careful, it is easy to be uprooted by the claws of the imperial court. Every action in the church is planned by the Holy Master, and if the action fails, it naturally requires people to take responsibility......"

Qian Yu was stunned, damn, what is the difference between this and the responsible sales in later generations? Can't you set a no-responsibility base salary or something?

Suzaku said: "But I believe in Dr. Qian's strength, others can't be a holy teacher, it doesn't mean that Dr. Qian can't." ”

"Venerable Suzaku, I know that you want to flatter him only because of Dr. Qian, but there are some things that are not necessarily a bad thing to forbearance and retreat, and it is much better to be more self-aware than to be reckless and send him to death." Qinglong's expression was sarcastic.

Qian Yu originally heard that being a holy master was risky, so he wanted to give up halfway, anyway, all this had nothing to do with him, but when he saw Qinglong's contemptuous face, he suddenly changed his mind.

"Am I the material to be a holy master, what Venerable Qinglong said doesn't seem to count, right? What I said has my own reasoning, Venerable Qinglong doesn't even know what social contradictions are, so he jumps to conclusions, isn't it a bit stubborn? ”

"Oh, what reason? Please talk about Dr. Qian, and let me study and study. He said to learn, but his face was full of jokes.

"Social contradictions...... This word is indeed a bit too professional, it is normal for Venerable Qinglong not to understand, I try to use the common saying, and the province has to be explained. ”

Qinglong: "......"

"To put it bluntly, social contradictions are contradictions between people!

For the people of Dahua, the most important thing is, of course, land, there is a steady stream of food, with land, there are endless clothes, with land, there is land to build houses, and there is a life without food and clothing.

Think about it, if everyone has land, endless food, endless clothes, and endless houses to live in, who would still want to rebel? Why did your Baiyi Sect develop here, and why did you attack Yiwen County? Yiwen County is not the richest county in Dahua.

The reason is very simple, it is because the people here have no food and cannot live.

Since the establishment of our Dahua, the land in the hands of the people has been relatively even, but two hundred years have passed, and the landowners have changed greatly.

Venerable Qinglong, you have been here in Yiwen County for a few days, you might as well tell me who is in the hands of the land in Yiwen County now? ”

Qinglong frowned: "Yiwen County is so big, how do I know who the owner of the land is?" ”

"Really?" Qian Yu looked around: "I don't know if there are any local ones here?" ”

A thin man got up: "The villain is a native of Yiwen County." ”

Qinglong said: "You tell Dr. Qian, who are the owners of the land in Yiwen County?" It's okay if you can't say it all, just pick up the important ones. ”

In Qinglong's mind, Yiwen County is so big, it is impossible for a thin man to tell everyone, and it would be good for him to know the squire within a radius of a hundred miles.

Who knew that the man shook his head: "Venerable Xie Qinglong cares. There are not many people who own land in Yiwen County, there are five big landlords, thirteen squires, and the rest have two or three acres of land on hand. Among the five big landowners, Mr. Li has the most land, with more than 98,000 mu, and Mr. Liu has the least, but there are also 10,000 mu. The squires are much worse, ranging from hundreds to thousands of acres. ”

Qinglong was really surprised at this time: "There are so few people with land? ”

Qian Yu asked: "Was it the same ten years ago?" ”

"No, ten years ago, there were only two big landlords in Yiwen County, but there were dozens of squires, and now this situation has only been formed in the past few years." The man said.

"How so?" Qinglong muttered, as if he had realized something, but he couldn't understand anything.

Qian Yu said: "Obviously, the land of the Dahua Dynasty is gathering in the hands of a few people.

For example, if I am a chief, and I have a thousand acres of land in my hands, and I have a hundred men under my command, I divide the land equally among each of them, and let them cultivate it, and I only receive 10% a year to ensure my own livelihood. My request is that the land they can sell at will, but whoever it is, must guarantee my taxes.

Hundreds of rice to raise hundreds of people, among these hundred people, there are diligent, there are lazy, lazy because of laziness, the land harvest can not provide for their own life, they may consider turning the land into *** like those diligent people, in exchange for money, so that their lives are better.

So as time went on, those who were diligent had more and more land in their hands, and the lazy people ate and drank the money they sold, and in order to survive, they could only be forced to work for the diligent people and accept the exploitation of the other party.

It is to be expected that the diligent man will become richer and richer, and the lazy man will become poorer and poorer, and he wants to redeem the land, but there is no chance.

And so day after day, year after year, my land did not diminish, nor did the output of it diminish, but of the hundred, ninety-nine were hungry......

Anyway, they were all dead, so they banded together, elected a leader, and rebelled directly, and the object of the rebellion was naturally me, the original owner of the land, and the most diligent guy.

Then I died, and so did the most diligent ones, and the chief of the thieves inherited the lands and distributed them equally among everyone who obeyed him......

After some time, new diligent people and lazy people appeared, and the lazy people began to sell land, and the diligent people began to buy land......

This is the story I want to tell, I am the original emperor, the leader of the thieves is the new emperor, the diligent person symbolizes the officials, and the lazy person symbolizes the poor people.

Of course, this is only an ideal state, and the real society is much more complex than that, but everything is the same, and their essence is the same.

The emperor controls the officials, the officials enslave the people, and the people are cornered, and they will promote the change of dynasty and a new monarch. The social contradictions I am talking about are the concrete embodiment of this phenomenon. ”

Everyone was silent, although Qian Yu's views were strange, and some places were a little taken for granted, but they had a faint premonition in their hearts that what Qian Yu said seemed to be right.

After a long time, Qinglong said: "According to what you say, all classes of my Dahua have contradictions? Why do many ordinary people obviously can't open the pot, but they don't have the slightest intention of rebellion, and they still want us to guide them? ”

Qian Yu said: "It is good that the contradiction exists at all times, but it is big and small, and only when the contradiction intensifies to the extent that it is irreconcilable, will it show the effect. The people of Dahua are very gentle, they are like sheep, if they really can't live, no one wants to pin their heads to the waistband of their trousers and do the business of killing heads. ”

The local thin man nodded: "What Dr. Qian said is very right, you may not know, in fact, there was a drought in Yiwen County ten years ago, which was even more serious than now, but the people at that time did not even leave their hometowns to flee the famine." ”

Qinglong stopped talking, and he couldn't refute Qian Yu's words.

Lin Shishi, who had been silent, suddenly spoke: "Young Master Qian, if we do what you said, what should we do?" ”

The voice is ethereal and ethereal, like a fairy mist, and with her palace coat as white as snow, it makes people feel like they are in a dream.