"Balanced?" In Pei Ju's heart, he secretly sighed, "For thousands of years, there has been coexistence and opposition between the scholars and the imperial power. ”

Yang Tingfeng was silent for a moment, looked at the sky and said: "From the beginning of the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty to the Northern and Southern Dynasties of the Two Jin Dynasties, scholars from all over the country intermarried and married each other. To put it bluntly, no matter how the dynasty changes, the scholars will always be the actual helmsmen of the prefecture of Honshu......"

"Throughout the previous dynasties, they all adhered to the concept of 'the king and Sima share the world' to govern the country. True, in a short time, the expected equilibrium can be reached. Pei Ju said worriedly: "But as everyone knows, once this balance breaks the critical point, then the world will definitely be in chaos again." ”

"The way of heaven is like a bow and a bow, the higher one suppresses it, the lower one lifts it, the surplus loses it, and the insufficient one makes up for it." Yang Tingfeng bowed slightly: "The sky will be afraid of cracking, the earth will be afraid of waste, the gods will be afraid of rest, the valley will be exhausted, and all things will be destroyed!" There are many reasons for breaking this balance, such as drought, locust plague, flood, military disaster, etc., but in Yang's view, all disasters originate from the scholars. ”

"This, my lord is a little arbitrary." Pei Ju didn't dare to agree: "Actually, the demise of many dynasties is not accidental, but an inevitability, it's just a matter of time, the biggest problem is not in the scholar clan itself, but in the hearts of the Heavenly Dao people." ”

"That's right! However, Yang also heard that on the eve of the demise of any dynasty, the heavens will descend on the out-of-phase. Yang Tingfeng closed his eyes and whispered, "Have you heard.......?"

Pei Ju twisted his beard and said: "Sixteen words: 'There is no snow this winter, the northwest sky is cracked, the comet hits the moon, and natural disasters and military disasters.'" ”

Yang Tingfeng said in a deep voice: "Just as the troubled times are coming, I, Yang, have no other luxury, I just hope that the people of the Zisai border pass can live well, and the brothers of the border army can ......all die well."

Why is there no lasting dynasty?

No matter how strong it is, 300 years is often a limit.

On the surface, it seems to be climate change, natural and man-made disasters, corruption in government governance, internal strife, foreign enemies, and so on.

These are only external factors, and the root cause of this is land annexation.

In the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China, a new dynasty began. After wars, plagues, etc., the population of the world has been greatly reduced. There is quite a lot of ownerless land, and the land, after redistribution and recuperation in the world, the small peasant economy quickly recovers and develops, and among them, the wealthy families annex the land and gradually become the gate valve giants, they support the new monarch to rule the world, and the country will enter a prosperous era.

Through decades or even centuries of development, the king's dominance over the country has become more and more stable, and the strength of the wealthy family has become stronger.

In the middle of the dynasty, land annexation intensified, and the land of the vast number of peasants was annexed by powerful landlords, and a large number of people lost their land and could only become tenants and hidden households. As a result, the imperial court was unable to collect the taxes of these people, and the existing taxes were not enough to cover the state expenditure, so they had to continue to collect additional taxes on yeoman farmers.

During this period, although the country's national strength weakened, the number of displaced people increased, and the balance of the country began to waver, the hundred-legged insects died but did not stiffen, and the imperial court was still able to maintain the operation of the country.

In the later years of the dynasty, even yeoman farmers who owned a certain amount of land were overburdened and could not afford the high taxes of the state, so they had to sell their land and become new tenants and hermits. The country's tax revenue has been delayed due to the constraints of the wealthy families, which has also led to a financial crisis in the country, and the regime has begun to falter.....

Finally, when the land annexation reached its peak and the number of displaced people reached the predetermined value, at this time, once there was a natural and man-made disaster, the balance of the dynasty would be broken in an instant, and the country would collapse and be on the verge of collapse.

For example, the rebel army of Zhangjiao at the end of the Han Dynasty of the Three Kingdoms, a god stick that drank talisman water to the people to cure diseases, why could it pull up millions of believers?

For another example, Li Zicheng, the 'King of Chuang' at the end of the Ming Dynasty, was beaten by the famous general Sun Chuanting and fled back to the northwest with only 18 horses, but after five years, he was able to raise 400,000 people again and fight the Ming Court again, why is this?

I think, if the common people have food to eat and a piece of land to plant, who will follow Zhang Jiao's Taiping Road?

As long as the people can survive, even if the life is harder, who is willing to rebel with King Chuang?

(To tell you a little bit of trivia, rebellion is the number one crime in all dynasties!) In the past, the new monarch ascended the throne and granted amnesty to the world, but did not pardon rebellion. This dynastic cycle does not last more than 300 years, after which it is overturned and repeated..... And the culprits are the so-called wealthy families, famous families, landlords and warlords.....

Yang Tingfeng added a cup of tea to Pei Ju, poured himself a cup, and said: "To deal with these wealthy families, you have to understand how they came here, what their needs are, and what they are thinking......

Pei Ju took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "What the adults said is good, below, please allow Pei to tell a little story." ”

Yang Tingfeng nodded and listened attentively......

......

My name is Zhang San, and my grandfather was a petty official in the court because of his military exploits.

After returning to his hometown, the court sealed him a small piece of land for retirement.

Although it is small and small, it is far from being comparable to those ordinary people.

Because the family is not prosperous, the land cannot be planted, so my grandfather worries about tea and rice all day long.

At this time, a group of homeless people who had fled the famine happened to pass by, and the grandfather saw that they were pitiful and gave them a bite to eat.

These homeless people are not ambiguous, they don't eat our family's food in vain, and promise to stay and help farm the land to repay my family.

As for distribution, once the food is produced, most of it is rented to my family, and a small part is left for their whole family to live by.

Later, I found out that the deal was really a good deal.

Our people don't have to do anything, and so much grain enters the warehouse all year round.

And, even better, these homeless people are not only grateful to our family, but also treat their grandfather like a god.

As a sign of loyalty, they also sent their sons to my house as long-term laborers.

sent my precious daughter into my home as a maid.

And these homeless people have also successfully become domestic slaves of my family.

One day, after getting acquainted with the house slaves, the housekeeper came to me and made a suggestion, saying that their land was well planted and the grain production was high, and asked me to take all the surrounding land and give it to them to take care of, and I agreed to this reasonable request.

The next day, I gathered the surrounding yeoman farmers, found a random excuse, and gave them little or no compensation.

And these yeoman farmers cannot live without land.

So, after the compensation money is spent, they can only come to me as a tenant.

As a result, the strength of my family has grown further.

After a period of development, my family became a big landowner in the village.

But at this moment, I suddenly realized that there were too many tenant farmers under my command, and what was worse was that the land I owned was far from enough for them to plant.

Just when I was worried about this, my grandfather secretly told me on crutches and said, "Grandson, in fact, the land in the neighboring village belonged to our family in the early years, but because he went out to fight, he was forcibly occupied by the neighboring village. Also, the land in the back mountain is also our family's, but it is occupied by mountain bandits......

As soon as I heard it, did he pay it back?

He hurriedly gathered his slaves and tenants, and each family produced men, took up arms, formed a tribe, and recaptured the so-called 'own land'.

Through several bloody village fights and the cutting off of hundreds of heads of mountain bandits, I managed to recover my family's lost land.

As soon as I was happy, I rewarded and promoted a few domestic slaves, and entrusted them with the full management of some land.

These guys are not idle, and they recruit a large number of displaced people to reclaim the newly harvested land and become small landlords.

Over the years, I grew and annexed hundreds of surrounding villages, large and small.

For a time, my family became the local wealthy family with the largest land, the most abundant grain and grass, the most silver, and the fiercest private soldiers.

But, that's just a wealthy family.

It wasn't until a few years later, when my grandfather died, that I took over the position of patriarch.

That year, there was a rare famine in the country, and the people of many counties had no food.

And it just so happened that there was still a lot of grain in our storehouse, so I was 'very kind' and gave relief to these people, and asked them to exchange the land for my family's grain.

Not only did I give them relief, but I also received their land, and I became my slave in exchange for their loyalty and love.

And the "Local Chronicles" of the local county guard had to give me a big record, give me a big book to publicize it, and report it to the imperial court.

After all, this is also their political achievement. This deal was really good, not only won the hearts of the people, but also won the support of the government.

With the support of the government, I became more and more bold, and through clever grabbing, I forcibly bought and sold land.

Within a few years, my family became the largest wealthy family in the county. If you want money, you want food, you want people, you want soldiers.

At this time, because of my merits, the imperial court promoted the original county guard and sent a new county guard.

I intended to come to the door to make friends, but the other party disliked my identity, looked down on me, and gave Lao Tzu a face everywhere.

So I commanded the people of the land not to carry out any of his decrees.

As for the local people, of course, they all have to turn to me, and no one dares not to obey my orders.

After all, who knows if there will be a famine next year?

These untouchables are still counting on the grain in our warehouse.

After taking office for a while, the county warden found that the decree he issued could not be carried out, no matter how it was issued.

Through investigation, he found out that I was behind the trouble.

So, he wrote to the court to complain to me, and I also wrote to the county guard.

Later, the imperial court sent people to the county secretly to investigate, but suddenly found that the people of the whole county were talking to me.

As a result, the results of the investigation were not resolved under such circumstances.

But the strange thing is that a month later, this county guard inexplicably 'died of natural causes'.

After a period of stability, the imperial court sent a new county guard.

This county guard is quite sensible, he knows how to make friends with me, have a good relationship with me, consult me on everything, negotiate with me every time, I am a little annoyed with him, is he a county guard, or am I a county guard?

However, in my heart, I am still quite happy.

While I was happy, I also had to reconsider one thing, to be a county warden myself.

After all, once this one is gone, wouldn't I be annoyed to death if there is another one who is not on the way?

However, due to the existence of the ancient cadre recusal system, the Three Mutual Law, locals were not allowed to serve as military and political governors in their counties.

So, I prepared several heavy gifts and went to the assassin history, the state pastor, and the imperial court everywhere to 'humbly ask for advice'.

Through understanding, I suddenly discovered that there are really many people who have the same problem as me, and the neighboring Li Si family is also worried about becoming officials.

So, at the behest of the imperial court, recommended by the state pastor, and under the protection of the assassin history, I went to the county where Li Si was located to become an official.

Naturally, the people of the Li Si family were also sent to my hometown as officials.

I myself am a wealthy family, so I naturally know that if I don't make friends with the local tyrants, I won't be able to sit in a stable position.

Therefore, after I took office, I had a small banquet on three days and a big banquet on five days, vigorously befriended Li Si's family, and invested a lot of money and grain in the local area, built a lot of water conservancy, reclaimed a lot of wasteland, and made a lot of achievements.

As the saying goes, come and don't be rude, the people of the Li family are also sparing no effort to build a good relationship in my hometown, vigorously develop construction, and give whatever you want.

Over time, the relationship between our two families has also become better and better.

Finally, one day, I married the eldest sister of the Li Si family, and Li Si married the youngest sister of my family, and the two sides initially formed a family marriage.......

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