"Those literati are truly hateful!" Zhu Yuanzhang hated and hated, Liu Bowen let him make an edict against himself back then. Although he has a lot of respect for readers, it is also true that he hates it in his heart.

Because those literati like to engage in moral kidnapping the most, they will say the words of saints at every turn. Forcing the emperor to do something they don't want to do, many times the emperor has to look at their faces.

What's even more difficult is that those civil officials are still very pedantic and stubborn, and they will come to admonish them to death at every turn.

It made the emperor very embarrassed, and it would go against his heart if he heard it. If you don't listen to it, if you force the minister to die, the emperor will become a faint monarch, and he will be criticized by the literati, and even leave a stench for 10,000 years.

"The second reason, and a very important reason, is the low productivity of ancient times." However, Qin Yu didn't know what he was thinking in his heart and continued, "Three hundred years of peace has given the people to multiply, and it will multiply for about ten generations, and the population will increase dramatically. The country's arable land is limited, and low productivity means that the food grown on the land cannot feed so many people. ”

"Hmm." Zhu Yuanzhang nodded when he heard this.

Qin Yu's second point of view, he also heard it for the first time, and he understood it at once. The population has skyrocketed too much, and the food produced by the land is limited, which makes it clear that there are more monks and less porridge.

The limited land is not enough to feed too many people, and the cold period has led to reduced food production and natural disasters...... As a result, there was a human tragedy in which hungry people were everywhere, and the people were hungry to eat Guanyin soil to satisfy their hunger, and they were easy to eat.

"But climate issues and low productivity are symptomatic factors. The deep-seated factor is the serious land annexation. ”

"Land was the most important natural resource in ancient times, and when land was seriously annexed, wealth was in the hands of a few feudal nobles. When the feudal aristocracy grows, the imperial power will be greatly weakened. ”

"If the imperial power is not weakened, even if the population increases exploding and natural disasters are repeated, the emperor can allocate food from all over the country and barely survive the difficulties."

"Not bad!" Zhu Yuanzhang nodded.

"Now let's focus on the feudal aristocracy." Qin Yu said, "After a new dynasty is established, every founding hero will receive a reward, a title, and land. With titles and land as a foundation, after a few generations, they will develop into a huge family and clan power, that is, the feudal aristocracy. ”

"Not bad!" Zhu Yuanzhang listened and nodded again and again.

"The emperor's division of the prince is to weaken the imperial power on the surface, and the family is weakened in the dark." Qin Yu continued.

"With the passage of time, the families and clans of the feudal kings and feudal nobles will gradually grow into a towering tree. The intertwined trees have deep roots, and the power has penetrated into the imperial court, becoming an independent kingdom. ”

"There are so many independent kingdoms like this, where is there any imperial power to speak of?"

"The power of the imperial court was gradually divided between the vassal kings and the feudal aristocracy, and the emperor at that time no longer had much power. Not to mention the distribution of food throughout the country, even the army cannot be transferred. Qin Yu remembered that in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, all kinds of natural disasters continued, Chongzhen had almost no real power, and the stormy court was supported by a few feudal nobles.

He wanted to mobilize Zuo Liangyu's army to rescue Jingshi, but Zuo Liangyu didn't listen to him at all.

"Makes sense!" Zhu Yuanzhang nodded again and again.

"At the end of the dynasty, the emperor had no real power, and even if the last emperor wanted to revive the dynasty, he couldn't do anything." Qin Yu said, "That's why I just said that it's not that the last emperor was stupid, but that he couldn't do anything at all." ”

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In addition, land annexation is serious, and most of the country's land is concentrated in the hands of a few nobles, which will lead to a widening gap between the rich and the poor in society. At that time, even if there was no foreign invasion, the people would be in dire straits. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded again after hearing this, he let go of the cattle for the landlord Lao Cai back then, and he had personal experience. The landlord and the old rich family had too many cattle and sheep to count, and the common people could not even eat.

"The feudal aristocracy controlled the vast majority of the land, so they controlled the vast majority of the social wealth, and they had the privilege of not paying taxes. So the feudal aristocracy became rich, and the country became poor. ”

"So there is a strange situation in which the country is poor and the people are rich."

Qin Yu remembered that during the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, the phenomenon of the poor country and the rich people had almost reached its peak. The emperor couldn't get the salary if he wanted to send troops, so he had to borrow it from the feudal nobles in a low voice.

"The people have almost no land, the gap between the rich and the poor is too great, and the natural disasters caused by the alternating cold and warm weather cycles have taken away the last few grains of food in the hands of the people. The people couldn't even survive, and in the end they could only rise up. ”

Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes were filled with tears, when he was the poorest, the food at home was indeed countable.

"Natural disasters can be said to be the last straw that breaks the camel's back." After Qin Yu finished speaking, he sighed: "Our common people in China can be said to be the kindest and most pitiful, but as long as there is a bite to eat, they will not rebel." Because they just want to live quietly, and there are even many people who are loyal to the original court and want to sacrifice their lives to serve the country. ”

"Such lovely common people, and then the hateful feudal aristocracy, actually have to force them to death, to the point where there is no way out!"

"Those feudal nobles are really hateful!" Zhu Yuanzhang said coldly, with a fierce killing intent in his eyes.

"The people have risen up one after another, and the centralization of power in the imperial court has been almost divided. At this time, the emperor could no longer come up with money to relieve the disaster or exterminate the rebels, and the imperial court would soon perish. ”

"No matter how ambitious the emperor was at that time, he could not save the situation. Emperor Chongzhen at the end of the Ming Dynasty is the most typical example, and finally hanged himself on a tree with a crooked neck. Alas! It's really a bowl at the beginning and a rope at the end. ”

"What did you say?" Zhu Yuanzhang's expression was fierce when he heard this, and he said sharply, his hand on the hilt of the knife. The sentence of a bowl at the beginning and a rope at the end is simply heart-wrenching for him.

"Uncle, why did you react so much?" Qin Yu didn't know that he had been frantically trying to die several times, but he felt a little inexplicable.

"I didn't ...... It's nothing ......" Zhu Yuanzhang finally let go of his hand. I thought that since he was sent by God to save Da Ming, no matter how ugly he said, we should accept it with an open mind.

Because what he said may be facts, facts that will happen in the future!

"And those feudal nobles will never stand with the emperor to save the situation, and the court is not theirs. They also have selfish intentions, even if the court decays, what can they do? Anyway, it can't affect their glory and wealth. Even when foreign invaders, they will choose to protect themselves. Even some very powerful families will take the opportunity to seize the throne and change the dynasty! Qin Yu didn't care and continued,

"Such things are not uncommon in history, such as the Li family in Taiyuan."

After talking eloquently, Zhu Yuanzhang was in a cold sweat when he heard it, and his heart was shocked.

What Qin Yu said just now can be said to have analyzed the reasons for the fall of the dynasty extremely thoroughly and explained it clearly.