Qin Yu didn't explain to him directly, but looked around and took him to a construction site, where there were a lot of bricks. Then squatted down and moved bricks and bricks without saying a word.

In a few moments, a pyramid was built.

"What's the sir?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked, he hadn't seen this thing yet.

"Pyramids." Qin Yu said, "Basically, all dynasties are in this kind of social structure. ”

Pointing to the bottom layer, "The people at the bottom of the pyramid, the largest number, are ordinary people and traditional craftsmen. They produced food, cloth, and fed all the people above. ”

"The people above do not farm or work, but everyone must be clothed and eaten."

"The ordinary people on the first level are under all the pressure."

"The food sources, the clothing sources, and the living sources of the upper layers are all on the first level. Therefore, the people on the upper floors serve the first layer wholeheartedly and make the first layer more solid, which is the pyramid of health. ”

The simple structure display made Zhu Yuanzhang see it at a glance, and sighed: "We now completely understand how stupid those emperors in the past were to control the people and emperors." ”

"Only when the first layer is firm can it withstand the pressure from above."

"The more stable the first layer, the longer the pyramid of the dynasty will last."

"And the gist of the art of controlling the people is to suppress the bottom. The bottom layer is not stable, and the pyramid of the dynasty is naturally prone to collapse. Those emperors didn't think about how to strengthen the first layer, but they were attacking the first layer? ”

"Do you think they're stupid?"

I secretly thought in my heart: It seems that we are good to the people, and it is extremely correct to implement the policy of benefiting the people. Because in doing so, it is to strengthen the underlying foundation of the Ming Dynasty.

Even if it is not out of kindness, for the stability of the Ming Dynasty, it should be so.

"There are really many such emperors, they oppress the people at the bottom and destroy their foundation." Qin Yu said, "For example, Emperor Qianlong, he is engaged in the policy of thirty-three taels of silver, so that the Qing Dynasty will quickly move from strength to decline." ”

"Thinking of an emperor like Qianlong is not an exception."

After speaking, Qin Yu pointed to the second layer and said, "This second layer is the feudal gentry and landlord class. They are closest to the first level and grab wealth directly from the common people. ”

"It's also the most direct pressure on their heads."

"If the second layer puts too much pressure on the first layer, it will still cause the pyramid to collapse."

"Not bad!" Zhu Yuanzhang said, "Therefore, rectifying the gentry and landlords is the top priority." ”

"Here, many feudal emperors have cognitive biases again." Qin Yu said.

"What cognitive bias?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

"Many emperors in ancient times actually felt that the second-tier gentry and landlords were the foundation of the dynasty." Qin Yu said, "So they put forward the slogan of sharing the world with the gentry!" ”

"That's what Emperor Chongzhen shouted at the beginning."

As a result, when he finally lost his country, he shouted another slogan that all ministers in the world can be killed. I am afraid that it was at that time that he completely understood how wise and wise his ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to share the world with the people. How wrong is the idea that I want to share the world with the gentry. ”

"Not only did Emperor Chongzhen feel that the gentry were the foundation, but even the 'people' in some slogans in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period referred to the gentry, not the people at the bottom."

"Because they feel that ordinary people can't get on the stage, and they can't make any big waves. And the gentry class mastered a large amount of food resources, tenant farmer resources. ”

"They're the backbone."

"Not bad! The ancient emperors who shared the world with the gentry and nobles accounted for the vast majority, if not all. Zhu Yuanzhang said, "They feel that ordinary people are not the people of the dynasty at all, and the gentry are the people." ”

"As long as you don't cultivate and don't produce food, it's not the first layer, it's not the foundation." Qin Yu said.

"Because the grain in the hands of the gentry and landlords is also produced by the people. The grain of their storehouses shall also be collected from the people, and if the people do not produce grain, they will not be able to change it. ”

"Just in terms of figuring out who is the foundation of the dynasty, many emperors in ancient times were confused."

"Uh-huh." Zhu Yuanzhang nodded.

"The third layer is the officials at all levels, the county magistrates, the prefects, the political envoys, and the senior officials of the court......," Qin Yu continued, "and the top of the pyramid is the royal family. ”

"Yes, that's exactly the kind of structure." Zhu Yuanzhang said again and again. His eyes stared at this simple pyramid, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that Qin Yu was simply a god.

With a few bricks, with an extremely simple 'building' that he had never seen before, he showed him the social structure of a dynasty clearly.

Such a talent, don't say that you can't find it in the court.

It's hard to find a second one in the world.

Its vision and pattern are simply unprecedented.

Xiang Li Shanchang and Liu Bowen, these 'great talents' and 'strategists', absolutely don't understand this. They don't have Qin Yu's vision to look at the overall situation of history, and the pattern of simplifying the complex from a high vantage point.

"If the bottom of the pyramid can't support the pressure above, the pyramid collapses, and the royal family at the top can't stand, that's inevitable." Qin Yu continued, "And there is an old saying: the higher you climb, the worse you fall. ”

"Once the pyramid of the dynasty collapses, the old royal family is often the worst, basically the fate of being exterminated and humiliated. The Sima family of the Jin Dynasty was exterminated, and the emperor of the Song Dynasty was executed to carry out the sheep ceremony......"

"So the fate of the dynasty is closely linked to the fate of the royal family."

"It is even closely linked to the fate of the nation, jumping into the sea from cliffs and mountains, and Wuhu entering the Central Plains ......"

"Hearing what Mr. said, our backs are a little cold." Zhu Yuanzhang said.

"The decline of the dynasty is closely related to the interests of the royal family and the interests of the nation, but it has little to do with those feudal nobles. Because they have money and food, they can surrender at any time. ”

"It's easy to save your life if you surrender with money and food."

"After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, how many feudal nobles surrendered to the Qing Dynasty? San Francisco, Kong Youde, Hong Chengchou...... One by one, they were not only fine, but also became big officials. ”

"Jiading slaughtered Yangzhou for ten days, and the people killed were ordinary people."

Therefore, for the sake of his own family and the interests of the nation, the emperor should also build the dynasty well. As for those feudal nobles, from the very beginning of their rise, they were the enemies of the royal family, the enemies of the people. ”

"Not bad." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "From the moment they rose, they scourged the court and divided the imperial power. ”

"When the dynasty could no longer hold on, they surrendered to the enemy."

"Ruthlessly forsake the king."

(End of chapter)