[Current Historical Impact Rating: High.] 】

[Phased reward: 10,000 stone sweet potatoes.] 】

Zhu Di was in a trance for a while, and returned to reality.

He asked suspiciously, "What is this sweet potato?" ”

[Sweet potato is a very vigorous crop, whether it is a hill or sandy soil, regardless of rich and poor, sweet potato can grow tenaciously. With the exception of a few areas at particularly high altitudes, most of the areas are good places to produce sweet potatoes. 】

Zhu Di touched his chin: "I don't know, this thing is good or bad." ”

If he remembered correctly, in more than a hundred years, the Ming Dynasty would be in the midst of a continuous natural disaster crisis. And the original Ming Dynasty died because of this influence.

Zhu Di is no longer the original Zhu Di, and his current vision of things is extremely long-term.

"According to the system, sweet potatoes should be a suitable food for cultivation and large-scale production."

Zhu Di pondered, "The development of agricultural production can make the population rise. Population rise means that the demand for food will become larger, and once there is a natural disaster in the original history, agricultural production will not be able to support the population demand, which means that the Ming Dynasty will fall into a food crisis. ”

This is a very amazing logic: because agriculture is developed, agriculture is backward.

But Zhu Di also realized that he seemed to have overlooked a more important question: "Wait, according to the original history, the time period for the outbreak of natural disasters should be 200 years later......"

"At that time, if there was a food crisis in Daming, the whole world would supply blood to Daming."

That's the key!

With the speed at which Xiao Si expanded his territory after he ascended the throne, how could he wait until two hundred years later, twenty years later, he would almost make a bright ball for the earth.

When the Central Plains falls into a food crisis, the dozens of provinces in the west will not be able to supply blood obediently?

"Forget it, when Xiao Si comes back from the south, let him decide."

After Zhu Di returned to the real world, he lay flat again, and he didn't have the spirit to point out the sky in the fantasy world.

If there is anything, just ask Xiao Si if he doesn't have anything, what Xiao Si says is what he is.

……

Yangzhou, at this time the scenery is just right, the sky is high and the clouds are light, the breeze is warm, Lang Lang is under the rising sun, put a small table, set up fragrant tea to drink.

Opposite Zhu Gaoxian is the black-clothed prime minister Yao Guangxiao, this elderly monk is already more than eighty years old, in the Ming Dynasty, where the average life expectancy is about fifty years old, more than eighty years old is already quite rare longevity old man.

"In my life, I have done countless karmic obstacles, and I don't know how many people have died because of me. When I die, I will fall into the eighteenth layer of hell and suffer endlessly. ”

Yao Guangxiao may have known that his limit was approaching, but his voice was still light, "I'm also afraid, I'm afraid that I won't be able to bear the endless suffering." Therefore, before dying, I want to do some good deeds, remove some of my karma, and wait until I go to hell to suffer a little less sin. ”

Zhu Gaoxian chuckled and said: "A good person has done good things all his life, but as long as he does a bad thing before he dies, then he is a hypocrite." And the wicked person has done evil things all his life, and he only needs to do one good deed, then he can put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha on the spot. ”

"There are so many likes and dislikes in this world, it's just your own conscience."

Yao Guangxiao shook his head and said with a smile: "I can't listen to what you said. Because I believe that there is a God in this world, and you don't. Not only you, but also your father, your grandfather, they don't believe that there is a god in this world. ”

"Your grandfather used to be a monk and worship the temple. Your father also built a lot of construction to build the Buddha Gate. They call themselves the sons of heaven, but neither your father nor your grandfather nor you believe in God. ”

"In your hearts, there is only one God in this world, and that is yourselves."

Zhu Gaoxian smiled and didn't answer, which was a tacit acquiescence to what the old monk said.

There are three generations of their old Zhu family, all of whom are atheists.

Rather than expecting the blessings of the gods, they are more willing to use their own hands to achieve themselves.

Zhu Gaoxian asked, "Old monk, what do you think?" ”

Yao Guangxiao felt a little unclear, so "What are you asking?" ”

Zhu Gaoxian said: "What do you think, the trend of the world, the people of the world, how to see the connection between people and God?" ”

Yao Guangxiao chuckled and shook his head, avoiding answering.

Zhu Gaoxian asked: "What you asked, Lone has already answered, so why didn't you say a word?" ”

Helpless, Yao Guangxiao could only say: "Today's world is not the world of the Zhu family, nor is it the world of the people of the world. I used to think that King Yan and I came down to the world, and this world would become ours, but I was wrong, the world we fought down was not the real world. ”

Zhu Gaoxian frowned slightly: "Why did the young master feel like this?" ”

Yao Guangxiao said slowly: "The authority of the Son of Heaven can be governed by princes and generals. But for the localities, they recognize the authority of the Son of Heaven, and the Son of Heaven is considered the Son of Heaven. ”

The place does not refer to the people, but to the people who are entrenched in the place.

When all the interest chains intersect, it is clearly a structure built on the people, and the blood and sweat of the people are used to divide the interests, but there is no seat for the people at the table of interests.

The emperor is just a diner sitting at this table of interests.

"This is true of any country, when the dynasty was first established, there was still room for the bottom to rise. But as the structure and rules of the dynasty gradually improved, this channel from the bottom to the top was completely cut off. ”

Zhu Gaoxian said calmly, "My grandfather was a poor monk who lived in a fate at the beginning, General Chang Yuchun was a bandit who followed the thieves of the green forest to rob the house, General Xu Da and my grandfather grew up herding cattle together, General Mu Ying's parents died at the age of seven and wandered and begged in Haozhou, and Song Lian, the head of the founding scholars, was born in a poor family and couldn......'t even afford books when he was young."

"But if you look at it now, how many of the people in this dynasty are the sons of farmers?"

"All people, since they were born, have been labeled as three, six, nine, and so on, and no one can cross this class gap. The son of the prince is the prince of replacement, the son of the general is the hereditary general, although the civil officials do not have a hereditary replacement, but the first Shangshu of the hundred generations, which son of the Shangshu will go to grow sorghum rice? ”

"Let's take the two brothers Su Wen and Su Wu as examples, they were beggars who were picked up on the street alone, but if it weren't for the fact that they were born in Fujian and were taught by famous teachers since childhood, they would have today's achievements?"

"It is true that Su Wen and Su Wu can really make Gu pay attention to their talents, Su Wen can draw inferences from one another at a glance at the art of war, and Su Wu can deduce the finances of a province just by flipping through two or three volumes of financial books. But if it weren't for the fact that they had received a first-class education since childhood, how would this talent be used? ”

"The children of ordinary tenants don't know a single word, no matter how talented they are, they don't have the opportunity to show their talent."

"What really makes a country destroy its foundation is the monopoly of the right of the children of ordinary people to receive education."

Zhu Gaoxian's words made Yao Guangxiao fall into deep thought.

This is a problem he never envisioned.

The two Han Dynasty conduct inspection system, with filial piety and honesty as the main subject for selecting talents. The main characteristic is that the local governor inspects and selects talents at any time in his jurisdiction, recommends them to the higher authorities or the central government, and appoints officials after probationary evaluation.

However, under this system, the clans worked together to block the channels for the rise of the cold door. There is no cold door in the upper grade, and there is no scholar in the lower grade, which is the most realistic situation in the Han Dynasty.

The opening of the imperial examination system in the Sui and Tang dynasties opened a door to the highest power for the cold door.

The rise of the imperial examination system ensured that the selection of dynastic officials would not be absolutely selected from among the clan lords, so that the clan could not monopolize political resources.

Despite this, the system is dead, people are alive, and there are 10,000 ways to block the channels for the rise of the cold door.

Zhu Gaoxian asked: "Does the young master know when the absolute monopoly of the family gate valve on the upper channels began to get out of their control?" ”

Yao Guangxiao pondered for a moment and asked tentatively, "Huangchao is in trouble?" ”

When the five chaos was in chaos, it was the golden period of the development of the family gate valve. Since the end of the Han Dynasty, the family has dock forts, land, dependent farmers, books, and fame, and the Hu people are more likely to destroy the commoners or the powerful industry, but the displaced people are collected by the family, and the family is stronger, so that the accumulation of hundreds of years to the Sui and Tang dynasties gave birth to the monster of five surnames and seven wangs.

The invasion of foreign tribes in the north is just to make them soft, and the family is almost over as early as the Anshi Rebellion. From the beginning of Zhenguan to the prosperity of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, it was the period of the decline of the family, and Wu Zetian crippled the family during his reign.

The rebellion of Huangchao was not for the people, nor for the poor class. He himself is not a poor class, he is very rich because he relies on smuggling for a living, and the reason why he failed to pass the imperial examination is obviously because his own level is too good and he is not even qualified to operate in the dark.

But if Huang Chao has a little level, he won't have no level at all.

This product belongs purely to the bandit class, to the bottom of the chain of class contempt, and he did not carry out the uprising for the so-called equal wealth and poor and equal land, let alone for the interests of the people, but purely for himself.

But Huang Chao still did some personnel, for example, he gave the throat of the family gate valve.

For Huang Chao, the family class is not important to him, the poor class is not important to him, and the family's money is very important to him.

This goods directly burned and plundered all the way, relying on the unscrupulous unscrupulous virtue of not stressing martial arts, and robbed the family that was crippled by the Tang royal family into a poor egg.

However, Zhu Gaoxian shook his head: "Emperor Tang? Yellow Nest? ”

"No, they just crippled the family of one dynasty, the Tang Dynasty crippled the family, Huang Chao killed the family, the troubled times of the five dynasties and ten kingdoms completely swept away the remnants of the old gate valve."

But after the end of the troubled times of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the family gate valve has sprung up like mushrooms again. Only with the establishment of a new dynasty will there be the existence of the family gate. ”

"However, do you know why the Northern and Southern Song Dynasty, and even such a Ming Dynasty, are far less powerful than the five surnames and Qiwang in the early Tang Dynasty to make the imperial court bow its head?"

(End of chapter)