"The war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty can be said to have thrown the whole society into a mess."

"In order to survive, people fled everywhere, and many even became slaves."

"And the fields are left untended and deserted."

"So, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, in order to resume production, issued a slave release order to restore the slaves to their freedom."

"In addition, he reduced his servitude to attract people who fled from all over the world to return to their hometowns to open up wasteland."

At the same time, due to Zhu Yuanzhang's experience in the first half of his life, he knew how the peasants at the bottom overthrew the government through uprisings, so in order to eliminate the "threat from the bottom", Zhu Yuanzhang first restricted the mobility of the people in the empire. In his understanding, the absence of flow means that there is no communication, and all sources of instability are removed. ”

On this basis, Zhu Yuanzhang divided the household registration of the common people, divided into "military registration", "craftsman registration", "civilian registration", etc., and stipulated that it must be hereditary, and the household registration attribute cannot be changed from generation to generation. ”

"Created a new policy "caste" household registration system. ”

"There's a big problem with the system, too."

"This kind of system directly sets the identity of the common people, you are a farmer all your life, you are a farmer, your descendants are also a farmer, you are a craftsman all your life, and your descendants are also craftsmen."

"This has greatly solidified the class, and the common people have been used as tools to be cattle and horses, allowing class contradictions to accumulate into disasters in the precipitation of time."

"At the same time, the movement of people must be reported, and generally only within a radius of one mile, and leaving the residence more than 100 miles away requires an official certificate, otherwise the crime will be punished......"

"On the other hand, the development of the commodity economy driven by merchants will arouse people's greed, which will break the original rules and bring about class mobility."

Moreover, the merchant class is the "cancer" that promotes the flow of social information and squeezes labor, so the merchant class must be eliminated the most. ”

"So, under this deliberate planning, the Ming Empire is like a huge cage, locking up the people of the empire."

"The four major cases of the Ming Dynasty, the farming policy, the abolition of the prime minister system, and the literary prison are all regarded as Zhu Yuanzhang's black spots, our Ming Taizu also did a very cruel thing, maybe for you ancients, this thing seems normal, I myself feel a little too inhumane, it is difficult for modern people like me to agree that it is - the burial of the living."

Liu:... Martyrdom? Did I hear me wrong?

Li Shimin: Isn't this canceled? Is this restored?

Dugu Jialuo: If this kind of burial is really true, we ancients don't have much to agree with!

Liu Bang: At that time, when Qin Shi Huang died, I looked down on him for this funeral method, what's the matter, this funeral was canceled, and your later dynasty was restored? Garbage or not? Let the living be buried with them, they talk to you, can you hear?

Wei Zifu: It's really a loss of conscience, and this kind of stolen money can be restored.

"This is an outrageous system that I want to say right, in addition to killing heroes, what makes Zhu Yuanzhang notorious is that Zhu Yuanzhang restarted the system of living martyrdom, which has made the system of living martyrdom that has disappeared for thousands of years revived."

"Zhu Yuanzhang left a will, after his death, all the concubines must be martyred for him, so after Zhu Yuanzhang's death, Zhu Yuanzhang's 38 living concubines were all martyred for him."

"Everyone should know more about this funeral system than me, which can be traced back to the Longshan cultural period, that is, the slave society."

"It can be said that throughout the slave society, examples of slaves being martyred for their slave owners abound, and the funeral system runs through the entire slave society."

"Later, with the development of productive forces, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period have begun to have written records, and in the long history of written records, martyrdom is also a very common thing, which is certainly not a rare thing in your ancient times."

For example, historical records record that when Qin Wugong died, "at the beginning of the martyrdom, 66 servants", when Qin Mugong died, "177 people died" and so on. ”

"Later, many people came out against the funeral system, so in 384 BC the human martyrdom system was abolished, but when Qin Shi Huang died, human martyrdom was still adopted."

"After the death of Qin Shi Huang, Qin II asked Qin Shi Huang's concubines in the palace to be martyred, and the craftsmen who built Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum also directly became Qin Shi Huang's martyrs."

"The reason why the craftsmen were buried is said to be because they were afraid that the secret of the construction of the mausoleum would be revealed by the craftsmen, which shows the tyranny of Qin II."

"In the Han Dynasty, the system of human martyrdom was gradually abolished, and the emperor no longer required people to be martyred after his death, but the system of martyrdom did not completely disappear, and occasionally there would be martyrs after the emperor's death."

"There are certainly still individual examples of living martyrs among the people, but in the Han Dynasty, it was discovered that living martyrs were severely punished."

"After that, the funeral system disappeared for thousands of years, until the rise of the Liao State, and the funeral system was revived because of the power of ethnic minorities, especially in the Yuan Dynasty, and the funeral flourished again."

"In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang even issued an edict requiring that after his death, the concubines should be martyred for themselves, and it can be said that basically all the concubines must die for Zhu Yuanzhang's funeral."

"The emperors after Zhu Yuanzhang also inherited the martyrdom system that Zhu Yuanzhang restarted, until the Ming Yingzong period, when Ming Yingzong officially announced the abolition of the funeral system."

"Although Ming Yingzong did not make much achievements in history, the abolition of the funeral system by Ming Yingzong made him leave a benevolent reputation in history."

"When it comes to Ming Yingzong, many people may not know, but when it comes to the change of Tumubao, many people know that Ming Yingzong is the protagonist of the change of Tumubao."

"After Ming Yingzong, the burial of the living basically never happened again."

"However, when Zhu Yuanzhang died, there was a person who escaped the burial, that is, Zhu Yuanzhang's concubine Zhang Meiren, it is said that Zhang Meiren was very favored by Zhu Yuanzhang and was originally going to be martyred, but Zhang Mei's daughter was only three years old at the time, and Zhu Yuanzhang was reluctant to let his young daughter lose her father and mother at the same time, so he ordered Zhang Meiren to be exempted from martyrdom."

"This incident also saved many concubines who had children from the suffering of martyrdom in the future."

"The reactivation of the system of living martyrdom is a kind of historical regression, and it will definitely be blamed by historians."

"And most of the ancients were believers, and they could be resurrected in a hundred years! The funeral is better, and the next life can be better! And the worse kind of burial with children, which you all too often had in ancient times. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang: To be honest, I am indeed a little selfish at this point, although I am a little superstitious, I hope that the next life will also be a glorious and rich life, mainly because I don't worry about these women in me, and these women, which one has no rights behind him, I am only middle-aged now, and I can also understand that for the sake of future generations, these concubines cannot live.