Syllable!

Zhu Yuanzhang's hand holding the wine glass trembled.

The glass fell to the ground and shattered.

"What do you say? Will the Ming Dynasty die? ”

He looked at Zhu Yunxi, his face full of disbelief.

Such words came out of the mouth of a prince?

That is, the person in front of him is his favorite grandson, so he can sit here in a good manner.

If it is a different person, I am afraid that now Lao Zhu has called left and right and pushed him out and beheaded.

"Yes, if the system of the vassal king is not changed, within three hundred years, the Ming Dynasty will die."

Zhu Yunxi said again.

Lao Zhu took a deep breath and looked at his gaze, which was very complicated.

"Tell me why?"

He asked in a deep voice.

The weight of Zhu Yunxi's grandson is different in his heart after all.

Although he is young, he has intelligence, but he is far beyond ordinary people.

What is done is often like a fantasy, but in the end it is reasonable.

It's just far more clever than the usual method.

Did he really see some great drawbacks?

"The rules set by the emperor's grandfather, where the prince of Daming, is 50,000 stones, 25,000 yuan, 40 brocade, 300 silk, 100 leos, 500 silk, 1,000 winter and summer cloths, 2,000 taels of cotton, 2,000 taels of salt, 1,000 catties of tea, and 50 horses and forage per month."

"All the sons of the prince, except for one who inherits the prince, the rest are the kings of the county."

"The county king has six thousand stones of rice and two thousand eight hundred yuan."

Lao Zhu nodded lightly and said, "Yes, this is the rule we have set." ”

"Although the prince does not inherit the throne, after all, the emperor is in the same vein, and he should be given preferential treatment."

"Being an emperor is a chore, and it's not easy to worry about governing the country."

"Since ancient times, the pleasure of being a prince has been better than that of an emperor."

"This is also to let them all be princes with peace of mind, so that they will not fight for the throne of the emperor and cause tragedy."

"Xi'er said this today, but is there any problem?"

Zhu Yunxi said: "Yes, Grandpa Huang, in this system, there is a crisis of the Ming Dynasty's collapse. ”

"Every house of the people, because of their poor birth, their offspring will either die of hunger and cold, or of sickness, or even worse, because of the poverty of the family, and will not be able to marry a wife."

"However, the wealthy family, the princes and marquises, because of their pampering, do not worry about food and clothing, although there are diseases, there are not many dead, but there are many living."

"Therefore, after many poor families are extinct, wealthy families have many children and grandchildren, and their descendants are prosperous."

"This is not easy to understand."

Lao Zhu nodded again.

He came from a poor family.

The situation of the ancestors is very clear.

It is not easy for poor families to struggle to survive, and it is good to be able to continue the bloodline.

Many poor families have lost their children and grandchildren after not being able to last for a few generations.

Those who can spend scattered leaves are often the families whose ancestors have been wealthy.

"As a prince and a prince of the county, he will rest with the country, and according to the treatment set by the emperor's grandfather, his life will be more worry-free, so that he will have more branches and leaves."

"There are twenty-one sons of the emperor's grandfather who are alive now."

"The prince's wealth, all combined, is only more than 100,000 stones, the money is only 500,000 yuan, and the rest is not much, with the national strength of the Ming Dynasty, there is no problem in providing for it."

"But if we count twenty years as a generation, every prince will have five or six sons. In the future, there will be more than 100 new county kings. ”

"The total amount of the county king's fortune is only 600,000 stones. The money is only more than 200,000 yuan. ”

"It's still not a problem."

"But whether it is the prince or the prince of the county, they will continue to have children and grandchildren, and spread out their branches."

"In the next twenty years, more than 100 county kings will produce 500 offspring."

"In another twenty years, there will be 2,500 offspring."

"In another twenty years, there will be 12,500 offspring."

"In another twenty years, there will be 62,500 offspring."

……

Zhu Yunxi said unhurriedly.

Lao Zhu next to him was already with his eyes wide open, if he was struck by lightning.

It was a very simple algorithm, but he had never thought about it.

"One hundred and twenty years from now, there will be three hundred and twenty-two thousand five hundred."

"One hundred and forty years from now, there will be one thousand five hundred and fifty-two thousand five hundred."

"One hundred and sixty years from now, there will be seven million eight hundred and twenty-two thousand five hundred."

"One hundred and eighty years from now, there will be three thousand nine hundred and sixty-two thousand five hundred."

"Two hundred years later, the number of royal relatives will be as high as 19,5312,500."

……

Speaking of this, Lao Zhu was already frozen there, and the sound of breathing became heavier and heavier.

Hearing such a huge astronomical figure, no matter who you are, you know how powerful it is.

Zhu Yunxi still continued: "By analogy, three hundred years later, the number of royal relatives will ......"

"Impossible, impossible." Lao Zhu opened his mouth and interrupted: "Xi'er, did you miscalculate?" ”

"Come on, bring pen and ink, we must calculate it clearly."

Zhu Yunxi smiled bitterly.

Lao Zhu still didn't know the terrifying power of exponential growth.

That's right, too.

It's a simple math concept, but for those who haven't learned it, it's against their intuition.

People will naturally tend to trust their instincts more.

It is only in the face of rigorous calculation that we have to admit that our intuition is wrong.

Of course.

If you have received a certain amount of mathematics education, as soon as you hear the word exponential growth, you will immediately think of its power.

"Grandpa Huang, grandpa's calculation will never be wrong."

"However, this is indeed a very loose calculation, because there will be deaths along the way."

"There may be some princes and county kings who will not have five or six descendants, and some will have more."

"It's just a rough model."

As he spoke, the eunuch had already taken the pen and paper.

Lao Zhu picked up the pen himself and counted it again.

Soon, his face became more and more ugly.

Although he has not received a systematic mathematics education, simple arithmetic is still easy for Lao Zhu.

He had personally calculated the amount of money and food in the household department many times.

"There's nothing wrong, there's really nothing wrong! How so...... How so? ”

Lao Zhu looked at the calculation results on the paper, and was still not confident, but no matter how he calculated, it was such an answer.

He looked up at Zhu Yunxi and muttered: "Zhou has 800 years of national fortune, and Han has 500 years of qi, why is there no such problem between the Zhou and Han families?" ”

Zhu Yunxi said: "For example, the people today are all after Yan and Huang, so they are also called the descendants of Yan and Huang." ”

"Many people's genealogies record that hundreds of years ago, there was the same ancestor, and there were thousands, tens of thousands of descendants. Such examples abound, and the imperial grandfather should be clear. ”

"The royal family is pampered and has many children and grandchildren, and it is a matter of course."

"Hundreds of years later, the number of royal descendants will naturally be extremely large."

"The descendants of the Zhou Dynasty do not have such a high treatment as this dynasty, and the hereditary system is a descendant inheritance. A large number of royals, after a few generations, were mostly reduced to commoners. ”

"The same is true of the Han Dynasty."

"After Liu Xuande was the king of Zhongshan County, he traced his ancestors and was also the ancestor Liu Bang, but in his generation, he was already a weaver and a peddler."

"Children and grandchildren seek their own careers, and naturally they don't have to worry about the clan support."

"Only in this dynasty, if according to the national policy set by the emperor's grandfather, at most two or three hundred years, all the taxes paid by the imperial court cannot afford to support so many royal relatives, so they can only scrape the ground and levy additional taxes."

"The people of the world are overwhelmed, and they will rebel, kill the descendants of the Zhu family, and slaughter the royal family."

"Da Ming is dead!"

(End of chapter)