"At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the contradictions between various classes were not obvious, so there was no rush for a while, just step by step."

The implication is that I know you are in a hurry, but you don't need to be in a hurry, Datang will not be able to finish it for a while.

"According to the opinion of the virtuous brother, how should the first step of the reform of the Tang Dynasty be taken?"

"In fact, the problem faced by Datang, in the final analysis, is nothing more than the law of dynastic cycles." Li Qing stretched out his hand and listed the charts in the hologram, "Don't think it's a lofty problem, let me give you an example, Datang was just founded, and the population was sparsely populated with only 10 million people." ”

As he spoke, the chart followed Li Qing's words and began to list the data.

"At this time, there are many people and little land, the contradiction is not obvious, and the land annexation is not serious."

"But as time went by, the population became more and more populated, the expansion of arable land could not keep up with the increase in population, coupled with the annexation of land by small and medium-sized landlords, and even the bureaucratic class, which led to more and more landless peasants, and in the end, the ...... of landless."

Li Qing snapped his fingers, and the charts in the video exploded like fireworks.

"Brother Li should know what the consequences are, just like the Yellow Turban Uprising, the peasant uprising intensified, and finally changed the dynasty and fell into a new cycle again, the new dynasty was established, the land was annexed, and the dynasty was overthrown......"

"Of course, this is only one of the reasons, but there are also the long-term control of the upward channel by vested interests, the corruption of the bureaucracy, and all kinds of financial problems, which have gradually intensified with the passage of the dynasty."

"And the first step we have to do is to ......," Li Qing smiled, "the first thing is to develop productive forces, that is, science and technology." As the saying goes, the productive forces determine the relations of production, and only when the productive forces make progress can the relations of production make steady progress. ”

"What are the relations of production?" Li Shimin has always asked if he doesn't understand.

"In layman's terms, it is the form of wealth generation and distribution." Li Qing tried his best to choose a language that Li Shimin could understand: "Let me give you an example, take the 'rule of three generations' advocated by Confucianism, there are always people who advocate the restoration of the well field system. ”

"The so-called well field system is that eight farmers jointly cultivate nine hectares of fields, because it resembles the shape of the "well", so it is called the well field system. Among them, eight hectares of land are private fields for the eight families to eat, and the other is public land, which is actually equivalent to paying taxes. ”

"At that time, the productivity was not very good, and they were all used to turn the soil little by little with a tool called Leiyun, which could not be completed by only one family, so they could only form eight families to produce more than a dozen or twenty strong laborers, shouting trumpets and going hand in hand, and women and children in the family gathered together to cook and deliver water...... This was the cooperative production relationship that was limited by productivity at that time. ”

As Li Qing's words gradually emerged on the picture, the picture of farming in the pre-Qin era gradually emerged, and Li Shimin looked at the hot image, as if he was there.

"The advent of ox ploughing and iron farming tools broke the original production relations, and even a single strong peasant could cultivate enough land to sustain their livelihoods, so the greatest significance of the well-field system of cooperative farming no longer existed, and therefore a new production relationship was formed, and the peasants tenanted the landlord's land on a household basis and paid the rent in proportion."

Thus was born a new class, the landlord class. In the Han and Han dynasties, it was called a powerful landlord, and in the Wei, Jin, Sui and Tang dynasties, it was called a clan landlord...... And Brother Li, you are the biggest landlord leader in the world and the spokesperson of the landlord class. ”

When Li Qing said this, he teasingly stretched out his finger and pointed at Li Shimin.

"And what does all this have to do with the dynastic periodic law?"

Li Shimin understood what he heard, but he didn't understand the connection between the two.

"Isn't that easy to understand? According to the class narrative point of view, the landlords and the peasants belonged to the two antagonistic classes, and in the early years of the dynasty, the two classes were in a relative equilibrium, and when the class contradictions between the landlords and the peasants sharpened, especially due to the expropriation and extortion of the feudal regime, a large number of peasants were cornered, and then a large-scale peasant uprising broke out, which eventually led to the collapse of the dynasty. ”

"Every major peasant uprising struck a blow to the landlord class to varying degrees, promoted the adjustment of feudal relations of production, and thus favored the recovery and development of the social economy, and the new dynasty re-carried this cycle like a dead knot."

Li Qing's views are novel enough and deafening enough to be deafening, and Li Shimin is almost thorough at all.

"So, what does the virtuous brother mean is to change the dead knot of the dynastic cyclical law by developing the productive forces?"

Li Qing poured himself a sip of cola to moisten his throat and continued: "If the productive forces develop to a certain extent, such as the tractors and harvesters we saw before, then even a small labor force can produce enough food for the Tang Dynasty; Secondly, the development of industry is inseparable from the huge labor force, and the factories can also absorb a considerable number of desperate landless peasants and convert them into workers, so as to prevent them from taking risks to rebel. ”

"Of course, I still suggest that Brother Li pay more attention to the treatment of the workers, if they are pushed hard, the energy that will erupt will be much greater than that of a peasant uprising."

"I know it for my brother." Li Shimin nodded heavily.

Li Qing nodded very stylishly: "Brother Li, I don't worry." ”

"In addition, Li Zhi and Li Xian should also let them do it...... However, there is no rush for a while, and then assistance can be provided after the development of Zhenguan is relatively mature, and now it is better to carry out basic education first, as the so-called ten years of trees, a hundred years of people, education is the cornerstone of scientific and technological development and progress. ”

Saying that, Li Qing felt that he couldn't just pay like this, and he had to charge some interest anyway.

So his eyes rolled to his heart, he patted Li Shimin's shoulder and said, "Brother Li, do you remember Li Xian?" ”

"Ahh That! When Li Shimin thought of Li Xian, his whole person was not good.

Mother, how can there be such worms among my descendants?

Li Qing looked at the rising emotional value, secretly happy, he continued to say to Li Shimin: "Actually, you don't know, Tang Zhongzong Li Xian, known as the Six Emperor Pill ......"

"What do you mean, brother Xian?"

This sentence of the six emperor pills will not be rectified by Li Shimin.

"It means that his father is the emperor, his mother is also the emperor, he himself is also the emperor, his younger brother Li Dan is also the emperor, his son (the young emperor Li Chongmao, posthumously) is also the emperor, and his eldest nephew is also the emperor, so it is called the six emperor pills."

"Of course, there is another six emperors playing, it is Empress Xiao of the former Sui Dynasty......" Li Qing said and turned the topic away: "Since the death of Emperor Yang of Sui, he has served Yu Wenhua and, Dou Jiande, Chuluo Khan, Jieli Khan and you ......"

Li Shimin is red again.