After five years of teaching support, Daming became an empire on which the sun never sets.

Chapter 221 Our descendants are too unlucky

"At that time, the annual income of the Ministry of Household Affairs was a million taels in many years, but in the end it was only a few hundred thousand taels of silver. The Ming Dynasty has a vast territory, and the annual income of only a few hundred thousand taels is simply a joke."

"That amount of money is not even enough to pay officials salaries, let alone disaster relief, extermination of rebels and dealing with Huang Taiji."

"One time Chongzhen raised funds from the ministers. Some of the ministers donated dozens of taels, and some donated hundreds of taels. They all cried poorly to the emperor. The queen raised 3000 taels from Chongzhen's father-in-law."

"At that time, the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, the emperor's father-in-law, were all feudal nobles."

"The irony is that after Li Zicheng captured the capital, he captured those feudal nobles and squeezed out 3000 million taels of silver."

"Obviously 3000 million taels is not their limit, their limit is at least hundreds of millions."

"Chongzhen couldn't afford the money to destroy the rebels, and couldn't pay the soldiers to deal with the Jianzhou Jurchen, so he had to order to collect taxes from the people. According to him, it was a last resort."

"For the sake of the Ming Dynasty, let's exploit the common people first."

"However, 90.00% of the tax money collected from the common people fell into the pockets of the feudal nobles. If there were 100 taels of tax money, then the emperor only got one tael of silver."

Speaking of this, Qin Yu stopped to drink water.

"Damn feudal nobles!"

"Don't they have the idea of ​​loyalty to the emperor?"

After hearing this, the crowd was filled with righteous indignation.

"Every civil servant can be killed!" Zhu Yuanzhang said coldly.

"That's right, that's what Chongzhen said at the time." Qin Yu put down his water glass and said.

"Mr. Qin, are those feudal nobles so inhumane?" Zhu Biao couldn't help asking, "They saw the people displaced, starved and starved to eat, and they continued to exploit the people?"

"Could it be that there are no kind-hearted people among them, who have the heart of a Bodhisattva, and donate their own food to help the victims?"

"Sorry, they are so cold-blooded." Qin Yu said, "Capital is cold-blooded in nature. The so-called capital I am talking about here is the money, grain and land in the hands of the feudal nobles."

"Throughout the 5000-year history of China, none of the feudal aristocrats were willing to give their food to the victims in the year of the catastrophe."

"Everyone ask yourselves, in this situation, if you are also rich, are you willing to take out your money and food and give it to those people who don't know you for free?"

The crowd was silent for a long time.

"Mr. Qin, is this the so-called evil nature of human beings?" Zhu Yingrao asked.

"No." Qin Yu said, "It's affection to give, but it's duty not to give."

"However, the issue of human nature is beyond the scope of today's discussion."

"I thought, if I had encountered such a situation, if I had been a wealthy household at that time, I would have used my money and food to help those victims." After a while, Zhu Biao said suddenly.

"I will too." Zhu Yingrao said.

"We all know it." Zhu Xi, Zhu Chun, Lu Heidan, Lu Gouwa, Han Yan'er, Xu Miaojin, Lu Qingqian, and all Qin Yu's students said one after another.

All said that they can take out their own money and food to help the people.

"Your answer makes the teacher feel very gratified." Qin Yu sighed after hearing the words, "It seems that under the teacher's education, you have learned to be kind. But speaking is easy, but doing it is another matter."

"Even many children of feudal aristocrats had this idea when they were young. Who hasn't been a passionate young man?"

"The reason why you say that is because none of you are feudal nobles."

"The education that the feudal nobles received from childhood was different from the education you received. What they received was 'aristocratic education'. Their parents would educate them from an early age, both openly and secretly. You are born to be superior, higher than ordinary people."

"The life and death of the lowly people has nothing to do with you, and you are not Bodhisattvas saving them for what, the interests of the family are the most important."

"The education that ordinary people have received since childhood is the idea of ​​loyalty to the emperor."

"Just imagine, feudal nobles, would they educate their children about equality and fraternity?"

"Aren't they stupid to lower their own value?"

"Yeah, yeah." The crowd nodded.

Several princes and princesses asked themselves that the education they received since childhood was also aristocratic education.Song Lian and Gao Qi taught them that you are princes, you must understand royal etiquette, and you must respect your status.

"In addition, capital can also make people cold-blooded."

"Even if there are some kind-hearted wealthy households, they will feel that the world is like this. Even if they donate a little money and food to help the victims, it will not change the overall situation, so they simply don't give it out."

"good."

The crowd agreed.

……

"Let's get down to business, let's continue talking about the ending of Daming." Qin Yu said.

"In the eighth year of Chongzhen, there was a severe drought in Xixiang in September, and Lueyang was flooded, and all the houses were wiped out. In the ninth year, the locusts came together, in the tenth year, there was no autumn harvest, in the 11th year, the summer locusts covered the sky...13th year, there was another severe drought... …14 years and another drought.”

"There is also the plague that is rampant everywhere. The plague is contagious, and most people die."

During the reign of Emperor Chongzhen, there were natural disasters almost every year?

The crowd was terrified when they heard this.

Chongzhen, our descendant, is too unlucky, right?

"Mr. Qin, is it because Emperor Chongzhen is too stupid that natural disasters continue?" Zhu Biao asked.

"No, the teacher said just now that Chongzhen worked hard to govern, but the level of elementary school cannot prove Goldbach's conjecture."

"And the teacher has taught you a long time ago. Natural disasters are natural phenomena and have nothing to do with the emperor's virtue." Qin Yu said, "Even if the heavens have the ability to send disasters, the emperor should be punished, not the people."

"So the reason for natural disasters is still the climate problem."

"During the reign of Chongzhen, the upper limit of the dynasty's 300-year lifespan was almost reached. The alternation of cold and warm had already arrived, and the climate change during the Chongzhen period was even more serious. It was a small ice age that only appeared once every 500 years."

"Yes, the teacher has taught."

The crowd nodded.

"It's just that it was really unlucky for Chongzhen to encounter the even more powerful Little Ice Age."

"At that time, Daming was in a mess. In addition to his own lack of ability, coupled with the Little Ice Age, it was too difficult for Daming to continue Guozuo."

"Mr. Qin, the Little Ice Age was so severe that it caused natural disasters every year. How should the court deal with it correctly?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

"Only the whole country is united to resist natural disasters together." Qin Yu said.

"The emperor unified the allocation of national resources for disaster relief, and the officials all worked hard to save the people. Moreover, the country needs to be rich, with sufficient food reserves, and sufficient gold and silver reserves, so that it is possible to survive safely."

"However, this is an idealized state, and it is impossible to achieve it in reality, or the difficulty is hell."

(End of this chapter)