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

Chapter 379 Why Zhu Yuanzhang Killed Heroes
Why did Zhu Yuanzhang kill those heroes?

One is because those honorable men believed that they had made contributions to Daming. After the establishment of Daming, they began to enjoy the fruits and began to pervert the law and harm the people.They feel that the country was brought down by themselves, and they should enjoy it as a matter of course.

I have fought all my life, so I can't enjoy it?

Due to human nature, they did not pay attention to the Great Ming Law after they succeeded.

In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang also gave them glory and wealth, but how could the glory and wealth that Zhu Yuanzhang gave them satisfy their appetites?It's human nature not to be able to swallow an elephant like a snake.

Therefore, there are very few founding heroes in history who can maintain their original aspirations after success.

Only Fan Li, Zhang Liang and others did it.

Therefore, there are too few heroes who have achieved a good death in history.

Zhu Yuanzhang's thinking at the time was that you did have great achievements and can enjoy them, but you don't need to harm the people.It is natural for heroes to be rewarded, but they should not be lawless because of this.

Those nobles in Huaixi broke the law and harmed the people. This is the most direct reason for Zhu Yuanzhang to kill them.

Second, even Zhu Yuanzhang was afraid that after they grew stronger, they would harm Daming.

In the end, the tail was too big to lose, and the king of the future generations of Ming Dynasty could not control them.And history has also appeared countless times, the descendants of those heroes will eventually become the biggest moth that harms the people.

In fact, the situation that Zhu Yuanzhang was worried about also appeared later. In the Ming Chengzu period, the emperor could not touch those feudal nobles.

In the end, the emperor had no choice but to share the world with the scholar-bureaucrats.

Emperor Chongzhen may have understood this truth before he died, so he said in his last words that all civil servants in the world can be killed!

The civil servants of the world refer to the scholar-bureaucrat class.

His ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to share the world with the common people, but he said: "I want to share the world with the scholar-bureaucrats."

The result is obvious to all.

Chongzhen was able to understand this truth before he died, and understood that sharing the world with the people is the long-term strategy of the dynasty, which proves that he is not stupid.Of course, if he was given another chance to be reborn, even if he knew better, he would not be able to fight against the feudal nobles.

Because the feudal nobles at that time had grown into towering trees, and the emperor who was not capable enough could really not be shaken.

What Qin Yu said just now revealed the second reason why Emperor Zhu killed the heroes, so Zhu Yuanzhang clapped his hands and applauded, thinking that what Qin Yu said had touched his heart.

Perhaps he was not very clear about the danger of the scholar-bureaucrat class to the imperial court, but he just vaguely felt that there was such a danger.

Zhu Yuanzhang was born with the ability to perceive danger.

But now, Qin Yu explained it to him clearly and plainly, making him suddenly enlightened.

"Fortunately, Mr. Qin is here, otherwise, our Ming Dynasty will follow in the footsteps of other dynasties and perish in less than 300 years." Zhu Yuanzhang thought to himself, "We used to kill before to prevent the development and growth of scholar-officials."

"And Mr. Qin uses the system, the public land system, to prevent them from merging land."

"Mr. Qin's strategy is far superior to ours."

"Fortunately, he appeared in the early days of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and those scholar-bureaucrats were still babies in the cradle. If he was born during the second and third emperors of the Ming Dynasty, even if the emperor at that time followed his strategy and wanted to The implementation of the public land system is also insufficient."

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"So, almost 90.00% of the emperors in history used the art of controlling the people." Qin Yudao, "collude with the feudal nobles and jointly bully thousands of ordinary people under their rule."

"If some of them want to really benefit the bottom people, those nobles will say: If you want to speak for the bottom people, the emperor, you have to pass our test first."

"Of course, the vast majority of emperors were originally born in the aristocratic class, and they never thought about standing with ordinary people."

"Without the experience of being a farmer, they will not truly treat ordinary people as human beings. They simply don't have the concept of working for the welfare of the people in the world, so they have no way of realizing that the art of controlling the people is wrong."

"In history, only Emperor Zhu, who was born as a farmer, put forward the concept of 'sharing the world with the common people'. Because of this concept, Ming Dynasty is the only feudal dynasty in history that has a chance to last more than 300 years."

"It's a pity that because of the limitations of Zhu Yuanzhang's thinking, he couldn't restrict the development of feudal aristocracy from the system."

"I didn't really do it, share the world with the people, and form a community of interests with the people at the bottom."

"If he did it, maybe it's still the Ming Dynasty now."

"Sir, what you said is reasonable." Zhu Yuanzhang said, thinking to himself: Mr. Qin, haven't you come here? You have taught us how to prevent the feudal aristocracy from growing, and how to truly share the world with the common people.

Your appearance has already allowed Da Ming to pass it on for generations to come.

"In addition, there are some emperors who use the art of controlling the people because they are stupid." Qin Yu continued, "Emperor Qianlong once said that the main purpose of the imperial examination's stereotyped selection of scholars is to form a cage and trap literati in the cage. Let them have no mind to oppose his rule."

"What kind of system is there for 33 taels of silver?"

"He didn't know at all that the fate of the dynasty and the fate of the nation are ultimately determined by the people at the bottom, not by the nobles."

"When the nation is in peril, the nobles will only flee abroad to continue their rich life."

"Emperor Qianlong is trying to control the people like that, he is asking for his own death."

"So in the late Qianlong period, the Qing Dynasty began to go downhill. His father left him a prosperous family, and he completely defeated him."

"Don't think that the power of the people is small. Once they explode, they will be unstoppable."

"The emperor didn't even have a chance to regret it."

"The main body of the main nation of a dynasty is the most numerous people at the bottom, not the few so-called elites."

"Sir is right." Zhu Yuanzhang said.

"To sum up..." Qin Yu said, "The reason why the emperors in ancient times used the art of controlling the people was that they were aristocrats themselves and never regarded the people at the bottom as their own. You group of ants are your own people? However, they have to admit the strength of the people, because many dynasties were overthrown by the people's uprising."

"So when they face the people, they are guilty, unconfident, and even afraid. They have never thought about the people at all. Can they not be guilty and afraid of the people rebelling against them?"

"The last reason is that some emperors are stupid. They don't know that the common people are the key factors that determine the rise and fall of the dynasty. They think that the scholar-bureaucrat class is the factor that determines the rise and fall of the dynasty."

(End of this chapter)