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

Chapter 494 Pyramid

After hearing this, Qin Yu didn't explain to him directly, but looked around and took him to a construction site where there were many bricks.Then he squatted down and moved bricks and bricks without saying a word.

After a while, a pyramid was coded out.

"What is the code sir?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked, he had not seen this thing yet.

"Pyramid." Qin Yu said, "Basically all dynasties have this kind of social structure."

Pointing to the bottom layer, "The people at the bottom of the pyramid, the largest number, are ordinary people and traditional craftsmen. They produce food and cloth, and feed all the people above."

"The people above do not farm or work, but everyone has to wear clothes and eat."

"Ordinary people on the first floor are taking all the pressure."

"The sources of food, clothing, and life in the upper layers are all on the first layer. Therefore, the personnel on the upper layers serve the first layer wholeheartedly and make the first layer stronger, which is a healthy pyramid. "

The simple structural display made Zhu Yuanzhang see it clearly at a glance, and sighed: "Now we can fully understand how stupid those emperors used to be to control the people and emperors."

"Only when the first layer is firm can it withstand the pressure on it."

"The more stable the first layer, the longer the dynasty's pyramid will last."

"And the gist of the art of controlling the people is to suppress the bottom layer. If the bottom layer is not stable, the pyramid of the dynasty will naturally collapse easily. Those emperors didn't think about how to strengthen the first layer, but instead attacked the first layer?"

"Do you think they are stupid?"

I thought to myself: It seems that it is extremely correct for us to be kind to the people and implement the policy of benefiting the people.Because doing so is strengthening the underlying foundation of the Ming Dynasty.

Even if it is not out of kindness, it should be so for the stability of Daming Jiangshan.

"There are quite a few emperors like this. They oppress the people at the lowest level and destroy their foundations." Qin Yu said, "Emperor Qianlong, for example, is implementing a policy of 33 taels of silver, which made the Qing Dynasty go from strong to weak quickly."

"An emperor like Qianlong is not an exception."

After finishing speaking, Qin Yu pointed to the second floor and said, "The second floor is the feudal gentry and landlord class. They are the closest to the first floor, and directly grab wealth from the common people."

"It is also the most direct pressure on their heads."

"If the second layer is too stressed on the first layer, it will still cause the pyramid to collapse."

"That's right!" Zhu Yuanzhang said, "So rectifying the gentry and landlords is the most important thing."

"Here, many feudal emperors have cognitive biases again." Qin Yu said.

"What cognitive bias?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

"Many emperors in ancient times actually thought that the second tier of gentry and landlords was the foundation of the dynasty." Qin Yu said, "So they put forward the slogan of sharing the world with the gentry!"

"Emperor Chongzhen shouted that from the beginning."

"As a result, when he finally subjugated the country and hanged himself, he shouted another slogan that all civil servants in the world can be killed. I am afraid that at that time he fully understood that his ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to share the world with the people. How wise and wise. My idea of ​​wanting to share the world with the gentry is so wrong."

"Not only did Emperor Chongzhen think that the gentry was the foundation, even the 'min' in some slogans during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods referred to the gentry, not the low-level people."

"Because they feel that ordinary people can't get on the stage and can't make any big waves. And the gentry class has a lot of food resources and tenant farmers' resources."

"They are the backbone."

"That's right! The ancient emperors who shared the world with the gentry and nobles accounted for the vast majority, or even all of them." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "They think that ordinary people are not the people of the dynasty at all, and the gentry are the people."

"As long as it does not cultivate or produce food, it is not the first layer, nor is it the foundation." Qin Yu said.

"Because the grain held by the gentry and landlords is also produced by the people. The grain in their warehouses must also be collected from the people. If the people don't produce grain, they can't change it."

"Just in terms of figuring out who is the foundation of the dynasty, many emperors in ancient times were confused."

"Yes, yes." Zhu Yuanzhang nodded.

"The third level is officials at all levels, county magistrates, magistrates, chief ministers, high officials of the court..." Qin Yu continued, "and the top of the pyramid is the royal family."

"That's right, it's exactly this kind of structure." Zhu Yuanzhang said again and again.Staring at this simple pyramid, the more he looked at it, the more he felt that Qin Yu was simply a god-man.

Using a few bricks and an extremely simple 'building' that he had never seen before, he clearly showed him the social structure of a dynasty.

Don't say that such a great talent cannot be found in the court.

It is difficult to find a second one in the whole world.

Its vision and layout are simply unprecedented.

Xiang Lishan, Liu Bowen, these "big talents" and "counsellors" absolutely don't understand this.They don't have Qin Yu's vision of looking at the overall situation of history, and the pattern of simplifying complexity from a high-level plan.

"If the bottom of the pyramid cannot support the pressure above, the pyramid collapses, and the royal family at the top cannot stand, that is inevitable." Qin Yu continued, "And there is an old saying: the higher you climb, the harder you fall .”

"Once the pyramids of the dynasty collapse, the old royal family is often the worst. Basically, the fate of being exterminated and humiliated. The Sima family in the Jin Dynasty was exterminated, and the emperor in the Song Dynasty was executed..."

"So the fate of the dynasty is closely linked to the fate of the royal family."

"It is even closely connected with the fate of the nation. The cliff jumps into the sea, and the Five Hus rule the Central Plains..."

"Hearing Mr. say this, we feel a little chill down the back." Zhu Yuanzhang said.

"The decline of the dynasty is closely related to the interests of the royal family and the nation, but it has nothing to do with those feudal nobles. Because they have money and food, they can surrender at any time."

"Surrender with money and food, and it's easy to save your life."

"After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, how many feudal nobles surrendered to the Qing Dynasty? San Francisco, Kong Youde, Hong Chengchou...all of them are not only fine, but also became high officials."

"Jiading massacred Yangzhou for ten days, and ordinary people were killed."

"So the emperor should build the dynasty well for the benefit of his own family and the nation. As for those feudal nobles, they have been enemies of the royal family and the common people since the beginning of their rise."

"That's right." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "From the moment they rose up, they have harmed the imperial court and divided up the imperial power."

"When the dynasty can't hold on, they will surrender to the enemy."

"Abandon the king mercilessly."

(End of this chapter)