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

Chapter 5 Transparent, Profound
"Those literati are really abominable!" Zhu Yuanzhang said resentfully, Liu Bowen had made him commit a crime back then.Although he respects readers very much, his inner hatred is also true.

Because those literati like to engage in moral kidnapping the most, and they always say the words of a sage.Forcing emperors to do things they don't want to do, in many cases, emperors have to look at their faces when doing things.

What's even more difficult is that those civil servants are still very pedantic and stubborn, and they will come to remonstrate with death at every turn.

It made the emperor very embarrassed. Listening to it would go against his heart.Don't listen, if the ministers who gave advice are forced to death, the emperor will become a foolish emperor, and will be punished by the literati, and even tainted for thousands of years.

"The second reason, which is also a very important reason, is the low productivity in ancient times." However, Qin Yu didn't know what was going on in his heart and continued, "300 years of peace time will allow the people to reproduce, and it will take about a dozen generations. , The population has exploded. However, the country’s arable land is limited, and the low productivity means that the food grown on the land cannot feed so many people.”

"Well." Zhu Yuanzhang nodded after listening.

Qin Yu's second point was also the first time he heard it, and he understood it right away.The population has grown too much, and the food produced by the land is limited. It is clear that there are more monks and less porridge.

The limited land could not support too many people. In addition, the cold period led to the reduction of food production and natural disasters... So there were many people who were hungry. People were hungry to eat Guanyin soil to satisfy their hunger.

"However, the climate problem and low productivity are both superficial factors. The underlying factor is the serious land acquisition."

"Land was the most important natural resource in ancient times. When land was annexed seriously, wealth was in the hands of a few feudal nobles. When the feudal nobles grew, the imperial power would be greatly weakened."

"If the imperial power is not weakened, even if the population explodes and natural disasters continue, the emperor can allocate food from various places and barely survive the difficulties."

"Not bad!" Zhu Yuanzhang nodded.

"Now let's focus on the feudal aristocracy." Qin Yudao said, "After a new dynasty is established, each founding hero will receive a reward, title and land. With the title and land as the foundation, after a few generations, they will develop into The huge family and clan power, that is, the feudal aristocracy."

"Not bad!" Zhu Yuanzhang nodded after hearing this.

"The emperor's division of the prince is to weaken the imperial power on the surface, while the family is weakened in the dark." Qin Yu continued.

"With the passage of time, the noble families and clans of the feudal princes and feudal nobles will gradually grow into a towering tree. The intertwined tree has deep roots, and its power has penetrated into the interior of the court, as if it has become an independent kingdom."

"There are so many independent kingdoms like this, where can there be any imperial power?"

"The power of the imperial court was gradually divided between the feudal kings and the feudal nobles. At that time, the emperor no longer had much power. Not to mention the allocation of food throughout the country, not even the army." Qin Yu remembered the end of the Ming Dynasty, Various natural disasters continued, Chongzhen had almost no real power, and the precarious court was supported by a few feudal nobles.

He wanted to mobilize Zuo Liangyu's army to rescue the capital, but Zuo Liangyu didn't listen to him at all.

"Makes sense!" Zhu Yuanzhang nodded again and again.

"The emperor at the end of the dynasty has no real power. Even if the emperor of the last generation wants to rejuvenate the dynasty, he can't do anything." Qin Yudao, "That's why I said just now, it's not that the last emperor is faint, but he is completely powerless."

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"In addition, land mergers were serious, and most of the country's land was concentrated in the hands of a few nobles, which would lead to a widening gap between the rich and the poor. Even if there was no foreign enemy invasion at that time, the common people would not be able to survive."

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded again when he heard it. Back then, he let the landowner Lao Cai let go of cattle, and he had personal experience.Landlords and wealthy families have countless cattle and sheep, and the common people can't even eat.

"The feudal aristocracy owns the vast majority of the land, so it controls the vast majority of social wealth, and has the privilege of not paying taxes. So the feudal aristocracy becomes rich and the country becomes poor."

"So there is a strange situation in which the country is poor and the people are rich."

Qin Yu remembered that in the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, the phenomenon of the poor and the rich had almost reached its peak.Even if the emperor wanted to send troops, he could not get the army salary, so he had to humbly ask the feudal nobles to borrow them.

"The people have almost no land, the gap between the rich and the poor is too large, and the natural disasters caused by the alternating cold and warm weather cycle have taken away the last few grains of food in the hands of the people.

Hearing this, tears welled up in Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes. When he was the poorest, he could count the food in his family.

"Natural disasters can be said to be the last straw that breaks the camel's back." Qin Yu sighed after he finished speaking: "Our common people in China can be said to be the kindest and most pitiful, and they will not rebel if they have a bite to eat. Because They just want to live quietly, and there are even many people who are loyal to the original court and want to sacrifice their lives to serve the country."

"Such lovely common people, and then the abominable feudal nobles, even forced them to death, to the point where they have nowhere to go!"

"Those feudal nobles are really abominable!" Zhu Yuanzhang said coldly, with a fierce killing intent in his eyes.

"The people have risen up in succession, and the centralization of the imperial court has almost been divided up. At this time, the emperor has no money for disaster relief or annihilation of the rebel army, and the imperial court will soon perish."

"Even if the emperor at that time was ambitious, he could not restore the situation. Emperor Chongzhen in the late Ming Dynasty was the most typical example, and he was hanged on a tree with a crooked neck. Alas! It really started with a bowl and ended with a rope. "

"What did you say?" Zhu Yuanzhang said sharply when he heard the words, his hands resting on the hilt of the knife.To him, the words that start with a bowl and end with a rope are simply heart-wrenching.

"Uncle, why did you react so badly?" Qin Yu didn't know that he had tried frantically several times on the edge of death, but he just felt a little inexplicable.

"No...nothing..." Zhu Yuanzhang finally let go of his hand.I thought that since he was sent by God to save Daming, we should accept it humbly, no matter how ugly he said.

Because what he said may be a fact, a fact that will happen in the future!
"And those feudal nobles will never stand with the emperor to restore the situation, and the court is not theirs. They also have selfishness, even if the court declines again, what will happen? Anyway, it will not affect their prosperity and wealth. Even foreign invasion, they They will also choose to protect themselves. Even some very powerful families will take the opportunity to seize the throne and change the dynasty!" Qin Yu didn't care, and continued,

"This kind of thing is not uncommon in history, such as the Li family in Taiyuan."

After some eloquent talk, Zhu Yuanzhang was in a cold sweat when he heard it, and his heart was shocked.

What Qin Yu said just now can be said to have analyzed the reasons for the demise of the dynasty in a very transparent manner and explained it clearly.

(End of this chapter)