Daming: Old Zhu, we agreed not to rush!

Chapter 29 The Emperor Is the Greatest Landlord
"But why? Why is it so?"

Zhu Biao's eyes were dull, and he asked feebly.

He has faced the war directly, knows the harm it does to the people, and understands the cruelty of it.

It is precisely because he has seen it that Zhu Biao is more sympathetic to the suffering of the people.

Now, Su Jing's words show that the tragedy will only happen again and again.

His worldview was shocked, and everything seemed to have become unreal.

"Niu Yi!"

Su Jing scolded and woke Zhu Biao up.

He looked at Zhu Biao and said: "The general trend of the world, the long-term division must be united, and the long-term union must be divided. You have also read a lot of books. If you don't change, you must be like this. This is history, and this is reality."

A reality independent of human will.

"Master Su, the student lost his temper."

Zhu Biao bowed his head.

In fact, history has been repeated over and over again, without any concealment or cover-up.

It's there.

"Master Su, please continue. Is there a solution to this conflict between people and the land?"

Zhu Biao continued to ask.

Su Jing said lightly: "Don't worry, eat first, and continue when you are full."

Zhu Biao didn't move his chopsticks at all when Su Jing was talking about the kung fu while eating.

One is that the teacher is here and pays attention to dignity, and the other is that he is afraid that he will miss something when he is eating.

"Yes, Master Su."

Zhu Biao nodded, and immediately began to pull up.

In order to hear the follow-up as soon as possible, he ate it quite quickly.

But the study of royal etiquette made him quick and educated.

"Master Su, I'm full."

In just a short while, Zhu Biao finished eating.

Su Jing nodded and said: "That's right, people are iron, food is steel, if you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry."

Hearing this, Zhu Biao smacked and said in response:
"Master Su is right, people are iron, food is steel, if you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry!"

This sentence is a good explanation of the reasons for the peasant uprising. If you can’t get enough to eat, why don’t you stand up and resist!
Su Jing smiled, called the waiter, removed the food from the table, and served some refreshments.

"Now we continue."

Su Jing poured all the refreshments into a plate, leaving a pile of empty plates on the table:

"We assume that the refreshment is the food that the land can produce, and the plate is the population."

"Under normal circumstances, these resources are sufficient."

With that said, Su Jing evenly distributed the refreshments on the plate to the plates.

"But now, because of population growth, there are more plates."

"Then, if you want to feed everyone, there are only two ways."

"First, reduce some of the existing population. This is the operation most of the time, and it is also the fastest way."

"But the second is to find new land, or sources of food, such as the Silk Road in the Western Han Dynasty, which opened up border trade, or opened the sea, which is also rich in resources."

"Don't stick to the existing stock, but find a way to write incremental articles."

Saying that, Su Jing took out a few snacks from her arms like magic:

"What already exists is called stock, and what is newly added is called increment."

Zhu Biao looked at these plates and refreshments, and said thoughtfully: "So what Master Su means is that as long as the increment can be found all the time, the conflict between people and land can be resolved?"

For teenagers, understanding is quite straightforward.

Su Jing didn't say anything, just asked: "Then do you think the increase can be increased without limit?"

"No."

Zhu Biao shook his head, this simple truth can be known without thinking.

So, still can't solve it.

Su Jing directly picked up some refreshments and gathered them on a few plates again:
"In fact, there is a more problem to be solved before looking for increments."

"In the merger of land, landlords, gentry, and officials and nobles will continue to merge the surrounding land to make themselves stronger and stronger, because land is privately owned, and land is property."

"Counting through the end of most dynasties, the gentry and landlord classes have all annexed a large amount of land, and the rich are contiguous, while the annexed peasant class has no land to stand on."

"The annexation of land will greatly intensify the accumulation of human-land conflicts until they can no longer be suppressed."

"Then the peasant uprising broke out, and a new dynasty began."

Zhu Biao stared blankly, hesitated for a while and said:

"What about laws to limit population growth and govern land acquisition?"

"In this case, can it be solved?"

He was still trying to think of a solution.

Su Jing shook his head and said: "Niu Yi, have you forgotten that although the level of productivity has been greatly improved after iron farming, and the main means of production has become land, this does not mean that people are no longer means of production! "

"Whether it is from a country, a clan, or a specific family, population is the most real resource."

"In wars, those with a larger army are more likely to win battles. When reclaiming wasteland, families with a large population can reclaim more."

"There are conflicts in the family and clan, and the prosperous population is more dominant."

"People are always the most important thing. To limit population growth, how do you limit it?"

"In terms of population restrictions, farmers will only take the initiative to carry out this operation when they feel that they cannot feed more people, and it will be too late at that time."

"As for the governance of land mergers, it's not like no one has done this before."

"Wang Anshi's reform in the Song Dynasty was aimed at governing land annexation."

"The final result is clearly written in the history books."

Zhu Biao was completely dumbfounded.

Yes, there were so many dynasties before the Ming Dynasty, and there were many talented people.

There are people who find problems and try to solve more.

Did they succeed?

No!

Otherwise, it would not be Daming's turn.

"But, Master Su, why on earth is this?"

Zhu Biao is like a soldier who has failed several times in charge, making the last stubborn resistance.

Su Jing said calmly: "Didn't I tell you at the beginning?"

"The emperor is the greatest resistance to all this."

After talking in a circle, I returned to the starting point at the beginning.

emperor!

"Ok?"

Zhu Biao was puzzled, but still couldn't understand the relationship, the look on his face was so dazed.

Su Jing had no choice but to explain: "The contradiction between man and land is an inevitable problem with population growth, and land annexation is an inevitable product of private ownership of land in feudal society."

"Landlords occupy a favorable position in the political economy. In the process of development, they must rely on methods such as extortion, natural disasters and man-made disasters to continuously concentrate a large amount of land in their own hands and form a landlord class."

"The land of the peasant class is constantly decreasing. In the end, in order to survive, they can only overthrow the inherent land distribution and start a new land distribution."

"This is a contradiction between two classes. The landlord class and the peasant class cannot tolerate each other. The contradiction will continue to accumulate with the development of the dynasty."

"The more serious the phenomenon of land annexation, the more serious the exploitation of the peasant class by the landlord class, and the shorter the life span of the dynasty."

"If some measures can be taken during the period, it is possible to continue the life of the dynasty, but in the end it can only be continued, and the contradictions between the two classes cannot be reconciled."

"The peasant class overturned the chessboard, and it was only a matter of time before redistribution."

"And the emperor is the biggest landlord!"

(End of this chapter)