People in Hongwu, from heavenly master to emperor master

Chapter 181 The meaning of the existence of Ming Dynasty, how did the world die
Zhu Yuanzhang already felt a long time ago that when Zhang Yi tried to change the world, he didn't pay attention to many things in front of him!
Although Zhang Yi had indeed done a lot for Daming, this child actually didn't have Daming in his eyes, and he didn't even have much respect for himself, the emperor.

Just like gods, they can open and close their eyes for thousands of years, and everything in the world is meaningless to them.

Whether Zhang Yi is immortal Zhu Yuanzhang dare not say, but he can see the changes in the future, and the focus of this is probably not in a small Ming Dynasty.

Many times, Zhu Yuanzhang thought about confessing to Zhang Yi in exchange for him to calculate the fate of the Ming Dynasty for himself.

But he still resisted the urge, he was afraid that after breaking the rules of the game, he would lose this opportunity.

"My small world in Huaxia, it is not an exaggeration to call it the kingdom of heaven, even if the world looks dilapidated now, the people have no clothes and no food!
The strength of my Ming Dynasty is still the absolute number one in the whole world, especially in terms of national power, since I started from myself, it has always been like this..."

What Zhang Yi said was very abrupt, but while the Zhu family father and son were stunned, there was also a sense of pride rising spontaneously.

Ever since he saw the world map, Lao Zhu had actually been muttering in his heart.

The world is so big, how much power does China, a small world, occupy in the world?
Strength, including military strength, also includes a country's overall national strength.

Now they have got the answer, that is, the world where Daming is located is still the center of the world.

Huaxia is Middle Earth, the Kingdom of Heaven where all nations come to court.

"It's just... just like the dragon energy turns from south to north, in the distant future, my China has guarded the dragon energy for thousands of years, but it no longer protects Daming, and the dragon energy travels westward!
The Western world is booming, and my Chinese people have been enslaved by those Westerners who we regard as devils for a hundred years. In the farthest future I can see, although this land is revived, there is still no answer to victory!

When Pindao witnessed this scene, he thought, if I do something, can it change the luck for China? "

After Zhang Yi finished speaking, he smiled to himself.

His smile was very innocent, but the hearts of the Zhu family father and son were heavy.

Zhang Yi spoke eloquently, telling Zhu Yuanzhang and his son what he could tell about the catastrophe hundreds of years later.

Lao Zhu was furious when he heard this, as if the suffering that the Mongols had inflicted on him in the past ten years came back all of a sudden.

Foreign devils are also aliens in the eyes of Lao Zhu, and even in the eyes of Zhu Yuanzhang, these people are not even human beings.

The Mongols bullied the Han family, what are those ghosts?
However, Zhu Yuanzhang was limited by the times, so he couldn't understand that the suffering of later generations was fundamentally different from the end of Yuan Dynasty today, but this did not prevent him from empathizing with him.

"why?"

After Lao Zhu finished listening, he asked Zhang Yi for advice.

Zhang Yi smiled and said:

"My Huaxia, or the reason why my Han family civilization has been prosperous, is actually more productive than others!
The farming society is actually the best solution to obtain resources in this era!

Since ancient times, China has not been conquered by foreign races, the five chaos in China, the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the Mongolian invasion...

But when these alien races enter the Central Plains, they may be able to conquer the Central Plains by force, but they will still be assimilated by the Han culture in the end!

Nowadays, many Han people in the north are actually of different races in their ancestors!

So the concept of the Han family, I think, is not a concept of blood, but a concept of culture!
After fully accepting the culture of the Han family, many surrounding alien races were also assimilated into Han people! "

When Lao Zhu heard these words, he instantly understood!

Ever since he conquered the north, Zhu Yuanzhang has actually been troubled by a problem, but the world is still undecided, and this problem cannot be solved for the time being.

That is, the Mongols have ruled the world for 80 years, and there have been many aliens living in the Central Plains for a long time.

Mongols, Semu people...

The slogan of his army was to expel the Tartars and restore China!

But if the world is unified, what should be done with those Tartars who stayed in Middle-earth?
Is it to learn from the Mongols and create a hierarchical system?
Zhang Yi's idea seemed to provide Lao Zhu with a way of thinking, and it coincided with his original plan.

But this is not the point, Zhang Yi's story is actually endless.

"China's national strength and national destiny are actually based on our productivity being stronger than others!

Under this farming-based productivity method, Confucianism is the best ruling ideology!

However, the world is not static, and productivity will not stay here forever!

So, when one day, my Huaxia can't keep up with this era!
We will become monkeys in the eyes of others!

Our former vassal state will burn, kill and loot on my land in China, and those foreigners who beg us will become our masters!
At that time, Huaxia was no different from the previous dynasty, even...

It will be more serious!
In fact, the karma will start after more than a hundred years... I, Huaxia, just rely on my own background to last for a few more hundred years! "

"productive forces?"

It was not the first time for Lao Zhu to hear Zhang Yi say similar terms, and he fell into deep thought.

"Is this what you said, the day when Confucianism died?"

"That's right, when new productive forces emerge, Confucianism no longer has a basis for survival.

It's just that what was buried with Confucianism was China's national destiny. The portrait at this time has never reached the top of the world again!
Just as foreigners are begging us to do business with them now, Chinese people in the future will treat foreigners in the same way! "

Zhu Yuanzhang took a deep breath:

"Then where is my Ming emperor?"

Zhang Yi laughed when he heard the words: "At that time, there was no emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and after more than 200 years, the Ming Dynasty came to an abrupt end, and the last emperor of the Zhu family hanged himself on Meishan Mountain!

The Manchus entered the customs and became the masters of the world, and the days when the aliens were angry with the Han people will reappear again! "

This is the first time Zhang Yi told the Zhu family father and son about the demise of Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao felt very complicated.

Everything is born and dies.

Even if Lao Zhu didn't admit it in his heart, he knew that Daming would eventually perish one day.

It's just that he didn't expect this way of death.

Not because his descendants hanged, that doesn't matter!
The important thing is, did the Han land he worked so hard to restore end up in the hands of foreigners?
This kind of frustration is especially serious for Lao Zhu, who wants to be an emperor through the ages.

"So, I... I, the Emperor Ming, managed to bridge the gap between the north and the south, but in the end it was all for naught?"

Zhang Yi said with a smile: "You can't say that, if there hadn't been for the Emperor Zhu's 200 years of maintaining the cultural traditions of the Han people, the Han people might have disappeared long before the Manchus entered the customs!

The significance of the existence of the Ming Dynasty is to continue the life of the Han people in the middle of the entry of two foreign races! "

Zhu Yuanzhang sighed, he used to want to know all kinds of things about the future of Ming Dynasty, but when he really heard about the demise of Ming Dynasty, he felt a sense of disenchantment.

"I always feel a little bit unwilling..."

Lao Zhu expressed his thoughts, and even Zhang Yi also said that the meaning of the Ming Dynasty was to continue the life of the Han people.

But who is he?

How could he be reconciled to the dynasty he worked so hard to build, and finally come to this result?
Dynasties can rise and fall, but being bullied by foreigners is not.

"Yeah, I'm not reconciled either..."

Zhang Yi grinned:
"So Pindao wants to make some changes..."

"I'm curious, how did my Ming Dynasty perish?"

Zhu Biao didn't speak all the time, but now he interrupted.

The topic he raised awakened the emperor from that powerless state. The so-called unwillingness was after all a hundred years later.

The emperor is also a layman, and what he cares more about is how the country he created will perish.

"In fact, the rise and fall of feudal dynasties is essentially the same thing!
A country built on the productivity of farming civilization will eventually rebel because the people have no land to cultivate!

The land that can be cultivated in China is about 200 million hectares. Now that the new dynasty is established, the cultivated land is only half of the peak. After recuperating, the people can still open up wasteland and have land to plant!

But when the dynasty developed to the end, the big landlords and princes and nobles annexed the land, and the people lost their way of life!
Remember the two elements of dynasty stability I mentioned?
Employment and rising channels!

The root cause of the downfall of a dynasty is that the people have no way out!
However, the land is concentrated in the hands of big landlords and clans. They have privileges, and most people have tax relief. However, there are only 200 million hectares of land in the world. When the land is in their hands, the tax revenue will naturally disappear. !
On the one hand, the court has no money, and on the other hand, the common people have no way to survive!
In addition, at the end of each dynasty, there will be a large number of scholars who have no way to go up, and they will cut off the upward path!

When these points are collected, what happened in the previous dynasty will happen again in this dynasty, so there is no point in asking for details! "

Although Zhang Yi didn't talk about the details, Zhu Biao and Zhu Yuanzhang's father and son also learned something from it.

"imperial clan!"

Lao Zhu has read familiar terms from reading, and Zhang Yi gave him the math problem last time, which directly opened the math to enter the imperial examination.

That arithmetic problem is called clan.

If Zhang Yi only talked about the chaos of the clan last time, from the perspective of the imperial court's support for the clan, he pointed out that the finances were beyond their means.

But today he mentioned a more serious problem, that is, taxation and land annexation!
There are only 200 million hectares of arable land in the world. Although Zhu Yuanzhang doesn't know where this data comes from, Lao Zhu will definitely believe Zhang Yi's data.

The survival of a dynasty is actually a process of subtraction.

When the landlord annexed the land, the imperial court tax will not come up!
That was the beginning of the dynasty's downfall.

Moreover, compared with other dynasties, Ming Dynasty has a bigger hidden danger.

It's just that Lao Zhu hasn't had time to implement it, but he has never given up.

The clan system plus the tax-free power of the scholar-bureaucrat class was the root cause of the dynasty's downfall.

"You mentioned taxes...that's the most important reason?"

Zhang Yi grinned: "Placing it in Daming is the main reason!

The emperor's cleverness has a stink problem, that is, he thinks that what his old Zhu is doing must be right!

In order not to be confused by his descendants, he left many policies in the form of ancestral teachings, which are actually far-reaching policies for future generations.

Among them, the fixed tax is one of them!
The emperor of the Ming Dynasty was sympathetic to the people and set the tax very low. This is actually right!

But he didn't expect the changes in the future, and he fixed the tax within a certain range, and it would be difficult for future emperors to change it!
Let the children and grandchildren dance in shackles, and finally...

Forget it, this topic is too far away, it's boring to talk about! "

"If there is no land annexation, can the empire last forever?"

Zhu Yuanzhang has been entangled in the matter of land annexation and couldn't come out. He asked Zhang Yi again, and Zhang Yi shook his head:

"You have no way to prevent land annexation! Even if you are Emperor Hongwu, you can do your own thing, but can you manage it for a hundred years?"

"Then what if the tax-free privileges of the scholar-bureaucrat class are exempted through regulation...?"

Unwilling, Zhu Yuanzhang asked Zhang Yi a second question.

"If the emperor does this, no matter whether he is Zhu Yuanzhang or Li Shimin, when he wakes up tomorrow, he will find that the whole world is turned upside down!
Is it true that the world belongs to their old Zhu family?

The king and the scholars share the world, which is the most basic rule in the farming society!
The emperor may be able to break this rule, but he will definitely be backlashed by the rule!
unless……"

"Unless, let the scholars become worthless!"

The topic circled back and forth, and then circled back to the original starting point.

Zhu Yuanzhang: ...

"Everything is rare and precious. When there are more scholars, although the elites are still elites, what about managing the world?
You can't pick out five [-]'s, but you can pick out thirty [-]'s, you can pick out three hundred [-]'s...

Those five [-]% people might be up for grabs, but if the emperor had [-] people who were not as good as them but who were actually barely competent, they would not have the courage to speak up!
The battle between the monarchy and the power of the prime minister is nothing more than you are strong and I am weak, and the comparison is who has more cards in their hands..."

Seeing Zhang Yi's grinning appearance, Lao Zhu took a deep breath.

"But, with more scholars, it's the same for the emperor..."

"It's not easy to control, right, everything has advantages and disadvantages!
It’s definitely not easy to control, but it also depends on what kind of emperor and what kind of dynasty it is?
This kind of thing itself is a test of a king's ability to govern, and if he doesn't have the ability, he can't control it!
But what if we change our thinking and learn from that devil?

Going out and exporting these scholars will not solve the employment problem?

When I went to sea in the Ming Dynasty, new production relations will inevitably be formed, and the birth of an interest group means that the emperor can balance the two major interest groups like manipulating party disputes among ministers!

In fact, to put it bluntly, no matter what production methods appear, the emperor is still the emperor..."

Zhang Yi hid half of his words and didn't say anything. It's not necessarily known whether the emperor at that time still had the power of the feudal dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang's heart was moved. One of the biggest heart problems in his life was his vigilance towards the official class.

This kind of vigilance comes from his origin, and it is almost irreversible.

He can recognize the individual integrity of some scholars who are officials, just like Liu Bowen!
But his views on the entire scholar-bureaucrat class made him despair.

Zhang Yi's half-joking remarks did not seem unacceptable.

It's just that Lao Zhu felt that something was wrong. This kid's real purpose must not be the case.

What I think about is the present, and what Zhang Yi thinks about is the layout hundreds of years later.

He has already said the answer given by Zhang Yi.

"Scholars, farmers, businessmen, go their own way, that's why you want to promote the simplification of Chinese characters?"

Zhang Yi nodded.

"The progress of productivity is essentially the progress of technology!

I, Huaxia, do not lack geniuses, but lack respect for technology!

Words are the key to transforming technology into science, and it is also the basis for changing the fate of China in my opinion!

Just like getting into the imperial examination, what Xiaodao wants to do has always been like this! "

After Zhang Yu finished speaking, Old Zhu asked:

'What is science? "

(End of this chapter)