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"The wars at the end of the Yuan Dynasty can be said to have turned the entire society into a mess."

"People fled everywhere in order to survive, and many even became slaves."

“And the fields were neglected and abandoned.”

"So, in order to resume production, Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty issued a slave manumission order to free the slaves."

"In addition, he reduced and reduced taxes and servitude, attracting people who were fleeing to return to their hometowns to open up wasteland."

"At the same time, due to Zhu Yuanzhang's experience in the first half of his life, he knew how the farmers at the bottom overthrew the government through uprisings. Therefore, in order to eliminate "threats from the bottom", Zhu Yuanzhang first restricted the mobility of people within the empire. In his In our understanding, no flow means no communication, which eliminates all sources of instability.”

"On this basis, Zhu Yuanzhang divided the household registrations of civilians into "military registration", "craftsman registration", "civilian registration", etc., and stipulated that they must be hereditary and the household registration attributes cannot be changed from generation to generation."

"Creating a new policy "caste-based" household registration system."

"This system also has a big problem."

"This system directly determines the identity of ordinary people. If you are a farmer, you will be a farmer throughout your life, and your descendants will also be farmers. If you are a craftsman, you will be a craftsman throughout your life, and your descendants will also be craftsmen."

"This has greatly solidified the class, treating the common people as tools for making cattle and horses, and allowed class conflicts to accumulate over time and become disasters."

"At the same time, the movement of the population must be reported, and generally they can only move within a mile. If you leave your residence for more than a hundred miles, you need an official certificate, otherwise you will be punished..."

"On the other hand, the development of the commodity economy promoted by businessmen will arouse people's greed, and greed will break the original rules and bring about class mobility."

"Moreover, businessmen are a cancer that promotes the flow of social information and squeezes labor force, so the most important thing to eliminate is the business class."

"So, under this careful planning, the Ming Empire was like a huge cage, locking up the citizens of the empire."

"The four major cases of the Ming Dynasty, the farming policy, the abolition of the prime minister system, and the Literary Prison are all Zhu Yuanzhang's black spots. Our Ming Taizu also did a very cruel thing. Maybe to you ancients, this thing seems normal, but I It feels a bit too inhumane, and it’s hard for a modern person like me to agree with it – the burial of a living person.”

Liu Bang:. . .Burial?Did I hear wrongly?

Li Shimin: Isn’t this canceled?Is this restored again?
Dugu Jialuo: If this kind of burial is really the case, our ancients wouldn’t agree with it much!
Liu Bang: When Qin Shihuang passed away, I even looked down on him. Why, the burial was cancelled, and you reinstated it in later dynasties?Trash or not?Let the living people be buried with you. Can you hear them talking to you?

Wei Zifu: It’s really unconscionable. This kind of stolen goods can still be restored.

"This is an outrageous system that I want to talk about internally. In addition to the killing of heroes, what made Zhu Yuanzhang infamous was that Zhu Yuanzhang restarted the system of living sacrifice, which revived the system of living sacrifice that had disappeared for thousands of years."

"Zhu Yuanzhang left a decree that after his death, all his concubines would be buried for him, so after Zhu Yuanzhang's death, all 38 of Zhu Yuanzhang's living concubines were buried for him."

"Everyone should know this burial system better than I do. It can be traced back to the Longshan Culture period, which is to say the slave society." "It can be said that in the entire slave society, there are many examples of slaves being buried for their slave owners. The burial system runs through The entire slave society.”

"Later, with the development of productivity, written records began to be recorded during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. In the long history of written records, it was also very common to be buried. This must not be rare in your ancient times."

"For example, historical records record that when Duke Wu of Qin died, "at the beginning, there were 66 people who died," and when Duke Mu of Qin died, "there were 177 people who died," etc."

"Later, many people came out to oppose the burial system, so the human sacrifice system was abolished in 384 BC. However, when Qin Shihuang died, human sacrifice was still adopted."

"After the death of Qin Shihuang, Qin II asked all the barren concubines in Qin Shihuang's palace to be buried as martyrs for Qin Shihuang, and the craftsmen who built Qin Shihuang's mausoleum also directly became Qin Shihuang's burial victims."

"It is said that the reason why the craftsmen were buried was because they were afraid that the secrets of the construction of the mausoleum would be leaked by the craftsmen. This shows the tyranny of Qin II."

"In the Han Dynasty, the system of human sacrifice was gradually abolished. After the death of the emperor, human sacrifice was no longer required. However, the system of human sacrifice did not completely disappear. Occasionally, the emperor was sacrificed after his death."

"There must still be individual examples of people committing suicide alive among the people, but in the Han Dynasty, those who were officially found to have committed suicide would be severely punished."

"After that, the burial system disappeared for thousands of years, until the rise of the Liao Kingdom, when the burial system was revived due to the ethnic minorities coming to power. Especially during the Yuan Dynasty, the burial system became popular again."

"In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang even issued an edict that after his death, his concubines must be buried for him. It can be said that basically all his concubines must die for Zhu Yuanzhang's burial."

"Emperors after Zhu Yuanzhang also inherited the burial system that Zhu Yuanzhang restarted until the Ming Yingzong period, when Ming Yingzong officially announced the abolition of the burial system."

"Although Ming Yingzong did not make many achievements in history, the fact that Ming Yingzong abolished the burial system left him with a reputation for kindness in history."

"When it comes to Ming Yingzong, many people may not know it, but when it comes to the Tumu Fort Incident, many people know that Ming Yingzong was the protagonist of the Tumu Fort Incident."

"After the Ming Dynasty Yingzong, the burial of living people basically never happened again."

"However, when Zhu Yuanzhang died, one person escaped from being buried, and that was Zhu Yuanzhang's concubine Zhang Meiren. It is said that Zhang Meiren was very favored by Zhu Yuanzhang, and she was originally going to be buried. However, Zhang Meiren's daughter was only three years old at the time, and Zhu Yuanzhang was reluctant to part with her. Such a young daughter lost her father and mother at the same time, so it was ordered that Zhang Meiren could be exempted from burial."

"This incident also saved many concubines who had children from the suffering of death."

"Restarting the system of living martyrdom is a historical retrogression and will definitely be criticized by historians."

"Furthermore, most of the ancients were believers, and they could be resurrected after a hundred years! If they were buried well, they would have a better life in the next life! There are also worse things like using children to accompany them in burials. These things happened too often in ancient times like those of you. "

Zhu Yuanzhang: To be honest, I am indeed a bit selfish in this regard. Although it is a bit superstitious, I hope that I will have a prosperous and wealthy life in my next life. The main reason is that I don’t trust women like me and these women. Which one of them will not have any rights after death? , I am only middle-aged now, and I can understand that these concubines cannot live for the sake of future generations.