Chapter 294 The reason for the rise and fall of chaos
"For three generations, our Chinese people have been continuously exploring the outside world, acquiring cultivated land, and developing and growing. However, there is countless land in the world. No matter how we cultivate and develop, it cannot keep up with the increase in population. With a large population, the land we need is limited.
More, more production, reproduction, development, and a better life are what everyone hopes for."
"When the land cannot bear the burden of the population, rebellions and wars will break out. Many people will die and there will be less people to eat, and then things will naturally settle down. Of course, if everyone has land, natural evolution will happen from one dynasty to the next.
It will probably take a long time from the establishment of the dynasty to its demise."
"But everyone has private interests. Officials, powerful people, and gentry all use all means to accumulate land and implement annexations. The more people there are, and the land is scarce, the gentry and powerful people, natural and man-made disasters accelerate this process. By the end of the dynasty,
Often a natural disaster makes it impossible for countless people to survive. In this case, it is the opposite."
"When enough people die and the land is used, things will settle down and new dynasties will begin to prosper. This is the case throughout the dynasties!"
"When enough people die and the land is used, there will be peace!"
Yang Lian's eyes were dull and he muttered to himself. His short words were filled with unspeakable blood. Behind these few words, he covered every change in fighting chaos. Behind them, there were countless corpses.
, it’s a family with countless wives and children separated and broken up.
Everyone present who heard these words looked pale, and big beads of sweat appeared on their foreheads, giving them a slight chill. An extremely terrifying chill that made people tremble from the bottom of their hearts surged up from the soles of their feet and crawled up.
It filled their backs and brought a bone-chilling coldness.
Several people reached out and touched it, and found that the clothes on their backs were all wet.
"What, do you still advise me to settle the matter and make peace?" They were shocked when the emperor's indifferent words came. They looked up and saw His Majesty looking at them indifferently.
At this time, Zhu Youxiao's body no longer had the aura of being like a celestial being, but had become normal, looking much more normal.
Well, if Zhu Youxiao knew what they were thinking, he would definitely yell at them, saying that they are like heavenly beings and that they are more normal. I haven't changed at all, I just became more enthusiastic in the second grade.
Since Zhu Youxiao doesn't know, then this conversation can continue.
Sun Chengzong and Xu Guangqi were both outstanding figures in the world. Although they did not think it through thoroughly, they vaguely understood something from Zhu Youxiao's words. Combined with the emperor's desire to nationalize the land and divide the fields equally,
The two of them thought hard about the policy.
Li Ruhua, on the other hand, was a little old and didn't think about it at all. He woke up from the pile of bones about the rise and fall of the dynasty, and frowned and asked, "But Your Majesty, the land is not enough to open up the land. For example, move the people from the mainland into Liaodong. Why?"
How about risking the disapproval of the world and nationalizing the land?"
Well, Li Ruhua is old, but the question he asked goes straight to the point. Since there is not enough land, just develop it, why bother with the inland land.
"With the new dynasty, there is enough land." But Zhu Youxiao did not answer directly. He just said "hu", leaving Li Ruhua speechless.
Yes, when the dynasties were established, because they experienced wars and all the people died, the land was naturally enough for planting, so there was prosperity. But why was there not enough land later? One was the increase in population, the other was land annexation, and finally all
The land was concentrated in the hands of a few people, and then a natural disaster hit. The people were unable to eat and had to pay heavy taxes. They couldn't survive, so they had no choice but to rebel.
"In that case, the agricultural tax can be waived, so why bother digging up people's lives?" Li Ruhua asked again, but he would not give up until the end.
However, this time it was not the emperor who answered, but Sun Chengzong. He could not stand Li Ruhua's stupidity, "After tax exemption, the land will be more profitable, the landlords and gentry will work harder to accumulate, and the number of landless people will only increase.
How will the imperial court accommodate so many people?"
"Go be a tenant farmer!" Li Ruhua blurted out, but as soon as he finished speaking, he realized that he was wrong. Faced with the surprised looks cast by the emperor and other colleagues, he smiled sarcastically.
Just look at the miserable life of tenant farmers in the world. After the tax exemption, there is no need to pay taxes on the land. The local landlords and gentry will definitely annex the land by any means. But in today's world, the economy has not been transformed, and the handicraft industry is still there.
Before prosperity and development, land was still the most important means of production.
Not even Zhu Youxiao could stop such a situation. The exemption of agricultural taxes ushered in not a prosperous era, but an even crazier era. When the land was finally concentrated in the hands of a handful of people, farmers all over the world became
These are the slaves of the landowners.
That's right, they are slaves, not tenants, not long-term workers, but slaves. Faced with a situation where they have no land, live forever, and their children and grandchildren are slaves, what will happen to those ordinary people?
They have no choice but to rebel.
Li Ruhua is also a person who has experienced political affairs for a long time. Why can't he understand the reason? Now it seems that the feudal land ownership system is really not suitable for tax exemption. When taxes are required, people accumulate crazily, let alone the era when there is no need to pay taxes.
"I want to divide the land equally and lead the Ming Dynasty out of the cycle of the rise and fall of dynasties at the cost of great chaos, so that the people of the world will not suffer from the rise and fall of dynasties once every three hundred years."
The sonorous words shocked the five people in Nuan Pavilion inexplicably. They looked at the emperor and never imagined that there was such amazing courage and ambition under this young face.
Facing the emperor's monstrous ambition, Li Ruhua, Sun Chengzong, Xu Guangqi, and Yang Lian all fell silent.
The entire palace fell into a strange and inexplicable silence. Zhu Youxiao was not in a hurry and looked at them quietly. He firmly believed that Xu Guangqi and Sun Chengzong could definitely turn the corner.
I don't know how long it took, Xu Guangqi suddenly raised his head and looked at the emperor, and saw that his eyes were burning like flames, containing an inexplicable expectation and sparkle. He asked in a hoarse voice, "May I ask your majesty how to equalize the emperor?"
Divide the land of the world."
The population continues to grow, but the land is limited no matter how it is developed. Coupled with land annexation and natural and man-made disasters, it will eventually evolve into chaos in the end of the world, which is unsolvable. In the silence just now, Xu Guangqi was thinking about this.
He wanted to think about other ways to solve the problem, but unfortunately, he couldn't think of any.
Judging from the emperor's remarks, his land nationalization policy seems to be able to solve this problem, but he cannot figure out the connection between the two. After the land is state-owned and the fields are equally divided, can the world be governed?
No matter how you think about it, the connection here seems ridiculous.
Therefore, he asked. If his doubts could be clarified, he would fully support the emperor's reforms and share the world's land equally. At the same time, Sun Chengzong also looked over with burning eyes. Obviously he could not understand the connection.
Chapter completed!