"Under the current productivity, the amount of land that can be cultivated is limited, so the total grain output is also limited. Without taking into account the waste problem during grain transportation, without taking into account various unexpected factors such as natural disasters and man-made disasters, the total annual grain production is
A fixed number."
"At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, after countless wars, the number of people was reduced to a minimum. At that time, the land was vast and sparsely populated. The founding emperor only had to live with the people and encourage the people to cultivate more land, and then he would be able to form a prosperous age, that is, if the people worked hard to farm, they could
Live the prosperous times."
"With the development of time, after generations of reproduction, the population reached the upper limit that the current court can accommodate. As the administration of officials deteriorated, officials came up and down, petty officials turned into rats, and aristocratic families, gentry, and nobles all leaned on the court to suck up the people.
blood……"
When he read this, Cui Yan felt like his heart was about to explode!
I, the Cui family of Qinghe, have a family of Gengdu. I have produced many celebrities, officials, and prefects in the past dynasties. I have even been one of the Three Dukes. I served as an official and brought benefit to the whole country. How come it got into your mouth and turned into a giant rat that sucks the blood of the people?
However, Cui Yan still has a lot of personal accomplishment. Although he was very angry deep down, he still read on with patience.
"At this time, the crisis of the dynasty began to emerge. The population that the land could support reached the upper limit. Due to various accidents, the farmers had to sell their land, and then they went bankrupt. They had to work as tenants for the wealthy families to survive."
"Every free citizen and small landowner was the cornerstone of the Han Dynasty's rule over the world. As natural and man-made disasters progressed, the number of free citizens and small landowners continued to decrease, and the scale of local tycoons and aristocratic families continued to change.
Great. One day, the country will no longer be a country."
"At the end of the dynasty, there was a strange sight of thousands of local powerful mercenaries!!!"
Seeing this, Cui Yan thought of Zhu Jun!
Zhu Jun was one of the three great generals of the Han Dynasty and one of the three commanders who quelled the Yellow Turban Rebellion. Together with Huangfu Song and Lu Zhi, he was one of the pillars of the imperial court, and his reputation spread far and wide across the Kyushu.
But it was such a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty who, when he served as the governor of Jiaozhou to put down the rebel rebellion, he directly pulled out 5,000 private soldiers from his home in one go!
Maybe these five thousand private soldiers are not all Zhu Jun's own, but also include other powerful private soldiers from nearby counties. But no matter what the case is, five thousand private soldiers with similar combat effectiveness as the regular army are enough to make people speechless.
Come.
"For every private soldier or tenant added by a powerful and powerful family, the foundation of the Han Dynasty will be reduced. When more than half of the people in the world are under the command of powerful and powerful families, the tax revenue of the imperial court will be reduced by at least half.
, and taking into account the corruption of officials in the middle and later periods of the dynasty, the tax revenue received by the court was less than a quarter of the original."
"If we can't collect taxes, it will be difficult to continue to maintain the court, so we can only shrink the borders. Therefore, several counties in Bingzhou have been reduced to grassland occupation. Some ministers even openly proposed to give up the land of Liangzhou..."
(So don’t laugh at Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty who had no money to shrink his borders. The same was true of the Han Dynasty. Lu Bu’s hometown was no longer under the rule of the Han Dynasty.)
"If the emperor did not want the Han Dynasty to perish, he could only start making money through various methods."
Selling an official position!
Search your home!
Robbery a powerful family!
Use various methods to get money from powerful and aristocratic families.
These are all evidences that the aristocratic families propagate that Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty is a foolish emperor. In the past, Cui Yan did not think there was a problem in saying this.
The emperor is rich all over the world, but you just sell your official position. This is not a foolish emperor. Who is a foolish emperor?
But this article puts forward an opinion from another perspective: the free people and small landowners have been annexed, and they can no longer collect taxes. The emperor has no money to continue to maintain the operation of the court, so he can only act rogue to steal money.
At this time, if the emperor wanted to lose face, the Han Dynasty might be gone.
From this perspective, the demise of the Han Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty are very similar. The triggers were financial bankruptcy and the court was out of money.
But Emperor Ling also knew how to sell his official position, and how to confiscate homes, and how to cheat, and how to be shameless, and he also knew that he would still make money even if he was a fool!
Emperor Ling got the money, but it made the powerful people even more disappointed in him. At the same time, the powerful people even more excessively squeezed money back from ordinary people. What they lost was the people of the Han Dynasty.
"After the Yellow Turban Rebellion, in order to quell the rebellion, the local prefects had to be granted military and political power. Later, Liu Yan proposed to abolish Shi Li Mu, and the world was in chaos."
Even if Dong Zhuo had not come to Beijing to cause trouble, the Han Dynasty would have perished sooner or later.
Because the wealthy and powerful families are about to completely eat up the free people and small landowners!
When the free people and small landowners were completely devoured by the powerful and wealthy, who would the Han Dynasty turn to to collect taxes? Who would be willing to give their own money to the court?
"That's why the Han Dynasty will be destroyed!"
Looking at the final conclusion, Cui Yan broke into a cold sweat. Holding the book in his hand, Cui Yan opened his mouth and tried to take a deep breath. His whole body seemed to be suffocated and was greatly shocked.
"No, the big man must still be saved!"
"There are many Liu families in the world. Among them are Yanzhou Mu Liu Dai and Liu Gongshan. He is a famous person in the world. Now he is Yanzhou Mu. With the power of Yanzhou in his hands, he will definitely be able to bring order to the chaos and rejuvenate the great Han Dynasty!"
"Liu Gongshan was killed by a million Yellow Turbans."
At this point, Sun Qian paused: "Maybe, I mean maybe, the reason why Liu Gongshan died among millions of Yellow Turbans was because his surname was Liu, because his reputation was too high, and because he had the potential to be a great man.
"
Hearing this, Cui Yan wanted to refute, but after opening his mouth, he remained silent.
"There are also Liu Jingzhou and Liu Yizhou. They are both genuine state pastors. They hold the power of a state and have strong soldiers and horses under their command."
"Liu Jingzhou came down from Jingzhou and relied on an imperial edict to become the powerful shepherd of Jingzhou. His ability is indeed worthy of trust. But now he has succeeded and failed, and he is still pacifying the rebellion of the clan traitors, and the four counties in Jingnan are more...
There is a possibility of rebellion, but I don't think he can take action."
"As for Liu Yizhou, his sons are all in Chang'an and he doesn't even have an heir. He won't be sixty this year."
"Even if the Liu family has great heroes and prospered the Han Dynasty, it does not mean that there is something wrong with this article. Hasn't the Han Dynasty been destroyed? Will the new Han Dynasty still be the Han Dynasty today?"
"Then what do you think, Brother Gongyou?"
"I really didn't think of a way, so I wanted to take a look at this Natsuko in person to see if I could get "Circle of Chaos - Part 2"."
"This Xia Zi has already occupied Gaochang County and is planning to open a palace and establish a family. He will be called Uncle Xia in the near future."
Hearing this, Cui Yan just felt that something was stuck in his mouth and he didn't know how to spit it out: he originally thought that Xia Zi was a great sage named Xia, so he respectfully called him Xia Zi.
If the following articles can have half of the skills of the first article, then it is not too much to say that I am a success with this book.
But I never expected that Xia Zi’s son would actually have a title, the son of a duke’s uncle, a title that had existed since the time of Emperor Zhou.
Now that Xia Zi has picked this system out of history, tidied it up and used it again, he is obviously a big rebel.
After thinking for a while, Cui Yan asked: "What is the name of this Xia Zi?"
"Xia Zi's surname is Xiong Mingyan, he may be a descendant of the Chu royal family." Sun Qian said uncertainly.