Ming Dynasty: Teaching The Prince Dragon-Slaying Skills At The Beginning

Chapter 316: Unification Brewed By Changes In People’S Livelihood, Economy, Social Structure, And Cu

It can be said that since the Tang Dynasty, the difficulty of opening up new territories has skyrocketed!

The land area does not exceed 1.237 million hectares (12.37 million square kilometers) at the peak of the Tang Dynasty. Who dares to say that they have expanded the territory?!!

As long as the territory does not exceed 1.237 million hectares (12.37 million square kilometers), the most it can do is regain its homeland.

In reality, most people cannot even regain their homeland.

Even Yan Changqing's previous life is no exception!!!

In terms of territory, Yan Changqing's previous life was probably the same as the current Ming Dynasty during the Hongwu period.

Compared with the territory of the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, it is still inferior, let alone the territory of the peak of the Tang Dynasty.

Think about the territory conquered by the ancestors of the Yan and Huang Dynasties in the past, and then think about the slogan of "to realize the great rejuvenation of the Yan and Huang nations" that Yan Changqing shouted all day long in his previous life.

Taste! Taste carefully!! Taste carefully!!!

After a moment of silence, Yan Changqing did not continue to talk more about the topic of territory and territory, because there were not many dynasties qualified to talk about this topic, including his previous life.

Later, Yan Changqing brought the topic back to its original point and said:

"Continuing to go back to the Western Zhou Dynasty, due to the poor quality of agricultural production tools and the lack of improved grain varieties at that time, the output of grain per hectare was scarce."

"This restricted the growth of population and also limited the Western Zhou Dynasty's ability to expand externally."

"At the same time, the connections between various princes, officials, and scholars are not close, and each fiefdom is relatively closed, so the world is still generally peaceful."

"But in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, in terms of social and people's livelihood and economy."

"Iron farm tools that were superior to bronze farm tools began to gradually appear, the promotion of cattle farming, coupled with the development of water conservancy and the advancement of farming technology and other factors.

"At this time, the grain output has increased from between a quarter to half a stone to between half a stone and one stone. The grain output has almost doubled."

"The increase in grain production means an increase in population, which in turn promotes an increase in farming efficiency."

“This also allowed the common people who were cultivating for the emperor of Zhou, princes, officials, and scholars at that time, in addition to cultivating public fields, they gradually had the energy to cultivate their own private fields.”

"Because in the early days of private land, there was no need to pay tribute to the Emperor of Zhou. All the output of the private land belonged to the people who cultivated the private land, or the nobles who drove slaves to cultivate the private land."

“And this has also greatly increased the interest of the common people and nobles such as princes, officials, and scholars in cultivating private lands.

"When the number of private fields increased, on the one hand, the wealth in the hands of the common people, as well as the princes, officials, officials, and scholars began to gradually increase."

“When individuals have more wealth, business and transactions will naturally emerge.”

"The vigorous development of commerce and transactions has naturally strengthened the connections between the feudal lords, ministers, officials, and scholars, reduced imbalances, and made them closely interdependent.

"This also creates an opportunity for subsequent unification."

"On the other hand, the increase in the number of private fields will naturally impact the status of public fields."

"Coupled with the continuous foreign conquests of the Zhou Dynasty at that time, the treasury expenditures increased."

"In order to ensure the revenue of the treasury, the Zhou Dynasty began to levy taxes on private land. This was equivalent to a disguised recognition of the legitimacy of private land, which in turn led to the collapse of the well-field system.

“Since then, more and more wasteland has been reclaimed and turned into private land.

"But after these fields were reclaimed, the princes and nobles did not register them. Instead, they concealed them in their own hands and became their private property.

“At the same time, in order to open up more private fields and obtain more wealth, various vassal states introduced measures to win over people’s hearts, causing their common people and slaves to flee to other countries.

"The flight of common people and slaves left some public fields in vassal states uncultivated and continuously deserted. At this point, the well field system that maintained the rule of the Zhou royal family was on the verge of collapse."

"It wasn't until Shang Yang entered the Qin Dynasty that the well-field system completely collapsed and collapsed, causing most of the Zhou royal family's sources of income to be basically cut off, and they no longer had the money to continue to rule.

"At this time, the land system at that time had changed from the well field system to the private land system."

"When the land system changed from the well-field system to the private land system, the social structure also changed quietly."

"During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the original hierarchical enfeoffment system based on patriarchal blood relations was no longer sufficient to manage the relatively more complex social environment at that time ["

"Society needs a stricter and more reasonable system for management than the blood feudal system."

"Coupled with the private ownership of land, the amount of private land converted by various princes and nobles through transfers, mutual robbery, rewards, etc. has increased sharply."

"In order to annex more land, obtain more wealth, obtain more slaves, and desire a higher status, land annexation wars broke out frequently among princes, ministers, officials, and even scholars."

"At the same time, this kind of land annexation war is also further strengthening the connections between various princes, ministers, officials, and scholars."

"It also allowed the fiefdoms of various princes, ministers, officials, and scholars to move from a relatively independent and closed state to a large interconnected whole.

"In order to gain a foothold among the vassal powers, the vassal states had to start reforms in order to cope with the increasingly fierce land annexation wars."

"Only by reforming and strengthening ourselves can we become the final winner of the land annexation war, and this also lays the institutional foundation for unification!!!"

"In addition to the changes in people's livelihood, economy and social structure, there have been explosive changes in cultural knowledge!!!"

"Cultural knowledge is no longer monopolized by the aristocratic ruling class such as princes, officials, and scholars, and has begun to flow to the people."

"A hundred schools of thought contended, and they traveled around the world to give lectures, allowing ordinary people to get education, opening up the wisdom of the people, and more and more talented people began to appear.

"These talented heroes are beginning to feel dissatisfied with the situation where the aristocrats of the blood feudal hierarchy have exclusive power and demand changes!"

"They are eager to break the original aristocratic power and fight for their own rights!!"

"So these talents and heroes joined each of the vassal states that they recognized, and used their talents to assist the princes and kings to unite vertically and horizontally, to make friends at a distance and attack at home, and to attack frequently!!!

"In the end, under the unprecedented great turbulence and changes in all aspects of people's livelihood, economy, social structure, and cultural knowledge, the general trend and general trend of development and change of unified centralization was brewed!!!"

"In the end, the Qin emperor's government adhered to the general trend and trend of the development of great unification and centralization of power, wiped out the six kingdoms, ended the hundreds of feudal disputes in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, and finally brought the world back to one country and the rule of heaven!!!"

On the podium, Yan Changqing's cold words echoed in the ears of Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Fang, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes...

Looking at the three major aspects of economic and people's livelihood, social structure, and cultural and ideological aspects listed by Yan Changqing, the content of the blackboard changes between the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, once again felt that their sights were being constantly raised, raised, and raised again!!!

In a daze, they all felt as if they were transcending the long river of history.

With an unprecedented high-rise position, it overlooks the historical changes of Pan Pan in the hundreds of years from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

I saw that from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the farming tools used by the people gradually changed from stone shovels, stone knives, and stone axes to bronze farming tools, and then from bronze farming tools to iron farming tools.

We have also seen that from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, people started to cultivate acres of land purely by manual labor, and then gradually figured out the use of cattle farming and the construction of agricultural water conservancy.

We also saw the emergence of private lands for the common people and princes and nobles, the collapse of the minefield system, the frequent outbreak of land annexation wars, and hundreds of scholars traveling around the country to give lectures and educate countless talented people.

These incidents, one by one, were either inconspicuous or enough to be recorded in the history books. They collided with each other and eventually burst out into ten majestic general trends and trends of the development and change of centralized power in the Central Powers! !!

And in this majestic general trend of development and change of centralization and unification, Qin Shihuangzheng stands at the top of the historical trend!

Immediately, Qin Huangzheng pulled out the Ding Qin Sword from his waist and pointed it at Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes from a distance!!

The next moment, the majestic and majestic general trend of development and change of centralization and centralization of power, the general trend, washed away like an overwhelming force!!!

In the blink of an eye, Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes were knocked down from the perspective of transcending the long history of the ages!!!

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