Because in the Ming Dynasty, the status of the great grandfather Zhu Yuanzhang is at the mythical level, and no one will compare it with him.

Even if Wei Zhongxian and Kebaba dig out their hearts all day long, thinking about the starting point of all kinds of patting the emperor's ass, various angles, and various words, there is no way, and there is no idea from Zhu Yuanzhang as the starting point.

Grandpa, where can you compare casually?

Wei Bao dared to compare Zhu Youxiao with Zhu Yuanzhang.

"You can't just say that." Zhu Youxiao hurriedly said: "The history of the great grandfather's martial arts is unparalleled, there is no one before and no one after him, and I am not enough for the great grandfather." ”

Wei Bao nodded, he had already seen that this Zhu Youxiao was actually not a soft persimmon, a lot of fools, but he was relatively incapable and timid, and he had to hide behind the scenes in case of trouble, and Wei Zhongxian would do it, and now that he found Wei Bao's gun, the situation was different.

The reason why Zhu Youxiao said this is actually because Zhu Youxiao is not ignorant of conducting text clearance, and in Zhu Yuanzhang's hands, there is actually a precedent.

The literary prison of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, is jaw-dropping and incredible.

As long as he found that someone's poems contained his own taboo words, or thought that there were metaphors and satirical sentences for the government, he would behead him.

Throughout the Hongwu period, countless scribes were beheaded because of the literary prison.

Zhu Yuanzhang was born in a humble background, worked as a cattle herder, a beggar, and a monk, suffered all the hardships of the world, and experienced the sorrows of the world.

Later, he took refuge in Guo Zixing, the leader of the Red Turban Army, to participate in the peasant uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and in order to pull the team and raise money and food, he did some disgraceful things such as smashing and looting.

Being able to work all the way from a cowherd baby to the emperor shows that Zhu Yuanzhang himself is a very strong person.

After becoming the emperor, his previous humble status and disgraceful past were incompatible with the identity and status of the Ninth Five-Year Emperor.

Zhu Yuanzhang's most taboo thing is that others mention his scars, and he hates others for belittling and ridiculing him.

Therefore, what Zhu Yuanzhang taboos and hates the most are words such as "light", "bald", "monk", "thief", "thief", "thief", as well as words with the same sound and homophony as these words.

However, he did not make a clear stipulation, and the conviction was based solely on his momentary mood and understanding, which made everyone at a loss.

Many scribes were innocently sinned and died in confusion, and their charges were far-fetched and hilarious.

For example, Xu Yikui, a professor of Fuxue in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, wrote a congratulatory table to praise Zhu Yuanzhang, which contained the words "Under the broad sky, born a saint, and set a rule for the world", and Zhu Yuanzhang actually thought that the word "light" in "under the broad sky" was a satire that he had been a monk, and "then" had the same sound as "thief", which was to ridicule himself as a thief, so he ordered Xu Yikui to be executed.

Also beheaded by Zhu Yuanzhang because of the word "then" are: "Xie Zengfeng Table" written by Lin Yuanliang, a professor of Zhejiang Fuxue, has "the constitution of the rule", and he was beheaded because of "then".

Zhao Boning, the instructor of Beiping Prefecture, wrote "Longevity Table" in "Longevity Table", which was beheaded because of "then".

Zhao Boning, the instructor of Beiping Prefecture, wrote the "Longevity Table", which has "the descendants of the descendants", and was beheaded because of the "rule".

In the "He Winter Table" made by Lin Bojing, the instructor of Fuzhou Prefecture, there is "Yi is the world", and he was beheaded because of "Ze".

In the "Zhengdan Greeting Table" made by Jiang Zhen, the instructor of Guilin Prefecture, there is "the rule in the construction", and he was beheaded because of the "rule".

Li Zhou Xuezheng Meng Qing's "He Dong Table" has "holy virtues", because of the "rules" was beheaded.

Jiang Zhen, the instructor of Changzhou Prefecture, wrote "Zhengdan Greeting Table" with "wisdom and wisdom", and was beheaded because "sheng" and "monk" had the same sound.

Huaiqing Mansion Xue Lu Rui's "Xie Ci Ma Table" has "distant view of the emperor", because "扉" and "non" homonym, "emperor" is regarded as "emperor fei" and was beheaded.

Wu Xian, the teacher of De'an Mansion, wrote "He Li Taisun Table" in "There is a Tao in the world", and he was beheaded because of the homonym of "Tao" and "thief".

Taizhou instructor Lin Yun's "Xie Dong Palace Banquet Notes" has "the body is dry and the law is kun, and the algae is peaceful", because "the law kun" is the same as "hair", and the "algae decoration" is the same as "early loss", and he was beheaded.

The monk came and wrote a poem: "Jinpan Suhe came to the special domain, and he was ashamed of his lack of virtue to praise Tao Tang", because the word "special" was split into "Zhu Zhu", which meant "killing Zhu", and scolded him for "no virtue" and was beheaded.

The monk wrote a poem at the beginning: "Seeing that Yanzhou entered Cuiyi, the net was all over the east and west all day long", "The small grass hall in the West Garden was newly built, and there was nowhere to take advantage of the cold when it was hot" was suspected of criticizing Zhu Yuanzhang's harsh criminal law and was beheaded.

Zhongshu Zhan Xi originally wrote a plaque for Taixue, but because the word "door" was missing the last hook, it was regarded as an obstacle to recruiting talents, and he was beheaded.

Lu Xiong, the prefect of Yanzhou, mistakenly wrote "Yan" as "Gong", which was regarded by Zhu Yuanzhang as disrespectful to him, and deliberately despised him for being uneducated, and was beheaded.

Hanlin edited Gao Qi's poem: "The little dog barks at the wall in the air, who is forbidden to come to the palace in the middle of the night?" was regarded as scolding Zhu Yuanzhang's puppy and was beheaded.

"Wei Aiqing, come, let's talk." Zhu Youxiao took Wei Bao's hand and said to the other eunuchs and palace maids, as well as Kebaba: "You all go down, I want to talk to Wei Aiqing alone." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." With Kebaba's permission, the others bowed down and retreated.

Kebaba didn't mind the emperor getting close to Wei Bao, and Kebaba had always had a good impression of Wei Bao.

What Wei Zhongxian wants is the power of the entire Ming Dynasty, and what Kebaba wants is actually very simple, she mainly wants the power in the palace.

Wei Bao will not affect her status, let alone her power.

If there is some possibility to change the current cooperation object from Wei Zhongxian to Wei Bao, then Ke Baba will be happy to do so.

"Wei Aiqing." Zhu Youxiao said: "There are no outsiders here, I want you to take it easy, so I treat me as a friend, is it okay?" ”

Wei Bao hurriedly said: "This, how dare Weichen be called a friend with His Majesty?" ”

"It's okay, and there are no outsiders." Zhu Youxiao smiled gently.

Wei Bao secretly thought, being friends with the emperor, this is really gambling, the emperor is all on a whim, as the saying goes, a companion is like a tiger. When they are happy, they can say anything, and one day they don't deal with a word, aren't they looking for death?

"Wei Aiqing, you should have a lot of friends, right? What do your friends call you? Zhu Youxiao wanted to shorten the distance between the two people from the title.

"Weichen comes from a humble background, and he has a lot of friends." Wei Bao said truthfully: "Back to Your Majesty, Weichen's friends are all called Weichen Xiaobao. ”

"Well, when there's no one, I'll call you Xiaobao too." Zhu Youxiao said happily.

Wei Bao dared to say something, and nodded yes.

"Xiaobao, you tell me, is there a big incident in the Ming Dynasty now? Taxes have been sharply reduced year by year, the interior is full of homeless people making trouble, and the outside has been repeatedly provoked by Jiannu, and the frontier is uneasy, and the annual military expenditure in Liaodong alone costs four or five million taels of silver. The Ming Dynasty struggled to make ends meet year after year. Zhu Youxiao asked: "Xiaobao, you are Tanhualang, you are smart and clever, and you have quick ideas, do you have any ideas?" ”

Wei Bao secretly wondered, where is the rot of the Ming Dynasty? It's a complex question. First of all, Wei Bao never thought that the Ming Dynasty was the worst dynasty.

The demise of a dynasty is caused by a complex variety of comprehensive contradictions, and it is by no means caused by one person or one thing. It is by no means explained by a simple monarch and a mediocre minister.

"There are some reasons, Your Majesty, Weichen can talk casually, Your Majesty will listen to it casually, and you don't have to take Weichen's words as the standard. 1. The financial crisis and the destruction of the military cantonment system. Second, the dilemma of a two-front fierce war. 3. The conflict between the new economic factors and the old national capital. Fourth, the eunuch dictatorship and party struggle. These are the problems that Da Ming is facing now, and they are difficult to return, and they have accumulated a lot of contradictions to His Majesty. But Your Majesty doesn't have to worry too much, Weichen believes that as long as he is willing to work hard, he will get better in the future. Wei Bao said.

Zhu Youxiao was worried and happy when he heard Wei Bao say this, because no one would really talk to himself like Wei Bao.

Wei Bao is not afraid that Zhu Youxiao will have any bad effects after listening to his words, he doesn't believe that people like Zhu Youxiao listened to a little bit of statecraft on a whim, and then he worked hard to become a Ming Jun, impossible, impossible so fast.

"Xiaobao, that's good, you tell me in detail." Zhu Youxiao sat down with Captain Laweibao, looking like a corporal of Lixian.

Wei Bao was not pretentious, so he really sat on the imperial couch with the emperor.

Wei Bao told the emperor some of his own questions about the current Ming Dynasty in a way that he understood.

The financial crisis and the destruction of the military tun system were first of all the financial problems of the Ming Dynasty or the financial crisis of the Ming Dynasty.

The financial collapse of the Ming Dynasty was indeed one of the reasons for its demise.

The land tax of the Ming Dynasty was low for a long time, which was the same as that of the Han Dynasty, and the tax rate of less than 20 percent in the Ming Dynasty was not high compared to the surrounding countries at that time, while the tax rate in Japan was as high as 50 percent in the same period.

However, as in the Han Dynasty, the low tax rate only led to a decrease in state revenue, but did not benefit the people, because the lower taxes were attributed to the landlords and wealthy families, and in essence the burden changed hands.

The exploitation of the landlords made low tax rates meaningless.

However, it caused a shortage of state use, and later Chongzhen was repeatedly trapped by financial problems during the years.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the failure of the appeasement policy was due to the lack of money and the lack of money to resettle the rebel refugees, and the refugees had to surrender and rebel in order to survive.

During the Chongzhen period, natural disasters and droughts caused by ineffective disaster relief led to a great peasant uprising, which was also related to the lack of treasury.

As for the "three salaries" such as "Liao Salary", "Suppression Salary", and "Training Salary" in the later period, the contradictions intensified and accelerated the demise of the Ming Dynasty, all of which were related to the financial crisis.

Later generations said that there were tens of millions of taels of silver in Chongzhen's inner house, which is nonsense.

From a common sense point of view, Chongzhen at the critical juncture when Li Zicheng's troops were forcing the Beijing Division, and on the day when Sheji was about to die, if he had surplus money, why did he need to ask hundreds of officials to "pay donations", and finally delay the transfer of troops.

When Li Zicheng entered Beijing, the treasury and the imperial treasury were empty.

The financial crisis of the Ming Dynasty was so serious, to a large extent, because of the loss of an important financial source, that is, the destruction of the military system.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the military cantonment system had a strong guarantee of military spending.

In the first year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, there were more than 23 million stones of grain in the country's military tun fields, but the national tax grain was only more than 31 million stones, and the income of the military tun fields accounted for more than 70 percent of the national tax grain.

Since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the military system has been gradually destroyed, as early as the Hongzhi period, the military department Shangshu Ma Wensheng pointed out, "Tuntian government abolished, the register does not exist." Up and down, no official inspection. As a result, the official flags of the guards, the powerful soldiers and civilians invaded and stole and sold five or six of them, and Tuntian was in name only. ”

The military expenditure, which was originally the responsibility of the military tun, has been spent from the state treasury since the Ming Dynasty Wuzong Zhengde, which means that since then, not only has a huge fiscal revenue been reduced, but military expenditure has become a heavy burden on the state finance.

Moreover, after this, because the military salary needs to be allocated by the state and cannot be paid on the spot, the military salary under the military tun system mainly comes from the harvest of the military tun field.

The reliability of the timely payment of military salaries has been greatly reduced.

Since then, the Ming Dynasty has often had the worry that "it can't afford to fight".

The "Three Great Expeditions of Wanli" cost 7 million taels for the battle of aid to Korea alone, 2 million taels for the battle of Ningxia, and at least 2 million taels for the battle of Zhuozhou.

Later, the Liaodong War and the domestic civil uprising all consumed a large amount of military spending.

During the Apocalypse and Chongzhen years, due to the fact that the military salary could not be paid in time, the mutiny occurred from time to time, and the soldiers demanded the salary and mutinied, all over the military guards.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the most powerful "King Chuang" Gao Yingxiang's troops in the early stage of the peasant uprising were mostly defected by the Ming army, which was the evil result of the lack of military salaries.

The arrears of military salaries even affected Liaodong, and in the first year of Chongzhen, the Liaodong mutiny was caused by military salaries.

In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, because he could not make up one million salaries for the army, and delayed the transfer of Wu Sangui's Guanning Iron Cavalry into Beijing, it was the last life-saving straw for the Ming Dynasty.

If the military cantonment system has not been abolished, and the military expenditure is abundant enough to be self-sufficient, how can there be such a worry.

The evil consequences of the military retreat a hundred years ago were finally reflected in the Apocalypse and Chongzhen years.

Of course, when Wei Bao analyzed Zhu Youxiao, he would definitely not say anything about the Chongzhen Dynasty, but only said that what would happen if Jiannu entered the customs now.

The dilemma of fighting on two fronts, in any case, the orthodox dynasty of the Ming Dynasty directly perished in the rebel army at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the remnants of the forces perished in the Qing army.

The long-term two-front battle with the peasant rebel army and the Qing army was the direct cause of the fall of the Ming Dynasty.

Emperor Chongzhen's dreaming of sleeping at night and being diligent in political affairs is not a typical image of the "king of the dead country" in traditional Chinese historiography.

However, the reality of internal and external troubles was met with natural disasters and droughts, as well as the peasant rebel army that arose as an inducement, and the iron cavalry of the Houjin Eight Banners in Liaodong.

In the wars of the late Ming Dynasty, there were often two major sorrows.

When the Ming Dynasty fought against the Later Jin alone, it achieved certain victories and strategic advantages, such as the "Ningjin Great Victory" during the Apocalypse.

However, with the continuous development of the peasant army on the Loess Plateau and the development and growth of the peasant rebel army in the late Ming Dynasty, there was no doubt that there were factors such as the additional dispatch of "Liaotai", "training and salary" and "suppressing salary", and the "three salaries" undoubtedly greatly increased the burden on the people at the bottom, and the manpower, material resources, and financial resources consumed in order to support the war in eastern Liaodong will eventually be passed on to the people at the bottom.

At the same time, in order to support the war effort, investment in disaster relief was also diverted.

Therefore, it can be said that the civil rebellion at the end of the Ming Dynasty was closely and indirectly related to the war in Liaodong.

And the two-front battle of the Ming Dynasty made it impossible to focus on one place.

The peasant army was on the verge of desperation several times under the encirclement and suppression of the Ming army, all of which coincided with the Qing army's attack on Jingji again, so it was able to resume its development, of course, this was not the main reason, and it was finally destroyed by the peasant army within the capital attack.

On the battlefield of Liaodong, the defeat of Chongzhen's fourteen-year Songjin War made it "lose the elite of the Nine Stops", more than 100,000 elite troops were killed on the battlefield, and only 30,000 cavalry belonging to Wu Sangui were left in Liaodong, and the Guanning defense line completely collapsed.

It also made the Ming Dynasty lose the last complete elite troops.

Under the circumstances, it was difficult to avoid a two-front battle.

The financial resources are insufficient, and they are unable to appease, and to negotiate peace with the Qing Dynasty, one is against the ancestral teachings, and the other is that the sincerity of the Qing side is also questionable.

Song Yin Jian was in front of him, so there was probably no way out for peace.

"Xiaobao, what you said is so good, there is no silver in the treasury, and there are internal and external troubles. I can't get along with Jiannu, I can't afford to fight, I'm really in trouble everywhere, this mess, as long as I think about it a day, I have a headache that day, and I can't do anything. Zhu Youxiao said bitterly: "Xiaobao, do you know why I value you so much?" Because you are the first official to take the initiative to hand over money inward, only your Xiaobao has a great understanding in his heart, and there is me! ”

Wei Bao sweated, daring to love, the emperor admired himself because he had paid money again and again during this time?

It seems that not only ordinary people need silver, but the emperor needs silver even more.

"Your Majesty, Weichen can only do a little shallow analysis based on shallow knowledge, and there is really no good idea." Wei Bao said modestly. First, he really didn't have any good way to bring Da Ming back to life quickly. If he is reborn into the emperor and becomes the emperor directly, it may be better, and he secretly cultivates a caring team, at least if there is no problem with the guard force, he can carry out drastic reforms.

But he is not an emperor, he is just a five-grade official, and he made a Mao reform before he put forward a proposal for a literary prison, and I don't know how many people he has offended.

Wei Bao knew that now Wei Zhongxian had already killed himself, and if he provoked Wei Zhongxian, he would not be able to leave the palace by waiting for him.

"Xiaobao, don't worry, I trust you very much, you can say whatever you want, I will never say to anyone that you said it to me! Don't you believe me? There are no outsiders here. Zhu Youxiao looked at Wei Bao eagerly, "The military camp has been abandoned for a long time, and I am afraid that it will not be able to recover in a day or two." Moreover, the garrisons in various places are used to reaching out to the imperial court, how can they still be willing to farm their own fields? There is no way for the Ming Dynasty to resist the enemy on both sides, and if the slaves are built, they must be resisted, and the peasants must be suppressed when they rise up to make trouble, and there is no way. ”

Wei Bao looked at the emperor's burning gaze, but there was no wave in his heart.

From beginning to end, Wei Bao is just a pseudo fan, and Wei Bao cares about the future of China.

First, Wei Bao knows how difficult it is to change history, he himself is in history now, and if changing history will make him disappear out of thin air, he doesn't know, and he doesn't dare to experiment rashly.

The change in history that Wei Bao refers to is a major historical event, such as the Ming Dynasty destroying the Ming Dynasty, or the Jiannu destroying the Ming Dynasty in advance.

This has directly changed the direction of history.

In addition, Wei Bao doesn't care who kills whom, Wei Bao is more concerned about the people at the bottom, and he doesn't want to see the people at the bottom live a hard life and die in vain.

"Your Majesty, Weichen really doesn't have any ideas, at least not now, if Weichen comes up with it in the future, he must discuss it with His Majesty." Wei Bao could only shirk the road.

When Zhu Youxiao heard this, he was very disappointed, sighed, and then nodded: "Okay, Xiaobao, didn't you just say that Daming still has many questions?" Go on. ”

Wei Bao snorted and continued to analyze with his own opinion.

The conflict between the new economic factors and the old national capital is due to the implementation of the "One Whip Law" and the pacification of the Japanese and the relaxation of the "sea ban". New economic factors in the southeast of the Ming Dynasty continued to develop, the so-called "germ of capitalism".

The vigorous development of industry and commerce in the Jiangnan region will inevitably exist in conflict with the traditional agriculture as the foundation of the country.

During the Wanli period, Emperor Wanli of Mingshenzong solved the problem of insufficient treasury and insufficient consumption of the court. The predatory taxation of "mine tax inspectors" to collect wealth in all directions, which brought disaster to the country and the people, was strongly resisted by industrialists and businessmen in the developed areas of the southeast.

The resistance of the industrialists and businessmen and the people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang has even reached the level of armed confrontation.

The popular uprising that broke out in the Suzhou area of Nanzhi in the 29th year of Wanli is one example.

The rise of the Donglin Party at the end of the Ming Dynasty supported the development of the new economy to a certain extent.

Among its ideological propositions, there is also "industry and commerce are all the foundation", and they oppose the large-scale taxation of commerce.

Li Sancai, the prefect of Fengyang, a member of the Donglin Party, vigorously opposed this kind of behavior.

In the later period, the Donglin Party demanded a reduction in taxes on industrial and commercial people, which protected the development of industry and commerce on the one hand, but on the other hand, it also indirectly moved the "national capital", which is the foundation of the country, that is, the establishment of the country based on agriculture.

The reduction of taxes on industry and commerce, resulting in a single type of tax, inevitably reduces the revenue of the state treasury and increases the taxation of agriculture.

The later "three salaries" accelerated the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

"If the tax is not levied in the southeast, it must be taxed in the northwest", the popular uprising on the Loess Plateau is not only caused by natural disasters, but if the country is strong and the policy is appropriate, it will never cause such a large-scale uprising.

This involves the cyclical rate of economic development in ancient China.

This phenomenon of new economic factors emerging and prospering but eventually failing to break through the shackles of agriculture and dying has occurred at least three times in China's history.

For the first time, during the reign of Tianbao in the Tang Dynasty, under the high development of the traditional economy, many new economic factors were produced in all walks of life.

However, Tang Xuanzong failed to make use of it and failed to give it a systematic supporting construction that was adapted to the system. Rather, it is just a hasty response and the setting of taxes for the corresponding industries.

The ensuing outbreak of the "Anshi Rebellion" caused social and economic regression, and the new economy was greatly weakened in the war. The possible contradiction between the new economic factors and the agricultural capital has been eliminated in the bud.

The Anshi Rebellion was also a turning point in traditional Chinese society.

The second appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty, the social and economic development of the Song Dynasty was good, the citizen economy was quite developed, and various trades and new things to serve the citizen class continued to appear and develop.

The emergence of Jiaozi, Feiqian, and Wazi, the popularization of movable type printing, the prosperity of the storytelling industry, and the emergence of the "Fangguo household" as a separate household in the corresponding household registration system.

The great prosperity of the city and the prosperity of overseas trade all reflect the arrival of new economic factors.

The "Law of Exemption from Military Duty" and the "Law of Equal Loss" that appeared in the "Wang Anshi Reform" all reflect the requirements of the new situation.

The "Market Change Law" can be said to be the prototype of the state's use of the financial industry.

This change can be said to be an opportunity for China to enter modern times.

However, after all, the timing is still not very ripe, and agriculture is still absolutely dominant in the economy.

The provisions of the law are old-fashioned, the conservatives and law-reforming officials are old-fashioned, the emperor is old-fashioned, and the ideology is old-fashioned, and the original system, ideology, and social and economic conditions of the entire society are generally in line with the old system, while a small number of immature "emerging" ideas are quickly submerged, and as for the numerous problems that have arisen in the practical operation of the law reform, they are even more obviously bearing the deep imprint of the old system.

Of course, it is also extremely inappropriate to expect the ancients to transcend the limitations of the times. It can only be said that this is the inevitability of the historical environment.

After the failure of Wang Anshi's reform, the Jingkang Revolution led to the entry of backward nationalities into the Central Plains, which made the contradiction between agriculture and the new economy once again forcibly resolved.

Because the new economy was greatly weakened by the protracted war and the subsequent domination of backward peoples, its cornerstone agriculture also experienced a temporary decline.

The second new economic factor failed to break through the agricultural economy.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the third new economic factor once again developed to the point of conflict with the agricultural economy, and this time it was the most developed, because it produced the germ of capitalism, but after all, it did not break through the agricultural economic system.

Because the development of the traditional economy is divided into two lines: the new economic factors are based on the highly developed agricultural economy, and according to historical experience, the development of the agricultural economy will inevitably lead to a high concentration of the means of production -- land annexation, and the emergence of new economic factors is only a by-product brought about by the development of the agricultural economy.

The great land annexation led to social unrest, and the result of social unrest was the destruction of the fragile new economy.

The subsequent entry of the Qing army into the customs once again exacerbated this result, and the new economy was once again restricted.

Wei Bao felt that the demise of the Ming Dynasty was, to a certain extent, a cyclical contradiction in the agricultural economy.

Economic development - great land annexation - intensification of social contradictions - turmoil - economic recession - redevelopment.

As a result, this has a very different end from the cyclical rate of the capitalist economic crisis.

Unfortunately, the Ming Dynasty became another applicator of this law, the last victim of this chain.

There were too many modern reasons for the fall of the Qing Dynasty, and its demise did not fully apply to this law.

Zhu Youxiao can understand land annexation, but Zhu Youxiao can't understand what capitalism is.

Wei Bao explained in one sentence, "As the population grows, the per capita land is getting less and less. Land annexation, the gap between the rich and the poor is widening. The number of vested interests has increased, and the financial burden has become more and more significant. Your Majesty, the Han Tang and Yuan dynasties, all perished like this. It is a family, the people who work are not full, those who do not work are not only full, they have nothing to do when they are full, they hide the money, and they bully the people who work, and the people who work at home do not agree, they must fight with the people who do not work, and the outside family always sees that their own people beat their own people, and they must also take the opportunity to steal things and rob things, in the face of these situations, the head of the family has no choice. ”

Wei Bao explained very clearly, originally thought that Zhu Youxiao would be very angry after hearing it, but he didn't expect Zhu Youxiao to seem very happy.

Zhu Youxiao slapped his thigh, "Xiaobao, what you said is really good!" Those emperors, for a month or two, a year or two, I don't know what they are talking about, and when you just say a word, I understand everything, that's it, that's it! ”

Wei Bao sweats, is it that hard?

Wei Bao estimated that it was not that the emperors couldn't understand these things, but I was afraid that no one would speak to the emperor like this except him, right?

"Xiaobao, you say it again! Besides, didn't you say that there are still eunuchs interfering in politics and fighting with the party? This one is the one I'm most familiar with. Zhu Youxiao urged.

Wei Bao had to continue.

The alternating eunuch interference in the middle and late Ming Dynasty and the party struggle at the end of the Ming Dynasty undoubtedly greatly consumed the central force of the Ming Dynasty.

It is a bad performance of internal affairs, and as for the issue of eunuchs, in the final analysis, it is a matter of appointing people to the nearest place.

It is normal for people to trust themselves in close contact and understand each other, this phenomenon has actually existed in all dynasties, and it is not the most serious in the Ming Dynasty, it is a common phenomenon, and it is difficult to eradicate it, after all, people have selfish intentions.

In addition, there is another important reason why eunuchs are reused, that is, most eunuchs come from humble backgrounds and do not have a strong background compared with most civil officials.

Most of the Jinshi civil officials were born in the upper middle class of society, because most of the families who had the ability to make a person study for the imperial examination for many years were not poor households.

Otherwise, how could Wei Bao sell so much silver?

Not to mention Jinshi, more than ninety percent of the people are the children of large landlord families.

Wei Bao developed just by selling officials to the lifting class.

The reuse of people from humble backgrounds to hold power is also a way of ruling for the emperor, which is somewhat similar to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's reuse of civilian talents in principle.

From the emperor's point of view, the reuse of eunuchs posed less threat to his own imperial power.

Of course, the facts proved not entirely correct, but it is true that the eunuch dictatorship did not pose much threat to the emperor himself from beginning to end, and the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty were also a huge bureaucracy, with internal mutual constraints, and all ministries were heavily dependent on the imperial power, and the imperial power of the Ming Dynasty was highly mature.

The eunuch dictatorship in the Ming Dynasty was essentially a perversion of imperial power, a special way of exercising imperial power, and an extension and alienation of imperial power.

The eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty were "talented", from Wang Zhen, who caused the "Tumubao Change" due to the "Horizontal Sword Prancing Horse", to Wang Zhi, who founded the upgraded spy organization "Xichang", to Liu Jin, the head of the Eight Tigers, and Wei Zhongxian, the "nine thousand years old" who consumed the last vitality of the Ming Dynasty, all contributed to the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

And the performance of the civil official group does not seem to be very good, otherwise Emperor Chongzhen would not have said in his edict that "all civil servants can be killed".

In the late Ming Dynasty, there were many parties within the imperial court, and they were inclined to each other, and the "Three Major Cases of the Late Ming Dynasty" was a typical representative. When doing things is not based on the merits of the incident itself, but on the interests of the party, the party will fight against the same and the decay will be the inevitable outcome.

The tragedy of Xiong Yanbi in Liaodong and the forced resignation of Yuan Chonghuan after the victory of Ningjin are the direct embodiment of the evil results of the eunuch dictatorship and the struggle between the party.

The party strife in the late Ming Dynasty was more harmful, and this was more fully reflected in the various regimes of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

In later generations, the party struggle and eunuch dictatorship that criticized the Ming Dynasty the most, in fact, in Wei Bao's view, this point is the least important, and the first three points are the most important.

The reasons for the fall of the Ming Dynasty were complex, and the illnesses suffered in the later part of the Ming Dynasty were comprehensive.

The demise of a dynasty is caused by a complex and complex variety of comprehensive contradictions, and it is by no means caused by one person or one thing.

In the orthodox history books, often when the country is destroyed, it is often "traitorous ministers in power" and disrupt the government, while "loyal ministers" and "traitorous ministers" have carried out an indomitable struggle, and the final outcome is often to represent justice and loyalty, and the "loyal ministers" who are loyal to the monarch and love the people are finally overwhelmed and eliminated by the powerful and evil traitorous forces.

This is very much in line with the creative approach of tragic art. But unfortunately, it may not be in line with historical facts.

"To put it bluntly, it's just two o'clock, hurry up and get silver for the treasury, and get silver for my internal money, Daming needs someone like you Xiaobao! If you want to get more silver, you have to pay more money, and if you don't work, you always make trouble, and you always bully those who can't eat and work and kill a batch! Give back a portion of his land to the people who work, don't you? Zhu Youxiao said.

Wei Bao nodded, "Yes, Your Majesty." ”

"After getting the money and returning the land to the people who worked, you need to reuse loyalty, reduce the activity of eunuchs in the imperial court, and severely investigate and punish the ministers who engage in friends, right?" Zhu Youxiao asked again.

Wei Bao smiled: "Yes, Your Majesty." ”

"It's easy to find out the problem, Xiaobao, I want you to come up with a solution today." Zhu Youxiao waved his hand, very happy.

Wei Bao barely fainted, if you ask Lao Tzu to do a carpentry for you this afternoon, I will make a effort, it may not be difficult to do it.

You asked me to solve these problems of making the Ming Dynasty rotten home, and let Lao Tzu come up with a way today.

Who are you Lao Tzu?

Wei Bao suddenly regretted it, why did he analyze it to the emperor?