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Chapter 90 Zhu Biao’s way of governing the country! Put the people first! Humanity!

"Next."

"is the most important.

Ye Xuan raised his voice.

Zhu Biao was shocked.

His eyes were serious.

Listening with rapt attention.

"If you want the world to be peaceful and the Ming Dynasty continue, then————"

“We need to let the people have enough to eat.

"That's the main thing."

"And the most practical."

Ye Xuan said.

Zhu Biao was stunned.

"Let the people have enough to eat?"

He didn't expect that this was the most important thing that Ye Xuan said could bring peace to the world and allow the Ming Dynasty to continue.

Such a simple thing....

As long as Ming Dynasty is prosperous and strong.

Isn't it easy to do?

Ye Xuan seemed to understand what Zhu Biao was thinking and said:

"Don't you think this is easy?"

"It is said that there are frozen bones on the road, and the wine and meat of Zhumen stink

"Does His Majesty the Crown Prince understand the life of the real lower class people?"

"..."

Zhu Biao looked embarrassed and shook his head "627".

He is the prince.

All aspects of food, clothing, housing and transportation are taken care of.

There is no need to worry about firewood, rice, oil and salt.

He is not a common man.

Pamper yourself.

How do you know the lives of the people at the bottom?

Even though his father Zhu Yuanzhang had told him about his difficult past, his brothers and sisters starved to death and he could only become a monk and beg with a broken begging bowl.

However, little is known about this aspect.

I just thought that in the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, people were in dire straits.

That's why his father, Zhu Yuanzhang, was in such a state of decline at that time.

He felt that in other dynasties, the people at the bottom would not be like this.

Du Fu once wrote about the lives of ancient common people in the prosperous times.

"Recalling the heyday of Kaiyuan in the past, there are still thousands of families in this small town."

"The rice is dripping with fat, the corn is white, and both the public and private barns have plenty of food."

According to Du Fu's "Two Poems on the Past", people in prosperous times should have enough food and clothing.

Zhu Biao informed him of his thoughts.

"Sir, in the prosperous times, the people should have lived a good life, right?" He said Du Fu's "Two Poems on Recalling the Past", "In the prosperous times described by Du Fu, the people had ample food and clothing.

The country is peaceful and the people are safe. "

"That should be the case, right?"

"I will tell you about the diet of the people at the bottom of each dynasty, and you will know the lives of the people at the bottom, and how difficult it is to keep the people at the bottom fed."

Ye Xuan didn't reply, but said.

He began to tell Zhu Biao about the diet of the lower class people in various dynasties.

Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period.

"Soup food is the master of food."

"This is called daily food."

"Common people eat vegetables and worship fish."

The people at the bottom, in times of peace, only had rice soup and no meat.

Fish is used to sacrifice ancestors and gods.

In a vassal state where the rulers are corrupt and extravagant, the lives of the people at the bottom are also unsustainable.

When there is war, the common people suffer even worse.

Can't even eat.

starve.

The tragic situation of exchanging children and eating them.

Happens all the time.

Ordinary businessmen also buy ordinary foods such as millet and soybeans.

However, compared to the people at the bottom.

They've done a lot better.

Zhu Biao felt as if he was feeling the same, and felt quite uncomfortable in his heart.

"I didn't expect that the people at the bottom of the Warring States Period would have such a miserable life..."

"I can't imagine living like that at all."

"However, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were so chaotic that the people at the bottom had a hard time. Is it normal?"

"Normal?" Ye Xuan shook his head, "Just keep listening."

Sui and Tang Dynasties.

Ennin, a Japanese monk who sought Dharma in the Tang Dynasty, once described the life of the lower class people.

"Savages in mountain villages eat coarse and hard food. They like to eat salt, tea, millet and rice. They are too astringent to swallow and cause chest pain after eating."

"For many years they only eat cold dishes. If the guests are very polite, they will serve empty cakes and cold dishes as a meal.

It is considered good for the people at the bottom to have enough to eat.

The daily staple food is a variety of whole grains and vegetables.

I can barely afford meat.

The same goes for readers.

Pei Xiu's biography records that Pei Xiu's brothers once said that vegetarian food was not enough, and if they used money to buy meat, they would not be able to survive in the future.

Famine and war.

I can only chew bark and grass roots.

Song Dynasty.

In this era, everyone feels that they have abundant material resources, right?

However.

The life of the lower class people is still hard.

They are the kind that eat one meal and then another.

They don't even have enough food for half a year.

During the famine period.

They need to rely on nuts, grass roots, wild vegetables and other items to fill their stomachs.

Many people can't even eat these.

Cannibalism has also occurred.

The lives of soldiers who defend their country are not much better than those of the lower class people.

Except for the rationed food and a little salt.

There is almost no meat or vegetables.

Soldiers guarding the border are treated even worse.

Prostitutes can only eat the leftovers of their customers.

Zhu Biao looked grim after listening to Ye Xuan's story.

Unexpectedly, the life of the lower class people is so difficult.

Even in prosperous times.

The lower class people can only barely get enough food and clothing.

Now he understands why Ye Xuan said that it is difficult to feed the lower class people and divide the land.

This is really not an easy thing.

"If the people have enough food and clothing."

"Live a rich life."

"Who would risk being beheaded to rebel?"

"It is because the people have almost no way to survive, they are hungry and cold, and they have no other way to go except rebellion, so they rebel." Ye Xuan said.

He was quite emotional.

Most of the people who took the lead in the rebellion were not ordinary people at the bottom, but that group of people led the ordinary people at the bottom to rebel...

If the ordinary people at the bottom had enough food and clothing, and their wives and children were warm, who would be willing to risk being beheaded to rebel?

The same is true for Zhu Yuanzhang and others.

It is a last resort.

Only by rebellion can there be a way to survive.

"Today's Ming Dynasty, if we want to ensure that the people can have enough food, we must have land to farm, regardless of the factors of disasters and man-made disasters."

Speaking of "having land to farm."

Ye Xuan thought of the fundamental reason why the Ming Dynasty perished in history.

The fundamental reason why the Ming Dynasty perished was that land annexation was too serious.

Farmers could not survive.

Land annexation was because the Ming Dynasty treated scholars too well.

Passing the imperial examination would exempt land taxes.

Therefore.

Those scholars who passed the imperial examination would occupy a large amount of land.

Self-cultivating farmers who owned land would often register the land under the name of the juren to evade taxes.

The Ming Dynasty went through a vicious cycle for hundreds of years.

Most of the land in the Ming Dynasty was in the hands of the landlord class who did not have to pay taxes.

Self-cultivating farmers who only occupied a small part of the land bore most of the taxes.

The pressure on self-cultivating farmers increased greatly.

There was also a small ice river at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

The weather was bad.

The grain harvest was not good.

The small landlord class and self-cultivating farmers went bankrupt.

They became tenants and refugees.

Therefore, the country's tax revenue was getting less and less, and the privileged class was increasing.

These classes were like leeches.

They kept sucking the blood of the Ming Dynasty.

They became fatter and fatter.

The Ming Dynasty was getting thinner and thinner.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Refugees and bandits were everywhere.

The Eight Banners of the Later Jin Dynasty rose.

In the face of internal and external troubles, the Ming Dynasty could only rely on taxes to support the army.

All these taxes fell on the self-cultivating farmers who occupied the least land.

They were overwhelmed.

Coupled with the bad weather.

The farmers could not survive at all.

The people could not eat enough.

If they did not rebel, they would have to wait for death.

They could only take the road of rebellion.

Ye Xuan said:

"Governing the country should be based on the people."

"Go deep into the people and understand and solve the difficulties of the people."

"I dare not say that the emperor is guilty of the same crime as the common people, but at least it should be done that the general dignitaries can be guilty of the same crime as the common people.

"Treat the people almost equally."

"Put the people first."

"Govern the country in this way."

"Only by governing the country in this way can you be a good emperor."

"This kind of governance is different from the kingly way, the hegemonic way and the imperial way."

"It can be humane."

"The principle of governing the country with the people first."

"Put the people first."

Zhu Biao kept Ye Xuan's words in mind.

Humane? Put the people first?

This kind of emperor's way is very consistent with his personality.

Perhaps, this will be his governing philosophy after he ascends the throne.

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