Zhu Youjian saw the worried look on Nizi's face and knew that he was worried that there were too many honorable military households and it would be difficult to control them in the future, so he asked: "Brother Chun, do you know why I have to confer so many honorary titles and recruit so many

A military household?"

Why?

Zhu Cihong said in his heart: Because you are not a good person! You are a feudal **** emperor, so you know how to launch a war of aggression without resorting to violence, which has brought serious disasters to people all over the world! What is even more hateful is that you continue to exploit me.

This most filial son in history... I now know what Emperor Taizu Gao asked me to do, which is to clean up the mess for you, a **** element!

Of course, Zhu Cixiang would not dare to say these heartfelt words... Otherwise, Ming Dynasty would have to fight over the foundation of the country!

So Zhu Cixiang finally answered like this: "My father did this, of course, to lead the Ming Dynasty out of the cyclical law of the rise and fall of dynasties!"

"Periodic law?" Zhu You asked, "What does it mean?"

"Throughout the history of China, there has been a cyclical pattern of ups and downs, chaos, and back and forth. So far, no dynasty or generation has been able to truly break out of it..." Zhu Cihong paused, and then said: "Except it is not

The unified Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties, as well as the subsequent dynasties of Guozuo, all have a hard time of 300 years. From the founding of a country, to the prosperity of the times, to the chaos of the world, the subjugation of the country, and the sinking of the land, it is difficult to go beyond 300 years.

.”

"That's not right," Zhu Youjian said, "there were 29 emperors in the Han Dynasty, and the country lasted for 407 years. There were 18 emperors in the Song Dynasty, and the country lasted for 319 years... The Han Dynasty and the Song Dynasty have passed the 300-year period.

Bar?"

"My father even said that there were two Han and two Song Dynasties." Zhu Cixi sighed, "Between the two Han Dynasties and the Northern Song Dynasty's southern crossing, there was a cycle of chaos and prosperity, alternating between rise and fall!"

Zhu Youjian nodded and said: "It has been 278 years since the founding of Emperor Taizu Gao of this dynasty... Can it continue to be passed down?"

"Yes!" Zhu Cixiang replied resolutely, "What my father is doing now is to extend the life of our Ming Dynasty. In 300 years, we will definitely be able to break through!"

That must be broken through! Otherwise, Zhu Youjian will not be the king of subjugation, and Zhu Cihong will have to hang his neck on a tree!

"Really?" Zhu Youjian looked at his son and asked word by word, "Then tell me... how did I lead the Ming Dynasty to break this 300-year period?"

This question is a trap! Because ordinary filial sons will think that the Ming Dynasty, under the leadership of Emperor Chongzhen, has jumped out of this 300-year periodic law.

If Zhu Cixiang thinks so, then his national status will be shaken!

"Father..." Zhu Cixiang's face was solemn, "My Ming Dynasty has not escaped from the 300-year cycle of rise and fall!"

"Not yet? Why?" Zhu Youjian looked at his son.

"Because behind the 300-year cycle of ups and downs is actually the contradiction between man and earth... Food is the basis of the people, and the earth is the basis of food."

Zhu Cixiang said: "When dynasties first flourished, it was often the end of troubled times. China's population has suffered heavy losses in troubled times, and the dynasty in which it flourished often had fewer people and more land. It often used 20 to 30 million people to cultivate ten thousand acres of land.

With hundreds of millions of acres of land, even if you plant a lot but produce little, you can still live in peace and have enough food, so it will naturally be easy to settle down. Even if there is a major disaster, you will be able to live in peace because there are few people, the land is vast, and there is plenty of food. It is easy to save surplus food in good years. If

The major disasters from the first to the seventeenth year of Chongzhen occurred during the Hongwu period, and the court would never be so difficult.

Nowadays, the country is barely surviving the disaster years, but the population remains the same, reaching more than 20 million, and the number is increasing by more than 2 million every year... Within a few decades, it will rise to 40 million.

It is possible! By then, China's billions of acres of land will not be able to support a population of 40 million people. Therefore, this 300-year period is not really a breakthrough. However, my father has worked very hard.

It’s jumping outside the periodic law again!”

"It makes sense!" Zhu Youjian nodded and said with a smile, "Brother Chun, you are indeed my good son... I have granted 4,000 noble families, recruited 3 million military households, started wars from east to west, and conquered from north to south.

, just to give the excessive population of Middle-earth a place to go.

If one hundred and eighty thousand households can be reorganized every year, the life of Guo Zuo of the Ming Dynasty can be extended for more than a hundred years! In this way, my generation, your generation, the generation of wealthy children, and the generation of wealthy children’s sons will all have nothing to worry about."

Of course Zhu Youjian didn't know how long Zhu Cihong had extended his life for the Ming Dynasty in his previous life, but he felt that a hundred years of life extension was still stable.

The idea is good, but the problem of profit and loss... Zhu Cixiang was also a little speechless.

Emperor Chongzhen's three-level feudal system of vassals, nobles, and military households was actually a feudal colonial system that expanded externally.

The vassal king conferred a title and became the king. The noble children who followed the vassal king and went out to hang out became the vassals and officials of the vassal state. The ordinary military households became the citizens or warriors of the vassal state after they left.

In addition, according to Chongzhen's feudal plan, feudalism had to be carried out in the Ming Dynasty before large-scale external feudalism. The current Ming Dynasty in the mainland was not all governed by provinces, prefectures, counties, and officials. There were also many feudal vassals.

place.

Roughly speaking, in 14 provinces including Zhili, Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Jiangsu, Anhui (Huaixi plus Taiping, Ningguo, Huizhou, Chizhou), Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Guangdong, and Guangxi

In terms of territory, the vast majority of government offices and prefectures and counties were managed by roving officials, while the territories managed by chieftains or thousands of households accounted for only a minority.

In the eight general military jurisdictions of Yunnan, Guizhou (the two provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou have been abolished), Liaodong, Liaoxi, Yanning, Xuanda, Anxi, and Hexi (Shaanxi has been demarcated), feudal land and thousands of households are

The land owned by Hexunzhuang accounts for the majority, and the land managed by Fuzhou County accounts for the minority.

These eight general military districts are all places with few people and vast land. Of course, we have to constantly move Qianhusuo and Xunzhuang there. And at least half of the military households who went to further places to establish states and feudal states also had to move there.

Drawn from the Qianhusuo and Xunzhuang in the eight general military areas - military households who have lived and cultivated in these places for a period of time are more capable of fighting and can adapt to the environment of the target area, so they must be used as the backbone to form

A military immigration group with powerful combat capabilities.

And outside the 14th direct provinces and the eight general military areas, there is also the land of control... which is the territory that is nominally annexed, but in fact it is difficult to control, or simply Zhu Youjian thinks it is the Ming Dynasty.

land! For example, most of the Northeast (including the outer Northeast), most of Qinghai and the snow-covered plateau, this is the situation now.

Zhu Youjian not only had to send military households to those places (including Xunzhuang to seal households), but also sent troops to conquer the dissatisfied. This time Zhu Youjian personally conquered the Northeast and North Korea in order to eliminate the slave and traitor remnants there so that more households could be sealed.

Enter.

In addition to the vassal state, the general military area, and the Jidu area, Emperor Chongzhen also developed the concept of "brotherly states", which was to be passed on to Zhu Cixuan's Great Mongolia and Zhu Cijong's target Japan... A lot

The feudal households and military households from Han Dynasty will eventually migrate to these two countries.

At first glance, Zhu Youjian's set of feudal colonization is similar to Zhu Cihong's colonization in his previous life, but there is one difference. Zhu Youjian did not consider profit at all, and he did not calculate the cost very much, so naturally he would not compare the

Areas that are easy to make profits are regarded as priority areas for colonization - unlike Zhu Cixiang who initially targeted the wealthy west coast of America and trade nodes in Southeast Asia. Zhu Youjian paid more attention to historical origins and the need to prepare for northern nomads, so the Western Regions, Monan Grassland, and Northeastern Region

These are his focus.

Before the Little Glacier season ends, colonization and development in these areas will not only be costly, but also difficult to make a profit.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian's feudal colonization was all at a loss, and a large amount of wealth needed to be collected from the southeast of the Ming Dynasty to fill the colonial deficit.

Of course, in Zhu Cihong's view, Zhu Youjian's colonial route was not without merit. He invested a lot in the southern grain-producing areas, and also established a friendly cooperative relationship with the Dutch, which allowed Ming Dynasty to gain several

A reliable source of food.
Chapter completed!