There are many different opinions on why the Ming Dynasty perished.

Some say it is because of natural disasters, while others say it is because of man-made disasters;

Some people say it was a good thing done by the civil servant group, while others say it was a trouble caused by the eunuch;

Some people say that the Later Jin Dynasty is too strong, while others say that the Ming Dynasty is too weak;

Some people say that Apocalypse must be responsible, while others say that Chongzhen must take the blame.

Some people even say that the fall of the Ming Dynasty began with orthodox, Jiajing, and Wanli.

In fact, feudal dynasties have their own common characteristics, and most of the demise of a feudal dynasty has one common reason, that is, land annexation.

This was the case with many feudal dynasties. The later the land annexation became more serious, and the later the land was concentrated in the hands of a few people. The farmers who really accounted for the majority of the population often slowly lost the land on which they depended for survival, resulting in famine and unrest, and the dynasty would also go to destruction.

The reason why the Ming Dynasty was going to perish was also due to land annexation, and most of the land in the world was annexed, and the peasants had no way to survive. Only by rebelling was the continuous peasant uprisings that consumed the last bit of national strength of the Ming Dynasty, which made the Ming Dynasty seem so vulnerable.

When it comes to land annexation in the Ming Dynasty, the most vicious ones are these royal relatives. They may have become idle and at a loss because they have been deprived of too much power, so that they can gain things such as material, money, land, etc., and they can enjoy all their glory and desire.

Their greed is quite terrifying, enough to be described as insatiable. No matter how much land annexed, it cannot satisfy their appetite. No matter how much money they make, they feel that it is not enough, as if they were born to annex the land and exploit the people.

No one has counted how much land these royal family members have annexed. In short, a prince will not be less than ten thousand hectares, and a county will not be less than a thousand hectares. For example, the Fu and Lu kings of the Wanli Dynasty, they just got tens of thousands of hectares of arable land. Later, they still tried their best to merge, and they would never know how to satisfy them.

The Ming Dynasty had only eight or nine million hectares of arable land, and there were more than 60 princes who were enfeoffed in the Ming Dynasty, and the princes in the end expanded to thousands. It is conceivable how much land they annexed.

Take the Henan Zhou Palace as an example. There are more than 70 princes derived from its descendants, so that more than 70 cities have become the fiefs of the princes of Runan, Shunyang, Xin'an, Yongning, Ruyang, Zhenping, Yiyang, Suiping, Fengqiu, Luoshan, Neixiang, Licheng, Yuanwu, Yanling, Heyin, Xiangcheng, Yiyang, Yiyang, Yiyang, Linru, Shenqiu, Shangluo, Luyang, Lintuan, etc., etc., have become the fiefs of the princes of the princes of the princes of the princes of the Zhou Palace. How terrifying is this number!

By the late Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, almost 80% of the arable land in Henan, where the land annexation was the most serious, and almost 70% of the arable land in Shanxi were in the hands of the royal family. Others such as Shaanxi, Huguang, Sichuan, Shandong, etc., the land annexed by the royal family was as high as 60% or 70% or 40% or 50%. In other words, these royal family members alone occupied most of the arable land in the world. Others also had dukes, marquis, nobles, civil officials, eunuchs and other power classes were all crazily annexing the land. How could the people survive? It would be strange if they didn’t rebel!

Now, Jiajing was not aware of this, and the King of Jin was not even aware of this. Yang Cong knew very well that half of the reason why the Ming Dynasty perished was because these royal relatives were too crazy to annex the land.

They are insatiable and self-destructive!

Are these mortal worms who are alive and dead annexed so much land to be buried with them?

Yang Cong became more and more angry the more he thought about it, but he repeatedly told himself that he should not be impulsive, he should not be impulsive.

Impulsive people are devils. Impulsive people are likely to become devils, while calm people can subdue the devils.

He can't do anything about these royal relatives at this moment. If he is impulsive, it will not only be useless, but may also mess up the Yang family's salt business in Shanxi. Wouldn't that be shot in the foot!

He suppressed the anger in his heart and said calmly: "Mr. Zhou, do you think how much profit can these two or three thousand acres of land bring in a year? Do you King Jin's Mansion really care about this little money?"

Zhou Feng still said slowly: "Two or three thousand acres of land can make at least one thousand taels of profit, not enough to support dozens of people, a lot."

Damn, isn’t it just this little money? It’s up to you to be greedy.

Yang Cong said with a little disdain, "It's just over a thousand taels, there's no need to mobilize all the troops like this, right?"

His disdain was not pretending, but really disdain. He felt embarrassed to do such dirty things for the benefit of more than a thousand taels.

Seeing Yang Cong's expression, Zhou Feng's face became a little ugly.

This kid is really crazy. He dares to despise our King of Jin's mansion so much.

He suppressed the anger in his heart and counterattacked lightly: "More than a thousand taels is money. If you give it to someone else, it will be gone."

Damn, you are greedy for money, right? I'll let you greedy for enough.

Yang Cong suddenly waved his hand and said boldly: "Forget it, we won't talk about this matter of more than a thousand taels, let's talk about the big business."

Big business?

When Zhou Feng heard this, he was stunned. What does this kid mean?

He asked carefully: "Mr. Yang, what does this big business mean?"

Yang Cong stared at him and said word by word: "It's very simple. I will rent 100,000 acres of land with you, and I will pay 100,000 taels of rent a year. What do you think?"

ah!

Could this kid be crazy? He has 100,000 acres of land. If he spends less money, it would be great to earn 50,000 taels a year, but he actually paid 100,000 taels!

He said in disbelief: "Be serious?"

Of course Yang Cong was not crazy. He paid 100,000 acres of land and rented 100,000 taels on the surface, but he saved a lot of trouble. At least, there was no need to worry about the salt in Taiyuan Town every year. No matter how much money the Jin Palace is, for the rent of 100,000 taels, it would be impossible to go against him.

Moreover, he didn't lose much, because grain procurement and transportation cost, which may be higher than the price of the grain itself. In other words, his father spent more than 100,000 taels of money to purchase 100,000 shi of grain, so he gave it to the King of Jin's Mansion one by one. From then on, it would be so good.

He nodded solemnly and said, "Of course it's true. As long as you are willing to rent and sign the contract, we will pay you immediately. We can pay you the rent for next year now."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Feng couldn't help but say excitedly: "Okay, I'll go back and ask our prince now. I believe that our prince will definitely agree. Lord Yang, just wait for good news."

Yang Cong nodded lightly, then smiled and said, "There is another saying, please ask Lord Zhou to bring it to His Highness King Jin. That old guy Chen Da is afraid that he can't beat me, so he tricked you, the King Jin Mansion to take action. Don't be used as a gun!"

this!

Zhou Feng thought about it carefully and found that they were really used as guns.

Isn’t this ailment for more than one thousand taels and offend the current emperor’s wet nurse and his aunt?
Chapter completed!