How did Zhu Yuanzhang slaughter heroes and officials while doing so to the common people? Why didn't it cause a big mess. As for the official Zhu Yuanzhang, what was taken was to proceed step by step, killing a batch, holding a batch, and shocking a large number of people, and finally eliminating all the people who were threatened. For this problem, this account has said a lot, interested friends can go to the account homepage to find or search.
This article is mainly about the cruelty to the people. We look at the various plots described in Zhu Yuanzhang's rule, mainly the relocation of the sea and the prohibition of the sea, the great migration of the people encountered various popular uprisings and even uprisings, which triggered suppression. There are also historical records such as the "shoveling club", historical records such as the plundering of the people by arsonists, and so on.
Let's talk about Zhu Yuanzhang's rule over officials and the people. For example, for the officials, we suspect that the probability of tens of thousands of deaths in the "empty seal case" is almost zero, the reason is very simple, I said this problem the year before. See the article at the end of the article for details.
What does this mean? It shows that one of the many problems recorded in the history of our country is the disrespect for numbers, the fact that numbers are not regarded as objective numbers.
The biggest problem recorded in Chinese history
Chinese historical records do lack respect for "numbers", or are poetic in generality, mainly as the degree of cases and the degree of emperor's preferences, such as rewarding tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, killing tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands. In fact, these numbers do not need to be more real. Another case of disrespect is when the numbers are chaotic and the water is high.
There are not many numbers that can be used as research, and generally the numbers of the relevant "professional parts" are still relatively visible, such as the introduction of taxes. The Ming Dynasty's performance in this regard is also very bad, and the Ming Dynasty's fiscal revenue figures are too problematic.
Therefore, for the number problem, on the one hand, do not be too real, on the other hand, do not be less real. This depends on one's own grasp and the richness of the knowledge mastered.
Zhu Yuanzhang was emperor for the first 10 years
From the first year of Hongwu to the ninth year of Hongwu, because of the five-year defeat of Lingbei in Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang's main focus in the process of governing the country changed, before the people's livelihood under the military, and then the military under the people's livelihood. As soon as the vision of governing the country shifted, Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly found that a more dangerous situation appeared than the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty: that is, the sequelae of the people's livelihood policy of the first five years (moving the sea and forbidding the sea, immigration, and the contradiction between the north and the south) broke out in a concentrated manner.
Therefore, the defeat of Lingbei, the Zhongdu Town Property Case, and the Air Printing Case are directly related, and the same economic policies such as the relocation of the sea, immigration, and the large-scale printing and distribution of paper money, the emergence of the renegade and open-middle system, and the establishment of the health system all appeared in a concentrated manner during this period. It can be said that this period was the busiest period for Zhu Yuanzhang as emperor.
Militarily, the Northern Yuan was still very strong, and the military strength of the Ming Dynasty could not swallow it in one bite. Economically, the people's livelihood is poor, and the shortage of fiscal revenue cannot even be matched by military expenditure and military food. To this end, Zhu Yuanzhang on the one hand issued large-scale paper money without monetary support, and on the other hand, he hoarded grain. Regarding the problem caused by paper money, it is a difficult problem now, not to mention the Ming Dynasty six or seven hundred years ago, so although the paper money problem is considered to be the "first major evil government of the Ming Dynasty", it has played a key economic role in the stability of the Ming Dynasty.
Without the support of a large number of gold and silver reserves, paper money is waste paper. But don't forget that people are willing to play with paper money because of trust in the government, as long as the trust is there, even if the paper money can also be bartered. You said that Zhu Yuanzhang was good at plundering and plundering during this period, or squeezing the people. But the problem is, if you don't have a lot of money in your hands, if you can't do infrastructure construction, if you can't resettle the displaced people in disasters, and if a million troops don't have military food, these are all serious problems, what can you do?
Prosperity also makes the people suffer, and death also suffers the people
For the common people, after all, from ancient times to the present, the chinese people are relatively honest, and those who dare to fight against the government and even make trouble, as long as they are not hungry or starving to death, are a very small minority, so even if Zhu Yuanzhang is cruel to a very small number of people, it will not affect the overall situation.
The suffering of Zhu Yuanzhang's period was that it was impossible to talk about blind movement and movement, but could only be limited to a certain range of suffering. It's not good to eat or drink.
The suffering of the Yuan Shun Emperor was the suffering of wandering around and starving to death on the road, the suffering of hiding in the same place and dying of the plague in his hometown, the bitterness of watching his parents and children skinny, and the suffering of eating for their children.
As we often say: I'd rather be a taiping dog than a mess!
Suffering and suffering are not the same. After all, for individuals, one or two thousand, one or two hundred thousand people is indeed a lot, but if you think about nine million, tens of millions of people, is there more? Is the proportion still large? That's not big.
In a chaotic world, it is always the interests of the majority of the people that come first, so that we can preserve political power and hurt the normal interests of a small number of people.
In peacetime, there will be a situation where the interests of a few people come first, and over time, most of the people who are hurt will become more and more angry, and the courage of the minority will become more and more and more greedy, and eventually corruption and law will be everywhere, making the people unhappy, and everyone will not have enough to eat, and they will also have the heart of a chaotic courtier and a thief to change dynasties, such as the Tang Dynasty to replace the Sui Dynasty; or there will be a peasant uprising, such as the establishment of the Han Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty; or the strength of minority regimes will be balanced again, such as the Yuan Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty.
In fact, Chinese history is, in a sense, a question of balancing the interests of the minority with the interests of the majority.
The defeat of Lingbei intensified the outbreak of the Zhongdu case, which in turn led to the empty printing case and the slaughter of heroes
Attached is the "Hongwu Tianxia Cangsheng Map Series": 01 The essence of the Empty Seal Case: replace the Yuan surrender and let the people he train come up; 02 Xu Daling was defeated by the Northern Yuan, and Zhu Yuanzhang was killed by the King of Goryeo after five years of painstaking efforts; 03 The Battle of Lingbei: Xu Da was defeated by the famous Northern Yuan general Wang Baobao in 1372; how many provinces of the Ming Dynasty were there during the 04 "Empty Seal Case"? It is simply impossible to die tens of thousands of people
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