Throughout the ages, dynasties have changed frequently, and most dynasties have not escaped the curse of three hundred years, and I personally believe that the main reason for this is the change of dynasties due to class contradictions!
Because it is an agrarian society and a small-scale peasant economy, class contradictions mainly revolve around the land.
In general, the great unified dynasty was always built on a ruin, the old interest groups were broken, the productive forces were greatly destroyed, and the population was greatly reduced.
The new dynasty at this time was a blank slate. The imperial court had a large amount of land in its hands that could be distributed, and coupled with the small population, it was more than enough to reward meritorious servants or appease the self-employed farmers. Even after settling in, the imperial court still had a lot of land.
These are times full of life. From meritorious nobles to pawns of peddlers, almost all of them can benefit from the redistribution of benefits, and everyone's faces are full of happy smiles.
This is an economic benefit. The social dimension is also reshaping the landscape.
The entrepreneurial team of the new dynasty is relatively independent and has not established entangled social relations.
After they became the ruling group, it would take decades or even nearly a hundred years to form alliances with gentry, rich merchants and other classes and grasp all social resources. The time difference between these decades is a vacuum period.
During this vacuum period, social classes are mobile, good reading can quickly become officials, business can quickly become rich... They can be less bound by social relations.
In the early days of the dynasty, everything was thriving.
The peasants have land, the readers have official work, and the imperial court has good finances, and it will not take many decades to usher in a prosperous era, and after a period of time, they will immediately invade Weihai. For the first hundred years of almost every dynasty, it was sent with a full phone bill. The emperor and the ministers did not have to do anything, as long as they went to work on time and clocked in, the Taiping Dynasty would definitely arrive as scheduled, more punctual than the great aunt. But after the prosperity, the problem came. If the founding nobles of the imperial court can continue, after years of development, their tentacles have long been extended to all aspects of society, from a single branch to a hand covering the sky.
The local gentry and merchants also developed into earth emperors, who were not only allies of the government, but also the descendants of higher-ranking tycoons. From the imperial court to the countryside, the overwhelming net was formed.
The fresh air became suffocated, the mobile class became solidified, the active economy and finance gradually cooled down, and everyone's life was not very good.
Only the vested interests in the big net are still moist. Not just moisturizing, they will become more and more bloated. Because the big net covering the world is like a black hole, it will attract all the resources and benefits, and then swallow it all up. When the dynasty came to this point, there was usually a reform. This is a special session of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
For example, Sang Hongyang's salt and iron monopoly, the two tax laws, Wang Anshi's transformation law, Zhang Juzheng's reform... All reforms are a competition for resources with vested interests. Well, the Qing Dynasty is more special, and the national conditions are different.
If successful, the dynasty can continue for a hundred years, and if it fails, the life of the dynasty will enter the countdown. When the dynasty enters the third century, the contradictions accumulated over the years will usher in a total outbreak, and large-scale peasant uprisings will be put on the agenda.
Therefore, at the end of the dynasty, the peasants who cannot afford to eat will naturally rebel, and the middle and lower-level bureaucrats will not be much better than the peasants, so they will also follow, and when they reach a certain scale, there is a possibility of overthrowing the old dynasty, and they can redistribute interests, many careerists will jump out, and with the participation of powerful careerists, then the old system or dynasty will break through ten thousand people and collapse like a decay. After the collapse of the old dynasty, there will always be more capable peasants, middle- and lower-level bureaucrats, and careerists, and they will soon decide the victory or defeat, redistribute interests, and establish a new order!