Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty is the only beggar emperor in the history of our country, and when Zhu Yuanzhang beat the world, he could be said to be poor and white, and he wanted nothing, but it was this poor beggar who led a large group of people to beat down the whole world. What makes us very strange is that Zhu Yuanzhang started from scratch and had no funds in his hands, how could he raise his own army?
At least in the historical records, we have never heard of Zhu Yuanzhang's shortage of soldiers and food. But the Chongzhen Emperor was different, although the pressure he faced was still quite large, but the whole country was still in his own hands, and the grain and money were under his control. So why did the Chongzhen Emperor in the historical record often lack soldiers and food?
Natural disasters continue
Although the last year of the Yuan Dynasty was still under the jurisdiction of the Chongzhen Emperor, the Yuan Dynasty suffered continuous disasters, the land was barren, and the peasants had no harvest. The common people are fleeing the wilderness, Chongzhen as the emperor, not to mention asking the peasants to pay taxes, he also has to pay for the disaster, so that the Jiangshan he sits on has not only not become his own capital to fight the world, but has become a burden to sweep away internal and external troubles.
It is precisely because of the continuous natural disasters that various contradictions have occurred, and finally because of the problem of peasant food and clothing, a large-scale peasant uprising has arisen, and his own dynasty has also collapsed in the peasant uprising.
Zhu Yuanzhang often robbed the rich
Compared with Chongzhen, Zhu Yuanzhang had more channels to obtain soldiers and grain. As a rebel army, Zhu Yuanzhang ran to fight the banner of the world for the people, and won the support of many people, and the natural flow of soldiers did not need to worry at all. In terms of grain, Zhu Yuanzhang mostly began to rob large households of grain after breaking through a city and distributing it to the poor people.
But what should be confirmed here is that most of the grain is still used for their own armies, and only a small part of it is distributed to the people. The Chongzhen Emperor's grain could only be borrowed from the rich of the country, and it could not be robbed, otherwise it would only exacerbate the scale of the uprising.
Protect the rights and interests of farmers and give promises to the rich
Later, Zhu Yuanzhang also realized that robbing the rich was not a long-term solution, and he also needed to have backup energy. Then if you don't rob the rich, you will face a shortage of food, but the clever Zhu Yuanzhang has his own way.
Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the construction of high walls, the accumulation of grain, and the slow rise of the king. These nine words very clearly explainEd Zhu Yuanzhang's strategy at that time. Establish their own base areas, give the peasants their due rights and interests, and at the same time reach an agreement with the rich, and the rich will give them grain, and give them higher treatment when the world is unified in the future. Those rich people could not withstand the temptation of Zhu Yuanzhang, and invested in Zhu Yuanzhang one after another, not only achieving their own achievements but also achieving Zhu Yuanzhang.
At this point, Lü Buwei of the Qin Dynasty had already made a good start. Zhu Yuanzhang's commitment greatly mobilized the peasants' enthusiasm for production, and at the same time strengthened the determination of the rich to invest. However, the Chongzhen Emperor asked the ministers to donate money but did not give any promises, which could only provoke the ministers to be dissatisfied, and the tacit understanding between the monarchs and the ministers, the collapse of the Yuan Dynasty could only be a matter of time.
In fact, after the above analysis, we can also clearly see that When Zhu Yuanzhang attacked the world, he did not lack food and soldiers, but took effective solutions. At the same time, Zhu Yuanzhang, as the leader of the rebel army, did not have too many worries, and the pressure was not as great as that of the Chongzhen Emperor.
Although the Chongzhen Emperor was sitting on jiangshan at that time, the imperial court was already corrupt, the jiangshan had been hollowed out, and he had no capital to resist at all, and could only support it bitterly, which was why Zhu Yuanzhang's army was like a broken bamboo, and Chongzhen was gradually defeated. So what are your different views on Zhu Yuanzhang's poor and white fight against the country, chongzhen sitting in the world and losing the country?
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