Rejoice, the people suffer. The dead people suffer
Is there really one? No dynasty of low-level peasants is really doing well. Even when the poor people in charge of Zhu Yuanzhang in the Ming Dynasty had the highest status, even the people had the power to directly arrest officials, but the people at that time were still living in deep trouble, and they did not see that Zhu Yuanzhang had killed thousands of corrupt officials every year during his 30-year reign, so that corrupt officials were all fish and meat people! Do you think the people living under the rule of these corrupt officials can live well?
But in fact, we cannot deny that half of the prosperity of a dynasty is made by the low-level peasants. At that time, China's dynasties were all based on peasants, and the peasants were the foundation of the dynasty, it can be said that the importance of the peasants is unmatched, but it is such an important group of peasants, at that time the dynasty was indeed the lowest status, officials can be bullied, the rich can be bullied, even an ordinary servant can be bullied, even the status is so low peasants, what do you say they can get in return?
The only people who have enjoyed the glory and wealth of the dynasties have been the princes and nobles, but in fact what have they done? Just by virtue of the founding of the country? But those credits were not exchanged for the lives of those low-level soldiers? And which of those soldiers at the bottom was not transformed from the peasants at the bottom? What did they get? All you get is the destruction of your family, and all you get is the separation of your wife and children. Nothing else, even their names can not be remembered after their deaths, and those princes and nobles, even the traitors, can leave a mark on history, but they have long since become a grain of history, and no one remembers.
Some would argue that there were still several emperors in China's dynasties who cared about the peasants at the bottom. They were doing well in that period, but was that really the case? In fact, no matter which emperor, even song Renzong, who is known as the most benevolent, in their eyes, the people at the bottom are just a "tool" to create taxes for the dynasty. Even Tang Taizong, who is known as the Emperor of the Ages, has said that "the people are arrogant when they have nothing to do, and it is easy to make them through hard labor", do you say that the emperor really cares about the peasants at the bottom? Imagine that even the supreme ruler of the dynasty does not care about the people at the bottom, do you think they can live well?
It is a lamb to be slaughtered, and a cannon fodder to be used when it dies
Nowadays, people are always talking about how strong the strong man is, how rich the Song dynasty is, and how prosperous the Tang Dynasty is. But people seem to selectively forget how the peasants at the bottom are doing under this power. In fact, it can be said that no matter how powerful the dynasty is, the price behind this is unbearable.
Everyone is talking about the glory of the strong man, "those who commit the crime of the strong man, although they are far away, they will be punished" This is still a phrase that people still enjoy. But who knows what the price is behind this? It is the ten rooms and nine voids of northern Xinjiang, it is the people of the frontier who do not have a good life, how many soldiers died in the fight against the Xiongnu, died on the way to the expedition to the western region, it is precisely because Han sacrificed the lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers in exchange for the name of strong Han. But the price behind this is the separation of the wives and children of hundreds of thousands of soldiers' families.
In that glorious era of the Three Kingdoms, famous generals such as carp, wise men like clouds, how many people have fantasized about joining this exciting Era of the Three Kingdoms. Because there is the thrilling Battle of Chibi here, and there is also the exciting Liu chu Qi Mountain, countless people fantasize that they are one of the Three Kingdoms. But who knows that behind the Three Kingdoms is that the population of China has dropped from 65 million in the Eastern Han Dynasty to just over 30 million people, that is to say, how many 35 million low-level peasants died in the Turmoil of the Three Kingdoms.
The Song Dynasty was hailed as the richest dynasty in China, but several people knew that most of the wealth created by the people ended up flowing into the hands of the princes and nobles, who had almost nothing to gain, and some of them just had food to eat. When the Jin Dynasty conquered the Central Plains, the royal family of the Northern Song Dynasty and those princes and nobles fled directly to the south regardless of the lives of the people of the Central Plains, and when they were in the south, they did not want to recover their homeland, but to continue to live a drunken and dreamy life. However, those people who once created a lot of wealth for the Northern Song Dynasty have long been forgotten by the kings and princes and nobles of the Southern Song Dynasty.
The peasants at the bottom paid the most, but people only remembered the so-called Ming Jun
It can be said that no matter which dynasty it is, their strength and prosperity are actually created silently behind the backs of those low-level farmers. But now people only need to mention the prosperity of the world to know that this is the Ming Jun at that time, mention the "Kaiyuan prosperous world" people only know Li Longji, but do not know that behind this is the tens of millions of people behind the hard work of production, hard work to create in order to have such achievements.
But the peasants at the bottom, who have done a great deal of great service, do not get anything, history has no names, and history books do not have their records. At that time, they had nothing, some were just the endless exploitation of the princes and nobles, some were endlessly oppressed by the officials, and it was the end of the low-level peasants under the feudal system, and no one could change.