Chapter: 52
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As soon as this remark came out, Zhu Di next door was stunned.
Before co-authoring, Jiang Xinghuo said that the longevity of the Ming Dynasty may not be able to support the progress of agricultural technology. There are precedents for such things, and there seem to be many.
In other words, the dynasties after Qin could not get out of this so-called "law of dynasty cycle".
Dao Yan was on the side, pinching the rosary nervously, waiting for Jiang Xinghuo's answer.
Zhu Gaoxu was also puzzled and asked: "Mr. Jiang, what is the law of dynasty cycle? You have mentioned this word many times."
"The general trend of the world is that if it is divided for a long time, it will be united, and if it is united for a long time, it will be divided. Since the Great Qin unified the world, in the long feudal monarchy, there is indeed a mysterious force that dominates, and that is the cycle of the rise and fall of the dynasty and the alternation of social chaos."
Jiang Xinghuo first explained the literal meaning, and then gave a philosophical definition.
"From the root point of view, the development of things is doomed to the rise and fall of dynasties. When relatively new things are no longer suitable for society and cannot solve the current main contradictions in society, new things will appear in time to replace the old ones. A 'relatively new affair' of things."
"It doesn't matter if you don't understand this sentence. The law of dynastic cycles is not so abstract in history. In fact, it is just four words."
"—Contradictions between man and earth!"
Jiang Xinghuo said slowly: "The population grows according to a geometric progression like placing rice on a chessboard, but the survival resources needed by the entire population only grow according to an arithmetic progression. An additional population always needs to be increased by a certain amount. This method is eliminated, and the population cannot exceed the corresponding level of agricultural development.”
"If you look up the history books, you can clearly see that almost all the dynasties that won the country without abdication almost all experienced wars and a sharp drop in population when they founded the country, and they were in a state of waiting for prosperity."
"And the founding monarch at that time was destined to be a generation of outstanding people who could win the country and live with the people. The population began to recover gradually, and the recovery reached its peak in two or three generations. The so-called "prosperous age" appeared, and the so-called prosperity was also booming. .”
"After a long period of mergers, 'the fields of the rich are connected with fields, and the poor have no place to stand'. When the total population reaches a level that the overall resources cannot bear, it is usually the accumulation of social conflicts to a great extent, and the society will inevitably break out and be divided again. frenzy."
"Famine, uprising, rebellion, nomadic invasion, etc. overthrew the existing dynasty, and the population dropped sharply again. The so-called death must also be sudden."
shock!
Very shocking!
From the moment when the Ming Dynasty was founded, Zhu Di directly saw the scene of the collapse of the Ming Dynasty!
Zhu Di seemed to have seen the ragged, skinny hungry people roaming the land of the Ming Dynasty, as if he had seen the scene of the Ming Dynasty being overthrown and restarted, and being overthrown again!
This feeling is simply too uncomfortable!
He didn't want to see, and absolutely wouldn't allow, his family or descendants to end like this.
This result was something he absolutely did not want to see.
But... what can he do?
He is powerless to reverse!
Can't think of any way!
Zhu Di stood up almost in a daze. He looked at Dao Yan with unbelievable eyes, and felt a chill welling up from the bottom of his heart.
The chill pierced through his heart, making Zhu Di shiver involuntarily.
This was simply a shock that shattered his worldview!
It was far more shocking than my initial assumption when I heard those two questions before!