Ming Dynasty: The Crocodile King of Han Prince Zhu Gaoxu's Family

Chapter 93 Twelve Essays on the Fall of the Ming Dynasty 5
Zhu Zhanhe picked up the pen and came to the front of the white cloth.

"The first theory about the fall of the Ming Dynasty: The Ming Dynasty will live for six and a half years!" Zhu Zhanhe muttered to himself while drawing a big cross on the first title with the brush in his hand.

"There is no solution to this problem!" Zhu Zhanhe drew a big cross, turned his head to look at the people behind him, and said calmly.

"How can there be no solution?!"

"How can there be no solution?"

……

Suddenly, everyone in the room exclaimed in surprise. Although everyone had guessed that this mysterious issue concerning the country's destiny was basically impossible to solve.

But when everyone heard that there was really no other way, they still found it hard to accept it.

"He'er..." Emperor Yongle also looked at Zhu Zhanhe with a complicated expression, full of longing.

"Grandpa, there's really nothing we can do about this kind of thing!" Zhu Zhanhe suddenly didn't dare to look at the complicated look in Emperor Yongle's eyes.

Zhu Zhanhe just turned his head and continued to write on the white cloth.

"The Second Theory of the Ming Dynasty's Fall: Five Dragons in the Same Court Consume a Waste of Luck!" Zhu Zhanhe once again drew a big cross on this title!

"There is no solution to this!" Zhu Zhanhe continued to draw a big cross on the second title in front of everyone's astonished eyes.

"what?!"

"what?"

"Neither this?"

……

For a moment, everyone in the room exclaimed, and all eyes were focused on Zhu Zhanhe.

"He'er, don't speak in a meaningless way. We have to find a way to solve these problems. Just say it another way!" The straightforward Prince Han looked at Emperor Yongle, whose eyelids were twitching, and felt very anxious. He was worried that Emperor Yongle would take his anger out on his precious son, so he quickly spoke to Zhu Zhanhe.

“Well, okay, if I say that it takes a thousand priests to exchange for a year’s national fortune, no one will believe it!
So, let me put it another way! " Zhu Zhanhe looked helplessly at his father, then at the unhappy Emperor Yongle, and prepared to put it in a way that everyone could accept.

"Let me put it this way. As long as we solve all the problems behind, the two currently unsolvable problems will be solved!" Zhu Zhanhe pointed to the ten problems behind and drew a large circle in the air, indicating that as long as they could be solved, the first two problems would also be solved! With this statement, everyone's nervousness instantly subsided.

In particular, Emperor Yongle's eyes instantly lit up, and even the chubby Crown Prince Zhu Gaochi breathed a sigh of relief.

"The third theory of the Ming Dynasty's fall: land annexation! There is a way to solve this! And there is more than one way!" Zhu Zhanhe said, pointing at the third question with a brush.

After hearing what Zhu Zhanhe said, everyone's face was instantly filled with smiles, but Crown Prince Zhu Gaochi was hesitant. He always felt that there was something fishy in Zhu Zhanhe's smile!

“To put it bluntly, the problem of land annexation is that the existing land is concentrated in the hands of a few people, while the people have no land!
From this, we can see that there are two problems: the first is land concentration! The second is that the people have no land! " Zhu Zhanhe picked up his pen and continued to write these two problems on the blank space of the white cloth.

"Let's first talk about the simplest and easiest solution: the people don't have land! In other words, the people have less land! This is the simplest!
Since the people don’t have enough land, let’s rob them!

If there is not enough land in the Central Plains, then we can go outside the Central Plains to grab it. There are so many fields there, we can just take them back!
Whether it is used for rewards or distributed to the people, it will solve the problem of the people having no land!

Of course, there is another explanation for the lack of land for the common people: there are too many people! As for how to solve the problem of too many people and too little land, there are ways in history!
We can just learn from Emperor Wu of Han. When Emperor Wu of Han took over the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty had already reached its peak of prosperity!

Of course, land annexation has certainly reached its peak, and the population has also developed to its extreme. There must be too many people and too little land!

Therefore, Emperor Wu of Han launched large-scale military operations on the grasslands, and he also ignored the continuous floods and waterlogging disasters in the country!

As a result, through wars and natural disasters, by the end of Emperor Wu of Han's reign, the population of the Han Dynasty was basically reduced to about half of that in the early years of Emperor Wu of Han!
Through such means, Emperor Wu of Han effectively reduced the population of the Han Dynasty, and also diverted the attention of the nobles and ministers in the court to places outside the Ming Dynasty!
Therefore, after Emperor Wu of Han, the Han Dynasty naturally no longer had the problem of population and land. Emperor Wu of Han also indirectly solved the problem of too many people and too little land in the Han Dynasty caused by land annexation! Zhu Zhanhe's words directly shattered the hearts of everyone present.

I'm here to listen to your advice, not to pick a fight! Your plan is either to go to war and seize territory, or to kill more than half of the people of the country! Is that even human language? Crown Prince Zhu Gaochi swallowed his saliva, staring blankly at Zhu Zhanhe who was speaking so logically, wanting only to slap him in the face!
"Seizing territory?!" Prince Han looked at his beloved son in disbelief and asked in an uncertain tone.

"Dad, look at what you're saying! How can you call this grabbing territory? I'm trying to recover our country! Look, since our Ming Dynasty inherited the Yuan Dynasty's destiny, we must also inherit its territory!

"The century-long humiliation inflicted by Emperor Gaozu of Han, Liu Bang, will be avenged ten generations from now. Restoring China will naturally be no problem for us!" Zhu Zhanhe said this with great passion.

"Besides war and death, is there a better way?!" Crown Prince Zhu Gaochi couldn't stand it any longer, because he noticed that Emperor Yongle's eyes had begun to light up! So he quickly spoke.

"Uncle, you know what, there really is a way! But you can also say there is no way. This method is very good! I think it is perfect, but I can't put it into practice!
Once this is implemented, our Ming Dynasty will be destroyed!" Zhu Zhanhe looked at the chubby Crown Prince Zhu Gaochi and knew that the future Emperor Renzong did not approve of the previous method.

After thinking it over again and again, Zhu Zhanhe decided to reveal his final killer move.

"What method?!" Crown Prince Zhu Gaochi was filled with joy, and even Emperor Yongle beside him was very interested.

"Officials and gentry all pay taxes, and the tax rate is based on the land area!" Just ten words made Crown Prince Zhu Gaochi's face change drastically.

As a prince who had been in charge of government for many years, he understood the meaning of these words in an instant, but at the same time he also knew the difficulty of this matter!
If it is not handled properly, it will definitely be a major event that will change the dynasty!
This is almost going against the entire gentry class!

In fact, not only the crown prince changed his expression, even Emperor Yongle couldn't help but gasp, looking at Zhu Zhanhe in horror, his eyes full of disbelief.

"This can't be done! Unless Grandpa lives another twenty years and implements it himself!

The most appropriate time for this matter was during the reign of Emperor Taizu Gao! His prestige was sufficient!

Grandpa's prestige is enough! But this will take time! If we don't handle it well, the entire Ming Dynasty will be overthrown by the entire gentry class! " Zhu Zhanhe looked at everyone and waved his hand helplessly.

"Unless..." Looking at everyone's eager eyes, Zhu Zhanhe still wanted to express his last hope.

"Unless what...!?" This time it was Zhu Zhanji who asked. He had been handling government affairs for many years, so he naturally knew the difficulty of this matter. It was simply as difficult as climbing to the sky!

"Unless, our Ming Dynasty has another emperor as prestigious and decisive as grandpa!" Zhu Zhanhe looked at Emperor Yongle and couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Emperor Yongle was really born with a bad fate. All kinds of bad things happened to him!

(End of this chapter)