Zhao Jun's words made everyone fall into deep thought.
The essence of the feudal dynasty cycle is the competition for the total wealth of society.
The noble families, the powerful, the warlords, and the landlords will all join in this carnival.
When the total value of social wealth is plundered and the people have no way to survive, that is when the dynasty will collapse.
These contents may sound incomprehensible at first, but after thinking about them carefully, they are just creepy.
Because if you think about it carefully, it seems to be the case!
In ancient society, there was only so much arable land in the country, and there was also the problem of soil fertility.
Many lands that may have been extremely fertile in the previous dynasty became barren soil after hundreds of years and could no longer grow crops.
So farmers have to look for new land to cultivate.
But the fertile land basically has an owner.
If a large amount of good farmland is taken away by the powerful and landlords, and the farmers have no land, won’t they starve to death?
In order to survive, they naturally had to rebel. After the dynasty fell, the former powerful nobles, aristocratic families, warlords, and landlords disappeared, and the peasants would once again obtain land.
After another one or two hundred years, new powerful families, warlords and landlords emerged and dug at the foundations of the dynasty like termites, repeating the cycle over and over again for a thousand years.
Therefore, it can be said that this has been the case for dynasties for thousands of years, and the Song Dynasty will become like this in the future. Eventually, the dynasty will collapse and the empire will fall.
"I see, I see..."
"I can figure out many problems all of a sudden, and I see things with unprecedented clarity."
"Listening to your words is worth ten years of reading. It really makes me wake up from a dream. I feel that all those years of reading have been in vain. In an instant, I have a sudden enlightenment."
Everyone sighed.
Because Zhao Jun's words involved the fundamental reasons for the change of feudal dynasties and the essence of whether imperial power could continue.
Comparable to the skill of slaying a dragon!
Zhao Jun smiled and said, "I learned this from studying Marxism-Leninism and the quotations of great men. Any modern college student would understand this; it's perfectly normal. It's precisely because productivity was insufficient in ancient society that the pie was so small, and that's why there's a reshuffle every few hundred years."
"Shuffle?"
Lu Yijian had heard this word several times, but he didn't know what it meant. He asked, "What does shuffling mean?"
Now Zhao Jun felt something was strange.
Because during festivals and holidays, when people in rural areas return home from work, how can they not play cards?
Even women and children like to play a few rounds, not to mention the adults.
So it's really strange that I can't understand the shuffle.
But Zhao Jun did not think about it carefully, or rather, he selectively ignored it. He did not dare to think about it, nor did he want to think about it.
In any case, in his cognition and subconsciousness, he came to the village after encountering a mudslide when he was deep in the Daliang Mountains.
The location of the accident was very close to Nini Village, so it was only logical that he was rescued by the villagers.
Things like time travel and being rescued by aliens are beyond the ordinary people's cognition. People will subconsciously choose what they believe and will not consider things beyond their cognition.
What's more, Zhao Jun's eyesight has not healed yet. Even if he realizes that this place is full of weirdness, how can he tell them apart without a God's perspective?
Therefore, even though Zhao Jun felt that there were some problems, he did not think too much about it. He just thought that the old man Malegebi never played cards.
Thinking of this, Zhao Jun said, "Shuffling means disrupting all order and then redistributing it. It's like the late Han Dynasty, after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, when war, plague, natural disasters, famine, and other factors caused a massive population decline."
"While the power of the aristocratic families remains, the population, which originally numbered 50 to 60 million, has plummeted to 10 to 20 million. The land that once held arable land has become barren, and the area of arable land far exceeds the population that needs it."
"The three dynasties of Cao Wei, Later Han, and Eastern Wu distributed surplus land to the people, allowing them to cultivate it. Since most people had farmland and could rely on farming to survive, they no longer had the motivation to rebel, thus temporarily maintaining the stability of the Three Kingdoms."
"The uprisings of Wang Xiaobo in the Song Dynasty and Li Zicheng in the Ming Dynasty were similar. Because of the serious land annexation, they used slogans such as 'Rich and poor are unequal, now we will equalize them for you' and 'Equalize the land and exempt the tax' to call on farmers all over the world to launch revolutionary wars."
"The underlying reason behind this is naturally the conflict between the peasant class and the landlord class, as well as the issue of competition for the total value of social wealth that I have always emphasized."
"To put it simply, if we compare ancient feudal society to a house, then when it's first built, it's brand new and the foundation is very solid. But as time goes by, if the owner doesn't maintain and manage it, the house will become infested with termites."
"These termites are the landlords and the powerful class. They are constantly corroding the foundation of this house by annexing land and plundering the wealth of the lower classes. Step by step, the house is becoming shaky and in danger of collapse."
"Throughout the dynasties, there have been numerous natural and man-made disasters. For example, during the Song Dynasty, the river was changed back three times, causing widespread flooding and killing many people. During the Little Ice Age at the end of the Han Dynasty and the end of the Ming Dynasty, famines continued, irritating both heaven and people."
"But if it's the early years of a dynasty, these disasters usually don't have much of an impact. Land annexation isn't that serious in the early years of a dynasty, and the foundations of houses are still there."
"But as time went by, termites continued to breed and gnawed at the foundation of the house. If a natural or man-made disaster occurred at this time, the house would collapse in an instant."
"There's an old saying that goes, 'It's easy to conquer the world, but hard to keep it.' Monarchs throughout the dynasties have never understood that their positions are always granted by the people, not by the landlords, scholars, and bureaucrats."
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