Chapter 224 Maybe everyone misunderstood Tang Taizong Li Shimin! He has good intentions!
Like many people of later generations, he had a narrow view of history. I hate those foreign races and have no tolerance for all things. It has always been populism to advocate that the Han people are supreme. Although it is not that extreme, I still think so in my heart, and I will always feel that the Han people are supreme. Just like Hitler's Nazism. Therefore, he was very unhappy and even hated Tang Taizong Li Shimin for handing over advanced technology to those foreign races. Because the Khitan, Jurchen, and Dangxiang later caused great harm to the Han nation. Especially in the Northern Song Dynasty, the culture and economy had reached their peak, but they were wiped out by barbaric aliens. At that time, I just felt sad and angry. But we only discovered it when we combined the entire five thousand years of history and climate step by step.
How one-sided is my understanding. How could Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, be able to study climate change with people like Chen Han and Zhu Kezhen? Therefore, Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, could never imagine that it was because of the climate that he achieved what he did today. He just wanted to find a way to balance the nomadic people and the farming people. He had a beautiful hope to pass on the excellent technology of the farming people to the nomads so that they could withstand the severe cold. This prevents them from going south to plunder as soon as they are hit by the severe cold. This is also a disguised form of protecting the farming people. It's just that Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, couldn't think of it. When he was alive, it could even be said that the existence of the Tang Dynasty was a warm period. Everyone can live in peace and harmony because everyone has enough to eat. However, after the fall of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the temperature suddenly cooled down. Even the nomads who want to live in peace with the farming people have to go south in order to survive. They want it for the continuation of the nation and the survival of the race. So it can only be said that Tang Taizong Li Shimin's starting point was good. But he couldn't have predicted climate decline. After Chen Han listened to Zhu Biao's words, he suddenly became enlightened. Maybe he really misunderstood Tang Taizong Li Shimin. Maybe some people really saw the starting point and original intention of Tang Taizong Li Shimin in doing these things. That's why I think he is so great.
But now after Chen Han understood this, he realized that it was indeed the case. Li Shimin had already discovered that even with the use of powerful force, waves of alien races were wiped out. But as long as there is a seed, it will sprout. This kind of war of retribution will always bring down the potential of the agricultural nation. So he feels optimistically that as long as I pass on my advanced technical system to you, you can settle down there and everyone can stay together for warmth. Chen Han was surprised by Zhu Biao's thinking ability. At the same time, my heart skipped a beat. An inspiration soared into the sky. As Zhu Biao said, if Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, really thought so. I really saw the front, after the harm caused by the aliens to the people of the Central Plains. Thinking of using this method to improve the survival ability of those nomads. This would reduce their motivation to invade the farming peoples in the south. Is it also a way to save the country through curves? Perhaps this is the truth. And many people in later generations, especially those angry youths. When seeing these events, the climate environment at that time was not taken into consideration. They did not consider that even though Datang was powerful at that time. However, they still have to face the difficulty of frequent harassment by foreign races. So they didn't understand why Li Shimin did this in the first place. But now that I think about it carefully, it seems that this is really the case. If Li Shimin hadn't used this method to deal with them, which was equivalent to reconciling with foreigners, he would have been very angry. Perhaps once a foreign country becomes powerful, everyone can survive in a warm climate. However, after the desire for possession is strong, invading other countries brings a sense of conquest. This kind of thing still happens from time to time. Just like the Xiongnu during the Han Dynasty, why did they have such a struggle with the Han Dynasty in the south. In fact, everyone is obviously living in a warm climate, but in order to eliminate each other and solve each other's big trouble, they still fight. This possibility is also possible. Therefore, under Li Shimin's set of policies, the results achieved are quite good. At least in the Tang Dynasty, in addition to the Tang Dynasty itself having strong military and national power, it was able to resist the invasion of foreign tribes. This kind of tolerant policy also reduced the infringement of various ethnic groups on the farming civilization in the south to a large extent, allowing the Tang Dynasty to truly usher in a prosperous age.
As for the strength of the Khitan, Jurchen, and Dangxiang in the future, Li Shimin could not have expected it. It can only be said that God played a huge joke on the agricultural people of the Central Plains. Thinking of this, Chen Han's mind became more active. In the small classroom, other princes, especially King Yan Zhu Di, fell into deep thought. Because he just found out now. The situation of the Ming Dynasty today is the same as the problems faced by any chaotic unified dynasty in a cold period. Those nomads in the north, even now, want to invade south from time to time. Whether they are Mongols or Jurchens, whether they are in the north of Shanxi or north of Peiping, especially the Jurchens in Liaodong. Why are they ready to move? Why are you always restless?
Why do they still keep provoking despite knowing that the Ming Dynasty is so powerful now? I originally thought it was a provocation. I originally thought that was a sign of unrepentance. Especially the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty, why do they think about going south again and again. Now I finally found the answer here. Maybe it's really what Chen Han said. The cold wave continues. It's especially cold in the north. After the heavy snow closed the mountains, the grassland was covered with heavy snow. The grass has been frozen to death, the cattle and sheep have no land to eat and drink, and large areas have died. Can the nomads just wait to die?
Do not!
In order to survive, they must hit the southern wall again and again. Even though they knew that Ming's national power was unprecedentedly powerful, they still had to try. Because they want to continue the survival of the race. After Chen Han finished his lecture, the King of Jin, King of Yan, King of Liao, and King of Ning present, who were guarding the nine sides, were all enlightened. But they also fell into anxiety. The cold wave continues now. This means that they can never be freed from the war to defend the nomads from going south. This quagmire will trap them forever until the fall of the Ming Dynasty. The next plot will be quite familiar. The reason why the Central Plains can still support it now.
The reason why it is so prosperous. The reason why he was restored to life under the auspices of his father. That's because too many people were lost in the war and too much land was left behind. Even though the carrying capacity of the land is no longer high, the food produced is not much. But after the population dropped sharply, everyone was still able to survive. However, as the peace lasts and the cold continues, once the population increases, it will be found that there is not enough food to eat. At that time, various problems will follow. All the chaos, all the corruption and incompetence are actually caused by the contradiction of not having enough to eat. Conflicts that occur over competition for survival resources. Because agricultural production in the Central Plains is not high, businessmen will find ways to make the most of their losses; In order to obtain a little food, people will compete for water sources when planting land. The most important thing is that without Chen Han's tax reform, it would be like what Chen Han said before. The food grown on the land is getting less and less, but the tax revenue will not be getting less and less. With land annexation, land will become increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few people. There is not enough to eat, the output of the original land has been reduced, and the land has to be annexed by those who have land exemption rights, and they do not pay taxes. Where did the imperial court's tax sources come from?
Then it must be put on the people who have no land, no land, no power, and no power. As a result, ordinary people will flee their hometowns and become refugees because they cannot pay taxes. After these refugees leave, the indigenous people will have to bear heavier taxes. So they also fled their hometown and became refugees. When more and more refugees gather and no one has food to eat, if someone rises up, it will be a large-scale peasant uprising. This is the law, this is the trend. This is a trend that cannot be changed. When such thoughts lingered in their minds, they felt a biting coldness. Because they have already foreseen the future destiny of the Ming Dynasty. As long as the weather does not get warmer, the Ming Dynasty will not be able to escape the dynasty's misfortune, and may soon collapse. If you don't collapse, your life will be a mess, with chicken feathers all over the floor. This is the biggest weakness of agricultural civilization. When food cannot grow, all conflicts will arise. What kind of system, what kind of civilization, what kind of clean officialdom, what kind of emperor’s sleeplessness and forgetfulness of food and sleep, it’s all bullshit.
Because as long as food can grow in the ground and everyone has enough to eat, all conflicts will be solved. On the contrary, it is full of contradictions. Once the food in the fields fails to grow, the first problem is the court's tax revenue. If there is a problem with the imperial taxation, it will inevitably cause a chain reaction, which will inevitably be a sign of the destruction of the country. Therefore, governing the country is quite simple. Let the fields grow enough food and feed enough people. Everything is in service of this. And such a court is very weak, relying very much on the right time and place, and relying very much on God to provide food. So a disaster can wipe out large swaths of people. After two disasters, an uprising may occur. After three disasters, the imperial court may be destroyed. Why do countries in later generations not encounter such problems?
It is because after later generations entered industrial society, food production was driven by high-yielding species such as potatoes, corn, and sweet potatoes, as well as the development of science and technology. As fertilizers become more and more capable of controlling food production, the impact of climate is weakened over a large area. And judging from Zhu Kezhen’s curve. The cold wave that lasted around the world from the late Tang Dynasty to the Republic of China has ended and is slowly recovering. As for the acceleration of this process, there are many messy articles saying that it is entirely because of excessive industrial carbon emissions that the climate is so-called global warming. In fact, if you really study the rules, you will find that the proportion of climate recovery caused by human factors is still quite small. The fundamental reason is that the distance between the earth and the sun will fluctuate with time, getting farther and closer. Every cold is away from the sun. Every time it is warm, it is close to the sun. And this scale is measured in hundreds or even thousands of years. Therefore, certain countries or certain groups are trying to undermine our country's development in terms of public opinion. To put it directly, it is because our country has developed a large number of industries that it has led to a warm climate, global warming, and the melting of Antarctic and Arctic glaciers. It's all bullshit. In fact, looking at climate changes over thousands of years, we find that this is just a natural law. The warmth and coldness of the climate fluctuate up and down along a curve. It’s just that our current era happens to be in the rising period of global warming. In fact, if we really want to talk about it, during the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, the temperature was two to three degrees higher than it is now. Why didn’t anyone say it was global warming back then? Was there a big impact on humanity at that time?
The current global temperature may not reach the temperature of the Tang Dynasty. It’s just that we may not be able to see the melting of the Arctic and Antarctic glaciers in the north, so we ignored them. Now with high technology, melting glaciers in the Arctic and Antarctic can be seen from space. Therefore, all the responsibility is attributed to the excessive carbon-emitting industries in our country, which has led to the increase in carbon dioxide. This is just a kind of suppression by those countries that control the world's public opinion, and those countries that do not control public opinion but are on the rise. So after Chen Han understood this, he actually felt stronger inside. Especially now, there is still a way to deal with the national strength of the Ming Dynasty, which will become increasingly difficult due to the cold wave. When Chen Han finished explaining all this, he gave them enough time to think. King Yan Zhu Di finally stood up, and he cupped his hands and fists at Chen Han, "Sir, I have been very disrespectful to you before. Now after listening to this lesson, it turns out that as you said, this is the art of slaying dragons. Sir, you can be said to be the great master of the Ming Dynasty. Please help us solve our problems. " King Jin also stood up at this time. He had looked down on Chen Handuo before. He even said that he wanted to suppress Chen Han's arrogance from the beginning. And now after listening to this class, especially when he is in Shanxi. Understand that nomads often invade. Correspondingly, the nomads must be there because of the cold and lack of water and grass, so they must go south to invade and plunder. In fact, after Chen Han explained it, he suddenly realized that he was the same as King Zhu Di of Yan. He feels more and sees more than his brothers in the mainland of China. He knew that if the imperial court blindly deployed troops in the north to defend against the invasion of nomads from the south, not only would it consume a lot of manpower and material resources, but it would gain very little. So it must be like what Chen Gang said. The so-called system, the so-called calculation, the so-called national strategy. All of this is not worth mentioning in the face of food production. So King Jin also stood up and said, "Sir, I have been taught. Now we would like to ask you to prescribe a good remedy for the Ming Dynasty. Now that we know where the current crux of the Ming Dynasty is, and we also know from the historical trend, what kind of path our Ming Dynasty is bound to take. Now that you are also the son-in-law of the old Zhu family, please work with us to solve the problems that plague Daming. " …… (End of this chapter)