Chapter 17 3. A nightmare in the age of sheep

All the current information can prove such a thing, as early as the beginning, Zhu Di had no idea of ​​evolution.Since his biological mother was not Zhu Yuanzhang's official wife, and belonged to Zhu Yuanzhang's accidental harvest of hunting rabbits, Zhu Di was excluded from the candidates for the successor of the empire long before he was born.Although he expressed a considerable degree of depression about it, he had never thought of evolving into a wild wolf that challenged authority.So, when did Zhu Di come up with this idea? All indications were that things began to change when his father, Zhu Yuanzhang, sent a monk named Daoyan to his palace.

We know that Zhu Yuanzhang was also a monk in his early years, which means that in front of Zhu Yuanzhang, the monk Daoyan must have had the urge to call out his brother.But this move can’t be rushed. At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang was already at the top of the Ninth Five-Year Plan. At this time, if you call him big brother, he will not be polite to you. However, people are born with a desire to provoke. The more forbidden things are, the more they can't help but try it.It is not sure whether Monk Daoyan has this mentality, but what he did can be explained by this mentality. Now that Daoyan can no longer be called a teacher and brother in front of Zhu Yuanzhang, he can only think about another method.So when he saw Yan Wang Zhu Di for the first time, he smiled and said: "The poor monk has a big gift, and I want to give the prince a white hat."

Add a white character on top of the word Wang, which means the emperor's emperor.So after Zhu Di heard this, he left in shock.But after a while, he came back again. Like Dao Yan, he was a forbidden person.He was forbidden to have the slightest covetous heart for the throne—but why, just because the choice of reincarnation was not so precise, completely deprived him of his future hope, isn't it too shameful? Therefore, Zhu Di, like Monk Daoyan, has a strong desire to challenge taboos deep in his heart. But this kind of desire is too terrible. Once it is noticed, the consequences will be a bit bad.Although Zhu Di was born of Zhu Yuanzhang, it is useless. Isn't Zhu Zi, the eldest son of the Zhu family, also born of Zhu Yuanzhang?Once you are not pleasing to the eye, even death will not give you pleasure.

Therefore, Monk Daoyan and Zhu Di must learn another kind of sublime communication skills, so that they can speak without their mouths.The mouth is too dangerous, don't open it indiscriminately, use eye contact instead.The two big men looked at me and I looked at you, silently, with a tacit understanding, marching indomitably towards a common direction. However, they also know such a thing, war is the will of the group, and so is peace. When Zhu Yuanzhang started his business in the early years, one of the important reasons was that the population base exploded, and the performance of the Chinese people in history was very strange.If an acre of land can support ten people, then he must make up twenty people for you, one person's food, two people's food, one person's work, two people's work... In short, it is to use resources to the limit .Whenever there is a little wind and rain, and the grain production is slightly in short supply, a large number of surplus labor will become refugees and beggars.These people have no tiles to cover their bodies, no clothes to cover their bodies, and the only wish in their hearts is chaos in the world. Only chaos is the opportunity for them to quickly eat two bites.

Therefore, at the beginning of every dynasty in China, there is a "great rule". In fact, there is no great rule. Under the imperial power, you can rule the head.It's just that, whenever there is a change of dynasty, at least half of the population dies in the war, and the remaining people, facing a large number of fertile land, present an economic situation where there is more porridge and less monks enough to eat.So even though corrupt officials robbed like crazy, everyone can still have enough food, so it is called Dazhi. To put it simply, the situation is like this. After the Red Turban Rebellion, China's population has dropped sharply—only the evil star Wang Baobao killed 400,000 people at one time. unit count.The expansion of Zhu Di's army used the method of recruiting Mongolian soldiers, which shows that China's surplus labor force has basically been wiped out.

Statistics can best explain the problem. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the total population of China was 85 million, and the population in the 26th year of Hongwu was about 65 million.In other words, the Red Turban Rebellion killed 20 million people, accounting for a quarter of the total population. Obviously, all the idlers who love to fight have been chopped off.If a war is launched at this time, it will face many difficulties such as soldiers fleeing, subordinates opposing, and food and grass unable to be supplied.So even though Dao Yan and Zhu Di were unwilling, they could only crouch down and endure it.It is the times that create heroes, and without the times, no matter how great a hero is, he can only be humbled.

Zhu Di knew these things, and Zhu Yunwen, who was sitting on the dragon chair, knew the same. So Zhu Yunwen did it. In 1398, Emperor Jianwen Zhu Yunwen killed the four princes in one go, and then rushed towards Yan Wang Zhu Di. Zhu Di was dumbfounded, the opportunity is far from coming, but the murderous intent has come, what should he do at this time?