Why did the last Han dynasty, the Ming Dynasty, fall? Is land annexation the root cause?

One reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty was that the climate at that time hit agriculture in many places, and many people chose to rebel. Land annexation was the root cause of the country's demise.

Land and land can not be regarded as the fundamental reason, the fall of the Ming Dynasty is because of the Xiaoice climate at that time, resulting in the country can not produce food, to feed the people, coupled with the oppression of the peasants by the privileged class at that time, eventually led to the peasant uprising, foreign tribes attacked the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty perished in this internal and external trouble.

Every dynasty has had its glory and its decay. This is a historical certainty. Land annexation may have been only a small part of the reason, the Ming Dynasty at that time was troubled by internal and external troubles, internal affairs were corrupt, and strong enemies coveted outside. So it led to the later demise.

The fall of the Ming Dynasty was the result of a combination of factors, and land annexation was indeed the fundamental cause, as it greatly reduced the combat effectiveness of the Ming army.

No. Whether you mean from the point of view of the peasants having no land, or from the point of view of taxation in the Ming court.

From the perspective of farmers, it may surprise you, but some farmers in the late Ming Dynasty instead used the strategy of letting the powerful merge and survive. If you don't understand this, you can take a look at the reaction of some people after Fan Jinzhongju in "The Outer History of Confucianism", are some of them willing to sell their fields to him, or even to be his domestic slave? The fundamental reason for this situation is that the taxes and conscription are too heavy, and the attachment or annexation is beneficial to both parties, and if Haoqiang is unwilling to let him be attached, he may prefer to be a homeless person.

If you look at it from the perspective of the Ming court, according to the regulations, the ** of the Ming Ye Wang Jian Dynasty only has a partial amount of tax exemption, which does not mean that no matter how many mausoleum factions you have, it will be exempted, if this is implemented well, even if the land annexation will not have much impact on the tax base. But the question is what happens to the place where it is enforced, and this is not a problem of land annexation itself, but a problem of corruption.

In addition, even if all the land taxes were collected, the land taxes alone would not necessarily meet the financial needs of the imperial court.

No! Throughout history, all Han dynasties have been the land left by their ancestors, and they have never been lost for a long time, and there has never been aggression and expansion. Moreover, in the consciousness of the Han people, the territory of the Han people is the territory of the Great Wall in the north, Yumen Pass in the west, Nanyue in the south, and the sea in the east.

The Confucian idea of moderation, as well as the Han people's idea of valuing peace, led to the fact that the Han people did not expand their territory aggressively, but they also did not lose their own territory.

In China's 5,000-year history, except for the invasion of Middle-earth by foreign forces such as the Mongols and Manchus, who voluntarily merged foreign lands into the Central Plains, China's territory has hardly changed very much. In the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, there was no active aggression, which is enough to prove that the Han people had no ambition to invade others and expand their territory.

So if it weren't for the Manchu invasion and sinicization, any dynasty of the Han people would not have the territory area it has today.

No, there is no history It seems that the expansion of territory is a nomadic regime The Han people do not have that kind of aggression After all, they are an agricultural people There is no nomadic feeling of being afraid every day, in fact, the Ming and Han dynasties have lagged behind Europe in the later period and do not blame the Qing Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty was closed to the country only by Yan Xi Ming and Han Dynasty.

It's completely possible, in fact, the Qing Dynasty was nothing. It's just that Li Zicheng surrendered. Otherwise, it will be the dynasty of the Han people.

It is impossible for a feudal dynasty to annex without land.

Any dynasty is generally established after a large and long war at the beginning, so the population is small, and the problem of land annexation is not serious, but as the population grows slowly, the problem becomes prominent.

The land annexation of the Ming Dynasty began to slowly become serious in the later years of the reign of Zhu Zhanji of Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty and the reign of his son Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty.

This question is still somewhat interesting.

First of all, let's analyze the specific situation when the Han and Tang dynasties fell.

If the Han Dynasty counts the Eastern Han Dynasty, then there is actually no clear time point for the demise of the Eastern Han Dynasty in the last years, first of all, during the Huan Ling period, relatives and eunuchs within the palace took turns to dictate, but none of the key figures who directly ended the Han Dynasty appeared, such as the end of the Western Han Dynasty because Wang Mang directly replaced the Han. ** The chaos of the regime is a direct result of the inability to control the local army. During the Han Dynasty, in order to resist ethnic minorities, there were certain armed forces in various places, which directly led to the emergence of secession.

Besides, at the end of the Tang Dynasty, in fact, since the Anshi Rebellion, the first control power was no longer enough to dominate the whole country, the Tang Dynasty originally implemented the government military system, and the army was not very armed, but the remote envoys had a certain amount of conventional troops in hand to resist foreign tribes. In addition, the autonomy of the feudal towns is too large, and they usually have their own recruited armed forces, such as the rangers.

The common feature of these two eras is that when the ** regime is weakened, there is no unified strength of ethnic minorities and a strong ethnic group rises. That's why there was an era that lasted until later, when multiple regimes coexisted, such as the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.

The late Ming Dynasty was different, with the rise of Manchu power and the Battle of Salhu, in which the Manchus established a certain military advantage, and in such a situation, the weakened Ming Dynasty had no force that could resist the ambitious Manchu army. In addition, there were a group of far-sighted talents among the Manchu aristocracy, such as Huang Taiji and others, so they quickly took over the power.

Looking back, I want to say that Sima Zhao is also a talent, and the destruction of Shu and Wu is very fast, but it is a pity that the Sima family is a little worse in governing the country, and the civil strife is not stopped, and his regime is collapsed. That's why there was the later Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Highly centralized, once the emperor is gone, the dragons are leaderless.

In terms of culture, ancient Chinese culture reached its peak in the Ming Dynasty, and the four famous works "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Journey to the West", and "Water Margin" are all from the Ming Dynasty, and of course, the famous "Golden Plum" is also the pinnacle of literature.

In terms of economy, compared with the Song Dynasty, the economic center of gravity has shifted southward during the Ming Dynasty, and the economy of the Jiangnan generation is very developed, and the earliest germination of capitalism in China began in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. On the military, the Ming Dynasty did not make peace and did not pay tribute, but the country of the Quartet bowed down to pay tribute, maybe many people will say that at the end of the year, they were not kicked by the children of the Manchu Eight Banners? What you must know is that the Ming Dynasty was destroyed by Li Zicheng, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty only had the last laugh in the three-legged stand with the Dashun regime and the Southern Ming regime after that, to put it bluntly, the Ming Dynasty died in civil strife, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty was just picking peaches.

After all, most of the military forces at the end of the Ming Dynasty were used to quell the peasant uprisings in all directions in the Guannai, and in the face of the Manchu Qing's all-out efforts, the Ming Dynasty could only free up one hand to deal with it, even if the Ming Dynasty dispersed its military forces due to two-front battles, the Manchus could only rely on Wu Sangui's rebellion to break through the pass and go south.

Iron is an important tool of human beings, is one of the standards to measure civilization, and the Ming Dynasty's iron output was the first in the world at that time, reaching more than 90 million tons, horizontal comparison this has exceeded the total output of foreign countries, vertical comparison is twice that of the Song Dynasty, and the metallurgical industry during the Ming Dynasty was extremely developed. Even in the so-called Kangqian period, although the population was several times that of the Ming Dynasty, the total iron production was far from reaching the level of the Ming Dynasty. In addition, the Ming Dynasty's **possession is also the world's first, ** is a symbol of wealth in the era of the opening of new routes, the Ming Dynasty is in the same period of the world, Spain, Portugal is colonizing the Americas, and a large number of silver mines have been found in the Americas!

However, in order to buy Chinese silk, tea, and fine porcelain, a large number of ** went to China, and the Ming Dynasty was able to use ** as the currency in circulation, which changed the situation of traditional China with metal copper as the currency in circulation. According to statistics, the Ming Dynasty occupied two-fifths of the world's ** reserves at that time, and China during the Ming Dynasty was also the richest country in the world.

The military strength of the Ming Dynasty is also the first in the world, of which the naval strength can crush the countries of the world, Zheng He went to the Western Ocean when the size of the fleet has shocked foreign historians, Zheng He led the Chinese Navy west to the Indian Ocean, the entire Indian Ocean is under the control of China! When Zheng He went to the West, the largest treasure ship in the Ming Dynasty was 150 meters long and more than 30 meters wide, and it was the largest ship in the world at that time.

Seventy or eighty meters galleon.