Bang!
Zhu Biao stood up from his seat excitedly.
He looked at Qin Zhan in disbelief and asked,
"Sir, this, how is this possible? That's potatoes! The yield per mu has increased by more than ten times!”
"How can Great Ming still be destroyed!”
Zhu Biao's tone became more and more intense, and a hint of redness appeared on his face.
Zhu Di, who was at the side, hurriedly advised,
"Big brother, don't be anxious. Let's listen to what Teacher has to say.”
Zhu Yuanzhang, who was outside the door, seemed to have lost all his strength. He sat on the ground and muttered,
" How is that possible? How is it possible that even with potatoes, our Great Ming will still perish…"
"Is there really nothing we can do?”
A strong sense of powerlessness welled up in his heart.
Ever since his parents passed away, Zhu Yuanzhang had never been so helpless about anything.
Li Shan Chang looked at Zhu Yuanzhang, not knowing how to comfort him.
At this moment, Qin Zhan could not help but sigh and say,
"The demise of Great Ming is indeed filled with too many regrets.”
"I can understand your feelings. When I was reading the history of the Ming Dynasty, I had the same idea in my mind. If crops like potatoes could be introduced to the Ming Dynasty 50 years earlier, it would have been impossible for them to survive.”
"Great Ming will not be destroyed in just two hundred years!”
"But if there were potatoes during the Hongwu period, it would be impossible for them to survive.”
"If potatoes were introduced in the late Ming Dynasty, the sudden increase in food production would indeed be able to cover up a considerable part of the social contradictions.”
"Great Ming will definitely perish in two to three hundred years!”
Qin Zhan's words were like a bolt from the blue.
It shocked everyone present.
"Mr. Qin, this, why is this?”
Qin Zhan turned around and wrote the words "Malthus Trap" on the blackboard.
"Because of the Malthus Trap, or the Dynasty Cycle!”
"If there were potatoes in the Ming Dynasty during the Hongwu period, it would only have a greater impact on the people of the early Ming Dynasty.”
"But crop production has increased.”
"The population growth rate will definitely increase!”
"In the end, the Ming Dynasty will end up like the Qing Dynasty!”
"If it weren't for the intervention of external forces in the late Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, which had ruled the country for more than 200 years, would have fallen in the vigorous Taiping Rebellion.”
"The Qing Dynasty was like this, so how could the Ming Dynasty be an exception?”
The few people present could not help but be stunned on the spot.
Qin Zhan paused and continued,
"The Little Ice Age, but this was only the direct cause of Great Ming's demise. It was the last straw that broke Great Ming's camel's back.”
"Even without this straw, how far can Big Ming continue to go?”
"In fact, even if potatoes were to be introduced into the Great Ming Dynasty at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it would at most extend the Great Ming Dynasty's lifespan by more than a hundred years. In the end, the Great Ming Dynasty would still fall into this Malthus trap again.”
Everyone present knew.
Since Da Ming had potatoes now, it was absolutely impossible to hide them until the end of Ming Dynasty.
Even if the royal family took strict measures to prevent potatoes from entering the public.
Could they defend for a year, two years, ten years, twenty years, thirty years?
This little bit of time, when placed on the scale of nearly 300 years, was almost equivalent to no difference.
After a long time.
Zhu Biao slowly recovered from his shock.
"Mr. Qin, what exactly is a horse trap?”
Qin Zhan took a deep breath and said slowly,
"The so-called Malthus Trap is actually the limit of the population that the land can bear.”
"You all know that ever since the King of Qin swept across the land, the land that we Han people live on is actually limited to this large piece of land south of the Great Wall.”
"As the saying goes, when the world is prosperous, the dynasty is unified, and the world is peaceful, the population will inevitably increase, but the total amount of land will not increase.”
"The upper limit of the population that the land can support has not increased. Therefore, when the land can no longer support these people, the people will naturally rise up.”
"At the same time, in the process of the people rising up, due to the years of war, the population has decreased greatly, and the pressure on the land to support them has decreased.”
"This is also the reason why it is easy to see peace and prosperity in the early stages of the dynasty.”
"The so-called rule of Wen and Jing, the rule of Zhenguan, the flourishing age of Kaiyuan, and the early Ming Dynasty are all products of the pressure of land support or the easing of the contradiction between people and land after the population decreased!”
" The cycle of population growth is about 300 years. It won't change because of the change in crops.”
"Because the growth of the population is directly related to the production of crops!”
Qin Zhan's words.
It completely shattered everyone's understanding, including Zhu Yuanzhang and Li Shanzhang.
In their eyes.
Prosperity should be the merit of the Holy Lord, the merit of the good minister's assistance, and the inevitable prestige of the sea.
But in Qin Zhan's mouth, everything seemed so natural.
If this sentence came out of anyone else's mouth.
Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to chop someone up.
But the person who said this was Qin Zhan!
Zhu Yuanzhang had to believe it!
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