Is Zhu Yuanzhang's "Ancestor's Law" related to the demise of the Ming Dynasty?

To say that Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestor worship method for the Ming Dynasty can actually be summarized as follows:

First, crack down on population mobility and restrict the personal freedom of ordinary people through the household registration system;

Second, crack down on industry and commerce and commodity economy;

Third, strengthen the absolute monarchy.

In short, Zhu Yuanzhang set a closed and conservative tone for the Ming Dynasty. This is because Zhu Yuanzhang's small-scale peasant background led him to lack strategic vision and thought that the Yuan Dynasty died of leniency. Because Mongolian Khan was not restricted by Han Confucianism, he adopted more pragmatism, encouraged the development of industry, commerce and commodity economy economically, had too scattered political power, lacked control over the people, and even abolished the death penalty. Finally, the Yuan Dynasty perished.

Zhu Yuanzhang thought that this was the end of the Yuan Dynasty. In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang was right, because the Yuan Dynasty had already contacted the civilizations of Central Asia and Eastern Europe before the summer of its unified region, because the Yuan Dynasty did not exclude industry and commerce like Han Confucianism, because industry and commerce could bring wealth appreciation through commodity exchange; At the same time, the Yuan Dynasty also studied the community autonomy system in Central Asia, ordered the people to set up 50 households as a cooperative, and elected a president, who would deal with the government on behalf of the whole society.

This has caused the excessive absence of the government, so that there are many disadvantages. I'm not saying that the system of community autonomy is not good, but that this system is not acclimatized in China, because China has no basis for an autonomous system, and China has always been ruled by people. Autonomy can only develop and grow in a contract society. The final result is that this kind of autonomy has not aroused the enthusiasm of ordinary people for self-management, but has become a tool for many rich and heartless people to abuse power for personal gain; Moreover, the excessive absence of government has created a living space for cults. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, natural disasters caused unfavorable disaster relief in the Yuan Dynasty due to excessive decentralization of power, which eventually led to cult rebellion and chaos in the world.

Anbalism became a cult from its appearance, because every dynasty rebelled, and it was not until after the founding of the People's Republic that the cancer of Anbalism was completely eliminated.

Anyway, Zhu Yuanzhang's lack of strategic vision led him to an extreme, which is extreme introversion. It can be said that Zhu Yuanzhang's summary of the lessons of the demise of the Ming Dynasty is correct, but he used it wrongly when he was governing the country. Because the Yuan Dynasty was the period when classical China was closest to industrial and commercial civilization, and Zhu Yuanzhang returned to agricultural civilization with a stick, this is called a blow to reduce the dimension.

What is the result of this dimension reduction? First of all, everyone is nailed to the land by the household registration system, from animals to plants; Moreover, the household registration system restricts the employment of ordinary people, and future generations are not allowed to leave their jobs, which eventually leads to the solidification of social classes. Soldiers and craftsmen not only lost their enthusiasm for work, but also lost their enthusiasm for creation. Cracking down on industry and commerce completed the decline of commodity economy in Ming Dynasty, and the prosperous overseas trade in Song and Yuan Dynasties was also cut off in Ming Dynasty. At the same time, due to the unprecedented strengthening of absolute monarchy, the Ming Dynasty was also retrogressive in culture, mathematics and astronomy were retrogressive in an all-round way, and a new school more extreme than Neo-Confucianism was created, not to mention.

People in the Ming Dynasty liked to carve ancient books, but they all died later.

And from the records of the Western Yuan Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, we can also see a thing or two. During the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty written by Spanish missionary Rada and Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci could not find Kyle Polo's praise for the Yuan Dynasty. The whole article is about how stupid and backward the Ming Dynasty was, and it is also said that 5000 European soldiers can conquer the Ming Dynasty or the areas they want to conquer. The Battle of Tatar written by Lu Riman is even more cynical. The whole article is a mockery of the Ming dynasty, and even written in Manchuria, it can give people a sense of culpability.

So the final ending of the Ming Dynasty was given by Zhu Yuanzhang, but the geographical environment of the Ming Dynasty was so good that it objectively lasted for more than 200 years.