Why did Zhu Yuanzhang's brothel economy become the beginning of the demise of the Ming Dynasty?

The Ming Dynasty was the last unified Central Plains dynasty established by the Han nationality in the history of China, and it was 276 12 generations 16 emperors. At the end of Yuan Dynasty, the Red Scarf Uprising broke out, and Zhu Yuanzhang joined the army of Guo Zixing. In A.D. 1364, Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself emperor and established the Western Wu regime. In 1368, Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself emperor. His country name is Daming and his country name is Hongwu. His capital is Yingtianfu, which is now Nanjing.

During Zhu Yuanzhang's reign, he ordered farmers to return to farming and reward reclamation; Engage in large-scale immigration and reclamation; Organize local farmers to build water conservancy projects; Vigorously promoting the cultivation of cash crops and fruit trees such as mulberry, hemp and cotton will only enrich the people and oppress the powerful; Ordered the liberation of handmaiden; Reduce the tax burden and severely punish corrupt officials; Send people to all parts of the country to measure land, audit accounts and so on. Through the efforts of Hongwu period, social production gradually recovered and developed, which is called "the rule of Hongwu" in history.

However, in the early Ming dynasty, everything was in a hurry, and the country urgently needed a lot of funds for various aspects of construction. Suffering from the emptiness of the national treasury, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming emperor, sent someone to open a brothel on the Qinhuai River in Nanjing, which was called "Siheyuan". In order to show his grandeur, Zhu Yuanzhang personally wrote couplets for the "courtyard" and vigorously encouraged the world's richest people to come here to prostitute flowers. His couplet reads: "There are mountains, water, beauty, wind and moon, beautiful women and good things, and there are 1000 stories." The bottom line is: "There are many infatuated men and women in the world, infatuated with dreams and infatuated with generations."

While building a brothel, Zhu Yuanzhang also set out to eliminate the influence of Yuan Dynasty costumes and restore the Tang system, hoping to use China culture to influence costumes and fashion and reflect the inferior social status. However, this practice weakens the practicality of clothing, especially women feel that the love of beauty has been suppressed, so that people are reluctant to "follow the fate" and pursue beautiful nature and luxury fashion, which is what modern girls often say.

During Chenghua period of Ming Dynasty, the "ponytail skirt" was popular in Beijing. The ponytail skirt was introduced from North Korea, and it was very beautiful and avant-garde at that time. After flowing into the capital, I first took a fancy to the geisha in the brothel, and then "everyone bought it." It is generally believed that the beauty contest is an invention of foreigners, but it is not. Men invented the "flower evaluation list" in the Ming Dynasty, which is a beauty contest. More exciting than modern beauty pageants, all the beautiful women selected from sex workers come from brothels. Once prostitutes are on the list, prices will soar and the number of prostitutes will double. At that time, the brothel was full of customers and the financial resources were rolling.

In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang's original intention of building brothels to encourage whoring was to hope that the richest among the rich would spend money in brothels to increase national tax revenue and enrich the national treasury. But what the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty never expected was that although businessmen from all over the world came to Qinhuai River to have fun, at the same time, many officials flocked to see blood like flies. The first thing after going to court every day is to go to the brothel on the Qinhuai River to have fun, have fun and relax.

Many rich people came in one after another, and civil and military officials also joined in one after another. At that time, the Qinhuai River was colorful, boats shuttled back and forth, and the sound of paddle light and shadow kept up day and night. There is a spectacular scene of a hundred flowers blooming and a hundred officials competing for whoring. In this way, the tax revenue has increased, but the "public consumption" corruption of officials at all levels has been pulled out of the state treasury. What's more, officials talk about whoring every day at work. How can they concentrate on working hard for the people?

Zhu Yuanzhang saw this situation,

This brothel economy marked by the romantic scenery of Qinhuai River was created and managed by Zhu Yuanzhang himself. Daming, the founding emperor, planted whatever he wanted, but he got fleas. I originally wanted to increase taxes and revitalize the country. I don't want to completely bury the Ming Dynasty after more than 200 years because of a famous prostitute on the Qinhuai River. Although Wu Sangui, the company commander of Shanhaiguan, who was entrusted by Emperor Chongzhen, was furious with Chen Yuanyuan, a famous prostitute near Qinhuai, and opened the gate of Shanhaiguan, the iron hoof of Fengfeng Manchu Eight Banners team swallowed up the Ming Dynasty instantly. However, beside Qinhuai, the wind and moon are still bright, and the sound of burning lamps is endless. It can be seen that romance can subvert politics, but politics is helpless romance!