Li Zicheng, China (1606 ~ 1645) led the peasant uprising against the landlord's land ownership and exploitation by the feudal state. According to Cha Jizhuo's Record of Evidence in the Early Qing Dynasty, it was Yan Li (? ~ 1644) put forward that "Li Yanjiao was attracted by the false name, pretending that there was no food in the field, which was tempting." In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen (1644), Li Zicheng moved from Shaanxi to Shanxi, advocating "land equalization system".

After the mid-Ming Dynasty, with the improvement of social productive forces and the development of commodity economy, social economy flourished, and members of the royal family, officials at all levels and landlords and gentry became extravagant. They even more frantically annexed land and increased taxes. At that time, only in Susong area in the south of the Yangtze River, nine out of ten farmers were landless tenants, and the heavy rent tax made the tenants "rent today and collect debts tomorrow" (Susong House Heavy Land Tax).

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, more and more taxes were paid. In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen alone, there were more than 20 million salaries paid to Liao, suppression and training, accounting for more than half of the total tax revenue in the whole year. The slogan of "no tax on farmland" put forward by the peasant uprising led by Li Zicheng reflected the sharp social contradictions at that time and concentrated on the demands of the broad masses of peasants.

In the uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the peasants' idea of "land equalization and tax exemption" was completely different from the so-called "land equalization" thought of the landlord class. It is the development of farmers' economic thought in previous uprisings. The idea of "equal dignity and equal poverty" embodied in the demand of robbing the rich to help the poor and striving for equal survival rights in the early and middle period of feudal society has developed into the idea of directly opposing feudal land ownership and labor, which shows that farmers in the great uprising in the late Ming Dynasty have realized that the landlord class's possession of land and exploitation of land rent are the fundamental reasons for farmers' poverty. This is a leap in the development of farmers' economic thought in China feudal society. No matter whether this idea can be widely put into practice in the tense armed struggle, it is always of great historical significance. However, farmers and small producers are not representatives of the new mode of production. The purpose of farmers' egalitarianism and opposition to feudal oppression is only to maintain their small-scale peasant economic status, not to completely abandon the feudal system.