Chapter 243: The Road of Qi (1)
These are the questions that Takan wants to ask.
It's too hard, it's too complicated.
Tian He is not in the right position, Tian He has been immersed in infighting with his brothers and relatives for the past 20 years, but it does not mean that he has never thought about this problem.
Sometimes, the ruling class can always grasp the objective truths of the world before the ruled class, because they need to use them in reverse to maintain their rule.
The so-called dragon slaying technique, the real essence is to solve the cow, not to follow the map. Show the cruel world after the false affection and silent warmth of those domination, tell the people of the world how the world works, and then find contradictions from these objective truths to solve all this.
The strength of a country, the rise and fall of a surname, the rise and fall of the world...... There are too many explanations for all this today.
Mandate of Heaven.
Virtue.
Transmigration.
God willing.
There are too many, especially in this era of change, when the stars are twinkling, when China is young, there are too many explanations for everything in the world.
But in fact, Tian He didn't believe in these. He doesn't believe in the mandate of heaven, he doesn't believe in reincarnation, and he doesn't believe in virtue and God's wishes, otherwise he would not be qualified to become the Marquis of Qi who is about to abdicate.
Twenty years ago, the death of Gongsun Sun completely broke out the internal contradictions of the Tian family, which had been suppressed for a long time.
In the past 20 years, brothers have killed each other and relatives have fought each other, Tian He has not thought about being Qi Huan Jinwen, but the disaster of Xiao Wall cannot be solved, even if he thinks about it a lot, he is afraid that he is not able to implement it.
Tian He didn't want to talk too much to the debater, and there were some things that were difficult for the debater to understand. He felt that maybe the group of people from the Mo family could be understood, but those people were the biggest enemies in his eyes now.
The only son of Chengqi is missing, and his current mentality is no longer that of a monarch, no longer a Marquis of Qi, but just the suzerain of the Tian family, at least for now.
Qi is the Qi country of the Tian family, and it is the private weapon of the Tian family, how can you not take care of your own house and private property?
Under the feudal system, any monarch who wants to make a difference is bound to be hostile to the aristocracy.
At this point, Tian He felt that he should tell Tian Yan this truth, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was not necessary, Tian Yan was the heir chosen by his brother, and he must have received such an education to understand how a monarch should face the nobles and the people.
Regarding the chaos of Qi at this time, Tian Yan asked questions suspiciously, and even for the future of Qi State, he had plans and plans.
But he couldn't talk to the debater.
If Tian Yan had the guts, he might be able to talk to Tian Yan, but now is not the time.
After being silent for a while, Tian He just smiled, bypassed the topic, and talked about the details of the Zen position.
The debater on the other side was stunned for a moment, and he couldn't help himself, and this was what the debater really wanted to talk about.
Tian He and the Mo family are considered enemies, but now looking at the debater's smile on the matter of Zen Rang, I can't help but think of those words that are very popular nowadays and are full of fragrance to read and talk for three days.
"Summer worm, don't talk about ice."
It's not that summer insects can't talk about ice, it's that summer insects don't care about the crystal of ice and snow, because it's not necessary.
Tian He felt that this debater was a summer worm.
But Tian Yan, he can't be a summer insect, but will he think that he is a summer insect?
I don't know all of this, because Tian He never thought that he would fail from the beginning, if it weren't for the people of Linzi being organized by a third party, Tian He felt that he couldn't fail, how could a young man fight his experienced self?
If the victory of this coup d'état only relied on Tian Yan's own means, Tian He felt that he didn't need to say anything, and Tian Yan would do well.
But it is precisely because it is not, and it is precisely because of this that Tian Yan panicked to negotiate peace with Tian He to prevent the people from becoming bigger, so Tian He was still a little worried in his heart that Tian Yan did not know how to govern this huge Qi country.
Tian He thought to himself that the Qi country needs to change, and the change of the Qi country must take a completely different path, a different path from Wei, Qin, and Chu.
This path, he has already thought about, but he does not have the opportunity to implement it.
Not because there was no time, but because there was no time for the Mo family to help sweep away the aristocratic forces south of the Great Wall.
If there is any ideological system and academic system to support the reform of a country and the reform of a country, it is the smoothest, and it is also a means to keep people in power at any cost.
The reform of the Wei State relied on the legalization of Confucianism of the Xihe School and the academic ideas derived from the Xihe School of the Zixia lineage.
The Qin State changed the law, relying on the confluence of law and Mexico, rebelling against Mo to understand the art of the Mo family and abandon the righteousness of the Mo family; Wu Qi entered the Qin Dynasty, as a figure deeply influenced by the Xihe School, coupled with the ideas of the Mo family's city guarding technique, such as Qi Min, and other ideas, the law changed and followed the road of Legalist centralization. The essence of this is the debate between Solu Shen and the rebel in Handan: land is the only way to increase wealth? Or can industrial and commercial labor also increase wealth?
The state of Chu changed the law, and Wu Qi did not enter Chu as in history, but the opportunity created by the battle of Daliang City for a large number of nobles to be killed and captured, and the power of the nobles weakened, combined with the infiltration of the Mo family into the state of Chu, this is not sustainable, because the state of Chu does not have a complete theoretical system.
Qi is different.
Tian He understands the difference between Qi and what Qi should and should not use.
The Tian family Qi country is congenitally insufficient, and it cannot use the benevolence, righteousness and etiquette of Confucianism, because the Tian family is not in the right position.
Therefore, Tian He respected the Yellow Emperor as the ancestor and used the "reincarnation of fate" of the Yellow Emperor to defeat the Yan Emperor in the Battle of Hanquan in an attempt to solve the legitimacy of the Tian dynasty.
The ancestors of the Tian clan can be traced back to the Yellow Emperor, while the ancestors of Jiang Qi and Taigongwang can be traced back to the Yan Emperor.
This kind of reincarnation cannot be explained by the truth of the world now.
King Wu extinguished Yin, asked about the Mandate of Heaven, was seriously ill, and panicked, so there was a Zhou Gong ceremony.
At this time, the existing "Mandate of Heaven" in the world could not explain the legitimacy of the Tian family's Daiqi, and Tian He and his staff and strategists had actually found a clue to this extremely difficult problem.
What Tian He thought, it was perfect.
Since the Mandate of Heaven cannot be explained, what if the Mandate of Heaven is reincarnated?
Now that those ancient emperors have become gods, myths and stories have begun to circulate among the people, Tian He wants to use the Yellow Emperor as Gaozu and the Battle of Hanquan to explain the Tian Dynasty, so some things can be explained clearly.
Virtue and the Mandate of Heaven are reincarnated, and no dynasty can be eternal, but it is in accordance with the Mandate of Heaven for one family to replace another.
For example, the Yellow Emperor defeated Emperor Yan back then, such as the later Shang Tang to destroy Xia, such as the later King Wu Xuan, and now the Tian Dynasty Qi.
The truth in this, Tian He understands that it is just the role of "force", and the life that is finally defeated by force.
However, this truth cannot be preached to the people like the Mo family, and even a ten-year "life" debate broke out with Yang Zhu, Lie Yukou and others in order to publicize it.
The people were not allowed to know, because once the rule of the family was known, it would be difficult to maintain.
Therefore, Tian He felt that he needed to borrow the theory of "the reincarnation of the Mandate of Heaven" to comprehensively advocate the legitimacy of his own generation of Qi: his own generation of Qi is the same as that of the Yellow Emperor and Emperor Yan, just a reincarnation, and the future of Huaxia will never be able to transcend this reincarnation, this is the fate of the world.
Now that all this has been sorted out, the people around him have sorted out the clues, and they already have a set of doctrines that only need to be repaired in detail.
Having solved the question of legitimacy, then the remaining questions need to be answered from history.
What is History?
For Tian He, history is that King Wu is divided, Qi and Dongyi are combined, and Lu strictly abides by etiquette, so Zhou Gong sighed that Lu will become a courtier of Qi in the future.
History is Qi Huan's hegemony, and Guan Zhong's various reforms have borrowed the benefits of Qi State's fish and salt, as well as the various legends and theories of Guan Zhong's governance.
Qi has been a hegemon, has the background of a great power, and has enough experience to learn from, what Tian He needs is a complete theoretical system.
A complete system that supports one's own coup d'état is the reincarnation of the Huangyan War, and a complete system that supports Qi to enrich the country and strengthen the army.
This system must be based on the study of the Yellow Emperor, because the Tian family chased the Yellow Emperor as the ancestor, and the Yellow Emperor has learned a lot.
This system should integrate the learning of the Yellow Emperor with the rich country and strong soldiers in the history of Qi State, which can be self-justifying and can be practiced.
A rich country and a strong army are divided into a rich country and a strong army.
The Mohists naturally have a book "Rich Country", which expounds on the source and generation of wealth in the world, which sounds reasonable, but if you think about it carefully, it is actually an essay on seizing power for the peasants and industry.
Because according to the theory of the Mohist book "Rich Country", wealth comes from labor, so the existence of nobles who do not have crops and harvest 300 is very unreasonable.
As far as Tian He is concerned, the matter of enriching the country naturally wants to make the people rich at the macro level, but the key at the micro level is how to collect taxes, how to collect money, and how to enrich the government treasury.
This question was discussed in Qi Huan's time, Qi Huan asked Guan Zhong how he could be rich, and Guan Zhong replied with a very interesting sentence.
Therefore, the lease is also suitable for you; Those who are registered are also forced by the king. The deceased monarch abolished what he deserved and demanded what he demanded, so he complained and ordered not to do it. The people, if they take it, they will be angry, and if they give it, they will be happy. Of course, the people's feelings. The first king knew what it was, so he saw what was given, but did not see the reason to take it.
In other words, normal taxes, such as those that were originally set, are the rules of the world and accepted by the people. Taxation according to the rules is taken for granted by the common people.
However, abnormal special taxes, such as the special war tax such as Qiu Jiafu in Lu State, belong to the opposition of the common people and belong to the forcible demand.
The king of the dead country generally gave up the normal tax but imposed more special taxes, which led to the boiling of public resentment - this is not actually what Guan Zhong said, but the scholars of the Qi State entrusted Zhong with a set of theories.
Asked the right question, Guan Zhong thinks that the people, take away their things, they will be angry; Give them something and they will be happy, that's a natural truth.
Therefore, when the kings gave it to the people, they made a big show of it, and when they took it from the people, they had to pay attention to means and strategies, so that the people could not see it, and even did it voluntarily.
As the king of a country, if you want to get money, you have to find a way to turn seizure into giving, so that the means will voluntarily hand over some of the wealth that the king needs, and he also feels that he has made a profit.