Chapter 771: ...... in the Making (Above)
Will Lu Zhe carry out a purge after the reunification of the world? The answer is that some people will inevitably be cleansed, after all, whether it is to achieve a stable position of dominance or to eliminate certain worries, there will be people who will become victims.
The problem is that the object of Lu Zhe's purges must be an obstacle to the "great unification", and the formation of a pattern in which even the feudal system will form a great unification.
The so-called "great unification" is not simply a product of centralization, but can be the formal unity of the nation or the unity of multiple feudal states. To put it bluntly, the model of the union republic and the model of the state and county federation are also a kind of unification.
Under that pattern, the central government maintained sufficient strength, and the feudal princes and princes were only "lords" under the great unification pattern, and each lord was subordinate to the central government when he enjoyed considerable autonomy, and in some ways this kind of political environment was a good thing for the Chinese ethnic group.
Absolute centralization of power is easy to lead to absolute corruption, it should be the world of the world, not the world of one person, of course, this is the traditional Chinese culture, if according to the modern language, power should be properly supervised.
Lu Zhe naturally also wanted his authority to be unlimited, and what he longed to say was Tianxian, but in some ways he didn't think it was necessary. The so-called is not necessary, it does not need to be confirmed from the system, after all, he is the founding king, and the founding king has always been a very majestic person, and no one dares to point fingers at the founding king.
The road of absolute centralization can be taken, but it is destined to let the dynastic changes in the land of China continue in an endless cycle.
Isn't it because of the supremacy of the emperor that dynasties have been constantly changing in the history of China? It is precisely because the power of the emperor is incomparable, when the society needs to change, many careerists do not want to tide over the difficulties together, but keep their eyes on the supreme emperor's throne, hoping that the country can be turbulent, so that they can peek into the supreme throne.
There is a timeline in which the dynasties of Chinese history change with the flow of time (the wheels of legendary history roll forward). The collapse of the Qin Empire was not a typical case, but because of too many factors, it would take at least hundreds of thousands of words to describe it.
The subsequent Liu Han Dynasty was able to enjoy the country for more than 400 years, and the subsequent dynasties rarely exceeded 300 years, so it means that the development of each dynasty has experienced a fault. Each cycle is tantamount to a self-destruction of the culture, technology, and humanities that this ethnic group has developed before...... And so much, many, many will be destroyed by the war.
How can a civilization that has always been disconnected develop? Knowledge needs to be accumulated, and the lifespan of those who create it is limited. Life is only a hundred years...... In fact, from the pre-Qin period to the "I Qing Dynasty", the average life expectancy of the people basically did not exceed 50 years, and the knowledge created in a limited time was constantly destroyed. There is no zài and its accumulation.
If knowledge can continue to accumulate without suffering from faults, then only one civilization has not been destroyed by self-destruction or external pressure, and whether the top of the pyramid is stable or not has become the key to social stability.
The destiny of a country or nation is often controlled by a small number of people, and this is a top-down chain of domination. It is precisely because of the turmoil that comes from the collapse of the upper stratum, whether it is the mistake in the choice of national policy, or the chaos caused by the struggle for power and profit of the ruling class, which eventually engulfs the entire society.
Throughout the history of the world, the collapse of every country does not really start from the bottom, and the ability and strength of the bottom are limited. If the upper echelons are stable and properly handled, even if there is chaos at the bottom of the hierarchy, the country can quickly calm down.
How to ensure the stability of the ruling class? That's all about everything.
The world of the family is happy by itself, but it is destined to make everyone unhappy. The contradictions may not be so acute when encountering a wise king, but once a stupid king is in power, there is no channel for the needs of the people to appeal, and the talented elite cannot be appointed. Add to that the filth of the ruling class, and it's time to break the ground and start over.
How can Lu Zhe, who traveled back to BC from modern times, not know that the opening of the people's wisdom is the inevitability of society, and what the previous dynasties have done the most is not to conform to the opening of the people's wisdom. All dynasties are hindering the awakening of the people's wisdom, because under the absolute centralization of power, the people's wisdom once it is turned on means that the people will threaten the rule of the dictator.
A good sentence "the people can make it impossible to know it" how to break the sentence has been entangled for thousands of years. Why bother with the sentence "the people can make it impossible to know it"? It's not about whether the ruler can last long, in a long history, it's the break of the syntax of "the people can make it, but not make it known", in short, it is to implement the policy of fooling the people. No, you can know it. Perhaps the history of China, where Confucianism controls the statecraft, will not be like that.
"Can the people do it? No, you can know it. The vernacular means: Can the people let it go? No, education is still needed.
If the people of a country are ignorant, they are doomed to social progress, and the policy of fooling the people for the sake of the stability of their dominance is cutting off the future of the country and the nation, and the country that manipulates the policy of fooling the people will stagnate and even regress, but there is not only one country in the whole world, and such a country will become a predatory field and nourishment for other countries in the world competition.
The policy of fooling the people is not advisable, but absolute freedom also depends on what kind of historical process it is in, so it is a boundless proposition not to make the people ignorant and not to make the people too indulgent.
Lu Zhe is not a great scholar, let alone a social expert, what he can do is to continue to pay attention to education, and open up the people's wisdom in the direction that he thinks is needed. Fortunately, he still has at least many directions to learn from, such as the "enhanced version of the road to a strong country" of the ancient pre-Qin Dynasty, and the rise of modern Germany (not Adolf's version, but Bismarck's version).
It is necessary to make the people understand which nation they belong to, what responsibilities the state has to the people, what obligations the people have to the state, and what the strength of the country and nation means to every individual, so that everyone understands the importance of themselves to the country (nation) and plays their due obligations in every field.
Strict self-denial, the Jin Kingdom in the Spring and Autumn Period was such a social environment. Therefore, they became the hegemon at that time, and modern Germany also completed its rise in a very short time.
So a set of "people can make it?" No, it will take at least a decade or two to bear fruit, after all, the children who are educated by the new generation need to grow up, right?
According to the policy exercised by Lu Zhe, the people educated will inevitably be a group with a strong expansion. What these leaders need to do is to create a way for the people to acquire knowledge, to disseminate knowledge and to educate them on the ideas they need, such as militarism.
For now...... It should be said that until it encounters an unshakable opponent, the expansion of a nation should not stop. When there is a chance to expand the living space, if you don't expand, it will not only be a waste of God's preferential treatment. It is also giving up the future that belongs to the nation.
Endless expansion is difficult to develop under the constraints of inconvenient transportation, not only because transportation hinders the pace of the journey, but also because the absolute centralization environment tends to make the rulers who hold absolute power feel uneasy. Then, the absolute centralization of power, combined with the inconvenience of transportation, also made endless expansion impossible.
Roads that become obstacles to expansion can be built, but the unrest in the ruler's mind cannot be "cured". Why? Because the absolute central bloc state is the "private property" of a certain family, the ruler will never dare to put the army in the hands of a certain person, and let that person lead a large army away from the area effectively controlled by the central government to fight. Afraid that the commander who led that army would rebel and become the gravedigger of the dynasty. If you don't dare to delegate the command of the army, then the possibility of expansion will be pressed by the rulers themselves, and endless expansion is tantamount to a joke.
Lü Zhe attached great importance to the construction of roads, initially in order to be able to achieve economic development. After all, "if you want to get rich, build roads first" has a deep impression on anyone who grew up in the Celestial Empire, and it is still the formation of the road behind that makes it very convenient and rapid to mobilize the army. Lu Zhecai derived the understanding that the road is the lifeblood of the country.
The obstacles that can be built up with material things are definitely not obstacles, only some things about the mind are the most difficult. There are many things that can be derived from thought, and the most important one is about spiritual pursuits.
People's yearning can be infinite. But often the pursuit of unrestricted things will cause the collapse of everything, so as a wise person will "create a system", use the system to guide or restrict a group, so that the group does not disintegrate itself due to excessive indulgence.
The ruling stratum of the state, including Lü Zhe, has been faced with a difficult problem that must be solved, that is, to develop a system suitable for the state (nation).
Lü Zhe has been exercising self-restraint on the "supreme power", but self-restraint alone is not enough, and supervision from other quarters is also needed.
In many cases, only moral concepts can supervise and restrain the monarch's power, but morality depends entirely on the king's own character and thoughts, but it is extremely unreliable to rely entirely on the king's moral concepts.
What Lu Zhe hopes is to develop a system suitable for the needs of expansion in this generation, and use the system to ensure internal stability.
Expansion to the outside requires a relatively stable internal environment, so how to make internal stability has become an urgent proposition.
No one should be supreme, power can not be completely in the hands of one person, a little rationality can be interpreted as "one person counts the short, many count the long", that is, a person no matter how smart and wise is limited, once the power is completely in the hands of one person, that person's slight mistake will form unpredictable consequences.
Power should be properly supervised and restrained, and Lu Zhe was the founder of the country, and he hoped to form such a political environment in his own generation, so he had always strictly restrained himself.
Of course, Lu Zhe is not following the "constitutional monarchy" thing, the constitutional system needs a premise, that is, the people's wisdom is opened to a certain extent, and the premise of generating people's wisdom is literacy to acquire knowledge, so that a country (nation) with tens of millions of people but a literacy rate of less than 10% plays a constitutional monarchy, and there are enough examples to show that it is a farce.
What kind of environment needs to have a realistic "vision", according to the actual situation to determine the foundation of a country (nation), that fundamental can be regarded as a foundation act, that is, thinking about the national system.
Because he did not follow the path of absolute centralization, Lu Zhe was never afraid of the decentralization of power, and he was confident enough that under his rule, the happiness of society would increase.
The establishment of rule is to first unite a group of people, so that those people form a collective around themselves, and there are many means to unite people, and Lu Zhe uses the most direct way of "mutual benefit".
At present, Lu Zhe is no longer facing the "entrepreneurial stage", and the demand will naturally increase.
Adapting the system to the contemporary needs to be explored, and this process has never stopped.
According to the preliminary plan discussed by Lü Zhe and the current ruling class of the Han State, the class level ...... That is, a series of demarcations of the royal family, the royal family, and the aristocracy will be the first step. In fact, this is also in line with the needs of human development, first determine the ruling structure at the top of the pyramid, and then achieve a connected social structure from top to bottom.
In the new system, the land of the feudal king will not be called a feudal state, but will become the territory of the king, that is, the so-called "royal domain", and the rest of the vassals will also be used as "feudal domains", retaining a certain degree of autonomy, but in the diplomatic field, it will be controlled by the central government.
To put it simply, under the new feudal system, it is very similar to the modern satrapy system, whether it is a feudal king or a prince, it is an alternative kind of governor, these governors will exercise the autonomy of the feudal domain under certain rules, and will also have appropriate private arms according to different levels, but they still have to hand over a certain share of the output of the territory to the central government, and the feudal kings and vassals themselves also need to be administratively subordinate to the central government, and the central government holds the right to foreign affairs and start wars in a unified country.
The extension of the new sub-feudal system will also have a new pattern, that is, it is divided into "local sub-collar system" and "non-local sub-collar system".
The so-called "local sub-feudal system" means that the land is divided into Chinese mainland, and this type of lord only holds the economic right of self-government, and the lord's armament will also be compressed.
Compared with the many restrictions of the "local sub-domain system", the "non-local sub-domain system" where the fief is not in China will have more autonomy, and that needs to be delineated in more detail...... (To be continued......)