"The entire history of human politics is actually a swing game between centralization and decentralization. Power is a social instrument. Everyone wants to eat and occupy more. As I once said, it is a huge pendulum. , going back and forth between the two critical points of centralization and decentralization.”
"When centralization develops to the extreme, it becomes dictatorship. When decentralization reaches the extreme, it leads to independence and fragmentation. Why did Europe not form an effectively unified empire? Why was the ancient Roman Empire doomed to perish? In fact, it has something to do with their geographical environment. .”
"Ancient European civilization was actually the Mediterranean civilization. Open the map of ancient Rome in its heyday, and you can see clearly that the core of this empire's rule was actually within the limit radius of sea transportation..."
It is now six o'clock in the morning. Normally, Xiao Letian has gotten up and finished his walk at this time, and is preparing to have breakfast. But today's situation is a bit special. Since the ladies have all come to Ryukyu, the officials of the Prime Minister's Office are very aware of the situation and have not sent any gifts. Too many official documents came in for the Prime Minister to review.
We are all men, and we all know what state we will be in after holding it in for ten months.
But someone still came to disturb Xiao Letian's vacation, and that person was Zai Chun. This eleven-year-old child could obviously break into Xiao Letian's inner house at will, and none of the guards could stop him.
In the study, Xiao Letian washed his face with cold water and stared at the black circle at Zai Chun. His mind was so sleepy that he even remembered the debauchery last night after being distracted for a while.
Zai Chun called Master three times before waking Xiao Letian out of his daze and asking his question.
Zaichun didn't sleep all night last night because he heard the emperor's art explained by Feng Fu and a group of Confucian scholars, which was completely different from what Xiao Letian explained.
Feng Fu's explanation made the little emperor a little scared. Feng Fu said why the court still maintained the Green Camp even though it knew that it had no fighting power. Why it still didn't reform even though it knew that the Eight Banners had become dandies.
Why is there no official in the world who is not corrupt, but the emperor still has to use corrupt officials? He Shen embezzled 800 million taels, why did Emperor Gao still treat him as a treasure?
Everything is actually for centralization of power, for the emperor's power.
Green camp is full of Han people, regardless of raising the flag or not, they are all Han people at heart. Why should the Han army be so disciplined? Do they have to be as strong as the Yue family army? Then all the Jurchens will continue to call Grandpa Yue.
What's wrong with the dandies of the Eight Banners? The more dandy they are, the less they have any intention of rebellion. When Jiulong seized the throne, the Eight Sage King was a corporal of courtesy and virtue. But the more promising he was, the more the emperor was wary of him.
There is also the issue of using corrupt officials. Corrupt officials are good. The more corrupt an official is, the more it proves that he will not rebel, because all his corruption relies on this court and this system. If this system is overturned, where will he go to corrupt?
So, if the eunuch sells eggs for ten taels of silver to the emperor, that is not called corruption, that is called a reward from the emperor. What he buys with the money is the loyalty of the eunuchs.
Feng Fu and others continued their speech until three o'clock in the morning. Finally, Feng Fu concluded, "Businessmen are fickle because they are always chasing the latest profit. Today they can spin yarn and tomorrow they can plant tea. In order to make money, they can completely abandon themselves." conscience...I admit that this group is capable, but precisely because they are so changeable, they are destined to be unable to rule this country..."
"Because China is too big and has too many people. Managing a big country is like cooking a small dish. Stirring it will only break people's hearts... The common people will make money growing food this year, and cotton next year, and the year after that they may abandon their farmland and become traders... "
"You know, not everyone can become a qualified businessman. Not all things are born at the same height, and the ten fingers are not all the same length. How do you expect everyone to be able to make a fortune in business."
"But ordinary people are greedy and have little self-restraint. It is normal to make a small amount of money and lose a large amount of money. Once they go bankrupt and lose their ancestral property, such people become the most unstable members of society..."
"Emperor, if our entire Qing Dynasty admires merchants, I am afraid that within ten or twenty years, the people of this country will be completely in chaos."
The little emperor was dumbfounded. He could not refute Feng Fu's remarks at all. This was not his intention alone. This theory was the accumulation of thousands of years of experience of Confucianism.
Later, Feng Fu also refuted Xiao Letian's army construction: "The army is just a group of big soldiers. It needs whatever ideas it wants."
"We still need to hold meetings and tell them the purpose of every battle. The bad soldiers should be obedient and fight to get money. Today they can fight bravely for a few slogans. Tomorrow they will even fight for the so-called ideal. And overthrow the emperor.”
"Your Majesty, don't be stupid. If one day your will makes these soldiers dissatisfied, will they rebel and overthrow you? You won't be able to find a way out even if you cry."
"We all know that Ryukyu's army can fight, but we in the Qing Dynasty don't want such an army. We can't control it... What kind of army is this? They don't give rewards and they rush to be dead soldiers. Is there such a terrifying army in the world? Soldiers, I’m afraid that in the future when they attack the Forbidden City, the troublemakers don’t have to pay, they can just shout a few deceptive slogans.”
Zai Chun was completely confused. He was very conflicted in his heart. He had completely lost sleep since returning to his residence. He kept staring until the sky was bright. Then he wiped his face and went straight to Xiao Letian. He wanted to get the Prime Minister's Answer.
Xiao Letian was very pleased after listening to Zai Chun's retelling. Yesterday, he ordered the Intelligence Bureau that this time the Qing envoys came to visit, the Intelligence Bureau should not conduct surveillance and let them take a look freely, so last night's Xiao Letian also didn’t know the transcript of the conversation.
Unexpectedly, the good apprentice took the initiative to deliver the plot to my door early the next morning. It seemed that this year's emotional investment was still useful.
Xiao Letian admitted that Feng Fu's remarks were still very confusing, and the key points of the issues he pointed out were very sharp, and Xiao Letian also knew that what Feng Fu said would happen in history.
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