"Well, the concept of citizens is also a core component of the Chinese Order. Let me put it this way! Citizens and nobles actually represent the elite group of the entire Chinese ethnic group!"
"Society is chaotic and people's hearts are confused. Not everyone can clearly make correct judgments when influenced by fame and fortune. Different levels of education and different environments in which they have lived since childhood will affect people's thinking. All kinds of deviations!”
"It is this kind of deviation that makes the same social phenomenon look different in the minds of different people... This is the source of internal friction!"
"Who does the country belong to? Of course it belongs to all people. Everything in the country established by the Chinese people should belong to the Chinese people and be shared by all people. This is the essence of the Equality Order! But who owns the management of the country? Is it divided equally among all people?"
"Unfortunately, that is unrealistic, because people's minds are confused and they all have different views on the same thing. If management power is equally divided among everyone, then there will be serious internal friction! You say something, I say Xi, maybe I know you are right, but your interests and mine are not in the same community, so I will deliberately oppose you!"
"In the face of absolute self-interest, many people will choose to sacrifice public interests! This is a very sad reality. I don't want to admit it, but I have to admit it!"
"In this reality, we can only hand over the management of the country to an elite team and try to reduce internal friction!"
Xiao Letian sighed, "Actually, why did ancient human society have emperors and kings? To be honest, the emergence of emperors and kings is actually a helpless measure for human beings to adapt to this imperfect reality!"
“No one wants to have an emperor and king above their head to take care of them, no one wants all their wealth to stay in their own home, no one wants to have their power interfered with and infringed upon by others... Yes, I, Xiao Letian, don’t want to do that either! "
"Didn't ancient people have such wisdom? Of course they did, and of course they could understand this truth! But the reality is cruel. Those nations that pursue equality and freedom, and countries that decentralize power, have been defeated by the sword of centralization. All people will die and civilization will be destroyed!”
"In the final analysis, totalitarianism can suppress the differences within human beings, can deter internal strife, and can gather the strength of all people to do some earth-shattering things...such as war! For example, huge projects that are unprecedented in the past! This kind of terrifying centralization Ability is like a hammer that smashes those scattered civilizations into pieces!"
There was deathly silence in the main hall, and everyone felt as if a big stone had been placed in their hearts, so heavy that they could not speak. →
Xiao Letian sighed, "The Ming Dynasty was the last glory of Han civilization. The royal family of the Zhu family and the Confucian intellectuals created a decentralization system that was considered very advanced at the time... The cabinet and the imperial power shared power with each other, and there were competitions between them. Balance and compromise, power is divided in conflicts again and again!”
"In the Ming Dynasty at that time, the royal family, civil servants, and the weaker generals in the later period jointly divided the power of the empire. They would not let any one class become abnormally large, thus ensuring that power and wealth were always in a state of flow! "
Xiao Letian turned to look at Zai Chun. "The politics of the Ming Dynasty at that time was simply a beacon of light in the Middle Ages for Europe. Countless intellectuals used the almost perfect civil servant political model to motivate themselves and the theocracy. Political warfare! Is the Renaissance really a revival of the civilization of ancient Greece and Rome? No, the Renaissance also absorbed the milk of Chinese civil politics..."
"Especially represented by France. At that time, the French royal family and bureaucrats admired the Chinese style so much!"
"But civilization can never compete with barbarism! When the internal strife of the decentralized Ming Dynasty became more and more serious, the Jurchens in the north, also known as the Manchus, rose up! Archery, horseback riding, and a strong body and soul tempered by white mountains and black waters, Let them sweep through the Central Plains like devastation..."
"Rather than saying that barbarism defeated civilization, I prefer to believe that centralization defeated decentralization! The Iron Blood and the Scimitar suppressed all internal dissatisfaction, and the threat of death turned their entire tribe into a huge war machine!"
"There is no war exhaustion! There is no internal strife! There are no differences of opinion! There is only one united effort to rob! To rob the whole world..."
Zai Chun's little face turned pale and pale after being said, and his hands and feet were trembling, but he didn't dare to refute a word of what the master said, and he didn't know how to refute it.
The bloody smell of history filled the hall, and many people felt suffocated. Xiao Letian smiled and eased the atmosphere. "Actually, it is not just the change of dynasties in Ming and Qing Dynasties. In fact, all the glorious dynasties in Chinese history were more or less... Or be less troubled by this problem!”
"The civil service of the Song Dynasty was even looser than that of the Ming Dynasty! What happened? Faced with the centralization of power by aliens, the Song Dynasty with decentralized power could only take a strategic defensive. It continued from the Northern Song Dynasty to the Southern Song Dynasty, and finally retreated to a cliff and jumped into the sea!"
"Europe is actually similar. In the late period of the powerful Roman Empire, the power struggle between the emperor and the aristocratic council, the Senate, and the local governors intensified. The Roman Empire, which had intensified internal strife, finally collapsed due to the highly centralized barbarian invasion, leaving only the once glorious There are also many temples in the Colosseum for future generations to marvel at!”
"Your Excellency Prime Minister!" Just as Xiao Letian sighed, a voice suddenly rang out from the crowd. Everyone turned around and saw that it was a foreign devil, and many people present did not recognize him.
Only Xiao Letian and the oldest group of officials knew who this foreigner was. He was Matthew, the military attaché at the U.S. Embassy, and the military inspection commissioner sent by President Lincoln to East Asia.
When Xiao Letian first gained control of Ryukyu, he once sailed to Asia with Mike Carnegie. Later, Matthew traveled in China. His Chinese proficiency has greatly improved in the past few years.
"Your Excellency, Prime Minister, I don't quite agree with your statement! You have just been explaining the advantages of centralization over decentralization, but we cannot ignore that in history, the number of centralized nations has collapsed more?"
"Is Genghis Khan's kingdom huge? But the Yuan Dynasty existed for a short time among all Chinese dynasties, and their descendants eventually retreated to the prairie!"
"Many centralized ethnic minorities in Chinese history, such as the Turks, Xiongnu, Qiang, Dangxiang, Xianbei... How long will their regimes last?"
"There are also the Goths, Huns, Vandals, Gauls, Franks, and Germans who destroyed Rome...except for the Franks and Germanic peoples who survived, what about the others? Not all were lost in the long river of history. Yet?"
"Even the barbarian Franks and Germans survived in the end because they learned advanced civilization and absorbed the essence of Roman civilization and Eastern civilization, so that they could remain standing!"
"Excuse me, Prime Minister! Who is the longevity star in the long history of mankind?"
