Power is never concentrated in one person. No matter how great a dictator he is, he cannot rule a country by himself.
The larger the country, the more serious the phenomenon of decentralization of power. A small country with a small population may be able to realize the world of equality in the minds of saints, but if a big country wants to rule stably, it must divide its powers.
The reason is simple. One person, including a group of people, has limited abilities and different professional knowledge. Everyone has a fair 24 hours a day.
No one is a god, and no one can do everything by himself! If everyone goes to work like Yongzheng, the end result will be just to be exhausted.
And even if you really do everything yourself, it is just a relatively centralized situation. To govern such a large country, you still need hundreds of thousands of bureaucrats to carry out decentralized management.
This is something that cannot be done, and this pattern will not change even in the 21st century.
Not to mention that this is the backward 19th century. In the Second French Empire, the emperor is the supreme ruler of the country. He originally succeeded in restoration through conspiracy. If such people do not maintain the interests of their faction, then the emperor's position is absolutely Unable to sit still.
Napoleon III relied on the support of the decadent and lonely aristocratic capitalists to ascend to the throne of emperor, so in the end he had to share the dividends of this empire with this group of people.
Napoleon III had no choice, because without the help of these people, he would also lose the empire!
This is the sorrow and fate of all careerists who have gained the country unfairly. From the very beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, this regime has been riddled with cancer, and this cancer will gradually grow as the empire grows, desperately absorbing the nutrients of the mother body.
You dare not remove it, because removing it will cause massive bleeding, and the final result can only be that the tumor and the mother will die together!
With no choice, Napoleon III could only allow these 'allies' to penetrate into various power departments of the empire, let corruption run rampant, and let them greedily suck blood.
In a sense, Napoleon III was actually the slave of these people. The emperor had to bear all the infamy. If any problems occurred in the empire, he was the first to be reviled.
In addition, the emperor must also become the god of war. He must fight everywhere to seize colonies for France, because the aristocratic capitalists need markets and raw material bases, and the people also need the light of victory to gain an illusory sense of happiness.
Many people say that Napoleon III was a war madman, a madman who only knew about killing, but who had ever thought that this was really his true intention? Could he be forced by the situation?
In fact, politicians of Xiao Letian's level have already seen through Napoleon III's helplessness. Xiao Letian had told his closed disciples before.
"This Pharaoh is just working for nothing. He has the title of emperor of an empire, but how much benefit can he get from this empire? In fact, it is very little..."
"On the surface, it looks like he has fine clothes and fine food, and a majestic palace... In fact, what he owns is a drop in the bucket compared to the share occupied by the entire aristocratic capitalist group!"
"The corrupt class has gathered together, and even the emperor can do nothing about it. Napoleon III must launch a war abroad, because he knows very well that he must tear the flesh and blood from other nations to repair this perverted empire!"
“Only with a steady influx of foreign money can the serious gap between rich and poor in the country be resolved!”
"It's a pity that Napoleon III underestimated the greed of this class. No matter how much fresh flesh and blood he snatched from foreign development, in the end it was the corrupt class that still ate the most!"
"This is a bit like the Eight Banners Group of the Qing Dynasty, which relied on the imperial power to suck blood. No one cares about the difficulties the emperor and the empire are in. They only care about their own interests!"
"Increase revenue and reduce expenditure! With the increase in revenue, domestic expenditure cannot be reduced. Those who really need relief can't even drink soup, while cancer can lock the empire's arteries and constantly compete for nutrients!"
"It's already too late! The Second French Empire has long been rotten to the core. Why do I dare to fight this war? Why do I firmly support Prussia?"
"Actually, the result of victory has long been written on the table, but most people won't read it!"
"Do you know why I want to break away from mainland China and establish an independent Chinese nation overseas? Do you know why I have established special zones within the Manchu body but refuse to conquer cities and territories?"
"To put it bluntly, I don't want to follow the old path of the Pharaoh! I also don't want to follow the old path of the traditional emperors and generals!"
"Once I start taking the old path of rebellion, I must consider how to quickly end the civil war, quickly expand the territory of my rule, and how to quickly aspire to conquer the Central Plains and establish a new country!"
"But have you ever thought about it? How big is China? How big is its population? How many times bigger than France? To govern this country, you need at least millions of bureaucrats to rule effectively!"
"In the end, we still have to compromise with the traditional Confucian scholars, because only that class has so many scholars with management experience!"
"But once I compromise with that class, I have to give those people rights in the end, and just look down on those people. I guess it won't be long before the feudal dynasty is restored!"
"So I have to be patient and patient! What am I waiting for? What I'm waiting for is the day when compulsory education for all Chinese people will come to fruition!"
"I must have millions of outstanding new talents in my hands, intellectuals who have ideals and accept the new world! Only by replacing those corrupt scholars with these new talents can I possibly build a new China!"
"On that day, when we, the Chinese, conquer a county, we will be able to replace it with our governance system from top to bottom, and only new talents can create new careers!"
"We have not conquered a county, a prefecture, a state, or a province... No matter how big our territory expands, no matter how large the population we control, we no longer need to rely on those outdated and declining rotten scholars, and no longer have talents. crisis!"
"Only in this way can we clean up the sky in Asia, and can we truly defeat those corpses that exude the rotting stench culturally!"
"As for Napoleon III? A slave who took the throne of God with the support of dead bodies, he is just a zombie used by the declining classes in the Middle Ages to resurrect his soul!"
"The glory he possesses is just the last flashback of the class that is about to be eliminated!"
