What is the future of the Chinese people that Xiao Letian is striving for? In other words, what is the fundamental national structure of the Chinese nation in the future? This is a super complex problem, far more difficult than people imagine in this era.
The beginning of a country, or a dynasty, must be accompanied by various ideas about governing the country, and these ideas will definitely be transformed into state affairs and various laws and reward and punishment systems that are visible and tangible around the people.
And ideas are always full of competition. Militarism, mercantilism, free trade, imperialism, divine right of kings, Confucian legal system...all kinds of ideas believe that their own way of governing the country is absolutely correct.
Amidst all kinds of conflicts, different countries and different nationalities have chosen their own unique ideas for governing the country!
Some are literary, some are martial, some are business, some are wealth, some are spiritual...the total number is countless!
But it is undeniable that every country in this era has its own inherent development ideas, and this kind of thinking continues to influence the country's political ecology.
For example, the United Kingdom currently believes in colonial ideas under mercantilism. All its policies are to serve this major national policy. Even the Glorious Revolution and its constitutional monarchy also serve this major idea.
The Qing Empire still chose the Confucian concept of governing the country, which was a closed and mature political system that fully served agricultural civilization... It is worth mentioning here that Confucian governance is not negative, nor is it as unbearable as later generations attacked.
The Confucian concept of governing the country is actually a very targeted idea that emerged to adapt to agricultural civilization!
This concept of governing the country is very suitable for the social and economic environment of agricultural civilization. This is an important guarantee for China to remain at the top of the world in ancient times.
Later, the Confucian idea of governing the country became obsolete. That was because the world environment changed. Humanity began a new era of global trade. Commercial and trading civilization began to replace the agricultural civilization. This made the Confucian idea of governing the country outdated.
Xiao Letian knows very well that there is no right or wrong in thinking itself. Only making the right ideological choice at the right time is the real way!
This concept is actually not new in the 21st century, but at the end of the 19th century, this concept was rarely mentioned because the traditional power of each country was too strong.
The European aristocrats plus monopoly capitalists, the Qing Dynasty's royal family and the Eight Banners plus the Confucian landlord class... These people can easily control people's hearts through an inherent ideological system and continue to obtain stable benefits, so they will never take the initiative to change Thoughtful.
What is this dominant thought? In fact, Confucian scholars have already described it very appropriately, that is, the national system! The Eight Banners of the Royal Family also described it very straightforwardly, that is, the family law of the ancestors!
How can the state system be changed so easily?
How can the ancestral family law be modified?
Throughout the ancient history of mankind, all dynasties had this problem. The ancestral family law established by Taizu did not change much until the demise of the dynasty.
There may be changes in details, but the theme will never change. In the eyes of many people, once the state system and ancestral family laws change, it means the destruction of the country!
Any major change in the ideology of governing the country means that the traditional vested interest classes will be replaced by the emerging powerful. This is an unprecedented transfer of interests, and great social turmoil is inevitable!
No one dares to make such a move, even if they see that the old tradition is full of all kinds of irrationality, people will not change. Of all those who try to change, few of them end up well!
The fate of the dynasty! Many dynasties were controlled by this kind of stubborn and conservative thinking and eventually destroyed their country!
By the end of the Ming Dynasty, natural disasters, man-made disasters, foreign invasions, and the depletion of the national treasury were all in danger of destroying the country, but no one dared to impose a sea ban!
Obviously opening more than a dozen ports would solve the dynasty's financial crisis, but it could not be opened until death. The reasons here are very complicated.
But the most important thing is the constraints of the state system and ancestral family law!
Do you dare to reform? If you reform, you will be an unfilial descendant of Taizu, and you will no longer be the emperor of the Ming Dynasty! That’s what the Confucian scholars said!
The bloody lesson was right in front of him. It was impossible for Xiao Letian not to think and study. He also had to think about what the final national form of the Chinese nation should be. Will there be people who carry their urns and shout that this is the ancestral family law after their death?
Maybe the policies I, Xiao Letian, are making now are correct, but who can guarantee that they will still be correct fifty years from now? What about a hundred years from now?
How can there be any thought in the world that is always correct? Because the environment is changing!
What does the Chinese race created by Xiao Letian look like now? Which thought prevailed? This question is not easy to answer.
But now the Chinese have the prototype of a capitalist federal country, including the Far East, Borneo, Ryukyu Islands, including the fortress special zones that were carved out of the Qing Dynasty in the future.
These are all places with wealth suitable for the development of capitalism, and because they are geographically dispersed and have different people's sentiments and environments, they can choose their own governance lines.
As long as they all recognize the Chinese as co-owners, surrender their military, diplomatic, and educational rights, and uniformly accept the capital control of the Chinese central bank, that's enough. They can freely develop the economy and people's livelihood!
At present, this model has begun to take shape firmly, and the people, especially the budding capitalist forces in the country, have also accepted this idea.
Capital is developed, business is prosperous, people's livelihood is prosperous... everything seems to be prosperous, everything looks so beautiful!
But are there really no hidden dangers beneath the surface of this prosperity? Xiao Letian has been a man for two generations. Of course he knows that things in the world are unpredictable. How can there be so many rules?
At the beginning of their rise, any idea or class was prosperous, and the people were simple and kind, and all contradictions were acceptable.
But time can change everything. Since the Chinese have chosen a capitalist federal system, the capitalist forces will naturally gain the most rights.
This group is like a tiger. Once the capitalists put away their mask of kindness at the beginning, they will eat people without spitting out their bones!
What is imperialism? To put it bluntly, imperialism is the evolved version of capitalism! Monopoly capitalism will naturally evolve into imperialism.
And war is the best means to maintain a monopoly economy!
It can be predicted that within fifty years after Xiao Letian's death, the Chinese army will be quickly infiltrated by monopoly capitalists, and those who will control the army will definitely be these powerful and wealthy people.
And once this large group of people controls the Chinese people's financial resources and military power, it's hard to say what will happen next!
This is not random imagination, this is something Xiao Letian is 100% sure of!
