Emancipate your mind and develop productivity! Xiao Letian was familiar with this sentence, and now he understood more deeply why emancipating the mind should be placed before developing productivity!
Do you want to develop productivity? You have to liberate your mind. Why do you need to liberate your mind? In the final analysis, it is because the minds of ordinary people are constrained and locked up. There are many people who do not need the people to have the ability to think independently!
I won’t talk about the past life, but let’s talk about the current affairs of the Qing Dynasty. Zaichun wants to pro-government and reforms. The first thing he wants to do is not to kill people to establish power, but to emancipate the mind!
From ancient times to the present, monarchy and prime ministerial power have been a symbiosis of contradictions. In ancient times, monarchy represented the synthesis of the emperor, great nobles, and military power!
In other words, monarchs are born with the desire to centralize power and like autocratic overlords!
And what is phase power? Just a prime minister? This view is narrow. The prime minister is actually a spokesperson for the entire bureaucratic class, and it is just an example!
Starting from the Ming Dynasty, the prime minister system was abolished. By the Qing Dynasty, the prime minister became the minister of military aircraft. On the surface, the prime minister's power was dispersed among the six ministries, and the imperial court no longer had the official position of the prime minister!
But you abolished the prime minister system, but the bureaucratic class did not disappear! He is always present in your management system!
The bureaucratic class and the centralized monarchy have been enemies since ancient times. They must be integrated for the survival of the country and the nation, but in the process of governing the country, they are fundamentally opposed!
Why? Because the bureaucracy is a huge group, from the capital to the local areas, down to the counties, townships and even the frontiers!
Hundreds of thousands or even millions of officials work together to execute decrees, uphold laws, collect taxes and fees, and surround the country!
How can the emperor govern the country without these people? Traveling thousands of miles away by yourself, go down to the village to discuss policies with an old man? Or does it mean that the emperor of the capital still has to help the people of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to file lawsuits and complaints?
The emperor is inseparable from the bureaucracy. Emperors of all generations knew this very well, and at the same time they were very unhappy!
Zai Chun's current enemy is actually this huge bureaucratic class. They are so big that Zai Chun can't count how many people they have. On the surface, the entire empire belongs to him. In fact, in the remote countryside, who among the people knows the emperor? They know him. The only ones left are the officials around me!
Who made up the bureaucratic class of the Qing Dynasty? In fact, there are only two types of people, 70% of whom are the landlord class, because the educated group was concentrated here at that time, and they had mastered the knowledge and talent reserve of the empire!
The remaining three achievements are the unique direct descendants of the Qing Empire, namely the Eight Banners noble group. One of them is a military noble, and the other is actually a landlord. They also own land and pay rent!
Therefore, the entire bureaucratic class of the empire is actually still controlled by the landlords!
These millions of bureaucrats are spread all over the country. They directly relieve the people at the grassroots level. They can see the farmers planting rice, the butchers killing pigs, the pheasants with half-open doors, and the bandits in the remote mountains... These people have knowledge and are able to communicate with each other. The people are the closest!
Then a serious problem will arise. They have become the eyes of the illiterate people. They can only rely on these people to interpret things that ordinary people do not understand!
Oops, ouch...this is just water! The right to interpret the world is a very terrifying force. They say that there are imps running errands in the telegraph lines, that is, there are imps!
They say that parents cannot travel far away, otherwise it is against the law, then it is against the law!
They said that there are traitors around the emperor and we have to clean up the emperor's side, so the people nodded in agreement!
They say industrialization is a monster, so how can people tell the difference? Of course I still believe it!
What? Do you believe it? Your son and grandson's names were all given by scholars. Scholars know the world without going out. Who do you think is the elder?
Dare you try to question me again with such nonsense? I'll send you to the Yamen to eat in jail!
Look, this was the real life of the people at the bottom during the Qing Dynasty. They didn’t understand what the emperor said. They didn’t understand, so they had to let these bureaucrats translate!
They are the landlord class, so naturally they have to fight tooth and nail to safeguard the interests of the landlord class. If you engage in industrialization, it will harm our interests. Do you think we can do it?
Of course not, then I have to fight you to the end!
This is actually a huge trouble that Zai Chun is encountering right now, a huge resistance! The entire bureaucracy united against him!
So at this time, we must liberate our minds first, and liberate the brains that imprison ordinary people in the hands of the bureaucratic class... that is, their minds!
You common people, don't always listen to the nonsense of those local officials who promote talents. Come and see with your own eyes what industrialization is and listen to the emperor's principles!
The most important thing for Zai Chun right now is to grab a group of common people for himself from this bureaucratic class that is full of resistance!
How to rob? Then you need inducements, you have to get rich first to stimulate and then get richer... You have to let those workers who get rich first with a hundred coins in hand stimulate those who are unwilling to change!
"Look, look at it... You can eat wine and meat with Master Long Live! You also have money to spend! After all, Long Live Master is right!"
"Are you greedy? Let me ask you, are you? Isn't this meat delicious? Isn't this wine delicious? Isn't my newly married sixteen-year-old daughter-in-law beautiful?"
"Fuck, stop drooling at my wife and go ahead and eat your pig head meat!"
"Since you are greedy and want to eat, you have to change...how to change? Listen to the emperor, don't listen to the words of the scholars and people around you!"
"Let's go! Come with us and work as workers. Who cares who scolds us? Anyway, we have food and wine, and our wife has come into the house. This is true!"
Zaichun! I finally learned how to use conspiracy in Xiao Letian's hands. The most difficult thing to break is the upright conspiracy in front of me!
This is how governance was in ancient times. People on the pyramid are all robbing one important thing, which is the control of the people at the grassroots level!
The emperor wanted direct control over the people, and so did the bureaucracy. They all wanted to be the one who brainwashed the people!
Whoever gets this right will truly control this country!
Zai Chun was actually at a disadvantage because he was too young and was not the founding monarch, and he did not have a few great military victories to impress people!
When he inherited the country, the bureaucracy had already grown to the point where it had nothing to add to it. Even the Han landlord class had evolved into warlords!
Do you think this kind of governing foundation is scary?
It can be said that without Xiao Letian and Zai Chun, no matter how he plays, even if he invites Daluo Jinxian to the mortal world, he is destined to fail!
It was a losing situation, and even political geniuses like Cixi and Yixin could only maintain it, and dare not say there would be a reversal!
Zaichun is lucky! Met Xiao Letian! But is this not his misfortune?
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