Qiming 1158

Chapter 1602 The people of Daming are too tired
Everything in the world has its own operating logic. If you want to change these operating logics and obtain benefits that do not belong to you, you must pay a corresponding price.

Along with the state of being active, officials feel the thrill of power expansion.

With the help of the transformation of the governance logic of the active state, the official power has increased unprecedentedly, and the things that need to be done have suddenly increased, and the bureaucracy will also attract a larger number of new people to enter.

The state of action will quickly give birth to a huge bureaucratic group attached to it and become a de facto interest group. This group is highly bound to the state of action and regards it as politically correct.

Without the shackles of rules, they will soon get out of control, and they will soon bring the state of being reasonably limited to the state of being unreasonable and unlimited, and wantonly infringe upon the interests of the peasants.

And it continued to "doing" and kept "doing" until the people's savings during the period of inaction were drained and a peasant uprising broke out.

And when the ruler finds out the problem, the first thing he has to face is not the problem brought about by the state of being, but the state of being capable itself.

That enormously bloated bureaucracy and its decadent luxury lifestyle are the root of all problems.

If the ruler wants to restore the empire's declining situation, he must restrain and abolish officials, and this will inevitably lead to a strong rebound in the bureaucracy, which will bring extremely serious consequences.

Wang Anshi, Zhang Juzheng, and Emperor Yongzheng, these three typical reform representatives faced the biggest problem here.

Su Yonglin never thought it was a good thing for the government to intervene in civil affairs too much. Excessive intervention itself meant more things to be done, and a large number of bureaucrats were attached.

The bureaucrats do not produce any wealth, they only consume wealth. If it is just consumption by obeying the rules, they will also snatch wealth and occupy wealth. bigger.

In the end, someone must stand up and help them balance the rich and the poor.

Judging from the status quo of Ming Dynasty observed by Su Yonglin, since the promising state lasted for more than ten years, the entire Ming society quickly ended a number of ills accumulated in the feudal era, eliminated the rentier class in the feudal era, and liberated the people unprecedentedly. productive forces.

Therefore, in the past ten years, the fiscal revenue of Ming Dynasty has increased year by year, and the accumulation of private wealth has also increased year by year.

However, as the promising state continued, bureaucratic problems, large and small, continued to appear in the Ming Kingdom, and even eroded the ideal bonus of the Renaissance Society team, leaving Su Yonglin to face an extremely complicated administrative situation.

The difference between the Ming Dynasty and the general feudal dynasties is that after the general feudal dynasties complete the update and iteration, they will quickly enter the period of inaction.

They will only clean up the remnants of the previous dynasty who are in the wrong team, not all the landlords and powerful classes. Instead, they will win over them and restore the country to normal as soon as possible, so they can quickly enter the period of inaction and start to rest with the people. .

This process may have started only two or three years after the dynasty was established.

In order to completely solve the ills and complete the tasks of revolution and production transformation, the Ming Dynasty did not have a period of inaction after the founding of the country, but quickly entered a period of active revolution.

Under the leadership of Su Yonglin, the Ming Dynasty mobilized a relatively large number of officials and cadres to go deep into the people, penetrated into every corner of society, and mobilized the people in the form of calling for decrees to eliminate the remnants of the old era such as landlords and tyrants.

Through such violent and thorough actions, the Ming Dynasty uprooted the entire rentier class and wiped out the entire country, creating a new history, subverting the political logic of ancient China, and greatly releasing the enthusiasm of the people for production. .

After that, the Ming Dynasty continued to innovate and revolutionize, establishing collective farms and collective workshops, building militia teams, and building nationwide literacy classes.

In the process, the official team is getting bigger and bigger, and the official power is getting bigger and bigger.

Because of its just nature and the protection of the interests of the bottom people, it has become more and more popular and supported by the people.

The extremely huge material gains brought about by the elimination of the rentier class also provided sufficient material support for this action, so that the rather severe losses in the productive state itself could be contained.

With the cooperation of the people, the administrative cost and judicial cost are extremely low, so that the internal friction of the Ming Dynasty is extremely low, and the external radiation power is extremely large.

Driven by a brand-new collective economic model, the productivity of the Ming Dynasty almost reached the peak of the Middle Ages, and due to the emergence of the steam engine, there was even the possibility of leaping to the industrial age.

But in any case it is undeniable that this is also a special state of being.

The government controls almost all the power, but because of the constant victories and policies that represent their interests, the people have habitually followed the lead of the Ming Dynasty represented by Su Yonglin. When a decree is issued in a place, the people will obey it, and everything can be changed.

When the internal rules of the ruling group can be well followed and everyone still has ideals, this state of being is very superior.

This can maximize the achievements of unprecedented feats in the past and present, and will also have many positive effects on people's livelihood.

However, based on the 13th year of Hongwu and the [-]th year of the Republic, Su Yonglin has already discovered the problem of this state.

First, he was not surprised to discover the rise of the idea of ​​"raising power" in the ranks of Daming officials.

He found that the desire of many officials to increase their power was uncontrollable, and it was getting more and more inflated. They preferred the role and way of doing things that everyone grew up to do, and they were even reluctant to implement democratic centralization internally, let alone listen to the opinions of the people.

Some of them are stubborn, stubbornly thinking that what they do is the best thing, and everything they do is for the sake of the people, the people just need to obey the orders, and don't care about the rest, they can give birth to children with peace of mind That's it.

Will the Ming Dynasty harm you?
nonexistent.

Therefore, you must obey the orders, you cannot object, you can only obey them.

This kind of thinking gradually spread in the central and local high-level officials of the Ming Dynasty, and the momentum was relatively violent. If we did not intervene in time, there would be serious problems.

Second, the people of Daming are actually quite tired.

Although their lives are getting better and better and their savings are increasing, they are tired, and they have to farm, work, and do normal work, participate in other activities, learn to read, and study ideology.

They are doing what the farmers of the past had to do, they were doing what the farmers of the past didn't need to do, and all the time was filled.

Although the peasants of the Jianguo generation did not feel the suffering of the feudal dynasty because they had suffered, but what about the next generation?
What about the next generation?
They will be exhausted.

Su Yonglin found through a large number of statistics from the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Agriculture that the current Daming Dynasty has not gotten rid of the feudal dynasty's agriculture-based production model, and the main economic growth point is still agricultural production, not other aspects.

The output value of industry and commerce is only an addition to Daming's total output value.

The farmers’ lives are getting better and better and their savings are increasing. In essence, it is still caused by the rising period of the dynasty. A large amount of land has been allocated to farmers, the unit production efficiency has been improved, and a large number of wasteland reclamation has also increased the number of acres of land, and food production has naturally increased. increased.

And the reason why Daming looks better is because of the advantages of revolutionary policies and good distribution, so the peasants have a better life than the peasants under the rule of the dynasty.

But they are also not easy.

Therefore, in essence, the production model of the Ming Dynasty is more suitable for the centralized authoritarian monarchy, rather than constitutional democracy.

It's just because Su Yonglin, a big alien, led a group of small aliens to rub the truth with his hands full of martial arts, and then forcibly dragged the times forward, preventing it from continuing to slowly grind foreign craftsmanship.

Once this anomaly disappears, times will change.

As for getting better or worse, Su Yonglin thinks the latter is more likely.

Therefore, when he was still alive, he decided to strongly promote the development of science and technology, change the status quo of production in Daming, and create a switch from action to inaction.

The Ming Dynasty can have the Confucian hegemony model, but it cannot be without the Huang Lao model.

There can be action, but it must also be possible to switch back to inaction.

The main political contradiction of the current Ming Dynasty is that the ever-growing promising forces are getting bigger and bigger, and they like this state more and more. They not only want to maintain the active state, but also hope to further enhance the active state, and double the backhand.

If Su Yonglin leaves this alone and allows this super doubling of the promising state, it will cause a complete imbalance in the balance of civil and official power. What will happen then is not unpredictable.

Su Yonglin has a deep understanding of what bureaucrats can do for political achievements, for promotion, and for personal power and glory.

Sometimes, a mediocre and lazy bureaucrat is far less destructive to people's livelihood than a "capable official" with ideals and aspirations.

So Su Yonglin's appeal is very simple.

In the invincible position of Da Ming, the biggest enemy is himself. The 13 years of high-intensity active state has allowed Da Ming to solve most of the problems. In the absence of huge external threats, Da Ming needs to switch back to the inaction he should have. State, and the real rest of the people.

The peasants and workers in Daming have not had a good rest in the true sense.

They are too tired, Daming should give them back the power and status they should have in the state of inaction, let them really rest, enjoy, and live a normal life.

Su Yonglin sometimes thinks about their lifestyle and feels sorry for them.

They've been told to work hard ever since they were born, but they've never been told that it's time for you to rest and enjoy life.

As if rest and enjoyment were a great sin for them, it was not right, they should not rest, they should not enjoy, otherwise they would be wasting their lives.

Dedication is their main theme, and enjoyment is an extravagant sound, which cannot be heard. They must strive and move forward every moment. They must use their lives in exchange for wealth, so that society can function and future generations can enjoy happiness.

The meaning of their lives is to support the previous generation, support the next generation, exhaust their energy, and then lose all their use value like a drained oil.

Generation after generation, cycle after cycle.

But in fact, people with discerning eyes understand that it is not that they cannot rest or enjoy, but once they rest and enjoy, how can the quality of life of the imperial elites and landlords be guaranteed?

People can't do without the peace of the years, so I can only ask them to move forward with a heavy load.

This doesn't work.

Daming needs inaction, the people need inaction, and Su Yonglin cannot allow the super doubling of the state of action.

The specific manifestation of Su Yonglin's appeal is the people's congress this time, and the laws passed at the meeting, including the constitution.

Through the addition of the people's congress system and various laws, Su Yonglin will integrate them to create a mode of inaction that belongs to the Ming Dynasty and the revolution, and complete the switch from action to inaction.

Obviously, if you want to achieve this goal, the first thing that will be placed in front of Su Yonglin is the [Central Representative Conference].

The Central Representative Conference is a complex of promising forces of the Ming Dynasty, basically fully representing the interests and demands of promising forces.

They want more power and freedom, they want to control every aspect of the country, and they cannot accept control and repression, otherwise they will be very dissatisfied.

They are so confident in their hearts that they believe that they are doing great things without realizing that they are slowly walking into the abyss of inextricability.

The active state should be a special state, and the inactive state is the normal state.

Therefore, Su Yonglin chose to unify the power in his hands, using his supreme prestige, to create a complex belonging to the power of inaction from nothing, representing the interests of the power of inaction.

If you are still sensible and willing to accept this switch, then everything will be fine.

If they don't want to, and they love this state more than anything, then what Su Yonglin needs to do is to "reform" them by relying on the power of inaction.

Now that the first step has been taken, the representatives of promising forces are already restless.

Then the next step is the second step.

dinner.

(End of this chapter)