My son, Fusu, please abdicate the first emperor!

Chapter 874: Prosperity? Fireworks

It's not surprising at all that Meng Tian would say such a thing.

He was originally a student of Wei Liao, and understood military strategies and the principles of Yi. Of course, he once followed Qin Shi Huang, and was most influenced by the theories of Yin and Yang and the Five Elements.

It can be said that the man Qin Shihuang once trusted the most was Meng Tian.

For the sake of Qin Shi Huang, Meng Tian had a deeper understanding of the theory of Yin and Yang and the Five Elements than Xiang Li Che.

"Letting women work may help families make ends meet, but it is not a long-term solution."

"Then what do you want to do?"

"I don't have a good solution. In fact, what I am worried about is not the impact of these 1,000 female workers on the future social order, but if Your Majesty continues to expand the factory and let everyone work in the state-owned factory, then women will definitely leave their families."

"Women leave their families and go to work in factories. Their husbands also go out to work, so who will take care of the children at home? In the short term, the development of industry seems to be beneficial; but in the long term, I have found that the development of so-called handicrafts and even mining will essentially impact the marriage system passed down from generation to generation, impact Zhou rituals, and cause the family on which our Chinese civilization depends to fall apart."

"Men leave home to seek a living far away, and women leave home to work and earn money."

"It seems like this family has made a lot of money, but the actual result is probably that the couple will be separated."

"Your Majesty has been on the battlefield himself, and knows what the soldiers on the front lines are most worried about. It's nothing more than instability in the rear, wives at home unwilling to take care of their parents-in-law, not taking good care of their children, and doing something extremely immoral."

"These are the things that soldiers fear the most. For those who go out to work, I'm afraid both men and women have such concerns."

"Originally, more than half of the people in the world could not find wives. My Qin State forces both men and women to get married when they reach a certain age. This ensures that my Qin State has the highest marriage ratio among the vassal states."

"But now, both men and women can go out to work, which breaks the geographical basis of the village that originally maintained the marriage system. Originally, everyone lived in a village, and the household registration system and marriage law worked together to ensure that all men could get married."

What Meng Tian talked about was the past history of the Qin State.

It is truly a history filled with blood, tears, grievances, sadness, confinement, and pain.

All men and women, once they grow up, are forced to marry and have children. After the birth of the children, the husband is taken to the battlefield, and the woman is left at home to raise at least two children and take care of her parents-in-law.

The husband could die on the battlefield at any time, and the newly married wife had to face farming, labor, housework and even all kinds of messy things alone.

The Qin State developed by relying on this method.

Become the number one superpower.

It is almost hard to imagine what kind of torture the Qin people have endured during the past hundred years of the Qin Empire.

What kind of state have the people at the bottom of society been tortured into?

Mental oppression, material poverty, 365 days a year, wind, frost, swords and knives are pressing hard.

Ugh--

The glory of the Qin Dynasty was like fireworks in history, fleeting.

But in fact, this is nothing to be regretted.

On the contrary, countries like the Qin State, dynasties like the Qin Dynasty, and dynasties that imitated the Qin Dynasty should all face the fate that belongs to them - destruction!
A king who ignores and sacrifices the interests and happiness of all the people of a country will still perish even if he builds an impregnable city or becomes the overlord of the universe.

"That is to say, the handicraft industry that Your Majesty is developing is indeed worth developing in the short term. But in the long term, it will bring a devastating blow to the empire."

"Because the marriage institution has been impacted, the concept of family will fade from people's minds."

"Once the concept of family is diluted, how can this country of tens of millions of people maintain basic stability?"

"If a country is about to fall, the first thing that will happen is strange phenomena. Men will not be able to marry wives to carry on the family line, and women will become concubines of others, or even slaves of rich people, rather than marry poor people at the bottom of society."

"A man gets nine women without any effort, and the remaining nine men are single and pursue one woman. Then the remaining woman will do everything she can to increase her own value and play with the remaining nine men."

Fusu listened to this meticulous analysis and felt as if he had heard it somewhere before.

"You are right. So what is the root cause of this? It is because the gap between the rich and the poor among the Chinese people has widened too much."

“The poor are too poor, while the rich have more money than they can spend in several lifetimes.”

"Developing industry will definitely lead to marriages between men and women, and will definitely have a negative impact on families. This is a difficult process. If we stop developing industry because we are afraid of these things happening in the future, then we are throwing the baby out with the bathwater."

"More importantly, the fundamental purpose of developing industry and handicrafts is to solve the problem of the wide gap between the rich and the poor."

"As long as we don't forget our roots and always remember that the original purpose of developing handicrafts and industry was to achieve social harmony and make everyone worry-free about material things, then at that time, the relationship between people will be the most harmonious."

"The marriage system can only last if it has material support. And the family can be truly stable."

"Otherwise, the country is poor and people's minds are not on defending the country. People hate each other because of the huge gap between the rich and the poor. Deep in their hearts, they are filled with resentment towards the world and want to destroy others when they see them happy."

"In this context, so-called marriage is the real oppression."

"In order to achieve true family stability and social harmony, we must improve social productivity and maximize material supply. Otherwise, the marriage system cannot be truly protected."

"If the marriage system cannot be protected, how can we talk about harmony between husband and wife and family happiness?"

Meng Tian listened, half believing and half doubting. To be honest, a lot of his arguments were learned from his younger brother Meng Yi.

Meng Yi often stayed in Xianyang and spent more time with Fusu, so he could better understand Fusu's thoughts.

Meng Tian fought in wars all year round, and he truly felt the difficulties faced by the soldiers, so he was able to think about problems from a very high level, but he could not come up with a better solution.

When the Qin Empire was first unified, everyone was at a loss as to what to do with this huge empire. No one knew what to do.

The top leaders of the empire were all very confused.

The supreme leader of the empire, Ying Zheng, began to become stupid after he lost the six kingdoms, his biggest rival.

For a time the empire had no direction to develop.

It was not until the second emperor ascended the throne that he proposed developing science and technology, developing industry, rediscovering the material world, developing academic culture, and creating scientific and technological inventions.

The empire now had the motivation to move forward.

"But when will we see the material resources of society reach their maximum abundance? When will we see the world become one?"

Meng Tian could not see the future of the Qin Empire.

"Certainly not while I am alive."

Qin II answered very easily.

"However, those who will enjoy the prosperity in the future will be a bunch of pitiful people. And those who follow me to create this prosperity now will be the happiest people."

Meng Tian was stunned, "Your Majesty, are you joking? How is this possible? How can a person who enjoys a prosperous age be unhappy?" Fusu laughed, "Heaven's laws are constant. They do not exist for the sake of Yao or die for the sake of Jie."

"Countries have their own destiny, and dynasties have their own rise and fall. This is the law."

"Ups and downs are the norm."

"When a country reaches its peak, it means that it will definitely go downhill in the future. Decline is inevitable. Being born in the heyday of a country is a tragedy in itself, because as the country's national strength weakens, he will throw his own fate into the crusher of the country's fate and be cut into pieces by himself."

“No one in war-torn times is happy.”

"For those in the heyday, prosperity is like a passing cloud. It only takes a moment for them to experience the destruction of their country and the turmoil of the country."

"But the people who created the prosperous era are different. The war has just ended. After experiencing a long period of war, everyone wants stability and peace."

“Only when everyone has experienced pain will they think about pursuing happiness and joy.”

"Only after experiencing war can they truly cherish peace."

“Those who create a prosperous era are the truly happy people, because the country’s fortune is turning from the lowest point to the highest point. At this time, everyone’s fate is carried and supported by the country’s fortune.”

“If you stand on the right vent, even a pig can take off.”

"Originally unhappy families and unhappy people will all move to a higher level as the times change."

"Those who had no money suddenly had money, those who had no house suddenly had a house, and those who had no land suddenly had land."

"People who previously couldn't get a wife suddenly have the conditions to get one."

"Don't you think that the fact that our generation can't see the so-called prosperous times is also the greatest happiness?"

After listening to this, Meng Tian was inexplicably moved.

That makes sense.

"Because our generation is still on the rise, our future will get better and better. The so-called prosperous era of great harmony is just an end point, a short-lived phenomenon."

"Once the great harmony is truly achieved, people will live in a happy country, and they will inevitably stop striving for progress and develop a greedy heart for comfort and wealth."

"The so-called prosperous times and the world of great harmony are actually the beginning of the decline of the country and the beginning of the decline of the dynasty."

After hearing this, Meng Tian suddenly felt relieved.

He has always been pursuing the highest and the best.

But in fact, his current state is the best. The eve before reaching the peak is the most beautiful scenery.

But many people cannot understand the mystery behind this.

They only blindly pursue more, higher, better, and more wonderful things. In fact, from the moment they have that kind of mind, they have already headed for destruction.

The words that Meng Tian talked about with the emperor today soon spread throughout Xianyang City like the wind.

Everyone gained insights from the conversation between the emperor and Meng Tian.

People worship Qin II because he brought brand new ideas to the people of that era, ideas that made them spiritually happy and allowed them to arm themselves with their own ideas.

After thinking about it, many people realized the true meaning of life. The so-called tomorrow is not reliable at all. What is important is the present.

What were people busy doing in the past?

Defined in material terms and compared in relationships, people enjoy the sense of superiority that material things bring them, but not the material things themselves. People enjoy the sense of power in relationships and only want to oppress others without considering what love really is.

For example, when eating beef, people consider the sense of superiority of eating meat itself, because only the rich and powerful can eat meat, and what they eat is called psychological superiority.

They never taste or feel the meat.

But this terrible idea not only makes rich people stupid, but also makes poor people helpless.

Sweet potatoes are very fragrant and wheat rice has high nutritional value.

But since the kind of ridiculous value system that attributes to material things has emerged, the poor have begun to feel uneasy about eating sweet potatoes and wheat rice. They feel that eating simple meals is a pitiful life and the rice no longer tastes good.

The sweet potato is still the same sweet potato, and the beef is still the same beef.

People never eat beef properly, and never eat sweet potatoes properly.

This is actually how the walking corpse of desire came about.

How many people in this world can feel the flavor of oranges when they eat oranges and feel the flavor of watermelons when they eat watermelons?

Everyone has lost the essence of life - feelings.

Only in the era very close to the Qin Dynasty, somewhere in the south, nearly a hundred years ago, there was a man who did it. Being a human being is the most ordinary and the most real...

The true meaning of this can only be experienced by yourself.

When you really know the taste, you will have attained enlightenment.

It is called enlightenment, but in reality there is nothing to be gained. Because those troubles and pains are originally created by people. If you remove those toxic thoughts and return to the most authentic self, there is nothing to be gained.

The so-called Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism and Zen Buddhism all have the same core spirit - "one".

Qin II was a very wise man.

Intelligence makes people feel cheated, but wisdom makes people feel loved.

The emperor's words made many ministers admire and respect him from the bottom of their hearts.

The people also felt reassured by the words of Emperor Qin II. They had been struggling hard, but after hearing what the emperor said, they felt relieved.

Because living in this Saha world, suffering will never disappear. In comparison, as the creators of the future prosperity, they are relatively lucky.

The emperor broke their false perception and unrealistic expectations of the world, denied the so-called ideal of permanent happiness and peace, but gave them hope to live a good life in the sea of ​​suffering.

The development of industry and handicrafts began to enter its first climax period with the improvement of laws and the strengthening of the law enforcement team.

The industrial revolution is essentially the development of productivity, and production relations that adapt to the development of productivity promote the development of productivity.

The Qin State had the most natural and developed production relations foundation to help the Industrial Revolution, that is - law.

The original small family system has been impacted, and countless strangers have come to a factory to work and study. What is there to protect their rights and interests? Only the law.

(End of this chapter)