Quickly wear it and insist on being an old man forever

On November 13, the 128th year of the Great Thai Empire, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the birth of the founding emperor, the only female emperor of the dynasty, and the only emperor, Empress Tiansheng, the national television station specially produced and broadcast a documentary for this anniversary.

Based on a conversation in the emperor's daily record of that time.

A documentary filmed through actors imitating

The Emperor Answers the Questions of the Remnants of the Aristocratic Family

The background is that on the third day after Empress Tiansheng ascended the throne, several top aristocratic family officials who were imprisoned in Zhaoyu by Emperor Taiyu and were prepared to be cut into pieces after victory, loudly showed off when the empress ordered a retrial of the prisoners in Zhaoyu, and said that they had a big secret related to the imperial seal to tell them, and hoped to communicate with the empress face to face.

Afterwards, the empress summoned the three sons of the noble families.

Perhaps it was because they already believed that they would die, so they did not perform formal greetings when they met.

However, the empress had already abolished the ritual of kneeling.

Therefore, it can only be considered as a bit impolite, not a serious crime.

"Your Majesty, why do you want to put our family to death?

Could it be that our noble families have made no contribution to the world and are of no use at all? If we hadn't helped the court govern the people of the world, how could there be such a peaceful and prosperous world?"

As soon as Kong Yue opened his mouth, he started boasting.

"A peaceful and prosperous era? Isn't that a joke?
Is it a prosperous era where the rich live in harmony and the poor have nowhere to stand, or a prosperous era where the emperor's will makes it difficult to leave the capital, or is it a prosperous era where all policies that benefit the people will eventually be twisted to benefit you?"

"If I remember correctly, the longest and greatest prosperous era in the past thousand years, the Wenjing Era, happened to be the time when your noble families were the weakest. The next prosperous era after the Wenjing Era should be the Zhaoxuan Era. I think you three know very well how the Zhaoxuan Era came about. It was Emperor Wu who suppressed and even destroyed all the noble families, which laid a solid foundation for the subsequent Zhaoxuan Era.

The Second Han Empire founded by Liu Xiu was only marginally good during the reign of him and his son.

And that was because of the previous war.

A large number of aristocratic families were destroyed.

Do I need to say anything else next?
Which peaceful and prosperous era was not built on the foundation of the destruction of a large number of noble families? Even so, you have the nerve to tell me that it was your noble families that helped the court create a peaceful and prosperous era. Do you mean that you used your corpses to help the court create a peaceful and prosperous era?"

The Holy Empress immediately sneered in response.

"Your Majesty, have you ever thought about who will help you govern the world after we, the noble families, are completely wiped out? Are you going to rely on those ignorant children from poor families, or ordinary farmers and merchants who can't read a single word?"

When Kong Yue's face turned red.

Zhang Hua quickly stepped forward and asked.

"It depends on a system that is constantly updated like flowing water, on nine years of compulsory education that must be implemented unswervingly, and on seven years of cheap financially subsidized education.

Talent can be cultivated by ourselves.

There is no need to rely on your charity.”

After experiencing so many worlds, so many different civilization systems and historical lessons, Bai Sheng has a very clear understanding of his future plans and goals.

What he said at that time was quite powerful.

Zhang Hua immediately sneered:
"Your Majesty, do you think this is a wise move?

Although our aristocratic families pride themselves on being noble, we know very well that no one is noble from the beginning. A person as high-ranking as the King of Chu in the Spring and Autumn Period, hundreds of years ago, was only fit to guard the campfire outside when other princes gathered. A person as noble as the Ying family of the First Emperor, hundreds of years ago, was just a horse breeder for the Zhou royal family.

Even the Zhou royal family itself, several hundred years ago, was nothing more than a subordinate who captured Qiang slaves for the Shang imperial family and provided slave sacrifices.

My ancestors also started from humble beginnings.

Gradually developed and grew stronger.

Even if you kill us today, your current confidants and the talents you will train in the future will surely become new aristocratic families through the accumulation of three or five generations, just like our ancestors did."

“How can people who already have a certain level of power be willing to let their descendants go through the same journey of starting from scratch again? If their descendants have to start from scratch again, wouldn’t their years of hard work be in vain?

Such is human nature and such is our disposition.

You can't change it, and you can't change it.

What you think is a groundbreaking achievement will eventually lead to a return to the old path, with the old replaced by the new. "

Anyway, he never thought he could leave alive.

Naturally, I am not afraid to tell the truth.

"Even if the old are replaced by the new, there will at least be a hundred years of buffer period. This is definitely better than compromising with your powerful families.

And as long as the system is well-developed.

And it can be executed perfectly.

The situation should be many times better.”

Bai Sheng never dared to have any extravagant hopes for the so-called rule by man. This thing called rule by man is rarely reliable. Even Shang Yang did not dare to make the prince guilty of the same crime as the common people when the prince broke the law. In the end, it was the prince's master, one of the founders of the Legalists, who was punished!
It’s hard to say about the distant future.

However, she was confident that she could achieve three to five hundred years of peace and prosperity, clear politics, and class mobility through her own measures and the things she left behind.

"Haha, you are too naive.

Little do people know what it means that when a person dies, his policies end. For an emperor, the most difficult thing is to find a successor who perfectly identifies with him and can perfectly continue his ideas and policies. The secret of the prosperity of the early Han Dynasty lies in this, that they had a satisfactory successor.

Emperor Wen was not very satisfied with Emperor Jing, but there was no one better. Although what Emperor Jing did in the end was somewhat disappointing, at least thanks to himself and some of the tricks left by Emperor Wen, no major mistakes or problems occurred.

Emperor Jing was very satisfied with Emperor Wu. He was so satisfied that he would rather depose the crown prince and make Emperor Wu the crown prince.

Emperor Wu was very dissatisfied with Crown Prince Liu Ju, believing that Liu Ju could not inherit his will. This was the root cause of the later Witchcraft and Poisoning Incident. Any emperor with ambition and ideals would not like a successor who was different from himself and would find it difficult to inherit his policies and ideas.

But fortunately, there is still Huo Guang who can make do.

Thanks to Huo Guang's continuation of the policies that Emperor Wu had changed in his later years, the Han Empire began to prosper again.

By the time of Emperor Xuan, he was actually very dissatisfied with the crown prince, and even said that the one who disturbed the Han Dynasty was the crown prince. But he just didn't depose the crown prince, perhaps because he couldn't find a replacement. As a result, his words came true, and the Han Dynasty took a sharp turn for the worse under his son until Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty.

No matter how perfect the policy you formulate.

If no one continues it, it will ultimately be a castle in the air.

Do you have anyone to continue your legacy? Do you have a son? Do you have a grandson? You don't even have a daughter or a granddaughter. When you die, just wait for the death of the person and the end of the regime.

As for execution, it is even more ridiculous. Even when you are alive, various policies may not be able to be implemented perfectly. What's more, when you are dead, we know much more than you about how to operate crookedly.

No matter how energetic or resourceful you are.

It is impossible to manage every corner of the village.

Without the help of our noble families, you can't do it yourself. There has to be someone to take charge of the power. The most you can do is change the name!
For the next hundred years, I will wait to see the joke..."

Zhang Hua continued to laugh fearlessly and spoke.

"I have my own solution. I will let you live for two more years so that you can see the changes in the world and my solution. As for the secret of the imperial seal, I am afraid I know much more than you. It is nothing more than related to destiny. I have completely stripped away the human law. What use is an empty seal?

Drag them down and investigate their past actions carefully.

If guilty, convict; if innocent, release.

If that Zhang deserves death or exile, let him stay for two years and see how he changes after two years. "

After saying this, Bai Sheng waved his hand.

Let someone take those three young men from the noble families away.

This is the first segment of the documentary, and there are several more segments following it, all of which are conversations with the remnants of different families.

The total duration is two hours.

……

[I have always thought that aristocratic families are stupid and bad, relying on the influence of their ancestors and the bloody exploitation of the people by their families. After watching this documentary, I realized that I might be the stupid one. In fact, they see a lot of things very thoroughly, but they just don't publicize it.]

[How could something truly stupid be passed down for thousands of years?]

If one or two generations were not smart, it would be possible to bring disaster upon the whole clan. Well, at that time, the emperor just didn't dare to go against the entire aristocratic family, but if he only targeted one or two families, he would surely win easily. 】

[At first, I felt that the Empress Tiansheng was a little weak. She answered many questions in a perfunctory manner, a bit like the Empress Tiansheng at that time, who didn't know what to do and could only answer perfunctorily.

However, the more time went on, the more confident the empress became.

And now we are more confident! 】

[That's right. At this moment we can answer on behalf of the Empress. The Empress' policies are continued to be implemented by someone. They have not been abandoned. At the same time, they are implemented quite well because there are dual supervisions from the Humanitarian Law Network and the Lord of Mount Tai. Who would dare to fool around or disobey them?

What happens after death is under the jurisdiction of the Lord of Mount Tai.

IHLN can also record any illegal operations.

If you can hide from the human law and the Lord of Mount Tai and do something that is lip service or illegal, then you can't make money or get any status no matter what you do. 】

[If I am not mistaken, the guy surnamed Zhang is mocking the empress for not having any descendants. It is so infuriating. In our village, if someone says that someone is extinct in front of their own family, even if he is beaten to death, no one will sympathize with the guy with the bad mouth.

So how did that guy die in the end? 】

[It seems that he died of illness. He had never done anything bad, so even exile was difficult for him. The empress never convicted people for their words, so he lived to be over 80 years old. It is not clear what disease he had.

Anyway, he should have died of illness in the end.

He participated in the drafting of some of the current legal provisions, which can be considered as a move away from darkness to light.

I remember he also wrote a memoir, which was full of praise for the empress. I found it a bit corny when I read it. It really went from one extreme to another.

Anyway, this person is quite interesting. 】

[I feel that there is nothing wrong with what some of the aristocratic family members said. For example, power will not disappear, it will only transfer from one group to another. Some groups today are actually not much different from the aristocratic families back then, except that they don’t have as much land, and the class structure has already become solidified.]

[It’s not as exaggerated as you say. My father and mother are both PhDs, my grandfather and grandmother are now university professors, and I didn’t even get into university this year.]

[The ancestral graves can’t always emit smoke. 】

[For some positions, people have two or three generations, or even three or four generations, specializing in that area, and it is normal that it is basically passed down from generation to generation in the family. At least they have not violated any regulations or broken any laws.

You can’t blame others for working too hard just because your ancestors didn’t work hard enough and you don’t work hard either. 】

[Yes, it is hard to say about other aspects now, but at least in terms of learning, the court has really invested a lot of money in supporting subsidies. The original nine-year compulsory education has now been extended to twelve years of compulsory education. Tuition, textbooks, and even food and accommodation are all free, just to prevent some students from poor families from suffering from these problems.

Unable to concentrate on studying and improving oneself.

In addition to various extracurricular knowledge, the court also requires experts and professors from all walks of life to record a series of teaching videos, and select the best ones, and publish them for free on relevant educational websites. All people with household registration can log in for free and watch and learn relevant knowledge for free.

As long as you want to learn, except for some cutting-edge confidential knowledge and patented knowledge, most of the rest of the knowledge can be learned through free channels.

It is not uncommon for people to obtain a doctorate degree through self-study and even become top talents in a certain industry.

In this situation, there are people who can't do anything.

Can you blame the government? 】

[Yes, although wealthy families still have some advantages over ordinary families in terms of education, the court has already done everything it can to the limit. They can't force all top teachers or professors to give free tutoring to everyone. ]

[It was right to destroy the aristocratic families. Those who sympathize with them might as well take a look at the few small countries that are still alive today, which were founded by the aristocratic families who escaped from the Han Empire.

What kind of life is it for their ordinary people? 】

[In fact, I think there is nothing wrong with what those noble families said. If the empress did not have the Humane Law Network and the Lord of Mount Tai to help her, her policies would never have been able to continue, nor would they have been perfectly implemented.

Therefore, if these two things are not there, then what those children from aristocratic families say will be the real future.

I am a little worried now. What should I do if the Lord of Mount Tai resigns or something goes wrong with the Humanitarian Law Network? The Empress mentioned a period of three to five hundred years. Could it be the period of use of the Humanitarian Law Network or the term of office of the Lord of Mount Tai?

I remember there's a folk legend that the Lord of Mount Tai only takes office every 500 years? This makes sense! 】

【Stop making alarmist statements.】

[It should be alright, I hope everything is alright...]

(End of this chapter)