The Moon in the Qin Dynasty

Chapter 106: Ying Zheng's Awareness of Rule

While enjoying this comfort, Ying Zheng's thoughts wandered, and he thought about the system after the unification of the world.

In this era, or after the world is unified in the future, there are still mainly two classes in the world, the ruling class and the ruled class.

Ever since King Yu established the Xia Dynasty, the world has been ruled by a family.

The emperor is the supreme ruler of the ruling class and the master of the world. Everything in the world belongs to the emperor.

One person cannot rule everyone. In order to rule everyone, the supreme ruler, the emperor, established an entire ruling class from top to bottom.

The ruling class is also divided into levels. The emperor is the supreme ruler. The highest interest group surrounding this supreme ruler is the supreme ruling group represented by the emperor. The people surrounding the emperor and the supreme ruling group become the middle and lower classes of the entire ruling class. Especially the middle and lower classes are both the ruling class and the ruled groups within the ruling class. They can be called managers, that is, the nobles and officials.

The nobles and officials are the ones who actually do things. All the policies of the empire ultimately need to be implemented by this group of people. For the emperor's highest ruling group, the biggest problem is how to manage this group of talents.

The entire imperial feudal ruling class are not producers, but only rulers and managers, so all their material needs must come from the producers at the bottom of the people.

The ruled class is willing to serve the ruling class, and naturally they need the ruling class to give them what they need. The most fundamental thing is for survival and peace, as well as the expectation of a better life in the future. This is the bottom line, the foundation, and the principle. This is why the ruled are willing to give up their power to support others. This is the most fundamental and simple contract between the ruling class and the ruled class in this era.

Of course, the more people there are, the more complicated things become, but the essence will not change. When one person is willing to obey another person, it must be for the sake of becoming better, not worse.

With the whole world as big as it is, it is used to worship one or several people. As long as the supreme ruler, the emperor, is still a normal person, then his essential position is the same as that of the ruled class. If the ruled class sees no hope and things are getting worse and worse, then the contract between the rulers and the ruled is invalid.

Similarly, those people in the highest ruling group, because they have achieved a certain political balance and have gained too much, are on the same side as the emperor. Of course, they will still fight, but they will not break up.

However, the supreme ruler, the emperor, and the supreme ruling group represented by him would not want the contract with the ruled class to be invalid, because they would suffer the greatest losses if the contract was invalidated.

As long as the supreme ruler, the emperor, and his supreme ruling group still have reason, they will not exploit too much. Instead, they should try their best to maintain the stability of the contract with the ruled class.

But the biggest problem arises. On the basis of the family-based empire, there is no ideology other than that of the family. The family-based empire is a social structure built with oneself as the core and based on the family. Under this structure, everyone can only consider how to make their lives better and make the family more prosperous. In this social environment, don't blame everyone for wanting to get more.

But it is obvious that for the management nobles and officials, as long as the social order has not collapsed to a certain extent, it is very difficult to rob the people above them. They are the exploited of those above them, so they can only find ways to rob the people below them. Anyway, the world belongs to the emperor, and it doesn’t matter what it becomes. The important thing is to find a way to move what is in the emperor’s house to their own home.

Any emperor would certainly be extremely disgusted with this, and Ying Zheng was no exception.

But the problem is that all the managers, aristocrats and officials are unproductive, which means that everything the managers have belongs to the producers. No matter who oppresses whom among the managers, in the end the producers will bear the brunt of the consequences. In most cases, the managers have the largest number and the most destructive power.

The emperor and the highest ruling group have the same highest interests, but there are also conflicts, which often end in failure. Counterintuitively, the emperor and the highest ruling group they represent have more conflict than harmony with the managers. The managers are tools that will devour their masters, deceiving their superiors and bullying their subordinates, and even thinking about replacing them.

However, they are necessities that cannot be abandoned. Making these tools easy to use is an art. Being too easy to use or too difficult to use are both big problems, which will lead to the premature end of the contract and governance. The emperor and his ruling group can only try their best to control these difficult-to-control tools, and even replace them frequently.

Even so, the emperor and the ruling group could not solve the fundamental problem. The emperor could not do without these people, and management required people. As long as these people were still there, as long as the social environment remained the same, no one could help. Because if you want to solve this problem, you have to solve yourself first. The emperor and the ruling group he represented could only try to barely maintain the contract and delay the time when the contract would become invalid, but it would eventually come.

Since it cannot be solved, the feudal and backward family rule will inevitably be accompanied by anti-modern methods such as brainwashing, authoritarian rule, and terrorist suppression. Otherwise, it is impossible to explain the core concept of why the emperor owns everything, why people are not equal, and why it can only be suppressed until the ruled class can no longer bear it and the contract between the two parties ends.

In the chaos, everything is reconstructed with fire and blood, a new group of people emerge as rulers, and new contracts are signed with the ruled, and then the cycle repeats. This is the essence of a family dynasty. The emperor can only delay the demise of his own family, but cannot solve it.

The only solution that is not a solution is to have more children, so that even if future generations are not direct descendants, they are still your own bloodline, just like everyone is the descendant of Yan and Huang.

Unless everyone is selfless, it will be like this in the end. Even a saint can do nothing about it. Only when everyone is selfless can we usher in the brightest future. Otherwise, we can only continue to reincarnate until the end. Anyway, Ying Zheng doesn't think he can do it, nor is he interested in doing it. It is impossible to do it in this era. He should just be a good emperor.

In this era when slavery still exists, being a little ahead is a great merit. Even Ying Zheng or the First Emperor cannot change the nature of the world.

Ying Zheng was not interested in changing. Being an emperor was so good, how could he want to give up his own life?

Ending the hundreds of years of turmoil during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period would allow the people to rest and recuperate in peace for a period of time, unify the country, eliminate wars, reduce the suffering of the people, govern the officials in a clean and honest manner, develop productivity as much as possible, and improve economic relations. This would be the greatest merit.

If you take too big a step, you will pull your balls; if you pull too hard, you will be doomed.

The world is so beautiful, but cruelty is ten times more beautiful.

The world is wonderful because of human nature, and it is despicable because of human nature.

Everyone is different, and everyone is the same.

Especially the stance, different stances lead to different views. There are not so many right and wrong in the world, they are just different stances.

Those with vested interests always speak from the perspective of gaining benefits for themselves.

It's all human nature.

The world is sad because most people are selfish.

There is no need to see too clearly. Sometimes there is no need to see too clearly, and it is useless because that is human nature. Doing things against human nature is very difficult and painful.

For social creatures, it is right for the minority to obey the majority.

What most people believe should be universal values.

Ying Zheng was also selfish.

The emperor was a normal man and always sat upright.

When Ying Zheng opened his eyes, what he saw was the most beautiful scenery of Li Wu. He smiled inexplicably, put aside all these messy thoughts, and just did what he was supposed to do. He decided to be an emperor honestly.

It is too unrealistic to consider being a savior, it is better to consider the issue of ruling as an emperor.

Some people want to compete with God, but for me, being an emperor is enough.

I can understand it, but I can't do it, or rather, I find it difficult to truly understand it.

I, I want to be the emperor! Everything in the world belongs to me, I want to have all the good things.

(End of this chapter)