Wanli 1592

Chapter 1139 He Is Not a God
The land reform was to physically destroy the foundation of Confucianism in the local area and uproot it, so that the local area would no longer be restrained by the Confucian gentry and the imperial power would go to the countryside.

And this move is to spiritually pull out Dong Zhongshu's roots deeply planted in the minds of all Confucianists, and spiritually destroy the greatest reliance of Confucianism.

It makes the Confucian gentry's nirvana against the imperial power no longer exist, which is not much easier than physical destruction.

Xiao Ruxun does not intend to destroy Confucianism, but intends to return Confucianism to the academic-based sect of the Confucius era, destroy Dong Zhongshu's Confucian hegemony that combines Legalism, Taoism, Yin-Yangism, and prevent Confucianism from dominating the ideological world again. energy.

In the future, Confucianism will definitely become a major obstacle to the promotion of new learning and the study of studying things to gain knowledge.

However, the hindering power of Confucianism at the level of the ruling class is not terrible. There are 50 million scholars in any case, and the land reform will not be able to become a big climate. superstitious.

As an academic discipline, Confucianism of Confucius is undoubtedly meaningful. It is a good idea to teach students according to their aptitude, and should be vigorously promoted.

However, Dong Zhongshu made seven changes and eight changes, especially after incorporating Legalism, Confucianism seemed to have a domineering power, threatening the imperial power, but at the same time, it was also dependent on the imperial power.

Afterwards, in the era after Confucianism was overthrown by a hundred schools of thought, Confucianism, which used this idea as its magic weapon, expanded rapidly, occupying the entire ideological and public opinion circles, unifying thinking, and then producing groups such as aristocratic families and gentry.

The monopoly of knowledge and the use of literature to disrupt the law have far-reaching harm and endless legacy, and have brought the Han nationality almost to the brink of extinction several times.

This is absolutely not allowed.

And the core point is the connection between heaven and man, destroying the connection between heaven and man, and getting rid of this concept, it must be done no matter what.

However, this statement can be said to be the foundation of everyone’s understanding of imperial power since this period of history. The monarch’s power is bestowed by God.

This kind of thinking was born along with the power of the monarch. The eight characters of "Designed to Heaven, Longevity and Prosperity" are engraved on the Jade Seal of Chuanguo. To eliminate this kind of thinking is to destroy the imperial power itself in a sense. Take your own life.

Dong Zhongshu used this method to create common interests between Confucianism and monarchy. The two complement each other and seem inseparable.

However, that doesn't have to be the case.

The literacy rate in ancient China has always been very low. The rulers can use various superstitious methods to fool and weaken the people and maintain their rule. However, the huge interest groups born from this are often also the gravediggers of the dynasty. If it cannot be solved, the Great Qin will inevitably happen in the future. In the chaos of war, it is even possible to go back to the old way of the dynasty.

Xiao Ruxun knew that he had only a few decades to live, and he could not control the future of Daqin. In order to prevent Huaxia from returning to that cycle, he had to have the courage to revolutionize himself.

Since becoming emperor, he has asked himself many times, do he want to be a traditional emperor?
The answer is no. If he wants to be a traditional emperor, why does he need land reform, why does he need to popularize education, why does he need to communicate with the world, and just continue to close the country.

He didn't want to do this, he didn't want the new atmosphere created by himself to disappear after his death, and he didn't want people to die.

Shang Yang left a powerful military interest group to maintain the achievements of Shang Yang's reform, and what will he leave behind to maintain the achievements of the great change?
If there is a change, there is no way out. Many methods are needed to solve the problem. One of them is to popularize education and open up people's wisdom.

This is a double-edged sword, which can not only make the gentry and nobles lose the soil for survival and growth, but also threaten the existence of imperial power.

The process of enlightening the wisdom of the people will inevitably cause ideological problems. If the common people are literate, read, and understand the truth, will they be so easily deceived?
When new learning begins to spread, when astronomy and geography begin to prosper, when science begins to germinate consciousness, when people realize that the traditional saying that the sky is round and the earth is not correct, when they realize that the earth is round, they live on a spherical object When they are young, they will inevitably doubt many things that they once regarded as the truth.

Including the imperial power granted by heaven.

Does innocence really exist?If innocence really exists, why doesn't heaven rule the world by itself, but let the emperor rule?
The imperial power will be questioned and doubted, and this ideological trend will inevitably spread, affecting tens of thousands of people, and shaking the foundation of Daqin's rule.

In the final analysis, the saying of imperial power granted by heaven will inevitably be shattered, whether it is sooner or later, it will inevitably be shattered.

The emperor is temporary and cannot exist forever. Even if it exists permanently, it is impossible to hold absolute power forever.

Along with the process of popularizing education, when the time is right, Xiao Ruxun will spread this matter to the minds of people receiving new education, planting the seeds for them to no longer fear the sky and re-examine the sky.

Ideologically revolutionized the life of this tradition.

In the foreseeable future, the chaos brought about by this great ideological change may threaten or even eliminate the imperial power, but as a representative of the old era, the imperial power will inevitably disappear with the advent of the new era.

Having said that, interest groups in the old era will continue to be born, kill one group, and another group will appear. They can't be killed or chased away. The land reform once, twice, three times and four times is still the same. Zhu Yuanzhang is a lesson, even in modern times , still still.

Xiao Ruxun asked himself that no matter how he killed corrupt officials, he would not be more ruthless than Zhu Yuanzhang. Even if he had absolute power, he knew what he could do and what he couldn't. He could only do what he thought was right. Do your best to leave a glimmer of hope.

As long as heaven and man feel that the divine right of kings still exists, it will not be so easy to move from ancient times to modern times, and it will not be so easy to come to the era of ideological enlightenment.

He can bring the army to modern times, bring technology to modern times, and bring productivity to modern times, but he cannot bring real modern times.

When Xiao Ruxun was alive, he could suppress the powerful, but after he died, would the powerful and the gentry make a comeback?

Landlords will not be revived again?
Will the place become a paradise for landowners and gentry again?

The pinnacle of old ideas and the dawn of a new age are doomed to be incompatible.

But those with vested interests in the old days could never have imagined that the emperor would even dare to change his own life.

If I dare to change my own life, can you still fight against me?

Can it still snuff out the dawn of a new era?
Xiao Ruxun didn't know about the more distant events, and maybe no one knew about them at all.

The idea of ​​the interaction between heaven and man is not only the representative root of the thoughts of the old age, but also the root of many superstitions.

For example, people are watching the sky. If you don’t believe it, look up to see who is spared by the sky, there are gods when you raise your head three feet, and you are struck by lightning when you do bad things, etc.

These folk sayings that are still widely spread in modern times are all things that the folks slowly tossed out from the theory of the interaction between heaven and man.

Objectively, it can indeed play a role in deterring the wicked, but in reality?

It's useless, it does more harm than good, and it's just the last groan of the vulnerable.

God will save your mother?

Will not.

Don’t resist when it’s time to fight back, don’t act when it’s time to take action, don’t know how to use your hands and legs to achieve your goals, but pin your hopes on the extremely illusory God, it’s ridiculous, this is simply foolish people in a certain sense means of the weak.

Was the Manchu Qing overthrown by God?
Were the Japanese defeated by God?
Did the Yankees rush back to the south of the [-]th parallel?

If you burnt the incense, smashed the wooden fish, donated all the family property, and caused the family to be broken up, the wives were scattered, and the gods and Buddhas in the sky will not appear to help you even once!
Because they don't even exist!

However, some persistence in the era of imperial power still cannot be given up, otherwise the landlords of the old era will suddenly turn into capitalists of the new era, still concealing upwards and oppressing downwards, dividing regions and destroying unity, doing things that have never changed for thousands of years.

Therefore, Xiao Ruxun was deeply wary of certain trends in the southeastern provinces. Although the sea was open to trade, he never tried to change the basic spirit of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce.

Heavy taxes are imposed on merchants, legislation is restricted, and the mausoleum system also includes the way of disposing of merchants. The commercial law is the most stringent law in all the legal systems of the new dynasty. Even the cabinet does not understand why the emperor has to make such a strict law. law.

The overthrow of the imperial power by capital has never been for the progress of society, but for their own money without any scruples.

The way they treat the people is smarter and more terrifying than the imperial power. When they can hide it, they use the cloak of democracy to deceive them. Once they find that they can't hide it, they immediately tear off the cloak of democracy and launch bloody suppression.

There is no difference between them and the imperial power, except that their productivity has improved, and their ruling method has also improved, which is more deceptive. Compared with the imperial power granted by heaven, it is more suitable for modern times. socialism and communism.

The lessons of relying on capital to overthrow the imperial power and relying on the local government to overthrow the central government are vivid. The productivity has improved, but other things seem to have not changed.

But whether there is another way, no one knows.

Can the economic base really determine the superstructure?If it is possible, then why has the productivity improved to such an extent that the upper class is still the upper class and has not changed the slightest since ancient times?

Xiao Ruxun didn't understand this.

Xiao Ruxun only knows that what the billions of people in this vast country need is centralized leadership, the momentum to move people's hearts together, a unified goal, and the courage to pioneer, not the dynasty and capital of each family. .

So right now, he will never allow any constitutional monarchy or capitalist revolution, and will never change the basic spirit of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business.

But how to go about the future, the wisdom of the people gradually develops, and after the imperial power can no longer survive, he doesn't know how to go about the way of this country and its billions of people.

He feels that following the current trend, if no changes are made, when he dies, Daqin will become the Soviet Union in the cloak of imperial power, and what will happen after that?Where will China's future go?

He's just a man, he's not a god, he really doesn't know.

(End of this chapter)