nanming man

Chapter 730 Evolution to Imperialism

In the refugee camp, a group of women were washing clothes on both sides of the Yugu River, while children were running and playing among the tents.

Li Yan rode a horse and stood beside Gao Yihuan. He also heard his colleagues talk about the King, and smiled slightly: "Your Majesty is expressing his feelings again today?"

Gao Yihuan looked serious, "It's a little emotional!"

"I am willing to listen attentively." Li Yan gave the leader a chance to speak in a timely manner.

Gao Yihuan pondered slightly: "Sir, do you think this world is weird?" Without waiting for Li Yan to speak, Gao Yihuan continued: "The lonely king thinks it's weird and evil. It's chaotic for hundreds of years, and it's reincarnated for hundreds of years. How much trouble you have suffered."

"The general trend of the world is like this. The long-term division must be united, the long-term union must be divided, and the chaos of reincarnation has been curbed. This has been the case for thousands of years." Li Yan said: "Perhaps this is God's will and the general trend!"

Gao Yihuan shook his head, "When things are divided for a long time, they will be united, and when they are united for a long time, they will be divided. This is a phenomenon, not an inevitable result, nor is it God's will."

"Is it a phenomenon?" Li Yan frowned slightly and fell into deep thought. He never expected that King Wei would discuss such a profound and level topic with him.

Gao Yihuan nodded slightly, "That's right, this is just a phenomenon caused by various reasons, and it's not God's will. Gu Wang believes that one of the reasons for this phenomenon is that the previous dynasties did not have clear goals and ideals."

"May I hear your majesty's opinion!" Li Yan couldn't help being interested.

Li Laiheng and others behind Gao Yihuan also pricked up their ears. The king's nonsense today is a bit different.

Gao Yihuan said in a deep voice: "After the dynasties swept the world, they basically didn't have a clear goal for what to do next. Most of them were like the previous dynasties. They didn't take the initiative to solve the problem, but waited for the problem to come. Most dynasties tend to perish in the same way. After a dynasty experienced prosperity in the early stage, all kinds of old problems will come again. Therefore, it will experience a reform in the middle and late stages. If the reform fails to attack, it will accelerate its demise. Relieve, and after a period of time, the problem will explode again, and then die."

Li Yan pondered, the words of King Wei can actually be more straightforward. At the beginning of each dynasty, land resources were abundant, social conflicts were small, and the dynasty was thriving. A reform was carried out to curb mergers and continue the dynasty's state, but in the end most of the restraint failed, and the dynasty perished again, ushering in the next troubled world.

"The old problem that your majesty mentioned is the annexation of land!" Li Yan said in a deep voice: "I have also thought about this problem. Some people are hardworking and some are smart. There is a gap between people, which will inevitably cause some people to To become a gentry landlord, the land will inevitably be gradually concentrated in the hands of a few people. Although some of them use the means of plundering to complete the annexation of land, most of the gentry landlords have accumulated the income of several generations. Land annexation is an irreversible The minister thought that the dynasty could restrain mergers and severely punish illegal mergers, but it could not seize the rich households’ land and redistribute it. Therefore, it is difficult to reverse the general trend of mergers, and the dynasty cannot avoid its demise.”

Gao Yihuan took a look at Li Yan. Fortunately, he also had some hard goods in his stomach, "What Mr. said made sense, and he saw the problem, but he still didn't really try to solve the problem. The same is true for the dynasties of all dynasties, and the means are only to suppress mergers. One, after the king has unified the world, he has no goal, or is satisfied with the unification of the world, the goal becomes how to stabilize the country, and even considers how to suppress and enslave the people to rule the world, instead of trying to solve this problem The problem that caused the world to have no substantial evolution for thousands of years? Land annexation is a problem, but it is not without a solution.”

"Evolution? What does this mean? Can evolution solve this problem?" Li Yan couldn't help asking.

Gao Yi smiled happily: "Confucianism and scholar-bureaucrats, or our Central Plains culture, has always respected the ancients and believed that the more backward, the better, but in fact, the whole society is constantly evolving. From the initial society of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, From the feudal society of the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, to the centralized society of the Qin Dynasty, we are constantly moving forward, and now we have been stuck here for more than 2000 years. Forward evolution cannot solve the contradiction of land annexation, but it can reduce the The influence of this contradiction on the whole society makes it no longer the main contradiction."

Li Yan was already used to Gao Yihuan's new words popping up from time to time, but Li Yan was a little shocked by his forward-looking view of society, and he still couldn't understand some words.

In Confucian culture, advocating the ancients and respecting the ancients has always been the view that the era of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors and the Duke of Zhou assisting the government are the best eras, and in the future it will be worse than one.

"If the society is moving forward according to what the king wants, then the dynasties of the past dynasties really have no goals." Li Yan thought for a while. related?"

Gao Yihuan nodded, "That's right, the lonely king's ideal is that we, the Western Wei Kingdom, must complete the mission of further evolution! Enter the era of great imperialism."

Gao Yihuan glanced at Li Yan, knowing that he didn't understand, "There are two main reasons for the demise of the Central Plains dynasties in the past dynasties, one is internal land annexation or internal strife, and the other is external threats. , Song Dynasty perished because of this. The ideal of Gu Wang is to solve these two problems, but it is not easy, even Gu can't solve it in his whole life, so I want to attach the ideal of Gu to Great Wei, so that the great Wei To become a large empire with a goal, let the official system of the Western Wei Dynasty have the same ideals and beliefs."

As he spoke, Gao Yihuan raised his horsewhip and pointed at the refugees in the camp, "Mr. Li, look at these refugees, they look the same as me, but their beliefs are completely different. This is a threat from the outside, and it is related to future generations. Wang hoped that the Great Wei could spread the culture and beliefs of our Central Plains, and assimilate the Tubo people, Mongols, Yarkands, and even go to further regions. Our eyes should not be limited to the Central Plains, but we should also educate many barbarians in all directions and become extroverts. Imperialist civilization. Internal reforms are needed to complete the evolution.”

"Your Majesty's thinking is very different from Confucianism!" Li Yan said.

Gao Yihuan looked into the distance with deep eyes, and said to himself: "Today's Confucianism is not the Confucianism of the pre-Qin period, and Confucianism is constantly changing. The lonely king needs a Dong Zhongshu to change Confucianism, and he needs Da Wei to have ideals. There is a faith that can hold the whole country together!"

Li Yan was dumbfounded and had to admit that he was shocked.

This time the Qing army plundered Yongliang. On the one hand, it was difficult to compete with the Qing army in the local area. On the other hand, the local officials were not firm in their resistance. There are even a few counties that have been cleared directly.

The emergence of this situation made Gao Yihuan realize that the bureaucratic system of the Western Wei Dynasty did not have any ideals or beliefs. They did not even talk about loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, but purely for their own interests, and most of them were refined egoists.

Of course, this is related to the composition of officials in the Western Wei Dynasty. Most of them changed their masters three times, and many people even did it all over Ming, Shun, Qing, and Wei.

It is obviously impossible for such an official to let him be loyal to anyone. They are more interested in their own interests.This is the lack of ideals, and the lack of Confucian beliefs.

If all the officials in the Western Wei Dynasty were like this, then the Western Wei Dynasty would be finished sooner or later.

Because the entire bureaucratic group is egoist, they first consider their own interests, and will inevitably harm the interests of the people in the end.

Of course, Gao Yihuan is also one of them. After all, the upper beam is not upright and the lower beam is crooked. What he pursues is also the pinnacle of power.

His behavior is the same as most heroes in history, and he does not have any progressive significance. Even if he becomes the Emperor of Qin and Han Wu after the event, he has not made any substantial contribution to the transformation of the whole world.

This made Gao Yihuan discuss that a country and a bureaucratic system cannot work without a belief. There must be an idea that can unite everyone, so that officials can not only understand money and their own interests, otherwise they will be like the Manchus. Not much difference anymore.

That's why Gao Yihuan thought of setting a goal for the Western Wei Kingdom to give them a sense of mission.

At this time Gao Yihuan was talking, a group of cavalry galloped over and got off their horses, "Your Majesty, urgent military report!"

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