[Group Wearing Song Dynasty] The Glory of the Sky

"That's impossible." Tang Situi shook his head heavily and said, "I've read your books, but if you want the current Song Dynasty to have no emperor, even if the ministers agree, the people of the world will not agree."

Zhang Zhiye extinguished the cigarette butt, and said meaningfully: "The people in the whole country are not yet enlightened, and not many people can buy it."

"But a constitutional monarchy can be established," Yun Qi thought for a while and said, "The emperor itself is just a symbol, not to mention that Zhao Kuangyin started as a rebel, and he has no blood to speak of."

Every time other people heard her pronounce these three words, their hearts would be shocked.

"Constitutional monarchy?" Hu Pingyu glanced at her: "Keep Zhao Gou?"

"Zhao Gou?" Zhang Zhiye smiled and said, "What's the point of keeping disobedient chess pieces?"

"Listen," Yun Qi stood up and raised his hand to write the structure on the white screen with an electronic pen.

"We first need to construct a sufficiently scientific and balanced bicameral system."

Simply speaking from the inevitable choice of human nature, anyone, even if he is supported as a king in a constitutional monarchy system, will inevitably have some ideas of wanting to be authoritarian.

No matter how you promise and swear before you take the throne, after you take the throne, greed will continue to flow out, and your hands will stretch out longer and longer.

The shortcomings of the dictatorship of the monarchy have become very obvious.

In the original system, the emperor was the lord of the world, and all finances, subjects, and territory were all his private property.

That means he takes on the job of managing it all while also being entitled to splurge on anything.

Any king who did not advance to the dynasty, purely from the history of Zhao Gou, killed Yue Fei and his son, ceded the territory at will, repeatedly suffered humiliation in front of the Jin State and made Song Guowei, and signed various treaties that seemed reasonable but actually extorted. It can be logically self-consistent in his heart——

The logic of the king is that this country is my private property. As the master, I give something or kill two servants. That is my own choice, and it is not up to others to comment.

And going a step further, even if the soldiers from the Kingdom of Jin were pressing down on the border, and Zhao Gou said that he would not defend it, no one would be able to defend it.

When Wan Yanliang, the tyrant of the Jin Kingdom, moved his troops to the capital, vigilant people reminded Zhao Gou for several years that he should build fortifications and improve the border defense settings, and then he was demoted one after another.

In the case of complete loyalty to the emperor or a high concentration of power, the life and death of this country really only depend on the emperor's thought.

It is precisely because of this that political reforms adjusted immediately to the environment, clear and intuitive agenda setting and long-term planning are all nonsense——

Whether the country will be managed and taken seriously is all in the emperor's mind.

If the replacement of national managers is only maintained by blood, it is like God rolling dice.

But too dispersed power is also equal to a mess.

Almost everyone thinks they are smart, but if the minority obeys the majority in everything and the common people vote by raising their hands, the whole country will be destroyed faster.

To put it bluntly, Minji cannot be trusted.

Education, economy, culture and many other fields of any country are all pyramid-shaped.

This means that highly educated people will always be at the middle and lower levels of the pyramid, while ignorant people who are easily controlled and incited occupy the bottom with a frightening number.

—If it was up to them to vote on all choices with a show of hands, everything would be messy and disorderly.

If the gap between the rich and the poor widens further, class solidification will become more obvious, and fewer and fewer people at the bottom will be able to climb up through their own efforts.

"No—wait a minute," Lu You interrupted, "So, neither dictatorship nor democracy, what do you want?"

"It's not 'absolute dictatorship' or 'absolute democracy'." Hu Pingyu propped his chin and said lazily: "You really should look at the political history of Shiguo or Europa."

Lu You was stunned for a moment, and wanted to say that I had read it, but he really didn't understand it very thoroughly.

Some cognitions will be restricted by the environment - he is now able to invite the word emperor from the altar in his heart, and he is already a minority far beyond other colleagues.

"First of all, Song State has developed very mature and excellent in many aspects." Yun Qi paused while writing, and turned to look at the ministers with different expressions: "You have a well-established imperial examination system with clear disciplines. There is a well-established multi-departmental decentralization of functions, and from what I have seen, all the nearby countries except Mongolia are emulating the Song system.”

These words seem to be helpful.

"However, all the mature and excellent political systems are fundamentally providing the monarch with enough excellent ministers. As for the monarch, no one can fully restrain him."

Hu Pingyu nodded, stepped forward, took the pen, and wrote two lines.

Scholars Politics

Elite politics

"Since no one cares about the existence of this emperor, we should confirm this cornerstone issue." The woman was wearing a camel-colored trench coat, with a calm and natural expression: "You should all understand what Linguo brought to Songguo, What kind of impact and influence is it?"

If we say that the Song Dynasty can produce a comprehensive value of about 1000 million taels per year in a natural environment.

Then, with the settlement of Linguo industry, under the deliberate planning of technological leakage and production capacity transfer, the agricultural parks and factories of Song Dynasty will be spread by more and more leaders of the emerging bourgeoisie, and the people's food and clothing and employment rate will be significantly If it rises, maybe within five years, Song's comprehensive output value will change from 1000 million to 5000 million, and 5000 million to [-] million.

This explosion of economic power is unnatural but lawful.

——Without this space-time change, it is impossible to have this direction.

A machine can replace the work of four or five people, and a machine tool can complete the ten or even dozens of days required for manual polishing and engraving.

A lot of labor and time are compressed and saved, so more and more value will be created.

Fundamentally, the integration and symbiosis of Lin Song Dynasty is irreversible——

Even if Liu Xi or any head of state tried to solve this problem, they still couldn't stop the inevitable technology leakage and output value transfer.

This may be bad news for Linguo.

But for millions of ordinary people, it is good news.

More and more people will be able to live with dignity and no longer face the pain of starving children.

There may be wars and revolutions, but what the machine of history will lead to is bound to be revitalization and prosperity.

"Under the circumstances of this explosive development of productivity, the dictatorship of individual dictatorship is no longer appropriate." Hu Pingyu casually drew a pig's head next to the word "monarch", stroked his chin and said slowly: "So, we should choose Meritocracy, or meritocracy?"

Jiang Fu listened for a long time, and finally asked at this moment: "Is there really a way to find a political system that can make the country prosperous forever?"

"Permanent?" Zhang Zhiye glanced at the Song countryman, shook his finger and said, "We can only keep pace with the times."

The times are advancing, and if we remain where we are, we are the ones who will be eliminated.

Just like Zhao Gou who is still dreaming of the Spring and Autumn Dream.

"So we'll follow Linguo's system soon?" Someone next to him asked, "Linguo has been very stable in the past few years?"

Yun Qi burst out laughing.

"How big is Linguo, and how big is Songguo?"

The man knew he was being clumsy, so he shrank back dully.

For a long time, from the Han Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, political meritocracy has been continuously deepening and developing.

The imperial examination system has developed from budding to mature, and it is continuously sending fresh blood to this country.

The existence of the imperial examination has allowed more and more selected talents to enter the country, and use their talents to promote the prosperity of the empire.

The only shortcoming, and the most fatal, is that this level of meritocracy is completely dependent on the emperor, that is, the dictator himself.

As long as the person on the dragon chair repeatedly makes stupid moves, the country may fall into the abyss in an instant from the prosperity of singing and dancing in the past 100 years.

If you look at it from the perspective of God, whether it is the Tumubao Change or Cixi's strange move, they can all be regarded as extremely powerful politics.

Along with the evolution of the times, in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, meritocracy developed to the extreme with the maturity of the imperial examination system. More and more virtuous ministers began to try to interfere in the choice of the monarch, trying to use their own wisdom to lead the country to a more correct direction. direction.

It is also because of this that stereotyped writing and literary inquisition began to rise, and the dictatorship of the monarchy reached its peak, which also caused the country's decline.

The two ends of the ship were shaking constantly. The emperor dragged the eunuchs, military officials and civil officials to play games back and forth, and finally capsized the ship.

"And elite politics is very similar to our current situation." Hu Pingyu said slowly.

In fact, most Song people don't like two women in this kind of occasion.

Although there are more than two women participating in Longxing Manufacturing and Shaoxing Manufacturing.

But it’s fine for women to have the right to speak in business—how can they still be chattering in this environment of discussing national affairs?

Although those Song officials were dissatisfied, they had nothing to say.

It's not because the analysis and deduction of these two women are flawless, nor is it because they know too much things that they don't understand at all.

It is purely because of the economic status and asset status of the two of them that they have given them an impeccable right to speak.

As long as they still control a high share of assets that affect multiple interests, they have to sit down and listen to them.

There are always people who want to make trouble with women, but no one can make trouble with interests.

When Lu You heard this, the sense of unreality began to emerge in his mind again.

They are no longer in a hurry to deal with Zhao Gou.

A few senior generals are here, and the guards in various places have long been bought or controlled by capital. Even the so-called loyalty to the emperor has disappeared, at least in this small inner circle.

Even if these Linguo people didn't show them those banned books, just relying on the millions of dollars that have flowed into the hands of officials and businessmen over the years, the change in their status in their hearts is unstoppable.

After all, now even the emperor is going to ask them to borrow money.

If a person has only ten taels of silver, he may be afraid to face officials.

But if you own 10 taels, tens of millions of taels, or even buy half of the country's huge property, and if you can save them, your attitude towards the rich and powerful will be different.

This is why many entrepreneurs choose to retreat bravely.

They know that they can't keep the money, and they can't compete with the power.

So I chose to let go, and even used all these properties for charity——

Is it really kindness and benevolence that wants to repay the society?

Yes, no.

At least being able to survive safely is the most important thing.

Today's State of Song is a precarious State of Song, a State of Song that is strong on the outside but capable in the middle.

It doesn't matter whether it's Song, Zhao Qian, Sun Li, or Zhao Qian.

All sense of sanctity and identity is itself to stabilize its existence.

And time is like an invisible hand, leading it to a new life.