Ace made a "Respect Speech" to point out the direction of trade, and established a trade route based on mutual respect, and the basis of mutual respect is self-reliance.

For the nobles, self-reliance is just right. In the era of knowledge monopoly, there are many stories among the nobles to encourage their descendants to be self-reliant. The nobles are definitely the first group of people in the world to be self-reliant, and they have rich experience in self-reliance. So the nobles think that Ace's speech is a compromise with the nobles.

"Very good, Ace also realized who the real master of the sea is. Why did we become nobles? It is because our ancestors were self-reliant. Why are civilians civilians? It is because they don't know how to be self-reliant at all, and they will only wait for others to arrange everything. It is actually very simple to rule ordinary people. Just give them a bridge built with beautiful slogans, let them walk over happily, and then we remove the bridge plank, and they can fall into the abyss. What is really difficult to deal with is those low-level nobles who are always staring at us."

The attitude of ordinary people towards the great nobles is that a real man should be like this, while the low-level nobles look at the great nobles as I can replace them.

The rise of the grass is the biggest threat to the great nobles.

In the eyes of the nobles, "Respect Speech" is Ace's compromise, while in the eyes of the common people, Ace declares war on the nobles. The common people will think that these nobles who are well-dressed and well-fed do not know what self-improvement is.

Self-improvement is to get things done with the lowest cost. The common people and the nobles do the same thing, but the common people only need to eat enough, while the nobles also need to eat well, so the cost is different. The common people can get things done at a lower cost, which is called self-improvement, and the high-cost guys like the nobles should be eliminated.

The nobles think that "Respect Speech" is beneficial to them, while the common people think that the speech is encouraging themselves.

So both sides began to strengthen themselves.

Duran smiled. This is just like the imperial examination. The rich think that they have money and better teachers, and the imperial examination is beneficial to them. And the poor think that it is just studying? I hang my head and prick my leg, and I don't believe that I can't study better than the rich.

In the past, when fighting, the nobles had six arts and learned swords. And ordinary people have the people who are not afraid of death, but how can they be afraid of death. After ordinary people passed through religious organizations, they completely suppressed the nobles. Even if the nobles were good at wielding spears and swords, their physical strength was limited, so they still chose the imperial examination. In the imperial examination, the nobles still had many advantages.

When the nobles could not monopolize knowledge and did not have an advantage in force, they would choose other ways of playing the game. So Huang Chao still deserves great credit, after all, he made the wealthy realize that their advantages had disappeared.

The game on the sea is still going on, and Ace's attitude towards the navy is to be patient as long as the navy does not threaten its core interests. Now it is most important to build its own system. Once it succeeds and there are beneficiaries, even if the navy wins in the end, someone will promote the pirate model.

Ace knows very well that if a system is proven to be feasible, then someone will practice it. For example, the parliamentary system of ancient Greece, even if history proves the shortcomings of the parliamentary system, but because it can be practiced, someone will accept it. Because the parliamentary system of ancient Greece suppressed the tyrants very well, it was a good way for the nobles to fight against the king.

So even if ancient Greece was destroyed, the nobles still dug the parliament out of the dust.

In fact, ancient Rome also had a parliamentary system. Rome's inheritance was more complete. At the beginning, there was the monarchy era, then the republic era, then the empire era, and then the division...

The Roman Republic era was a parliamentary system, but it was eliminated with the development of Rome. The reason for being eliminated is that the parliamentary system is a management method that makes citizens degenerate into freemen. Rome in the imperial era was a feudal system, and the feudal system was a management method that made freemen become citizens.

Why did Rome go out of the republican era? It is because more people became Romans. When managing, Rome must enter the three-level management and begin to divide.

After the Roman reform, as long as you join the army, you can become a Roman, which greatly improves Rome's strength, but then the problem comes. Many Romans are not directly managed by the Roman Parliament.

Just like the Qin Dynasty implemented the county system, and later the Han Dynasty followed it. As more and more people became Han people, the county system was not enough. The county developed from 36 counties in the Qin Dynasty to 103 counties, which tripled. It was too difficult for the emperor to manage 103 county officials at once, so 13 states were set up, and the emperor managed 13 people, and 13 people managed 103 people, which was more convenient.

Then the 13 governors had a problem. Why didn't they become emperors themselves?

The emperor was sidelined.

The problem of ancient Rome was the same. At the beginning, the parliament could manage the land, but as the land became larger and larger, it could not manage it. Instead, interest representatives emerged in various places, that is, people like Caesar. They had a large number of Romans under their command and did not accept the management of the parliament.

So Caesar and others would think why they should listen to the parliament? Rome entered the imperial era. However, the emperor could not manage so many places, so the four emperors ruled together, and finally the east and the west split. The Eastern Roman Empire found monotheism, proposed the concept of divine right of kings, stabilized the status of the emperor, and entered the feudal era.

So the process of imperial system and enfeoffment is that there are more and more Romans and more and more Han people.

The parliamentary system is that there are fewer and fewer Romans, because only in this way can the status of parliamentarians become more and more stable.

The emergence of tyrants would allow more people to become Greeks, further strengthening the parliament. After the tyrants disappeared, the parliamentary system would allow more Greeks to become free citizens.

Because the parliamentary system is about all parties scrambling for resources to maintain their own advantages, the resources flowing in society are becoming more and more concentrated, so the life of the Romans is naturally getting worse and worse.

Enfeoffment is actually to fix resources, which can well protect the status of the Romans. The nobles cannot over-extract resources, because the number of Romans does not change much, and the Romans cannot be upgraded or easily downgraded.

If the emperor is in power, he must consider how to solve the problem of three-level management and being sidelined. The county is too large, so there must be a management level of states, roads, and roads. How to restrict them has become a problem for the emperor to consider.

In the Age of Exploration, a large amount of resources were discovered, and the parliamentary system was revived. The nobles once again entered the stage of robbing resources and looking for ways to preserve value. At first, the nobles invested in art, then tulips and other things. Through extensive investment, they finally found a new direction for industry.

The development of science and technology has a lot of luck, because after the nobles obtained a lot of resources, in order to preserve value, they invested in many things, and technology was just one of many investments.

It is not that Westerners were assisted by God and had a unique vision to see technology at first sight. In fact, they have invested in many things.

One feature of the parliamentary system is that they scramble for resources frantically. Once they get resources, they will want to establish their own advantageous areas, and the investment areas are varied.

In the end, after the great waves, technology stood out, and many nobles followed up. It is not that everyone developed industry at the beginning. For example, Tsarist Russia developed industry very late. They saw the achievements of the British Empire and then invested in it.

Of course, as the dividends of the great voyages were exhausted, the disadvantages of the parliamentary system emerged, which would make more Romans become free citizens. In the past, there were resources in the New World that could be exploited, and the parliament took the bulk of the share, and the Romans could still live. But as the dividends disappeared, the parliament continued to rob resources, and could only rob the resources of the Romans.

There is only one way to solve this problem, feudalism. That is, to fix the identity of each class. In this way, although there is no way to upgrade, at least it will not be easily downgraded. As long as the obligations are fulfilled, it is not difficult to maintain the identity of the Romans.

Rome has a clear development trajectory, so Westerners cannot use the Roman parliament to make a fuss. They can only talk about the ancient Greek parliament, but they can't explain why ancient Greece eventually disappeared.

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