Dominate the Country

In the spring of the twenty-fifth year of Chengtian, Chen Ming left Nanjing and went to West Lake in Hangzhou.

West Lake in spring is really charming. Strolling along the Su Causeway, boating in the misty rain, ducks calling in the warm water, and the soft wind dancing the green willow branches, bringing the scent of moist grass. The ten-mile long causeway is full of green willows like smoke and red peaches like clouds. It is very beautiful, really beautiful.

But what makes Chen Ming feel more relaxed is the atmosphere of Hangzhou. Or in other words, after leaving Nanjing, he feels relieved.

In the past six months or more, the strong political atmosphere in Nanjing has almost suffocated him. Countless news, whether explicit or implicit, came to him, all of which were against the "virtual monarchy and constitutional monarchy".

Chen Ming let his sons read some "ideological enlightenment" books when they were very young, but it turned out that it was useless.

The throne of the emperor seemed to easily destroy the influence of these foreign things on them.

To be honest, Chen Ming stood at the height of history and saw that no one in the East or the West would actively give up the power in their hands.

Don't take Hua Daxia, the Falling Cherry Axe, as an example. In the early days of the Lighthouse Country, the power did not lie with Hua Daxia, the commander of the Continental Army, but with the state governments of the thirteen states. Even when Hua Daxia was the president, he was a half-rubber stamp.

Chen Ming saw the situation and launched the "dual system". It did ease some contradictions, but the opposition in the Chen clan was still surging.

Of course, Chen Ming did not back down. As long as he did not say the four words "virtual monarchy and constitutional monarchy" in person, he could ignore everyone's opposition.

And the latter would only use their lips to oppose, and there would be no real action - that was looking for death!

In this short period of time, even the foreigners in China seemed to pay attention to this matter.

They were really a little frightened in their hearts!

The most powerful monarchy in the world - the ancient Eastern Empire, the Eastern Empire that has been supreme for thousands of years, actually wants to learn from the British and run towards the embrace of "constitutional monarchy". This is incredible.

In the eyes of countless Westerners, this is simply nonsense.

God knows how many Westerners envy China's feudal system from the bottom of their hearts, the high degree of centralization, the supreme majesty of "the emperor wants his subjects to die, and the subjects have to die", the unparalleled power of "all under heaven is the king's land, and all the people are the king's subjects". Becoming the emperor of China is the most enviable thing in the world.

In the eyes of many Westerners, the emperor of China is the master of all things and people. They can kill people at will, confiscate property, and reward their officials with thousands of gold and silver treasures at will. Everything in the world belongs to the emperor alone.

The reason why Emperor Chen is "great" and "honorable" in the eyes of many Western scholars is not because the country he ruled is extremely powerful, not because he overthrew a powerful foreign dynasty, and expanded the territory to conquer such a large area, but because Chen Ming, who obviously has unlimited power, put a layer of shackles on himself.

Although this layer of shackles is extremely fragile for Chen Ming, he really achieved self-limitation.

——The huge world is not his own private property, and the royal family support and the national treasury have been clearly divided.

There are countless wise and heroic rulers in Chinese history. The early Qin Emperor and Han Emperor, and the recent Kangxi Emperor, Yongzheng Emperor, and Qianlong Emperor, who have left a strong mark in the long river of Chinese history, have not had such power as the current Emperor Chen. He commands the army and decides whether to fight or make peace with the outside world. He seems to ignore government affairs, but everything in the entire cabinet is tightly in his hands.

But such an emperor with unlimited power has never done anything to take advantage of others.

He launched wars against foreign countries again and again, and the tight military expenses in the early stage were all filled by selling war bonds and land bonds, and these debts owed by the court were always paid back by him. Countless people can also receive a lot of benefits from it. Now the bonds issued by the state have become an opportunity for hundreds of millions of people to make a fortune. If you go too late, you may not be able to buy them with money.

Whether it is businessmen, farmers, or ordinary citizens, they are all flocking to it, fearing that they will not be able to grab the debt.

Isn't such an emperor great?

Millions of active and retired soldiers are loyal supporters of Emperor Chen. With one order, millions of troops will march forward.

With a knife in his hand and money on his waist, who can resist such an emperor?

But such an emperor never did anything wrong. Isn't such an emperor great? Isn't he worthy of respect?

So Chen Ming's position was not affected at all in the midst of internal criticism. He even had the "leisure and elegance" to compete with others in the newspaper. Liu Wen, who was in charge of the Press and Publication Administration, was a loyal henchman of Emperor Chen.

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Over time, the king became incompetent; in the temple, rotten wood served as officials; between the steps of the palace, beasts ate the salary; with a sudden rise, the ancestral temple collapsed.

The tragedy of the family dynasty was clearly written in the newspapers. Look at the Qing Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty, and the dynasties in Chinese history. Who escaped this fate?

Since Qin Shi Huang founded the first unified Qin Dynasty, China has a serious 2,000-year history of feudal unification. Who has sat on the throne for 300 years?

Can the Eastern Han Dynasty be completely confused with the Western Han Dynasty?

Although the emperors of the Southern Song Dynasty and the Northern Song Dynasty both had the surname Zhao, is this a thorough dynasty?

The 300-year cycle phenomenon in Chinese history is now known even to the West.

No one dared to raise this question before, but Chen Ming said it himself. Nowadays, there are many studies and discussions on this issue in society.

But to put it bluntly, isn't this the inferiority of feudal society?

As the Romance of the Three Kingdoms says, the world will eventually unite after a long period of division, and will eventually separate after a long period of unity! These reasons are not only in China, but also in many foreign countries. Under the rule of the family dynasty, the system and contradictions began to collapse little by little at the beginning of its establishment! The so-called three hundred years of a catastrophe is a historical coincidence and a necessity. Under the hereditary rule, a reasonable system begins to collapse sometimes in such a cycle!

To be more specific, the rise and fall of dynasties is essentially the contradiction between population growth and limited land, and climate change is the inducement. When dynasties change, there will be major wars. Therefore, when a new dynasty is established, the total population is not large, the land supply is sufficient, and a small amount of land annexation will not lead to a large number of landless farmers, and the main contradictions in society can be eased. But after about 300 years, with the reproduction of more than a dozen generations, the population growth, limited land, increased annexation, the increase in landless farmers in the country, and the intensification of social contradictions, once climate change and large-scale famine occurred, there would be no dynasty change, and there would be a major uprising that would shake the foundation of the dynasty.

Therefore, some influential newspapers issued a "conclusion", and then deduced the inferiority of feudal society, and then pointed out the difference between feudal society and capitalist society.

Capitalist society obtains more benefits by improving production technology, productivity and external expansion; while the establishment and collapse of feudal dynasties is a process in which the upper class constantly annexed the property resources of the middle and lower classes, such as land, such as land annexation.

European dynasties generally lasted longer than China, and were almost never overthrown by the uprising people, because Europe was too poorly developed most of the time. Those who read and had knowledge were mostly nobles and clergy, and the lower class was ignorant, which allowed them to rule longer in the past "feudal history". Therefore, Europe has been developing worse than China and Tianfang for a very long time.

Of course, when the capitalist system develops to a certain extent, war will also greet them.

Isn't the first world war in history, including the American Civil War, the same?

The great debate for half a year has made many people know the difference between the old and the new in a real sense. It also made many people believe a "fact" - the reason why the emperor wants to "constitution" is not that he really wants to hand over power, but that he wants the dynasty he established, and his descendants, to exist and prosper from generation to generation.

The emperor of the current court does not believe in "thousands of generations, iron bucket country" and "long live".

Even the current emperor is afraid that the Chen Han world he established can't even support "300 years".

The former is nothing. The emperor who really wants to live for thousands of years is all idiots.

The latter is a very eye-catching topic. Even many ordinary people can't help but be curious, why is the current emperor afraid that the court he established can't even last 300 years?

Then they learned a lot. There is history and culture in it.

Chen Ming could not have imagined that he had only let the newspapers stir up the flames, but it really triggered a big discussion in society.

For this reason, even Wang Fuzhi, Gu Yanwu and Huang Zongxi were pulled out. Because there is a certain degree of culture in the academic thoughts of these three people.

But in the past 100 years, the Qing Dynasty swept Wang Fuzhi and others into the garbage heap. Chen Ming is not interested in the so-called three great masters of the late Ming Dynasty. The main reason is that Huang Zongxi is too disgusting to him.

But now, these three people have been picked up from the garbage heap, wiped clean, decorated, and served. What the New Confucian Party did!

But there are still many people in the New Confucian Party who disagree, and these people are regarded as the "outliers" of the New Confucian Party.

——The New Confucian Party does not really disagree, but thinks that they jumped out too early. If Emperor Chen is fishing, the New Confucian Party will be miserable.

According to the report of the National Security Bureau, the New Confucian Party is making urgent discussions internally, whether to make a division between the two.

What made Chen Ming feel emotional was that none of the guys who were close to the New Confucian Party would provoke the "outliers". Chen Ming had seen through his sons who were interested in the throne. None of these bastards were inclined to decentralization or constitutional monarchy.

Even the dual system was accepted by some of them with great reluctance.

The only thing that made Chen Ming feel relieved was that his sons did not pretend to be "decentralists" in order to please him. This made Chen Ming feel relieved.

"How many people did you insert into the group of outliers in the New Confucian Party?"

"Your Majesty, don't worry. Although there are not many people, they all hold important positions."

"Then go back and tell them to continue to pick topics. Let everyone discuss how to control the emperor?"

This is the key point of China's decentralization process. If the imperial power is restricted.

"Your Majesty..."

The voice of the person in front of Chen Ming trembled. Chen Ming could clearly "see" that the air column above the man's head trembled violently. Of course, the direction of the air column was still firmly towards Chen Ming in the end.

This man must have been very shocked. The emperor actually wanted to limit the imperial power, is it a fantasy?

But looking at Chen Ming's face and tone, it was obvious that he was not joking.

The man bowed and took the order and left. These spies controlled by Chen Ming personally only need to do their work and do not need to have their own ideas.

After the man left, Chen Ming picked up the teacup and took a sip.

He did not know what kind of uproar his proposition would cause in China. He was already fifty years old, half a century old. Chen Ming was not prepared to sit on the throne until his death.

The world was so big, he wanted to see it.

He thought that he would abdicate to his son when he was sixty or sixty-five years old, and then, depending on his physical condition, he would walk around in China and the world and take a look. He had no money and no time to go out in his previous life, and he would make up for it all in this life.

It is possible that he will be the first Chinese emperor to visit Europe.

There are still more than ten years left, and it is unknown when China's "ideological enlightenment" will develop.

In the next ten years, in addition to completing the grand goals he set early, the most important thing for Chen Ming is to establish a real constitution.

His son may not adapt, but he has no choice.

Chen Ming is in good health. I have no confidence that he will live to be 90 or 100. He can live to be 70 or 80.

Even if he abdicates, he can still hold on for another 10 years. If he protects the constitution for 10 years, it will be very difficult for the royal family to get rid of the constitution.

Chen Ming now really feels that he has treated his son unfairly...