"Well, the concept of citizenship is also a core part of the Chinese order, I can say that! citizens and nobles actually represent the elite group of the entire Chinese ethnic group!"

"Society is chaotic, people's hearts are confused, under the influence of fame and fortune, not everyone can make a clear correct judgment, the level of education is different, and the environment in which they have lived since childhood is not the same, which will cause various deviations in people's thinking!"

It is this deviation that makes the same social phenomenon appear differently in different people's minds...... This is the root of internal friction!"

"To whom does the state belong? Of course, it belongs to all the people, and everything in the country established by the Chinese people should belong to the Chinese and all the people, and this is the essence of the equality order! But to whom does the administration of the state belong? Is it equally divided among the people?"

"It's a pity that that's unrealistic, because people's hearts are confused, and their views on the same thing are different, and if the management power is divided equally among everyone, then there will be serious internal friction! You say east, I say west, or I know that you are right, but you and I are not in the same community, I will deliberately oppose you!"

"In the face of absolute self-interest, many people will choose to sacrifice the interests of the public! This is a very sad reality, I don't want to admit it, but I can't help but admit it!"

"In this reality, we can only hand over the management of the country to the elite team to govern, and try to reduce internal friction!"

Xiao Lotian sighed: "Actually, why did the ancient society of mankind have emperors and kings? To be honest, the appearance of emperors and kings is actually a helpless measure for human beings to adapt to this imperfect reality!"

"No one wants an emperor and a king to be in charge of their heads, everyone wants all their wealth to remain in their own homes, and everyone wants their power to be interfered with and infringed upon by others...... Yes, I Xiao Lotian don't want to!"

"Didn't the ancients have such wisdom? Of course they did, and of course they could understand this truth! But the reality is very cruel, those nations that pursue equality and freedom, and the countries that decentralize power, have been defeated one after another under the sword of centralized power, and all the people will die and civilization will perish!"

"In the final analysis, it is totalitarianism that can suppress the divisions within mankind, can deter internal friction, and can gather the strength of all people to do something earth-shattering...... For example, war! For example, the huge project of the past and the present! This terrifying ability to centralize power is like a hammer smashing those scattered civilizations!"

There was a dead silence in the hall, and everyone's hearts seemed to be loaded with a big stone, and they were speechless.

Xiao Letian sighed, "The Ming Dynasty was the last glory of the Han civilization, and the Zhu royal family and Confucian intellectuals created a very advanced decentralization system at that time...... The cabinet and the imperial power share power with each other, and there is competition between them, as well as balance and compromise, and power is divided in conflict after conflict!"

"At that time, in the Ming Dynasty, the imperial family, the civil servants and the weaker generals in the later period jointly divided the power of the empire, and they would not let a certain class become abnormally bigger, so as to ensure that power and wealth have always been in a state of flow!"

Xiao Letian turned his head to look at Zaichun: "The politics of the Ming Dynasty at that time was simply a beacon of the Middle Ages for Europe, and countless intellectuals used that almost perfect civil political model to motivate themselves and motivate themselves to fight against theocracy! The Renaissance really revived the civilization of ancient Greece and Rome? No, the Renaissance also absorbed the milk of Chinese civil politics......

"Especially represented by France, the French royal family and bureaucrats of that era simply admired Chinese style!"

"But civilization can never be the enemy of barbarism! When the internal friction of the Ming Dynasty, which was divided into power, became more and more serious, the Jurchens in the north, that is, the Manchurians, rose up! The strong body and soul tempered by archery, horseback, archery, and white mountains and black waters made them sweep the Central Plains like a devastating and decaying ......."

"Rather than barbarism triumphing over civilization, I'd rather believe that centralization triumphed over decentralization! Iron and blood and scimitars have subdued all the discontent voices within, and the threat of death has turned their entire race into a vast war machine!"

"There is no war-weariness, there is no internal strife! There is no difference of opinion! There are people who are united in their efforts to rob! To rob the whole world......

Jae Chun's little face was said to be miserable and white, and his hands and feet were trembling, but he didn't dare to refute what the master said, and he didn't know how to refute it.

The bloody atmosphere in the history books permeated the hall, and many people had a feeling of suffocation, Xiao Letian smiled and eased the atmosphere, "In fact, it is not only the change of dynasties of the Ming and Qing dynasties, but also those glorious dynasties in Chinese history are actually more or less troubled by this problem!"

"The civil politics of the Song Dynasty was even more relaxed than that of the Ming Dynasty! What was the result, in the face of the centralization of power by foreign races, the Song Dynasty, which had decentralized power, could only adopt a strategic defensive position, and defended from the Northern Song Dynasty to the Southern Song Dynasty, and finally retreated to Yashan and jumped into the sea!"

"In fact, Europe is similar, in the later period of the powerful Roman Empire, the power struggle between the emperor and the noble council, the Council of Elders, and the local governors intensified, and the Roman Empire, which had intensified internal strife, finally collapsed in the highly centralized barbarian invasion, leaving only the once glorious Colosseum and many temples for future generations to sigh at!"

"Your Excellency Prime Minister!" Just when Xiao Letian sighed, a voice suddenly sounded in the crowd, and everyone turned their heads to see that it was actually a foreign devil, and many people present did not know him.

Only Xiao Letian and the oldest group of officials knew who this foreign devil was, he was Matthew's military attache at the U.S. Embassy, and President Lincoln's military inspector sent to East Asia.

When Xiao Lotian first took control of the Ryukyus, he once sailed to Asia with Mike Carnegie, and later Matthew traveled in China, and his Chinese language skills have greatly increased in recent years.

"Your Excellency, I don't agree with you! You have just been expounding on the advantages of centralization in the face of decentralization, but we must not ignore the fact that the number of centralized nations that have collapsed in history has been even greater?"

"Genghis Khan's kingdom is huge or not, but the existence of the Yuan Dynasty is relatively short in all Chinese dynasties, and their descendants eventually retreated to the steppe!"

"There are many centralized ethnic minorities in Chinese history, such as the Turkic, Xiongnu, Qiang, Dangxiang, Xianbei...... How many more years does their regime have to live?"

"And the Goths, the Huns, the Vandals, the Gauls, the Franks, and the Germanic peoples who destroyed Rome...... Except for the Franks and Germanic peoples, what about the others?

"Even the barbarian Franks and Germans survived in the end because they learned advanced civilizations and absorbed the essence of Roman civilization and Eastern civilization, so they could always stand!"

"May I ask you, Prime Minister, who is the star of longevity in the long history of mankind?"