Chapter 178: Technological Limitations
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In other words, to be independent in the secret realm and dominate one side, this royal family must not lack strength, and it is also ruthless.
Moreover, this kind of person who has been in the top position for a long time is afraid that the worldview has long been distorted.
Wang Jian once knew a returned international student, who interned in the department for a period of time, and successfully ran away from a certain ministry and commission of the central government, and was regarded as a leader among technocrats, but he was extremely complaining about those Indian classmates.
In his statement, these Indian classmates are not bad in nature, at least not the kind of people who are traitors, but there is nothing wrong with having a congenital sense of self.
You must know that the people of the secret realm were born in the Han Dynasty, and from these armor soldiers, you can see the profound Chinese characteristics and traditions.
In the ideology of the feudal dynasty, the emperor is the supreme leader of a country, has the ownership of the country, and the whole world is the back garden of the emperor's house, which is what we usually call "I am the world". The explanation of the ministers of the past dynasties for "I am the world" is: "The affairs of the emperor are the affairs of the world, and the affairs of the world need to be managed by the people of the world." "It is in charge of who the emperor falls in love with, and it is even more important to care about who the emperor marries him, and it is even more important for the emperor to build a house, and who the emperor appoints as the crown prince. There is a minister to manage at work, and there is too much supervision after work, that is, when you return to the harem, you have to have a wise concubine, and you have to take care of it, so can you do whatever you want?
However, this has to be a systematic system.
In ancient times, emperors paid attention to the co-governance of monarchs and ministers, because after all, the country was too big and there were too many things, and the emperor couldn't be busy no matter what. In this way, it is necessary to divide a part of the power in their hands to the ministers, and the ministers use the power given by the emperor to do things for the emperor and maintain the imperial power, but at the same time, it will also form a certain constraint on the imperial power.
Generally speaking, each dynasty will have a strict set of procedures for the handling of the daily affairs of the state, and the emperor must also follow these procedures when handling things, otherwise there will be ministers who will stand up and oppose it. These ministers who stand up, we usually call them loyal ministers.
For example, if the emperor wants to appoint and dismiss an official, he must have a suitable reason and conform to the official appointment and dismissal system of the imperial court, otherwise there will be ministers who oppose it, resulting in an abortion of the matter. For example, during the period of Renzong of the Northern Song Dynasty, Song Renzong once wanted to promote his favorite Zhang Guifei's uncle Zhang Yaozuo as the envoy of the festival, but he was opposed by a group of ministers led by Bao Zheng, and he was not promoted in the end. Renzong said to Zhang Guifei: "You only know that you let your uncle be the envoy of the festival, don't you know that Bao Zheng is the imperial history?"
In the ranks of officials, there is also a kind of official called the speech officer, the main responsibility of the speech official is to give advice to the emperor, to correct the emperor's shortcomings, to put it bluntly, it is to find fault with the emperor. As long as the officials find that the emperor is unreasonable, they will immediately stand up and correct it, and do whatever they want, think about it. Generally speaking, the more holy the emperor, the more discipline he receives.
Technological progress will flatten management and exclude the middle layer to make the difference. In this way, the instructions from above can be sent directly to the grassroots.
But in ancient times, it really didn't work.
There is a problem, and that is the complexity of the system.
Three people in a team, can be improvised, and discuss problems. It's clear who is a cow and who is a straw bale. But once the number of people increases, it will be troublesome. When there are many people, we can only set some simple and common rules for everyone to do the same, otherwise it will be chaotic.
In the imperial court system, the procedures are nothing more than a repetition of a series of simple operations and principles. This rule includes a set of fixed procedures for receiving money for picking up passengers, including no refusal of carriage and so on. Then the assessment criteria are also the same.
What happens when these rules are broken on a large scale? It is the disintegration of the system.
In other words, the management of complex systems can only be ordered within the scope of simple and feasible rules. While there may be occasional exceptions, they must not be overflowing. And the emperor "does whatever he wants", which is essentially to increase the complexity of the rules and add more exceptions to the rules.
Flattening technology is not necessarily a good thing.
Even if a certain transport captain can directly give orders to soldiers due to technological progress, and even can airdrop warrants, he will fail at the slightest maneuver. Not because his orders were not carried out, but because his orders undermined the simple feasibility of the rules.
So the emperor had to fundamentally follow the rules, and if the emperor wanted to change the rules, he had to move slowly to keep the system running as smoothly as possible without collapsing.
It collapsed, and the emperor had no good fruit to eat. Therefore, the mechanism and bureaucracy for conveying information may be exempt, but the bureaucracy for dividing labor and making ideas is not exempt. In this way, imperial power is still constrained, ostensibly by the bureaucratic system, but in fact by the complex human social system.
Since the Qin and Han dynasties, the state has been a compromise of interests, and the interests of the royal family, the interests of the officials of the aristocratic capital group, and the interests of the common people have shared the cake of national resources. The imperial power is only one part of it, and sometimes it is not even the most powerful one, and for the sake of its own interests, the imperial power often creates "eunuch parties" to check and balance the huge bureaucratic system, so as to prevent the bureaucracy from excessively infringing on the interests of the people.
When the bureaucracy has huge resources, it can freely admit that it surrenders and abandon the nation-state, and finally pretends to be innocent and finds an emperor to take the blame. Therefore, governing the country has always been governing officials, and the ideal of serving the people is very great and difficult to realize. The successive dynasties and successive dynasties were also unwilling to spit out the flesh and blood of the common people at the juncture of the collapse of the country, and they knew that no matter who they were, they still "needed" them to implement management, and they just changed their names.
If you want to change my life, I will "make" the society chaos and the "people" have no livelihood, and replace you as the emperor. The imperial power does not fall below the county, and it also originates here. The emperor's ideal of hard work also depends on whether there are means to check and balance and weaken the bureaucratic system, Wang Mang is a typical moral high ground, but he is not a fart in front of interests, and he is "been" a thief. If Gaozu hadn't saved the nation, the existing sharing system would have been completely "fainted", and of course the people who divided the cake were chaotic ministers and thieves, and "not" served the people. The amount of aggression against the people depends mainly on the "middle management" and not on the "top".
When material desires are satisfied, there is no emperor who is not "dedicated to serving the people," and people in reality are also "full of love" when their material ideals are satisfied. As long as there is one day the idea of "getting something for nothing," bureaucratic management will be ready to move, and using "dedication and love" and "serving the people" to suppress its expansion is to ensure the security of the country. Paying money is not cheap, and it is not enough to satisfy the appetite of the system. Only by letting the greedy bureaucracy stop there and check and balance each other can we ensure that the system of government is not overthrown.
Any emperor can be said to be "dedicated to the people", and being "faint" is only a lack of control over the bureaucratic system, weak political ability, and a black cauldron. Compared with what the common people are exploited, the material things are not counted as individuals do whatever they want, and how much does it cost one person to eat, wear, and live? But the common people are not necessarily compared with the crony bureaucrats who take advantage of each other! The ethics of not taking special care of their relatives and only serving the majority are very precious and rare, and they are detached from low-grade tastes.
Theoretically speaking, the monarchy is divinely granted, and the emperor is the Son of Heaven, who governs the world instead of God, so he naturally does whatever he wants.
However, the endless cases of rebellion tell us that the Son of Heaven would rather have a kind of ear for the strong and strong!
This sentence summed up by the warlords of the troubled times can be said to vividly summarize the journey of the founding monarchs, cutting off the heroes with military strength, dominating the four seas, and then pulling a few banners to consolidate the legitimacy of their own mandate of heaven, and putting their own family on the throne of the emperor, until it was passed on for several generations, the emperor's military advantage was gone, and new soldiers and strong men replaced them.
One of the most obvious problems is that the army that can conquer the Quartet is by no means directly controlled by one person, and the huge unified dynasty cannot be managed by the emperor alone, and the emperor must rely on the system.
An effective bureaucratic administrative system and military system are the machinery of the state, and the emperor is the one who uses the machine. It was only by relying on this machine that the emperor could materialize his power.
Because quite simply, humans are fluctuating.
Volatility also means randomness, it means change, it means good and bad beyond the unexpected.
Social development is an increasingly self-disciplined evolutionary process, which must eliminate all uncertain, unstable, irrational and volatile interference. As a result, emotions become a kind of negative factor, which is bound to be thrown off and crushed by the wheels of social progress.
In the natural world, everything gains or loses from volatility. Vulnerability is the loss of volatility and uncertainty.
Volatility means surprises, surprises, and surprises.
Just like walking, if you set the speed and direction to walk there every day, then the process of walking is basically a prescribed, unsurprisingly tight.
However, change is inevitable, and you can also see different landscapes, different people, and different interesting things.
Zoo animals live longer, but animals in the wild are healthier. People in modern society are like animals in zoos, and social civilization provides people with the conditions to avoid the threat of death such as famine, but it also deprives people of their volatility.
Short-term hunger is good for the stomach, loneliness is more conducive to thinking and growth, the rich generation that has experienced poverty is far more awesome than the rich second generation, and stocks that do not experience a large adjustment are not good stocks.
However, the life that modern society has given us has deprived us of the possibility of gaining strength in these so-called negative factors, and has also made our way of thinking choose to avoid fluctuations.
People become impatient, anxious to find all ways out of poverty, hunger, and singleness, so that not only can they not escape all this, but they also reject the gift of living in this poverty, hunger, and loneliness.
If you tie up your children, what kind of books they read, and where they move every day, all of them are circled, and after ten years, you will basically be stupid.
The volatility of human beings, most of the time brings bad luck and bad things, but gets more benefits.
The natural world is fluctuating, the scientific community first discovered that light is a kind of wave, and later found that matter also has wave-particle duality, in fact, waves are everywhere, people's life or a family's life has fluctuations, people's hearts do not fluctuate one day, the result must be that people are gone, there are fluctuations to transmit and continue. Life is 70 years, seven years of a big up, seven years of a big up, three years of a small up, three years of a small up. Ups and downs begin at birth, and it is precisely this fluctuation that excellent people may be nostalgic for the past, and ordinary people may become excellent because of perseverance.
Once you didn't study as well as you found a good job, once someone who was not as handsome as you found a beautiful wife, once poorer than your family traveled to all parts of the world you didn't visit, and what you once couldn't look down on made you out of reach.
On the earth in another time and space, we all know that there are several major powers in the world in turn: the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, the United States, plus China, and the old powers always have a period of looking down on emerging powers, such as Spain, if it were not for the British fleet to defeat the Spanish Armada, Britain would not have been despised by Spain, and the superpower we have seen, the United States, the Mayflower pulled not the pagans who were despised by the mainstream sects, so they ran to other places, and then the United States copied and plagiarized British industrial technology, or spent a lot of money to buy the British with textile machines in their headsIn the past, Americans were proud to study in the UK, but now I am afraid that the opposite is true. In saying that a China that can kill all European countries in seconds, before the Ming Dynasty, which country did not know that there was a big country in the East, there was a period of time when European aristocrats were proud of owning Chinese porcelain, and they all hoped to come to the legendary China full of gold to see, but living in the past China began to degenerate, and when I opened the door to see, I was the dignity of a big country, and then I began to reflect, reflection is accompanied by the beginning of progress, not living in the past, began to be strong. If a person is born in an era of rising nations, he should be very lucky.
If you have a classmate who is poor, or your parents are not educated, and you are the child of a professor, or the child of an official, and your family is superior, looking back on 20 years, you find that his parents are uneducated and short, and his ancestors are poor until now, and he is now tall, handsome and beautiful and the management of a famous company, and he has taken a white rich beauty or married a rich and handsome man, not only are you surprised, your whole family is surprised, your ancestors are surprised under the nine springs, and his family has good feng shui?
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