Chapter 42 The Temptation of Imperial Power
What Yang Jian guards against is: cutting the grass without removing the roots, the spring breeze blows and grows again! This is not only true of Yang Jian, but also of any nascent ruler!
During the Northern Zhou Dynasty, there was a first ballad; "The poplar tree is full of golden roosters, only the uncle has no nephew!" It means that the "Yang" Sui Dynasty is about to be born, and the male "chicken" sings the world white; The price of the birth was that the Yuwen royal family would be wiped out (as a "nephew", Yuwen Yan called Yang Jian's sons "uncles", which here represents the Northern Zhou Dynasty). Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 infoThis kind of miserable scene of blood awakening that causes "nothing" is just like the MTV background painting of this ballad!
What made Yang Jian become a murderer from a "weakling" who swallowed his voice and held his tail between his legs?
Was it Shishi who transformed Lu Pheasant from a rural village woman who could only wash and sew and make fires to make food, into a poisonous woman who loved blood?
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There is only one answer: it is entirely due to the imperial power created by the tyrant dictator Qin Shi Huang!
Imperial power was called royal power before Qin Shi Huang, and the supreme ruler was called "king" rather than "emperor".
Compared with later, the Chinese society before the Warring States Period was still a primitive democratic society, and the "royal power" was far from being a giant with such great lethal power as the "imperial power", and it would also be restricted by the "subject power" and even the "civil power"!
Since Qin Shi Huang unified China, he has been chased by people: he has unified China, and the local power is under the central government!
Qin Shi Huang would have laughed at these stupid "fans": because what he really wanted was not these two unifications, but this unity: centralization of power under him, a brutal dictator! Alone in charge of the power to kill and seize the lives of the people of the world!
The previous "kings" did not have, or did not fully possess such power.
In order to distinguish it from the previous "kings" and highlight this kind of power of life and death, Qin Yingzheng changed the name of "king" to "emperor": arrogantly integrating three "emperors" and five "emperors"! Became the first emperor of China!
This, of course, would have been coveted by later supreme rulers! All follow the example of Qin Shi Huang, a tyrant and dictator!
After several changes of hands, Liu Che, the "Great Emperor" of the Han Dynasty, who ruled for 54 years, fought more than 40 years (the first ten years were busy consolidating his own control), and did not remove the threat of the Xiongnu, took over the imperial scepter brewed by the dictator Qin Shi Huang.
The difference is that Liu Che, the so-called "Great Emperor", has gilded this scepter!
Liu "the Great" listened to the advice of Dong "Great Confucian" (Dong Zhongshu), dug out the "Confucianism" that had been pitted by Qin Shi Huang from the grave again, and "deposed the hundred schools and respected Confucianism alone!" "Confucianism is a god!
They took it out of context and refined it for our own use, and once again put it high on the political altar and pushed it to the altar of God, and praised it as the only doctrine guiding the country's ideology!
Later, after repeated deep processing by influential Confucian scholars such as Cheng Yi and Zhu Xi, they vigorously advocated the "divine authority of the monarch" and "the heavenly grant of royal power" in Confucianism, which greatly strengthened the function of Confucianism at the level of political structure and put on a legal and dazzling costume for the supremacy of imperial power and dictatorship in traditional Chinese politics!
At the same time, Confucianism also peddled and propagated fatalism to the people, and advocated an insurmountable hierarchical social order such as "kings, ministers, fathers, sons, respect, humility, nobility, and lowliness", which was a real spiritual anesthetic that anesthetized the people! An authentic tool to deceive the people!
In the long history of the Chinese nation, facts have proved that "Confucianism" is "Lei Xue"! The ruler can legitimately blow up the "thunder" of disaster to the world at any time!
And for the people, "Confucianism" is "slavery"! The people should be subjected to cruel exploitation and heavy oppression, because "fate" is so.
Confucianism is sinful! From the beginning of its tenacity to the present, it has softened the spiritual calcium of the people's resistance and struggle, and inflated the bloody nature of the dictatorship and brutality of the ruler!