At this time, the topic of the brothers began to diverge again:

"What kind of difficulty mode do you think we're in now?"

"At least hard, right?"

"It depends on what life you want to live, I think it's heaven mode."

"I think it's simple, because I just want to marry a dozen daughters-in-law to live......"

"Brother, just your little body? You know that this is the hard level, you know? Don't fail your kidneys before you get old......"

So the people who eat melons began to talk about this topic, and they were about to tilt it to the side.

"Don't forget, in this era, the vast majority of people think that the power of the emperor and king is a matter of course, Brother Zhu, you are always engaged in historical research, why has the monarchy of Europe not been strong enough?"

Ren Ke stood up at this time and focused the topic here.

"Yes, why are the British so strange and unprecedentedly come up with such a system? There's got to be an intrinsic factor to this, right? Don't you think it's strange?"

The last question is raised.

Because the topic just now has gone to the country of Java, so Zhu Beiguo is a little bored, he can only bow his head and play with the empty plastic bottle in his hand, and when he heard someone ask him this question, he couldn't help but look up at the questioner, and then smiled:

"Huh? Belch...... Xiao Wei, you often go to the computer data room to check historical materials in your spare time, it seems that you brothers are really thoughtful. If you can ask such a question, it means that you have entered the research field...... Oh, yes...... Of course...... Belch...... Your question, the academic community has not discussed, but the conclusion is more upside down, and there are some taboos, so everyone doesn't dare to say it systematically, and now that we have all crossed over, it doesn't matter who the fuck loves. ”

Zhu Beiguo said this, paused, sat down at the table and said:

"The difference between the monarchy of the East and the West actually reflects the difference in the nature of society between the East and the West, why is there such a big difference?

A long time ago, some scholars have summed up a self-consistent geo-climatic determinism, the core of which is that the economic form under geographical and climatic conditions is the key factor in determining the nature of society and the power structure. Although some people say that this is an act of throwing the pot to God, these people are very strong in their examination skills, and they really say one, two, three.

They believed that the subtropical monsoon climate of the Eastern Continent was very suitable for farming, and that agrarian civilization required a strong centralization of power, because it was easier to concentrate on great things, especially in ancient times. Tell me, what was the big deal in the ancient agricultural society that depended on the sky for food? Not much, just two things. ”

Zhu Beiguo stopped talking when he said this, and looked around at the group of young people around him with blazing eyes.

"The land system?"

"It's the ancestral family law, right?"

"No, no, it's supposed to be passed down from generation to generation!"

"Well, it should be husband's right, it's it if you don't run away!"

"It should be a package delivery, right?"

"Cut, the key is that men are inferior to women!"

"Don't forget the original intention!"

"Grassroots clan autonomy!"

"Filial piety comes first!"

"Holy! Who said what was that? Looks like there's something weird mixed in......"

When Zhu Beiguo heard this, he lowered his head and held his forehead with his hands:

"Alright, alright! The farther you go, let me tell you, it's very simple: it's nothing more than building water conservancy and disaster relief! ”

Zhu Beiguo took a cup handed over by ** in time, which contained half a cup of orange sweet potato shochu, and continued to talk eloquently after taking a small sip:

"Simple, right? Really, right? In the ancient agricultural society that relied on the sky for food, where there were so many lofty things, in fact, there were only these two!

Let's talk about the first article first, only a relatively strong social organization ability can gather the loose farming population with the family as a unit to carry out big projects, you see the three generations of antiquity, Dayu is not because of the credit of water control to become the son of heaven?

In the eyes of modern people, isn't it just a water conservancy, but is that credit so great that it can directly destroy the traditional Zen concession system? Is it big enough to directly pass the throne to his son Xia Qi? Is it big enough to create a historical inheritance in the world? That's right, it turns out that the credit is so great, you can't accept it.

Why?

Because the construction of water conservancy was so important in the ancient agrarian society! Of course, the so-called insatiable desire is also human nature, and the desire for power is even more boundless.

Naturally, the whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister, so it becomes the ambition of the emperors, or the heart! Because only in this way can the monarchy have a strong material guarantee!

So, let's look at this place in Europe, with a temperate oceanic climate, surrounded by the sea on three sides, many peninsulas, surrounded by islands, although agriculture is also developed, but it is fragmented and fragmented, and since ancient Greece, the maritime commercial civilization between the islands has flourished. Even the Roman Empire, a court of power, never truly unified the continent.

So the monarchy in that place has always been not strong enough, and there is no vacuum of power, and the monarchy is not strong enough, which means that the next level of aristocracy and even civil power will come in to fill these vacuums, or in other words, it will be in another form to divide the power and move downward, for example, in Europe, many large and small aristocratic power has become relatively strong, look, this is not strange, right? ”

Zhu Beiguo finished speaking in one breath, feeling thirsty, picked up the cup and took a sip of wine.

"The result?"

"It's easy!"

Dr. Chu replied loudly:

"As early as 1215, when the Eastern Continent was still the period of confrontation between Song and Jin, the king of England at that time was forced to sign the Magna Carta of Liberty, which made the king lose the power to collect taxes at will, and the relationship between the king and the nobles became: 'the first (noble) of the equal', what does this mean? Is it the same as the ancient Roman emperor being the 'first citizen'?

But can you imagine that this kind of thing could happen in the agrarian East? ”

Zhu Beiguo asked.

"That's impossible!"

"Sure enough, the West is completely different from our East, centralization and unification, this is a tradition that goes deep into the marrow of the people of the Celestial Empire."

"It's just that I'm a little unconvinced, is it true that our people in the East are only suitable for totalitarian rule?"

It was Ren Ke who asked the question.

"Who said that? I don't believe it! Who doesn't know that the people there are wise and hardworking? is also able to endure hardships, not worse than others! ”

"Yes, why do you have to have a master in charge, and then go and be a slave yourself? Are you born with cheap bones? ”

At this time, Hu Xiaolin said indignantly.

"Not really! For example, in our Eastern Continent, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, rangers and scholars could proudly travel among the princes! That Zhou Tianzi was only a co-leader in a symbolic sense, which was very similar to later Europe. ”

At this time, Ren Ke replied.

"The problem is that after the unification of Qin, civil rights not only never increased even a little, but were suppressed again and again, until Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty engaged in unification and deposed the hundred schools of thought to respect Confucianism. In particular, even the ideology is unified, what is the vitality of this society? ”

Hu Xiaolin said hatefully.

"If you really want to respect Confucianism and Taoism, Mencius still knows that the monarch is light on the people, and the society is secondary! In fact, the emperors engaged in external Confucianism and internal law, you can understand it when you read the "Book of Shang Jun", that is the secret of the real dictatorship! ”

Wei Hong, a young man, actually said such a thing, which immediately impressed Zhu Beiguo, so Zhu Beiguo couldn't help but speak again:

"In fact, there is another geographical reason why the monarchy in the East is strong - the nomads in the cold zone of the north, the civilization is always interrupted.

But to say that the Oriental nation is inherently only worthy of the emperor's management, that is not necessarily true, I remember writing a paper when I was a student, talking about this matter, the paper is about the Westernization movement, when the Qing Dynasty engaged in Westernization, so the imperial court sent a lot of learned Confucians to go abroad for investigation.

Then there was an old scholar Confucian, whose name was forgotten, and after he examined the electoral system of the United States, he came to the conclusion that what the Emperor of Mi did was 'the matter of three generations'.

He compared the election of the United States with the Zen promotion system in the ancient Yao Shunyu period of China, you see, who said that the common people of our Great Heavenly Dynasty were born slaves? Who said that the elections came from the West? Our ancestors also play this, or play the rest! ”