Chapter 1078: Li Ze's key work
After entering Chang'an, Li Ze's focus of work has actually shifted greatly. His focus is no longer on the military or the economy.
After taking Eyue, in fact, in the entire Tang Dynasty, no one could shake his overwhelming superiority over the Southern Alliance militarily. To fight or not to fight, when to fight, the initiative is already in their hands.
On the economic side, the economic policies that have been effective in the north are being carried out one by one in the Central Plains and Guanzhong with the efforts of countless Fumin officials, and after a year or two, the results will naturally appear.
Now Li Ze has finally set his sights on the political construction of the Tang Dynasty in the future.
He really doesn't care about a dynasty with one family name.
The words of the Son of Heaven are bloody and fluttering, Chrysostom and jade words, and his words are followed, which sounds very majestic, but this majesty is temporary, and it is not worth mentioning like a feather in the long river of history.
Li Ze has a higher pursuit.
He wanted to build an empire that would last forever.
He wanted to be the true Emperor of the Ages.
He hoped that the famous words of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty could be truly verified in practice.
Those who offend my Han Tianwei will be punished even if they are far away.
Emperor Wu of Han said this, but he didn't really practice it.
The second division general only hit Dawan as far as he went, and he got thousands of Dawan horses for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
Now the territory of the Tang Dynasty has far exceeded the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Xue Ping had already defeated the combined forces of Dawan and Da Shi in Dawan, and the sentinel cavalry of the Tang Dynasty had already crossed the Green Ridge, and the farthest had reached Hengros. Xue Ping very much hopes to avenge the defeat of the Tang Dynasty in Hengross.
If you count the continents such as Europa, America, and Africa that the Tang Dynasty has now discovered and entered, the vision of the Tang people has long been incomparable to that of the people of the Han Dynasty.
Those who offend my Chinese Tianwei will be punished even if they are far away.
Li Ze wants to really do that.
Before this grand goal, the dynasty of one family and one surname seemed too small and insignificant.
Li Ze did not fail to consider the issue of multi-party governance, but after thinking about it, he finally vetoed this idea. On the land of China, if we want to engage in multi-party governance, we will undoubtedly dig our own grave and bring about our own destruction. Any kind of political system is based on corresponding philosophical ideas. Without a corresponding cultural heritage as its foundation, all forcibly established systems are like edifices on sand, which will inevitably collapse once they are blown away by wind and rain.
Since the Han Dynasty, the Confucian idea of great unification has penetrated into the bone marrow of every Chinese person. In the past, those emperors and generals, they may not quite understand the concept of the country and the concept of the nation, even if they have, it is only a relatively narrow view of the country and the nation, but the construction of a unified dynasty is their eternal pursuit.
Separation? Political party rotation?
It sounded excellent, but Li Ze knew that in a certain time and space, this way of running a country, after passing his most glorious period, had slowly come to a dead end.
It is undeniable that they have indeed promoted the progress of the times, but it is precisely because with the progress of the times that they are also being abandoned by the times.
The political struggle is no longer for the sake of the future of the country and the nation, but for the sake of opposition, and those who are not on my side must be opposed. Does it matter if his goal is right or wrong? Let's talk about it the other way around!
One side worked hard to come up with a policy that looked good, but in the blink of an eye, the other faction came to power, immediately overturned it, and started all over again. As a result, society has entered a vicious circle, social development has stagnated, and the people's living standards have not only failed to improve, but have begun to decline.
When this kind of life goes on for a long time, society is bound to be in turmoil.
And when the turmoil reaches a certain level, revolution will follow.
Li Ze likes the other way.
One-party rule.
Or in this way, there will be problems of one kind and another, but the best advantage is that such a country, the center enjoys absolute authority, they can formulate a long-term and effective development plan, and within the framework of this plan, calmly and steadily move forward at their own pace.
It doesn't matter if the leader changes, because the long-term goal plan remains the same, but only fine-tuned according to the changing times, and does not change the direction of progress.
Concentrating on doing great things is what Li Ze appreciates the most.
Doing these big things may come at the expense of the interests of a small group of people, but as long as the majority of people benefit, then Li Ze thinks this policy is good.
No matter how bright the sun is, there will be shadows. There is no policy that can take care of everyone. Even the gods and Buddhas of the heavens can't do this.
If you want to be comprehensive, the final result is that you don't do that side well.
We can first satisfy the interests of the vast majority of the people, and then under this general premise, we can compensate the few people whose interests have been damaged in other aspects, and this is enough.
Traditional Chinese thought has always had the concept of giving up a small family for everyone. In the past, it was to give up oneself to make contributions to the family, and to give up the interests of a small family to make contributions to the family, but in the future, Li Ze wants to upgrade this kind of thinking to the extent of abandoning a small family for the country and abandoning a small family for the nation.
Only when this country is better, this nation is better, your small family, and you are an individual, will it be better.
This is a long-term process, or it will take several generations of effort, but Li Ze wants to start from his own generation. Yee Hing Society has done a lot of work in this area, and now it seems to be working very well.
The house is on fire, how can the people who live in the house be safe and sound?
If the country collapses, how can the people of this country be left alone?
At the upcoming plenary congress of the Yixing Society to be held in Chang'an, Li Ze is ready to throw out this idea. As you can imagine, this will certainly cause an uproar.
But Li Ze is confident that he can control it.
From one family and one surname to control the country in the past, and now a political party controls the country, the impact on the people of this era is definitely no less than an earth-shaking earthquake.
The collision of old and new ideas will surely spark everywhere.
But for the elites of this era, when they really understand the meaning of this, I believe they will definitely support their own approach.
Because of himself, he is removing the shackles above their heads for them.
In the history of China, there has been a fierce struggle between the prime minister and the imperial power, but basically in the end, it was the imperial power that won. Because the imperial power has the privilege of being the last to flip the table. Once he felt that he couldn't fight, he immediately lifted the table of the game between the two sides and built a new one, and he didn't even have the idea of rebuilding a table.
When the power that can compete with the imperial power is gone, and the ministers who govern the world become the emperor's minions, it will be over.
Now, Li Ze has revoked the imperial power's right to flip the table.
There is only one institution left that can lift the table, and that is the general meeting of the Yixing Society.
This greatly limits the limitations of human rule to the lowest point.
In order to win, it is necessary to have the support of the General Assembly, and the representatives of the Yixing Society from all walks of life throughout the country actually represent the interests of all strata, and if they can achieve a consensus, they basically represent the interests of the vast majority of the people.
This is the effect that Li Ze wants to achieve.
Of course, on the basis of accomplishing this goal, Li Ze also has his own little selfishness.
If you can let your children and grandchildren stay on the throne of the emperor all the time, even if you don't care about the, the fart is not used, and live a life of rich idlers, it is also very good.
He is particularly envious of the Chrysanthemum Dynasty of a certain island country in later generations, the emperor's family has stood for 3,000 years, although there is no sense of existence, but as soon as it comes out, the people still bow and respect, this is simply a model of the emperor's race.
During this period of time, Li Ze has been talking to someone.
From Zhang Hui, Gongsun Changming, Chun Yuyue, these people who learned to be rich and rich, to Cao Xin, Li Anmin, these military leaders, and then to Guo Fengxiao, these rising stars.
Next, he had to discuss this issue one by one with the generals who were about to return to Chang'an, and the feudal officials from all over the country.
Without reaching a consensus with these people, this conference will not be a united conference and a successful conference.
The Tang Weekly now publishes Li Ze's theory of nationality and state every day, and these expositions occupy the front page of the newspaper, while on the second and third pages, it is the scholars' explanations, debates, and, of course, debates.
The controversy mainly focused on the Huayi debate. Li Ze's theory of the great Chinese nation is not liked by many people, and his argument that he is not of my race and whose hearts must be different is still very marketable. This controversy, in the end, was quickly defeated with the intervention of the Boxing Trading Company. Yelu Fengze, who returned from Liaodong, graduated from Wuwei Academy, and his understanding of the importance of this kind of controversy is not comparable to his Laozi Yeluqi, so he immediately spilled a lot of money, and found countless masters with solid knowledge and began to collectively fire and refute, from ancient times to the present, he has been refuting the other party to the fullest, and he will give up after winning a big victory. Money once again showed his tremendous power, regardless of whether those masters really knew it in their hearts or not, but under the attack of money, they took action one after another. In this place of Chang'an, there are not many others, and the learned master is a big handful.
Of course, there are some arguments, which are agreed upon by everyone.
That is, the rise and fall of the country, and the husband is responsible.
It doesn't matter if you are an elite or an ordinary person, if the country collapses, no one will have a good life.
In the past, Wang Xie Tang Qianyan flew into the homes of ordinary people, not to mention those small people who were promoted to fight, and when it really came, it would be difficult to save even their lives.
The chaos of the Tang Dynasty in the past few decades has cruelly taught everyone how important a country with peace and security is to them.