"Can't we establish a perfect system to keep the republic running?"

The student asked.

"Taking the example mentioned by the dean, it is true that Shandong cannot be self-sufficient, and must rely on the financial resources of the four southern provinces to ensure that no one starves to death, but it is also a barrier for the four southern provinces, and Shandong ensures the security of the south. If there is no Shandong, even if Jiangnan can still protect itself, the amount of silver that needs to be spent is probably far more than two million taels, so even if it has to pay two million a year to help Shandong, it is cost-effective. ”

He continued.

"Yes, but can you guarantee that the local gentry think so?"

Yang Qing said with a smile.

"If the southern gentry can understand this truth, it will not let the Ming Dynasty fall apart, and even the first emperor has to cross south, and the son of Longxing is still in the hands of Li Zicheng. They don't need two million taels of silver a year, they only need to transport the millions of stone rice they drink every year to the northwest, and there will be no Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong! Daming is a country dominated by closed agriculture, and almost all provinces, even parts of these provinces, have experienced secession. Burn the broken sword gate plank road, Chengdu is not a good thing, Tongguan is a lock in the pass, even if there is a Great Wall of Qi in the middle of Shandong separating the two names of Qilu, Taizu actually has to fight with Zhang Shicheng in Suzhou.

Under the traditional agricultural model, all localities are self-sufficient.

That is, there will be a shortage of salt in some places.

But in fact, the vast majority of provinces were able to solve their own salt, and even Dali was not trapped by this problem, let alone elsewhere.

This is our national condition.

As a result of this national situation, the gentry who controlled the place would not take care of each other, the bloody washing of Liaodong by Jiannu would not affect the singing and dancing on the Qinhuai River, and the famine in the northwest would not delay the salt merchants in Yangzhou from drinking and drinking millions of stone grain, and the result of the fall of Beijing was the joy of the Nanjing gentry, because they finally no longer had to transport grain to the north.

People are selfish.

When the corpses were killed all over the field in Guanzhong, the people with lofty ideals in Jiangsu and Zhejiang might sigh, but most of them ignored it, and even thought about taking the opportunity to make a fortune. But no matter what, if you want to take out food to help the hungry people and ensure the stability of the country, they will immediately stop doing it, they would rather smuggle it to Jiannu for huge profits than help the hungry people, don't they know that the former is an enemy and the latter is a compatriot? They all know it, but who cares about that in front of interests? There is still an emperor, if there is no emperor, then it will be more justified, since everyone is together and partnered, then there is no reason for anyone to control whom, so you are unlucky to famine, why should we care about you?

The country is in chaos?

The country is in chaos, we close the door and live by ourselves!

Alien invasion?

The alien invasion will come to the door and then talk about it, if you can fight it, you can fight it, but if you can't beat it, it's a big deal to kneel.

What's the big deal if the country dies?

The family doesn't die!

Therefore, we have to thank the First Emperor, who established an imperial system that lasted for 2,000 years, ensuring that the land of China did not become a fragmented countless small states, and this system ensured to the greatest extent that the land of China always had a force to restrain itself into a whole.

The emperor can indeed do without.

It is true that the Ming Dynasty can also become a republic.

However, the premise is that there are a few most important issues that must be addressed.

First, there is the land issue.

When the landed gentry controlled the vast majority of the land, the republic was to loosen the gentry's restraints, loosen their restrictions on the poor, and unseal the demons in their hearts. It is necessary to ensure that the cultivators have their own land, and to completely eradicate the land gentry, in short, the land is owned by the state, and then distributed to every peasant to rent and plant, so as to ensure the most basic interests of the people.

As long as the landed gentry still controlled the localities, the implementation of the republic by the Ming Dynasty was to push the poor into the abyss.

There is a word in England called sheep eating people.

Because the land gentry did not make money from growing grain, they changed their fields to pasture, planted pasture grass to raise sheep, and then spun and weave cloth to make money, but this did not require too many manpower, and the gentry could not support the peasants in vain, so a large number of peasants were forced to leave the land and pour into the cities and become destitute. Now this has begun to happen in Guangzhou, a large number of land gentry do not grow rice and change to mulberry cane in order to make money, and the surplus poor people lose their land and have to enter the factories in Guangzhou. Sleeping in a muddy shed, working for eighteen hours a day, the money earned can't eat sweet potatoes, exhaustion and starvation abound, farmers can dig wild vegetables and gnaw tree bark when they are famine, they don't even have wild vegetable bark and Guanyin soil has nowhere to eat.

They are not sheep eating people, but silkworms eating people.

Second, the economic model.

The self-sufficiency of the agricultural economy determined that once the republic system was made, then the restrictions on local separatism would be relaxed, and the Ming Dynasty would become the late Tang Dynasty, which was the Datong country boasted by Huang Zongxi and others. The unified country existed in name only, and the land of China became countless de facto small countries that did their own thing, and then fought each other for interests, and directly degenerated into five generations of troubled times. To avoid this, the economic model of complete self-sufficiency in agriculture must be changed, and each province must be closely linked to each other.

To put it simply, it is industrial commercialization.

When the factories in Jiangsu and Zhejiang had to rely on the raw materials of Huguang, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Huguang were inseparable, and when the merchants in the coastal areas had to rely on the sale of goods to the hinterland, the coast and the hinterland were also inseparable.

It is true that the people of Jiangnan can be indifferent to the famine in Guanzhong, but what if all the factories in Jiangnan had to transport coal from Shanxi to maintain production? Then it must be managed, because no matter if the factories here have to stop production, countless workers here will have to lose their jobs, and they will lose all their losses and prosper. When the north, south, east and west are grasshoppers on the same rope, and when the whole country is tied up with industry and commerce as a whole, the emperor or something can indeed be useless, and the republic can indeed be implemented.

But this brings us to a third issue.

Traffic.

Because it is certainly impossible to transport coal from Shanxi to the south of the Yangtze River, unless there is convenient transportation, the ancient canal system will definitely not work, then the railway I mentioned earlier must be repaired.

The railway covers every province of the Ming Dynasty, which is the basis of the Ming Republic.

But this brings us to a fourth problem.

……”

Yang Qing listed them one by one on the podium, and really depicted his ideal country, industrial civilization, and a real republic for him, who can be said to be the latest generation of elites.

He's said a lot before.

But there has never been a system, and today is really systematically drawing up a blueprint, depicting a future that seems fantastic to these people.

But the republic is really not a good thing at this time.

The result of the Ming Dynasty playing the republic system is that there will be another chaos in the world, which is already divided into six parts, and the sixteen parts of the republic may not be able to stop, and it is not impossible to have sixty parts. The northern provinces that can't support themselves will partner with Dolgon to become a plundering group, because if they don't plunder, they can't survive, and the southern provinces will follow the two Guangxue and repeat the Ming version of the bloody accumulation of sheep eating people......

But the premise is that the people can bear it.

But in fact, before Nandu, slavery had already begun to rise, if it turned into sheep and ate people, the people of the Ming Dynasty were not British peasants with a good temper, and there was also religious anesthesia. Two thousand years ago, the people of the Ming Dynasty who shouted out that the general prince Hou Ning had a kind of care, they all knew that the emperor took turns to sit, and this year when they came to my house, it would be strange if they could endure it! The final result was a large-scale rebellion, and then Jiangnan was slaughtered in a sea of corpses and blood, and the marauding groups of alien races and northern confluence took the opportunity to go south.

The result was a war on a larger scale.

All those who think about the Ming Dynasty and before the Ming Dynasty, under the agrarian mode, without overseas colonization to alleviate domestic contradictions, what kind of republic system to play are to die! It's all because I don't die fast enough!

Unless there are gods!

I have my own national conditions!

Imperial power must be weakened, but not without, civil power must be enhanced, but not unlimited, the republic can be discussed, it can be studied, but it is suicide to really put it into action. The French, after going through the frenzied Great Gengming, finally chose the emperor to rule, not because they were stupid, but because they had already tried.

This thing really has to be.

After the Civil War and the Cromwell era, the British also chose to welcome their own king, and the Netherlands finally found a king for themselves, and the only one who really did not want an emperor from the beginning was the United States. But before the Civil War, the United States was really hard to say that it was a country, so that the Southern slave owners would not feel that they were a family with the Yankees! At that time, the president of the United States was not so much a head of state as a pure symbol, and the symbol still existed in the United States.

The replacement of the monarchy by a republic is inevitable.

But there must be a process, and all kinds of problems must be solved, and this is why the countries of Europe went back and forth between the imperial and the republic, and it was not until around the nineteenth century that they finally stabilized, because the imperial system always existed before that.

The British are the smartest in this point.

They understood this in the seventeenth century, so they always kept the king, although they always liked to invite the king from abroad.

The French are not smart enough.

All of them were always gemming, always repeating in infighting, and each round of repetition was a process of bleeding themselves, and finally they bled themselves so hard that they could not only watch Britain press on their heads, but also let Germany rise. Britain is a good example in this regard, while France is undoubtedly a negative teaching material, and the United States is a special case, which has no reference value, after all, the United States does not have the special burden of the past.

Yang Qing engaged in a republican system at this time, unless he came to gemming once and purged all the landed gentry class.

This is the most basic.

Otherwise, the result of the republic is an English-style gentry democracy, which completely unlocks the seal of the gentry, which the gentry have already set an example for, and the poor lose the last bit of protection. He can't change anything, as for the representatives of the four peoples, don't talk about it, there are still more than ten percent of the representatives of the four people's congresses who actually voted for the representatives of the scholars! (https:)

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