"Democracy?"

Huang Zongxi said curiously.

"That is, the right of the people to vote is determined according to the amount of property, and the representatives of those who have the right to vote in each province elect representatives to form the provincial council, and the provincial council has the right to decide on all major matters in the province."

Mao Qiling said.

"What is a consul?"

Zhu Zhiyu asked curiously.

"They are now ruling over a prince in the territory of the emperor to whom they belonged, but this princely domain occupies only a small part of his land, and is only united with the provincial councils against his emperor, and finally they establish a separate state, and this prince is recognized as ruling by the provincial councils. But the provincial assemblies are autonomous, and even if he is in power, he has no right to administer the internal affairs of the provinces, and if the provinces are not satisfied with him, they can vote at any time not to recognize him. At this time, the ruler was the son of the prince, but he no longer had the wisdom of his father, so the provincial councils were deposing him! ”

Mao Qiling said.

Obviously, the Dutchman told him more things, because of the Ningbo switch, more and more Dutch merchant ships came from the island, and if he was willing to pay some money, these Dutchmen would be happy to introduce something to him.

At this time, the Dutch ruler was Wilhelm II.

That is, the father of William III, who was invited to England to be king, did have a bad relationship with the provincial councils, mainly because he wanted to have power, and the provincial councils wanted to maintain autonomy, and soon the two sides would fight, and two years later they marched to Amsterdam but were defeated by the parliament, and died of smallpox shortly after returning home. As soon as he died, the provinces happily announced the abolition of the government, and the Netherlands entered an era of twenty years of inpower, until he was beaten by Louis's army and could not invite his son out, who repelled the French army and was invited to England to be king, and the Netherlands and England entered an era of sharing a supreme head.

But the Dutch provinces are still autonomous.

"This is the rule of Yao Shun! The land of barbarians can still be like this, how can I not be ashamed of my Chinese clothes! ”

Huang Zongxi said excitedly.

"This method is very good, this is the real Son of Heaven and the scholars to rule the world together, but I underestimated these red hairs, I thought it was a barbarian land, and I didn't want to really practice the rule of Yao Shun!"

Chen Qu, who had not spoken before, said.

What about those who have no money and no right to vote? The brocade guard in the basement asked.

Of course, he won't get an answer.

The above sages automatically ignored this problem, no money and no suffrage is a matter of course in their hearts, and it is said that in the hearts of these famous literati who can be regarded as enlightened in this era, and they have also left their names in history, democracy is indeed a good medicine, it is simply the rule of Yao Shun and the world of Datong that Confucianism blows. After all, the Yao Shun depicted by Confucianism is actually a classical republic, that is, the so-called public world, there is a law for more than three generations, and there is no law for less than three generations, and the rule of Yao Shun is the ultimate dream, and the rule of three generations is much worse, and it will be unsightly after three generations.

Of course, this mainly depends on the environment.

After all, they can all explain under the Mongols that Yi Di enters China and then China is China.

They have always been flexible on this point.

But in the present situation, this democracy is really what they dreamed of, especially this form of provincial autonomy, which is simply the ultimate dream of the southeastern gentry, and it is this that they desire the most. Even in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, they dared to play Southeast Mutual Insurance, and in the early years of the Min Dynasty, the autonomy of the United Provinces was still very marketable for them.

Huang Zongxi's ideal society is self-government.

He was able to explain the fall of the Tang Dynasty from the division of feudal towns to the fact that feudal towns were not strong enough, and the ideal society he designed was to be feudal towns, and then feudal towns were autonomous, and Confucian schools were used as local decision-making bodies. All local affairs are decided by Donglin Academy, Yaojiang Academy, these schools, as for the imperial court, of course, Taixue has the final say, and then the imperial court restores the prime minister system, with the prime minister deciding government affairs, Taixue is the parliamentary overseer, the emperor or something hangs down and sits on the line, and the people ......

The people don't need to think about it.

The Son of Heaven hangs the arch, the sages do things, the Taixue overseers, and the rest of the people just do their jobs.

This is his ideal country.

And the Netherlands, which treats the ruling as an ornament and the provinces play their own political form, is undoubtedly perfect in their eyes, and can kick out the ruling at any time because they are not satisfied, then this can be said to be the perfect of perfections.

It must be made clear that these people are not Donglin Party.

The Donglin Party represents the traditional forces among the gentry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and these young generation, who are basically in the opposition, represent the enlightened forces among the gentry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The former is fighting for the control of the imperial court, but they are fighting for the control of the world, and the former is trying to welcome back the emperor and kill Yang Qing, but they think about it more long-term, what they want is to limit the imperial power. They not only have to deal with Yang Qing, but also deal with the imperial power that dictates the world, and the imperial power is not limited and the next Yang Qing is born.

From this point it can be said that they are progressive.

Although this progress is relative.

If the sages of Donglin are still trying to continue the beautiful era of the main saints and sages, then they have already stepped out of the feudal era.

Originally, they were like this in history.

Disguised by the empty rhetoric of critical science and the promotion of the so-called retro, these should indicate that the most advanced thinkers of the late Qing and early Qing dynasties tried to reinterpret Confucianism to open the door to a new world and redesign a society that conformed to their ideals. Huang Zongxi's local autonomy was not the most extreme, at least he was adamantly opposed to the seizure of the land of the rich, and Yan Yuan, who was even more extreme than him, even proposed Juntian under the banner of restoring the Jingtian system, and if they could continue, they should bring a Chinese version of the ideological enlightenment.

If it were still a Han Chinese dynasty, they might even trigger a bourgeois gemming.

But alas......

They were confronted with alien colonization.

Everything they could have been beaten to death by our Qing Dynasty.

Then some of them were broken, they were honest and even flattered us in the Qing Dynasty, such as Mao Qiling, who fabricated Zhang Xianzhong to kill more than half of the people on this planet in Sichuan and ascended to the throne of the Lich King. Can't we hide if some can't beat them? For example, Zhu Zhiyu went to Japan like this and was praised as a sage by Japan. Some people play non-violence and do not cooperate but they don't talk about their bodies but they are very honest, such as Huang Zongxi who sent his good students to compile the history of the Ming Dynasty, and by the way, he blackened our Ming Dynasty to death, such as Lu Shiyi simply dug a ten-acre pond on his own site, and then piled an island in the pool to play hermit......

And after their backbones were broken, Confucianism, who was most likely to bring about ideological change, completely degenerated into slavery.

This is indeed a tragedy.

It is also a tragedy for Confucianism itself.

Because Confucianism, which has been advancing with the times, did not continue to keep up with the pace of the times in this era of great changes, and lost its last bit of vitality, not only did it not continue to evolve, but completely degraded and rotted, and then it continued to rot like that, and when the new era came, it was directly stepped into the mud.

It was trampled too deeply.

Even modern people can't climb out if they want to.

From this point of view, it is said that we have pit Confucianism.

Without this stick of our Qing Dynasty, Confucianism may really be able to continue to mix new clothes in the new era as in the past, so as not to want to climb out of the mud in modern times but find yourself naked......

Not to mention that there is no clothes to cover your body!

Even the internal organs have been picked out!

You can't cheat anyone!

But now it's different, Yang Qing gave it the opportunity to evolve, and these people obviously wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to obtain a theory of limiting the power of the monarchy by reinterpreting Confucianism, and then use this theory to form power and grasp power. Democracy has given them a guiding ideology, and all they need is how to use this guiding ideology to reinterpret the Confucian classics and turn this foreign word into the ancient words of the sages and the laws of the ancestors.

Fortunately, this is what they are best at.

However......

Someone got a head start ahead of them.

"Democracy, whose democracy?"

Yang Qing stood on the podium and said.

"Or who are the people?"

He continued.

Hundreds of young people in front of the podium listened attentively to the lectures of the Marquis of Zhongyong, all of which were selected by the emperors, Jinyiwei and various factories of the military, or directly by the army. This kind of selection and delivery certainly does not guarantee fairness, but for Yang Qing, such the first batch of students is enough, these people are basically literate before, after all, the Jiangnan literacy rate in the Ming Dynasty is still very high.

Yang Qing's Imperial College is essentially engaged in a university of workers, peasants and soldiers.

Even the teacher is the only one.

This is what he wants to cultivate a cadre team that directly belongs to him, of course, it is impossible for others to interfere, even those Wenchen who are with him, let these guys teach Confucianism, even Song Yingxing or Fu Shan. Fu Shan's teacher is Yuan Jixian, Song Yingxing's biggest advantage is that he has rich scientific knowledge, but since he has already written and published Tiangong Kaiwu, it is worthless, no matter how rich his scientific knowledge is, can he compare to Yang Qing himself? So here, Yang Qing writes the textbooks by himself, and he is responsible for teaching the lessons, and then the smart and fast learners in the students lead others to learn on their own. And he teaches all kinds of knowledge of astronomy and geography here, even without his special identity, these contents are very attractive, not to mention that these students are basically all from his fanatical followers.

"Democracy is very ancient, and Europeans have done this for a long time, such as the Senate of the Roman Empire, which was about the same time as our Han Dynasty, and the Romans elected the senators and then the consuls.

However, you had to be a Roman citizen.

The citizens of Rome were limited to the Romans, that is, the people of their capital, and the remaining ninety percent of the provinceers of the empire were essentially slaves of the people of their capital. Only the people in their capital are considered people, and the others who are almost equivalent to the vast land of our Ming Dynasty are not considered people, but the big animals that feed the people in their capital.

And only citizens of the capital.

For there were innumerable slaves in their capital, and they were like the great cattle.

This is Roman democracy.

Now the Dutch are also democratic.

However, only those who have a certain amount of property have the right to vote, for example, just like our landlords in the Ming Dynasty, the vast majority of people whose property cannot reach are still just the big cattle of these people.

Therefore, democracy must first solve this definition of the people. ”

Yang Qing said.

Property restrictions are a common practice in modern Europe.

The simplest thing for Britain is that they must have enough land, the standard varies from place to place, but the minimum is a few tens of acres, according to the standard of their transplantation to the colonies, Virginia in North America is 25 acres cultivated and 100 acres uncultivated. These add up to close to a thousand acres in the Ming Dynasty, and one acre is equivalent to more than six acres, even in the Ming Dynasty, this is a middle and upper landlord. As for the other peasants who did not have enough land, the workers in the cities, the servants of the aristocracy, and especially the unemployed displaced people who had been driven into the cities by the enclosure movement, they did not have the right to vote.

This rule has been maintained for almost two hundred years.

It was not until the electoral reform of 1832 that the land restriction was abolished, but the annual income limit of the minimum annual income of ten pounds was still imposed, which is very low in modern times, but the result was that the number of voters in Britain finally reached 3.3 per cent of the total population.

Not thirty-three.

It's three to three.

This was the standard of 1832.

However, we must also know that they were not like this in the beginning, and at this time, England was still in the midst of great gemming, and there was a forgotten name for later generations.

Egalitarians.

"I believe that no man is born to be chosen by God to ride on the head of another, for no one comes into the world with a saddle on his own saddle, and no one can ride on him, whip him, or enslave him!"

Listen, when our Confucian scholars and Yan Shenggong lay at the feet of the alien colonists and shouted the Eight Desolations and the Eight Wilderness Songs of the Prosperous World, and regarded them as slaves for glory, the British were already shouting like this.

That's the gap!

Egalitarians, people's pact, they demanded universal suffrage.

Then they were suppressed by Cromwell.

"Who, then, do I think the people should be?"

Yang Qing said.

As he spoke, he glanced at the hungry gaze in front of him.

"All people, all the people of China, all adults, all adult men, you all have the right to vote, and you all have the right to decide the fate of the world, because this world is not a world with one family and one surname, but a world of people in the world. The reason why the Zhu family became the emperor was because Taizu had the merit of expelling the Tatars and restoring China, and we, the people of China, were grateful for this, so we supported that only his descendants were qualified to be the emperor.

The Zhu family can be the emperor.

But the fate of this world is not something that the Zhu family can decide.

The rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband!

The rise and fall of the world, each of you is responsible! ”

He shouted.

"The rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband!"

"The rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband!"

……

The students shouted excitedly.

It's easy to get excited at an age, especially when facing your idol, even if the words spoken by the idol can be regarded as a renegade in this era, but for these students, it is even more deafening.

Yang Qing watched this scene with satisfaction, then turned around and wrote a line of large characters on the blackboard with chalk.

"All power to the people!"

He said, turning around.