In the refugee camp, a group of women are washing their clothes on the banks of the Yugu River, while children run and play among the tents.

Li Yan rode a horse and stood beside Gao Yihuan, he also heard his colleagues talk about the king, and said with a slight smile: "The king has feelings again today?" ”

Gao Yihuan had a straight face, "It's a little emotional!" ”

"The minister is willing to listen to him." Li Yan is very knowledgeable about current affairs and gives the leader a chance to speak.

Gao Yihuan groaned slightly: "Sir, do you think this world is weird?" Without waiting for Li Yan to speak, Gao Yihuan continued: "The lonely king thinks it is very strange and evil, it is chaotic for hundreds of years, and it is reincarnated for hundreds of years, and how much hardship the people have suffered. ”

"The general trend of the world is like this, it will be together for a long time, it will be divided for a long time, and the cycle of chaos will be like this for thousands of years." Li Yan opened his mouth and said: "This may be the will of heaven and the general trend!" ”

Gao Yihuan shook his head, "After a long time, we must be together, and if we are separated for a long time, this is a phenomenon, not an inevitable result, and it is not the will of God." ”

"Is it a phenomenon?" Li Yan frowned slightly, falling into deep thought, he didn't expect King Wei to discuss such a profound and high-level topic with him.

Gao Yihuan bowed slightly, "Yes, this is just a phenomenon caused by a variety of reasons, and it is not caused by providence." According to King Gu, one of the reasons for this phenomenon is that successive dynasties did not have clear goals and ideals. ”

"I wish to hear the king's high opinion!" Li Yan couldn't help but be interested.

Li Laiheng and the others behind Gao Yihuan also pricked up their ears, and the king was a little different today.

Gao Yihuan said in a deep voice: "After the dynasties swept the world, there was basically no clear goal for what to do next, most of them were still like the previous dynasties, not to take the initiative to solve the problem, but to wait for the problem to come and then solve it, so the way each dynasty went to extinction is mostly the same." After a dynasty experiences prosperity in the early stage, all kinds of old problems come head-on again, so in the middle and late stages, it will experience a reform, the reform will not be an attack, the demise will be accelerated, the reform will be an attack, the problem will be alleviated, and after a period of time, the problem will break out again and perish again. ”

Li Yan pondered, the words of the King of Wei, in fact, can be more straightforward, at the beginning of each dynasty, the land resources are abundant, the social contradictions are small, the dynasty is thriving, in the middle and late periods, land annexation, social contradictions intensify, the dynasty usually carries out one or two reforms, to curb the merger, the continuation of the dynasty's national ancestry, but in the end most of the suppression still failed, the dynasty perished again, opening the next troubled era.

"The old problem that the king said is land annexation!" Li Yan said in a deep voice: "The minister has also thought about this problem, some of the people are diligent, some are smart, and there is a gap between people, which will inevitably lead to some people becoming gentry and landlords, and the land will inevitably gradually concentrate in the hands of a few people." Although some of them used the means of cunning and grabbing to complete the annexation of land, most of the gentry and landlords were still accumulated over several generations. Land annexation was an irreversible trend, and the court thought that the dynasty could curb annexation and severely punish illegal annexation, but it could not seize the land of the wealthy for redistribution. Therefore, the general trend of annexation is difficult to reverse, and the dynasty cannot avoid its demise. ”

Gao Yihuan glanced at Li Yan, fortunately he also had some hard goods in his stomach, "What Mr. said has a little truth, and he also saw the problem, but he still didn't really try to solve the problem." The same is true of successive dynasties, and the means are only one way to suppress and merge, after the king dominates the world, he has no goal, or is satisfied with dominating the world, and the goal has become how to sit firmly in the country, and even consider how to suppress and enslave the people to rule the world, rather than trying to solve this problem, resulting in no substantial evolution of the world for thousands of years? Land annexation was a problem, but it was not without a solution. ”

"Evolution? What does that mean? Could evolution solve this problem? Li Yan couldn't help asking.

Gao Yihuan smiled: "Confucianism and scholars, or our Central Plains culture, have always admired the ancients, believing that the further back you go, the better, but in fact, the whole society is constantly evolving. From the initial society of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, to the feudal society of the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, and then to the centralized society of the Qin Dynasty, it has been moving forward, and now we have been stuck here for more than 2,000 years. Moving forward cannot solve the contradiction of land annexation, but it can reduce the influence of a contradiction on the whole society, so that it will not become the main contradiction. ”

Li Yan has long been accustomed to the new words that Gao Yihuan utters from time to time, but his view of the society moving forward has shocked Li Yan, and he still can't understand some words.

In Confucian culture, the ancient is admired, and the view has always been that the three emperors and five emperors, as well as the era of the Zhou Gong auxiliary government, is the best era, and it is not as good as one session in the future.

"If, according to the king's intentions, society is moving forward, then the dynasties really have no goals." Li Yan pondered, he couldn't accept Gao Yihuan's idea for a while, but he still asked, "The king's ideal is related to this?" ”

Gao Yihuan nodded, "Yes, the ideal of the Lone King is to feel that our Western Wei Kingdom must complete the mission of further evolution!" Enter the era of great imperialism. ”

Gao Yihuan glanced at Li Yan and knew that he didn't understand, "There are two main reasons for the demise of the Central Plains Dynasty in the past dynasties, one is the internal land annexation, or the internal dumping, and the other is the threat from the outside, and the Jin, Tang, and Song dynasties all perished. The ideal of the lone king is to solve these two problems, but this is not easy, and even Lone cannot be solved in this life, so I want to attach the ideal of Lone to the body of the Great Wei State, so that the Great Wei State can become a big empire with goals, and the official system of the Western Wei Dynasty will have the same ideals and beliefs. ”

As he spoke, Gao Yihuan raised his horsewhip and pointed at the refugees in the camp, "Mr. Li, you see that these refugees look the same as me, but their beliefs are completely different. This is the threat from the outside, and related to future generations, King Gu hopes that the Great Wei can spread the culture and beliefs of our Central Plains, assimilate the Tubo people, the Mongols, the Yarkand people, and even go to further regions, not only to the Central Plains, but also to educate many Yidi in the Quartet, and become an outward-looking imperialist civilization. Internally, it is necessary to carry out reforms and complete evolution. ”

"The king's idea is very different from Confucianism!" Li Yan said.

Gao Yihuan's profound eyes looked into the distance and said confidently: "Today's Confucianism is not the Confucianism of the pre-Qin period, and Confucianism has always changed. The lonely king needs a Dong Zhongshu to change Confucianism, and he needs the whole Wei to have ideals and a belief that can unite the whole country! ”

Li Yan was dumbfounded, and had to admit that he was shocked.

This time, the Qing army wantonly plundered Yongliang, on the one hand, it was difficult to compete with the Qing army locally, and on the other hand, the local officials' will to resist was not firm.

The emergence of this situation made Gao Yihuan realize that the bureaucratic system of the Western Wei State did not have any ideals or beliefs, and did not even talk about loyalty and patriotism, but purely for their own interests, and most of them were exquisite egoists.

Of course, this is related to the composition of the officials of the Western Wei State, most of them are the owners of the three changes, and even many people have done the Ming, Shun, Qing, and Wei all over again.

It is obviously unlikely that such an official will make him loyal to anyone, and they are more interested in their own interests. This is the lack of ideals and the absence of Confucian beliefs.

If all the officials of the Western Wei Dynasty were like this, then the Western Wei Dynasty would be finished sooner or later.

Because the entire bureaucracy is self-interested, they think first of all about their own interests, and in the end they will inevitably harm the interests of the common people.

Of course, Gao Yihuan is also one of them, after all, the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, what he pursues is also the pinnacle of power, essentially believing in gold power, in order to satisfy his own selfish desires, and compete for dominance in the world.

His behavior is the same as the vast majority of heroes in history, and he does not have any progressive significance, even if he succeeds, he will become the Qin Emperor and Han Wu, but he has not made substantial contributions to the transformation of the entire world.

This made Gao Yihuan think that a country, a bureaucratic system, and no belief are not good, and there must be an idea that can bring everyone together, so that officials can not only know money and their own interests, otherwise it will not be much different from the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, Gao Yihuan thought of setting a goal for the Western Wei Kingdom.

At this time, Gao Yihuan was talking, and a team of cavalry galloped over, turned over and dismounted, "The king has an urgent military report!" ”

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