Chapter 240: The Unknown of the New Era
In the end, after determining the crimes of many people, while making Xiao Xuan feel frightened, there was also a trace of comfort in his heart. Because for the time being, there is no indication that Wang Chengen is also involved in this matter. Those who have not shown how loyal to the imperial power in history, Xiao Xuan does not mind. But why did the once loyal people in history go to the opposite side of themselves, although Xiao Xuan understood a little bit in his heart, he still wanted to say something to those former henchmen at the last moment.
When he didn't have much political acumen, and even when he was just beginning to ascend the throne, he was a little chaotic and almost fearful. It was Pang Tianshou's support that allowed him to ascend the throne smoothly. Xiao Xuan thought about it and didn't want Pang Tianshou to become a traitor or an old-fashioned traitor, because this was very politically disadvantageous.
"Pang Tianshou, I think you are not the same as many people who read or are from scholars. The fact that I looked at the problem in an eclectic way, and that I supported me when I showed something very different from ordinary people, was the original reason why the innovation project was where it is today. It's just that I don't know, why did you go to the opposite side of me? When did you think that I, a 'tyrant', could no longer dissolve in the world? Xiao Xuan said somewhat sincerely and solemnly.
Pang Tianshou is not a loyal minister in history, but when he came to this plane, Xiao Xuan still has some respect for himself as a benevolent person after all.
Unlike many people, Pang Tianshou still felt that there was some possibility to persuade Xiao Xuan to finally give up his too radical ideas through his own persuasion. Even if there is no fundamental concession, even a slight compromise.
Xiao Xuan didn't call himself me at this time, but Pang Tianshou, who was talking at the head of the city, still said solemnly: "When the saint first showed his talent and unique insights in training and building the army, the slave maid felt the cheerfulness and relief like seeing the clouds. I am in the autumn of internal and external troubles. There is a great need for a strong king who can bounce back heroically. The power under the command of the Holy Lord continued to grow, and at the same time, he decisively got rid of the dangerous environment and shackles of the court, and the slaves and maids saw unprecedented courage. Some people and some forces can't tolerate a strong monarch, but they feel the hope of the Ming Dynasty. Later, the saint moved the interests of many people in the imperial village, and there were also dissatisfied voices in the imperial horse prison, but the slaves and maids at that time resolutely supported the saint. Until the autumn of the first year of Chongzhen, when he fought Jiannu again, the performance of the saint was a heroic hero. However, since last spring, some of the practices of the Holy One have been too bizarre. To be the enemy of the big rich and even the scholars in the whole world, it may be explained by expediency. The same is true for the establishment of an unprecedented army. However, after the crisis in the capital was resolved, the contingent like a folk cult was not brought under control and disbanded, but developed further, and even put on a posture of implementing last year's manifesto. This can even be regarded as a greater harm to my Huaxia than the Jiannu back then. Does the saint think that by breaking the hierarchy and order, we can get an ideal society? I am afraid that there is no experience in grassroots management at all, and this will only create a middle and upper class that is worse than the traditional scholars, and has no lower limit. People will climb up the shackles as more and more people get rid of the shackles and eventually bear heavier and heavier burdens. Everything based on Zhou Li, and the system that has been evolving for thousands of years have been gradually perfected and tested in practice. The world's products are limited, once there is no shackles of etiquette and power, what will usher in will not be the 'liberation of the masses' but an unprecedented government and business group... ”
Xiao Xuan had to admit that Pang Tianshou, who had followed the Western Church for a period of time and was not lacking in other aspects of experience, had a top view on many issues in this era. Peel aside the surface and see the essence of the problem.
The privileges, hierarchies, and even ideologies and phenomena of the feudal era were essentially a kind of self-control and self-regulation in order to make the people's wisdom or the sense of interests of the ruling class fundamentally different from that of the slave era or the ancient times, and many people wanted to live an aristocratic life at the level of the Dream of the Red Chamber.
The breaking of the feudal shackles does not necessarily usher in a consolidated socialism or an ideal society. Rather, it is the ruling class that does whatever it wants, all sorts of capitalist epochs. It is no longer only one in a thousand people who can be a little rich and rich, and one in 10,000 or even one in 100,000 can live a life that satisfies people's basic desires and needs. Rather, one percent of them become upstarts who own luxury homes. "Distribution according to the factors of production" and "distribution according to free games" will inevitably bear the huge costs that will be brought about by this. This cost may make even the great powers of the industrial age seem overwhelmed.
It is likely to be an era when people from all walks of life are uncomfortable, and even like to express their aspirations and ideals through ancient or modern overhead.
However, after thinking about this issue for a long time, Xiao Xuan also had his own more mature ideas. At this time, it is also rare to say bluntly: "Controlling contradictions and desires is, after all, drinking to quench thirst, because even if the times progress to the present, it is difficult for the middle and upper strata of the entire society to have no ambition to pursue their own interests." Doesn't the situation in the late dynasties of all dynasties say a lot about things? The saint is dead, and perhaps the thief remains. However, only by allowing the people of the whole world to get enough training, sufficient experience, and constantly possess the consciousness and consciousness that only the upper class of nobles have in their ideological understanding, can the fundamental method of forming a new balance of social interests. Natural selection, survival of the fittest, turmoil and burdens, and even all kinds of seemingly inhumane wars have promoted new pursuits and progress. If it were only for temporary comfort, there would be no progress from the savages of antiquity to the present day. The competition and progress in the past few thousand years is still too slow, but the progress will eventually accelerate with the enlightenment of the people... ”
Xiao Xuan finally overestimated himself. It seems that no matter how knowledgeable people in this era are, they are limited after all. After all, Pang Tianshou couldn't agree with Xiao Xuan's paintings based on air logic: "The era of what the saint said, the scene that he said. Although it seems to have some truth, it is a pie divorced from history and practice, and no one can prove the arrival of that unbelievable era. If this promise is wrong, it will eventually regress China to a more barbaric and obscurantist era... ”
Somehow, Xiao Xuan seems to be reminded of the American South during the Civil War, if the capitalist era was not accompanied by the emergence of the industrial age, would it have gone backwards in order to satisfy the desires of more people...
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