Land reform is to physically destroy the foundation of Confucianism in the local area, uproot it, so that the local government is no longer free from the restraint of the Confucian gentry, and the imperial power goes to the countryside.

And this move is to mentally uproot Dong Zhongshu deeply rooted in the minds of all Confucian people, and spiritually destroy the biggest reliance of Confucianism.

The nirvana of the Confucian gentry against the imperial power no longer exists, which is not much easier than physical destruction.

Xiao Ruxun did not intend to destroy Confucianism, but planned to bring Confucianism back to the academic-dominated sect of the Confucius era, and destroy the Confucian hegemony of Dong Zhongshu, which was a combination of Legalism, Taoism, and Yin and Yang, so as to prevent Confucianism from once again generating the energy to dominate the ideological world.

In the future, Confucianism will become a major obstacle to the promotion of new learning and the promotion of the knowledge of things.

However, the hindrance of Confucianism at the level of the ruling class is not terrible, and the three or five hundred thousand scholars will not become a big climate after the land reform, but what is really terrible is the deep-rooted sense of heaven and man rooted in people's minds and souls, that is, superstition as the saying goes.

As an academic discipline, Confucius's Confucianism is undoubtedly meaningful, and teaching people according to their aptitude is a good concept that should be vigorously promoted.

However, after being changed seven times and eight times by Dong Zhongshu, especially after combining Legalist academics, Confucianism seemed to be domineering, threatening the imperial power, but at the same time, it was also dependent on the imperial power.

After that, in the era after the deposition of Confucianism, Confucianism, which used this idea as a magic weapon, expanded rapidly, occupied the entire ideological and public opinion circles, unified thoughts, and then gave rise to groups such as the family and the gentry.

Monopolizing knowledge and messing with the law with literature have far-reaching harm and endless poison, and have made the Han nation almost on the verge of extinction several times.

This is not allowed.

And the core point is the induction of heaven and man, destroying the induction of heaven and man, breaking this concept, no matter what, it must be done.

However, this statement can be said to be the foundation of everyone's understanding of imperial power since the development of history to this period, the monarchy is divinely granted, the emperor is the son of heaven, the eldest son of heaven, and the power given by God, so it cannot be shaken.

This kind of thinking is accompanied by the birth of the monarch's power, and the jade seal of the country is engraved with the eight characters of "Ordered by the Heavens, Both Shou Yongchang", and the destruction of this kind of thinking is in a sense the destruction of the imperial power itself, which can also be said to be reforming its own life.

Dong Zhongshu used this method to give common interest to the power of Confucianism and the monarchy, and the two complemented each other and seemed inseparable.

However, this does not have to be the case.

The literacy rate in ancient China has always been very low, and the rulers can use all kinds of superstitious ways to fool the weak people and maintain their rule, but the huge interest groups born from this are often the gravediggers of the dynasty, if they cannot be solved, the Great Qin will inevitably have wars in the future, and it is even very likely to go back to the old path of the dynasty.

Xiao Ruxun knew that he only had a few decades of life, and he couldn't manage the future of Daqin for decades, so in order not to let the land of China return to that reincarnation, he had to have the courage to revolutionize himself.

Since becoming emperor, he has asked himself many times, do you want to be a traditional emperor?

The answer is no, if he wants to be a traditional emperor, why do you need land reform, why do you need to popularize education, why do you need to communicate with the world, and continue to close the country.

He was unwilling to do this, unwilling to disappear after his death, unwilling to be left in the political world.

Shang Ying left behind a powerful military interest group to maintain the fruits of Shang Ying's reform, and what did he want to leave behind to maintain the results of the great change?

If we want to change, it is not impossible, and many ways are needed to solve the problem, one of which is to popularize education and open up people's wisdom.

This is a double-edged sword, which can not only make the gentry and nobility lose the soil for survival and growth, but also threaten the existence of imperial power.

In the process of opening up the people's wisdom, it will inevitably cause ideological problems, and the people will be so easily deceived if they are literate, read, and understand the truth?

When new learning began to spread, when astrogeography began to develop, when science began to sprout consciousness, when people realized that the traditional theory that the sky is round and the place is not correct, when they realized that the earth was round, and that they lived on a spherical object, they would inevitably doubt many things that were once regarded as the truth.

Including the Heavenly Grant of Imperial Power.

Does naivety exist? If naivety really exists, why doesn't heaven rule the world by itself, but let the emperor rule?

Imperial power will be questioned and doubted, and this ideological trend will inevitably spread, affecting thousands of people and shaking the foundation of Great Qin's rule.

In the final analysis, the argument that the emperor was bestowed by heaven will inevitably be shattered, sooner or later, it will inevitably be shattered.

The emperor is temporary, it is impossible to exist forever, and even if it exists forever, it is impossible to hold absolute power forever.

Therefore, the way out of the predicament is to change the phrase "under the orders of heaven" to "under the orders of the people".

I am not the son of heaven, my power is not given by heaven, I am the people who trust me, so they give me orders and let me rule on earth.

The people are the creators of history, their hands have created all this, not cows, ghosts, snakes, gods, nor heaven, I am not the son of heaven, I am also a human being, I am the spokesperson of the people, I stand with you.

With the process of popularization of education, when the time is ripe, Xiao Ruxun will spread this matter to the minds of people who have received new education, planting the seeds for them to no longer fear the heavens and re-examine the heavens.

Ideologically, this tradition has been revolutionized.

In the foreseeable future, the chaos brought about by this great change in thinking may threaten the imperial power, and may even eliminate the imperial power, but as a representative of the old era, the imperial power will inevitably disappear with the advent of the new era.

Having said that, the interest groups of the old era will continue to be born, kill one batch, there will be another batch, you can't finish killing, you can't catch up, the land reform is still the same once, twice, three or four times, Zhu Yuanzhang is a lesson, even in modern times, it is still the same.

Xiao Ruxun asked himself that no matter how he killed corrupt officials and corrupt officials, he would not be more ruthless than Zhu Yuanzhang, even if he had absolute power, he also knew what he could do and what he couldn't, he could only do what he thought was right, do his best, and leave a glimmer of hope.

As long as the divine authority of heaven and man still exists, it will not be so easy to move from ancient times to modern times, and it will not be so easy to come to the age of ideological enlightenment.

He can bring the army to modern times, science and technology to modern times, and productive forces to modern times, but he can't bring the real modern times.

Xiao Ruxun can suppress the powerful when he is alive, but after he dies, will the powerful gentry make a comeback?

Will the landlords resurrect again?

Will the place become a paradise for the landlords and gentry again?

The pinnacle of old ideas and the dawn of a new era are destined to be incompatible.

But the vested interests of the old era could not have imagined that the emperor would dare to change his own life.

If I dare to take my own life, will you still be able to fight against me?

Can it extinguish the dawn of a new era?

Xiao Ruxun doesn't know anything more than that, and maybe no one knows about it at all.

The idea of the induction of heaven and man is not only the representative root of the ideas of the old era, but also the root of many superstitious sayings.

For example, people are watching the sky, and they don't believe who the sky has spared, there are gods in their heads, and they are struck by lightning when they do bad things, etc.

These folk sayings that are still widely circulated in modern times are all things that are slowly tossed out of the folk theory of heaven and man induction.

Objectively, it can indeed play a role in deterring evil people, but in reality?

It doesn't do more harm than good, and it's just the last moan of the disadvantaged.

God will save your mother?

No, it won't.

Don't resist when you should resist, don't act when you should act, you don't know how to use your hands and legs to work hard to achieve your goals, but you hope for the extremely mysterious God, ridiculous, this is simply a means of fooling the people and the weak people in a sense.

Was the Manchu overthrown by God?

Were the Japanese defeated by God?

Did the Yankees God rush back to the south of the 38th parallel?

burned the incense, smashed the wooden fish, donated all the family property, and made a fuss until the family was ruined and the wife was separated, and the gods and Buddhas in the sky would not appear to help you even once!

Because they don't exist at all!

However, the persistence of some imperial eras still cannot be abandoned, otherwise the landlords of the old era will be transformed into capitalists in the new era, still concealing upward and downward oppression, dividing localities and destroying unity, and doing things that have never changed for thousands of years.

Therefore, Xiao Ruxun was deeply vigilant against certain trends in the southeastern provinces, and although the sea was opened to trade, he never tried to change the basic spirit of valuing agriculture and suppressing commerce.

Heavy taxes on merchants, legislative restrictions, and the treatment of merchants were also included in the Lingyi system, and the commercial law was the most stringent of all the new legal systems, and even the cabinet did not understand why the emperor made such a strict law.

The overthrow of imperial power by capital is never for the sake of social progress, but for the sake of making money without scruples.

Their way of dealing with the people is more shrewd and more terrifying than that of the imperial power, and when they can hide it, they use the cloak of democracy to deceive, and once they find that they can't hide it, they immediately tear off the cloak of democracy and launch a bloody crackdown.

They are no different from the imperial power, but the productive forces have improved, their way of ruling has also improved, and they are more deceptive, and they are more suitable for modern times than the imperial power granted by God, but they can be deceived for a while, and they cannot be deceived for a lifetime, otherwise, no one will propose socialism and communism.

The lesson of relying on capital to overthrow the imperial power and relying on the localities to overthrow the central government is vividly visible, and the productive forces have progressed, but nothing else seems to have changed.

But whether there is another way, no one knows.

The economic base, can it really determine the superstructure? If so, then why has the productivity advanced to such an extent that the upper stratum is still the upper stratum, and there has been no change in the slightest since ancient times?

Xiao Ruxun didn't understand these.

Xiao Ruxun only knew that what the hundreds of millions of people in this overly huge land needed was a centralized leader, the momentum of the people's hearts moving together, the goal of unification, and the courage to pioneer, not a dynasty and capital with one surname.

Therefore, at present, he will never allow any constitutional monarchy or any capitalist revolution, and he will definitely not change the basic spirit of valuing agriculture and suppressing commerce.

But what will be the way in the future, after the wisdom of the people gradually opens up, and the imperial power cannot survive, he does not know how to go on the road of this country and hundreds of millions of people.

He felt that if he didn't make any changes, when he died, Daqin would become the Soviet Union in the cloak of imperial power, and then what about it? Where will the future of China go?

He's just a man, he's not a god, he really doesn't know.