The tributaries of the Sarawak River meet and split apart in Kuching, forming an X-shaped river system that roughly divides the vicinity of the city into four parts. The federal city is in Hebei, and the Ming army is in Henan.

The Borneo shipyard is located in the top quadrant of the X-shape. This shipyard is a private enterprise invested by Chinese businessmen, jointly invested by several businessmen in Taiwan. The workers were mainly from Zhejiang, and together with the shipwrights captured in the Philippines, the boss Pan Xuezhong recruited some people in Nanyang. The foundation stone of the shipyard has just been laid, and it is still a short time before the formation of production capacity.

There are countless caves in the interior of Sarawak, and the secondary saltpeter in the caves is the main raw material for gunpowder. The Kuching Administrator sent several expeditions to the upper reaches of the river in search of exploitable resources.

On the wooden towers of the harbor, the Orderly and Merlot Visual Expedition departed one by one in a flat-bottomed boat and canoe strapped.

"Archon, those warriors will wrestle poisonous snakes, reticulated pythons, and all sorts of nameless poisonous frogs, explore dangerous caves off the beaten track, and bring nourishment to our thirsty arsenal."

"There is also a possible battle with the Iban headhunters." Shou Xiang was quite emotional, "A positive country always has no shortage of adventurers who are eager to get ahead. All we have to do is guide and encourage them. This is true not only for sailing, but also for all walks of life. ”

"How do you think we should guide it?"

Shou Xuan looked at the steaming coffee in his hand. This is a newly developed drink. Although I personally prefer green tea, in order to lead the consumption fashion, Shou Xiang had to go into battle again.

"My Colonel. You've also been an adventurer, what do you think is what you desire most as a pirate captain and what do you worry about the most?

Melo pondered that his adventures in the Caribbean were unforgettable memories for all, of battles, intrigues, laughter and deceit.

"I think what I desire most is freedom and wealth, and what I worry about the most is the loss of freedom and wealth."

Sip coffee lightly, without milk or sugar, slightly bitter.

He smiled, "Most of the brothers who have been through the pirate career are like you, Colonel, and this should be a common concern. So we're going to legislate to address the problems that you used to worry about. ”

The smile on Order's face was familiar to everyone again. Merlot's heart moved, there were several groups in the country advocating similar statements, and it seemed that the rumors were true. Standing behind those groups was none other than the Archon himself who had taken them from piracy to where they are today.

Merlot replied cautiously, "Your Excellency, many of our brothers were once fighters for freedom, but now they may not be on the same page. ”

Shou Xuan tapped lightly on the hilt of his sword, "Colonel, I agree. We can't give freedom to everyone. But we can guarantee that some people are freer. ”

"Not only the members of the Senate, but also the planters, planters, mine owners, maritime merchants, and even large slave owners of different nationalities in the Commonwealth, all of whom did not share the same position. There are many autonomous groups in the country, and they have different beliefs, different customs, different laws, and different demands. We temporarily unite them under our banner by force, they pay for it, we organize the army to protect their interests. But as you often fear in private, we have very few people and can only blend in with them. If the issue of internal unity is not addressed, the country will eventually fall apart. ”

"The Federation needs a common program that transcends nations." Mellot sounded the headline of a certain issue of the Golden City Weekly, "Your Excellency, there are too many differences among the ethnic groups in the country, where should we start?" ”

Shou Xian put down his coffee cup, "Colonel, Asia is a region with a high concentration of monarchy. Theoretically, the power of the emperors and kings of Asia was unlimited. As a newcomer, the Federation has to distinguish itself from the monarchies of Asia in some ways if we want to gain a foothold. ”

"I don't understand, what can be done to resolve the differences between Catholics and Protestants?"

"Friends, there is no way to resolve the difference in faith, but we can make everyone forget about it for a while."

"I don't understand, Your Excellency." Mellot muttered to herself.

"Colonel, there are many Chinese in the Federation. If you are interested, you can use China as a case study. China's imperial power is the standard for learning throughout East Asia. The landlord gentry, as the elite under the Chinese system, paid taxes to the emperor, who protected the safety of the majority. This is where the logic of imperial power lies. In different eras, the representatives of the elite may be different. At first, it was a feudal aristocracy at all levels, then a scholar landlord across prefectures and counties, and now a large number of Shu landlords. The microeconomic structure is different, and the pattern of domination is completely different. But they ruled with one idea for 2,000 years. ”

"The elite pays taxes, and the monarch protects the elite. The essence of the so-called Confucianism of the Chinese is this sentence. Others are different interpretations of this sentence, their methodology under different economic bases. ”

"What if the monarch can't protect it?" Merlot didn't seem to understand.

"That is, the monarch will step down and get out of office and change the family. The Chinese call this the Mandate of Heaven, and man is the Mandate of Heaven. ”

If we study the Shang and Zhou dynasties in depth, we will find that the essence of Confucianism is the "progressive thought" born after China gave up ruling the country with ghosts and gods and focused on people, which is also an inevitable choice. Since Zhou Gongdan's complete conquest of Tianyi Shang, Confucianism has become the dominant ideology of China's superiority. The so-called hundred schools of thought in later generations did not deviate from the scope of Confucianism, but gradually the methodology of Confucius and Mencius gained an advantage and became the heir of the Taoist system of Zhou Gongdan.

Ghosts, gods or people, on the side of people is Confucianism. In the later world, there was a theocratic kingdom, and the heavenly kingdom on earth was slaughtered by the combined forces of the same race and the other race. There is no room for them, they have violated the roots.

Confucius said to respect ghosts and gods and stay away, until Dong Zhongshu used the four words of heaven and man to declare that in China God is man, and completely swept theocracy into the garbage heap. Confucianism was not China's enemy, and Emperor Xin set a fire in Lutai, and Confucianism became equal to China for 3,000 years. Later, the dregs of Neo-Confucianism flooded with a similar background.

After a little play, Melo was completely confused.

"I understand the elite you said as the aristocracy, and with the dynasty and the revolution, the crowd of the nobility is changing."

"Yes, in extreme cases, the new ruler can physically wipe out the original elite, as long as he has the strength. It doesn't matter, what matters is whether the logic of rule he adopted later is to prioritize people. ”

Seeing that it was difficult to communicate this issue with Melo, the order brought the topic back to reality, "You look at the current Chinese mainland." The Tatars had only 200,000 men, but their victory seemed irreversible. It is because the Tatars proved to everyone that they were better guardians of the Taoist system than the Ming Dynasty. If we want to do better than them, we have to go one step further. ”

Melo said bitterly, "I still don't understand. ”

Shou Xuan thought for a while, and put it another way, "Colonel, since the founding of the country, except for a certain sect, we have generally followed the freedom of belief, so there are many gods in the Federation. Our power cannot come from God's endowment. ”

Merlot thought for a moment about the scene, "Yes, just the authorization from which god it comes from will definitely cause a lot of noise. ”

Order: "The Chinese use the power of the monarch to explain this problem, but the heavenly induction. We are more direct, directly declaring from the law that power comes from the people. ”

"If there is a mandate, there will be a reward, Your Excellency, what do we need to give, money?"

"Property, to be exact." "Private property is sacrosanct, and no private property may be deprived without trial." I believe that whether it was a pirate, or a landlord under a tenancy system, or a slave owner on a plantation and in a mine. Catholic monks and Protestant officers, they all liked it. We want to convince everyone that they can make a fortune through struggle or risk. And then the property they have won with their blood and lives will be safe under federal rule. ”

Merlot said, "Possessions alone may not be enough, Your Excellency. ”

"Property rights are what we can all think of, and the rest may only rely on collective discussion, and you and I can't think for others."

The consequence of thinking instead is that the heart is reluctant, the law becomes a dead letter, the policy cannot leave the capital, and the order of order may not leave the official residence of the consul. Thinking can be independent, but I provide the premise, materials, and public opinion preparation required for thinking. The so-called freedom of the capitalist countries in later generations is the same, as long as public opinion and so-called values are controlled, under the rules of the game, it can affect the majority of the people is success.

"I see that what the Federation needs is a program that can gain the greatest consensus, like property rights, and a temporary waiver of provisions that might cause disagreement."

"Good, that's the basis of our rule. War with Spain was imminent, and we had to strengthen our cohesion at home. If necessary, the Senate relinquishes part of its powers and part of its interests. To convince everyone that we are better rulers than Asian monarchs and Europeans who came purely to colonize. ”

"Giving up may be a difficult choice."

"Yes, Colonel. But think about Borneo, think about Australia, we still have a lot of room to expand, and it's not worth mentioning to give up compared to what you're about to get. ”

Merlot represented a significant part of the Senate, and some issues had to be resolved before the convention.

"Your Excellency, I have only one question, what is the people?"

"Colonel, the Confederation defines citizens by military merit and tax payments, and those who meet the criteria receive corresponding citizenship rights. He has a definite connotation. "The people is a very broad political concept, he has no clear definition, only logical wordplay." ”

"Your Excellency?"

"You can understand it more directly. On our side are the people of the country. Standing across from us was ......."

"What is it?"

"Enemies of the people."

……

The southwest monsoon dominates the South China Sea.

Shou left Borneo in order and sailed to the mainland, and next, he had to go to Houjiang and Qiongzhou. The House of Five Hundred was about to be established, and the Senate established the country, using the House of Five Hundred to sustain her.

This is also to pave the way for future wars.

The Tatars restored the old order.

Order requires a higher level of civilization and a new order than theirs.

Machine-industrial production gave birth to capitalism, but the natural process of development was too slow. The orderly has taken an extra half step forward, and has been promoted from the superstructure such as ideology and system to the machinery and economy at the bottom.