"An empire in the narrow sense generally refers only to a state with a large territory, a large number of ruling peoples, and a strong monarchy with a continuing tradition. Moreover, the use of imperial titles generally requires international general recognition. The head of state of an empire was generally the emperor, and Chinese often used transliteration for heads of empires outside of China (e.g., Augustus, caliph, sultan, tsar, etc.). Imperial monarchs were usually hereditary, but they were also elected and appointed, such as the emperors of the Roman Empire. These countries often refer to themselves as empires, or include the word empire in their official names (e.g., the Qing Empire, the Russian Empire, the German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, etc.). Limited by the imperial demands on territorial size, polity, and international influence, almost all empires in the narrow sense appeared in Eurasia.

The main narrow empires in world history that meet the above criteria are: the Persian Empire (Achaemenid Dynasty) in the 6th to 4th centuries BC, the Mauryan Empire, the Gupta Empire, the Kushan Empire, the Mughal Empire and other dynasties that unified most of India, the "orthodox" dynasties of China from the 3rd century BC to the early 20th century AD (Qin to Qing), the Roman Empire from the late BC to the 4th century BC, the Eastern Roman Empire (the Byzantine Empire, the Great Qin State), the Holy Roman Empire, the Arab Empire (the Great Food Country, or the Saracen Empire, including the Umayyad and Abbasid Empires), the Mongol Empire, the Ottoman Empire (Turkish Empire), the Austrian Empire-Austro-Hungarian Empire, the First French Empire, the Russian Empire, the German Empire, etc. Nazi Germany, which existed from 1933 to 1945 and was against humanity, is also considered an empire by historical definition. Zhao Shouzhong finished speaking in one breath the information that defined the empire in history.

"There are countless reasons for the rise of an empire, but there is only one reason for the decline of an empire, and that is that the system lags behind the development of the economic base. Whether it is relative to the backward system of other countries or the backward economic foundation of other countries, they will die from external troubles. And if the country's system lags behind the country's economic base, it will die from internal troubles. The destruction of man-made empires in ancient and modern times is an example of verifying this truth. Lee Kee set the tone.

"The authoritarian fascist regime inherited the institutional legacy of the Second German Reich, and it was only after World War I that it re-emerged from the ruins of the defeated country under the leadership of Hitler after World War I. But too much reliance on nationalism and socialism has produced centralized governments. After the Nazis, who relied on the promotion of racism to gain a sense of identity and the sacrifice of the disadvantaged to buy all strata to power, had to go down the path of military expansion, the traditional imperial model of expansion entered a new form of integrated expansion.

From the beginning of ancient Babylon in 3500 BC to the end of World War II in 1945 AD, the empire expanded mainly by military force. During this time, the cost of expansion was unacceptably high in the eyes of those in power in the middle and later stages of the empire, due to the huge military expenditures. Without the status of the locomotive of the global economy like the United States and the extremely high productivity of modern industry, it would have been absolutely impossible to undertake such transcontinental military expansion. If a country wants to try this expansion by force without an economic base to support it, it will surely perish quickly. This system is bound to weaken over time, not to get stronger. In my opinion, it is still cheaper to rule the world by non-military means. "Li Ji began to settle the economic accounts again.

"The strength of an empire is its inclusiveness, unlike the strong ethnic mainstream of a single nation-state that has the same general economic motivation to fight and exclude weak and ethnic minorities. The multicultural and economic systems that come with multi-ethnicity are more conducive to the stability of the superstructure, just as the species-diverse tropical rainforests are more resilient to natural and man-made disasters than grasslands.

Therefore, the empire we are planning is not a hegemonic power that relies on military force to unify the world, but a bourgeois empire with a highly developed military, economic and cultural development without foreign enemies and rivals, a leader and teacher who can lead the countries of the world politically, and become the object of learning for all nations in terms of values and ideology. Whether the monarch has real power or not, he is a relatively powerful capitalist and oligarch, but it is not an oligarchy with absolute dominance, and there must be a new aristocratic team that several oligarchs can give a certain threat, that is, a balanced state of democratic separation of powers within the ruling class.

The closest thing to this perfect structure in Chinese history is the 11th century of the Great Song Empire. As long as the landlord class is turned into the bourgeoisie, this perfect era will completely change the fate of the Han nationality and even all nationalities in the world. Zhao Shouzhong started to act as an afterthought again.

"Then vote, whether we use the Glorious Revolution or the Iron Revolution to turn the elements of the ruling class into the bourgeoisie depends on your votes, say in advance, this vote is not allowed to abstain, choose one of the two, if you have any questions, please mention it!" Li Ji urged.

"Why is the secret ballot so complicated, isn't it enough to learn from the Tokyo Trial on whether to use the death penalty for Class A war criminals! It's slippery, I still haven't done the experiment yet, hurry up and finish the vote, I'll rush back to make the prototype of the gear hobbing machine! Wang Neng shouted.