"Our dad is systematically dismembering his own country!" Lu Yi looked a little angry, and he said to Lu Qi: "The lord's autonomy has been officially inapplicable to the Zhou royal family, and many lords will decide to make their own decisions in the gradual annexation...... No! Perhaps before the generation of powerful princes, they will constantly try to weaken the empire! ”

Lu Yi had to be excited, in his opinion, his father was really confused, the situation in the empire was very good, and the plan to dominate the world island was approaching to be realized step by step, but as the emperor's father, because there seemed to be signs of instability in the country, and there was no instability in the rebellion, he wanted to point out the map and divide the lords.

In the eyes of later generations, the division of the Zhou royal family was to extend the cycle of the dynasty, but in fact, the dynasty was not subordinate to the leadership of a center, the country was not a leader, and there was even a situation where it was not a nation, which was equivalent to actually splitting a huge empire.

Since the first emperor ruled the world, the Chinese nation has always had a "great unification" complex, as long as he is the leader, he will never allow the country to be divided, so the land owned by the Chinese nation will increase again and again.

How did the land of the Chinese people increase? Since the Han Empire, only a few powerful dynasties have taken the initiative to expand their territory, and more often than not, the Chinese ethnic group has been defeated and led to the destruction of the country, and then the victorious race that defeated the Chinese ethnic group ruled the majority with a minority, and waited for the Chinese ethnic group to overthrow and enslave their own political ~ power, and it is natural that the land of the once victorious person is also regarded as an inseparable part of the Chinese ethnic group.

There is no doubt that Lu Zhe is also a person with the thinking of "great unification", and he cannot bear the existence of a situation where he is not a leader, a center, or a nation.

Lu Qi is different, he knows very well why his father did that, and what effect it will bring after doing it.

In fact, Lü Zhe did that as the first emperor. If it is said that the expansion promoted by the center of the country (the emperor) before the division of the feudal lord, it should be the noble class to take the initiative to open up outward.

The expansion of any empire is not endless, no matter how powerful the empire is, it will have its own limited range, if it exceeds the limit brought by expansion, the powerful empire should not become strong because of expansion, but because of expansion to weaken.

“…… So. It is in the interest of the empire to stop the use of state force for conquest and encourage the expansion of non-state armed groups. Lu Qi pondered for a moment, and said to Lu Yi, who was huffing and didn't seem to understand: "The Xungui Society is the first group to expand outward in the name of private individuals, but they will not be the first batch and will not be the last, as long as the benefits obtained by Xungui to open up outward are attractive enough, the folk clans and gentry will inevitably follow, and the addition of clans and gentry is equivalent to forming a social effect." ”

Lu Qi did not say a more professional term, which is called "the era of national colonization". Because of the continuous expansion and plundering, in many cases the primary goal will no longer be simply to occupy land, but to control a region and then dump goods.

Of course, it may be difficult for the Chinese ethnic group to enter the colonial era, and throughout history, no dynasty has ever had a colonial history in any dynasty, whether it is the "central country" dominated by the native Chinese ethnic groups or the "central country" under the unification of the Hu people.

Why can't the land of China enter the colonial era? That's a lot of factors. The first reason is that after the establishment of the centralized system by the first emperor of China, except for the emperor, he had his own private property. The rest of the people no longer owned private property in the fundamental sense, and the emperor could own everything as a slave owner.

Normally, the emperor, as a slave owner, rarely engaged in destructive plunder, and the most real plundering of the people was the slave owner's servants...... That is, officials. In an environment where wanton plundering was possible, a group of civil officials headed by Confucian scholars took the lead in proposing the ranking of "Shinong Industry and Commerce", and at the same time creating a reasonable and legal environment for plunder.

Merchants became the most humble and lowly people in all dynasties, and they were richer than peasants and artisans. But there is no status in society, why is this happening? That's because the official is "raising pigs", and businessmen are a herd of fattened pigs for officials. And when the pigs are slaughtered almost depends on the mood of the officials. It is precisely in this situation that countless generations of officials have unanimously suppressed businessmen. In order to pull out a "pig" and slaughter it when necessary, and make the crowd cheer when it is slaughtered.

Under the premise that private property is not secured, the development of commerce cannot become prosperous no matter how much it is encouraged, and it is impossible for a non-prosperous business to have overcapacity, so as to form an endless circle, and commerce is a necessity but cannot grow.

Colonization arose because the country could not eat so many goods, and the goods needed to find new places to sell, so it was impossible to lack the existence of the role of merchants.

At present, the empire does not have a set of "Shi Nong Industry and Commerce", the emperor is encouraging all classes to develop industry, and the products produced in the short term will not saturate local consumption, but as industry continues to develop, local consumption saturation is inevitable, and at that time it may usher in the first war launched for the search for a market.

"The problem now is that we can't let some schools of thought become too active and propagate wrong thinking in the midst of activity." Lu Qi was talking about Confucianism, and he knew that Lu Yi could understand that he was talking about Confucianism, and said: "There are classes in society, but we can't let the classes be fixed, and we can't trample on a certain class forever." ”

Confucianism is naturally not aimed at anyone now, and what a group of so-called Confucians have been engaged in recently is to make social groups appear clearly divided, such as the three classes of nobles, officials, and common people, and then divide them into literati, warriors, peasants, workers, and merchants...... and dozens of different occupations or categories of work.

A group of Confucian scholars, led by Kong Kun, believed that the prosperity of the empire was inseparable from the performance of their duties, and that those who contributed to the empire should naturally enjoy better benefits (privileges), but in order to make the empire more powerful, the state should carefully divide people's occupations so that they could be managed more easily.

It sounds like there is some truth, such as people who have paid and contributed deserve better treatment, and Kong Kun and others put this forward to gain the support of the noble class. And they did get some support. After proposing the elaboration of the profession, Kong Kui received more support from some people in the ruling government.

Jing Ju was the first person to run to find the emperor and introduce the ideas of Kong Kun and others to the emperor in an admiring tone.

There is some gossip that the emperor was furious after hearing Jing Ju's words, scolded Jing Ju on the spot, and summoned the consul Xiao He and the Taiwei Luo Shao. As for what the emperor talked about with the consuls and the princes, no one is so clear.

"How can Daddy let the class be solidified!" Lu Yi said in a depressed tone: "Actually, Daddy doesn't like Confucianism very much, it's just that the relationship between his identity is not good, and it's too obvious, if possible, Daddy probably wants to bury Confucianism in the soil more than anyone else, but he really can't do that." ”

Lu Yi is even more depressed that there is another history that is about to be changed, Confucianism is only in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but it is an "iron-blooded true man", although he respects those in power. But it still has its own discipline, and it will not change its insistence because of the will of the ruler.

Confucianism has begun to change the phalanx in the hands of some people, and among them there is a great Confucianism like Kong Kui, as if it is extremely in order to get from the rulers...... At least the approval and support of the ruling class, abandoning what has to do with temperance.

All schools of thought have the common tendency of being dependent on those in power, but the only Legalist has done the most criticism.

Legalism is indeed the most serious school of thought, and one of the most important keys to realizing their ideals is to gain the approval and support of those in power. Want to gain the support of those in power. There must be some necessary concessions, but many times the Legalists do not simply make concessions to the rulers. Therefore, it is despised by many schools.

If the Legalists had been completely shameless and had been given good room to do so, they would have at least been rewarded, but some of the Confucian "reformers" led by Kong Kun suffered setbacks after only taking the first step.

"Maybe if this continues, Confucianism will have no place in the education world." It was difficult for Lu Yi to explain to Lu Qi why, but he just liked to see Confucianism unlucky.

Lu Qi just smiled. He knows one thing very well, the fate of Confucianism in the empire is really a little miserable, if he hadn't found a little bit of his own value later, maybe there would be no Confucianism in the world.

The current emperor has always suppressed Confucianism, but at least it has been a mild repression. At the same time, the suppression did not leave no space for the survival and development of Confucianism, for example, the cause of education was full of Confucian students.

"Dad's approach can definitely be called gentle, at least he didn't raise the butcher knife when he was disgusted, and even left space, it's just that Confucianism is too dissatisfied, otherwise there will be no follow-up ......" Lu Qi looked at Lu Yi in a slight daze.

Lu Yi's dislike of Confucianism is naturally influenced by some literature in later generations, and he actually knows that Confucianism is not so unbearable, especially at the end of the pre-Qin era in ancient times, Confucianism is even more disciplined than many other schools of thought, and it is ahead of many schools in thought, but all this will not prevent him from disliking Confucianism.

Some ideas will become extremely stubborn once implanted, and Lü Qi does not know this, and he does not even understand why his father and his younger brother have always been wary of Confucianism, and even used force when Lü Yi is in power......

"Those idiots, they are in the long run, with things that they themselves find impossible, and then they intend to drag the whole nation into the purgatory-like abyss." Lu Yi was depressed, and his words seemed vicious, and he said to Lu Qi: "Believe me, Confucianism really shouldn't exist, they will destroy any empire without any accidents." ”

Will Confucianism really destroy the empire? Although Lu Qi was smart, he couldn't give absolute affirmation from something that didn't happen.

It is not unreasonable for Lu Yi to say that, the Han Empire used to be so strong, but after it was the turn of Confucianism to become the main political force, the Han Empire, which was committed to opening up outward, was gone, and it was caught in one internal conflict after another.

Not only did the Han Empire continue to suffer internal strife, but Confucianism also repeated a lie countless times, that is, foreign wars would not gain benefits, but would only make people's livelihoods wither. What are the facts? The previous foreign wars of the Han Empire were not without gains, but the gains did not belong to the people, but were shared by the emperor and officials. Confucianism does not tell the people that benefits exist, but they do not belong to them, they may be out of jealousy, such as Liu Che who respected Confucianism but did not reuse Confucianism, or resentment that did not share his share of the benefits generated, and then coined the term "reckless military force" to express their grievances.

After the Han Empire, a study of history will reveal that dynasties that did not use Confucianism to govern the country, such as Yang Sui and Li Tang, were committed to outward exploration; Any dynasty that uses Confucianism to govern the country can only recover at the beginning of the country, followed by the endless loss of territory again and again.

Let's take a look at what role Confucianism still plays in the land of China. A study of history will find that the great Confucianists have always been scrambling to be the first to betray the country, because Confucianism has no concept of the state since ancient times, and what they want is the great harmony of the world, and it is the world harmony of Confucianism, so as long as they accept Confucianism as the main political force of the country, Confucianism never cares who they are loyal to.

Confucianism's betrayal of the country is actually an advantage sometimes, at least Confucianism took refuge in the Hu people, and then let the Hu people accept Confucianism, and the Chinese ethnic group that became the object of enslavement could turn over. It's really not a joke, any alien ruler who entered the Central Plains, before they accepted Confucianism, they were well-deserved strong people, because they knew that the strong did not need benevolence, especially benevolence and forbearance towards the enemy. The Hu people who accepted Confucianism also learned how to have internal friction, and they always treated their own people more ruthlessly than their enemies.

"Daddy actually has a great sense of humor. Daddy is working on a project called 'Datong World', which is almost tailor-made for the surrounding aliens, and the role of Confucianism in it is irreplaceable. Lu Yi said in a mocking tone: "The main reason is that my father is not good at raising the butcher's knife, so he can only throw out a plan that makes many Confucian students happy." But this is very good, at least the toss is a foreign race, and the crooked thinking will also be a foreign race, and it is best that the foreign race is educated by Confucianism to be fools, and is willing to be enslaved forever. ”

Sensei said that Confucianism is absolutely good at this! (To be continued.) )