Shi Bufan began to introduce to Li Shimin how to ensure that the country is not divided. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Your Majesty, the most basic foundation of any turmoil and division in this world, especially the division of local feudal towns, is to cultivate grain at our present. Because the whole country is cultivating food, it means that everyone is completely self-sufficient and not dependent on each other. And we, the people, are self-sufficient, and we produce our own products, except for a small part of the tax, which are all used by ourselves. And if this is the case in the whole country, then even if some local princes are divided, then there is actually no difference for local princes, and they can all be used to raise troops. And the people in other places don't feel the pain, because they are still so self-sufficient, as if other places are divided and have nothing to do with them, so they don't feel the pain because of this. And in those divided places, there is no change in the lives of the people, so naturally they will not feel that there is no difference if they change a ruler. ”

"And if we can strengthen everyone's dependence, for example, if Jiangnan is responsible for growing food to supply the needs of the whole country. The north can consider growing a variety of cash crops, including through the trade of various dairy products, and shipping them to the south so that the people in the south can also taste dairy products. In addition, all kinds of cash crops in the north and so on, it can fully supply those needs in the south. And if everyone is used to this, then it will inevitably be very dependent on each other. There is a division of labor across the country, and different regions are responsible for different industries, and even different responsibilities, so that we can make people everywhere rely on each other. If there is a rebellion in one place, the people will suddenly lose all the goods that other places have to offer, and then their lives will be seriously affected. Once the people of a region are accustomed to eating dairy products, or are accustomed to various dependences on other regions, they will not be able to adapt to this, and finally oppose secession. ”

"If Jiangnan is responsible for cultivating grain, and if Jiangnan rebels, then our people in the north will also suffer greatly, so they will desperately support the imperial court to go south. And if there is a rebellion in some areas in the north, then the imperial court can cut off the supply of materials from other places to them, then their internal lifestyles will also change suddenly, and then in order to restore the old way of life, then they will definitely desperately oppose the separatist rebellion, then isn't it great? ”

Li Shimin's eyes also lit up, Shi Bufan's method is too good, it's just too good. If there is a division of labor among localities in accordance with the unified plan of the state, some localities are responsible for growing grain, some localities are responsible for cultivating various cash crops, and even after various industrial divisions, then the local people will depend on each other. People all over the country will depend on each other and other places, and other places will also depend on each other, which is tantamount to completely tying the whole country together. Whoever leaves the system will suddenly lose a lot of things, including supplies from other places. And if other places lose the supply of this place, it will also change the way of life suddenly. In order to return to their past way of life, they will also support the imperial court to quell the rebellion as soon as possible, and take the initiative to contribute money and efforts to quell the rebellion. As for the place of rebellion, if the "specialty" of other places is lost, then the people's lives will be in dire straits, and their lifestyles will be seriously changed. This serious change in lifestyle would make them very dissatisfied with the rebels, so that they would welcome the imperial court to come and put down the rebellion.

In this way, other people support the counterinsurgency, and the people in those rebellious areas will also oppose the rebellion, so that the internal and external cooperation is enough to ensure that the rebellion can be put down as soon as possible. And once the ties are strengthened, the careerists of such a place will not be able to rebel, because they know that the country has long been twisted into a rope, and no one can leave it.

"Your Majesty, in the past, we rebelled all over the world because we did not have a perfect division of labor, so that our rebellions in various places could easily form a division. And the people in other places did not feel the pain, so naturally they were not indispensable to these rebellions. However, our division of labor has made the people everywhere twist into a rope and ensure that the people everywhere can depend on each other. Once there is a rebellion in any region, the people everywhere will have painful pain, and our people will desperately support the counterinsurgency and restore the stability of the past. In this case, let alone a rebellion of princes, even if several princes of the whole country unite to rebel, it will be difficult to succeed, because the interdependence is already very serious, and no region can survive without other regions, so it will definitely be difficult for several princes to join forces to rebel. ”

In fact, this method is also a method commonly used by many countries in later generations, by strengthening the ties between regions and strengthening the economic dependence between regions, ensuring that no region can rebel independently. Small economies can be integrated into a large economy, and the division of labor within them is interdependent, so that everyone can not be dispersed in the end.

In the case of the ancient small-scale peasant economy, this division was from top to bottom, and every household was an economy. In such a situation, if there is a problem in one of the links from top to bottom, it will not have a big impact on the people at the bottom. It's like the sub-feudal system during the Zhou Dynasty, where the layers were so divided, even if one of the princes and kings rebelled, it didn't change much in the way of daily life of the people at the lower levels. As for those people, they don't have much dependence on people in other places, and they don't have much affection. In this era of infrequent population movement, the feelings between various places are not deep. Perhaps it is difficult for later generations to understand the feelings of the ancient people towards outsiders, because there is too little communication between different places, little understanding of each other, and even very xenophobia.

This can not only be solved by the political system, because the way of life is not interdependent, and the feelings are naturally not deep. All life is self-sufficient, and there is no dependence and no feelings. The affection between places is only through interaction. This kind of interaction is not simply a personal friendship, but also represents the mutual understanding and interdependence of people from all over the world. In fact, this is the only way to maintain friendship through mutual dependence. If there is no dependence between the places, then even if they are separated, it will not have any effect, and that is the root cause of the split.

Later, although Qin Shi Huang implemented the county system, he was not able to completely change this problem from the economic basis. Qin Shi Huang's county system is a more vivid metaphor, that is, an enterprise in later generations, a branch layer by layer. Each branch has its own independent system and its own financial system, although it has been deprived of some power, but it has not been able to get rid of the situation that the subordinate branch has too much independent power from the root, especially the interdependence between the major branches is not high. So this kind of system, which is similar to a branch office, is obviously very easy to split.

Just like the branch of some large companies in a certain place in later generations, some influential branch managers directly took the entire branch to jump ship, and in the end, the same team also built its own system, but it was just a new signboard, but in fact it had no impact on the employees under the branch.

However, if the division of labor between different industries is adopted, it is tantamount to turning the branch system into a departmental system. Each department has its own division of labor, in which the sales person is not responsible for production, he needs to rely on the products of the production department to sell. Production depends on sales, and even needs the guarantee of various other departments. Even if one of the departments collectively changes jobs, it is impossible to quickly form another company, because their division of labor is already very detailed, even if it is difficult to survive independently after leaving.

Shi Bufan believes that a country carries out different industries in different regions of the division of labor, so that all parts of the country depend on each other for survival. The greater the dependence between regions, the less likely the country is to be divided. For example, the stronger the economic interdependence between two countries, the less likely they are to go to war in the end.

The same is true for the country, if the economic dependence between the various parts of the country is not large, then the division will also be divided, and the people's lives will not have much impact, then they will naturally not feel the pain of the split.

"The economic base determines the superstructure, and this is a very useful truth from ancient times to the present. If the economy of all localities is based on a small-scale peasant economy, then the final division of the country is inevitable. In an industrialized society, the division of labor between the whole country is so dependent on each other, and it is difficult to divide it. The political foundation determines the superstructure, and to maintain the unity of the country, the most fundamental thing is to focus on the economic foundation. As for the institutional point of view, it is actually useless. If there is no dependence on the economic basis, then even if it seems that the system is good, it will be a symptom rather than a cure! Shi Bufan thought.

If we look at the world pattern in the 20th century, although some countries were divided because of this, if we take a closer look at the reasons for the division of those countries, they are all not interdependent on the economic basis, including Lao Maozi. The economic dependence between the member states is not high, and some large member states use their power to exploit small member states. The interdependence was not great, which led to the later split. And what else Czechoslovakia, they themselves were forcibly screwed together, themselves two peoples and two states. After being screwed together, there was no real integration economically, let alone ideological integration, which became the root cause of the later division.

Therefore, Shi Bufan believes that the stronger the dependence of the economy, the lower the likelihood of national division. On the contrary, if there is no economic dependence, even if there are more political institutions to prevent division, it will inevitably collapse. National reunification is not active, in fact, it is best to be passive. Tie up all the places, and make the whole country grasshoppers on a rope, so that everyone will surely be in the same boat, because neither of them can leave each other.

Let's not talk about one rebellion, even if it is several, it will be stable and there will be no problems.

"Your Majesty, I am doing this industrial division of labor in order to reduce the possibility of rebellion as much as possible. The cost of rebellion has been raised, and once the domestic division of labor has been perfected, the people in other places will also have pain in the rebellion in one place, and will desperately support the imperial court to quell the rebellion. And the local people of the rebellion will also take the initiative to help put down the rebellion, so it will be difficult for any traitor to become bigger. Especially those local feudal officials, this is the way to ensure the stability and long-term stability of the world. Such an approach can raise the cost of rebellion. Not to mention a rebellion, even if a few feudal officials collude, it will be difficult. Shi Bufan said.

Li Shimin finally smiled, and he hurriedly said, "Okay, that's what you do!" ”

Li Shimin quickly agreed, and Li Shimin would support anyone who could safeguard national security. Such a division of labor in the country will help to strengthen the ties between the localities and tie them together as one, so that it will be difficult for one of them to rebel. Even if several local princes and feudal towns collude, it is useless, because everyone is too dependent on each other. If they are interdependent, it is very difficult to fight.

If, according to the small-scale peasant economy of the past, the dependence between the regions was very poor, then the rebellion would have had little impact on the way of life of the people in the region, and it would not have hurt the people in other regions. Therefore, the people may not support the counterinsurgency, but are afraid that the imperial court will raise taxes and levy troops in order to quell the rebellion. However, the dependence between different places has been strengthened, and when the people encounter rebellion and the way of life has changed drastically, then not only will they not refuse to counterinsurgency, but will take the initiative to join the counterinsurgency, and this kind of pain is felt by everyone. Such a method is much more powerful than various systems and all kinds of suspicions. If we say that we can maintain national unity through various system designs, it is actually only the realm of "art", but if we maintain national unity through this economic dependence, it is the realm of "Tao". These two means, the method of maintaining national unity through economic dependence, are actually much better than the various institutions, because if the economic base does not keep up, the system is useless.

In terms of safeguarding national unity, Shi Bufan and Li Shimin came together again. In the final analysis, it is the opposition and unity, the main contradiction and the secondary contradiction in the dialectic. In the face of national division, the "contradiction" between Shi Bufan and Li Shimin is a secondary contradiction, so it is necessary to solve the "main contradiction" first, which is beneficial to both Shi Bufan and Li Shimin, so it is inevitable to put aside the "secondary contradiction" for the time being.

In addition, it is necessary to support industry and commerce, and the most taboo thing for industry and commerce is to fight a civil war. Industry and commerce are not afraid of fighting foreign wars, but the most taboo thing is to fight civil wars. Therefore, Shi Bufan and Li Shimin have common interests in safeguarding national unity, and they can cooperate for the time being and put aside past contradictions.

Chen Kang saw that Li Shimin agreed, and hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, no!" Shi Bufan's method is not a perfect solution! Your Majesty, Shi Bufan's method can only prevent one or several princes from rebelling, but if everyone in the world joins the rebellion, so what? Therefore, the method of Shi Bufan is not a perfect strategy, and it cannot prevent all localities in the country from colluding to rebel! ”

"Your Majesty, if the feudal towns across the country also collude to rebel, what about the imperial court? Therefore, this is not a foolproof solution. Therefore, the emperor should not listen to Shi Bufan's method, this method cannot really put an end to the rebellion, especially the collusion of all the feudal towns in the country, so is it not impossible to completely eradicate it? ”

"So, since it's not a foolproof strategy, it's actually not very useful, please let the emperor know it!"

(To be continued.) )