Chapter 482: The Age of the People

"National capital and state capital are the products of the people's awakening after being poisoned by bureaucratic comprador capital, and in order to put capital in the cage of the system, we must first have a power system with the interests of the people as the core. www.biquge.info current stage when the productive forces are not developed enough, we can only choose the line of democratic centralism. The key to how to achieve democratic centralism and eradicate degeneration lies in the fact that our officials should be selected from among the people. At the same time, the power of officials must be supervised by the people. Let power limit capital, and the people organize power, supervise power, and avoid power being broken by capital......"

Zhu Youxiao unconsciously wrote more and more things into it. On the one hand, this political textbook is to open up the people's political thinking, and on the other hand, it is also to seek the power of the people.

As reform continues, resistance to some things remains strong. At this time, in order for the reform to succeed, the key is to completely unite the imperial power and the people.

After so many years in the late Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao gradually realized that China's monarchy was not a backward system, and that the monarchy did not conflict with feudalism, capitalism, or socialism, and that feudalism, capital, and society were only things that appeared after the development of productive forces.

If feudalism, capital, and socialism are the core of a country, then the country will become an ideological state, and once the productive forces change, the ideology will inevitably go bankrupt along with the changes in the productive forces. The Soviet Union and the United States in later generations were both ideological countries, and for the Soviet Union and the United States, once the ideology went bankrupt, it meant disintegration.

The monarchy is not directly linked to these ideologies, it is the people who are really linked to the monarchy, and the interests of the Chinese emperor have always been highly consistent with the interests of the people. Any emperor who does not want to perish will choose to safeguard the interests of the people, and only an emperor like Chongzhen, who is so fooled that he can't find the north and chooses to take a politically correct path, will go to the road of destruction that harms the interests of the people.

History has proven that Chongzhen's kind of political correctness can only be thankless, not to mention that he has not won the interests of the people, and those crimes have been revealed, all of which are taking the blame for bureaucratic capital.

The Ming Dynasty should be said to be a major turning point in Chinese history, because the Ming Dynasty created a dynasty in which the people were truly in charge. The emperors born in the people's class in history, the first was Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, and the second was Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty.

In the era of Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, the productive forces were still underdeveloped, and the elite still occupied the dominant force, so the governance of the country still relied on the elite. This is the influence left over from ancient times, and China in ancient times was an innate civilization, a civilization dominated by elites. Because in the era of underdeveloped productive forces, the power of ordinary people was very weak, and the people could not arm themselves with productive forces, and the system handed down from ancient times allowed the elite to monopolize culture, and at the same time the elite also knew how to cultivate military talents.

Before the Sui and Tang dynasties, it was a society dominated by gate valves, and gate valves cultivated a large number of military talents, who not only understood military strategy, but also understood politics. Moreover, the alchemy in ancient times gradually spread, and the gate valve invited the warlock to refine the pill for the cultivation of his children, and the force value of the military talents cultivated was also very high.

With the development of productive forces and the depletion of elixir resources, China's history gradually turned to a turning point. The Sui and Tang Dynasty gate valves were attacked, and the imperial examination system was born. and the invention of firearms, the military threshold was lowered, and the people gradually had the ability to arm themselves.

The alternation of elite culture and civilian culture should be a cyclical pattern.

With the improvement of the productive forces, the social form is becoming more and more advanced, when the productive forces develop to a certain extent, the people are liberated from the tedious and repetitive labor, and at the same time, the continuous progress of science and technology has moved from a huge and complex system to simplification, and then summed up a scientific system similar to the Book of Changes, and then from the acquired civilization to the innate civilization.

If the innate civilization dies, a new civilization will be reincarnated, and the remaining elite culture will die out with the development of the productive forces.

The Chinese civilization has inherited a very advanced civilization heritage, so that the elite culture can emerge. This also made the Chinese civilization form move towards the route of a productive empire from the very beginning. In the era of underdeveloped productive forces, if there is no elite culture, ordinary people can only rely on their own production and do not engage in military activities, they will not be able to defeat those barbarians, after all, those barbarians are all soldiers in the era of cold weapons.

By the Ming Dynasty, the elite culture had officially declared its demise. The people also began to step onto the stage of history, and the Ming Dynasty was the first dynasty in Chinese history to be truly dominated by the people. It is precisely because the people have stepped onto the stage of history and the creativity of the people has been brought into play that the productive forces of the Ming Dynasty have been developed, and the development of the productive forces will inevitably produce capitalism.

The demise of the Ming Dynasty was due to the fact that people had no experience with capital and did not know how to deal with the birth of capital. It is also very normal for the Ming Dynasty, as the first country in the world to give birth to capitalism, to go to its demise without experience.

The Ming Dynasty can also be said to be the beginning of modern civilization on the earth, because the Ming Dynasty fired the starting gun for the development of productive forces, and it was also the beginning of mankind's move towards the era of science and technology, so that the people really stepped onto the stage of history, and China began to get rid of the system dominated by elite culture.

And for elite culture to dominate, it must limit productivity. Therefore, in all dynasties and dynasties of China, the rapid development of the productive forces began in the Two Song Dynasty, and the Two Song Dynasty period was actually an era in which the people were the masters, but it was not so thorough, and the productive forces in the Two Song Dynasty were not advanced, or in other words, the productive forces were developed, and military technology was not developed. As a result, these productive forces instead armed the Liao, Jin, Mongol and other military trade groups, although the two Song Dynasty developed national capital, but the rulers still had a traditional mode of thinking, restricting military development, and did not arm the people.

The Ming Dynasty is a dynasty in which the people completely stepped onto the stage of history, and the ruler's mode of thinking has changed, but because of the rule of Mongolia, the capital system of the Song Dynasty was destroyed, and the productivity has regressed very seriously, so when the country was founded, there was no development of national capital, but there was still enough awareness in restricting capital, but the mouth was torn open in the Jiajing period, and the businessmen got the admission ticket, which evolved into a serious social tumor of bureaucratic capital.

The emergence of this cancer is the result of the corruption of the system. In any dynasty, after more than 200 years, the system will inevitably become corrupt, and this is inevitable.

Therefore, throughout history, from ancient times to the present, China has been internally a contradiction between the elite and the people, the people and the elite have both cooperation and struggle, and externally there is a struggle with the military trade groups formed by the barbarians.

In the era of underdeveloped productive forces, the elite class was dominant, leading the people against the barbarian military trade blocs. And with the development of the productive forces, the elite began to die, but it hindered the arming of the people. The development of productive forces has led to the continuous development of the era of agricultural globalization, which reached its peak in the Song and Song dynasties, and global trade has brought military trade blocs such as Mongolia to the peak.

The Ming Dynasty did not develop trade, mainly in order to destroy the agricultural globalization system, because this system allowed the alien race to obtain a strong military force, and China in the era of agricultural globalization, the military aspect has no advantage. From this point of view, it was relatively successful, the Mongols in the Ming Dynasty never posed a real threat to the Ming Dynasty, and if it were not for the generation of bureaucratic capital in the later period, the Manchu Qing would not have risen to prominence.

The people's model pioneered in the Ming Dynasty was subverted by bureaucratic capital, while the Manchu Dynasty plunged the entire nation into a historical trough, and China changed from democracy to the era of slavery. However, after the fall of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the founding of New China, the people stepped onto the stage of history for the second time, and this time it was an era when the productive forces had developed to a certain extent, and the people were already very easy in terms of military armament.

The monarchy of the Ming Dynasty was not a backward system in nature, but a relatively advanced system. The supremacy of the emperor is essentially based on the supremacy of the interests of the people. The people only respect the emperor, not fear. The interests of the people were harmed, and the emperor helped them out, and when the country was founded, the people could even tie up corrupt officials and corrupt officials to the capital.

Moreover, it is impossible for the emperor to be corrupt, and the emperor harms the interests of the people to the detriment of his own interests. Therefore, the monarchy of the Ming Dynasty is actually a kind of democratic centralism, and the supremacy of the emperor is the supremacy of the people. In the era of underdeveloped productive forces, the people have no way to exercise political rights, because although the power is given by the people, the people have to engage in a lot of repetitive work, and they do not have the time to participate, and the best way is to hand over the power to a trustworthy person to control.

For this person in power to be trustworthy, the interests of this person must be highly tied to the interests of the people, and the interests of the emperor are highly tied to the interests of the people. Therefore, the emperor is also the backbone of the people, and having an emperor can make the people feel at ease.

Of course, this system is not invulnerable, because the emperor is also human. If you are a human being, you may fall asleep, you may be blinded. Moreover, people have desires, and some emperors may indulge in pleasure and neglect the governance of the country. Therefore, this system needs to be further improved.

After Zhu Youxiao crossed over, many things were copied from the model of the new China of later generations, which would not work at all if it was placed in other dynasties, but the Ming Dynasty had great essential commonality with the new China of later generations, so it was still feasible to copy many models of later China in this era.

In terms of arming the people's army, with Zhu Youxiao's continuous development of firearms technology, it is now gradually getting better, smokeless gunpowder has been invented, and soon the power of firearms and artillery will also be greatly improved. In the past cold weapon era, arming an ordinary soldier required long-term training, both time and cost were very huge, and it may not be able to compare with the barbarians who have been exposed to cold weapon warfare technology since childhood, and can only rely on elite culture to compete with barbarians.

Now in the age of firearms, an ordinary soldier only needs to train for two or three months to go to the battlefield with a gun, and after aiming at three points and one line, he can pull the trigger to eliminate the enemy.

Zhu Youxiao's current reform is not thorough. He wants to change the hereditary system of the magnates, and the group of royal relatives, especially the royal family and grandchildren, who have multiplied a large number of royal descendants, and cannot succeed without seeking the support of the people.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao now also has to arm the people, not only militarily. It is also necessary to arm the people culturally and ideologically.

On the one hand, the popularization of compulsory education for all is the popularization of tools, so that the people have the tools to learn culture and improve productivity. The development of productive forces is the core of improving the people's status and living standards. On the one hand, it is to provide ideological arming to equip the people with a sense of class struggle, and to provide them with theoretical guidance for class struggle, so that no reactionary will dare to go beyond the thunder pond by half a step.

At the same time, when the people have mastered the tools of writing, they can read newspapers and care about national politics. Therefore, what Zhu Youxiao has to do now is to let the people form a political consensus, and gradually form a highly consistent political public opinion of the whole people by relying on education for all, so as to supervise the officials in the administrative system in an all-round way, and even supervise the imperial power. In the next reforms, even the succession mechanism of the imperial throne will be changed, and the model of succession by the eldest son of the emperor can no longer be adopted brainlessly.

Zhu Youxiao already had a preliminary plan, that is, to strictly control the royal education first, and then let the princes participate in the examination, and the examination was supervised by the people. In order to pass the examination, the prince who has the ability and basic consciousness is selected to be the emperor.

Officials can be selected through the imperial examination system, why can't the emperor?

Zhu Youxiao has reformed the education system for the princes, and it is no longer as simple as in the past when the ministers give lessons to the princes, although they are also taught by the ministers, Zhu Youxiao has made specific provisions on the content of the teaching, and even personally compiled the teaching materials for the imperial education, teaching them what the imperial power is, what the people are, the relationship between the people and the imperial power, and what is harming the interests of the people, what is protecting the interests of the people, and cultivating their basic judgment ability of things.

And the imperial power has also changed from the divine power granted by heaven in the past, to the divine right granted by the people here in Zhu Youxiao, the people are heaven, and the Son of Heaven is also the son of the people.

For the time being, this theory is only used in the education of the prince, and as the reform continues, this theory will be used in the royal family. The Ming Emperor came from the people, and he should also return to the people, and the group of royal relatives should also return to the people, and they should be directly reduced to commoners for three generations, no longer enjoying any privileges, nor any restrictions on their employment, and the court will not spend money to support them, so go and fend for themselves!