Confident on the road? The term was too new for Cathy. Not only have I never heard of it, but I don't even know how to understand it at all.

"What is road confidence?"

"Road self-confidence is to be completely confident in the path you are taking, thinking that it will work and go right. If you continue to move forward, it will be bright and sunny. ”

Cathy fell into deep thought, not that she did not understand, but that she was completely defeated by this advanced theorist.

"So, what path are you taking?"

"What road? The path of the people's democratic dictatorship with the characteristics of a terra nullius. ”

After Zhou Yu finished speaking, his heart trembled. At the time of Nika's departure, there was a time when he was disillusioned and his heart was dead. Because he was shaken, he didn't know what role he was singing when he was standing in the center of the stage, and what position he was going to be; Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Muki, which is the immortal who should stand and cheer.

But today, the goshawk's words stimulated him to reawaken and regain his determination to break through the sky. Yes, if you are not confident, how can you lead these thousands of sergeants to make a revolution with you? If you are not confident, what kind of battle are you fighting? For whom? If you are not confident, even if you win the world and unify the mainland, what will you rely on to maintain these fruits of victory?

In the final analysis, it is a truth that civilization will get eggs if it takes too big and takes too big steps, and it will be unadaptable, vomiting and diarrhea, and at worst, it will be terminally ill and dying.

This is what Zhou Yu has been potentially worried about, and the root cause of his several retreats is actually the fear of bringing unrealistic illusions and hopes to the Borderlands. Although it is maybe, it is scary enough, maybe this survival mode and rhythm is the most suitable for this place?

At that moment, the Metropolitan Governor questioned whether he was managing too much, being too loving, and taking himself too seriously. In a way, Nika is right, why would she impose this changed consciousness on others?

He is poor because he is willing to be poor, and he enjoys the process of being poor, and the taste and pleasure in it cannot be understood by outsiders.

They are pathetic, but they themselves don't think so, what's wrong with being sad? What's wrong with being enslaved? What if the last dynasty is overthrown? Aren't you still the same when you're old enough to ascend the throne? Slaves are still slaves, and they are still underfed.

What is ingrained is not in the Four Thrones, but in the minds of the toiling masses. Without the awakening of civic consciousness, if you have to impose their citizenship status and label them as equals, it will be chaotic.

But today, Goshawk's words were like a shot in the heart of Zhou Yu. Although he is on the basis of facts, and he is not so lofty and enlightened at all, he represents a group, speaks on behalf of a group, and also speaks on behalf of them.

In the Borderlands' civilizational mechanism, there are people in the ruling class, or in the disembodied groups that serve the ruling class (let's call them dissensions), find that the object of their insistence and support is not the embodiment of justice. The so-called natural theocracy has also become loose, even unconvincing, and less convincing than it once was.

Why did this phenomenon occur, Zhou Yu was a little sentimental in the past, and he once imagined that it was because of his appearance that a wind of pursuing freedom and equality began to blow from Kuzsia. Lately, the Metropolitan has become much more sane and rational, and he has come to realize that the fundamental problem of the Borderlands comes from her.

Even if there is no legend, and there is no one who brings the members of the Heaven Shaking Alliance here to shake the sky, there should be no shortage of uprisings and enlightenment thoughts. Justice may be late, but it will never be absent. Therefore, even if the five kings are gifted with divine power, or whether they are rebelling by order, they are all following the trend and being reasonable, and who will win in the end will not look at the sky but at the people.

"People's democratic dictatorship? What is the meaning? ”

"Well, this one is more complicated, and it's longer than an old woman's footwrap. Moreover, in order to understand it thoroughly, you must not only learn what ancient times, slave society, and feudal society are, but also experience and experience what category the era belongs to. ”

"Which category? So what category does the era we live in now? ”

Cathy looked at Zhou Yu suspiciously, why were the words that came out of his mouth so obscure today, it was even more nerve-wracking than a drunk person who couldn't drink a drop.

"Well, we're in, and we're now, according to the theory I have, in the context of an era where antiquity and slavery are combined. But not necessarily, because of the existence of the original owner, this place has been ruled and occupied by high-level civilizations, even if it is only for a short time or there has been a war, which determines that her life experience is complex and difficult to define. ”

"I don't understand what you're talking about, I really don't understand it at all."

Zhou Yu wanted to go back to bed earlier, but Cathy pulled him alive and didn't let him escape. For a whole night, a teacher and an apprentice, a lonely man and a widow, dry firewood, and a long drought and rain, just asked and answered, and staged a "Ideal Country".

Most of the governors could not resist her, and she was woken up from her sleep several times, and talked about the relationship between slaves and slave owners from the matriarchal society of ancient times, and from the change of empires and the idea of foolishness to the importance of religion in the science of governance and management, * the Industrial Revolution, the Age of Discovery, and the North American Gold Rush.

During the teaching, whenever Teacher Zhou was vague or inaccurate, Cathy always tortured him with her hands to force him to comply, so that he could seriously consider it and not talk nonsense.

Zhou Yu, who should have been very devastated, turned out to be unusual, and was very useful to this kind of "oppression" against the times, which reminded him of his college days, when he was forced by his girlfriend to go to the library for self-study, and repeatedly tried to escape and return to the dormitory to play double promotion. Sure enough, what is happiness? Happiness is finding the right feeling at the wrong time and place.

"Is it true or false that you say that theocracy will effectively promote productive forces in feudal society? Are you sure it will work? ”

"I'm not sure about this because I'm not religious. What is certain, however, is that successive kings and rulers have adopted or created a new religion to promote his policy of fooling the people and inculcate his governing philosophy. With religion and the worship of the people, no matter how mediocre and incompetent it is, it will become justified. ”

"Well, what if we go to the modern society that comes later? Does this work too? I just heard you say that in modern society, the constitutional monarchy has replaced the original feudal system, and the king has become an ornament. ”

Yes, in modern society, religion is nominally relegated to the category of free choice. However, the ruling class also has to lead the people by the nose and not let them think too much. They think too much, how can they be smarter than themselves? That kind of ability upside down is very dangerous, and it is very easy to cause social instability and turmoil! ”

"And how did they do it?"

"They've adopted a policy of entertaining people."

"Entertainment policy? Is there any difference with the foolish people just now? ”

"Oh, that's a big difference. Don't look at the pronunciation and the ultimate goal are the same, but the content is very different. Entertaining the people is to let the people get high, play, get carried away, and be happy, and it is best not to even know what their surname is. In this way, the ruling class feels safe. ”

"However, as the most ordinary providers of productive forces, the common people are entertained, who will provide the productive forces and promote social progress?"

"You don't know this, there is an embedded business method called taxation. It is not necessarily said that it is a management method, it should be called an administrative management method, but its main purpose is to create wealth for the ruling class. ”

"Collect taxes?"

"Yes, it's also called taxes. If you are a ruler, the people below make a lot of money, more than you, and you can't pay your military salary. What will you do? ”

"Needless to say? Regardless of whether it is barren or not, if it is a weight, it is taxable, and there is no exception in ancient and modern times. If you don't pay taxes, how can you be a king? How are the people for the people? ”

Well, this eldest lady determines that the standard for the relationship between the monarch and the people is who supports whom, which is simple and rude.

"But as the times progress, you will find that the kind of lesson you call no longer works. The common people are getting smarter and smarter, and they will gradually understand a truth, why do you ask me to pay taxes and I will pay taxes, what good do I have? Besides, why do I have to obey you honestly even if you say it? ”

Cathy couldn't understand what Zhou Yu meant by the common people getting smarter and smarter, because she could only experience an era, or a small dot of the era that would hardly move on the timeline, so she had no idea what it meant that the evolution of the way of thinking matched the advancement of society.

"Therefore, those who are officials have to find ways to make the people willing to pay taxes, willing to pay taxes actively, or even passively, to support themselves and maintain the operation of the entire state apparatus."

"State apparatus? What does it look like? Is it like 139? ”

"No, it's even more powerful than that, the big birds in the sky and the big monsters rumbling on the ground that you talked about before belong to the state apparatus. Of course, there are many more people, property and things that belong to the state apparatus. Do you listen? Don't interject when you listen to it, okay with this classmate? Xiu'er hasn't finished speaking yet, can you please sit down first? ”

With a thud, Cathy burst out laughing, as bright as a cherry blossom.

"You're going to say that cliché that no one else understands, right? The commander of the second battalion brought me my Tatali noodles and asked me to serve them to the friendly troops. ”

"It's pasta!"

Zhou Yu covered his face and made the most common expression in the emoji.

"What else is coming, bring me the heirloom mat and let me smash a walnut for Xiu'er to eat!"

"It's the jade seal of the country! How can you be so terrible without culture, mat? Can a mattress smash walnuts? What do you do with a mat? Do you sleep with a walnut quilt? ”

"Bah, bah, the funniest thing is that sentence, what forty-meter-long bag is not easy to collect!"

"Oh, I said Miss, you save it, such beautiful words and languages have been ruined by you, and you have a big bag? Bag or wallet? Burnt or straw bale? That's called a broadsword! Forty-meter-long broadsword! ”

"It's not right, it's not right, you can say no? People have only heard you say it once, and they can't remember it that completely. In the future, the days to come will be long, will you teach me slowly? ”

The days that followed were still long, squeezing the air between the two like compressed biscuits, thin and beautiful. Zhou Yu felt a little out of breath, is this what it feels like to be excited? Why did he feel a little bit suffocated?

Cathy's face was also flushed, and she wanted to take back the sentence just now, but the words she said were like water spilled out, and people had already heard it, how to collect it!

"Oh, let's talk about it, let's talk about it!"

Zhou Yu scratched his scalp, and a sentence of haha was considered to have relieved both of them.

"Since we've passed by, don't make mistakes again and again, okay?"

Cathy muttered as she looked at the back of the Governor as he walked out.

The Metropolitan Governor pretended not to hear, hesitated for a moment, and in an instant quickened his pace, fleeing from the place of right and wrong.

It wasn't that he didn't understand Cathy's mind, and he knew what she meant by that sentence: the former referring to the dead and the latter to the living. But he couldn't stop to enjoy the scenery, the wine, the people, the car went too fast.