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Li Cun was likely to complete the unification, and suddenly pressed the pause button, and many people thought that Li Cun was sympathetic to the suffering of the people, a good emperor, and a benevolent and virtuous king.

This is actually not true.

That's right, that's because Li Cun must have sympathized with the people who have suffered a lot.

It's not right, that's because merely sympathizing with the suffering of the people is not enough to stop Li Cun from completing the great unification.

After all, as a politician, it is impossible for Li Cun not to understand the simple truth that this is a labor pain that must be experienced.

Actually-

The reason why Li Cun suddenly stopped the war was mainly because Li Cunzhen couldn't stand it.

In the past few years, Li Cun seems to have been smooth.

In fact, Li Cun has already encountered a lot of problems.

Like the cliché Yellow River problem, the problem of the rout of the army and the bandits, the problem of the victims, the food problem, the economic problem, and so on......

But while these problems are troublesome, they are not fatal.

One of the biggest problems Li Cun encountered, and one that would be fatal if not handled well, was ...... Political issues.

Li Cun was not particularly familiar with the history of Europe, but he only knew the history of Rome.

This is mainly because Li Cun is particularly fond of one person - Julius Caesar.

In terms of military exploits, Julius Caesar was the peak of his military exploits, fighting from Gaul to Britain, sweeping the civilized world known at that time.

Julius Caesar also left a sentence that made Li Cun's blood boil: I come, I see, I conquer!

Loud!

The thesis, Julius Caesar is also very powerful, what he wrote "Gallic Wars" and "Civil Wars", until later generations, is still a model in the Latin literary world.

Of course, Li Cun's favorite thing is Julius Caesar's affair, who had and maintained illicit relationships with many women at the same time, including the well-known Cleopatra Cleopatra.

In addition, Julius Caesar had to mention that he brought a glimmer of peace and stability to Rome, and he used his military exploits, his prestige, and his strong political operations to make the Senate finally bow down and bow down to his vassals, and collectively declare their allegiance to him.

Julius Caesar has a character with a nickname, that is, tolerance, he has always believed that he is a good comrade if he changes!

Seeing that the Senate had obeyed and sworn allegiance to him, Julius Caesar actually believed the oath of allegiance of these bastards of the Senate, and he even disbanded his own guard and went to the synagogue of the Senate almost alone.

As a result, Julius Caesar had just taken his seat in the synagogue of the Senate when he was surrounded by fourteen young men.

The fourteen men drew their swords and stabbed Julius Caesar like a blood gourd, with twenty-three swords in his body.

The history of the Roman Republic also ended at that moment, more than a hundred years of bloodshed, sacrifice, and civil war, and finally a Julius Caesar, a hope for peace and stability, suddenly shattered again.

For a while, whenever Li Zheng emptied himself from a woman, Li Zheng would think about how similar the current situation of the Great Qian Dynasty was to the situation before Julius Caesar's assassination......

Before Rome established the empire, it had a very good system, and there was a senate system, a consul system, and a tribune system, all of which were effective systems.

Especially when the Romans and Carthaginians fought the Second Impedient War, the famous Battle of Hannibal.

-- When we talk about strategy in international military history, we will definitely talk about this example of war, going around Spain, bypassing the Alps, and approaching the city of Rome for the second in-depth war.

The Romans won the war by relying on their senate system, the consul system, and the tribune system, and the whole country was united in their efforts.

That's a really good system.

But I'm sorry, but in the process of expansion, in the rising period of the country's prosperity, your original system is fine.

And once you expand to a certain extent in the scale of your influence, your original system will not adapt.

Actually, this is not a problem of Rome, the whole world will have such a problem.

When a small force suddenly expands into a big force, the original system will not work well.

For example, why did the Qin state later become the Qin Dynasty, and the famous tyranny problem appeared?

Many of us say that Qin was destroyed by tyranny, but why was there no tyranny in Qin before the unification of the Six Kingdoms?

The system left over from the Shang Dynasty reform, the common people are very happy, right?

Twentieth class military merit system, go out to kill people, come back with a head to receive merit, ask for rewards, etc.

I've never heard of any tyranny.

But once the Qin State annexed the Six Kingdoms, there would be any Meng Jiangnu crying on the Great Wall, and what Chen Sheng and Wu Guang would revolt.

Why is that?

Some historians have analyzed it this way, saying that this is because of the problem of institutional expansion.

You see, the Qin State turned out to be just a small border country, and its territory was very small, and it was also the small land in the Qinlong region, so it had a system called the border system.

To put it simply, this border system is that a farmer, you have to serve the country once a year, for three months, go to the border to fight, and then go home to farm.

It's such a big distance, you just use your legs to walk, and it won't take you a few days to get from here to there.

Then you will have to have a day when you get to the border, and if you don't meet the deadline, I will kill you.

This system is feasible.

But do you think, when the Qin State becomes a national empire, will there be a problem when this border system is used again?

Of course.

For example, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, they are from Yangcheng, that is, Dengfeng, Henan in later generations, where will the Qin Dynasty court send them to the border? Send them to Yuyang, that is, the area of Changping, north of Beijing in later times, to go to the border.

At that time, not to mention the high-speed rail, there was not even a donkey cart, and for such a long distance, you had to walk on your legs.

How long does it take?

The problem is that such a long way is still in time for the rainy season.

There is certainly too much uncertainty in this halfway.

As a result, when I walked to Daze Township, I encountered heavy rain, and the small lake turned into a large swamp, and the road was broken!

If you miss the deadline, you should be cut again.

What to do?

Chen Sheng and Wu Guang had to think, wait for death, what about the country?

Anyway, it's going to die, forget it, let's do Qin!

This is the reason for the fall of the Qin Dynasty.

But if you look at the institutional design of the Qin State, it turned out to be good, but when it was expanded to a larger geographical scope, there was a problem.

Rome, like Rome, was originally just a city on the Tiber River, and when it turned the Mediterranean Sea into its own inland lake, its vast territory and large population caused great problems.

To put it simply, the Romans had the following two main problems:

The first is that after the Romans conquered a large number of territories, there were a large number of people from other regions in their territory besides the Romans.

This led to a conflict between the Romans and the people of the newly conquered regions.

In addition, with the reshuffle, there is a new problem of wealth disparity.

The development of the Daqian Dynasty to the present is also facing a situation similar to that of the Qin Dynasty and Rome.

No.

It should be said that the current problems of the Daqian Dynasty are even more complicated than those of the Qin Dynasty and Rome at that time.

At the beginning of the founding of the Daqian Dynasty, it mainly relied on robbery to get by.

It can be said that the Daqian Dynasty led by Li Cun almost robbed the high-ranking officials and nobles during the Zhao and Song dynasties, and even recovered all the land in the country for redistribution.

Now, those who are with Li Cungan and Song have become a new class of powerful and wealthy people, and they are naturally happy.

But let's not forget that in the process, there were still 10 million or 20 million refugees.

In addition, there is also the elite class that was overthrown by the Daqian Dynasty and originally belonged to the Zhao and Song Dynasty, which made the family change from the original rich to the current poor, and people are not willing to do it.

By the way, the Daqian Dynasty also recovered the Annan, Champong, and Yanyun regions, which made the Daqian Dynasty have a lot of foreigners.

Therefore, Li Cun and his courtiers must formulate a good political strategy to solve these problems.

What makes a good political strategy?

In politics throughout the ages, there is only one core problem, that is, when the rules come, as long as the game continues, some people must win, which is called the rich.

But when the rich have won, they will always be in the minority in numbers and the poor in the majority.

So the poor have to negotiate with the rich.

The poor man said, "Give me the money, or I'll kill you, for there are many of us."

Therefore, the characteristic of good politics is that it does not let the two sides tear their faces apart, and people can play according to the rules, and at the same time, it can make the rich willing to take out the money and share it with the poor, so that the poor will not be cornered.

Because the Qin Dynasty did not find good politics, it only worked for more than ten years before it died.

The same was true of Rome, which reached its peak when the Mediterranean Sea became Rome's inner lake.

But at this time, in response to Wang Xi's words, there are great difficulties.

Because you're suddenly getting bigger, your gameplay has to change.

Of course, this change cannot be a random change.

For example, in the early days of Rome, there were two non-directors, and they were named the Gracchus brothers.

These two brothers are also from a noble family, and when they saw this situation, they said that the problem of Rome was not the lice on the monk's head. The rich people quickly took out the money and the land, and the problem would be solved.

So these two babies got two laws, one called the wheat law and the other called the land law, forcing the rich to open their mouths and spit out money and land.

Do you want rich people to do it?

The final result of the game between the two sides was that the Senate killed the Gracchus brothers and threw their bodies into the Tiber River, red and bloody, flowing in all directions.

Then Rome was in turmoil.

You know, in many societies, when the rich and the poor have to fight each other, a devil will be summoned.

What a devil - a warlord.

Because those who are in control of military power, they are most willing to take advantage of this sentiment.

Hey, the poor have no food, I pity you, they are all rich bastards, come, come with me, guns in hand, follow me, the king comes and doesn't pay food, that's it, so the poor go with them.

In this way, they become a violent machine independent of the rules.

So after the reform of the Gracchus brothers, Rome spent a hundred years, several rounds of warlord melee, what Marius, and later Sulla, including Crassus, Pompey in the first three-headed era, and Julius Caesar, were actually warlords.

After finally fighting Julius Caesar, Rome gained a temporary peace and stability.

But this peace and stability were destined to be only temporary, because Julius Caesar was not aware of the problems facing Rome at all.

Julius Caesar still used the poor, because Julius Caesar lived in a civilian area all his life, and he thought that all the policies he implemented were for the poor, and he felt that this was morally justified, so don't talk nonsense with the Senate, didn't the wheat law and the agricultural land law made by the Gracchus brothers not pass? In my case, I don't need you to discuss it, I will just issue a decree and pass it, because I am a sole ruler, and you will go to the same place as any protector and any consul.

That's right.

Julius Caesar completely became a force that used power to stabilize the situation and solve the gap between the rich and the poor.

How arrogant was Julius Caesar?

The Senate really can't do anything about him, Julius Caesar can say whatever he wants, for example, he said don't eat fish, I don't eat fish anyway, everyone don't eat fish, and a decree will go down.

Julius Caesar was like this, and Caesar did not do things very well, and the leader of the Senate, Chieflo, often received letters of thanks from some small kings from other places, saying thank you, you supported me in the Senate to be king.

Cicero said, I didn't say this, who supports you to be king, and then inquire, it turned out that Julius Caesar did it!

Julius Caesar often issued decrees, and in the end he owed the Senate a signature, and Julius Caesar said, "I'll sign it for you, who won't sign it."

Julius Caesar then signed a Cicero, and the decree was issued.

This happens all the time.

And the Senate to Julius Caesar, it was really tofu falling in the ash heap, and it couldn't be blown or beaten.

In order to make Julius Caesar more restrained, the Senate gave Julius Caesar a glorious title, or gave Julius Caesar a benefit.

When Julius Caesar saw this, he nodded and said okay, he didn't even stand up.

It is precisely because of this contradiction that the assassination of Julius Caesar appeared.

If you think that this is just a historical accident, maybe you are wrong, because the contradictions between the two sides and the solution of Julius Caesar at that time were really unsustainable.

Taking a step back, even if Julius Caesar had not been stabbed to death, Julius Caesar's policies at that time could not have been sustained.

Do you think, Julius Caesar used power to suppress the Senate, and what kind of people are in the Senate, the trees are big and deep, they are all hundreds of years old, and the power in Rome City is terrible, even if Julius Caesar temporarily subdues them, then Julius Caesar will have to die, right?

After a hundred years of Julius Caesar, will Julius Caesar's dictatorial power policy still be sustained?

After all, Julius Caesar's successor could not have such military exploits, prestige, and strength as Julius Caesar.

If you think about it carefully, the situation Li Cun is facing now is actually similar to that before Julius Caesar was assassinated.

The Daqian Dynasty did not have a senate, but the Daqian Dynasty had veterans who fought with Li Cun, and there were also many great families that had been inherited for hundreds or even thousands of years, as well as a large number of civilian groups, and because Li Cun no longer personally commanded the troops, the millions of troops of the Daqian Dynasty were also scattered into the hands of a group of generals.

There is also the fact that the Zhao and Song dynasties, which were overthrown by Li Cungan, have actually completely completed the awakening of the scholar class since Song Renzong, that is, the so-called emperor and scholar rule the world together.

Therefore, there is already a consensus among the scholar class, that is, the power of their scholars should become the dominant force in the court.

This is actually not a big problem, after all, after Li Cun dies, it is estimated that it will be difficult for Li Cun's descendants to have the courage and ability of dictatorship, and at that time, co-governance is not an option.

But the problem is that there is a big flaw in the literati, that is, scholars like to admit death in everything and engage in party disputes in everything based on their will.

Therefore, after Wang Anshi changed the law, there was a dispute between conservatives and reformers in the Zhao and Song dynasties.

The two factions fight to the end, that is, with you and without me, the two sides no longer talk about right and wrong, just talk about parties, as long as you are not my party, everything you do is wrong.

Even if some of Wang Anshi's changes are wrong.

Later, it was replaced by Sima Guang who came to power.

However, on the first day Sima Guang took office, he abolished all the new laws, and even some of the laws that obviously achieved good results were also abolished by Sima Guang and his conservatives.

Because it is no longer a specific policy dispute, it is already called a national dispute - right and wrong.

If I'm going to take you down, it's going to be me.

Therefore, since Wang Anshi changed the law, he turned it over and transferred it over, turned it over and transferred it again, this faction came to power, that faction was completely trampled on, that faction came to power, this faction was completely trampled on, and finally the Zhao and Song dynasties even perished under this struggle.

Now, Li Cun has taken over everything in the Zhao and Song dynasties, and naturally has also taken over these struggles.

All of this, if Li Cun didn't deal with them well, then the seemingly powerful Daqian Dynasty established by Li Cun might collapse with a bang.

Therefore, Li Cuncai resolutely and resolutely stopped the war temporarily, and introduced high-tech such as textile machines, sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn, reinforced concrete housing, bicycles, etc., to comprehensively improve the people's livelihood in terms of clothing, food, housing, and transportation......

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