Chapter 350: Less Than a Dollar
Finally, it should be pointed out that in the entire Seris world, the end of the monarchy, not even in the Qing Dynasty, but in the puppet Manchurians.
In fact, this is another attempt to rely on more "external" external forces after the reactionary forces from within, including the border nationalities, can no longer support themselves. From this point of view, Pu Yi's choice is quite accurate. However, in terms of political management, the Japanese are not as good as Rouran, and in the end it is just an embarrassing farce.
The result of insisting on reactionary movement to the end is to completely smash the signboard of the monarchy and the last dynasty. Even after the Cold War, there were royalists in many countries around the world, but it was rare to find a second one with such a bad reputation.
And after abandoning the monarchy, a lot of problems before were solved.
There is no taboo that "you can't claim to have overthrown a tyrannical ruler", but it makes propaganda much easier. In Yongzheng's thinking, the part of "Huayi family" and the legitimacy narrative of "the virtuous live there" can be used directly. Many of the theories used to construct the "Chinese nation" in later generations can be traced back to this place. Yongzheng himself could not have imagined that the "complete body" of this theory was used in conjunction with the liberation narrative after several improvements in modern times.
And these are obviously too beyond the scope of Yongzheng's ability at the time - not only can he not control the virtues of his descendants, but he can't even take care of his ancestors. Because Yongzheng himself knew that those people in Dolgon were really lacking in virtue back then......
After thinking about it in this way, who and what can be referred to in this state can be completely determined.
First of all, to continue cutting with other European countries. This is what the Purple Horde had to do. But the good thing is that it's already being done, and it can't be done without it......
Showing oneself as different from other barbarian nations is the essence of Rome. If this is abandoned, the banner of Rome loses its meaning. Therefore, the Purple Horde has always been not taboo about its own experience of starting a family, not thinking that it is like the European nobles, through marriage, inheritance, etc., to obtain the territory, but bluntly said that it wants to recover the Roman homeland.
This is actually a very hateful behavior, and it is easy to be targeted by everyone together, which is worse than Li Zicheng. However, the Purple Horde is already being targeted by everyone, so it doesn't matter......
Of course, one of the good things about this is that the Europeans are not united with each other, and they can't do anything together. On the contrary, France, like them, have always wanted to partner with the Purple Horde to besiege the HRE.
With this kind of confidence in shouting "I'm different from you", I don't have to worry about the fragmented "legal system" and inheritance rights of each territory, and a new narrative can be unified and constructed. Of course, this will make all the landed nobles dissatisfied, but again, as long as they can beat them, it is not a problem.
Second, they could have directly preached their kindness to the Roman populace as part of the construction of legitimacy. In Guo Kang's view, this is a very strong argument.
In fact, in ancient times, the crime of hanging the people was also a common reason for war, and it is not that in modern times, some people suddenly have the idea of "liberating the world." The defeat of the ignorant and backward European lords and the emancipation of the serfs from the manors deserve great praise from both the Church and the Confucian point of view.
In the past, in order to win the support of as many people as possible and deal with powerful enemies, the Khan's court had been consciously or unconsciously guaranteeing the rights of citizens, so as to stimulate the morale and determination of the soldiers.
For a long time, the territory of the Khanate was a strip of land on the Black Sea coast, lacking sufficient depth, so there were almost no "safe internal areas". In order to protect their property and status, people from all over the world had to participate in battles, and this culture became one of the sources of the army's combat effectiveness.
It's just that before, the Purple Horde may have been limited by the level, and it has not formed a systematic theory, and it has not taken the initiative to promote and use it.
But in reality, the potential of this theory is great, especially in the current situation in Europe. After all, these barbarian countries around them are too outrageous. The kind of army that can slaughter the city and slaughter itself, Dolgon has to call it too barbaric when he sees it......
The Purple Horde also didn't need to become the king's army immediately, as long as a little attention was taken to form an advantage over them, there would be no problem.
And these are also related to combat effectiveness. When the Western Han Dynasty ran the Western Regions, Chen Tang's soldiers received orders not to loot, so after the siege battle, they did not loot and destroy. You must know that the quality of the Han Dynasty's army in the Western Regions is not too high, and there are even many professional adventurers who join the army purely for money, or even borrow money. But they can still do it. This kind of discipline of ordering and prohibiting is the basic guarantee of combat effectiveness.
In Guo Kang's view, at least this level must be at the same level in order to be regarded as a "regular army".
Therefore, hanging the people for the crime of exterminating the people is not only a pretext for foreign wars, but also a theoretical basis for enhancing legitimacy, and also a measure that is conducive to the combat effectiveness of the armed forces. There are so many things that can be said in this regard, and it didn't take long for Guo Kang to come up with the wording.
With the support of these two additional theories, the concept of the "Roman nation" was openly promoted. This is actually a conspiracy, even if it is said directly, there is nothing the enemy can do. Because the banner of Rome is really universal and appealing.
In the culture of the Mediterranean world, Rome and the Central Plains people's "tianxia" is almost the same, a concept that is almost equal to the known world. This conceptual Rome is extremely compatible.
Although there had been only a loose Roman population in the past, there was no Roman nation with a cultural core, which led to great instability in the empire. However, it is not too difficult to make up for this shortcoming through the transformation of the Central Plains and create a universal nation similar to the Chinese population.
And if one day, the current Khan's court can't do the crime of hanging the people, then it can also be updated by activating the periodic law - for a civilization, the periodic law is obviously a good thing, which means that it can finally complete a whole round of life cycle and can be "self-sustaining".
Compared with the regime of the Purple Horde, Guo Kang actually valued the entire civilization more. His preparations, at that time, will become the theoretical basis for opposing tyrants and barbarians at the same time - in short, he is ready to pave the way for everyone to be the one that Li Zicheng is lacking in advance.
As for how to construct a narrative of legitimacy beyond the geographical scope of Europe in Europe, there is actually a more successful example, which is the later Red Horde.
Although this country has less than one yuan, it has brought many theoretical breakthroughs, which are still very practical in Europe.
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