The art of controlling the people exists objectively.

In the pre-Qin period, there was a classic with extremely distorted three views, and in this classic, the only central idea was to control the people.

In the eyes of ordinary people, the emperor and the people should complement each other, and the relationship between them should be that the emperor sympathizes with the people and the people support the emperor.

However, in this book, it is argued that the emperor and the people are opposing each other, and the first thing a ruler needs to learn is how to control the people.

What's even more unbelievable is that this classic has been included in the study of emperors by many dynasties, and was even listed as a forbidden art for a time, preventing the people from reading and checking it.

Moreover, the theories in this classic have been applied in practice, and an extremely powerful empire has been created.

Gradually, he became a magic weapon in the troubled times.

This classic is the Book of Shang Jun.

Shang Ying, a thinker during the Warring States Period, was an extremely intelligent person, but if you understand his thoughts, you will find that this person is not smart, but insidious, extremely insidious.

Shang Ying was born in the Wei State during the Warring States Period, and since he was a child, he has been particularly fond of studying the principles of governing the country and the world, and he has revealed a sinister flavor since he was a child.

When he grew up, Shang Ying followed the Gongshuza, the prime minister of Wei, and served as a concubine under the Gongshuza, which can be understood as a strategist.

Gongshuzuo commented on Shang Ying, and he said to King Wei Hui that if the lord did not use Shang Ying, he must be killed and not let him defect to other countries.

But King Wei Hui didn't take it seriously, neither killed him nor used him.

Shang Ying felt that he could not realize his ideals in Wei, so he went to Qin.

In 359 BC, Qin was still a weak country among the Seven Heroes of the Warring States, and in order to change the status quo, Qin Xiaogong planned to implement a change in Qin and replace him, and the person who implemented the change was Shang Ying.

Shang Ying did have a set, and through two changes, in just a dozen years, the originally weak Qin State became one of the best powers.

It was also at this time that Shang Ying had a name called Shang Jun, but what followed was the sequelae of the change.

In 338 BC, Qin Xiaogong died and King Qin Hui ascended the throne.

Because Shang Ying's changes offended too many aristocratic forces, after King Qin Hui ascended the throne, the nobles of Qin State weaved a series of charges on Shang Ying, and finally he got a car split.

And Shang Junshu is a classic obtained by Shang Ying and his later generations according to Shang Ying's reforms.

Seeing the Shang Yang in the textbook here, we have finished understanding.

Doesn't sound like a hero, but at least he's not a bad guy, right?

But is that really the case? Did Shang Ying really help the common people?

If Shang Yang didn't help the common people, then why was the Qin State able to develop so quickly?

Next, we will learn about a real book of emperors through the book of Shang Jun.

There is no dispute that the whole book of Shang Jun is about the way to govern the country.

What is his method of governing the country? The core method is to strengthen the country and the weak people, and the people are weak and the country is strong, and the country is strong and the people are weak.

Pu is strong, lewd is weak, weak is ghost, Yin is more intelligent, weak is useful, and mentally retarded is strong. Therefore, it is said that the strong go to the strong and the weak, and the weak and the weak are strong.

What does this mean?

If any country wants to be strong, the first thing to do is to control the people.

How to control it?

Let the people be weak.

Shang Yingshu argues that the state and the people are opposed to each other. When the country is strong, the people are weak, and when the people are strong, the country is weak. Therefore, if the country wants to be strong, it must make the people weak.

The reason why Shang Ying eliminated the privileges of the aristocracy was not because of the people, but because of the truth that the country is strong and the people are weak.

He believes that the law is the foundation of a country, and only by making people obey the law can it be better controlled.

In this way, people will not form a powerful force against the state and the monarch.

When the monarch's position is secure, the country will be well controlled, and when the country is well controlled, it will be invincible.

The most terrible thing in this is the truth of the weak and the foolish.

In order to make the people comfortable and weak, most people have the idea of making some laws to fool them and make them unable to see some truths.

However, Shang Ying didn't think so, he believed that human nature is inherently evil, and it can't be fooled by fooling.

If it is really a wise monarch to govern the country, the country may not be strong, human nature is greedy, and when the monarch cannot satisfy the desires of the people, this greed will explode.

In this way, the country will face a catastrophe that cannot be prevented.

Therefore, it is necessary to govern good with evil, not with good, and to strengthen military law and use force.

If the ruler becomes good, then the people become evil.

If the ruler becomes evil, then the people become good.

So how do you achieve this effect?

The specific method is to punish harshly and lightly reward.

Governing a country is not like governing a company, although it is all about people, but at the end of the day, they are different in nature.

When the rewards are few, the people will fight desperately, and when their energy is focused on the few rewards, the ruling class will naturally rise to the top.

Where is the root of the evil of feudalism?

Many people haven't figured it out, but you may be able to understand it if you flip through Shang Jun's book casually.

It is recorded in the book that between the country and the good people, the people will be chaotic, the filial piety of the country will be ruled by the traitors, and the good people will be the strongest. This sentence is quite easy to understand.

If the state governs treacherous people with good people, then this is self-defeating.

If the state governs good people with treacherous people, then it will get stronger and stronger.

Maybe we don't understand it now.

In ancient dynasties, there have always been many traitors and few loyal ministers, and the power of traitors is large and the power of loyal ministers is small, which is the law of governing the country of feudal dynasties.

Look at the next sentence again, the people are weak and the country is strong, and the people are strong and weak, so the country with the Tao is the weak people, the weaker the people, the stronger the country, the stronger the people, the weaker the country.

Therefore, there is only one real way to govern the country, the weak people.

We have to find a way to make the people weaker and weaker.

Many people don't know what the weak people are, so the next thing is that milk is expensive, the weak is respected, the official, and the poor are heavy.

What are the people?

The more you insult him, the more he values power, the more you make him weak, the more he respects officials, and the more you impoverish him, the more he values rewards.

Therefore, Shang Ying believed that a truly strong organizational structure should be like this, the ruler will not be merciful and use the law, and then let the treacherous people hold the power, and the treacherous people will bend the law for personal gain.

Therefore, the people will be oppressed, and the people will be oppressed and weaker and weaker.

However, we should pay attention to two points in this: such a deteriorating social situation will certainly arouse the people's resistance.

So the first point is to make the people weaker and weaker, how to make him weaker and weaker? It is nothing more than depriving them of what they deserve, or letting them get less and less.

In this way, they will naturally not be able to grow, and the country will become stronger and stronger.

The second point is that there must be no hope to have a reward, so that they can counterattack, and the reward should be less so that they can fight for blood.

So do you think Shang Ying's ending is deserved?

But the most shocking thing is that this set of extremely distorted theories of three views actually helped the Qin State become the Qin Dynasty.

If you still don't understand Shang Junshu's thoughts after reading this, then we can take a look at the current situation of the Qin State at that time.

In this change of the Qin State, it can be said that everyone except the emperor is the loser.

Let's take a look at them one by one.

For the aristocracy, the hereditary system was abolished, their original lands were not recognized, and they began to be judged by military merit.

The meaning of the military merit argument is that whoever has made more meritorious contributions on the battlefield will be more likely to become rich and rich.

A lot of people think it's reasonable when they see this, isn't that fair?

Yes, if you think it's fair to do so, then you've become a slave to the law.

The purpose of judging by military merit is not for fairness, but to give the people a way to counterattack, so that you don't get too desperate and lose the meaning of struggle.

If you don't believe me, let's look at the people.

For the common people, although they can obtain the land, they can't leave if you plant the land, and they must continue to plant to pay taxes to the emperor, and even implement the joint sitting system, implement the separation of father and son, and disperse all the kinship relations of the people.

The public rewarded all kinds of severe penal systems, which made the people miserable. At that time, the people could only do one thing in their lives, and in peacetime, they worked hard to farm and provide more food for the country, and before they could say that you would provide less, you would be tortured.

This also led to the people of the Qin Dynasty beginning to crave war, because the only way to obtain a knighthood in the Qin Dynasty was military merit, and war was also the only room for the people at that time to rise.

Therefore, the military strength of the Qin State was very strong, but the military merit theory was not absorbed by later generations of countries, because it was a bane.

In times of peace, there is no room for the people to rise.

Therefore, the people of Qin were very eager for war, and even in the later period, every time the social contradictions were fierce, they had to solve them through war.

They are eager to go to a war.

Finally, we will conclude that in the book of Shang Jun, it is believed that the strength of the Qin State has taken a total of five steps.

The first step is called fishermen, and the first thing is to unify their minds.

Then there are the weak who find ways to take away what they deserve, or let them get less and less.

The third step is to call the civilians and let them keep tossing.

For example, try to make the rich poor, and then make a few poor people rich, so that they only have rich and poor in their eyes, of course, not necessarily in money, in the final analysis, it is to keep tossing them.

The fourth step is to ask Lu Min to find a way to make them lose their self-esteem and live in fear all day long.

The last step is called civilians, and this is also the finishing touch.

In addition to the money necessary for their life, we must deprive them of the surplus money in their hands, so that they have no ability and no ideas, and can only accept the destiny of heaven.

Therefore, if people are poor, they will be short-lived. This is the essence of feudalism.

The Book of Shang Jun is the first forbidden book in ancient times, and without one, this book must not be crossed in the feudal era, because every crossing will definitely cause war.

The people, the humiliation is noble, the weak is honored, and the poor are rewarded. If you govern the people with punishment, you will be happy to use it; If you reward the war people, you will die lightly. Therefore, the war soldiers are said to be strong. If the people have private honor, they will be lowly and lowly officials; The rich are lightly rewarded. Governing the people is humiliated and punished, and war is war. The people are afraid of death and fight in chaos, so the soldiers and farmers are sluggish and the country is weak.

Shang Ying saw the King of Qin (Qin Xiaogong) three times and proposed three ways of kings, namely the emperor's way, the king's way, and the domineering way.

Qin Xiaogong was quite appreciative of the domineering, and immediately adopted the domineering imperial technique, and the subsequent generations were more domineering from generation to generation, and to the first emperor Yingzheng, it was even more ancient and modern!

Qin Fen VI's Yu Lie, Zhen Chang Zhi and Yu Yu. The six generations of kings of the Qin State ruled the country, and finally Kyushu returned to the throne and the world was unified!

Qin unification, in addition to a few hard-working kings, there are also a large number of talented and capable ministers, such as Bai Qi, Meng Kuo, Wang Jian and his sons, Li Si, Lü Buwei, Ganluo, Shang Ying, and so on.

The reform of Shang Yang was the foundation of strong Qin and the cornerstone of Qin's transition from weak Qin to strong Qin.

Shang Ying (390 B.C. ~ 338 B.C.), surnamed Gongsun, named Marting. He was a famous politician and military strategist in the middle of the Warring States period.

He is the author of "The Book of Shang Jun", but the author of "The Book of Shang Jun" has always had many different words, and here it is written by Shang Ying.

In the weak people chapter of the Book of Shang Jun, there are "five techniques for controlling the people"

To sum it up.

The Legalist Shang Ying's Book of Shang Jun mainly provides the monarch with five core secrets of an autocratic society.

First, the weak people: kill the strong with the weak, control the good with treachery, kill the handsome and strong people.

Second, the foolish people: unify the mind, give only one thought.

Third, the poor: depriving the people of their wealth and property and making them dependent on the state.

Fourth, humiliating the people: Implementing policies that are unfavorable to the people and making the people feel insecure.

Finally, it is to kill the strong people in war, and to kill the strong through disasters, man-made disasters, and wars.

1. Weaken the strong, control the good with treachery, and practice hooligan politics.

When the strong and the good people are eliminated, the country will be strong.

Including killing Haojun, using traitors as leaders, village heads, and so on.

2. Implement one religion, unify thinking, and exercise ideological control.

Foolishness is not uneducated

Rather, it is only given one kind of ideological education, and everything else is evil heresy.

As long as the brainwashing is good, there is no regime that cannot be stabilized.

3. Deprivation of personal assets to create a society without assets and perseverance.

It makes people lose their sense of security and must be attached to the state.

For example, restricting the capital of all kinds of people, speech, thought, bravery, and all expropriation and prohibition.

4. Humiliating the people, the poor, and the weak, which is conducive to rule. Insult the people, impoverish the people, make him weak. Humiliation is noble, and weakness is honorable officials. If you are poor, you will be rewarded heavily, and you will be punished lightly.

The state must implement policies that the common people do not like, and it must formulate policies that the common people do not like.

If it is not good for the people, the people will be weak, and the country will be strong.

What if the strong people still can't be eliminated?

5. Killing, unleashing wars, man-made disasters, disasters, killing strong enemies outside, and killing strong people inside.

Through foreign wars, killing other countries, and through man-made disasters, killing strong people.

Man-made disasters, disasters, and wars can kill people, and even more so can kill people.

Although the Qin system can greatly enhance the cohesion and combat effectiveness of the country in the short term, it is tantamount to a chronic poison in the long run, which has been fully proved by the cycle of the rise and fall of dynasties and the control of chaos for more than 2,000 years. Therefore, later monarchs often mixed the Tao of Confucius and Mencius with the art of Huang Lao to offset the negative impact of Shang Junshu, but never changed the essence of Legalism. In a country built according to the Shang Junshu, even if all enemies are defeated, the people will never be happy.

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