"First of all, you have to know one thing."

"In the history of China, in addition to the change of imperial power and dynasties, there has also been an ideological struggle throughout history."

Lin Che leaned back in his chair, changed to a more comfortable ya=, and went straight to the point: "They tampered with the Confucian classics, fought for the final interpretation of Confucius's thoughts, and buried a dark line about the feudal dynasty. ”

"This is the skin you see from the outside!"

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he couldn't believe it, and he couldn't keep up with Lin Che's train of thought for a while:

"This, tampering with Confucianism... What does that mean? ”

"Does Mr. Mo Feilin still want to correct the name of Confucianism?"

"Didn't you still look down on Confucianism before?"

"Which play is this singing today?"

Regarding Lao Zhu's series of questions, Lin Che waved his hand lightly, which was the most basic principle.

"The eldest husband does something and does not do something, and the interests of the country and the nation are always above me."

Without waiting for Zhu Yuanzhang to marvel at Lin Che's righteousness, a magnetic voice sounded again: "Besides, it turns out that I also said that I won't evaluate Confucian sages, but many things in Confucianism are not bad, and what is really wrong is the demonized Confucianism." ”

"That is, the current Confucianism, the Confucianism after being tampered with."

"Confucianism as a dynasty skin, the actual significance is far greater than you think, so if you want to reform, you have to start with the skin."

"The skin that leaks on the outside is what the people see, in fact, this is the same as people, if it is a good skin, people's first impression of it is not bad, and vice versa."

"You know what I mean?"

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded thoughtfully, and vaguely grasped Lin Che's key point, since he wanted to change it, then he would change it drastically, from the inside out.

Use a method that is acceptable both inside and out, and only then will the effect be best.

Sort out the intricacies of thoughts.

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but take a deep breath and quietly waited for Lin Che to speak.

"I'll talk casually, you can listen casually, if you don't understand, it doesn't matter, anyway, I don't plan to let you do these things."

"In traditional agrarian societies, because of low production efficiency and relatively closed information, there is an upper limit to the territory that a single country can rule."

After a pause, Lin Che continued:

"Therefore, in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, even if the Son of Heaven and the vassal states have formed an absolute difference in strength, they can only adopt the mode of dividing the land, so that the Son of Heaven can divide the land to other princes, and each vassal state will be independent and autonomous, so as to reduce the pressure on management."

"But the problem is that if you want the nations to exercise autonomy, you have to retain their military power, administrative power, and land management power, but you can retain these powers, and you can't avoid the hidden danger of the vassal states."

"That is to say, what kind of system should be chosen to solve the disadvantages of dividing the feudal princes?"

"Well, this is a problem faced by the sages of the pre-Qin Dynasty."

"Including the later battle between the sons and hundreds of schools, Mu is also to solve this problem, so far, it has also led to a key figure, 'Ji Dan, the prime minister of the Western Zhou Dynasty.' ”

"After he discovered the disadvantages of the feudal system, he added a set of etiquette and music system on the basis of this model, and formulated different etiquette standards and norms according to the hierarchical order of the Son of Heaven, the princes, the princes, the princes, and the subjects."

"To put it bluntly, the purpose is to completely cut off the legitimacy of usurpation from the entire social system."

"Later, the etiquette collapsed, and naturally there was no way to restrain the vassal states."

"Adapting to the current system is the best system."

Hear this.

Zhu Yuanzhang inexplicably had a sense of enlightenment.

Seeing that he hesitated slightly, he still couldn't help but have no interface.

"He said that the Son of Heaven is the Son of Heaven, and no matter how powerful your princes are, it is impossible for them to usurp the throne or claim to be the Son of Heaven, but we talked about it before."

Lin Chewan said: "Morality can often only regulate those who abide by morality. ”

"The reason why the countries obeyed the Zhou rites was entirely because of the strong strength of the Zhou Dynasty, so when this strength was weakened, it naturally entered the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period."

"During this period, in order to solve the drawbacks of separation, Confucianism proposed 'self-denial and revenge' to pursue the stability of the early Western Zhou Dynasty, while Mohists advocated 'love and non-aggression', wanting to solidify the current pattern."

"Unfortunately, it is obvious that neither of these two is in the interests of the ruling class, and in the end, the emergence of Legalist thought has broken the problem of the upper limit of governance territory in traditional agricultural society."

"So the Great Qin created the county system, unified the language, unified the currency, unified the weights and measures, and established the first great unification in Chinese history."

Stretching out his hand to take the water handed over by Zhu Biao, Lin Che took a sip of tea lightly and moistened his throat:

"In your opinion, the First Emperor is called Great Unification, but for those vassal states that have been around for thousands of years, the Qin Dynasty system is the murderer who destroyed their country."

"That's why Xiang Yu started to destroy Qin and then inherited the partition, in a vain attempt to reverse history, and the result was that in less than four years, it ended hastily."

"Later, Liu Bang believed that the problem of the feudal system was the identity of the princes and kings, so he liquidated the kings of the opposite sex and distributed the fiefs to his descendants."

"The result?"

"There was another rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, which led to the descendants of the surname Liu killing each other."

"This is the ideological line struggle from the pre-Qin period to the early Han Dynasty."

Lin Che raised his chin to look at the worried Zhu Yuanzhang and smiled: "When I arrived here, Confucianism began to really appear on the stage. ”

"After Liu Bang conquered the country, he rewarded his subordinates according to the title of 20-level military merit, the highest is called the marquis, and the lowest is called the duke, and this duke can at least get 2,500 square meters of residential land, as well as 1,500 acres of fertile land."

"These fiefdom people are the first batch of Shi clan gate valves!"

"They annexed a large number of lands and evaded taxes, which led to a serious differentiation between the rich and the poor in the country, and the treasury became increasingly empty.

"The Han Dynasty is still in its infancy, and it has become precarious, and the court is in danger!"

"That's why Dong Zhongshu put forward the 'land restriction system', the purpose is to curb the development of the Shi clan, but whether it is against the Shi clan or against the Xiongnu, and clean up the princes, one thing must be guaranteed first."

Lin Che looked sideways at the shocked prince and said happily, "What's the matter?" Don't listen to it. ”

Hear this.

Zhu Biao immediately stood up reflexively, not daring to show the slightest slackness, and suddenly said: "Yes, the emperor must have absolute rights." ”

The voice did not fall.

"Smack!"

There was a crunch.

Lin Che clasped his hands together and praised, "That's right." ”

"In the final analysis, only legalists who advocate centralization can help the emperor solve practical problems."

(End of chapter)