The boat traveled in the field, and King Qi said: "Since the first emperor unified the six countries of Shandong, to this day, with the prestige of my Han and Tang Dynasties, I should have expanded my territory for thousands of miles a long time ago, and did not let Yingzheng be in front of me." But after thinking about it, except for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Taizong of this dynasty, it seems that we are not doing well.

"If we follow the time steps of the rise of Great Qin, the struggle for hegemony, unification, and the opening of the territory, at this moment, we should have an immeasurable territory. ”

This is a practical problem, but also a historical problem, Li Ye smiled, "There are many reasons, the most important is nothing more than two points, one is that the level of civilization is not enough, the territory is too large, and it can be defeated, but it cannot be effectively controlled; the other is that within the country, the ruling class has squeezed the people too seriously, resulting in most of the national strength becoming the private wealth of the powerful."

"The development of the Tang Xiuzhen civilization is enough to rule the territory of thousands of miles again, if the development of the Xiuzhen civilization is not hindered, after a few decades, no matter how much land can be effectively controlled, the only problem that needs to be solved is to let the powerful spit out the national strength. ”

King Qi frowned slightly, "The powerful have embezzled the power of the state?"

Li Ye looked at her and said, "Do you think that why has the Qin State become extremely powerful since the Shang Dynasty changed the law? Is it because there are many more void powers out of thin air? Of course not." It was only before that the aristocracy held a large number of fiefdoms, population, and wealth, which were not used by the state, and the potential of the common people was not stimulated to become the power of the state.

"Shang Ying's change of law and aristocratic system to bureaucratic system, in the final analysis, was to eliminate the evil ghosts that crawled on the country and the people to suck blood, and in that era, the national power became the national power to the greatest extent. ”

King Qi thought about it and understood some joints, but some joints were even more confused.

She said puzzledly: "After the Qin State, there will be no nobles? If not, this has been a thousand years, and the imperial dynasty should have no borders a long time ago, if there were...... Isn't history going backwards?"

Li Ye sighed, facing the endless soup and Weishui, he thought deeply and his eyes were sad.

He said: "People live to get to the bottom of it, to live for themselves, not for the country. Although individuals will benefit from a strong country and expanding its territory, there are too few people who can influence the situation of the country, and even if the vast majority of people have ambitions, they can only live on their own.

"After the Qin Dynasty, although there were some repetitions, the fiefdom aristocracy in the traditional sense did gradually disappear. However, the landlords have not disappeared, and in the agrarian society, land is the root and symbol of wealth, and both officials and large households will wantonly annex land and become the new magnates.

"How different are the common people from the slaves of the pre-Qin era when they lose their land, become tenants, or even become displaced people? There is no essential difference, they cannot control their own lives, and they cannot even guarantee their own survival qualifications. The power of the state is swallowed up by the powerful, and the country actually has not much power.

"At this time, the country will be extremely weak, and if there is turmoil, whether it is an invasion by a foreign enemy, or a rebellion by an important minister, or a rebellion by the people, the country will be unable to calm the situation, and it will only perish. The fundamental reason for the change of dynasty is here. ”

These words made King Qi's willow frown, and he couldn't stretch for a long time.

There is nothing wrong with the assertion that a country is dying because it is weak. The people being oppressed by the powerful will lead to the weakening of the national strength, and the people being oppressed by the state will also lead to the weakening of the national strength.

Compared with the powerful, the common people are the ants at the bottom, but they are indeed the foundation of the country.

"Can't this situation be changed?" asked Li Ye from King Qi.

Li Ye said: "Of course it can change. ”

"How?"

"To make the world stable for a long time, to make the country strong and unfailing, it is nothing more than two words: support the people. ”

"How to feed the people?"

"Let it be good for the people. ”

"Equal distribution of the wealth of the nation?"

"That's unrealistic, the state can distribute land evenly at the beginning of the founding of the country - for example, we are in the same dynasty as the land is equalized, but with the social changes, the rich who have more resources and more strength will inevitably become richer, while the poor who have no financial resources are weak and cannot compete with the rich, and will only be poorer.

Li Ye continued: "The stronger the stronger, the weaker the weaker, this is an iron law that cannot be broken. ”

"So what?"

"The state must suppress the powerful and prevent them from sucking too much blood from the people. ”

"It's as simple as that?"

"It's not easy. ”

King Qi was confused, but Li Ye looked at the sunset behind the distant mountains, and sadness came from it.

How easy is it to suppress the powerful?

In an agrarian society, it is difficult for the state to completely curb such a fruitful matter as land annexation, let alone in a commercial society, where land annexation becomes wealth embezzlement, and the powerful and powerful families suck the blood of the people more clever and effective, and the state is even more difficult to deal with.

Speaking of which, in order to curb land annexation, it is only necessary to strictly implement the "uniform land system", and the imperial dynasty has officials who hold the authority of prefectures and counties, and an army that controls the armed forces, and is it afraid that the powerful and powerful will not be able to rebel?

The answer is simple: fear.

I'm really afraid.

Officials and generals of the armed forces are themselves powerful and have vested interests.

Would the king dare to oppose the world's magnates and force them to cut their flesh and bleed?

The king did not dare.

The reason why a king is a king is because the powerful who hold power and wealth listen to his orders, and once the elite class does not obey the orders, the king is alone, and the throne will be replaced.

Does a king dare to ignore the people?

Can't.

The reason why a state is a state is because there are people, and if the people have no way to live, they rise up and rebel, and the country will fall, and the king will have to be replaced.

Therefore, when the annexation of land was so severe, the king would appoint wise men to improve the social situation. But it was only an improvement, as long as it did not suppress the elite, it was doomed to be unable to completely change the overall appearance of the country, so the dynasty finally failed in national strength, and it had to fall in the event of turmoil.

The powerful and the common people are naturally opposed.

The latter create wealth, and the former deprive them of their wealth, which is their respective state of existence.

The powerful must rely on the people to survive, but the people do not have to rely on the powerful to survive, so the people should defeat the powerful. It's a pity that force is in the hands of the powerful, and it is precisely because of the mastery of force that the powerful can suck the blood of the people.

Only when the dynasty is changed, the people can defeat the elites, but the result is only to create a new group of elites.

The state and the powerful are also opposites, but unfortunately, the king who rules the country is the same color as the powerful. The ruler is the biggest magnate in the world, and if he takes care of himself, he can't take care of the people in the world.

Therefore, Li Ye admires Qin Xiaogong, he dares to use Shang Marting, and he can successfully change the law.

However, Qin Xiaogong's deeds cannot be replicated, it only belongs to that historical period.

No matter what the world says, the people are indeed just ants, and they can't help themselves, and the powerful are behemoths and beasts.

Therefore heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are unkind

For dogs.

What the people can do is to become powerful and change their own personal destiny. In order to prevent the people from rebelling, the imperial dynasty will also give them the rank to advance, so that those who have the talents and intellects who lead everyone to rebel will become part of the powerful, become vested interests, and become their companions.

But this can't change the reality that the common people are ants.

"How can I change this world? change this dead end, let ordinary people no longer be sucked by the powerful, so that the power of the country can continue to be strong?" Li Ye looked up at the sky.

If this dead end cannot be changed, no matter how brilliant the Tang Dynasty he created, it is destined to be the same as the exploits of Ying Zheng, Liu Che, and Li Shimin, but it is just a flash in the pan, and it will eventually become a thing of the past with the collapse of the dynasty.

In that case, the world will fall into a cycle of rise and fall of the imperial dynasty.

In the era in which Li Ye once lived, all countries seemed to be quite prosperous, but it was the development of science and technology, which created more wealth, which led to a bigger cake and everyone could get a share of it, so everyone didn't have to starve to death and freeze to death, and no one rebelled.

However, the relationship between the powerful and the people has not fundamentally changed, and once the development of science and technology stagnates, or the speed of increasing wealth to the society is slower than the speed at which the powerful embezzle the wealth of the people, an endless cycle will still appear.

The people can tolerate the powerful sucking their blood. Because they are weak and cannot stand against the strong. However, when the vast number of people cannot effectively meet the basic living conditions of clothing, food, shelter and transportation, they cannot effectively meet the basic living conditions of their lives......

Li Ye pondered for a long time, but had no answer, and couldn't help but feel sad: "Could it be that the glory of the Tang Dynasty that I have created can only be rich in the end? Chang'an is prosperous, and it can only be a bloody prosperity? My simple, courageous, and impassioned people of the Tang Dynasty have to be knocked on the bone and sucked by the powerful all the time?"

King Qi saw that Li Ye's mind did not belong, his face was dark, his breath was disordered, and he couldn't help but change color in shock, and without waiting for her to do anything, he found that Li Ye even began to shake indiscriminately with the power of cultivation.

The fishing boat under his feet then burst into powder, and as the aura frantically dispersed everywhere, the entire Weishui exploded everywhere, setting off a monstrous water curtain, and countless boats were affected, the hull was damaged, and the personnel fell into the water!

As a great monk, how could King Qi not know that this was Li Ye's Dao heart collapsing!

If you can't keep your Dao heart in time, even the foundation of your cultivation will be damaged, and then your cultivation will fall sharply, and even your life will be in danger!

"Li Ye!" King Qi shouted eagerly, and hurriedly dispersed to protect the boats and people on the Weishui River. But her cultivation is too different from Li Ye's, how can she withstand Li Ye's irritable aura? In just a moment, her heart was shaken, and blood overflowed from the corners of her mouth.

The Weishui River was in a mess, and the exclamations were everywhere, and some monks rushed in all directions, trying to rescue the people who fell into the water, but they were shocked out by Li Ye's cultivation power.

"Li Ye, you are the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, how can you mess with your Dao heart?!" King Qi shouted in a deep voice.

Suddenly, the scattered and bursting spiritual wind stopped, and Li Ye's clothes and hair dancing slowly fell.

When King Qi saw Li Ye's face, he couldn't help but tremble.

Those eyes are as deep and vast as the starry sky, as if they contain the power of the universe.

"I want to open up the wisdom of the people!" was the first sentence Li Ye said after recovering from his contemplation.

King Qi was stunned and didn't understand what it meant.

Li Ye has thought a lot and figured out a lot in these few years.