warring states careerist

Chapter 757 Decentralization
Now that the power of the people is stronger and the power of the nobles is weaker, Dai Cong borrowed his strength to destroy the nobles to become the sages of the common people. In favor of Dai Cong's plan to centralize power, it can basically be declared disintegrated.

And Shi always didn't want Song to centralize power successfully and integrate into one.

After the collapse of the patriarchal system, the collapse of rites and laws, the failure of the co-governance of the three surnames and the co-existence of the people's intervention in government, there must be a new system to politically integrate Song into a... nominal whole.

The existence of a country sometimes requires some jurisprudence, at least a reason that sounds self-justified.

Before the disintegration of the patriarchal system and etiquette, the Song Dynasty was Da Zhou Ke, a descendant of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, the emperor, and the Duke of the Zhou Dynasty.

After the disintegration, in the situation where the three surnames co-govern, the legal principle is that whoever has the biggest fist and who has more fiefdoms has the final say.No one can beat everyone else with the biggest fist, so compromise with each other, and the three surnames will rule together.

20 years ago, the Mohists meddled, and the people discovered that our fists were not small, so the Court of Gentlemen and the Court of Common People coexisted.

Now that the people's fists are getting bigger and bigger, Dai Cong's name is "the people are the gods", the spokesperson of the common people.

This is not just the case of the Song Dynasty, it is actually the case in all countries.

After the patriarchal system existed in name only, all countries are looking for new political systems to bridge and maintain a country.

The Qi State uses the Yellow Emperor to win the Yan Emperor, and the Tian family replaces the Qi Wude reincarnation; the Qin State uses all the people as nobles, and everyone can benefit from the expansion of the military. The superficial interests of the monarch and everyone who may make military exploits are the same; Sishang is the solution to the three sufferings of the people, equality and love, and the battle of the world...

In the Song Dynasty, the people are directly the gods, not long-term, not benefiting the world, only the immediate interests, a man elected by the people to seek the best of the people.

The difference from Sishang is that since Sishang suppressed the non-aggressive national faction, he has been advocating: taking Yu as the sage, resetting Kyushu, benefiting the world and benefiting the unification of oneself.

In other words, the jurisprudence that exists in Sishang is to benefit the world and unify the war. Unless the non-aggressive national party is in power, it must go on firmly. This is also the foundation for talents from all over the world to vote.

The Song State was war-weary, non-aggressive, low taxes, independent survival, land distribution, and exemption from service.

In this case, Sishang has a lot of room to manipulate Song Guo.

It's like the emperor's father Yueling angrily denounced the Mohists, saying that Sishang is a centralized power where everything is right and everything is wrong, but in the Song Dynasty, the Gentleman's Court and the Common People's Court can't do all the nonsense, His heart is sinister.

He also hit the nail on the head, but he realized it a little later.

Shi always thinks that Song Guo is a hot potato, which is actually not comfortable to hold, and there is not much profit.Whether the Song State is independent or not depends not on the Song State itself, but on the situation in the world, so the world is stable, and the Song State is stable; the world is chaotic, and the Song State exists.

If this is the case, then we can find a way to continue to make it impossible for Song to complete the centralization of power, and continue to be a buffer state that can only defend and not attack.

Now is an opportunity.

It is different from Shang Yang's reform in history, and it is also different from Sheng Chuo and Wu Qi's reform in Qin at this time.

The reform of the Qin State was from top to bottom. The monarch and his ministers used their talents and force to suppress the old aristocrats, and those who rebelled against Mohist cultivated officials from top to bottom to form a solid top-down centralized state. Activities in Qin State were extremely difficult.

Dai Congyi had no force, and without the backing of the Sishang Mo family, he would not be able to fight against the emperor's family alone, not to mention taking care of the entire nobles of the Song Dynasty.

Two, there are no talents. With the few talents in his hand, it is okay to manage one or two cities. If he wants to govern the entire Song State and follow the Qin State's prefecture and county system, it is a dream.

Three does not have its own talent training system, and Sishang is next to it. Most talented people have learned from Sishang.

The reason for the Song Dynasty’s riot this time was also because of the oppression of the nobles and the increase in taxes for the royal family who wanted to centralize and train the standing army. Therefore, all these can be used to turn the Song Dynasty into a fragmented, but nominally unified Song Dynasty.

The bicameral system of the Court of Gentlemen and the Court of the Common People is impossible to exist, so local autonomy and local federation will be implemented to completely cut off the possibility of centralization in Song Dynasty.

After the big debate four years ago, each of the [-] schools has developed, and this is also an opportunity.

Since the peasant family is quite powerful in the Song Dynasty and is known as the true egalitarian, they can be encouraged to make troubles this time, occupying the dominant power in several cities, and implementing the peasant family system there; They can implement their own system in some places; some anarchist factions hope to make a small country with few people, return to nature, and the humanitarian law naturally has the power to enforce natural law, and they can also be divided into several cities.

Only the old-fashioned Confucianism may not be able to allocate territory, because this time the public riots will no longer accept enfeoffment and rituals. If they can change themselves, it may be possible, but it seems that they are not likely now.

On the basis of acknowledging some of the "same meanings" that sought common ground while reserving differences in the great debate four years ago, each went his own way, and under the premise of the same big meanings, the small meanings were different, so that the Song State could continue to exist as a test field for a hundred schools of thought, making it absolutely impossible for the Song State centralization.

It is said that gentlemen are friends and not party, but now there are very few orthodox noble gentlemen left, and each family has its own interests represented, and gathering together for profit is the party, and the Song Dynasty will let them do it.

Under this assumption, I will roughly talk about my own thoughts.

Someone said: "In this case, we need to discuss it with the other hundred schools. I believe they are definitely willing. Whether it is Yang Zhu or Taoism, there is a part of joining the world, let alone the peasant family. It is not difficult to operate. .”

"Many schools of thought are active in the Song Dynasty, and there are also many local believers. They are all scholars, and their ability to govern a place is at least as good as those of the nobles, and it is easier to adapt to the new situation. Most of them are anti-ritual and anti-sage. of."

At this time, the meaning of believers is not just believers, but represents some literate class with the ability to govern the country. Although it is not rare in Sishang, they are all talents elsewhere.

If you don't have money, you can't read, and if you don't read, you can't know the difference between morality and righteousness. If you don't know the difference between morality and righteousness, you can't choose Taoism, agriculture, Confucianism, Yang and other schools of thought.

Farmers at the bottom, they don't really understand the difference at all.

Since nobles can rule fiefdoms by relying on retainers and vassals, it is not difficult for a school to rule a city by its disciples, at least it is better than those governed by the nobles of the old era.

Another human said: "It's just that the peasant school should pay attention. Their idea of ​​true equality...is too utopian, and...absolutely not applicable to the Shangqiu and Surabaya areas."

Shi said: "Except for the landless people in Shangqiu city, they have few believers in the wealthy cities of Shangqiu and Surabaya, and they don't have a foundation of people."

"However, the fiefs of some nobles are just right for them."

"On the one hand, the land there really needs to be divided equally. On the other hand, some nobles rely on their power to earn profits by operating business with retainers and dependent merchants. The people are indeed resentful. They are angry with both nobles and merchants. Ideas must be recognized by the people there.”

"But if it's Taoyi, can anyone in the farmhouse recognize it? This is how I see it. Since there is a school of Taoism that governs by doing nothing, I think it can be arranged in an area close to Sishang."

"One is that the industry and commerce is developed there, the other is that the land has already been privately traded, and the third is that the consequence of inaction is that the big ones will get bigger and the small ones will be smaller. We can support them in Sishang, and we can also make the land there continue to be merged and used. , to continue to provide us with food, cotton, and population.”

Everyone also felt that it was feasible, and this was equivalent to bringing all the schools except the retro-style Confucianism into the Song Kingdom.

Yang Zhu, Mohism, and Confucianism are the most prominent schools in the world, plus the other hundreds of schools, which are equivalent to most of the scholars in the world, and the rest are those who have no moral concepts.

Let the peasants go to the vicinity of Surabaya and Taoyi to engage in "true equality", that would be a big deal, and it is doomed to be impossible to succeed.

The most important thing is that it is very unfavorable to Sishang. The agriculture in the Song State area close to Sishang has basically completed the germination of business mergers. The hired farming system and large-scale land management system are more efficient than self-cultivated farmers. There is Sishang The needs of developed industrial and commercial areas have formed an inseparable common market: it makes no difference whether it is directly under the Mohist jurisdiction or not.

The peasant family's trend of true equality is a helpless fantasy, a fantasy of landless peasants, because as the bottom class, they bear the exploitation of nobles and merchants, so they hope that the sages will work side by side with the people, and they also dream of I really hope that the market will not pay the same price.

For some fiefdoms that were severely exploited by nobles, this theory not only has the basis of public opinion, but also a kind of liberation of productivity.

As for the arrangement of the farmers, Shi said: "I think they can be arranged near the border between Wei and Chu."

"In case something happens in the future, there will also be an important support for us, unless Wei Chudu recognizes the governance of the farmers there, does not take back the land from the farmers, and does not levy taxes."

This is an obvious move to tie the peasant family and the Mohist family together, but even if it is so obvious, the peasant family must accept it, because they have never had the opportunity to display their ambitions and morals, and at most they are in the state of Chu. A utopia where labor is exchanged for labor.

It is also extremely simple to operate.

Once the Mohists dispatched troops, they would quickly wipe out the power of the nobles of the Song Dynasty. Before the troops were withdrawn, the situation of the Song Dynasty would definitely look extremely stable.

But in fact, once the troops are withdrawn, there will be a power vacuum.

Dai Cong didn't have enough officials to go directly under the jurisdiction; the Song Dynasty must first debate for a period of time for the constitution of righteousness; the managers who were originally under the jurisdiction of the aristocrats either fled or were captured... These are the activities of various schools of thought. Chance.

When the situation stabilizes, Dai Cong will find that the scope of his jurisdiction is actually so large, and local forces in various places will hinder him, and he will have no choice but to do so.

(End of this chapter)