Chapter 6 The Two Mountains
In the academy, in addition to studying, they think about some problems, and life is pleasant. In the blink of an eye, it is September, and the leaves are bleak and yellow. Gao Shun also came back from another place and brought two jars of wine. He said that there are not many grape plantings, so the price is still relatively expensive. The servants everywhere don’t have much spare money, so they collected more than 2,000 kilograms of grapes in total. Moreover, the first time brewing was not good enough to grasp the entire brewing process, especially the sealing problem. Moreover, the first brewing process was not well-known, especially the problem of sealing. Moreover, the first brewing process was not well-known.
It was difficult to solve, and in the end, less than 700 kilograms of wine were brewed. When I was selling it, I sold it to merchants under the name of "Snow Lotus Jade Liquid" as my instructions. On the one hand, it was to keep the raw materials confidential. On the other hand, it was because at that time, wine and salt and iron were monopolized by the state. You can brew wine, but after it is made, it must be sold to the government at a specified price, and the government will sell it uniformly. If I also sell wine to the government like winemaking workshops in various places, how much money can I make?
More than 700 kilograms are only more than 300 jars. Although the quantity is not large, it is still sold at a high price. According to Gao Shun, a servant is quite insightful in trading. The sales of wine and grain led by him made many merchants scream for losses. When I heard the merchants shout for losses, I wanted to laugh. Naturally, merchants would not do losses. The reason why they shouted that the loss was the price lowered with the merchants in the shopping malls in the past (small things are one yuan, five yuan, and larger goods are fifty.
If you go a few hundred, you will say: "You really know how to bargain. I haven't sold this low today (or this month or this year)!" This is actually a manifestation that merchants will subconsciously release the pressure to reach the transaction after completing a transaction. He also heard Gao Shun reply that those servants, in addition to leaving contact in the town and being responsible for purchasing daily necessities, have all brought the food purchased from the wine sale into the mountains in batches.
Based on the principle of digging deep holes and accumulating grain, I explained that when I assigned these servants, I would like to find those in-house villages that are rare and easy to defend and difficult to attack. The latest task now is to plant grapes in the villages so that they can make snow lotus jade liquid for food and a small amount of weapons. In addition, if conditions permit, adopt some boys about ten years old to train them, and practice the sword skills compiled by Gao Shun with fear of martial arts. I cleverly learn some of the brochures I compiled.
Xun Yu and Xun Chen also came to me from time to time to time to finish the game, especially one day when they took a sip of wine, they refused to leave, and asked what it was. I coaxed them to say that this was the fairy dew made from the Tianshan Mountains of the Western Regions, picking the snow lotus of Tianshan Mountain, which made them stunned. They were stunned until they rinsed the two jars with water twice and made them sure that I had not kept it privately, and they got the promise that I would give them one jar next year.
A year passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, a few winter snow had fallen. The students of the academy had already left, and I planned to set off in the past few days, first go to the most advanced settlement for the New Year, and then observe the performance of the various princes during the Yellow Turban Rebellion. This year, by reading the academy's collection and combining the history I knew in my previous life, I discovered a problem or a huge obstacle.
The feudal rule in Chinese history for more than two thousand years was fundamentally derived from the Qin system. In the era of the ancestors, there was no definite evidence to prove its authenticity. The "monarch" was elected by everyone and could also be deposed by everyone. This position was occupied by those who could not be inherited. "At the beginning of the people, there must be no such thing as the monarch and ministers, and each of them could not be governed by each other, so one person was selected as the monarch. He said that he could also abolish it together." Later, the monarchy system underwent major changes.
Once the monarch turns into a slave, the people become slaves, and the position of the monarch becomes the monarch's private property, passed down from generation to generation. This change is separated from the original intention of the ancestors to "pick one people together as the monarch". "Therefore, the monarch is not to do anything to the world's life and blood, but to provide for the arrogance and extravagance. It also wants to make the plan for the descendants for all generations, and all the cruel methods of restraint have flourished." The monarch changed from "empty monarch" to "tyrant", and from "public office" to "private
", the turning point was in the Qin Dynasty, and the initiator was Qin Shihuang Ying Zheng. Although the actual existence of the Qin Dynasty was short, its institutional structure and cultural heritage enveloped the later generations. Although the Qin Dynasty died in the second generation, Qin Shihuang was still able to realize his ideal of spreading the imperial system for generations on another level. Although the monarchs did not necessarily appreciate Ying Zheng's character, they followed Qin Shihuang's rule. (Because the novel needs a slave society, please do not investigate it in depth)
The core of Qin's government, the secret of Qin Shihuang's ruling technique, is the sacredness of the monarch's power. How was this transformation of the "big thief" into a "saint" completed? The relationship between the kings and the "heaven" in ancient times was relatively loose. Some tribes had priests who specialized in priests, while others were responsible for the priests. When they arrived at Qin Shihuang, he used rituals to fix the relationship between the king and the "heaven", took the name of "Huangdi", and changed it to "emperor", proudly regarded the residence of the "Son of Heaven".
Ying Zheng claimed to be the "Tao", the "Great Sage", the "Emperor", the "Son of Heaven", and the "Dragon". These titles combined together are reflected in the role of social and historical: the merits are over the past and present, and the gifts of the world. Therefore, Qin Shihuang announced: "In the six-held, the land of the emperor." "Where are people who come from, there are all ministers." Since the pre-Qin period, "the world" has been an infinite concept of space. The emperor owns the world, which means that the royal power has surpassed the space. At the same time, Ying Zheng also announced: "I am the First Emperor. Later generations count it.
, the second and third generations have passed on forever, and it has been passed on endlessly." He deluded to extend the autocratic power forever through his descendants, thereby achieving transcendence of time. This view of power has gradually been accepted by the people through the manifestation of violence and the infiltration of culture. The traditional Chinese people believe that the reason why managers can have administrative power is because they can express the will of God to the greatest extent. In China's political culture, the vast majority of rulers appear in perfect image. The kings of the Western Zhou Dynasty reflected in the "Poetry"
This is the case, the Qin Shihuang who was praised by the stone carvings of Langya, and the Emperor Wu of Han, Emperor Taizong of Tang, etc. The ancient Chinese were accustomed to saying "Long live, long live, long live, long live" to the living emperors, but were not used to criticizing any shortcomings of the emperor. This was caused by thousands of years of high-pressure political and cultural work. Ying Zheng determined three unquestionable values based on these concepts: imperial power comes from divine grants, imperial power is infinite in space and time, and imperial power is also perfect. It is precisely because the monarch monopolized the sacrifice to the sky.
The power of the power makes its power "sacred and inviolable", and also causes the people to fall into the abyss of endless disasters. This ceremony consolidates the pattern of unity of power: "China has been exiled from the earth and heaven, but the emperor can only sacrifice to heaven. Since the emperor has taken one day to suppress the world, the world hopes that the emperor will be like one day. Although the world is full of the world and thieves, they still think that it is the order of the world and dare not accept it. The people are foolish and extremely unequal." In this way, "justice" is in the hands of the kings in this world, but not in the hands of the "God" in that world.
There has never been a spiritual and power system similar to the Christian church in China, which can effectively restrict and balance the power of the monarch. Although Western monarchs once claimed to be "I am the country", their secular power needs to be recognized by religious leaders. In other words, Western monarchs cannot directly obtain power from God, but must be "transferred" by the pope or the archbishop. At the same time, the pope also controlled the church through "give clothes power" to prevent it from being implicated by the king. This is the fundamental difference between Chinese and Western political civilization. In the Middle Ages, German Emperor Henry IV once challenged the Pope's "giveness"
"," gave the three bishops a ceremony, and then convened a meeting of bishops, claiming that Quarry VII would no longer be honored as the pope. Pope Quarry VII announced the removal of Henry IV's church, "deprived Emperor Henry IV of the sovereignty of the entire Germany and Italy, and prohibited anyone from respecting him as king." The German emperor was under tremendous pressure, and the powerful nobles held a meeting, and all hoped that Henry would humble. The meeting decided: within a year, if the Pope did not cancel the verdict for the removal of Henry from the church, Henry would lose the throne. At this time, Henry was in a critical situation. In order to preserve the throne, he would not
He had to brave the cold, cross the Alps and go to the castle where the pope lives to pay romance. Henry wore a rough wool robe of the penitent, stood barefoot on the snow, and had to enter the pope's room for three days and get his pardon. King John of England was also expelled from the church by Pope Innosen. Faced with the danger of losing the throne, he had to surrender to the pope and begged to "become a servant of God and the Roman Church again." After obtaining forgiveness, King John of England immediately handed over his crown and scepter to the pope's representative Rudolph, who kept it for five days before returning it to show that the pope was supreme.
Supreme authority. This situation is absolutely impossible to appear in China's history. In sharp contrast, after the kings of China sacred the power of the monarch, their power is one-yuan. The king can expand their territory as they wish, control people's hearts, or abuse their subjects without any shame. Whether the subjects are "loyal ministers" or "traitors" is only in the king's thoughts. Although many founding kings themselves actually come from rebellion, after the successful riot and the establishment of a dynasty, they immediately establish a mysterious connection with the "Emperor and Heaven" and leaps into the only representative of the order of heaven on earth.
After the sacred model of monarchy was frozen in Chinese political history, it caused extremely serious consequences. One of the consequences was that the emperor himself became the source of power, and the imperial court's final decision-making power was controlled by the emperor alone. The emperor's power had no legislative basis or specific system to limit it. The second consequence was that under the cover of absolute royal power, the people and scholars and officials lost the right to free migration, lost the spirit of "heroes" in ancient times, lost their economic self-sufficiency, and became complete slaves. The third consequence was that the politics, economy, and culture of Chinese society were stagnant for a long time.
The "Three Bonds" evolved around the divine authority of the monarchy, even if the emperors of all dynasties were as "unlearned and ignorant as Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang, they also needed exquisite cultural and academic packaging. The Qin system had such strong vitality and could be constantly transformed into the use of emperors of all dynasties in China. In addition to its effectiveness at the practical level, it also lies in its profound academic origin. The academic origin of Qin's politics, that is, the crux of the Chinese authoritarian cultural tradition, lies in the "cultural conspiracy" of "Confucianism and the law", and its specific manifestation is the Three Bonds.
The king has the power of God! The king is the leader of the minister, the father is the leader of the son, and the husband is the leader of the wife! Just like two mountains, I can't breathe. Just from psychological analysis, these things firmly bind people's thoughts and give everyone a powerful psychological hint and hypnotic effect to fulfill their destiny.
Damn! God! Did you let me come to this era with the knowledge of my previous life to compete with these two mountains?
Chapter completed!