At this moment, Zhao Lie, Wan Ji, and Bai Shidi were also having a banquet together.
After three rounds of drinking, Bai Shidi mustered up the courage to speak, "I have a question, I don't know whether to answer it or not."
"What's wrong with Mr.
Bai, who is always quick to talk?
If you have something to say, there's no harm in saying it."
Zhao Lie pointed at Bai Shidi and smiled.
Wan Ji also smiled and pointed at Bai Shidi, "You can let me go if you have one."
Bai Shidi chuckled and didn't care.
"Sir, this council is similar to Macau, but there is no emperor in Macau.
Portuguese businessmen from all over the place gather together to discuss matters.
In the future, your lord will be the Supreme Lord of Jiuding.
Why are you asking for trouble?
If the council has power in the future, how can it allow me to wait?
If we send troops to collect taxes at will, our army will be restricted everywhere in the future."
As soon as Bai Shidi finished speaking, several other people also looked at Zhao Lie.
He had wanted to say these words for a long time, but of course Bai Shidi was the first to do so.
"Well, you finally said it," Zhao Lie smiled slightly.
He guessed that these people must have thought so.
This Lao Shizi meeting was too intrusive.
"Think about it since the Han Dynasty, the Han, Tang, Song and Ming dynasties.
Why has it always taken more than 200 years to fall, either by the common people or by foreigners?"
Zhao Lie said with a smile.
"This gentleman has said many times that the wealth of previous dynasties mainly relied on land tax.
In the later period of the dynasty, the population increased greatly, and the land annexation by the noble gentry was serious, resulting in the collapse of the court's finances."
Wan Ji replied that Zhao Lie had been aware of them since ten years ago, and no one knew about them as their companions back then.
"This is not only a problem in China, but also in Europe where the Francois and the Netherlands are located.
The prosperity and decline are all because the rights of later monarchs are not restricted, and the finances begin to collapse again.
This is a cycle. ” Zhao Lie took a sip of wine.
He felt that it was time to explain to his direct subordinates.
"Europe, where the French and Dutch are located, already has a way to deal with it.
That is, the lords and nobles formed a council to restrict the monarch's unrestrained use of troops and taxation.
It seems to have some effect now."
"Those kings can also be willing.
It's impossible."
Bai Shidi stared.
He had never heard of a monarch willing to put shackles on himself.
"Of course they don't want to, but the lords are not ordinary people.
They also have their own force.
Furthermore, they have the right to protect their own taxes and property.
Do you think they can give up easily?
The king wants to dissolve the council, and the council wants to keep their rights. , both sides are bound to fight.”
"Then the country is in chaos."
Gu Wuyue said in disbelief.
"The king did not have the strength to eliminate the lords and nobles.
Because the lords and nobles were scattered, it was impossible for anyone to become the monarch.
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The result of the fierce fighting between the two sides was that the monarch was forced to give in and let the council continue to exist, otherwise his throne would not be guaranteed.
Now the king of England has The internal fighting with the council began.”
Zhao Lie said simply.
"Is this really true?"
Wanji hesitated a little, thinking it couldn't be that easy.
"That's true, but there won't be any results after decades of fighting."
Zhao Lie smiled.
"Isn't this a chaotic rhythm?"
Bai Shidi really couldn't believe it.
"This council has this advantage.
It has attracted a large number of nobles and gentry to join, and they can also be half the masters of this country.
Think about it, if the king is too stupid and continues to use troops or impose heavy taxes, There is chaos in the country, which will cause the lords and gentry to reduce land taxes and business taxes.
Do you think they can allow the king to cause chaos?
" When Zhao Lie said this, several people were lost in thought, and they obviously listened to it.
Zhao Lie couldn't help but be satisfied that these boys have gained experience over the years, and they are no longer the fools they were before.
Think carefully when something happens,
"Similarly, if the Ming Dynasty had this council and the establishment of slaves was so aggressive.
Can the gentry in the council be like the gentry of the Ming Dynasty and just sit back and watch the country shake?
How could their fiefdoms and their council rights be affected?
To protect it, they will also gather their strength to attack Jiannu.
This is to turn the former family world into a shared world for all nobles, gentry and the emperor. " Wan Ji, Gu Wuyue, Bai Shidi and others thought thoughtfully, these words are really fresh, it turns out that the rights of a country can still be played like this.
Zhao Lie watched as his right-hand men began to think carefully about this matter, and couldn't help but smile, and would discuss these issues in the future.
The reason why he issued soldiers and armor to the people of Beihua and established councils for them was to work hard for the development of the Central Plains.
This was a experimental field, and he would eventually transplant everything in Beihua to the western continent.
He just wants to cultivate such a soil on this land in his lifetime, so that gentry and businessmen can control their rights and let the people have a certain ability to defend themselves.
Of course, gentry and businessmen must pay taxes.
There is no longer any need to have it.
It is a good thing that fame can reduce land tax and business tax.
If there is gain, there will be loss.
If there is a gentry and others who are secretly causing trouble, they can be subdued with swords, guns, and prestige while they are still alive, and standardize a path for the future direction of the Central Plains.
If Tian Suiren wants the Polu Army to succeed in the revolution, he must be the emperor's choice.
In this era, this land will not accept other political systems, only the emperor.
However, Zhao Lie did not want his descendants to remain complacent like the Qing emperors in the future.
The old system could not withstand the invasion of emerging European countries.
In the end, he was forced to cede his territory and betray his people to preserve his own power and dignity, becoming the object of reviled by the whole world.
So is Zhao Lie still a time traveler?
If he reaches that point, his recovery will be in vain and he will be extremely weak.
In order to prevent future generations of unscrupulous descendants from falling into the tragic fate of the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, his ancestor had to reluctantly prepare for them.
Although there may be twists and turns, the worst possibility is that the emperor does not have all the gentry to fight against the world, and finally there is another revolution.
But it is better than losing face in the end and being reviled by everyone in the world.
As for whether future generations can turn things around, Zhao Lie said to himself that if he did not create opportunities, the result would still be the consequences of a dictatorial emperor in the Central Plains, a land with strong authoritarian power.
It was not that the later emperors of the Qing Dynasty did not work hard.
Except for a few emperors, they were also diligent in their duties.
However, when one minority ruled the Han people and safeguarded the interests of the minority at all times, this stock was crooked.
Then there is the monster of the imperial system that kills everything that threatens him, whether it is people or things.
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Therefore, in the end, it was this decadent full-time monarchy that ruined China.
Zhao Lie estimated that his descendants would be like this and would not deviate from this trajectory.
The rich soil of China's imperial system for thousands of years would be able to bear such a thing and not other fruits.
Unless there is an external force that changes the soil climate, Zhao Lie is now subtly trying to change this trajectory.
Of course, he will go all out to combine Chinese and Western education from the beginning of his children's education.
European books should even take the lead, and he should take the initiative to establish contact with Europe, so that the children can understand everything that is happening on that turbulent continent, as well as their understanding of China. influence.
At the same time, we must vigorously promote Western learning throughout the country and cultivate the power of gentry and businessmen so that the power gap between the emperor and these two classes is not so great.
As for whether gentry and businessmen would give up their rights under the pressure of future emperors, Zhao Lie thinks not.
When he was alive, these people tasted the sweetness of rights.
How could they give up?
Everyone is like this.
Of course, if they have not experienced it, they will not feel it.
If they have had it and are in danger of losing it, then they will desperately want to protect their rights and Benefit.
Just like today's gentry in the Ming Dynasty, in order to protect their own interests, they went against the emperor, even if they didn't pay extra taxes, they would rather sit back and watch the country fall, but they would rather keep the scholar-bureaucrats and the emperor sharing the world, and keep the privileges and dignity of those with fame and fame not to pay taxes, human beings He is so stubborn and short-sighted for the sake of profit.
And Zhao Lie wanted to take advantage of this and give this bait to the two greedy classes of gentry and businessmen, so that they would be so beautiful after getting the right to monitor the monarch.
In order to control the monarch's rights and protect their own They will definitely take advantage of the benefits.
Then one day they will be extremely miserable when faced with losing this right, which means they have lost the ability to protect the privileges of their class.
Then they will definitely resist desperately.
The more fiercely they resist, the more the emperor will turn against him, just like the emperor today does not dare to tax the famous gentry in the world.
Because if you do that, the world may overturn.
The gentry, who are the so-called backbone of the country, will overthrow you, and the whole world will be in chaos.
Even the emperor will not dare to go against the trend.
What Zhao Lie needs is for this seed to break out of the ground and grow as vigorously as possible during his lifetime.
s: Recently, some readers said that the battle formation is not smooth and efficient, and it is so troublesome to fight with the slaves.
In fact, it is so troublesome.
The cavalry is really invincible in the cold weapon era.
The possibility of those who go straight into Liaodong without cavalry is in writing.
It's just that one hundred thousand elite soldiers marched into Liaodong, and the food supply As for grass, it is a long road to supply it from anywhere.
More than ten thousand Jiannu cavalry can attack the supply line at any time.
How many people can guard the grain and grass?
Tens of thousands of people?
Then how much grain and grass can be transported to the front, so there is no count.
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