Chapter 118: The Empire Decays This is completely different from Huaxia, the history before the Qin Dynasty is too complicated, let's not talk about it, let's just say that in the last years of the Qin Dynasty, Daze Township uprising, Chen Sheng's voice 'The prince will have a kind of Xiangning', completely broke the shackles in the hearts of the Chinese people.
Ancient China was a unified dynasty, and the power was in the hands of the landlords and the bureaucracy.
In order to seize power, the peasant and the gentry often combined to make revolutions, and such massive peasant uprisings often succeeded.
The people no longer believe in the Mandate of Heaven, thinking that the princes have no way to do the way for heaven, and whoever has the biggest fist will be the emperor.
It is said that Chen Sheng's uprising is a bad start, it is because under the temptation of power, countless careerists from the bottom have embarked on the road of rebellion for the sake of power.
However, in fact, most of the uprisings failed, and what was even more unfortunate was that after the defeat, not only did he have to die, but also caused the bad luck of those who followed him, often a large number of deaths.
In that case, why is it a good start?
That's because the Dazexiang uprising planted a seed called rebellion for the Chinese people - there were no peasant uprisings in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period before the Qin Dynasty, and the lives of the people at that time were actually similar to those in Europe.
But Chen Sheng's uprising gave the Chinese people a seed of rebellion, and from then on, 'the prince will have a kind of Xiangning' has become the belief of the Chinese people, as long as the monarch has no way, as long as you dare to let us not live, then we will rebel and completely overthrow you.
From this point, it can also be seen that the spirit of resistance of the Chinese people is rooted in their bones, or they have no sense of awe, the reason why they are honest, obey your orders, and respect you as the emperor is because you can let me live, if you can't even do this......
I'm sorry, I can only choose to kill you and find my own way to live.
Therefore, the later monarchs no longer dared to mess around like in the pre-Qin period, but paid great attention to the people's livelihood, at least occasionally asked - even the most stupid monarch did not dare to ignore it completely, and even people like Emperor Hui Sima Zhen, when there was a major disaster and the people had no food to eat, they would ask 'why not eat chyme', no matter how ridiculous and nonsense this was, but at least it proved that he also paid attention to the people's livelihood.
It's completely different from the West – 'After I die, it doesn't matter how big it is.'"
This is a famous quote of Louis XV, the monarch of the French generation (some say Louis XIV, some say Louis XVI, I don't know, just take the median), from this point proves that the European aristocracy in that period did not regard the common people as human beings at all.
That is, they are in Europe, and if they dare to do this in China, the enraged Chinese people can teach them how to be human beings in minutes.
Of course, there is also the right of the Holy See to control it, the king is only the princes canonized by the Holy See, and their status is almost the same as that of the vassal states of the Zhou Dynasty, and Zhou Tianzi is the Holy See, high above, the difference is that the Holy See has enough strength to control the princes under him, and Zhou Tianzi is just a decoration in the later period, except for the good name, it is nothing.
The impact of the Dazexiang uprising on the Chinese people is both positive and negative, but on the whole it is still a little more positive, after all, this uprising is equivalent to unlocking a lock in the hearts of the Chinese people, and it is no longer a divine right of kingship, as long as the king is not qualified, as long as we have no way to live, then we have a new choice - instead of starving to death, it is better to rise up, maybe we can succeed, it is much better than now.
At the same time, this is equivalent to adding a tight spell to the king, always warning the king not to come nonsense, otherwise the mud legs below are not easy to mess with, once you annoy them, they will blow up, you have to treat them well, forcing the monarch to always be vigilant.
But even so, it is difficult for a thousand-year-old dynasty to appear in China, and even more than 800 years there is only one Zhou Dynasty, and it is divided into two periods, East and West, after the Qin Dynasty, there is only one Han Dynasty for more than 400 years, which is also divided into two parts, East and West, and the Song Dynasty is more than 300 years, or is divided into two parts, in fact, if you really want to be more true, such a dynasty should be counted as two parts.
But even if they are taken together, except for the two dynasties of the Han and Song dynasties after the Qin Dynasty, there is no dynasty that has more than 300 years - even the extremely powerful Tang Dynasty has a history of less than 290 years (only 289 years).
And this is also the reason why Li Zhen wants to focus on changing all this, otherwise with his soul from the future, he will not put himself in the short-lived position of the emperor no matter what, if the future of the Tang Dynasty is very good, then he would rather be a free prince, but unfortunately the future of the Tang Dynasty is very bad, except for the two periods of the early Tang Dynasty and the prosperous Tang Dynasty, which are quite prosperous, the rest of the period is very weak, peasant uprisings, and foreign invasions emerge in endlessly.
And the West is different, there are many dynasties of more than 1,000 years, such as the Egyptian dynasty, more than 3,000 years, for example, the Capetian dynasty, 1,100 years, and the more famous Byzantine Empire - of course, in fact, the Egyptian dynasty and the Byzantine Empire are not the same dynasty, for example, the Egyptian dynasty is divided into nine periods, more than 30 dynasties, and Byzantium also has 12 dynasties, but all the rulers use the name Egypt and Rome, so they are considered the same dynasty.
In fact, Egypt and Byzantium are just a general name, for example, we are called Huaxia, which has been called this for 5,000 years, but those who know the situation know that we are also divided into dozens of dynasties, and the same is true of them.
But in any case, there is no doubt that the dynasties of the West have lasted longer than those of the East—the Chrysanthemum Dynasty of the Wa Kingdom is just an exception, and the Wanshi family is not a joke.
In China, even a dynasty of less than 300 years can have so many decaying events, this Brahmanism has developed for thousands of years, so how many bad things must be done—you must know that even the Holy See, in the seventh century, did not have a thousand years of history, and it has already decayed like that......