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When Liu Yihua saw everyone confused, he sighed: "Hey, although the people may not like to be dictatorial and centralized from ancient times to the present, the real situation is that you - from ancient times to the present, no matter which dynasty is, they are dictatorial and centralized from the present!"

At this time, Zhou Xiuying said in confusion: "Yihua, what is the difference between this dictatorship and centralization? Or is it the same?"

Liu Yihua smiled and said, "On the surface, it seems similar, but there is still a little difference. If the imperial power is very large and the emperor has the final say in everything alone, then this is an obvious dictator! Of course, many times, the emperor also depends on the minister's meaning, so the degree of this 'dictatorship' is definitely different in every era. But no matter what, the emperor is a dictator! Even the so-called wise ruler, Tang Zong Song Zu, was a dictator! During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the emperor's power became increasingly greater and more powerful, and the dictatorship level was becoming more and more powerful. At this time, the dictatorship of the Qing Dynasty had reached the highest peak in history! Therefore, everything will be reversed."

Zhou Xiuying thoughtfully said: "The dictatorship of the Ming Dynasty emperors is getting stronger and stronger, so once the Ming Dynasty is not good, the entire country will be over, right? The dictatorship of the Qing Dynasty reaches its peak, and it will eventually perish like the Ming Dynasty, right?"

Liu Yihua smiled and said, "To some extent, this is true. However, the strength of the emperor's dictatorship has some relationship with the demise of a dynasty, but not all. If an emperor is wise and powerful, his ability exceeds everyone in the world, then if there is such a dictatorial emperor, it is the happiness of the people in the world! On the contrary, if the emperor is incompetent and has dictatorial tyrants to mess with the country, then this country will be finished soon!"

"I understand now. In other words, dictatorship is a double-edged sword? If the country is used well, it may be the country's destruction? In general, dictatorship or the harm outweighs the benefits, is it?" Zhou Xiuying analyzed.

Liu Yihua nodded with great satisfaction and said, "Yes, it can be said that no one is perfect. No matter how powerful an emperor is, he cannot be better than the whole world, nor can he be more intelligent than the collective. Therefore, good emperors are appropriately dictatorial, and then listen to the opinions of ministers more. In this regard, Li Shimin is the representative. He is the emperor who is arrogant. But he has to listen to Wei Zheng's long-lasting words. Therefore, he is a good emperor."

Zhou Xiuying nodded and said, "Well, I understand. By the way, I haven't said centralization yet."

Liu Yihua smiled and said, "Centralization, as the name suggests, means concentrating all rights!

Centralization is naturally formed by humans as social animals in the process of unity and cooperation. In the early days, humans defeated ferocious beasts and adapted to the harsh natural environment. Now humans transformed nature and humans themselves. Without centralization, there would be no country. All countries in the world, including all regimes, whether they are monarchies or republics, whether they are the United States, Britain, Germany, or France, are centralized, and no country can do not have centralization!"

Zhou Xiuying said strangely: "But I still don't understand the difference between dictatorship and centralization."

Liu Yihua smiled and said, "Haha, this is really not a good difference. It can be said that - centralization and dictatorship are often just one step away! But centralization does not mean dictatorship!

Dictatorship is based on personal preferences, and is a form of political system in which individuals or small groups have absolute power without effective constraints! Monarchs or emperors are symbols of dictatorship. They enjoy absolute power, independent of any laws and regulations, and strictly prohibit the existence of any opposing authority. In a dictatorial administrative system, individuals or core leaders are absolute centers, and their individual strength is the original driving force for the operation of the administrative system, and their individual behavior can change the route and process of the operation of the entire administrative system. The people or subordinates can only guess the hobbies of the core leaders, obey their will, and cater to their will.

However, whether it is dictatorship or not, most powerful countries are based on a high degree of centralization. Because for a country, it is possible to not have dictatorship, but it must be centralized! If a country's rights are scattered and each is in power, then the country will soon be divided and finished!"

Liu Yihua was very moved at this time. In the future, why is the United States dominant in one country? In fact, it is also highly centralized! You must know that the US president is a party leader, head of government, and commander-in-chief of the army. How much power does this require? Isn’t this a high degree of centralization?

Of course, in order to avoid the president from centralization to dictatorship, Americans deliberately let the law be made without the president's interference, and the president must abide by the law! At the same time, the United States has established a two-party political system and mutual supervision system. Coupled with strong press freedom and supervision, the US president is sometimes very painful! George W. Bush once sighed: "I am standing in a cage and talking to you!"

"Oh, so that's how centralization is!" Liu Yihua said very simply, and everyone understood it at once.

Liu Yihua said: "So, I just proposed the concept of 'centralized rule'. This is the region or even country we will manage in the future. We must be highly centralized and then appropriately dictatorial! Only in this way can all our managed regions or countries have very high cohesion, and they will have strong centripetal force and develop rapidly!"

Zhou Xiuying asked in confusion: "But it is appropriately dictatorial? How can we master this degree?"

Liu Yihua smiled bitterly and said, "This degree does not have a clear goal, and every era is different. For example, in the past dynasties, although the emperor was dictatorial, most of them still had a degree. On the one hand, this degree refers to how much the emperor would listen to the ministers' suggestions, and on the other hand, it also refers to how much more people would participate in the management of the country at the emperor's meeting. How much should they be delegated to officials? How much should they be delegated to the people? This is a 'dictatorial' degree!"

"A little confused..." Liu Yihua said this. Everyone probably understood, but they didn't understand it very well.

Liu Yihua smiled and said, "You must understand the emperor's delegation of power to ministers. But delegating power to the people? You should be confused, right? Didn't the emperor have the final say? Is it the emperor who has the final say? Is the emperor still obeying the people?

Yes! The emperor must listen to the people! What is the people? The people are water, and the emperor is a boat! ‘Water carries the boat and water will overturn the boat’! Which emperor does not understand this principle? Therefore, in the past, there were no emperors who did not pay attention to the hearts of the people! Basically, they adopted the national policy of co-governing the emperor and the scholars. In this way, the scholar-official class became the imperial examination class. But no matter how it changes, in general, it was the emperor and scholars who jointly govern the world. This is our tradition in China - to win the country with martial arts and govern the country with civilization! No matter how powerful the emperor can only win over and use the literati and dare not attack and contain it. Otherwise, all the scholars in the world will rebel, and the country will basically be overthrowed!"

"Oh. We will understand after saying this! As long as an emperor or a ruler hand over most of his power to officials and the people, there will basically be no big trouble in this country, right?" Zhou Xiuyun said at this time.

Liu Yihua nodded and said, "It can be said that. However, the ruler cannot do nothing and delegate all the owners! Otherwise, the power below will be too great. Wouldn't this ruler be undermined? Therefore, how to grasp this degree can only be achieved by the ruler's personal experience! Moreover, not all rights must be delegated, such as military power, which must be firmly grasped in the hands of the ruler! Power comes from the gun, and if a ruler loses the gun, he will be driven out of power soon!"

"I understand, I understand completely now!" Zhou Xiuying and everyone nodded and said.

Liu Yihua finally said: "In fact, since mankind has recorded history of civilization, only China has always stood in the east of the world as a great country and has never stopped strong civilization! But what is ridiculous is that the political system that China relies on for a long time is a high centralized system! Therefore, it seems a bit unreasonable to say that high centralization harms our China? We cannot deny the long-term prosperity and strength created by the great ancestors of China because China is backward now, right?

Besides, the reason why China is now backward and beaten is not caused by centralization in a certain way! There are a series of very complex reasons!"

In fact, Liu Yihua couldn't say what the specific reason was, and no one could say it! But everyone cannot deny the glory of China! For a long time, China was a "nation kingdom"! You know, at that time, many princes and grandchildren around the world dreamed of marrying the beautiful "Princess of China"!? Modern Chinese people should actually use scientific arguments to replace their intuitive and extreme attitudes. They look at the centralized system of China in the past.

Zhou Xiuying said dizzyly: "Ah? Why did you say this again? Since high centralization is good, why is China getting weaker and weaker?"

Liu Yihua laughed and said, "Class Zhou Xiuying asked this question well! This is because the dynasty failed to successfully solve two problems when operating the centralized system:

One is that it is impossible to prevent centralization from sliding towards dictatorship. The development trend of the centralized system in ancient China was increasingly taking imperial power as the supreme core. The supervision system, the official selection system, etc. were increasingly obeying the needs of emperor dictatorship from top to bottom. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the prime minister system was abolished. The spy agency was rampant, and all constraint systems that hindered the emperor's personal autocracy were constantly weakened, and the monarch's dictatorship reached its peak. Such centralization would be problematic.

Another thing is that at the end of a dynasty, that is, the last emperor of a dynasty, the central government's high centralization was in vain! At this time, the emperor could only have supreme power in terms of etiquette and form! But in the actual operation process, the emperor of this period could no longer have supreme authority. How could the emperor effectively exercise centralization in this case? Therefore, when the Ming Dynasty was destroyed, Emperor Chongzhen's last words: 'The king is not a king who destroyed the country, but the ministers are all ministers who destroyed the country'! This means that Chongzhen could no longer turn the world of the entire country with one person at that time, because the officials and the local government were divided into pieces, and the central government's high centralization had collapsed!"

Zhou Xiuying looked at Liu Yihua and nodded vigorously, "Well said! Now I understand why a country must be highly centralized! That's because, if a country has a highly centralized collapse, then in fact, this country will collapse and perish!"

Liu Yihuaxing said with relief: "Haha, beauties can be taught! Basically, that's what it means."

Zhou Xiuying's face turned red and rolled her eyes to Liu Yihua. Now Liu Yihua and Zhou Xiuying have made that happen, and the two have become one, so now they have a more tacit understanding and understanding.

Liu Yihua sighed, "So, look at the five thousand years of our Chinese nation, which is actually the history of emperor dictatorship and high central government central government central government central government's high central government's central government's high power! So many dynasties are so many parents! So many intellectuals actually teach the people how to be a qualified family member! Look, what does Confucianism say? What are the Three Bonds and Five Constant Permanence, Three Obediences and Four Virtues, Heaven, Earth, Prince, Parents and Teachers... Isn't this a huge theoretical basis for the dictatorship of the feudal dynasty? It is to make those dynasties become hierarchical and strict!"

Liu Yihua is not really sighing. It is because Liu Yihua understands history. Why did the dynasty collapse quickly when the imperial examinations of the Qing Dynasty abolished? Everyone knows that the imperial examinations have drawbacks, but this is the only channel for intellectuals to become officials!

How can this be done if the imperial examinations are abolished and no new opportunities are given to intellectuals to be officials? So the intellectuals rebelled! In other words, those intellectuals shouted about revolution for nothing else, just to be officials! If you don’t give me the opportunity to be an official in the Qing Dynasty, then I will overthrow you and become a high-ranking official by myself!

Of course, there are not many people who truly revolutionize for the future of the country and nation. But most of the revolutions in the late Qing Dynasty were for this. Some famous people even said: "The imperial examination is not abolished. Who will do the revolution? This is really ridiculous, but these are the intellectuals of China!

Zhou Xiuying fainted and said, "Ah, no, right? Yihua, it's too disrespectful to say that! Confucius and Mencius are saints!"

Liu Yihua smiled and said, "I am not saying that I do not respect Confucius and Mencius. My consciousness is that many emperors have used Confucius and Mencius' Confucianism. In the eyes of those emperors, what do saints do? Saints are brainwashing the rulers! You can joke that "China's five thousand years of history is the brainwashing history of saints!"

Zhou Xiuying fainted and said, "No, Yihua, why do you say that saint?"

Liu Yihua smiled bitterly and said, "Sages are also humans, not gods! Do you think Confucius has no selfishness and does not want to seize power? Let me give you an example: Confucius travels around the countries and seeks officials everywhere, isn't it for the sake of power?"

Zhou Xiuying said a little angrily: "No, right? That's why Saint Kong wants to save the people of those countries, right?"

Liu Yihua smiled bitterly and said, "Okay. Confucius really wanted to govern the country! But do you dare to say that Confucius was not seeking official positions for power? You know, Confucius finally acted as the Prime Minister of Lu in Lu for three months, but he killed Shao Zhengmao in less than seven days! What's the reason? Isn't it because Shao Zhengmao's lectures were popular, and even Confucius's eldest disciple Yan Hui ran over to listen? This must have violated Confucius' authority in the literary world! Look, Confucius was going to seize power in just seven days and you even want to be dictatorial! How can you say that Confucius has no selfishness? You must know that sages are also human beings. Everyone has seven emotions and six desires, and people will have selfishness!"

"This... is there such a thing?" Zhou Xiuying originally wanted to refute Liu Yihua, but she thought about it and was Liu Yihua's woman. How could she keep refuting her husband? That way, it's not three obediences and four virtues!

When Liu Yihua saw Zhou Xiuying's incredible look, he shook his head and said, "Don't worship blindly. You rulers must not engage in personality worship by governing a country or region! If you worship someone crazy, your actions will lose balance and direction! What you have to do is to let the people below you worship your personality! It would be better for the people under your rule to regard you as saints and gods, that's fine!"

Zhou Xiuying said: "That's it? Oh. If the people below worship us, we can better manage the region and country, right?"

Liu Yihua nodded and smiled, "Yes. Forget it, since I have said this, I will break the tall image of the saint in your heart today!

How about Dayu?" Liu Yihua asked.

Zhou Xiuying said, "Dayu? That's also a saint! I don't know that Dayu passed by the house three times to control the flood, but did not enter?"

Liu Yihua smiled bitterly and said, "Yes, Dayu did pass the house three times to control the flood, but do you know? Dayu stopped when he met Tushan, and even made Tushan pregnant and gave birth to a child. He was the founder of the Xia Dynasty. Can you say that Dayu was so busy that he had no time to go home? Or did Dayu have no one in his family who deserves to miss?"

"Ah? This..." Zhou Xiuying's people were stunned.

Liu Yihua effectively said: "Is Guan Zhong, the famous prime minister of Qi very powerful?"

Zhou Xiuying nodded.

Liu Yihua smiled and said, "But you know, Guan Zhong has opened an official brothel and makes money by relying on this. Can you say that he has noble thoughts?"

"Bah! What are you talking about?" Several beauties immediately blushed!

Liu Yihua smiled and said, "What's the matter? Qu Yuan is so powerful? But he likes the King of Chu! A man likes a man, what can you say about Qu Yuan?"

"No way? Men like men? Why is this happening?" Several beauties blushed, but were full of curiosity.
Chapter completed!