But the Qin and Han empires have come to an end after all, and there is no need to think about the ultimate reason for the end of the empire - the obsolescence of the military merit system.
For Li Er, it is okay to commemorate the history of China from the beginning to the end of the Qin and Han Dynasties - from the First Emperor to Kong Ming, but to never forget it is a child-like escape mentality.
And how could the Tang Dynasty surpass the military meritocracy? This system of blood aristocracy that ended the Shang and Zhou Dynasties during the Warring States Period gave a large number of ordinary people room for advancement. However, in the end, because it could not provide a larger number of ordinary people with room for advancement,
For Li Er, it was too grand a question. It was really impossible to find the answer to this kind of question just by talking to Li Sheng. Of course.
Because of Li Sheng's appearance, Li Er really found the answer.
Nature is industry.
With industry, the way for ordinary people to obtain wealth is equivalent to adding a lot of room for advancement in addition to military merit. After the birth of industry and factories, ordinary people can not only become nobles through military exploits, but also gain technical skills.
For his contribution, he was awarded the title of factory owner - yes, in addition to the heroes at the bottom and the common people at the bottom who saved their own money to set up workshops and slowly expanded, the factory owners in China were also canonized by the imperial court!
These conferrals are not small-scale, but large in number. They are conferred according to normal and standard procedures just like the conferment of officials and marquises. They are all real titles. Although the factory owner does not sound like a prince, prince or uncle, he is of the same rank.
But the profits of the factory belong to the factory owner except for the general level of taxes. This thing is exactly the same as the food town in the past.
However, just continuing to do this will definitely not reassure Li Er - the factory is a good thing in a peaceful world. It not only solves the problem of ordinary people's advancement, but at the same time, this mechanism of creating superior people will not lead to
The overall lack of the empire is similar to the way of recruiting celebrities during the Wei and Jin Dynasties. However, whether there are factories or not, the birth of such things as "factories" are all things that happened within China.
Then if one day China is in chaos again, wouldn't it be the end? After all, no matter how prosperous the material civilization is, it is always possible to disappear. Wouldn't the Luoyang of the past be inferior to the Chang'an of today?
And to avoid this kind of thing... it is impossible to avoid it. Li Er is not so confident that he is tens of thousands of times more powerful than the First Emperor and can really make the Tang Dynasty last forever. If he doesn't want to die, since
Death is a high-probability event, both for yourself and for the empire. So what you can do is obviously to avoid the "disappearance of Tao", that is, to avoid the demise of the material and spiritual civilization of the Tang Dynasty.
It is not difficult to avoid the demise of spiritual civilization, as long as the main language in China is still Chinese and the books are preserved, even if the language is not Chinese, there is an example in later generations, which is Tianzhu. This place was colonized for many years, and the official language became English.
But the Buddhist scriptures, as ancient classic philosophical works, still have a large-scale impact on the world's ideological research fields. This is obviously not the elimination of Taoism.
When it comes to material civilization, in fact, there is a high probability that it will easily perish with the emergence of troubled times, but Li Er is still confident, because after truly getting to know Li Sheng, he gained an extremely important understanding.
Material civilization, like spiritual civilization, can also be preserved in documents. To put it simply, it is technology.
To put it bluntly, technology is humankind's understanding of the natural world. After these understandings are repeatedly used and studied, no matter whether they are correct or not, they are recorded and then passed on to future generations. Therefore, if future generations want to create the same things as the ancients, they can do it.
Here we are. Of course, it is not easy to truly restore ancient things.
For example, Li Er would be curious about how Dayu's Jiuding was built every few days. Of course, Li Er didn't dare to make trouble for nothing. Although he was the emperor, this was the Tang Dynasty, not ancient times.
It is definitely undesirable in ancient and modern times.
Although Li Er also understood that the real reason for this "valuing the past over the present" was the issue of how many old nobles had to be eliminated in order to solve this problem, this kind of thing was obviously not suitable for daily use.
Come out and make it clear that this is something that you can do without forcing. But to actually do this, you still have to say something. This "saying something" is of course against favoring the past over the present, and it has become a cultural issue.
Debate of opinions.
As an emperor, he imitates the ancients. If all the wealthy and aristocratic families in the world want to be rich and prosperous from generation to generation, and return to the Zhou Dynasty, shouldn't they be able to say anything? To put it bluntly, the politics of the world from ancient times to the present have truly been
The underlying rule is nothing more than no double standards.
However, Li Er's curiosity about Jiuding will certainly not disappear. Compared with something like Jiuding that the Tang Dynasty should be able to produce, how are bamboo slips made using ancient methods? In this matter, Li Er almost
I have no memory at all. Paper had already been invented in the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
But although today's Datang Dynasty may not know how to use ancient methods to make bamboo slips, the more powerful and efficient printing technology has long been spread throughout the world, and it supports all the countries in the Tang Dynasty, and students in colleges in all states and counties advance their studies.
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Generally speaking, this is the case. Material civilization can actually be preserved through information means.
But as the emperor, Li Er certainly could not be satisfied with this, so he had to leave more things to Datang.
Think about it.
"stop."
The king in the Manlu Palace frowned and shook his head, exhaling a breath. No matter what happened in the Tang Dynasty, he had to play some role. As a father, of course he could trust Li Sheng, but as a king, in important matters,
You must never rely on fixed ministers for everything. This is an act of ruining the country.
In the end, Li Er decided to take action himself. On the one hand, the Forbidden Forces under his command had submarines, which could steadily ensure that no more established pirates would appear to disturb the border - each and every one of the maritime merchants was a human being. It was impossible not to see this.
a little.
The previous group of pirates suddenly broke up, and the young men who hijacked the ship and ran away during this incident would be best if the Romans chose to help these boys to cause trouble, but if the Romans did not take action.
What I can do is to help these young people myself. However, in this case, there will inevitably be problems with national laws. After all, these young people are actually thieves and break the law. No matter what strategic plan I have, it seems that
They should not be funded.
That's what Li Er thought anyway, but what he didn't expect was that he originally planned not to ask Li Sheng for help this time, but as soon as he turned around, he met Li Sheng in the Lion House the next day.
