There are one hill and eight buildings in the Northern Prefecture of the Eastern Jin Dynasty Chapter 5223: The name is inherited by someone other than myself
Chapter 5223: The name is inherited by someone other than myself
Liu Yu took a deep breath and continued: "To be able to sit in a high position, you have to have done enough work before and proved that you have enough ability to convince others. In ancient abdication, the leader of the previous generation often directly designated the successor.
In fact, this leaves hidden dangers, because one person still has the final say. If the leader has selfish motives, he can appoint his own descendants, students or close associates to take over the position, which will also create hidden dangers."
Liu Jingxuan laughed and said: "If this concession was not designated by the previous leader, then where did the word "concession" come from? Jinu, these privileges of the old leader are still needed. After all, he has prestige and can convince the public. If
If he wasn't the one to designate it, who would have the qualification?"
Liu Yu thought of the People's Republic before he traveled through time. If the great man who founded the country had not taken the initiative to design the system of people's democracy and did not engage in the system of fathers dying and sons succeeding, he might not have seen or imagined that there would be such a thing in this world.
system, he said solemnly: "The leaders who sit in the world are not appointed by heaven or by their superiors. Strictly speaking, the power in their hands is given by the people of the world and all the people. And this power, the people
It can be withdrawn at any time, or transferred to a new ruler after expiration. Therefore, the person who decides the new ruler is not the one who takes office, but the people of the world, all the people!"
Liu Jingxuan's eyes widened. He had never heard of such a statement before and murmured: "People, people, this sounds so special. There is no such statement in the books I have read. Send slaves, this, this
Did you create it yourself and plan to call it the name of the world in the future?"
Liu Yu smiled slightly and said: "Yes, Guizhou and the common people cannot express the rights and status of the people in the world. These are just the names used by the hereditary rulers who falsely claim to be ordered by heaven to represent the herdsmen of heaven.
In the future, if I need to build a country where the people are supreme, I will have to use the people to call the world’s talents, Ah Shou, the people are not our cattle and sheep, nor are they the production tools for us to drive, they and us
They are all the same, they are living people, but they are in different divisions of labor because of different jobs. Soldiers are responsible for fighting, while ordinary farmers are responsible for farming. They are all serving the country and themselves, even if they hold power.
The same is true for the rulers. In essence, the division of labor is different."
Liu Jingxuan laughed: "I can accept these arguments because I believe in you and I will follow you no matter what you say or do. But I'm afraid there are not many people in the world who can accept it, let alone high-ranking families.
When you talk about the common people, you want them to believe that they are the people and the same as the rulers. Do you think they will believe it themselves?"
Liu Yu said in a deep voice: "This is the need for enlightenment. We need someone who the world believes in to tell them this truth personally. In the ancient times, everyone in the world also believed in this throne. The right to rule is not hereditary, but
The leader who wants to abdicate is old. After his death, a new leader who is young, strong and capable will be replaced, but no one believes that this leader must be the son of the old leader."
"Starting from Xia Houqi, he started this trick of being ordered by heaven, turning the inheritance that should have been recommended by the tribe, or at least the previous leader's abdication to virtuous and capable people, into the family and the world. Isn't this
Did the rulers of the past dynasties starting from Xia Houqi use tribal priests who were related to their own interests to confuse their tribesmen and common people? His tribe can be passed down from generation to generation, and other tribes can follow suit.
In this way, they all handed over the power of the tribe to their descendants. Instead of abdicating as before, each tribe would ask priests to tell the tribesmen that the incoming leader was their patron saint or a messenger sent by heaven to the human world.
He is a demigod and has the blood of a god, so only by passing on this blood can he not anger the gods in heaven."
Liu Jingxuan murmured: "So that's it. No wonder after Dayu died, even though he appointed Boyi as his successor, all the leaders in the world went to see Xia Qi instead of seeing Boyi. In the end, Qi could only take over.
Chief, I thought that this was the will of the people in the world, or that they were willing to accept the rule of his descendants because of Yu's great achievements in controlling floods."
Liu Yu sighed: "Before Dayu controlled the floods, all the tribes in the world were scattered and moved. Just like now on the grassland, the leader of the Great Khan tribe and the Shanyu tribe may not even be able to find those who surrendered.
His own tribe of servants could not stop the attacks and killings between tribes. Therefore, before Dayu, I am afraid that the princes and tribes in the world may not have strong connections. Only because of the great flood, Dayu traveled all over the world and got to know all the tribes.
, and could also order them to mobilize manpower to control floods. This is also the reason why Emperor Shun's authority as the co-owner of the world declined, and he could only give up to Dayu in the end. I think there must be a lot of shady political transactions in the back of the history books.
If Yu really wanted Boyi to take over, he should have cultivated Boyi's authority and convinced the tribes. But in fact, almost all tribes in the world have followed the path of succession after the father dies. Is this true?
Is it a coincidence?"
Liu Jingxuan gritted his teeth and said: "What you mean is that Dayu is actually just like Cao Cao, Sima Yi and others. He did not usurp power and change the government, but in fact he was fully prepared and everything was arranged.
This kind of usurpation of power should be done by one’s own children and grandchildren?”
Liu Yu said seriously: "Yes, he let Qi Da power in his hands and gained enough prestige to kill the Fangfeng clan and attack and destroy his tribe to frighten those disloyal princes. Then in the process of controlling the flood,
Let all tribes believe that leaders should be hereditary to descendants instead of electing outsiders to take over, because only the sacrifices of descendants can praise the merits of ancestors, not just the name of a tribal leader."
Speaking of this, Liu Yu sighed: "Starting from the Yellow Emperor, all the way to Emperor Yao and Emperor Shun, the three emperors and five emperors mentioned in the history books can live for hundreds or thousands of years at every turn? Is this possible? Could it be that all of them are the same?
Immortal? The only explanation is that the Yellow Emperor, Yao, and Shun, who we think of as sage kings, are actually just like emperors, just the names of rulers. A Yellow Emperor may be the name of the ruler of the tribe that dominates, maybe one after another.
For more than ten years, dozens of Yellow Emperors have been in power, but none of them left their names, because they were all tribal leaders who inherited power under the abdication system. They were elected by the previous leader and the next leader took over, and there was no blood inheritance relationship.
, so they left no names, only the names Huang Di, Yao, and Shun!" (End of Chapter)