In fact, Tang Mo never intended to bring any institutional changes to the world. From the beginning, he just wanted to become a businessman who could support himself.
But step by step, he reached his current position, becoming the emperor of an empire and the head of a huge financial group.
People are selfish, and Tang Mo is the same. He is not willing to instill capitalist thoughts into the world, forcefully pull the emperor off the throne, and then play with things like parliamentary elections.
He doesn't like that kind of thing at all. Even if there is a more mature system that he knows very well, he is not willing to share it with the people in this world.
Wouldn't it be good to pass on your own empire and wealth to your descendants? Who stipulates that a time traveler must be selfless?
Even if his descendants cannot keep their own family property, it is still the incompetence of the descendants and has nothing to do with him, right?
Tang Mo just wanted to live a good life with the beautiful woman by his side, dominate the world and become a superior person. As for other things, he didn't intend to consider them at all.
The implementation of a more efficient monarchy and feudal centralization in this world will encounter collective resistance from the lords and nobles, not to mention the implementation of the so-called dark boiling system. It will shed more blood and pay more price.
What then? What can Tang Mo bring to himself? At that time, the power in his hands will be restricted by the newly born ruling class, and his decisions will be vetoed by a new layer of power class.
To implement the decentralized system at this time is simply to cause trouble for himself. He would rather change the government after his death than hand over the power in his hands.
Selfishness is human nature, and the same is true for Tang Mo. The founding emperors of the past dynasties all had the opportunity to choose to change the system and hand over their power to the official class who relied on the selection system. Doing so would most likely protect their descendants.
The wealth of future generations will last forever.
But their ambitions did not allow them to retreat, so they were unwilling to hand over the power in their hands until they died, and still followed the tradition of Jia Tianxia.
In their view, retaining the throne and giving up imperial power is too cowardly and not in their interests. Therefore, they would rather let their children and grandchildren face the disaster of overthrowing their country than do it when the empire is at its peak.
Make concessions.
For the same purpose, or idea, Tang Mo had no intention of exporting any political ideas to this world. He rotted everything he was familiar with in his heart, playing low-level imperial power games with the natives of this world.
He just randomly changed some systems and packaged the grassroots with modern systems, which was enough to defeat all the remaining countries in the world.
Before World War I, the vast majority of advanced Europe was a monarchy, and most of them were not even constitutional monarchies.
At that time, Tsarist Russia had an emperor, the German Empire had an emperor, the British Empire also had an emperor, Italy also had a king, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire was the same...
But this did not prevent European countries from entering modernization at all. They still completed industrialization and continued to go further and further on the road of technological development.
As for that bullshit so-called separation of powers system, it was a political structure drawn up when the Lighthouse Country was still in the primary stage of slavery, and it is far from advanced. To put it bluntly, that thing is the same as the "Shang Shu Sheng" under the imperial power.
There is no essential difference between decentralized systems such as "menxiasheng" and "zhongshusheng".
What? You mean elections? That’s a huge joke. In the late Western Han Dynasty, eldest brother Wang Mang was elected by the people. During the Three Kingdoms period in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the selection of scholars relied on recommendations from people around them. The recommended people needed to be recognized by the villagers in terms of moral character and ability.
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Well, you can understand that if you wanted to be an official at that time, you had to have a good background (rich and famous or have a good father), have a good reputation in your hometown (get along well in a certain state),
Then he was recommended to be an official (running for governor or president)...Does this process look familiar?
If anyone has time to compete with these nobles, lords and merchants who usually only want to exploit electoral loopholes to become superiors, then he should fight on his own. Tang Mo doesn't think he has the time and energy to waste on this, so he
We are not prepared to give these people any chance at all.
Do you think it's unfair? Ask yourself if your neck is hard, and try to see if the bayonet blades of soldiers from the Tang Dynasty are sharp, that's all.
In Tang Mo's view, if an empire has a good emperor who can make correct decisions and allow his subordinates to run efficiently, there is actually nothing wrong with the feudal system.
The biggest problem with this system is that the heirs are uneven, and there is no guarantee that the national leader will always maintain a high level. However, this problem will not arise until Tang Mo dies, and it is no longer an issue that Tang Mo needs to consider.
To use a heart-breaking sentence to describe it is: After I die, I will not care about the flood.
Therefore, the system currently implemented in the Tang Dynasty is a bit like Erdezi-that is, the political system during the Second German Empire.
An emperor has the final say, and below are the prime ministers and a lot of feudal departments. But further down from these departments is the modern state structure. This can maximize the smoothness of the country's operations.
The grassroots structure is a modern national system, which gave the Tang State huge mobilization capabilities and comprehensive national strength.
A wise ruler is capable of making correct decisions to steer the country and guide its development direction.
The era of Er Dezi relied on the iron-blooded Prime Minister Bismarck. The Tang State did not have such a prime minister, but there was a cheat carrier like Tang Mo who had seen the "future development direction".
Of course, if we compare his skills, Tang Mo himself may not be able to match Bismarck's cunningness at the micro-management level, but Tang Mo also has his own advantages.
His advantage is Tang State's own strong national power. This is the backing for him to do whatever he wants, ensuring that even if Tang Mo makes some wrong decisions, Tang State can still rely on brute force to break the situation without causing overturning.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! This is something Bismarck could not do. Because in Bismarck's era, Britain was the world's number one power, and Germany was only the second in ten thousand years. But Tang was not the third
Second, the Tang State is truly the number one powerful country. It has the strongest industrial system, the most resources, and the most combat-effective army.
As the saying goes, one force can defeat ten guilds. Tang Mo's Caotai team may be slightly inferior in ability, but the weapons and technology they possess can help them make up for this gap.
This is a bit like the West's approach to China back then: I'll just put a few cannons on the coastline and bombard them.
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Feng Kezhi is already able to walk, so he doesn't want to lie in bed at all. He is now taking the train to Linshui to see the prosperity of the Tang Empire.
This was a mental journey to convince himself that he wanted to take a look at the Tang country he was about to seek refuge in and think carefully about whether this Tang country was worth overturning his belief in the first half of his life.
Everyone has their own persistence, no matter they are good people or bad people. When the values they established collapse, they will look for new values, establish new ideological support, and find a reason to live.
From this perspective, everyone has ideological stamps, but everything they firmly believe in, that is, their beliefs, can easily collapse.
Some people's beliefs can be destroyed by huge amounts of money, and some people's beliefs can be destroyed by pornography. For masters like Feng Kezhi, their beliefs are not easily destroyed, but once they collapse, it will take longer to rebuild.
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Just as Qian Jinhang said, he really saw a different scene. He stayed in Tongcheng for a few days and saw how spectacular and hot the real industrial base is here.
The machines here roar every day, and the railways crisscross the streets of the city like fishing nets. There are chimneys everywhere, soot everywhere, and even people's clothes are covered with a layer of soot.
But everything here is more pleasant than what he saw in the Dahua Empire. The children here are lively, the people here are smiling, and the sellers' cries are more rhythmic.
Everything in Tongcheng felt fresh to him, and he even saw a brand-new refrigeration equipment here, which allowed the nouveau riche in Tongcheng far inland to see the specialties caught in the ocean.
This was simply unimaginable in the past, but the latest technology has made it possible. I heard that such freezing technology can also preserve food for a long time. For a world that has not yet completely solved the food crisis, this is undoubtedly a breakthrough.
A technology worth promoting.
Because he had decided to stay, he was lucky enough to visit the Tang State tank production factory in Tongcheng. Even though he only visited the No. 4 tank production line, he was amazed by the advanced production technology of Tang State.
This is no joke at all. Compared with the tank production of the Dahua Empire, Tang's workshops are more standardized, the production speed is faster, and the technology is more advanced.
It can be said responsibly that the industrial production level of the Tang State was completely superior to that of the Great China Empire, and the gap between the two sides was really as big as clouds and mud.
Although looking at it now, this gap is not enough to widen the huge gap. Generally speaking, there seems to be no generation difference in the tanks used by the two countries. But one day, the accumulated gap will be big enough to change everything.
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When Feng Kezhi was about to change trains to Linshui, he was shocked again: the speed of this section of railway had been accelerated, and the locomotive responsible for this section of railway transportation seemed to have used some brand-new technology.
The new train is faster and has an even more amazing capacity. The entire first half of the train is composed of passenger carriages, and the second half actually has freight carriages. The long train is spectacular enough to look at.