Dedicate One’s Mind

Chapter 1030 The Development History of Daji Dynasty (Part 2)

After the death of Emperor Ming, many of the good policies implemented by Emperor Ming during his reign were abolished one by one. Even if they were not abolished, they became empty words. For example, all ethnic groups should be equal and given preferential treatment. Although they were not abolished, they were restricted at other levels. In fact, It was abolished.

The removal of preferential ethnic policies has intensified the relations among various ethnic groups unprecedentedly. In addition, conflicts between the central and local governments, civil and military conflicts, conflicts between the north and the south, conflicts between rich and poor, conflicts between farmers and merchants, and all kinds of conflicts have emerged.

The huge platter burst into pieces. This time, the rupture was much more serious than the one after Emperor Zhao's death. Many people even thought that the Daji Dynasty would fall.

After all, it has been more than a thousand years since the founding of the country. According to the perspective of historical cycle theory, this is the number of days that ordinary people cannot violate.

The result was, of course, no. However, when the fifth emperor succeeded to the throne, the area actually controlled by the Daji Dynasty was less than half of the mainland, only one-third. It was worse than when Taizu founded the country.

The fifth great emperor was Emperor Rui. He did not succeed to the throne through an election system, but succeeded to the throne by stepping on mountains of corpses and seas of blood with real swords and guns. In fact, he was the first emperor to rule the central government from a vassal state since the founding of the Daji Dynasty.

In fact, his path to succession was not much different from that of the peasant army uprising. From this, you can also see how chaotic the Daji Dynasty was after the death of Emperor Ming!

Emperor Rui can also be said to have established Xuanhuang again, which is not much different from Taizu's founding of the country. Therefore, Emperor Rui's temple name contains the character "ancestor" instead of "zong".

Because he moved from the local government to the central government, Emperor Rui was familiar with the people's sentiments, restored many of the good governance practices of Emperor Ming, and transformed them to make them more in line with social reality.

The biggest reform has two points. The first is to seize the military and political power of the vassal state. Since then, there have been fewer and fewer vassal states, and now no vassal state exists;

Second, improve the election system, including how to obtain successor qualifications, voting mechanisms, county qualification determination, and the establishment of supervision mechanisms.

Emperor Ming could not accomplish these two points. The reason is very simple. Emperor Ming was very good at using force to bridge conflicts between various parties and integrate forces. However, he lacked sufficient strength to shake the foundation of some interest groups.

Secondly, Emperor Ming created this selection system to win over the local and royal families. At the beginning, in order to satisfy the interests of some people, he left a backdoor so that some people could take advantage of the loopholes.

But Rui Emperor rose up on the mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood. In anger, the blood flowed and the vassal state was abolished. Especially at that time, public opinion was on Rui Emperor's side. They were tired of the vassal king. After the rebellion, the vassal king's power has become much smaller.

If you want to implement the election system, implement the election system. You don’t have to care so much.

In fact, from these two reforms, it is not difficult to find that under Emperor Ming's rule, although the territory was large, it was inflated. In many areas, effective rule could not be implemented at all, and it was just a containment; under Emperor Rui's rule, although the territory shrank a lot, it was It's all real territory.

After Emperor Rui, there was Emperor Xuan, the sixth emperor and the first emperor to be truly elected by election.

He was the seventh son of Emperor Rui. He was born as a concubine, so he could not get his turn whether he was noble or senior. However, the emergence of the election system broke the eldest son inheritance system and gave him a chance.

Through forbearance in the early stage and hard work in the mid-term, he, who was originally unknown, made a counterattack and became a symbol of the arrival of a new era.

Since Emperor Xuan, the concept of democratically elected emperors has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and their fortunes have flourished and can no longer be suppressed.

That is to say, since Emperor Xuan, it has become unprecedentedly difficult for outside forces such as Dao Sect to interfere in the affairs of the Daji Dynasty, because the Daji Dynasty has achieved one heart and one mind, just like a hedgehog with thorns all over its body. Don't reach the flaw.

The sudden rise of the Daji Dynasty as a humane force has the strength to challenge the authority of the Taoist sect for the first time.

Emperor Xuan was an emperor elected by the people, and his praise far exceeded that of his brothers, reaching an astonishing 99%. You must know that the others were around 70%, and at most they were barely close to 80%.

Even in a small county, the power is extremely complex. There are differences in occupations and statuses, some are poor, some are rich, some are wise, some are stupid, some...

The interest demands of every group are different, and some demands are even completely opposite. No matter how good the policy is, it cannot be perfect. No matter how big the cake is, when the cake is divided, there must be someone who eats it more than before. That's the reason why there are so few.

So much so that after Emperor Xuan's support rate appeared, it was questioned by many. After re-evaluation, the data were the same, and the position of the crown prince was finally established.

Emperor Xuan won the hearts of the people so much that Emperor Rui was extremely surprised. After saying that he will definitely defeat me in the future, he abdicated the throne freely.

This also started an unwritten rule. The emperor is elected by the people. The elected emperor is the emperor, and the current emperor has no right to remove him. The idea that the people are better than the king is also deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Emperor Xuan was the biggest beneficiary of the election system. After he succeeded to the throne, the first thing he did was to further improve the election system. The election system improved by Emperor Xuan has basically continued to this day and has not changed for thousands of years.

In addition, almost all emperors would do things such as building water conservancy projects. Because of the support of the people, Emperor Xuan could let go and regain his homeland in the name of revival. Those opponents faced the same-minded Daji Dynasty. , just a bunch of chickens and dogs.

In the last few years of Emperor Xuan's reign, he roughly unified the eastern and southern parts of the continent. Just like during Taizu's reign, he occupied half of the continent and once again became the Celestial Kingdom in everyone's eyes, attracting all nations to come to court.

The Daji Dynasty has been established for ten thousand years. The first two thousand years should be said to be the most exciting stage. A total of six emperors emerged, basically establishing the foundation of the next dynasty. After that, there were only three emperors in the next eight thousand years, and the gap was quite large.

However, some people believe that in the first two thousand years, there were mixed good and bad emperors, and some were bad. They drank wine and meat, and were murderous. They were simply unsightly. The reason why these great emperors were outstanding was because they were set off by their peers.

With the implementation of the selection system, the emperors elected were all with middle-to-upper-level qualifications, and those who were despicable were eliminated. It is more important to stand out among the emperors with middle-to-upper qualifications. for difficult things.

I don’t deny that this statement does have its truth, but if you can make a career when various contradictions intersect, isn’t it worthy of being called an emperor?

Regardless of everything else for the moment, let’s take a look at what the remaining three emperors did!