Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 420 Utopia ([-])
another year later
Yan Hou 98 years (308)
A plague of locusts has hit all parts of the world, and the Central Plains has been hit particularly hard. The country of Yan temporarily survived this year's locust plague by stopping food exports and increasing fishing in the Cowherd Fishing Ground.

If you want to say what major events have happened in the past two years, that's too much.

The refugee armed forces in the Central Plains have grown to a size of one million people, and they are in groups, threatening the rule of the King of the East China Sea at all times.

Liu Yuan, the lord of the Han Kingdom of the Xiongnu, claimed to have inherited the throne of Liu Chan, the lord of the Shu Han Dynasty, and has now captured Shangdang County.

However, there were too many rebels all over the world, and Liu Yuan's Xiongnu Han Kingdom only had two counties, which was really not a big threat, so the Jin court had no intention of exterminating Liu Yuan.

Compared with Liu Yuan's Xiongnu Han Kingdom, Zhang Chang, Chen Min, Wang Mi and other rebels, their forces spanned several states, and they were the confidants of the Jin court.

Xiaokangzhuang

Wang Miao established a new stronghold here, absorbing more than 3000 refugees, and Shi Le, a Hu man, served as the captain of the guard to protect the safety of the village.

This time, Wang Miao decided to implement the "philosopher king" style of rule. As the philosopher king, he concentrated all the power and managed the village. No more officials were appointed, and all affairs were handled by Wang Miao himself.

However, only half a month later, Wang Miao was exhausted from the tedious village affairs and fell seriously ill.

Following Wang Miao's illness, the village returned to a chaotic situation. Various thefts and robberies continued to occur, and villagers colluded with mountain bandits to invade the village. Fortunately, Shi Le repelled them.

When a person needs to manage all aspects, even a village of 3000 people is enough to make people exhausted. It is conceivable that if it is a large country with a population of tens of millions, what a lot of affairs it would be.

Just because he fell ill, the village was in such chaos. If the real philosopher king died, the struggles of the descendants would only become more serious.

Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of the Shu Han, is a typical example. He is naturally regarded as the philosopher king of the Shu Han, and the burden of the entire Shu Han rests on Zhuge Liang's shoulders alone.

However, as soon as the philosopher Wang Zhuge Liang died, the corrupt nature of the Shu Han was immediately exposed.

Only now did Wang Miao understand that this kind of rule of the philosopher king that exists in the sage books can only last for more than ten years, at most 30 years. With the death of the philosopher king, the situation after that is not as good as before the arrival of the philosopher king.

After her condition improved, Wang Miao made a decision against her will, which was to reproduce the parliamentary system of Yan State in Xiaokangzhuang.

He had lived in the country of Yan since he was a child, so he had personally experienced the various drawbacks of the parliamentary system. He had to gossip about every little thing, and when it was over, the matter was over.

Low efficiency and high cost, this is Wang Miao's most direct experience of the Yan State system.

Wang Miao, as the eldest son of Yan State, despises the system of Yan State, but now, after putting all the ideas in his mind into practice, he fails again and again. He can only copy Yan State's ruling method and see the same What difference will it make if he forges the rule of the world.

The enfeoffment system is undoubtedly a very low-cost and relatively high-efficiency ruling method, but it is easy to break away from the rule and the rule is very unstable.

The prefecture and county system of the Qin and Han Dynasties is theoretically the most efficient ruling method, and the rule is very stable, but the cost is higher than that of the parliamentary system. From the center of the empire to the frontiers of the empire, a large number of officials are needed, and these officials will use their power for personal gain. Increase the cost of governance.

The State of Yan implemented the system of prefectures and counties in Liaodong, which were directly managed by officials sent by the Marquis of Yan. Overseas, it was a system of enfeoffment, which was hereditaryly managed by the local city lords.

At the same time, both the Marquis of Yan and the lords of overseas cities jointly constitute the Yan State Parliament, and the hereditary members of the parliament jointly determine the fate of the entire Yan State. Manage the affairs of the entire Yan Kingdom.

Perhaps it can also be understood in this way that the real center of the Yan Kingdom is the Nine Ministers of the Council, and Yanhou is just the most powerful city lord among many city lords.

In the process of transforming from a civic system to a feudal system, the Yan State retained some remnants of the civic system, which led to its current ruling structure.

In the past, before the founding of the country, the Yan Kingdom’s ruling method can be attributed to the citizenship system.

Since the children of the Wang family are equivalent to citizens, those ruled by the Wang family are equivalent to free people, and foreign barbarians are also slaves.

Except for Wang Kang, the ancestor of the royal family, the other patriarchs are only the first citizens.

Under the citizenship system, the Wang family's children, as a whole, jointly dominate the development of the entire force under the bond of the parliament.

With the growth of power, Wang's children, as an individual, can already develop independently, and centrifugal force naturally arises, thus forming a feudal system.

Under the feudal system, each Wang's children had already divided their respective ruling areas, while retaining the previous parliamentary structure, so that the feudalized Wang's children could barely continue to unite through the parliament.

It may be more appropriate to use property rights to describe it. Under the citizen system, Yan State was the collective property of the children of the royal family, while under the feudal system, Yan State was composed of the private properties of each of the children of the royal family.

In the past, the Wang family had a grain cart weighing [-] shi, but now the Wang family has [-] grain carts weighing [-] shi. Although it is still the [-] shi grain, the ownership has changed from collective ownership to individual private ownership.

After replicating the system of the Yan Kingdom, Wang Miao would call all the villagers to discuss all matters in the village.

Then something very funny happened.

The vast majority of the villagers decided to set up women's houses in the village for their own entertainment, and even the female villagers did not object.

In order to observe real social development, Wang Miao did not interfere with the villagers' decisions.

However, when Nvlu was really established, no girls were willing to be playthings.

Everyone hopes to have playthings for entertainment, but when they really need playthings, no one is willing to let their daughter or wife be a plaything. They always think that someone else's daughter or wife will be a plaything.

Humans always think only of themselves like this.

The Nu Lu, which cost a lot of money to build, was useless in the end, so Wang Miao simply transformed it into a warehouse to store grain.

There were also those who decided not to pay taxes, and then, not long after, the financial system of the village collapsed, and Shile even had no money and food to support the guards. Therefore, when the bandits on the mountain attacked again, more than 3000 people in Xiaokang Village were slaughtered by the bandits The young and strong villagers were also caught as slaves on the mountain, and some beautiful female villagers became the playthings of the bandits.

Wang Miao escaped from Xiaokang Village under the protection of Shi Le and others.

It failed again, even if it reproduced the Yan State system that already existed in reality, it still failed.

Recalling all the absurd decisions made by the villagers of Xiaokang Village in the past two years, Wang Miao sighed in her heart: "The rule of the mob is ridiculous!"

After various attempts failed, Wang Miao returned to the Confucian tradition, hoping to find an enlightened monarch, and then the world would embark on the road of prosperity under the rule of this enlightened monarch, that is, enlightened autocratic monarchy.

And this enlightened monarch, the target he chose was Liu Yuan, the emperor of the Xiongnu Han Kingdom.

And this year is already the spring of the 100th year of the Marquis of Yan (310), the [-]th anniversary of the Yan King's family being promoted from an aristocratic family to a vassal state.

(End of this chapter)