My son, Fusu, please abdicate the first emperor!

Chapter 790: Endless power and authority
Fusu was similar to other practitioners in history. They chose the path of detachment from desire.

That is abstinence.

Faced with the same swamp, Fusu imitated the practices of other sages, or in other words, Fusu chose to imitate birds.

Birds are magical creatures. People should not look down on any animal, let alone birds. All things have spirits.

Birds are just like those great people. They choose to abandon desires, money, fame, and wealth for the sake of freedom.

Birds have experienced countless disasters on earth, but they are still able to fly in the sky. This is because they are willing to give up. Their limbs have evolved, and their internal organs have all been sacrificed.

Only by discarding those heavy objects can they fly.

Fusu followed this path, and only by giving up could he gain.

Countless honest officials and celebrities in history actually followed the same path as Fusu.

Faced with the quagmire, I chose to throw away the heavy objects on my body so that I could get out.

The Chinese have been adhering to this principle since ancient times.

In Buddhism, this principle, which can free oneself from the sea of ​​suffering, allow one to live freely and at ease in the world, and have all one's wishes come true and all one's requests will be granted, is summarized as giving one thing and receiving ten thousand in return.

That’s why Buddhism always talks about giving, and this is actually where it comes from.

As long as you are able to give and donate, you will definitely gain something.

When the Buddha was alive and preaching, he did not say a single slanderous word. People in the world did not understand and made up rumors to defame him.

However, the path taken by Qin II was obviously different from that of his ministers.

Qin Shihuang chose to be in the midst of desire without being affected by it, while Fusu chose to abstain from desire.

Whether it was Qin Shihuang or Fusu's ministers, most of them were in the first category, either struggling or simply sinking.

Now Qin II has cut off all emotions and desires. As the leader of the empire, his ideas will shape the political ecology of the Qin Empire.

This meant that the power of his ministers had been squeezed to the extreme, and all of them had to follow Qin II in abstaining from sex.

This made those who usually soak in the quagmire every day not know what to do for a while.

In the past, Qin Shi Huang fooled them all.

Qin Shihuang indulged in his three palaces and six courtyards, and they followed suit.

Qin Shi Huang was extremely greedy and arrogant, and they followed suit.

As a result, Qin Shihuang knew very well in his heart what was good and what was bad.

His mind is stronger than Fusu's. How to say it? This man has greater determination than Li Yu, and his self-control has reached a level that ordinary people can hardly imagine.

He can enter the quagmire if he is told to, and can leave it if he is told to.

As a result, those idiots were so foolish that they got themselves involved.

After Qin II came to power, it became apparent that those ministers who had renounced desire, cut off desires, and abstained from sex, as well as those honest public officials, had their day to come to the fore.

Of course, those who can't manage themselves on a daily basis and don't want to be managed will feel uncomfortable.

Therefore, when Fusu didn't want to do anything and chose to rule by inaction, he had already restrained the vast majority of his ministers.

The so-called national policy of governing by inaction is actually the best way to restrain officials.

If the king does nothing and does not issue any projects, his ministers will not need to do anything.

If the officials do not need to do anything, then there is no reason for them to mobilize the people. If the officials have no reason to mobilize the people, they will naturally have no way to trouble the people, and if they have no way to trouble the people, they will have no place to show off their power.

In the past

If the ministers do not need to do anything, there will be no way to collect money. If there is no way to collect money, then the purse will be empty.

As a senior official, it is definitely not enough to only get this much every day.

In the past, whenever the imperial court issued an order, it would be a good opportunity for officials of all ranks to show their talents.

Qin Shi Huang was diligent in his work, which is a synonym for Qin Shi Huang. Qin Shi Huang liked to govern the world and issue orders.

In other words, the Qin court frequently issued decrees, which were passed down from counties to towns, from towns to villages, layer by layer. There were so many officials in the world, and they had countless excuses to mobilize the people.

Redeployment is euphemistically called governance, but in other words it is just a hassle.

Something that could have been done by one person, but they chose to gather the entire village, talk to them, and discipline them. However, this is just the tip of the iceberg. What is really disgusting is what is to come.

Do you think they did this to carry out their mission? You are totally wrong.

When our respected leaders really have to make decisions based on public opinion, they will no longer need the opinions of the people.

Not to mention what they will do when distributing benefits. They are nepotistic and profit-seeking.

Therefore, once the country promotes reform and governance, the corrupt officials who hid during the Qingming period will jump out one after another, disguised as gentlemen, and participate in governance on a large scale.

This is the time when demons emerge in large numbers and evil spirits dance wildly.

There is no better reason in the world than the emperor's decree.

But when the emperor said that the country should be inactive and the system of military merit and honor should be abolished, those ministers began to worry.

If the emperor doesn't allow them to govern the people, how can they use their power and demonstrate their power?

The superiors would occasionally ask themselves, and they would certainly not accuse themselves of having done anything wrong.
"I am just an ordinary person. I became an official for no other reason than to hear the cheers of the people when I ride a horse, and to be able to stand in a high position and boss the people around me."

"I don't have any noble sentiments. I become an official just to honor my parents."

"Besides, I haven't even grown fat yet, why should I care about those peasants?"

"I am just selfish, but everyone is selfish. Human nature is selfish... Think carefully about where this kind of argument in society comes from."

"If you want to know why there are so many poor people in this world, it's simply because they are stupid and don't know how to curry favor with others."

If there is evil in this world, then there must be a corresponding source of evil. However, people generally only see what is spread out, and do not consider where the source is.

Maybe if we cut off the source, everything will be fine.

At the very least, the leader that the people of the world hope for deep down in their hearts, even if he cannot be completely selfless and sacrifice himself for the public good, must be someone who can truly get things done, someone who can restrain his selfish desires and curb his negativity.

How can we get a bunch of scum who know they are scum and are unwilling to correct themselves to come to power and show off their power all day long?

As long as the emperor is obsessed with making major changes and bringing about great governance, all kinds of things will inevitably happen in the world.

Governing a country is actually governing an army, and the two are the same principle. The essence is to use people. In governing the army, when the army was just established, some new soldiers were recruited. Some were naughty, some were passive, some were lazy, and some were active and hardworking.

At this time, it was like a country had just been established, or a group of people were facing a brand new leader.

Therefore, a country needs to govern its people, just as an army needs to train its soldiers.

If the soldiers are not trained and discipline is lax, the enemy will rush up and beat the commander, and the soldiers will be confused and not know what is happening.

When they finally reacted, they chased after it in a scattered manner, relying entirely on their own independent consciousness.

This does not mean that the soldiers and generals are not good, nor that they are not strong, but the strength of organizational ability really affects the overall effectiveness of the army.

Every soldier has his own free will, but if there is no organization and discipline, the result will be unimaginable.

Since you have chosen to follow the coach, you must trust the coach, respect the coach, and obey the coach.

The combat effectiveness of an army drops sharply when the soldiers are disorganized. It is hard to imagine how weak a country will be once its grassroots organizations collapse.

If a country really has no organization and no discipline, then when the enemy's artillery fires in, the people will be scattered because of the lack of discipline beforehand. Similarly, the country's leaders will be wiped out, but the people will still realize it later.

In fact, in many moments of national crisis and when the country was passively beaten in history, it was not because the Chinese people were cowardly, or even less because they were not brave, courageous and strong enough, but because the grassroots organizations were weak.

If the individual soldiers of the army are scattered, then they will be seen as a mob in the eyes of the enemy; if the battle is about to break out, no soldier would want to be seen as a small fry in the eyes of the enemy.

Therefore, we need to train, be organized, and obey orders in normal times.

Similarly, when the country is in danger, everyone sees the internal and external troubles and wants to help, but they can't find a leader. Only when a new regime is established and an armed force is organized, will they be able to resist.

Organization is an abstract thing, but it is the key to success.

Compared with individual strength, cleverness, wit and courage, without collective cooperation, it is very easy to be exploited by the enemy and cause casualties.

Why do we need to talk about the principles of governing a country and commanding an army here?

Because the decline of a country begins with its imbalance in governance.

Perhaps many people think that the weakness of a country is because the country’s leaders and officials receive salaries but do nothing, but this is not the case.

For example, let's start with military training. If an army wants to improve its combat effectiveness, it needs a high degree of organizational ability. In order to improve its organizational ability, collaborative combat effectiveness, and even learn some battle formations and strengthen coordination, it needs training in normal times.

Training is necessary, but what if a general captures his soldiers and forces them to train three times a day, and then trains them three times every day?

So what will the soldiers think of this general?
The soldiers’ answer was of course: I don’t accept it!
Now, everyone should have figured out what exactly destroys the unity within a country and a nation.

It’s not about no governance, but excessive governance.

Why is it that during so many critical moments in Chinese history, with tens of millions of Chinese people, at the most dangerous moments they were reduced to having to use individuals to block the muzzles of guns and bullets in order to buy hope for the organization? Why is it that every time the whole has to be awakened at the cost of sacrificing some parts?

Because there are bad people among the superiors, bad people who are extremely bad.

The superiors had nothing to do every day, so giving orders was so easy and simple. They just sat down and gave orders without even having to think about it. More than a dozen orders came down one after another.

To their superiors, the soldiers only need to perform their tasks over and over again, but their superiors have a lot to consider.

Is the order noble? Is the order clever enough to conceal one's purpose? Can the order bring enough benefits to oneself? Can the order win honor for oneself?

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Our great commander of the Qin Dynasty is really exhausted!

It would be fine if it was only like this for a hundred years, but it has been like this for hundreds and thousands of years.

To be honest, a person who truly understands history must have infinite concern for the nation in his heart and admiration for human beings, a species that is inherently flawed and can never be omniscient and omnipotent.

Why did the Qin Dynasty finally perish in history?

Talking about this and that, none of them hit the point.

Faced with his vast territory and a population of tens of millions, Qin Shihuang's heart was filled with joy and, of course, a sense of crisis.

He is just one person, he only has himself. What can he do to make 80 million people kneel down at his feet?

The simplest way is to oppress, using layers of hierarchy to make everyone kneel before you.

Perhaps, Qin Shihuang himself represents the highest ideal in the minds of Chinese men.

He is just one person, but he can make an old crazy era kneel down at his feet, and he can also create a brand new era.

Possessing supreme power is a dream that many men dare not even imagine deep in their hearts, but now, it has become a reality.

So, Qin Shi Huang began to crush the Qin Dynasty with his own hands.

He frequently used the power of the people, issued decrees and laws, and set various standards for people all over the world to implement.

The soldiers were all excited about the first military training.

The second and third time, the soldiers began to show some discipline.

By the seventh time, as the ancients said: Every seven there must be changes, the purpose of training troops has actually been achieved.

The team has spontaneously formed an organization. Who is the forward, who is strong, and who has strategy has become clear during the practice process.

Logically speaking, the effect has been achieved at this time.

There should be some training rewards or something like that, so that everyone can take a break and have a good rest.

However, a certain great emperor committed an absolute taboo.

He chose to train his troops frequently.

After practicing seven times, he still felt it was not enough. He wanted to build the strongest empire in his mind.

So he started to play the seventeenth, the seventieth, and the seven hundredth.

Perhaps the soldiers had grown bored since the seventeenth pass.

He imposed his will on others at all times of the day and night, regardless of what the common people were busy doing.

The result was just like a young and ignorant general who overworked the soldiers, which had the opposite effect and caused collective complaints from the soldiers in the army.

No matter how many orders the general gave, the soldiers would no longer obey.

The arrogant Qin Shi Huang met the common people who he thought were stupid. As a result, this proud emperor in "new clothes" deceived and fooled himself, causing the foundation of his own country to collapse.

(End of this chapter)