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Chapter 959 Ten Years Later 6
In the past, if you wanted to do this, there would be countless officials who would strongly oppose it, with a variety of reasons and various interests. No one could satisfy most of them, so it could not be implemented.

Now everything is fine. As long as the emperor gives an order, the huge state machine will start to operate in an orderly manner, turning whatever direction it is ordered to turn and as fast as it can.

No one even asked where to go or why to go, because most officials were from the emperor's family, received the same education since childhood, and had similar ideas.

Isn’t this a complete dictatorship? That’s right, the second step in Hong Tao’s plan is dictatorship, and a very special dictatorship!

In thousands of years of Chinese history, "a word is as good as gold" was just an adjective. Emperors of all dynasties wanted to achieve it, but no one did it. Now Hong Tao has basically achieved it after 30 years.

But why do we have to be a dictator? What are the benefits? The answer is that it must be, and it is very important. Two words: efficiency!
Everything in the world has at least two sides, and the same is true for systems. The reason why dictatorship has become a derogatory term is that people always emphasize its bad side. In fact, dictatorship also has a good side. Simply put, it is efficient, more efficient than any other system.

In the past, if the emperor wanted to do something, he had to discuss it with his ministers first, no matter if they were called the prime minister, the chief minister, the Secretariat, or the Grand Council. Only when all the ministers agreed or most of them agreed, could the matter be implemented outside the palace.

On the contrary, no matter how correct the decision is, it will be useless because no one will implement it seriously or will implement it randomly, turning the originally good intention into a failure that angers everyone.

The great dictator does not have to worry about this step. As long as he makes up his mind, most officials will follow the rules and report the results of the implementation truthfully for timely correction. In this way, the efficiency of implementation will increase exponentially and the management cost will decrease exponentially.

Since dictatorship is so good, why do most governments in later generations strongly oppose it? The answer is also very simple: people!
By comparing these two different systems, we can draw a conclusion that the dictatorship is very dependent on one person, the emperor.

If the emperor's method is right, then the efficiency will be very high. But if the emperor's method is wrong, then high efficiency is no longer a good thing, but an accomplice, doubling the destructive power.

Normal people, no matter how smart or wise they are, cannot guarantee that every decision they make is right. In reality, the effect of ten correct decisions is often less than the harm caused by one wrong decision.

For example, when climbing a mountain, you take the first ninety-nine steps well and are getting closer to the summit step by step, but you miss a step on the hundredth step and don't stand firmly, and the result is likely to be that you fall down.

If you are lucky, you may fall down a dozen or dozens of steps without getting seriously injured, and you can get up to rest and continue climbing. If you are unlucky, you may break bones and tendons in one fell swoop, and you may never be able to get up again.

On the other hand, those inefficient systems may have just climbed ten steps at this time, which is indeed very slow. But they are steady, thinking for a long time before taking a step, repeatedly proving the foothold, taking one step at a time, and avoiding falling and getting injured as much as possible, and are actually ahead.

So after hundreds of years of experience and lessons, humans have gradually come to a conclusion that they would rather be slow and inefficient in order to ensure safety. In practical operations, this means avoiding dictatorship, limiting individual power, dispersing power, and using the collective wisdom of a group of people to make up for individual deficiencies, which is democracy.

Is this conclusion correct? Generally speaking, it is correct. Why does Hong Tao do the opposite? Because he is not a normal person. In addition to knowing the future in advance, he also has an extra-long life. With these two special abilities, he believes that a democratic system will slow down the pace of development, while a dictatorial system is conducive to grabbing resources faster.

The 17th century was a critical juncture of the transition of the times. If the Ming Empire did not take action in time, European countries would certainly not be polite. If they all rushed to fight for it, they would be involved in a group fight, and even if they could win, the cost would be too high.

The world's resources and strategic locations are limited. It is not too late to seize them first, lay out a good strategy, maximize national interests, and then turn back and slowly transform from a dictatorship to a democracy.

Any system is for the benefit of people. Don't put the cart before the horse. Do whatever is beneficial. Don't be too rigid about names and types. There is no such thing as necessarily good or necessarily bad. What is suitable is temporarily good, and what is not suitable is temporarily bad. It is only temporary, not forever.

Without so much power concentrated in their hands, who could have transferred nearly two million people in ten years, dispersed them according to the north, south, east, west and center and among different ethnic groups, and arranged them to settle in the most unfamiliar and smallest areas? To put it bluntly, it was like adding sand.

The most successful regions are Yunnan, Guangxi and Guizhou, which have now become a melting pot of ethnic groups. In addition to the original dozens of ethnic groups, there are also Han people who migrated from the mainland, herdsmen who migrated from Inner Mongolia, Koreans who migrated from Liaoyang, and Muslims who migrated from the Yarkand Kingdom.

The Han people accounted for more than 50% of the population and were forcibly dispersed evenly among hundreds of towns and farms. The same was true for other ethnic groups, who had to live together and register their identity cards.

Those who disobeyed and resisted disappeared one by one. Most of them were not killed, but were captured by the government and sent to the special district and the governor's district, where they were also treated as sand and mixed with the locals.

Trouble? Cost? Hong Tao was very patient in this regard and was willing to spend money. In the past ten years, at least 100,000 people of all ethnic groups in the Ming Dynasty were relocated to the Kosa Special Zone in Enniao Port, far away in the southern tip of Africa.

If you arrive at Enniao Port for the first time, you are likely to meet Han people from the inland of Ming Dynasty, or ethnic minorities from Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan. You may also meet natives from Luzon, Annan and Thanlyin Port. If the local Xhosa people were not significantly more numerous, you might think you have arrived at Manila Port.

Why do I say that? Because Hong Tao not only mixed corruption among the Xhosa people, but also exchanged a lot of black people from other local ethnic groups from the Xhosa people, and brought them all to Manila. Integration cannot be limited to a certain skin color, it must be mixed at a deeper level, and the ultimate goal is a mess.

He also took the lead and selected thirty strong young men from among them and sent them all to Haihusi for training.

He planned to add dozens of black men to the guards led by Flathead Brother in a year or two, and equip them with black helmets, black armor and black robes. When they go out at night, they will be like wearing night clothes, making it difficult for the enemy to tell their true colors. When they get close, they will suddenly open their mouths to reveal a mouthful of white teeth, which will have a strong deterrent effect.

According to the current trend, if this continues for another ten years, ethnic integration will be initially completed. By then, with the Ming Empire as the center, a Chinese language circle and a Chinese cultural circle will be formed in East Asia, South Asia, the Southeast Peninsula, the Indian Peninsula, and even the southern tip of Africa.

(End of this chapter)