Conferred Gods: Reborn Yang Jian, racing all the way

Chapter 22 Shocking words
“I wonder what a centralized system is?”

Just when the literati couldn't understand because of embarrassment, Di Xin spoke first.

Because he is not a scholar, he can ask questions boldly, and he does not have so many steps to climb.

"The so-called centralized system is to establish a unified dynasty and concentrate all power in the hands of the king."

Lin Bufan's words are not surprising, and he will never stop. His thoughts are absolutely subversive to today's big businessmen.

But now the great merchants only have great kings. Although they are called so, their actual status is that of human emperors.

If the human emperors of this era have not reached the level of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors in terms of political achievements or contributions.

None of them would call themselves emperor or emperor, and they would all call themselves the more humble king.

This means that he is the greatest king among all the kings in the world. At this time, Dashang was still in the stage of enfeoffment and slavery.

In addition to the king, there are other kings. The other kings all accept the rule of the king in their respective fiefdoms and pay various taxes on time.

But in fact, the great king is the human emperor, no need to care about the title. There was no human emperor after the demise of the Great Shang Dynasty, and those who followed were all emperors.

The amount of information contained in Lin Bufan's words just now was too great.

According to his understanding, it is necessary to eliminate other kings and leave only one king, so that there is only one king left in the world.

So after hearing Lin Bufan's words, let alone these literati who were suppressed, even Di Xin was a little confused and didn't know what to say.

After all, this kind of topic is taboo, even in Dashang, you can't talk about it casually.

Soon, a scholar came to his senses. He stood up and stared at Lin Bufan angrily.

"How brave. Now that the world is at peace, and the kings are guarding all parts of the world, they are prosperous. Are you trying to make the world miserable with your provocative words?"

"You are speaking lightly. You want to destroy all the kings and only respect the king. Do you know the cost of provoking a war? How can a war be described by you in just one or two sentences?"

What this scholar said makes sense, because if you want to unify the world, you must launch a war of annihilation against other countries like Qin Shihuang did.

But today's great merchants have hundreds of kings. How can they achieve the unification of the world?

If unification must be forced, a protracted war will be necessary to achieve the goal.

And that would cause the death of countless people, causing chaos in the world and no peace.

Therefore, in the eyes of these literati, only the most vicious careerists can say these words of Lin Bufan.

The scholar's words touched the painful point of reality. Everyone looked at Lin Bufan expectantly, wondering how he should refute?

How could Lin Bufan be afraid of this? He naturally knew the benefits of unification.

Faced with the current comfortable environment, the ancients never thought about the serious consequences of feudalism.

So Lin Bufan had to remind them that the enfeoffment system was unreliable.

"Everything this gentleman said is reasonable, but it is also the price that must be paid if you want to achieve centralization."

Lin Bufan did not refute the other party's point of view, because what the other party said was indeed the truth. He first agreed with the other party's point of view, and then began to refute.

"But have you ever thought that today's system has great drawbacks, and it is inevitable that land enfeoffment will occur."

"That is, after a few years, the various princes and kings will develop stronger and stronger, but if something unexpected happens to the great merchants and their development fails to keep up." "Then the world will be in chaos, because no one can suppress these princes and kings. They will start fighting for their respective territories.”

"At that time, more innocent people will die, the entire world will be in dire straits, and the entire world will fall into endless wars. Have you ever thought about this?"

Lin Bufan's series of words made everyone speechless, because it was not that they had not thought of these things.

But they have never thought about this, because the Shang Dynasty is very powerful today.

They would never think that the princes and kings under their control were qualified to rebel.

But if you follow Lin Bufan's ideas, this will indeed happen a few years later.

After all, it is impossible for the Shang Dynasty to remain in decline forever. Children have been deceived for thousands of years, and no one can guarantee that the great Shang Dynasty will not decline.

And by then there will definitely be the scene where the heroes vying for the throne that Lin Bufan mentioned.

Because there must be a common leader in this world. If the original boss is gone, they will definitely have to compete for another boss.

"Then is there any difference between launching a war now and a war later? A lot of people will die and the world will be in chaos."

This scholar obviously couldn't find any good words to say, so he could only bite the bullet and make nonsense in his rebuttal.

"No, of course it's different. The Great Shang Dynasty is at its strongest now. If a war is launched, many small princes and kings will surrender directly. The casualties will not be as big as you think."

"The real casualties will be much smaller. Only the particularly large princes and kings will accept their fate if they need to fight with real swords and guns."

"So it seems like the world is in chaos, but in fact it's just a few local wars. For today's big businessmen, it doesn't even hurt their muscles and bones."

"At most, it's just two pieces of meat, but for the price of two pieces of meat, you can get a longer-term peace. Isn't it a good deal?"

In response to the other party's forced talk, Lin Bufan responded unceremoniously and explained the pros and cons.

Of course, he did not mention the shortcomings of the feudal dynasty, which was that the feudal dynasty was at its end.

Basically they were overthrown by various uprisings, and then a new feudal dynasty was established.

But this is much better than the chaotic wars between various princes under feudalism, because they do not have a complete national concept at all.

Although the new feudal dynasty was a change of dynasty, the war only lasted for a few decades.

After a few decades, the world was basically unified, and a new dynasty emerged, and the cycle continued until that kind of thinking emerged.

However, the princes and kings under the feudal system did not have a complete national concept at all.

They will not think that conquering and unifying the world is the ultimate goal of the king.

They don't have this concept at all. They just like to live in a corner and just take care of their own one-third of an acre.

It can be seen from the history of the earth that although the Zhou Dynasty is said to be 800 years old, it actually lasted for 600 years, which was an era of war between various princes and kings.

A country is divided into countless small countries, and wars are fought every now and then.

Compared with the big one happening only once every few hundred years and then continuing to be stable for hundreds of years, the latter is definitely much better, at least for the common people.

In fact, no matter how you say it, the system is evolving, and the feudal system is absolutely superior to the feudal slavery system in all aspects.

(End of this chapter)