The short video shows the ancient times, and the emperors cried with envy!

Chapter 624: Women in ancient Europe could inherit the throne, why not China? Wu Zetian: Nonsense!

As the previous video on the sky screen ended, a new picture emerged.

A voice-over appeared first and asked a question.

[As we all know, there were 22 recorded empresses in ancient Europe, but in China, there were only two, and one was illegal and unrecognized.]

[Some people have begun to use this to prove the advancement of Western systems and to promote the historical dregs of China, but is this really the case? ]

【What is the hidden story behind this? 】

Looking at the questions in the video, all the audiences turned their eyes to the sky.

Many issues concerning empresses have been reviewed before, but whether it is Catherine or the queen of the Vikings, the difficulty and hardship of ascending to the throne cannot be compared with that of Empress Wu Zetian of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

At this moment, as the only empress in China in the past two thousand years, Wu Zetian looked at the screen and murmured:
“Haha, there are many queens in those barbarian lands in the West. Once upon a time, the Turks even supported a female leader.

The more backward a place is, the more imperfect such a system is!"

Even Wu Zetian had to admit that men had advantages in handling political affairs.

Although she believed that excluding women from the rule of the empire was a wrong choice, she did not think it was wrong for the ruler to be a man.

Only those who have experienced it are qualified to comment. She has deep feelings about the government over the years.

On the other hand, Liu E, the queen of the Song Dynasty, also showed a trace of fatigue on her face. She admitted that she was very keen on power, but she was too tired.

If you want to be an empress in China, you need to endure too many things and change too many things.

She didn't have the iron heart of Wu Zetian, and couldn't bear to kill her own relatives and the Zhao family clan, so, so be it!

Several female rulers in front of the screen expressed their opinions one after another, and at this moment, the picture on the sky curtain changed and a map of Europe unfolded.

[The most fundamental issue is to return to the root of all politics, the institutional issue.]

[More than 2,000 years ago, China abandoned the inefficient feudal lord system, embraced the county system, planned the world, and adapted to centralization. ]

[The title of Emperor, since its creation, has represented supremacy! 】

Listening to the words in the video, Ying Zheng straightened his chest unconsciously. No matter how the younger generations of the Han Dynasty slandered him in later generations, they could not avoid mentioning Ying Zheng when talking about China.

【In contrast, in contemporary Europe, their system remained consistent, and thousands of years of feudal lord system made them attach great importance to inheritance. 】

[Both the territory and the people are considered private property by them, and as private property, they can be divided.]

[So, like the princesses of the Han Dynasty in China, these noble ladies in Western Europe had fiefs and their status was similar.]

【The difference lies in the name! 】

"Isn't she still a princess no matter how you call her? She can't be an emperor!"

Princess Guantao looked at her mother, Empress Dowager Dou, with resentment in her eyes.

She hated her mother for giving her birth as a girl, otherwise she would definitely compete with Liu Qi for the throne of emperor.

"Hmph! What are you looking at? You are so ungrateful. You are not satisfied with the 5,000 households in Guantao. What? You want to be a marquis with 10,000 households?
Listen, you are the local tyrant in your own territory, and what you say outside is like an imperial decree, that’s enough.”

However, Empress Dowager Dou saw through her daughter's thoughts and criticized her without hesitation.

If Liu Qi hadn't known that his sister posed no threat to his throne, he wouldn't have been so generous.

The princess of the Han Dynasty has real power and her own administrative team. Compared with the queens of Europe, she is actually more formal.

On the other side, the Tang Dynasty.

Li Shimin looked at the sky vigilantly. He did not comment on the difference between the empresses of the West and the East, but his Tang princesses must not be as domineering as Han princesses!
Those princesses of the Han Dynasty ruined so many national and family affairs because of their own selfish desires!

Even if he doted on his daughter, Li Shimin would not allow such a thing to happen.

Why is this a question of address?

[The answer is that when we translate, we subconsciously use a set of theories that we are familiar with to translate the other party’s position.]

[In fact, many queens recorded in Europe were actually female rulers with their own fiefdoms.]

[She is no different from many princesses and princesses in Chinese history, or even worse.]

[Because both the East and the West adhere to the rule that sons conquer the world, unless there is no son, then the fertile land will be given to daughters. ]

[This kind of fiefdom basically has no actual control, let alone any enforcement power. Even after the female ruler gets married, the fiefdom will become a dowry and be incorporated into the husband's territory.]

At this time, the comments section was flooded with ridicule:

"Every emperor in China can mass-produce such queens, but only twenty-two have appeared in Europe in thousands of years. It's a joke."

"Hahaha, in the final analysis, these queens are just daughters who received dowries from their families."

"The dowry of our Chinese princesses is far more magnificent than this, but if they want land, there is no way!"

……

"Isn't this Western prince too worthless?"

In the Song Dynasty, Han Qi, who had worked hard all his life but never got crowned king, sighed.

That’s right, in the Song Dynasty, civil officials can be made kings, but you have to make great contributions during your lifetime and be honored in the Imperial Ancestral Temple after your death before you can get the title of king.

But when he saw that a princess in the West could be called a queen, the sacredness in his heart completely collapsed.

"Hehe, what the comment said is true. China can produce more than 30 queens like this every day."

Tang Dynasty, Li Longji smiled lightly and said it was a joke. When he suppressed the rebellion of Wei Shuren, he conferred titles on dozens of princesses at once, and each of them had a fiefdom.

In his heart, even if there were ten thousand such beings, they were not as good as one finger of the Great Saint Empress Wu Zetian.

[And the title of these queens is actually just a king, which is equivalent to the king in China, and also a county prince. ]

[The next level, similar to the kings of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, is another word, emperor, which is a serious existence that can be called alone. ]

[In the entire West, only the female tsar Catherine could reach this level. Victoria with the English title had this qualification, but her title has always been king.]

[Above the level is the emperor, which is called "Basileus" in Western languages.

In fact, this title only exists in a few countries, such as the Holy Roman Empire, the French Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire. 】

[At the level of "Basilius", there are no more women, but this level cannot be compared with the Chinese emperor, because this title is only equivalent to the emperor of the Chinese separatist forces. ]

[Just like the Han and Tang emperors who unified the world, their title could never be this one! ]

Liu Che nodded, indicating that you are right!
(End of this chapter)