On the tenth day of September of the second year of Zhaowu.
It was only early morning, and the genius was in a dawn. It was a curfew. There was a hustle and bustle outside the city of Chenyang. People gathered in the city, and people from all counties outside the city.
Gathered outside the city gate, gathered in three or two, waiting eagerly.
"Dong!"
At some point, accompanied by a rumbling drum, the closed city gate opened,
Accompanied by a rumbling drum, the silence in Chenyang City was completely torn apart.
Immediately afterwards, there was chaos, but there seemed to be extremely neat footsteps. The soldiers of the imperial camp stationed in the Chenyang Palace quickly assembled, and the emperor's flag was also standing tall in the army.
"Your Majesty is here!"
In the palace, accompanied by the eunuch's shout, the emperor was wearing armor, cloak, and rode his horse, and the soldiers of the imperial camp who were with him followed closely behind.
When the emperor arrived at the Imperial Front Camp, the army standing straight on the street also moved and headed towards the city gate.
At the same time, the people who had already gathered on both sides of the street also knelt on the ground with incense burners in their hands.
"Long live! Long live! Long live!"
Long live shouting, the sky and earth were shaking, and the emperor rode his horse and looked around, with indifferent eyes.
However, when they walked outside the city, there were people gathering and kneeling down to show off their respectfully, the emperor's eyes could not help but flash.
If the people in the city send their respectfully, it is an act under the Shenyang government organization, but outside the city, these people who seem to be clearly inactive...
"Long live! Long live! Long live!"
The mountains roared and the sea rushed straight into the sky. Li Xiu looked around, with gratitude gazes all over the place. At this moment, he felt indescribable.
"Long live your Majesty!"
"Long live your Majesty!"
Speaking of which, he really did something insignificant. Even if the reform policies are implemented now, in Liaodong, it is only a way for these people to live normally, and they are far from able to live well.
But they were already extremely satisfied and even gave the greatest support to him, the emperor.
All of this seems very beautiful, but in fact, it is extremely cruel.
Just as Shang Jun’s book said in the five ways to control the people: one, weak people, exhaust people, humiliate people, and poor people.
The so-called one people means unifying thoughts and monopolizing ideology.
A weak people means that the people are weak and the country is strong, and the country is strong and the people are weak. The way to govern the country is to weaken the people.
To exhaust the people is to seek trouble for the people and make them exhausted from running.
Insulting the people is to make the people lose their self-esteem and confidence, and to instigate each other to report and expose each other, and to live in a fearful atmosphere all day long.
The poor should let the people make a living without any self-esteem and confidence, deprive them of surplus food and wealth, and have poor people and a weak ambitions.
What seems to be absurd theory is actually the true truth.
With ideological unity, the people will not be bewitched by other ideas, and the biggest source of unrest can be eradicated.
The biggest function of the four points of weak people, exhaustion people, humiliation people, and poor people is to allow the country and even the emperor to gain support from the people at the lowest cost, and at the same time, it can also receive the call of people's power at the lowest cost.
The simplest recipe is like the people in front of you. Under the rule of the Later Jin Dynasty, they were in danger of life and death.
This is undoubtedly oppression to the extreme, and the people are also weak, tired, poor, and humiliated to the extreme!
Therefore, he only needs to impose a little good policy to gain the support of these people. As long as he wants, under this support, he can easily use the ruling institutions to mobilize the people's strength of hundreds of thousands of people in Liaodong.
But if the people in Liaodong live a wealthy life and live a worry-free life, they want to gain the support of these people and want to use the people's strength, then it will not be possible for each household to give a few dou of rice!
That will inevitably require greater dominance costs and add more instability factors.
Therefore, a country ruled never by the people who are rich and strong.
Instead, the people need to be weak and the country can be strong!
Of course, this weakness naturally needs to change with the times.
Nowadays, it is naturally extremely simple to weaken the people, but with the development of the times, the word "weak" of weak people naturally needs to keep pace with the times.
Especially with the development of society, people's lives gradually become rich with the development of society, and people's wisdom has been opened.
If you want to weaken the people, it is not just a simple and rough exploitation, but a court needs to use various hidden hands to make the majority of the people run around and make a living. Only in this way can you gain greater people's strength with the lowest ruling cost!
Of course, means are just means, and if the people's wisdom is already opened, it will naturally not be difficult to discover. This is reflected in the importance of ideology.
Shang Jun’s five techniques for controlling the people are more like a summary of the rule of human nature than a reform that makes Qin powerful and achieves Qin’s tyranny.
As long as people still exist, this conclusion cannot be changed.
As a ruler, especially in this era, even if he risked the world's ruling and changed the ills of eternity, he would eventually have to return to the elite's governance of the country and exploit the people's power.
This is an unchangeable historical law. As long as people still exist, they cannot be changed.
Even if it is reversed for a moment, it will inevitably return to this rule.
Whether it is the past, present, or future.
Perhaps the only difference between him is his style. Although it is actually a ruling and exploitation, at least in his hands, he will make the people live a better life and have more hope, and will do his best to demand the elite of officials and be better for the people.
Instead of letting these people be confused, they will be a lifetime.
Apart from that, he could do nothing.
He is also a human being, and cannot reverse the inevitable historical laws or change the hearts of everyone.
With many thoughts flowing, Li Xiu let out a long breath and spit out two words.
"tips!"
"Abide by the order!"
Wang Wu beside him received the order, and pallets filled with copper coins and silver were carried by eunuchs and spilled the money to the people.
For a moment, the order suddenly became chaotic, and the people robbed money, but the shouting of long live was impossible to roar.
"If you send orders to the entire army, there will be no war on your way back to Beijing, you will not disturb the people or step on the fields. Those who violate the orders will be engaged in military law!"
The order was issued again, and the generals took the order. The emperor did not say much, and rode his horse and moved slowly because he accepted the worship of the people. He also accelerated suddenly, emerged from Shenyang and rushed towards the capital.
When they came, there were only tens of thousands of soldiers of the imperial guards in the Beijing Army. When they returned, they were revoked and reorganized by the mountains and seas, and Liaodong was pacified, and the fourth camp of the Beijing Army, which was originally stationed in Shanhai, returned to the establishment.
This huge triumphal team is also an inflated army of tens of thousands!
At this time when people's hearts are turbulent due to reform, we will enter the pass and return to triumphantly with the power of great victory!
Chapter completed!