C1215 heart demon (1/2)
No one replied Sakamoto Ryoma, because no one could refute his logic. In the thousands of years of history of human civilization, the rise and fall of every nation was accompanied by the struggle for self-interest and public interest.
If a people begin to expand at a certain stage, it is inevitable that at that stage the people will be aggressive and expansive, a character that may be reflected in war or in large-scale engineering and scientific research that will benefit the masses.
During this period, the country is more likely to do great things, but the happiness of the people will be reduced. As a simple example, it was said that Han Wu had travelled to the Western Regions to open up a space for the Han people to live in, and it was very satisfying to see the victories of that war.
But after many victories, millions of people were drained of their wealth, and even though they were in their prime, they still could not have a full stomach of grief. The happiness of these people was squeezed to the extreme.
This was a form of damage to one's self-interest caused by excessive public interest, but would it be a good thing if it was too strong? The Song Dynasty was a typical policy of the weak. After five generations of wars and ten countries, Song Yicheng gave the civil officials an absolutely revered position.
At that time, even if the Song Dynasty Emperor wanted to expand the imperial city, she could not do so because there was an ancestral family law controlling them. They were forbidden from fighting with the people for benefits, and they did not even dare to tear down the commoner district that was close to the imperial city.
It was an era of vigorous development in the secular world. The prosperity of the populace was a miracle in the Middle Ages, before the Industrial Revolution, in all the empires in the human race, there was no one who was richer than Song.
However, the first Song Dynasty was indeed the most prosperous but also the weakest period in Chinese history. In the end, Song ended up being savagely exterminated, and countless wealth turned into the spoils of war for the barbarians.
At that time, not only will I not be able to live, I won't even have the right to live. No matter if I am a noble or a commoner, by that time, I will become a slave of the Mongolian.
The conflict between the public interest and the private interest lasted for several thousand years, and would continue for countless years as well. This was an unsolvable problem, and as long as human society existed, this conflict would last forever.
Like the pendulum of time, it swung back and forth between the two nodes. The pendulum would not stop until the end of mankind.
”Hahaha …” Xiao Letian laughed, then suddenly burst out laughing, in the silence of the palace hall, he laughed till his tears flowed out, looking at the people around him made them feel dizzy, listening to his words, causing them to palpitate in fear.
Xin Jing was crying and laughing, but her heart was bleeding. He sighed at how she had finally reached this step, he was finally like all the emperors and generals, a politician who used his life as a pawn.
Ever since the day he had teleported to this world, there had been a fear in his heart. This fear accompanied his countless sleepless nights and his countless hangovers.
Xiao Letian was very clear about what kind of path he was walking on, and he was even more aware of the difficult choice he would face in the future. It was not because of how strong the enemy was, but whether or not Xiao Letian could defeat the inner demon.
He knew that as his power grew, and as he was going to fight with the other powers, a tough choice would surely appear.
The chess board to devour lives was already set up, I wonder if you, Xiao Letian, would dare to sit down? In the air, Xiao Letian seemed to be able to see the spirits of countless famous politicians, militants and revolutionaries dancing in the air.