C2363 Unjusticiable (1/2)

In the thousands of years of human history, there have always been those who created the rules and others who obeyed them. Those who created the rules were what the world calls great men or the elites at the top of the pyramid.

Whether people like it or not, you have to admit that there is a group of people standing at the top of the pyramid who are not bound by the law.

For example, the founding emperors of all dynasties, or those who turned the tide of history, could create and even amend laws by themselves. They belonged to the rule-makers, while others could only obey the rules of the game.

If we take the Ming Dynasty as an example, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the empire, was of course the maker of the game. After that, only one of his descendants, Zhu Di, was considered half a great man, because after all, he dared to challenge some of his father's authority, break certain rules, and not be judged.

Amongst the civil officials, the most famous Reformist in the Ming Dynasty should be Zhang Juzheng. When he was in power, she forcefully pushed forward a whip art, which could be said to have changed the economic rules of China and even Asia for the next few hundred years.

This was a very successful Reformist. Even though he was expropriated after his death, when he was still alive, no one in the imperial court could touch him, including the Emperor.

Such a person could be said to be above the law, and he had partially modified the rules of the Great Ming Dynasty by his own efforts.

There were many such people in the history of the world, including the current Xiao Letian, who was already considered to be a creator of the rules and regulations, which was also the level of the creator.

He was the founder of the Chinese Statute Book, and that was the root of the Chinese people. To put it bluntly, the Chinese Statute Book was his son.

At the very least, he was still someone who followed the rules of the Great Qing, he himself did not have any ability to change the rules of the game. From this alone, forget about what kind of emperor he was, his authority could not even compare to Xiao Letian's little finger.

The person under the rules of the game had to learn to obey the rules every day, or else the rules would punish him. And what were the rules of the game used to restrain people?

These elites were already standing on top of the Constitution. What restricted them was the checks and balances between the elites, the little responsibility they had towards human civilization, and the little awe they had towards history.

This sense of responsibility and reverence combined together was actually just Benjamin saying, ”Only history can judge me!”

Benjamin, Gladstone, Queen Victoria, Bismark … Including Xiao Letian, their merits and losses were something that ordinary people could not judge, because many of their time spent thinking about things was a hundred years later.

As long as they believed that this matter was in line with the mainstream of historical development and was beneficial to the future of the nation, they would truly be willing to sacrifice the happiness of two or three generations of people before them.

Not only did they sacrifice their happiness, they could even sacrifice the lives of millions of people right before their eyes in exchange for the well-being of hundreds of millions of future generations.

It can be said that the people on the rules and the people on the rules see things from a completely different perspective, so they would say that only history can judge me.

There was nothing wrong with that. While Qin Shi Huang was still alive, the people were in so much pain that they wanted to stand up straight. But what about after he died? His political legacy spread all the way to New China, and no dynasty dared to ban a single county.

Not to mention the fact that they were on the same track and written in the same language, this was simply a great killing tool for the Chinese nation.

Looking at India in the 21st century, it was obvious that the language and language had not been unified yet. The internal railways were all three sets of gauge, and even the rail spacing could not be unified.