Chapter 24 Six, the abacus may not always be as you wish

Speaking of it, Zhou Tianxia is actually a tree with deep roots. The roots of Zhou are in the countryside. This is not surprising.Zhou was originally an agricultural nation.What's more, under the framework of the state system, the states of princes and the homes of doctors are all independently managed.Of course, the doctor's financial income comes from the fief.The princes not only come from the whole country, but also have their own private land, just like the emperor owns the world, and there is also a Zhou kingdom.The Kingdom of Zhou is the entity.It is the "central government" of Zhou Tianxia, ​​and it is also an "independent kingdom".Later, the emperor of Zhou was emptied and overthrown because his kingdom went from bad to worse, and his overall national strength was not only inferior to that of the feudal princes, but even inferior to that of the fiefs of the doctors.

The fief is Zhou's "basic political organization", its status is equivalent to the later county, and its scale is equivalent to the current township.There are village communities in fiefdoms, and in larger ones there may be manors, pastures and forests.The outskirts outside the castle are well fields cultivated by groups of eight or ten farmers.Those who manage the fief affairs are the "retainers" of the doctor. The retainers are all scholars.Those with high positions are called "zai", who are the "big butler" of doctors.Zilu and Ranyou, students of Confucius, served as the ministers of Jisun, a senior official in the state of Lu.But this is already spring and autumn.During the Western Zhou Dynasty, the retainers should all be "sons of the monarch" who could not inherit the title.Since they can't take over as "family lords" like the eldest son, they have no choice but to become "retainers" to help their father and brother "keep the family together".

This is a reasonable arrangement and a wishful thinking. We know that Zhou Tianxia is actually very big.Not to mention the king of Zhou, who is far away in the sky, even the princes of big countries and the officials of big cities are far away from their people.Those who really contact the people on the front line are the retainers.Therefore, the retainers are very important, but the monarchs can rest assured.Because the retainers are the children of the great officials, and the great officials are the children of the princes, and the princes are the emperor's uncles, uncles, brothers, nephews, sons-in-law, brother-in-law, brother-in-law, and husband-in-law.Isn't such a country like iron cast into bronze; isn't such a regime as stable as Mount Tai?

At least, that root was deep enough. It's a pity that people are not as good as God. What is heaven?As time goes by, the blood relationship becomes weaker and the relationship diminishes.This is the law of nature.Therefore, using blood and marriage to maintain political alliances can work but not last.No matter how large or harmonious the ethnic group is, the family must be separated, and the fourth generation will be under the same roof, and the fifth generation will be beheaded next. What's more, Zhou Tianxia's head office was originally a virtual one, and the real thing was the country of the princes, and later the home of the doctor.In fact, from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the development trend was strong branches and weak stems.Not only the princes have become too big to lose their tails, but even the doctors have come from behind. Can it be maintained?

Yes, there are advantages and disadvantages in everything, and the abacus may not always be satisfactory.There is no such thing as cutting tofu with a knife.But unexpectedly, the problem will be the retainers. What's wrong with retainers? loyal. strangeness!Isn't it good to be loyal?it is good.But retainers are not loyal to the monarch, let alone the emperor, but to the doctor.Because the doctor is the "lord of the family", they are the "vassals of the family".So they publicly declared that "they only know that there is a family, but they don't know that there is a country."The funniest thing is that in 530 BC, a retainer of Jisun, a doctor of the State of Lu, stood on the side of the monarch in a court struggle, and turned into a rat crossing the street.The folks said sarcastically: I have a vegetable field, but what grows is turf.As a retainer and caring about the monarch, you are so talented!

This is really dumbfounding. yes!It was originally hoped that "the family and the country are one", but it turned into "the confrontation between the family and the country"; the means that were originally used to maintain stability have become the most unstable factor. Isn't it a great irony? Even more ironic is the retainer's theory.Didn't Zhou Gong and the others say, "Under the whole world, is it the land of the king; on the shore of the land, are the ministers of the king"?What the retainers said was "within the seal, why is it not the land of the emperor; what is the hair that eats the soil, why is it not the emperor's ministers".Fenglue is the fief of a doctor; Jun is the ruler of the family, that is, a doctor. It has nothing to do with the princes, let alone the son of heaven.This is simply out-and-out "revisionism".

what!It turned out that the relationship between the monarch and his ministers in their minds only existed in the fiefs.What guarding the frontier and defending the royal family is nothing more than empty talk, or even nonsense at all! Duke Zhou, do you want it? Zhou Gong and Confucius are not perverted, They leave free space for the sexual love of young men and women. On March 3, Chinese Valentine's Day, the Eastern Zhou version was performed.

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