Chapter 48 Section 1 "Poisonous Spider" Zhu Yuanzhang

The ancients had many comparisons to "governing the world", such as "governing a country is like curing a disease", "governing a big country is like cooking small delicacies", such as "the king is like a boat, and people are like water. Water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize it" .In these metaphors, "the world" is a dynamic thing, requiring rulers to change from time to time and to move according to the situation. Zhu Yuanzhang's understanding of governing the country is different from that of the ancients.He prefers to use "building houses" and "building mansions" as metaphors for governing the country: "Those who serve the world are like building mansions." The whitewashing of algae painting must be done by civil servants. Using text instead of force, for example, how to paint the walls before they are even built? Using force instead of text, just like only the frame, rough and rough, without painting, it is very ugly.”

A farmer's world view is static.In the eyes of farmers, the world is an eternal cycle.The sky is round, the sun rises and the moon sets, and the scenery around the small village will never change. Zhu Yuanzhang also hopes to build a solid empire that will last forever and never collapse.This empire can be in a static cycle forever, as he arranged, until the end of time. This is not only the dream of Zhu Yuanzhang alone, but also the dream of every ancient Chinese. "Peace", "Taiping" and "Stability" have always been the most beautiful words in the minds of Chinese people.

Although both peasant emperors, Zhu Yuanzhang's personality is completely different from Liu Bang's.In Liu Bang's bones, there was a sense of lawlessness, dissoluteness and open-mindedness. When he saw the first emperor driving, he said without shame: "A man should be like this!" Fan, only reluctantly left under the earnest persuasion of the ministers around him.This shows his hedonistic character.But in Zhu Yuanzhang's dictionary, there is never the word "rest".After putting on the imperial robe, he didn't waste a minute enjoying the victory, but rushed to the next goal: consolidating the empire.In the countryside, if you have a few pieces of silver at home, you have to bury it deep in a pit or stove. What's more, how can you not properly manage such a large family property? Counting all over the world, I can't find anyone who loves "stability" more than Zhu Yuanzhang. Rulers, to some extent, this kind of love has even become a kind of paranoia and fanaticism.From a psychological point of view, Zhu Yuanzhang is a patient with obsessive-compulsive disorder to a certain extent.Patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder are often superhumanly strong-willed, and they tend to use their own will to regulate the world. The most intolerable thing is the state of chaos and disorder.They are eager to arrange everything in an orderly manner, and they require step-by-step procedures for everything.For example, in life, he would require that all items in the house be placed in an orderly manner: the pattern of towels hanging in the bathroom should be aligned, the handles of cups for brushing teeth should be consistent, and the placement of kitchen utensils should be fixed.Even the sex life must be strictly in accordance with the regulations, fixed on the day of the week.

Zhu Yuanzhang is like this.If he is just a farmer all his life, he must also be a very strict head of the family. He rises at dawn to clean the house, everything in the house must be neatly arranged, and the crops in the field must be kept in good spirits.If it is a company boss, he will definitely manage the company so that no one dares to speak loudly. After becoming "Yu Yiren", Zhu Yuanzhang stood on the Jiuzhong and looked down. Chinese society is still in turmoil following the inertia of the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, full of chaos, contradictions and conflicts everywhere, like a chaotic, huge, disorderly The spinning galaxy.It made him dizzy and scared.He felt that all classes of society were coveting his great fortune.He is afraid of chaos, of the free evolution of society, and of any atom of society escaping from his control.

Zhu Yuanzhang's qualities are actually the most suitable for a village head, and he is just right for a village with a hundred households.With his hands-on work style, he will go deep into every household and grasp the condition of every livestock. He will guide the villagers on what to plant on each piece of land. We can imagine Village Chief Zhu holding his donkey face, hands behind his back, walking majestically on the country road, carefully observing the growth of each crop.When the villagers saw him, they saluted and greeted him from a distance.He nodded slightly, walked to them, taught them how to give birth and how to live, told them to respect the old and love the young, and love the court.

Unfortunately, fate graciously handed over the whole country to him.For Zhu Yuanzhang, Chinese society was too large and too complicated.A country is not the accumulation of villages, and running a country is different from running a village.For Zhu Yuanzhang, who was used to riding a donkey in the countryside, the huge China was like a dinosaur he had never seen before. Although he was riding on it, he still felt a little powerless even though he held the rein tightly.He is familiar with the temperament of the donkey, but he can't understand the temper of the dinosaur. However, the village head has his own way.For one person's "peace of mind", he must make others "meditate" or "unconscious".In Zhu Yuanzhang's view, the most thorough and safest way to ensure that the surname of Zhu will last forever is to firmly and permanently control every member of the empire, so that no one can talk or move around.Like the legendary poisonous spider, Zhu Yuanzhang entrenched in the center of the empire, radiating countless sticky and long spider threads, wrapping the entire empire firmly.He hoped that his spider silk could bind the clock of the empire's time, so that the empire would be at a standstill forever.Then, he will inject the poison juice refined from the think tanks of the past dynasties into the brains of the people, so that the nerves of the whole of China will be paralyzed into a vegetative state. In other words, it will fundamentally kill everyone's personality, initiative, Be creative and domesticate them into obedient citizens who specialize in providing food.In this way, he and his descendants can enjoy the blood of the people with peace of mind, and even the most incompetent descendants will not be overthrown.