Crossover in the Anime World

Officials, mountains and seas, asset capitalization, these are all means. If the enemy uses them and you don't use them, the enemy will become stronger, so you can only use them.

The emperor was afraid of asset capitalization because this new method could compete with the government. Officials, mountains and seas are beneficial to the emperor, while capitalization of assets is beneficial to the nobles.

Asset capitalization is to turn all assets, mountains, rivers and land into monetary figures, and then nobles from all over the world compete for money. Everything is measured in money, the same goes for technology, life, etc.

In the West, kings have divine power, and the status of the monarch is very stable. However, with the capitalization of assets, the aristocrats and the king no longer compete with each other for authority, but for money. Of course, the king cannot compare. After all, there is only one king, but there are many nobles. Eventually the entire country is converted into capital, which can then be expanded outwards.

If other countries don't follow suit, they will be easily defeated. Because asset capitalization can indeed encourage science, motivate the people, and be good at expansion, which is very conducive to enriching the country and strengthening the military. If you don't follow suit, you will be invaded by countries that have completed capitalization.

It's like Qi State's national power has been greatly strengthened after it started to dominate the country. Then other countries can only keep up, or they will be eliminated if they don't.

Capital against capital, magic against magic.

Belmode now understands that the West is going around in the feudal system. Although it has transformed from land feudalism to capital feudalism, it has not yet entered the imperial system. They tried but failed, so the feudal nobles were afraid of the imperial system, but at the same time they had to admit the advantages of the imperial system, which was also very contradictory.

But the more I understand, the more I feel that the feudal system of the island country is hopeless. Isn’t the reason why the island country left Asia and joined Europe because they can graft the Western system well? The same feudalism, the same capitalization, and the same expansion. The only difference is that when the cake is divided, the Island Congress divides it at the altar of the emperor, while the West divides it at the altar of the upper and lower parliaments.

It's really impossible to rebel or something. Even Belmode felt that even the US imperialist soldiers could not give the island country true freedom. The deep-rooted problems have evolved into the culture of the island country. Once something becomes culture, it is difficult to change it, because it is already established and subtle. It has penetrated into everyone's life.

"So talking about rebellion is really unreliable. Although it is said that those who steal the country will punish the princes who steal the country, the premise of this sentence is that Zhuangzi did not see Qin unifying the six countries, and the country thieves he saw did not change the country. Not only has the system not changed, but for the sake of legitimacy of rule, they will cater to the old system and seek recognition from Zhou Li." Belmod already understood Zhuangzi's background, which was the Warring States Period after the three families were divided into Jin and the Tian family succeeded Jiang.

But whether the three families were divided into Jin or the Tian family replaced Jiang, they all sought recognition from the Emperor of Zhou. They were all feudal lords and did not change the nature of the country.

If Zhuangzi could see Qin wipe out Liuhe, he probably would no longer think that it was stealing the country, but destroying the country, completely changing the system of prefectures and counties in the vassal states. This is definitely not plagiarism, but destruction.

"So the theft of the country and the rebellion you are talking about are two different things. To steal the country, you don't need to overturn the status quo of the island country. You just need to become the most powerful Chinese in the island country. For example, Mitsuhide Akechi launched the Honnoji Rebellion against Oda Nobunaga, which is considered theft of the country, because He did not change the Chinese covenant. There was no rebellion in the island country. Even Tokugawa Ieyasu, who founded Edo, only maintained his advantage among the Chinese by closing the country to the outside world, rather than subverting the Chinese covenant." Bell. Mode did her homework because she didn't want to be a passive puppet in front of Duran. So I studied history hard and finally came to the conclusion that stealing the country and rebelling are two different things.

Stealing the country is stealing. It means stealing something but keeping it as it is without causing damage. It is done under the original system. Rebellion, on the other hand, is about breaking down and then building up again. It is about knocking the original country to pieces and then building a new system. This is completely different. Island countries can steal the country, but they cannot rebel.

The difficulty of rebellion is too high, and the island country lacks the soil to move from feudalism to imperialism. It is not easy to develop an imperial system and constantly improve it through trial and error.

After all, the emperor is a monster who wants to turn the entire country into his own private land, and the Chinese people everywhere will not agree. The Chinese have control of the army, police, and various resources, and they will not give the emperor face at all.

To be honest, the monarch of the Central Plains initially controlled the country through urbanization. What he could control were the cities. This was a by-product of the Qi State's official affairs, and Linzi, the capital of Qi State, became the largest city at that time. By controlling large cities and trade, the monarch suppressed the nobles everywhere.

When the three families were divided into Jin, the Six Qings built their own city and divided the Zhao State directly without giving any face to the Zhao monarch.

By the time of the Han Dynasty, the emperor had to compromise with the nobles and had no choice but to face the clans that established fortresses in various places. In the end, the warlords could not stop the separatist rule, and the heroes stood side by side.

Even if the imperial examination system was established in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, nobles could still fight against the emperor through religion, and the emperor had to establish a state religion to form an alliance with the nobles.

Until the Song Dynasty, it was not the emperor who really defeated the nobles, but the emperor who opened up the path for the poor families to rise. The nobles could not bear the impact of a large number of poor families and had to retreat and merge with the scholar class to form the scholar-bureaucrat class.

But when the scholar-bureaucrat class merged into one, the emperor had encountered new challenges. Because scholar-bureaucrats were also representatives from various places. After all, many scholars were funded by local aristocratic families and would also fight against the emperor. In order to get ahead, the scholar-bureaucrats would deliberately contradict the emperor. In the Ming Dynasty, being punished by the imperial cane was already a medal for the scholar-bureaucrats.

Scholar-officials do not care about blood and origin. If there is no opportunity to perform meritorious service, then cheating the imperial staff is a way for him to quickly become famous. It is no wonder that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty liked the eunuchs, because these scholar-bureaucrats and officials were unwilling to obey, they only regarded the emperor as a tool, and they all used opposing the emperor as a means of self-promotion.

In the Qing Dynasty, all officials were turned into the emperor's domestic slaves, which truly turned all the country's land into his own private territory, fulfilling the emperor's greatest wish and becoming the only big landowner.

But the new problem is that everyone in the country has to oppose the emperor. In the past, it was just the scholar-bureaucrats who opposed the emperor. In the Qing Dynasty, it was the people of the whole country who opposed the emperor.

The imperial system developed step by step. The emperor spent two thousand years constantly selecting poor families to attack the nobles. But in the end, after the poor families and the nobles merged into scholar-bureaucrats, the emperor had to fight against the scholar-bureaucrats. Then the scholar-bureaucrats became domestic slaves, and the emperor had to fight against the world again.

The Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties moved from feudalism to imperialism. During the Qin, Han, Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, emperors constantly tried to perfect the imperial system and realize the idea that the whole world must be a royal land, which originated from the Book of Songs.

Many detours and wrong paths were taken in the process, and the county system gradually replaced the feudal system. However, even in the Tang Dynasty, some of the founding heroes still wanted to divide Feng Jianguo, and there were discussions on "On Feudalism". Of course, for the emperor, the county system was more in line with his interests. Wouldn't it be nice to turn the whole world into his own territory and then send his own people to manage it?

Of course, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty did not solve the problem, but instead weakened due to the problem of Jiedushi. The Tang Dynasty was too open. The governors in various places had a lot of money to train the army. If they did not steal the country, they would be sorry for the emperor.

In the Song Dynasty, military and political affairs were separated. Moreover, the economy in the south was developing rapidly, and the imperial examinations allowed many emerging forces to develop. The method used by the Song Dynasty emperors to control land and scholar-bureaucrats was: urbanization. Just like Qi, who controlled the city to control the surrounding area, the emperor did not compromise with the nobles, but promoted the status of the emerging scholars, and finally defeated the nobles.

So a pattern can be found here, whether it is a noble or a scholar-official. The emperor initially controlled these rising forces through urbanization. With development, the power of the nobility and scholar-bureaucrats expanded and the big cities could no longer control them. The emperor would compromise with them and seek new forces to fight against them.