Chapter 402 Opening the Sea
The so-called governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh food. Governing a country is as simple as cooking a dish easily. For example, in the previous dynasty, those ministers often wrote to the emperor, asking the emperor to govern a big country is like cooking a small fresh food, how to govern it, etc.
In fact, it is all nonsense. Do big things as small things. If you don’t express your feelings, plan everything well and do it well. The most important thing is to be with people. For the emperor, you must have a clear idea and a good idea. Your energy should not be involved in too many intrigues.
For previous dynasties, this was an excuse for ministers to compete for power between the emperor. They ruled with great responsibilities and treated national affairs as cooking. The implication was to let the emperor hand over all the power to his ministers, and the emperor would play with it himself, and everything would be done by his ministers.
Everything has two sides. Is it a bad thing to bear the people and power is all in one? It may not be necessary. This is directly related to the ability of the emperor himself. If the emperor has strong abilities, far-sightedness, and powerful means, then power is concentrated in one, and what he can do is by no means comparable to the dispersion of power.
The dispersion of power seems to have a feeling of cooking. But in fact, it is just to disperse a person's power to a certain class. Society is still the same pyramid, but the top is no longer a certain person, but some people. The overall structure has not changed at all.
The advantage is visible, and the disadvantage is also visible. The advantage is that it can prevent a certain emperor from being stupid - after all, the emperor will not live forever. No matter how powerful the means are, the Qin Emperor and Han Wu will be a piece of loess? Not every emperor is wise, and a wise emperor will grow old and foolish.
The disadvantage is drag and constraints.
Because no one is arbitrary, then anything needs to be argued with each other, compromised and restrained each other. Then, one thing is done - it is absolutely impossible to do 100%, because it is amazing to have 60% or 70% of the compromise and restraint.
No system is absolutely good, and no system is absolutely bad. Whether it is the supreme power of the monarch or the invincible dish, it has its own two sides.
The system is parallel, not incremental. It should only be determined by whether it is suitable or not. Objectively speaking, it should not be determined by good or bad.
It is like getting married in close relatives. In this era, cousins get married everywhere. This has been the case for thousands of years. And this is not allowed in the time and space before Ying Yi traveled through time.
Are all the descendants of cousins deformed children? No. I can only say that the descendants of cousins such as close relatives have a higher chance of producing deformed children. However, the descendants of close relatives have a greater chance of producing genius!
Whether in the East or the West, many outstanding and powerful figures have their parents close relatives.
After all, it is a two-sided problem, not a problem of one plus one equals two. Social problems all have two sides, and there is no absolute good or absolutely bad.
Let’s stop talking.
For Ying Yi, or for Daxia, the supreme power of the monarch is inevitable. This supreme power must be far beyond the dynasties of all dynasties, and the degree of high concentration of power is unimaginable.
Because Daxia is different from any period, Ying Yi himself is different from any emperor.
He has a long life span, a strong soul, a foolish person? It doesn't exist. People say that they are old and stupid, which is closely related to the physiological state of the person. Emperor Wu of Han became foolish when he was old, because his soul became corrupt and he became confused. He could see clearly when he was young, but could not see clearly when he was old.
The true spirit of a human is immortal because it originates from the creation of heaven and earth. However, the soul derived from the true spirit will decay, and the flesh and blood body will decay. For ordinary people on this planet, excluding all the effects, the limit of the existence of the soul and flesh and blood body is 150 years old. Then die, and the true spirit returns to heaven and earth.
Therefore, what is needed for immortality is not only the evolution of flesh and blood, but also the strength of the soul. Otherwise, even the indestructible body of the Vajra will be left with an empty shell when the soul dissipates.
It is like a machine, rusting and decaying, it cannot rotate. The same is true for humans. Therefore, even the wisest emperors of all ages have become foolish when they are old.
But this will not happen to Ying Yi. At least not for hundreds of years.
If Ying Yi had not obtained the roots when he was founding the country and worshiping the sky, he could not go further. With the strength of his body and soul, he now has a lifespan of five hundred years. And he has obtained the roots and is already on the road to further progress, then five hundred years is by no means the limit.
The powerful soul gives keen thinking, and the strong body gives abundant energy. The benefits of power to this empire are self-evident.
In fact, if he only uses humanitarian plans to control Ying Yi, he is supreme.
He was destined to be unable to fall under others. Humane plans are in hand, and he must implement them according to his own ideas. Instead of falling under others and being constrained by others, he was bound to move forward in aggrieved manner in the midst of compromise and fear.
Every step forward of the empire was in Ying Yi's mind. From the big strategy to the specific implementation plan, he had planned to go until fifty years, a hundred years later.
If he could be a clone, he would not even need officials or military personnel.
——Unless of course, he wants to be a machine.
The plan to open the sea in Daxia was already formulated when the sea was forbidden.
The strategy of forbidding the sea has its inevitable intention - for Ying Yi, this is a means to clear the empire's seas. Whether it is to clear out rat-like pirates or to plan for Yingzhou.
Pirates are a chronic disease. The Japanese riots in the previous dynasty reached their peak. However, they were not truly banned. The Ming court opened the sea several times to ban the sea, but they were not closed to the country. A large part of the reason was because of pirates.
For the Ming court, there were not many ways to ban the sea from pirates. But in Daxia, it was not the case. The implementation of the government orders in Daxia was unprecedented. The navy of Daxia was even more unprecedented.
The ban on the sea in the Great Xia makes pirates unable to survive. No matter how many pirates plunder, they cannot be taken to land for profit, which is useless. What's more, the navy searches and captures the sea, so where can there be room for survival?
The Great Xia Kingdom has been established for more than three years, from the seas of Liaodong in the north and Yingzhou to the southern seas, now pirates have disappeared. It cannot be said that 100%, at least 95%.
The first condition for opening the sea was achieved.
The second condition is the product. At the beginning of the founding of the Great Xia Kingdom, the internal demand for various commodities could not be met, and whether the sea ban did not affect the development of the Great Xia. Three years later, the products of the Great Xia have gradually increased and they have spare energy to trade with foreign trade. Then the second condition for opening the sea was reached.
The third condition is the Taixi countries that were delivered to the door. Ying Yi did not intend to go directly with the Taixi countries during this period. Although he was not afraid, the benefits outweighed the disadvantages. By forcing the Taixi countries to come to the door by forbidden seas, he made an agreement to create the first guarantee for the Daxia merchant ships across the world. This is the achievement of the third condition.
The fourth condition is that the process of civilized corpses begins. The sea ships invested in civilian use are another guarantee and have also been achieved.
In this way, opening the sea is imperative.
The first procedure is to implement policies on paper. Declare the world in the form of an edict and inform the empire that it is about to open its sea.
The second procedure is to establish the four municipal Bosi, Nagasaki in Yingzhou, Songjiang in the Yangtze River Estuary, Quanzhou in Fujian and Guangzhou in Guangdong. The establishment of the four municipal Bosi was put on the agenda.
Chapter completed!