An inventory of the sinners who have subjugated the country in the past dynasties, Lao Zhu’s number

【In the third year of Duke Xiaogong of Qin, Shang Yang's Six Arts of Controlling the People were launched together with other reform measures, including economic reform and land reform.】

【The Six Arts of Controlling the People is a political reflection of the Legalist thought of advocating traitors. Unlike Confucianism, which emphasizes benevolence, justice, etiquette, and wisdom, and Mohism, which emphasizes respecting the virtuous and promoting equality, Legalism pursues a cruel and cold-blooded extreme social order. Advocating traitors means using traitors to govern the people. Only by fighting the people against the people can the country easily control the scattered people.】

【Shang Jun wrote in his book: A traitor will lead to bad governance! If you use good people to rule evil people, the country will be reduced to chaos; if you use evil people to rule good people, the country will be strong.】

【Shang Yang's evil government is the six skills of controlling the people, including the weak people, the ignorant people, the abuse of the people and the humiliation of the people to maintain social security and centralized authoritarianism, as well as the tired people and poor people to strengthen agricultural cultivation and economic production.】

【The core of the Six Arts of Controlling the People is to weaken the people. All the following methods are essentially a further development of the weak people. The main purpose of weakening the people is to suppress the power of the people and weaken the people's ability to fight against the court.】

【Shang Junshu once said: The people are strong and the country is weak; the people are weak and the country is strong. The way to govern a country is to weaken the people first. If the government does what the people hate, the people will be weak; if the government does what the people like, the people will be strong.】

【Shang Yang's main method of weakening the people is to prohibit people from holding weapons, which is the same idea as Qin Shihuang's collection of the world's soldiers.】

【Collecting the soldiers of the world, gathering them in Xianyang, selling Feng Dy, and casting them into the Twelve Golden Man, in order to weaken the people of the world, these are just Shang Yang's implementation of the policy of weakening the people.】

【Shang Yang believes that if the people are strong and the country is weak, if the people are weak and the country is strong, if you want the country to be prosperous and strong, you must make the people weak and unable to resist the rule of the monarch.】

【However, the weak people only confiscated the weapons of the people, but they could not eliminate the will of the people to resist.】

【Thoughts are not afraid of the sword. In order to prevent this from happening, Shang Yang also introduced the policy of obscuring the people. The purpose is to disintegrate or even completely eradicate the people's thoughts of resistance.】

【Shang Yang's fundamental method of weakening the people is to make the people simple, which is essentially stupidity. Only the people are stupid and simple, making them insensitive. When the people encounter unfair treatment, they cannot form a strong force to fight against the monarch, and can only be at the mercy of the ruling class. , so that the country can be better governed and the monarch’s position can be more stable】

【But Shang Yang’s method of fooling the people was cultural autocracy.】

【How can we influence people's thinking? Naturally, through education, the education of the people was strictly controlled. The laws formulated by Shang Yang prohibited the people from reading and studying, suppressed the thinking and capable lower class groups, and thus prevented the people from awakening the consciousness to resist tyranny.】

【Shang Jun wrote: If the people are unable to move freely, they will be punished for their stupidity and chaos. The peasants will have nothing to eat, so they must farm. If the foolish-minded and impetuous people are united, the farmers will be calm. If the farmers are quiet and the fools are punished, then the grass will be cultivated】

【Stupid people make people unable to think independently, walking like a zombie all day long, and can only be at the mercy of the monarch】

【In the Chinese dynasty, every generation of monarchs tended to emphasize agriculture and suppress commerce. Agriculture is the foundation of a country's development and the fundamental guarantee for victory in wars.】

【Therefore, agriculture and war are the most important contents of Shang Yang's reforms. The key to a sage's governance is to make the people focus on agriculture. To achieve this, we must make the people ignorant. If the ignorant farmers do not know and are not knowledgeable, they will be poor in farming.】

【Shang Yang put forward the idea of ​​fooling the people in order to enable the people to serve the monarch with peace of mind, not to have any evil thoughts, and to ensure the country's sufficient food supply. The purpose of fooling the people was to better meet the monarch's ruling needs.】

【If the weak and ignorant people still have the consideration of stabilizing social order and maintaining social security, then Shang Yang's policy of weakening the people cannot be said to be meaningless.】

【But Shang Yang also had policies that tired the people, impoverished the people, abused the people, and humiliated the people. These methods were the so-called tyranny of the Qin Dynasty.】

【Tired people means that the people will always work hard for food and clothing. They will be exhausted all their lives and have no time to resist the government, thereby maintaining the absolute rule of the country's power.】

【Shang Yang stipulated that when people are farming, they should not look randomly, their ears should not listen, and their mouths should not talk nonsense. They must work hard with all their heart.】

【This kind of scene reminds people of donkey Lamo. In order to make the donkey more efficient, the owner would cover the donkey's eyes with black cloth and plug its ears with something.】

【At that time, in order to improve the overall strength of the Qin State, Shang Yang sacrificed the people of the world and made the country rich and powerful. He did not regard the people of the world as human beings and treated people more harshly than donkeys.】

【The State of Qin introduced a law that if the cattle raised by the people lost a few pounds, they would be punished by the Yamen.】

【Shang Yang regards the people of the world as a tool, a tool that does not require emotions or desires. The only function of these tools is to make the country rich and powerful.】

【There is a saying in Shang Jun's book: If the people are humiliated, they will be noble, if they are weak, they will be respected by officials, and if they are poor, they will be rewarded generously. If you use punishment to control the people, you will be happy to use them; if you use rewards to reward the people for fighting, you will take death lightly. Therefore, the use of troops in war is called strength. If the people have private glory, they will be humble to the humble officials; if they are rich, they will be lightly rewarded. To govern the people is to humiliate and punish them; to fight is to fight. The people are afraid of death and fight in chaos, so the army and farmers are lazy and the country is weak.】

【If people have no self-respect and self-confidence, they will respect officials more and work for the country for the sake of rewards and despise life and death.】

【Shang Yang's poverty policy was to keep the people struggling on the poverty line all their lives. Once the people gained wealth through agricultural farming or economic production, they would take it away with various exorbitant taxes and heavy corvee.】

【There is a saying in the book of Shang Jun: If the people are poor, they will be rich, if they are rich, they will be promiscuous, and if they are promiscuous, they will have lice. Therefore, if the people are rich but do not use it, then the people will have to eat, and everyone will have strength, so the farmers will not steal. Farmers do not steal, and six lice have no cuteness. The old country is rich and poor, and the country is strong.】

【Shang Yang believed that the imperial court should raise taxes and plunder the people's surplus grain, so that the people would be motivated to produce value and the country would be truly prosperous and strong.】

【It makes the people just wander around the line of food and clothing, constantly tortures the people, makes them have to work hard to survive every day, and makes every citizen a poor and short-minded tool.】...Dividing line.

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