Chinese seem to have an involuntary reverence for the emperor, even a preference. Looking at the current historical dramas, most of them are about emperors, because people love to watch this. Looking at the name of the real estate, I also like to use the royal name such as the palace, the palace, and the capital. There are also some restaurants that also put up signs such as palace banquets, imperial restaurants, and official dishes, which seem to symbolize incomparable nobility and elegance.
People talk about Qin Emperor Han Wu, Tang Zong, and Song Zu are also talking about it, and when it comes to their distant deaths, the great achievements of all countries in the coming dynasty are boiling. But you find that no, these so-called great kings are often also typical representatives of human evil. Their entrepreneurship, business, rule, and even daily life are full of human weaknesses and sins, such as deceit, tyranny, arrogance, greed, arrogance, and ignorance.
In order to build a palace for his own use, Qin Shi Huang could requisition hundreds of thousands of ordinary people, leaving hundreds of thousands of families to be separated and the fields barren.
In order to loot the funds used for meritorious service, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty squeezed out the assets of ordinary families across the country.
In order to avenge his father, Cao Cao could slaughter five cities in a row, and the corpses of the people blocked Surabaya and cut off the flow.
Tang Xuanzong was extremely honored and favored Yang Guifei, and there were 700 people in the palace who were in charge of the embroidery brocade used by the concubine. I don't know how many ordinary people's family tragedies are built on.
The monarchs and warlords of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms invaded and killed each other on the land of China. In order to ensure military needs, they often capture people and kill the meat and military rations.
In order to clear the potential threat to his grandson when he took charge of the government in the future, Zhu Yuanzhang set up a party prison and killed more than 30,000 people at one time.
In order to vent his dissatisfaction with the opponent Fang Xiaoru, Zhu Di of the Ming Dynasty actually invented the "Destruction of the Ten Clans", that is, in addition to the destruction of the Nine Clans, plus the killing of his friends and students, more than 800 people were tragically killed.
In order to manage her 60th birthday, Cixi did not hesitate to embezzle the already stretched navy funds at the time of the national crisis.
Why are they so willful? This is not because emperors are born to do evil, but because of the absolute power that emperors possess, which brings out the darkest side of their human nature. This unfettered right exempts them from responsibility for the exploitation of other people's lives and property, and they can certainly do whatever they want. Can we ordinary people do that? Ordinary people don't say that killing people is a crime.
Power. There is nothing good or bad about this thing in itself. Since human society began to form a secular alliance of the family, these organizational structures of the state were born. It can be said that power is necessary for the operation of human society, and it is not a crime in itself, but the key depends on the purpose of power, how it is distributed in society, and how it is used.
The terrible thing about imperial power in China is that it is concentrated in the hands of one person for the benefit of his own person and his family. What is in his interest is right. What is not in his interest is wrong. The emperor is sometimes powerful, sometimes moody, treacherous and hypocritical, because it is not enough to prove and maintain his absolute power.
The emperors and bureaucrats struggled with the king's southern techniques, such as the Legalist doctrine, which were nothing more than tricks to play with power from the king's own strength, not political science. The history of China is almost a history of emperors, a history of the willful use of power by emperors. Ordinary people, who were slaves and consumables, could not find their names in the history books. The emergence of monarchy is inevitable in the process of human evolution. But China's monarchy has also developed so extreme and perfect that it is so difficult to get rid of him that even the vast number of people who have suffered from it have never forgotten the emperor, and even took the initiative to defend him.