In the course of thousands of years of feudal dynasties in China, there will always be regular establishments, prosperity, declines, and extinctions, and the cycle repeats.
Some experts say that China's thousands of years of history is actually only 300 years old, that is, the history of a dynasty, and all dynasties think that they can last for thousands of generations, but all dynasties have not escaped this historical cyclical law.
What exactly is this cyclical law of history? What is it that determines his life and death?
Looking at history, we can see that in the early days of each dynasty, the founding monarch was willing to try his best and work hard, and the country began to flourish.
By the third generation, the first monarch, after the country reached its peak, the monarch began to enjoy the achievements of the main business, and then the next generation was not as good as the generation.
Among them, there are also many monarchs who are full of ambition and strive for prosperity, but they have always been unable to reverse the decline until the people's resentment boils. If there is a catastrophe, the people will not be able to make a living, and the people in the country will rise up, and the dynasty will eventually fall.
Some experts say that it is the periodic law of climate, and through statistics, it is found that the natural coincidence of climate change and the fall of the dynasty is the collapse of the dynasty caused by natural disasters.
But in my opinion, this is only a façade, and natural disasters are just the last straw that breaks the camel's back.
Isn't there a natural disaster for the first monarch of each dynasty? Looking through history, in fact, China's natural disasters have never stopped.
So what was the root cause of the fall of the dynasty?
The foundation of society is composed of people, whether to rebel or not, whether to expose the rod or not, although it is objectively promoted, but it is also an ordinary person who makes a subjective decision. There are very few people with political ambitions, and the general pursuit is only two things, one is survival, and the other is reproduction.
In order for people to survive and reproduce, the resources they need are survival resources and social operation resources, and both resources need a core to ensure the normal operation of society and the people can obtain these resources normally.
The core of this operational resource is fairness and justice.
In the early days of the feudal dynasty, the land was divided equally, the people's livelihood depended, and the people could obtain the living resources normally. The upper bureaucracy is non-clovering, non-hereditary, and a privileged class has not yet been formed. Interest groups and ordinary people can also achieve class leapfrogging through the imperial examination, and classes can move between classes. In addition to ensuring the normal functioning of society, ordinary people also had the hope of crossing classes, so the society flourished and flourished in the early days of the dynasty.
In the later period of the dynasty, there was often a common denominator: the subsistence resources represented by the land were highly concentrated, and the social operation resources represented by bureaucratic rule were hereditary, thus monopolizing the formation of interest groups, and the ordinary people basically had no way to cross the class.
The greed of human nature will make these resources more and more concentrated, the acquisition of survival resources and the operation resources received will become more and more unfair and just, the people will have no resources for survival and reproduction, and the natural disasters will make the people poor, and the collapse of the dynasty will be inevitable.
However, resources are becoming more and more concentrated, and the biggest core of the formation of interest groups is the solidification of strata, and the strata are not mobile.
In order to protect their interests, the group protects each other internally, and the external needles cannot be pierced, the water cannot be poured in, and the gap between class status and interests is getting wider and wider, so naturally some people take risks in order to seize resources.
The essence of the rise is to crush the solidified strata, destroy the original strata, and redistribute resources.
This is true of every dynasty, but every dynasty has not learned its lesson, so China's history repeats itself.
In order to change this kind of repetition, the only way to change the way of obtaining survival resources and operational resources is to ensure that the flow of classes cannot be stagnant, the survival resources cannot be excessively concentrated, and the social operating resources cannot be hereditarily replaced.
In today's society, whether it is socialism or capitalism, it is also applicable, that is, capital cannot be excessively concentrated, forming a phenomenon of capital harvesting and winner-take-all. It will only make the resources of survival more and more highly concentrated. Monopoly cannot be formed by operating resources, that is, the second generation of X, the third generation of X, and so on.
The increasing concentration of these resources will only bury huge hidden dangers for society.
Only by blocking this greed from the institutional level and allowing the class to flow will the country truly have long-term peace and stability, and will not fall into the historical trap of its heart and its demise.