Shang Yang I believe everyone is familiar with this person. In history class, we learned his Shang Yang's reforms many times. Shang Yang's reforms were also the foundation for the later . The economic foundation for the first emperor to unify the six kingdoms . We can almost say that without Shang Yang , there would be no later unification of the six kingdoms , and there would be no unification of the feudal dynasty .
We won’t talk about the importance of Shang Yang’s reforms. Today we will learn about an important idea of Shang Yang during the reforms, Shang Yang’s Five Techniques !
The so-called " Shang Yang's Five Skills " refers to the ruling class, especially the kings of feudal dynasties. How to strengthen the rule of the people and continuously expand their own power ? Since Shang Yang proposed that he was adopted by Qin Xiaogong , almost all rulers of the subsequent dynasties have used this technique.
Shang Yang's Five Skills: One Min
The so-called Yimin means Unify thoughts and force brainwashing the people. There is no need for a hundred flowers to bloom. Hundred Schools of Thoughts contend . It is necessary to maintain unified in thought, so that the people will not have more ideas , and make contributions steadily under the leadership of the rulers, such as The First Emperor burns books and burys the people, The Han Wudi The abolition of 100 schools of thought, and the Confucianism alone , who are all like this?
even Shang Yang thought that " takes officials as their teachers ", and the people can just take the government as their teachers, so that everyone in the world is the disciple of the emperor, and the foundation is unbreakable.
Shang Yang's Five Skills: The Second: Weak People
Weak People is to objectively determine that weakens the people's abilities in all aspects, so that they do not have the ability to compete with the government. This weakness can be divided into economic and military .
Economically " salt and iron specialize in ", controls the daily supplies of the people in their hands; collects weapons in the military, and does not allow the people to hold weapons privately, " to occupy the city and kill heroes; collects the soldiers from the world, gather them in Xianyang , sells the front and dys, casts them as the twelve Jin people, and weakens the people of the world. "
Shang Yang’s five techniques:
, which means imprisoning the people from freely and in time, so that they have no free time to think and do other things , for example, give them a heavy labor service , building the Great Wall, building palaces, building a large-scale construction, etc.
But compared to negative fatigue, the Three Kingdoms Cao Cao developed the positive "tired" , put Liu Chan in a comfortable nest, letting it " happiness without thinking about Shu ", and constantly consumes his ambitions with pleasure.
Shang Yang's Five Skills: Insulting the People
Insulting the People , which means enslaving the people from the ideological and subjective conditions, so that they dare not resist from the heart, fearing the government and the public, and thus obeying the rule, such as using strict criminal laws, , often implicating , and making them tremble and fear on the body.
Also, for example, the " literary inquisition " in the Qing Dynasty, heard the news, false charges made everyone's spirit surrender under the feet of the rulers.
Shang Yang's Five Skills: The Poor
Poor , it is very simple and clear. It restricts the people on money so that they can barely maintain food and clothing, have no financial resources to carry out other activities, and have no ability to fight against the government.
Of course, in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, economy is extremely developed. When the people inevitably have money, the government will create new demands . For example, have you heard of " Hu Yulou "?
Shang Yang's five techniques for controlling the people are in a critical period of development of our country's slave society to feudal society, which greatly promoted the historical development process.
