My Daming New Empire

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Because Confucianism walks on one leg, it only pays attention to the mind, not to the body.

This is a disabled person with a huge head but thin limbs.

So he wants to establish Shinrikyo, which is actually not a sect, but a scientific system.

However, in order to promote this scientific system, he needs to use the name of the royal family, the name of academics, and the name of religion to promote it so that more people can accept it.

In the first draft of the Confucian family, the whole system was very chaotic and could not be justified at all.

The second draft also failed to resolve the conflict between the state and the nation.

Daming is not a small country, nor is it a pure nation. There are various nationalities and even ruling methods.

One culture, one country.

But when different nationalities are unwilling to abide by your customs and live with you in the same way of life, the Kong family has nothing to do.

Confucianism?People don't want to learn at all!

Zhu Zhanji and the Confucius family proposed multiple solutions, which borrowed some methods from later generations of Britain.

Britain, as the first modern nation, refers to the people composed of all the inhabitants of England.Nationals, as synonymous with nation, are "the holders of sovereignty, the foundation of political unity, and the highest object of allegiance." Nationals of a country, no matter what ethnic group or class they are members of, are within the same nation-state community. are conceived as homogeneous and holistic.

In the United Kingdom, there are three original ethnic groups of England, Scotland and Ireland.They rely on this method to form a multi-ethnic, unified country with the same culture.

But they didn't do well enough. Scotland and Ireland have been fighting for independence.

In this regard, it is necessary to borrow the method of the United States, which is to downplay the nation, downplay the belief, and strengthen the relationship of interests.

But in fact, the models of these two countries have failed. They are mainly useful in the early stage, but they still cannot solve the contradictions in the later stage.

In this regard, the best thing to do is our own ancestors.

Needless to say, the Han nationality, the original Yellow Emperor, occupied a territory less than that of a city in later generations.Thousands of years of conquest and assimilation have formed a multi-ethnic Han cultural nation with the same customs.

The Zhou Dynasty can be said to be the foundation of the integration of the Chinese nation. Their 800-year rule completely formed a real alliance of hundreds of tribes and different countries with hundreds of languages.

It was not until the period of Qin Shihuang that the foundation was laid for the unification of characters and language.

However, the dominance of one Confucian school has strengthened the influence of this culture, but for the convenience of ruling, it castrated people's thinking and reduced people's ability to execute.

After the revival of Confucianism in the Song Dynasty, and a hundred years of alien rule by the Mongols and the Yuan Dynasty, today's Ming Dynasty is extremely strict and hostile to the division of ethnic groups.

In Zhu Zhanji's reply to the Confucius family, he clearly stated that the Ming Dynasty was built on the basis of the Han nationality, but the Han nationality was actually a fusion of different nationalities during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods.

During the Zhou Dynasty, the basis of a single culture was formed, but neither Huaxia nor Han culture had a clear explanation.

Now that Han culture can no longer adapt to the expansion and needs of Ming Dynasty, it is better to go back to the past and pick up the title of Huaxia nation again to form a single cultural circle.

Da Ming doesn't care what nationality you are originally, as long as you have a heart for China and are willing to integrate into China, Da Ming can accept it in the name of a citizen.

Of course, this is just a cultural acceptance.

In addition to the influence of culture, Daming also had guns and swords.

In reality, the Ming Dynasty must still take the Han as the main body and completely integrate other ethnic groups.

This fusion can also be bloody and cruel.

Because once the national self-awareness is generated, it will constitute a substantive nation and it is difficult to be assimilated.

If a nation that has formed national consciousness is downgraded to an ethnic group, it will be considered as a dwarfing of the main nation's self, and because of the fear of losing the authenticity of the nation, it may arouse a stronger national consciousness rebound.

For example, those island countries in Nanyang, they want Ming to accept them because they want to take advantage of them, but if they break up their structure and disperse them, they will definitely not be willing, and they will even rebel because of it.

There are also North Korea and Dongying. They certainly do not want to be called the Han nationality, and want to retain their own national characteristics.

Even if Daming took out the umbrella of the Chinese nation, they would not be willing to completely lose their national identity.

Therefore, Zhu Zhanji adopts active integration of ethnic groups, such as those primitive tribal groups in Nanzhou (Australia) and Dongzhou (America).

They have not yet formed a national concept, nor have they formed an indestructible cultural deposit, so they are very easy to integrate.

As for North Korea, Japan, and some countries on the Indochina Peninsula, they already have the awareness of their original ethnicity, so they need to adopt different strategies and methods to assimilate instead of directly integrating.

At this time, it is necessary to further subdivide and classify the internal structure of the Chinese nation, but it cannot form a closed class.

Cultural integration must be positive and positive.But specific measures need to be treated differently.

That's pretty much what it means.

For this task, dozens of Confucian scholars spent more than half a year, changing their manuscripts three times, and finally came up with a more comprehensive academic work.

However, Zhu Zhanji was still satisfied and dissatisfied.

What is satisfactory is that they have made a very reasonable explanation of the nation and the country according to Zhu Zhanji's meaning, and have also carefully classified some irreconcilable contradictions.

For example, in terms of the priority of the country, the nation, and the relatives, they determined that the country is greater than the nation, and greater than the relatives according to the classification of heaven, earth, monarch, relatives and teachers.

In this way, you will no longer be afraid of those Confucian scumbags, and you will lean on both sides.If anyone still wants to be a traitor, he must consider his posthumous reputation.

Looking at the members of the Kong clan in front of him, Zhu Zhanji thought of the famous 64th-generation grandson of Yan Shenggong in later generations.

In the first year of Shunzhi, Kong Yinzhi published the "First Entry Form", expressing his willingness to return to the Qing Dynasty.This memorial is extremely flattering, and anyone who wants to see it will blush.

In the second year, the imperial court issued an order to shave their hair, and Kong Yinzhi led all the prestigious clansmen to shave their hair first, and played the "Memorial on Shaving their Heads" to the Qing court.

This is the normal practice of ordinary families when the concept of country and nation has not been formed.In their view, isn't it just another emperor to sit in the country, even if the emperor is of a different race.

But now that there is a book "The State and the Nation" written by the Confucian family, the Confucian family may not dare to do this again in the future.

What is dissatisfied is that the Confucian family still has not clarified the relationship between nations and nations, but this is a small point.

What modern nationalism points to is not those original nations in the general sense of anthropology and ethnology, but nations that have the impulse to build a nation and are closely related to modern nations.

However, in the process of introducing the term “nation” from Japan in the late Qing Dynasty, no distinction was made between nationalities and nationalities. Japan is a country with a single nation, so nations and nationalities have a high degree of identity.

However, as a multi-ethnic empire in history, China contained many nationalities and ethnic groups, and confused the nations that only had the right to self-determination with the nations that had national independence and sovereignty, thus burying the conceptual confusion and reality of later generations. in the predicament.

For example, the preferential treatment policy for ethnic minorities in later generations is a joke, because a unified sovereign country and a member country are completely different concepts.

The artificial division of ethnic groups leads to differential treatment and creates a dilemma of ethnic integration.

In this regard, France does a better job. Although they are also a multi-ethnic and multi-ethnic country, they never make distinctions and are collectively called nationals.

But their own cultural background is too shallow, and the main nation and culture cannot integrate with other nations.

Daming did not have any concerns in this regard. The Han nationality is a natural nation, and the Huaxia nation is a unified title.The Han nationality also has a large enough population and a deep enough heritage to integrate with other ethnic groups.