The confrontation between Superman and Luthor will never end, because Superman represents the ultimate citizen and is enough to destroy the rules of the aristocratic game. Under such circumstances, Luthor must use any means to kill Superman.
In the DC universe, some of the results of the confrontation between Superman and Luthor are reflected. One is the lord Superman and goes to the empire. The other is the unjust Superman and becomes a tyrant. The other is to send Luthor to prison and continue to maintain it.
The original balance.
The nobles were helpless when faced with the strong men emerging from the citizens.
In fact, all civilizations started out as nobles, citizens, and free people. They were called different names, and they could also be nobles, countrymen, and savages.
For example, in an island country, there are nobles, samurai, and free people. But in the end, the samurai came to power, and the samurai replaced the aristocrats and became the actual managers of the country. That is, the samurai were at the top and the aristocrats were at the bottom, forming the bushido. If the aristocrats wanted to join the game, they had to abide by the bushido.
Of course, no matter what the situation is, you will eventually enter the feudal system.
The feudal system allows free people to have the opportunity to become citizens, because as long as the citizens are enfeoffed, they become aristocrats. Then they also need their own citizens, and they will naturally select some from the free people.
Before the enfeoffment, there was only one line of nobles, citizens, and free people. After the enfeoffment, it was divided into several lines, with multiple nobles, multiple citizens, and free people.
After enfeoffment, the new nobles could take the freedmen to war and upgrade the freedmen to become citizens.
This is also the reason why Rome quickly entered the era of giants after the Marian Reform of Rome, because more citizens would emerge from various places, and the nobles took control of the newly emerged citizens and gained power, and began to become vassals.
For example, during the Yin and Shang Dynasties, only Yin merchants were citizens, and the princes and barbarians were free people. In the Zhou Dynasty, both the Zhou people and the princes were citizens, and the barbarians were free people. These newly emerged citizens were not controlled by the Zhou Dynasty.
It was in the hands of the emperor, but in the hands of various princes. In the end, the power of the princes surpassed that of the emperor.
Such a feudal system is very conducive to expansion, because citizens want to become princes through meritorious service, and free people also want to become citizens through war.
Therefore, both the Zhou Dynasty and ancient Rome expanded during the feudal system.
However, once there is no way to expand, the nobility, citizens, and free people will not change. This reflects the king's ability. How does the king do it? Is it with the nobility to suppress the citizens and free people, or is it to win over the nobility, citizens, and fight against the free people?
, or to win over the citizens, the free people against the aristocracy.
The Shang Yang Reform of the Qin State mobilized citizens and free people to fight against the nobility, but it also needed expansion. In the Han Dynasty, the king and the nobility cooperated to win over the citizens. In the Song Dynasty, the imperial examination allowed the citizens to disperse the nobility, and then the king continued to win over the free people.
In the Qing Dynasty, slave status was completely eliminated and everyone became good status, further intensifying the impact.
Kings in other countries do not have this ability at all. In ancient Rome, nobles cooperated with citizens and did not give face to the king. In island countries, samurai also cooperated with nobles and did not give face to the emperor.
The Tsar wanted to win over the free people, and even became the 'father of the peasants', but no one waited. The aristocracy soon took control of industrial power, and the Tsar could not stop it.
It was a very difficult step from enfeoffment to an imperial system. Many countries had kings, but the kings could not mobilize the middle and lower classes. Therefore, the feudal system could only be maintained, with a group of princes, and each prince had citizens and free people.
It is not necessary for the princes to integrate the citizens with the free people. It will not be beneficial to them. The legitimacy of the princes is to provide benefits to the citizens, and then the citizens can defend the princes.
Just like in "Cao GUI's Debate", Cao GUI said that meat eaters are despicable, and asked the king of Lu why he wanted to fight. The king said that he had good food and drink and did not dare to enjoy it alone, so he shared it with others. Every time he offered sacrifices, he was on time. Finally, he said
Although we cannot clearly examine all cases, big or small, we can definitely judge them in good faith.
Cao GUI said that if the princes have good food, they can only give it to the people around them. Those who cannot get food will not help. No matter how timely the sacrifice is, the gods will not appear. Only the sincere judgment of the last big or small cases can win the support of the people.
If the monarch has a bad attitude towards the citizens, is not sincere enough, and cannot protect the interests of the citizens, then the citizens will not support the monarch.
It can be said that every country is similar at the beginning, whether it is nobles, citizens, free people, nobles, countrymen or savages, they are all very similar.
After that, the role of the king made each country different. In many countries, what can represent everyone is religion, and everyone is equal before God. In the Central Plains, everyone is equal before the emperor. In the world, is it the king who leads the land? Is it the king's ministers?
The emperor represents everyone. With this qualification, the emperor can continuously mobilize the middle and lower classes, step by step from the common master to the king and father, and step by step concentrate the land rights, talent rights, and part of the economic rights of the nobles into his own hands.
However, even the king's father could not manage such a large country by himself, so the emperor set up a sophisticated management system, but in the end the management system was established, and the king's father had to integrate himself into it and become a part of the machine.
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The emperors of the Ming Dynasty controlled the management system through surveillance agencies such as Jinyiwei and Dongchang, while the emperors of the Qing Dynasty integrated into the system and cultivated their own factions, thus forming the Manchu-Han conflict.
Therefore, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty did not go to court, while the emperors of the Qing Dynasty worked every day. In fact, the fact that the emperors of the Ming Dynasty did not go to court did not mean that they did not do things. Their time was spent on Jinyiwei and Dongchang. The emperors of the Qing Dynasty worked every day, and many times they were
Look at the stickers sent by your faction to see if there is any situation in various places. Many times you just read the memorials that are worthless.
To sum up, the feudal system works well during expansion. The nobles are willing to allow more free people to become citizens through expansion, and then they recruit the citizens to form a powerful force to fight against the king.
When there is no expansion, a king who can mobilize the middle and lower classes is only one in ten thousand. Many people want to do it but can't. Without the support of the system and culture, it is difficult for the king to fight against all the nobles.
The kings of the West looked for religion and consolidated their status through the divine right of kings, but their exploration of institutions and culture remained stagnant. The kings of the Central Plains, on the other hand, constantly explored the content of institutions and culture, and constantly looked for the power to mobilize the middle and lower classes.
If the king of the Central Plains does not make progress, it means that 'Your Majesty will rule the world together with the scholar-officials, not with the people.' In order to suppress the scholar-officials, he must constantly select new talents, otherwise he will be manipulated by the scholar-officials.
However, although the king selects middle- and lower-level talents, there is one problem that the king cannot solve, that is, whether to protect the king's power or to protect the dynasty, which is more important, his own throne or the country. In many cases, he chooses his own throne.
Just like Temujin, he knew his son could fight, but he could not continue to let his son fight because his son threatened him.
The same is true for the king. He knows that a certain minister is more capable than himself and can solve the problem, but the king cannot let him solve it, because if he solves it, the reputation of this minister will be higher than his own, and the throne will not be guaranteed. If the problem is not solved,
The dynasty is not preserved.
So in the end the king was overthrown, so that the entire management system was consistent with the interests of the country, and ministers who had the ability to solve problems had room without being restricted by the king.
From Superman, we can see the differences between the East and the West and the history of Westerners. Superman is a super citizen, a person who can break the rules. As a citizen, what will he do after he has the ability? Superman's works give different perspectives.
The answer is that none of them mobilized the middle and lower class people.
Whether it is becoming a monarch, becoming a tyrant, or maintaining order, it all existed in Western history.
In fact, Superman can also expand and then implement the enfeoffment system. Or he can mobilize middle- and lower-level talents to represent everyone. In this case, this should be the co-owner Superman, the king-father superman, or the feudal superman, or the emperor superman.