Ace is now popular among the public, and everyone is willing to invest in Ace because he is not only powerful, but also upright, and he is also Roger's son.
"Ace, Ace, Ace——!" Ace saved Yamato and was favored by Kaido. The pirates on the sea cheered.
Luffy was also among the pirates. When he heard everyone cheering Ace's name, it seemed that his eldest brother could become the Pirate King at any time. His mood was indescribably complicated. He felt as if his toy had been snatched away by his good brother.
Luffy's teammates heard everyone's cheers and could somewhat understand Luffy's complicated mood. Obviously becoming the Pirate King is not that easy, but Ace got more support. Luffy also helped a lot along the way.
people, but Luffy is not so popular.
Ace would not take advantage of others' danger. Although Yamato was indeed beautiful, and although his voice was indeed loud, he would not be carried away by enthusiasm. He would not really ascend the throne as soon as his head became hot, so he said: "Everyone should have a meeting first.
Bar."
First enter Wano Country for a meeting.
Dulan sank to the bottom of the sea and did not reappear. We can't wait forever and just assume that Dulan is finished. Let's get down to business first.
This is Kaido's territory, a country of warriors.
"Ace, you will definitely like it here. Let me entertain you with the fine wine of Wano Country. The residents of Wano Country have their life decided from birth. The children of the big clan are the big clan, and the children of the small clan are the small clan.
It will never change. If you are the child of the Pirate King, you should be the Pirate King. Then if you marry my daughter, I will be the Pirate King's father." Kaido said that others want to be the Pirate King, but he can be the Pirate King's father.
"Father, please be careful with your words." Yamato couldn't listen anymore and said, "You are wrong. There is a man like Oden in this country. Although he is the son of a general, he wants to travel to the sea and see the vast world.
Instead, Orochi used despicable means to usurp the position of general, and father, you are Orochi's accomplice."
Yamato couldn't help but tell Oden's story.
Whitebeard sighed: "Oden is indeed a respectable man. Even Roger, the Pirate King, condescended to lend me a man."
Kaido was embarrassed, and his daughter was trying to tear him down.
At this time, the aunt said: "Speaking of Oden, I heard another story in Wano Country. That person is called Hyuga Neji. He was born in a small sect and has great talent, but he is destined to only become a vassal of the large sect.
But he refused to accept it, so he resisted and eventually died."
How did Auntie know about Hyuga Neji? She was definitely not a time traveler. It was Dulan who was telling the story of another world through Auntie.
Hyuga Neji wanted to resist Xiaosong's fate and was eventually killed. Oden wanted to escape Daisou's responsibility and died in the end.
One has insufficient strength, the other has strength but does not use it.
"Oden is so stupid, but Hinata deserves more pity." Auntie said.
Nami and Chopper couldn't help crying. They were moved by Oden's story. A man had power but didn't use it. In the end, he left the people of Wano to the evil Orochi. It was really touching.
As for Neji’s story, Neji wanted to resist fate, but was eventually killed by fate. It’s reasonable and no problem.
Ningci wanted to use small sects to fight against large sects, but it was too difficult to succeed. The Central Plains experienced the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Qin Dynasty, the Chu and Han Dynasties, and finally Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty finally introduced the grace order and the inspection system.
Confucianism inspired by heaven and man, Xiao Zong finally had his own chance.
For eight hundred years, from the time Emperor Zhou established the eldest son inheritance system, it developed, peaked, improved, declined, accompanied by countless wars and deaths, and finally found a way out.
It is easy to resist, but if you want to win, you need a system and culture. Because one person's power is limited, and the system and culture drive many people to resist together, and they will continue to resist, and only in the end can they win.
It makes sense for a small sect to want to rebel against a large sect. After all, no one can bear the burden of a large sect like Oden. As a large sect, Oden wants to go to sea, regardless of the life and death of the people and the responsibilities of the large sect.
When the general's position was robbed, he came back to fulfill his responsibilities. In the end, he clearly had the power but didn't use it, preferring to dance. In short, with a big sect like Oden, it is completely reasonable for the small sect to resist.
"I have an idea." Auntie said.
"What?"
"It's better to use Wano Country as an experiment." The aunt said: "This country has a monarch, a large sect, a small sect, and common people. It happens that there are four four emperors. Each of us chooses to join one, and then use Wano Country
As a chessboard, see who can laugh last. Whoever wins in the end will become the leader of the four emperors and can rule the four emperors."
"..." What kind of game does everyone think this is?
This is a social experiment.
Why was there an "Axial Age" in ancient times, and why was there an explosion of human thought at that time? Because human productivity increased in that era, there were many people who were out of work, and for the first time there were clear classes.
With classes, each class wants society to be beneficial to itself, so it needs to put forward a set of ideas that are beneficial to itself. This is true whether it is a monarch, aristocrat, a countryman, a savage, a monarch, aristocrat, a citizen, or a free citizen.
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Confucianism represents the nobility, Mohism represents the people, and Legalism represents the monarch. The reason why Legalism stands out is that it makes the country rich and powerful, that is, the monarch suppresses the nobility and people, and the monarch leads everyone to snatch benefits while satisfying the monarch, the nobility, and the people.
This is something that Confucianism and Mohism cannot solve.
The aristocracy represented by Confucianism only controls distribution and does not consider production. Confucius said that he is not as good as an old farmer in farming and he is not as good as a gardener in gardening. Anyway, he is not good at production and does not bother to talk about it.
The Mohist family controlled production but was not responsible for distribution and had no bargaining power, so they were at a disadvantage. They could only hope that ghosts and gods would supervise the nobles. This is unrealistic.
The result was a crazy confrontation between Confucianism and Mohism, and the nobility and the people could not form the same direction.
At this time, the monarch stood up and said: Stop fighting, I will take you to expand. Legalism helps the monarch suppress the nobles and the people, and expand together. Victory in expansion will benefit the monarch, the nobles, and the people, and everyone will be happy.
The advantage of Legalism is that Confucianism and Mohism do not have it. It uses expansion to unite everyone. The disadvantage of Legalism is that once there is no expansion, conflicts between monarchs, nobles, and people will inevitably break out.
The great thing about Shang Yang is that he allows the monarch and the people to suppress the nobility for a long time through the cooperation of military merit and nobility, so that the reform can run for a long time. In other countries, without military merit and nobility, the nobility can easily grow. Once the monarch dies, the people will die and the government will cease.
Of course, Confucianism is not just the Confucianism of Confucius. Confucianism is divided into eight parts, which means that there are many branches behind Confucianism. Later, Mencius tried to unify the nobles and the people, and Xunzi already had Legalist ideas. Although they are both Confucianists
, but they are of a different class.
Looking around the world, every major change in thinking is accompanied by the birth of a new class. Because the new class needs new ideas.
Confucius and Confucianism are the nobles, Mohism is the people of the country, Legalism is the monarch, Dong Zhongshu is the monarch and the family, Zhu Xi is the monarch and scholar-officials, and finally the exploited class.
The country of Wano also has classes, monarchs, nobles, and citizens. However, Duran divided the nobles into large sects and small sects. With the development of time, the number of small sects is increasing.
The monarch, the large clan, the small clan, and the common people can match the four emperors. It is like a chessboard. The four flag-bearers choose their own chess pieces to manage, and then see who is more powerful.
Dulan said through his aunt: "We can compare whether the Four Emperors can unite everyone. If it turns out that we Four Emperors can only be thugs, I will be willing to surrender to Ace. If it turns out that we are capable of managing the world.
, the struggle for hegemony will continue.”
Obviously other people don't have a deep understanding of class, they don't understand Auntie's proposal at all, and they don't know how to divide society so clearly.
In fact, it is very simple. If you put forward ideas that belong to your respective classes, supporters of the same class will naturally gather together. Because this kind of idea is definitely beneficial to your own class, everyone will support ideas that are beneficial to them.
The so-called imprisoned thoughts actually mean that the thoughts of one class have the upper hand, and other thoughts cannot be expressed. In fact, thoughts have always been diverse. Even Mencius complained that Yang Jimo was not the voice of the world.
Legalism uses the monarch to unite everyone and expand together. Otherwise, the nobles have their own principles, and the countrymen have their countrymen's principles, and it will be a waste of time until the end of time.
The big sect has Oden, and the small sect has Neji, and they can quarrel fiercely, so how to make them truly unite to form a new class? This is a huge test.
In the Central Plains, it was the examination system, the promotion of grace orders, and the induction of heaven and man that made it possible. The big and small sects formed the clans. But then the clans were also divided into rich and poor families. So the imperial examination and the Cuntianli's desire to destroy people were achieved, and the rich and the small clans were
Scholar-officials were formed from poor families. However, the emperor and the scholar-officials ruled the world together, not with the common people, so the scholar-officials and the common people began to confront each other again. When the scholar-officials and the common people merged, there would also be great changes in their thinking, and this was also measured in hundreds of years.