Chapter 55 Whose family is in the world (Seven)

The flames in Zheng Yu's heart finally started to burn.

As soon as he heard this term, he felt a trembling and deep sorrow. He had watched "Blood Romance" and had a deep impression of Zheng Tong's several comments on Jacobin's tyranny. He also had some knowledge of Hugo's "1893" and several famous French Revolutionary essays, and did not have much favoritism for the "revolutionary horror" brought by Jacobin.

He really didn't expect that the man opposite would openly shout the slogan of establishing the Jacobin regime. He could not fully understand the hunger of the intellectuals of backward countries for all the road to saving the country in this era of fierce collision of ideas and ideology, the inexplicable sense of tragic and superiority of the intellectuals of the country, nor did they understand their inexplicable feelings of martyrs and prophets. For the souls of the twenty-first century, nothing is higher than man himself. No matter how noble the purpose and ideals are, they must obey man and not be higher than man.

"It turns out that what you want to establish is a moral ideal country." Zheng Yu suppressed his anger, but his voice was slightly raised. "This regime that boasts the highest morality brought countless blood to France. In the end, the people abandoned him like a broken pocket, chose the Hot Yue Party, chose enlightened and autocratic, and chose Napoleon. And you have to experiment again in China and Russia."

"Jacobbin's failure is not an ideal failure." Vasiliev held his glasses and held his glasses. "They were suddenly attacked and betrayed. It was the scumbags of the trespassers, the Homos, the Girondists, who were mixed into the revolutionary ranks, who could not resist the temptation of corrupt liberal hedonism, and shamelessly betrayed the revolution and deceived the people. Their biggest mistake was that they lacked vigilance at the internal level and did not clean up the trespassers in time. The Dandong faction's power was always preserved. Many of the external hostile forces, especially the Girondists and centrists who were mixed into the national and even the ruling groups, were just arrested and imprisoned rather than executed immediately, leading to them uniting and betraying the revolution."

Zheng Yu looked at the other party incredibly: "They executed more than 200,000 French people within a year, and less than 15% of the so-called liberal aristocrats and priests, and the others were all the so-called third level. Everyone lives in absolute horror, but you think they didn't kill enough!"

"This is less than one percent of the French population." Vasiliev looked at Zheng Yu with some contempt. "You are reluctant to sacrifice this little bit. No wonder China's affairs are always on the spot. They drove away the Manchu emperor and replaced them with the Han emperor. The people are always oppressed and enslaved. The big capitalists and landlords, foreign compradors act as a blessing, and are tyrannical and weak on the outside."

"The main body of the revolution is the people, and the leadership needs to be the strongest revolutionary party. The people are cowardly, so the revolutionary party needs to arm them and let them realize their own strength; the people are dispersed, so strong leaders need to lead them. Therefore, China's future lies in establishing a political party that truly belongs to the people and mobilizing the people."

Zheng Yu looked at the scholar who was talking nonsense.

"What this party needs is a truly strong revolutionary who does not seek self-interest but is devoted to the people." Vasiliev's expression was a little excited, "For ideals and beliefs, we can give everything. Over the past thousand years, China, Russia, has never lacked people of kindness and ambition, but only the real way to save the country. As long as they see this path clearly, they dare to shed blood and sacrifice and destroy all obstacles!"

Zheng Yu looked at this person and his expression gradually calmed down.

"How many people will you die if you want to seize power? But if you seize power, you must clear up the opposition forces at home and abroad, and implement the unification will, you must establish what you call Jacobin's tyranny. But how do you ensure that your comrades who establish and maintain tyranny will not be corrupted by power and become new bureaucrats and oppressors?" Zheng Yu shook his head, "As you judged the power before, the British also said, absolute power leads to absolute corruption. How can you avoid these human problems when your tyranny is used to dominate everything and can use violent suppression of all 'counter-revolution'?"

"You know why Confucianism has been educated for thousands of years. Not to mention the universal moral standards of China, even the most educated and knowledgeable Confucian scholars who have been tested are still far from being selfless? You are making the same mistake as them." Zheng Yu said, "You and Confucianism believe that human nature is good, and that spiritual nobility is the most essential spirit of human beings, but this has been proven wrong by history. In fact, human nature is not good at first, but it is not evil either. On this point, Rousseau and

Both the Legalists and Confucians in China were wrong. In fact, human nature is selfish, and the most fundamental characteristic of human beings is selfish. Montesquieu saw this clearly, so he advocated the separation of powers and recommended checks and balances. If you can take a closer look at the US Constitution, you will clearly feel this legislative spirit: human nature is selfish. They do not think that this private can be eliminated. So they adopt the method of checks and balances so that this private will not hinder the interests of others and will not harm the overall progress of society."

"This kind of human nature transcends what you call class nature. It does not naturally become beautiful because it is a peasant, nor does it naturally become ugly because it is a landlord. People are first and second, they are in the social status. Being poor is virtue and wealth is a sin, and believing that poor are saints is a kind of self-deception. There is an old Chinese saying that poor people are suddenly rich, and whether the selfless peasant class you mentioned can resist the temptation of power and materiality is clear as long as you look at the stories of China's past dynasties."

"I believe that man is conquering nature." Vasiliev shook his head, "There is a born despicable side and a born noble side in human nature. Therefore, we must transform and educate them, and gradually eliminate the evil aspects and cultivate the good side. If some people cannot transform and educate, they will resolutely eliminate them. Especially our political parties, and within our regime, as long as there are corrupt elements, they will be resolutely eliminated without mercy."

"Corrupt elements are not placed on the street to show you nakedly," Zheng Yu said. "Their revolutionary slogans can be shouted more radical than everyone. They use various means to bribe people around them, forming a solid protection network. Your dictatorship, the so-called citizens, will be labeled as a reactionary hat and sent to death as long as you dare to fight."

"We can mobilize the masses widely and conduct direct supervision. Anyone can report to the superior department. Anyone who actively reports can receive rewards." Vasiliev said without hesitation. "We will also form supervision departments at all levels to closely monitor all bad tendencies, monitor the actions of officials, and also possible betrayal and corrupt elements within the people to ensure that these diseases are strangled as soon as possible."

"This formation of supervisory departments at all levels seems to be an initiative that the current imperial government attaches most importance to."

"We can learn from the means of supervision that is beneficial to dictatorship, no matter who invents it." Vasiliev nodded, "However, our supervision system is completely different from the imperial government. They oppress the people, we serve the people; they restrain the people, we are to give the people the greatest freedom; they are to protect their rights out of selfishness, we are to safeguard the people's right, we are to safeguard the people's ownership in the country."

"Oh?" Zheng Yu looked at this person coldly, and the last bit of residual admiration was gone. "Then how do you ensure that these spy supervision agencies that are not subject to law can act like saints out of public interest? How do you ensure that they will not abuse their power? Perhaps they will arbitrarily accuse and arrest others just to show their own resolute revolution, so that everyone will not feel safe."

“There is supervision from the people,” Vasiliev said, “they supervise others, others are supervising them, and we have different systems of supervisory bodies that restrain each other.”

"Then it seems that you also understand that power needs checks and balances." Zheng Yu said slightly mockingly, "But your checks and balances are just checks and balances within a group, especially the bureaucracy you established. After taking power, you will definitely try every means to deprive the masses of the rights, and keep the will of the masses and the regime consistent through repeated cleanings. What mass supervision is just a joke. What kind of people do you want to check and balance the so-called overall will of this ruling group? The supreme leader at the top of this group controls various forces that restrain each other. Who will check and balance him? If he doesn't share the benefits of these people, these people will not rise up to overthrow him?"

"Absolute power leads to absolute corruption. Is it not applicable to these people? Everything you advocated by the Jacobins did more than a hundred years ago." Zheng Yu looked at the man with a calm face and said slowly, "Since you admire Jacobin, I will talk to you about Jacobin. Let the people here also hear what the ideal political system you regard as the norm is."
Chapter completed!