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"In such a social environment, even if a Han Chinese court is replaced, can China really change its current fate? In a world where everyone subconsciously opposes development and change and only wants to annex land, the so-called court is essentially just a spokesperson for the gentry. Such a court cannot promote real change. China's backwardness in modern times is a historical inevitability!"

Li Shimin is worthy of being the most powerful monarch in the history of China. With just a few words, he revealed the root cause of China's backwardness in modern times.

After all, since the First Emperor unified the six kingdoms, those who truly dominated the land of China were not the so-called emperors and generals, nor the court officials, but the landlords and gentry throughout the land of China.

They possessed the vast majority of Shenzhou's wealth, mastered the most advanced knowledge and culture, and were the true masters of Shenzhou for two thousand years. The so-called high and mighty emperor was, in the final analysis, nothing more than a representative of their interests, the world's largest landlord.

Even though dynasties have changed over the past two thousand years, and kings and generals have been replaced one after another, the landlords who have always dominated the land of China have always been the landlords who collect rent. The economic foundation has not changed, and the so-called change of dynasties is essentially just a change of soup but not medicine.

It was also during these two thousand years that the landlords and gentry of China established a Confucian ethical and moral concept centered on the landlord class in order to protect their own interests. From Dong Zhongshu's theory of the correspondence between heaven and man to Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism in the Song Dynasty, the essence of the theories established by these so-called Confucian sages was just to protect the interests of all the landlords and gentry in China.

This is why, at a critical moment for the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhu Xi, as the leader of the Southern Song intellectuals, did not think about preparing for war and reforming the country, but instead spent a lot of time establishing Neo-Confucianism. Because no matter how strong the Yuan Dynasty's army was, it was impossible to kill all the landlords in China. However, the various new ideas brought by the Yuan Dynasty as a foreign race could really shake the legitimacy of the gentry class.

Compared with the conquest of military force, the gentry of China feared the collapse of traditional ideas more. Because the changes after the collapse of ideas would certainly seriously affect the gentry's ruling position in China, and even sweep them directly into the dustbin of history. And this extreme protection of traditional values is the root cause of the backwardness of Chinese civilization in modern times.

In the final analysis, the feudal landlords of China, as the rulers of China, had already lost the progressiveness of the times during the Song and Ming dynasties. For this reason, they had to establish Neo-Confucianism as an ideological tool to maintain their decadent and backward rule.

As the spokesperson for all landlords and gentry, the imperial court and emperor of China, no matter who is in power, must believe in this set of corrupt and decadent Confucianism. Otherwise, they will not be able to get the support of landlords and gentry, and will not be able to rule this land. Once the rulers believe in the decadent Confucianism, it is inevitable that they will reject the development of science.

Therefore, the backwardness of Chinese civilization in modern times was already doomed in the Song Dynasty. This was not something that could be changed by the will of a certain court or an emperor, but a decision made by all the gentry in China in their collective subconsciousness in order to protect the interests of their own class.

Chapter 157 The Heat Death of Civilization

Above Kunlun Lake, that should be Li Shimin's corpse-reincarnation immortal holding a fishing rod, stirring up the pool water. He was not at all surprised by the arrival of Shinobu Kocho and Liu Yuxuan. Instead, he talked to them nonchalantly about the root causes of China's decline in modern times.

Both Kochi Ren and Liu Yuxuan were confused about this question. But Li Shimin pointed out the answer to this question in just a few words. That is, the backwardness of Shenzhou is essentially the backwardness of the ruling group of Shenzhou. It was the feudal landlords and gentry who bound the national destiny of Shenzhou's development in order to maintain their own rule.

"You have a point, but what does that have to do with what you've been doing lately?"

After thinking about it, Liu Yuxuan asked again:

"No matter how backward the landlords and gentry are, it is not a reason for you to help Xiao Rizi! Do you know how big Xiao Rizi's ambition is? Do you know that Shenzhou is now in danger of extinction! You helped Xiao Rizi's high-level officials resist our Taoist assassination, what's the difference between this and aiding and abetting the evil! Are you worthy of those Shenzhou people who died tragically under Xiao Rizi's gun?"

Even though there was Kocho Shinobu by his side, Liu Yuxuan still didn't mind. As an orphan who escaped from the massacre of Xiao Rizi, Liu Yuxuan hated Xiao Rizi to the core.

Facing Liu Yuxuan's questioning, Li Shimin had no interest in answering and instead asked:

"Now that you know that the root cause of China's backwardness is the landlords and gentry, do you have any solution to this problem?"

Liu Yuxuan was stunned when this was said. After all, she was just a Taoist priest from Wudang Mountain, how could she know the great principles of governing a country and maintaining peace. Only Kocho Shinobu, who was standing next to her as a time traveler, knew the answer to this question. But the answer was too explosive, and she was afraid that it would cause heavenly punishment if she said it out loud, so she dared not say anything and could only keep the answer in her heart.

Seeing that both of them were silent, Li Shimin continued:

"In fact, as early as the Southern Song Dynasty more than 700 years ago, I had already predicted the current crisis of China. I saw that China was divided up by the great powers 700 years later because of its backward technology, and it was completely reduced to the dust of the barbarians. I also saw hundreds of millions of Chinese people die miserably under the swords and guns of the invaders, and finally completely disappeared like the indigenous people of the New World, becoming a page of history."

“From that moment on, I began to think about how I could change this history.”

As Li Shimin spoke, he gently waved the fishing rod in his hand, and the water in the Tianchi Lake in front of him was once again surging with red dust. The past events appeared in front of them. Shinobu Kocho saw Li Shimin seven hundred years ago in the red dust wine shop of the Southern Song Dynasty, promoting the science and ideas he deduced from the future.

At that time, Li Shimin was very confident, because the Southern Song Dynasty was in internal and external troubles, and the whole society was thinking about how to reform and strengthen the country to avenge the humiliation of Jingkang. The later technological concepts promoted by Li Shimin obviously met the actual needs of the Southern Song Dynasty. In addition, there was a lot of practical knowledge in these technologies, and the common people in China were also very interested.

In Li Shimin's view, as long as he promoted the technology and concepts of future generations a few hundred years in advance, the history of China could be changed.

But reality gave Li Shimin a heavy blow.

Soon after Li Shimin's announcement, a group of followers appeared around him. The appearance of these followers immediately aroused the vigilance of the landlords and gentry. Because new technologies often require new production models, and new production models will inevitably bring about social changes. And social changes will naturally harm the interests of the landlord gentry class.

So shortly after Li Shimin announced it, the landlords and gentry of the Southern Song Dynasty united together.

They jointly reported Li Shimin's promotion of scientific ideas to the court, forcing the court to use the army to strangle Li Shimin and his followers. As an emperor of the ages, Li Shimin's military accomplishments are needless to say. Even though Li Shimin had few people and little food, he still won many battles.

However, a tactical victory cannot change a strategic disadvantage.

Ultimately, the power of an individual cannot compete with the entire social class.

Even though Li Shimin was very capable, he could not resist the counterattack of the entire gentry class. In particular, the landlords and gentry strictly adopted the Three Alls Policy in order to completely eradicate Li Shimin's influence.

Anyone who has contact with Li Shimin will be killed!

Wherever Li Shimin spread knowledge, everyone would grab it!

All books that record science and technology will be burned!

In just a few years, millions of people died as a result. Even Li Shimin, who had already become an immortal, was deeply traumatized and had to return to the top of Kunlun Mountain to meditate. When he recovered from his injuries and returned to the mountain, half of the Southern Song Dynasty had fallen into the hands of the barbarians. For the first time, the Han Dynasty fell completely into the hands of foreigners!

The fragments of the world that appeared in front of Shinobu Kocho and Liu Yuxuan at this time were the scenes of the landlords and gentry implementing the Three Alls Policy in the past.

A young girl who refused to bind her feet after hearing Li Shimin's propaganda was cruelly pierced through her feet with bamboo and finally died in wailing.

A craftsman who improved farm tools after learning scientific knowledge was crushed by the farm tools he had made in the field and turned into rotten meat like scraps.

There was also a Confucian scholar who promoted science. He was tied to a tree and burned to death while holding tightly in his hand a mathematics book that Li Shimin had deduced from later generations!

……

Too many people died just like that. Such a cruel scene made Liu Yuxuan, who had experienced massacres in his daily life, feel uncomfortable.

"How could they do this?" Liu Yuxuan looked incredulous.

She had thought that only beasts would commit such massacres, but she had not expected that the gentry of the same ethnic group would be even more brutal than the foreigners in suppressing the rising fire of their own nation.

"People only know that there was Song Ci, the founder of forensic medicine in the Southern Song Dynasty. But is there really only one Song Ci in the Southern Song Dynasty? In fact, there have always been many people like Song Ci in the Southern Song Dynasty. There has never been a lack of Song Ci in China over the years. But these Song Ci are destined to be buried in the long river of history. Because the landlords and gentry in China have always used the most cruel and bloody methods to maintain their rule."

Li Shimin gently waved the fishing rod in his hand, and one after another, unknown scientists in the history of China appeared among them, and then they died miserably because they were not accepted by the world.

"It's not that the landlords and gentry don't know the power of science and technology. They know better than anyone that science and technology will lead to social change. But that's why they use all kinds of means to suppress the development of science. Even if it means the destruction of their country and their race, they will not hesitate."

"For example, Zhu Xi lived in the Southern Song Dynasty. At that time, the country had already fled south and was in danger. The danger of China was not much different from today. However, as the leader of the Southern Song Dynasty's literary world and a master of Confucian classics, he only talked about Neo-Confucianism. Why was such a person respected? It was simply because Zhu Xi's remarks satisfied the interests of the landlords and gentry!"

After hearing this, Liu Yuxuan finally understood what Li Shimin meant.

"That is to say, technology alone cannot change China. Even the spread of relevant scientific concepts will cause hostility from the gentry. Once science and technology have an impact on society and threaten the interests of the landlords and gentry, they will be suppressed by the entire class. That is why China has fallen to this point, because the landlords and gentry of China are our most brutal enemies!"

Li Shimin nodded slightly when he heard this, and then said:

"I have tried various methods to promote the progress of China. Whether it was supporting the emperor or gathering people to start an uprising, I have tried all the methods you can think of. But without exception, all of them failed. At that time, I felt desperate and felt that the decline of China was an inevitable trend and could not be changed. But at this moment, a law of physics that I deduced gave me hope."

Laws of physics?

After hearing what Li Shimin said and combining it with Li Shimin's plan, Butterfly couldn't bear to move.

"Are you talking about the law of increasing entropy?"

After hearing Kocho Shinobu's words about the law of increasing entropy, Li Shimin slowly turned his head and looked at Kocho Shinobu beside him. He observed for a moment as if examining or deducing, then turned his head and said:

"Yes, it is the law of increasing entropy."

"The law of increasing entropy, what is that?"

Liu Yuxuan looked at Butterfly Shinobu, puzzled.

"That is one of the most basic laws in physics, if not the most basic one. This law states that the entropy of an isolated thermodynamic system does not decrease, but always increases or remains unchanged. If extended to sociology, it means that the internal chaos of an isolated social system will only increase with the passage of time." Shinobu Kocho explained:

"For example, when ancient dynasties were first established in China, the rules were strict and the social order was stable, so such times were often peaceful and prosperous. But as time went on, various problems began to accumulate within the dynasty, chaos began to intensify, and the people could no longer survive. Ultimately, the extreme chaos destroyed the foundation of the dynasty, and troubled times began."

After hearing this, Liu Yuxuan finally understood.

"I see. This law of increasing entropy is also known as the alternation of order and chaos!"

"It's not as simple as changing from order to chaos." Shinobu Kocho shook her head.

"Although the essence of the law of increasing entropy is the increase of chaos, the increase of chaos does not mean that the entire system will become chaotic. In fact, when chaos increases to the extreme, all the energy in the isolated system will reach a balance, and the entire system will fall into silence. In other words, extreme chaos will only bring about deathly silence."

As she spoke, Kocho Shinobu looked towards the Kunlun Lake in front of her and said:

"For example, if a pond like this one is left alone, all kinds of algae and organisms will appear in the pond at first, and it looks vibrant. But as time goes by, such a pond without living water will only become a pool of stagnant water. This is the future deduced by the law of increasing entropy, which is also known as heat death!"

Thanks to Shinobu Kocho's explanation, Liu Yuxuan finally understood what the so-called law of increasing entropy meant.

But then, she asked in confusion:

"But what does this law of increasing entropy have to do with the current situation in Shenzhou?"

In response, Shinobu Kocho explained:

"It's very simple. To the north of Shenzhou is endless grassland, to the northwest is the yellow sand of the Western Regions, to the southwest is snow-capped mountains and rainforests, and to the east and south is the vast ocean. In other words, from a geographical perspective, Shenzhou is actually an isolated system. And as an isolated system, Shenzhou civilization is bound to be unable to escape the law of increasing entropy."

"The specific manifestation is that since the Qin Dynasty unified China, China has experienced longer and longer periods of peace, while shorter and shorter periods of unrest. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties after the Qin and Han Dynasties, China's unrest lasted for hundreds of years. After the fall of the Tang Dynasty, the unrest during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms lasted less than a hundred years."

"After that, whether it was the chaotic times at the end of the Yuan Dynasty or the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the chaos in China lasted only a few years. Often, a new dynasty was established not long after the old one fell. On the surface, it seemed that China was becoming more and more stable, but in fact, the chaos and corruption within China were getting worse with each generation."

"That is to say, the overall stability of Shenzhou is based on the premise of increasing internal corruption and chaos. Shenzhou's stability is essentially a kind of heat death! It is the dead silence after chaos has developed to the extreme and various internal forces have reached a balance."

"And this trend is irreversible according to the law of increasing entropy. This is because chaos will only increase, not decrease. Any change within an isolated system is essentially increasing chaos. And increasing chaos will only push the entire system into heat death more quickly. This is why even if scientific ideas have been spread for hundreds of years, they cannot bring change to China."

"Because entropy increase is irreversible and heat death is unstoppable. The power of the landlord gentry class is certainly terrifying, but what is truly terrifying is the law of increasing entropy. As China approaches heat death, a new order cannot be established. Therefore, the landlord gentry class, as the gatekeepers of the old order, has such a powerful force to suppress all possibilities of change."

Shinobu Kocho said so much at once, and with Liu Yuxuan's knowledge, it would naturally take a lot of time for her to slowly digest it. After she truly understood the impact of the law of increasing entropy on Shenzhou civilization, Liu Yuxuan felt the despair of the law of increasing entropy.

"Does this mean that there is really no hope for the future of Shenzhou?"

"That may not be the case." Shinobu Kocho shook her head.

"The law of increasing entropy is indeed hopeless, but this law has a premise, that is, it must be established on an isolated system. For example, a closed pond will naturally fall into silence, but if it can be connected to the water flow outside and become running water, then such a pond will never fall into silence."

"The same thing applies to civilization. In the past, Shenzhou was indeed dead silent, but now facing the threat of the great powers, isn't Shenzhou beginning a new transformation? Even the two thousand years of imperial system have been thrown out of the window. Such a transformation would never have happened in the original Shenzhou."

"In the final analysis, just before the dead water of Shenzhou finally received fresh water from the outside world. Although this fresh water is essentially an invasion by the great powers, this invasion also changed the fact that Shenzhou civilization is isolated and added new variables to Shenzhou's future."

Having said this, Kocho Ren looked at Li Shimin standing aside and said:

"But it seems to me that you are not satisfied with the speed of change in Shenzhou. So you choose to support Xiaorizi so that Xiaorizi can become a huge variable to urge Shenzhou to move forward."

In response, Li Shimin did not deny it, but said frankly:

"That's right. The Western powers shattered China's dream of being the Celestial Empire half a century ago, but have any great changes really taken place in China since then? The emperor is still the emperor, the landlords are still the landlords, the country is declining, but the gentry are still reading the Four Books and Five Classics. In the final analysis, the variables in China are not enough to cause a great change in China."

"So I chose to support Xiaorizi, because I know that only Xiaorizi, as a neighboring country, can bring enough variables. And only such variables can truly break the silence within Shenzhou and stir up the stagnant Shenzhou!"

Chapter 158 Shenzhou Can Only Be First

Yingtai, which had been suppressed by the Radon Spring for a thousand years, now erupted with unprecedented ambitions. They were not satisfied with the spoils of war after the victory, they wanted the entire Radon Spring. They wanted to replace the Radon Spring and become the master of the Far East. They wanted to use absolute power to destroy the Radon Spring civilization, kill the people of Radon Spring, and build their own Far East world!

So after understanding Li Shimin's plan, Shinobu Kocho asked:

"Do you know that according to the current situation, a war will break out between Yingtai and Radon Huang?"

Li Shimin nodded slightly when he heard this and said calmly:

"knowledge."

"Then do you know how many people will die in this war?"

"According to my calculations, even if the radon spring wins the war, at least tens of millions will be lost!"

"Kun, Kun 10 million?" Liu Yuxuan, who was standing aside, turned pale with fright when he heard the number.

One Kun = 2.5.

She really couldn't imagine what Kun Qianwan's death meant to a radon spring. This was almost equivalent to the relatives and friends of most people in the radon spring being attacked by the Yingtai army, and the whole place would form an endless war with Yingtai!

"Even if we win, we will have to sacrifice more than 10 million people. And if we fail, our civilization will come to an end. Don't you think this approach is too short-sighted?" said Butterfly Shinobu indignantly.

"It is indeed very short." Li Shimin nodded and said:

"But compared to the natives of the New World who were wiped out by Tusa, I have no choice! The European countries have already occupied most of the world's resources. The territory occupied by the Ansa people is more than one times that of the Radon Spring! They have much more resources than the Radon Spring, and they control the world's trade hub. How can the Radon Spring fight them if it doesn't take extreme measures?"

After these words were spoken, both Kocho Shinobu and Liu Yuxuan fell silent.

Then Li Shimin said:

"Besides, Yingtai is just an upstart after all. Although it may look aggressive, its methods are far less sophisticated and ruthless than those of the European countries. Even if Radon Huang declines temporarily, Yingtai cannot easily win or lose. In this gamble involving the fate of Radon Huang, I have at least an 80% chance of winning!"

"Also, if Radon Huang wants to compete with the European countries in the future, Yingtai will be the natural Hangu Pass of Radon Huang. Since it is the Hangu Pass of Radon Huang, this pass must be completely controlled by Radon Huang. Now let Yingtai Shashangkun take over first. When Radon Huang becomes powerful in the future, he can completely clean up Yingtai without any psychological obstacles because of Shiyu!"

"By then, Yingtai's territory will all belong to Danhuang, and Danhuang's far east will have an unsinkable natural barrier. Isn't this much more convenient than killing He Pingfa and pretending to be nice to Yingtai in the future?"

Li Shimin's words were still as calm as the water of the Tianchi Lake in front of him. But the indifference and coldness in his words made Hudie Ren and Liu Yuxuan beside him feel intimidated. It was not until this moment that they realized the identity of the man in front of them.

He is not a Taoist priest of Louguan Dao, nor is he an immortal who is detached from the mortal world.

He is the Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, the greatest emperor of all time!

The emperor is high above everyone else, looking down on all living beings.

What is the sacrifice of millions of people?

What is the Wang Guome Zhong of Yingtai?

So-called human lives are essentially just chess pieces on the emperor's chessboard.