The Thousand Years of Smoking Water (3): How did the Egyptian pharaohs, who had been worshipped as gods, disappear into vain? How was the invincible Julius Caesar stabbed to death? Emperor Wu of Han was how to make the big

The Thousand Years of Smoking Water (3): How did the Egyptian pharaohs, who had been worshipped as gods, disappear into vain? How was the invincible Julius Caesar stabbed to death? How did Emperor Wudi of han change the Han Dynasty from prosperity to decline step by step? How did the British Empire lose the United States? Today we move on to the issue of taxation. Rulers who do not create any social value wield the baton of power in their hands, and in the course of thousands of years of human history, there has been a farce of one scene after another, beginning with the emergence of a ruling class in human society, and this alienated human group has these two extreme characteristics, on the one hand they do not produce anything, and on the other hand they control everything in the world, which is a fascinating form of existence, not only for humans, but also for animals. Therefore, the struggle for this fascinating magical power has become the core of the evolution of human history, whether it is the pharaohs of ancient Egypt or the sons of heaven of the Zhou Dynasty in China, the first thing they did was to deepen their rights, the Egyptian pharaohs turned themselves into gods, and the chinese emperors turned themselves into sons of heaven, because such an approach would give their rights legitimacy, and gods or heaven should have the right to dominate everything, and when this right was confirmed, the good drama had just begun. The holders of power are actually ordinary people who are exactly like each of us, basic desires and needs, material demand to spiritual satisfaction, there is no gap between you and me, but the possession of power and wealth doubles the expansion of their desires, and at the same time, increases their fear of losing it all. As a result, they all tend to build a stable system where they are responsible for acquisition and control while others are responsible for production and supply. From the initial rent to the final monetary taxation, from servitude to conscription to military service, the owners of power have always designed an acceptable system. A system that makes the provided feels that it should be taken for granted, so as long as the ruler at the top mentions the line in his hand, in the system of the pyramid structure, the line puppets at all levels are led by him, the rulers are too light to lift, too strong and will be pulled off, and many times there will be a reaction of his next level of line puppets to him. The supreme holders of power control this main line, but he is afraid of this main line, especially if it is cut by his next level, so some intelligent power holders add a few lines to themselves, and some will be directly connected to the bottom, all of which form the so-called imperial art. In the human civilizations now recorded, the earliest and most mature way to play this method is none other than ancient Egypt, who not only built the pyramids of power institutions while they were alive, but still maintained such a structure after death, trying this way to continue the stability of their rights, of course, having to admit that they have achieved success for more than two thousand years, but the model of their success is limited to the Nile and its entire scope, and in that semi-closed world, such structural stability can be sustained. However, as the world of human civilization expanded and began to interconnect, the stable structure of the past gradually disintegrated. The history of the destruction of the pharaohs and emperors and listen to the next breakdown.

Reading history is wise, and knowing the past can learn from the present.