Li Yun is a person with a high level of ideological awareness.
As the third-generation emperor of Dayun, Li Yun was not limited to the thinking of royal aristocrats. Perhaps he was born this way. He was not the kind of person who only paid attention to the superstructure. It was just the opposite. He was very compassionate and cared more about ordinary people than aristocrats.
Before he ascended the throne, he had thought about how to bring welfare to the common people.
But he didn't have enough power at that time.
And after ascending the throne.
He worked tirelessly to consolidate the government, implement good governance, establish the Imperial City Bureau to supervise the underworld, and separate ordinary people from the underworld struggles. He spent a lot of effort, and the result was obvious. His ten years of hard work brought a leap forward in the lives of his people.
Yes.
Nowadays, most people can hope to eat meat once a month.
... .Asshole.
Of course, Li Yun could not be satisfied with this result, so he worked harder and more diligently. His cultivation was very high, so he could minimize his sleep time. He invested all the extra time in building the country he loved.
But... we have reached a bottleneck.
In the first ten years, he brought Dayun's national strength to an unprecedented level, but another ten years passed and Dayun remained almost unchanged.
Everything came to a standstill.
Anxiety and anger almost drove Li Yun crazy. He once buried himself in the palace history museum and studied the history handed down from several dynasties. He once went on a private visit to find the source of all this. After several years of exploration, Li Yun finally discovered the truth of everything.
Li Yun is very smart, and his level of martial arts also helps him to further understand the current situation.
In the end, he even looked at the world with a transcendent perspective.
He drew his conclusion from this.
"It's not my fault, it's not anyone else's fault."
"It is impossible for this country to improve any further."
There are three reasons.
First of all, the existence of aristocratic families restricts the development of society. After all, only a few commoners can stand out. But this is not a problem. Li Yun can fully foresee that this phenomenon will not be permanent. In the distant future, the bound commoners will eventually come out. Even if it is not in his own era, there will definitely be some kind of unstoppable wave that will tear this bondage apart... .
Secondly, ironically, Li Yun found that his existence was actually one of the reasons. He was the emperor. Standing in his position, he needed the stability of power and the obedience of the people. All of this actually became the shackles of the common people, making them unable to break free. But Li Yun also saw that this was not a problem. It was impossible for Li Yun to betray his class now, but it might not be the case in the future.
The last and biggest reason is that when he realized this, Li Yun suddenly realized that if this problem was not solved, the problems of this world would probably never be solved, and the aristocratic families, the secular imperial power, and the common people would probably never have the hope of being liberated from it.
And this reason... .
... .It is martial arts.
It was not like this at first, but since the dragon veins in the Central Plains awakened more than a hundred years ago and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth increased, this phenomenon has become more serious.
Although the martial arts sects have a small number of people, they are elite. A hundred years ago, they were not enough to resist the army, but a hundred years later, the situation is completely different. The grandmasters who have attained the Tao are capable of defeating thousands of enemies in a real sense. As the spiritual energy continues to rise, one day, numbers will no longer have any meaning.
The absolute gap in martial arts strength between warriors and mortals is just like that between nobles and commoners. Li Yun can fully foresee that in the future warriors will become another level of upper class, martial arts will be monopolized, and the gap between commoners and warriors will become larger and larger.
This is still at the future level.
Look at the present.
The martial arts sects did not pay taxes, but they enclosed their own land and ruled as kings. Even the government did not want to have conflicts with them near their own mountain gates. In their territory, the food grown by the civilians and the cattle and sheep they raised had to be handed over to them. What was this? This was robbing money from the court!
Warriors do not engage in production, but when they gather together they will exploit other civilians who are engaged in production.
Absolute force has become the guarantee of this rule.
This will make the entire class extremely stable.
Now that it has only been a hundred years, it may not be possible to see anything, because the court's army has absolute numerical suppression, and this suppression is still effective at present, but one day, all of this will no longer exist as the spiritual energy rises and the restrictions on the strength of warriors are lifted.
The common people were submissive and only wanted to find ways to practice martial arts.
Warriors are high and mighty, and they only know how to study the illusory martial arts.
Perhaps a small number of people will achieve the so-called "transcendence", but what about the common people below? By then, every strongest person born will stand on countless corpses.
At that time, Li Yun simply could not imagine how bleak and terrible a world ruled by warriors would be. In comparison, the constraints of aristocratic families and secular imperial power were insignificant because both could be overthrown.
But the latter is completely impossible to overturn.
therefore... .
"Power beyond the mundane should not exist."
"As long as it exists for one more day, or even becomes stronger, there will be no hope for this world."
certainly.
It’s not that Li Yun has not considered the possibility of everyone practicing martial arts, but it is after careful consideration that he feels that such a thing is simply impossible.
Because this is not in the interests of the majority of warriors. Imagine if you have martial arts skills, can fly over eaves and walls, and are invulnerable to swords and guns, would you still go farming? The competition between warriors is equally cruel. If it were you, would you let everyone in the world compete with you
What's more... .Practicing martial arts also requires talent.
There are countless people in the martial arts world. In a hundred years, there is only one mad lion who kills thousands of people. How many people have the same ambitions as him? Aren't they all just corpses
Everything is destined.
Martial arts cannot be spread to ordinary people. Once it is spread, the result will definitely not be that everyone is as powerful as a dragon, but the complete collapse of the entire order.
"So-called warriors only understand the so-called struggle for strength and ruthlessness, and only know about being the best in the world."
“They don’t care about the people.”
“They don’t care how much land they plant, how many sheep they raise, or how much money they make next year. Because they are so strong, they can exploit others.”
“They are robbers.”
"It's useless!"
Li Yun made such an evaluation of the so-called martial arts. Perhaps there are noble people among martial artists, but what's the use? The strength of mankind is the strength of the collective. The power of the individual is insignificant and can't change anything. So he began to wonder, what caused all this
The answer is simple.
A hundred years ago, the Siguo Cliff exploded and the dragon vein of the Central Plains awakened.
Since then, the martial arts that were originally limited to common sense have been rapidly improved, becoming extraordinary and out of control.
Even in such an era, Li Yun and the Dayun Dynasty were also beneficiaries.
but... .
"In the next hundred years, the next thousand years, in the distant future, the people of the world are destined to become slaves!"
"I will never allow this to happen!"
So Li Yun made a decision.
It doesn’t matter if no one understands, it doesn’t matter if some people oppose, it doesn’t matter even if he has to make many sacrifices. Although he cannot realize his dream of everyone being like a dragon in his lifetime, he can carry this dream into the future and even make it the cornerstone for its realization!
"The Dragon Vein of the Central Plains."
“Shouldn’t exist!”