"I want thorough reform. Tuanzi, help me."
"Thorough reform will kill many, many people. Far more than now."
"Living an ordinary life is worse than dying gloriously. Every three hundred years, the cycle repeats. Rather than spill so much blood for nothing, it would be better spent on thorough reform."
Well, she had gone to another extreme again.
Furball felt helpless.
But it was neither a human philosopher nor a sociologist. It only knew some superficial things.
Things like industrialized thinking and the characteristics of industrialization. To advance, industrialization was necessary, and education had to be developed.
As for an overall framework for reform, it could hardly design one.
So it roughly laid out its ideas.
Enact a New Law, stipulating that the monarch must abide by it as well.
Legislative power would no longer rest solely with the monarch, whose words carried the force of law, but would instead be decided by more people.
These ideas were warmly welcomed by the ministers.
In fact, toward the end of the Great Ming, they had already begun exploring a system of a nominal monarch. Many Great Confucian Scholars had conducted in-depth discussions on the matter.
The Great Ming emperor was not so fearsome.
But under our Qing Dynasty, faced with one wise emperor after another, who would dare mention even half a word about a "nominal monarch"?
Without even mentioning those two words, a whole heap of literary inquisition awaited you. Let alone actually saying them.
"Her Majesty the Empress Dowager is truly wise."
"The Empress Dowager's virtue rivals that of the greatest sages, heroes, and worthies of all antiquity..."
"From this day onward, our dynasty's foundation will stand forever firm. We will never again need fear the emergence of a foolish monarch, and it shall endure for ten thousand years