Treating most ordinary people under the rule, the Manchu nobles knew an ancient experience, "For example, if you raise an eagle, you will fly away when you are full, and you will be hungry when you are hungry." Therefore, finding a way to keep the people struggling with food and clothing is the best choice. The people are exhausted all day long in order to survive. They have no time and no ability to think about rights and resistance, and the excess resources at the upper level can play a greater role. Sometimes, whoever wants to survive can survive. There is Conducive to control.
2. Thought control.
Use a "correct" thinking determined by the upper class and help maintain a stable hierarchical structure to standardize and unify the people's thinking. It not only advertises itself as the embodiment of morality and truth, but also prevents trouble before it happens, transforms the thinking of most people, and prevents resistance. Individuals with special characteristics think about rebelling against this.
3. Social control.
Form a social pattern in which people restrain each other. Secretly encourage the subordinates to fight against the subordinates, and the people fight against the people. As long as the struggle does not develop to the level of violence or out of control, the greater the contradiction, the more important the power of the upper class will become, and the more important it is to determine the outcome of the struggle between the subordinate people. It can also weaken the trust between the people in peacetime. Even if they encounter a common situation of oppression by foreigners, they cannot unite to resist. In the past, the Han people practised'using the barbarians to control the barbarian' against ethnic minorities, but now the minority rulers still have the same'using China to control China'.
4. Personality control.
Lu Xun said that the strong draw swords to the stronger, and the weak draw swords to the weaker. A healthy personality should not be humble when it comes to being strong, and not overbearing when it is weak. The Manchu nobility cultivated a kind of ethos ingeniously. Who is more able to bully the weaker, who gets more practical benefits, and who is more likely to be promoted.
This can gradually form a kind of slave personality, infinitely flattering to the superior, infinitely domineering, and venting the anger received from the above to the subordinates, which can stabilize the mood of the officials and help the stability of the ruling order from the top to the bottom. And to extend this personality to the majority of people as much as possible to demonstrate the benefits of this personality through officials.
Even if they are not officials, most people always have differences between strengths and weaknesses at different times, and they can always find the weak to bully. Once someone develops this personality, there is no threat of resistance. Because they already think that bullying the weak with the strong is justified, when they meet the strong, they will succumb the fastest. Since no one can be more powerful than the Manchu government institutions that have mastered the state apparatus, obedience to the government is the most thorough.
In addition to the slave personality, it also cultivates a kind of rogue personality, which also creates a social pattern in which hooligans with a high level of thick and black and many shameless behaviors are actually more powerful than ordinary people through secret operations. As a result of the proliferation of rogue personality, there is a greater lack of trust and unity among the people, and more and more people regard others as rogues. Since no one believes the words of the hooligans, but only believes in their own interests, it is even more difficult for people to unite.
5. Political control.
No political organizations not controlled by the Manchu Qing government are allowed to exist, leaving the people extremely lack of experience in self-organization and political competition. With organization versus unorganized, the odds of winning are obvious.
6. Military control.
Cultivate a military strike organization that is completely loyal to the Manchus, the Eight Banners Army.
Give this institution special treatment, so that all members can enjoy the best living conditions and social status without having to work, and become a thug who does not ask right or wrong and only understands obedience.
7. Information control.
Try to limit interactions with other civilized societies and reduce the people's comparative psychology. Without comparison, there are no advantages and disadvantages. Only in this way can China still be the center of the world and the fantasy of a great power in the Tian Dynasty, so that the people can satisfy the status quo they already have.
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