"Roman Empire" is the only foreign TV series I have watched completely in the ten years since I went abroad. After watching this 22-episode TV series, I carefully recalled that the most memorable episode was the above scene that was insignificant to the plot. A monarch of the world's number one power, standing by the sea, facing a slave who has nothing, expressing his jealousy.
When reading Chinese history, I was deeply puzzled: Why do so many people want to be emperors? It is simply the job with the highest occupational risk in the world, and the risk factor is definitely higher than that of miners, racers or boxers. Nanliang Emperor Xiao Yan was starved to death, Zong Qinzong was trampled to death by horses, Sui Emperor Yang Guang was hanged, and Emperor Yuan Xu of the Northern Wei Dynasty was poisoned to death by his biological mother... It can be said that there are many ways to die. I think it’s really killing people if you haven’t learned statistics. Otherwise, these emperors should know the following tragic statistics: It is said that the average age of the emperors who can be tested in Chinese history is only 39 years old. If the neonatal mortality rate is not counted, The average life expectancy is 18 years lower than that of ordinary people, and the abnormal death rate of the emperor is 44%, which is much higher than that of ordinary people.
Of course, high risks are accompanied by high returns. When an emperor, there are three thousand beauties in the harem, and a variety of delicious food on the dinner table, but really, a person has only one stomach, how much can he eat? A man has only one sexual organ, how many beauties can he sleep? Emperor Tongzhi had the courage to challenge himself in bed and died of syphilis. It can be seen that sleeping women is not the better. As for the delicacies, we know that eating too much chicken, duck and fish will increase blood lipids, or coronary heart disease, and not all emperors have the perseverance to run a treadmill.
When reflecting on the centralized system, our usual thinking is how it harms the people, but we rarely think that the autocrats themselves are often one of the victims. In "Roman Empire", Pompeo, who wanted to dominate the ruling power, was cut off by his frontmen, Caesar, who was rebellious, was killed by Brutus in the Senate, and Attia, who wanted to be the first lady, was all owned by him. The man betrayed, Anthony, one of the Big Three, was forced to commit suicide, and the scheming Cleopatra became a prisoner of Octavian...In this story, God is like a kid who loves pranks, and power is the apple in the Garden of Eden, Adam And the Eves kept reaching out to it, and when they were almost reaching it, God suddenly pulled the apple away. So, thumping, thumping, thumping thumping, and the tempted people planted one by one to heaven.
The more a person possesses, the more possessed. The legendary dialectics is concise and blunt.
It is said that the famous corrupt official Hu Changqing once sighed before his sentence that if we let go of news supervision earlier, maybe I would not end like this. Of course, not all corrupt officials are as unlucky as him. They ate countless chickens, ducks, fish and slept. Countless women are still eating chickens, ducks, fish and still sleeping. Women will eat chickens, ducks, and fish. "Returned"-even if it is not for them, it will be paid by their great children and grandchildren. When Chongzhen hanged himself from a tree, maybe even to his death he couldn't figure out what he had done wrong. Well, kid, what's the problem? Ask your grandpa's grandpa's grandpa's grandpa. When Gorbachev fell, he probably couldn't understand why his painstaking efforts to save the country and the people ended up like this. I'm sorry, sir, there is a word in this world called "Hard to return."
I often think that Buddhism has its scientific nature. It talks about cause and effect, retribution, accumulation of virtue and accumulation of grievances. Of course it doesn't use scientific language to speak, but the truth seems to stand the test. It is difficult to imagine a person who can maintain blood fat as usual with chicken, duck and fish meat all day long, or that three thousand sleeping girls are still as strong as a cow. Embracing power is like embracing a time bomb. In the game of drumming and passing flowers, there is always one hapless person who receives the bomb last.
Last year, there was an officialdom novel "Blue Yellow" that sold very well in China. After reading it, I felt my heartfelt sympathy for the grassroots officials. I think it’s really tiring to be an official. I have to organize interceptions today, delete posts tomorrow, and count against someone the day after tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow, someone will be counted against. It's such a panic all day long. Power is almost a burden. I think if I were the director of the county magistrate in the book, I would be extremely sad. Isn't it just eating a few bites of meat and sleeping with a few more women, living so exhausted and exhausted as a mouse on the street, is it worthwhile?
But what I sympathize most is the Guangxu in the late Qing Dynasty. He did not even choose to chase power, but was chosen by power. The lonely boy, sitting on the huge seat of the empty palace, guarded a hollow empire in vain. At a young age, he has to get up at four in the morning, read boring poems, strictly observe etiquette, and worry about the country and the people... More than 100 years later, he should be a kid on the street wearing Nike shoes and listening to the iPod, but he was born unfortunately. The Aixinjueluo family of 100 years ago. I don't know if he also looked at the eunuch in the palace like Pompeo looked at the messenger back then, thinking: If I could become a driftwood in the water like you, how comfortable it would be. I think there is probably no one in the world who understands the tragedy of power better than those at the pinnacle of power, but this can only be a secret they cannot tell.
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