This has a certain appeal to the ordinary local gentry and bullies.
After all, the Recovery Society's proposition clearly states that once there is great disorder under heaven, lacking order, it will cause great harm to everyone.
The Recovery Society advocates for the re-establishment of a more stable order to alleviate conflicts between different social strata.
Although this cannot be achieved, at least it presents an attractive vision.
Those who have read books are very clear that great governance follows great chaos. Because only then is it easier to re-establish order.
If there is no great chaos, it will be like the Western Jin, inheriting the maladies of the previous Han dynasties, at its inception already resembling the dying breath of a dynasty.
Xu Qing of course knew that the ideology of the Recovery Society was hollow, filled with idealism.
But having a framework is what attracts people, and how to fill it in would naturally be answered in practice.
