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In his textbook, Humphreys sets as an exercise that a finite-dimensional representation of a reductive Lie algebra $L$ is completely reducible if every element in the centre of $L$ acts as a semisimple endomorphism.
Does "semisimple" for representations mean "completely reducible"? If so this is false as the only Lie algebras for which all finite-dimensional representations are completely reducible are the semisimple Lie algebras.
One shows, by fair means or foul, that an automorphism of $\mathbb{Q}_p$ must be continuous. For instance it suffices to prove that an automorphism preserves $\mathbb{Z}_p$.
The class number is irrelevant. If $K$ is a number field, then $K^*$ is isomorphic to the direct product of a finite cyclic group (whose order is the number of roots of unity in $K$) with a free abelian group of infinite countale rank.