Chapter 551: Look Deeper
When Zhao Yu first arrived in Qiongzhou, he carried out a series of reforms in order to ensure military supplies and avoid the army being burdened by logistics. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 By strengthening the power of the grassroots political power in the townships and villages, changing the selection method of officials, strengthening the protection of armor, and subsidizing the people's husbands, the grassroots political power has been loose, scattered, poor, and weak for a long time. As a result, once a war breaks out, political power and personnel at all levels will immediately and efficiently mobilize to complete the tasks of collecting grain, recruiting new soldiers, preparing funds, paying military supplies, and mobilizing civilian workers.
After the Battle of Qizhouyang, the trip to Yashan, and several major events in the expedition to Quanzhou, this system was able to operate efficiently, and the war mobilization and material preparation were successfully completed. Regardless of what will happen in the long run, at least at the present stage, the smooth progress of the war has been ensured, and there has not been any delay in war preparedness due to ineffective local work.
However, in the places where the officials of the Xing Dynasty were gradually dispatched, there were variables after Zhao Yu led the army to the expedition. The officials assigned to the government demanded the restoration of the original system and the abolition of the new regulations on the grounds that the officials participated too much in government affairs, had too much power, and needed the imperial court to pay salaries, and the people had to be compensated by the imperial court for forced labor, which violated the ancestral family law and the imperial court decrees. In order to achieve the purpose of saving the expenses of the imperial court and preventing the squires and officials from taking power.
After Lu Xiufu's review, he also felt that this was a heavy economic burden for the imperial court, and besides, the participation of officials in local government affairs was not in line with the practice of the imperial court and should be abolished. In order to be cautious, he still convened a court meeting and asked the courtiers to express their opinions on this matter. After Chen asked for the approval of the Queen of Heaven, Shangshu issued a document calling for the restoration of the old system and the abolition of the new system.
However, in the local area, the people of the former Marshal's Mansion occupy the majority, and the important positions are all from the Marshal's Mansion, or Zhao Yu personally selected and appointed, which has caused local dissatisfaction. However, the imperial court forced rectification within a time limit, and the policy was implemented, but it also stimulated the contradictions between the two sides, resulting in the failure of the decree. After the Eastern Expeditionary Army conquered Qiongzhou, a large number of materials were transported back, and it was necessary to requisition and dispatch people to load, unload and transport.
In the past, this was not a problem at all, and the marshal only needed to send an order to the prefectures and counties, and the officials and Baozheng under it would obey the order, and at the same time receive rations and subsidies, and then recruit the people to go. However, at this time, the new law was abolished, and the original system was difficult to restore, either no one could be recruited, or the people below were passive and slack, so that there was no one to load and unload the goods after the ship arrived at the port.
Lu Xiufu knew that the ship would have to return immediately after unloading, and His Majesty was in a hurry, and things became more and more difficult to control. He did not expect such a situation, and on the one hand, he strictly ordered the local government to quickly recruit people, and on the other hand, he hurriedly let the garrison act as stevedores and unload ships. Originally, Zhao Yu took away most of the Qiongzhou army on the Eastern Expedition, and the original imperial forbidden army was still in training and could not be used. However, the remaining troops are small, and the tasks they undertake are heavy, and they are naturally exhausted when they have to carry out military affairs and unload ships, which causes dissatisfaction among the military.
Under the strict orders of the imperial court, the local prefectures and counties put the tasks under pressure layer by layer, and the officials of the marshal's government department were dissatisfied with the unauthorized change of the 'holy order', and they were definitely unable to carry out the work, and those officials who had just arrived did not know the local situation and destroyed the original system. If the task cannot be completed, it can only be carried out by force, which causes the dissatisfaction of the people, and privately curses the imperial court for changing the decree, which makes Zhao Hao's newly established prestige risk of being lost.
The side effects of Lu Xiufu's unauthorized change to the new system are also very obvious, which leads to the inability of a large number of goods to be quickly put into storage, resulting in a mountain of goods at the wharf. The people of Quanzhou who arrived in advance were difficult to settle in time, stranded around the capital of Qiongzhou, sleeping in the countryside, and the original promise could not be fulfilled, so that they felt deceived and asked to return to Quanzhou. This made the line up and down anxious, and couldn't think of any good way to change, I don't know how many times the meeting was held, but I couldn't come up with a decision, resulting in a trend of worsening the situation.
The Secretariat has the duty to monitor public opinion, and they know that the situation is serious and promptly report the situation. Although Zhao Yu was anxious after receiving it, he was also very helpless, so he could only sigh secretly. It was he who remembered that someone in his previous life had said a joke about the inaction and slippery wind of officialdom, and said: "It makes sense to listen to your words, but I dare not say it; While it may be fine, it's never wrong to be difficult to manage; That being true is true, it does seem to be about the same; Probably, perhaps, but not necessarily; So I always think that I am still not sure in the end......
"I'm not afraid of no good things, I'm afraid of no good people!" Zhao Hao sighed and said to himself.
On the surface, this incident was caused by the contradiction caused by the unauthorized reform of the new system, but in Zhao Hao's view, it was caused by a secret struggle between the two mountains. And this situation has a lot to do with yourself. At the beginning, Xingchao was likely to settle in Qiongzhou, and in order to ensure that his status was not lost, he kept an eye on it. Because the arrival of the Xing Dynasty would inevitably be marginalized, and he was not able to compete with the court bosses, he took the lead in appointing local officials in the name of the Shuaifu, of course, these people were his own cronies, or he promoted them.
In this way, Zhao Yu thought that he controlled the local forces, and when the imperial court first arrived, everything needed to rely on the locality, so he would have the capital to bargain with the imperial court by relying on the Shuaifu army to control the place, so as not to be beaten back to his original form, but he didn't expect to bury a mine for himself. After he succeeded to the throne, these people relied on themselves as protégés of the Son of Heaven, of course, to protect their masters, and when he was out of the house, those cronies knew that they were unable to resist the edict of the Queen Mother, so they used non-cooperative methods to secretly confront, waiting for their return to the court.
After the dynasty arrived in Qiong, Zhao Yu thought that he was the emperor, and both the central and local governments were under his rule, so he didn't think much about it. Who knows that they don't all think so, and they have secretly divided into two forces. And these people in the central government don't look down on these local buns in the Shuaifu, so they want them to suffer a little and establish their authority, but they didn't expect that the local buns won't buy their accounts at all. The two sides stood up to the cow, but they sandwiched Zhao Hao in the middle, making it very difficult for him to deal with it.
To dig deeper into the root cause, Zhao Hao thought that it was still a problem of the autocratic system of the feudal regime. Everyone knows that the emperor alone can rule a country, even if he governs a state and county, he can be exhausted to death. Therefore, for an authoritarian regime to achieve the rule of the minority over the majority, it relies on the state apparatus and on the top-down "reliable" bureaucracy.
In this pyramidal bureaucracy, the rule of man is the core of its ruling order, and the rule of law is only an auxiliary means of managing society. On the one hand, in order for a ruler to obtain the allegiance of "reliable" officials, he had to grant them privileges; On the other hand, in order to obtain privileges, officials pledged their allegiance to the higher rulers, and tried to become "reliable" people and strive for promotion, thus forming a ruling system unique to authoritarian societies. In the ranks of the bureaucracy, it cannot be said that there are no people who have the ambition to serve the country, but more of them are for "promotion and wealth".
And the so-called "promotion" is ultimately for "getting rich". Because the higher the official is promoted, the more opportunities there are to make a fortune, and the greater the wealth. Since the purpose of being an official is to make a fortune, it is natural to be as greedy as possible, to take bribes as much as possible, and to loot as much as possible. Therefore, China's history has been full of corrupt officials for thousands of years, and although there are so-called clean officials, they are often regarded as myths and legends. Treating "clean officials" as "legends" is enough to prove how widespread the corruption of Chinese bureaucrats is!
In order to be promoted, the officials poured into each other and fought to the death, which is not necessarily a bad thing for the ruler, so that he can dance with long sleeves and be good at the left and right, so as to ensure that his status is not lost and his words are listened to. Because you don't do it, I can immediately promote your opponent and let him do it. And when his opponent is in power, his fate can be imagined, so everyone has to be careful.
However, those in power are not all fools, such as Zhao Hao, he knows that some people will do whatever it takes to get to the top, and this is not what he wants to see. And a few days ago, he delved into the works of Han Feizi, the world's first belly, and in order to explain this truth to Qin Shi Huang, he also specially told a small story:
It is said that there is a wine seller in the Song Kingdom, who buys and sells fairly, Tong Su is not bullied, treats people humbly, is a group of harmony, the wine tastes mellow, the wine flag is hung high, in a word, the hardware is quite powerful. However, there was a lot of good wine stored, but no one came to buy it, and after a long time, the wine became sour, and the taste was more pungent than old vinegar. The wine seller felt very strange and didn't know what was wrong, so he consulted Yang Qian, a wise old man in the neighborhood.
Yang Qian said: Is your dog vicious?
The wine seller said, "Dogs are very vicious, but does this have anything to do with the fact that wine cannot be sold?"
Yang Qian said: Of course it matters, people who want to buy alcohol are afraid of your dog! Some people sent their children, carrying money and jugs, and came to fetch wine. As soon as you get to the door, your dog will come out, and people will run back all the way after the head, so who would dare to buy wine?
What Han Feizi actually wants to say is that the country also has such vicious dogs, that is, those traitors and villains around the monarch. Talented people, with the great ability to govern the country in Anbang, want to assist the king. However, those traitors and villains were jealous of their abilities, and they were afraid that people would come and take away their jobs, so they came out and bit like vicious dogs.
And the monarch has a strong status, eats his head, wears his head, and sits on it as a senior. Although it looks very cool, it is detached from the masses and is easily deceived. Just because, there are bad people who give you bad tricks, and you are thousands of miles away from rejecting talents. Therefore, the bad guy is a hateful species, when the big boss is a little careless, he will be spoiled by the bad guys, you must pay attention to precautions, and you can't take it lightly for a moment......