Zhao Hao has always wanted to reconstruct the national system of the Great Song Dynasty through a series of institutional reforms, which is said to be the best opportunity when it is in vain, but he finds that the difficulty is no less than that of the official system reform in Qiongzhou, which is still only implemented on a small scale. If we want to push it on a large scale in the whole of Jiangnan, we will have to face more opponents, and the regime will change, the war has just subsided, the people will be determined, and the country will also need to recuperate; The armed forces also need to be expanded and reorganized in training, and at this time, the structural reform is being introduced in the midst of controversy, and it is afraid of causing turmoil.

After studying the classics for many years with several masters, Zhao Yu knows that whether it is an ancient scholar or an emperor, there seems to be only one interpretation of Lao Tzu's "governing a big country if cooking a small fresh": "Book of Songs" Mao Biography Commentary: Cooking fish is annoying, it is broken, governing the people is annoying, and knowing how to cook fish is knowing how to govern the people; Tang Xuanzong: Those who cook small and fresh food cannot be scratched, those who govern a large country cannot be annoyed, annoyance hurts people, and scratching is rotten. This parable is also said. Small fresh, small fish also, words and cooking small fresh can not be scratched, scratch the fish collapse, the big country, do not annoy, annoying people are chaotic, all must use the Tao, so success.

Even the faint monarch Song Huizong thought that the public would shake it, and he was less successful; If you hide a large weapon and migrate it a few times, you will be defeated and injured; If you cook a small fresh and scratch it, it will collapse, and if you govern a big country and change the law, you will be confused. Historically, the interpretations of various schools are also similar, nothing more than the above statements. And for a long time, it is said that the fish should not be stirred frequently, otherwise it will be broken and rotten, and it is inconvenient to eat. It follows from this that governing the country must not disturb the people, otherwise it will not be possible to achieve great achievements, that is, governing a large country cannot be frequently and blindly tossed.

In the eyes of ordinary people, who wants to eat a pot of 'surimi' that can't distinguish between thorns and meat, people often take it for granted that this is not an obvious truth based on their own direct or indirect experience! It can be inferred from this that the same is true of the state, the people in power toss the people every day, and the people cannot live and work in peace and contentment, how can the society be stable? How can the economy develop? Therefore, everyone will accept the above explanation without thinking, and think that it is both correct and profound.

But Zhao Hao wants to say that you must not have ever made a fish. And there must be some people who are not convinced, haven't we ever made fish and eaten fish? And he has ever eaten fish, and in his previous life, he spent a period of time eating fish in the offshore sea, so he naturally does not have the right to pick and choose the fat and the thin, and he can eat what kind of food. In his experience, in fact, anyone who has ever fished knows that big fish are more afraid of tossing and easier to break than small fish.

If you fry a large fish weighing several pounds and compare it with a fish the size of a little thumb, you will know the difference between the two. The body of the small fish is small and the meat is tight, and it doesn't matter if you stir it a few times, but it can still be kept intact. However, if the fish is flipped twice, it may break into two knots first, except for the chef and the foodie, of course, and if you turn it again, you will ...... It depends on whether you want to eat meat or soup.

Therefore, Zhao Yu basically concluded that Lao Tzu must have made fish with his own hands, and critics like Tang Xuanzong and Song Huizong and many other critics did not have this experience, so their understanding of this sentence may have been different. And bias is to ignore the two key words in the sentence - big and small - so as to produce different answers. In daily life, if you want to eat big fish, one is generally enough, at most two; But if you want to eat small fish, you can't talk about it, but you have to weigh it by pounds, and you need dozens of pounds per catty.

When cooking large fish, a fish is just stewed in the pot. But if the small fish do it one by one, it is not brain-dead or idle egg pain, it is a dense phobia, and the discharge of these special species will pour dozens of small fish into the pot in one go. When cooking a large fish, you just have to stare at a fish with your eyes, and you can see it clearly, and the cooking process is relatively simple. However, when cooking small fish, there are a lot of small fish in the pot, you must stir properly, take care of the many small fish, so that each small fish is heated evenly, so that it will not be close to the bottom of the pot to burn paste, and the top is still raw; In addition, the soup should also be soaked in all the small fish, so that some fish will not taste strong, while others will be light and tasteless.

Therefore, Zhao Hao thinks that this is the most significant difference between "cooking small fresh" and "cooking big fresh", and it is also the essence of Lao Tzu's parable. If Lao Tzu just wants to explain the truth that "governing a big country cannot be tossed", then his words should be "governing a big country is like cooking a big fresh", because this is more appropriate and can accurately express his thoughts. However, in fact, Lao Tzu used the metaphor of "Xiao Xian", and it is obvious that he has another metaphor.

Zhao Yu thinks that if it is said that "governing a small country is like cooking a big fresh", this is also very reasonable. Because the country is as big as Qiongzhou, and the people on the island have taken care of it, the people of the 'whole country' are basically bathed in the emperor's grace. However, governing a large country is like cooking a small fish, with a vast territory and a large number of people, so it is much more difficult to take care of every common people, and those in power must do everything possible to make greater efforts to let the people in those remote areas get the same treatment as those under the roots of the imperial city, so that people from all walks of life can be properly cared for.

Chinese have always had a tradition of not suffering from widowhood and injustice, that is, modern people often say hatred of the rich, and development to a certain extent will lead to social contradictions, when social contradictions accumulate to a certain extent, almost always the people rise up, forcibly equalize the rich and the poor, and change the emperor again. Zhao Yu has been a dick all his life in his previous life, and he dreams of killing the rich and helping the poor, and sharing the fruits of development with them, thinking about the fact that people at this moment are bound to be not much worse, if they are not rich or poor, others will be rich and poor for themselves.

Therefore, Zhao Yu thinks that whether it is historical experience or the experience of his own two lives, he thinks that the fruits of society should be felt by everyone and can be enjoyed fairly. And those in power should act as enforcers of fairness, so as to prevent some people from profiteering and being extravagant, while others are toiling all day long. What needs to be done is to have a set of rational state systems and a set of benign rules to ensure the spontaneous operation of the state apparatus, and this rule can be consistent, not abolished by people, but stopped by events.

However, Zhao Yu is very clear about his catties, from Lao Tzu put forward this theory to his previous life there are always thousands of years, among which there are many famous people and sages and saint kings Mingjun, but it still can't be solved perfectly, people who can be relatively fair can be called Mingjun, that era is called the prosperous era. Although the result is very frustrating, he hopes that he can also build a relatively fair society and let the people live and work in peace and contentment, but it is unknown how difficult this road is, and how far it can go......

In the current society with scholars as the leading class, it has become a consensus that ruling the country by virtue is the royal road, ruling the country by rule of law is the road of hegemony, and building the country by power and skill is the act of destroying the country. In their view, the government is founded by power, and once power is rampant, it will lead the country into disorderly chaos. In such a country, internal friction will inevitably increase, and management costs will rise sharply, and when it is impossible to cope with it, it will naturally go to extinction.

Zhao Hao felt that this made a lot of sense, but he thought it would also vary from time to time. When I first came to this world, my eyes were black, and I was still a dispensable spare tire, if I didn't play with my heart, could I do it? And then, in an extremely complicated and dangerous situation, how can you get out of it without some trickery? When you arrive in Qiongzhou, how can you win the hearts of the people without engaging in a famous hall, get money to maintain your own small court, and resist Meng Yuan's expeditions again and again. So power has been integrated into his life.

However, now that the territory is larger, the population is larger, and there are more things, it is obviously out of place to maintain his status and power by still relying on power tricks, so Zhao Yu thinks that he has passed the period of managing the country by playing conspiracy and trickery, that is to say, he has completed the primitive accumulation by 'black', and now it should be time to bleach.

So whether to take the road of the king, or the road of hegemony, Zhao Yu feels that the road of the king is the highest stage of governance, and the road of hegemony is as insurmountable as socialism before the communist society, only in this way can we complete the battle of restoration, unify the thinking with coercive force and transition to the highest stage of governance, and achieve the healthy operation of the country's organizational system, automatic adjustment and perfection, without too much intervention by managers, to achieve the supreme realm of "the government of a country is still the rule of one".

Of course, Zhao Yu knows that this road is also a difficult one. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, all the princes changed their laws and tried to become strong in order to protect themselves, but few of them succeeded in the real reform. The main reason for this is that in the process of implementing the new law, it has been fettered by too many personnel and powers, so that it has no beginning and no end. It can be seen that when the country's reform policy conflicts with its own interests, the advocates of change themselves cannot adhere to the principles, and the effect of the implementation of the new law can be imagined.

The only successful reform was the new law that Shang Ying later implemented in the Qin state. At that time, the Seven Kingdoms competed for power, and the reason why the Qin State was able to annex the Eight Desolations and dominate the world was precisely because Shang Ying left a complete set of sound legal systems for the Qin State. Although the new law of Shang Yang has received mixed reviews in history, it is "positive": meritorious service is rewarded, and punishment is punished if there is a mistake, and it is transparently implemented in accordance with the provisions of the law, and it is absolutely forbidden to play with power and operate in the dark. The most important thing is that rewards and punishments can be fulfilled in a timely manner, and the people will never lose their trust.

Governing the country with righteousness and rewarding and punishing with faith was the key to the Qin State standing out in the Warring States Period. Even Sima Guang, who has always adhered to morality and has a lot of criticism about the rule of law, also praised Shang Ying in "Zizhi Tongjian". He said: Although Shang Jun is harsh, but in troubled times, fraud is rampant, and he can still do not lose his trust in the people, and this alone is enough to govern the four seas and level the world. It can be seen that Confucianism also has to agree that the legal system still has an irreplaceable role in wartime and nation-building......

The next day, Wen Tianxiang submitted a plan to arrest Qin Linfeng and reorganize the Weisheng Army. At this time, the state capitals learned that His Majesty could not return to Beijing and would celebrate the New Year in Ezhou, and sent tributes by land and water, but everyone knew that the little emperor 'did not love money', so they sent all the specialties from all over the country, of which food accounted for most of them.

Zhao Yu ordered the tribute to be distributed to the army, and at the same time issued an edict to hold a large banquet on New Year's Day, and the officers above the commander of the army, the chief officials of Ezhou Prefecture and the civil officials above the fifth rank were among them. The emperor celebrated the New Year here but there has never been a major event in Ezhou, the people of the whole city are all proud, and they are more grateful that the army has not committed any crime in the autumn after entering the city, and there has been no large-scale war in the city.

The New Year's Day banquet was set up in the lobby of the Consulate General's Palace, although there were not more people than the DPRK and China, but there were also two or three hundred people gathered together, and the civil and military were lined up on both sides, under the leadership of Wen Tianxiang, to congratulate His Majesty on the New Year, and read out the congratulatory table. Zhao Yu has been through nearly ten court meetings, has long been familiar with the routine, after a New Year's speech, the banquet will be held, as usual is a wine, a song and dance.

When the sixth course of the banquet was served, Chen Dun led a team of soldiers from the guard battalion to suddenly enter the hall with guns, and everyone did not feel unusual, because it had become a routine for soldiers to perform at the banquet on the New Year's Day of the Great Song Dynasty. But they didn't perform but divided into two teams and stood behind the officials, and the hall suddenly showed a solemn atmosphere, and everyone looked at the little emperor on the throne without knowing it, but they were also nervous.

"The emperor has an edict, and now it is found out that Qin Linfeng, the commander of the Weisheng Army, is corrupt and violates military discipline, and he should be punished, removed from his position as the commander of the capital, and escorted to Lin'an for trial!" Wen Tianxiang got up at this time and glanced at the people in the lower hall, unfolding the holy decree and reading it aloud.

"Your Majesty, the last general ......" Qin Linfeng, who had been doing nothing, heard that his face changed drastically, and he stood up suddenly, but there were already soldiers from the guard battalion behind him who didn't wait for him to struggle, so he pressed him, divided it by two, tied it with a rope, and dragged it aside.

"The emperor has an edict, and Min Guang appeases Xie Ao, as an important minister of the imperial court, has the grace of the saint, turns a blind eye to the lawlessness of his officials, and tolerates and connives, and now removes him from his post as a pacification envoy and sends him to Beijing to be punished!" Wen Tianxiang glanced at Xie Ao, who was at a loss, and said loudly.

"Your Majesty, the minister is wronged!" Xie Ao never expected that he was drinking and talking with His Majesty on the river a few days ago, but today he became a person to be punished, and he couldn't help but be stunned for a blank moment, and when he was held down by two personal soldiers, he believed that it was true, and struggled and shouted.

"Guilty or innocent, you know in your heart, when you find out the truth, there should be a public opinion, Gao Yu still don't waste your efforts!" Wen Tianxiang looked at the old subordinate who was struggling and shouting grievances expressionlessly, and said coldly.

"Right Minister, I ......" Xie Ao still wanted to distinguish when he heard it, but he shook his head and stepped aside with the support of the two soldiers.

"Ling found out that the first general of the Weisheng Army was in charge of Jiang Fang and his subordinates in command of Sun Ping, Qin Hong, and Li Ba; The second general, Fang Gang, and his subordinates, Fang Rui, Liu Jin, Dong Lin, Sima Zhaochi, and other 54 people, were involved in this case and acted as accomplices, and they were immediately dismissed from their posts and placed in custody! Every time Wen Tianxiang announced a person's name, a soldier stepped forward to take it down, took it aside, and in a blink of an eye, he was already kneeling, and there was only the voice of Wen Tianxiang reading the holy decree and the sigh of the arrested person in the hall......

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