Chapter 764: How Can It Be
In the face of Zhou Xiang's assurance, Wei Tianzhong's face was so red that he could drip blood, he was so tantamount to being slapped in the face by His Majesty, and he had nothing to say anymore. Although Zhao Yu was very annoyed, he did not get angry, but just ordered Lu Xiufu and others to cooperate and repair the Taimiao as soon as possible. He didn't say a word on the way back to the Qiantang Palace, everyone knew that the little emperor was angry, and naturally no one would be bored.
"I should have killed this horseman!" Zhao Hao walked around the house again and again, his anger was still not gone, and he said hatefully after drinking a glass of water.
"Official, what's wrong with you today, having such a big temper?" Su Lan refilled the water for the little emperor and asked softly.
"It's really annoying that this guy should use such a clumsy trick to prevent me from entering the city." Zhao Yu said angrily.
"Prevent the official family from entering the city? And why! Su Lan frowned when she heard this, and she was also very surprised, this kind of thing is like the master arrived at the door of the house, but was blocked by the house slave.
"It's all trivial things that can't be put on the table, and they think that if they prevent me from entering the city, they can use the topic to play and put me in the air." Zhao Yu said with a sneer.
"How do the officials know?" Su Lan asked.
"Quite simply, the proclamations issued in the city are in the name of the Zhongshu or Shangshu provinces, not in the form of imperial edicts." Zhao Yu spread out his hands and said.
"They can be punished according to the law by such officials, so why should they be angry!" Su Lan held the tea and said.
"Punishment according to the law?! They are all old fritters, so naturally they won't let me grasp the handle, and they can only be punished and punished for those minor crimes, which is difficult to hurt the root. If you don't get it right, it will make me tell the truth. Zhao Hao smiled bitterly.
Yao Liangchen and others did not allow themselves to enter the city in the name of the destruction of the palace, which was reasonable in the eyes of outsiders, after all, the emperor had to have a residence that matched his status in order to show the majesty of the emperor. If he is building a large number of buildings to restore the palace, he can be labeled as a country that has not recovered, and he is eager to enjoy luxury. Anyway, they always have something to say, and their choice of Beigong was actually beyond their expectations, so they said such an unreliable reason to stop it.
And these things are really not enough to be a crime, let alone a big mistake, of course, if you force them to be charged with disobedience or deception, it is not impossible, but you will really become a faint king. And they can use the excuse of making mistakes in their work, not doing things carefully, belonging to management, and not being strict with their subordinates, and they can only be punished on the grounds that they are not doing things well, and then they will be punished with some wages.
Then someone must have said, you are stupid! A person who has traveled through the past in modern times does not know what it means to govern the country according to the law, and these inactive and lazy people can be removed from their posts and dismissed from public office by the civil service management regulations, and even convicted of dereliction of duty and let them go to prison for several years. Do you think Zhao Yu doesn't want to, that's no way, neither the political environment nor the theoretical basis allows him to do this. If you don't accept it, try it again!
It is important to know that most ancient countries experienced a period of secret law before the legal code. The upper aristocratic society believed that the more concealed the criminal law, the better, and that it must not be known to the people. In this way, it is conducive to the aristocracy to dispose of the common people at will, increasing the horror and mystery of autocracy. In the Spring and Autumn Period of China, Zichan was determined to break this tradition, he cast the big tripod to cast the national legal provisions on the top, put the tripod in the prosperous place in the city to announce to the world, and strictly according to the law, increased the transparency of the society, the first to open government affairs, but also a major law popularization and education activities.
This is the first public code in our country. However, because the Zichan Casting Punishment Book broke the long-standing secret political tradition of Chinese history that "the punishment is unknowable, the power is unpredictable", it should not be fiercely attacked by some nobles. However, the value of the sub-production of the tripod is not only the promulgation of these laws, it can be said to have opened the great prelude to the Chinese legal system.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was also a Shen Buxian, who was later called one of the three major schools of Legalism, the originator of the mountain, whose research was art, and the main direction of attack was the management of the bureaucratic system. It has carried out a reform of South Korea's organizational structure, which is known as "taking responsibility by name". The practice of following the name and responsibility includes two levels: one is to clarify the scope of responsibilities of each position to avoid unclear functions and overlapping functions; The second is to determine your authority according to your position, evaluate the effectiveness of your work according to your job responsibilities, and establish a work responsibility system and accountability system according to the current words.
Shen Buxian believes that you have your duty, your duty is to do your job well, and to exceed your duty is to exceed your authority and violate the law. His duties are similar to what we call jurisdiction today, and our current jurisdiction is divided into hierarchical jurisdiction, territorial jurisdiction, and departmental jurisdiction. By strengthening the administration of officials and implementing the work responsibility system and accountability system, Shin Bu Harm has effectively improved the administrative efficiency of state power, and has made South Korea appear to be full of vitality, but it has still not been able to finish well.
Zhao Yu felt that if China had been able to follow the path of the legal system, perhaps China's feudal social system would have been broken long ago, and it would not have waited until the 20th century, and it would still be a semi-feudal social form. However, history cannot assume that since the Han Dynasty respected Confucianism, Confucianism has become the only orthodox doctrine, and a sentence of Confucius has almost become a wise saying on the pros and cons of Confucianism, "The Tao is governed by government, and the people are exempted and shameless; The way is virtuous, all are courteous, shameful and qualified. As the Chinese people have been influenced by Confucianism for a long time, the misunderstanding of Legalism has become deeper and deeper. Legalism has been described by Confucians throughout the ages as mean and unkind.
Is this really the case? Is Legalism really that bad, and Confucianism really that good? In fact, Zhao Yu knows best at this time that it is still good for Confucianism to himself. Why? Essentially, both Confucianism and Legalism were motivated by the preservation of centralized power, and both sought to limit the power of the supreme ruler and prevent the king from doing whatever he wanted. Confucianism's mantra for the monarch is the way of heaven, and the monarch must obey the way of heaven, benevolent government and love the people. However, the Legalists put the shackles of the law on the monarch, and the monarch mainly hangs the law and governs the country, and serves the public and does not go to private interests.
If you are the king of a country, are you not stupid, would you rather use Legalism or Confucianism? Confucianism touted you as the most holy teacher, a moral model, and it is strange that you don't faint, and Confucianism gives you restrictions just a stretchy elastic band. The so-called Heavenly Dao, God really knows, unless you commit something rebellious, the Heavenly Dao will hardly care about you.
On the other hand, the Legalists are not so interesting, and the Legalists say that your emperor is the same, not a real dragon and a genius, just an ordinary little fish and shrimp. You can rule a country only because you were born well, and you must be dizzy when you hear that. What's even worse is that the Legalists always recite the mantra of the law, saying that the law cannot be amended at will, whether you are happy or not, you must act according to the law, even if it is not big or small, you must handle it according to the law, and you must be a model of abiding by the law.
Think about using Confucianism, you can act arbitrarily, the government and the opposition will worship you as a god, shouting long live every day, good things are offered, and a fart can be regarded as a golden rule; And the Legalists not only disrespected you, but also pulled you down from the altar, and there was a sword of law hanging over your head, maybe one day they would depose you. In this way, the answer is simple, which is of course the reason why the emperors of the past dynasties chose more Confucianists and fewer Legalists.
Zhao Yu has studied Confucianism for so many years, and knows that the value of Confucianism lies in the lofty moral pursuit and the social ideal of great harmony, so that the society and the people have lofty goals. However, as a statecraft, it has its shortcomings, it is an idealist of sexual goodness, using the words of the Holy Prophet as the standard of action, and using morality as a law, which is also a rite of passage.
But morality is too general, such as requiring that the old and young must give up their seats on the bus, otherwise they will be killed, but the standard is too high for ordinary people to meet, so hypocrisy prevails and bribes are common. Looking through thousands of years of history, it is not difficult to find that under the rule of Confucianism, in addition to hypocrisy and distortion of human nature, it was fraud and bribery. Therefore, Zhao Yu thought that Confucianism could only be used as an individual's ideological and moral education, but not as a statecraft. And the past dynasties are also the way of Confucianism, and when the army was built, most of them were legalists, and they used Confucianism more.
However, Zhao Yu was embarrassed, when he first came to this world, where did he understand this, and he had no experience in governing the country and the army, so he referred to the model of managing the enterprise in his previous life to manage the people, but secretly combined with the rule of law foundation of following the name and responsibility, so that the marshal government formed a style of doing everything with someone in charge and conscientiousness. But with the move of the Xing Dynasty, he brought the system of Confucianism to Qiongzhou, although he also resisted, but ...... If you can implement it thoroughly, I'm afraid you won't be able to hold it anymore.
Therefore, it is really self-inflicted that Zhao Yu suffered a little pickled today, but as the biggest beneficiary of the Confucian rule of law, he has to bear this bit of unhappiness. Fortunately, he insisted on the rule of law in the army and did not let it affect the army, and the old subordinates of the Qiandi still maintained the habit of ordering and prohibiting, so he was able to save some face for himself, and also gave some warnings to those restless guys, which was more effective than punishing them.
To be precise, Zhao Yu is angry with Wei Tianzhong today, and he is also angry with himself. He found it really difficult for people to choose between self-interest and group interests, and although he had the pain of being helpless and powerless to change, it still made him feel tormented and helpless. There is a sense of being able to kill a thief and not being able to return to heaven, but it is more of a sense of guilt......
However, Zhao Yu's trip to Lin'an City was not in vain, and the next morning, Lu Xiufu had already ordered to start cleaning up the residents around Zongyang Palace, and expanding the True Saint Palace in order to 'invite' all the immortals in the North Palace to settle there. Wei Tianzhong also assisted in mobilizing the materials needed for the restoration, and collected the royal belongings scattered from the palace for need; At the same time, craftsmen began to be mobilized to renovate the temple and build a guard of honor. The Ministry of Rites presented the itinerary and detailed list of the entrance ceremony.
At this time, the Song army has been put into the battlefield except for the 10th Infantry Division that stayed in Qiongzhou, but to guard the long Yangtze River defense line and guard the recovered state capitals, it is definitely not enough to close to these more than 100,000 troops. Now, in addition to preparing for the establishment of an inland water army and the recruitment of 100,000 new soldiers, he still feels that it is not enough to fill the vacancy.
Now the four divisions led by Zhao Mengjin have been sent to Jiangzhou, all of them have recovered all the important towns in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and transferred to defense on the spot. The first division was stationed in Jiankang, with Chen Fenglin as the pacification envoy; The second division was stationed in Wuhu, with Liu Zhixue as the pacification envoy; The 3rd Division was stationed in Chizhou, with Zhuang Siqi as the pacification envoy; The Fourth Division was stationed in Jiangzhou, with Sun Kai as the pacification envoy; The Fifth Division temporarily stayed in Shaoxing, with Ran Anguo as the pacification envoy.
Of course, it is difficult to defend such a large territory with this amount of troops, so Zhao Yu ordered to expand the regiment into a division on the basis of each division, and expand the artillery regiment under the artillery battalion. It was then reorganized into a corps with three infantry divisions, a baggage regiment, a guard regiment and a cavalry regiment, an artillery regiment and a scout battalion. Each army inherited the original number, and the subordinate divisions were changed to the 101st, 102nd, and 103rd divisions, and so on for all armies. The 10th Division is now in Qiongzhou, so it can participate in the reorganization first, and the rest of the divisions will do the same after the battle.
In this way, each army has nearly 40,000 troops, which can increase by 300,000 troops, and the strength of the forbidden army can reach 500,000. In consideration of the battle for the restoration of the country in the coming day, it is necessary to form a second-line corps, which will be used in various places in peacetime, and as a reserve force in wartime, it will still become a box army according to the convention. However, for the time being, it is limited to financial resources, and it can only be included in the plan for the time being, and it will be formed after the war is over and the situation eases a little.
Zhao Yu knew that this kind of troop arrangement was very inappropriate, and once something happened internally, he had to send the forbidden army to suppress it. Therefore, the only way to do this is to order the local state capitals to form township armies first, and they will be responsible for local security, anti-theft, and counterinsurgency. The other measure is to implement the new policy as soon as possible, reassure the people, eliminate the remnants of the Mengyuan forces and traitors, and eliminate the factors of instability.
The large-scale expansion of the army brought a large demand for weapons and military materials, and Zhao Yu knew that it would be difficult to guarantee the supply with the strength of the Metropolitan Academy and the Craftsman Division, so he could only expand the scale of the Craftsman Division and increase the production of various firearms, while handing over some auxiliary armor and weapons to civilian workshops to produce in order to ensure the needs. However, it has greatly increased fiscal expenditures, and the family funds saved in previous years have been almost exhausted in just a few months, and they are all supported by seized and confiscated property.
This can't help but make Zhao Hao sigh that the war is really not a joke, the speed of burning money can be called a god's speed, and his good life is really too short, after so many years, he just has a few extra money in his pocket, and it is gone in a blink of an eye, and if he goes on like this, he is afraid that his small treasury will not be able to keep it, and the day of worry has come again......