It's no wonder that King Xin didn't understand what it meant to say 'the officials below came up', the officials of the Ming Dynasty had always been sent from the top down, and even the smallest seven-grade sesame officials were sent and appointed by the central ministry. If an official has made achievements and should be promoted, he must be promoted after being inspected by the central government.

Apocalypse explained to King Shin: "After the establishment of the auxiliary government institutions, the local officials were divided into two categories, one was the officials who exercised government affairs, such as the governors of the provinces, the governors of the prefectures, and the governors of the counties, and the other were the officials who supervised the rulers, such as the governors of the provinces, the imperial history of the capital and the imperial history of the patrol stationed in the prefectures and counties. In the past, the imperial history of the capital and the imperial history of the patrol were not fixed officials appointed by the ministry, but now they should be fixed to each prefecture and county can be called the governor and the county governor, and the generation of administrative officials and supervisory officials should be different, and the supervisors are sent by the superior to only accept the management of the superiors, and the rulers should also consider the following requirements when accepting the arrangements of the superiors. ”

King Xin thought for a moment and said, "The prison officials are only sent by their superiors to understand this matter, just like the people of the prison court who are now only appointed by the imperial brother without going through the court's recommendation. But the subordinate did not understand why the ruler had to consider the following requirements when accepting the arrangement of the superiors, so who should the official listen to? If he thinks that the people below are reasonable, will he lead people to rebel against the court? ”

Apocalypse said: "Brother means that the ruler does not need to consider his own ideas when doing things, that is to say, he only accepts the collective wisdom to act according to the rules, if there is a demand from the people below and the requirements of the superiors, it is a special situation, and this is what the supervising officials should consider." The duty of the supervisor is to supervise the ruler to act according to the rules during the normal period, and to come up with ideas to solve problems during the special period, so that there will be no situation where the ruler leads the people below to contradict the superiors as you said, because his power has been temporarily suspended during the special period, and he can only appear as an assistant to the supervisor until everything is normal. ”

King Xin listened to the explanation of the apocalypse and did not speak, he felt that although it was a new measure for a place to have both a governor and a supervisor, it seemed reasonable to have one in charge of peace affairs and the other in charge of special affairs, but he always felt that there was something wrong with this□ Zong Zhou asked at this time: "The emperor said that the governor should be recognized by both superiors and subordinates, does it mean that the government officials from top to bottom must be elected by a similar court tui?" ”

Tianqi thought for a while and said: "To be precise, it should be a combination of the appointment of superiors and the selection of subordinates, and only in this way can they be promoted to do things up and down." ”

Xu Guangqi is engaged in technology, and he generally doesn't speak on such occasions, but at this time he couldn't help but say: "The minister heard Long Huamin in the Bo Academy that they said that Taixi used the ** election method to produce officials a long, long time ago, and even when judging the correctness of affairs, it was judged by the five hundred ** meeting elected by everyone, did the emperor want to hold a ** election under their influence?" ”

As soon as the apocalypse heard it, he knew that this was imperialism's heart of death, and these Taixi people were trying to poison the easily deceived middle-aged and elderly people like Xu Guangqi with ** thoughts, and this kind of bad behavior must be exposed and criticized, and Chinese culture should be promoted to oppose the poison of pseudo-** thoughts.

Tianqi thought for a while and said: "They said that there is indeed a thing, ** is also a good thing, but I am not going to do that, because that is a superficial and imperfect practice, that ** is incomplete** is not true** →Huamin They only told you about the five hundred ** meeting and the election, they definitely did not say that there was a very learned person named Socrates at that time, this Socrates was convicted and forced to commit suicide by the five hundred ** meeting at that time, which fully shows that the incomplete fake ** will kill people!" ”

Seeing that everyone was thinking, Tianqi said to Liu Zongzhou, "Does Lord Liu still remember what we talked about when we first established the Holy Academy? That is to say, what the majority agrees with is not necessarily true, and I remember that was the point you made at the time. If we now directly elect all the officials as those Taixi people say, then the elected officials are likely to be a good gentleman who doesn't know anything, even if each village chooses the village chief and the chief, I'm afraid that only some bullies will be elected, which is a disaster for the current Ming Dynasty. ”

Liu Zongzhou nodded and said: "This is true, but the emperor said that a government official should be unanimously approved by the upper and lower levels, and the consent of the superiors is easy to say, as long as his ability is speculated based on his previous merits, what other way can the consent of the subordinates be done besides the election?" ”

Tianqi said: "From the perspective of superiors, it is not enough to judge an official's ability just by what he has done before, but also to listen to his future plans. A person who can only speak or can only do is lacking and incomplete in his ability, and such a person can only be an auxiliary adjutant and cannot be the chief officer, and this is the attitude that the quantity is applicable. As for the fact that an official should be approved by his subordinates, I think that there is only an election besides an election, because although the result of the election is not necessarily correct, the result is unanimously agreed upon by everyone. ”

Liu Zongzhou thought for a while and said: "The minister understands, the emperor means to learn from the strengths of each family, the direct election system of the Taixi people is imperfect and flawed, and cannot be used on the Ming Dynasty to elect officials, but the advantage of their system is that it can be approved by everyone, so it must be integrated with our system." ”

Xu Guangqi suddenly asked at this time: "Your Majesty, when the minister talked with Long Huamin, Deng Yuhan and other Taixi people, I found that they were all intelligent and intelligent people, and their understanding of things was not inferior to that of my Ming officials, and there were many places where there were opinions that my Ming officials could not reach. Since the emperor said that their system was incomplete and could not produce correct ideas and suitable officials, why couldn't they themselves realize this? ”

Tianqi thought for a while and said: "It's not that their system can't produce correctness and suitability, but it can't produce it inevitably, that is, this kind of defect is small and not easy to be noticed, but it is fatal at critical moments." Because the defects are relatively small, it is not possible to make people realize that it is only one aspect, and another important aspect is that their civilization is not inclusive, it is an exclusive civilization. You see that the God they believe in and obey is a unique god in them, not as tolerant as the Ming Dynasty, and any Jade Emperor Guanyin Bodhisattva can coexist peacefully, and this is where their fatal flaw lies. ”

Xu Guangqi said: "According to what the emperor said, are they all arrogant and arrogant people? What do you think of them as humble gentlemen? ”

Tianqi shook his head and said: "People have masks, just like you, Lord Xu, even if you have a big temper, do you have to restrain yourself when you see me, your parents, and your elders?" The reason why these Taixi people are now modest gentlemen is because they have their purpose, and their current strength is still too far from the power of the Ming Dynasty∞ I believe that if one day their army can easily defeat the Ming army, they will definitely tear off the mask of modesty, and do anything to kill people and prevent fire. ”

Seeing that Xu Guangqi was a little depressed, Tianqi explained: "Lord Xu doesn't have to be unhappy about this, we don't have to care who they are, we just need to remember that they are very well-behaved now." In the current situation, cooperation is the most important thing, and who makes us lag behind in many ways? As long as they have been law-abiding and honest and cooperative, I am willing to always be their friends, but you have to keep an eye on it, I have already issued an order to the British Public, so that the people of the MI Department should pay close attention to the movements of these Tessie people, and everyone must keep in mind that their hearts will be different if they are not of my race. ”

Seeing Xu Guangqi nodding, Tianqi turned to Liu Zongzhou and said: "My Chinese civilization is different from the Taixi civilization, our civilization is tolerant, as long as it makes sense, we must take it and learn it and use it." As for how to use it in order to be both appropriate and correct and to be approved by everyone, I don't really understand that you need to discuss it in your Holy Academy, and this can be regarded as the main direction of your Holy Academy's efforts at the moment. ”

Liu Zongzhou said: "It is the duty of my holy academy to come up with the idea of giving direction to the decision-making of the imperial court, and everyone in the holy academy understands this truth, but the minister is afraid that he will not be able to come up with anything useful for a while, so please point the emperor in the direction first, so that we can focus on it so as not to take a detour." ”

Tianqi said: "I have nothing to point out about, this matter must be done slowly, a safe plan is better than a plan full of loopholes in a hurry∞ I have seen your performance, and I find that the main problems now are concentrated in two aspects, one is the survival of the people, that is, the relationship between all people and the land, and if this problem is solved, the problem of food and clothing will not be worried." The second problem is the issue of the production and use of officials, and if this problem is solved, there will be a reasonable order, and the contradictions between officials and between officials and the people will be gradually eliminated. ”

The problem of the people and the land and the problem of the people and the officials are two very small issues, because for thousands of years, no one has put these two issues in a very important position, but these two problems are also big problems, because all the struggles for thousands of years are related to this, Liu Zongzhou only smiled bitterly in his heart when he heard it. At this time, Tianqi said to King Xin: "King Xin began to ask two questions, one is the issue of the resettlement of soldiers after retirement, and the other is the question of how the officials below will come up. ”