Liu Zongzhou's words were very direct, but they were a bit inconsistent with most people's opinions, and when he heard it, he felt that his statement was problematic, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that his statement seemed to have some truth. In the eyes of ordinary people, officials are a kind of people who are high in the sky, and these people are full of wisdom in their heads, not to mention that all of them are prophets who know 500 years before and 1,000 years later, at least they can understand the needs and desires of the people under their rule, and of course they can be empathetic to their superiors. Liu Zongzhou said that the candidates could not come up with plans to prove themselves, which is equivalent to saying that many officials did not have any plans before taking office.

It would be wrong to say that officials do not have a plan, because children under the age of three, as well as uncivilized cows, dogs, and other livestock, may do things without a plan, and run around the mountains and fields with their temperament, and take a break when they are tired of running, and then start running indiscriminately when they have rested enough. The intelligence level of the officials is unquestionable, and a fool who does things in an unorganized way cannot be an official, and they generally think about who to please them, to what extent they should stop when they make money, so as not to be able to get rid of them, who need to make friends, and who need to keep a distance from them without offending, and so on.

Liu Zongzhou's inability to come up with a plan means that these officials can't come up with a plan that can get the people out of poverty and become rich, and at the same time, it is also a plan that can contribute to the prosperity and strength of the Ming Dynasty. According to the latest requirements, an official should follow the principle of consistency from top to bottom, how can he be consistent, and even the highest institutions of advice, the Holy Academy and the Doctoral College, do not have a clear opinion, how can an official be forced to do it? What's more, this official is still a quasi-official who has not yet been elected, and he has not had time to calm down and think about the question when his blood is boiling.

In fact, the difference between an official and an ordinary person is not very big, take off the official uniform, take off the black veil, and only have facial features, limbs, a head and a body, I don't see anyone who says that something on the body of an official is a circle or one more than the average person. Why do ordinary people have to let officials do what they can't do? And this kind of requirement is still very harsh, and they need to be able to twist it at any time, which is a bit embarrassing. Under such demands, in order to maintain the dignity and dignity of officials, it is not surprising that many officials tell lies and big empty words to fool people.

At first, King Xin was still rejoicing at his brilliant idea, and he also felt a little discouraged when he heard Liu Zongzhou say this, he thought for a while and said: "I know that what officials say many times is not worth believing, especially when they express their determination to everyone, they like to say big things. Asking them to make a detailed and specific plan to prove their big words is also to prevent them from being too big. Lord Liu said that most of them can't come up with specific plans, and I agree that they can be less demanding, but how can they prove that they are competent? And how can you be sure that officials won't run in a higher tone than the other? ”

Liu Zongzhou said: "I have been thinking about this matter, a while ago Qian Qianyi Qian and Zhou Yanru Zhou said a proposal to simplify the election method, I wonder if I can consider the plan of simplifying officials according to this line of thinking." Shinwang began to say that an official is prone to big words when running for election, and they must make a concrete plan to prove themselves, and I agree with Shin Wang's words and understand that this is the only way to make the officials' big words not make people laugh. The advice made by Mr. Qian and Mr. Zhou was to simplify the election process for the common people, because they knew that the common people did not have the ability to conduct complex analysis, and why not the officials? ”

Qian Qianyi and Zhou Yanru mean that the common people are simple-minded and have low intelligence, and asking them to analyze the ability of officials through their past experience is a very complicated process that requires a certain degree of inductive judgment. This is not to mention the need for the people to speculate whether the official's ability is suitable for local work and whether he can use his ability to work for the benefit of the people, which requires the people to have the ability to deductively reason. If ordinary people do not have the ability to induct, judge, deduce, and speculate, elections will be formalism.

Qian and Erren thought that the people of Daming definitely did not have that ability, because those with that ability had already been poached, and it was impossible for them to stay where they were still farming for a living. Zhuge Liang also cultivated in Longzhong back then, but it was just a show to gain fame, if Liu Bei hadn't invited him to the thatched cottage three times, a person like him would never have cultivated the fields in Nanyang for a lifetime.

Since you don't have that ability but you need to do things according to your ability, the only way to do it is to reduce the difficulty so that everyone can do it. The specific method is to omit all the processes of induction, judgment, deduction, and speculation, and directly let the officials who are running for the election say what you are going to do, and then let the people choose according to the words of these people.

The so-called induction, judgment, etc., because there is nothing and you have to find something by yourself, and the choice is something that only allows everyone to compare which is better and more appropriate, and making a choice question is definitely much simpler than doing an analysis question. It's like a person who wants to eat when he's hungry, and it takes a lot of twists and turns to fill his stomach if he doesn't have anything, but just let him choose his favorite food among a bunch of foods, it's relatively simple, if he wants to eat dry, he can eat dry, if he wants to drink thin, he can drink thin, and what sweet, sour, bitter and spicy taste is as he likes.

Liu Zongzhou meant that this can be done to ordinary people, and then the same can be done to officials running for election, and ordinary people can ask officials running for election to say something for everyone to choose, and officials can also ask themselves to only make choices and not analyze them. Of course, Liu Zongzhou did not say this to occupy the side of the officials and speak for them, but to choose not to analyze the process to ensure that what the officials running for election said was correct.

Since the establishment of the Holy Academy and the Bo College by the Apocalypse, the contribution of the Bo Academy is much greater than that of the Holy College, and the development of new weapons and equipment, the emergence and promotion of new high-yield crops, and the testing and implementation of new farms have all made everyone see the value of the Bo Academy. In comparison, the Holy Academy is a little worse, except for the placement of some old ministers who are old and full of ambition to serve the country, it is almost impossible to see the role of the Holy Academy. How many ideas do you have for the development of the Ming Dynasty, and who cares about your ideas? Many people say that what Daming lacks most is people who work hard, and what is not lacking is people who stand and speak vernacular.

Therefore, Liu Zongzhou suggested that the idea of simplifying the election process of the people should be used to simplify the process of making plans when officials run for election, which also has a little selfishness on his part, and Liu Zongzhou means that professional things should be done by professional people. From the point of view of governing the country, it is the business of each official to govern the country, and the matter of what kind of plan to make should be handled by a professional institution such as the Holy College. Since the apocalypse spared no effort to vigorously promote the four-level auxiliary political institutions, the central, provincial, prefecture, and county levels have established auxiliary political institutions.

A few of them here are smart people, and as soon as they heard Liu Zongzhou's words, they understood what he meant, and Gao Panlong asked: "The emperor said that the supervision and administration of the capital and the auxiliary political institutions at all levels can only assist from the side, that is, when the person in charge of government affairs needs help, we can mobilize people to come up with ideas to help." Mr. Liu said that we should come up with all the plans for the election officials, will we let this auxiliary organization stand in the front? ”

Liu Zongzhou shook his head and said: "No, the emperor said a while ago that he would transfer the pre-administration department of the Administrative Council to the Supervision Yuan, so that you can add some practical things for everyone to discuss, no matter what, the nature of the supervision Yuan's assistance will not change, the only thing that has changed is that some practical content has been added." It doesn't really matter what we say here, what matters is what the Government Council or the Metropolitan Procuratorate needs, just like the staff officers in the Military Affairs Yuan, usually attacking here and setting up ambushes there, no matter how lively it is, it is false, only if the front line needs your plan is valuable. ”

Gao Panlong asked: "This is the case in Beijing, but will the local supervisors interfere with the administration of government affairs through auxiliary political institutions?" ”

Liu Zongzhou thought for a while and said: "Whether it is from the top of the government or from the side of the auxiliary government, the only purpose is to let the governor not do the wrong thing and not take the wrong path, the purpose is the same, so that the auxiliary government agency has an additional function of pre-planning, in order to more conveniently assist government affairs, instead of competing with the governor for power and profit." I am sure that these officials can understand this, because those magistrates know that they can preside over all affairs only in exceptional circumstances, and that there is no obstruction or restraint of the magistrate at other times. ”

Yang Lian said at this time: "Lord Liu is right, this time when I went with Lord Qian to observe the pilot site of elected officials, I once asked the local magistrate and county supervisor, and they all said that not fighting for power is the only way to live in harmony, as long as the ruler and the supervisor understand this, then there will be no problem." ”

Seeing Yang Lian say this, King Xin asked Qian Qianyi: "Since Mr. Qian has heard the words of the people below, do you think there is a possibility of fighting for power between the ruler and the supervisor?" ”

Qian Qianyi thought for a while and said: "According to the emperor's requirements, the magistrate only needs to do a step-by-step job in handling all government affairs in peacetime, and the supervisor presides over all affairs under special circumstances, and is also responsible for handling some special affairs in peacetime. In terms of the relationship between the two, they are both officials who deal with the affairs of the same place, and there is competition in itself, and it is not a good thing if the two do not have a competitive relationship, as long as the two can put themselves in the right position, they can also achieve both containment and cooperation. ”

Qian Qianyi's words were calm, and everyone had nothing to find fault with after listening to it, King Xin nodded and asked Liu Zongzhou: "If the plan of the auxiliary government agency is too tight, will many officials be replaced at any time because they can't do it?" If it is too loose, will it make people choose too much? What should be the basis for determining the degree of tightness? ”