If you govern a big country, you can cook a small fresh.

Important statecraft ideas and principles in Lao Tzu's doctrine.

And the proposition of this strategy is a sentence derived from this.

The theme of the policy is that the king does nothing and the minister does something.

When he saw this topic, Qian Heng finally understood why Zhao Ji was so addicted to artistic creation that he couldn't extricate himself.

It is true that Zhao Ji believes in Taoism, but if it were not for Zhao Ji's obsession with artistic creation and tirelessness, I am afraid that he would not believe in Taoism.

It can be said that the Taoist principle of governing the country by doing nothing is what Zhao Ji likes the most, and when Zhao Ji was the king of Duan, he had made friends with Taoist priests, and happened to be pretended by the Taoist priest to mysteriously predict that Zhao Ji would inherit the unification, and finally by chance, Zhao Ji really had to be the emperor, which made Zhao Ji more and more convinced of the unpredictable methods of Taoism.

It's just that this policy exam question is a bit too biased.

A politically clear monarch, if he can distinguish between loyalty and treachery, and be an emperor who rules by doing nothing, it is not indispensable.

It's a pity that Zhao Ji is not an emperor who can distinguish between loyalty and treachery, and the most relied on by his subordinates, except for those powerful officials and eunuchs, are the so-called important ministers and ministers in the court who only know how to flatter.

Occasionally, there are capable ministers who are a little clear and wise, and without waiting for them to show their skills, they will be squeezed out by these ministers in the court, and even depressed and die in a foreign country.

Zhao Ji was obsessed with Taoism, and even made annotations for Taoist classics. Among them, if you cook a small fresh sentence for governing a big country, it is mentioned: 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.

The meaning is very clear, cooking small fish, constantly turning will fall apart, governing the country, if you often change the statecraft, the subjects will be confused, do not know how to deal with themselves.

If you talk about this commentary, you can't make a mistake, but the problem is that the Great Song Dynasty guarded by Zhao Ji has long been riddled with holes. The capable ministers in his eyes are all focused on dumping each other and looting the people's fat and ointment, but none of the capable ministers who really govern the country have been looked at by Zhao Ji.

In other words, Zhao Ji doesn't like those courtiers who say that they govern the country and defend the border when they have nothing to do, as soon as they hear this, Zhao Ji will feel troublesome, and he prefers those flattering ministers who have similar interests with him.

It's a pity that the big country that Zhao Ji has experienced is no longer a small fresh.

The stubborn disease is deep, and it is the right way to change. Zhao Ji followed the reason that he was worried that his subjects would be confused, and did not make any changes in the statecraft.

Whether it is the Western Army or the Southern Roads, they have reached a state of stormy times, and Zhao Ji still firmly believes that only by maintaining the status quo is the best governance plan.

As a solid supporter of Zhao Ji, whether it is Cai Jing or Wang Huang, of course, including internal servants such as Tong Guan, Liang Shicheng, Gao Yu, Yang Jian, etc., are firmly defending Zhao Ji's concept, and doing everything they can to make this Great Song Dynasty, which has long been riddled with holes, look so powerful on the surface, at least to ensure that Zhao Ji can see a Great Song that is strong enough on the surface.

And how to solve the problem of the sentence "the king does nothing but the minister does something", Qian Heng also worked hard.

In fact, after the sentence "the king does nothing but the minister does something", there is also a sentence "the king bows to the law".

Whether it is the rule of inaction as a monarch and emperor, or the action of a famous minister and a minister, everything must follow a premise, that is, a unified and strict law.

A great monarch can only truly govern the country without having to bow down to everything, and only then can he truly rule by doing nothing.

And how to find measures to save the status quo of the Great Song Dynasty as much as possible under the premise that Zhao Ji has determined the rule of inaction, may also be one of the reasons why Zhao Ji came up with this policy topic.

After all, Zhao Ji knew very well in his heart all the information about the chaos in the north and the dispute between Jin and Liao, and the chaos in the south greatly reduced the tax revenue of the originally rich Jiangnan, and it was also the sharp decline in the treasury income of the Great Song Dynasty, so that Zhao Ji had no capital to squander it wantonly, perhaps this is what made Zhao Ji realize the motivation to seek a trace of change.

Anyway, Qian Heng's thoughts on Zhao Ji were quite accurate.

Zhao Ji doesn't want to change, at least he doesn't want to change the current situation of a comfortable life where he is comfortable and can create freely. In terms of governing the country, he doesn't want to replace these people who can make him happy and praise him. And the so-called capable ministers, as long as it does not affect his enjoyment of the pleasure of creation.

With this premise, the only way to solve the problem of the monarch doing nothing and the subordinates doing something is to use a large number of capable officials, from governance to military administration, mainly middle and lower-level officials, and select suitable capable officials to stabilize the status quo as much as possible, at least so that the Quartet can be stable, so that the ordinary people have food and clothing, so that the people's will will not collapse quickly when the crisis comes.

As for the candidates who can enter the court and enter the cabinet as the prime minister, only the kind of people who like to do things with their heads bored and don't care about those who are sloppy and patriot in the court can sit firmly in the court and earn a little opportunity for the Great Song Dynasty to use the position of the court to make a turn for the Song Dynasty when it encounters great changes in the future.

I have to say that Qian Heng thought a lot about this strategy. Even the response to Jingkang's changes a few years later was taken into account.

In Qian Heng's heart, the good politicians who can sit on one side are Zhao Buqian and Li Ruoshui and others.

And the backbone of the army, whether it is Zong Ze or the generals of the Seed Master Dao and the Zhe family, can only stay in the army, and it is not suitable to return to the court.

The only one who is suitable to return to the court now is Uncle Zhang.

Thinking of this, Qian Heng had a very clear idea of this policy.

After a little bit of brushwork, the whole strategy was written on scratch paper.

The argument above is very clear, the monarch should rule by inaction, and the focus is on the minister's doing. There are two kinds of courtiers, one kind of courtiers who serve the monarch, this kind of courtier, everything is focused on making the monarch happy, and there is another kind of courtier, which is to serve the monarch's governance and stability.

In this argument, it is faintly mentioned that all the ministers of the court and the central government should have people who are bored to do things and do not compete for merit to do practical things for the monarch.

In fact, this demand is to put it bluntly, that is, if you mess up things, you will stand up for the monarch, and if you do things well, it is the credit of the monarch to know and use people.

After everything was sorted out, Qian Heng simply ate some food, filled in the name and surname on the head of the paper, and then began to carefully copy the two articles on the scratch paper to the official exam paper.