Chapter 364 Vote

After Liu Yan's toss, in just three or five days, many courtiers' bodies couldn't stand it anymore, and they took leave to go home to recuperate. As a result, the rumors in the court were overwhelming, and the two sides were evenly matched to a majority in favor of rewarding the Second Division and Guan Xing.

Liu Hou also felt that the time was ripe for those opposition officials to take sick leave and settle the matter once and for all. So, in the early dynasty one day, Liu Hou said that the matter between the Second Division and General Guan Xing had been delayed for a long time, and it was not a good thing that a matter had been pending for so long.

After so many days of discussion, I believe that everyone has a full understanding of this matter, and what opinions everyone holds have been fixed and there will be no change, so in this case, let's make a final decision on this matter today.

The ministers were stunned when they heard this, and they didn't understand how the little emperor was going to solve this problem thoroughly. It is said that not only the opposition officials, but also those who support the faction have also been implicated to a certain extent, and many people are tired and in good spirits in the morning for many days, so the speed of the courtiers' heads has generally slowed down, and their ability to understand has also decreased correspondingly.

Just when everyone was in a state of confusion, several chamberlains walked into the courtiers and handed each of them a small wooden card. Everyone picked up the small wooden card in their hands and looked at it, and found that this wooden card was polished very smooth, with a coiling dragon engraved on one side, a number engraved on the other side, and the rest was nothing special.

Just when everyone didn't know why, they saw three chamberlains holding out three boxes covered with red silk cloth and placing them under His Majesty. Everyone looked at each of the three boxes and saw a note on the outside, one with "Reward", one with "Punishment", and the last with "Waiver".

At this time, Liu Houdao: "In order to embody the spirit of democracy and fully respect the opinions of the courtiers, this time we will adopt a new way to decide this matter." The first is the court discussion, that is, the major events are brought to the court for full discussion, and everyone can express their opinions freely. That's what everyone did a few days ago, and now the process has been completed and it is moving on to the next stage.

The next stage is the court push, that is, voting, each of you has a wooden card in your hand, you can put it into one of the three boxes, if you are in favor of rewarding the second division and Guan Xing, you will put the wooden card into the box with "reward" written on it, otherwise you will put it into the "punishment" box.

Also, if you don't support either the reward or the punishment, you can put it in the "forfeit" box to show that you are forfeiting the right to make the decision. Finally, the wooden cards in each box will be counted, and the box has the largest number of wooden cards, and this matter will be done according to the opinions written in this box. ”

After saying these words, Liu Hou announced the start of voting, and then everyone was even more confused, what did the little emperor mean by democracy? What does it mean to discuss and push to the court? They had never heard of such a method for deciding the affairs of the imperial court.

This can't be blamed on them, Tingtui and Tingyi were systems that only appeared in the Ming Dynasty, more than 1,000 years later than now, and the concept of democracy is not to mention, even in the era when Liu Hou lived, this matter was not fully implemented. Now Liu Hou told them that this was tantamount to playing the piano to a cow.

Liu Hou had to patiently explain to them again, although they had not yet understood these advanced concepts, but they finally knew what to do, it was very simple, that is, put the wooden card in their hand into the box that matched their opinions.

Guo Youzhi and others took the lead in standing up and taking the lead in voting, and the ministers followed suit, and quickly completed the voting process. Liu Hou asked the chamberlain to conduct a public counting of votes. The results of the vote came out quickly, and as expected, the votes in favor of rewarding the second division and Guan Xing accounted for the overwhelming majority.

So Liu Hou announced on the spot the reward for the second division and Guan Xing, Guan Xingli has the merit of opening up the territory and destroying the country, according to the regulations can be crowned marquis, Liu Hou sealed him the name of a Sang Qianhou. Sangqian was a small county town in the fusiform zone, and the Kebinengbu was originally stationed in the vicinity.

So far, Guan Xing and Zhang Bao have both been crowned marquis, and Guan's father and son and Zhang's father and son are both one and two marquis. Both father and son were marquises, which of course made many people feel jealous and dissatisfied. However, most of the opposition officials are now sick at home, unable to express their grievances, which makes Liu Hou feel clear for the time being.

Although the opposition officials were annoyed by this incident, their attention was quickly drawn to another matter, and they had no time to pay attention to it. What attracted them was the court push and court discussion system that Liu Hougang had concocted.

They are concerned about it, not to oppose it, but on the contrary, they are all very supportive of it, because they see the great benefits in this system. In the past, the cake of power was almost exclusively enjoyed by the emperor, and at most some soup and water were leaked for the ministers to drink.

Now the so-called court discussion and court push system is equivalent to giving all the power cake that originally belonged to the emperor to the courtiers. They felt that through this system, they could exert more influence on political affairs, and they could get more power from the emperor, which was a very important thing for them.

Since ancient times, the power of kings and vassals are opposites, and the stronger the king is, the harder they are, then the less power his courtiers will have. All the ancient monarchs are almost all decisive masters, and it is not wrong to say that they are arbitrary.

Under the strong suppression of these "Ming Jun", there is a group of so-called "famous ministers" who are conscientious and silently cultivated. During such periods, the country was very stable, because no courtier dared to rebel.

If the king is cowardly and has low control over the government, then the ministers will be given more power, and with power they will be able to gain more benefits. At this time, it is easy to breed the kind of powerful ministers and traitors who dominate the world.

Once the courtiers have too much power in their hands, it is easy to cause turmoil, the country is not at peace, and in serious cases, it can lead to the collapse of the dynasty. Cao Cao and Cao Pi are the best examples of this, first Cao Cao controlled the government, and in the end, Cao Pi directly usurped the throne and replaced the Han.

Everyone knows this truth, but there are only a few people who really put the interests of the country first, and most people still think about their own selfish interests. They are all bent on grabbing more power, because with power comes more self-interest.