Chapter 41: Thinking

One of the most important principles of power is distribution.

The Yun Dynasty has been established for many years, and the righteousness of the country and the righteousness of the world are beyond the reach of previous dynasties.

There are profound studies on how the dynasty ruled, how to consolidate the rule of the imperial court, and how to consolidate the emperor's own rule.

Gu Feixue has been cultivated as an heir since she was a child.

She is very sensitive to the attribution of power.

I also have a clear understanding of what to do.

The power of the imperial court is not the same as the power of the emperor.

The power of the emperor cannot be directly equated with Gu Feixue's power.

And in order to realize the exchange of this, what is needed is a reasonable distribution.

The emperor also wants to give benefits and power.

If the power can't be given, the people below can't do it.

What the emperor wants, he can't get.

If the power is given, then the people below can bypass you for anything, and any decision can be made without the permission of the emperor, so what power does your emperor have at all? What else do you exist?

There should be a degree between the collection and delegate of power.

The second is the question of who should be given power.

In a mature political system, power can be directly equated with "interests".

Even more so than money, power is a greater and safer interest.

Therefore, this kind of thing must be something that everyone wants.

The Yun Dynasty set up a parliament, which is a kind of decentralization.

This means that the power of the ministers can really check and balance the monarch.

This also means that the emperor has enough power.

Enough power represents enough interests, that is, the emperor distributes more benefits to everyone.

In this way, those who have the ability will know that they can rely on their own ability to get a way out of the existing political system, and can make their lives better and realize their ambitions.

Such a decentralization can really win over and buy more people.

It is a kind of consolidation of rule.

As far as the position of "Emperor" is concerned, the Parliament restricts it.

For the emperor himself, the parliament was a powerful weapon to gain the "popularity" and "popular support" of his ministers, and it was also a relatively inferior thing to consolidate the rule of the court and limit his own rule.

Gu Feixue instinctively didn't like such things.

But she does not have the power to abolish Parliament.

Even her means of restricting parliament are extremely limited.

Gu Feixue's superiority, although nominally speaking, is justified.

But she knew it herself.

This name is justified, and it does not stand up to scrutiny.

In order to prevent the old men in the council from appearing in the court with a small child and forcing her down, she must also strike first, expand her power and suppress the council.

But it's not appropriate to go straight to the point.

She doesn't have that much power either.

So just knock on the side.

Acts of embezzlement and corruption, whether they are investigated or not, exist.

It existed in the past and still exists.

The only difference is that there are many opportunities for high-ranking officials to be corrupt and to extend their hands, and the area is wide and the amount is large.

And petty officials, except for important positions like checkpoints, otherwise, they can't be greedy.

In the past, the past of the Yun Dynasty, or the past of any other dynasty, it was all the same.

Therefore, even things like corruption and bribery that cannot be explicitly stipulated, in fact, there are rules.

It is very clear what level of officials can receive what level of gifts and what level of money they can take.

Even the bureaucrats obey this more strictly than the rules of the court.

It has always been a rule that big officials take the big ones and the small officials eat the small ones.

But this is unwritten.

It is also that the emperor has no power to manage.

This rule is only in force within the bureaucrats themselves, and only under the jurisdiction of the bureaucrats themselves.

This is the preserve of the bureaucrats.

No matter which bureaucrat he killed, no matter which house he copied, no matter how eloquent the emperor was, he couldn't put his hand in it.

Theoretically, whoever can be greedy for how much, the power to govern this amount, does not belong to the emperor at all.

But Gu Feixue took a fancy to this.

It wasn't her power.

Allocation or concentration has nothing to do with her.

But this is related to the income of the bureaucracy.

It is related to the overall order of the Yun Dynasty.

So she started with that.

Decrees were issued to rename corruption and bribery as "administrative attrition".

Of course, corruption cannot be said in the open.

Change the name, but you can.

At the same time, under a different name, she used her status as emperor to promulgate this decree, which is tantamount to saying that it violated the bureaucracy's private land.

But she didn't mean to forbid bureaucrats from taking bribes.

On the contrary, this decree makes corruption and bribery legal income.

It is only limited in terms of the size of the amount and the calculation of taxes.

The big bureaucrats simply don't need such restrictions and protections.

There is no need for her to be an emperor to admit the legitimacy of the money in her hands.

Even if it's not legal, are you, an emperor, planning to use the reason of collecting some money to bring down the important feudal officials?

Are you going to end the political life of a feudal official just because you received some money?

It's just a joke.

In order for the emperor's decree to take effect, it must also be approved by the imperial court.

After it is issued, it must first be recognized by the bureaucrats and executed by the bureaucrats.

In this case, as long as the bureaucracy is still a living person and not a machine capable of obeying the emperor, then the emperor's power is subject to the constraints of the bureaucracy.

If you want to fight the bureaucracy, you must take a roundabout way.

Gu Feixue's strategy is based on this.

Although she promulgated this decree, although the topic of corruption and bribery was publicized and put on the table, although it was a part of the bureaucratic benefits.

However, this part of the bureaucracy must only be those who have no background or are not strong enough.

That is, the petty bureaucrats at the bottom.

These people went from having no background to using this decree as a background.

In fact, it was she, Gu Feixue, who co-opted a group of bureaucrats and prepared to attack another group of bureaucrats.

Of course, the bureaucrats will not agree to this matter.

Moreover, in the long run, the legalization of corruption and bribery is actually a harm to the politics of the Yun Dynasty.

But who cares?

Gu Feixue didn't care if the Yun Dynasty would be a hundred years from now.

No dynasty lasts.

No one can live forever.

What she wants is for her to be able to do what she wants and play when she is alive.

As for later?

After that, she died.

Is it for the sake of such boring things, wronged yourself?

What kind of son and grandson's iron bucket is not as good as Lao Tzu's own country!