Being a minister is also very tired. Wang Yinglin and Xie Fangde know how to guess the things that the Sacred Heart makes scholars despise. But everyone in the officialdom understands the principle of "accompanying the king is like accompanying a tiger". As a minister, if he is not good at guessing the emperor's thoughts, his life will definitely be in a panic. Maybe one thing angers the dragon's face, and it will be light to take off his black hat. If he doesn't do it well, he will have to move, and he may even implicate the nine tribes.

On the contrary, if you can accurately understand the will of the saint, you will often become successful and have a successful life. But the old men in the officialdom understand in their hearts that many people in the officialdom see the benefits of guessing the will of the saint, but do not realize that it is very dangerous to inadvertently calculate the will of the saint. If you are not careful, you will lose everything. According to the core of the "Royal Way" customized by the scholars and officials of the Song Dynasty for the emperor is that the monarchs must hide themselves.

The so-called emperor's mind is the most important thing. The emperor wants to show his unpredictable and profound appearance in front of his ministers. If others cannot see your thoughts, they are afraid of you. When others want to understand you, they can only rely on guessing. This kind of politics that basically depends on guessing is the so-called secret politics. Secret politics does not make everything public, but pretends to be mysterious. If the people below want to understand the "holy will", they can only guess secretly and learn to guess.

This is like digging a pit for yourself. Although you are not ashamed to guess the will of the saint, in the court, everyone is a master of guessing the will of the saint. Only in this way can you be consistent with the emperor's pace, fully implement his intentions, advance and retreat with the emperor, and fight wherever you point, leaving the emperor with a good impression of being loyal to the country and sharing the worries of the king, so that Your Majesty can rest assured, give you power to you, and treat you as your confidant.

However, this difficulty is quite high. One mistake can never be restored. Yang Xiu during the Three Kingdoms period was clever but not very wise. Not only did he show off his talents and knowledge in front of Cao Cao, but he also showed off to others, which made Cao Cao extremely unhappy and eventually killed. Because this just touched the core of the emperor's mind, there was no sense of mystery to the emperor. For the emperor, he felt very uncomfortable standing in front of you naked.

I understand what the lord is doing, it must be dead. So Yang Xiu died, so Xiao He was in jail. Moreover, sometimes the meaning revealed above may not be the real idea at all, but it is just used for "fishing", just to expose some people. The little emperor immediately threw out the "scented bait" to restore the three provinces, which was sincerely doing, or just to see which side they were on.

Therefore, when Wang Yinglin and Xie Fangde were unable to understand the emperor's attitude, they only dared to cautiously support the restoration of the three provinces, dared not show excessive enthusiasm, and did not dare to easily involve discussions of in-depth content, and kept on the surface. At the moment, the young emperor took advantage of the issue, making it more difficult for the two to judge the emperor's attitude.

You should know that since the young emperor ascended the throne, many court officials have been using the saying "the lord is young". While consolidating the status of the literati class, they tried to further suppress the imperial power and truly achieve the highest goal of "the literati and official governing the country". The young emperor unyieldingly fought for more than ten years, constantly strengthening the imperial power with various means, and the struggle is still continuing today.

Now the young emperor holds military power, and his confidants who have been trained for many years have grown up. After basically controlling the control of local prefectures, the power began to gradually enter the court from the local area and penetrate into the political core. This time, the young emperor returned to the capital with the great victory of the Northern Expedition, and when several old ministers in charge retired, it was the time to establish the imperial power alone.

Now, it is proposed to restore the three-provincial system and take the initiative to give up power, which makes Wang Yinglin feel a little abnormal. I don’t know if the young emperor wanted to delegate power because he was "too tired"; or he wanted to repair relations with the literati and official class, end the years of struggle, and rule the country with the monarch and ministers; or it is a trap, and he wants to take the opportunity to catch all the opponents in the court and take power alone...

Wang Yinglin felt it was safer. Before he could not tell the emperor's true doubts, he should not rush to stand in a hurry. Instead, he continued the topic that had not been completed last time: "Mozi Shang Tongxiao talked about 'the ancients', saying: One eye is not as good as the two eyes; one ear is not as good as the two ears; one hand is not as good as the two hands is not as strong as the two hands."

Zhao Bing nodded after hearing this. He knew that the meaning of this sentence was to persuade the emperor to "listen to both sides and be clear", and in other words, it can also be understood as "mutual supervision". The traditional Chinese political structure is three levels: king, minister, and people. The relationship between these three is that the king manages the people through officials so that the entire social life can be effectively operated. Therefore, its administrative management structure is that the king manages the ministers and the ministers manages the people.

But how can the king manage his ministers? There are so many people and so many distributions. It is impossible to understand everything by relying on the king alone. Then it is necessary to establish a system of checks and balances within the bureaucratic organization. Compared with the bureaucratic administrative system, this system of checks and balances needs to establish a complete monitoring system from top to bottom, so as to effectively regulate the operation of the administrative bureaucratic system. This is the supervision system.

"Your Majesty, our censors are weak at present, and most of the local officials are vacant. Some of the road governments only have pacification envoys, some have only the Changping Office, and even only the transshipment envoys. However, there may be a prefect in charge of affairs and no magistrates are set up; or there may be a vacant prefecture, and the magistrate is vacant, and the military is the director of the Du Yuhou, the garrison. Although this reduces shirks and disputes, it is conducive to the passage of government orders, and there is no mutual restraint. Once there are evil people, it will cause great harm." Xie Fangde said.

"The censors and local supervision systems in our dynasty are too complicated, so that officials and officials are in charge of each other, and they need to be reorganized and reviewed. Two gentlemen can have appropriate methods!" Zhao Bing frowned. There are not many supervision measures for officials now, and the system is not perfect. He mainly relies on the affairs bureau to monitor all officials and understand the local situation through secret documents. But these things cannot be put on the table after all, and they still need a systematic system and a special team to achieve them.

"The Book of Shang Jun: The Envoys says: Nowadays, relying on many officials and officials to establish officials, the officials are appointed as chief supervisors. Those who set up chief supervisors should make profits for banning people. If the chief supervisors also want to make profits, how can they ban each other? Therefore, those who rely on chief supervisors to govern only have the remaining governance. I think there was a system in ancient times, and our dynasty can learn from it!" Wang Yinglin thought about it.

"What Wang Xiang said was the system of 'establishing the chief and establishing the supervisor' in the Qin Dynasty?" Zhao Bing asked.

“That’s right!”

Zhao Bing nodded and said, "Although our dynasty's supervision system is different from this, it is often similar, especially in the local area, it may be difficult to completely eliminate the disadvantages of protecting each other!"

The chief and supervisor mentioned do not refer to people, but two systems of local administrative agencies. The chief is the administrative system and supervisor is the supervision system. The prime minister's administrative system, the chief is the leader of the officials who assist the emperor in handling daily affairs, that is, the chief of the court responsible for daily affairs. The local administrative officials of counties are under the jurisdiction of the prime minister in terms of affiliation, and the power of the prime minister to appoint and dismiss the emperor.

Another system is the Censor, a supervision system that is in line with the Prime Minister's administrative system, and is in a position that is different from the Prime Minister. The Censor was originally an official who recorded words and affairs by the Emperor, and was usually a member of the Emperor's closest relatives and responsible persons, and was also the eyes and ears around the Emperor. However, his original status was not high, but his relationship with the Emperor was closer than that of the outer courts represented by the Prime Minister.

When the prime minister is of high power and is inconvenient to send him, he will ask the censors around him to handle some affairs. The cases the emperor wants to investigate and handle are often asked to handle. The chief of the censor is the Censor and the deputy chief of the Censor is the Censor Central Committee. The local supervisor is under the jurisdiction of the Censor.

Therefore, "establishing a chief and establishing a supervisor" is two parallel institutions in the local area. The chief is an administrative agency and the supervisor is an supervisor. The local administrative system in the Qin Dynasty was a two-level system for counties. The chief executives of the county had a guard, supervisor, and lieutenant. The chief executive was the chief executive of the county. His assistant was the chief supervisor, responsible for local supervision, and wei was responsible for military and local public security.

When the county level was in Qin, the magistrate was established. The county magistrate was the head of a county, and the magistrate was the assistant of the county magistrate. The county magistrate was also responsible for the storage and criminal prisons in the county. The larger county also had a magistrate, and the county magistrate was responsible for local public security. However, there was no supervisor at the county level, but the county magistrate was responsible for the subordinate counties.

Therefore, two parallel systems are set up, "they set up chiefs and set up supervisors, and the ban on others is profitable." This is to prevent local officials from using power to seek personal gain. Since they are two parallel systems, they can play the role of local decentralization and checks and balances with each other.

"Your Majesty is exactly what you are concerned about!" Xie Fangde continued, "Because the Chief and the Chief are under the jurisdiction of the county magistrate. Although they each have their own duties, they are difficult to restrain each other. The Chief cannot control the Chief and the Chief, and it is difficult to achieve long-term and effective control. Only then can there be the saying "Those who rely on the Chief and the Chief and the Chief are governed by the Chief and the Chief are the only remaining governance." Therefore, the court also needs more effective management of the local governments from top to bottom to ensure that the court's government orders can be implemented locally, so that they can be run freely like arms and fingers."

"This requires careful consideration. How can the local government obey the imperial court's orders without compromising and corruption!" Zhao Bing pondered for a moment.

In fact, after realizing centralization, the court should implement examinations for local administrative agencies, which is also a parallel "dual-track system". One is a bottom-up system, that is, an annual performance assessment report reported to the court by the local government; the other is to send the censors from top to bottom to inspect or conduct the local government, and the inspected censors report to the court about the situation of local officials' rule.
Chapter completed!