Kingdom of Heaven and Han

Chapter 347 Trouble
Looking at Chen Yuyi who was sitting under the window drinking, his wife Zhou said: "You are not a drinker, why are you drinking so much today?"

Chen Yuyi sighed: "Today, the counselor Wang returned to Xiangyang and observed the setting up of wine there, and he said a lot. The meaning of the obedient words is that the political affairs in Xiangyang will be very different from the past. I thought, doing so would have too many changes with the government of the court. It's a bit annoying."

Mrs. Zhou said: "I heard people say that Wang Xun said today that the salaries of officials in the future will be more than before. Now that the world is not peaceful, and there is no money in their hands, it always makes people feel uneasy. For the sake of salary, You shouldn't have said that either."

Chen Yuyi nodded: "That's right, the observation has increased the salary for everyone. From next month, my monthly salary will be 120 yuan. Here in Xiangyang, real money has always been paid, and there is no discount. This amount is quite a lot. We only bring our children Living here will never end.”

Zhou said: "You have been working under Wang Guan for more than a year. You have been paid enough, and the affairs are not very busy. What are you dissatisfied with? Forget the time when we were running around in the past two years?"

Chen Yuyi said: "A few days ago, Ji Shen was in Yuezhou and moved to Yushi Zhongcheng. He has an old relationship with me, and a letter came, saying that the current sage really appreciates my poems. The sage valued them, and Ji Shen advised me not to stay in Xiangyang. I wasted my time, I should go to Yuezhou as soon as possible."

After hearing this, Mrs. Zhou didn't know what to say for a while.

Fu Zhirou, styled Jishen, is the grandson of Fu Bi, from Luoyang, and is from the same hometown as Chen Yuyi.Chen Yuyi became famous when he was young, and he was called the "Poetry Jun" among the Eight Talents in Luoyang. He was friendly with Fu Zhirou when he was young.Now Fu Zhirou follows Zhao Gou and is highly regarded, and has become an important minister in the court within a few years.Hearing that Chen Yuyi was still working for Wang Xiaolie in Xiangyang, he felt that he had no future and asked him to come to Zhao Gou as soon as possible.

Chen Yuyi was called "Poem Master", and his poems were famous all over the world. He was a famous poet at this time.In the fourth year of Xuanhe, a Momei poem was appreciated by the Taoist emperor, and he was promoted.It was only later that the political circles of the court and China changed, and he was relegated to Chenliu prison.In this era, Chen Yuyi should be the best poet in the world.It's just that Wang Xiaolie doesn't pay much attention to the way of poetry, so he doesn't take it seriously.

After drinking a glass of wine, Chen Yuyi said: "I listened to and observed the meaning of the words. I feel pity for the common people and think of the common people in everything. This is right. But once it is too much, it is inevitable to treat the scholar-bureaucrats harshly. Governing the world depends on scholars after all. How can you be so harsh?"

Zhou said: "Why do you say that? You are a scholar. You found Wang Jianguan in Xiangyang, and immediately arranged for you to be an official. The salary is generous, and you have always been treated with courtesy. Why do you say that Observer treats scholars harshly?"

Chen Yuyi said: "You women, what do you know? Observation means that those who are good officials will be reused. The selection of officials is no longer the same as before, either from the way of imperial examinations, or from grace. Widely set up schools, and those who are good at learning will be admitted to the higher school, and finally they will become officials after passing the exam. Except for the imperial examination, all officials are taken from here. So, aren’t scholars the same as ordinary people?”

Mrs. Zhou thought for a while, and said: "You scholars, were you different from ordinary people before? You are a family of officials, with few literary names, and you are a Jinshi in your twenties. Before you were a Jinshi, you were a poet They are just the children of officials. Once they are demoted, there is no preferential treatment. Jin people go south and wander around, so what is the difference between them and ordinary people?"

Chen Yuyi shook his head: "You have lived in Xiangyang for more than a year, how come you think about things like this?"

With that said, he poured another glass of wine.Drink it down and look at the moonlight outside the window.

This kind of thing is actually not clear, it can only be understood but not expressed in words.Listening to Wang Xiaolie's words today, Chen Yuyi could tell that Wang Xiaolie didn't think well of scholars.It's not that they look down on scholars, but that they no longer value scholars like the previous imperial court.

In Wang Xiaolie's plan, scholars are only one type of talent, perhaps the most important one.But people from other backgrounds, as long as they are really capable, their status will not be lower than that of scholars.Jinshi background, to be an official, you must first train, and you can become an official if you pass the training.If you are not qualified, you can only do other writing tasks, and you will not have real power.

From these words, Chen Yuyi felt that in Wang Xiaolie's mind, scholars no longer had the exclusive status they used to have.

Seeing her husband not talking, just sitting there drinking wine.Zhou said: "At the beginning of this year, when the Jin army crossed the river, the officials were chased and fled to the sea, and all the officials dispersed. Since the king observed Xiangyang, there have been several wars, and Xiangyang has not been affected in any way. Officer, you have to think clearly, don't do anything stupid! You finally settled down, and don't live that kind of wandering life again!"

"I don't want to either!" Chen Yuyi sighed helplessly. "A few months ago, the observation wanted to build a headquarters in the army, and I was told to take care of it. However, I really don't know about the affairs in the army, and the observation was not satisfactory, so I transferred the counselor Wang back to Xiangyang. I said it today, let me do it Supervise, fill in the vacancy of the post of transfer envoy. Don't care about other things, just supervise the officials."

Zhou said: "Isn't this a good thing? Supervisors are noble officials. In the past, they were more noble than others in the capital."

Chen Yuyi said: "This supervisory officer has too many things in charge of what he said, and he is not the former supervisory officer."

Speaking of this, Chen Yuyi turned around and said, "The surveillance in the eyes of observation is really different from the surveillance we think of. Let me tell you, and you will know."

After finishing speaking, Chen Yuyi snapped his fingers and told his wife one by one.

"The officials mentioned by the observation are different from the previous officials. The government governs the people, and in the future it must clearly promulgate laws and govern affairs according to the laws and regulations. Only the officials will decide on matters that are ambiguous with the laws and regulations. According to the observation, the laws and regulations No matter how detailed the promulgation is, it cannot comprehensively cover all the things in the world. The most important thing for officials is to make these ambiguities and decide for themselves.”

Zhou said: "Isn't this a good thing? By doing this, officials will have less to do."

Chen Yuyi smiled wryly: "In the past, an official was the master of the yamen. As long as it did not violate the court's law, he could do what he wanted. For general government affairs, you can arrange the officials under you to do it, and you don't have to do everything yourself. It's different now. The officials under him have their responsibilities, and the officials have their responsibilities, which are completely separated. If the officials do not do it themselves, it is regarded as lazy administration and will be punished!"

What Wang Xiaolie meant was that most government affairs had regulations, and the regulations were approved by the higher authorities.If it is within the regulations, it will be handled by the various functional yamen, and there is no need to ask the opinion of the chief officer.If there is any conflict or ambiguity between the reality and the regulation, it shall be judged by the supervisor.The most important thing for the chief officer is this act of judgment.Supervision needs to monitor all the actions of officials. This kind of ambiguity, how to supervise?

In Wang Xiaolie's previous life, people often debated whether the rule of man or the rule of law.The vast majority of people believe that the rule of law is advanced and the rule of man is backward, and that the rule of man should be the rule of law instead of the rule of law, and it should even be the rule of law.

It is wrong to think so.There are countless things in life.People and people form a society, and the things in society are even more innumerable.It is impossible for people and society to be completely regulated by laws and regulations.In theory, a society ruled by law does not actually need officials, but only mechanical civil servants.

Which is ruled by law and which is ruled by man is actually determined by the regime according to its own concept of governance.A typical example is the United States. If a person does not have a lawyer, he actually does not even know what the rule of law is.In some small dictatorships, everything is decided by the ruler.

In a normal society, both the rule of law and the rule of man should be moderate.And this moderation is not fixed, but constantly changing with the change of society.Many people believe that the rule of law should be ruled by, firstly, because of the influence of public opinion, and secondly, they have a bad impression of officials.

Officials are unqualified, and unqualified issues should be dealt with.The rule of law is not in place, and the rule of law should be strengthened.This is the right attitude.

The most important role of officials in the regime is to be determined by officials when laws and regulations do not stipulate it.If officials make wrong decisions, they will bear the corresponding consequences.Rather than as long as there are no regulations, officials do not have to bear the consequences.Supervision of officials is very important.What worries Chen Yuyi is that with this kind of power, the requirements for supervisory officials are very high.

Sighing, Chen Yuyi said: "According to observations, if we really want to implement it, a lot of officials will be punished in the next one or two years. To be extreme, most of the officials will be dismissed or demoted. But what should I do?"

(End of this chapter)