Xuande

Chapter 722
After listening to Liu Bei's opinion, Ruan Yu's brows gradually wrinkled, and his face became serious.

"In this way, it is indeed the case. In order not to be cut down, the officials will indeed use everything to the extreme. Forty or fifty thousand people will use everything to the extreme... The world will fall into chaos in an instant."

"So, how is this quiet and inaction? This is clearly a great promise, and the promise is so amazing that even I dare not."

Liu Bei said with a smile: "Taoist art emphasizes a goal of quietness and inaction, and the process and means should be similar to quietness and inaction. To achieve the goal of quietness and inaction, it is difficult to adopt violent means to succeed, just as a seriously ill person cannot be a tiger or a wolf. Otherwise, it is easy to kill people by medicine.”

"In this way, there are really some voices from the outside world saying that your actions are too violent, which is not a good thing for the big man."

Ruan Yu asked: "Do you think this is the case? Do you feel that everything you have done is the medicine of tigers and wolves? Will the current situation of the whole big man be very dangerous?"

"Am I still violent?"

Liu Bei smiled wryly and said, "Didn't you see how I treat those insects? Every time I promote a policy, I carefully negotiate with them and communicate with them. Let's talk about what they want. We talk about it and talk about it. When the price is right, we will promote it." Policy, except this time I won’t give it, which time I didn’t give it before?

Why?Isn't it because you are worried that the opposition will be too strong?I always look for a serious reason, and handle things in a way that others cannot object to. Even if I achieve my goal, I feel that I am too cautious. Is this called violence? "

Ruan Yu thought about it, and felt that what Liu Bei said was also reasonable.

"If you say so, you are right."

"That's the truth!"

Liu Bei shook his head and said: "Besides, if you want to talk about the medicine for tigers and wolves, then what I am going to give now is indeed the medicine for tigers and wolves, but it was not the case before. The big man was seriously ill, and I treated him bit by bit carefully, so that he could be treated with care. Slowly recovering, and then increased the dose.

And, don't forget, I still have a magical medicine that can guarantee that this weak patient will never die. At the critical moment, I can take out a magic medicine that can turn things around. It is because of this magic medicine that I dare to do it so many things. "

"Divine medicine?"

Ruan Yu froze for a moment, looked at Liu Bei's inexplicable smile, suddenly thought of something, and slapped his head.

"This 25 army!"

"correct!"

Liu Bei patted Ruan Yu's hand: "The invincible army is the real magic medicine that guarantees that the big man will never die. With this magic medicine, we can really use all the medicines that can be used. , so as not to let the big man really die like that.

With this magical medicine in hand, it’s not impossible to give this weak patient some tiger-wolf medicine, but I was more cautious before. The world is against each other, that is the real medicine for tigers and wolves, it will kill people. "

"Indeed."

Ruan Yu nodded seriously, agreeing with Liu Bei's opinion.

"And even if you don't say anything else, I don't think even the imperial court that really adheres to Huang Lao's method will do it, as long as they are wise enough, for the second-level reform of the state and county that he proposed."

"Is that what Huang Lao Zhishu said? Light corvee and light taxation, quiet and inaction, isn't it better to have as few officials as possible? Is there any difference?"

Ruan Yu was aroused by curiosity and looked at Liu Bei curiously.

"Of course, Huang Lao's art is not that simple. In their view, the more institutions like prefectures, counties, and counties, the more stable the world will be. The fewer institutions, the more unstable the world will be. The country is getting better, but it's not that simple."

Liu Bei said slowly: "Actually, the truth is easy to explain. Yuan Yu, if one day you feel that you are a little impatient with your wife, I will transfer you from Luoyang to work in other places, and I won't let you take your wife with you." , nor let you take any woman.

After a month or two, you will miss what your wife misses. At this time, if I ask your wife to look for you again, hehehe, it will be dry wood and fire, and it will be out of control. "

"Ah? This... what is this?"

"Remember, distance creates beauty."

Liu Bei shook his head, sighed, and put on a very helpless expression.

"This is also the despicable heart of a superior person and a carnivore. Judging from the current situation, expecting officials to not act recklessly and obey the law is a dream, and it is absolutely impossible to succeed. No matter how I strengthen Yushitai and Sili School Wei, strengthen supervision, this is unavoidable.

Especially those low-level officials who are closest to the people. They face the people directly, and their words and deeds are in the eyes of the people. What they do will make the people hate and resent them. Chaos, they were also the first group of people to die.

But before that, the people at the bottom will still look forward to a higher-level government to deal with them, and they will have expectations of a higher-level government that they don't understand. When this expectation also fails, there will be a higher level Higher-level officials come to look forward to, and so on, until the final emperor. "

"This……"

Ruan Yu was dumbfounded.

He is not an administrative official, he is a pen and a chariot of public opinion. This is the first time he has heard of this simple technique of ruling.

"The farther away you are from the bottom layer, the more mysterious you are, the more grandiose you can put on, and the more trustworthy and reassuring you can be. Upholding justice is enough for the people to sing praises for a long time, and to maintain hope for a long time.

During this period of time, the stability of the country has greatly increased, and the stability of the local area has also increased. From this point of view, the so-called quiet and inaction in Huang Lao's art is the same reason. The more senior officials, or simply Let's talk about the emperor, the less you have to do.

He only needs to put on a quiet and inactive appearance, keep a secret, and keep a distance, and he will naturally gain trust and make the people full of hope for him. In this way, the people will not cause chaos because they have completely lost hope.

In other words, the greatest significance of being an emperor and son of heaven is not to govern the country, but simply to exist there, to exchange innocence and inaction for one's lofty status, so as to calm people's hearts, so there are so-called holy sons of heaven. The theory of governance. "

Liu Bei spread his hands, and told him the content that Ruan Yu had never understood, and Ruan Yu was taken aback for a while.

After a long time, Ruan Yu opened his mouth with some difficulty.

"Is this the Taoist technique?"

"The art of Taoism is something that is really shown to the emperor and the son of heaven. It is useless for ordinary people to see it. It is purely for the biggest person in the world to solve problems, not for other people."

Liu Bei laughed and said: "From this point of view, a centralized monarch, a monarch who has to do everything and give orders in person, will definitely not have a good reputation, because everyone knows the mistakes he made. Even the people at the bottom will know who is harming them.

So from the bottom to the top, everyone lost hope, and everyone would attack and destroy everything, but if someone else did such a bad thing, such as the prime minister, such as the Sangong, such as the general.

Even if these people are wrong, they can revoke his position and replace it with another person, hoping to recreate it, but changing the emperor is not that simple. "

Liu Bei laughed out loud.

He smiled, and Ruan Yu also laughed.

It seems that Ruan Yu has also understood what is so wonderful about the ruling art of Taoism.

After all, it is a top-level ruling technique that has created an era, but it is by no means as simple as the four words of quietness and inaction.

(End of this chapter)