I'm only seven years old, Lao Zhu, you let me supervise the country?

Chapter 101 Zhu Yunxi: Just learn from Lao Zhu, let these people shoot themselves in the foot again?

Will the emperor be able to govern the country if he is diligent?
the answer is negative.

Diligence does not necessarily lead to good governance of the country.

There are many very diligent emperors in history, but they managed the country in a mess.

In Zhu Yunxi's view, Lao Zhu's current model cannot last forever.

The reason is simple. No one can work as 007 forever.

After a long time, no one's body can bear it.

Therefore, historically, after Lao Zhu's death, there was an immediate backlash.

The current model will soon be abolished.

With the rise of the cabinet system, the emperor not only delegated the power of vote drafting to the cabinet, but also handed over the approval of awards to the supervisor of ceremonies.

This is of course not good.

It is also one of the important reasons for the rise of the Ming Donglin Party.

Basically, the contents of the memorials submitted to the cabinet are all made public (disclosed in the court), and there is no secret at all.

Any memorial made by any civil official will spread throughout the court in an instant.

There is only a little confidentiality system in name, because the memorial has to deal with many people, but it is essentially equivalent to nothing.

No matter whether it was the cabinet in charge of drafting the draft, the Secretary of General Affairs who received the memorial, or the supervisor in charge of approving the Red Secretary, no one was ever punished for leaking the content of the memorial.

In fact, the cabinet and the Secretary of General Administration often deliberately leaked part of the contents of the memorials in advance.

The content that should have been published in the residence newspaper after being reviewed (it could not be published according to needs, but the leakage of secrets could not be prevented), when the memorial was published, it was passed on to the court to build momentum.

In this way, in order to win the reputation of "outspoken and dare to advise", the civil servants' memorials became more exaggerated and more unscrupulous than the other.

However, the emperor's review of these memorials was subject to many restrictions.

Because the content after the review is also all public.

After seeing the review, these civil servants will reject it if they don't agree with them.

Then everyone played a memorial together to persuade the emperor.

There was strong public pressure on the emperor.

In fact, the imperial power was limited, and the emperor's governance space was also limited.

In the late Ming Dynasty, the emperor devolved the power of drafting proposals to the cabinet and the power of approving reds to the ceremonial supervisor. Apart from being unable to handle so many memorials, this is also an important reason.

If the emperor personally approves, there will be "mistakes" everywhere, and people will pick out "faults" everywhere.

After all, these civil servants use a "magnifying glass" to see.

The emperor reviewed so many memorials every day, and he could always pick out the bones from the eggs.

But if it is handed over to the cabinet, it is their own people. If they are dissatisfied, they will fight with the cabinet and the inspector of ceremonies.

The emperor can sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight, balancing the forces of all parties in the court, so as to firmly hold power.

From the perspective of controlling power, this method cannot be said to be unwise.

However, as a result of doing so, court officials will inevitably devote most of their energy to power struggles, and have no intention of real political affairs.

In the late Ming Dynasty, there were many parties in the court, and there were constant struggles for power. Of course, they were closely related to the Donglin Party.

But it is this kind of system that gave them the soil to develop and develop, and that will form such a situation.

If you want to change, you can only start from the source and not give them the soil to grow.

The systems of later generations are of course not directly applicable to this era.

After all, the level of productivity is different, and the civilization of science and technology is also different.

The system is built on the basis of corresponding technological tools.

Even so, many things can be used after certain improvements and modifications.

Governing a big country is like cooking small fish.

In the era of scientific and technological civilization of the later generations, its social governance is more than ten thousand times more complicated than that of Daming in this era!
If the supreme ruler also went to review and handle everything in person like Lao Zhu, 1 avatars would not be enough.

But the reality is not.

Because of decentralized governance, everyone performs his or her own duties.

The supreme ruler only needs to take over the power.

Of course, a complex system is also required to maintain it.

In this regard, Zhu Yunxi already had a lot of thoughts in his mind.

However, Lao Zhu deliberately abolished the prime minister system, and did not allow future emperors to set up prime ministers.

In fact, it is to warn them not to use their hands to deal with government affairs.

Although historically, the Ming emperors of later generations did not listen to this "ancestral instruction" at all.

However, now that Lao Zhu is still alive, he is only the crown prince.

How easy is it to persuade Lao Zhu to change?

Moreover, the civil official group of the Manchu Dynasty would never agree.

After all, he is systematically and fundamentally cutting off the roots of civil servants' governance.

They can only become office workers honestly and can no longer make trouble in the court.

How could the civil servants agree?
If he were the emperor, he might be able to enforce it, but he is not yet.

Lao Zhu didn't want to do this at first, and all the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty opposed it.

Don't think about it, it's definitely out of the question.

Zhu Yunzhen thought, there was only one way to get the civil officials to agree.

Lao Zhu can make these people shoot himself in the foot, and he can also follow the example and use it again.

Just let them fight, let him lift the stone again, and smash his own foot again.

Thinking of this, Zhu Yunzhen spoke.

"This palace is dealing with government affairs for the first time today, and I am not familiar with many of them. I still need to consult the ministers in the court. Come here, and invite all ministers to meet."

The first time the emperor's grandson supervised the administration of the country, he must consult the ministers.

These ministers have long been waiting outside.

However, they did not expect that Zhu Yunxi did not summon them one by one to inquire, but let them meet together.

"See Your Highness the Grandson."

The officials filed in and saluted respectfully.

Zhu Yunxi sat on top, the large chair did not match his small body extremely, and the immature face added to this feeling.

But after going through a series of events, the officials below no longer dared to look down on him with the attitude of looking at a seven-year-old child.

The name of His Royal Highness Taisun's genius has already spread throughout the world.

Now who doesn't know that His Royal Highness, although young, has extraordinary wisdom?

However, most of these civil servants are obviously still dissatisfied.

The distinction between the eldest son and the eldest son has already penetrated into their bones.

They just think that Zhu Yunxi should not be established as grandson.

It's just that Lao Zhu played a trick on them once, so for the time being he could only hold his nose and admit it.

Huang Zicheng saw the mountain of memorials on the table, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

There are so many memorials, let's see how you can review them all!

Most other officials have the same mentality.

After all, it was their conspiracy.

"Today, according to the order of the emperor's grandfather, I supervise the administration of the country and review the memorials, and only then do I realize how heavy the government affairs are."

"In one day, the number of memorials submitted by the ministers reached over a thousand."

"Gu Zong has three heads and six arms, and it is difficult to review and process all of them."

"Do you have a good plan, gentlemen?"

As soon as these words came out, many officials below were very surprised.

Originally thought that the Taisun summoned them to see them to ask how to deal with a certain matter, the situation in the court, the situation in the local area, major military affairs and so on.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Zhu Yunxi opened his mouth, I couldn't finish reading these memorials. What can you do?

Is this something you can ask and say casually?

The grandson of the emperor really did not play his cards according to common sense!
A group of officials looked at me and looked at me, but they remained silent.

However, many people had complacent expressions on their faces, trying not to laugh out loud.

That's exactly what they want to see.

Huang Zicheng stood up and said: "Your Majesty entrusts His Royal Highness with the heavy responsibility of supervising the country. His Highness must work diligently and do his best to review memorials and handle government affairs."

"How can you be intimidated and retreat in fear of difficulties?"

"It's not right to be a sincere prince. I hope His Royal Highness Taisun will reflect on himself and live up to His Majesty's trust."

Zhu Yunxi called in his heart what a guy!

He didn't talk about how to read thousands of memorials, and accused Zhu Yunxi of wanting to be lazy when he spoke, and he should work hard, regardless of the actual situation.

But it happened that this was said in a sanctimonious manner, and there was nothing wrong with it.

This is the usual method of civil servants.

Anyway, regardless of Sanqi21, I’m right to accuse you from the moral high ground.

What's wrong?

Are you still not convinced?
Then I will teach you what "propriety" is, and how the king should observe etiquette and morality.

Zhu Yunxi just giggled, noncommittal.

Immediately, Huang Zicheng felt as if he had punched the cotton.

"What about the others? Any good ideas?"

Zhu Yunzhen left Huang Zicheng aside and asked deliberately.

"The lower officials think so too."

"So does the subordinate."

A famous official bowed and saluted, all agreeing with Huang Zicheng's statement.

No wonder it is said that the officials are protected.

This is how they treat those in power, let alone the common people.

"What Mr. Huang said makes sense."

Zhu Yunxi praised, then changed his tone, showing helplessness on his face, and said: "But there are really too many memorials, even if you don't eat, drink or sleep alone, you can't read them all."

When the officials below heard this, they couldn't help laughing and almost laughed out loud.

Qi Tai stood up and said: "His Royal Highness Taisun is a little unfamiliar with the affairs of state for the first time, so he has to be slower in reviewing memorials."

"As long as we give it time and get familiar with His Highness Taisun. With Taisun's talent, reviewing memorials will be as fast and accurate as flowing clouds and flowing water. As long as we are diligent and dedicated, His Highness Taisun will definitely not be in trouble when reviewing memorials."

Is this a question of proficiency?
There are thousands of memorials, even if one is read in 5 minutes, it will take 80 minutes, that is more than [-] hours.

Working eight hours a day, it will take more than ten days to finish reading.

But there is only one day, and there will be a steady stream of new memorials coming up in the future.

There is simply no end to it.

Not to mention reading a memorial, 5 minutes is not enough at all, and you have to review it.

It is not something that can be randomly approved.

It may be necessary to call the corresponding officials to further inquire about the situation before it can be officially approved.

Perhaps a memorial will take an hour or two, or even longer, to process.

Qi Tai's words were obviously a trap for him.

"Qi Shilang is right." Zhu Yunxi pretended to agree.

He has stood on the moral high ground first, and he can't agree to it if he wants to.

What's more, this is what Zhu Yunxi had expected a long time ago.

Next, is the main event.

Immediately, he changed the topic and said with a bitter face: "But I still want to go out to play, I still want to set up a military academy, I still want to write poems and songs, I still want to go hunting..."

Zhu Yunxuan said a lot, all in all, because he loves to play and doesn't want to do things.

Without waiting for these people to show their high hats of morality and ethics to persuade them, he went on to say: "There is a saying in the "Tao Te Ching": Governing a big country with words is like cooking a small fish, and I think it is true."

"In the past Wei Zheng remonstrated with Tai Zheng, there is a saying that a politician should promote the nine virtues, let him be simple and capable, and follow what is good, then the wise will do their best, the brave will do their best, the benevolent will spread their benefits, and the believers will emulate them. loyal."

"Civil and military are used together, and the arch is used to rule. You don't need to worry about thinking hard, and you can take the place of a hundred divisions."

"This is an honest statement."

"I think that political affairs should be entrusted to the adults, rather than being handled by the solitary department."

"The emperor should rule from the ground up, rather than doing everything himself."

"However, after the abolition of the prime minister system in this dynasty, all government affairs are entrusted to His Majesty."

"Even the emperor's grandfather fell ill from overwork and was seriously ill."

"Nowadays when I supervise the country's administration alone, I realize that the government affairs are so important that one person cannot handle them alone."

"I would like to ask the emperor to set up an advisory office and ask all of you to act in the government affairs."

"What do you guys think?"

As soon as these words were spoken, Wenhua Palace exploded.

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(End of this chapter)