back to ancient times to be emperor

Chapter 856 Partisanship
The elder brother Lu Xiu spoke of was Liu Anshi, a Jinshi last year, who studied under Sima Guang.Liu Anshi also came from a family of officials. Liu Hang, Liu Anshi's father, was a Jinshi and ranked first.

When Liu Anshi was a child, he had opinions and insights.When Liu Hang was the Supervisor and Pastoral Envoy of Henan, Wen Yanbo was in the Privy Council. He heard something and often called Liu Anshi to report.Liu Anshi said calmly: "Teacher Yang asked to go to the position, and outside people think that you will replace him." Wen Yanbo said: "Teacher Yang has corrupted the world, so how can the successors make a difference?" Liu Anshi cupped his hands and said: "Although An Shi I am a junior, and privately think that it is not so serious. Did Grand Master Yang’s old policy really conform to people’s wishes and benefit others? If not, you should get rid of the harm and promote the benefit. This is just a matter of a moment.” Wen Yan Bomo Instead of answering, he just said that Liu Anshi had never seen the world, but he also praised him for being straightforward and outspoken.

In fact, what Yang Daoqi did was just to adapt to the official situation, not his original intention.But sitting in this position, Yang Daoqi often couldn't help himself, and began to seek benefits for his fellow party members.

Even though Taizu strictly prohibited party disputes, since Dashun established a system with civil servants as the main body of governing the country, has the party disputes ever stopped?

After all, although the power of Dashun's Zaifu has been weakened, he is still Zaifu anyway!Under one person, above ten thousand people, say one thing, definitely the majority in the court, because the loser is either demoted or exiled.

The cruelty of court struggle was also acquiesced by a generation of emperors.The art of the emperor is nothing more than balancing the left and right.Yang Dang came to power, Han Dang went down, and naturally another new party rose up, which was personally supported by Emperor Yuanshou.Otherwise, do you think Xu Chongguang, a stubborn old man, can safely work in the Ministry of Households for six or seven years?
The Ministry of Households is the country's money bag, and if it fell into the hands of Yang Dang, it would have been squandered long ago.And Xu Chongguang was anxious to get to the top, and he couldn't do anything that would damage his reputation, so he definitely wouldn't dig the Great Wall himself.So in the past few years, Dashun was able to run smoothly despite constant natural and man-made disasters, Xu Chongguang really made great efforts.

However, Feng Shui took turns. After the fall of the Yang party, the new party came to power, and then the power of the court was in an absolute vacuum.

Without him, everyone was afraid of being killed by Lu Chengqi's butcher knife.

Think about it, since the founding of Dashun, all civil servants have been treated favorably, and few have been sentenced to death in public, most likely to protect the face of scholars.At most it is belittled, exiled or exiled.But on the bloody and terrifying day in the second year of Hongxiang, Yang Dang was directly slaughtered. With such a thunderous method, which official didn't everyone feel insecure and panic all day long?Where do you still have the mind to go to party fights!
Youdao means that the scars are healed and the pain is forgotten. After the New Deal stabilized, many people began to form groups again to seek group interests.Most of what they seek is the privilege of officials, or the position of chief minister and assistant in the cabinet that all civil servants dream of.When Xu Chongguang took office, he was already in his sixties, how many more years could he do?
For a while, the Wen Party headed by Wen Yanbo and the Han Party headed by Han Qi began to slowly accumulate power. They fought openly and secretly in the court, and all of them pointed their swords at the position of the head and assistant of the cabinet.

As the emperor, Lu Chengqi also turned a blind eye.They fight back and forth, as long as they don't make mistakes. If the interests of the people and the court are harmed, Lu Chengqi will never be soft-hearted.

Of course, Lu Chengqi will no longer be as straightforward as before, taking people to jail, making charges and then sentencing them.It is not cost-effective to do so, and it is easy to separate the monarch and his ministers.Mencius said: "If the king regards his ministers like brothers and feet, then the ministers will regard the emperor as his heart; if the king regards his ministers like dogs and horses, then the ministers will regard the emperor as the people of the country; Give each other, if you do something wrong and you have to be punished, then you can be relegated, as long as it is not a big mistake.People will grow, and it is no longer appropriate to wield the butcher's knife.

Relegation is Lu Chengqi's most commonly used method now. That's because the combination of the official assessment system and the supervision department's secret assessment of public opinion has become a system that can determine the promotion of officials.

Those who are excellent, excellent, and good in the evaluation will be promoted naturally; Needless to say, directly demote officials.

Generally speaking, those who play tricks in the court are not very kind to the people. This evaluation system is naturally appropriate, and it will drop every three years. Anyway, if you don’t treat the people with care, the court will not treat you well.You have forgotten how to govern the place and treat the people like enemies. When you are downgraded to the tenth rank official, you will be equivalent to a petty official, and your reputation will be damaged. You can't even lift your head when you walk on the street.Not to mention, there have really been such officials over the years, and they have already retired to tenth rank officials. It is difficult to rely on the people in the court to rescue them.why?Wu Xianzhi, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, belongs to the emperor. Without the emperor's nod, if you, a tenth-rank official with "bad records" are promoted and found out by the supervisory department, Wu Xianzhi will be implicated!Smart people don't do stupid things, and Wu Xianzhi naturally refused to do so.

This move directly hit the seven inches of the officials, making them no longer dare to take it lightly.

Fortunately, there are a large number of tenth-rank officials to help, otherwise, they would have three heads and six arms, and they would not be able to govern a place.

And Lu Chengqi's newly created official system, after a magistrate resigns, even the tenth-rank official will also resign.In the past, the reason why the petty officials dared to obey others was to rely on the momentum of the bosses. Now that Lu Chengqi has blocked even this loophole, even if hundreds of thousands of tenth-rank officials are complaining to the sky, they are still in vain.

Of course, in this way, the workload of the official department will be even greater, but Lu Chengqi is not an emperor who desperately employs people, so he quickly provided enough staff for the official department, and finally it can run smoothly.

Anyway, now Dashun's imperial examinations are held every two years, so why are you afraid that there will be no Jinshi?

Liu Anshi was a Jinshi under such circumstances. Lu Chengqi saw that he was well educated and upright. After being released for a year, he was recalled to the capital and became the teacher of the prince Lu Wei.

Although Liu Anshi is an out-and-out guardian of Confucianism, he does not reject miscellaneous studies, but instead encourages Lu Wei to create, but there is a premise that a solid foundation must be laid.I have to say that Liu Anshi can be regarded as a good teacher. Besides reciting "The Analects of Confucius" and "Mencius", he can also tell some stories, which made Lu Wei completely approve of him as a gentleman.Even in their spare time, Liu Anshi and Lu Wei discussed how to make tools powered by water.

How could Lu Wei object to such a teacher?
Children couldn't hold back their words, so Lu Wei showed off his good teacher to Lu Xiu, and after listening to two classes, Lu Xiu's eyes lit up immediately.

After listening to Lu Xiu's words, Lu Chengqi had already guessed a lot, and said with a smile: "Xiu'er is willing to learn, how can I not agree? It's just about you practicing martial arts with A Niang..."

Lu Xiu pouted and said: "Daddy just needs to agree, Xiu'er will arrange it herself!"

Zhou Zhiruo chuckled beside her and said, "You look like a little grown-up!"

Lu Xiu didn't want to anymore, so she threw herself into Zhou Zhiruo's arms, buried her head in it, and said in a muffled voice, "My aunt laughed at Xiu'er, and Xiu'er won't obey me anymore!"

Seeing his daughter acting like a baby, Lu Chengqi laughed heartily, as if his troubles were swept away.

(End of this chapter)