After Spring and Autumn

Chapter 304
Obviously, Sun Wu is very confident in the team he has trained. This is naturally a good thing. After thinking about it, Meng Di also had an idea in his mind, so he said.

"This time I got tens of thousands of people from Jin, many of whom are young and strong. Mr. Sun can select another group of soldiers from them. In addition, our population and food have already met the conditions for expanding the army."

"Mr. Sun can select soldiers in Feiyi and Nanju. In addition, I proposed the military merit system in the previous paragraph. I don't know what Mr. Sun thinks about this?"

After mentioning this matter, Sun Wu thought about it for a while, and said with a worried look on his face.

"There is nothing wrong with the system itself, and I also support it. If this is the case, the Han Kingdom will pay too much attention to military achievements in the future, so many generals will support Hanhou's outward expansion in the future. This may not be a good thing."

"It's too much to be too particular about everything. The Marquis of Han established such a system to inspire people's hearts, but at the same time, it also opened up everyone's ambitions. I'm afraid it will not be that simple to keep them in the future."

Meng Di was slightly startled. He hadn't considered this issue deeply yet. What Sun Wu said was somewhat similar to national policy. His meaning was obvious, if the Han Dynasty paid too much attention to military merit.

Then there will be a large number of powerful people in the military. In the future, these people will occupy important positions in the Han Dynasty. At that time, the whole country will focus on military strength and ignore the importance of governing the country.

After thinking of this, Meng Di's heart was moved, so he spoke.

"If this is the case, the general merit system can be changed to the title system. In this way, it will not only focus on military merit, but also focus on local governance by local officials, and at the same time refine some rules."

"In this way, the role of some military achievements can be weakened, and it will also be useful in governing the world in the future. Since Mr. Sun has already seen this, I hope Mr. Sun can put forward some suggestions for improvement."

At this time, Sun Wu's eyes showed some hesitation, and he said after thinking for a while.

"The so-called flowing water does not rot, and the household hinges do not rot. If we want to keep the big man prosperous for a long time, we must first do one thing, that is, we must not allow power to be too concentrated in the hands of a small number of people, and we must allow them to maintain liquidity."

"It's a good thing that the military merit system rewards people's hard work, but has the Marquis of Han thought about the future, once the war is over, it is inevitable that power will flow to a small number of people."

"In this way, they will be very likely to do everything they can to seek their own self-interest, just like some senior officials in various vassal states today. At that time, the Han Kingdom will soon decline."

"So if we want to last long, we must not only reward but also punish. Only in this way can the officials be vigilant, and the officials below have the intention of supervising the superiors. Once the superiors have bad behavior."

"Then, according to the corresponding punishment, these people can be deprived of their titles, or their titles can be lowered to make way for the latecomers. In this way, it can be ensured that the officials of Han can give full play to their talents."

What Mengdi considered before was to use the military merit system to stimulate the enterprising spirit of the Han people. Now that he heard what Sun Wu said, he immediately thought of the need to formulate a system for the promotion of officials.

If you still rely on your own eyesight to recognize people and govern a place according to the current method, the effect may be good, but in the future, the territory of the Han Dynasty will become larger and larger. At that time, if you want to manage it in this way, it will seem powerless .

It seems that he took it for granted when he proposed the military merit system, Meng Di gave a wry smile when he thought of this.

"Mr. Sun really has far-reaching considerations. It seems that the military merit system needs to be discussed carefully. How about this? Mr. Sun can list his ideas one by one. I will see what Mr. Ji thinks later."

"This system will be the national policy of our country in the future, so there can be no sloppyness in the slightest. It is better to be slow than to introduce it hastily for the immediate benefit, otherwise it will cause endless harm."

After Sun Wu heard this, his eyes lit up. It was not because Mengdi accepted his opinion, but because Mengdi thought of something deeper through his own words. This is a very good phenomenon.

As the monarch of a country, if he does not act with forethought, he will definitely pay a heavy price for it in the future. Zheng Guo's Zi Chan has undergone reforms to make Zheng Guo stronger for a while.

But because the problem of employing people was not fundamentally solved, after Zichan died, there was no successor. Zheng Guo was like a cart that lost its direction. The successor could neither attack the big clans like Zichan, nor Maintain the interests of the office.

On the other hand, they couldn't come up with an effective solution, so Zheng Guo missed the best time for him to prosper. Han Guo is also in this situation now, since the system of prefectures and counties is adopted.

Then a large number of officials are needed, which is a completely different governance model from other vassal states. Under such circumstances, the selection of officials is extremely important, if only officials are selected through a simple title system.

It is very likely that these officials from the army will form a whole of interests, and thus gradually control the state affairs of the Han Dynasty. At that time, the danger will be hidden in it.

Now Meng Di clearly realized this point, which made Sun Wu feel a little admirable, but what he didn't know was that the reason why Meng Di had such an understanding came from the later Han Dynasty.

Under the circumstances at that time, there was no suitable system for selecting officials, and a situation of judging one's future by one's background had already formed at that time, and Meng Di also had a deep understanding of this.

He doesn't want Han to become like this in the future. He naturally wants to form a set of effective rules. In this way, the management of the whole country will become much smoother, and it will also allow many talents to stand out.

Especially the experience of this life made Meng Di realize that the most important reason why there is such chaos among the various vassal states today is that the monarch employs improper personnel and the power of the ministers is too great.

In order to protect themselves, the various families began to crazily seize the power of the country, thus reaching the point where they abolished the lord without authorization. Under such circumstances, how could the country continue to prosper?
(End of this chapter)