I stole divine power in Daxia

Chapter 493: Divide and divide

In the Qing Emperor's ancestral temple, more than a dozen pairs of eyes were staring at Zhou Tieyi as he wrote.

When everyone saw the name of this policy paper, they couldn't help but gasp.

If the previous "theory of human desire" uprooted the moral roots of Confucian classics, then this "official and civil servant unity" uprooted the governance roots of Confucian classics.

Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism are superior to all other schools of thought, and Buddhism and Taoism are both otherworldly doctrines. Therefore, the doctrine of dynasty governance has always been headed by Confucianism. From the Holy Emperor to the present, Confucian imperial examinations are naturally higher than those of other doctrines. Once you pass the exam, you will be the local official and the king of the city.

As for the Legalists, Agriculturalists, Medical School, etc., except for the Legalists who had their own specific imperial examinations, the other schools even had to wait until there was a specific shortage of personnel before they could have special examinations, or they had to study Confucian classics and take imperial examinations before they could hold official positions.

Therefore, officials are officials and clerks are clerks.

Confucianism is naturally superior to all other schools of thought.

All the philosophers naturally agreed with this point, because Confucianism was the teachings of saints in the past, which not only occupied the moral high ground, but also the power high ground.

Of course, the division of officials into different levels has its own value basis in a vast empire.

The imperial power does not extend beyond the capital, and this is true even in Daxia.

The Emperor of Daxia was indeed the supreme saint in Tianjing, but that was only true in Tianjing.

The farthest point of the empire's northern and southern borders is a full 16,000 miles. Practitioners can climb the sea of ​​blood in the morning and the mountains in the evening, but the majority of the people in the empire are still ordinary people, and they are ruled by ordinary people, so a system for ordinary people is needed.

Therefore, it is necessary to handle the relationship between the central and local governments well.

Local officials are appointed by the central government, but local clerks are recommended by aristocratic families. This is also a disguised form of adapting to local conditions.

Take Shantongfu as an example. This place is rich in inkstone. There are many mines in a small amount of land. The theories of Mohism and Gongshu School are easier to spread than those of the Agricultural School. Most local families are inheritors of the theories of Mohism and Gongshu School.

Therefore, in the appointment of clerks, there are naturally more Mohists and Gongshuists than farmers in this area, and the Confucian officials sent by the court only need to win over the local aristocratic families and protect the clerks of local minority doctrines to use as checks and balances, which will naturally maintain the stability of a region.

Therefore, the local official is the king of the city, and the local government is also a small court.

The second reason for the separation of officials from local staff lies in the stable recognition of centralization.

No matter how well a clerk does his job, he is only a clerk and will never be an official. Where do officials come from? They come from Tianjing. All imperial examinations are selected by the central government. Even if the central government cannot manage the local areas for a while, the three-year Beijing inspection, three-year imperial examinations, and three-year appointments are all decided by the central government. This not only gives benefits to the local areas, but also prevents them from interfering with the core power.

If one wanted to become an official, he had to leave his local family and be appointed elsewhere. The only thing he could rely on was no longer his own family background but the imperial power of Tianjing.

In addition, there are reasons such as cultural unification, so this seemingly unfair system has been able to exist for two thousand years.

In the past, people all over the world believed that this system had always existed.

Because this is the best way to resolve the conflict between central and local power.

If we break up the unity between officials and clerks, clerks can become officials.

The most direct impact is that a large number of clerks supported by local families will become local officials, thereby weakening the central government's ruling authority and causing the power of local families to surge, to the point of splitting the world.

But that was in the past, and it was purely from a political perspective.

People in the world have never considered the time when ordinary people could travel thousands of miles in a day, cross seas of blood in the morning, and tower over mountains in the evening.

In order to break the monopoly of local families, we can not only start from politics, but also from economy and technology.

When transportation in the world was connected, ordinary clerks could easily travel back and forth between two places thousands of miles apart to work within a day or two. Just a rotation could greatly weaken the control of local families over the official system.

In addition to technology, the same is true for the economy. The closed local economy forces people to rely on local families, but if the local families are forced to expand to the point of abandoning the local closed economy during expansion, then they will also lose their personal constraints on the local people.

The simplest example is the transformation of local chaebols into interest groups, which will naturally lead to a different set of political logic.

Of course, Zhou Tieyi doesn't need to think so much now. He just needs to burn his boats and see whether to govern the world first or bring chaos to it first.

Zhou Tieyi was focused and wrote fluently. In a short while, he had written nearly 50,000 words. And these 50,000 words were just an outline, including selection, appointment, and assessment.

The reform of the integration of officials is an extremely complicated matter, no less complicated than currency reform, and it involves more and greater interests. Originally, Zhou Tieyi planned to gradually promote institutional reforms only after the industrial reform had initial results.

But things don't always go as planned. Since it is a reform, how can there be a perfect order like in the textbooks?

After finishing the outline, Zhou Tieyi stopped writing and looked over the manuscript in front of him again. His thoughts went back to the night when he tested Mei Juncang in the God-Slaying Division.

Mei Juncang had guessed the way to restrain Confucianism's manipulation of public opinion. Newspapers were just a surface and a means to enlighten the people, but the real and only way for the people to participate in politics in this era was still the imperial examinations.

Therefore, in order to break the invincibility of Confucianism, the scope of imperial examinations must be expanded.

First, the special subjects opened in the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Industry due to staff shortages were fixed as regular subjects, and gradually became on par with the Confucian imperial examinations in terms of admission time and number of people. Then, affairs examinations were added within the bureaucratic system.

For example, in the central bank headed by Zhou Tieyi, the newly added affairs examination is directly related to economics. It directly digresses from the Four Books and Five Classics and focuses on business practice. There will be no punishment for those who perform poorly in the examination, but those who perform well will definitely be promoted.

In this way, a new logic of official promotion can be formed within a department, breaking down the barriers between officials.

After we are able to do the above, we can discuss how to change the scientific examination system.

“Opening a special department and making it a normal practice, so that the whole world can recruit talents, not limited to Confucianism but also from all schools of thought, is the highest virtue.”

Zhao Fu read out one of the sentences softly. This sentence was not meant to shut the mouths of Confucian scholars all over the world, but to break their backbones.

He pondered for a moment and analyzed the pros and cons. As a vassal king, the Zhao family also had a royal palace system in Chongshan Prefecture. It was just that the Qing Emperor's lineage had always kept a low profile, so the Zhao family did whatever the central court said.

But this time it was different. The Great Xia Emperor's removal of the Five Emperors' sacrifices had already damaged the fundamental interests of the Zhao family. It would be strange if the Zhao family did not take action. And the best action would be to support Zhou Tieyi's "new policy" in the central government to demonstrate to the central court.

Therefore, Zhao Fu had to evaluate the policy paper in front of him. It was not a vicious scheme that Zhou Tieyi came up with to deal with the Emperor of Great Xia and the Confucians, but it was an advanced reform that could benefit more people, just like the policies he had formulated before.

Benefiting more people is the simplest criterion for judgment.

With Zhao Fu's wisdom, he could naturally see the advantages and disadvantages of this reform.

The advantages are self-evident.

The disadvantage was also not small. He walked to Zhou Tieyi and asked, "Once this policy paper is published, the Confucian scholars will probably make more noise. This matter must be dealt with eventually."

Zhou Tieyi knew that Zhao Fu was asking him about his specific governance methods. Sometimes the policy program and the governance methods may not be the same.

After finishing writing a policy paper, he had calmed down from his shock and anger, and said with a smile, "Being noisy only means having a loud voice, not a large number of people. After all, there are only a few Confucian practitioners in the academies of the world, and among these few Confucian practitioners, there are only 300 people who can pass the imperial examination in three years. And this policy paper of mine is to win over the millions of people outside of the 300 people, to divide them up and kill the chicken to scare the monkeys. No one will have a problem with being an official. You don't want to be an official, but there are many people who do."

Although there was no saying in Daxia that a scholar's rebellion would fail in three years, even the Confucians, who mastered the power of spiritual practice, were naturally at a disadvantage when confronting the central imperial power. They were restrained not only in terms of strength but also in terms of reason.

The core of Confucianism's power lies in pacifying the people. Rebellion cannot even overcome one's own righteous integrity.

As for the struggle within the system, Confucianism used to hold the right to speak and was the only shortcut to becoming an official, so all other schools of thought and even the common people would follow it, because everyone in the world wanted to be an official.

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But this struggle is different. After the initial policy of division, most people will find that they will benefit from not following the Confucianists this time. Then, when the time comes to divide Confucianism internally, there will naturally be no more trouble.

Zhao Fu nodded, confirming what Zhou Tieyi said. In the imperial examination, there were only 300 Jinshi in three years. Except for these 300 people who were the die-hard supporters of the imperial examination, all others were potential opponents, but most people did not realize this.

“But can this policy proposal really be passed by the central government?”

This was Zhao Fu's second doubt. Now, in the eyes of the Confucian scholars, it was the Emperor of Daxia who was protecting Zhou Tieyi, but only those who were really involved in the situation understood that this time, Zhou Tieyi was being put on the fire by the Emperor of Daxia.

“Is removing the Five Emperors’ cult an end or a means?”

Zhou Tieyi asked back.

"Nature is a means."

Zhao Fu answered subconsciously. In his opinion, the Five Emperors Sacrifice was a cover-up, the purpose of which was to force Zhou Tieyi to back down and give up the power of the central bank, which had already begun to take shape, to the Beimen Scholars established by the Queen of Heaven.

After Zhao Fu answered, he saw that Zhou Tieyi did not answer for a long time, and he frowned. If removing the sacrifices to the Five Emperors was the purpose, then the matter would become more complicated.

Then he sighed, "So this is the purpose."

Zhou Tieyi sneered, "Between governing the country and cultivating, he always chooses cultivating!"

Cultivation is what the Emperor of Great Xia desires most now. Removing the sacrifices to the Five Emperors can not only plunder the Five Emperors' humanitarian luck, but also suppress Zhou Tieyi's cultivation speed, which is extremely important for the Emperor of Great Xia.

And now the result is even better than what the Emperor of Daxia had expected, because Zhou Tieyi had been injured by the matter of the Five Emperors, so he was even more determined to remove the sacrifice to the Five Emperors.

This is not only a struggle between worldly affairs, but also a struggle between the Emperor of Daxia and Zhou Tieyi in spiritual practice.

As long as you can identify what the other party desires most, you will naturally be able to exchange interests, so on this matter last week Tieyi had to inform his ally Qingdi.

After packing up the policy papers, Zhou Tieyi returned to the courtyard first, preparing to stay in this Qingdi core temple for a full day before leaving.

Anyway, he had already lost the initiative, so Zhou Tieyi didn't mind letting him go out for another half day.

It is a fact that I have lost the corpse dog today and my vigilance has been lowered. If I leave in a hurry because of the unexpected event at this time and fail to achieve my original purpose, I would be really stupid. I would be like Tang Monk in Journey to the West. I knew that I could avoid the difficulty by staying in the circle without moving, but I left the circle drawn by Sun Wukong early because of various unexpected events.

In the courtyard, Zhou Tieyi was not idle either. He began to instruct Hao Ren to do some initial preparations through the Shinto edict so that he could respond to the changes immediately after returning to Beijing.

After ordering these matters to be dealt with, it was already late. It was past midnight and Zhou Tieyi had to return to Beijing. He thought for a while and ordered someone to invite Zhao Qinxin over.

"Originally, we wanted to take a tour of the Shiwan Mountains with the Qing Emperor's carriage, but now something unexpected has happened, so we can only divide the spoils first."

Chongshan Prefecture is adjacent to the Shiwan Mountains. Zhou Tieyi originally wanted to take advantage of the situation to do two other things. One was to explore the clues of the small heavenly palace left by the Wuchang God, and the other was to convert the annihilated native tribe of Qilin Mingtang and fulfill his promise.

But it's definitely too late now, so we can only wait until the next opportunity.

Zhou Tieyi took out several rare treasures with a smile. These were all treasures left over from the Huangquan Luopo Array. Those who could enter the Huangquan Luopo Array were at least top-third-grade cultivators. The treasures they carried with them were naturally good, but they were only good enough. After thousands of years of erosion, and in the special environment of the Huangquan Luopo Array, most of the treasures had lost their spirituality, and only a few underworld-type treasures were still useful.

However, these treasures were of little use to Zhou Tieyi at this time, so they were distributed to Zhao Qinxin. Although the coordinates of Yinting were exchanged by Zhou Tieyi's body, Zhao Qinxin was Zhao Qinxin, and the Zhao family was the Zhao family.

Zhao Qinxin naturally liked the rare treasure, but she didn't take it immediately. Instead, she asked, "Can I have another thing?"

"what?"

Zhou Tieyi asked curiously.

"The original manuscript of 'Officials and Civilians as One' that you wrote today."

Zhou Tieyi looked a little surprised, "What do you want this for?"

Although he didn't understand what Zhao Qinxin meant, Zhou Tieyi still took out the manuscript. He had already written it down. He was now a human photocopier, so he could easily make a copy.

Zhao Qinxin took out the photocopy paper that she had prepared long ago, made a copy, handed it to Zhou Tieyi, then rolled up the manuscript and smiled playfully, "It seems that Mr. Panda has not given many gifts to girls he likes."

She pointed at the Netherworld treasures beside her. Although these treasures had great value in use, they were all gloomy and cold, and definitely didn't seem like good things to give to a girl.

(End of this chapter)