Even Yan Yi disagrees with the amendment of this article. .
He has seen the scene of elections taking power in the market.
In the election month, wealthy businessmen shuttle back and forth, carrying large and small bags, to canvass for votes in person.
However, some small businessmen shamelessly marked the price of the tickets in their hands.
Even if there are occasionally talented and heroic people who win the hearts of the people and are elected to exercise power, they will soon be corrupted by sugar-coated bullets.
This is still in Guanzhong, at the feet of the emperor!
If you leave Hangu Pass and head east to Luoyang, the situation will be even more serious!
The local authorities exercised power and almost became the lackeys of wealthy businessmen and powerful people!
They control prices, manipulate the market, and even maliciously squeeze out competitors.
If the integrity of local village pavilions is like that of Su Quan, and the people are allowed to vote, then there is no doubt that what happened to Quan Quan will be replicated in the village pavilions.
By then, I'm afraid people's hearts will be lost and the simplicity will no longer exist!
However, Yan Yi had no choice.
This is the will of the emperor!
What can he do?
The ministers were in an uproar, talking among themselves, and they all had different opinions on the addition of this law.
"Your Majesty!" An official who looked like a county governor came out to pay homage and said, "Your Majesty, Zhou Taimei, the governor of Pi County, died to report: I am foolish to think that this law is very inappropriate! Since ancient times, people have been governed by hard work, and those who work hard will be governed. If the current law
If the people are promised self-government, the prestige of the county will be lost, and the prestige of the Han officials will be wiped out! Your Majesty, please take a closer look!"
"Your Majesty, your Majesty, Sui Yang ordered Xu Zhi to second the proposal..."
In an instant, more than ten local county guards and county lieutenants came out to express their opposition.
This is the instinctive reaction of the bureaucracy.
The authority of the pavilion is very important!
The pavilion chief and Li Zheng are the last link between the bureaucracy and the people.
Those pavilion chiefs who pretend to be fellow villagers, Li Zheng, may dare to challenge the local officials, and dare to use public opinion to oppose the local officials!
There are examples!
After the Zhangqiu Incident, Zhangqiu County became a county with unruly people who were feared by officials all over the world.
The local area has had four county magistrates and more than a dozen county lieutenants in the past few years. As a result, these county magistrates and county lieutenants were all run away by the people of Zhangqiu.
One of the county magistrates just wanted to collect more money and improve his living conditions, but the county magistrate was blocked by these unscrupulous people.
Jinan County was afraid of repeating the mistakes of the Zhangqiu Incident, so it could only quickly transfer the county magistrate, send people to put out the fire, and promised a bunch of preferential conditions to make these unruly people obey.
With this example in mind, the bureaucrats would rather die than see unruly people like Zhangqiu appear under their rule.
It's so disgusting that it makes me sick to death!
If some people oppose it, then naturally there will be people who support it.
"Your Majesty..." Among the foreign ministers, Dou Guangguo, the Marquis of Zhangwu, stood up slowly, looked at the ministers, and then said softly: "I think this method is very good! This can not only stabilize the people and govern themselves, but also prevent the remnants of the people and harm the people.
Officer! This is the method of the Holy King!"
Taichang Dou Pengzu also paid homage: "Your Majesty, I heard that the Duke of Heshang once said: When a sage governs a big country, he especially thinks of it as small, showing frugality, not extravagance. Although the people are numerous, they are still as few as few, and they dare not work hard! Therefore,
The people have hundreds of utensils but do not use them. This is the method of the Holy King! Now Your Majesty uses the method of the Holy King to bring peace to the world. I would like to congratulate the world!"
A bunch of famous Huang-Lao sect ministers and nobles came out one after another to support this law. The reason is very simple. For the Huang-Lao sect, small government and a big society are the ideal society they pursue.
As Lao Tzu said: Neighboring countries look at each other, chickens and dogs hear each other, and people do not interact with each other until they grow old and die.
They absolutely support civil autonomy and people's autonomy!
Although the Huang-Lao sect is now in decline, its power in the court is still very strong.
In an instant, their momentum overwhelmed those who opposed it.
Especially the god card they brought out was the Lord on the River!
Who is the Lord on the River?
Maybe future generations will know very little about this, but during the Qin and Han dynasties, and even during the entire Chinese feudal dynasty, the name of Lord Heshang was well-known!
He is the founder of Fang Xiandao, a branch of the Huanglao sect in the Qin and Han Dynasties, and the ancestor of the Taoist magic sticks.
He had a disciple named An Qisheng.
Well, it's the legendary immortal who appears and disappears, lives forever, and ascends to immortality.
It was Qin Shihuang, the immortal that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had been begging to see all his life!
Ge Hong of the Eastern Jin Dynasty regarded this man as his ancestor. He once wrote in his work: In that year, he traveled to the rooftop, watched the sunrise over the East China Sea, enjoyed the scenic views of the Immortal Mountains, visited the hometown of Taigong, saw the remains of the Immortal Ancestor, and met An.
Mr. Qi's stone house is still there, and the traces of the Duke's sitting on the river are still there.
Li Longji and other later emperors who sought immortality also wrote poems to express their admiration for this immortal ancestor.
Even if two thousand years pass, there will still be many scenic spots bearing the name of this immortal ancestor in the Tiantai Mountain Scenic Area.
But at this time, Heshang Gong's religious status was secondary to his academic status.
The annotated version of the Tao Te Ching he left behind is the most authoritative annotated version of the Tao Te Ching in the world. All Huang Lao scholars must read his annotated version of the Tao Te Ching.
His position in the Huang-Lao Sect is what Mr. Zixia is to Confucianism, and what Han Feizi is to Legalism.
He is a key figure who connects the past and the future.
It can even be said that the essence of the governing thoughts of the Huang-Lao School politicians of the Han Dynasty was derived from the thoughts of this unknown Huang-Lao School sage.
This gentleman was the first to put forward the concepts of being quiet and doing nothing, resting with the people.
When Dou Guangguo took the lead, Huang Laopai followed closely behind and made his own voice, the whole hall suddenly fell silent.
Zhang Wuhou Dou Guangguo represents the face of the Empress Dowager.
His voice represented the Empress Dowager's attitude on this matter.
The current Empress Dowager was not an easy person to deal with.
Although she doesn't care about political affairs now, she still wants to kill a few officials, but it's still very simple.
Didn't you see that the Confucian giant Yuan Gusheng has been suppressed because he offended this person? He didn't even get a doctorate?
Therefore, for a while, the scholar-officials and bureaucrats were a little afraid.
But they soon put this fear behind them.
Because this involves their fundamental interests!
If this law is allowed to pass, what will happen if the mud-legged people rebel in the future?
A few seconds later, someone came to pay homage: "Your Majesty, I think Lord Dou is as great as Taichang and others said!"
Liu Che looked at this man and sneered in his heart.
He recognized this guy, he was a member of the Legalist family.
To be precise, it was Chao Cuo's confidant, classmate, and the governor of Julu County, Yang Kai.
Obviously, it is not only the Confucians who are dissatisfied with this law, but also the Legalists who are dissatisfied with this law that may lead to the revival of the Huang-Lao sect. More importantly, the Legalists are not willing to give the people any autonomy!
In the eyes of Legalists, the people only have the right to obey and follow their arrangements.
