Feeling the gazes of the ministers, Liu Che stood up.
After taking two steps forward and making some gestures, Liu Che said: "I think what Tao Hou said is very good, and the following Hou Xunchen and ministers will discuss it together with more than two thousand stones!"
There is an unspoken rule in the politics of the Han Dynasty: no matter how urgent the emperor wants to implement a certain policy, he must pretend to let officials with more than 2,000 shi discuss and discuss, come up with the answer he wants, and then follow the trend.
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Sometimes, when there is a major nationwide adjustment, we have to listen to opinions and suggestions from all the county governors, county lieutenants, former officials, three ministers, princes and kings from all over the world.
It looks a bit like aristocratic folk cooking or a republic.
But in fact, not only Liu Che knew it, but also most of the princes and honorable ministers in the world.
This is just a method used by the emperor to show that his policies have the widest support and popular support.
Moreover, this tradition is actually very fragile.
The emperor was impatient, so he set aside this tradition and went it alone.
For example, there was huge opposition from the government and the public to the late emperor's policy of reducing vassal states. Even Shen Tujia publicly stood up against the overly radical reduction of vassal states.
However, it is not the same.
But the vitality of this tradition is very tenacious.
No matter how the rulers trample on it, destroy it, or ignore it.
One day, this ruler or his heirs will take the initiative to pick it up in order to calm people's hearts and unite the government and the opposition.
Historically, during the middle period of Piggy's rule, he was basically a dictator.
No one, anything, or will can change his mind. This tradition has been trampled underfoot and trampled into the mud!
so what?
In Xiaozhu's later years, Xiaozhu passed a piece of paper and took the initiative to pick it up.
Not to mention the Zhaoxuan period.
Local gentry and powerful landowners can even directly participate in discussing and revising national policies, and even influence ideology!
Several Salt and Iron Conferences and the Shiquge Debate were all born in this context.
Therefore, in a sense, the emperor is a god, and the Western Han Dynasty regime with unlimited monarchical power was the most popular (on the surface) in China's two thousand years of feudal history.
A commoner landowner can rant against the ruling chief agricultural officer.
A few poor local scholars dared to criticize and criticize the country's ideology and core values, and they succeeded!
Such a situation never happened even in the two Song dynasties, which boasted that they shared the world with scholar-bureaucrats!
Liu Che had previously used his royal power to trample on this tradition in order to quickly pass the salt and iron policy and form a superficial consensus between the government and the opposition.
If you continue to play like this, it will be too ugly to eat.
Therefore, no matter what, Liu Che must show off to the world: I am not an independent man, and I cannot dominate the world by myself!
This is why Liu Che arranged the discussion of immigration policy after the salt and iron policy.
It's just a simple psychological trick.
Now it seems that this strategy is not bad. At the very least, it has successfully allowed the immigration policy to skip the stage of wrangling and rhetoric and enter the stage of actual operation.
If we talk about the immigration policy first, let’s not talk about the Yantie government camp later. Because these guys have the illusion of people’s control of the immigration policy, they act recklessly and challenge the monarchy. Just the time for wrangling and talking is enough.
Use up all the remaining time in today's meeting.
"I have received the imperial edict!" The ministers bowed down one after another.
Human beings are always full of interest in being able to participate in and discuss national affairs, regardless of era, dynasty, nation, or race.
Otherwise, the keyboard Politburo and the Neighborhood Committee Organization Department of the next generation would not be so prosperous and powerful.
But unfortunately, power is always concentrated in the hands of a small group of people at the top of the pyramid.
This is true regardless of era, dynasty, nation, race or even ideology!
Compared with the world before the Christian era, the only difference in this regard may be that the space at the top of the pyramid is larger and more big bosses can stand, while the people at the lower levels are addicted to propaganda or are
They are indoctrinated into thinking that they are the masters of the country.
but……
is it possible?
Liu Che chuckled softly and whispered in his heart: "I'm afraid that even in the interstellar age and heading towards the Milky Way, it will still be the small group of people who control the country and formulate policies. However, the methods may be more advanced and covert, making the majority of the people more
I firmly believe that I am the master of the country and political power...that's the second best thing..."
Thinking like this, Liu Che said: "Today's court meeting, let's stop here. The ministers will go back and discuss what Tao Hou said. Next time the court meeting will come up with a concrete and feasible plan and brainstorm, I will personally visit the ministers.
Choose the strategy that worries you and carry it out!"
Although, in fact, specific rough plans and plans have been made, but once the people's cooking, or what is called in China in this era, the system of widening the voice, once it has been made, it must be carried out to the end!
What's more, the courtiers are all elites, and many of them have practical work experience. Many of them have even participated in land granting and immigration work under Zhang Cang. With their opinions and supplements, there are only benefits and no harm to the immigrants.
The ministers then kowtowed three times and said goodbye to the emperor. After Liu Che left, they slowly got up and followed the etiquette and walked out of the Xuanshi Hall.
Then they all headed towards the East Palace.
Most of the courtiers went to the East Palace just to fulfill their obligations and pay their respects to the two queen mothers.
However, Dou's relatives and some people with their own little calculations couldn't wait to report the contents of today's meeting to the two empress dowagers, especially the empress dowager, the current ruler of the East Palace.
Liu Che stood on the palace wall of Xuanshi Palace, looking at the ministers riding in gorgeous carriages along the palace road, escorted by guards to the East Palace.
To say that I have no opinions in my heart would be a lie!
No king can tolerate his authority being shared or even invaded by others.
Otherwise, future generations of kings would not set the rule that the harem should not interfere with politics, and piglets would not kill their mothers to save their offspring.
However, Liu Che also knew that the two-house system was an iron political law that could not be changed in the Han Dynasty.
As long as the Han Dynasty regime still adheres to the basic principle of governing the world with filial piety and brotherhood, the power of the East Palace will not be reduced in the slightest.
This fact made Liu Che realize one thing clearly: It is important to cultivate heirs, but it is even more important to educate the concubines in the harem!
Concubines should not just stay in the palace and act cute and coquettish.
They should learn and master more knowledge, have vision and means.
And established a system for concubines to learn and master knowledge.
Only in this way can the stability of the Han Dynasty be ensured!
As the emperor, Liu Che knew one thing very well, that is: if the person in power after Liu Bang's death was not Empress Lu but Madam Qi in the tragedy, then the current Han Dynasty might have been torn apart, with wars everywhere, feudal princes separatist regimes, and melee fighting.
No end!
The fact that the Qin State was able to remain strong and stable at that time was also related to the fact that several monarchs in its history came to the throne at a young age, and the queen mother in power was first-rate in both means and vision.
Among them, Queen Mother Xuan was the one who turned the tide. (To be continued.) h118
