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At the end of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Yuwentai united all parties internally, continuously wooed the Guanlong Group, and established the Western Wei Dynasty. Since then, it has set its capital in Chang’an, and has led the Western Wei Dynasty for 22 years. The essentials, so he asked Su Chuo about the way of governing the country, and the two talked behind closed doors for three days, and the content of the conversation was enough to shock the ancient and modern.
Yu Wentai: Dare to ask Mr. Su, the Western Wei Dynasty was established at the beginning of the regime, and the isolation of the outside world cannot appease the people, and the internal situation cannot be stabilized. How to quickly stabilize the regime and keep the country stable forever?
Su Chuo: Let the civil and military officials work together with one heart and one mind, and the people’s hearts will naturally be appeased.
Yu Wentai: This is true, but the civil and military officials do not necessarily work together, how to drive them to work for me and maintain the unity of the country for me?
Su Chuo: If you want all officials, civil and military, to have the same heart and mind, you must seek profit from corrupt officials. Only corrupt officials who profit will naturally support the rule, while courting honest officials with their reputation will naturally shout long live the clean officials. Only clean officials and corrupt officials check and balance each other, and neither side is allowed to take power.
Yu Wentai: Since ancient times, corrupt officials have been a source of disaster for the country. If there is no rush for the monarch to avoid it, how can it be used?
Su Chuo: An upright official has the wonderful function of an upright official, and a corrupt official has a wonderful function. The upright official only sees the people and the country, so the upright official dares to disobey the king’s orders and dare to risk his life to remonstrate. If the monarch wants to maintain authority, he must use the hands of corrupt officials to suppress it. Maintaining the holy name and status of the monarch is the magical function of corrupt officials, so the monarch must give riches and honor to corrupt officials. If the monarch does not give them so many benefits, then give them power and let them use the power in their hands to search for people’s fat and anoint them. They get benefits Naturally, the rights of the monarchy will be maintained.
Yu Wentai: If honest officials are suppressed, won’t the holy name of the monarch be tarnished? And the corrupt officials have benefited, where is the interest of the monarch?
Su Chuo: Honest officials are suppressed and squeezed out, and the mistakes are all borne by the corrupt officials. If they don’t bear the responsibility, they will be killed and pushed, saying that the monarch is deceived by them, and all mistakes are the fault of corrupt officials. In order to protect the sageness of the monarch, corrupt officials should know To get benefits is the power given to him by the monarch. In order to maintain these benefits, they must support the power of the monarch, take the blame for the monarch and have no complaints. The monarch not only gains power, but also gains reputation, and can control the court.
Yu Wentai: If these corrupt officials are greedy and have too much power, won’t they endanger the ruling status of the monarch, how to deal with them?
Su Chuo: As a monarch, he is not afraid of officials being corrupt, but afraid of officials having dissenting ideas. Therefore, we must use honest officials to fight against corrupt officials, so as to eliminate dissidents who do not obey the holy order, kill chickens for monkeys, and keep those corrupt officials who obey orders. Corrupt officials are naturally trembling. Dissidents are killed and family wealth is stolen. The monarch can first consolidate power, second, enrich his private treasury, and third, win the hearts of the people.
Yu Wentai: Desire is unlimited. If corrupt officials go too far, what should we do if there is a civil uprising?
Su Chuo: Then set up the banner of killing corrupt officials, and spread the propaganda widely, so that the world knows that the monarch knows the suffering of the people, and the world knows that the monarch especially hates corrupt officials, kills them, seizes their wealth, and eliminates the resentment of the people , then the people’s praises will rise, and they will naturally be loved.
Yu Wentai: This method is wonderful, Mr. Su please accept it.
Su Chuo: The secret of using officials is one-hearted, using corrupt officials to build loyalty, using upright officials to uphold the law, abandoning corrupt officials to eliminate dissidents, killing corrupt officials to anger the people, and seizing their wealth for private use. With this two handles of reward and punishment, All the officials in the world naturally bow their heads and obey their ears, and dare not do anything wrong with their hearts, so the powerful officials of the monarch will not dare to look sideways.
Yu Wentai: It is said that if the ruler does not keep secrets, he will lose his ministers; if his ministers do not keep secrets, he will lose his status; I know, Mr. Su must keep his mouth shut.
Su Chuo: The grassroots will not disgrace the order of the monarch, live up to the entrustment of the monarch, and do the work of a dog and a horse for the monarch.
Throughout Chinese history, all the emperors used corrupt officials to fight against corrupt officials. Qianlong raised corrupt officials He Shen, and Jiajing raised corrupt officials Yan Song. This historical cycle of using corrupt officials and fighting corrupt officials seems to be working. If the country wants to To develop, we must get out of the vicious circle, open up a new historical trajectory, lock power in the cage of the system, and let corrupt officials feel at risk from now on, not wanting to be greedy, not daring to be greedy.
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