Chapter 564: Changing the soup but not the medicine
"Sir, you are brilliant." Meng Xifan admired him, "If Mr. Meng doesn't give up, I want to learn more from him."
"Me too." Gan Mao said.
"You can't forget me." Bai Siqi followed.
Then Gan Mao and Bai Siqi looked at Meng Xifan with evil intentions, as if to say: "How good of you, you dare to speak first. Forget about them."
Qin An said in a daze: "Three of you, your combined age is over two hundred years old. If you have nothing to learn from me, why don't you just stay at home and take care of yourself.
If you are here for your own family, I can ask your grandchildren to come to my place and I can teach them some knowledge. "
Meng Xifan and the other three looked at each other, and finally nodded slightly.
"That's fine." Meng Xifan said, "I still need a few people to take care of me when I stay, so let's bring those incompetent guys from my family here, just Mr. Hardworking."
"It's not hard. Come on, everyone."
In the spirit of respecting the elderly and caring for the young, Qin An agreed to this matter.
This made everyone very happy.
Gan Luo spoke again at this time and said: "Thank you sir for clarifying my doubts. But I still have a question. I hope you can clarify it."
Qin An nodded and said: "I still say the same thing. If I can, I will say it. If I don't, then I can only do nothing to help."
"Thank you, sir." Gan Luo said, "The imperial court has left and right prime ministers, prime ministers, nine ministers, six ministries, as well as Menxia Province and Zhongshu Province. Which systems are beneficial to the court and which systems can be abandoned?"
Qin An frowned slightly and said, "Any system is beneficial to the court, but some systems are more beneficial.
Of course, corruption will also occur in every system, and it will eventually cause harm to the country and the people.
Take the prime minister as an example. He is the official with the highest official position under the emperor. When the emperor handles official business, he basically cannot go around him.
Is it good to have such a prime minister who can help the emperor? Well, it must be good. Especially for a prime minister who is capable of doing things, it will definitely benefit the country and the people, no doubt about it.
Why the Qin State became more and more powerful and finally able to unify the six countries, the prime minister's contribution is absolutely indispensable.
If people like Lu Buwei, Gan Mao, Feng Quji and others had not made outstanding contributions to Qin, I am afraid it would still take some time for Qin to unify the six countries. "
"Why are you comparing rebellious officials and traitors like Lu Buwei with the ancestors of my Gan family?" Gan Mao said unhappily.
Qin An smiled bitterly and said: "Although Lu Buwei is greedy for power, his effectiveness is indispensable, and we cannot deny his talent.
If because the other party wants to usurp the throne, we must deny everything he does, that is wrong.
We can learn from the other party's abilities, but we cannot ignore the other party's achievements. Moreover, future generations will be able to comment on the merits and demerits, so we don’t need to worry about it.
To sum it up in one sentence, it is to take the essence and discard the dross. Learn the good ones and throw away the bad ones.
Let us continue to say that the position of the prime minister is good or bad depending on the person in office. "
"Do you mean to abolish the prime minister system?" Gan Mao said.
"No need." Qin An replied, "Just weaken the prime minister's power."
"Weakening the power of the prime minister?" Gan Luo frowned slightly. He had just become the left prime minister. Before he could get his ass wet, you were going to give away my power?
Qin An sighed and said: "Yes, first of all, your power is too great. You can directly bypass the emperor's power, just like Japan."
"What happened to Japan?" Meng Tian asked.
Qin An glanced at him and said: "The emperor of Japan is called the Emperor, and now he is only an emperor in name only.
The person who really controls Japan is the Prime Minister, that is, the Prime Minister?
There are many such examples in China, including a man named Cao Cao. Taking advantage of the chaos in the world, he seized the emperor, used the emperor to find a place to establish a court, and then used it to
Issue an edict in the name of the emperor to make them all submit to the court.
It is said that he belongs to the imperial court, but in fact he means submitting to Cao Cao.
This move is called coercing the emperor to command the princes. With the emperor in hand, everyone in the world will obey you. ap.
Therefore, for the sake of world stability. The position of prime minister will either be abolished. Either decentralize power, or change the name of the prime minister by cleverly changing the name.
During the Tang Dynasty, the imperial court established three provinces and six departments, including Menxia Province, Zhongshu Province and Shangshu Province.
The subordinate provinces have secret chapters, discuss state affairs together, are responsible for reviewing edicts, sign memorials, and have the right to refute.
The Zhongshu Sheng is in charge of secrets and is the highest agency that issues the emperor's edicts and central government decrees.
The Shangshu Province is the prime minister of national government affairs. Below him are the six ministries, namely the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Punishment, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Household Affairs.
These six ministries controlled all affairs in the world, had a clear division of labor, and jointly managed the world, making the Tang Dynasty very powerful.
The officials who are in charge of the three provinces are the prime ministers. Two officials in each province are equivalent to six prime ministers, and three are nine prime ministers.
As for the end, the position of prime minister was abolished after the Ming Dynasty and was completely gone.
But as I said, changing the soup does not change the medicine. "
Gan Luo nodded and said, "Sir, what you said makes sense. Although the prime minister's position is good, it can easily cause unnecessary trouble. Quan'er, there need to be more prime minister positions."
Gan Luo nodded and said, "Excuse me, sir, how will you persuade the village chief to change the structure of the court after he gets the village?"
Qin An said slowly: "It's hard to say, he didn't do anything wrong, why should we change him?
Even if a good department appears, it is useless if the officials are not good.
If it were me, I would not immediately ask the court to change this or that.
First of all, I will first understand the structure of all officials in the court, and then check each official position to see which ones are beneficial to the court, which are beneficial to the people, which are beneficial to officials, and which are beneficial to those big families, that is, aristocratic families.
After understanding, those officials who were beneficial to the court and the people registered, and those officials who were beneficial to the officials and the families began to investigate. Is it reasonable? If not, it’s still too late to change it.
Remember, everything is for the good of the people, and the court needs a lot of officials who can get benefits.
If there are benefits for the court, then there are benefits for the officials, and there are benefits for the emperor, so why not do it for everyone.
The most important thing is how the father-in-law will use them. "
Gan Luo began to think carefully about Qin An's words, which seemed very reasonable. Being an official is nothing more than serving the country, the people, and himself and his family.
There are those who serve the country and the people, and there are those who serve the family and themselves.
In the court, whether they are officials serving the country and the people, or officials serving the family or themselves, everyone has a prerequisite, that is, the First Emperor knows about this.
