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Chapter 21 Ouyang Xiu's Doubt

Today is the Great Dynasty, and then the New Year holiday, everyone goes home for the New Year.

After the scattered court, Zhao Zhen ordered Xu Ping's memorial in Tianzhang Pavilion to the court, and Xu officials discussed it.

Ouyang Xiu and Cai Xiang were on the list and saw Xu Ping’s section on his friend’s party. “The literati and officials are the one party, and there are friends but not friends in the party.”

Cai Xiang pointed to Ouyang Xiu and said, "Uncle Yong, this theory of your husband is inconsistent with what you discuss in daily life."

Ouyang Xiu raised his sleeves and muttered in a low voice: "If you don't agree, you will naturally take your husband as the right person. I will correct it myself, but I don't know what this argument means to you. If your fellow disciples are friends and comrades are friends, should the scholars and officials have only one ambition?"

Sima Guang, who returned to the court, happened to pass by, sighed, and said to the two: "My husband wants to be a moral one."

After saying that, he raised his sleeves and walked away with big strides.

"One morality?" Ouyang Xiu and Cai looked at each other and understood the central idea of ​​the list. A series of administrative measures to be held are actually not that important. Everyone can give their opinions, and Xu Ping will accept them as long as they are correct.

The core of the long discussion between Xu Ping and Zhao Zhen is actually a moral among scholars and officials. In his previous life, it is to make the scholars and officials a ruling party with a not-close organization but a unified thought.

In history, Wang Anshi, a political party of this kind, had worked hard. His fundamental purpose was not to be a great scholar in the world, but to be a moral among scholars and officials, and everyone had the same political thoughts. Wang Anshi had a morality and the opponents had the same morality, and the result was that the old and new parties were in opposition. It was not only the party that came from the West that was the party. The two parties that appeared in the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty were actually different from the previous party struggles. They each had clear political thoughts and political programs, but they were not as strict as those of later parties in their organization. Or they did not have a clear organization or a clear leader.

The core reason why the Party becomes a Party is its own political thoughts and political line, not its organizational form. It is not necessary for a Party like Europe and the United States to become a Party. The Party of the Song Dynasty has its own characteristics, with relatively unified thoughts and loose organization.

One of the shortcomings of Wang Anshi's new party was that his thoughts were too complicated, from the cycle of heaven and the nature of man, he almost included everything. If one morality was to be in the world, such an all-encompassing idea was necessary, such as Xu Ping's proletarian party in his previous life, from social development to science and technology, from man to the universe, involving all knowledge. This is the need for struggle, and he fought against the bourgeoisie in every direction. But only one morality in politics does not need to involve these.

Just when it comes to politics, political thoughts are unified. When the thoughts are unified, all political behaviors have a basis.

Because there is a large discussion of civil and military affairs in the court, there are clerks next to them. They are not printed and sent to everyone, but are listed in the court for everyone to copy, so that the only copy here is correct. Except for what is written on the list, which one of the memorials discusses what is not in the list, which one is responsible for it. This is to ensure seriousness, don’t make too many things, and discuss everything.

Ouyang Xiu and Cai Xiang each took it out of the imperial city. It was the first day of the New Year holiday. After discussing, they went to Xu Ping and Wang Gongchen's silver shop together to drink.

When he arrived at the shop, he saw Xu Ping’s statement about the private money of officials. Ouyang Xiu raised his head and said, “According to what my husband said, officials are not allowed to have private money. So what should I do with this shop? Could it be that I sold it?”

Cai Xiang pulled Ouyang Xiu and said, "You can understand it and then discuss it! Let's go, don't watch it, drink!"

Find a seat and sit down and read the rest before you can fully understand Bai Xuping's meaning. Officials are not allowed to have private property, which means they are not allowed to have private property under their rule. This has been emphasized and there is no difference. At this time, the officials who are in court above the rank of the government are added. If they have private property in the capital, they will be confiscated when they are in the capital. If the court does not accept it, the emperor will issue an edict to give it to you. Since it is given, you can take it away at any time.

The confiscation of industrial income is not the confiscation of industries, but the industry is still yours, but the income from the past few years is confiscated. What follows is that the court will send people to supervise, and the officials' industries will have to pay the costs of these supervisors.

In this era, there is no need to worry about the rich people not willing to go to other countries in anger. What should I do if the printed money is taken away is useless, the industry cannot be taken away, and the actual impact is very small when people leave. The court can hold all the entire accounting system and banking system in its own hands, and ownership and management rights can be collected and released at any time, adjusting the intensity of social exploitation.

Xu Ping's main purpose of doing this is not to prevent officials who are on duty or above, for fear that they will affect the country's policies for their own interests. For their own people, such prevention and control will make the organization disinterested. If you have such actions or such suspicion, you will have your own censorship system to drive people away. Or the same sentence, you must judge the truth and the heart.

The purpose of this is to express your opinion to the officials below the system and establish the status and authority of the officials above the system. Those of them can ignore their own interests. Officials below should take this as an example and strengthen everyone's political stance.

Officials have positions, officials and dispatches, which seem to be complex in the system, and sometimes it is confusing. Some people have always asked to change it, believing that official titles and positions should be paid together. Xu Ping insisted on not changing it, but just agreed to revise the system of the officials and change the areas that are confused with dispatches. It is not that Xu Ping is stubborn, but that this is really impossible to change. If you force it, you will also change your face.

Simply put, the three things that officials have are determined by the political structure, not left behind by previous dynasties, and habits become natural. Jobs are waiting for literature first. In fact, Xu Ping's own literature is not very good, but he has been leading the position after returning from Yongzhou. The real intention of the position is actually nothing to do with literature. He is here to leave the literati and official, and is a member of the ruling group. Only when an official takes the position can he become a literati and official, which is a discipline requirement outside of ordinary officials. Leading and dismissing positions, as well as promotion and punishment of officials, are part of the promotion and punishment of officials. Small officials also serve as key tasks.

The scholar-officials must form their own party. Whether they lead their positions or not will determine whether they belong to a member of this party. Even if Xu Ping is not as clear as Xu Ping, the facts are the same. Therefore, the Yuanfeng restructuring in history must return to such a system after the reform.

The emperor and scholars and officials rule the world together is not a slogan that wins people's hearts, but a political principle, which is to be implemented in the political structure and into political behavior. The official system is part of the political structure, not independent.

Officials determine the income of officials and what treatment they enjoy is related to their ranks. Departure is a specific thing. Some people have always complained that it is too chaotic, especially compared with the official system of the previous dynasty. It is normal to be disorderly, because no regime has been like the Song Dynasty, and it has been in charge of all aspects of the entire society, and it is not so unacceptable.

Compared with Xu Ping's previous life, positions are actually party positions, and officials are what level you are at, and assignments are actually positions. The various envoys and various recruits in this era are actually various leaders and directors in Xu Ping's previous life. For example, his previous life members of the county party committee, the full-time section level, and the agricultural machinery stationmaster, correspond to the positions, officials and assignment systems of this era.

It was just that the Song Dynasty had a unity of party and government, and there was no organizational structure of the literati and officials separated from administration. The literati were the people in power in the political structure. This structure was because the regime itself was a harmonious regime, not a dictatorial regime. There was no need to establish a separate party of the literati to represent the interests of a certain class and ensure the dictatorship nature of the regime.

If we replace the negation of the philosophical foundation in class theory with all things, as an ideology, the literati group becomes the ruling party, not the revolutionary party. As the ruling party, there is no need to come out alone to ensure dictatorship, because there is no dictatorship under this ideology, but reconciliation.

Without Xu Ping, there would be no such transformation, but to develop normally to Wang Anshi's reform. The new and old parties appeared. If the conditions were appropriate, the bourgeois regime would appear. Without huge external threats, the army could completely control it, and a capitalist class appeared in society, and the official business slowly moved to society. The Song Dynasty became a capitalist country.

In order to create a new society, we buried everything in the old society, except for eating, drinking and having fun, and every item was labeled as backward and ignorant. Of course, this is not the case. During the Northern Song Dynasty, from ideology to politics itself, we had the conditions for development toward a capitalist society, but the productivity and social and economic conditions were not met. When the production and economic conditions were met, we would naturally transition to the earliest capitalism in Western Europe. It was only possible that it would be either the constitutional monarchy of the emperor's autocracy or the two-party system of strong heads of state.

The class theory philosophy of negation and negation was not shown in the East. When Japan entered capitalism, it was through the transformation of the ministers and forcibly implementing industrialization. In the end, the vain king was just a shogunate in history.

Europe entered capitalism, and domestic riots continued. I don’t know how many kings were sent to the forefront and how many feudal lords were killed. Rather than saying that it was a negative class revolution that reflected the negative, negative, and the great unification of the family world to private world or public world. This process should be analogous to China’s process from feudalism to great unification in the Warring States Period.

In Chinese history, there was actually no great turmoil caused by the slave society becoming a feudal society, which was completed during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Moreover, in Chinese history, the characteristics of slave states were not prominent.

In terms of thought and politics, China had already met the conditions to enter a capitalist society from the historical stage of the Middle Tang Dynasty to the Middle Northern Song Dynasty, and the old and new parties had the nature of a bourgeois party. Because the struggle between the old and new parties, the subsequent strengthening of the monarchy was because of the historical tradition of China that in class struggle, the emperor must be independent and not controlled to ensure the harmony of the entire regime.

Ouyang Xiu’s doubts were that he had already realized the two-party system and multi-party system in his clique theory, but Xu Ping kicked into the one-party rule.
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