After listening to Liu Bei's opinion, Ruan Yu's brows gradually furrowed and his expression became serious.
"That being said, it is indeed true. In order to avoid being laid off, officials will indeed do anything they can. Forty to fifty thousand people will do anything they can... The world will be in chaos in an instant."
"So, how can this be tranquility and inaction? This is obviously a huge undertaking. It is so ambitious that even I don't dare to do it."
Liu Bei said with a smile: "Taoist art emphasizes tranquility and inaction for one purpose, and the process and means must be similar to tranquility and inaction. It is difficult to succeed by using stormy means to achieve the purpose of tranquility and inaction, just as a seriously ill person cannot play tiger or wolf."
medicine, otherwise it will be easy to kill someone."
"So, there are some voices from the outside world saying that your actions are too violent and are not a good thing for the big man."
Ruan Yu asked: "Do you think that's the case? Do you feel that everything you do is a recipe for tiger and wolf medicine? Is the current situation of the entire Han Dynasty very dangerous?"
"Do I still call this violent?"
Liu Bei smiled bitterly and said: "Have you not seen how I treat those insects? Before every policy promotion, I carefully negotiate with them and communicate with them. We talk about what they want. We talk back and forth until the price is right before pushing forward.
Policy, except this time I didn’t give it, when was the previous time I didn’t give it?
Why? Isn’t it just that I’m worried that the opposition will be too strong? I always have to find a legitimate reason to handle things in a way that others can’t object to. To achieve my goal, I feel that I am overly cautious.
Call it violent?"
Ruan Yu thought for a while and felt that what Liu Bei said made sense.
"If you say so, you are right."
"That's the truth!"
Liu Bei shook his head and said: "Besides, if you want to talk about the medicine of tiger and wolf, then what I am going to give now is indeed the medicine of tiger and wolf, but it was not the same before. The big man was seriously ill, and I treated him carefully bit by bit to make him healthy.
I slowly regained my strength and then increased the dosage of medicine.
Moreover, don’t forget, I also have a magic medicine that can guarantee that this weak patient will never die and can turn things around at the critical moment. It is with this magic medicine that I dare to do it
So many things.”
"Magic medicine?"
Ruan Yu was stunned for a moment. Looking at Liu Bei's inexplicable smile, he suddenly thought of something and slapped his head.
"This army of 250,000 people!"
"correct!"
Liu Bei patted Ruan Yu's hand: "The invincible army is the real magic medicine that guarantees that the big man will never die. With this magic medicine in hand, we can truly use all the medicines that can be used.
, so as not to let the big man really die like that.
With this magical medicine in hand, it is actually not impossible to give this weak patient some tiger and wolf medicine. But I was more cautious before. If I just give him the tiger and wolf medicine, it will be like killing the field.
The whole world will rebel, that is the real tiger and wolf medicine, it will kill people."
"Indeed."
Ruan Yu nodded seriously, agreeing with Liu Bei's view.
"And even if nothing else is said, the secondary restructuring of prefectures and counties he proposed, I think, even the court that truly adheres to Huang Lao's techniques will not do it, as long as they are wise enough."
"Is this what Huang Lao's art says? Isn't it better to have fewer officials in light corvee and low tax, and to be quiet and inactive? Is there any difference?"
Ruan Yu's curiosity was piqued and he looked at Liu Bei curiously.
"Of course, Huang Lao's art is not that simple. In their view, the more institutions such as states, counties and counties, the more stable the world will be. The fewer institutions, the less stable the world will be. Some people think that reducing institutions will make the world more stable.
The country has become better, but it is not that simple."
Liu Bei said slowly: "Actually, the reason is easy to explain. Yuan Yu, if one day you feel that you are a little impatient with your wife, I will transfer you from Luoyang to work elsewhere, and you will not be allowed to take your wife with you."
, and you are not allowed to take any women with you.
In a month or two you will miss your wife more than anything else, and if I ask your wife to look for you again, hahaha, it will be a raging fire, and it will get out of hand."
"Ah? What...what is this?"
"Remember, distance creates beauty."
Liu Bei shook his head, sighed, and put on a very helpless expression.
"This is also the despicable heart of a superior and a carnivore. Judging from the current situation, it is a dream to expect that the officials will not act recklessly and abide by the law. It is absolutely impossible to succeed. No matter how I strengthen the Yushitai and the Sili School
Lieutenant, strengthen supervision, this is inevitable.
Especially those low-level officials who are closest to the people. They face the people directly, and their every word and action are in the eyes of the people. What they do will make the people hate and full of resentment. Once the people break out,
Chaos, they were also the first group of people to die.
But before that, the people below will still expect a higher-level government to deal with them, and they will have expectations for a higher-level government that they don’t understand. When this expectation fails, there will be a higher-level government.
The level of government officials came to look forward to it, and so on, until the final emperor."
"this……"
Ruan Yu was stunned when he heard this.
He is not an administrative official, he is a pen and a chariot of public opinion. This is the first time he has heard of this simple technique of ruling.
"The farther away you are from the lowest level and the more mysterious you are, the more high-sounding you can put on, and the more trustworthy and reassuring you can be with this look. If you do one or two more things, it will look like you are in the right place."
Things that uphold justice are enough to make people praise you for a long time and maintain hope for a long time.
During this period of time, the stability of the country has greatly increased, and the stability of the local area has also increased. From this point of view, the so-called quiet and inaction in Huang Lao's art is the truth. The more senior officials, or simply
Let's talk about the emperor, the less he has to do.
He only needs to act calm and inactive, remain mysterious, and keep a distance, and he will naturally gain trust and make the people full of hope in him. In this way, the people will not cause chaos because they have completely lost hope.
In other words, the greatest significance of being an emperor or an emperor is not to govern the country, but to simply exist there, exchanging peace and quiet for one's lofty status, so as to calm people's hearts. That's why the so-called holy emperor bows his head and bows his head.
The theory of governance.”
Liu Bei spread his hands and told him these things that Ruan Yu had never understood before, leaving Ruan Yu stunned for a while.
After a long time, Ruan Yu opened his mouth with some difficulty.
"Is this Taoist art?"
"The art of Taoism is something that is really meant for the emperor and the emperor to see. It is of no use to ordinary people. It only solves problems for the biggest person in the world, and does not solve problems for other people."
Liu Bei laughed and said: "From this point of view, a centralized monarch, a monarch who has to do everything and give orders personally, will definitely not have a good reputation, because everyone knows the mistakes he makes, even if
Even the people at the lowest level will know who is harming them.
So from bottom to top, everyone loses hope, and everyone will attack in groups and destroy everything. But if another person does such bad things, such as the prime minister, the three princes, or the general.
Even if these people are wrong, they can still remove his position and replace it with someone else, and hopefully it will be re-established, but changing the emperor is not that simple."
Liu Bei laughed out loud.
He smiled and Ruan Yu also laughed.
It seems that Ruan Yu has also understood what is so wonderful about the ruling technique of Taoism.
After all, it was the top ruling technique that created an era, but it was by no means as simple as being quiet and inaction.