Dressed as the Queen Mother to grasp the script of a strong country

Chapter 26 Official Supervision
"The way to be an official is nothing more than to be loyal to the emperor, love the people, and be literary and honest. This is the eternal way to be an official. But why have corrupt officials always been rampant in the dynasty since ancient times? Don't they have a Confucian culture that is easy to accept? But they Have you all been influenced by Confucian culture since childhood? Why did you change after you became an official?" Liang Meng asked calmly.

No one expected that the Queen Mother would ask such a question.

"Loyalty to the emperor, love for the people, literary talent, integrity, and being an official are the way to go. Why are corrupt officials always rampant?" Liu Ruhui repeated in his mind.

"Loyal to the king, loving the people, literary, talented and honest, why do things always change after becoming an official?" Zheng Baiying's heart was shaken, and she had never thought about such a question.

There was an eerie silence in the hall.

"Ruhui, Bai Ying, Aijia has memorized your answers. Aijia hopes that after you join the court as officials in the future, you will keep in mind what I said to Aijia about being an official today. When faced with the challenge of being loyal to the emperor and loving the people, When choosing between righteousness and satisfying your own selfish interests, keep in mind the heart you had when you first became officials." Liang Meng said calmly.

"Ruhui, please remember the Queen Mother's teachings." Liu Ruhui had already put away his arrogance and disdain and said respectfully.

"Bo Ying, you will never let down the Queen Mother's teachings." Zheng Bai Ying became more serious and said seriously.

"It's too late today, I'm exhausted." After saying this, Liang Meng stood up and left.

"I will send you off to the Empress Dowager."

"Queen Mother, Queen Mother, why do you still become a corrupt official after becoming an official?" Jing Huan asked curiously.

"Jing Huan, when did you start caring about government affairs?" Liang Meng asked with a smile.

"Empress, Jing Huan is very curious? Empress, please tell me, right?" Jing Huan refused.

"It's because the queen mother didn't know that she asked such a question! So Ai Jia and Jing Huan need to explore, understand, and understand later." Liang Meng replied.

"Does the Queen really not know?" Jing Huan asked.

Liang Meng did not answer, but nodded.

"Well, Jing Huan will look for the answer carefully." Jing Huan said seriously.

Liang Meng watched Jing Huan gradually becoming lost in thought.

Why are officials in successive dynasties always corrupt? Does Liang Meng really have no answer?

No, Liang Meng has the answer to this.

But in an agricultural society, this is an unsolvable problem.

In primitive society, every human being is like a lion, facing powerful enemies and the wind, rain, thunder and lightning of nature alone, and surviving alone on the grassland.Because in order to better face wind, rain, thunder and lightning, face powerful enemies, survive.

Human beings unite and form groups, similar to a pride of lions, thus forming human society.

In order to form a group, human beings give up their individuality and release their instincts and freedoms.

In an agricultural society, humans depend on the sky for food. Only by uniting can humans resist floods, droughts, and plagues.

And in an agricultural society, one depends on the weather for food, and food is limited.

Similar to a pride of lions, the emperor is the lion king of human society. The emperor commands mankind to unite and fight, but the large number of people need more commanders, so more officials appear.

The food grown by the people was needed to feed the emperor and officials. Among the lions, the food was always distributed by the lion king. The lion king would always distribute the food to others after he was full.

This is due to the scarcity of resources and the instinct of living things to survive.

Therefore, when faced with food that can keep another creature alive, when resources are scarce, nobles like emperors and lowly slaves will continue to plunder resources.

This is the instinct of living things when faced with scarce resources.

In an agricultural society, due to the need to face natural disasters, power must be handed over to the emperor in order to survive better.

Officials were formed to help the emperor better organize mankind to deal with natural disasters.

In order to better face natural disasters, humans must put away their rights, freedoms, and have obligations, obedience, and loyalty. Therefore, in an agricultural society, there will be no people to supervise officials.

The emperor and officials will not give up fighting for poor resources. It is the instinct of biological survival. This is why officials are corrupt and the emperor is stupid and unethical.

The power in the hands of officials and emperors will never stop expanding.

In order to survive in an agricultural society, people are not allowed to disobey, so power without supervision will never stop expanding.

Zhou Chao
The Emperor of Zhou divided the feudal lords into feudal lords, who could manage land and population, build armies, and collect grain.

This is because in the primitive social environment where individuals survived to the agricultural social environment where they united to resist natural disasters and foreign enemies, the emperor was not able to command all human groups. Instead, there were smaller groups, and the leaders of all ethnic groups were commanded by the emperor.

But just like in a group of lions, based on survival instinct, there will always be someone who will challenge the lion king and obtain the right to distribute food. Those princes will always challenge the emperor of Zhou and will not hand over their food.

Qin Dynasty
The system of prefectures and counties emerged, and the emperor's power continued to expand.

As imperial power continues to expand and acquire resources, local power continues to decrease. Imperial power means that the central and local governments have been competing for resources for thousands of years. Once one party is weak, the other party will become stronger, and it will be like a pride of lions, driving away the previous lion king. Out of the pride of lions.

The central and local governments of all dynasties have always been like this.At the beginning of human society, in order to better command human society in the face of natural disasters and foreign enemies, emperors appeared. In order to better command human society, there were auxiliary officials.

When faced with food, all officials are like lions, fighting for each other and constantly expanding their power, and eventually a prime minister is formed to lead all officials.

The prime minister and the emperor were like lions when faced with food, and would snatch it. This formed a thousand-year struggle for imperial power and prime minister power.

The power of the prime minister originally belonged to only one person. The emperor divided the power of the prime minister among three people, namely the three ministers, nine ministers, three provinces and six ministries. However, when the three people competed, there would always be a winner, so the emperor gave the power to several people, such as the Ming Dynasty. The cabinet, the military aircraft department of the Qing Dynasty.

Imperial power and prime ministerial power, imperial power continues to expand, and prime ministerial power continues to shrink. Once one party is weaker than the other, the other party will in turn continue to expand and seize resources.

In an agricultural society, in order to resist natural disasters, survive, and grow food, we have to unite and obey the emperor, the lion king, and officials. The emperor and officials have power and do not allow the people to disobey.

The poverty of resources and the instinct of living things to obtain food for survival prompted the emperor's officials who held power to continuously expand their power and obtain food resources to survive.

Therefore, there will never be a solution to official corruption in the entire agricultural society. For thousands of years, the solution in agricultural society has been for officials to restrain themselves and let other officials supervise and fight.

But neither can effectively resist the instinct of organisms to grab resources.

And in modern society.

Industrial technology can enable food to respond to floods, droughts, cold temperatures, etc.

Industrial technology can make humans rely on technology, such as guns, bombs, etc., when facing war.

Therefore, when the problems of survival and food are solved, unity and obedience become less important. Human beings begin to pursue freedom and rights, and begin to break away from obedience.

Industrial society has sufficient resources. At this time, human beings began to pursue freedom.

The human race always goes from living alone in primitive society to uniting to live together and finally returns to living alone.

At this time, the people will break free and return to a state of freedom. If the ruler says that you must obey at this time, then the people will resist because there is no reason to obey at this time.

The people no longer need the emperor who only needs to obey, and the imperial power collapses.

The numerous people who pursue freedom have become the mainstay in human society.

Because there are many people, there are few officials.

In industrial society, what people are faced with is to make this society generate more resources and make people's lives happier, because the entire human race is driven to survive by obtaining more resources.

The ruler becomes a service-oriented government, serving the people.

The people are the masters of the country. This industrial society no longer needs obedience but freedom. Therefore, the people are the masters and the people are the masters of the country.

The people are the masters of the country, and they need freedom and do not want to obey. But in order for human society to obtain more resources, there must be a government. The government cannot ask the people to obey and oppress the people. The people choose the rulers, and there is democratic election. government serves the people.

State institutions are formed by the people.

However, when faced with resources, living creatures will always grab survival resources due to their instinct, so official corruption still exists.

Power is always expanding, so it is necessary to keep power in a cage, and thus the law was born. The core of the law always emphasizes the control of power to protect the rights of the people.

In ancient times, the power of officials was to take over everything in society, including administration, case-solving, business, etc., all in one person.

In modern society, it is necessary to separate power, restrict power through power, and divide power into legislation, administration, justice, and supervision.

In ancient times, officials needed ideological education, and in modern times, ideological education is also needed.

In ancient times, officials who broke the law could be exempted from punishment. In modern times, officials who break the law are punished equally as ordinary people, or even more severely.

At this time, the people are the masters of the country, and they need their supervision.

It is instinct for living things to grab survival resources. Only law and supervision can lock power in a cage and prevent expansion.

This is how the institutions of various countries were formed from absolute monarchy to the present day.

Liang dreamed of how to completely solve the problem of officials filling their own pockets. Perhaps this could only be solved in an era with absolutely sufficient resources.

There is no solution for an agricultural society.

In the industrial age, it can only be effectively prevented.

Liang dreamed that in an agricultural society that needed unity to fight against natural disasters and foreign enemies, it was an unsolvable problem for hundreds of officials to line their own pockets. He couldn't help but look forward to the arrival of an industrial society, which could at least effectively prevent corruption.

The reason why Liang Meng could not tell this to people of this era was because such remarks were too shocking.

All Liang Meng can do is slowly transform this era, instead of telling these people what the future will be like.

(End of this chapter)