Chapter 1360 The relationship between monarch and minister
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"This is a good idea!" After hearing Li Zhi's words, Cao Cao slapped the table suddenly, stood up with excitement on his face, and wandered back and forth in the hall.
The fundamental reason for the problem of Li Zhi's excessive power is that Li Zhi's power is so huge that it threatens Cao Cao, so it will also become a hidden danger.
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Imagine that once Li Zhi has any other thoughts and connects the officials he has made, he can overthrow Cao Cao in an instant!
However, Li Zhi's method perfectly solved this problem. As long as there are more deputy positions under the command of Li Zhi and the officials he has been with, it is equivalent to having a few pairs of eyes inserted under the noses of these people.
At that time, if Li Zhi has any abnormal movement, Cao Cao will instantly learn about it.
In this way, as long as Li Zhi is not a fool, he will not dare to make any changes!
The most wonderful thing about this idea is that it doesn’t cost much at all!
After all, talents are rare, but it is still very easy to find only a hundred people qualified to become "deputy positions". Not to mention anything else, there are thousands of people in the Cao family who are qualified to become deputy positions, and these people are very reliable. This idea is simply wonderful!
This idea can not only be used on the officials who are close to Li Zhi, but also on all the officials under Cao Cao's command.
In this way, Cao Cao can perfectly control all his official positions!
"Hahaha..." Thinking of the wonderful thing, Cao Cao laughed out loudly, and said while laughing: "The virtuous brother Xingzhi is worthy of being a virtuous brother Xingzhi, and it is indeed amazing!"
"..." After hearing Cao Cao's words, Li Zhi lowered his eyes and did not speak.
To be honest, he is very complicated now. His method is indeed very good, but he also has one disadvantage, that is, if the person who uses this method is a very cruel king, then his ministers will suffer!
Just like Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty in later generations, after Zhu Yuanzhang founded the Jinyiwei, he was able to control the every move of his officials. Although he did effectively control the whole world, it also made the officials under him panic and did not dare to make any mistakes.
Moreover, Li Zhi was sure that when Cao Cao felt that this method was easy to use, he would gradually combine these "deputy positions" under the command of each official to form a new power department similar to Zhu Yuanzhang's Jinyiwei.
Li Zhi didn't think it was not good to establish a power department like an Jinyiwei, but he was afraid that a fierce king would appear among Cao Cao's descendants, and then use this power department to do evil.
After all, the emperor's rights must also be restricted in order to better govern the world.
If an emperor's rights are out of control and that emperor himself is a cruel person, then he will instantly become a tyrant. In this way, the whole world will suffer!
The one who can restrict the emperor is the civil and military ministers in the court. Once Cao Cao really established that power department, the civil and military ministers in the court would no longer have the means to restrict Cao Cao.
Of course, Li Zhi's thinking this does not mean that he believes that Cao Cao will become a tyrant and a fool.
After all, Cao Cao will be the founding king in the future and is unlikely to do stupid things, but what about his descendants?
After thinking of this, Li Zhiyi gritted his teeth, raised his head, looked at Cao Cao seriously and asked, "Brother Meng De is in your mind."
, How should the monarch and minister get along with each other, and what is the relationship between them?"
"This..." Although Cao Cao didn't know why Li Zhi asked this question suddenly, he did not ask too much, but frowned and thought.
After a while, he raised his head and said, "I thought that what my brother saw is the king as the chief minister as the assistant, and the relationship between the king and the minister should be complementary, and no one can lack one.
If there is no king, the ministers will have dragons and heads, and it will not be long; if there is no minister, the king will be like a fish leaving the water, and it will not be long!"
Li Zhi hesitated for a while, pursed his lips, and asked, "Brother Meng De said it well, but did Brother Meng De not realize that since ancient times, have the king and his ministers restrained each other in addition to complementing each other?"
"Mutual constraints?" Cao Cao frowned tightly after hearing Li Zhi's words.
After a long time, he nodded with some insight and said, "It's indeed a bit of a meaning, but if the king and his ministers restrain each other, wouldn't it be easy to delay major events?"
Cao Cao is still in the stage of conquering the world and has never been in the world. Therefore, he is more accustomed to being united in the king and ministers, complementing each other, and combining all his strength into one rope to deal with the enemy together.
"Oh..." After hearing this, Li Zhi sighed a long time ago, walked to Guo Jia's side, kicked him in the butt, and said, "Fengxiao, don't pretend to be asleep, you should explain this issue."
It’s not that Li Zhi can’t explain clearly, but that Li Zhi knows the truth that “three people become tigers”.
Cao Cao would definitely be half-believing and half-doubting about his explanation, but Guo Jia was enough to win the trust of Cao Cao.
"..." When the country was pretending to be asleep, he opened his eyes speechlessly after hearing Li Zhi's words. Then he rubbed his face, struggled a few times, and after getting up, he said to Cao Cao helplessly: "Lord, brother is right. Since ancient times, the relationship between the king and the minister has indeed restricted each other!
And it is precisely because of this relationship that often happens, and the monarch and ministers make big fuss about small things!
They don’t care about this little thing, nor do they really miss each other, but because they have different positions, they can’t back down!
Because once they retreat, the other party will immediately gain a better position!
The monarch cannot retreat for his own rights, and the ministers cannot retreat in order not to let the monarch have too much power, which will cause greater disasters, so conflicts arise between the monarch and the ministers!
This caused a situation of confrontation between the emperor and the powerful ministers, and the "lonely man" came from this, because he needed to be on guard against all the ministers at all times. He needed to trust anyone, but at the same time he had to doubt anyone, so he became a lonely man."
"..." Cao Cao frowned tightly after hearing Li Zhi and Guo Jia's words.
Cao Cao was a smart man, so he certainly heard the implication of Li Zhi's words. Li Zhi was telling him that he could not fully control the ministers, otherwise the king's rights would be out of control!
After thinking of this, Cao Cao frowned and asked Li Zhi: "Brother Xingzhi, what consequences will you do if the king has too much power?"
"Hu..." Li Zhi secretly breathed a sigh of relief after hearing Cao Cao's words.
Since Cao Cao could ask this, it means that Cao Cao was thinking about this matter seriously. As long as he could understand Cao Cao, it would prevent Cao Cao from establishing that
A power department like the Jinyiwei!
After thinking about this, Li Zhi sorted out his thoughts and said, "There is a ready-made example of this matter for Brother Meng De, that is Emperor Wu of Han!"
"Emperor Wu of Han?"
"That's right!" Li Zhi nodded seriously and said, "During the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, his power was far greater than that of his ministers!
Although on the surface, Emperor Wu of Han did make a lot of achievements, in the late period of Emperor Wu of Han, the people in the world suffered from the military and military force, which was a danger of excessive power from the king!
Once a king has more power than his ministers, he can do whatever he wants!
It would be okay to have an emperor as wise as Emperor Wu of Han. It would be fine to remember it in just one second:.
After all, although an emperor like Emperor Wu of Han would do something extraordinary, he would eventually wake up, just like the self-criticism issued by Emperor Wu of Han in his later years.
But what if there is a useless but self-righteous emperor?"
"!!!" Cao Cao was shocked when he heard this. He had also been a minister. How could he not understand that once a useless emperor controls absolute power and his character is self-righteous, there will definitely be big problems!
To give the simplest example, if an emperor who is useless but self-righteous, sits on the throne and has absolute power,
Then when he goes to war with other forces, he will inevitably point fingers at the things on the battlefield, think he is right, and then command it randomly!
At that time, what should the general on the battlefield do?
If you obey the emperor's command, you will definitely fail!
An emperor who is not familiar with military commands is randomly commanding behind his back, and it will be strange if he fails!
Once it fails, it goes without saying that the emperor will never blame himself for the failure, but will punish the general!
If that general does not obey the emperor's orders, the general's fate will be even more miserable!
If he acted according to his own method and won a battle, although the emperor would not say anything on the surface, and would even give him a great reward, he would secretly guard against him!
Because the emperor would definitely feel that since this general could not obey his orders on the battlefield, he might violate his orders at other times, and such a person should never be reused!
In this way, the general who won the battle will definitely not end up in a position that is not very good. He may die of old age in a nameless position.
And if the general defeated the battle according to his own ideas...
Not to mention, the general's fate will inevitably be very miserable!
After talking about this, Cao Cao burst into a cold sweat. Cao Cao thought he was not the kind of self-righteous person, but what about his juniors?
Who can guarantee that his juniors will not show such people?!
Once such a person appears, he controls absolute power, then...
The country is about to perish!!!
"Hu..." After thinking of this, Cao Cao let out a long breath and asked Li Zhi seriously: "Brother Xingzhi, do you think it is the most suitable for an emperor to control what kind of power?"
Chapter completed!