Chapter 318: Building faith and institutional reform

Creating faith and institutional reform is not a one-person job, but Chongjia took over both tasks by himself. Chongjia now feels that it is too TMD to not be the president of the United States...

Chongjia has no research on politics and belief, so there must be omissions in writing. I hope everyone will give it more. When reading, I encounter something that is not understood, so everyone may wish to silently recite: This, this...

"Before talking about this issue, I have another matter to ask His Majesty in advance."

Wu Fan did not immediately answer Cao Chong's question, but instead raised another topic.

Cao Chong asked his eighth uncle Wu Fan to speak frankly.

Wu Fan continued:

"Please give your majesty the order to establish a full-time faith department to guide the people's thoughts and spiritual sustenance. In the early days, this department was formed by capable ministers in the court, and when it was created a complete set of healthy and orderly belief theories; when the people gradually accepted the faith and became universal values, the department must be separated from the ruling class and become an independent civil department that had no political power. "

The purpose of Wu Fan's proposal is very obvious, and it is necessary to allow the Chinese to have a complete set of spiritual beliefs from now on. As for the importance of faith, Chongjia has already mentioned it in the previous chapter, and will not be discussed here.

The Chinese once had an extremely active ideological collision period called "a hundred schools of thought" by later generations, which was an ideological competition between the emerging landlord class and the declining slave-owner class. Just like the European Renaissance, it was an anti-feudal and anti-* cultural movement led by the emerging bourgeoisie.

The hundred schools of thought contend, so it is called "Soul", which means that various ideas and different academic concepts interpret the world through their own thinking methods, and each one does not give in to each other. This is beneficial to the people, because they can join a certain school of thought according to their own preferences and wishes, and can hear various voices on the same thing; it is conducive to activate people's thinking, expanding their knowledge, and even to develop the brain.

However, for the purpose of stable rule, the rulers did not want to see the people's thoughts too active. Therefore, after the unification of the Warring States Period, emperors began to attack various schools. The most important ones were Qin Shihuang's "burning books and burying scholars" and Emperor Wu of Han's "destroying all schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone."

From the perspective of later generations, this kind of movement was undoubtedly beneficial to national stability and feudal centralization at that time. However, from a long-term humanistic perspective, its disadvantages were very obvious. A very realistic example: the Chinese today are rigid in their thinking, lack innovation, short-sighted in their eyes, reject different views on the same thing, blindly following the trend... In addition to factors such as education, system, political environment, etc., the most important thing is that we have a history of ideological constraints of more than 2,000 years.

It might be better to imagine that if the feudal rulers more than 2,000 years ago could actively and orderly guide this academic atmosphere of a hundred schools of thought, instead of blindly suppressing or even harming them, what kind of active realm will the Chinese academic and thought be there be? How many achievements will be achieved in the fields of science and technology, culture, etc. that will amaze the whole world?

However, history has no if.

The feudal rulers at that time would not do that even if their eyes could foresee all this for a long time.

However, Wu Fan, who came from later generations, did not do anything to the emperor, but now he wants to create this "if"

Indeed, blindly allowing the ideas of folk schools to spread and spread uncontrollably is extremely unfavorable to national rule, especially in the current world is still the era of cold weapons, and the disadvantages of the people and the army are not as bad as those of later generations. Once these schools develop large enough, they are enough to threaten the stability and unity of the country.

It is precisely for this reason that Wu Fan asked Cao Chong to order a full-time faith department to select ideas that firmly uphold national unity and stability among various schools to become the creed in faith; and on this basis deify certain things, and then place these deified things above various schools to gather the ideas of the people.

In short, it is to allow the people to deeply cultivate the idea of ​​"national unity, the same clan and the same origin" on the issues of the country and the nation. They cannot tolerate any form of division. No matter how big or how many disciples this school is, once they touch this sensitive nerve, the people of the whole country, including the students in their own school, will be extremely disgusted and despised by this school.

Then, on the premise of controlling this general direction, different schools of thought are allowed among the people, different voices across the country, and people are allowed to express different views on the same thing.

Once this atmosphere is formed, the people will inevitably get rid of their previous submissiveness under this inertia and start to have their own ideological insights on official things. This is actually Wu Fan planted a germination that opened up people's wisdom and democratic systems.

As for the things to be deified, Wu Fan had already thought about: the descendant of the dragon and the descendants of Yan and Huang

Even if these eight words are placed in the modern Chinese thoughts deliberately guided by atheism, their status is still unshakable. Moreover, people in this world generally believe in gods and ghosts, believe in the heavens, believe in the cycle of life and death, cause and effect, etc. Plant the seeds of "the descendants of the dragon and descendants of Yan and Huang" in this fertile soil of theology, and their growth will be very rapid. Then, learn from the deification experience of several major religions in later generations, and will soon become the mainstay of the Chinese people's thoughts.

On this pillar foundation, we will integrate the ideas of hundreds of schools. This is the belief of the Chinese people that Wu Fan wants to create.

Cao Chong could understand only a little, and even in many places he couldn't figure out what Wu Fan intended, such as why he wanted to enlighten the people's wisdom? Why should he encourage the people to express his opinions and opinions? However, he firmly believed in one thing: that is, the eighth uncle Wu Fan would definitely not harm him.

This is enough.

Therefore, after frowning and thinking for a while, Cao Chong still agreed to Wu Fan's suggestion.

The Chinese people have a bright future, so the next step is to talk about how to cut off Cao Chong's imperial power.

This problem includes many aspects. Although at present, Wu Fan cannot weaken Cao Chong's imperial power to the state he outlined, even this includes many aspects, which is very complicated to say. Wu Fan did say a lot to Cao Chong, and the general meaning is this:

1. Establish the Senate and the House of Representatives.

The senators of the Senate need faith here. If there is no faith, the oath will not be binding and loyal to the emperor. Those who make outstanding contributions to the country or are respected nationwide will be responsible for the responsibility of those who make outstanding contributions to the country. Generally, the quota of the Senate is one hundred people, with a maximum of no more than one hundred and twenty people. They are designated by the emperor themselves, but they need to be passed by the House of Representatives; if a senate designated by a certain emperor fails to obtain a majority vote in the House of Representatives, then this person cannot become a senator.

From the conditions for selection, we can see that the elders are often great heroes of the country or famous celebrities. These people have basically no bad material conditions. In contrast, they pay more attention to spiritual cultivation and their image in front of the public. Therefore, when these people stay by the emperor, there is basically no need to worry about being arrogant and flattering. Moreover, the elders are not official positions, have no real power, but are just a symbol of prominent status. Even if they anger the emperor and are demoted, they will not lose anything. This will make the elders have a straightforward and upright nature.

The responsibilities of the elders are similar to those of the emperor's counselors. They have first-hand information and materials from all localities across the country. Combined with the various memorials submitted by various departments and local governments, they discuss the feasibility of each memorial with the emperor. Although those who can become elders are basically decent figures, their character is also supervised, which requires the "Supervision Department" and will be introduced later.

The role of the Senate is actually to strengthen the status and majesty of the emperor while liberalizing the people's thoughts, and to divide the power of the House of Representatives to prevent the emperor from being left out.

As for the members of the House of Representatives, they are naturally members of parliament. However, in the current world, it is obviously not authoritative to use "parliamentarian" as the official title, so Wu Fan named it "senator".

Senators do not need to conduct scientific research. Their duties are more important than whether they are smart or not. For this standard, Senators adopt the system of filial piety and integrity from the local direction. In principle, each state has at least three people, and no more than seven people at most; these people form the House of Representatives.

The main function of the House of Representatives is to restrict the power of the emperor. It represents the will of the people, because the senators are directly elected from the people.

In addition to the appointment of the elders, when the emperor issues certain orders with his personal will, such as launching a war, increasing taxes, etc., or wants to amend national decrees, it must also be passed by the House of Representatives.

In addition, the Senate of the House of Representatives is also responsible for collecting various calls from the people, including the "claims" that were difficult for all feudal dynasties in Chinese history to eliminate. In fact, if the whole country's governance is clear, the people will not need to touch the emperor at all, and the people hope that the country's adjustments to people's livelihood policies will be adjusted, etc., and then sort out these calls and handed them directly to the emperor and the Senate, and urged the emperor and the Senate to give a reply.

Since the senator's duty is to contact the private persons, various departments, and local governments directly, it is easy to breed power, embezzlement and bribery, etc., this is bound to require a strong supervision mechanism.

Like the elders, the senators were also subject to strict supervision from the Supervisory Division.

The term of office of the elder is lifelong. However, if the elder is inactive or acts in a despicable and noble status as a "elder", the Supervisory Department has the power to nominate him and the House of Representatives will re-vote whether to continue to be the elder. The emperor has no right to interfere in this.

The term of office of a senator is three years, and the performance of responsibilities will be determined by the Senate President, the Supervision Department and the local government. The emperor has no power to interfere with the appointment and removal of the senator. This is a department that completely represents the will of the people.

The emperor may order the forced dissolution of the Senate and the House of Representatives, but the two houses must be reorganized within three months after the dissolution. Otherwise, the legitimacy of the emperor will be questioned by the people of the whole country. This will be written into the Constitution and cannot be changed.

2. Establish a Supervision Department.

This department is extremely important, and it is directly related to whether the two houses can operate in a clean and efficient manner. The two houses are the foundation of the national system. Therefore, it can be said that the Supervision Department plays an irreplaceable role in the healthy operation of the entire state machine.

As an extremely special department, the Supervisory Department neither succumbed to politics nor obeyed faith; so that fairness and justice were not defiled by any strong colors.

The personnel serving in the Supervision Department are collectively called the Supervisor. The Supervisor is composed of five representatives of Confucian, Mohism, Taoism, Law, Yin and Yang, Name, Zongheng, Miscellaneous, Soldiers, and 50 people; the Supervisor takes turns to serve as the Supervisor.

Although the responsibility of the Supervision Department is to supervise the two courts, in fact, mutual supervision within the Supervision Department is even more rigorous. Because the inspectors come from different schools, and the schools are always competing for students and suppressing each other.

For this reason, all the inspectors sent by the ten university schools are excellent in character and academic performance. Their words and deeds represent the image of their respective schools in the hearts of the people across the country. If there are behaviors such as **, bribery, inaction, etc. that occur to them, the reputation of the school they are located in will be greatly affected. This is not only the people are unhappy, but the school will definitely not allow this phenomenon to occur.

This feature of the Supervision Department is actually the predecessor of the multi-party competition system in the future.

The emperor also has no power to interfere with the appointment and removal of the inspector. There is no need to worry about whether the Supervision Office will fall into a depravity as a whole. As long as the faith in the people's hearts does not collapse, the right path in the world is vicissitudes, and the ten major schools must maintain a decent image to attract students.

This is also why Wu Fan asked Cao Chong to order the establishment of a faith department from the beginning.

Everything is because the people must have a good belief to guide the people’s correct outlook on life and values. People hate those who are frivolous, profit-oriented, and bully others by relying on their power. When someone shouts "My Dad" in the street, his dad will beat him up without the need for people around him.

3. The emperor is still the supreme commander of the army.

But the army has a clear purpose: put the interests of the people and the country first, and the emperor's orders must be guaranteed to not infringe on the interests of the country and the people.

Usually, the emperor mobilizes the army to launch wars against neighboring countries or suppresses civil strife and needs to vote by the House of Representatives. In special periods, if the country's territory is infringed, the emperor has the right to bypass the House of Representatives and directly exercise power over the army. However, the emperor should still pass the House of Representatives to vote to show that he respects public opinion and wins the support of the people.

4. Build the "Shenzhen of Heroes" and the "Hall of Fame".

For those who sacrificed their lives to protect and fight for national and national interests, the influence of their deeds can be nominated by the House of Representatives, the Senate, or even the emperor himself, and then voted by both houses to decide whether to place the most specific relics of their lives in the Martyrs' Temple for future generations to admire. For example, historical figures such as Li Guang, Yue Fei, Wen Tianxiang, etc. who are now familiar with, they are all qualified to enter the Martyrs' Temple.

The Martyrs' Temple can maximize the patriotism of the Chinese people and the courage to stand up in times of national and national crisis. The generals and soldiers who fought on the battlefield may think that their heroic deeds may be written into the Martyrs' Temple for countless future generations to admire and worship, and the fighting passion they inspire can be imagined. From a point of view, Japan's Yasukuni Shrine is really meaningful, and the performance of Japanese soldiers on the battlefield is indeed admirable.
Chapter completed!