What kind of country should the country be, even as the supreme ruler of the country, Lu Zhe can't all come according to his own wishes, after all, the person who rules the country is Lu Zhe, yes, but as a ruler, the tentacles that extend to all aspects are many officials.

What kind of country should a country be, in addition to the actual thinking of the ruler, a considerable part of it still has to consider the thoughts of the officials, and the most cruel thing is that what kind of country the country should be basically has nothing to do with the common people of Qian. The lowest level of the ruling class can often only passively and silently accept the various specifications and methods set by the leadership, whether the rules and methods are good or bad, suitable or not, and can only silently accept everything before the collapse of the organs of state violence.

Of course, no leader is willing to make a bad policy for himself, and they also want to enjoy all the privileges that come with their status in order to maintain social stability, so formulating national policies is often related to the distribution of the "cake".

According to popular rules, the royal family should enjoy the lion's share of the "cake", followed by a group of nobles, and the incumbent bureaucrats are in the third echelon.

The bureaucracy of the third echelon will also be subdivided into countless steps, such as the needs of central officials, the aspirations of local state and county-level officials, and then it will be the turn of large, medium, and small counties.

At the county level, in fact, even if there is a residue in the "cake", there can only be a little bit left, and after that, there is nothing to do with administrative units such as townships, li, tun, and pavilions. Even the officials at the bottom can't participate, and how can civilians who have no right to speak express their demands?

A country is like a pyramid, often the power is in the hands of a few people, if they do not lose their heads, take care of their own interests at the same time can not forget to share some soup and water. As for how much benefit should be set aside to the bottom level, which has little right to speak, it depends on how the people who hold the power understand the interests and how smart they are.

The old nations have all been annexed, and many of them have disappeared, and even if they still exist, they are just a feudal state under the imperial family. This is a more complicated situation than the period when the First Emperor ruled the world. It is not clear whether there are examples in history, but it is impossible for people in the present generation not to be surprised.

The First Emperor used absolute violence to destroy the kingdom of the world, and the First Emperor adhered to the idea of "one family" to implement absolute centralization, so it is no longer the turn of others to speak out what the First Emperor wants to do, because according to the First Emperor's idea, everything in the world is won by the Zhao family, and any grabbing and asking is so natural.

The reunification of the world, because of Lu Zhe's strange idea, in fact, the ruling class of the empire and the actual situation are different.

It is an indisputable fact that the members of the royal family of the nascent empire are thin, and none of Lu Zhe's parents have crossed over. There are no brothers and sisters, so the so-called royal family is actually Lu Zhe, and then a group of wives and heirs, and there is not a family with a large number of members standing behind it. The number of family members is thin, and there is no large group of royal relatives who are directly related to the family to compete for interests, and the relatives are obviously not so qualified, so the benefits that should have been planned for the royal family have fallen on others.

As the ruler of Lu Zhe, he did not show the desire to be absolutely in power~ The desire to be in power was left, and there were more points of contention for the nobles and officials. They can't afford not to fight, they can turn into fighting dogs anywhere, tearing each other for the tender and juicy fat.

Among the gang of "fighting dogs", those generals with special identities in the military system are a relatively special group. Many of them may not be high in official positions, but because they followed Lu Zhe first, Lu Zhe should give more preferential treatment in the evaluation of meritorious deeds and knighthoods, even if he is an example. This is no longer a question of justice or fairness, but an established unspoken rule of social feelings. It is also an inevitable thing to do, and no one can criticize it, after all, as an emperor, you can't always be mean.

"So...... When the knighthood is assessed. The military has at least one duke and four marquises, more than twenty counts, and more than sixty barons and above? There are more than three hundred lords...... Xiao He had long known about this situation, but now that he got a definite answer from Lu Zhe, he couldn't help but feel a burst of worry and loss: "There is only one duke in the civil system, there is no marquis, seven counts, seventeen viscounts, and less than thirty barons?" The Lord is also only half the size of the military......"

Lu Zhe bowed: "Maybe the data will change, but it is true that there are more military attachés and nobles than civil aristocrats." ”

Xiao He was silent, and the evaluation of the merits was verified by the Taiwei Administration, the General's Mansion, and the ruling government, and then reported to Lu Zhe after the list was released, and the final list required Lu Zhe's nod, how many nobles would appear in the empire under the established procedure was not much of a secret, but before the final result came out, everyone could only guess.

A military general who can be regarded as an absolute descendant of Lu Zhe, among the twenty legions of the National Defense Forces, there are at least thirteen descendants of the commander of the Zhonglang General's corps, and Lu Zhe needs to strengthen the status of civilian officials to form a further civilian-military balance, so it is necessary to take out interests to appease. This means that this group of people will inevitably be robbed of a large part of the military descendants in the future distribution of the "cake", and when they rob it, others cannot oppose it, and opposition may disrupt Lu Zhe's series of plans, and it will even provoke a group of "fighting dogs" who have both real power and close status to the royal family to attack fiercely.

"The duke will be Sima Xin, the marquis should be Ji Bu, Gongwei, Xu Zhi, Luo Shao, and several lieutenant generals who went north to participate in the war will also be rated as an earl according to their actual military merits......" Xiao He actually can't object, opening up the territory is not a merit, then what else can be considered a merit, he can only say something fair for the civilian group he is in: "In order to support the army to fight, in fact, many colleagues are also very busy, and it is not possible to lack their various efforts in the rear." ”

Of course, Lu Zhe agreed with Xiao He's statement, the army was able to conquer the east and the west, and it was indeed established in the rear, and without the rear to send materials to the front line, the war would not be able to continue.

Of course, the merits of the magistrates and officials of various positions who are struggling to produce in the rear cannot be erased or ignored, but there is a very realistic situation, and what people see and pay attention to is generally the results that can be seen quickly, and among so many people, there are only a few people who can shine.

The military can highlight its importance and merit with constant victories, and the local officials who are struggling on the production line, and even the civilian officials who are busy on the transportation line, really suffer a lot in some respects. That's why so many people are willing to stand in the front and not stand behind the scenes.

"Having taken those factors into account, the military's merit evaluation is based on data, and it is undeniable that it can be slightly higher than the actual merit." Lu Zhe just told the truth: "What kind of reward should be given to those who pay silently in the rear, but it is not easy to be elevated." ”

The truth is great, Xiao He can only sigh and admit it.

In fact, in addition to the military at least thirteen extremely strong "fighting dogs", there is no shortage of so-called henchmen in the civil affairs system, such as Xiao He is the descendant of the royal family in the civilian official group. If it weren't for Xiao He's self-proclaimed royal lineage, and Lu Zhe also recognized Xiao He as a descendant, it would be impossible for Xiao He to stay in the position of consul for seven years, and Xiao He would continue to be his consul in the future. It wasn't until old age or mistakes that it was the turn of someone else to sit on the throne of the consul.

Xiao He was assessed as a duke according to merit, and he was more comforted that only Sima Xin would become a duke in the military, so the military attache and the civil official each had a duke, and in some respects, there was no advantage or disadvantage in the status of the top nobility in the civil and military system, but some middle-level nobles and low-level nobles had an overall advantage.

The descendants should have the consciousness of the descendants, and when Lu Zhe needs something, the descendants not only cannot disrupt the situation, but also cooperate as much as possible. Only in this way can the interests of the descendants be maximally protected. If you don't have what your descendants should be, it means that you are not far from being a descendant.

Of course, the non-rotation of the consuls is partly related to the proximity of the royal family, but more because of Xiao He's talent and ability to show. Other than that. In fact, it is also related to Lu Zhe's view of the civil affairs system, compared to the fact that when there is one person in the military for a long time, when either side is in power, rebellion will produce unbearable harm, and even if someone sits on the civil affairs system, the harm will not be too great to bear, and the military has a violent machine in its hands, and chaos is everywhere. When civil officials are in trouble, it only takes a few armor soldiers to solve it.

At the end of the day, the risk cost of trusting a military attache is fundamentally different from that of a civilian official.

Military attachés are familiar with the various systems of the military and have a certain degree of military training. They know how to march and fight, if they have a group of "dogs" to follow, they can form a large army in a short time after the rebellion, and the destructiveness and destruction are incalculable.

Civilian officials have no relevant military knowledge, and even if they rebel, they will not be able to organize a reasonable army, and the scope of disaster in a short period of time will be limited to a certain area. Waiting for the ruler to react and dispatching a regular army to suppress or extinguish a rebel organized by a civilian official, and a regular army to suppress or extinguish a rebel organized by a military attaché, will not be the same in terms of probability of victory or defeat.

Not only is Xiao He aware of Lu Zhe's direction of consideration, but in fact, as long as his identity reaches a certain height, they all more or less understand what kind of thinking Lu Zhe is thinking.

After the merit is assessed, a new round of post transfers will be carried out, and the senior generals of the military are faced with the transfer of a higher level, the transfer of the same level, and the transfer of the civil affairs system, as long as there is a merit transfer, it is normal for the transfer of officials, and most civilian officials may even be promoted and transferred.

The empire has changed from the start-up period to the construction period, and the military has to face a more realistic reality, and the future war will be reduced in the empire, which means that most generals actually have no chance to lead the army.

"It is the most basic national policy to give wealth to meritorious people, and we can't never have a stable life after the hard work and bloody struggle of the brothers." Lu Zhe thought very clearly, and didn't mind revealing his thoughts to Xiao He: "Most generals, they don't have the opportunity to fight, they just hope that when the time comes, they won't be corrupted by the rich life and lose their combat skills, and when they want to use it, they will be unfamiliar with the means on the battle array." ”

The rules and regulations of the military doom that the commander of a legion will not stay in the army for long in non-war situations, they will stay within the scope of the ruler's visibility, and the affairs of the legion are controlled by the deputy of the legion, and the commander of the legion is actually a title.

This set of systems did not appear after the establishment of the empire, Lu Zhe implemented such a strategy after the establishment of the army, and it took more than eight years to form rules and regulations, which was not a surprise attack on the military, let alone something that caught the military off guard.

"Does the king want those generals to enter the military academy?" Xiao He couldn't meddle in other military affairs at all except for the logistics of the army, and he didn't want to delve into how Lu Zhe considered the constraints on military generals.

"Yes," Lu Zhe looked at Xiao He with a smile: "Not only do the military generals in Gyeonggi need to pass on their experience, but Wenchen also needs to be a guest lecturer from time to time. The empire also has your share, and it is your duty to cultivate talents for the empire. ”

The highly centralized "one family", the courtiers heard the king say that there is also a share of everyone in the world, and the courtiers who heard the king say that, should be sincerely afraid if they are not scared on the spot. Xiao He will not have any worries when he listens to Lu Zhe now, that is the difference in "national conditions", and it also depends on the existing universal values, he will not be honestly afraid, but will feel extremely proud.

"The king has a good leadership, and we are also met by fate." Xiao He didn't forget what he thought of, and asked: "Will the number of heroes (carvings) increase?" ”

It is said that the interior of the palace city, the main square of the palace city, the martyr's garden, the public gardens of the Nanling Tomb, and even all over the country are qualified to carve statues according to the actual appearance, which is the glory that Lu Zhe gave to the ministers with great meritorious service, and it is also a means to further tie up a large group of nobles and nobles to "become one with the country".

"Haha!" Lu Zhe smiled heartily for a while, and waved his hand: "That's not a matter of one person or two people having the final say. ”

Xiao He thought about it and laughed at himself, it is indeed not a matter of a few people who have the final say, the most practical thing is to see who has enough merit, and whether he can stand out from the competition if he has enough merit.

The first group of people who are qualified to erect statues, those who have made sufficient contributions in the rise or statehood stage, and whose merits are in the conquest of foreign races, as well as the credit of stabilizing and building places, relatively speaking, many people have merits that are in line with them, but it is not for nothing that they have been chosen because of luck.

Many times the first time is relatively easy, that is because the rules and regulations are not perfect for the first time, or the first time is out of some kind of political ~ governance ~ propaganda ~ transmission considerations, to the second time the rules and regulations have been perfected, the political ~ governance ~ propaganda ~ transmission of the factor is not so strong or even unnecessary at all, it is always the truth that things are scarce and expensive, and there is no special significance for what is overflowing, so the second competition is not just a simple cruelty can be summarized.

"Hard work, hard work, hard work, hard work, should always be treated preferentially." Lu Zhe unconsciously clasped his palms together, and his face was also full of expectation: "I don't live up to Qing, Qing doesn't live up to me." Great days are coming, and a bigger era awaits us, or hope to be able to start and finish! (To be continued......)