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"I look at the rule of the three generations of holy kings in ancient times, and the law of governing the world is nothing more than to block it as well as to sparse, the northern merchants are in trouble, although I am angry, but the world's merchants are not all like this, if I am angry because of this, then for the people of the world, I will not become a faint king, and moreover, the merchants are in the north, the root of which is that the court has no orders to restrict and supervise, and between me, compared to canceling the merchants, it is not as good as issuing orders to restrict and supervise the merchants, blocking is better than sparse, you Aiqing, what do you think?"

What do you think? What can I think, if I can, these family officials really want to go against the grain and scold Cao Cao!

You've even moved out of the Ancient Saint Kings, what else can they do!

In today's society, Confucianism and the spiritual world that rules all people, even these family officials are no exception, and one of the foundations of Confucianism is to restore the rule of the three generations of antiquity, and the ancient sage king is almost equivalent to the God of the Western Holy See in the Confucian culture!

These people are also another kind of believers, but compared to those Westerners who have no brains for faith, the beliefs of the Chinese people are more rational and rational, for the officials of the family, they believe in Confucianism, because the policy of the imperial court is that Confucianism is the dominant family, so they believe!

In today's environment of Confucian dominance, Cao Cao proposed the rule of the ancient sage kings, and no one dared to oppose it, regardless of whether he agreed with it in his heart or not!

Why? Just because, if they oppose it, it will be almost equivalent to destroying the foundation of Confucianism! As long as one person takes the lead in doing this. Then the other people, whether they want to or not, must draw a line with this person. Punish him at the same time, this is the general trend of the day!

Words. Let all the family officials be speechless, let them agree, they are unwilling, but let them disagree, they don't dare, this is very aggrieved.

Cao Cao, who watched all this above, felt for the first time the cleverness of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and later generations thought that the deposition of Confucianism was one of the failures of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. But when he really became the emperor and stood on the same level as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Cao Cao understood that the deposition of Confucianism was definitely not the failure of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, on the contrary, it was the most outstanding political move in the life of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty!

If the hundred schools are regarded as rules, then before the deposition of the hundred schools, the emperor and his ministers actually live in a variety of different rules, and it is very difficult for the emperor to make a small move in it!

Don't say anything else. Let's just say that Cao Cao's words now, if they are placed before Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, it is obviously impossible for the officials of the family who can be forced to speak. At what time, Cao Cao's words could stop the mouths of Confucian officials. But it definitely can't stop other officials, such as the Legalists. The mouths of these officials of Taoism, Yin and Yang!

Secondly. After the deposition of the hundred schools, not only after Qin Shi Huang, the spiritual unification, but also let the emperor himself hold a clear and able to completely restrain the rules of the hundred officials, which allowed the emperors of the Han Dynasty after Emperor Wu, as long as they are not Thai idiots, can use the rule of Confucianism to restrict and restrain the hundred officials!

Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty of the Eastern Han Dynasty, in the eyes of later generations, was completely a monarch of a dead country, a faint monarch, but the real situation, even if the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out, even after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the so-called foundation of the Han Dynasty was shaken, but from the implementation, all the power of the Han dynasty was in the hands of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, whether it was He Jin or the Ten Standing Servants, or Dong Zhuo, these developed warlords, at which time, for the central government, for the emperor did not dare to have the slightest disrespect!

On the other hand, in other dynasties, whether it is Qin, Tang, Song and Ming, almost none of the last emperors are like Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, in the final analysis, they are the emperors of the two Han Dynasty, their minds are very clear, and they firmly grasp the rules that restrict the officials under their command!

It's just that later, the rules that should have been mastered by the emperor were gradually moved to the hands of officials, which reached its peak in the Ming Dynasty, and the officials in turn restrained the emperor, thus giving rise to the cabinet system unique to the Ming Dynasty.

It's just that at this time, the officials obviously don't have the ability to take the initiative of this rule from the emperor's hands, so they can only be passively beaten by the emperor at will.

After blocking the mouths of those family officials, everything that followed was logical, Cao Cao issued a decree to restrict merchants and supervise merchants, and at the same time, in addition to the six departments, a new department was established, called the Ministry of Commerce!

The Ministry of Commerce is in charge, not any official above the court, but Cao Cao himself, of course, the reason is also very legitimate, that is, since the Ministry of Commerce is a new department, I am in charge for the time being, if there is any problem in the future, it will be easy to solve it!

Listen, what a legitimate reason, all the legitimate officials no longer want to complain about Cao Cao's shamelessness, businessmen have money, this is something that the world understands, and as the Ministry of Commerce, which is in charge of collecting merchants' taxes, how much money can be received every year, every official understands in his heart that he is about to redden!

Cao Cao himself is in charge of the Privy Council, a military conquest agency, and now there is an independent charge of the Ministry of Commerce, which can collect a large amount of commercial taxes every year.

Cao Cao is different from Qin Shi Huang, Qin Shi Huang will grasp all the power in his hands, everything must be bowed to himself, centralized power to the peak, Cao Cao did not, on the contrary, he also divided most of the power to the six departments and three provinces, and he is only in charge of the Privy Council and the Ministry of Commerce that has just been established now, but it is such two ministries that have indeed made Cao Cao the emperor with the highest degree of centralization and the greatest dictatorial ability from ancient times to the present!

Looking at Cao Cao with a smile on his face, the hearts of these officials were cold, for the first time, they clearly realized that what they were loyal to and faced was not only a founding emperor who conquered the world by force and created the Great Wei, but also an emperor who could rule the world, play with the rules, and silently concentrate power almost everything, and the authority on his body was much heavier than that of any generation of emperors! (To be continued......)