Chapter 77: The Wise People
He had the realization of being a monarch under the new rules. Of course, the material basis of this realization was the increasingly developed commodity economy in the Si Shangdi.
As a "friend", Wei Rang has prepared the manuscript for him, so just read it as soon as possible.
Anyway, the rules have been established, and the policies have nothing to do with him. Wei Rang just told him how to say it to prevent the people from opposing it.
He has no power, nor has his foundation, and even his legitimacy comes from "supporting the people to seek profit and change the government."
The palace has been cleared, but Ji Sunluan did not enter the palace directly as a monarch, but came to the place where the people in the capital gathered.
When Wu Zixu broke into Chu, he shot the palace door with his bow and arrow, and the onlookers were thundering. This was an attitude.
After making a good attitude in front of the people, Ji Sunluan and the people came to the ancestral temple.
The people are standing outside.
Ji Sunluan worshiped his ancestors. He first talked about the history of his ancestors, then talked about the righteousness, and finally said that he had to seek a throne for the sake of the country and the country and the people.
After a ceremony, Ji Sunluan succeeded to the throne.
Then, he came to the palace, and at the place where the people gathered, he issued the first order of the king after he became the king.
According to the things that Wei Rang taught, he said loudly: "The emperor's ancestor has a teaching, and the people can approach it, but not to be inferior. The people only have the foundation of the country, and the country is peaceful. I regard the foolish man and wife in the world as one can defeat me, and one person will lose three mistakes. How can I be clear about it? I will not see this picture. I am in the face of the people and I am stolen if I am a scattered rope. How can I be disrespectful to those who are the best?"
"The people are the foundation of the country, and the people's interests are the benefits of the country."
"It can be seen that under the iron ox plowing, the system of public fields and well fields is no longer in line with the heavenly sect and contrary to the increase of wealth."
"People first govern official affairs, and they dare to govern private affairs after official affairs. They have suffered for a long time."
"From today, we will destroy the well fields, open the fields, and abandon the public fields. All the fields in the palace and the people who work on it can be divided. They will buy them for twenty years to redeem them, so that the money can be enough for me to worship my ancestors, and not to cut off the sacrifices of my ancestors."
After saying that, he took out an arrow and broke it as an oath.
The people cheered. This was Ji Sunluan’s promise before and it was also an important reason why most people could support Ji Sunluan to take office.
This is not just what Wei Rang Rang Ji Sunluan said, but if Ji Sunluan did not say these words at this time and still had weapons in his hand, the people who had shown enough power to sweep the capital a few days ago would immediately drive him down.
This is his promise and the fundamental reason why he can take office with a "coup".
But all this only meets the needs of the people in the capital. What he said is only what the monarch of a "capital city" can say, not what the monarch of a country says.
As a king of a country, if he wants to do it, he must talk about the policies outside the capital, and then he must have the strength, means, foundation, and ability to make what he says become a reality.
He couldn't do it, so he issued his second order.
"I have insufficient talent and virtue, and I know that I am not enough to be a king. But I am only insufficient talent and virtue, but the tyrants before me did not cultivate their talent and virtue."
"As the saying goes, we should focus on trees to form forests, and do good deeds. If we want to seek the benefits of everyone, we must let everyone discuss politics."
"From today, the people can elect wise men who can make you trust and benefit."
"The country must not be without rules, systems, and laws. Rules, systems, and laws should also benefit the people, so the selected wise men should formulate rules, systems, and laws."
"It is enough to support the people to the people, and it is enough to tell me that the people can benefit the people."
After Ji Sunluan said this, the people cheered again.
If the first thing is just to express sincerity, or to win people's hearts, then the second thing is to truly fulfill your promise.
As for what should be done, he threw out all the problems, and he didn't want to care about them, nor did he care about them.
There was no such thing in the past. He didn't study much and didn't know how to keep things unconfused and what rules could be accepted by the public.
However, he believed that Wei Rang would definitely know.
From a few days ago, he had already figured out that everything Wei Rang had done over the years, perhaps for today.
He couldn't understand Wei Rang's purpose because he felt that Wei Rang was definitely not just a "friend".
So he didn't want to delve into it. Some things can be maintained without saying them, but nothing can be changed if he says them.
He read little, but the Mohist family has been writing books over the years, and there are many people who have read books in the capital of Feiguo.
When the chaos in Feiguo Capital first appeared, the Mohist school widely promoted the book "On the Political Science" in the capital.
It talks about what kind of system should be implemented based on the principle of "for the people, the people's interests first" so that the government can operate reasonably.
Originally, this was built by hundreds of generations of philosophers, and it could only be summarized after failure and bleeding.
But now, none of this is needed, because the history of Ji's studies is different from theirs. Ji has never experienced bloodshed or failure, but as the ancestors of human beings, he has experienced countless failures and bloodshed. These summarized experiences and rules can be used.
But now, everything is not mature yet, and the excited people are still in the stage of street riots, and they are still far away from stability.
So after Ji Sunluan said those words, the people first did it to shout out the names of dozens of people on the streets, and let them be elected "sages".
Different people have different interests, and different people have different ideas, so just like Mozi said that in ancient times, thousands of people have different righteousness, and the standards of wise men are different.
After the tea shop that day, people from all sides stood up to promote their morality.
There are both things that are accepted after propaganda, and there are things that are said specifically for the benefit of some people.
In addition, some of the people who performed outstandingly in the chaos these days soon had a chaotic, but also pioneering, childish, but passionate, and a bit ridiculous, but broke the rules of hundreds of years.
The number of people elected as a wise man in policy was controlled to more than 60, and many people from the Mohist school were elected. However, because the Mohist school belonged to the Mohist school organization, it was strictly prohibited to go to official positions in any form before the organization allowed it, so Xu Ruo and others refused.
The selected "sages" had one who was promoting the "Tao follows nature and return to the rule of nature" in tea; some who shouted that they should be incorporated into Si Shang and let the Mo family support him; some who believed that the changes in the capital were enough for the nobles to recognize the new king; and some... people like Zheyangzi.
Wei Rang didn't know how many people were selected were secret Mozhes like him, but he knew that what the Mohist family wanted was a new rule rather than a small country of Fei, which was for people all over the world to see.
The small Fei Kingdom is not worth mentioning compared to the rules that the Mohist family wants; just as the Mohist family believes that temporary victory or defeat is not worth mentioning compared to the rules and regulations within the Mohist family; just as Xu Ruo Meng Sheng and others who should have died tragically in another time and space view life and death, compared to the inheritance of the Mohist family and the benefit of the world.
The selected wise people actually have to be busy with a lot of things, ranging from policies and regulations to the salaries of wise people.
There is priority, and the top priority now before everyone is where the country will go? How should this riot, coup, uprising or revolution end?
This alone is enough for these people to argue and blush.
And what they quarrel now may also encounter other places in the world in the future. However, the country of Fei is too small and the world is too big, but the experience is common, so the things that the country of Fei are quarrels can be regarded as the greatest experience in the world.
The first question discussed is what should the captured nobles do?
Is the public land redemption policy of Feiguo’s capital used outside the capital?
If the nobles strongly oppose it, can they only change the country's capital, and there is no need for them to shed blood for the interests of others in matters outside the capital?
Chapter completed!