Chapter 42 Prepare for a hearing!
Before the lantern on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month was turned off, Ouyang Bian became busy.
Zhao Xu issued a document, adding Ouyang Bian appointment to the public for hearings on the matter of Quan Qingzhang Tianmu.
The dispatch itself is temporary, and this dispatch is even temporary, mainly responsible for the preparation of the hearing and the hearing of internal opinions of the court.
Although it is a hearing, it is actually about persuasion.
Ouyang Bian is very serious about this matter. This is one of his most important missions besides preparing for the central bank.
It can be said that this is the first time he has implemented a reform project with great opposition.
Many of the central bank's affairs are actually an innovation outside the system, and there is no obvious conflict of interests within the system, so there is no hindrance to do it.
But this time it was a real tough chewing. The opponents not only had firm vested interests, but also had tough censors like Sima Guang. This matter was not easy.
This is also the first government since Zhao Xu ascended the throne. In order to encourage Zhao Xu, he must do a good job.
Ouyang Bian has always been far-sighted in his work. After receiving the call, he made a comprehensive consideration of the entire project and screened out possible supporters, opponents, and neutrals.
Through the test of the Song Dynasty Weekly, the situation can be seen a little more clearly.
Ouyang Bian believes that the people, institutions, groups, and classes that can affect the matter of clearing the fields of Zhangzhang, mainly include the following.
As for institutions, the political affairs hall is of course the most important. The policy of clearing the land and mu of the past can be truly formed, but in fact, the political affairs hall is the only institution that can be decided.
Today's Political Affairs Hall, Wen Yanbo and Zeng Gongliang, are all relatively obedient, so they should not have a big problem.
Ouyang Xiu is his father, and Ouyang Bian thinks it is convincing.
However, Zhao Jun was a little troublesome, after all, he didn't know what he was thinking.
Zhao Jun is a man who is good at self-reflection.
Every day when he wakes up, if a kind thought arises, he throws a soybean into the jar on the table.
If you have a bad idea, throw a black bean into the jar.
At night, pour out and count to see if there are more soybeans or black beans.
At the beginning, I found that there were many black beans, but later I arrived, there were more soybeans.
Such a person, if he is upright, cannot surrender if he cannot convince him.
The Privy Council is in charge of military affairs and generally does not involve political affairs. Except for the Privy Councilor who needs to cooperate regularly, he will inquire about political affairs.
However, the Privy Councilor was Fu Bi's father-in-law, and Fu Bi was an old minister of Qingli. He participated in the Qingzhang land acres in the previous two times, so there should be no major problems.
Zhang Fangping was in charge of the Sansi. Although Ouyang Bian and Zhao Xu had been planning for a long time, it was also caused by the Sansi's unwillingness to pay.
So Sansi should strongly support this matter.
The trouble is now the censor.
Let’s talk about the Censorate First, the Censorate headed by Sima Guang has always been strong and united.
Sima Guang came out to speak, so will Fan Chunren, Wang Gui and others still be far away?
Sima Guang is not allowed to convince them in terms of truth. If they cannot convince them in terms of reason, it will be difficult for them to believe them.
In fact, Ouyang Bian wants to use this so-called hearing to bridge the relationship with the censor.
The censor system of the Song Dynasty was a very strange system. The censors of the Song Dynasty did not have censors specifically targeting the emperor like they did in the Tang Dynasty.
Whether it is the Censorate or the Censorate, they are actually going to the officials, and mainly for the government.
So much so that the administration of the Political Affairs Hall is often constrained by censors.
The Political Affairs Hall had to spend a lot of time arguing with the censors, but the emperor was able to stand high on the stage and watch his subordinates argue.
Although it is right to have checks and balances in power, in Ouyang Bian's opinion, if too many censors control it, this will greatly damage the efficiency of the government.
The first hearing was actually Ouyang Bian used it to communicate with the Censorate.
If there is anything, we will first discuss it at the beginning of policy formulation, and there will be no too much dispute when it is implemented later.
As a later generation, although Ouyang Bian had never done engineering projects, he was familiar with the engineering process.
During the entire construction process of a project, from planning, evaluation, decision-making, design, construction to completion acceptance, put into production or delivery, all work must follow, so that it is not necessary to argue back.
The Censorate is not bad. The Censorate generally does not interfere too much in political affairs, but focuses on the supervision of the officials themselves.
As for the landlords to be targeted this time, they are the targets of iron fist attacks, and their opinions are not very important, and they all have to oppose them anyway.
Therefore, the targets to be persuaded this time are mainly the Political Affairs Hall and the Censorate.
Although there were not many people on both sides, Ouyang Bian did not intend to save trouble and put the Political Affairs Hall and the Censorate together, but instead wanted to hold hearings in batches.
This is skillful.
Generally speaking, if there are more people and more opinions, you will be confused and you will not be able to find the key points at that time.
By convincing various groups of people separately, you can focus on making breakthroughs.
It seems simple to bring everyone together, but it makes things complicated.
It seems troublesome to hold a hearing separately, but in fact it can avoid a lot of trouble.
At least one by one, it is to convince one by one, and then accumulate allies and form a general trend, just like a war, fighting less is the kingly way.
Therefore, Ouyang Bian's strategy is to start with the Political Affairs Hall first, then convince the Three Sessions and the Privy Council, and finally hold a large hearing. At that time, a joint hearing between the Political Affairs Hall, the Three Sessions, the Privy Council and the Censorate will be formed.
Ouyang Bian was very busy because others could not interfere in the preparation of the hearing, and he was the only one who knew how to do it.
To hold a successful hearing, the first thing to do is to set up a strict, standardized and fair process, determine the focus of the topic, otherwise it will become a general discussion meeting and will easily become a formality.
This is what Ouyang Bian pays most attention to.
Even Ouyang Bian has no experience in this matter, so he can only set it up one by one and then argue it himself.
This process is very painful, but it is precisely because of this that Ouyang Bian is very familiar with the entire process.
After several days of preparation, the hearing process was finally confirmed.
But Ouyang Bian did not rashly convene a hearing, but made preparations first.
The so-called preparation is to convince the attendees in private.
For example, Ouyang Xiu, Wen Yanbo and Zeng Gongliang.
These three people, Ouyang Bian, are all familiar with them, and they don’t have many reasons to object, so they can convince them first.
As for Zhao Shi, Ouyang Bian did not say that, because Ouyang Bian regarded Zhao Shi as the object of the drill.
Chapter completed!