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Chapter 158 Officials, nobles, common people
Chapter 156 Officials, nobles, common people

"The ambitions of the three of you have conflicts, and there are also places where you can cooperate with each other."

Asked Xunze to look at the three people and said,
"The point of conflict is that you have three people who each have their own political power, their own army. Everyone wants to be the boss, but neither can completely eliminate the other.

And the place where you can cooperate is that everyone doesn't want to see the Han Dynasty come to an end like this.

Maybe after you unify the world, you will have the idea of ​​​​replacing the Han and standing on your own, but before the unification of the world, you are all willing to be Han officials, not usurpers. "

"Indeed."

Cao Cao said,

"With the example of Wang Mang saving the Han, even if the Han family lost their morals, the courtiers should bring him back to the right track, instead of usurping the Han to stand on their own."

"That's right." Sun Ce also nodded in agreement with Cao Cao's statement.

Sun Ce, Liu Bei, and Sun Quan all grew up in the era when the authority of the Han Dynasty was still there. In their cognition, the word Han represented their own country, strength and prosperity.

Therefore, they act differently from Sima Yi, Sun Quan, Liu Chan, and Cao Pi. Unless the matter has reached the point where the Han Dynasty must be abolished, they will not easily change the dynasty.

The strength of the big Han made them have a sense of identity with the identity of the Han.

"In that case, let me tell you why I gave you the answer of constitutional monarchy."

Ask Xunze to look at the three of them and say,

"Luoyang has no danger to defend, and the surrounding plains are small. As a country, it is not as good as Chang'an, but it is also because of this, if Luoyang is just a separate city, so that it is not controlled by any of the three, then who I don't worry that this will threaten any of the three.

So my idea is to establish a constitutional monarchy, but it is not a constitutional monarchy by one family, but a constitutional monarchy by three families together. "

"But the constitutional monarchy implemented by Cao Cao before was also usurped by others."

Liu Bei heard what Xun Ze said and put forward his own opinion.

"It can be seen that constitutional monarchy is not reliable."

"The reason why the system of constitutional monarchy emerged is because there is an emerging class that can perfectly restrain the monarchy, so that he can only be bound by the law."

Ask Xunze to say to Liu Bei,

"Cao Cao's previous constitutional monarchy system was actually going awry. Because he did not cultivate a class to restrain the monarchy, but only limited the monarchy in name, and actually replaced the role of the monarch with himself.

And the constitutional monarchy I want you to do is to ensure that the monarchy's rights are always limited within a certain range through mutual checks and balances. "

"I still don't understand."

Cao Cao, Sun Ce, and Liu Bei were still a little confused.

"For the specific principles, you can read the book yourself. I'm mainly talking about what you need to do here."

Asked Xunze to take out the paper and pen, and explained his overall plan while explaining.

The plan is complicated to implement, but it sounds simple.

That is to let the three families form a coalition government, and then manage the government in the name of the Han Dynasty.

The seat of the coalition government is in Luoyang, and the royal family also lives here.Luoyang is a city directly under the coalition government, and is protected by troops sent by the three families. Any armed forces are not allowed to enter Luoyang without the consent of the three families.

The coalition government is jointly managed by the prime minister and the six ministries. Three candidates cannot be directly appointed, but each can recommend two candidates for each position.

At the same time, in order to ensure that the coalition government will not favor any one, the country needs to form an upper and lower house.

Among them, the House of Lords has the right to elect the prime minister and six officials, a total of 99 people, 33 people from each of the three families, and the principle of minority agreeing with the majority is implemented.

Moreover, major decisions about the country made by the Prime Minister and the Six Ministries require the approval of the House of Lords before they can be implemented.

That is to say, the House of Lords represents the will of Liu, Cao, and Sun and is responsible for supervising the imperial court.

The House of Commons is composed of people from all over the country who do not hold official positions but have a certain reputation. There is no limit to the number of people.

The House of Commons has the power to vote for and against major national decisions, but the voting results are only used as a reference for public opinion and do not have any practical benefits.

But the House of Commons also has the right to make suggestions, that is, members of the House of Commons can put forward suggestions on national policies. After the House of Commons votes, if the proposal has an approval rate of more than 70.00%, then the proposal will be sent to the The House of Lords votes.

If the House of Lords also passes the vote with more than 70.00% in favor, then the proposal will be sent to the coalition government for implementation.

In this way, the three power departments of the coalition government, the House of Lords and the House of Commons have the effect of checking each other.

The House of Lords can veto the decisions of the coalition government, but it is not qualified to make decisions by itself, and the coalition government will implement them.

The House of Commons is not qualified to approve or veto the decision of the coalition government, but they have the right to propose a decision-making plan for the House of Lords to vote on. If the House of Lords votes, the coalition government will have to implement the plan.

Under this political system, the coalition government represented the official class, the House of Lords represented the aristocratic class headed by the Cao, Liu, and Sun families, and the House of Commons represented the common people with certain social status.

When officials, nobles, and common people have their own voice channels and their own departments to exercise power, the royal family, which originally represented the highest power of the country, actually only remains as a mascot.

Because of the three institutions that hold state power, no matter which institution will want the royal family to come out to take power.

Of course, the reason why this plan is easy to say but difficult to implement is because if this plan is to be implemented, the group currently holding state power cannot be the royal family itself, but must also be split into several relatively stable political groups.

This is simply impossible to achieve in any dynasty other than the Three Kingdoms.Because other dynasties fought each other in chaotic times, and when they were unified, the central government was extremely powerful, and it was absolutely impossible to give up the rights in their hands.

Only during the period of the Three Kingdoms, the Cao, Sun, and Liu families checked and balanced each other. Although there was a slight gap in strength, they were far from being able to destroy each other.

Therefore, instead of allowing the three families to return to Jin in the end, it is better for the three families to hand over the right to appoint officials, form the House of Lords, and use the House of Lords to remotely control the country.

After the reforms of Liu Xiu and Wang Mang in the Han Dynasty, the aristocratic families were wiped out one after another, and the literati formed political groups through the academies, which also completely separated the nobles from the literati.

In other words, even if the officials of the imperial court were recommended by the nobles, the nobles and the officials were not one in terms of interests.

As long as Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Ce are willing to give up part of their rights, the nobles will change from directly controlling the country to commanding the country remotely.

Between this coming and going, the difference is huge.

Note: Luoyang is not defenseless, but lacks the strategic depth of defense.

(End of this chapter)