Chapter 703
Hua Xin's situation is similar to Wang Lang, both of which have a tall image in official history, but was ridiculed by Luo Guanshui in the Romance because of his participation in Cao Wei usurping the throne.
Hua Xin, this person is a very complicated person, and he has always had a polarized evaluation of Hua Xin's ethics and virtues.
Many people believe that Hua Xin is a treacherous minister who helps the evil and becomes accomplices for the tiger because of Hua Xin's involvement in the abdication incident.
In fact, Hua Xin's "forcing the emperor to abdicate" only stayed in opera. In the novel, there is a passage in the Romance of "Hua Xin committed a mistake in Wei, so he wrote a second edict to force Emperor Xian to surrender." There is no accurate record in history books. "New Words on the World" writes the allusion of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceiling of the ceil
When Hua Xin was in the Han Dynasty, he was not arrogant, but actually had a look of worry. Cao Pi was very dissatisfied and asked the Shangshu Chen Qun: "I was in the heaven and the civil and military officials were promoted to the title. Everyone was happy. Only Hua Xin and you were unhappy. Why is this?" Chen Qun replied: "Hua Xin and I are both old ministers of the Han Dynasty. If we are as happy and proud as everyone, it may even arouse your hatred." Cao Pi dispelled his doubts after hearing this.
Hua Xin was the most powerful minister, but he always served himself honestly. At that time, he was summoned by Cao Cao, and more than a thousand guests gave him a gift, and hundreds of gold were given. Hua Xin refused, but secretly marked the gifts and returned them one by one after another. During the reign of Cao Pi, Hua Xin was appointed as Situ. However, Hua Xin was poor and gave his relatives and old friends to redeem his relatives and old friends. Chen Shou praised him as "pure and virtuous". It was just right.
Hua Xin only did one less humane thing, which was to capture Queen Fu. From the perspective of Emperor Xian of Han, Hua Xin was a thug who was punished and could not be punished. From the perspective of Cao Cao, Hua Xin dared to withstand the pressure and jumped straight to Longtan, and was loyal and reliable. Although Queen Fu was sad and pitiful, to be fair, Hua Xin was just acting on orders, and there was no sin or loyalty or courage. In dramas and novels, Hua Xin was portrayed as a treacherous minister, but in fact it was just the concept of "Han is orthodox" and "respecting Liu and suppressing Cao". Now Lu Bu's status is equivalent to the role of a powerful minister in history. He naturally hoped that Hua Xin would be more loyal to himself and not loyal to the Han Dynasty.
At this time, Hua Xin got the pseudo-governor of Yuzhang in Luoyang, and each took half of the territory of Yuzhang appointed by Lu Bu. Hua Xin was calm and unhurried in the government, and the officials and the people were moved and loved him.
Sun Ce captured Jiangdong. Hua Xin welcomed the rituals of his children. The rituals were the guests of honor. Every time Sun Ce met with civil and military officials, Hua Xin could drink it hard. He didn't get drunk after drinking a stone of wine, and his clothes were not messy at all. Everyone observed secretly, and was often surprised by Hua Xin's neat clothes. Jiangnan called him "Hua Du Sitting" to see it from this. Hua Xin not only had an astonishing amount of alcohol, but also had an astonishing self-control.
When Lu Bu learned that Sun Ce had occupied Yuzhang, he ordered Sun Ce to forcibly bind a famous minister Hua Xin of Yecheng.
When Lu Bu saw Hua Xin, he suddenly remembered that when he was in Luoyang, Hua Xin, Xun Yu, Xun You and Zhong Yao, the four Shangshusbands, went to Yuan Wei's mansion to hide from him under the leadership of Hua Xin. At that time, Lu Bu had swore to the heaven that he would kill Hua Xin, but now after Lu Bu saw Hua Xin, his strong murderous intent disappeared, and replaced by his love for talent.
Hua Xin has no military talent. He doesn't seem to be able to see any talent in politics, but Lu Bu knows that a real talent is not about doing everything himself, but about selecting talents, fulfilling their duties, and doing a good job in overall planning. Hua Xin's performance in history is consistent with the talents of this prime minister.
Hua Xin's proposal to govern the country was to emphasize agriculture rather than war, and to attach importance to cultural, education and moralization. In the early years of Taihe, Emperor Ming of Wei, Cao Rui, sent Cao Zhen to attack Shu Han, and Hua Xin wrote a letter to oppose it. He believed that "those who serve the country should take the people as the basis, and the people should take food and clothing as the basis", and should first pay attention to the governance of the country, "taking conquests as the funeral afterwards". If the country is well governed, the enemy will defeat itself without attacking. "The army had to use it." As the emperor, we could not lose the foundation and chase the end. At that time, it happened that the continuous autumn rain was not conducive to the war, so Cao Rui adopted Hua Xin's suggestion.
At first glance, Hua Xin's political proposition is the opposite of Lu Bu. After all, Lu Bu has been fighting every year over the years, and he is quite a bit of a military attitude.
But Lu Bu knew very well that war would perish. He had fought too many wars over the years and recruited too many military service, which had dragged down the development of Jizhou, Bingzhou and other places. For example, the incident of the son of the inn shopkeeper who was interviewed in Jizhou last time was a huge mistake in Lu Bu's policy of being a soldier. Lu Bu had to fight in recent years, but Lu Bu will not provoke war so easily from now on. He should streamline the military and simplify administration, recuperate and restore the economy. When the national strength is strengthened to a certain extent, and when the domestic political situation stabilizes, many external problems will be solved.
Hua Xin also has another characteristic of governance. He is calm and unsettling. He is quite a bit of the attitude of governing inaction by Huang Lao. At first glance, he seems incompetent. However, Lu Bu has seen the situation of officials advancing and retreating in the future, and the government is in charge of everything but not managing anything well. Anything that should be handed over to the market and the government intervenes will eventually harm the country and the people. For example, real estate. If the government had not intervened in it, if it were not for the government's income of 70% of the real estate income was handed over to the government, the housing prices in this country would not be so deformed. For example, the Red Cross Society itself should be a purely public welfare social organization, but it became a yamen, which would naturally be a ***.
Lu Bu has a deep-rooted political view that the government should not control anything that should not be managed. The government will interfere with the government and will only cause social order to be disrupted. The government is positioned as a referee, and we must learn to delegate power to the society and the market.
In the final analysis, all the crimes of the government are attributed to their unrestricted and infinitely expanding power. As long as the power of the government and bureaucrats is not contained in the cage, he will have the opportunity to come out and hurt people. Therefore, Lu Bu has always been committed to controlling the power of officials, especially local administrative officials.
Lu Bu had an in-depth communication with Hua Xin. Hua Xin agreed with Lu Bu's concept, and at the same time his impression of Lu Bu was greatly improved. He no longer refused to surrender as a fatal injury. Lu Bu used Taoist techniques to hypnotize and brainwash Hua Xin, which made Hua Xin less deeply rooted concepts of aristocratic families in his heart, and replaced it with strong support for Lu Bu's policy of suppressing aristocratic families.
Hua Xin was able to be a talented person of Wang Lang and as prime minister, and their ideas of governing the country were very similar. In the book of Wang Lang's son Wang Su, Wang Lang's son, he once discussed that if the country is governed by the poor people's strength, the people will inevitably resist. Uncontrollable plundering makes it difficult for the people to survive, and they will only take risks. The rulers' misconduct forced the people to rebel. At this time, if the people were punished indiscriminately, the result would be "punishing but not rebelling, punishment for punishment but not being able to recover", which would only make the society more turbulent.
Lu Bu reflected on himself and found that he had done many things like Yang Guang at the end of the Sui Dynasty. He was too willing to sacrifice the people's strength. It seems that in the future, he had to learn to cherish the people's strength in order to achieve social stability and achieve the goal of unifying the world.
Wang Lang's son Wang Su also wrote to the emperor: "Except for a position that is not a problem, reduce the salary that is not urgent, stop the expenses of floating food, and be calm; if the official must have a position, and the job is in charge of the work, the work must be paid, and the salary must be used as a substitute for the farming, which is the usual practice in the past and is suitable for the present. If there are few officials but the salary is high, the public will be paid little, and the ambition to enter the official will be encouraged to show their strength. Don't rely on each other." This means that removing those officials who have positions and no matter whether they have a position or have an official who only enjoys salary, so that every official who has a problem has a generous salary and fulfills his responsibilities. The result will not only reduce the country's financial expenses, but also avoid the phenomenon of having nothing to do, fighting each other, or relying on each other, and competing with each other, and competing with each other will be a better effect.
After three months in Lu Bu's Central University Hall and the Central Military Training Brigade, Hua Xin was recommended by Lu Bu as the Minister of Personnel, in charge of personnel and began to streamline governments at all levels. Wang Lang, the Minister of Justice of the Ministry of Justice, cooperated with Hua Xin's actions.
On the surface, it seems that there is no need to streamline the yamen in the current department. After all, Lu Bu came from the era of the most bloated and largest yamen bureaucrats in history. He really didn't feel that the government was bloated in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Although Lu Bu standardized everything and abolished the power of the chief executives at all levels to set up staff members, all of which were changed to six administrative departments under the six ministries, and changed all the officials in important departments to official staffing. As a result, there were half of the more regular staffing officials than before. Because Lu Bu was engaged in high salaries and maintenance, he greatly increased his salary and benefits, and his financial expenses were several times more than before.
However, because the ratio of Han officials to the people was one to two thousand, even if it expanded, it was one to one thousand, and the national finance could bear it. At the same time, because Lu Bu implemented a real, comprehensive and strict anti-corruption system, the corruption behavior of officials in various places was sharply reduced, so that the taxes collected by the state were not frantically embezzled by officials in various places, and finally a balance of income and expenditure was reached.
But Hua Xin and Wang Lang tried to kill each other and carefully rectified them. It was found that one-quarter of the officials and one-third of the officials were going to be removed. The news reached Lu Bu's ears. Lu Bu was deeply shocked and quickly asked someone to invite them to question.
But Hua Xin and Wang Lang presented the officials, especially those mediocre officials in the court, the list of officials and their behaviors, to Lu Bu, who was speechless.
Lu Bu found that most of these officials were children of aristocratic families. They were children of aristocratic families who had not opposed their good families and neutral families. A considerable number of children of these families were incompetent in their abilities. Some people followed the previous rules of being an official, not seeking merit, but seeking no mistakes, following the perseverance and doing nothing, and some people's behavior was even more outrageous.
Chapter completed!