For example, after the political reform of Yan State, Qi State could almost be destroyed; After the official administration reform in Qi, Yan, Zhao, Han and Wei all made a big cut in Qi. However, it is puzzling that although both countries benefited from the bureaucratic reform, this benefit did not last long. Then why can't the bureaucratic reform in the Warring States period last long, and it is always easy to die? This paper focuses on the analysis of this problem.
0 1 the long-term goal of official administrative reform has been slow to take effect. First of all, the phased goal of official administrative reform is realized quickly, but the clear goal is slow to take effect; People say that the phased goal of bureaucratic reform has been achieved quickly because bureaucratic reform can improve the living environment of the imperial court in a short time.
For example, Zou Ji satirized coachable, the king of Qi. It is often recorded that Qi Weiwang got Zou Ji's opinion that he could be people-oriented and listen to the advice of ministers and ordinary people, which made the political environment of the imperial court more and more clear. At this time, the fault tolerance of monarch's decision-making has been improved. After all, a people-oriented monarch and a group of ministers who can put forward effective opinions and suggestions are of great benefit to the development of the times and will not go their own way.
The long-term goal of official administration reform is almost impossible to achieve, and it is limited to short-term goals. For the reform of official administration, the long-term goal is difficult to achieve, in other words, it is almost impossible to achieve. The reform of official administration is actually a high-speed development policy based on kingly way. What kind of current policy is king? The rapid development of Wang Dao needs the development system of the times and the current policies to improve the basic livelihood projects. In other words, it is necessary to give consideration to the support of ordinary people, birth and death.
The reform of official administration is to meet the needs of the broad masses and stabilize the development of the times. For the time being, no matter how high the demand of ordinary people is. Regardless of their spiritual needs after meeting the basic requirements, how much time and energy does it take to simply ask a country to start reform and innovation from some basic livelihood projects?
People need time to adapt to bureaucratic reform. What you need to know is that the so-called bureaucratic reform and kingly policy are all very detailed. For example, Mencius' kingly way of treating Liang is to consider that "several mistakes don't go into the pool" and "one axe goes into the forest with time". In other words, what kind of nets should people use to fish?
Secondly, even if this country truly meets the above requirements, ordinary people should have a time to adapt, so that they can keep this law and distribution in mind according to their efforts for a period of time. Only when everyone follows this standard can we achieve the above prosperity. What kind of whole process is this?
I firmly believe that it will not be possible for decades and hundreds of years, so such reforms can only be used for short-term goals. It is human nature to support reform. Making big improvements in a short period of time may win many people's hearts and get better response, but over time, the bigger the improvement, the more requirements, and the reform of kingly way is no longer suitable for implementation; This is also a key element that the reform of official administration is always easy to end.
The reform of official administration needs a lot of environment and consumes a lot of national energy. Secondly, the reform of official administration needs a lot of external environment. Everyone mentioned the policy of Wang Dao above. In other words, the reform of official administration is based on the support, birth, burial and death of the people, and it needs to invest a lot of national energy to improve it, but the Warring States period is an upside down era. At that time, not to mention the survival of ordinary people, even the country was seeking development at the cutting edge.
The development time and energy of an era are limited, so it is impossible to give consideration to the people's support, birth, illness and death, and at the same time, only the administrative, economic development and national defense aspects of developing countries can be considered. So it is better to consider the people's support, birth and death? Or is it better to consider the country's administration, national defense and economic development? Believe this difficult problem, every monarch has a unified answer in his heart.
05 bureaucratic reform tests the monarch's ability. Thirdly, the reform of official administration has very high requirements for the monarch. Bureaucratic reform is different from legal reform. The legal reform has strong rules to enforce control, and no matter who needs to follow the standards, the fault tolerance of the monarch's decision-making has been improved in this way.
However, there are no rigid rules and laws and regulations for the reform of official administration. Whether it is to improve people's livelihood or rectify the imperial environment, it depends on the monarch's ability to work. As Confucianism said, a man with both ability and political integrity should be the ruler of a country. But how many people can have both ability and political integrity? Most people are just ordinary people.
When you meet a saint, the reform of the bureaucratic system can be carried out very well, but when you meet a tyrant, the situation is very different; This point is analyzed by comparing the results of two official reforms; The leaders of these two political reforms are famous rulers in history, one is Yan Zhaowang and the other is Qi Weiwang.
Conclusion Bureaucratic reform is not as long as legal reform, which is caused by many factors. Among them, it is not only determined by the nature and characteristics of bureaucratic reform itself, but also requires high environmental factors and the ability of the monarch. Meet a wise monarch, get twice the result with half the effort. Therefore, bureaucratic reform itself is not an easy reform.
After all, in the Warring States period, not all vassal states could maintain the trend of long-term development, and there was no guarantee that all generations could produce smart and capable monarchs. Therefore, once the external environment changes, it will affect the development of the times. Once the imperial system changes, the situation of the imperial court will change, and the bureaucratic reform of this country will be severely tested. That's all. I hope I can help friends who are interested in history. If you have any ideas, please leave a message in the comments section for discussion.