The issue that Zhao Dan suddenly threw out obviously made Miao Xian a little stunned. It took several seconds to react.

After reacting, the first thing that this loyal eunuch thought of was to oppose.

"King, you must not do anything about supervising the guards!" Miao Xian's old face turned red with an anxious face and said to Zhao Dan: "How can you forget the riots of the people in the country? The king must not do anything about King Li again!"

"The Chinese people riot?" Zhao Dan was also stunned for a moment, and then soon remembered what Miao Xian was talking about.

The riots of the Chinese people were what happened during the "Western Zhou" that the Zhou Dynasty had not moved from Haojing to Luoyi, which is what the historical books call "Western Zhou".

At that time, due to the development of society, the land ownership system, the well-field system, which was originally established when the Zhou Dynasty was founded, began to have problems. In a sentence from the high school political textbook, it is "production relations can no longer adapt to the needs of increasingly progressive productivity."

As the population of the Zhou Dynasty increased, the fields divided by the well-field system could no longer feed farmers, so the farmers secretly reclaimed a large amount of private fields in addition to the public fields divided by the government.

Later, due to the increasing population and the fact that even the reclaimed private fields could no longer support themselves, the people of the Zhou Dynasty had to go to the mountains, forests, lakes and lakes to hunt and fish to obtain more food sources.

However, the income of the central government of the Zhou Dynasty relied on public fields. Whether it was reclaiming private fields or hunting and fishing, this did not increase the fiscal revenue of the central government. On the contrary, it also destroyed the original well-field system.

When the well-field system was destroyed, the tax revenue of the central government of the Zhou Dynasty also dropped greatly, that is, there was no money. But how could the government agencies be maintained without money? Therefore, the Zhou Dynasty's rule naturally had a crisis.

Under such circumstances, the then king of Zhou Li, King Li, decided to carry out reforms. The King Li of Zhou appointed a nobleman named Rong Yigong as a nobleman (equivalent to the Grand Tutor and the Prime Minister) and asked Rong Yigong to preside over the reforms.

But it is obvious that the monarch and ministers, King Li of Zhou and Duke Rong Yi, did not understand the contradiction between productivity and production relations, and their reforms were completely wrong.

With the support of King Li of Zhou, Rong Yigong issued a "patent" policy, announcing that all mountains, forests, lakes and lakes are state-owned and that private individuals cannot enter them to hunt and fish, and violators will be punished.

King Li of Zhou and Gong Rong Yi thought that since people could not hunt and fish, they should be able to return to the well field obediently. In this way, the well field system can return to normal again and the country's tax revenue can return to normal.

But King Li of Zhou and Gong Rong Yi ignored one thing, that is, because everyone can’t survive in farming and starve to death, so they have no choice but to hunt and fish. Now you don’t hunt and fish for us, but instead ask us to go back to farm. What’s the difference between this and letting us die?

Therefore, the people of the Zhou Dynasty complained about this, and many experienced ministers expressed their dissatisfaction.

But King Li of Zhou not only ignored this, but instead established a secret agency called "Weiwu" to monitor people. As long as anyone complained about King Li of Zhou's patent policy, both ministers and civilians would be arrested and killed directly.

This violent terrorist policy made the Zhou people silent, and even reached the point where they didn't dare to talk to each other when they walked on the road, and could only signal each other with their eyes.

However, this policy is obviously impossible to maintain for a long time. After a few years, the unbearable Zhou people finally launched an uprising to overthrow King Li of Zhou. This is the so-called "Chinese riot".

The reason why Miao Xian used the incident of the Chinese riot to persuade Zhao Dan was that he wanted to say that King Li of Zhou established a secret organization to monitor people's actions and remarks, which led to the peak of public resentment, and King Li of Zhou was eventually overthrown.

King (Zhao Dan) You want to establish this supervisory guard to monitor people now. Isn’t this the old path of King Li of Zhou? If this happens, your rule will probably be difficult to guarantee.

After Zhao Dan figured out what Miao Xian meant, he couldn't help laughing.

As we can see from Miao Xian’s words just now, this old minister was sincerely considering Zhao Dan and Zhao State, and even risked to anger Zhao Dan and bluntly expressed his opposition to Zhao Dan’s decision.

It's just...

Zhao Dan stretched out his hand and patted the loyal old minister on the shoulder.

"Miao Qing is worried too much."

Zhao Dan coughed, cleared his throat, and said to Miao Xian seriously: "Donald Zhao once advised King Li of Zhou, 'Defense of the people is more important than guarding against Sichuan.' King Li refused to listen, so there was a riot among the people. Since King Li taught him the lessons before, how could I repeat his mistakes? This supervisory guard is not a supervisory slander for Wei Wu and other supervisors, but is supervising all officials for me and understanding the people's sentiments. As for the punishment, the officials are responsible for the subordinates, and the supervisory guard is not involved."

"Supervise all officials and understand the people's sentiments?" Miao Xian savored these two sentences carefully, and his originally frown brows were slightly relaxed.

If the supervisory guard is responsible for these matters, it does not seem to be an exaggeration.

Moreover, Zhao Dan also said that things like deciding punishment are still decided by the original legal system of Zhao State Siko, so the supervisory guard is indeed completely different from the "Weiwu" organization that King Li of Zhou arrested and beheaded with disagreement.

But after thinking about it, Miao Xian was a little confused: "King, I still have some things to do. If you are supervising all officials, and there is also Lieutenant Yu Xin, you can do it, so why should you place this supervisory guard?"

As one of the important officials of the State of Zhao, the position of lieutenant Yu Xin was appointed as "selecting and encouraging the wise and serving as officials." It is equivalent to the later Minister of Personnel. He himself has the authority to be promoted or dismissed based on the performance of all officials, that is, the power of supervision.

Therefore, Miao Xian means that since there are lieutenants, then you can get a supervisory guard out, and it seems like you are taking off your pants and farting - this is a waste of time.

Zhao Dan smiled slightly and said, "Miao Qing's words are wrong. Lieutenant is an official. Officials protect each other is the norm in the world. Yu Qing is a lieutenant, and I am confident that he will be. If the treacherous minister steals the position of this lieutenant and deceives the superiors and subordinates in the future, the State of Zhao will be in danger! The supervisory guard is the one who sets up to resolve this crisis. In the future, the lieutenant can be an open-minded person, and the supervisory guard can be an open-minded person. In this way, each bright and the secret complements each other, and I will be free of worries!"

Zhao Dan's words were about his original intention of establishing a supervisory guard.

There are too many institutions similar to this supervisory guard in China. For example, Wei Liao of the Qin Dynasty, embroidered envoys of the Han Dynasty, Lijingmen of the Tang Dynasty, Imperial City Office of the Song Dynasty, Jinyiwei of the Ming Dynasty, Dongchang, sticking rods (blood droplets) of the Qing Dynasty, etc.

Why do so many dynasties have set up such a secret agent with different names but basically the same nature, directly belonging to the emperor? Could it be that the emperors are all full and have nothing to do?

The fundamental reason is actually very simple, it is to prevent "officials and officials from protecting each other".

You should know that the Ministry of Personnel, who is responsible for the supervision of officials, is also a member of the official class. Letting the Ministry of Personnel supervise the officials is actually equivalent to the official class supervising itself. Could this not be a shady person? He is an athlete and a referee, may this not blow the whistle?

This is what is called protecting each other.

The emergence of officials and officials' protection is usually accompanied by large-scale corruption, and large-scale corruption will inevitably lead to the people's misfortune. Then the emperors will face a crisis of rule, and the country will be in danger of being destroyed by peasant uprisings.

Therefore, the emperors must have a force to check and balance and deter the officials, to eliminate corrupt people in the official class, to avoid officials unscrupulously deceiving their superiors and concealing their subordinates, and to give the emperor a channel to directly understand the people's sentiments.

What was the consequence of lacking the supervision and guard institutions? Chongzhen, the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, killed Wei Zhongxian under the deceiver of the officials and literati and officials, abolished the Jinyiwei and the Dongchang. Then the literati and officials of the Ming Dynasty lost their deterrence and began to become the country's borer unscrupulously. It took only more than ten years to destroy the huge Ming Dynasty.

There was no problem with Chongzhen killing Wei Zhongxian himself. Just change his confidant to take office. However, abolishing Dongchang and Jinyiwei was definitely a very stupid thing that Chongzhen did.

As the saying goes, we can learn from history to gain or lose. Since we have so many experiences and lessons from dynasties, it is imperative for Zhao Dan to establish the Supervisory Guard.

In addition, this kind of institution itself also requires a certain amount of development time. It is not possible for Zhao Dan to open his mouth and the supervisory guards to be everywhere. Therefore, the sooner the supervisory guard, the better.

After hearing Zhao Dan's explanation, Wangxian finally understood it completely. He nodded in conscience and praised: "The king is indeed a noble person. I am not as good as me. Please rest assured. I will do my best to build this supervisory guard for the king, Hu Yiwei!"

What Zhuxian is actually confused about is the internal supervision guard. As for the Hu Yiwei who is external, Zhuxian can understand it. After all, which country has few spies these days? Hu Yiwei is just formally integrating the foreign spies of Zhao State, which is actually a matter of duty.

As mentioned earlier, Zhu Xian himself was loyal to Zhao Dan, the king. His initial opposition was because he felt that this was not good for Zhao Dan's rule. But now after hearing Zhao Dan's explanation, Zhu Xian found that the establishment of the supervisory guard was not only harmless but also beneficial, so Zhu Xian naturally supported this matter with full support.

So Miao Xian had no objection and quickly left.

Seeing Miao Xian leaving, Zhao Dan was also quite happy. The reason why Zhao Dan had to persuade Wang Xian so much was actually because Miao Xian was the best candidate for Zhao Dan to be responsible for the establishment of these two organizations. With Wang Xian's full cooperation, the Supervisory Guard and Hu Yiwei should be able to get on track quickly.

Why is it said that Wangxian is the best candidate? First of all, Wangxian has enough abilities and prestige, and then he also has enough personnel (disciples) to do these things.

Of course, these are actually not important. The most important point is Miao Xian’s position - the eunuch (the general manager of Da Nei).

Of course, there is only one kind of person who can become the chief supervisor of the big inner court - eunuch.

Of course, the most reassuring intelligence agency like this, which directly belongs to the emperor, is the only way to let eunuchs who do not have the ability to pass on their family line as the leader.
Chapter completed!