Honglin Enlightenment Dao "Han Feizi - The Path of the Eight Classics", Chapter 33 Covenant Law

Honglin Enlightenment Dao "Han Feizi - The Path of the Eight Classics", Chapter 33 Covenant Law

In the chapter of the Honglin Enlightenment Dao", Han Feizi talked about the seventh and eighth methods of the path. Legislation Seven is about how to deal with government affairs and social affairs, and Legislation Eight is how to deal with the scourge of friends and the party. There are thousands of things under the world, how to deal with the monarch, Han Feizi's strategy is to summarize and summarize, classify them, establish institutional rules, standardize behavior, and deal with them uniformly. "Similar to the same kind of things should be aggregated and comprehensively analyzed and considered, and unified treatment methods, unified deployment, and unified action should be solved relatively thoroughly, which is also the strategic root of the current implementation of so-and-so action to solve so-and-so prominent problems.

For the courtiers to make mistakes, Han Feizi's strategy is to "chen guo is clear and solid", not only to let the offending courtiers know the mistakes they made, but also to let them understand why they made mistakes, it is a problem with thoughts and beliefs, we must trace back to the roots from the depths of the soul, to achieve the purpose of purifying the mind and consolidating the faith, and cannot be punished at once. This is the origin of our ideological and political work, and Han Feizi also explained to us the methods and methods of ideological and political work in the previous chapter, as well as the purpose.

Han Feizi put the handling of the partisan party last, explaining the seriousness of the problem. Since ancient times, the scourge of the party has been the first problem of the imperial court, and solving the scourge of the party is the core duty of the monarch. Of course, Han Feizi knew the seriousness and harm of the scourge of the partisans, so he gave a systematic solution. First of all, the traitors were severely punished and their private authority was eliminated; second, the officials were inspected and their networks were known, and finally the nets were gradually closed and punished one by one. It seems that there are only three steps, but the workload is extremely large, which requires careful planning, close coordination, overall planning, and step-by-step implementation, neither too large to cause social problems, nor too small to achieve little. Of course, Han Feizi also gave a strategy for disintegrating the internal and partisan infighting in the previous chapter, so that the partisan party would not be able to break through.

After Han Feizi finished speaking about the Eight Laws of The Founding Path, today he talked about the covenant, which is the agreement between the monarch and his courtiers, which is the spirit of the contract and also the institutional arrangement. Han Feizi believes that "to make a covenant to invade it: to make a covenant with his courtiers; to make an agreement with his courtiers; and to make an agreement between a monarch and his subordinates, to tell their superiors: to make an agreement with his courtiers against Xiangguo; to make an agreement with his subordinate officials; to deal with his subordinate officials. The "infringement" here cannot be interpreted as infringement or infringement, but the monarch gives the courtiers the power to "report", and this institutional arrangement and power conferring and "setting advice" is a truth. For lawless courtiers, everyone can report, let alone subordinates, which is the embodiment of the spirit of social fairness and justice, the obligation and responsibility of citizens, and the struggle against social chaos.

The granting of the power to report is the greatest restraint on the thoughts and behaviors of the powerful subjects. To be able to become a member of the administrative system, you must be familiar with the rules and regulations and work processes of the system. We say that the system is correct, the procedure is just, if the superior's behavior is wrong, it will destroy the system and break through the procedure, then as a subordinate and a member of the procedure, if there is a "reporting" power given by the monarch, it can be "invaded", unfortunately, Chinese the idea that "county management is not as good as the current management", coupled with the excessive power of the superior, this "encroachment" system has not played its real role.

继续约定“兵士，约其军吏；遣使，约其行介；县令，约其辟吏；郎中，约其左右；后姬，约其宫媛。 "This means: for military officials, make an agreement with the soldiers; for the messengers sent, they will make an agreement with his entourage; for the county order, they will make an agreement with the subordinate officials he appoints; for Lang Zhong, they will make an agreement with his attendants; for Hou Ji, they will make an agreement with the palace maid." Step-by-step agreement, unified authorization, which is a bit of the current "whistleblowing" system. The value of democracy lies in the fact that the people have real supervision power, that all wrongdoing can be reported, and that the government can effectively investigate and implement the report. A fire, a drop of water may not be extinguished, but if it falls into the ocean of the masses, it will certainly be extinguished, and this is the power of democracy.

Finally, Han Feizi said, "This is the way of the Tao. If you don't talk about it, you can't do it. Meaning: This is called the Path of The Tao. If the "reports" and things to be done by his subordinates are leaked out, the monarch's political means of examining his subordinates cannot be carried out. The "way of the road" is the channel through which officials at all levels directly "submit" reports to the monarch, this channel is smooth, and the reporting information will continue to reach the hands of the monarch, and the monarch can know the situation of the relevant courtiers and then deal with them accordingly. This is different from the "secret police" style of management, but the "invasion" system and the monarchy have agreed with the monarch, and I just want to tell you that there are "invasion" rules, and you had better respect yourself.

In order to make the way smooth and safe, Han Feizi once again stressed that the monarch should not leak the information of his courtiers. It is afraid that once the whistleblower is leaked, he will be persecuted, after all, the courtier is reporting his superiors. This is the same as the current whistleblowing system for the confidentiality of whistleblower information and whistleblowers.

【下约以侵其上：相室，约其廷臣；廷臣，约其官属；兵士，约其军吏；遣使，约其行介；县令，约其辟吏；郎中，约其左右；后姬，约其宫媛。 This is the way to reach the point. If you don't talk about it, you can't do it. 】

We often say that we don't do bad things, and we are not afraid of ghosts calling doors. All systems only guard against villains, not against gentlemen. We must have such a mind to deal with the conventions and regulations of "encroachment", starting from ourselves, and have the determination to "if people do not know, unless they do nothing".