A generation of emperors who love talents like treasures
Li Shimin is a person who attaches great importance to talents, and wants to envelop all the world's talents under his command. And he is not only a monarch who can see the talents of others, but also an emperor who can make full use of them. It's easy to find talent, but it's not easy to put them in the right places.
Li Shimin is also worthy of being a great leader, knowing people and doing his job, letting his subordinates perform their duties, while he himself withdraws from trivial things and coordinates the overall situation as a bystander. Play from God's point of view.
At the same time, Li Shimin is also a person who is very willing to give up power, and many emperors in ancient China are unwilling to give power to their courtiers. Some emperors thought they were powerful enough to hold power firmly in their own hands, while others were too suspicious for fear that their subordinates would usurp the throne and seize power. In general, power is a good thing, and no one wants to give it to someone else.
When a country moves forward according to a person's idea, it is inevitable that all kinds of problems will occur, if an emperor is reluctant to give up power, how can you ensure that he can always do well. Even many emperors who have left a good reputation are inevitably mediocre, so someone must check and balance the power of the monarch.
But Li Shimin is different, in his eyes, the emperor is more like a job, if everything is done by himself, then what is the meaning of the existence of these courtiers under his hands. You have to give trust first, so that the people under your hands can do things for you with peace of mind.
Performance appraisal is not only now, it has existed for a long time, as a leader, you must not be able to subjectively judge whether you are doing well or not, there must be an appraisal standard.
For this reason, Li Shimin also specially formulated the "method of examination of courses" for all levels, and assessed the first class every year, and divided the results into nine grades, and finally announced by Shangshu Province. There are rewards for good work, and punishments for bad work.
"Full authorization" and "performance appraisal" complement each other, so that the imperial power and the relative power are mutually restricted, and continue to approach the ideal state of the world's great governance. If you want to be politically clear, the emperor can't be a **, and if you don't want the court to become a vanity fair, then the emperor can't be in power.
Therefore, for an emperor, how much power to give his courtiers while maintaining his own right to speak is a question worth pondering, and Li Shimin handed over a relatively perfect answer in this regard.
Author: Wang Gongjian.