Decision-making. Spring And Autumn

The issue of central decision-making in the states during Spring and Autumn period contains the system of discussion and consultation of decision-making, the system of supervision of decision-making and several factors of affecting decision-making. The discussion is divided into the routine discussion and the temporary discussion. The routine discussion is the discussion in a morning court. The place that it held has been found through archaeological finds. Several kinds of ceremony and propriety should be obeyed during discussion.There were many topics for discussion. The consultation was a special kind of the discussion.The policy-maker,such as monarch consulted individual through some forms, such as "Fang", "Wen". "Chao Guo Ren" was a kind of consultation to consult groups. The supervision to decision-making had thinking basis.The form of supervision to decision-making mainly contains direct public opinion supervision and indirect public opinion supervision. The supervision to decision-making had several characteristics. The factors that affected decision-making are divided into personal factors and impersonal factors. The personal factors contains the wives and concubines of monarches, the subjects who were specially fond of and trusted unduly by monarches, eunuches.Divination was the impersonal factor that affected decision-making.