Chapter 1224: King Chu's Reflections
Even Jin Guo was aware of the turmoil within the Ming Dynasty, and Wang Yan, who was at the center of the whirlpool, was naturally aware of his own situation.
He had been silent about the matter, in fact, he had not figured out how to deal with it.
Wang Yan already knew about Shun's actions, and he was very dissatisfied with it, and even a little angry.
In addition to the fact that he doesn't like to be persecuted, even if he thinks it is good for him, more importantly, if he is added to the yellow robe by the military general, it means that the reforms he has carried out in recent years, especially the nationalization of the army, have failed.
This is not a good thing for Wang Yan, who has the ideal of establishing a system and changing the world, and he does not want military generals to participate in politics.
If they participated, the efforts of Wang Yan and the cabinet would be in vain.
Military generals interfere in politics, has always been an endless disaster, not to mention the distant five dynasties and ten countries, just say that this dynasty, Anzong borrowed the power of the four towns to ascend to the throne, which laid the root of the later situation of the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, even if Wang Yan is really added to the yellow robe, the first thing he considers will be to learn from Song Taizu to release military power, suppress unrestrained generals, and even kill people to ensure the stability of his position.
Chinese history is the history of the struggle between the courtiers and the imperial power, and it is the process of the courtiers from sitting and discussing with the monarch to gradually kneeling.
At this time, Wang Yan's identity was a minister, he represented the power of the minister, and the reforms he carried out, the implementation of the study of mind, and the admiration of Mencius, were to restore the power of the ministers and limit the imperial power, which was his motive for acting.
But if he sits on the dragon chair, his identity is the emperor, and the position of his ass changes, then there will inevitably be a big change in his motives.
Because at this time he represented the imperial power, his original reforms and ideas were contrary to his status as emperor.
Although Wang Yan admired the Song system, he did not want to follow the old path of the Song Dynasty.
If he comes to power in this way, he should not think about any reform in the future, but should think about how to stabilize the imperial power like the emperors of previous dynasties, so as to ensure that he can sit firmly in the country.
When you become an emperor, there is no turning back, and you don't want to try to sit in this position, and the end is death.
For generations, no one has been an emperor, and they still want to divide their powers, all of them want to increase the imperial power.
A Magna Carta in the West, which has been fought for more than 400 years, is that the royal family with vested interests refuses to let go of power.
As a powerful minister from a literati background, Wang Yan has ambition and a desire for power, but he is also very soft in his heart, with the romance and persistence of a literati.
He added himself to the yellow robe and forced the co-ruling emperor to abdicate, this kind of means that cannot be put on the table is not looked down upon, and even if he wants to usurp, he has to learn from Wang Mang, let the people of the world beg him to usurp, and now is not the best time to usurp.
Historically, even Chan Rang didn't get a good reputation, such as Cao Pi's usurpation of Han, Sima's usurpation of Wei, these are the previous generations of Chan Rang, and they have been despised by the world for thousands of years, and they can't get a good reputation, not to mention the coercion of the army?
Replacing orthodoxy with its surname and replacing the monarch with a courtier are all offensive things, especially since the Ming Dynasty is still a dynasty of nearly 300 years.
If Wang Yan was born recklessly, then these are not problems, the key is that he is a person in the Ming Dynasty system.
Judging from the current situation, Wang Yan would never agree to the addition of the yellow robe, but if he refused, he would have to solve another problem.
If he can't do something else, how can he ensure his safety in the future, after all, with an identity like him, if this problem is not solved, I am afraid that there will be no good end in the future.
The Shun system, which pushed him to rebel, was also worried about this, if Wang Yan couldn't solve this problem, the Shun family would not be able to stop, and would even separate from him.
In short, how can he suppress the imperial power's backlash, not just while he is alive, but also to ensure that his policies and reforms continue even after his death, rather than the death of others.
This question has been thought about by Wang Yan a long time ago.
At this time, although he had a monopoly on power, from a legal point of view, the source of his rights was the emperor, and he was helping the emperor to govern.
Then the crux of the contradiction is that the emperor's orders are greater than his orders.
After all, the emperor's order is called "holy decree", which is to tell the world to do what he wants, and his order is "doctrine" or "teaching", which is to tell the world what to do, and this level is too bad.
In other words, from the legal theory of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor can negate Wang Yan in one sentence.
Wang Yan's current situation is actually very similar to Cao Cao, he recovered the Ming Dynasty, and Cao Cao also reunified the north for the Han Dynasty, and both of them regarded themselves as Han ministers and implemented reforms.
If Cao Pi does not usurp, then Cao Cao's reputation in history will definitely throw Zhuge Liang a few streets, and he can be regarded as at least half a saint.
At that time, the north was basically pacified by Cao Cao, and he could say that the power was tilted towards the government and the opposition, but Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty was still able to make troubles such as "clothes and belt edicts", which shows that the emperor's influence should not be underestimated.
Of course, Wang Yanquan leaned towards the government and the opposition, and the emperor might not dare to make such a will, but if Wang Yan was gone, the time for reckoning might come.
If Wang Yan can't come up with a way to prevent this reckoning, then Shun and other cronies will inevitably put him on the throne.
Wang Yan has been thinking about this matter, ruling the emperor together? Zhu Linyuan
He is eight years old this year, and he is fifteen years old, and Wang Yan still has seven years to go, and he may be able to drag it out for ten years.
In these seven to ten years, Wang Yan has destroyed the Jin Kingdom,
A new generation of scholars influenced by the doctrine of mind and Mencius began to gradually grasp the right to speak.
People's thinking is not so easy to change, Wang Yan has been in power for five years, it is difficult for older scholars to accept new ideas, people are more and more conservative the more they live, this can be chatted with older people, you can find that it is difficult for young people to change the views of the older generation.
It is mainly young scholars who accept the new ideas, and seven to ten years is enough time for them to slowly grasp the right to speak, and when the time comes, the idea that the king wants his ministers to die and the ministers have to die will be challenged by Mencius's thought.
Wang Yan only needs to solve the problem of the emperor's orders and the prime minister's orders, who listens to whom, or when to listen to the emperor's and when to listen to the prime minister, and solve this problem, then he is a sub-saint.
He thought that there was enough time and he could advance and retreat freely, but he didn't want to, he wasn't in a hurry, but the people below were in a hurry.
In his opinion, it is not good for him to rebel at this time, even if he wants to usurp the throne, he can run for a few years and destroy the Jin country, and now the usurpation can only leave hidden dangers for him and force him to kill.
However, the people below were in such a hurry, which showed that they were uneasy, which forced Wang Yan to think of a way to give them a reassuring pill.
In the process of pacifying Tang Lu, Shun made great efforts, and it was this kind of strength that made them more and more uneasy in their hearts and anxious to change the dynasty.
They are even more afraid of being liquidated by the Ming Dynasty than Wang Yan, so they are the main force who want Wang Yan to be the emperor this time, it can be said that the Ming Dynasty exists for a day, and they will not be able to sleep and eat for a day.
In order to calm down this turmoil, it is necessary to make Shun feel at ease, and also to make Wang Yan's cronies feel that the Ming Dynasty has no chance to liquidate them.
Wang Yan has been thinking about this problem all the way.
Putting down "Zizhi Tongjian", Wang Yan couldn't help but prop his elbows on the desk and rub his head.
On the ship from Tongzhou, Wang Yan took the "Zizhi Tongjian" in the cabin to read it, and he had already memorized the content of it, but he still read it again, and he finally got something, and felt that he still had to learn from Cao Mengde's plan.
At this time, he was closing his eyes to recuperate, but the guard outside the cabin suddenly said: "Your Highness, you have arrived in Linqing, Shandong." ”
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