Section 991 Monarchy and Subjectivity
The emperor is a scoundrel, what should I do?
There are too many similar examples to learn from in the history of the Han dynasty.
Not to mention, back then, Emperor Taizu Gao pointed at Yongxian and forcibly wanted to create a black emperor.
Although the ministers thought it was funny, they could only pinch their noses and admit it.
To this day, who dares to say that the Black Emperor is not a righteous god and a righteous worship?
Even the folk alchemists accepted this setting.
Of course, the matter of Emperor Taizu is not enough as a reference.
After all, the founding ancestor has been enough to overwhelm a lifetime since ancient times.
Especially the Great Han Taizu, when he was in power, he fought in the south and the north to level the world.
The weight of his authority is that even Xiao He and Cao Shen have to bow their heads and obediently be their grandsons.
The story of Xinhengping in the time of Taizong is enough to explain a lot of problems.
The current Prime Minister Zhou Yafu and Yu Shi Dafu Chao Cuo have both experienced the Xinhengping incident personally.
They all saw with their own eyes how Prime Minister Zhang Cang, for the sake of principles and positions, united hundreds of officials and resisted the edict of the Son of Heaven!
But......
It's a pity......
Although the facts have proved that Zhang Cang is right, Xin Hengping is a big liar.
Moreover, the relevant evidence has been put in front of the case of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen.
Taizong was furious and razed the three clans of Xinhengping.
However, because of this, Prime Minister Zhang Cang was subsequently dismissed.
Although, nominally, Zhang Cang was dismissed because he accepted bribes and used public weapons for personal use.
But fools know that this is a direct reaction of Emperor Taizong's annoyance.
"Alas...... Liu's ......" Zhou Yafu shook his head in his heart, he remembered his father Zhou Bo.
At the beginning, his father Zhou Bo and Qu Rebellion Hou Chen Ping jointly led the princes and ministers to eradicate Zhulu, and then they overrode public opinion and established the acting king.
But the result?
A piece of edict, with the sentence 'the prime minister is important to me, it is the country of the princes who lead me', and it is simple to let the largest mountain in the army and the oldest meritorious hero go home to farm.
And the reason for this is only because a year ago, Taizong wanted to dismiss General Wei, which caused Zhou Bo to oppose it, so he was suspicious of Taizong.
In the end, General Wei was dismissed in the same way.
And his father can only go home and farm in disgrace.
Therefore, when his father was dying, he left a testament to warn their brothers: Liu, you can share hardships, not wealth together, and if you want to be rich and rich, you can only coax your ears!
It means that if you want to be rich and prosperous with the old Liu family, you have to learn to coax people.
I have to coax the surname Liu like a child.
You can't say that this kid wants to eat a lollipop, and you have to give it to him.
The result, of course, is that the children are mad, you go home and farm!
It's just that......
Zhou Yafu thought in his heart: "If I obey the king in everything, what good will I do as the prime minister?" Why don't you go back to farming! ”
Many scholars and nobles in the Han family had similar thoughts and thoughts.
For them, the head can be broken, the blood can be shed, and the emperor do you want to be a ****? Get away with murder? There are no doors!
Big deal, labor and management go home and farm!
This trend of thought was inherited from Wang Ling Zhou Chang.
Back then, Wang Ling was the prime minister, and Empress Lu repeatedly destroyed the tradition and killed the princes and kings of the Liu family.
Lao Wang looked at it, yes, labor and management are no longer waiting for you.
So he returned to the closed country, closed the door, and slapped Queen Lu in the face nakedly.
Empress Lu couldn't even move it.
It's just a pity that the old Liu family has fewer and fewer generations of grass.
has developed to the present day, and has actually played the next three indiscriminate tricks such as 'being mentally ill'.
Many princes and ministers who made themselves feel good about themselves were refreshed one after another.
So much so that even the representative of Xiaoxin, Wei Qihou Douying, did not dare to play the trick of 'labor and management go home to farm'.
I'm afraid that I'm also mentally ill.
But as the prime minister, as the minister of the first emperor and Taizong.
Zhou Yafu has the capital and strength to play a trick like 'the emperor, if you are disobedient, the labor and management will go home to farm, see if you are obedient'.
He raised his head, looked at Liu Che, and said straightforwardly: "Your Majesty wants to take the story as a game, and the minister can't agree!" ”
When Liu Che heard this, he almost fell down with laughter in his heart.
Since his accession to the throne, has he made fewer transactions with Zhou Yafu?
What's more, this politics is a transaction in itself.
The deal cannot be negotiated, only because the price is wrong.
If you can't negotiate a political deal, it will only be a lack of bargaining chips!
Obviously, a Shanglin Yuan stripped off Zhou Yafu and agreed to get the sons of Shang Jia into the Yamen of the Lord Duwei, in Zhou Yafu's opinion, the two are not equal.
Liu Che's conditions and chips could not meet Zhou Yafu's requirements and bottom line in this matter.
It's right to think about it.
got a group of businessmen's children into a yamen, which clearly wanted them to stay warm.
If Zhou Yafu agreed, he would have to be scolded by the world's corporal doctors and nobles for being half-defeated.
What's more, Zhou Yafu's own political stance is extremely disgusted with businessmen's participation in politics.
The propaganda of the Qin and Han dynasties for nearly a hundred years made the nobles and scholars extremely hostile and disgusted to the merchants and their power to interfere in politics.
Although, over the years, Liu Che has eliminated some influences to a certain extent through various means and policies.
Now, at least, the nobility of the scholars was no longer hostile to and discriminated against craftsmen and techniques.
Even the Mo family has begun to be accepted and recognized.
But businessmen can't be whitewashed for a while, let alone white.
Because, the merchant has the original sin.
Capital is born with deep sins.
No traditional Chinese scholar or aristocrat could like these merchants who were stained with the smell of copper and their sins.
"I know what the prime minister is worried about...... Liu Che tapped the thumbs of both hands lightly, and said to Zhou Yafu: "The prime minister also knows that I have never relaxed my vigilance against businessmen!" ”
Zhou Yafu nodded.
This is true.
Since his accession to the throne today, every time he wields a butcher's knife, the most cut are Shang Jia and Hao Qiang.
Even the year before last, when the kings of Qilu were cleaned up, the main firepower was aimed at the landlords and bureaucrats, and they did not forget to mend the knife on the local businessmen.
Even, before he ascended the throne today, he had already made the Jia people tremble and be afraid.
This is also the reason why Zhou Yafu can sit here.
If you want to change an emperor who has flattered Shang Jia since he ascended the throne, Lao Zhou has already brushed his sleeves away.
This is also a strategy that Liu Che formulated a few years ago, before he ascended the throne.
Want to develop industry and hatch the monster of capitalism?
Under China's social and humanistic conditions, the only possible thing to do is to disguise himself as a king who is extremely hostile to merchants and wary of them.
Only in this way can the emperor be able to convince others when he wants to formulate certain policies and systems.
This is called anti-pretending, or anti-in-chief.
If you want to deceive someone, you must first make them believe in you.
If you can't even gain trust, who will listen to you?
Lao Tzu said: The extreme of governance, neighboring countries look at each other, the voice of chickens and dogs hears each other, the people are willing to eat, beautiful clothes, peaceful customs, happy work, and do not interact with each other until old age and death! The rule of this saint, after the three kings, is no more! Liu Che stood with his hands in his hands: "I am thin and can't do this, so I can only retreat to the next best thing, and guide the people with law and profit!" As the saying goes: The hustle and bustle of the world is all for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit, the king of the husband, the candidate of ten thousand families, and the king of a hundred rooms, are still suffering from poverty, not to mention the people of the husband's household? I want to go up to Yao Shun, and with the three kings, the great benefit of the world, with the great virtue of the four seas, so that the people are not endowed, and the country is rich and the people are strong! ”
"If you want to do this, you have to use the wealth of a businessman!" Liu Che sighed at Zhou Yafu with heartfelt emotion.
This is indeed what he is saying.
Zhou Yafu was also said to be moved.
His eyebrows were lowered quietly, and his face became calm.
This let Liu Che know that it was time to strike while the iron was hot.
So, he continued: "Hong Fan Bazheng, one is food, and the other is goods. In the past, I was taught by the first emperor, and I also said: The government of the country is just money! ”
Speaking of this, Liu Che raised his eyes, looked at Chao Cuo, and then turned his head and asked: "The imperial historian once went to Emperor Taizong and said "Guisu Shu", which said: Now the farmer is a family of five, ......."
Liu Che finished reciting the famous quote that Chao mistaken, and sighed: "The people's livelihood is so difficult that it is like this, I am the parent of the people, and An can re-endow it?" ”
Zhou Yafu and Chao Cuo glanced at each other, and had to kneel down and worship: "Your Majesty is a great favor, and the ministers congratulate the world!" ”
Chao Wrong is even more joyful.
What is the most important thing as a minister?
Of course, it was his own words, and the emperor remembered it.
And now, his words, the emperor not only remembered, but also memorized them like a stream, what does this mean?
It shows that Jane is in the heart of the emperor!
How is this not happy?
Of course, happy is happy.
It's still not okay for this businessman's children to hold together!
Who knows what will happen to those scum huddles?
They are rich enough, and no matter how powerful they are, they can't mess around in this world??
What's more, this lord is the captain of the lord, and he is personally supervised by the Son of Heaven.
In the future, it will be handed over to the prince as a place for political and political experiments.
A bunch of Shangjia disciples stay with the prince every day, in case they teach the future king of the Han Empire, who will carry this pot?
Anyway, Zhou Yafu and Chao Cuo are unwilling to carry it!
Therefore, Chao Cuo raised his head and said: "Your Majesty, the ministers also know that the people's livelihood is difficult, however, the Jia people are also lowly people, Your Majesty has a benevolent heart, does the things of the holy king, and does not offend his generation, it is already the emperor's grace!" ”
"In the minister's humble opinion, Your Majesty wants to be used by the world, so he has no choice but to conspire with the Jia people, so that they can participate in political affairs, and this is not a cure!" He raised his head and said murderously: "If Your Majesty entrusts the ministers to the festival, grants the ministers the power, and the ministers hold the festival out of Chang'an, investigates the people in the world, raids their homes without their wealth, takes their houses and collects their fields, the ministers are willing to guarantee with their lives, within a year, the treasury will be full, and the amount will be sufficient!" ”
Liu Che touched his forehead, and suddenly he couldn't cry or laugh.
Indeed, Chao Cuo's trick is the most commonly used trick in the Chinese Dynasty.
What is a Merchant?
Isn't it just a pig?
Fattened, just in time to slaughter, enrich the treasury.
Anyway, these guys have violated the law and discipline, colluded with corrupt officials, and committed all kinds of evil.
The second is notorious, and has no power, authority, and influence.
Third, the people's grievances are huge, and if they are killed, the people will only applaud.
So much so that even the Manchus learned this trick, and there was something to do, slaughtering merchants.
It doesn't matter if it's a salt merchant or a thirteen line.
With a knife, you can always slaughter something.
There is no need to worry about the government forcing the people to rebel and shake the rule.
It's so safe and secure that everyone follows suit.
And the funny thing is that the merchants slaughtered again and again, and cut stubble after stubble.
But it's always meat on the chopping board, and no one thinks about it, and no one thinks about why it's so.
After the ruler finished cutting the stubble, the businessmen who rose up continued to collude with the government, prey on the common people, and do all kinds of evil.
Then, when they were fattened, they were slaughtered again.
And so on, so on.
Even after 2,000 years, the capital that has slowly developed has still not learned a lesson.
The richest man, except for the second or third few, the rest will inevitably go to prison to squat.
It can only be said that **** Taizu's evaluation is not wrong.
China's capitalism and national capital are congenitally deformed.
So much so that even Liu Che now doesn't know what the capitalism he has worked so hard to incubate will look like in the future?
But, at least one thing is certain.
China's capitalism and bourgeoisie are inevitably completely different from their counterparts in the West.
Because the social environment and humanistic traditions of the two are completely different.
Orange is orange born in Huainan, and orange is born in Huaibei.
Naturally, the fruit that bears fruit is two varieties.
For Chao Cuo's proposal, Liu Che naturally couldn't agree to it.
Such a simple thing, if he wanted to do it.
As long as he hooks his hand, there will naturally be countless speculators, rushing to help him do the dirty work.
There is no need to sacrifice a master!
And Chao Cuo, of course, also knows this!
In fact, Chao Cuo said that, just trying to force Liu Che to retreat.
This is almost a tribute to Liu Che's initial coercion and scoundrel.
The emperor is a scoundrel, what should I do?
The minister of the Han family spent decades of exploration and temptation.
Today, the answer has finally been found.
That's to be a scoundrel like him.
Your Majesty, if you want to do this, then please promise to do so.
If Your Majesty does not agree to this, then please forgive the ministers for not being able to obey the edict.
In this way, even if it is the end, if you have trouble with the emperor, it will not affect the feelings of the monarch and the minister, and it will not be tainted with the reputation of 'bullying the monarch'.
This is tantamount to relegating the contradictions that could have escalated to the political point of view to the left.
You can even tell the emperor: Your Majesty, it's not that the ministers don't obey orders, it's really Your Majesty's request, and it's difficult for a strong man.
The minister is just trying to stick to his principles.
Liu Che also understood this after thinking about it for a while.
He looked up at Chao Cuo and found that the other party did not have any other expression.
I couldn't help but shake my head in my heart.
However, Liu Che knew that this day would come sooner or later.
If the emperor relied on playing scoundrels, he would be able to hang his ministers.
And the ministers were played by the emperor again and again, but they did not improve and deal with it.
That would be too bad!
Because that can only mean one thing - the entire ruling class has decayed to the point where it must be opened!
Come to think of it, they were hung and beaten N times by the emperor in the same way, and they have not yet learned their lesson and found a way to deal with it.
This is not possible other than to show that they are all a bunch of idiots and beetles.
In fact, a normal and healthy dynasty, the power of the monarch and the power of the vassals, is always in constant game and balance, and remains fighting but not breaking.
Only such a dynasty will have a healthy body and a strong soul to cope with all challenges and unknown changes.
After all, three stinkers can beat one Zhuge Liang.
No matter how smart a person is, he can't compare to a group of people.
Human beings are social animals, and human success comes from the collective wisdom and efforts of the group.
If a person wants to beat the world, in addition to being a madman, he is an idiot. (To be continued.) )