Chapter 56 Kangzong Chapter 1 The young master ruled the country and enjoyed peace for half a year
In the first year of Pingkang (1007), with the conclusion of a grand enthronement ceremony in the Qianyuan Hall, the Han Empire completed the inheritance of the throne and the transfer of power, at least legally and righteously.
When Liu Wenpeng, who had not completely shed his childishness, sat on the supreme throne and accepted the worship of the royal family, ministers and envoys from various countries, even though he had gone through countless rehearsals and preparations in advance, the moment actually came and he faced this
Despite the huge scene, the young man still felt awkward and nervous in his heart.
If you want to wear the crown, you must bear its weight. At this moment, he has not truly enjoyed the supreme power and prestige of the emperor, but he feels the overwhelming weight of the country, the country, and the country on his shoulders, which makes him breathless.
For the upper echelons of the entire empire, the idea of a country without a leader is a "novel" thing. After all, such a situation has not occurred for almost sixty years.
When Liu Wenpeng sat on the throne, almost all the ministers and ministers stared at the new king with wide eyes. Although everyone was watching, there was inevitably curiosity, scrutiny and even suspicion in the eyes, because no one could
I wonder what this young emperor can bring to the Han Empire and whether he can shoulder the important task of leading the empire.
Even the meritorious officials and veterans of Yongxi are also cautious towards this young emperor. They have long been accustomed to having an authoritative and solemn emperor above their heads, whether he is strong, gentle, wise or willful, but
There is always a backbone that can make the final decision.
This suddenness, replaced by a young emperor who cannot see the depth and feel the pulse, is always difficult for people to adapt to for a while. After entering the Pingkang era, how the new monarch and ministers get along with each other is a question for both parties.
A subject worthy of in-depth study.
There is no doubt that in the past sixty years, the entire empire has been a process in which the power of the monarch is more important than the power of the ministers, and step by step it has reached the pinnacle of imperial power. However, it is foreseeable that this situation will change from the beginning of the new monarch's accession to the throne.
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The enthronement ceremony in the Qianyuan Palace was just a ceremony and a performance to announce to the world that the new emperor had succeeded to the throne. Those honorable ministers and high-ranking officials of the empire who prostrated themselves on the ground and worshiped respectfully would not express their gratitude to the emperor just because they were kneeling on the ground.
The new emperor was so convinced that even Emperor Taizong didn't do it when he took the throne, let alone a young man like Liu Wenpeng.
What they worship is the emperor and the ancestor. The two generations of Emperor Taizong spent sixty years to construct a perfect system and consensus that includes everyone. As long as they are in this system, as long as this mechanism is still functioning normally, then
No matter who sits in that position, he will be worshiped by all ministers, otherwise he will be rejected by the entire system and national consciousness.
As both young emperors, the new emperor Liu Wenpeng is obviously much more relaxed than his grandfather, Emperor Shizu, when he succeeded to the throne. At least, he does not have to fight for power so hard, run the country without food and clothing, and does not have to worry day and night.
A matter of life and death.
Under normal circumstances, he only needs to rule from the top down, and the whole world is at his feet. Even if he rules by doing nothing and ends up in vain, he may still be able to gain a good reputation as a "wise" emperor.
Perhaps the most fortunate thing about Liu Wenpeng is that his father was Emperor Taizong. During his lifetime, his father spent fourteen years rectifying a series of problems in the middle and later stages of Kaibao, which greatly alleviated various social conflicts that had accumulated since the founding of the People's Republic of China.
What was left to him was a great empire with external security and internal stability.
When it came to the inheritance of the empire, Emperor Taizong was more thoughtful and had arranged almost all funeral arrangements before his death. The most important thing among them was undoubtedly the arrangement of the auxiliary ministers.
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The three kings of Wang, Liu and Zhao were in charge. Such an auxiliary administrative team did not require his concerted efforts. As long as they kept in step in the general direction, it would be enough to suppress the imperial court, both inside and outside the empire.
Precisely because everything was guided by Taizong's edict, the imperial court maintained basic stability and relative balance before and after the new emperor ascended the throne. It was not like the mess that happened when Liu Yang succeeded to the throne.
At that time, after all, the situation was special. The ancestor died without leaving any edicts. More importantly, the death of the ancestor was the same as the death of Taizong. Although the world was shattered, the shock it brought to people had already caused ideological confusion, and it was also
There's no comparison.
After Taizong Liu Yang persisted in correcting and improving the system for more than ten years, the politics of the Han Empire had become mature and stable enough, and tended to be rational.
From a historical perspective, the Yongxi era led by Taizong Liu Yang was a transitional period for the Han Empire and an extremely important development stage.
Under Liu Yang's painstaking efforts and hard work, the Han Empire experienced a long period of stability, peace, prosperity and strength. With the assistance of a group of famous Yongxi ministers, Emperor Taizong personally sketched a glorious historical picture of a flourishing era.
The successor to it is a great and magnificent martial arts era created by Emperor Shizu himself. The successor to it is still waiting for the young emperor Liu Wenpeng and the upper-level officials of the empire to open the door behind it.
, whether what greets the people of the world will be a new round of prosperity, rule, or even troubled times, remains to be tested by time.
Time has entered the Pingkang era, the emperor has changed, the reign name has changed, and history has opened a new chapter. At the same time, the upper class of the empire has not changed, and the ministers who hold the power in the political hall have not changed.
The political style of the Yongxi era did not change.
At least it can be said that in the first half of the first year of Pingkang, the entire Han Empire seemed to be moving forward according to the practices of the Yongxi era except for a new emperor, relying on inertia and even instinct. Political and military, economic and people's livelihood,
This is all true.
Emperor Taizong left, but the set of rules and systems he left behind still guided the monarchs and ministers of the new dynasty for a long time, and also restrained everyone in the system. Until someone stepped forward to break this inertia and balance.
The young emperor Liu Wenpeng did not have the brilliance and brilliance of Emperor Shizu, nor was he as determined by destiny as Emperor Taizong, who had accumulated many years of perseverance. To be honest, he did not have the ability to control the stable navigation of the great ship of the Han Empire, at least when he succeeded to the throne.
At the beginning, he did not have such means and strength.
Therefore, he was unable to proactively and quickly establish his authority and inject his own will and ideas into the upper echelons of the empire like his grandfather.
Xiao Gui followed Cao Cao, ruled from the top, and became the emperor of peace. It may not be a "broad road". However, that possibility is slim. In the autocratic monarchy system of the Han Empire, the emperor had too strong leading power, and the empire's
The political ecology has already been infused with the gene of "strongman politics". Even if those gentle and gentle high-ranking officials and Confucian scholars fight in the arena of imperial power, they will show their teeth and claws in a ferocious manner.
Therefore, the peace of the Pingkang era only lasted for about half a year. During these six months, the young emperor Liu Wenpeng was on the throne. While he was learning and trying to be an emperor, he could not fully enjoy being the supreme ruler of the Han Empire.
All the power of the emperor, military and state affairs were all handled by Yongxi's assistant ministers, and all national government orders were issued by the political affairs hall. In the words of those assistant ministers, the emperor was young and still needed to study and understand politics. As for political affairs, there were veteran ministers who followed Taizong's edicts to handle them.
Not to mention how Emperor Liu Wenpeng felt about this, the young emperor who had just succeeded to the throne and whose authority was not stable could not actually play a big role in the empire's mature mechanism. He was in a position of possessing a treasure in vain, without knowing it.
The state of using the Dharma.
The most intolerable situation of ministerial power overriding the monarch's power, and the one who was the first to take advantage of it, was Murong who was promoted to the Queen Mother. It was Murong who personally broke the empire that Emperor Taizong built to protect Liu Wenpeng.
The power structure at the top.
In July of the first year of Pingkang, under the conspiracies of the Empress Dowager Murong and Murong Defeng, the Minister Zuocheng (actually forced by the Empress Dowager, who insisted on going her own way, Murong Defeng had no choice but to obey), a group of courtiers were gathered to discuss the issue of "conferring the king to the country"
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This proposal was raised not only against Annan King Liu Wenhuan, Linyi King Liu Shu, and Andong King Liu Wenyuan, who were still staying in the capital after the funeral, but the most important ones were the two kings of Zhao and Lu who were high in the Zaitang.