The emperor of Han Dynasty would definitely support sending troops, why did Lu Qian dare to say so sure?
He met Lu Qian's gaze and found that the other party was stroking his beard at the moment, looking at him with a half-smile, and he suddenly woke up.
Oh, it turns out that Mr. Lu is testing himself, overtly or covertly, and wants to take advantage of today's conversation to test his political literacy.
But he was just a junior disciple recommended by Gongsun Zan, and he just appointed him as Cao Zuoshi, a two-hundred-stone soldier. For a person like himself, why should he make a fuss and test himself?
What is particularly puzzling is that Mr. Lu starts his conversation with the emperor and starts talking about the capital. Is this good?
After all, you still have to be careful what you say.
Liu Jian pretended to be stupid and said: "Excuse me, Mr. Fu, why does the emperor have to support this Northern Expedition?"
Lu Qian said slowly: "You can't think of it?"
Of course Liu Jian said that he could not think of it.
In front of the prefect whom he met for the first time, he showed that he could figure out the affairs of Emperor Luoyang. Doesn't that mean from another perspective that he could also look down upon the two thousand stone man in front of him?
You understand everything, what do you want us to do?
This is a taboo in official circles.
"As for Mr. Huifu, Jian has not left Zhuoxian County for many years since he came back from Fengshi Mountain. He actually knows very little about the affairs in Beijing."
"Haha, Master Lu works in Beijing and is a fellow countryman of yours. Didn't you mention these matters of the imperial court when you exchanged letters during the New Year?"
Liu Jian did not panic, but said righteously: "My tutor usually does not allow us to inquire privately about the political affairs of the DPRK and China. Even if there are letters, they are mostly to supervise the study of classics and test the academic progress in school, with few asides."
"Hahaha~!"
After Lu Qian heard this, he couldn't help laughing: "It seems that your Master Lu doesn't want you to become an official in his heart. He just wants you to read the scriptures of sages."
"It's also possible." Liu Jian's expression was serious.
"Okay, I've been the governor of Zhuo County for a term, so I still can't understand your thoughts? I'm just afraid that I'll make mistakes if I say too much."
Liu Jian hurriedly said: "The official has no such intention."
"I also know your difficulties. If I were in your position, I would be as careful as you are. After all, the pros and cons are all here."
"That's all! Let me remind you a little bit. Do you know how many major events happened in Luoyang City after the spring of last year?"
"Please give me some clarification, sir."
"It's impossible for you to not know about the major events in the world, so you have to tell me?"
Liu Jian just smiled without opening his mouth.
Lu Qian let out a long sigh and thought to himself that it was amazing. It was the first time he met Shangguan, but he was so calm and restrained. No matter how much he manipulated him, he just kept silent!
There is a city government.
But this time he was wrong. Liu Jian actually forgot what happened this year.
Not modest at all.
"Well, seeing that you are new to the officialdom, I will tell you the key points. At this time last year, the eunuch Wang Fu was imprisoned and executed for Yang Fangzheng. The next month, Duan Jiong drank poison, and then Yang Fangzheng and four others were imprisoned by Cao Huan.
False accusation, punishable by death, I say this, if you still can't think of it, then I'm afraid I will leave it to you to deal with the next big thing."
When Liu Jian heard this, he sighed secretly, it turns out it was because of this incident.
…
Some things need to be straightened out from the beginning.
The current emperor Liu Hong, since he came to power at the age of ten, has been devoted to the great cause of fighting for power with various forces in the court and being seized by all forces.
Just imagine that when Liu Hong succeeded to the throne, Empress Dowager Dou was sitting in the deep palace of Luoyang and became a powerful force;
Chen Fan, Li Ying, and Dou Wu regrouped into a major force;
Cao Jie, Wang Fu, Zhang Rang and Qingliu were incompatible and formed one force;
Liu Kui, the king of Bohai, upheld the belief that "brothers will eventually succeed to brothers" and he felt that he could be the emperor, so he was of the same faction;
Among the noble families, the Yuan family, the Zhou family, and the Yang family looked on with cold eyes, and they were also in the same faction. It could be said that a hundred flowers were blooming, each competing for beauty.
In this complicated situation, Liu Hong miraculously rose to power.
You should know that Bohai King Liu Kui was the younger brother of Emperor Huan of Han Dynasty Liu Zhi. Especially before Liu Zhilin died, he changed Liu Kui's rank back to a county king. This may reflect a little bit of the meaning of "brothers eventually become brothers".
Liu Kui also upholds this belief and declares to the outside world that no matter what the conditions are, I am the most suitable to be the emperor. Who of you dares to disobey me?
As a result, no one from the eunuch, queen, or family cared about him.
You're so crazy before you become emperor. When you become emperor, you're not allowed to take off?
So, we usually discussed life and death and decided to choose one of the descendants of the King of Hejian.
Who said that Liu Kai, the king of Hejian, was the grandfather of Liu Zhi, Emperor Huan of Han Dynasty?
When Liu Kui found out, he quit immediately.
You are a male! Are you out of your mind? Emperor Huan of Han has his own brother here and if you don’t choose, why are you talking about my grandfather?
The problem is that all the forces invariably go after the grandfather of Han Emperor Huan Liu Zhi. As for Liu Kui himself...
Love to death!
In the end, there was a lot of picking and choosing, and after several rounds of games between the major forces and testing each other, Liu Hong, the Marquis of Jiedu Pavilion, made his debut.
There are roughly three reasons why Liu Hong is favored by various forces:
First, he is old, young and strong. He is only twelve years old. You see, Liu Zhi is too old. He died at the age of thirty-six and refused to obey the discipline. This time, he must choose someone who is young and strong and try to work for ten years.
Twenty years of hard work have given full play to the remaining heat.
The second is that he comes from a good family background. His father died early, and his mother's family is a piece of shit. Of course, it would be perfect if both parents died, but unfortunately there are still some flaws after all.
The third is a good rank. Jiedu Tinghou, who is at the village cadre level, can communicate with people at the level of the pavilion chief about national affairs every day. His title is not high, but such a person has a clean foundation.
Liu Hong entered the court like this. At the age of twelve, he was alone. At the beginning, even his own mother could not come with him, because there was already Empress Dowager Dou in the palace. How could there be any reason to recruit another empress dowager?
This was the current situation when Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty first ascended the throne, and his young mind was severely damaged by this.
There are a lot of big shots inside and outside the court, and he has no say in anything inside or outside the court.
Accept your fate?
deny!
I am the emperor!
In view of this, Liu Hong's main task since he ascended the throne is to do one thing crazily...
I want the right!
I want the right!
I want the right!
This emperor has the final say!
But under such harsh conditions, how easy is it?
Although Liu Hong did gain some power after years of hard work, compared with the various forces in the court, he was still too childish.
If the political struggle is compared to a multi-player fight against landlords, the cards that Liu Hong, the landlord, has is that except for his own king, the rest are small, small, four and small. It is not smooth, and he has to play the cards one by one.
It stinks!
As for the farmers opposite...
The princes of the aristocratic families are as good as the little kings. If you can't defeat them, they will use the disciples and former officials who are sweeping the world as bombs to blow you up.
The clear flow of the noble family has not exploded. The problem is that their cards are all straight, eight horses, eight chefs, eight and so on have never been broken, and the public opinion card is also played very smoothly.
This means that Qingliu and the Shizu do not have the same interests. Sometimes they have differences of opinion and do not deal with them, and they fight among themselves from time to time.
Otherwise, they would definitely give Liu Hong a spring break, and the emperor would lose an average of 9.6 million Happy Beans in each game.
The emperor should bring the eunuchs over to fight the peasants together... Hey! These shameless eunuchs even steal the emperor's cards from time to time!
Liu Hong looked at the good cards in the hands of his farmer friends, and he looked so angry.
But there is no way, the cards are dealt from heaven, so let’s just make do.
Defeat Zhang Xiaosan first and establish Shizhong Temple!
But in the Han Dynasty, there were only nine temples for nine ministers and nine ministers, so they separated the ministers from the Shaofu and established the tenth temple separately. What was the purpose of this?
It's simple. I want Shizhong Temple to oversee the affairs of the minister! You hand over the power of the minister's desk to me.
After many years of changes, the power of the Shangshu Ling has changed a lot. The power of the three ministers has been emptied to some extent. The evidence and orders all come from the Shangshu. Therefore, who can "record the affairs of the Shangshu" is unusual for the rulers.
important.
As a result, one day suddenly a eunuch reported: "Your Majesty, there is something strange in Shizhong Temple. A hen there turned into a rooster!"
Liu Hong's face looked as ugly as if he had swallowed a fly alive.
What does it mean?
"Does Shizhong Temple also want to compete for supremacy?"
Okay! You guys are great. If you can’t do it three times, I’ll give you a four!
I want to summon dozens of filial sons from Xuanling, all of whom will be eliminated from the crown prince’s family!
Xuanling is the mausoleum of Liu Zhi, and the filial sons of Xuanling are a group of people who went to keep filial piety for the late emperor. They guard the grave for me and fulfill their filial piety. I promote them, is there nothing wrong with me?
Of course there is something wrong. People with imperial backgrounds have to pass the imperial examination before they can pass the test of being a prince, and then they can take the exam of being a lieutenant. If you just let a bunch of mourners become the crown prince, what do you want to do?
Do you want to bypass the talent selection system that has been passed down for centuries and have the final say directly? Or do you want to arrange your cronies in the court? Your Majesty... just go to sleep!
Liu Zhiqi's face turned red. If 3 or 4 doesn't work, can I give 2 to 5?
I am sending patrol envoys to inspect the world and investigate the problems of your family officials!
Okay, your majesty, you can investigate, but you have investigated and arrested so many people, why do you want to pardon your wet nurse's son-in-law, Yang Qiu? It's not kind, people have to do things fairly, why don't you send people to patrol?
?
You... you...
Liu Hong's red face turned green!
I'll hit three more eights!
The students of your family are so rampant in the Imperial College that they actually bribed the inspectors to change the only general textbook of the Han Dynasty, the Lantai Qishu! The textbooks have been changed by you! They can no longer be used! I want to correct the textbooks again and establish the Xiping Stone Classic!
Li Shi Jing? Is it Jin Wen? Well, those who hold great power in the court are all Jin Wen Jing's disciples. As long as Shi Jing is not the wild path of those who are in Gu Wen Jing... I've lived through it!
A ten! I established the Hongdu School. From now on, Taixue is not the only national university in the Han Dynasty. Students in our Hongdu School can also become officials!
Your Majesty, if you want to build a university, you can build it, but why should we build an art college? Why are these graduates not painting, studying calligraphy, and reciting poetry?
I am happy, but you have nothing to do with it! I just like to study poetry and painting. How about I let the students from Hongdu Academy learn art subjects and become officials?
At this time, the eunuch stretched out his hand and took a secret photo.
Your Majesty, I'm sorry, your ten belongs to an old slave. We also want to place some of our people in the court through Hongdu Academy.
Liu Hong: "..."
I, I have a great king!
We need to strengthen the Three Mutual Laws! And eunuchs, I won’t take your party card and destroy it!
Your Majesty, are you flipping the table? It's not fun, is it? We're going to bomb!
…
After Liu Hong came to power, everything he did reflected his spirit of refusing to admit defeat and insisting on safeguarding imperial power, but the effect was really not good.
After years of fighting like this, Liu Hong’s Happy Beans were almost defeated.
As for last year’s game of Landlords, the ending was like this——
Last year, Duan Jiong and Wang Fu, the powerful officials in the court, died, but Yang Qiu, the ruthless official who eradicated the treacherous and sycophantic people, also said: "First, the powerful and cunning people are the most cunning, and then the rest are discussed. The noble ministers are like the sons of the Yuan family, and they are engaged in self-management."
’ He got angry and was abandoned by Liu Hong.
To put it bluntly, after Yang Qiu dealt with the eunuch Wang Fu and the powerful official Duan Ji of the Liangzhou clan, he wanted to deal with the aristocratic family headed by the Yuan family.
Then his fate is naturally self-evident.
As the God of War of Xiliang, Duan Juan was really good at fighting, and he also had a way of colluding with eunuchs to defeat courtiers. The problem was that he played too much.
He first killed Liu Kui, the "brother and brother" king of Bohai.
At that time, the niece of Liu Kui's wife became the queen of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, forming a political combination of relatives and vassal kings. However, the eunuchs Cao Jie and Wang Fu, together with Duan Jiong, overthrew the Bohai King and wiped out the whole clan. The problem was that the whole family was exterminated.
Just pull it out, how come even Empress Song was exterminated? (Cao Cao was also dismissed because of his relationship with his brother-in-law Song Qi).
The queens were all killed, and the lives of Wang Fu and Duan Juan came to an end.
Liu Hong broke out and used his nanny's son-in-law to kill Duan Jue and Wang Fu.
I can't touch the noble family, so I can't touch you? - I let you steal the cards!
In the end, Duan Jue and Wang Fu died, and Yang Qiu, who got rid of them, also died because he couldn't control his mouth.
At this time, Liu Hong found that he seemed to have lost millions of Happy Beans in this round.
Wang Fu is a powerful eunuch, Duan Jiong is a powerful official of the Liangzhou clan, and Yang Qiu is a loyal official who was abandoned by the emperor. And the disciples and old officials headed by these dead people, who will they serve in the future?
Especially Duan Jiong’s Liangzhou clan subordinates!
Could it be that he would vote for the prince of a noble family in Guandong?
There is no doubt that in the tragic decisive battle in Beijing last year, the eunuchs, military representatives, and the imperial power who were hiding behind to reap the benefits actually all failed.
The winner is the representative of the public clan headed by the Yuan family, who is inconspicuous in this battle.
Judging from Liu Hong's troubled character over the years, this result is intolerable to him.
But it is certain that the princes of the aristocratic family will reap the benefits. How can we break this situation in a short period of time?
war!
You bastards, I won’t give you the beans this time!
You want to incorporate the remnants of Duan Juong and Wang Fu’s local forces? You can’t do that!
I will find an opportunity to fight and separate you!
Let me see who else the Liangzhou warriors who serve in Bingzhou are serving?
Perhaps the best outcome for Liu Hong is to fight a few more Duan Ji through war.
…
"Your Majesty is right. For the sake of the world, for the stability of the court, and for the sake of the Han Dynasty, Your Majesty will definitely go to war! However, the mature and prudent ministers in the court may not necessarily allow it."
Liu Jian's words were quite clever. He answered Lu Qian's question easily and at the same time raised an important question to him based on his question.
If the imperial power wants to break the current situation, it needs to fight, but as the ministers of the aristocratic families who had vested interests in the several cases last year, will they be willing?
There are Situ Yuan Wei, Taichang and Yang Ci here.
"Therefore, if we want to accomplish this matter, we need to unite the superiors and local officials to build momentum and give His Majesty a reason to make a direct decision at court. Only in this way can it be accomplished."
Liu Jian nodded suddenly. After saying so much, he finally began to understand the position of Lu Qian and others.
These people are not yet considered noble officials, but they are of the purest kind.
To be fair, the Qingliu gentry were relatively fair among the factions at all levels in the Han Dynasty. In addition to being sworn in with the eunuchs, most of the time they were still fighting against each other in tit-for-tat confrontations between the imperial clan and the ministers of the family, including their relatives.
Ability to remain fair and objective.
The premise is not to touch their interests.
Lu Qian continued: "After the Luoyang Incident last year, most of the officials in the border counties who we secretly unite with are in favor of leaving the fortress, especially the officers and soldiers in the border counties who have suffered from Xianbei for many years, and many of them have aspirations for revenge. However,
There are three people at the moment who may not be willing to agree, but these three are still important figures."
"May I ask who the three people you mentioned are?"
"Tao Gongzu, the outgoing governor of Youzhou, Liu Bo'an, the incoming governor of Youzhou, and Dong Zhongyingye, the governor of Bingzhou."