At least, there are few secrets in front of the gossip party.
As soon as Chao Cuo left Weiyang Palace, the whole of Chang'an was talking about next year's new prime minister and the new three ministers and nine ministers.
All kinds of news are flying all over the place, true and false, making it difficult for people to distinguish.
However, the theory that Chao Cuo will be the new prime minister appears in all versions.
Naturally, this makes many people uncomfortable.
"Hmph..." A certain dignitary in Qili smashed the exquisite porcelain in his house on the ground, and became a little angry: "Chao Cuo wants to be the prime minister? This is absolutely not possible!"
This is not just the opinion of one person or group.
It's the opinion of many, many people.
The Han Dynasty has gone through nearly sixty years of ups and downs since its establishment.
Since Emperor Gao ascended the throne as King of Han, there has never been a minister with a Legalist background serving as prime minister!
To be precise, in the past sixty years, every prime minister has had a strong Huang-Lao style.
Now, a prime minister with a Legalist background suddenly appears?
Where can the old-fashioned Huang faction sit down?
There was even more excitement among the Imperial Academy. Countless doctors were begging to see Dou Guangguo, the Prince of Zhangwu, the head of the Imperial Academy. They hoped that the elder brother of the Empress Dowager, the most respected elder of the emperor today, could stand up and say something.
?
However……
At this moment, Dou Guangguo, the Marquis of Zhangwu, was wearing a raincoat and sitting on the bank of the Wei River fishing with Sima Ji, the Taishi Cheng Liangqianshi doctor of the Book of Changes.
There is no doubt that Dou Guangguo, Marquis of Zhangwu, has always been a huge fan and supporter of Lord Sima Ji.
Since Sima Ji accepted the emperor's conquest and became Taishi Cheng, Dou Guangguo would go fishing with Sima Ji when he had time, to have fun and entertain himself, and to ask for some advice on life philosophy.
"Mr. Sima, have you heard?" Dou Guangguo held a fishing rod and asked, "The emperor wants to appoint Chao Yingchuan as prime minister..."
Chao Cuo is from Yingchuan County. For juniors and juniors, even if they don't like him, they have to respectfully call him "Chao Yushi". Only Dou Guangguo, a senior relative with a distinguished status, can not avoid this taboo.
Call him by his first name.
Of course, as a relative, Dou Guangguo is very polite.
No matter how much he dislikes someone, he will not deliberately belittle or insult them.
Therefore, it is practical to call him "Chao Yingchuan".
However, Sima Host smiled slightly, glanced at Dou Guangguo, and did not answer his question. Instead, he asked: "Do you think, besides Chao Cuo, who else can bear the responsibility of prime minister now?"
"..." Dou Guangguo was silent for a long time, and he also understood this truth.
Today's political arena of the Han Dynasty is in a period of turmoil.
The older generation are already old, while the younger generation are too immature.
If we push it forward five years or push it back five years, Chao Cuo will not be able to become the prime minister candidate.
But precisely at this point in time, Chao Cuo seems to be the only suitable candidate.
Regardless of ability, skills, and qualifications, he seems to be the most suitable.
but……
Dou Guangguo was unwilling to let Chao Cuo become prime minister.
Because this will break Huang Lao's monopoly on the position of prime minister, which means that Huang Lao will surrender and announce his resignation.
"Chao Yingchuan is a mean-spirited person. I'm a little worried. He has become the prime minister and cannot tolerate others..." Dou Guangguo sighed and said. This is also the biggest point where Chao Cuo can be attacked now.
The feud between Chao Cuo and Yuan Ang, which lasted for more than twenty years, made it clear to all onlookers that Chao Cuo was the kind of person with deep obsessions and stubbornness.
He is going to become prime minister, and those who have offended him, made things difficult for him, or quarreled with him in the past must be careful.
Because he is likely to retaliate!
This is not unfounded worry, it is fact!
Chao Cuo's legalist identity, coupled with his personality, is enough to make everyone else deeply worried - if this guy comes to power, will he deliberately favoritism in the examinations, imperial studies and doctorate selections?
Raise the status of Legalism?
The authority of the Han family's prime minister is extremely powerful.
At the beginning, Emperor Taizong's authority and skill were still embarrassed by Beiping Wenhou Zhang Cang during the Huanglong Incident.
Later, when Shentujia, the Marquis of Gu'an, was the prime minister, he dared to hang Taizong's favorite eunuch Deng Tong and beat him. Dou Guangguo remembered that one time Deng Tong was almost beaten to death by Shentujia!
Today, although he is stronger than Taizong, he prefers to delegate power than Taizong.
Zhou Yafu has been the prime minister for eight years, and now he is only responsible for the direction and policies, leaving full power of formulation and implementation to the three ministers and nine ministers headed by Zhou Yafu.
Now that Chao has become the Prime Minister, he can definitely use the Prime Minister's authority to do many things.
Master Sima Ji took it seriously.
He smiled and said: "Why are you worried that Chao Cuo can't tolerate others? You obviously can't look away! In my opinion, it would be better if Chao Cuo becomes the prime minister!"
"How do you say this?" Dou Guangguo asked quickly.
"Your Majesty, what do you think..." Sima Jizhu said with a smile: "Chao Cuo becomes the prime minister, what will the Confucianists think?"
"Huh?" Dou Guangguo nodded thoughtfully after hearing this.
In the past two years, conflicts between Confucianism and Legalism have continued, and the competition and attacks between the two factions have become increasingly fierce.
However, because the Huang-Lao sect was in charge, and the differences between Confucianism and Legalism were only ideological and theoretical, but in terms of practical interests, there were very few disputes.
The base camp of Confucianism is basically in the south, in the vast Qilu, Wuchu area.
The basic base of Legalism is the military aristocratic group of Daibei landowners with Guanzhong as the core.
The two face each other across the river and there is little direct competition.
Moreover, the mess within Confucianism itself is already very complicated.
Gongyang beats Guliang, Guliang fights Simeng, Simeng and Chongmin play in a mixed doubles match, the Xunzi school of thought says - the above are all rubbish!
Lu Ru, who was forced to the wall, could only huddle in some corners and look at these big guys, trembling.
However, this situation is based on the fact that there is a buffer between Confucianism and Legalism.
Once there is no buffer from Mr. Huang, a conflict of interest will directly break out between the two.
Apart from other things, would the Confucians trust the Legalists to control their life and death?
Definitely not!
Even if Chao Cuo guarantees from the bottom of his heart that he will be impartial, even if the top Confucian and Legalist leaders reach a consensus.
But once it’s time for the exams, the day of selection of doctoral officers, and the meeting at Shiqu Pavilion.
At a time when interests are at stake, Confucianism and Legalism must distrust and doubt each other.
The routine of two peaches killing three warriors will never go out of style.
Even if after 10,000 steps, Confucianism and Legalism achieve compromise and consensus, will the people below recognize it?
In the past, when Huang Lao was in power, every year during the examinations, a large number of frustrated scholars would go around drinking and going crazy.
When the Legalists come to power, these drunken and crazy guys will probably turn into a promenade.
Human nature is the thing that cannot stand the test of interests and reality.
Therefore, it can be expected that once Legalism comes to power, Confucianism will have to fight against Legalism.
It’s impossible not to fight!
The Huang Lao faction can take the opportunity to withdraw and watch this fish and clam fight.
Maybe you can become a fisherman again!
but……
Dou Guangguo still felt deeply uneasy in his heart.
Chao Cuo's rise to power was likely to be decisive in stimulating and influencing Legalism.
This means that since the fall of Qin, Legalist politicians have once again taken charge of China after a lapse of seventy or eighty years, influencing the country's laws, political systems and rules of the game.
What do Legalists do?
Dou Guangguo knew it all too well.
At that time, during the reign of Qin Shihuang, Legalist bureaucrats and politicians completed the system of writing books and chariots on the same track, unifying weights and measures, and even built the great Qin Straight Road in just a dozen years.
Great Wall.
In this process, the people were separated, the people were in dire straits, and the heavy burdens and corvee almost crushed most families.
Therefore, when the ancestor dragon died and the empire lost its strong man, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang immediately rose up, and an unprecedented war immediately swept the entire known world.
No matter how today's Legalists defend what they did back then, one indisputable fact is that Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's uprising was forced by Legalist bureaucrats.
Now, is Legalism going to come to power?
Who can guarantee that they will not make the same mistake again?
"Sir, aren't you worried that the Legalists' cruel officials are harming the people?" Dou Guangguo asked in a low voice.
"A cruel official harms the people? Which people?" Lord Sima Ji laughed loudly when he heard this: "In today's China, which cruel official dares to harm the people like he did during the Qin Dynasty?"
"The biggest difference between today's emperor and Qin Shihuang is that your majesty is the real queen of the three kings and the biggest supporter of the people with weapons!"
During the reign of Qin Shihuang, he collected weapons from all over the world and cast twelve golden figures.
He also destroyed all the writing and history books of the Six Kingdoms.
Today's practice is exactly the opposite.
It not only endorsed the natural power granted by the three kings to the people to hold weapons, but also issued an edict to allow the people to hold some weapons that they did not dare to hold in the past after applying for approval.
Especially the Andong Protectorate and the northern Great Wall County area are really a natural military base.
Everyone is a soldier and everyone loves martial arts.
The number of northern knights in the Daibei region is increasing every year.
The Northern Knights are allowed by the country to possess any military weapons.
Including the terrifying Divine Arm Bow and the astonishingly powerful Mo Dao.
In terms of ideology and culture, he corrected the mistakes of Qin Shihuang, advocated and encouraged, and even supported the contention of a hundred schools of thought.
While protecting and cultivating the Mohists, he helped the Legalists get on the right track, and inadvertently brought about the prosperity of Confucianism.
The fact that Confucianism is so powerful today must be attributed to the emperor!
Without him, he would have freed and relieved the original sins and problems left over by history from the Confucian scholars.
Today's Confucian scholars will inevitably hit the ceiling in their career!
You must know that before Yuande, no local governor in the Han Dynasty was a Confucian scholar, and it was even harder to find the shadow of Confucianism in the court.
Didn't Yuan Gusheng, a doctor in "Poetry" during the reign of the late Emperor, almost be thrown into a wild boar pen by Empress Dowager Dou and fed to the wild boars?
But what now?
The giants of Confucianism, even the giants of the Lu-Ru lineage who had criticized and slandered him many times, are all living well.
No one is guilty of what they say!
Under such a situation, do Legalists want to act recklessly again?
He asked Ru Mo Huang if he was old?
He asked the common people who were armed with various weapons and not afraid of cruel officials at all?
In the third year of Yuande, during the Zhangqiu Incident, armed peasants, even the envoys and officials of the King of Jinan were killed, and even the county seat was occupied.
Have they ever lost a hair?
No!
As for those fanatical pursuers of political achievements in Legalism, who has caused any harm to the people over the years?
No!
On the contrary, Sima Host heard many interesting stories.
For example, Zhang Tang, the governor of Nanyang County, one of the three elders under his rule, held up several sticks and beat him from the governor's office to the gate of Wanyi city.
The emperor's confidant, the two thousand stones of the empire, the county guard who was said to have the privilege of 'acting cheaply' and could beheaded first, could only flee in panic, not even daring to fight back.
The day after he was beaten, it is said that Zhang Tang even licked his face and invited the three elders to come over to discuss matters.
Even Zhang Tang was like this, and other Legalist ministers, when they arrived at the place, in front of the people and the three elders, they could only behave with their tails between their legs and their heads lowered.
There are some reckless people, but no one dares to be as arrogant as Qin Dynasty.
Of course Dou Guangguo also knew these things.
But he had a hard time understanding these things.
He always felt that if the Legalists came to power, problems would surely arise one after another.
Because his experience and knowledge told him that Legalists are troublemakers.
The old-school Huang naturally hates trouble.
"Jun Hou..." Lord Sima Ji took the fishing rod and said to Dou Guangguo: "I know Jun Hou's inner worries... But... this matter is a joint decision between the Emperor and Changping Hou. Even if you object, I'm afraid
I can’t even speak…”
This is true!
Changping Hou Zhou Yafu is a notoriously stubborn person in the Han Dynasty. Do you want him to turn around?
This is almost impossible.
And if Zhou Yafu does not revoke his decision to recommend Chao Cuo, then as long as the emperor supports it, in fact, no matter how much he, Dou Guangguo, complains here or elsewhere, it will probably be in vain.
The Emperor Liu's temper became fierce, let alone his relative named Dou.
Not even his mother, grandmother or even his father can bring him back.
"Instead of worrying about the problems after Chao Yingchuan came to power, Junhou, it is better to think carefully about the training of the younger generation from Mr. Huang..." Sima Jizhu sighed: "If Junhou does not pay attention to this problem again, I will worry about it.
Ten years from now, I am afraid that there will be no more Huang Lao’s learning in the world, and the government of quietness and inaction will become a dead ringer!”
Dou Guangguo also nodded when he heard this.
The current situation of today's Huanglao sect, especially the qualifications and training issues of the younger generation, is already shocking.
Not long ago, Dou Guangguo conducted a survey.
Through this investigation, he found that among the more than 100 counties in Guanzhong, with a population of more than 3 million, there were only 500 disciples of Huang Lao under the age of 30.
Among these five hundred people, most of them are the otakus from the Lao-Zhuang School and some spiritual cultivators.
Having the universe in mind is not a bad thing.
Because doing this can cultivate your moral character and cultivate your sentiments, but you, a young man under thirty years old, think about refining elixirs, cultivating immortals, becoming immortals and ascending to heaven all day long?
Isn’t this a bit much?
The younger generation of Huang Lao scholars now no longer have the ambitions of the older generation of sages.
For them, Huang Laoxue has changed from a way of governing the world to a tool used to escape reality.
This is terrible.
"I have prepared to use all the taxes from my kingdom to build an academy specifically for teaching disciples from poor families..." Dou Guangguo said softly: "I hope I can save Huang Laoxue from declining...
