Walking out of the Wanshou Palace of Empress Dowager Dou, Liu Che breathed out a sigh of relief.
Using true and false words, I finally got rid of Queen Dou.
only……
Liu Che was worried about the eight-hundred-mile urgent memorandum sent by Zhidu from Xuanqu County in his hand. The statistics of Ren's wealth contained in it, Liu Che knew, was at most the real wealth that had been discovered.
A little more than half.
Liu Che's spies placed beside Zhidu and Wang Wenshu's spies also sent back reports on this.
Zhidu is also vaguely mentioned in the memorial.
How can we really confiscate everything into the national treasury?
If Liu Che hadn't saved a hand and Secret Order Zhi had not intervened directly, I'm afraid that only a few hundred gold would have been found in the final report.
It is possible to keep most of the various types of money making...
The money is too heavy, and it is difficult to move my left hand to my right hand in front of everyone.
But even if Zhidu intervened, at least more than five thousand gold pieces of gold disappeared during the search.
Just thinking about this matter, Liu Che felt the corners of his mouth twitch.
Pursing his lips, Liu Che waved to Wang Dao and said: "Tomorrow, summon all the officials of the Embroidery Guard with more than 400 shi to come to the greenhouse hall. I want to make some adjustments and changes to the Embroidery Guard!"
This incident made Liu Che deeply realize that the embroidery guards must be more professional.
As the eyes and ears of the emperor, it must become an institution of pure violence without a mind and will of its own.
Things like Wang Wenshu’s must be stopped in the future.
But the key to the problem is how to prevent it?
Liu Che fell into deep thinking.
In human history, no organization or institution has been able to escape the shackles of bureaucracy and self-interest.
People who don't do it for themselves will be punished by heaven and earth.
This is human nature and instinct.
Even if another two thousand or twenty thousand years pass, human beings will not be able to get rid of this innate instinct.
"We can only use some special means..." The faces of the head of state and Stashu flashed across Liu Che's eyes.
There is no way. Even though I know that doing so is taking hormones.
Once the effect of the medicine wears off, it will probably return to its original state.
Worse situations may even occur because the effects of the medicine have worn off, ideals have been shattered, or the outlook on life has collapsed.
However, the next ten to twenty years will be a critical period of external expansion for the Han Dynasty.
It is said that one force of energy will weaken again and again, and then it will be exhausted.
People's morale cannot be squandered without limit.
There is always a limit.
When the limit is reached and sufficient benefits are not obtained, the people will no longer be willing to follow the ruler's nonsense.
It's like Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty's first expedition to Goguryeo. The whole country supported it, and countless people and heroes brought their own rations to join the army.
The entire army was so powerful that no one could defeat it. Even the Turks retreated and did not dare to fight.
But by the time of the third conquest of Goguryeo, things completely changed.
The world is full of resentment, and the heroes at home are suffering.
The thirty-sixth route rebelled against the king, and the seventy-twoth route heroes rebelled against the Sui Dynasty.
Therefore, the embroidery guard's abilities must be fully utilized.
Instead of being like now, at best, it is just a small Dongchang, Jinyiwei. It is not even as good as the hair of the KGB, let alone comparable to IA.
"No!" Wang Dao bowed his head and accepted the order.
Of course he knew. This time, Wang Wenshu messed up the matter. In front of the emperor, the entire embroidered uniform guard was humiliated.
Therefore, this embroidered clothing guard must be changed.
And it's a major overhaul from top to bottom.
The Emperor's Eagle Dog should look like the Emperor's Eagle Dog.
People whose minds are full of selfish thoughts must be eliminated!
"Let's go, go to the queen mother's place to pay her respects..." Liu Che ordered.
So, the imperial driver turned around and went to the Bohou sleeping hall on the other side.
Compared to Empress Dowager Dou, Empress Dowager Bo is easier to persuade (fool).
What's more, the Bo family has never liked to get involved in politics. At the beginning, the late Empress Dowager did not even save her own brother, let alone a rich country man who had nothing to do with her.
Therefore, after Liu Che talked about the evidence of Ren's crime (there should not be too much evidence, especially after the Ren family was controlled, the Ren family started to bite each other in order to survive) Empress Dowager Bo immediately made it clear that she would never participate in politics.
He will not interfere in government affairs in any way.
However, at the end, Empress Dowager Bo couldn't help but advise: "How does the emperor govern? There is a female member of the Ai family who doesn't know the affairs of the government. She shouldn't say more. However, your majesty still gives some face to those named Marquis Ting and Marquis Shangluo. After all,
, these two had been in and out of the palace during the Taizong Dynasty, and were deeply trusted by Emperor Taizong, and they were also elders of the four dynasties..."
It was a good thing that Empress Dowager Bo didn't mention Xu Ling and his wife. Liu Che became extremely angry when she mentioned this couple.
It was just that it was difficult for Liu Che to have an attack in front of Empress Dowager Bo.
The relationship between Mr. and Mrs. Xu Ning and the Bo family have always been very close.
At the beginning, the late Empress Dowager Bo rewarded Xu Fu with many gifts when he became an official. Moreover, when she was still alive, she often invited Xu Fu to the East Palace to keep her company.
This was the source of rumors that Xu Fu had been unkind to the Queen Mother.
But for Liu Che, this was something unacceptable.
As far as the emperor is concerned, even if you have been kind to him, you can just bury this matter in your heart. If you are like this, for fear that others will not know, you are just asking for death!
Not to mention, in fact, there is nothing like that at all!
Not to mention the other rumors reported by Xiu Yiwei and spread by Xu Fu among the people to put a golden face on her.
For example, there are rumors that Emperor Taizong Xiaowen once called Xu Fu his foster mother and her husband Yafu in the palace.
When Liu Che learned about this, he felt like a million grass-mud horses were rushing past. He wished he could immediately send people to catch Xu Fu, throw her into Tingwei Prison, and use eighteen kinds of torture instruments to educate her.
What Xu negative did was actually very common and not novel at all.
This is how magic sticks have been played since ancient times.
In order to show that he was really powerful, he made up rumors that the ruler had also received guidance from him and was even grateful for his kindness.
As for myself, sit tight on the Diaoyutai.
Be cautious, neither admit nor deny, let the rumors fully ferment, and then wait for the princes and nobles to take the initiative to send money to your door.
Those who are bold will publicize it everywhere, and even spread their stories, portraits, photos, and pictures of themselves with the emperor and national leaders everywhere.
In this way, some people are willing to donate their own money, just asking for the master's guidance.
In later generations, there was a guy who called me a puppy, and he used this trick to great effect and deceived countless people, including senior intellectuals, cadres, and college students.
In this era before the Christian era, Xu Fu played such a trick. Although it was limited by technical means and was not as powerful as I am a puppy, it still fooled countless people.
But just like I am a puppy, the most fatal part of Xu Negative's tricks is that they cannot be known to the emperor (national leader).
If you know it, this trick becomes a monkey trick.
But for Xu Fu, Liu Che really has no good way to deal with him at the moment.
Because Xu Fu once served as an official in the Han Dynasty and was canonized by successive emperors. In the world of mysticism, his status was roughly equivalent to that of a living Buddha or a religious leader in the later dynasties.
In this pre-Yuan Dynasty era, if Liu Che wanted to touch Xu Negi, it would be like slapping himself in the face. What is even more troublesome is that he would remove the emperor's cloak of "divine power" from the emperor.
You think, even those who have been canonized, recognized, and rewarded by emperors in the past dynasties are all liars.
What will become of the so-called holiness in your emperor in the eyes of everyone?
Even if the probability of this kind of thing is only one in ten thousand, Liu Che is not willing to take the risk.
So after knowing what happened to Xu Fu, Liu Che began to order the Xiuyi Guards to start paying attention to the whereabouts of another person.
This man was the only one in the religious circles of the Han Dynasty who could compete with Xu Fu and was famous all over the world, Sima Jizhu.
Sima Jizhu’s life does not need to be introduced too much.
You only need to know that back then, two good friends, Jia Yi and Song Ping, left Sima Ji's house after meeting him, and never dared to visit him again.
Moreover, a fortune-telling charlatan was finally able to get Ma Qian of the Taishi Company to write a separate chapter for him in his historical records, to write a biography, name him, and narrate his life.
You should know that this person is not just a charlatan.
To be precise, he is a thinker and a philosopher.
Fortune telling is just a part-time job.
Just like waiting for Zhang Liang, the military strategist and politician are just part-time jobs, and his true job is to be an immortal cultivator (although he went to the wrong plane...). (To be continued...)
