Nine hundred and ninety-first chapter monarch power and subject power
The emperor is acting rogue, what should we do?
There are too many similar examples in the history of the Han Dynasty that we can learn from.
Apart from other things, back then, Emperor Taizu Gao casually decided to create a Black Emperor in Yong County.
Although the officials thought it was funny, they could only hold their noses and admit it.
With today's development, who dares to say that the Black Emperor is not a righteous god or a righteous priest?
Even the folk alchemists and warlocks have accepted this setting.
Of course, the events of Emperor Taizu are not enough as a reference.
After all, the founder of the country has been able to dominate the whole world since ancient times.
Especially Taizu of the Han Dynasty, when he was in power, he conquered the north and south, and flattened the world.
His authority was so heavy that even Xiao He and Cao Shen had to bow their heads and behave like grandsons.
The story of Xinhengping during the reign of Emperor Taizong is enough to explain many problems.
The current Prime Minister Zhou Yafu and the imperial censor Chao Cuo both experienced the New Hengping Incident personally.
They all saw with their own eyes how Prime Minister Zhang Cang united all officials and resisted the emperor's edict for the sake of principles and positions!
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Although facts have proved that Zhang Cang is right, Xin Hengping is a big liar.
Moreover, relevant evidence was put before the case of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen.
Taizong was furious and exterminated the Hengping clan.
However, because of this, Prime Minister Zhang Cang was subsequently dismissed.
Although, nominally speaking, Zhang Cang was dismissed because he accepted bribes and used public weapons for personal use.
But all fools know that this was Emperor Taizong's direct reaction to anger.
"Oh Mr. Liu" Zhou Yafu shook his head in his mind, thinking of his father Zhou Bo.
At first, his father Zhou Bo and Qu Nihou Chen Ping jointly led the princes and ministers to eradicate the Lu. Later, they overcame all opinions and established the acting king.
But what's the result?
A piece of edict and a sentence, Prime Minister, what I value most is that I lead the country of the feudal lords. It is simple and simple, let the biggest military leader and the oldest hero go home to farm.
The reason is simply that a year ago, Taizong wanted to dismiss the general, which aroused Zhou Bo's opposition, which made Taizong jealous.
In the end, General Wei was dismissed.
But his father could only go home and farm in despair.
Therefore, when his father was dying, he left a legacy and warned his brothers: Mr. Liu, you can share adversity but not wealth. If you want to share wealth, you can only coax them!
It means that if you want to share wealth with the old Liu family, you have to learn to coax people.
You have to coax the man named Liu like a child.
It cannot be said that if this child wants to eat a lollipop, you must not give it to him.
The result, of course, is that the child gets mad and you go home to farm!
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Zhou Yafu then thought in his mind: "If I obey the king in everything, what's the point of being the prime minister? Why don't I go back and farm!"
Many scholar-bureaucrats and nobles in the Han Dynasty had similar thoughts and ideas.
For them, heads can be cut off and blood can be shed. Do you want to be the emperor? Do whatever you want? There is no way!
At worst, the laborers will go home to farm!
This trend of thought was inherited from the royal tomb of Zhou Chang.
At that time, when Wang Ling was the prime minister, Empress Lu repeatedly violated the tradition and killed the princes and princes of the Liu family.
When Lao Wang saw it, he thought, labor and management will no longer serve you.
So he returned to Fengguo, closed the door, and slapped Empress Lu naked on the face.
Empress Lu couldn't do anything about it.
It's just a pity that the number of old Liu's family members is getting less and less each generation.
Nowadays, people have resorted to such dirty tricks as being mentally ill.
Many princes and ministers who felt good about themselves were refreshed in their outlook on life.
So much so that even the representative of Xiao Qingqing, Wei Qihou Dou Ying, did not dare to play the trick of returning home to farm.
I am afraid that I will also become mentally ill.
But as the prime minister, as the Tuogu minister of the late emperor and Taizong.
Zhou Yafu had the capital and strength to play the emperor and if you didn't obey, the labor and management would go home and farm to see if you obeyed, something like this.
He raised his head, looked at Liu Che, and said bluntly: "Your Majesty wants to use stories as your guide, but I cannot agree with you!"
When Liu Che heard this, he almost fell down with laughter.
Since he came to the throne, have he made few transactions with Zhou Yafu?
What's more, politics itself is a transaction.
If the sale cannot be negotiated, it can only be because the price is wrong.
If political deals cannot be negotiated, it will also be because there are not enough chips!
Obviously, a Shanglinyuan was separated in exchange for Zhou Yafu's agreement to bring the children of merchants into the Lord Commander's Yamen. In Zhou Yafu's view, the two were unequal.
Liu Che's conditions and bargaining chips could not meet Zhou Yafu's requirements and bottom line in this matter.
It makes sense when you think about it.
Putting a group of businessmen's children into a yamen, it is obvious that they want to keep each other warm.
If Zhou Yafu agreed, he would be scolded by the literati and nobles all over the world until he became paralyzed.
What's more, Zhou Yafu's own political stance was extremely averse to businessmen's participation in politics.
Nearly a century of propaganda in the Qin and Han dynasties made aristocrats and officials extremely hostile and disgusted with merchants and their power to interfere in politics.
Although, over the years, Liu Che has used various means and policies to eliminate some of the influence to a certain extent.
At least, now, the scholar-officials and nobles are no longer hostile to and discriminate against craftsmen and technology.
Even the Mohists are beginning to be accepted and recognized.
But a businessman cannot clear his name even for a while, let alone a clean one.
Because merchants have original sin.
Capital is born with deep sins.
No traditional Chinese scholar-officials or nobles can like these merchants who are full of the smell of copper and sin.
"I know what the Prime Minister is worried about." Liu Che gently tapped his thumbs on both hands and said to Zhou Yafu: "The Prime Minister also knows that I have never relaxed my vigilance against merchants!"
Zhou Yafu nodded.
This is true.
Since he came to the throne, every time he wields his butcher knife, the ones he kills the most are businessmen and powerful people.
Even in the purge of the Qilu kings the year before last, the main firepower, while targeting the landlords and bureaucrats, also did not forget to hit local merchants.
Even before Jinshang ascended the throne, the Jia people were already fighting and fearing each other.
This is also the reason why Zhou Yafu can sit here peacefully.
If it had been an emperor who had been ogling merchants since he came to the throne, Lao Zhou would have gone away long ago.
This was also a strategy Liu Che had formulated a few years ago, before he came to the throne.
Want to develop industry and hatch the monster of capitalism?
Under China's social and humanistic conditions, the only possible way is to disguise himself as a king who is extremely hostile to business and wary of businessmen.
Only in this way can the emperor be able to convince others when he wants to formulate certain policies and systems.
This is the so-called anti-installation of loyalty, or internal anti-installation.
If you want to deceive others, you must first make them believe you.
If you can't even gain trust, who will listen to your lies?
"Laozi said: At the highest level of governance, neighboring countries look at each other, and the sounds of chickens and dogs are heard. The people each enjoy their food, dress well, live in their customs, enjoy their careers, and have no contact with each other until they grow old and die! This is the rule of a sage.
The Queen no longer exists!" Liu Che stood up with his hands behind his hands: "I am too weak in virtue to be as good as this, so I can only retreat and seek the second best, to guide the people with the law and benefit! As the saying goes: all the prosperity in the world comes for benefit, the world
Fighting and turmoil are all beneficial. The king who rides before you, the leader of thousands of families, the king of hundreds of families, is still suffering from poverty, not to mention the people who have a single household. I want to join Yao and Shun at the top, and mate the three kings at the bottom, so as to bring great benefits to the world.
, use the great virtues from all over the world to make the people not benefit from the wealth, but also make the country rich and the people strong!"
"If you want to do this, you have to use the wealth of merchants!" Liu Che sighed to Zhou Yafu with his heart out.
This is indeed what he thinks.
Zhou Yafu was also said to be somewhat moved.
His eyebrows slowly lowered and his face became calmer.
This made Liu Che know that it was time to strike while the iron was hot.
So, he continued: "The eight policies of Hong Fan are: food, and goods. In the past, I was taught by the late emperor, and they said: the government of the country is nothing more than wealth and goods!"
Having said this, Liu Che raised his eyes, looked at Chao Cuo, and then turned around and asked: "The imperial censor once sent a book to Emperor Taizong to tell you how to treat grains. Among them, he said: Today, the farmer is a family of five."
Liu Che finished reciting Chao Cuo's famous saying and sighed: "The people's livelihood is so difficult. As the parents of the people, how can I pay more attention to it?"
Zhou Yafu and Chao Cuo looked at each other and had to kneel down and say: "Your Majesty has given you such a great favor. I wish you all the best congratulations!"
Chao Cuo was even more delighted.
As a minister, what is the most important thing?
Of course it was his own words, and the emperor remembered them.
And now, the emperor not only remembered his words, but also recited them by heart. What does this mean?
It shows that Jane is in the emperor’s heart!
How can this not be fun?
Of course, I am happy.
It is still not allowed for businessmen and businessmen to form a group!
Who knows what will happen to those scumbags?
They are already rich enough, and no matter how powerful they are, the world must not be in chaos??
What's more, this lord and captain is personally supervised by the emperor.
In the future, it will be handed over to the prince as a place for leadership and political experimentation.
A bunch of businessmen's children stay with the prince every day. If they teach the future king of the Han Empire, who will bear the blame?
Anyway, Zhou Yafu and Chao Cuo were unwilling to carry it!
Therefore, Chao Cuo raised his head and said: "Your Majesty, I also know that people's livelihood is difficult. However, Jia people are of low status. Your Majesty, with a benevolent heart, does the deeds of a holy king without offending others. This is already a great kindness from the emperor."
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"With your humble opinion, your Majesty wants to serve the world, so he has no choice but to seek help from the Jia people so that they can participate in political affairs. This only treats the symptoms but not the root cause!" He raised his head and said with murderous intent: "It would be better if your Majesty commissioned his ministers.
I have granted my power to my ministers by virtue of my integrity. I will go out of Chang'an with my integrity, search for the nobles in the world, raid their homes and confiscate their property, seize their houses and collect their fields. I am willing to guarantee with my life that within a year, the national treasury will be full.
And it’s more than enough!”
When Liu Che touched his forehead, he suddenly couldn't laugh or cry.
Indeed, Chao Cuo's tricks were the most commonly used tricks in the Chinese dynasty.
What is a businessman?
Isn't it just a pig?
Once they are fattened, they are ready to be slaughtered to enrich the national treasury.
Anyway, these guys are violating laws and disciplines, colluding with corrupt officials, and doing all kinds of evil.
The second is notorious and has no strength, authority or influence.
Thirdly, there is great resentment among the people. If you kill them, the people will just applaud and applaud.
So much so that even the Manchus learned this trick to kill businessmen when something happened.
Whether it's a salt merchant or the Thirteenth Industry.
With one slash, you can always kill something.
There is no need to worry about officials forcing the people to rebel and shake the rule.
It is so safe and reliable that everyone follows suit.
What's funny is that the merchants slaughtered them again and again, and cut them off again and again.
But it is always the meat on the chopping board. No one reflects on it, and no one thinks about why it is so.
After the rulers cut off the crops, merchants emerged and continued to collude with the government to prey on the people and do all kinds of evil.
Then, after being fattened, they were slaughtered again.
This goes on and on and on.
Even two thousand years later, capital that has slowly developed has still not learned the lesson.
The richest man, except for a few, will inevitably go to jail.
All I can say is that Taizu’s assessment was correct.
China’s capitalism and national capital are inherently deformed.
So much so that even Liu Che still doesn’t know what the future of capitalism, which he worked so hard to incubate, will look like.
But, at least one thing is certain.
China's capitalism and bourgeoisie are necessarily completely different from their counterparts in the West.
Because the social environment and humanistic traditions of the two are completely different.
If the orange grows in Huainan, it becomes orange; if it grows in the north of Huaihe, it becomes orange.
Naturally, the fruits produced are of two varieties.
It was naturally impossible for Liu Che to agree to Chao Cuo's proposal.
If he wants to do such a simple thing.
All he needs to do is hook his hand, and countless speculators will naturally come to him one after another, rushing to do his dirty work for him.
There is no need to sacrifice a censor doctor!
Of course Chao Cuo also knows this!
In fact, what Chao Cuo said was just to force Liu Che to retreat.
This is almost a retaliation for Liu Che's initial threats and rogue behavior.
The emperor is acting rogue, what should we do?
The Han ministers spent decades of exploration and testing.
Today, I finally found the answer.
That would be acting like a rogue like him.
Your Majesty, if you want to do this, then please allow me to do this.
If your Majesty does not agree to this, then please forgive me for not obeying the imperial edict.
In this way, even if there is a dispute with the emperor in the end, it will not affect the relationship between the monarch and his subjects, let alone be tainted with the reputation of bullying the emperor's father.
This is tantamount to reducing a conflict that might have escalated to the left again.
You can even tell the emperor: Your Majesty, it’s not that I’m disobedient, it’s actually that your Majesty’s request is beyond the reach of others.
I just want to stick to my principles.
Liu Che also understood this after thinking for a while.
He looked up at Chao Cuo and found that the other party had no 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 relies on playing rogue, he can defeat his officials.
However, the ministers were played by the emperor again and again, but they did not improve or respond.
That's too bad!
Because that can only mean that the entire ruling class has become corrupted to the point where surgery is necessary!
Think about it, they were hung up and beaten by the emperor in the same way several times, but they still haven't learned the lesson and found out how to deal with it.
There is no other possibility other than that they are all idiots and cowards.
In fact, in a normal and healthy dynasty, the monarchy and ministerial power are always in constant competition and balance, and they maintain fighting without 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 cobblers can be better than one Zhuge Liang.
No matter how smart a person is, he can't be better than a group of people.
Humans are social animals, and human success comes from the collective efforts of the group.
Anyone who wants to bring down the world by himself is either a lunatic or an idiot. To be continued.
