But this was Liu Chan's idea, not the ministers' idea.
In the eyes of the ministers, their Song Dynasty was almost dead.
The whole world attacked the Song Dynasty, with an army of 500,000, what could the Song Dynasty do to stop it?
You can't just rely on Yue Fei alone!
Can Yue Fei stop it?
Even though the Song Dynasty had been victorious in foreign wars for so many years; even though Liu Chan completed the military reform, the way of thinking of many ministers has not changed.
Faced with this situation, many ministers could not stop it and urged peace talks.
Even military generals such as Yue Fei and Han Shizhong only wanted to keep the enemy troops away from the border, and had no idea of defeating the enemy troops and winning victory.
But Liu Chan didn't think so. What he wanted was to annihilate all the enemy troops, which were said to be an army of 500,000. He dared to help Zhao Huan and also dared to attack me. He was impatient, right?
On that day, Liu Chan sent a message to the generals in all directions, asking them to send troops directly to destroy the enemy invaders.
Unfortunately, Liu Chan thought too simply. This was the Song Dynasty after all, an era of scholar-bureaucrats. Even though he started to centralize power, he never completed it.
Before the letter was sent, he faced admonitions from his officials.
The ministers advocated sending envoys to negotiate peace with the enemy immediately and not to attack other countries wantonly. But Liu Chan could not accept this at all. In his opinion, the war had not yet started, so what kind of peace could be negotiated?
The most important thing is that if he, a Han emperor, is asked to negotiate peace with the barbarians, then where should he put his face?
It's too embarrassing, Liu Chan can't do it.
Even if we negotiate peace or surrender, we should talk to the Han people, not to the barbarians.
However, the opposition from the ministers was too fierce, and some academicians also started a procession. It seemed that Liu Chan's disagreement with the peace agreement was unacceptable.
Those people simply thought that the Song Dynasty had already recovered all its land and the Jin Kingdom had been destroyed, so why should they start a war with other countries?
Since it was because of the war with foreign countries that the whole world was in rebellion against the Song Dynasty, why not negotiate for peace?
Can't everyone be peaceful?
Everyone believed in this set of principles, so they spoke plausibly when admonishing Liu Chan.
Liu Chan was so angry that he wanted to kill someone. He said that this was nonsense. Even if he is as mediocre as he is, he knows that long-term peace between countries is simply impossible, let alone peace between countries of different species.
But the opposition among the ministers and scholars was too great. If Liu Chan killed someone, the imperial court and the Imperial Academy would be almost wiped out.
At this moment, Liu Chan felt extremely bored with the Confucian school of thought, which had simply refreshed the lower limit of his understanding of things.
You must know that the Confucianists in the past used only a chariot and a book to preach.
What has this become now?
There was a dispute between Confucianism and Mohism, but why did Confucianism win?
Is it because Mohist principles are not as profound as Confucianism?
Or does the Mohist family have no sages?
No, neither!
After all, the swords in the hands of the Mohists are not as sharp as those of the Confucians.
Your reasoning is as good as mine, so if I kill you, my reasoning is the most correct!
The sword of Confucianism was too sharp. In the end, Confucianism stood out from hundreds of schools of thought and became the only voice in the world.
Perhaps after being together for a long time, these people always like to do something eye-catching.
What is striking?
Of course, advocating something different from the mainstream is the most eye-catching.
Just like during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, everyone said that Huo Qubing was the most capable general in the world, but some people insisted that he was harsh on his subordinates and could not share the joys and sorrows with his subordinates!
But none of my subordinates said anything!
For another example, the mainstream Confucianism during the Han Dynasty clearly held that men and women had the same status. However, some people insisted that women were inferior to men. By simply belittling women's status, they attracted people's attention and gained great fame.
Also, during the Han Dynasty, it didn’t matter whether a woman had been married before, and women who had given birth to children were more popular. Even the mother of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had been married before and then remarried to Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty.
However, there is no need to say more about what the Song Dynasty is like now.
After all, Confucianism has been invincible for too long. There are always some people who want to come up with something new and a new way of thinking. Otherwise, how can we become famous!
But the point is, many of these new things are bad!
And as long as there is the first bad thing that makes people famous, then the bottom line of subsequent people can be infinitely broken!
Just think about Sima Zhao killing the Emperor of Wei in the street, and you can imagine what the emperor became after that.
Confucianism's behavior is generally no different from Sima Zhao's.
Under such pressure, what can Liu Chan do and what can he do?
Do you want to tell the generals to ignore it and continue sending troops?
This world does not belong to Liu Chan alone. What if the generals send out troops and the people below welcome Zhao Huan back to the capital?
Don't tell me, it's really fucking possible.
Even if Zhao Huan was deposed as emperor by Liu Chan, this would not pass according to Confucianism.
Therefore, Zhao Huan still has the right to inherit the throne, and he can even ignore Liu Chan and inherit the throne directly!
Negotiating peace would only be embarrassing. If not, Liu Chan might lose his throne.
Who doesn't understand which one is more important?
Liu Chan understood very well that this was the situation when the Eastern Han Dynasty was founded.
Is Liu Xiu great? Of course he is!
However, at the founding of the country, he still compromised with the aristocratic families and forgot that in the Western Han Dynasty, the emperor could conquer everything with his military exploits. This allowed the aristocratic families of the Eastern Han Dynasty to grow bigger, and the country perished in less than a hundred years.
What Liu Chan is facing now is similar, except that he has changed from a noble family to a scholar-bureaucrat.
Especially now that the scholar-bureaucrats still control the military, this is the price of Liu Chan's reform of the military system!
Liu Chan thought for a while and felt that he should agree to negotiate a peace. It would be embarrassing to lose face, and it wouldn't happen once or twice anyway.
As the emperor of a country, he had surrendered to the Wei State before, but now he was just negotiating peace and throwing water.
In this way, Liu Chan held a court meeting, intending to use this meeting to plan a peace negotiation.
Unfortunately, he was wrong.
The officials were so bullying that they did not propose peace at all and only asked Liu Chan to stop sending troops.
But if we don’t send troops, doesn’t that mean we’re negotiating for peace?
Since the representatives negotiated peace, why didn't anyone mention it?
Liu Chan was very confused.
What the ministers are thinking is that the Song Dynasty has been winning continuously in foreign wars, which shows that the Song Dynasty's national strength is not weak now. Even if it faces the so-called half-million troops of the barbarians, it is not without the strength to fight.
If the war is won in the future, the minister who mentioned the peace talks will definitely be recorded on the wall of shame.
Look at the current Qin Hui, because he had been fighting to negotiate peace with the Jin Kingdom before. As a result, after the Jin Kingdom was destroyed, even though Qin Hui made great contributions, he was still ridiculed by the great ministers and looked down upon by many people.
So in the current situation, it is up to you, the emperor, to initiate peace talks. So what is recorded in the history books is that it can only be said that it will be the emperor's idea in the future, and they, the ministers, are just doing things.
Then why not take the lead?
Firstly, the enemy army numbered 500,000, and the ministers felt that they were not sure of victory. Secondly, the impact of the Jingkang Incident has not been forgotten until now. It would be bad if it happens again.
Therefore, almost everyone agreed to negotiate peace and opposed war.
Moreover, the officials saw Liu Chan's attitude and knew that Liu Chan gave up the war.
What else is there to say, just watch the show.
Liu Chan didn't know what was going on. Why didn't anyone mention the peace talks, so that he could just get off the road!
But the meeting was already a third of the way through, and many people mentioned stopping sending troops, but no one ever talked about making peace!
Liu Chan is going crazy. He has given up his self-esteem. So what are you doing?
Just kidding him, right?
Liu Chan clenched his fists and veins appeared on his face. He wanted to kill everyone here.
Fortunately, he still had sense and left the hall directly with a wave of his sleeves. Instead of visiting the harem, he drove to the military academy. Without letting anyone report, he went directly to where Han Shizhong was working.
When Han Shizhong saw Liu Chan, he stood up quickly, then knelt down to say hello.
Liu Chan asked the others to go out. He wanted to talk to Han Shizhong alone.
Han Shizhong was uneasy and wondered what Liu Chan was doing here.
Liu Chan said bluntly: "Liangchen, who are you loyal to?"
Hearing this, Han Shizhong knelt down again and said: "The last general will only be loyal to Your Majesty!"
"Then what if I ask you to raise a butcher's knife against the minister?"
"I will never let you down, Your Majesty."
"What if it's all the ministers in the court!"
Han Shizhong was startled, looked up at Liu Chan, and then quickly lowered his head. The killing intent in Liu Chan's eyes was not fake. Han Shizhong knew very well that Liu Chan really wanted to kill the entire court!
Han Shizhong is the kind of person who sits on the fence. Although he is loyal to Liu Chan, he is not loyal to Liu Chan!
If he was really determined, after Liu Chan said what he said, he would immediately express that he would never show mercy. But he hesitated, and it was this hesitation that explained a lot of things.
Which emperor has ever done this to kill all the ministers in the court?
Han Shizhong thought about it but didn't expect it. But now Liu Chan wants to do this, what should he do?
"You hesitated!" Liu Chan's eyes became colder and colder. He thought that many people would hesitate, but he never thought that Han Shizhong would hesitate.
Because compared to others, Liu Chan was not bad to Han Shizhong! Han Shizhong had the title, and he also had the power. In the military academy, he was an instructor, and in the imperial city, he was the temporary commander-in-chief of the Imperial Guard Army!
Moreover, the most important thing is that Liu Chan did not feel sorry for Han Shizhong at all, nor did he punish him.
Liu Chan felt that anyone might hesitate, but Han Shizhong would not at all.
But this is all Liu Chan's opinion, Han Shizhong doesn't think so at all!
The most disgusting thing about fence-sitters is that they cannot give up and have to struggle and hesitate in everything they do.
If Liu Chan's power was completely greater than that of the courtiers, Han Shizhong would support Liu Chan without hesitation.
Now Liu Chan's power was almost the same as that of the courtiers, and even the power of the courtiers was slightly greater than Liu Chan's. This forced Han Shizhong to consider and hesitate.
Such hesitation was not what Liu Chan wanted to see, so he directly asked.