The atmosphere suddenly became somewhat silent. He Xiu frowned and suddenly stood up, breaking the silence.
"Your Majesty, in this matter, we must severely punish the powerful people. These powerful people have violated many Han laws and acted in a treasonous manner. We should send the Southern Army to kill them all! But those local officials, who have led the bandits without doing anything, unexpectedly If the thieves become big but do nothing, these officials should be dismissed. There are thousands of students in Taixue Academy and Menzi School who are studying..."
He Xiu's meaning is very clear. He will kill these powerful people directly without mercy, and all local officials will be dismissed and replaced with people who accept the scientific merit system. They will be more loyal to the little fat man and Wang Fu's various The reform did not exclude the scholars. The little fat man was very happy. Normally, He Xiu rarely spoke or expressed any political opinions. Instead, it was always the old prince who did this.
Unexpectedly, after the death of the old captain, He Xiu would be able to take over his position and continue to be the little fat man and the messenger in the temple.
When they heard this, Yang Ci and others were shocked. Yang Ci stood up first and said: "Your Majesty, the powerful people are indeed guilty, and it is not necessarily impossible to kill them. It's just that if all those local officials are dismissed, they will be punished. If young students are left alone, they are afraid that the place will be in chaos and the prosperous times will no longer be prosperous!" He is not opposed to killing powerful people. The entire Han Dynasty has a natural hostility towards powerful people!
Before Wang Mang, this kind of hostility was the most serious. Every year, the local governor would report the details of the local powerful to Situ. Situ would not even report it to the emperor, but would directly move these local powerful to the land of Kansai and call it the "Guanxi". Households, as for those who behave badly, they will be beheaded and their homes confiscated. At that time, do you dare to invade farmland and build your own earthen fort?
Hehehehe.
As for later, because Emperor Guangwu relied on the help of powerful families to show off, the suppression of the powerful became no longer so strong. Although there were still many cruel officials and famous ministers, during his tenure, the powerful were eliminated and the people were happy. , It's a pity that there are fewer and fewer such capable ministers, and more of them are still thinking about how to gain fame and how to kill eunuchs.
After a hundred years of peace, these powerful people seem to be becoming more and more unruly. They have forgotten the emperor's butcher's knife in the former Han Dynasty.
However, Yang Ci has not forgotten that he agreed to kill the powerful. The powerful are different from the aristocratic families. He often did this kind of thing when he was young. Now that the emperor wants to punish him severely, he has no objection. However, you have to change What are the disciples and former officials we have selected? Are they all moral sages? If the world is not governed by morality, won’t the world perish?
The officials who opposed the merit system were divided into two groups.
The first is like Yang Ci, who believes that officials are evaluated based on their political achievements, not their morality. This will make the officials in the world ungrateful. If there are talents without virtue, it will definitely be a disaster for the world. The second is like Yuan Wei. In this way, those officials are all disciples and former officials of several of our aristocratic families. If you want to defeat them all at once, will our aristocratic families still be able to speak to local officials in the future?
Out of these two views, Yang Ci, Yuan Wei, and Xun Jian all pointed out He Xiu's mistake righteously, and said that if officials were dismissed arbitrarily, the emperor would lose the support of the people, and this should not be done, which the little fat man did not expect. What's surprising is that Cao Ding, one of the powerful men, actually supported He Xiu's views and said that these guilty powerful men should be killed and those officials should be dismissed, and other blatant flattery.
The meaning of the words is very clear. Please, Emperor, please do whatever you want. My Cao family will support whatever you do! Long live the Emperor!
Zhang Jian, as a member of the party who came from a poor family, said: "Tingwei should work together to capture powerful people and punish them severely. Local officials who have extremely serious faults will be removed from their posts, while those who commit minor crimes can be punished with small punishments!" , the little fat man didn't speak for a long time. He frowned, thought for a moment, looked at Yang Ci, and said: "Do you think that officials who watch the powerful construction of the earth castle but do not stop them can be regarded as moral people?"
"Eat the king's salary and do nothing!"
"Can these mediocre people rule the world?!"
The little fat man asked angrily.
Yang Ci gritted his teeth, bowed, and said: "Your Majesty, the imperial court has not issued an order before to pay attention to the affairs of powerful people. Therefore, these officials have made mistakes. Your Majesty cannot dismiss them from office because of this!", Xiao The fat man squinted his eyes and looked at him for a moment. He had never thought about removing all local officials. If that were the case, the world would probably be in chaos.
He just wants to beat and kick Yang Ci and others, and also remind the local officials to severely suppress those powerful people to prove his innocence. Otherwise, you will bear the stigma of condoning powerful people to bully the people. I believe it. These officials who attach great importance to reputation will repay these powerful people well. In addition, he also needs to place a few students from the Imperial Academy among the local officials.
This move is worth a thousand pieces of gold and horse bones, letting students see that the emperor wants to reuse them!
The little fat man recruited these people because he wanted the family to help him. He used their disciples and former officials as bargaining chips to force them to help the court and deal with the powerful. Yang Ci and others may not have noticed this, but there was nothing they could do. Anyway, it was a powerful person who died, so what does that have to do with us?
So, everyone started discussing in the room, and Wang Fu said angrily: "These powerful people have committed extremely heinous crimes. Please, Your Majesty, give an order to Zhang Huan and Duan Juan to kill the powerful people in the world!"
"I think that as long as the county has more soldiers, it will be enough to deal with it. Why do we need the Northern Army and the Southern Army? It's just a waste of military supplies. The world is improving. It can't be like this!" Yang Ci shook his head in opposition, and everyone began to discuss killing powerful people like this. Even Cao Ding He is so brave and he comes up with ideas with great enthusiasm!
The little fat man lamented, shook his head, and said: "The powerful are also my subjects. Although I hate them for violating Han law, I can't bear to kill them."
"Your Majesty is so kind!!" Cao Ding suddenly leaned over and cried loudly, looking at the little fat man with tears in his eyes.
Yang Ci's face twitched. No one was surprised by Cao Ding's performance. After all, the entire Cao family started by crazily catering to the emperor. I don't know, but Cao Teng has been in the palace for decades and has never been offended. The emperor was once worshiped as a marquis, and his descendants, such as Cao Song, and clan sons such as Cao Ding and Cao Chi, firmly stood on the side of the eunuchs when the officials in the Manchu Dynasty supported the party members.
Therefore, among the three brothers, one serves as Dahonglu, one serves as Sili Xiaowei, and the other serves as Shangshutai!
Obviously, flattering the emperor in this way is indeed useful.
Everyone didn't know what the emperor meant, but they absolutely didn't believe that the emperor didn't want to kill these powerful men because of his kindness!
If the emperor is unkind, go and ask Dong Chong!
The little fat man frowned and said sadly: "I can't bear to kill him, but I can't let him go unpunished. Today, Liangzhou in Guanxi has a vast land and sparsely populated areas, and has been subject to frequent Qiang chaos. There is also a land east of the Yangtze River with fertile land. But no one is farming. I want to reintroduce the Taizu system and move these powerful people to Jiangdong and other places in Liangzhou to enrich their household registration. Their slaves will also move. However, they will release their tenants, divide their cultivated land, and those who have no land will join the people. Tuen!"