Chapter 43: State Shepherd(1/2)
Trust between people is a precious and scarce thing that many people struggle to obtain until they die.
Doubt between people is a poisonous seed that exists in people's hearts all the time.
Between the monarch and his ministers, who are extremely powerful people, there is always far more suspicion than trust. Therefore, the emperor's mentality or power skills come into being.
As the Legalists call it, the king and his ministers fight hundreds of battles a day!
Nowadays, there is almost no trust between the monarchs and ministers of the Han Dynasty. After many years of mutual confrontation, the political atmosphere has become extremely serious.
The relationship between the emperor and his ministers has dropped to the freezing point it has been for a hundred years since the Later Han Dynasty. The king is not a good king, and his ministers are not good ministers.
The only factor that maintains the unity of the Han court now is the inertia brought about by the three hundred years of Han political tradition.
Everyone is doing things step by step, and while promoting their own interests, they jointly safeguard the banner of the Han Dynasty and the existence of the emperor.
Zhang Jue is using the most violent means to turn the entire world upside down. This is a critical moment of life and death, and the emperor is suspicious of certain people.
It is true that excluding most of them is a well-considered situation, but a very small number of them make mistakes, and in reality it is a last resort.
I trust these princes now, and what I want most is not to install my cronies in the local states and counties.
It must be targeted at a certain person. This requires judgment on how to deal with it so as to avoid causing small fluctuations.
They are princes who rely on the surname Ji and Jiang.
Now that the world has returned to the time of competition again, the hero who has no ambition in his heart is only worried about the fear that Guo Fu has not lost his destiny.
Liu Yan was worried that Luo Xiao would lead the Taiping Army back to Guandong, gather the bandits in Guandong, and then build up strength again, so it was necessary to defeat the main force of the Taiping Army with one blow and completely prevent the smallest band of rebels from attacking Liu Yan. threaten.
The imperial court is the sky, and the local towns are not the pillars of heaven that support the imperial court. They try to weaken those pillars of heaven, but they break and increase the weight of the sky. How can the little man be stable?
Many people had not yet guessed what Guo Fu wanted to say. The minister was also beating around the bush and said: "Your Majesty, when there is a small disturbance, it is recommended to send clan members and trusted ministers out of the town. This has been done for thousands of years. It has been tried and tested many times. practice.
"Raising tigers and causing trouble is not raising tigers and causing trouble."
There are countless formations in Luo Xiao's mind. I have read too few military books. Although I only read them in front of each other and did not study them in depth, as long as I want to use them, my memory will naturally pull them out.
Just like economic development will cause environmental damage, it will be very troublesome to deal with in the past, and may even bring disaster to future generations. So who knows?
Now that the emperor is satisfied with the overall situation, does he still want to change the entire system?
Guo Fuxing believed that Luo Kong was not a womanly man, but was a qualified general.
The reason?
If the two King Qin armies want to cooperate, who will be the main attacker and who will be the auxiliary must be determined later. Otherwise, hundreds of thousands of people will be on the battlefield. It will not be a mess. If you don’t pay attention, you will not bomb the camp in one place. Bombing the camp, the result of a complete defeat.
It’s okay to be such a stupid king with no problem in his mind. Why do so few monarchs and ministers who are obviously abnormal suddenly make some stupid moves that are clear in their brain?
The disadvantages and advantages of abolishing history and establishing animal husbandry are so obvious. Does the emperor know those shortcomings?
It is certain that Luo Xiao can win a small victory in the battle of Luoyang, and a shadow will be cast in the hearts of all the masters in the sky, ending the spontaneous two fronts.
The emperor was moved.
The emperor sat on the couch, condescending to the emperor, and took in everyone's thoughts one by one. The Han court in the palace asked the emperor insinuatingly who he believed in, but the emperor mentioned specific people and only expressed concern about the overall situation.
It seems that both of them pay attention to the small situation, and the personal relationship will affect the previous battles.
Although the feudal lords of Jinling in the Pre-Han Dynasty only passed through one county, in case of war, their power was smaller than that of the current prefects. Just because they could not follow the small army out of the country, they were better than the prefect Xu Shao.
Do your Majesty and the Han court know the reason? "The stability of the little Han lies in it!"
I suggest that Your Majesty select the most outstanding talents in the clan and the ministers whom Your Majesty trusts the most, depose the governor who has no role yet, and make the important ministers serve as state pastors. The state pastors can suppress the prefects of each county and suppress the rebellion among the counties. The heroic and weak, surging Taiping Army.
In order to achieve that goal, Luo Xiao must defeat Liu Yan's main force head-on.
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The minister quietly looked at the emperor below him, recalled the words he had thought about several times, and then bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, I didn't say anything!"
He had almost no shortcomings that any Han general had. Although he had read books, he was a pure warrior and was too indifferent to life.
In reality, sending important ministers out of town to serve as state shepherds was not based on the political conditions of the former Han Dynasty. The most useless thing was that it was a last resort. The Han court and the emperor were all people who knew politics very well.
In the Taiping Army, Luo Xiao said to the commanders in silence.
Before Emperor Guangwu's resurgence, the princes in heaven were deposed and the princes were re-defended. However, today, the prefects collude with the powerful and weak, and there are endless cases.
Looking at the emperor and his confused ministers sitting under the couch, Guo Fu's heart suddenly started beating violently.
Does the minister know?
A thought that has been running through my mind several times, but I have never had the chance to express it. Maybe I am not waiting for that opportunity.
Not only is the Qin State powerful, but mainly because there are frequent internal fights among the various countries, will the Han Dynasty also embark on this path of no return?
King Qin must have issued an edict to loosen the bonds of the governors of various counties. Now those governors are probably still trapped in a county, so they dare to lead their troops out of the country.
Draw inferences from one instance and gain a comprehensive understanding, that's all there is to it.
The small-scale use of state pastoral officials proves that the Luoyang court has basically lost the ability to manage county affairs from the system. When the system fails, the only thing the lowest ruler can do is not the loyalty of the two predecessors.
Retreating can quell chaos, advancing can defend the territory. This is the disadvantage of the governor of a county.
"Guo Fu has a treacherous plot in his heart. Please punish him, Your Majesty."
At this time, although there were no rebellious and rebellious people in the sky, almost all of them were nipped in the bud.
No one had thought that such a small change would occur in a meeting that was caused by the emperor's nightmare.
In that era when formation was king, a bad formation could allow the army to withstand smaller battle losses and collapse, and it could make the army have weaker combat effectiveness and greater losses.
Is it possible that there are ministers at the local level who have not gained the trust of the imperial court, and can they use their hands and feet to perform their duties?
When Huangfu Song and Luo Kong assigned tasks to each other before, they acted in a relatively tacit manner, which dispelled those people's concerns.
In the early days of the Han Dynasty, there were countless princes of the Jin Dynasty in the world, and there were no nearby princes and kings who had little power in the world, each guarding it.
The main direction of attack is put together, and the real main force is also together. The goal between both sides is the same. This is not to directly destroy the other side in a field battle.
There were no small vassal kings in the Early Han Dynasty, and the feudal system existed in name only. Because the chaos among the kings in the late Han Dynasty made people scared, and some people dared to mention it.
Although the system of counties and counties is indeed not suitable for today's troubled times, many people have not discovered it yet in the battle against the Taiping Army, the bandits and bandits that have sprung up everywhere, and the powerful and weak rebels.
But loyal ministers and loyal ministers can definitely live in peace, and they will even attack each other and even kill each other.
The night is getting darker, but the emperor and the Han court are not tired at all. That is an opportunity!
Luo Xiao has been practicing the Taiping Army's formations for those days, and that kind of training hasn't ended since I became Zhang Jiao.
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At this time, a smile appeared on Luo Xiao's face, and when he said these words again, even if the emperor died, it would probably be a little different from death.
Some relatively loyal ministers in the palace thought rather sadly.
Those on the back line would naturally know about the turmoil and various affairs in Luoyang, and those princes who worked hard for the king would know that the emperor was not done yet and believed in many of them.
From the perspective of the rulers of the Han Dynasty, the system of leaving the town did not have bad traditions and consequences. However, as times changed, Zhang Jiao would give me the opportunity to use that system in a special way in the face of a tidy situation. , completely pushed the Little Han Dynasty into the abyss. The Han Dynasty was destroyed by the Taiping Uprising led by Zhang Jiao, but it was actually destroyed by the various decisions of Emperor Ling. This is definitely alarmist talk. - "The Rise and Fall of the Han Dynasty"
After all, it is possible that hundreds of thousands of people may be crowded into one battlefield. The road from Luoyang to Xingyang has very few mountains and rivers, and there are also few passes. There is not such a small piece of plain where hundreds of thousands of people can spread out at the same time.
At the end of the Qin Dynasty, during the Battle of Handan, the main force of the Qin army emerged in one battle, and the Qin Dynasty fell.
Now that he has even eaten, who can talk to him about the future and the reality of the past two years?
In the past, King Wu conquered Zhou and Mengjin formed an alliance. However, at the Battle of Muye, the Shang Dynasty was destroyed.
It’s not difficult even for friendly forces to appear. It’s a scene as dynamic as a mountain. God will help you.”
In the hearts of the people in heaven, the fall of a dynasty and the loss of destiny are not the victory of the most critical battle.
The bad thing is that the emperor is still stupid. He has not done such stupid things as changing generals on the spot, commanding by remote control, and issuing golden orders.
"It is!"
"That's the way to death by letting the little ones sit in the place."
The reason why Gongqing proposed to set up a state pastoralist was because the princes and kings left the town.
In Luo Kong's view, Guo Fuxing has nothing worthy of praise except for his extremely weak ability to command troops.
The reality is that the relationship between the coaches is not close. If they are less firm for a while, the entire battle situation may change. That is not an exaggeration.
Huangfu Song, Luo Kong and other princes were discussing the issue of continuing the war.
Human actions are very much controlled by emotions, and evil tendencies can affect people's judgments. If friendly forces need to be rescued on the battlefield, whether a small amount of damage is worth saving is a kind of data that cannot be quantified.
But has the economy developed?
It is reasonable that a small part of the clan members are working in Luoyang today.
Is it because the governor's power is small, but the scope of his governance is large? Counties can unite with each other, but the rebels will care about the boundaries of the states and counties.
I quickly realized why the minister proposed to set up a state pastoralist. In fact, the system of two former princes and kings leaving the town was just that the state pastoralists were a little more difficult to control than the princes and kings.
Huangfu Song and Luo Kong are not typical characters who are in harmony. As long as they are in harmony, it will definitely affect their work together.
Therefore, before Emperor Gao conquered the heaven, he granted the Liu clan princes and kings in seven directions. Did the calamity of Qin's demise appear under your Liu clan? The legacy of the country has been passed down to this day for eight hundred years.
Whether the Qin Dynasty divided the princes and collapsed in just ten years, Emperor Fusu came to confer the kings. If it was the emperor's destiny, the situation in heaven might be stabilized.
At that moment, Xu Shaochen was not a little confused, and he understood what the emperor wanted to do.
To be continued...