"Lead them to be rebellious, and then punish them; teach them to be rebellious, and then punish them for rebellion! Duke Zhuang's intentions are also dangerous!"
"Wang Yi has always focused on stability and is not a person who is eager for success. It has only been four months and the situation has just begun. Does it mean that if there are results, we will see results?" The emperor withdrew his gaze and turned to Jia.
Xu said calmly: "Those people are more anxious than me."
Jia Xu said: "Every prince in the imperial court seems to have his own plans. I also told your majesty at the beginning that whether Wang Yi can take on important tasks depends more on your majesty than on himself."
"I have always valued him." The emperor stood up slowly, paced leisurely on the spot, turned around and said to Jia Xu: "Do you still remember the plan we discussed at first? Hedong Haoqiang,
They have to wait until they are forced to take the initiative to tear off the face of this gentleman and scholar, or the court finds enough excuses, then they can use the power of thunder to uproot those unruly powerful people! Only in this way can we kill the chickens and scare the monkeys.
Shock everyone."
The emperor sighed, took a long breath from his heart, and his tone became hoarse and gloomy: "Before that, you have to learn the story of 'Zheng Bo Duan Yu Yan', or imitate what I told you about boiling a frog in warm water.
For example, no matter what it is, Wang Yi has done a good job, so how can I blame him for a few gossips from others? Not only that, after the New Year, I will also send him a few helpers to follow him
Do these things together.”
As he spoke, the emperor suddenly tapped the original painting of Du Cao on the table with his hand, indicating something.
Jia Xu was startled. He knew that the emperor had always intended to attack Hedong first. Firstly, it was to clear the way for the Yantie official camp's policy in Hedong, and secondly, he wanted to kill people to establish his authority. Only at this time did Jia Xu vaguely realize that the emperor had
He also wanted to try to completely break the tradition of local officials secretly conquering Cao Cao's subordinates for meritorious service.
For a long time, from the governor to the county magistrate; to the county magistrate, the county magistrate has always recruited local scholars to serve as chariots, meritorious officials and other subordinates. Especially after the implementation of the Three Mutual Laws, outsiders were appointed as local officials.
In order to grasp the local situation and facilitate the administration of the people, local powerful scholars were often recruited. At this time, not far from the pre-Qin Dynasty, the subordinate relationship between the princes, ministers, and officials in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty was still passed down. The subordinates regarded the commanders who recruited them as their masters.
They form a 'lord-minister' relationship with each other on a certain level and are inseparable.
Whether it is to strengthen the central government's control over local areas or to strengthen the imperial power, this bad habit must be broken. However, although there were precedents in the past dynasties where the imperial court took the initiative to send people to serve as county meritorious officials and county magistrates, it did not form a system.
, not to mention the power to prohibit local governors from levying land on their own.
To change political rules and customs that everyone has abided by for hundreds of years is no less difficult than fighting a Ping-Qiang war.
The emperor had been planning for this for a long time. From the beginning, he established the Nongcaobu as a long-term establishment of counties and counties through the farming incident, and let the imperial court control the personnel power of the Nongcaobu. He also established a new Imperial College system, stipulating that Imperial College students should take exams upon graduation.
After that, achievements were awarded to officials from the central government to various government officials. Even if people on the side, such as Yang, saw the clues, they could not find the right time and reason to object.
To reach this point today, the emperor can be said to have worked step by step. Now that he has laid the groundwork, he only needs to severely beat and kill the powerful people in Hedong once, and then he can take advantage of the situation and solve all the issues such as salt, iron, and official appointments in one go.
Can further shape one's own authority.
"So after I have said so much, does Mr. Jia still want to resign?"
Jia Xu looked at the emperor with wide eyes. He was caught off guard by this question and trembled. After he knew that Wang Yi was being criticized, he retreated in order to advance. He wrote a memorandum on the pretext that his mother was seriously ill and asked to resign to fulfill his filial piety.
He knew that the emperor would not allow him to leave. This was just a show to others. If not, someone might follow Wang Yi and bite Jia Xu on the head. The court could not understand Jia Xu's behavior.
Not a minority.
But now Huang Wan, Dong Cheng and others are saying with certainty that Wang Yi has served for a long time without success, which is a big blow to Wang Yi's reputation. Even if the emperor forcibly guarantees it, Wang Yi will continue to implement the strategy of condoning the powerful people in Hedong.
At least some concessions must be made.
Jia Xu leaned forward and was about to answer when he saw the emperor waving his hand, picked up a memorial from the side of the table, walked over and handed it to Jia Xu, saying: "There is still a good show to watch right now, can you?"
Can’t leave.”
"This is..." Jia Xu took the memorandum handed over by the emperor with both hands, quickly browsed it up and down, and suddenly said in shock: "Solar eclipse?"
This memorial was written by Wang Li of Taishi Ling. Taishi Ling was subordinate to Taichang. He was responsible for controlling the sky, the celestial calendar, and all the auspicious events and disasters in the country. The important content of the memorial he sent this time was just a few short words.
One word: "Zhengdan is the solar eclipse."
Zhengdan is the first day of the first lunar month. That day happens to be the annual New Year's Day. On that day, the emperor is also preparing to formally receive the envoys of the Kanto states and counties, as well as the vassal kings, officials, foreign and foreign chiefs. It can be said that it is the first day of the first lunar month.
It was a rare grand event, but that day happened to be Jiayin Shuo. Based on past experience and rules, Taishi Ling monitored that a solar eclipse would occur on that day.
In ancient times, solar eclipses were not simply an astronomical phenomenon. Since the creation of the theory of telepathy between heaven and man, any disaster such as a solar eclipse would initially indicate the emperor's moral deficiencies, but later it would evolve into a situation where the ministers would bear the blame.
.So once a disaster like a solar eclipse occurs, the court will often depose one of the three princes to correct the king's fault.
"They want to force me to deal with Wang Yi, why don't I take this a step further and implement the strategy of attacking instead of defending?" The emperor smiled and said, Huang Wan, Ma Rixi and others are all three princes. Compared with Wang Yi, his current power and position are only
It's the most important thing, isn't it?
Jia Xu held the memorial in his hand and said with some uncertainty: "It's just that the way of heaven is far away, and Taishi Ling may not be able to predict it accurately."
"Tai Shi Ling Wang Li, he was also the minister who went to the ban with Wang Yun to teach me and recite the "Book of Filial Piety"." The emperor sighed with emotion, and said leisurely: "This is just like taking care of my food and drink, now
After being demoted several times, Sun Du, who was appointed as Dazaicheng, was once a minor figure under Wang Yun. They luckily escaped that liquidation, and I never took them seriously, but now, Wang Yun still thinks about them.
How can I just let them go because they are acting behind their backs?"
"Jia Gong, no matter whether the calculation of the solar eclipse is accurate or not..." The emperor gently tapped the memorial in Jia Xu's hand with his finger, and said slowly: "There will always be someone who I want to take as a warning."