The word "showing weakness" was like a thunder, splitting the dark clouds in Gao Pingshi's heart and illuminating the haze that had been shrouding his heart just now.
I actually forgot about this!
In fact, it's not that Gao Pragmatic doesn't know the usage of "showing weakness to the enemy" in the art of war, it's just that almost all of the people he has defeated over the years are men - if eunuchs are also considered men. Therefore, he is putting himself in his opponent's shoes
When thinking, even if you can simulate a situation where your opponent is "showing weakness", the specific method of showing weakness is not to kneel down and apologize in tears.
Top politicians are often extremely rational in the struggle for power, because politicians who are not rational enough have long since died in the process of chasing power. In later generations, some so-called corrupt countries will use vote politics to select a candidate who may have no experience in political struggle.
It is almost non-existent in Chinese history that a person is directly brought to the pinnacle of power - except when a new king succeeds to the throne.
This is why the old-time bureaucrats in the power struggle in ancient China rarely suffered from political infantilism, but it often happened in the voting political environment of some self-proclaimed people in later generations. [For example, if you read this book, Yin Kakadu
I won’t make the international joke of the past few days. By the way, it is said that before the Xibi Xibi coup, Quan Xiaojiang had studied the Gaoping Ling coup so badly that he died laughing.]
Of course, some people may also say that during the Gaoping Ling Incident, Sima Yi swore to Luoshui. Why did General Cao Shuang, who had always seemed so smart before, commit a childish disease and listen to Sima Yi's bullshit? Doesn't this overturn
Did you agree with what you said before?
No, because although Cao Shuang was smart and capable, he had almost no setbacks before, or almost no experience of being at a power disadvantage. When this situation first appeared, he faced such an earth-shaking event.
It's not unusual for him to make wrong decisions.
And don't forget that even if similar situations have occurred in history, they are obviously not famous. Therefore, for Cao Shuang, he lacked historical experience as a reference and could only risk his own life - thus leaving a valuable legacy to future generations.
lessons.
At this moment, Gao Pragmatic and his opponents over the years have enough historical cases as reference for both our enemies and ourselves, and the political infantile diseases on both sides are naturally very few.
To sum up, Zhang Juzheng's failure that year was because he wanted to catch the cicada while the mantis was stalking him. As a result, Gao Pragmatic was a cheater and easily took advantage of the oriole behind him, so he succeeded in a sneak attack and ended Gao Gong's fate in history in one fell swoop.
It was sent to Zhang Juzheng as a boomerang, which established the stable overall situation of the "Practical Learning Reform" for 30 years. If Zhang Juzheng failed in any way, it was obviously not due to childish politics, but because some of his opponents cheated.
After that, whether it was Feng Bao, Zhang Jing, Zhang Cheng, etc., these eunuchs, due to their inherent flaws in the source of power and their high pragmatism, could relatively simply guide the emperor and use their monarchical power to overthrow him easily.
Compared with Zhang Juzheng, they are somewhat politically naive. The main reason is that they are naive because they fail to see one thing clearly: their power comes entirely from the emperor, and the basis of their high pragmatic power is given by the system of court politics (6
The first champion was born and promoted according to the system), and then he used his personal relationship with the emperor to strengthen it.
In this case, the eunuchs trying to compete with Gao Pragmatic for favor is like a lame man trying to race Bolt, and Bolt is trying his best, then they will be damned if they don't lose.
Comparatively speaking, the level of Shen Shixing, Wang Xijue and others has obviously returned to the standard of "political veterans". Regardless of Shen Shixing, Wang Xijue's partnership has not been able to curb the growing momentum of the real school for many years. In fact, that is
Because Gao Pragmatic relied on the special abilities of time travellers to create a general trend, talents such as Shen Shixing were really unable to reverse it.
If you make a careful comparison, you will find that it is not lucky that Shen Shixing has been able to serve as the first assistant for so many years. On the one hand, it is because he is highly pragmatic and believes that his qualifications are not enough to replace them, so he is not eager to overthrow them, but on the other hand, it is also because the other party has always maintained
Be cautious. When you take action, you do not make a desperate move, but leave room for action. Therefore, being pragmatic does not allow you enough room for maneuver.
In the end, did Shen Shixing and others fail because of their reckless actions? No. Their final failure was because their subordinates saw that the situation was becoming more and more unfavorable to the Xin School, and they lost their composure due to concern, so they were caught.
Later, Gao Pingshi used all kinds of overt and covert means, and finally implicated Shen and Wang, forcing them to resign.
In this process, the most cautious Shen Shixing actually had no obvious flaws from beginning to end, and Wang Xijue was implicated because he had been ill for a long time and could only hope to take a gamble at the end. In short, if
To be sure, Wang Xijue may be regarded as tacitly allowing his subordinates to take action and "failed to report what he knew", while Shen Shixing can only be regarded as incompetent at best and should "take leadership responsibility".
If Shen Shixing had been thicker-skinned and cut ties with Wang Xijue at the last moment, he might even be able to successfully protect himself. Although he looked a little embarrassed, he would still be able to stay in the position of chief assistant.
Fortunately, Shen Shixing is really a shameless person. At the same time, he may have really lost the confidence to continue to suppress the practical school and suppress high pragmatism. Therefore, he gave up all treatment and insisted on leaving.
This is the level of political veterans. If we use Sun Tzu's words, it means that in political struggles, "those who were good at fighting in the past should first be invincible and wait for the enemy to be victorious."
When the outcome of the struggle has been determined, you must decisively admit defeat and leave the field, so that the opponent loses the rationality and necessity to continue to attack you - Gao Gong originally sent people to investigate Xu Huating's family's property, and finally Suzhou Magistrate Cai Guoxi wanted to investigate to the end.
, why does Gao Gong shout stop?
Do you really think Gao Gong cares about the pressure of public opinion? His holy family at that time was so powerful that he could completely ignore it, and could even label all these people as "Xu Jie associates". The reason why he called a halt was because political struggles were still in this era.
There is a bottom line, and it has not deteriorated to what it was like in the later "Donglin Dianjianglu" period. Therefore, as the first assistant, if you let the opponent suffer a little, you should stop it and cannot continue. Otherwise, his high profile will become a party struggle.
A bottomless sinner.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Precisely because Gao Pragmatic has been competing with masters like Shen Shixing in recent years who are both skillful and clumsy, so he fundamentally ignored a person who was only in the harem.
The imperial concubine who has been "trained" in the environment
In fact, my mother doesn't understand the issue of strategy very well. She actually thinks from the beginning to the end in terms of "what cards do I have" and "what cards does she have". The conclusion is naturally "how can I lose my flying dragon riding face" and "she
That card is too bad to be played"...
In the end, it became funny. After Meng Guzhezhe reminded him, Gao Pragmatic realized: Well, it turns out that people play cards not by actuarial calculations, but by feeling!
There was only one normal man that the concubines in the harem could face on a daily basis, and that was the emperor, so the method they used to deal with the emperor was very primitive: playing the emotional card.
The "cry, make trouble, and hang yourself" method summarized by later generations in harem dramas is somewhat deliberately dwarfing, but it is undeniable that in the face of the emperor who "talks about the constitution of heaven", the concubines in the harem are "not allowed to interfere in politics".
"Under the premise, only playing the emotional card is the most cost-effective option.
If a set of methods is used for a long time, it will form path dependence - for example, Gao Pragmatic's thinking mode can also be regarded as a certain kind of path dependence. Concubine Zheng, who was born in the harem, has determined that Gao Pragmatic is the only one besides the emperor who has the ability to attack
As an individual, it is reasonable for her to subconsciously use the emotional card.
However, it was easy for her to play the emotional card with the emperor, because the emperor did have a deep affection for her, but Gao Pragmatic had no feelings for her at all, so this card was not so easy to play.
For her, the only trump card at present is the image difference between women and men in this social system - men can only show strength, even if it hurts their faces, they have to pretend to be fat, otherwise they will be ridiculed and ridiculed in all directions.
disdain;
Women are just the opposite. Under the Neo-Confucian social system, a strong woman will be attacked at all levels, but if she shows weakness and suffers, it can often arouse compassion and love in return. Even if the other person is an extremely ruthless person,
Because we have to take public opinion into consideration, most of the time we have to hold it up high and put it down gently to show that we are a "benevolent" gentleman.
Once a social system is formed, it will not only discipline the individuals under the system, but also form a habit of thinking. For example, under this Neo-Confucian system, men will self-suggest and constantly strengthen the belief that "I am the strong one", thus
This will lead to polarized thoughts about how he treats "weak women": on the one hand, he cannot tolerate women being "rude" to him; on the other hand, once a woman gives in, men tend to lose their guard - I am the strong one, she
You have already surrendered. How dare you have any ill intentions towards me again?
However, rationality is the strength of men, but sensibility is the strength of women. Even though women in this era often do not have the knowledge to compete with men due to unfair education, but sensibility does not require theoretical study, it will play a role in life.
Naturally mastered by women.
Therefore, while the emperor and his ministers were calculating government affairs all day long, the concubines in the harem only needed to focus their wisdom on one thing: What are the emperor's likes and dislikes?
During this process, the concubines would discover various corners of the emperor's character through observation, testing and other means. Without exception, the concubines knew the emperor's character very well, and they might even know him better than the emperor himself.
However, they could only understand the emperor as a normal man. When Concubine Zheng needed to use her methods on Gao Pragmatic, she had no other reference and could only treat him the same way she treated the emperor.
What is the way to treat the emperor? Show weakness and stimulate the emperor's protective desire.
In the "Battle of the Country", especially before the queen gave birth to her legitimate son, Concubine Zheng demonstrated this method. On the one hand, she made "repeated pleas" to make the emperor's eldest son the crown prince, which caused the emperor to "force the imperial concubine to
So much so that she had no choice but to take the initiative to ask someone else's son to be her heir. This aroused her desire for protection, and she was always reluctant to appoint her son as her heir.
On the one hand, when she only faced the emperor alone, she cried out her heartfelt feelings many times, saying that she had already received enough holy favors, how could she dare to covet others? However, the outer court was hard at work, fearing that she and her son might not have a happy ending...
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This is also a way to arouse the emperor's protective desire, and because the emperor is the supreme emperor, he will have a rebellious mentality because of "the foreign court coercing my concubines", and regard the foreign court's insistence on the system as a violation of himself.
The contempt for authority makes him even more reluctant to establish a throne.
In short, Concubine Zheng is very proficient in a set of methods, and she even recommends it to ten thousand people. She feels that it is not difficult to manipulate men, so she subconsciously used it on Gao Pragmatic today.
What's wrong is that although Gao Jingshi didn't do this, her behavior was so bizarre that it was difficult for Gao Jingshi to figure out the reason for a while. However, Gao Jingshi's usual way of thinking is to "predict the enemy like a god."
"--First figure out what the other person is thinking, and then follow the other person's thinking--so Gao Pragmatic successfully confused himself.
Fortunately, today there are not only two great men, Gao Pragmatic and Gao Mo, but also Meng Guzhezhe, who can really "put himself in the other person's shoes" and think, and this is how Gao Pragmatic is pulled out of his misunderstandings.
"Huh..." Gao Pingshi let out a long breath, held his forehead and said: "I see, that's it... I understand. Concubine Zheng doesn't care about anything else at the moment. One thing is for sure: she wants to stabilize me first.
, let me lower my guard against her."
Meng Guzhe nodded repeatedly and agreed: "That's right, the Nu family feels the same way."
Gao Mo bowed deeply and blamed himself: "I accidentally missed the opportunity and almost missed the master's important event. I really deserve death."
"I also made an oversight, so what's your fault?" Gao Pingshi waved his hand and said, "Now that we know Concubine Zheng's intention, the top priority is to take precautions before it happens...Uncle Mo, Meng Gu, you think she is so deceptive, so why?
What's the picture?"
Gao Mo may have failed to detect Concubine Zheng's intentions just now, and felt that it was difficult to grasp Concubine Zheng's thoughts, so he bowed slightly to Meng Guzhezhe, signaling her to express her stance first.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Meng Guzhezhe did not give in, nodded slightly, and said pragmatically to Gao: "In the humble opinion of the Yinu family, Concubine Zheng cannot hope that she can do it by kneeling today.
Let me completely let go of my prejudices towards her, so that what she seeks will not be long-lasting, but only short-term confusion."
Gao pragmatic nodded, he thought so too, so he said "hmm" and motioned for Meng Guzhezhe to continue.
Meng Guzhe then continued: "Since it was just a temporary confusion, it means that if she wants to do something, these things will happen in a short time... But according to the master's previous analysis, the slave family really can't figure it out, even if the master
She did nothing for the past two days and just sat back and watched the situation develop, but what step can she take?"
This time, Meng Guzhezhe continued his analysis without waiting for Gao Pragmatic's signal, and seemed to be talking to himself: "As the master said, there are two people who can control the situation in the capital: the master and the emperor.
Even if the master did nothing, Concubine Zheng could really persuade Li Wenjin to falsely pass on the imperial edict, mobilize the Jing army, and successfully win over Li Chengliang, Li Rumei and his son, and recruit more than 10,000 imperial guards... But even at this point, as long as the emperor
Under this order, can these people really risk their lives to help Concubine Zheng and her son achieve success?"
When Gao Yingshi heard this, his heart suddenly tightened, and he asked in shock: "Is it possible that the emperor's dragon body has police? Damn it, the emperor has been staying in Yikun Palace recently, and I have no time to pay attention to the changes in the palace due to the impending disaster. Could it be that the emperor
His condition has become serious enough to..."
He took a breath, and suddenly thought of the worst possibility: the emperor was seriously ill, and he might even be running out of time, but the news could only be grasped by Concubine Zheng.
If it were normal times, it would be of little use for her to have this information, because he had high pragmatism to control the running of the government. Even if the emperor died suddenly, he, as the chief minister, could lead the ministers to ask the prince to succeed him.
In this procedure, there was no place for Concubine Zheng to intervene, so she could only passively accept it all.
However, as luck would have it, Gao Pragmatic suddenly "fell ill." This meant that the civil and military officials were suddenly leaderless. If the emperor happened to die, there would be no one in the court who could lead the group in theory or in terms of procedures.
I respectfully request the crown prince to succeed you.
Of course, the doubts here are also obvious, because Gao Pragmatic, the first assistant, does not necessarily need to be present in person - three requests and three concessions, it will take several days to go back and forth, and only the last time on the list,
Gao pragmatism needs to lead all the officials to kneel down in Zhongji Hall - it means that the prince does not agree to succeed, then we will kneel and die here today!
In the first two rounds of petitions, Gao Pragmatic could either go in person or just express his opinion on the petition. That means that as long as he has not died of illness, he can have his subordinates write out the petition forms and take them out in his name.
Ask all officials to sign. After a few days, he will be well, or at least able to move, and the rest of the matter will fall into place.
In this process, Concubine Zheng has no room for maneuver. However, the premise here is that Concubine Zheng will wait for the court to go through the process.
So, what if Concubine Zheng, who was the only one who knew in advance that the emperor's condition had reached the point of "unbearable to speak", was not willing to wait for the court to go through the process?
Gao Pragmatic felt that the hairs on his back stood up for a moment.
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