Cui Shiniang looked at her cursing husband curiously. She had never seen Li Shan like this before. Mrs. Zhu, who was sitting in the chair, became impatient and scolded her with her eyebrows raised: "You can't speak when you eat, and you can't sleep when you sleep." language."
Li Shan was very angry today, and reflexively retorted: "Sleeping silently... the ancient sages may not be able to do that. Who knows if they can talk in their sleep?!"
"Even if we eat without talking, our family doesn't..."
At this point, seeing his mother put down the chopsticks, Li Shan changed the topic and said, "What mother said is, kid, shut up."
Cui Shiniang looked at her cowarded husband speechlessly. He was really a man who only cared about food but not fights... She had long understood that there were only two people who could control Li Shan. One was Princess Pingyang, who was in charge of important matters, and the other One is Ajia who takes care of trivial matters.
He stopped talking, but Li Shan was furious in his heart. Since you, Li Yuan, are so shameless, don't blame me, a time traveler, for making you suffer!
No matter what King Qi, Feng Lun, and Yang Wenqian want to do... Li Shan is very sure that their target is either Li Shimin or Li Yuan.
Considering that Pei Shiju didn't know about it, King Qi's first target was probably Li Yuan instead of Li Shimin. Otherwise, even if Li Shimin was successfully killed, would Li Yuan abandon the unfilial but at least capable prince and choose the stupid and vicious prince? King Qi?
At that time, Li Jiancheng could only reap the benefits... Since Feng Lun dared to conspire with King Qi, he would not be stupid enough to do such a thing.
Li Shan put down his bowl and chopsticks and couldn't help but think about it. Li Yuan, you were unkind, so don't blame me.
Leaving Cui Shiniang to talk to her mother, Li Shan got up and went to the front yard. Ling Jing and Su Dingfang had already arrived. As soon as they sat down, Ling Jing reminded Li Shan in a very calm tone... Today, all government offices in the imperial city have already arrived. There was some gossip that Li Huairen, the heir to the Wei Dynasty, liked martial arts and disliked writing.
Li Shan couldn't help but curse, but Ling Jing cast a warning look... Then he remembered that Ling Jing, Fang Xuanling and Wei Zheng were on the same side in this regard.
In fact, the key is not that rumors and rumors accuse me of liking martial arts and hating literature. The key is that once I include civil servants on the list... it is equivalent to confirming the separation of civil and military affairs to a certain extent.
Ling Jing said with a straight face: "Your Highness came here with a message, don't act rashly."
"Um."
Seeing Li Shan's absent-minded look, Ling Jing emphasized his tone and said, "This matter may seem simple, but it is actually very important. You cannot handle it casually."
Li Shan raised his head and glanced at Ling Jing this time. He knew the importance of this matter and its impact on the future better than anyone in this era. Quite a few of them, even outstanding figures like Li Yuan, Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui, Unexpected, unguessable... because this is the insight that a time traveler can only have by looking at history.
Su Dingfang was not very good at this. He just watched today's apprenticeship ceremony and said hesitantly: "Pei Ji once had a great defeat in Hedong. If he is on the list, what's the point of Lingyan Pavilion?"
Li Shan sneered, "Although Pei Ji single-handedly ruined the Hedong War, he is second only to King Qin in the list of Taiyuan Yuanmou's heroes, and he has been friends with His Majesty for decades."
Ling Jing saw Li Shan's gloomy expression and couldn't help but feel worried, "Does Huairen have a plan?"
"The mountain people have their own clever plans." Li Shan grinned, "Since your majesty...then the ministers can only mess around."
"What are you going to do?"
"Do not worry."
"Has the list been drawn up?"
Li Shan touched his short beard and said, "No, let's wait until tomorrow morning."
Ling Jing frowned, "Master Lu is just joking, Huairen can't do it rashly."
In fact, the list that Cheng Yaojin drew up for Li Shan was really an idea, but the sequelae were a little bit serious... No matter how considerate Li Yuan was of Li Shan, he would act calmly on the surface, but he would not be afraid of it secretly.
Even if Li Yuan only accepted Li Shan, Su Dingfang, Xue Wanche, Li Daoxuan, Zhang Zhongjian and other generals, after Li Shimin ascends the throne in the future, unless Li Shan really becomes a rich man, Li Shimin will not be afraid of him.
Li Shan would not do such stupid things. He shook his head slightly and changed the subject. After chatting for a few words, he sent Su Dingfang and Ling Jing away, and paced back and forth in the study alone for a long time.
He thought a lot and felt that at certain moments in history, the responsibility would always be placed on a certain person... and that person would always have reasons and reasons for having to do what he did.
Li Shan thought with some sadness in his heart. Historically, it was not until the Northern Song Dynasty that there was a clear distinction between civil and military officials. The trigger was the harm caused to the world by the unchecked proliferation of force during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
What Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin did was actually to stabilize the imperial power to a large extent... His predecessors were all military generals who came to power through rebellion and coup, and even he himself robbed the world of orphans and widowed mothers.
That's why Zhao Kuangyin first played "release military power over a glass of wine" with those old brothers, and then spared no effort to suppress the status of generals. His successors also followed this path, and as for the civil servants... they were even more delighted.
So that decades later, Han Qi beheaded Di Qing's generals and said in a mocking tone the saying that has been passed down for thousands of years, "A good man can only be called a man by wearing a hairpin outside the Donghua Gate."
It seems that the cruelty of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms and Zhao Kuangyin's personal choices led to the separation of civil and military affairs, but the real essential reason lies in the centralization of power with the development of the times.
The more critical point is that the separation of civil and military forces is not terrible, but the subsequent control of civil and military forces is impossible to avoid... This is also caused by the inevitability of centralization of power.
In the middle and late period of the Tang Dynasty, there were actually signs of this. Those powerful prime ministers and assistants basically had no military merit... such as Yang Su, He Ruobi, Gao Jiong in the Sui Dynasty, and Li Jing and Li Ji in the early Tang Dynasty. There are basically no famous ministers who have served as generals or prime ministers. Guo Ziyi can be compared with him, and that is thanks to the Anshi Rebellion.
As for the two Song Dynasties and Ming Dynasty, the civil servants completely suppressed the generals in terms of status and authority. Di Qing was considered good. At least he was well-behaved. The worst was Yue Fei.
The key to Yue Fei's death was not that he wanted to go straight to Huanglong to welcome back the second emperor. Even if Song Huizong and Song Qinzong really came back, what qualifications and confidence would they have to fight for power with Song Gaozong, who had personally created the Jingkang disaster?
The key is that Yue Fei had become an invisible warlord at that time. In fact, Yue Fei's reputation was due to his battles behind enemy lines, the sources of soldiers, and the supply of food and grass...the court could not control these at all, and even every attack or defense was controlled by Yue Fei did his own thing.
In the subsequent four Northern Expeditions, Yue Fei has always acted independently. He recovered Jiankang, advanced into the Central Plains, harvested all the grain and grass, and recruited Han people from the north to form Wanqi... In other words, it is not important whether Yue Fei will rebel. What is important is Yue Fei rebelled, and the Southern Song Dynasty court had no strategy to deal with it.
In a word, the imperial power and the prime minister were wary of Yue Fei's possible independence, which led to the Fengbo Pavilion tragedy... and Yue Fei was the only one among the generals of the Southern Song Dynasty who was not a general of the Western Army.
Li Shan couldn't help but smile bitterly. Should the separation of civil and military forces in this time and space begin with the list of heroes of Lingyan Pavilion that he created?
If the twenty-eight generals who proposed imitation Yuntai on that day were not within the range of leading generals, the influence might not be so great, but it is hard to say now.
If it hadn't been for the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, if it hadn't been for Zhao Kuangyin, the status of generals in later generations might not have been so low. If it could be done in a peaceful way, history might have been changed.
But the problem is, Li Shan doesn't want to take the blame, at least not now.
