Cao Mao's feelings for Wang Jing are somewhat complicated.
At the end of the week, Cao Mao couldn't bear it and decided to lead the charge and kill Sima Zhao.
He summoned three ministers to plot the matter. Only Wang Jing did not betray him and persuaded him to be patient, but Cao Mao did not listen.
Wang Jingming knew that the other two men would betray the emperor, but he did not follow them to inform.
Finally he was killed by Sima Zhao.
Protected his own morality with his life.
Therefore, this time, Cao Mao will listen to him.
In Cao Mao's eyes, this man, like Guan Qiu Jian, was a trustworthy and loyal minister. He was single-handedly promoted by the Sima family. At that time, Sima Zhao was so powerful that no one could rule him, and all the ministers had surrendered.
The other two sages from wealthy families trembled and asked Wang Jing to report to them together, but Wang Jing refused them without hesitation.
Faced with this situation, Wang Jing still chose to die with the emperor.
Finally, when Sima Yan came to power, Sima Yan talked about Wang Jing and said that he was a rare loyal minister, so he pardoned his crimes and called his grandson to be a doctor to accompany him.
"My lord, how do you think we should plan this matter?"
Cao Mao asked.
Wang Jing frowned at this moment and said seriously: "Your Majesty, although the ministers in the court are fighting, if your Majesty takes action against them, they will definitely unite."
"Previously, when we were at the Chancellor's Desk, the ministers discussed many times how to deal with His Majesty."
"Sima Fu said that he would replace the people around you, send you to the Xuanwu Pavilion, and imprison you without any contact with the outside world."
"You now have the protection general to help you, so they don't dare to act rashly."
"They did not dare to replace the generals, so they sent people to replace the generals under their command. Those incompetent people who fled from the army were placed among the palace guards by the ministers, in an attempt to use them to evade the generals."
"Once the ministers feel that they are enough to compete with the guarding general, they will immediately take action and imprison His Majesty. I am afraid that His Majesty will have difficulty in communicating with the outside world."
"Your Majesty can join forces with General Wei. General Wei is not willing to see the ministers controlling the government. If he is watching, the ministers will not dare to treat Your Majesty like this."
"Once Your Majesty is unable to communicate with the outside world, the Queen Mother's character will definitely turn to the ministers. With the Queen Mother in hand, the ministers can directly skip General Wei to govern the world, and even remove him again."
"General Wei thinks he has an army at his disposal, but the maintenance of the army requires the help of temples."
"Besides, if the Queen Mother's edict is passed on to the army by the ministers, the generals may not obey General Wei's orders."
Wang Jing analyzed the current situation.
Cao Mao nodded, "What you said makes sense."
"When General Wei comes back, I will have a good talk with him about this matter."
Wang Jing sighed and said helplessly: "Your Majesty, if you want to accomplish such a big thing, you must not be in a hurry. Your Majesty is still young. When your Majesty reaches the age of taking charge, many things will become much easier."
Cao Mao also knew that Wang Jing was right, but the problem was that the ministers had to let themselves grow up to that point, right?
Judging from the current style of the wealthy family, I'm afraid that if I can't survive that time, I will either be dismissed or have an accident.
Originally there was only one powerful minister, but now he is the powerful minister of the Manchu Dynasty.
However, Cao Mao did not tell Wang Jingming many of his thoughts. This was not because he could not trust the other party, but mainly because he was afraid that the other party would not understand what he meant yet.
The chaos in Shangshutai has spread to the entire Luoyang.
Taixue became a mess.
Hundreds of people gathered at the gate of Taixue, divided into two groups, and yelled at each other.
"Unfilial! Extremely unfilial! Since ancient times, I have never heard that juniors can insult adults!"
"Treasonous!"
"Disobedient villain!"
Some of the imperial students' faces turned red and they shouted insults at the surrounding imperial students.
The impact of the East Hall Banquet is still fermenting, and the first one to be affected is Taixue. Ever since the emperor personally commented on the two members of the Xun family, and since Sima Yan righteously killed his relatives and blocked the door of the Taifu and cursed, the entire Luoyang The atmosphere became weird.
In line with the principle that wealth should not flow to outsiders, many young scholars began to enhance the reputation of their elders.
Of course, there are also some who overturned things. For example, Gao Rou's grandson Gao Tao was hung up and beaten by Gao Rou because he scolded her face to face. After the beating, he was thrown into the Chinese army to be trained, or he was sent directly to Malong's camp. , threatening to break his legs if he dared to run!
But most people still succeed, and there is also the connivance of their elders.
After all, the world is different now. You need fame to climb up. Now that you have reached this position, you will not fall down even if you are scolded a few times. Why not do it to help your juniors give a mention so that they can make progress in the future? ?
The high-pressure policy that had lasted for many years was suddenly loosened, and the scholars suddenly became excited.
When Sima Shi was in power, scholars were not allowed to talk about state affairs. Even after Cao Mao wrote "The Empty City Bird", he directly ordered the scholars not to talk about the poem, and those who talked about it would be punished.
But now, no one cares about what they will say. The emperor personally asks them to speak out and remonstrate.
In the eyes of the ministers, this is not actually a bad thing. After all, the original high-pressure policy was not only targeted at those young scholars, but ministers like them were also persecuted by this policy.
The ministers are no different from the young scholars. They are all scholar-bureaucrats, and Cao Mao wants to untie the shackles of the scholar-bureaucrats. This is not a big problem for the ministers.
It may be somewhat detrimental to their current rule, but it is not fatal.
No matter how much trouble he makes, he is still his junior after all.
And this kind of heavy blow to the elders is even a good thing in the eyes of some officials. Did you personally ask us to write a letter to advise you?
Since our juniors can directly advise us, then naturally we can also directly advise the emperor.
This is handing the sharp blade to us proactively.
Perhaps because they had been silent for too long, when the scholars began to speak, the whole of Luoyang became extremely lively.
There are also many factions within Taixue.
Nowadays, the traditionalists are the ones criticizing everyone. They still admire the Han Dynasty's moral governance model and attach great importance to etiquette.
Even when Sima Shi was in power, their status was very high. After all, ruling the world still requires the assistance of etiquette.
He was a representative figure of this kind of celebrity, and he strictly abided by the etiquette and laws. To what extent did he observe the etiquette and laws?
According to etiquette, he met his wife three times a year. When he went to see her, he always dressed neatly and treated her like a guest. While he was facing south, her wife had to go north to serve wine before doing anything else.
After Ruan Ji's mother passed away, Ruan Ji did not abide by the etiquette and laws, ate and drank too much, and did not take this matter seriously. He was extremely angry and asked Sima Zhao to exile this person. He believed that Ruan Ji "polluted China" and destroyed China. moral society.
If you observe carefully, you will find that those who support etiquette and law are those who hold high positions and are deeply trusted by the Sima family, while those who are unruly and despise etiquette and law are mostly rebellious.
They use this to vent their dissatisfaction.
For Cao Mao, both factions have their own advantages and disadvantages.
Needless to say, the etiquette school is the foundation of ruling the world. The emperor's power of rule is strengthened by etiquette. If there is no etiquette, there is no need to respect yourself as an emperor, so why should you respect your emperor? The result after the demise of the Lifa sect is "The emperor will do it to those who have strong soldiers and horses!"
Then there will be situations like "beating the emperor with three punches" and "dog-footed me".
The disadvantages are also obvious. They will defend whoever is in power.
As for those metaphysical schools, they despised etiquette and law, and some even abandoned Confucianism and began to rediscover the disappeared Huang-Lao school and Taoist school.
The advantage is that they are not restricted by etiquette and law, they break through ideological restrictions and dare to tell the truth.
At this moment, there are so many factions of various schools in Taixue. Because of the banquet in the East Hall and the loss of powerful suppression, many parties directly went to war.
Faced with the crusade of these etiquette sects, the metaphysics sect did not give in at all.
"Is it filial piety to just watch your master make a mistake without stopping him?"
"This is the greatest disrespect!"
"You use etiquette as an excuse and ignore the justice of the world. How can you talk about morality?!"
The verbal conflict between the two parties soon escalated to a physical conflict.
Fortunately, the government intervened in time to stop their vicious fight and prevent the conflict from escalating again.
Zhong Yu was sitting in Tingwei's mansion and felt very headache when he saw the many scholars who were sent in.
What to do with these people?
They are all guys from rich families. If we deal with them all, something will happen.
Zhong Yu first looked at the Lifa Sect. If these people hadn't blocked the door and cursed, would such a conflict have been caused?
It seems that their leader must be severely punished, otherwise they will become even more lawless.
"Who's taking the lead?"
Zhong Yu asked.
The scholars immediately looked at the leader.
It was a young scholar with a bruised nose and swollen face, and he hurriedly saluted Zhong Yu.
"He Shao pays homage to Duke Zhong."
Zhong Yu fell silent and looked at the metaphysics sect again. Although the etiquette and law sect took action first, it was still because these metaphysics sects started to cause trouble first.
It seems that we have to start from them.
"What about you?! Who took the lead in causing trouble?!"
Zhong Yu's face became more serious and he asked loudly.
Everyone's eyes were fixed on the young man at the front, who slowly walked out and bowed to Zhong Yuxing.
"Pei Kai meets Duke Zhong!"
Zhong Yu said with a straight face, "Pull these two people out and lock them up."
The petty officials on the side were shocked. One was the son of General Zhengbei and the other was the son of Jizhou Governor. How dare they arrest them.
"Do it quickly!"
"only!!"
Immediately there were soldiers pushing the two people away from here.
Zhong Yu had a dark face and couldn't help but curse at his brother!
Look at what you've caused me, can't you calm down a little bit? !
