Do you value the emperor's face very much? "
Zhuo Qun asked after hearing Zhu Biao's three words.
“For the emperor, face is very important, but also very unimportant.
Emperors who come out of troubled times don't have face. They are all domineering crabs. Face is earned by themselves, so they only care about practical benefits and do things regardless of face. Face is not important to them.
However, the same cannot be said for those emperors of later generations. They all inherited the throne and everything they do must be done with integrity. As an emperor, there is no stain at all. What they focus on is face, but Jin Yiwei is a person who will make these people If the successor emperor has stains, what will happen if an emperor has stains? "
Without waiting for Zhuo Qun's answer, Zhu Biao continued: "Just like Emperor Wen of Han and Emperor Jing of Han, their reputations and means are similar. Why is Emperor Wen's reputation so much better than his son's?"
Zhuo Qun didn't say anything. He knew that Zhu Biao was subconsciously starting to pour out his bitterness. Yes, none of the sons of the hero had bitterness. Anyway, he was about to die now, so let's pour it out together. Just to see what Zhu Biao was doing. Thought.
"Think about whatever the emperor of the Han Dynasty wanted to do, someone would always take the blame, and he never had to take the blame himself.
In order to kill Bo Zhao and weaken his relatives, Emperor Liu Heng of the Han Dynasty set up a mourning hall for him in the palace. You must know that Bo Zhao was his uncle. Speak ill of Liu Heng.
At that time, Chen Ping was the leader of the nobles and Zhou Bo had the merit of supporting him. How did Liu Heng treat him? Chen Ping was not in good health, so he gave him the most important job, Prime Minister Zuo, and exhausted him to death. The world Anyone who said anything wrong about him only said that he cared about his veterans and made good use of them.
Taiwei Zhou Bo was promoted to the right prime minister, and his military power was taken away. He was dismissed from his post and sent back to his fief for asking about state affairs. He was also accused of treason and humiliated in every possible way in prison before he was released. , who said something wrong with him, only that Zhou Bo had no power as prime minister?
Prime Minister Zhang Cang has been in office for too long and has too much power. What did he do? When Huanglong changed the Yuan Dynasty, he borrowed a small person to argue with Zhang Cang about the virtues of water and earth, and drove Zhang Cang back to his fiefdom. The prime minister who had been in power for nine years drove him away as soon as he said so. Who in the future emperors can do this?
As for my father, in order to get rid of Hu Weiyong and purge the noble forces in Huaixi, he personally went to work to orchestrate Hu Weiyong's rebellion. Isn't this just bringing trouble to himself? "
"You know, it's not that I don't agree with killing Hu Weiyong, but I can't let the emperor personally fight with Hu Weiyong. Isn't this telling the world that ministers can compete with the emperor? He is the master who controls the military power of the world. It doesn't matter. Yes, but the kings of later generations can produce several heroes. Once the emperor has a stain, his reputation in the world will be ruined, and this stain is the Jin Yiwei. You know, the Jin Yiwei is the stain on the emperor. I originally hoped that the Jin Yiwei would be You can become people like Zhi Du, Yizong, Zhang Tang, but I didn’t expect that starting from Mao Xiang, Jin Yiwei became Wang Wenshu, and then came people like Junchen. You must know that cool officials and cool officials are also different.”
"What I want is a legalist cruel official, not the kind of villain who only knows how to torture, torture, and falsely accuse!"
Zhu Biao said a long paragraph in one breath and felt a lot better. Zhu Yuanzhang at the door also heard these words. He just touched his beard and said nothing, did nothing, and did not let anyone in. , but drove those people aside.
"You didn't study Confucianism, why would you want a Legalist figure?"
Zhuo Qun asked.
"You know my favorite sentence in history books?"
Zhu Biao did not answer Zhuo Qun's question, but asked a question.
Everyone in Zhuo Qun was confused. I don’t know where to go. I don’t even know which book you are reading.
"The Han family has its own system, which is based on the overlord's way. How can it be purely based on moral education and use Zhou Zheng?"
Zhu Biao said directly without waiting for Zhuo Qun's answer, "I actually don't like Confucianism at all. My first teacher was Li Shanchang. At that time, I was still the crown prince of King Wu, not the prince. The first question he taught me was Confucianism." The difference with Legalism is not about benevolence and law, but that Confucianism requires the emperor to be what they need, while Legalism becomes what the emperor needs. What I like is the Legalism in the hands of the emperor of the Han Dynasty. It is the king's domineering way, and It’s not moral education!”
After Zhu Biao finished speaking, he leaned on the bed, breathing heavily.
"Li Shanchang? He seems to have studied Legalism, right?"
"Yes, Master Li is a Legalist, and he is a self-taught Legalist. He taught me Han Shu and learned things from the Han emperor since I was a child. When I became the prince, he helped me form the Sixth Army of the East Palace. Finally, he Seeing that my father didn't like the prime minister, he recommended Hu Weiyong to be the prime minister. Before he returned to his hometown, he said that Hu Weiyong was a greedy villain. He could form cliques for personal gain, accept bribes, and sell his official position. But as long as he got the certificate, he would be caught. At that time, three or five petty officials were enough.
The henchmen in his network are of no great use. They are all greedy villains. Once they get the evidence, they can handle it according to the law. It is easy to kill or exile them when they should, and it is impossible for the army to obey his orders. .
He knew that he would die for recommending Hu Weiyong, and he just asked me to keep his grandson. I agreed and did it. Li Fang was promoted to the commander of the Central Guard. Li Mao, from official to flag-bearer, Wei and Zhenfu, are all the emperor's personal followers. Originally, I was planning to reinstate them, but I didn't expect that I couldn't.
But the cruel thing is that idiot Mao Xiang actually used Hu Weiyong's incident to establish the authority of the Jin Yiwei. He has established authority and ruined the reputation of his father. It is really not a pity to die. And there is Jiang Gu, no matter what he does, he will In this case, Hu Weiyong pretended that what he did was not what a human minister should do. He actually wanted to frame me and sow discord between the father and son of the Tian family. He was really audacious. "
Zhu Biao said angrily.
"So you wrote a letter to abolish Jinyiwei?"
Zhuo Qun glanced outside the door and asked.
"Yes, Jinyiwei is just a towel for wiping your hands. It must be clean and there must not be a trace of dirt. Just like those court officials in the Han Dynasty, they had to stand upright, but they were all corrupt and tortured hundreds of officials. If the money they tortured went into the inner treasury, I wouldn't say anything. At most, I would just clean up the Fusi Yamen in Beizhen and give people an explanation, just like how the Han Dynasty dealt with the court officials.
However, all the money they looted was eaten by themselves, and a new painting in a tree house was left behind. This person must be Bei Zhen Fu. This is not Zhang Tang and Yi Zong who can deter lawless people in the world. They were ruthless officials, but bastards like Wang Wenshu and Lai Junchen who ruined the emperor's reputation and violated the law.
What I want is a legalist cool official, not an idiot like this who can’t get enough to eat. "
