Xiang Ying was stunned. He didn't expect that little kid's future to be so gloomy. Everyone said that the emperor was good, but when the prime minister really laid out the bloody events that the emperor had to face one by one, After that.
Only then did people truly realize why kings had so many violent deaths since ancient times, and why the emperors were the most ruthless!
This kind of environment simply doesn’t allow good people to live! If people don't look for trouble, they will look for you. If you don't provoke others, they will provoke you. In the machine of power struggle, no piece of flesh can remain intact.
"Prince Gong Yi? Want to rebel? Why? If he wanted to rebel, why didn't he rebel during Xinyou's coup? Why rebel now?"
"It seems that I really want to teach you some basic imperial skills! You are too deceived by appearances..." Xiao Letian lit a cigarette and handed it to Xiang Ying.
"If you want to get rid of the confusion in your mind, you must understand what power is and what status is! These two things are unified sometimes, but more often they are scattered!"
"The person with the greatest status may not necessarily have the greatest power. It's like Cao Cao was just the prime minister, but he had more power than the emperor. Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, as the emperor, was unable to affect the political situation at all..."
"Why didn't Cao Cao usurp the throne until his death? This is his brilliance. He seeks truth instead of vanity. This is a truly smart man. The power of the entire country has been concentrated in his own hands. Why would he seek that false reputation? What for? There’s no need…”
"In the history of mankind, there are only one or two people in each dynasty who can concentrate their status and power in their own hands. In fact, most of the remaining emperors are decentralized, or even seriously neglected. state!"
"For example, in the Tang Dynasty, the only emperors who could truly combine power and status were Li Shimin and Li Longji. Most of the other emperors had to divide their power and rule the world with other political groups. In the late Tang Dynasty, The emperors are even worse, and even the eunuchs can ignore them..."
"Looking back at the Qing Dynasty, the three dynasties of Kangxi, Yongzong and Qianlong were the most concentrated period of power. However, absolute concentration was not achieved. The Eight Banners political system was like a ghost wandering in the sky of this regime. From time to time, a wave of power would brew. Counterattack..."
"After Qianlong's death, the emperor's authority gradually weakened, and local forces began to rise. Until the rise of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, a new power group emerged directly, that is, the local governors!"
"Nowadays, the local governors of the Qing Dynasty can be said to be uncrowned kings. I can predict that until the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the central court will not dare to kill a governor. Why? Because the power has been divided, and they want to take it back. impossible!"
"Zaichun can't understand this truth, or he pretends to be confused because he understands. His emotions are forcing him not to admit it! Zaichun will definitely take back power after he comes to power, because without taking back power, deep reforms cannot be carried out. !”
"But is power really so easy to take away? It's not easy to take away... Why didn't Yi Yi rebel during the reign of Xin You? Because there was no need. He had already obtained a big piece of the political cake through the coup, and he knew very well that Zai Chun This emperor will be ignored for the rest of his life, Emperor Tongzhi is actually a puppet!"
"For the sake of the false reputation of an emperor, he offends the whole world? Yi? He is not that stupid. Why would he not do such a stupid thing? Those who take away power do not want to have a wise king, holy lord, and strong emperor. It’s in their best interest to have a puppet come to power!”
"Be pragmatic and not pragmatic! These old fritters are well versed in the three flavors of politics!"
Hiss... Xiang Ying took a deep breath from the cigarette, letting the spicy smoke linger in his chest. "No wonder! Now that Zai Chun is acting more and more aggressively, Yi? and others are becoming more and more uneasy! I originally thought it was a Children are easy to control, but no one expected that Master, you would actually bring Zai Chun out..."
"You gave the little emperor a heart, a powerful ambition with a 100,000-horsepower steam engine, so those people were afraid! They found that the plan had deviated from their own track, so they had to take precautions and kill the king! "
"That's right! It's not just Yi? who wants to kill the emperor. In fact, it is a very huge force, a force that has spent decades stripping power away from the emperor..."
"The concentration of power in the Kangxi, Yongzong and Qianlong dynasties was so great. At that time, the emperor could really decide everyone's life or death with just one word. Even the prince did not have the power to pardon, and he would kill him if he asked! Not to mention the governors of those places..."
"And now? The local governors have money and soldiers in their hands. Gradually, they are raising mountains one by one, but the court dare not kill anyone! This kind of court is the court that the ministers like. Who do you think is willing to live in it? What about those precarious days?"
"You will be beheaded if you embezzle hundreds of thousands of taels of silver? A few unintentional disrespectful words while drunk can lead to a big prison! Who wants to live in that kind of life with death?"
"So, in the hearts of the entire bureaucracy, a weak emperor is in their interests!"
"Zaichun was only 5 years old when he ascended the throne. What can such a young child do? According to tradition, the emperor gets married at the age of 16. After that, even if he rules personally, he is just a child and can be controlled... Who is really a threat to these ministers? The age should be over 20 years old..."
"But at that time, Yi? and others had been working hard for 15 years. The power they had built up in 15 years was already so big that no one could touch it!"
"Hey... there are only two paths for Zai Chun's future destiny. One is to be a puppet until death! The other is to rise up and resist and let that huge force secretly kill him! This poor child! He can't escape this Fateful!"
The topic fell silent for a while. Xiang Ying thought about the miserable life of that brat in the future, and couldn't help but feel a little less disgusted. Most people are like this. When he sees that the other person is miserable, or is about to become miserable, Compassion will replace hatred.
Now there is only a faint red line left in the western sky. On the sea at the entrance of the strait, the Russian prisoners have basically been loaded onto ships and are being transferred to Tokunoshima ship by ship.
On the farther Amami Island, the light of the torch drew a long line in the mountains. It was the army led by Luo Huo that was besieging the enemy. The long line of fire was what the army's front line looked like.
The top of Tangwan Mountain was brightly lit, and the Chinese army's blockade halfway up the mountain was gradually closing, and the beast was already locked in a cage.
"Because Zai Chun is miserable! So master, do you want to help him? Help him get through this crisis and bring a strong monarch to the Qing Dynasty? Is this what you want?"
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