The Han family has its own system, which is based on the overlord's way.
This sentence was said when the Hanzhong religion taught the prince, Emperor Xiaoyuan of the Han Dynasty.
Zhongzong of the Han Dynasty was the person who truly pushed the national power of the Western Han Dynasty to its peak, while Emperor Xiaoyuan of the Han Dynasty was the leader who brought the Western Han Dynasty into the abyss.
From the different actions of these two men in the history of the Han Dynasty, we can clearly know how correct what Han Zhongzong said is.
But even though this sentence is clearly recorded in history books, it has always been praised by some people as the best way to govern a country.
However, among the millions of people in the world, there will always be many people, like Emperor Xiaoyuan of the Han Dynasty, who believe that putting morality and education first is the best way to govern.
After all, this kind of governance is clearly recorded in Confucian classics. As long as you come from a famous family, you are easily affected by this concept of governance.
Just like Ma Su now.
But most of the ministers who followed Mi Yang had experienced severe beatings from society, and they knew that if they followed everything in the book, the country would definitely collapse.
In troubled times, the main theme is the inherent evil of human nature.
Compared with the complaints in the hearts of the ministers, after listening to Ma Su's advice, Mi Yang thought that it was him.
This is very Ma Su.
Ma Su was very controversial in later generations. Many people hated him for ruining the Prime Minister's Northern Expedition, but there were also many people who complained about him.
This controversy originated from the famous Battle of Jieting in history, and Mi Yang can also see Ma Su's two distinct personalities from that battle.
Many people in later generations believed that street pavilions were simply untenable places. In order to support this view, many people conducted on-site inspections of the imaginary street pavilions and analyzed them one by one.
Then it was concluded that Ma Di had suffered "an eternal injustice".
But this conclusion is fundamentally untenable.
Not to mention that the location of the street pavilion in history is controversial, nor to mention whether the local landscape will change after thousands of years of changes.
For example, Zhuge Liang, who was a great military figure in the world, and Zhuge Wuhou, one of the great sages of the martial arts temple in later generations, would he not know whether the street pavilion could withstand the attack of the Wei army?
How could Zhuge Liang, who has a cautious personality, let go of such a basic common sense mistake.
People with this view are simply insulting Zhuge Liang's intelligence.
Perhaps with Ma Su's military strength at that time, it would not be easy to hold the street pavilion for a long time.
But since Zhuge Liang would send Ma Di to lead the troops, he also specially arranged everything after arriving at the street pavilion before Ma Di left.
This is enough to show that it was absolutely fine for Ma Di to guard the street pavilion for a period of time.
Of course, the premise is that Ma Di does not disobey Zhuge Liang's orders.
After all, Zhuge Liang wanted to revive the Han Dynasty, but he didn't want Ma Di to die on purpose.
As a result, after Ma Di arrived at the street pavilion, he performed a series of coquettish actions that, not only Wang Ping could not understand, probably also confused Zhang He.
It is estimated that the mentality of Wang Ping and Zhang He at that time was similar to that of the ministers behind Mi Yang now.
The greatest weakness of Ma Su's character is his love of success and lack of contact with reality.
Not to mention that Ma Su was an excellent counselor and was not suitable for marching and fighting.
In today's world, civil and military affairs are not separated from each other. If you are divorced from reality, you will lose the foundation of being an excellent counselor.
After listening to Ma Su's advice, Mi Yang didn't know how to answer him for a while.
Fortunately, he is not Ma Su's lieutenant now.
Ma Su's advice sounds reasonable on the surface, but upon actual study, you will find that it is very vague, and most of it is copied from the book.
And it can be used as a template for snake oil to answer most questions.
Attacking the heart is the most important thing. Who doesn’t understand this principle after reading military books?
But you have to come up with specific countermeasures to the problem to achieve the effect of focusing on the mind.
Facing Ma Di's words, Mi Yang was silent for a long time.
Ma Su would say these words to him, and from the bottom of his heart, he was showing kindness to him.
"Good at discussing strategies" was Ma Su's distinctive style in history.
Because she knew Ma Su's true intentions and took Zhuge Liang's face into consideration, Mi Yang resisted the urge to scold Ma Su.
After silence, Mi Yang said to Ma Su:
"I was taught by Your Majesty in my early years and I know that there are six honest ministers in the world.
Among the six wise ministers, the one who clearly detects the success or failure, prevents it early and rescues it, blocks it, cuts off its source, uses the power of thunder to turn danger into blessing, and the king has no worries in the end, is a wise minister.
Although Gu did not dare to claim to be a wise minister of the Han Dynasty, he always used it to his advantage.
As for what Shangshu said about putting benevolence, righteousness and moral education first, this is not what a wise minister should do alone. "
Although Mi Yang did not directly refute Ma Su, anyone could feel the alienation and dissatisfaction in his words.
After Ma Su realized this, he felt slightly embarrassed.
The reason why he took the initiative to speak to Mi Yang was not only because of his personality, but also because Ma Su now understood Zhuge Liang's intention of letting him be on good terms with Mi Yang.
But I didn't expect that in addition to my active kindness, I would get this response.
Ma Su thinks he is right, why is Mi Yang like this?
Mi Yang's indifference to Ma Su was not just that.
Now that Ma Su's mission has been completed, Mi Yang doesn't want to have too much communication with Ma Su.
He coughed slightly, and Deng Ai, his confidant, immediately understood and stepped forward.
When Deng Ai came to Ma Su, he bowed and asked him to rest in the city posthouse.
Although Deng Ai was very polite, Ma Su also noticed that the emperors and ministers in Liangzhou did not welcome him.
He is also an arrogant person. Now that he is aware of this, he will not stay anymore.
Under Deng Ai's respectful farewell, he led his entourage and left the hall.
After Ma Su left, Mi Yang turned around helplessly and said to the courtiers behind him:
"In the past, I didn't notice any difference when Shilang Dong came. Now I have changed my horse to Shangshu, so I can know how good Shilang Dong is."
Hearing what Mi Yang said, all his close ministers couldn't help but smile.
Mi Yang did not directly evaluate Ma Su in his words, but his evaluation also implicitly expressed his views on Ma Su.
But Mi Yang is not a person who will be affected by personal emotions.
For Ma Su, Liu Beiming's "rebuking" edict to Mi Yang might just be a task for him.
But for Mi Yang, this incident is the most favorable guarantee for him to carry out drastic reforms in Liangzhou.
As Mi Yang said, wise ministers are good at turning misfortunes into blessings.
The previous turmoil in the camp was a disaster for him, but he used that incident to quell the chaos to establish strong authority in Nanzheng.
But despite this, he can't do whatever he wants in Nanzheng.
After all, he is Liu Bei's minister, and he cannot directly implement many reform matters without Liu Bei.
The power is in his hands, but the name is in Liu Bei's hands.
Any political reform without the support of the king will inevitably fail in the end.
Because of this, Mi Yang specially wrote to Liu Bei to inform him of taking over Wu Yi's military power.
It is true that he was fulfilling the duties of a courtier, but he was also implicitly testing Liu Bei's views on this matter.
If Liu Bei blames him for this matter, or writes a letter to him to be careful.
For the subsequent series of reforms, he had to go back to Chengdu in person and tell Liu Bei his political blueprint, hoping to get his support.
Mi Yang had expected that Liu Bei might support him, but he didn't expect that Liu Bei would support him so completely.
There is no need to report everything. Since Liu Bei has said so in front of the world, he will not be polite.
This is the benefit of working under Liu Bei, not only personal safety can be guaranteed.
And as long as you can gain Liu Bei's trust, the trust he will give you in return will definitely exceed ordinary people's imagination.
Mi Yang looked at Fa Miao behind him and asked him, the great steward of Liangzhou, "How is the issue of the reduction of the army being handled?"
This matter had already begun after Wei Yan took charge of the Nanzheng camp.
Although Wei Yan has a lot of shortcomings in his character, one good thing about him is that as long as you can convince him, he will obey orders on major matters.
The key to eliminating all the old and weak in the tens of thousands of troops is whether the generals at all levels will honestly report the status of the sergeants in each unit.
This may not have been easy to do before.
But under the threat of nearly a hundred people, Mi Yang now asked not only for the list of sergeants, but even for the list of family members of the entire army, those generals would definitely work very hard to complete this matter.
With the active cooperation of many parties, this matter went very quickly.
Faced with Mi Yang's inquiry, Fa Miao immediately replied: "In a few days, our army will be able to eliminate all the old and weak soldiers. At that time, I will compile a rough list and give it to the shepherd for inspection."
After hearing Fa Miao's answer, Mi Yang nodded.
Almost a month.
Fa Miao's work efficiency is definitely incomparable with that of later generations, but in the current world, it is already considered very fast.
But Mi Yang still said: "For the sake of the country, I want to eliminate the old and the weak.
It's just that those old and weak soldiers also fought hard for the Han Dynasty. After they are eliminated, corresponding compensation must be indispensable. "
After saying this, Mi Yang looked at Wang Hong aside.
Wang Hong is no longer the magistrate of Shangyong County, but the chief minister of Wencao who was just appointed by Mi Yang.
Since Si Wenchao is very similar to some intelligence and supervision agencies in later generations, as the head of such a vital agency, one does not need to have outstanding abilities, but one must be loyal enough to him.
Among Mi Yang's subordinates, Wang Hong is undoubtedly the most satisfied with this.
Mi Yang looked at Wang Hongyan and said, "It's up to you to assist Manjusri in this matter."
After hearing Mi Yang's order, Wang Hong respectfully accepted it.
Of course he knew why Mi Yang asked him to assist Fa Miao, and he also knew why Mi Yang asked him to assist Fa Miao.
Since the day Siwen Cao was founded, most of their assistance has been bloody.
After arranging this, Mi Yang turned to Fa Miao and said: "After you have completed the elimination of the old and the weak, you must immediately start to disorganize the armies and reorganize the camps."
When Mi Yang said these words, his tone showed caution.
Because everything he had done before, including releasing military power over a glass of wine and eliminating the old and weak in the army, were all for this step.
In ancient times, if you wanted to completely make an army obey your orders, it was useless to simply collect military symbols.
Not to mention anything else, Mi Yang can mobilize his direct army at will without the need of Hu Fu.
The Han Dynasty was an era when talented people emerged in large numbers. If Mi Yang could do this, it was possible for others to do it.
The best way to completely control an army is to replace most of the middle-level and grass-roots backbones in the army with his people, just like he did when he trained in the deep valley outside Shangyong City.
There are tens of thousands of Hanzhong troops, and at least thousands of middle-level and grassroots troops are needed.
Although Mi Yang's 10,000 direct descendants suffered heavy losses after the Battle of Xiangfan, a mere thousand of them could still be used.
In the context of the turmoil in the Nanzheng camp, Mi Yang had his direct line sergeants replace the original generals at all levels in the Hanzhong army, and he also had a good reputation.
After turmoil, there must be a blood change, which is normal in the army.
In addition, Mi Yang's direct army followed him in the north and south, and had numerous military exploits. It was reasonable to promote them to generals at all levels.
Because this matter was very important to Mi Yang, Mi Yang finally reminded Fa Miao:
“This matter is crucial to Liangzhou’s future.
You need to start arranging this matter as soon as possible, but there is no need to feel pressured and rushed in the process of handling this matter.
Everything should be done step by step. "
Mi Yang's warning also made Fa Miao look serious. He bowed to Mi Yang and said, "Don't worry, Uncle Shepherd, I will definitely be cautious."
Seeing that Fa Miao had listened to his warning, Mi Yang smiled slightly.
Although Fa Miao was not as brilliant a minister as Fazheng, he was also a minister.
For a Xunchen, what they are best at is implementing the instructions of their superiors and completing their tasks well.
After giving two important instructions, Mi Yang asked Fa Miao and other ministers to retreat first.
After Fa Miao and others left the hall one after another, Mi Yang came to sit in front of his memorial.
After sitting down, he subconsciously picked up the brush on the memorial and wanted to write something.
However, due to some concerns in his heart, he held the brush but never started writing.
Just when Mi Yang was anxious, Guan Yan came to the hall holding some fruit snacks.
After Guan Yan arrived, she saw Mi Yang being undecided. She couldn't help but be curious and asked Mi Yang why.
Seeing that it was Guan Yan asking him, Mi Yang expressed his inner concerns.
The reason why Mi Yang raised the brush was because he wanted to write a letter to Zhuge Liang.
He wanted to remind Zhuge Liang in the letter that Ma Su's words were exaggerated and should be used with caution.
Mi Yang had only one purpose in doing this, and that was that he didn't want Zhuge Liang to have the stain of Ma Di on his name forever, just like in history.
Those who respect the Master must regard his reputation as more important than their own.
But before Mi Yang started writing, he thought that Ma Di's status in Zhuge Liang's heart was not low now.
Historically, Liu Bei also asked Zhuge Liang to be careful about this, but Zhuge Liang did not listen.
So what effect can he have by writing this letter?
After understanding Mi Yang's concerns, Guan Yan said with a smile: "Respecting the teacher and respecting the teachings lies in the heart and more importantly in the conduct."
“The unity of mind and action is the best way to fulfill filial piety.
Since the husband has such concerns in his heart, as a disciple, the husband must inform the prime minister of his concerns. This is the husband's filial piety.
As for whether the prime minister will obey her husband, that is not something that the husband can control, and there is no need for the husband to hesitate because of this.
As long as the husband does what he should do. If the behavior of respecting teachers and respecting principles requires first considering whether it will succeed before deciding to do it, is this really respecting teachers and respecting principles? "
When Guan Yan's explanation fell into Mi Yang's ears, Mi Yang couldn't help laughing.
Seeing obstacles, but being limited by obstacles.
He is a time traveler and has some of the advantages of a prophet, but sometimes these advantages can make him confused.
As Guan Yan said, he does not have the ability to change Zhuge Liang's thoughts, but he should have the awareness to do his duty as a disciple.
After understanding this, Mi Yang immediately started writing.
I hope this letter can help Zhuge Liang in the future.
