Liu Bei didn't find it strange that Cao Cao asked this question.
The other four people obviously also wanted to know the answer.
Because this is related to their vital interests, wealth and lives, as a community of interests, they have their own personal will, but under the principle that the butt determines the head, Liu Bei's goal is their goal, and it must be their goal.
Liu Bei paced slowly under the gaze of the five people.
One step, two steps, three steps.
"The late Emperor was kind to me and trusted me very much. I didn't want to live up to the late Emperor's expectations. So, originally, I really didn't have this plan. I thought I would continue in the name of the general."
Don’t have this plan?
The five people had some strange emotions in their hearts.
Gai Xun and Yan Wen looked at each other.
Zhen Yan was even a little anxious and wanted to say something.
But soon, Zhen Yan noticed something wrong with Liu Bei's words.
original?
No idea originally?
what about now?
Liu Bei had no such plan originally, that is to say...
Cao Cao felt something was wrong and his heartbeat began to accelerate.
Han Rong seemed to realize something. He swallowed and looked at his good son-in-law, who was as supreme as the world's best.
"Xuande, you...you didn't have such an idea originally? Then...what about now?"
"My father-in-law, I won't lie about this kind of issue. I really didn't think about it this way originally. After all, my power is not much different from that of the emperor. Many emperors don't even have the same power as me.
From the current point of view, it is obviously not necessary. The emperor is still young and will not be able to take charge of the government personally. The emperor and the queen mother also trust me that I can control the actual imperial power as a minister. This is enough for me to do many things, but The question is, what happens when the emperor grows up? "
Liu Bei looked at the faces of the five people and said slowly: "The emperor will be thirteen years old this year. At the latest, I will return to power when the emperor is twenty years old, that is, in the twelfth year of Jian'an, I will Return power to the emperor.
To be honest, if I don't want to do anything and don't want to change, it doesn't matter if I return to power now. Anyway, I have done a lot of things now, but I just feel that I haven't done what I should do. "
"Is it Du Tian?"
Cao Cao asked: "The real big thing, Xuande, is to conquer the fields, right?"
"Meng De knows my heart well."
Liu Bei smiled and said: "Conquering the fields is a big thing. It takes a long time. It offends a lot of people, fights a lot of battles, brings a bad reputation, and kills a lot of people. One by one, as a general. If you try to do this with your own identity, you can certainly succeed, but it’s hard to say in the future.
I don't think about other people, I also think about my sons, daughters, wives and concubines. They are safe when I am alive, but what happens after I die? Even if I don't consider them, all the changes I have completed now, I can't guarantee that I can continue to implement them after I die.
If I am just a general, after I die, it will be very easy for the policies I pursue to be changed, but if I are the emperor and want to change everything, it will not be so easy and may last for a long time. Some, I think about it this way.
However, even if we don’t talk about these, I still have some considerations for you. As I said before, I have too much power. When the power is transferred, it is difficult to say that it will be smooth. Moreover, the person you are working for is me, not today. Emperor, it’s hard to say whether the Emperor will do anything to you when he grows up.
I think that to this day, I am already riding a tiger and cannot extricate myself. Even if I personally want to extricate myself, you may not agree to let me extricate myself. If I am gone, who can guarantee that you and your family will continue to live safely? ? "
In the first few sentences, the five people just sighed, but the last sentence really brought out the biggest worry in their hearts.
Yes, judging from the current situation, they are not essentially ministers of the Han Empire, but ministers of Liu Bei, and Liu Bei is the minister of the Han Empire.
Without the care of Liu Bei's power, if Liu Bei gives up power and chooses to return to politics, then in the post-Liu Bei era, how long can they exist, how long can they maintain their power and status, and whether they can even guarantee their own wealth and life, that is all a question.
As the saying goes, one emperor has one courtier, and it is not uncommon for the old emperor's old ministers to become a thorn in the side of the new emperor. There are also many old ministers who have been killed. Can Liu Bei's people still successfully grasp power and maintain their status during Liu Xie's reign?
It's very difficult and very unlikely.
They don't dare to gamble.
They must admit that if such a problem was just a vague and vague worry in their hearts before, then now, this worry has clearly existed.
They worry that they will be purged, optimized, and disappeared in the post-Liu Bei era.
Does Liu Association trust them?
Will they be willing to continue to appoint them as officials and hold power?
If not, will they be eradicated?
How dangerous it is to leave one's fate in the hands of an emperor who is completely unfamiliar and cannot trust his character. They all now feel it very deeply.
So, they are anxious.
Looking at their silence, Liu Bei also sighed slowly.
In fact, he has been paying attention to the actions of Zheng Tai and others.
Before they took action, Liu Hui and Zhang Rang both sent Liu Bei an early warning, hoping that Liu Bei would take action, but Liu Bei told them to stand still.
He wanted to see how stupid things Zheng Tai, Jia Xi and others could do for their own selfish purposes.
But it turns out that he underestimated the stupidity of Zheng Tai, Jia Xi and others.
He thought that these people still had some basic sense and would not do irreparable stupid things, but he guessed wrongly that the IQs of Zheng Tai and others had been completely crushed by anxiety.
If they did not do such a thing, relying on the rapid development period of the Han Empire to return to the upward channel, the anxiety of his subordinates would still be alleviated for three to five years.
He can still serve as a pure minister and general for three to five years, and there may be other opportunities in the future.
Although the possibility is very small.
But Zheng Tai has now dropped this tactical nuclear bomb against himself.
Does he think he will be the most seriously injured after the tactical nuclear bomb explodes?
Maybe it was three years ago, so Liu Bei took decisive measures at that time and launched a comprehensive confrontation against the Jinwen School, eliminating the influence of the wave of negative public opinion at that time by eliminating the Jinwen School.
Now that he has achieved the magic power and is indestructible, the one who will be most harmed after the explosion of the tactical nuclear bomb can only be the little emperor Liu Xie.
Now, the group of people who hold the most power inside and outside the court are all his own people, and they are all people he has arranged to be closely related to him. And everything he does now has completely affected the lives and deaths of these people. Honor and disgrace are only related to him.
After the six-ministry system of the General's Office was established, all this could no longer be reversed. He alone was responsible for the direct fate of more than one-third of the officials in the entire Han Empire, and more than two-thirds of the core power circle of the entire Han Empire. man's fate.
Most of the people who hold the highest power were directly promoted by Liu Bei.
They are all ministers of Liu Bei, not Liu Xie. Once the emperor and his ministers, how will Liu Xie treat them after he takes charge?
The most serious problem is not the court officials, but the army.
The army was pulled up and trained by Liu Bei!
This is the true destiny of the Han Empire.
They were all trained by Liu Bei, brought out by Liu Bei, and it was Liu Bei who injected the military spirit into them. Deep in their souls, they all look like Liu Bei and are inseparable from Liu Bei. Once Liu Bei loses power, they will also lose their allegiance. , loses restraint.
This close connection is destined to make this army impossible to be accepted by people who are not direct descendants of Liu Bei.
Can Liu Xie trust them and use them to protect himself and the Han Empire?
Once Liu Bei gives up power and Liu Xie takes charge, the biggest challenge he will face is definitely not the problem of governing the country, but the entire administrative, judicial and military systems built by Liu Bei. The entire ruling group of the Han Empire is himself. huge challenge.
In fact, all this has been irreversible since Liu Bei established his army and took control of the central government. It became even more irreversible when the Modern Literature School was destroyed and the Ancient Literature School fully came to power.
Liu Bei has always known about it, but he has never paid attention to this matter, or such a thing is not within the scope of his consideration at all.
Does it matter who becomes the emperor?
It's not important. What's important is that the results of this career can last longer.
As Liu Bei expected, without Zheng Tai's action, the peaceful and stable situation could have been maintained for a while. But Zheng Tai did this stupid thing, so what happened next was beyond Liu Bei's control.
People's hearts are the most unpredictable. For the sake of their own safety, people will do their best, and as a top-level existence, Liu Bei cannot be the shopkeeper who simply and completely hands off the situation.
Even if he is willing, the people who have gained status through his power will not agree. With the greatest power, they are invisibly trapped by the heaviest shackles.
Liu Xuande had no choice.
(End of chapter)
