Wang Xian stopped here. He couldn't finish everything by himself, and he had to leave some words for Sheng Yong and Ma Wensheng.
It's a bit difficult when we get to Sheng Yong.
Sheng Yong is thirty-four years old this year, exactly twice as old as Wang Xian. His talent and thinking are not as sharp as Wang Xian's, and he is quite nervous when meeting the king for the first time.
The reason why Zhu Qiyu ranked Sheng Yong so high is because among this generation of Jinshi, Sheng Yong was the most firm advocate of frivolous corvee and low taxes and consideration for the people.
Zhu Qiyu needs a group of people who are sincerely willing to follow him to engage in light corvee and low wealth.
After Sheng Yong thought for a moment, he chose a different idea: "Wei Chen believes that Emperor Xiaowen loves his youngest son, Prince Liang, the most. Promoting Jia Yi to Prince Liang's Tutor and responsible for teaching Prince Liang is definitely an important move.
It's just that Wei Chen thought that most of the emperors of the Han Dynasty had the idea of changing the prince. Emperor Xiaowen promoted Jia Yi to Prince Liang's Tutor, which probably meant paving the way for Prince Liang.
It's just that King Liang fell from his horse and died, which was too unexpected.
Jia Yi felt sad and guilty, and soon died of illness. It's not like what people in the world say, Jia Yi died of depression because he was not recognized for his talent. "
Zhu Qiyu nodded, and this made sense. It seemed that both Wang Xian and Sheng Yong had read history books carefully.
Zhu Qiyu continued to ask: "Then what do you think about changing the crown prince? Should we establish a direct heir or a virtuous one?"
Sheng Yong replied: "It is necessary to establish a direct descendant."
Zhu Qiyu refused to give up and continued to ask: "Mr. Empress Dowager Sun respectfully surrenders to the emperor, and then deposes my mother and establishes herself. She ascends the throne, corrects the chaos, and restores the title of empress to my mother."
My mother-in-law adopted me to my mother-in-law to continue my legacy.
Then my eldest brother and I respectfully abdicate as emperor, who is the legitimate heir and who is the virtuous one? "
When Sheng Yong heard this, he wished he could slap himself in the face, and brought up the dispute between changing the crown prince and the legitimate virtuous man. Isn't this asking the king to put himself in a urn and tie himself up in a cocoon?
If you don't answer well in one sentence, your future will be ruined.
This will test the knowledge and insights of the three people, as well as their understanding and judgment of the court situation after spending many days in Beijing.
Sheng Yong did not come from a family of officials, so no one could help him. Now he had to rely entirely on himself.
After thinking for a while, Sheng Yong gritted his teeth and replied bravely: "According to the etiquette of the saints, the distinction between direct concubine and concubine is based on the adopted mother.
Empress Zhen is the legitimate queen, and the Holy Emperor is Empress Zhen's legitimate son.
Naturally, the Holy Emperor is regarded as the eldest son, and the emperor is regarded as the eldest son of the concubine.
The emperor Gong Rang was guilty of the country's defeat in Tumu's defeat; the saint turned the tide and revitalized the government, so it was natural that the saint was a virtuous person.
Since the Holy Emperor is a direct descendant and a virtuous person, he should continue his lineage and have descendants, which will never be easy for eternity. "
Zhu Qiyu nodded with satisfaction, then looked at Wang Xian and Ma Wensheng: "Do you two have any different opinions?"
Wang Xian and Ma Wensheng both shook their heads.
The emperor's attitude is so obvious, why should everyone bother to argue again.
Besides, the emperor has already occupied the rightful position. If you raise any objections, you will not only destroy your own future, but you will not be able to change the overall situation of the court.
Zhu Qiyu smiled and said: "Let's continue talking about Jia Yi, and Ma Aiqing talks about cutting down the vassal clan."
Ma Wensheng felt helpless. The emperor kept coming up with ideas, and he had to listen to himself talk about Jia Yi cutting down the vassal clan. What do you think Wang Xian did to ask Jia Yi to cut down the feudal vassal? If I hadn't been versatile in both civil and military affairs and had extensive knowledge, I really wouldn't have been able to catch Wang Xian's flying knife.
After organizing his words, Ma Wensheng replied bravely: "The core of Jia Yi's strategy of reducing vassal states is to build more princes and less land.
After the death of each generation of princes, their fiefdoms were broken up and distributed among their sons. In this way, each prince's land will become less and less, and his strength will become weaker and weaker.
Later generations only knew about Emperor Wu's favor order, but they did not know that it was just another name for Jia Yi's strategy of reducing vassals.
Emperor Xiaowen adopted this strategy, but he did it quietly and very covertly, so it did not arouse the vigilance of the princes at the time.
However, after Emperor Jing ascended the throne, he did not know the plans of Emperor Xiaowen and Jia Yi, so he chose to cut down the vassals roughly, thus triggering the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms. "
Zhu Qiyu nodded and signaled Ma Wensheng to continue.
Ma Wensheng had no choice but to continue his sermon: "Although Emperor Jing was in trouble, the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms was put down in just three months. The reason was that after the death of Liang Wang Liu Yi, Jia Yi wrote to Emperor Wen, judging that the princes would rebel in the future.
Once the princes rebel, the imperial court must firmly guard the Liang State and stop the offensive of the princes. Then, when the rebels are exhausted, the imperial army can then attack them with all their strength to defeat the rebels in one fell swoop.
Therefore, Jia Yi suggested expanding Liang's fiefdom, greatly strengthening Liang's military, and sending princes to guard it.
In the end, Emperor Xiaowen greatly expanded the Liang Kingdom's fiefdom, changed the title of his second son Liu Wu from Dai to Liang, and appointed Zhou Yafu as the leading general. "
Speaking of this, Ma Wensheng smiled bitterly and said: "The subsequent chaos of the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu was completely performed according to the process preset by Jia Yi.
It was so sad that the powerful forces of the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu were completely destroyed in just three months. "
Zhu Qiyu nodded with satisfaction: "This is a good saying. Calculating with intention but without intention, and spending a thousand pieces of gold with four taels is the style that a brilliant and brilliant counselor should have.
The three of you read this book very well, I am very pleased.
The three of you will serve as ministers of the Chinese Academy of Sciences for two years and concurrently serve as lecturers of the Hanlin Academy. He usually handles government affairs for me and lectures me when he is free.
After that, I will let you go to the six departments to practice. "
Upon hearing this, the three people quickly knelt down to thank them.
Zhu Qiyu took everyone to eat and then dispersed.
A night of silence.
At noon the next day, the memorial flew into Feng Pavilion like snowflakes.
Even He Yi, who had always been calm, was dumbfounded.
It is very common to impeach ministers, but this is the first time for the emperor's cronies in Feng Pavilion to see such a large-scale impeachment of the emperor by civil and military officials.
Huang Pu was very capable in handling government affairs, but he was not very good at planning and making decisions.
Therefore, Huang Pu and He Yi usually cooperate very well. One person is responsible for planning and the other is responsible for execution.
Facing the memorial that flew in like a snowflake, Huang Pu gave up and said, "Xingyi, do you want to show this to His Majesty?
Okay, I'm really afraid of making His Majesty angry. Look, there is also Ye Sheng's memorial in it.
It turned out that Ye Sheng was once a member of Zhongshushe who was favored by His Majesty, but now he has completely become a leader of public officials and started to take the lead in writing letters to accuse His Majesty.
Forget it, there are actually a group of new scholars who are also making noises.
If they insist on making fun of their own future, won't anyone give them some advice?
Hey, I don’t know what to do. It’s up to you to make up your mind. "
He Yi smiled bitterly when he heard this. Now that Yue Zheng and Chen Jian are on duty at the Ministry of War most of the time, and Huang Pu refuses to take the blame, he will have to be the bad guy.
After thinking for a long time, He Yi replied: "Arrange all the relevant memorials according to the yamen they belong to, and put them on the imperial desk, waiting for His Majesty to read them.
It's not a big deal, don't be nervous, His Majesty won't be angry. "
Huang Pu, Xu Zheng, and Huang Jian were completely speechless when they heard this: All the civil and military officials are close to being forced into the palace, and you still say it's not a big deal. If the emperor could hold back his anger, it would be great to have a restrained mind.
