Trust between people is a precious and scarce thing, something that many people struggle to obtain until their death.
Doubt between people is a poisonous seed that exists in people's hearts all the time.
Between the monarch and his ministers, who are extremely powerful, there is always far more suspicion than trust.
So the emperor's mind or power skills came into being.
Legalists call it, the king and his ministers fight hundreds of battles a day!
Nowadays, there is almost no trust between the emperors and ministers of the Han Dynasty. After many years of mutual confrontation, the political atmosphere has become extremely serious.
The relationship between the emperor and his ministers has dropped to the freezing point since the Later Han Dynasty for a hundred years. The king is not a good king, and the ministers are not good ministers.
The only factor that maintains the unity of the Han court now is the inertia brought about by the three hundred years of Han political tradition.
Everyone is doing things step by step, and while promoting their own interests, they jointly safeguard the banner of the Han Dynasty and the existence of the emperor.
Zhang Jue is using the most violent means to turn the entire world upside down. This is a critical moment of life and death, and the emperor is suspicious of certain people.
The more critical the moment of survival, the more they love to fight. Not only the current emperor, there are too many such people in history. The Qin State was able to successfully destroy the Shandong countries.
Not only is the Qin State powerful, but also the main reason is that there are frequent internal conflicts among the countries. Is the Han Dynasty also going to embark on this road of no return?
Some of the loyal ministers in the palace thought sadly.
The emperor sat on the couch, commanding everyone's thoughts one by one. The ministers in the palace asked the emperor insinuatingly who he suspected, but the emperor did not name the specific person, but only expressed concern about the overall situation.
This made many ministers confused and didn't understand what the emperor wanted to do.
If it is targeted at a certain person, you need to judge how to deal with it so as not to cause big fluctuations.
Now that the emperor is dissatisfied with the overall situation, does he still want to change the entire system?
Although the county system is indeed somewhat inappropriate for today's troubled times, many people have discovered it during the battles with the Taiping Army, bandits, and rebellious powerful forces that have sprung up everywhere.
If King Qin hadn't issued an edict to loosen the bonds of the prefects in each county, these prefects would still be trapped in one county and would not dare to lead their troops out of the country.
Looking at the emperor sitting on the couch and the somewhat confused ministers, Liu Yan's heart suddenly beat violently.
He reflected that the emperor might not be suspicious of a specific prince, but rather dissatisfied with the system that caused this result.
This is an opportunity!
A thought that has been running through my mind countless times, but I have never had the chance to express it. Maybe I am just waiting for this opportunity.
Liu Yan quietly looked at the emperor above him, recalled the words he had thought about countless times, and then bowed and said: "Your Majesty, I have something to say!"
Everyone in the palace turned their gazes over. The emperor asked Liu Yan to continue speaking, and Liu Yan prostrated himself on the ground and said solemnly: "Your Majesty.
What did the various resurgences of the state and Zhou Dynasty rely on in the past?
They are the princes who rely on the surname Ji and Jiang.
The Qin Dynasty did not enfeoff the princes and collapsed in just ten years. If Emperor Fusu and later conferred kings were not the destiny of Emperor Gao, the situation in the world might have stabilized.
So after Emperor Gao conquered the world, he granted the Liu clan princes and kings in all directions. The calamity of the Qin Dynasty's demise did not appear on my Liu family, and the country has been passed down to this day for three hundred years.
In the early Han Dynasty, there were countless princes of the Jin Dynasty in the world, and there were princes and kings from nearby branches who held great power in the world, each guarding it.
At that time, although there were rebellious and rebellious people in the world, almost all of them were nipped in the bud.
It was not until the collapse of the Golden Order in the world that the swarms of thieves from the late Han Dynasty emerged.
After Emperor Guangwu's resurgence, the deposed princes in the world returned to the throne, but to this day, there are endless collusions between the governors and the powerful.
Advancing cannot quell chaos, and retreating cannot defend the territory. This is the disadvantage of the prefecture guarding a county.
Do your Majesty and other ministers know the reason? "
As soon as Liu Yan said these words, everyone in the palace held their breath. The emperor and the ministers all looked at Liu Yan, wondering what he wanted to do?
The reason?
Isn't it that although the prefect's power is great, the scope of governance is small, and counties cannot unite with each other, but the rebels will not care about the boundaries of states and counties.
Isn't it because there are no ministers in the local area who can gain the trust of the court, so they can't use their hands and feet to exert their strength?
Although the princes of Jinling in the Pre-Han Dynasty were only one county, in case of war, they had greater power than the current prefects. They were much more powerful than the prefects just because they could lead large armies out of the country.
Many people had guessed what Liu Yan wanted to say, and Liu Yan did not mince words and said directly: "Your Majesty, in times of great chaos, sending clan members and trusted ministers out of town has been a tried and tested method for thousands of years.
Today, most of the clan members work in Luoyang, which is unreasonable.
The imperial court is the sky, and the local towns are the pillars that support the imperial court. If we don't strengthen these pillars but continue to increase the weight of the sky, how can the Han Dynasty be stable?
I suggest that your majesty select the most outstanding talents in the clan and the ministers that your majesty trusts most, depose the governor who has no effect, and make the important ministers serve as state pastors. The state pastors can suppress the prefects of each county and suppress the powerful and turbulent rebellion among the counties. of the Taiping Army.
The great man's stability lies in this! "
Depose the governor and install a state pastor!
"No!"
"This is a surefire way to make the place bigger."
“Raising tigers brings disaster, this is raising tigers brings disaster.”
"Liu Yan has a treacherous plot in his heart, please punish him."
As soon as Liu Yan finished speaking, there was a series of objections in the hall. The sound was so loud that it almost lifted the roof of the entire hall. However, Liu Yan did not feel uneasy at all. He just looked at these opponents indifferently. He believed that these people would soon agree with his approach.
The advantages and disadvantages of abolishing history and establishing animal husbandry are so obvious. Doesn’t the emperor know these shortcomings?
Doesn't Liu Yan know?
So it’s just a stupid king with a brain problem. Why do many apparently normal monarchs and ministers suddenly make some stupid moves that have a brain problem?
It cannot be ruled out that a few of them are indeed not well thought out, but the vast majority of foolish moves are actually done as a last resort.
Just like economic development will cause environmental damage, it will be very troublesome to deal with in the future, and even bring disaster to future generations. Who doesn't know this?
But won’t the economy develop?
Now you can’t even eat, so whoever talks to you about the future is the reality.
The reason why Liu Yan proposed the establishment of a state pastoralist was not that the princes and kings left the town.
There were no great vassal kings in the Later Han Dynasty, and the feudal system existed in name only. Because the chaos among the kings in the late Han Dynasty was so frightening that no one dared to mention it.
In fact, sending important ministers out of town to serve as state shepherds was the most effective last resort under the political conditions of the Later Han Dynasty. The ministers in the palace and the emperor were all people who knew politics very well.
I quickly realized why Liu Yan proposed to set up a state pastoralist. This was actually the system of princes and kings leaving the town, but the state pastoralists were easier to control than the princes and kings.
The emperor could control the world by setting up state pastors. As long as the state pastors he selected were loyal to the court, the strength of the central court would be greatly enhanced.
The emperor was moved.
He doesn't trust those princes now. What he wants most is to install his cronies in local states and counties.
The emperor's expression showed that he was moved. There were still some ministers in the palace who wanted to object, but they were stopped. At this sight, they couldn't stop it. It was better to think about how to get enough benefits from it.
As the night grew darker, the emperor and his ministers showed no signs of fatigue.
No one had imagined that such a big change would occur in a meeting caused by the emperor's nightmare.
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The people on the front line were naturally unaware of the turmoil and various affairs in Luoyang. These princes who were diligent in the king did not know that the emperor had begun to suspect many of them.
Fortunately, the emperor was still smart and did not make such idiotic behavior as changing generals on the spot, commanding by remote control, or issuing golden orders.
Huangfu Song, Luo Kong, and many princes were constantly discussing the issue of follow-up operations.
If the two King Qin armies want to cooperate, who will be the main attacker and who will be the auxiliary needs to be determined beforehand. Otherwise, hundreds of thousands of people will enter the battlefield and it will be a mess. If they are not careful, they will bomb the camp in one place and then bomb it everywhere. camp, the final result was a complete defeat.
The relationship between Luo Kong and Huangfu Song was not pleasant.
In Luo Kong's view, Huangfu Song had nothing worthy of praise except for his superb ability to command troops.
He has almost all the shortcomings of a Han general. Although he has read books, he is a pure warrior and is too indifferent to life.
Huangfu Song thought that Luo Kong had some womanly kindness and was not a qualified general.
The other princes naturally saw the various discords between the two. Some did not care, others even laughed secretly, and some were worried whether the relationship between the two would affect the battle.
Later, when Huangfu Song and Luo Kong assigned tasks to each other, they acted in a relatively tacit manner, which dispelled these people's concerns.
It seems that both of them pay attention to the overall situation, and their personal relationship will not affect future operations.
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"There is a rift between Huangfu Song and Luo Ziming, and there will definitely be problems with their future cooperation.
There was even a scene where the friendly troops were in trouble and couldn't move like a mountain. God helped me. "
In the Taiping Army, Luo Xiao said loudly to all the commanders.
Huangfu Song was a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty, and he could be said to be upright.
However, loyal ministers and loyal ministers may not necessarily live in peace, and they may even attack each other and even kill each other.
Huangfu Song and Luo Kong have typical personality differences. As long as there is disagreement, it will definitely affect their colleagues.
Human actions are very much controlled by emotions. Likes and dislikes will affect people's judgment. Whether friendly troops should be rescued on the battlefield and how much loss is worth saving are all unquantified data.
What is actually relied on is the close relationship between the coaches. If you hesitate for a while, the entire battle situation may change. This is no exaggeration.
Luo Xiao has been practicing the Taiping Army's formations these days, and this practice started when he became Zhang Jiao.
In this era where formation is king, a good formation can allow the army to withstand greater battle damage and collapse, and can give the army stronger combat effectiveness and smaller losses.
There are countless formations in Luo Xiao's mind. He has read too many military books. Although he just casually browsed them before and did not learn in depth, as long as he wants to use them, his memory will naturally pull them out.
Draw inferences from one instance and gain a comprehensive understanding, this is it.
As more and more troops gathered, Luo Xiao led tens of thousands of troops from Xingyang. In addition to the most elite troops, there were also auxiliary troops who wore armor for these soldiers.
After such a long period of arguing, King Qin and the princes finally finished allocating the cities they were stationed in and the subsequent tasks.
After all, it is impossible for hundreds of thousands of people to crowd into a battlefield. There are many mountains and rivers on the road from Luoyang to Xingyang, and there are many passes. There is no such a large plain that hundreds of thousands of people can spread out at the same time.
However, the main directions of attack are all together, and the real main forces are also together. The goal between both sides is the same, which is to directly destroy the other side in the field battle.
The Han court was worried that Luo Xiao would lead the Taiping Army back to Guandong, gather the bandits in Guandong, and then accumulate strength again, so it was necessary to defeat the main force of the Taiping Army in one blow and completely eliminate the threat to the Han Court from this largest band of rebels.
Luo Xiao wanted to make everyone in the world completely lose confidence in the Han court before the deadline came. He didn't even want to kill a mere emperor, he wanted to make everyone aware of a problem.
Hanting has lost its destiny!
Now that the world has returned to the time of competition again, heroes with great ambitions no longer have to worry about the fear caused by the fact that the destiny of the Han Dynasty has not been lost.
In order to achieve this goal, Luo Xiao must defeat the main force of the Han Dynasty head-on.
In the hearts of the people of the world, the fall of a dynasty and the loss of destiny is the failure of the most critical battle.
In the past, King Wu conquered Zhou, Mengjin formed an alliance, and then the Battle of Muye led to the fall of the Shang Dynasty.
At the end of the Qin Dynasty, in the Battle of Handan, the main force of the Qin army was wiped out in one battle, and the Qin Dynasty was destroyed.
If Luo Xiao can win a complete victory in the Battle of Luoyang, people all over the world will have a shadow cast on their hearts and start to doubt spontaneously.
At that time, a smile appeared on Luo Xiao's face, and he said those words again. Even if the emperor is not dead, he is probably as close to death as possible.
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The large-scale use of state pastoral officials proved that the Luoyang court basically lost the ability to manage county affairs from an institutional perspective. When the system failed, the only thing the supreme ruler could do was to believe in people's loyalty.
From the perspective of the rulers of the Han Dynasty, this system of leaving the town had good traditions and results. However, as times changed, Zhang Jiao would not give him the opportunity. In the face of the chaotic situation, he used this system like a sword. , completely pushed the Han Dynasty into the abyss. The Han Dynasty was destroyed by the Taiping Uprising led by Zhang Jiao, but it was actually destroyed by the various decisions of Emperor Ling. This is by no means alarmist. ——"The Rise and Fall of the Han Dynasty"
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