969 Struggle for power
As a mother, she certainly hopes that her son can become a powerful monarch like Kangxi and Qianlong, but as a politician, she must also take into account the balance of power in the court.
Cixi knew very well that the Eight Banners system of the Qing Dynasty was actually inherently constrained by imperial power, otherwise no one in the three dynasties of Kang Yongqian would have provoked any Eight Kings to discuss politics.
Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong, everyone said that it was the first emperor of the ages, but this was actually just a lie that Gu Quanzi said to the Han people and even the people of the vassal country.
When Kangxi was just in power, he killed a bayonet with the Aobai group, and then the Ping San clan beat half of China into erosion, which gradually formed the concentration of imperial power in the Qing Dynasty, but it did not last for many years, and then Kangxi's sons began to follow the ancestral system to divide the power of the imperial court.
Yongzheng did it even more ruthlessly, and in his 13-year reign, he not only killed the brothers who had opposed him before, but even created a system of integrated food payment for the officials and gentry, and stretched out his hand to deprive the Hanchens of thousands of years of power, so Yongzheng had the most wild history, and Yongzheng really didn't play a good role in those stories.
Cixi knows very well that the stories in the wild history are all fake, but if they are fake, some people also gossip, because you Yongzheng did smash the jobs of many people and killed many people, and those people will not look at the problem from the strategic level of the empire, they only care about their own interests.
As for the Qianlong period, the national strength of the Qing Dynasty reached its peak, and it was a rich and prosperous scene of flowers cooking oil with brocade fire, but is there no hidden danger in this prosperous era?
Of course, when Qianlong was tired of government in his later years, corruption was rampant in the court, extravagance and waste, and the national strength accumulated for decades was consumed in large quantities on the palace pavilions, and the Old Summer Palace of the Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens was officially completed in the Qianlong period.
After Jiaqing went to court, if he hadn't made a windfall from He Shen, I am afraid that he would have to make a big loss in a few years.
Cixi knows too well in her heart, don't look at these palace nobles who all say how good Kang Yongqian is, but the calculation in their hearts is not like this, if there is really another strong monarch, and then centralize power and toss them for a while, these grandsons will have to cry to death.
In the real history, why the woman Cixi was able to govern the Qing Dynasty for so many years, and why the entire Manchu and Han clique listened to her, on the one hand, this woman has the ability, and on the other hand, this woman clearly knows the officials of the entire Manchu and Han clique and what they want.
Yes, knowing what these officials want, give them what they want, only in this way can she get the support of many people, and her position can be secure.
Cixi is extravagant and extravagant, so the officials below will follow the luxury and luxury, Cixi is a woman after all, so her road to centralization cannot go to the extreme, these courtiers understand that if Cixi wants to sit firmly, he must share his interests with them.
Power and money are actually the same, everyone likes them, and a leader who knows how to share equally with his subordinates is naturally likable, and the monarch who centralizes power will definitely eat more and occupy more, and when the time comes, everyone's interests will be damaged together, so what is the use of such a monarch to him?
The more Cixi thought about it, the paler her face became, and she had to admit that her son had chosen a path that the entire Eight Banners Group was afraid of, they were afraid of the path of restoring centralized power to Jaechun, who held a strong army, and they were afraid that the power that had been distributed would be taken back.
Today, Yi can be regarded as tearing his face, "Queen Mother, if Your Majesty insists on going his own way, then many things are not something that I, who is an uncle king, can control...... To put it mildly, even if I, as Uncle Wang, have some conflicts with Your Majesty, I just want to teach Your Majesty some lessons in the end......"
"But if I hadn't been in charge of the situation, and if the future antagonists were more ambitious, the situation would have been less optimistic...... It's not impossible!"
Yi Xun had already listened stupidly, this seventh son of Emperor Daoguang was not a sharp person, and he now felt that he had already committed a crime when he heard these remarks.
"How is that good? How is that good...... His Majesty is the only son of the former emperor, and none of the monarchs who succeeded to the throne in the Qing Dynasty was as clean and pure as the ruling dynasty, and there was no doubt about it...... This is the lord of Zhongxing! It is the hope of our Qing Dynasty to turn over!"
Yi glared at the younger brother fiercely, "Wrong! It's the hope of our Aixinjue Luo family, not the hope of the entire Eight Banners, those families have been rotten and stinky in the past two hundred years, they will only compete for fame and fortune, they only know that the silver of Baihuahua is the best, and even if they get benefits, they don't want to be controlled!"
"Tell me why Your Majesty wants to recruit the unambitious sons of the major families to go to Ryukyu for training? Don't you understand? If there is no ghost idea of Xiao Letian, I will gouge out my eyes...... Your Majesty is now estimated to have been bewitched by Xiao Letian to understand these truths, with the impulsiveness of a young man, can he not be tough?"
"Three years later, when His Majesty really returns here with tens of thousands of troops, he will immediately fall into a big net that cannot be seen clearly! Maybe no one will raise the flag to rebel and use the army, but the hidden arrow hurts people is even more terrifying, and it is not only the eunuchs and palace maids who have died unjustly in this Forbidden City!"
"Since the fight against the former Ming Dynasty to the present, have there been fewer suspicious emperors who have died? If I, who is an uncle, don't think about the way back for him, then it is called dangerous!"
As the so-called concern is chaos, Cixi also softened her hands and feet at the moment, "Then what should you do?"
"There is no good way, now Your Majesty is under the control of Xiao Letian, and Western countries are also paying attention to Your Majesty's study tour, it is impossible to forcibly snatch it back, so everything can only wait until three years later......"
"Three years later, I will write to persuade Your Majesty to integrate his Praetorian Guard into the Xishan camp, and Your Majesty will keep a low profile for at least four to five years, learn to deal with the government little by little, and slowly cultivate power...... It's not like you can exercise imperial power at will after a ceremony, that's the way to take trouble!"
Cixi sighed and said, "How is it possible with Jae-chun's character!"
Three years later, His Majesty will only be 16 years old, and some will have time to study, and he will be in his early 20s for four or five years, and he will be a young monarch by then...... Age is Your Majesty's greatest advantage!"
If Your Majesty is stubborn, I will forcibly disband Your Majesty's Praetorian Guard! When the time comes, I hope the Queen Mother can understand the painstaking ...... of her minister."