The performance of the two women was unexpected by Zhao Hao, especially the Empress Dowager Yang was persuaded by herself so easily. But when I think about it, I am also relieved that the tenacity and ruthlessness of a woman in the moment of crisis is often unexpected. Everyone in the world said that Lu Pheasant, the queen of Liu Bang, the Taizu of the Han Dynasty, was ruthless, but in fact, she was also a famous lady and well-educated, and the reason why she was so ruthless later was absolutely inseparable from Liu Bang.

Liu Bang can throw away his wife and children on the way to escape by himself, and he can also ask for a piece of the pie when Xiang Yu said that he was going to cook his father, and he can not care about the suffering of his wife, vainly trying to change the queen, abolishing the prince and a series of things with a series of current character. was made into a 'human biao' Qi Ji, to be honest, she was also made by herself, she was just the daughter of a peasant family that Liu Bang married on the way to escape, and after she ascended the throne, she was brought into the palace, and since then she has been out of control.

When Lu Pheasant was the queen at the beginning, she actually didn't interfere too much in court politics, but she was also a virtuous helper and helped Liu Bang get rid of Han Xin. Qi Ji is, but Qi Ji, who was spoiled by Liu Bang, is not a peaceful master. She blew the pillow wind on Liu Bang, wanted to be the queen, and even abolished the crown prince Liu Ying and made her son Liu Ruyi the prince. And Liu Bang is a person who doesn't value family affection, but when he was about to die, he was afraid that Lu Pheasant would treat Qi Ji's mother and son badly, and he really wanted to abolish the prince. If it weren't for the fact that Lu Pheasant was orthodox and had connections in the court, he would have really succeeded in the end.

Lu Pheasant has always been peaceful, but when the interests of her children are threatened, this mother will become tenacious. After Liu Bang's death, Lü Pheasant shaved off Qi Ji's hair, imprisoned her in Yongxiang, wore Chu Hong's prison clothes, and wore shackles and rice, and his son Liu Ruyi was also sent to the fiefdom. This is Lu Pheasant's punishment for Qi Ji, but he can't stand this kind of insult and is unwilling, so he made "Song of Chungmi", hoping that his son will save her. And this song eventually became his own amulet, driving Lu Pheasant to trick Liu Ruyi into the palace and kill her, making her an adult.

It's a pity that Liu Ying, the son of Lu Pheasant, died at a young age every few years when he was the emperor. At this time, Lu Pheasant's temperament changed greatly, and in order to ensure power, he began to appoint relatives, and almost turned Liu's country into Lu's, and his reputation has since become stinky. And his descendant Liu Che of the Han Wu Emperor did not forget this matter, he set up Liu Fuling as the prince in his later years, but brutally killed his biological mother Mrs. Gou Yi, the reason is that after Liu Bang's death, Liu Ying was less and Lu Hou was stronger, and Lu Hou held the imperial power and almost killed Liu Bang's descendants, which shows that this lesson made Liu Che unforgettable.

And history has also verified Liu Che's foresight, just as he himself said: "In ancient times, the country was so chaotic, and the master was young and the mother was strong." The heroine lives alone and is arrogant, promiscuous and self-indulgent, and she can't help it. You don't hear the evil of Lu Hou! So I had to go first. After his death, he was succeeded by Liu Fuling, the eight-year-old Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty, who was wise and virtuous, but died at the age of 20. If Gou Yi is still alive, then Emperor Zhao must be the queen mother, although she is only twenty or thirty years old.

If Mrs. Gou Yi can live to be fifty years old, then she must be the empress dowager after Emperor Zhao. Such a noble status is destined to have the final say in the court. That is to say, Gou Yi will influence and even influence the government for almost 30 years. In these thirty years, it is unknown whether she will become the new Empress Lu, whether she will become a demon like the Empress Dowager Liang of the Eastern Han Dynasty in the future, or even Empress Huijia of the Western Jin Dynasty.

Because under unlimited power, all kinds of ugly and evil things can happen. It can be seen that the cruel principle of prevention, which seems to be incomprehensible, also has a certain degree of foresight and rationality in the succession to the throne in a feudal autocratic society.

Wu Zetian of later generations perfectly interpreted this principle, starting from the fact that he framed the queen in order to replace him, and did not hesitate to strangle his own daughter, in order to realize the dream of reaching the pinnacle of power, she successively killed her daughter, son, daughter-in-law, brother, sister, niece, granddaughter, aunt and other no less than 20 people, and nearly 100 high-ranking officials were killed by her. What's even more inhumane is that she also used cruel methods similar to Lu Pheasant to deal with Xiao Liangdi, the favorite concubine left by her husband Tang Gaozong, and threw Concubine Xiao, who had her hands and feet chopped off, into a brewing urn, causing her to be humiliated and tortured to death.

Therefore, Zhao Yu felt that Empress Dowager Yang could quickly get along, not because she had the same political wisdom as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, otherwise she would not insist on making Wu Xi the queen, but she was still a mother and the guardian of a dynasty. Thinking that Empress Dowager Yang was ordered to protect the two little princes from fleeing in a hurry at the moment before the death of the country, you must know that she is a concubine who has been in the deep palace for many years, although she is not favored, she is also a brocade and jade, where has she suffered anything.

However, she was able to brave the difficulties under the pursuit of the enemy and protect her two young sons all the way to Fujian, and the process can be described as nine deaths. Needless to say, the difficulties of the following years not only suffered a lot, but the Empress Dowager Yang also suffered the tragic death of her parents, but she soon established Zhao Yu as the emperor to continue the national lineage. And what makes a woman so strong is precisely because of the greatness of motherhood that allows her to sacrifice everything for her children. Now, when he found out that the Wu family might threaten the interests of the Zhao family, he chose to stand by his side without hesitation.

Zhao Yu's closest person to this world can be said to be the Empress Dowager Yang, who gave him a thousand years of maternal love in ten years, and gave him selfless support. At the same time, he is also the most 'feared' person in Zhao Hao, but it is by no means the kind of fear on the surface, but the fear in his heart, afraid of making this poor and strong woman sad and sad, afraid that he will let her down. So after Empress Dowager Yang expressed her attitude, Zhao Yu finally breathed a sigh of relief.

However, Zhao Yu knew that even if he had the support of Empress Dowager Yang, it would be an extremely risky thing to dispose of the Wu family, and doing so was actually tantamount to confronting the entire Shiren group and snatching power from them. Because according to the Confucian idea of governance, the Son of Heaven "reigns over the world", but should "rule without rule", the so-called "rule by inaction", "rule the world by hanging clothes", and "respect oneself to the south", all of which are said to mean this.

On the face of it, there is no doubt that the Song monarch was at the very top of this power structure, with the most revered position, and at the same time a nominal source of power, and all edicts had to be issued in the name of the emperor. However, in the opinion of the scholars, the emperor was best to exist only as a symbol of sovereignty, a model of morality, and a representative of etiquette, and did not need to govern concretely; The governance of the state is held by an accountable and replaceable imperial body.

Zhao Yu knows that this state system is similar to the modern constitutional monarchy, which is called a "hypocritical republic" in modern political science terms; In the words of the Song people themselves, it is called "the power belongs to the master, and the government comes out of the book". Of course, under the overall feudal society, the actual power operation of the Song Dynasty was still far from the ideal "hypocritical republic", but the "hypocritical monarch" was obviously the overlapping consensus of the Song Dynasty scholar class.

Zeng Zhao, a native of the Northern Song Dynasty, said, "The emperor's order must be simple and large." If the legislation is severe, and the commission is to defend the customs, they all have the duties of the department, not the affairs of the emperor. Luo Congyan, a contemporary of the same era, also said that the monarch "except for the major events of the Lile expedition, the rest of the details are entrusted to the left and right." Lu Jiuyuan, a great scholar in the Southern Song Dynasty, said, "The master of the man arches high on the top, does not participate in his own will, does not treat the villain from time to time, and does not maintain the rope of the mere rope, so that his ministers are not in trouble, and then they can be blamed for success." Zhu Xi, a physicist who influenced the thought of the Southern Song Dynasty, also believed that "the body of the king of the people is shown to the top, so that the people of the world will follow suit", and the actual governance is "only a good person is used". Chen Liang, a friend and opponent of Zhu Xi, also proposed, "The end arches above and the world is autonomous, and this way is also used."

Therefore, if the successive monarchs of the Song Dynasty wanted to seize power, they would be regarded as "overstepping their bounds" and encroaching on the legitimate power of the government, so they would inevitably suffer from the protests of the ministers: "Now each of the hundred divisions has to obey his duties, and Your Majesty can not invade it?" "If the Son of Heaven encroaches on the power of the prime minister, it will be fair!" Therefore, even the emperor himself did not dare to openly contradict the consensus on the governance of scholars, and even Emperor Taizong, who has always been strong, could not help but admit, "The way to do nothing, I should do it"; Zhenzong also said to himself, "I have not tasted arbitrary"; Renzong is a model of "hypocrisy", "no matter how big or small, it will be discussed by the foreign court", and someone commented at the time, "Emperor Renzong will not do everything, but he will be an official." ”

The emperor was so weak and inaction, so that some officials couldn't look at it, and asked Renzong: "No matter how big or small the political affairs are today, they are all determined by the Zhongshu and the Privy Council. Renzong himself thinks so: "There are many people who say that I am not broken. If you don't want to be punished, the country has the story of your ancestors, and if you don't make an order, it will be a mistake if it is not constitutional. In this way, it must be discussed by the minister, and the Taiwan counselor sees that it is not convenient, but he is not afraid to pursue the change. "Therefore, the Song people thought that those who spoke about the family law in the Han and Tang dynasties were no better than our dynasty; The quintessence of my family law is none other than Renzong.

It is said that Zhao Hao, who comes from modern society, should be very happy to accept this idea of 'democratic co-governance', but it is difficult for him to accept it now. Of course, this is not only his greed for power, but also because this impure democracy has actually become the source of the struggle between the imperial power and the relative power. If it is in an era of peace and stability, he is acceptable. However, in this turbulent period, this kind of democracy has become a fatal flaw, causing the monarch and the minister to fight each other, the government is inefficient, and the executive power is weakened, and the result can only be that the strategy is often passive and lagging behind, and the tactics are beaten everywhere.

He does not expect to be a dictator, but he also hopes to grasp power and establish a strong team, so as to cope with the complex and changeable situation. He thinks so, and he has always done so, and after several battles, he can be regarded as grasping the initiative. However, after entering Jiangnan, with the influx of Jiangnan scholars into the officialdom, the previous deep-rooted 'hypocrisy' thinking also began to affect the operation of the imperial court.

As the representative of the Jiangnan scholar and the strong supporters of science, the Wu family is bound to have a conflict because of the difference in ideas, even if the marriage can only be solved for a while, but it cannot guarantee a long-term compromise. Zhao Yu felt that it was better to solve this problem first, and only by unifying his thinking and eliminating the fundamental contradictions could he implement his plan.

When Zhao Yu was in Qiongzhou, he thought that after recovering Jiangnan, he would be able to obtain sufficient financial and manpower supplements, and then he could use troops against the Mongol Yuan on a large scale, recover the Central Plains with the momentum of the monsoon sweeping the leaves, and drive the Mongols away. However, he found that there was still a huge gap between the reality and his own ideas, and the internal and external situations and the situations he faced were very similar to those of the Sui Dynasty.

At that time, after many years of war, the era of great division for about 400 years was finally drawn to an end by the Sui Dynasty. In the course of 400 years, the Chinese nation has embraced all rivers, absorbed the martial style of the Hu people, sinicized the Hu people, and achieved national integration. But how can this "labor pain" and legacy problems be so easy to pass! After the integration of Emperor Wen of Sui, the situation was still not optimistic, and then this task fell to Emperor Yang Guang of Sui.

Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty's evaluation in history, the word 'Yang' illustrates the problem. However, this does not negate its merits entirely. As soon as he ascended to the throne, he faced not only the problem of ethnic integration, but also the family controlled the civil official system, and the nobles controlled the real power of the army, and the "emperor" was equivalent to the "leader of the family alliance". In other words, the emperor has many constraints, so Yang Guang wants to consolidate his rule, and the only way to centralize power is to centralize power!

Yang Guang's construction of the Grand Canal is well known, and the history books often emphasize that it is to satisfy his selfish desire to go down to the south of the Yangtze River, but ignore the role of the Grand Canal, which connects the north and south of the country, accelerates the integration of the north and the south, and the convenient transportation is also conducive to the Sui Dynasty to control and eliminate the threat of local group forces. The importance of this canal to later generations of China is obvious to all. It further developed the imperial examination system, restored the "Guozijian" and "Taixue", and opened the channel for the cold door to impact the upper class; Fought against the Turks and other foreign peoples, and rebuilt the Silk Road in the Western Regions.

And Yang Guangzhi's excesses were in the Battle of the Three Expeditions to Goguryeo, which led to the fall of the Sui Dynasty. Zhao Yu always believed that with the comprehensive national strength of Sui, it should be easy to destroy Goguryeo, and the reason for the repeated failures was that Yang Guang did not know the army, and he was stubborn and self-serving, and personally went out to command, which caused military command errors and scruples to protect the monarch's army.

In addition, because of his own deeds, the monarch sought one-sided glory, for the sake of morale and face, regardless of the cost, and poured the whole country's strength into the land of projectiles several times, and finally made a big mistake. Originally, the failure of the expedition was not a big problem, but because of the failure of the pro-conquest, it was determined that it could be solved as soon as the commander was right-handed, but he requisitioned the wealth of the whole country, and once again risked his life to repeat the same mistakes.

The failure of the three expeditions led to the split of the ruling group, which led to the re-expansion of the great clans that the two generations of Sui emperors had tried their best to weaken, and the centralization of power was weakened again. So Yang Xuangan jumped out, you Yang Guang can't do it, change me to be the emperor; The Guanlong family, headed by Li Yuan, rebelled; The Shandong family supported Dou Jiande and rebelled; The noble relatives of the Yuwen family and Wang Shichong have rebelled, and this is a lesson for Zhao Yu......