Chapter 12: Mutual Fighting
But what, is the emperor like that? Does he have the courage? Does he have the strength to reform? Is there a capacity to push for this reform?
The new emperor obviously didn't! Because he is only a new official who has taken office three times, and the new emperor has come to the throne with a few edicts, how could he have thought that Fan Liang would be so serious. "Box-by-box" wrote a lot of questions.
The emperor took a look: Oh, mom, such an old task, I thought the empire just gave me a small problem, play the game and I play the simple model of stand-alone, you give me the whole such a difficult problem, or a basket of Olympiad problems, this game is too difficult, I don't play it!
So what to do? Hastily done. Fan Liang spent the last few days writing this thing, and the emperor threw it away after reading it, and there was no follow-up, as if it had never happened.
This Fan Liang is depressed, I wait every day for when I will do a big job, but I can't wait for anything. I wondered very much, and my heart said that why is this emperor like this!
Since the emperor ascended the throne, you have to give me advice on what you say, otherwise you won't give me face!
So I wrote to the emperor that you are older, it takes a lot of effort to write, I stay up all night every day to write, I don't know how many brain cells have died, I write it easily, but as a result, there is no reply!
I'll go! What am I doing? Fan Liang felt very, very uncomfortable, but at this time, the barbarians were in a commotion, and soon swept the border, in such a situation, the emperor was even more anxious, how could he have the leisure to change anything.
Fan Li was also very anxious, he looked at the emperor in his twenties and inexperienced, blind, this cloth is a little soldier, that cloth is a little soldier, and he is defeated one after another, and he is also very uncomfortable in his heart.
What to do? Fan Liang thought about it, and felt that it was better to write a bigger book for the emperor, let me tell the truth more, and I would make the problem more serious.
So, he wrote: Respectfully submit the Holy Emperor's book on the prevention of barbarians. With the help of this barbarian rebellion, Fan Li pointed out more than once in this book: Your Majesty, you are wrong. pointed out the emperor's three major shortcomings:
First: see the small but not the big, the small things are shrewd, and the big things are confused! You see that the barbarians on the border have all revolted and rebelled! What are you still nagging about every day, are the ministers not in place when they see me? Did you lose your watermelon and pick up sesame seeds? Can you do something serious, every day you know that it is useless to study those things there.
Second: Seek words in vain, not reality! It's that you can just talk, but you can't do it. You see, you asked us to speak, and we gave it, and you didn't follow it after reading it, isn't this playing with us? Don't you just want a good reputation for being willing to give advice?
Third: self-serving, backsliding, and self-reliance. When you say that when you have a meeting, you say that everyone speaks freely, and there is something to say, how can we make our country better? How can we make our people's lives better? How can I become a Saint? How do you do this? Everyone put forward their opinions, some of them are easy to use, you don't need them, and in the end, you will tell you that you are in a hurry, so you just slapped the table and said: What's the matter, I'm the emperor, if I don't say it, it's not good, I have the final say!
These are your three faults, Your Majesty! That's what Fan Li wrote, and the reason why he wrote this is that he hopes that this piece can play a role in the emperor's head and make the kid sober. Because in Fan Li's heart, this emperor is a child, he is more than ten years younger than Fan Li, but he is the emperor.
Fan Li hopes that this little emperor can wake up and cheer up. However, he forgot one thing, in the officialdom and the court in the last few hundred years, there is no one who dares to criticize the emperor's behavior directly.
What's the matter? For so many years, no one has seen that the emperor has a bunch of problems? If others can't see it, you can see it? Everyone else is stupid, but you are smart? Why do you do something that no one else does?
It's not that the ministers below can't understand it, but this system is like this, the difference between the monarch and the minister is the difference between cloud and mud, the emperor is the true dragon son of heaven who is high above, and the officials and people below are all ants, little minions!
Don't look at you, you are a big official with a few grades, you are nothing in the eyes of the emperor? The minister's letters to the emperor and his usual words are very deferential, very humble, very lowly, and even very lowly! Words are often self-deprecating!
Just like this, you still dare to scold the emperor, and you dare to talk about the emperor's shortcomings! So the result of Fan Li's doing this can be imagined. What kind of person is the emperor? Fragile, self-esteem is particularly strong, things are average, and there is a set of anger.
Not long after he ascended the throne, the barbarians made trouble, which was annoying to him outside. In the court, Fan Li, a thorn in the head, always can't get along with me, always gives me books, always says things I don't like to hear, you are sick, who gave you the guts?
The emperor was annoyed by Fan Li, and after reading it, he was furious, and threw the thing written by Fan Liang on the ground, and immediately summoned the Minister of Military Aircraft to offend him.
After reading it, the emperor threw the piece on the ground, and immediately found the police: Go and go, arrest Fan Li for me, what the hell, what are you doing, you dare to scold me, who gave him the guts, arrested me and locked him up! also directly convicted and killed Fan Li!
Fortunately, someone next to him begged bitterly: Don't! Your Majesty, Xiao Fan is very good, he was confused for a while, he was just confused for a while, maybe he wrote it when he was in a bad mood with endocrine disorders, don't be angry, your Majesty, if it is not appropriate to kill him, there is nothing wrong with him, he just wrote something disrespectful to you, you just ignore him!
But the emperor was very angry: If I don't kill him, then can I beat him?
The minister next to him said: You can't beat him, he told you the truth, you beat him, isn't this a bad reputation with the emperor, otherwise who will dare to go to the book in the future! Your Majesty, what a holy monarch you are, how can you do such a stupid thing, isn't it the emperor. Come on, just have a smile! Don't be angry, don't be angry!
As soon as the emperor saw that the ministers around him were so persuasive, he turned around and calmed down, and didn't deal with Fan Li, but he still issued a holy edict, which is very long, longer than the graduation theory, and there was a fierce debate here: Fan Li, you said this, I told you that what you said was wrong! -for-tat rejected all of Fan Li's views.
When this edict was issued, the emperor also praised Fan Li: Xiao Fan, there is still some truth in what you mentioned, you are really a loyal minister! But there's a lot of things here that you haven't written right, you look at this paper that I wrote, and I'm telling you, what you said is not right, you take a good look at my arguments, arguments, arguments, do you understand, what you said is not right, you know?