Verse 89: Geng's clever plan
Geng Nanzhong's method of dealing with Tan Zhi has always been: I ignore you.
The emperor only believes in me, and does not want to see you, the old emperor's dog, and is very jealous of you in his heart, and is vigilant against you. I'll ignore you, what's the matter?
silently despised and ignored Tan Zhi with disdain to answer, and excluded Tan Zhi from wantonly interfering in politics on behalf of the old emperor.
Usually as Tan Zhi is a transparent person standing beside the new emperor, he does not exist if he speaks or not.
For this hand, Tan Zhi really has no good tricks to deal with.
Geng Nanzhong didn't argue with him, which can't be said to be wrong, let alone a sin. Otherwise, is it right to be willing to fight?
Moreover, Geng Nanzhong is now also a dignified minister and a privy councillor, belonging to the second-in-command of the military and government under the imperial power of the imperial court, his political status is extremely respected, representing the image of the country, and he naturally has the prestige that a national leader should have, and he embodies the national prestige, and is the only person who can be trusted and relied on by the new emperor, indirectly embodying the imperial authority of the new emperor.
This is the advantage of occupying the name of righteousness.
What is Geng Nanzhong's own character and ability, this will be put aside first, since he is in that position, he is not an ordinary person in the past, and he represents the power of the state.
No matter how awesome Tan Zhi is, in the final analysis, he is just an inner court eunuch, and his identity determines that it is inconvenient to meddle in politics at any time, otherwise the hundred officials will be unhappy and will be disgusted and resistant......
This is called a bad name, and it is not a good word.
Therefore, all rebellions and seizures of power must first create a dignified name or slogan, and must erect a banner of righteousness, seize the highest point of justice and righteousness, resist the orthodox pressure of the imperial court, occupy the hearts of secular axioms, and win recognition and support.
You have to have a proper name for everything, especially when you do bad things, you have to have a valid excuse.
This is especially important in countries where the spirit of Confucianism is most ethical.
Although Tianhu Wang Qing was born in Caokou, the rebellion was to escape the detention of the imperial court, arrest and kill the head and usurp the power of the imperial court by force, and led his subordinates to this group of murderous gangsters who did not obey the management of the state to coerce the people to set themselves up as kings, and enjoy the power and wealth that they were not qualified to enjoy, in the final analysis, it was just for their own power and selfish desires, in order to be able to wantonly exploit and enslave the people like the imperial court, to be able to look down on all living beings from above, and to abuse the people wantonly, this point, people with a little brain in the world understand what is going on, But the two are also under the banner of the corruption of the imperial court, forcing the people to live in misery, and the Song Dynasty is exhausted, and it is time to be destroyed, and it has indeed won a lot of support.
If Erlongshan Chaogai hadn't played the banner of "walking for the sky" soon after the establishment of the village, the team would not have developed so fast.
Tan Zhi PK Geng Nanzhong also has an important disadvantage.
It's not what it used to be.
The new emperor is on the throne, no matter how much he is the child emperor who has no real power, he is also the person who sits in the position of the court and accepts the worship of hundreds of officials, at least the emperor system is a must, if the old emperor slaps the new emperor's face at will, it is equivalent to hitting the face of hundreds of officials: What's the matter, the person who wants us to worship respectfully is just an ant who can abuse as much as he wants in your eyes, so aren't our officials even inferior to ants.......
This point was especially intolerable in the Song Dynasty, which pursued the national policy of "ruling the world with scholars".
Under the excessively loose political and economic system of the Song Dynasty, the officials, regardless of the military affairs, were actually very relaxed and comfortable, and after hundreds of years, they were accustomed to being respected and tolerated by the imperial power, and were spoiled, and categorically could not tolerate the imperial power's wanton contempt and despise hundreds of officials, especially when the imperial power was weak.
The Song Dynasty was not a rat-tailed dynasty with slaves obeying orders.
Abdication does not abdicate power, and the old emperor Zhao Ji, who has real power, cannot speak at every turn to interfere with the decision-making of the new emperor, let alone Tan Zhen.
Tan Zhi is not the former eunuch Liang Shicheng.
First, he did not have a reigning emperor to support him, and second, he did not have the status and power in the palace like Liang Shicheng and the opportunity to establish his authority.
When Liang Shicheng was awesome, he could approve and fold on behalf of the emperor, and even give orders on behalf of the emperor, which was equivalent to half an emperor, such a bad guy, who would dare to provoke easily?
Geng Nanzhong knew that Tan Zhen's attitude was basically what the old emperor meant, but he just ignored Tan Zhen, although Zhao Ji was not happy, he couldn't say that he would punish Geng Nanzhong.
At the very least: after disposing of Geng Nanzhong, the new emperor will have no one to use, he has become a bare-bones emperor, he has completely become a puppet on the throne, he has no prestige, no officials can not move, he has completely become a laughing stock on the throne, he can't do anything serious, he can't represent the country and the imperial power, he can't control the country at all, he can't replace Zhao Ji to deal with the complicated and annoying government affairs that can't be finished, and he has to worry about dealing with the particularly difficult and annoying government affairs in front of him. If you can't enjoy the blessings of the immortals while leisurely and quietly cultivating the Tao, while holding the power and holding the general trend, you can still enjoy the supreme prestige and blessings, then there is no point in establishing a new emperor.
This is the reliance on Geng Nanzhong's arrogance.
However, creatures like eunuchs are particularly sensitive because of their physical disabilities, and their hearts are usually extremely extreme and narrow-minded, holding grudges and saving face....... Many of them are actually psychopaths.
At this time, if Geng Nanzhong just fooled a few words, it didn't matter what he said, his attitude was important, but he was conceited and had become accustomed to continuing to shake his face with contempt and ignorance, which made Tan Zhen, who was not too serious-for-tat, suddenly angry, and his ferocity rose, and he couldn't care about the eunuch identity in the past, and he couldn't do his political duties carefully, he was fierce, and he didn't fight with Geng Nanzhong, an old man, and he didn't let this old guy know that he was powerful and never gave up.
Geng Nanzhong didn't squeak, and Tan Zhi asked and answered himself.
"Lord Geng wants to take Zhao Er as a hostage and force Wen Chenghou to honestly bow his head and listen to the mercy, right?"
A voice of Marquis Wen Cheng has secretly revealed the old emperor Zhao Ji's characterization of Zhao Gonglian's rebellious behavior in Cangbei, or the result that Zhao Ji wants most.
Geng Nanzhong is not good at governing the country, but in this kind of political struggle, he is a high-level intellectual, an old and spicy infighting, and his political sensitivity is not low, and he immediately heard the voice.
He spied on the old emperor's desire to appease and fool Zhao Gonglian's reluctance to seek peace, and his heart sank, but then he was relieved.
He retaliated and provoked Zhao Gonglian, and did so many things, and his original intention was not to force Zhao Gonglian to rebel.
He was just as afraid of the Cangbei rebellion, but in fact, he was more afraid than other important ministers of the imperial court, and the Cangbei rebellion would cause chaos in the world and even the direct collapse of the country. If it really comes to that point, then the power, wealth, future, and fame that are hard to get hold will ....... All of them will be lost, and I will die of distress. And history has proved that he is more cowardly and afraid of death than Cai Jing and others.
No matter how greedy Cai Jing is, he still has the least courage and temperament for the prime minister of a country to face the disaster of war, and he can hold on to things when it is critical.
Geng Nanzhong, in essence, is a vain literati who has taken the shit luck by mistake, and he does not have the minimum quality of being the first vice premier of the country. But at this time, it is the time when you are full of spirit, ambition, courage and enthusiasm, full of energy, dare to do, and want to stick to what you have decided until you succeed or fail.
He wanted to use and play Zhao Manmen in another ingenious way, and solve this big problem for the court and the new emperor. trouble, and borrowed Zhao Gonglian's corpse to establish power.
His clever plan is indeed a different way, there is a lot of merit, and his conceit and power are far better than the important ministers of the Manchu Dynasty: you are all old thieves in the government but you are all stupid, and Zhao Gonglian, who is arrogant and arrogant with his conceited role, has no substantive way at all, and I have it, I can........ Because of this, he is extremely stubborn and seems to be particularly bold and able to resist.
Tan Zhen, who was staring at the emperor, also vaguely guessed what Geng Nanzhong's clever plan was through a few words.
To put it bluntly, it is nothing more than borrowing a knife to kill.
It is to kill people with foreign swords.
Geng Nanzhong wanted to lead the Cangbei Army and the Liao State to fight each other, and skillfully forced Zhao Gonglian to lead the Cangbei Army to take the initiative to fight to the death against the Liao State, so as to eradicate Zhao Gonglian, destroy this Cangbei force that only recognizes and supports Zhao Gonglian, and the fact that the imperial court can no longer be effectively controlled, cut off the great trouble that the imperial court is very afraid of but has no good way to clean up and is inconvenient to take, and at the same time, it can also greatly weaken the fierce military strength of the Liao State and the unprecedented huge pressure on the Song State.
Zhao Gonglian is a majestic tiger in his prime, but Liao is also a group of evil wolves.
The tiger fights the wolf, if the two fight to the death, and fight to the end, the result can only be that the single tiger who lacks the support of the imperial court will definitely die, and the powerful wolf pack will also have to suffer heavy casualties.
The more talented Zhao Gonglian is, the more powerful he is that no one can compare, that is, he can create miracles, and with the support of the imperial court, it will be difficult to escape the end of destruction, even if he does not die in the hands of the Liao army, the soldiers are gone, and the power is defeated by the Liao State, and there is no longer any reliance and use value, and the court will also clean up Zhao Gonglian.
At the same time, the Liao State was so hard that it was only a slump by a powerful opponent like Zhao Gonglian, and there were more fierce and powerful tigers in the north that were eyeing and threatening at all times, and the Liao State would definitely be unable to deal with the Song State from now on.
If you play well, even the situation will be completely reversed, and the Song State can take the Liao State as much as you want.......
Defy?
Then cooperate with the Jin army to attack from the north and south, take the opportunity to ask for the life of Liao, and just recover Yanyun...... And all this results did not require the court itself to expend the most precious strength, which was already weak. Killing two birds with one stone or even many birds, but easily and effortlessly........
This trick is high:
Eradicating the hidden dangers of Zhao Gonglian's Cangbei Army to the Song State was originally the Song State's own business, and it was supposed to be dealt with by the Song State itself by consuming unimaginable forces and risks, but it was transformed into the pressure of the Liao State and the Liao State had to face it with all its might. In terms of the plan of killing people with knives, there is also the skill of snipe and clam fighting, but the imperial court, which was the main force of the matter, has turned into a fisherman who can leisurely watch and reap the profits......
With Zhao Gonglian's iron-clad national integrity and the degree of importance he attaches to his family's reputation and historical reputation, it is very likely that he knew that it was the plan of the imperial court but had to fight to the death to prove his noble family character and his own ability and holy temperament. In other words, Geng Nanzhong's poison plan is very likely to be realized.
The bureaucrats educated by Confucianism are best at kidnapping people with moral integrity, and persecuting those gentlemen, righteous men, and capable ministers who truly love the country and the nation and have great integrity...... In order to prove his name, he had to die heroically.
The Cangzhao family perished, Zhao Gonglian, who was too dazzling and hated but could always make people helpless, was humiliated and angry, and had no choice but to shed the last drop of blood, desperately killed, and weakened the Liao State, which was conducive to the interests of the Han nation that the Cangzhao family always liked to emphasize, and the survival and revitalization of the Song Dynasty in the future, but the great credit for this day was his Geng Nanzhong.
Because this is the result of his Geng Nanzhong's independent efforts.
Well, the most credit and fame and the limelight that will be passed down in the annals of history will be given to the emperor who supported him.
Zhao Gonglian, who is a thousand-year-old talent that everyone in the world is in awe of, and Zhao Gonglian, who is also a rebel minister of the Great Song Dynasty, was killed by my Geng Nanzhong's small trick.
The old land of Yanyun, which the Han people had been trying to recover since the beginning of the Song Dynasty, was recovered by my Geng Nanzhong's clever plan. Note that it is easy to recover, and the cost is completely negligible......
Note that the person who suffered from the scourge of piracy, lost national strength to the point of unspeakable loss, and brought the Great Song Dynasty back to prosperity, is I, Geng Nanzhong......
I, Geng Nanzhong, will be the one who saved the entire world with the power of one person, and even the ancient sages are incomparable to the capable ministers.
I will be the great benefactor of the whole world and the benefactor who has reshaped the destiny of the entire nation.......
This is the fanatical dream in Geng Nanzhong's heart.
This clever plan was when he learned that Zhao Gonglian brazenly killed the officials installed by the imperial court in Cangbei and showed the world that he was the de facto lord of Cangbei.
This dream makes Geng Nanzhong's blood boil every time he thinks about it, and he can't help but be excited, and he can't wait for time to fly by quickly to the moment of success.......
Zhao Huan listened to Geng Nanzhong's deception, and also felt that this plan was indeed very likely to succeed, and it was indeed too wonderful to be wonderful.
Because in his heart, the image of Zhao Gonglian is: a fanatical Han nationalist, an iron-clad patriotic gentleman and a warrior, and a righteous man who has the courage to take on the sacrifice of warriors and sacrifices.......
A gentleman can be deceived in a way.
Zhao Gonglian is actually not difficult to deal with, as long as he grasps the things he values most, he can easily control him to do what the controller wants to achieve.
How can an ignorant eunuch like Tan Zhi who is trapped in the palace be more clever than Zhao Huan and Geng Nanzhong, the two monarchs and ministers?
When he guessed Geng Nanzhong's plan, he didn't care at first, and even thought it was too ridiculous.
Zhao Gonglian is such a shrewd person, would he be so stupid and so easy to fall for the scheme? Will it be so easy to be easily pinched by Geng Nanzhong and others with their mouths and fall into passivity, and they have to do it?