Wei Bao is indeed a historic problem for Gu Bingqian now.

It is no wonder that Zhang Weixian is so confident, Gu Bingqian will be named, and he will replace Wei Bao in this notebook.

The amount of national tax revenue of the two dynasties is a mystery in itself.

There is no document in later generations that can fully reflect the specific fiscal revenue and expenditure figures of the two dynasties of Tianqi and Chongzhen.

The Ming Dynasty can be called a complete figure of fiscal revenue and expenditure, and it is only the sixth year of Wanli.

Since the opening of the ban in Longqing, both silver inflow and fiscal revenue have become an important source of revenue for the imperial court.

Since the opening of the ban in Longqing, customs duties have become an important source of income for the imperial court.

In the sixth year of Wanli, all the national financial revenue was converted into silver, totaling 18,100,167.73 taels.

Among them, Tian Fu totaled 16,197,189.70 taels, accounting for 89.49%; The banknote customs 402308 taels, accounting for 2.22%.

How much was the customs tariff during the Wanli period?

Fujian: "East and West Foreign Examination": "The military needs of this government are often scarce, that is, Longqing opened a foreign tax, only a few thousand gold, and increased to 10,000 taels in Wanli. In 13 years, the tax was increased to more than 20,000. ”

It's only 20,000 taels, and it can't even compare to a fraction of Tian Fu.

Guangdong: "Guangdong Enlistment Book": The original amount of Yibo salary was 26,000 taels of silver, and because there was too much shortage, in the 34th year of Wanli, the two houses of the division discussed in detail, and allowed a reduction of 4,000 taels, and the actual amount was 22,000 taels.

The customs tax is not even a fraction of the income from the fields.

Under the governance of Wei's father-in-law, a lot of silver was in arrears.

Eighteen years after Jiajing, the Ming court abolished most of the eunuchs in the country, leaving only the eunuchs in Nanjing, Fengyang, Chengtian, Taiheshan and other places.

In the sixth year of the Apocalypse, Ming Xizong held high the banner of "Chengzu Old System" and sent internal officials to guard the place again, and the eunuchs who guarded the eunuchs were Liaodong, Shanhai, Jizhen, Xuanda, Shanxi, and Phidao.

However, this decision of Ming Xizong was fiercely opposed by Gu Bingqian, Huang Liji, Feng Quan, Wang Shaohui and others.

Are Wei Gonggong's loyal generals Gu Bingqian, Huang Liji, Feng Quan, and Wang Shaohui also Donglin Party? They are all eunuchs.

Wei Bao once thought about a question, why could Li Zicheng overthrow the Ming Dynasty, and why couldn't the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom overthrow the Qing Dynasty?

It was also the end of the dynasty, the end of the Qing Dynasty was even more corrupt, and the peasant army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was also more powerful than Li Zicheng's peasant army, why did the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom fail to overthrow the Qing government.

The Habsburgs of the 17th century were rubbish compared to the great powers of the 19th century.

Neither did they send financial experts to help the Ming Dynasty take care of the city's shipping department and supervise the Ming Dynasty's collection of taxes according to regulations, nor did they send special envoys to the interior with the backing of the Invincible Armada to warn Zhang Xianzhong that he was not allowed to enter the treaty port of Wuhan Three Towns.

also did not send the Marine Corps to defend Jiangnan and keep the money bag of the Ming Dynasty.

Not to mention that the veterans and ronins after the Thirty Years War were laid off and re-employed, Wallenstein served as the chief military officer and military adviser in Daming, and directly intervened in the command and training of the army.

Although the defeat of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had its own big problems, it would be wrong to think that the role played by foreigners in it was not important.

Although the Tianjing Incident was a devastating blow to the ideology and organizational structure of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Xianfeng Beijia caused by the Ercrow also dealt a huge blow to the prestige of the Qing court, and even the high-ranking civil and military officials who remained in Beijing were not optimistic about the future when they communicated with the British and French envoys in private, and Zeng Guofan's behavior during that time was also very subtle.

At this time, the attitude of the foreign powers became the weight of the scales.

Therefore, although there were many people who were sympathetic to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and even the House of Commons, the Conservative-controlled House of Lords finally chose to help the Qing court tide over the crisis, and took measures such as suspending diplomatic contacts with the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom, warning the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom not to attack treaty ports, ordering its own merchants not to trade with the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom, helping the Qing court to transport troops, dispatching military advisers to assist the Qing court in training the army, and even personally fighting Li Xiucheng in the Jiangnan area.

Considering the projection capacity at that time, this was basically the limit of the intervention of the great powers.

Therefore, it is not a lie in the textbook to say that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was strangled by Chinese and foreign reactionary forces.

As far as the Ming and Qing dynasties themselves are concerned, the core problems faced at the end of the period are actually similar, all of them are that the population exceeds the limit of the land carrying capacity, but in the Ming Dynasty, the population of Shaanxi first exceeded the limit of the land carrying capacity, and in the Qing Dynasty, the population of the two regions of Guangxi and Guangxi was the first to enter the limit due to the influence of a crow.

The differences are mainly in these aspects.

Ming learned the lesson of the Tang Dynasty and did not let go of regimental training when suppressing the peasant uprising, which led to poor resilience to the uprising, and once the Central Army was destroyed, it would be a bloody collapse.

The Qing Dynasty learned the lessons of the Ming Dynasty, and finally decided to let go of the group training after the Eight Banners of the descendants were beaten all the way, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom not only had to fight with the Eight Banners, but also had to condense the nucleus with the local tyrants who had organized it, such as the bloody battle of the Hunan Army, and China was full of Wude Heights.

When the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom first rose to prominence, its policies were too radical and basically did not leave enough room for the gentry to cooperate.

In the middle of the period, it was difficult to create a formal government in Tianjing, and the Tianjing Incident was abolished by itself.

Later, after gradually turning to nationalist propaganda, they made some progress in cooperation with the local gentry, but the strong support of the Qing court by the foreigners made it difficult for them to make up their minds to go to the ship of heaven.

In general, it did not do well in enlisting the support of the gentry.

Dashun does not do well in this regard, the wise man sees wisdom, but in fact, it is okay, Dashun's slogan has not taken off the traditional set of changing the dynasty, and Xiangyang has generally done well in recruiting local gentry after the establishment of the system.

The collapse of Jiashennian was not so much a plunder as a strategic decision-making error.

After all, the recruitment of young talents in Beijing along with the Fusha has achieved great results, and even Zhou Zhong, the head of the Fushe, drafted a document for Dashun's southern expedition, saying that the god of war in Coal Mountain is "more violent than the war".

At the leadership level, Li Zicheng's personal charm and talent are actually okay, corporal Lixian, lenient treatment of people have done, even if the Ming history that greatly discredits him, he admits that he lives a simple life and can share the joys and sorrows with the soldiers.

And Ahong's image in the records left by both Chinese and foreign people does not seem to be very good, but the political skills are actually not black, dancing on the eggs of the Eight Banners, Han officials, conservatives, and Westernists to maintain balance.

But on the other hand, her own desire for power and scheming is not a good thing for the country, and the typical example is the Gengzi National Rebellion.

It is really not possible to maintain such a complex political environment when changing love to Xinjueluo, and this is also the case.

And Ming Sizong's technique, employment, and policy are indeed two words -.

The last point is that although the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was still within the framework of the ancient peasant uprising, it already had the germ of a new period of revolution, so it is not suitable to compare the success or failure of the classical peasant uprising, including the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty.

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's emphasis on the construction, propagation, and use of ideology was markedly different from traditional religious uprisings, such as the Boxer Rebellion.

The blueprint for modernization drawn up by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom after its exchanges with the West pointed to another possibility outside the traditional path, which is extremely meaningful and will be repeated to varying degrees in the future.

Although the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom failed to overthrow the Qing government, its anti-Qing nationalist propaganda and indirect push for Han landlords to seize power played an important role in the eventual collapse of the Qing dynasty.

And Li Zicheng's conquest of Beijing was the glorious peak of the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and then because of his eagerness for quick success, he was entered by the Eight Banners Army to pick peaches.

It can be said that although the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom failed, it marked the dawn of a new era.

Although Li Zicheng succeeded in overthrowing the central government in Beijing in the Ming Dynasty, it was the beginning of the tragedy of the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, from the macro perspective of history, it is really difficult to say who is more successful.

Those who said that Zhu Youxiao reused Wei Gonggong to play chess were illiterate, without exception.

Why, it's very simple, Zhu Youxiao's reuse of Wei Gonggong was not after the complete break with Donglin in the fourth year of the Apocalypse, but shortly after Zhu Youxiao ascended the throne in the first year of Taichang.

On the first day of August in the first year of Taichang, the light temple ascended to the pole, and it was planned to set up the first emperor as the east palace.

It was the time when the Xian Shang listed the treasury title, secretly conspired with the Hakka family, and then deliberately supported the Wang eunuch An, and the Hakka happened to welcome him, and he was indispensable, so he was the official of the East Palace Catering Bureau, and this lack of Ke's strength was also.

One was only listed in August 1620, and then it was only the official of the East Palace Dining Bureau, and after the apocalypse ascended to the throne, it can be said that he jumped like a rocket to the imperial horse eunuch Wei Jinzhong to supervise Bao and Sandian.

On September 24 of the first year of Taichang and the first emperor ascended the throne for a few months, the two of them became jealous of each other because of their favor, and they were drunk and scolded each other in the warm pavilion of the Qianqing Palace. When the leakage will be on the night, the first emperor has gone to bed, and suddenly from the front of the emperor, the master of ceremonies and supervisors Lu Shou, Dongchang Zou Yi, Bingbi Wang An, Li Shi, Wang Tiqian, Gao Shiming, Shen Yin, Song Jin, etc. were all shocked.

At that time, the Wei Dynasty had changed its name to the kingdom and was promoted to the manager of the Qing Palace, and he knelt before the emperor to listen to the punishment.

From the official of the East Palace Catering Bureau in August of the first year of Taichang to the end of the first year of Taichang, Gonggong Wei has been promoted from the official of the East Palace Catering Bureau to Baohe and other three stores, and then promoted to the director of the ceremonial supervisor Bingbi to take charge of the salary division.

According to Liu Ruoyu, in the early years of the Apocalypse, he was in charge of the salary department, the inner government supply warehouse, the Shangshan supervision and seal, and the supervision of treasures and other stores.

The confidential position held by the eunuch of the clerical room, which was usually held by the eunuch of the clerical room, was taken by Gonggong Wei in just a few months.

That is, Liu Ruoyu said: Reverse Xian from the first winter of Taichang to promote Bingbi, where illiterate and among the writers, Mu Temple Meng Chong, Temple Zhang Ming, Emperor Wei Zhongxian, Sun Xian, Wang Dynasty Fu five people.

This kind of rapid rise and exceptional promotion is obviously not how high Grandpa Wei's own ability is, but Grandpa Wei's service to Xizong since he was a child, and as the old eunuch of the East Palace, Grandpa Wei received a reward from Xizong.

Liu Ruoyu, who is also the chief eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch, recorded the situation of Wei Gonggong and Xizong when they were young.

The light temple is weak in the green palace, after the birth of the first emperor, the biological mother of the talented Wang Lao Niangniang no one to do the meal, the virtuous then entered the palace, the food of the talented people and the first emperor, and its introduction of the introduction of the Wei Dynasty.

The contact between Gonggong Wei and Zhu Youxiao was originally introduced by the Wei Dynasty, and Gonggong Wei handled meals for Xizong and his biological mother Wang Cairen.

Virtuous and cunning, in the name of running meals, in the ten libraries of the ministers such as medicine Zhang, etc., all deceive their food, sauce or property, play well, and even out of time fruits, flowers, etc., will be skillfully taken, and donated to the emperor to fix the favor.

Wanli time palace Lu is not constant, and the emperor and grandson suffer. The eunuchs joked: Long live Your Majesty, long live Your Highness. My generation treats the petty officials' families to ascend to the pole, and Hongen has a clear ear. And the loyal and virtuous are respectful, and when they drink, they want to eat.

Wei Zhongxian must have relied on this opportunity to often get close to the young Xizong, offering him all kinds of playthings, and laying a certain emotional foundation with him, which was incomparable to the bureaucrats of the outer court in any way.

In fact, from what Xizong himself said later, you can also feel Xizong's feelings for Wei Zhongxian.

When the emperor was examined in the Spring Palace, I was in my swaddling clothes, and I relied on the guards, and after the ascension of the Holy Mother, I was worried about the danger, and I was full of them, and I was always loyal and virtuous.

When the emperor was dying, Zeng Yun: The inner servant is loyal and upright, does not avoid the deeds, and is the only one who hears this person.

It can be seen that Gonggong Wei's rise step by step is neither a banner nor an outstanding ability, the essence is the old eunuch of the Qinggong, who has the merit of nursing, and is gradually promoted as a confidant eunuch of Xizong.

It can be compared to Xizong Zhu Youxiao's father, Guangzong Zhu Changluo promoted Zou Yi.

At the beginning of Wanli Gengshenqiu, the temple Bintian, the light temple read the seal bureau Lang Zou Yi Qiandi Laojiu, Shengbing pen palm east factory and Shangshan supervision seal.

Once a son of heaven and a courtier, Zou Yi was promoted to the supervisor of ceremonies, the supervisor of the East Factory, and the supervisor of Shangshan, relying on working in Zhu Changluo's mansion for a long time.

Similarly, Gonggong Wei was able to be promoted to the head of the Salary Department and Admiral Baohe Sandian in a short period of time, also because of the long work in Zhu Changluo and Zhu Youxiao's mansion.

Gonggong Wei hooked up with the Hakka clan and kicked away his benefactor Wei Dynasty, and then he interacted with the Hakka clan in a bright and bright manner, which further increased his weight in Xizong's heart.

The reason is also very simple, the Hakka family is too important to Xizong, and even inseparable, the reasons are varied, but the main one is nothing more than the Hakka family taking care of Xizong's daily life since childhood.

It can be seen from Xizong's edict that he has feelings for the Hakka family.

The Ministry of War and other yamen received the holy edict: cover the extravagant merits, and the imperial court has a chapter of retribution; Grace Pu was awarded, and his subordinates had no thoughts of going to the corner. I used to be in my infancy, my temperament was pure and empty, and I relied on the Holy Lady Hakka to work hard and defend diligently. Unfortunately, the emperor is a flea and a day old, and she bears the weight of care. All of them are conscientious and cautious, prepared for hardships and dangers, and have experienced sixteen years. and the emperor Kao ascended to the extreme moon, abandoned the ministers, I was young, and lost my fear. Since inheriting the ancestors Hongxu, he is in the palace, and he is relying on the holy lady to adjust it, and the suffering is doubled. In addition, he has repeatedly donated his own money, supporting bridge workers and mausoleum workers, and helping the army to build. Thinking about the achievements of the Qinggong, Zeng Cheng bowed and bowed, and he was anxious for many times, and Yide Yimao. Who is the one who can compare with the ancient and modern champions? The courtiers of the outer court, that can know everything. Jane is in my heart, Yuzi has been in the seventeenth year, and Gai can't bear to forget it for a moment. Today, the three halls of the imperial court are celebrated, and the sound is repeated, and I feel nostalgic for the past, and I am still good. Poetry is not cloudy: no virtue is not rewarded, and the holy lady can be specially graced and shaded, and used to show the special scriptures. Even if the ministry is ready to be safe, it will be heard quickly, and it will be remembered and remembered by Jian Yuangong, and the emperor's will will be followed. Encyclical.

Looking at this edict, and then contacting Xizong's description of Wei's father-in-law before, it is very simple, this is the feeling for the father and the nurse, this kind of relationship from childhood to adulthood is not something that can be changed by a few ministers of the outer court casually impeached.

Xizong's reward for Wei Zhongxian was not started four years after the Apocalypse, in September of the first year of Taichang, his brother Wei Zhao was a thousand households of Jinyi Wei, and in the first month of the first year of the Apocalypse because of Wei Zhongxian's guards, he recorded the completion of the mausoleum work, and in September of that year, Xizong also specially removed the name of Gao Shiming, and Wei Zhongxian was dismissed by Wei Zhongxian.

In the first month of the second year of the Apocalypse and in July of the third year of the Apocalypse, it can be imagined that Xizong favored Gonggong Wei.

In addition, the impeachment of Wei Zhongxian did not begin in June of the fourth year of the Apocalypse.

In September of the first year of Taichang, Yang Lian impeached Wei Zhongxian for participating in the treasure theft case, and it was later found that Wei Gonggong had nothing to do with the case.

Then Liu Zongzhou, Zhou Zongjian, Wang Ji, Fang Daren, Wang Xinyi, etc. all impeached Wei Zhongxian, Hakka and others one after another.

Gonggong Wei is getting bigger and bigger in the inner court, and in the second half of the third year of the Apocalypse, he also took charge of the East Factory, but Liu Yixie, Zhou Jiamo, Wang Ji and others have gone to the throne.

When Donglin was in the Ying Dynasty in the outer court, he couldn't resist the Ying Dynasty of Gonggong Wei in the inner court.

Wang Tiqian was in charge of the seal of the ceremony, and the anti-virtuous was both stealing the handle, so he promoted Liang Dong, Zhu Dong, Shi Bin, Pei Sheng, and Zhang Wenyuan to Bingbi, and killed the Wang eunuch An, and re-expelled Liu Kejing, who was originally elected to the Xi Temple, to Fengyang and also killed him, and reprimanded Shen Yin of Zhangdongchang and Song and Jin, and expelled the minister Wang Ji.

Gu Bingqian looked at Wei Bao's eyes, and Wei Bao's gaze was very clear.

"Are you really willing to give up the Governor of Haiphong's Yamen and let someone else be the Governor? You don't want anything, you just want Da Ming to collect the silver? Gu Bingqian asked suspiciously.

"Naturally!" Wei Bao said: "I am loyal to Your Majesty and to the Ming Dynasty, and the sun and the moon can be learned." ”

Gu Bingqian nodded, his impression of Wei Bao changed greatly, and he really couldn't see that Wei Bao was actually a loyal minister?

Greed is greedy, but not all corrupt officials are disloyal.

Gu Bingqian has seen too many officials, including himself who is hugely greedy, but Gu Bingqian thinks that when he should be loyal to Daming and His Majesty, he Gu Bingqian will not be worse than others!

"Sir, otherwise, the old man and you will play together, what do you think?" Gu Bingqian took a step back and was moved by Wei Bao's words.

Wei Bao smiled and told Gu Bingqian a story about Bai Qi, the god of war of the Great Qin Empire.

The god of war Bai Qi surrounded the 450,000 Zhao army with 160,000 Qin soldiers, killed 250,000, and surrendered 200,000, and all these 200,000 soldiers were killed.

Bai Qi himself was unwilling and could not bear to kill the pawns, but he had to kill them when the king's order could not be violated.

Not to mention, but when he wanted to take advantage of the victory to capture Handan, the idea of eliminating Zhao was vetoed by King Qin Zhaoxiang, and half a year later, King Qin Zhaoxiang asked him to lead troops to attack Handan again.

King Zhaoxiang once again asked him to go on an expedition to save the defeat, and he said: For the sake of a general, he knows that he cannot win the battle, but he still has to sacrifice the lives of soldiers, he cannot do this.

Since then, whether it is Prime Minister Fan Sui's threats and temptations, or the king's pressure and supervision, he can't shirk it.

It is rare for a courtier under the autocratic royal power to cherish the lives of soldiers in this way, for the national interests of the Qin State, the interests of the people and the long-term interests of the king, so disregarding his personal safety, no wonder he can become the god of war.

The god of war can put the interests of the country and the lives of soldiers first, judge the situation, and make correct decisions based on reality without interference. This is the basic rule.

King Zhaoxiang was concerned with "Where did you put me?" ”

However, as the supreme king of a country, King Qin Zhaoxiang attached more importance to his own rights, the loyalty of his courtiers to him, and his absolute obedience to himself.

As for the interests of the state, the interests of the population, the lives of soldiers, that is secondary.

In the face of Bai Qi, the god of war, his thorough analysis of the prospects of the war, he obviously knew that the god of war was right, but what annoyed him was that you kept talking about the interests of the Qin State and the lives of soldiers, "Where did you put me?" ”

Whether this is the case or not, I don't want to explore.

Confucianism believes that under the whole world, it is not the king's minister, and the shore of the land is not the king's land.

The king is always above his subjects and above the community. Perhaps the playwright was dissatisfied with this, so he created such a plot.

Rulers who have risen to the top of society rarely put the interests of the people and the country above their own.

The reckless Ming Taizu killed the heroes, and what he wanted was to stabilize the highest position for his children and grandchildren.

Zhao Kuangyin, who seized the highest position from the hands of orphans and widows, released his military power with a cup of wine, and was worried that the generals would launch a mutiny like him.

is Li Shimin, who has been praised by that generation, and he only knows that "water can carry a boat and can also overturn a boat", so he implemented a relaxed policy on "water", how could he have put the interests of the people and the interests of the country in the first place?

For the sake of officials, it is necessary to put the interests of those in power, especially the interests of the supreme ruler, first, and this is the unspoken rule of officialdom.

After all, the loyal ministers lost to the cunning.

King Qin Zhaoxiang and Fan Ju had a separate conversation, and King Qin Zhaoxiang clearly said that Fan Ju was a sinister and treacherous villain, but said that he liked Fan Ju because Fan Ju could absolutely obey him and do what he liked.

This is the relationship between those in power and the cunning.

But the loyal ministers are different.

The god of war Bai Qi believes in his own ability, his status is fought out in the sword and sword shadow of birth and death, and his reputation as a god of war is based on his bloody struggle.

Therefore, the reason he believes is the interests of the state and society, the blood of soldiers, and the unbreakable law of war.

Such a good minister has never been liked by those in power, but those in power are forced to use it due to the needs of the situation.

As soon as those in power decide that they have lost their usefulness, these good ministers will be discarded.

Sima Qian's "all the birds fly, the good bow is hidden, the rabbit dies, and the hunting dog cooks" is the meaning.

When the god of war Bai Qi refused to go out on the expedition when the king himself came to the door, he was first dismissed from his post and then given to death.

The god of war Bai relied on the ability to win a hundred battles, and Fan Ju relied on the mouth of a stammer.

The ability to fight can't be lip service, and the god of war and good ministers are defeated by treacherous villains.

Throughout history, this has also been a rule.

Loyal ministers, loyal to whom?

China's traditional thinking regards "loyalty" as an extremely important moral requirement for all citizens, and Chinese history is full of praise and praise for loyal ministers.

On the surface, this is absolute positive energy.

But the death of the god of war Bai Qi clearly raises a new question.

A courtier should be loyal, but to whom?

Loyalty to the country, loyalty to the people, or loyalty to the emperor or king alone.

The Confucian tradition particularly emphasizes the "monarch and the minister", emphasizing that "the whole world is no one but the king's minister", and the "loyalty" advocated is always loyalty to the supreme ruler, the emperor or king, and this loyalty is unconditional and absolute.

This is what people often say, "The king calls the minister to die, and the minister has to die".

Even if this gentleman is a perverse faint king, a tyrannical and unscrupulous thief.

The so-called "Confucius wrote the Spring and Autumn Period, and the rebellious ministers and thieves were afraid" is actually this kind of unreasonable loyalty advocated.

The most typical case is the "Zhao Dun Murder of the King" case.

A tyrant who ignores the government, indulges in joy, cares about human life, and kills people for fun.

He did not care about the lives of the people, and looted the people's fat and ointment to decorate his palace.

He openly took pleasure in shooting people with a strong bow and a crossbow in the palace, and killed the cook because the boiled bear paws did not suit his appetite, and favored the courtiers and killed Zhongliang.

Zhao Dun, the old minister of Tuogu, was diligent in political affairs, made decisions for the people, and served himself and public service, and was disgusted by him many times, so he sent a warrior to assassinate Zhao Dun, who admired Zhao Dun's loyalty, and died by touching Huai, in order to show that he could not kill loyal ministers or disobey the king's orders.

When the assassination failed, he wanted to kill Zhao Dun at the banquet, and the warrior Ti Miming sacrificed himself to save Zhao Dun.

Zhao Dun escaped from the Jin Kingdom to avoid trouble, and halfway through, the news came that Zhao Piercing had killed the tyrant.

The subjects of the Jin State were all happy about this, but the historian Dong Hu recorded "Zhao Dun killed his king" in the history books and publicized it to the public.

Confucius clearly evaluated Dong Hu's integrity and criticized Zhao Dun as a rebellious minister who "killed the king".

This is the Confucian concept of loyalty.

The emperor can be unreasonable, and his subjects cannot be disloyal. The so-called loyalty is loyalty to the king, not to the country, not to the people.

Bai Qi, the god of war, thinks about the Qin people everywhere, is loyal, and has no two hearts.

But his tragedy lies precisely in his loyalty.

He is loyal to the country of Great Qin, and what he loves is the lives of the people and soldiers of Qin, and the overall and long-term interests of the people of the country, which happens to violate the taboo of the king.

From the point of view of a dictator and a king, the more loyal you are to the state and the people, the more uneasy you are.

The reason is very simple, if you can disobey the people of the country today, you may oppose or even betray the king tomorrow for the sake of the people of the country.

Because of this, the god of war Bai Qi can't die, he has to die.

The people are precious, the community is secondary, and the monarch is light.

This view of Yasheng Mencius is just talking, and throughout Chinese history, it has been practiced by successive dynasties.

The so-called Great Confucian executed.

Recognized as a patriotic and loyal minister, Yue Fei, he is a famous anti-Jin general, but his anti-Jin does not mean anything for the people and the country.

Historical facts clearly show that for the sake of the king's rule, he can give up the lost land that has been recovered, and lead the Yuejia army to leave the anti-Jin front line to Dongting Lake to brutally suppress the peasant army.

After suppressing the peasant army, he went on another northern expedition, after the victory of Zhuxian Town, the Jin people were timid, and the people in the enemy-occupied areas responded one after another, and the situation was very good, but he gave up all the recovered land because of the golden decree of the emperor Lao'er, and withdrew the soldiers to the south of the Yangtze River.

He is loyal enough to Emperor Zhao and Song, as for the country and the nation, as well as the people trampled by the iron hooves of the Jin people, and the countless soldiers who died in the War of Resistance against Jin, he doesn't care.

But just like that, he was still executed by Song Gaozong Zhao Gou.

Zhao Gou's ancestors once stipulated that officials above the seventh rank could not be sentenced to death, and throughout the history of the Zhao and Song dynasties, Yue Fei was the only state official who was executed, and it was a very strange crime - trumped-up.

It is unwarranted to put it bluntly, it is because Yue Fei said, "Directly smash the Yellow Dragon and welcome back the two saints, the two emperors of Huiqin, these two saints may threaten the status of Gaozong."

Offended the interests of the supreme ruler.

Yue Fei is still like this, how can the emperor tolerate any minister who puts the people and the society before himself.

Gu Bingqian listened to Wei Bao say a lot, and he was dizzy, "What do you mean?" Sir, you are extremely smart, you are afraid of being said, you want me to take the pot alone? ”

"It's only Shousuke-sama who takes the pot alone, otherwise I'll play alone." Wei Bao said a little justified.

Gu Bingqian almost didn't faint, "Why should I take the pot alone, this was originally an idea that Lord Wei came up with alone, and it has nothing to do with the old man, the old man is willing to play with you, isn't this still helping you?" You want to let the old man take the pot alone, you really can't say it, right? ”

"Shousuke-sama, you've been talking to me for a long time, and you don't understand?" Wei Bao said with a smile: "I know that this matter is a taboo, it will offend the landlords of the world, and it is also a taboo of His Majesty. So, it's a lot of pressure. ”