Chapter 21: A Difficult Choice
After the dispersal of the dynasty, Huo Guang drove to the prime minister's mansion alone. Walking through the deep corridor of the Prime Minister's Mansion and entering the hall, I saw Yang Yi sitting on the Prime Minister's throne tidying up his slips. Hugh Mu is the prerogative of officials. Every five days, the imperial court gave officials a day off to relax. At the same time, it is also an opportunity to give officials the opportunity to sort out and record what they have done in the past five days.
This is also the art of ruling that has been developed by the ruling class since the Qin Dynasty. Starting from the grassroots Baishi officials, everyone is required to regularly report to their bosses a job brief. The slip uses the heavenly and terrestrial branches as a table to record the important administrative process of officials, as well as what they have seen, heard, and thought. Through this slip, the superiors learned what the officials below were doing.
Moreover, these slips are made in duplicate. One report to the boss and one for yourself. A hundred years later, when this official died, his descendants would respectfully bury the slip that recorded his journey as an official during his lifetime and place it near his coffin. Thousands of years later, the descendants dug up the graves of these ancestors and found these slips, through which the descendants refreshed their cognition and views on the Qin and Han dynasties.
A piece of slips unearthed in different periods and different regions vividly present the daily life of Qin and Han officials and the process of patrolling and governing the local area. In this way, many truths that have been buried and even falsified by history have been destroyed. Compared with the Qin Dynasty's Jian Mu report, the Han dynasty developed a more advanced and complex reporting method. It should no longer be a simple one. It should be called a briefing! It has become the prototype of the original policy address.
It looks a bit like a wall calendar from later generations. It is rectangular, three feet wide and seven feet long, to symbolize the dignity of the law and the gentlemanly demeanor of the officials. The whole briefing is bound from twine. It is divided into twelve months in total, with one page per month.
Yang Yi didn't care about Huo Guang who came alone, even if he had already seen it. Yang Yi vented his dissatisfaction in this way, and continued to hand in his work report with a gloomy mood. In fact, Yang Yi himself knew in his heart that he was swaying last night. No matter which side can't tolerate himself, as the prime minister, what are the responsibilities of the prime minister?
In the impression of the world, it is - Shangsa Tianzi Li Yin and Yang. At the fourth time, it is appropriate to nurture all things, to calm the princes of Siyi outside, and to pro-people inside, so that the doctors perform their duties. The prime minister of Gai Cheng is a country with virtue and wings, and he leads a hundred people, and concords with all countries, and he has a heavy responsibility for his job! In short, in a nutshell. As a prime minister, the most important duty is to be able to take responsibility and shoulder the heavy responsibility of the country at a critical moment.
Yang Yi laughed at himself in his heart: He may be the most incompetent prime minister of the Han Dynasty. did not take advantage of the situation to become the head of the deposed emperor faction, and even more qualified than Huo Guang. The second best thing to do is to ensure that Liu He arrests Du Yannian and Bingji. The soldiers of Chang'an County can also confront Huo Guang and others, even if Liu He is deposed later. But when Liu Yi has been established as the Son of Heaven, he can also be invincible. But I chose to become a bystander, the most unsuccessful choice.
Huo Guang didn't make a sound to disturb Yang Yi's movements, he just quietly looked at his children's in-laws. Every time Yang Yi is promoted, he has his own efforts behind it. It was he who kept his children and in-laws again and again. Therefore, if there is no one in this world who knows Yang Yi better than himself. Seeing Xiaoli dying, he did big things and spared his life. This is not a very obvious shortcoming among ordinary people, but it is fatal as a politician. did not have the decisiveness he should have in times of crisis, looking forward and backward like a woman, and hesitating, which is also the main reason why he did not conspire with Yang Yi.
If Yang Yi was a little hesitant in that brief secret meeting. may be difficult to save their lives on the spot, Zhang Anshi, Du Yannian, Bingji and others are not soft-hearted people. Draw your sword and get up, sit and kill. This result must be predictable, "Heaven is constant, not for Yaocun, not for ruin......" Huo Guang read Xunzi's famous sentence: "If it should be cured, it will be auspicious, and if it should be chaotic, it will be fierce!" "If you are strong and economizeal, you can't be poor; When you are ready to move, you can't get sick; If you follow the road and do not follow the path, then the sky cannot be a disaster! This is out of the category of the so-called Mandate of Heaven and Providence that everyone verbally says, and it is almost not directly said: The Mandate of Heaven is a p, and those who are strong and strong have the Mandate of Heaven!
Any person of insight, a conscious bureaucrat, understands and is clear.
The mandate of heaven, the will of heaven, benevolence, righteousness and morality, etc., are said to the common people and the people below.
If you believe it, that's really stupid!
For most of the aristocratic bureaucrats who have gone through the bloody storm and are accustomed to seeing the rise and fall of the tumbling.
They believe in what Wu Zixu said: people will be able to defeat the sky, and the sky will be able to defeat people!
This is also a famous saying that has always been implemented in the Chinese dynasties, the game of monarchy and vassal.
The courtiers are powerful, and they set the emperor in the air and shape him into a puppet, and he also has a beautiful name: hanging the arch and ruling the holy son of heaven.
On the contrary, the imperial power is strong, and the ministers can only be a sound worm waving the flag and shouting, and a good baby who obediently obeys orders and follows the saddle before and after the horse.
This is called the Son of Heaven with the constitution of heaven in his mouth, and he is the law of the world in one word.
And specifically for the officials and doctors.
The elite among them is very clear about individuals, families, ideals, and ambitions.
You are yourself, your family is your family, and your ideal is your ideal. When it comes to mouth cannons, everyone is high-sounding. But the actual action is self-evident, at that time when the future of the family and the life of the individual are important. This kind of hesitant person must be excluded, and it will be the same if Huo Guang makes a new choice.
Seeing Yang Yi's face like ashes, Huo Guang was also in a low mood. Because there is only one death in front of Yang Yi, and even death is merciful to Yang Yi. Because, Yang Yi did not resign immediately. However, the Son of Heaven has made a constitution and is extraordinary. There is a saying: The king wants the minister to die, and the minister has to die! And Yang Yi's political sense may not have thought of this.........................
Everyone has to make their own choice, whether it is Yang Yi or Huo Guang himself. Huo Fu beside him also quietly came to him, his childhood playmate of the same clan, followed him to become the chief butler of Huo Mansion and his own cronies and retainers. Originally, his name was not called Fu, but he changed it for him.
Huo Fu is a different word with the same phone, and he has no idea what he is doing, and the mediocrity disturbs himself. The mediocrity of the world, ancient and modern, is defeated by one thought. This is also the purpose of giving him this name, reminding himself that good and bad can change rapidly in an instant.
Thinking of this, Huo Guang walked outside quietly. Huo Fu also followed Huo Guang closely outside, quietly waiting for Huo Guang's instructions. Looking at the clouds in the sky, he spoke for a while: Huo Fu, Madam is sick, you go and take good care of it!。
Huo Fu sighed, just quietly turned to leave. Leaving Huo Guang alone, he continued to look aimlessly at the clouds in the distance.....................................................