This time Wang Xuan also prepared a lot of things, and he also understood that many things had to be done this time, but he didn't expect that this time things would become so complicated, and he didn't expect Zhao Guangyi to be so ruthless, but this time the matter is also very inevitable, at this moment, Wang Shu has decided to get rid of Ye Dong to prevent future troubles, otherwise raising tigers will be endless!

Why do you have to do it? Since the Qin Dynasty unified the whole country and began to centralize, no dynasty can exceed 300 years, and the time node of 300 years is like a spell, fixing the fate of Chinese dynasties before that time node.

There is a sentence in the "Historical Records" that we are familiar with is like this: "The birds are exhausted, the good bow is hidden, the cunning rabbit is dead, and the lackeys are cooked", we are all familiar with a sentence, that is, there are many people who can accompany the emperor to fight the country, but most of them will not have a good end, and there are many emperors who have killed the founding heroes in history, and we are most familiar with Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang, these two emperors are all born in cloth, and those emperors who are themselves from famous nobles are different, after they become emperors, they are especially afraid that someone will take their throne, so on, They killed many heroes during this period to ensure the absolute security of the throne for future generations.

After Liu Bang seized the world, he killed Han Xin, Lu Xuan, Peng Yue, Yingbu, etc., who fought the world with him, and most of these people who were killed were kings with different surnames. And another Zhu Yuanzhang, after becoming emperor, killed more founding heroes, among which Hu Weiyong and Lan Yu killed the most, it is said that there are more than 30,000 people, and Li Shanchang, the first strategist of the founding of the country, is also unable to escape death.

The founding emperor liked to kill heroes so much, not that they liked to kill, but there was a certain reason, after the emperor sat on the dragon chair, his mind was different from the ministers who accompanied him to fight the world, the emperors thought that they would have a long period of stability, these people could continue to assist themselves, and their throne could be inherited for eternity, and the ministers wanted to seal the territory and become a prince, so that they could eat and spend the rest of their lives in peace. At the beginning of the uprising, the emperor and the ministers had a common goal, that is, to overthrow the current ruler, so the two sides had a common goal, so they could get along peacefully, and once the matter was completed, the emperor wanted to restrain the ministers, and the ministers wanted to enjoy the right to freedom under one person and above ten thousand, and the contradictions between the two sides also arose. Why are most of the good emperors in history ruthless and murderous without blinking? Let's first tell the story of Mencius meeting King Liang Xiang: Mencius went to see King Liang Xiang, and King Liang Xiang asked Mencius what kind of person can rule the world. Mencius replied: Only those who do not like to kill can rule the world. Here, we will not evaluate Mencius's thought on statecraft, and will not discuss the scope of application and judgment of this criterion. The point I want to say in ancient times is that the reason why Mencius attached such importance to the criterion of "not liking to kill" was as Mencius said: "There is no one who does not love to kill people."

Yes, "the king wants his ministers to die, but the ministers dare not die", ministers are like this, let alone ordinary people. Since ancient times, kings, because they have the power of life and death of all the people in the world, have been associated with killing and blood all their lives. Needless to say, even Li Shimin, who was regarded as the representative of the virtuous emperor, followed his father in the early days, and committed suicide from his brother and brother. After liquidation, most of those virtuous emperors who are famous in history will not escape the charge of a serious murderer.

The law of blood reward for imperial power

Wu Si's invention of the law of blood reward is like this: What do robbers, bandits, warlords, and all kinds of violent groups live on? Paid by blood. The so-called blood reward is the reward for violence, just as wages are the reward for labor, interest is the reward for capital, and land rent is the reward for land. However, violence does not directly participate in value creation, and the value of blood reward is determined by the value of the goal of the struggle. If the object of violence is a person, such as a ticket kidnapping, its value depends on the willingness and financial resources of the person concerned to avoid harm. This is the law of blood reward.

For the struggle for imperial power and the violent tendencies of the emperor, the law of blood reward also applies. Studying history, we sadly find that the emperor's achievements are often proportional to the number of killings he kills, and the more people killed, the greater the reward. The survival game in the real imperial power is so cruel. In Chinese history, a large amount of resources and wealth were distributed according to the ability to kill and destroy, and the destructive power directly shaped the social structure and directly determined the social status and the boundaries of rights and obligations of each social group.

Isn't it, in history, what emperor didn't have blood on his hands? The more majestic and strategic, the more murderous it is. For example, in the history books of various countries, Temujin is almost always described as a great emperor, one of the greatest successes in the history of the world. In the book "Genghis Khan", the Japanese scholar Saburo Ota called him "the hero of the world's ancient and modern world", and "Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, etc., have a great foundation and a great field, so they cannot be said in the same day." is such a great emperor who is considered to shake the past and the present, and from another point of view, he is also a murderer who creates a lot of disasters. In 1215, Temujin captured Zhongdu (present-day Beijing), the capital of the Jin Kingdom, and after the siege, he carried out a massacre of the common people in the city for more than a month, killing more than 1 million people.

After Temujin conquered Khorezm in 1219, all the male citizens who had resisted the Mongol invasion were slaughtered, and the few women and children who survived were enslaved.

In 1220-1221, Temujin's first expedition to the west captured the city of Doth Khan (that is, the city of Samarkand), and the city's 200,000 people, except for a few young women who were plundered to the army, did not survive. “

In 1225, the Mongol army invaded the remote corner of Western Xia, and the following year Genghis Khan fell ill and died, in stark contrast to the Han values of "people are dying, do good deeds and accumulate virtue", and he ordered the slaughter of the city before his death. Hundreds of thousands of people and the Western Xia royal family were slaughtered in Xingqingfu (near present-day Yinchuan, Ningxia), the capital of Western Xia, and the entire country was genocide by Genghis Khan.

Yes, the god of war is the god of death, the great emperor, and the crazy murderer. The "Punishment" of Murderers A closer look at history shows that every emperor who came to power or after he came to power did so was actively or passively slaughtered. There is no way, because you are not the only one who covets the throne, if you want to become the honor of the Ninety-Five, you must first conquer the Ninety-Five, in ancient times, the only way to conquer is force, imperial power, which can only be exchanged for blood. But then again, as the old saying goes, "Killing pays for your life." Infringing on the lives of others at will, at the cost of sacrificing one's own life, this is a necessary law for a country to maintain stability, but the emperor is always an exception, there is a saying that "the king wants his ministers to die, and the ministers dare not die". The emperor alone holds the power to kill and seize all the subjects of the entire country, so to speak, Lao Tzu can kill whoever he wants, and he does not have to worry about being punished, because no one dares to punish the emperor

Could it be that if the emperor kills someone, there will not be a little "punishment"?

There is no such thing as perfection. Like what:

Li Shimin was a virtuous monarch and a wise lord, and only ascended to the throne after killing his brother Li Jiancheng. Li Shimin is not a pervert, judging from historical facts, he can be regarded as a bloody man, so, killing his brother and forcing his father to pass on the throne is cruel and bloody, and he is rebellious, can you say that he will not hesitate before making a decision? Even if you sit firmly on the emperor and dream back at midnight, you won't blame yourself or be afraid? This is why the ancient emperors were so ruthless, because if they were not ruthless, it would not be a good thing for the country and for him in the Great Song Dynasty, which can also show that it was the emperor's last resort.