Text Idiot Dreams: Fu Jian and Wang Meng

About Chapter 33 Synopsis: After the former Qin Emperor Fu Jian ascended the throne, his mother, Empress Dowager Gou, fearing that Fu Fa was too powerful, threatened her son's throne and sent cronies to cut him off. Wang Meng, who once assisted Fu Jian in usurping the throne, was framed and put into Chang'an Prison because of strict law enforcement, but he was blessed by misfortune, and had a conversation with Fu Jian, which was very appreciated by Fu Jian, and was pardoned and retained in the court, Fu Jian ignored Wang Meng's opposition and took in Yao Chang, the leader of the Qiang people.

In this story, as the most virtuous emperor in the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, Fu Jian can be described as open-minded, tolerant of all rivers, in the era of rampant families, Fu Jian recruited talents, regardless of the origin, in this point can be described as an enlightened monarch of the ages, comparable to the Three Kingdoms hero Cao Cao. Although Fu Jian has done some fake behavior in dealing with Fu Fa's affairs, it is rare for the ancient emperor to have such a mindful person, whether he is true temperament or false benevolence, in a hierarchical feudal society, even if Fu Jian is pretending to be fake, he has also won the hearts of the majority of the children of the Hanmen Shu clan, can better maintain his feudal rule, and can also let the people under his rule obtain a relatively stable production and living environment. Therefore, no matter whether Fu Jian's humility is false or true, as long as he can conform to the trend of the times, regardless of his background, select and appoint talents, and govern the country well, he is a virtuous monarch, a bright monarch, as a common people, no matter how the ruler behaves, as long as he can ensure that he is well fed, warmly dressed, and sleeps soundly, he is a good emperor.

The vast majority of the characters who can be recorded in the history books are political figures, so I think that as a political figure, if you are dedicated to the people, the people's hearts are right, and your virtue is quoted from the classics, and you only do superficial things, not for the people and do practical things, that can only be the sinister hearts of the people and be spurned. And human nature is extremely complex, the same person, everyone has no agreement on his understanding, and the evaluation is even more varied, there will be no simple good, there will be no simple bad, take Fu Jian as an example, what he did in the matter of Fu Fa, how to look at how disgusting, but he is sincere to Wang Meng, because Fu Jian deeply knows that Wang Meng's talent can make the former Qin Empire strong, can make his rule stable, and make himself an emperor through the ages, Fu Jian intersects with Wang Meng's talent, Wang Meng intersected with Fu Jian's bearing and courage, because the two intersected with each other and complemented each other, and finally achieved a very famous story of monarchs and ministers in the history of our country. Through the relationship between the two of them, let's talk about the famous combination of monarchs and ministers in history.

The most famous story of monarchs and ministers in the history of our country must belong to Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei during the Three Kingdoms period, the two of them are of one heart and one mind, and finally made an earth-shattering event in the troubled times of the Three Kingdoms, but in fact, the relationship between the two is far less harmonious than that of Fu Jian and Wang Meng, and Zhuge Liang's talent is only limited to political talent, and his command of the army does not have too many victories. Liu Bei's strength is also difficult to reach the height of Fu Jian, because the literary masterpiece Romance of the Three Kingdoms has been widely disseminated for hundreds of years, making people feel that Zhuge Liang is omnipotent, and Liu Bei is more benevolent as an elder, but in history, the first big victory after the two met was the battle of Chibi that laid the world's three points, but as early as the Tang Dynasty, the great poet Du Mu's Dongfeng did not cooperate with Zhou Lang, and the famous sentence of Tongque Chun Shen Er Qiao directly said that the key person who won the battle of Chibi was Zhou Lang, that is, Zhou Yu, the representative of the family in the Eastern Wu regime, Zhuge Liang's battle of Chibi only contributed to the alliance of Sun and Liu politically, although the stories of straw boats borrowing arrows and borrowing east winds are wonderful, but they are all fictional, and the battle of Chibi seems to me to be the defeat of Cao Cao, the representative of the Hanmen Shu clan who controlled the central power, and ensured the legitimacy of the Shi landlord class in this period.

After Zhuge Liang assisted Liu Bei to build the Shu Han Dynasty, the relationship between the two went to the bottom, because Zhuge Liang was young and accomplished, Liu Bei was dying of old age, and in the face of the family of Shu, the political views of the two were completely different, Zhuge Liang wanted to build a feudal dynasty with the Hanmen Shu clan as the ruling class, while Liu Bei wanted to learn from Eastern Wu and rely on the clan to maintain his rule, so he sent troops to Hanzhong, and sent the representative of the Shu clan. Similarly, as a generation of emperors, Liu Bei was even more afraid of Zhuge Liang to replace him, and when he arrived in the White Emperor City to support Gu, Liu Bei used the trick of wanting to capture the old and indulge, telling Zhuge Liang that if Liu Chan was not talented, he could be the lord of Chengdu, and this lord of Chengdu should be the meaning of presiding over the state affairs of the Shu Han regime, not to let Zhuge Liang be the emperor of Shu Han, Zhuge Liang did not understand the heart of the emperor, he knew the risk of usurping power, it was better to be willing to assist Liu Chan and build his ideal dynasty of the Hanmen Shu clan, It can be seen that the relationship between Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei is not as good as depicted in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and the relationship between the two is not even as good as the relationship between Liu Bang and Zhang Liang, Zhu Yuanzhang and Liu Ji, and even far less strong than Cao Cao's feelings for Guo Jia.

In fact, in the ancient society of the dynasties, each feudal dynasty in the early days, its rulers have their own very effective assistants, but in the eyes of the rulers, once they become famous, the assistant who assisted them will also be in power, famous, no matter in the difficult period of entrepreneurship, how harmonious the relationship between themselves and the assistant, how deep the feelings, but in the face of imperial power, the rulers must be trying to cut off all threats, if their assistants can recognize the current affairs for the handsome, successful retirement, can still let it go, Otherwise, it will inevitably be killed, so as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, the famous strategist Fan Li said the famous aphorisms of flying birds, good bows, cunning rabbits dying, and lackeys cooking. In this regard, the nomadic emperors were much stronger than the emperors of the Han ancestors.

In the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, the establishment of the Zhao Empire after the great leader of the Zhao people Shi Le to his adviser Zhang Bin must not be afraid of trust is very trusted, no suspicion, Shi Le's feelings for Zhang Bin revealed, in the history of the record is extremely rich, showing the gratitude of the emperor of the grassland people, preserved to the present near the tomb of Zhang Bin has unearthed a remnant tablet, the handwriting on it is clearly visible, which about Shi Le to participate in Zhang Bin's funeral, Zhang Bin died of illness, grief, weeping zero record, it can be seen that the two monarchs and ministers of different nationalities have deep feelings.

Of course, Zhang Bin, as a strategist, assisted Shi Le in establishing the Later Zhao Empire, and it can also be said that his monarch and ministers joined forces to basically complete the initial integration period of the period of national integration, Zhang Bin's help to Shi Le is obvious, Shi Le was able to die after Zhang Bin's death, and it can also be seen that Shi Le is a very conscientious and tender nomadic emperor. In the period of continued integration of the nation, Fu Jian, the leader of the Di people, also has Wang Meng, who is more capable than Zhang Bin, and the relationship between the two is even more than Shi Le and Zhang Bin, because Wang Meng's background is far less prominent than Zhang Bin, that is, a poor student who constantly persuades others to accept his political opinions, can get Fu Jian's favor, Wang Meng has paid a lot of hardships and efforts, and Fu Jian sat on the emperor's throne by usurping the throne, and the political pressure faced by Fu Jian is not small, and the two can come together through Lu Polou's recommendation, it is not easy, And Zhang Bin was born in a big family, and was directly recruited by Shi Le into the gentleman's camp, and gradually stood out, and has been assisting Shi Le. Wang Meng first made a county order and then offended the powerful and was imprisoned, and he went through ups and downs before meeting the British master, which was much more difficult than Zhang Bin's way to enter the office.

In fact, judging from Wang Meng's early experience, in the feudal society controlled by the family at that time, it was not easy for the children of the Hanmen Shu clan to display their talents, and it happened that the nomads at that time entered the Central Plains, although the division of the family was influenced by the ancestors of the Han nationality, but it should be that the nomads belonged to the Hanmen Shu tribe, and the requirements for the door were far less strong than those of the Han rulers, so when the rulers of the nomads saw that the children of the Hanmen Shu people were talented, It is natural to choose a large number of children of the Han Shu clan to become officials and safeguard the highest interests of their own nation, which laid the foundation for the future Shu landlord class to enter the historical stage and replace the Shi landlord class as the ruling class of the feudal dynasty.

It can be seen that the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms is not only a historical period of national integration, but also a game stage between the Hanmen Shu and the family, during this period, there are bloody lessons of the five chaotic China, and there are also the footprints of the common people pursuing equality and democracy, all because the political ability of the Shi clan and the landlord class as the ruling class is difficult to support the unified feudal dynasty, and it is impossible to deal with the increasingly fierce national problems, which eventually led to the great division of the country during the period of the Two Jin Dynasty and the Sixteen Kingdoms and the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

When the Northern Wei Dynasty unified the north, its rulers also saw the threat of the family to the imperial power, the elder of the four dynasties of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Tuoba Tao's most relied on strategist Cui Hao was killed, the same refraction, as the nomadic ruler of the Hanmen Shu clan was unwilling to be bound by the family mentality, in fact, the chief strategist of the Later Zhao Empire Zhang Bin died earlier than Shi Le, and when he died of illness, Shi Le did not completely unify the Central Plains, otherwise Zhang Bin's fate would not be much better than Cui Hao! However, Wang Meng and Fu Jian are completely different situations from them, because they are both from the Hanmen Shu clan and have the same political aspirations and ideals, so Fu Jian should rely on Wang Meng sincerely, and the relationship between the two will not change subtly. Throughout the history of China, the monarch and the minister can reach such a point I am afraid that there is no more, because the period in which the former Qin Empire is located is not only the period of continued integration of the great integration of the nation, but also the early stage of the rise of the Hanmen Shu people, the relationship between the two is very in line with the characteristics of the times, although the monarchs and ministers after the Sui and Tang dynasties, although they all belong to the Shu landlord class, but because they belong to the same nation, the rulers are still very jealous of the high-powered ministers, and in this period, However, because of the racial estrangement between the nomadic rulers and the Han ministers, and the nomads themselves attach great importance to affection, they do not cause too many worries and fears to the nomadic rulers for the Han ministers with the same background and outstanding ability. Then the friendship between Fu Jian and Wang Meng must be an unprecedented relationship between a monarch and a minister.