Chapter 33 Humility

In July 357 AD, Fu Jian was the emperor under the support of the ministers, granted amnesty to the world, followed his biological mother Gou as the queen mother, and ordered his brother Fu Fa to inherit the title of the king of the East China Sea, preside over the government, and together with his killing of the tyrant Fu Sheng and other ministers were rewarded, Lu Guang, the son of Lu Polou, was also named a general, and the ministers asked to kill Zhao Shao, Zhao Xu, the minions of the abolished emperor Fu Sheng, Zhao Zhi and others, Fu Jian was allowed to play, and at the same time there were ministers playing: "Shiping County (now northwest of Xianyang) for a long time, the arrogant and strong, robberies and robberies are abundant, and the public order is chaotic, Please ask the emperor to send officials to govern. ”

Fu Jian pondered for a moment and said: "Shiping County is the northwest gateway of Chang'an, and the Hanshi Wang Meng has not yet entered the office, and he is young and strong, known as a virtuous name, and can be the county order. ”

Lu Polou, Lu Guang and other ministers agreed one after another, and Wang Meng immediately took the order and left.

Soon, the Empress Dowager Gou was about to go out to play, passing by the palace of the king of Fufa, seeing the traffic at the door, she was puzzled, stopped to watch from a distance, and saw that there was no white ding, all of them were ministers of the court, and secretly thought: Fufa made friends with foreign ministers like this, even if he had no ambition, who would protect the people around him from having no heart to persuade him? Thinking of this, I was covered in cold sweat, and I was not interested in playing, and then returned to the palace.

As soon as the Empress Dowager Gou entered the palace, she ordered someone to recruit her favorite minister Li Wei. Li Wei has been favored by the Empress Dowager Gou for many years, and when she heard that the Empress Dowager was worried, she naturally did her best, which coincided with her being in charge of the criminal law of the DPRK and China.

When Li Wei returned to his hometown, he sent people to secretly investigate the ministers who had close contacts with Fu Fa, and then collected the charges of each minister and impeached them all. Li Wei then found out that Fu Fa was suspected of trespassing, so he was put on death row, and played Fu Jian, please punish Fu Fa, Fu Jian was shocked, and wanted to refuse, at this time the Empress Dowager Gou came immediately, and told the matter and the discernment, scolded him for not knowing his mother's hard work, Fu Jian knelt on the ground and cried, begging the Queen Mother to forgive Fu Fa, but the Queen Mother did not follow, and directly issued an edict to Li Wei, ordering him to be executed tomorrow, Li Wei led the order to retreat, Fu Jian heard it, and cried and fainted.

The next day, Fu Jian wore filial piety clothes and went to the execution site to say goodbye to Fu Fa. Fu Jian hugged Fu Fa and cried to death, vomited blood, and fainted, Li Wei hurriedly ordered the executioner to be executed, when Fu Jian was awakened left and right, he saw that Fu Fa was in a different place, and he was grief-stricken, so he immediately pulled out his sword and cut his hair to accompany the burial.

Fu Fa was sentenced for a few days, Fu Jian had no intention of going to the government, and in the sick palace, the government did its best to serve Lu Polou and other ministers, and Lu Polou and others were also exhausted, and the state affairs were as usual.

One day, Lu Polou heard that Wang Meng was arrested by his boss and escorted to Chang'an, ready to be imprisoned. Lu Polou hurriedly entered the palace to report the matter to Emperor Fu Jian, who was shocked and hurriedly got up and went to the prison with him to visit.

It turned out that as soon as Wang Meng took office, he formulated a criminal law to eliminate violence and peace, and acted vigorously and resolutely. The powerful families have a lot of restraint, but they hate it to the core. At this time, there was a traitor in the county government, who relied on the backers of the court, and still did not restrain himself, and continued to bully men and women. The powerful clans in the county took the opportunity to jointly coax him to kill officials indiscriminately, and his boss did not want to offend many big clans, so he immediately dismissed Wang Meng from official arrest.

Fu Jian came to the prison and personally questioned Wang Mengdao: "For the body of government, morality is the first." Soon after you took office, you severely punished the law and arrested and killed the officials, which was too harsh! ”

Wang Meng, who was in prison, replied calmly: "The minister heard the words of the sage: The stability of the country can be moralized, and the country is chaotic before it can be punished heavily. The emperor does not regard the incompetence of the ministers, but the ministers as the parents of the refractory county, and the ministers are determined to eliminate harm for the Ming monarch. Only one evil official was killed, and there were still many thieves who did not fall under the law. If His Majesty condemns his ministers because they can't get rid of violence and peace, how dare the ministers be unreasonable? However, the charge of imposing ministers on 'indiscriminately killing officials and being cruel to the government' was not accepted by the ministers. ”

After hearing this, Fu Jian praised again and again, and said to the accompanying ministers of civil and military affairs: "Wang Aiqing is really the current manager and child!" ”

After that, he issued a decree to pardon his sins and keep him in the court to participate in political affairs.

At the end of 357 AD, Fu Jian suddenly heard that the leader of the Qiang people, Yao Chang, came to vote, his heart was overjoyed, and then ordered someone to appease and seal, at this time Wang Meng admonished: "The emperor can not be like this, Yao Chang's father and brother Yao Yizhong, Yao Xiang and other generations, single-mindedly self-reliant, when the first emperor led the troops into the customs, his father and brother first voted to the Jin court, plotting the Central Plains, and then defeated Murong Jun, his father Yao Yizhong died of illness, Yao Xiang led the troops to Murong Jun, in order to pass the pass, this summer was defeated by the emperor, his brother Yao Xiang was defeated, now Yao Chang led the troops to surrender to the desperate, Yao's father and son are capricious, The emperor should kill him, how can he seal it and give him a chance to breathe? ”

Fu Jian laughed and said: "What Aiqing said is too cautious, the people of all ethnic groups are loved, I govern Guanzhong, now the Qiang people have lived in Guanzhong for hundreds of years, and there are more than 100,000 people, if you kill Yao Chang, I am afraid that the Qiang people will make trouble, and I am kind-hearted, how can I kill the people who come to surrender for no reason, it is not in line with my reputation, who will dare to come and surrender in the future?" ”

Wang Meng sighed: "It is the negligence of the ministers, and the emperor can issue an edict ordering him to come to the court as soon as possible to take up idle posts, and disperse and settle his subordinates to see the after-effects." ”

Fu Jian said happily: "According to Aiqing's words, recruit Yao Chang into the court, and divide and rule it." ”

Immediately afterwards, Fu Jian asked Wang Meng again: "If you are three points today, Murong Yan is the strongest in the Central Plains, and its lord Murong Jun is recruiting troops and buying horses, plotting the world, the Jin court is in the south of the Yangtze River, the people's hearts are the most prosperous, and he is always plotting the Northern Expedition, and the Liangzhou of the Zhang family in the northwest, named Jin Chen, is actually the king of Liang, and he is also eyeing Guanzhong, and I am surrounded by it, so what can I do?" ”

Wang Meng smiled slightly and said, "Weichen has planned for His Majesty, and listen to Weichen's details." ”

If you know what Wang Meng's countermeasures are, look at the next chapter.