Chapter 265: Daydreaming
After a long speech, Yu Wenwen only felt that his mouth was dry, and Wang took a thick copy of the "Syllabus (Draft)" back to his residence to ponder it carefully, while he sat on a sandbag and drank tea to moisten his throat.
Tea is ordinary tea, better than boiled water, Yu Wenwen drank tea while listening to the noise outside, while pondering his own plan.
He was trapped in the hanging gourd, like a person who was beaten up in the corner with his head in his hands, he could only wait for someone to save him, and now he couldn't go anywhere, so he could only take the time to think about other things, and the thing that made him think the most was to be the emperor.
Of course, with the current situation and Yu Wenwen's own strength, this is a daydream, and doing too much daydreaming is not good for mental health, but it doesn't hurt to do it occasionally.
A person who doesn't even have a girlfriend doesn't prevent him from often fantasizing about how he should spend money and how to play with beauties after he becomes a billionaire, and in this era, the coolest thing is to become the emperor at the top of the power chain.
People must have dreams, otherwise they are no different from salted fish, Yuwenwen has dreams, but strictly speaking, it should be ambition.
He is a person who can't get rid of low-level tastes, so he has ambitions, so if he really sits on the throne, can he "never reign sooner"?
No, if you really sit in that position, there are also lingering troubles, and two of them are the big problems that every emperor has to face.
First, when I am alive, I must hold the power firmly, and no one can threaten the imperial power, not even my closest relatives.
Second, when I am about to die, my country will be passed on to my son, and my son must sit on the throne.
These two problems are the problems that the emperor has to consider, if the country is replaced by family property, the reason is the same, no one will give away his family business to others, as long as he has a son, he must find a way to let his son inherit.
The emperor is an animal of power, he can't do without power, but as long as he still has a breath, he has to firmly grasp the power, once he becomes a puppet, he will not have a few years to live.
To take care of the family business, the head of the family is enough alone, and to take care of a country, even if the emperor himself is full of energy, he cannot handle the affairs of the whole country alone, so it is necessary to divide power.
Once the power is divided, there will be a danger that someone or a group of influences will become bigger, and in order to avoid this situation, the emperor must have henchmen to act as eagle dogs, always keeping an eye on all forces.
And the emperor's henchmen may not be loyal to the prince, nor can they be loyal, so when the emperor becomes the first emperor and the prince becomes the emperor, he must have his own basic plate and use his own henchmen to balance the forces of all parties.
And if the crown prince is strong, the strength is too strong, and the emperor is not at ease; The prince's strength is too weak, the emperor is still not at ease, the emperor will hold power when he is alive, and he will let the prince sit firmly when he is dead.
These two problems must be faced by emperors of all dynasties and generations, so in the power struggle, there must be ways to check and balance, so that neither side dominates.
How to check and balance the forces of the DPRK and China? The method is very straightforward, that is, to pull one faction to fight another, or to put it in layman's terms, it is necessary to let the various forces fight among themselves in order to maintain the balance of power.
Everyone checks and balances each other, and the emperor can arbitrate in the middle, and the fisherman benefits.
The emperors of all dynasties have made their own arrangements according to this principle, and Yuwen Wen knows one of the more famous precedents, that is, the story of Sima Yan, Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty.
Sima Yan forced Emperor Wei to let Chan, establish the Jin State, send troops to destroy Eastern Wu, unify the world, and then sing and dance to promote peace, put swords and guns into the warehouse, and put the horses in Nanshan.
Sima Yan, who unified the world, reached the highest point of prestige, and every day he rode a sheep cart in the palace to "follow the fate" of the concubine, how chic and chic he was, but he still faced a threat, that is, Sima You, the same mother and brother, the king of Qi.
Sima You's reputation inside and outside the government and the opposition is very high, and Sima Yan is not in good health, and the prince is Sima Zhen of "why not eat minced meat", this "suspected idiot", so many ministers secretly hope to be able to "brother to brother".
The country that has worked hard to run a good country, has a son who does not pass it on to his younger brother?
Sima Yan would never let this kind of thing happen, he himself had some difficulty suppressing Sima You, and knew that his son would be helpless when he ascended the throne in the future, so he tried his best to resolve this crisis.
Sima You married Jia Bao, the daughter of the powerful Jia Chong, as the main family, so Sima Yan married his son Sima Cheng to Jia Chong's other daughter as the crown princess, that is, the ugly Jia Nanfeng.
Jia Chong is the confidant of Sima Zhao, Sima Yan's father, and the direct mastermind of the killing of Emperor Cao Chao of Wei.
And for Jia Chong's Jia family, the fool Sima Zhen is much easier to control than the shrewd Sima You, and it goes without saying who the Jia family will support to sit on the throne in the future.
Through his marriage to Jia Chong, Sima Yan cut off Sima You's greatest help, and then forced the sick Sima You to leave the country of Beijing, so that he vomited blood and died of extreme depression.
For Emperor Sima Yan, the biggest threat is gone, and he can get a good night's sleep, but his health is getting worse and worse, and the ensuing problem is to ensure that his son Sima Zhen can sit firmly on the throne after succeeding to the throne.
The Sima family won the country from the Cao family, and the biggest lesson was that Cao Wei excessively weakened the clan, so Sima Yan took measures to enhance the strength of the clan kings, and let the vassal kings in various parts of the town have military power, so as to suppress the high families, surnames, and wealthy families in various places, and if there is something in the capital, the king can still be Qin.
Then he wants his relatives to help the future crown prince Sima Zhen, and the kings of the clan who are in other places can restrain their relatives and check and balance each other.
In this situation of power checks and balances, there are two relatives, one is the Jia family, the princess's maiden family, and the other is the Yang family, the maiden family of Empress Sima Yan.
Jia Chong went before Sima Yan, and Sima Yan's father-in-law, Yang Jun, was alive, and when that day came, Yang Jun would assist him, so that Jia Nanfeng, who became the empress, could not manipulate the "suspected idiot" emperor Sima Zhen.
The kings of the clan outside each have their own military powers, and they will also form a situation of constraints on each other, so after Sima Yan completed this careful arrangement, he finally "died" with confidence.
Then, his layout quickly collapsed.
Yang Jun, who was an auxiliary politician, tried to monopolize power, and was killed by Jia Nanfeng and the clan in a coup d'état, and Jia Nanfeng then controlled the idiot husband Jun Sima Zhen and did whatever he wanted, but was killed by Sima Lun, the king of Zhao who was behind Huang Que.
The relatives are finished, whoever controls the idiot Son of Heaven can become the Ninety-Five, the kings of the clan have raised troops, it is for the rebellion of the Eight Kings, and the bureau that Sima Yan painstakingly laid out for his son before his death is a joke.
Sima Yan's choice is only one of the choices made by many emperors since the Han Dynasty, and all of them seem unreliable.
Relying on eunuchs, relying on clans, relying on queens, relying on relatives, relying on nobles, relying on families, from the Han Dynasty to the Sui and Tang dynasties, countless emperors have made choices, and these choices are unreliable.
Relying on eunuchs, there are ten permanent servants in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and there are protégés after the Middle and Tang Dynasty; Relying on the queen, Wu Zetian will not talk about it, Jia Nanfeng of the Western Jin Dynasty is a good example.
Relying on relatives, there is Yang Jian; Relying on the clan, the strength of the clan is too strong, there is the rebellion of the eight kings of the Western Jin Dynasty, the strength of the clan is too weak, Cao Wei has something to say, and the Northern Zhou in history also has something to say.
Rely on Xungui, Xungui unites to change the leading brother?
On the occasion of the change of Zhou and Sui in history, Guan Long's magnates did not hesitate to abandon Boss Yuwen, and similarly, they did not hesitate to abandon Boss Yang and shout long live in front of Li Yuan, the Duke of Tang Guo.
Xungui is too undisciplined, why don't you rely on the family?
The Eastern Jin Dynasty's "King and Horse Share the World" sounds so romantic!
This is nonsense, in exchange for you are the emperor and are willing to share the world with others?
Not to mention the rebellion of the eight kings of the Western Jin Dynasty and the rebellion of Yongjia, the family and the high family are also inseparable, and the politics of the gate valve is also one of the reasons why the generations of the Southern Dynasty are becoming weaker and weaker.
So Yu Wenwen, who daydreams from time to time, imagines what he should do if he is in that position?
It is easy to do, learn from the Zhao official family, and share the world with the scholars, that is to say, use the civil officials of the imperial examination to replace the civil officials from the family in the civil official group.
The Song Dynasty went too far with literature and martial arts, which led to a series of problems, which is another matter, and the imperial examination is indeed a sharp weapon to deal with gate politics, but it is not easy to use it well.
The imperial examination began in history in the Sui and Tang dynasties, and the era in which Yuwenwen lived happened to be the "beginning", but in fact, the decline of gate politics was not directly caused by the imperial examination.
The Tang Dynasty implemented the imperial examination, but the family Gaomen did not decline, and finally Tang I, the ministers of the Taiwan auxiliary level, their backgrounds are all families, and there are many high-ranking families, there are several reasons, one is that the family and Gaomen quickly adapted to the imperial examination.
The imperial examination is the examination to select talents, the Tang Dynasty imperial examination is divided into regular subjects and system subjects, the regular department is an annual examination held in stages, and the system is an examination held temporarily by the emperor's edict.
There are more than 50 kinds of Xiucai, Mingjing, Jinshi, Junshi, etc., Xiucai is very demanding in the early Tang Dynasty, and then gradually abandoned, and the two subjects of Mingjing and Jinshi gradually become the main subjects of the Tang Dynasty.
These two subjects are extremely difficult, and the requirements for learning are very high, which is okay for the family and high-ranking talents, and for the Han people, it is the moat.
In the case of Fan Yang Lu, one of the five surnames and seven hopes, when the imperial examination was first implemented, the Lu family was a little uncomfortable, but since the Middle Tang Dynasty, the children of the Lu family have become "Jinshi professional examination households".
The Jinshi examination in the Tang Dynasty was very difficult, and it was difficult to get the first, so there was a saying at that time that "thirty old Ming Jing, fifty young Jinshi", but this was difficult for the children of Fan Yang Lu.
The family is the most educated class in this era, and it is simply delusional to use the exam to stump them, and with the increase in the difficulty of the imperial examination, it is the Han scholars with poor education who are stumped.
In the imperial examination of the Tang Dynasty, the political status of the high-ranking family could not be broken, and the scholars of the Han clan who were lucky enough to win the first place were struggling in the officialdom and had to be attached to the powerful and became the lackeys of the other party.
To participate in the imperial examination, you need to get the recommendation of the powerful, and many Han scholars have become lackeys of the powerful before they take the exam.
The imperial examination in the Tang Dynasty could not change the status quo of gate politics, and the people who changed this status quo were Huang Chao, who fell in the imperial examination and wrote "Fu Ju after the first step" at the gate of Chang'an, and Zhu Wen, who killed people like hemp and threw the court ministers into the Yellow River at the White Horse Station.
The military disasters of the late Tang Dynasty and the division of feudal towns slaughtered the family Gaomen, and since then the vitality has been greatly damaged, and the noble family that has lasted for hundreds of years has completely lost its vitality.
In short, if you want to dismantle the politics of the gatekeepers, the massacre is cleaner than the imperial examination, and "the effect is quick and does not recur."
But the consequence of this is that the mastermind of the massacre has become a poor man who "drives the king" and makes wedding dresses for others.
Zhu Wen slaughtered courtiers at the White Horse Station, and many ministers from high families were thrown into the Yellow River, known as the "White Horse Station Disaster", and the Liang State established by Zhu Wen later perished not long after his death.
The same scene also happened during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, that is, the "Heyin Change" after the outbreak of the "Six Towns Rebellion" in the Yuan and Wei dynasties, the warlord Er Zhurong, who started by quelling the rebellion, slaughtered more than 2,000 young emperors, royal families and hundreds of officials and ministers on the south bank of the Yellow River (Heyin) on the outskirts of Luoyang.
This massacre killed all the Han families and clans of Shi Yuan Wei, and Er Zhurong's majesty made the world tremble, and the consequences made Er Zhu unable to bear it.
Because of this massacre, the Han people of Hebei and the Shandong family were firmly determined to take refuge in the displaced people of the six towns and the ambitious Gao Huan.
After this force was gathered, it seemed that it was still very weak compared to the strength of the Erzhu clan on the surface, but the final result was that the Erzhu clan was defeated by Gao Huan and was almost wiped out.
Killing people can't solve the problem, unless the killer can kill all the opponents in the world, but this is impossible, so you have to boil the frog in warm water.
Yu Wenwen feels that gate politics is a cancer and must be eliminated, but if he engages in massacres, he will be counterattacked, and he is busy with all his hard work but "driving the king", so why bother?
So it takes a lot of effort to figure out a way to boil frogs in warm water.
After some debate, Wang's questioning was not wrong, the family Gaomen had the highest level of education, and wanted to rely on the examination to restrict the other party's children from entering the ranks, which was a fool's dream, and the grandiose implementation of the examination selection system would be disgusted by the family Gaomen, and could not attract the elite talents of these families to defect.
It doesn't matter if these elites don't come to him, but if they defect to his opponents, it doesn't matter.
Who is Yu Wenwen's opponent? I don't know, but one thing is certain, those who stand in his way are all enemies.
Therefore, before the strength reaches a certain level, it is necessary to obscure the light and raise Tao, and the family has an absolute advantage in education, so he will first dig into the corner, and the method is to use "professional educational institutions" to cultivate a large group of "professional examination households for examination-oriented education" in a relatively short period of time.
This kind of behavior is led by the "non-governmental educational institution" study club, and the world may think that this kind of behavior is extremely philistine, and it is a way to make money by the big proprietor of the study club, Xiyang Wang, who wants to go crazy and pat his head, rather than a hoe that digs into the corner of the wall.
By carrying out "educational innovation" by non-governmental organizations, it can bypass the government and the intrigue within the imperial court, and Yuwenwen can even implement this "educational innovation" without even relying on the resources of King Qi.
If his own power is developing well, perhaps when he is full-fledged, the "educational innovation" that has unknowingly expanded has already cultivated a group of "examination-type talents" who are not inferior to the children of high-ranking families in examinations, and he will see the opportunity to act when the time comes.
The premise is that he can live to that time and really have a chance to win.
There was a loud "boom" outside the bunker, which woke Yu Wenwen up from his daydream, and the thunder that exploded not far away shook the roof of the bunker and put a little sand.
Looking out the small window at the dusty surroundings, he didn't think it was wrong to daydream, because he was convinced that one day, daydreams would become reality.