Chapter 365: Proper Indulgence
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The big thing that Guo Bin talked about is to say one thing: we are a nation, we must love our nation, only for the prosperity and development of the nation, selfless dedication, heroic dedication to the people, worthy of respect, Liu Tao is so, those heroes who died in the heroic struggle are also the same. Apex Fiction X23UOM
The ancients called loyalty to the monarch and patriotism, and loyalty to the monarch will always be ranked before patriotism, because the country is a grand concept that cannot be seen or touched, and the king is a person who can be seen and touched. In this era, few people can realize whether you love the country or not, and no one will come out to interfere with you, but if you are not loyal to the king, then you will be obedient and wait to check the water meter.
For example, during the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a political governor Kou Zhun who was famous for his uprightness and wisdom. In the Song Dynasty, this participation in political affairs was equivalent to the deputy prime minister, and at the beginning of Wang Anshi's presiding over the law change, he held such an official position. In September of the first year of Jingde (1004 AD), Liao Shengzong Yelu Longxu and his mother Empress Dowager Xiao led an army of 200,000 to set out from Youzhou, advancing southward. According to the soldiers of the Great Liao Army, the Northern Song Dynasty court was shocked overnight, and some people proposed to move the capital to the south. At this time, Kou Zhun disagreed, he strongly opposed the south, and instead should actively prepare for war.
This Kou Zhun is very capable, and he is really upright, just after he won the victory in the struggle in the court and the court set a strategy to deal with the war, he actually urged Song Zhenzong to drive the expedition in person "frantically".
The term "Imperial Expedition" is known to everyone, and it refers to the emperor's presence at the front line, the command of the army, and the conquest of the enemy. It can be said that in addition to the founding emperor who fought the world immediately, there are very few examples of imperial conquests, of course, special circumstances such as Tang Taizong Li Shimin and Ming Chengzu Zhu Di should be excluded.
Therefore, generally speaking, there are only two situations for the royal driving pro-conquest, one is that the overall situation has been decided, and the Son of Heaven is going to go through the motions, stimulate morale, and also accumulate a little brilliant, great, and correct capital for himself, and enhance his prestige. Don't think that this is false and does not work, the Son of Heaven himself has a political advantage and is born to be the ruler of the entire empire. This is true, but it is precisely because the Son of Heaven is a natural ruler that he needs to stabilize his power even more and constantly beat the courtiers, because the courtiers are all human spirits who fought from hundreds of millions of people, and the Son of Heaven has never done anything more difficult except for crying twice when he was out of the womb, so they can inherit the emperor's throne by blood.
The second situation of the royal driving pro-conquest is that the situation is already extremely critical, and if it is not the imperial conquest, the country will be ruined and the family will be ruined. At such a moment, the Son of Heaven going to the front line can greatly boost morale, and after the morale is boosted, the victory rate of the war will naturally be greatly improved.
However, once the royal expedition fails, no one can afford the consequences. Because in this case, the royal driving expedition will face the risk of failure, which is forcing the Son of Heaven into a corner! If it wins, it is due. The Son of Heaven, the dragon among men, is always great, bright, and correct. If he is defeated, the damage to his prestige will be light, and it is not completely impossible for the Son of Heaven to die.
At that time, the Great Song Dynasty could be said to have reached the most dangerous time, once the capital was really moved to avoid war, the morale of the people was dispersed. Therefore, Kou Zhun tried his best to promote Song Zhenzong to go north to the imperial expedition, and even forced the Son of Heaven to go from Bianjing to Weicheng, from Weicheng to Shanzhou, and even forced the Son of Heaven to cross the Yellow River from the relatively safe Nancheng Palace to Beicheng to inspect the circle. Sure enough, at this time, the morale of the Song army was greatly boosted, and the combat effectiveness soared, coupled with the fact that Xiao Tzulan, the pioneer of the Liao army, was shot by the Song army with a bed crossbow under the city of Lanzhou, the morale of the Liao army was greatly depressed, and they were forced to sign the alliance of Lanyuan.
Since then, there has been no large-scale war between Song and Liao for more than 100 years, the courtesy is still exchanged, the envoys are attentive, the two sides have made each other a total of 380 times, there is a famine in the border areas of the Liao Dynasty, the Song Dynasty will also send people to the border to help, the news of the death of Song Zhenzong came, and the Liao Shengzong "gathered the ministers of the Han Dynasty to mourn, and the concubines and concubines were all stained." Of course, I don't know if this is true or not, if it is true, Song Zhenzong's ability to "form a deep friendship" with the concubines of neighboring countries is really admirable. However, it is a fact that because Kou Zhun extended the Northern Song Dynasty for more than 100 years.
From this point of view, since he has made such a great contribution, Song Zhenzong, as the Son of Heaven, should sincerely thank him, right? However, in fact, no one said anything good about Kou Zhun, and even Zhenzong had a grudge against him. Why is this happening? Because the Son of Heaven is always a living person, even the most clever politician cannot fully control his feelings. Kou accurately made a great contribution and saved the country of the Great Song Dynasty, but after the incident passed, once there was no pain, no one remembered the panic in the court back then, and it was nothing more than a matter of hindsight. At this time, the Son of Heaven will think, maybe he doesn't need to drive the expedition, and things won't be too bad, even if he wants to drive the expedition in person, he doesn't have to go to the real war front line adventure in the northern city of Lanzhou, and the effect is the same.
Think about it from another angle, you Brigadier Kou pushed the Son of Heaven to the wall and forced the Son of Heaven to go to the front line, saying that it sounded good and didn't care about himself for the sake of national affairs, in other words, it was clear that he didn't care about the safety of the Son of Heaven! You are doing this for state affairs, and it is right to be patriotic, but whether you are loyal to the monarch is debatable. Therefore, even those who have made great contributions are not wrong when facing the problem of standing in line.
Today's Guo Bin has put on such a big scene and invited so many people, he has said so many things, he has said what he should have said, and he has said what he shouldn't say, but he didn't say anything about "Zhongjun". In many cases, not expressing a position is a statement, and since he did not emphasize the need to be loyal to the king, it can be roughly interpreted as "there is no need to be loyal to the king". You must know that now Guo Bin's status has improved, and he has become one of the most powerful county guards in the world, and his words and deeds are watched by countless people, and even his fart will be overinterpreted.
If you want to say that with the political wisdom that Guo Bin has shown in the past, this matter will naturally not be unexpected, but he still said so, and even built an ancestral hall in a grand manner, and enshrined Liu Tao's spiritual seat in it. Who is Liu Tao? It is more likely that the eunuch sent him to prison privately, but after all, he died in prison, although he didn't ask what the crime was, how can he be regarded as a "criminal suspect", right? At least for his affairs, even the Son of Heaven has not yet expressed his position, and you Guo Bin is enshrined here?
As for the remarks of the right talent, there is indeed a danger of being used as a handle by others, but even if it is a handle, it must be divided. Guo Bin is a well-known emperor in the world, and judging by the importance that the Son of Heaven attaches to him, it seems that he is not under the Ten Standing Servants, who dares to use him as a raft at will? What's more important is that Guo Bin, as a pawn of Liu Hongbu, the son of heaven, is very close to Luoyang, the capital division, which is not only a very strong military force to defend the Beijing division, but also a reassuring backing for the crown prince Liu Bian, considering that in case there is a change in the world.
Liu Hong has long been hollowed out by wine, it was not obvious a few years ago, but now it is not as good as a year. It is said that Liu Hong is only twenty-nine years old now, which should be the age of being strong and energetic, but he not only has serious hair loss, but his physical strength is also very poor, even in the palace, he rarely walks on his legs, either in a carriage or on his shoulder, and the good man in his year is like a little old man. Liu Hong knows his physical condition, but in his opinion, since he is the son of heaven, doesn't he want to enjoy life like this? Otherwise, what is the meaning of life? If you become the Son of Heaven and be restrained everywhere, it is better to go back and be his Marquis of the Liberation Pavilion.
However, Liu Hong has always been a mature politician, and he has a long-term vision when he sits in the position of the Son of Heaven, so he set up the prince early, and also secretly arranged for the prince Liu Bian's lineage. He Jin's promotion to general is a case, Guo Bin is a general who breaks Xianbei Zhonglang with the guard of Yingchuan County, and has to lead two thousand guards, and before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Yuan Shao, the eldest son of the Yuan family in Runan, acquiesced to protect Liu Bian's southward Yangzhai, and Cao Cao was repeatedly promoted, which is another case. Even the Huangfu Song, a hero who had repeatedly made great contributions in the Yellow Turban Rebellion, repeatedly belittled him, took back his left chariot cavalry general's seal, and cut off 6,000 feudal households, which also has this meaning.
Liu Hong's arrangements are of great significance. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the position of the general was high and powerful, and he was extremely sensitive, because he had always caused chaos and caused trouble, and those who were in trouble were promoted to generals by foreign relatives. Liu Hong made He Jin a general, undoubtedly to use He Jin's hand to stabilize the situation in the DPRK and China and help Liu Bian stabilize his position. After all, the He family is the foreign family of the crown prince Liu Bian, who else can He Jin support if he doesn't support this nephew? But Liu Hong is not a novice who has just ascended to the throne, although the position of general can help Liu Bian gain a firm foothold, but if He Jin takes this opportunity to empty his position as the Son of Heaven, it will be a cocoon and self-restraint. Thinking about it, Liu Hong also saw that He Jin was not a person with a long-term vision and a grand pattern, even if he wanted to rebel, he would not have the courage and ability, so he could rest assured that he would be given the position of general to He Jin.
However, if He Jin is difficult to stabilize the situation because of his lack of talent and learning, then Liu Wei will be unstable if he wants to ascend to the throne one day, so Liu Hong promoted Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, and Guo Bin to several rising stars. Yuan Shao is the eldest son of the Yuan family in Runan, although he has not been outstanding, he has always been in contact with the powerful literati in Beijing, and he is very valued by He Jin; Cao Cao's grandfather Cao Teng served the four sons of heaven of the Han Dynasty and was loyal to the Han Dynasty, while his father Cao Song relied on buying officials to be promoted to Tai Lieutenant, and supported Liu Hong's small treasury, so Cao Cao was also regarded as his own person, and Cao Cao was gradually promoted by He Jin's hand; Not to mention Guo Bin, with his exploits in the Yellow Turban Rebellion, not to mention Zhonglang General, it is more than enough to directly promote him to a decent general, Liu Hong has been pressing him like this, isn't it to leave a chance for Liu Bian to show grace? Otherwise, Guo Bin would have no reward at a young age, didn't he force him to rebel?
Speaking of Huangfu Song, unlike the previous ones, the Huangfu family is a famous wealthy family in the northwest, and now Huangfu Song is a famous general in the world, which can be described as the mainstay of the Han Dynasty. Now, if you don't knock and knock, refrigerate him for a few years, how can Liu Ban restrain him when he ascends the throne one day? When the time comes, the merit will be high, and there will be another battle between dragons and tigers inside and outside the court, and there will be a bloody storm. Therefore, Liu Hong's behavior of refrigerating Emperor Fu Song was largely to protect this pillar of the country. Besides, after Liu Ban ascends the throne, if there is a need, as long as an edict can be reinstated to the emperor, then he must not be grateful to the new monarch?
When the time comes, there will be the great general He Jin in charge of the overall situation, a large number of rising stars such as Cao Cao and Yuan Shao in the outer courts, and the military will have Huangfu Song in charge, which will be enough to control the situation in the northwest, and there will be local powerful factions like Guo Bin outside to bring in Austrian aid, and Liu Bian's throne will be able to do steadily.
It is said that Liu Hong in history is about to make such an arrangement, but there is no Guo Bin, a traverser, to stir up the situation, but He Jin, a straw bag, was stunned and gave Dong Zhuo a shot with this excellent deck of cards in his hand, which Liu Hong did not expect.
It was about the meaning behind Liu Hong's arrangement that Guo Bin made up his mind. Since Liu Hong will not move himself easily, this is a big thing that has to be done, Guo Bin did it without scruples, and he did not shout at the top of his voice to overthrow the corrupt rule of Liu Hong, the son of heaven, after all, the unspoken rules are just unspoken rules, and they can't be brought up on the table. On the contrary, it is easy to reassure people by indulging appropriately, and occasionally making an inconsequential small mistake, so that Liu Hong, the son of heaven, can see Guo Bin's shortcomings? Otherwise, Guo Bin will have to hold a high position at an age that has not yet reached the crown, and he will be like a slippery old man who is decent and unmistakable in every step, but it will make people feel at ease.
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