Chapter 658: A Clever Trick to Win Over Allies and Fight Political Opponents
Since it is necessary to prevent being liquidated, this thing is naturally just an appetizer for Fuquan's standing in the court, and later at the end of the Ming Dynasty, how did the mites enter the customs at the end of the Ming Dynasty, how did they make the gentlemen of Donglin who kept saying that they were the country and the world bow their heads after the death of the people with lofty ideals. Although Fuquan can't learn from the mite Qing and rely on killing to make these bureaucrats bow their heads, they can also learn from it, and they have soldiers in hand to constantly challenge the bottom line of these party members.
Therefore, after throwing out the proposition of giving Liu Hong a good word and forcing most of the party members to bow their heads, Fu Quan saluted the little emperor Liu Chong unhurriedly, and said word by word without changing his face: "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother, and the ministers heard that the ancestors of the ancients were meritorious and virtuous, so the sages have their own reasons for making ceremonial music, and they have their own reasons for listening to songs, so they are virtuous, and dancers, so they are meritorious!" Today, the first emperor's name is set as 'fruit', and His Majesty will always think of filial piety, and since the first emperor ascended the throne, he has raised Li Shu inside, and Yi Di has been outside, sweeping Taiping Dao and Xizhou rebels, and giving wide range of kindness, which is a great achievement! Since the three princes and the nine kings and the officials of the court should be ordered to jointly agree that the music and dance of the temples of the first emperor should be cultivated in the Ming Dynasty and the merits of the first emperor. ”
The little emperor Liu Chong obviously didn't understand Fu Quan's words, and turned to look at the Empress Dowager Song beside her, and although the Empress Dowager Song didn't quite understand Fu Quan's intention to make such a fuss in the court, but for her husband to praise and build a temple, this is a good thing, can she refuse? After all, once Liu Hong is on the name of the beautiful and the temple, after the death of her wife, can't she get a good name like the wives of kings who have been honored in the past?
No one doesn't want to have a good reputation after his death, especially the people of the royal family, and they care very much, in history, how many queens and concubines want to get a good reputation after the emperor's death?
Therefore, the Empress Dowager Song responded without hesitation: "What Fu Qing said is reasonable, I don't know if Zhu Qing can have any objections?" ”
In fact, there is no need for the Empress Dowager Song to inquire, after Fu Quan's words were spoken, many officials were dumbfounded, looked at each other, and secretly said that this Fu Quan is really shameless, they have retreated here, and acquiesced in Fu Quan's suggestion to Liu Hong, a faint gentleman, to give "good advice".
However, Fuquan is not satisfied, and now he wants to build a temple for Liu Hong, a faint monarch, and go to the temple number, which is really an inch, and he doesn't look at the temple number is every emperor can go up?
Many people sighed in their hearts, and at the same time complained to God, if they could have succeeded in the first place, how good it would be, why did they give in so much...... They are retreating step by step, but Fuquan is pressing step by step, which is simply shameless!
In their hearts, these people scolded Fuquan to death, but except for a small number of insignificant people who objected, most of them were surprisingly silent, and the other meaning of silence actually meant acquiescence.
The temple number is the name given by the emperor when he was enshrined in the temple, which originated in the Shang Dynasty, which valued sacrifice and worship, of course, not all kings had a temple number.
Generally, after the death of the king, he will build an exclusive family temple to worship, but after a few generations, the original temple must be destroyed, and the temple will be combined for sacrifice, which is called "Ao". This is done because if every king's temple remains, it will be difficult for many family temples to be sacrificed after a few generations.
When the dynasty was founded, Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu abolished the temple number of the Three Emperors, which had this intention, after all, according to the seniority, Liu Xiu was the elder of the other three, and it was naturally inconvenient to sacrifice it.
However, in this dynasty, because the Han Dynasty established the country with filial piety, almost as long as the descendants of the emperor succeeded to the throne, they would give their fathers and ancestors a good name, so the name of the emperor could not completely reflect the life of the emperor, so the temple number instead replaced the name of the name to cover the coffin of the function, so that the ancestors who have great merit to the country and are worthy of eternal sacrifice to their descendants will especially catch up with the temple number to show the meaning of eternal temple sacrifice.
In the legal system, only the Son of Heaven with a temple number can enjoy the music and dance specially formulated for him, but how can Liu Hong be able to establish a temple number, and can also have customized music and dance?
It's just that although many people slander in their hearts, there are very few people who dare to oppose it now, because Fuquan has blocked their words.
In Fuquan's words just now, it was directly said that the new son of heaven Liu Chong ascended the throne, and according to the Han Dynasty's idea of filial piety, it was natural to respect the merits of the first emperor and set up a temple number for his father. In his words, Liu Hong's exploits can actually be ignored, the most important thing is the sentence "Your Majesty Yongsi Filial Piety", what is Yongsi Filial Piety? Naturally, Liu Hong wants to be filial piety before and after Liu Hong's death, and now that Liu Hong is dead, the new son of heaven is young, in order to fulfill his filial piety to his father, what's wrong with establishing a temple?
Now, whoever opposes it will be hated by the new Son of Heaven, who is disloyal, unfilial and unrighteous, even if the Son of Heaven does not say anything now, but in the future, it is certain that once the Son of Heaven monopolizes the power, you and even future generations will be hated by the new Son of Heaven if you want to make an inch of progress in your career.
Therefore, who dares to oppose it now, they have even retreated from Fuquan, who is now obviously in control of the court, not to mention Liu Chong, the son of heaven who will be in power in the future. Although it is said that most of the sons of heaven in this dynasty are short-lived ghosts who died early, who knows how long this Liu Chong can live, so at this time, most of the so-called people with solar terms are very serious when nothing has happened, and they bow their heads and acquiesce in all this.
Taoism does nothing, the Han family has always admired Taoism, advocating the rule of non-action, even if the founding of this dynasty attaches importance to Confucianism and respects solar terms, but this way of doing nothing, but deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Not only the monarch learned, but even many of the wall-headed courtiers also learned, and now for the situation in the court, the remaining party members and wall-headed courtiers present all coincidentally chose to do nothing now.
Turning to look at the silent ministers in front of him, Fu Quan couldn't help but feel proud in his heart, and threw out all the two dishes of the name and the temple number, depending on whether these guys eat it or not, anyway, in his opinion, can these guys eat the temple number or not?
In the name of the new emperor of heaven, Liu Hong was given a good name, a temple, and a posthumous treatment, which was a clever move that Fuquan thought he had chosen.
Of course, this trick was actually learned by Fuquan and Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty later, at that time, Emperor Jiajing was the younger brother of the prince of the domain, was set up as the emperor, and he was the son of a small sect to succeed the unification, which was itself in an extremely dangerous position, after all, no one knew how many of its own people the central court had.
Therefore, after Emperor Jiajing came to power, he immediately engaged in a big etiquette dispute, if anyone really should be Jiajing is an extremely filial piety, so that regardless of the patriarchal tradition, he wants to praise his father and mother, and set up a temple for his father?
The so-called great etiquette, in Fu Quan's view, this is actually a matter of Jiajing forcing the courtiers who were in power in the imperial court at that time to stand in line, I, the new emperor who inherited the great unification, have just come here, you ministers have to make a choice, whether to be loyal to the new emperor, or loyal to something else?
And if you want to prove yourself, you ministers, then take a clear stand and take a clear position!
Support me, that is my good minister, if you don't support it, it will be a chaotic minister and thief, even if you punish you, others have nothing to say, you don't let the emperor fulfill his filial piety, what do you want to do?
This move, starting from the patriarchal ritual tradition, avoids fierce political struggles, and completely confines political struggles to rituals and patriarchy. On the one hand, the political struggle between the government and the opposition due to the new emperor's accession to the throne was avoided to the greatest extent; On the other hand, it is also safe and convenient to know who is his own person and who is the opposition, so that the new emperor can quickly grasp the situation of the court.
The most important thing is that no one can find fault with this move, do you dare to say that a son who is ready to take out the mourning after his father's death is a faint king?
It is obviously impossible, so Fu Quan will throw out the topic of the nickname and even the temple number earlier than these people today.
The key reason is that he wants to know that those people are "political" friends that can be wooed, and those people are political enemies that must be eliminated.
Fu Quan knew very well that the power of the party was huge, and Liu Zhi and Liu Hong implemented the party system twice in a row, although at the beginning, they greatly weakened and balanced the power of the party, but in the end they were unable to defeat them.
One had a good degree of control and had to lift the party, and the other was not well controlled, and he almost lost the country because of a Taiping Road rebellion. Moreover, the two people who implemented the party did not end well after their deaths, and were scolded for a thousand years, and the second emperor of Huan Ling became the representative of the faint monarch of later generations, how sad?
Therefore, for Fu Quan, now is the time for him to choose political allies, and there is no more clear and clear certainty than the question he threw up for Liu Hong's praise and the establishment of a temple, which can be tried to win over those people, those people should be completely attacked, and those people should be united again.
Of course, in this case, Fuquan must send those officials who were completely attacked to the grave completely, and there can be no trace of aftermath. Otherwise, it is impossible to say that Emperor Jiajing will be unfavorable because of the blow, and finally end up with the name of a faint monarch who rarely goes to the court, is obsessed with Taoism, and devours alchemy, and I don't know where the so-called "Jiajing Zhongxing" and "the world is called the rule" come from?
The courtiers present were really entangled in their hearts at this moment, is there a problem with the edict thrown out by Fuquan in the name of the new monarch?
From a system point of view, the problem is huge, but in the current situation, can they stand up and accuse and put it on the table to discuss this matter?
Who would dare? The general trend is not in their hands, and even the emperor and the queen mother will obviously not support them, this is a sword on the grass on these walls, whoever comes out will have his head on the ground.
If only there was such a fool standing up...... Countless party members and ministers thought in their hearts, now as long as there is a cannon fodder who dares to rush to the front, they will dare to follow behind and express their opinions.
As for what will happen to that fool who came out? Who cares? Obviously, there is no one, and it is never unreasonable that a friend of the dead Dao does not die and the poor Dao.
However, among the party members, the people who are really brave and dare to be the first bird were either killed in the political struggle in the two party committees, or when Yuan Shao supported Liu Wei, he was killed or arrested by Fuquan alone, and now those who can appear in the court are all cowards who did not follow Yuan Shao at the beginning, can they expect a fool who dares to be the first bird?
Obviously impossible! If there is, then it can only be said that it is strange, they don't follow Yuan Shao to gamble on a more favorable situation for the party, but they are sitting in the "subordinate ministers" of Fuquan, what a stupid choice!
The scene is surprisingly quiet, if you observe carefully, you will find that many people even have the same movements, just looking down at their clothes, maintaining a state of out of sight, even the original courtiers who opposed it, also didn't say a word, when the party's solar terms and people are all dead, the rest of the people will only have a few words of shouting mouth cannon ability, as for letting them come out, don't even think about it, now can stay in the court, which is not a human spirit?
I don't know how long it took, just when everyone thought that no one had answered, and finally after a few polite words from the Queen Mother, such as "Qing and others have no objections", the coffin was completely closed, and they could also go down to court, but I didn't expect someone to stand up.
Previously, as the Runan Yuan clan lost power, the only one who was still in the court, and was friendly with the party members but had not helped the party members speak out, the current head of the Hongnong Yang family, Taizhong Doctor Yang Biao, suddenly sat upright and stood up with a righteous face.
At this moment, the hearts of countless people are boiling, they think that the savior has appeared, in their opinion, this is the example that the Hongnong Yang family, who is as famous as the Yuan family in Runan, should set an example, Yuan Shao is dead and the Yuan family is fine, as long as Yang Biao and the Yang family dare to speak now, they will follow up together, and vow to break the troubled act of Fuquan, why does he Liu Hong have a good reputation and build a temple? It's impossible.
Everyone was eager to try, and they were waiting for Yang Biao to speak, and they immediately followed up, they must maintain this patriarchal order and smash the good things that Liu Hong, a faint king, wanted to be famous after his death.
It's just that Yang Biao's first sentence after coming out of the list knocked them into the abyss, but after hearing this famous family in Kansai, he slowly crawled to the ground and bowed loudly: "Your Majesty will always think of filial piety, and the edict will order the minister to stand up and dance to the virtue of the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and this minister is beyond the reach of foolishness!" The minister thought: Since the first emperor ascended the throne, he has soothed Li Shu inside, Yi Di outside, swept Taiping Dao and Xizhou rebels, and widely extended kindness, which is a great achievement! Now, when the temple is built for the first emperor, His Majesty should be the temple of the ancestors from generation to generation, and the ministers of the clan should serve the Son of Heaven. ”
Everyone, after listening to it, was dumbfounded all of a sudden, is this still the descendant of Yang Zhen, a great Confucian known as "Mr. Four Knowledge" and "Confucius of Kansai"? You must know that you are a member of the Yang family, a famous family in Kansai, and your father is Yang Ci who is outspoken and persuasive? How can you do such a stupid thing at this time?
On the side of the court, Fu Quan was also stunned when he heard Yang Biao's words, he didn't think that the head of the Hongnong Yang Valve, who had not moved since Yuan Shao's coup, would suddenly support himself so unhesitatingly, it seems...... Something is wrong with this picture, isn't it?
However, looking at Yang Biao's expression of loyalty and swearing allegiance to the emperor, he somewhat understood, isn't Yang Biao's move the secret of Hongnong Yang's ability to last for thousands of years?
After all, although Yang Zhen, Yang Bing, and Yang Ci, who made the rise of the Hongnong Yang clan, are all famous ministers who are known to clean up their reputations, punish corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and dare to directly admonish the emperor, they all have a common characteristic, that is, they are all staunch royalists.
Otherwise, they would not have let the emperor, who was a little embarrassed by them, always respect and pamper, otherwise, the emperor would have already tried to get it down, how could they give them the opportunity to be the third prince now?
Even Fuquan knew that in history, Yang Biao would always be firm behind Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, and finally won the honor of the fourth and third princes for the Hongnong Yang family. It's just that although the Yang family is a loyal royalist, it is also a family that understands current affairs, which is very similar to the Runan Yuan family before Yuan Shao appeared, and they know how to keep a low profile.
In my memory, later because of Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu brothers, the Runan Yuan clan was completely degraded, and could only rely on the Yuan clan of the same clan Chen Jun to support it, but this Hongnong Yang clan was able to survive the short-term suppression of the Cao Wei regime, and has been surnamed for the world in the history since then.
Don't you see, later even Emperor Wen of Sui Emperor Yang Jian had to rely on Hongnong Yang's gold? Until the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Hongnong Yang clan was a family of scholars in the world, if it weren't for the late Tang Dynasty turmoil and the appearance of the Song and Ming imperial examinations, the rise of the Hanmen, their way of protecting themselves and gaining a good reputation, there is really no one to compare. From this point of view, Yang Biao's actions today also have some reasons.