Chapter 970: It's just an official position
Now the two can only hope that Liu Min is really a bribe-taking maniac, as long as he takes the benefits, he will not meddle in things, otherwise things will be big.
However, the two of them looked at Liu Min like that, the jade seat was all accepted, and it was just a matter of benefit, and when the time came, it would cost money to avoid disasters, although it was painful, it was nothing, anyway, such a big project, compared to the money earned, it was really a drop in the bucket.
The two of them couldn't help resenting Liu Min in their hearts, so they took this trip, estimating that with Fan Lixiang's status, the benefits they got were more than when they ran around worrying, which was unreasonable.
Outside, Li Cai was asked by Liu Min which Huang family was, and his heart was awe-inspiring, but he had already said so much, it was impossible not to say it in the end: "This time it is Huang Lan and Huang Yuan's heart for this project." ”
"Huang Lan." Liu Min groaned in his heart, Huang Lan knew that it was a member of the Huang family in Shuzhong, Huang Lan was Huang Quan's cousin, that is, the cousin of Liu Zhang's wife Huang Yue, because he had a good relationship with Huang Quan since he was a child, after Huang Quan and Huang Yue were reused one after another, Huang Lan naturally became one of the core members of the Huang family.
"There's some trouble now." Liu Min thought in his heart, the Huang family in Shuzhong should be the most powerful person today, although Huang Quan is only a Yizhou pastor, he is obviously the most important civil official in the Sichuan army.
Huang Quan followed Liu Zhang from the Battle of Fucheng, the Battle of Fucheng was arranged by Liu Zhang in advance, Huang Quan arrived with Dongzhou soldiers, won a game, and then took care of Yizhou, and did not surrender when the Jingyi clan rebelled.
Based on Liu Zhang's rise and Huang Quan's exploits, after Liu Zhang became emperor, Huang Quan must be the minister at the top of the imperial court.
What's more, Huang Yue is still the lady of the main room.
Liu Min was a little dignified in his heart, he didn't expect that it was the Huang family who framed the Qu family, which directly involved Liu Zhang. Will Liu Zhang handle it? You must know that you have not yet become an emperor. Just move the people of the Huang family. It will definitely chill the hearts of other heroes, and maybe there is a suspicion of a cunning rabbit and a dead lackey.
In fact, there are two Huang families, one is the Huang family in Shuzhong, and the other is the Huang family in Jingzhou, which one is active, the Huang family in Jingzhou is one Huang Yueying, and he can already sit on an equal footing with the Huang family in Yizhou.
However, in comparison, the Huang family in Jingzhou seems to be too low-key. Until now, the strength of the Huang family in Jingzhou cannot be compared with several big families in Shuzhong, at most it is only a little higher than other ordinary families, and I don't know if Huang Yueying deliberately suppressed it.
From the beginning when he heard that it was the Huang family, Liu Min felt that the matter was serious, and now he was worried, but he still couldn't show it, and he couldn't leave, so he continued to ask some questions with his head held high.
Liu Min wanted to know if Huang Lan was really behind the scenes, and if there was a more powerful backstage than Huang Lan. I didn't ask anything.
Liu Min also believes that there is nothing left. If there are still people behind Huang Lan, it can only be Huang Quan and Huang Yue, these two people are impossible to meddle in such a project.
"When the Huang family gets the project, don't forget to inform the general, who is going to celebrate."
After Liu Min finished speaking, he got up and left, and just walked outside the courtyard, two people behind the screen, one of them snorted and stood up: "Fan Lixiang's people are so arrogant, they even know that they are from the Huang family, and they dare to be so arrogant, almost blatantly asking for bribes, what does he think Fan Lixiang is in front of the Huang family?" ”
"Okay, Su asked Fan Lixiang to be good at playing with power, ruthless, how can the people under his command be good at stubble, let them be proud this time, wait for the King of Shu to ascend to the throne, Lord Huang Quan will enter the core of the court, and then slowly clean up Fan Lixiang."
If it weren't for the fact that the person behind Liu Min was Fan Lixiang, they were afraid that Liu Min would not give up if he died, and the two even wanted to kill Liu Min directly, or find a random crime and put him in prison, and slowly die unexpectedly.
The man was right, if it weren't for Liu Zhang behind this time, Liu Min really wouldn't dare to be arrogant in front of the Huang family, no matter what the political form of a regime is, there will always be a power class.
What's more, the Sichuan army is directly taken from the Han Dynasty, and the concept of the power class is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
After Liu Min returned to the Fan Lixiang military camp and asked the other generals including Xing Daorong and Chen Ying to retreat, Liu Min told the 1510 he heard, and when he said it, he looked at Liu Zhang with anxiety from time to time.
Fan Lixiang also frowned, originally wanted to hear what Liu Zhang said first, but turned her head to look, but Liu Zhang's brows were tightly locked, Fan Lixiang thought that Liu Zhang was not good at dealing with the Huang family, no wonder, there is not only Liu Zhang's wife in the main room, according to Fan Lixiang, Liu Zhang cares about Huang Yue's feelings very much.
And this also involves practical politics, Huang Quan is the biggest hero in the civil and official system, if he has not been crowned emperor at this time, he will do it to Huang Quan's family, or his cousin who is good with Huang Quan, it is not only the Huang family's cold, but also other heroes and good generals.
This is a great challenge to the stability of the regime after that.
Fan Lixiang thought for a while and said: "As far as I know, the Huang family, as a family, is divided into several parts, the Southwest Silk Road, the Western Silk Road, and all have responsible clansmen.
And the businessmen in the Han Dynasty are walking around on the bright side of this Huang Lan, so Huang Lan must take care of more than just Beiping, only because of the big construction in Beiping, the project is really huge, and the profit is very considerable, Huang Lan directly intervened.
So I think the person who framed the Qu family this time should not be Huang Lan directly, wait until the day of the bidding, arrest the Huang family who came to bid, and Li Cai and other officials, collude with officials and businessmen, and detain all of them, without implicating the innocent. ”
"Innocent?" After Fan Lixiang finished speaking, Liu Zhang spoke softly and let out a sigh: "Huang Lan is now in Beiping, and she is personally supervising the construction site in Beiping, Lixiang, you are not afraid of anything, when you were in Jingzhou, in order to keep your power, even this king was calculated."
Now why so many scruples? ”
Fan Lixiang was stunned, of course he said this for Liu Zhang's consideration, and she also felt that she was about to become the emperor and ascend the throne, so she shouldn't make any trouble at this time.
If it is replaced by other kings, and immediately faces such a major event as being called the emperor, this matter will definitely not be taken care of, and the king who is a little domineering will only write down this matter, as long as the Huang family does not go too far, he will not mention it.
In the future, he will be called the emperor, and the throne will be stabilized. The lackeys settle accounts together while cooking.
Fan Lixiang said that some direct offenders should be punished. It is already considered that Liu Zhang may not turn a blind eye. But listening to Liu Zhang's current tone, it turned out to be a thorough investigation.
The movement is too big, and it really shouldn't have been caused by this kind of change before the emperor.
"Lord, you don't really want to punish Huang Lan, do you? Now that the world has just been unified, you can't make such a big move, even if you want to punish Huang Lan, you have to wait for the emperor.
Lord. There is one thing you may not have thought about, punishing Huang Lan will not only chill some meritorious generals, but also make the people wonder, the Huang family, as the largest meritorious family, has produced such a mercenary person, and the people will doubt our entire Sichuan army. ”
"Punishment?" Liu Zhang sneered: "Huang Lan's head can exist, then I'm so sorry for the hundreds of thousands of generations who died." ”
Liu Zhang fully knew the consequences of killing Huang Lan, especially what Fan Lixiang said at the end, a grain of mouse feces spoiled a pot of soup. If such a person is found in the Huang family, it will be at the cost of killing the soldier's family of three for the sake of profit. went to frame another merchant, this person is also the cousin of the head of the Sichuan army.
The common people will have doubts about the Sichuan military regime, and sometimes this kind of doubt is fatal, maybe the common people will think of this incident in the future, so as to say: "Look, the Sichuan army is not a good thing, and there is that kind of scum at the top, let alone the lower level." ”
In order to maintain its legitimacy, the regime is secretive about high-level crimes.
Of course, Liu Zhang hopes that nothing will go wrong before he becomes emperor, and of course he hopes that the court established by the Sichuan army will be a glorious and holy image in the hearts of the people, and the civil and military forces of the upper echelons of the Sichuan army will be white and flawless in the hearts of the people.
However, Liu Zhang never felt that being an emperor and the stability of the regime was the first priority, and if he had regarded being an emperor as the first priority, there would have been no massacre in the first place.
As a royal family, and the entire Yizhou, it is much higher than Cao Cao's starting point, and it is much easier to level the world.
The stability of the regime is not what Liu Zhang is pursuing, as a later generation, Liu Zhang will not be as whimsical as Qin Shi Huang.
Although Liu Zhang is now making difficulties for the founding of the country, because the founding policy of the founding of the country is related to many generations, Liu Zhang never thought that he would be able to prosper the Han family for thousands of generations.
A dynasty can promote a historical development, that is, to make its own contributions, such as Qin Shi Huang achieved the unification of centralized power, the Han Dynasty laid the national foundation of the Han nation, the Sui Dynasty imperial examination system, and so on.
What I can do is to let myself rejuvenate this dynasty and do something for the advancement of history, as long as I promote the historical process, then the Chinese nation will be able to take a step forward.
It only takes one step, it doesn't need to be for generations, it will always be prosperous, this is what Liu Zhang has to do.
Of course, it is good for the regime to be stable, but it must not go against its original intention, otherwise it will put the cart before the horse, and it is obvious that letting Huang Lan go now is against his original intention.
To be honest, Liu Zhang listened to Liu Min's report and was very angry, even if Liu Zhang knew that the dark side of any regime could not be avoided, but Liu Zhang still felt sad and even frightened when it was so completely exposed in front of him.
Liu Zhang is afraid that his Zhongxing Han family is really just a decadent and mediocre dynasty.
If that's the case, Liu Zhang really feels sorry for those dead clans, those clans are not useless, they have a lot to promote, such as the values of loyalty and righteousness, and their contributions to Chinese culture.
It's just because with the passage of time, the clan continues to grow, and like a cancer, because of the selfishness of the family, the clan that is strong enough to start eating the country and the people for the sake of the family's interests, so it has to be removed.
Liu Zhang used violence and worked hard to get rid of the tumor of the clan, and he would never allow himself to plant a tumor.
Liu Zhang clearly knows that although the world is unified, the war has not ended, and there are still many obstacles in order to achieve the goal in his heart.
First of all, there are those interest groups that have risen with the high-level of the Sichuan army, and the interest groups are not terrible, but the terrible thing is that they are the same as the previous clans, and they have begun to tend to be arrogant and selfish, feeling that they have now become high-level and can play with power like the previous clans.
This is the common poison of the feudal era, a group of arrogant and powerful people have fallen, and the people who overthrew them have taken it for granted that they have lived the lives of the people they once overthrown.
This is definitely not what Liu Zhang wants, so Liu Zhang must kill people, even if it makes other civil and military people feel cold, even if it makes the people wonder about the Sichuan army.
Other civil and military people are cold, they must show their attitude, don't think that you are a hero, I don't dare to touch you.
It is not terrible for the common people to be suspicious, and if they do not take a tough stance now, and other upstarts will become more serious in the future, then it will not be doubtful, and the credibility of the Sichuan military regime among the people will be rapidly lost.
Liu Zhang has always believed that the loss of credibility is the most terrible, that is, the loss of legitimacy, and it is irreparable.
So Huang Lan and Liu Zhang were killed, at the cost of the soldier's family, just for monetary interests, it can be seen that Huang Lan didn't take the lower class people seriously at all, this is definitely the rise of a new dynasty, the arrogant power that the upstarts are used to.
"Lixiang, I'm going to kill Huanglan, you go and arrange it." Liu Zhang believes that with Fan Lixiang's means, these things are not difficult.
Seeing Liu Zhang's firm eyes, Fan Lixiang replied yes and said to Liu Zhang: "Lord, I really admire you, not for anything else, just because you can always maintain the kind of heart you had at the beginning."
Maybe the lord started with the Jiangzhou massacre, this is the kind of psychology, right? After experiencing the difficulties brought by so many clans, he never gave up his new policy, if only other kings had compromised.
Now before being crowned emperor, the other emperors are afraid that something will happen, and the people below will not dare to report anything even if something happens, and they will definitely not be able to finish eating and walking around if they report, but you can still deal with it as before.
Sometimes I think, is the emperor an official position for the lord? An official position to fulfill your heart's desire? ”
Fan Lixiang said Liu Zhang, thinking of herself, when she followed Liu Zhang, she first promised Liu Zhang three things, and then surrendered with the entire Jingnan and 20,000 troops before she got an official position.
Later, in order to keep this official position, the organs were exhausted, walking on the blade step by step, and Liu Zhang was calculated, even if he knew the consequences, Fan Lixiang had to do this for the sake of the official position.
Because Fan Lixiang is afraid of having no power, she hopes to gain a minimum of self-esteem in this world where men are inferior to women, and she doesn't have to be treated as goods by men.
Once, Fan Lixiang thought that this was her life's goal and would not change in her life.
But now, Fan Lixiang suddenly found that at some point, she didn't even want to be a general, and she still wanted to be a woman by Liu Zhang's side.
In other words, he has given up his former ideals.
But Liu Zhang still insisted, whether it was the difficulties caused by the huge family or the temptation of the throne, it seemed that he never wavered. (To be continued......)