After finishing a busy day, Yuwen Hu looked at the back of his brother Yuwen Jue in Tongzhou, and a strange thought appeared in front of him: Which green onion in which field am I? A few days ago, although Yuwentai entrusted him with his deathbed, he did not entrust him with authority, what is the use of a will? Trusting orphans and not entrusting power is like planting land and not giving land, that is, letting Huang Jiguang blow up the bunker, at least giving him an explosives bag.

The current puppet emperor Tuoba Kuo is also in his twenties, and his younger brother, the honorary prime minister Yu Wenjue, who has just succeeded him, is 15 years old, and he is obviously the master of everything. I'm not a man in charge.

Yuwen Hu thought about it and dragged two puppets in one hand, which was not easy to do. There are five options in front of you,

abolished Prime Minister Yu Wenjue and became Prime Minister himself. (The dead uncle and his fans don't agree)

Abolish the emperor and do it yourself, and Yuwenjue will be the prime minister. (There is no mass base, Yuwentai's fans still don't agree to abolish the emperor, let Yuwenjue do it, and be the prime minister himself (feasible, but there are certain difficulties)

Maintain the status quo, go home and farm by yourself (sorry, you haven't reached that realm yet) are all abolished, and you will have an emperor and prime minister. (Don't talk nonsense, it's good to be able to do one yourself.) ）

Yuwen Hu looked at this feasibility analysis report, and the third one is reliable, but there are also difficulties, why? In a word: there is no mass base. No matter what the military exploits, official position, prestige, qualifications, and popularity, he is not ranked in the court. Not to mention anything else, just the Eight Pillars and the Twelve Great Generals, just pick one out at random, and it's enough for you to drink a pot. But the arrow had to be sent on Xuan, and besides, there was only this way to go, and he couldn't really go home to farm.

As the saying goes, a fence has three piles, and a hero has three gangs. Yuwen Hu, a good man, is good now, even if there is a gang. Because he was the chief manager of his uncle most of the time, and he didn't establish a comrade-in-arms relationship with those generals, there were really not many trustworthy people in the court.

Why? Since the death of Yuwentai, the pattern of the court seems very delicate, when Yuwentai was there, it was like a beast tamer, these pillars (Yuwentai is also counted as one) and the general are like a dozen lions, although the personality is fierce, but in front of the animal tamer has been tamed, Yuwentai is scheming, more often not like a leader, but more like the boss, with prestige, qualifications, personal charm to control, in current words, with a strong soft power, now the old animal tamer has died, It's Yuwen Hu's turn to take over a beast who has never tamed a beast, where is his soft power?

Thinking of this, Yuwen Hu felt a little chill down his spine. But after all, Brother Hu is not an ordinary person, he is very calm in trouble, and the crisis is not behind the crisis, and the danger is not an opportunity?

As long as you can seize the opportunity, just like the advertising slogan of the Li Ning brand: everything is possible. Since the soft power is not enough, let's have some hard ones, it's always okay to pick a lion king from it, wouldn't it be nice to have a bull across the mountain? Yuwen Hu exhausted his milk, meditated (let's wrap up Zhongnanhai), and searched quickly for the lion king he needed. Not to mention, it really made him think of it, this person is the Minister of Justice (Da Sikou) and one of the Eight Pillars of the Kingdom Yu Jin.

Yu Jin is a native of Huaihuang Town (one of the six towns), both civil and military, familiar with the "Art of War", the oldest in the court, the greatest credit. How can such a person be used?

There is a reason, of course. First of all, he is a military general of the Six Towns faction, who has followed Yuwentai for many years, is old and serious, and resolutely supports the abolition of the puppet emperor of the Western Wei Dynasty, and another important reason is that he used to be the old leader of Yuwenhu, who attacked the Liang State entrenched in Jiangling, the commander was Yu Jin, and the strikers were Yuwenhu and Yang Zhong. If you don't need such a relationship, when will it be?

Yuwen Hu immediately found Yu Jin and said Old leader, you have also seen the situation, although I am the third uncle's deathbed trustee, but no one buys my account, what do you say? Yu Jin was really warm-hearted, and said, Your uncle and I are brothers in life and death, and I will definitely help with this favor.

But in two steps, the first step is to first level the old guys in the court, sit firmly in the position, and then think about being the prime minister. As for how to settle it, look at me in the court.

Yuwen Hu grabbed the life-saving straw, was overjoyed, and obeyed his words. Sure enough, the next day, after everyone went to work as usual, they had a routine morning shift meeting, Yu Jin was furious, his face sank and said: Everyone, the boss's bones are not cold, his sons are too young, Yuwen Hu is his eldest nephew, and it is natural for him to supervise the country, which is reasonable.

It is also the person who entrusted the orphan before the death of the boss, and he is in charge of the country, which is called legal. Reasonable and legal, I think he should be the top spot. ”

Before everyone could react, Yuwen Hu hurriedly added: The third uncle is entrusted with his deathbed, and I really don't dare to refuse. ”

Everyone was in the clouds, and they were not mentally prepared at all, and they all had no idea when they did this. Yu Jin immediately struck while the iron was hot: the first one bowed to Yuwen and kowtowed, saying: You do it, we finally have the backbone again.

In terms of ordinary times, Yu Jin and Yuwentai are equals, twenty years older than Yuwenwu, and they are uncles and old leaders, and they have to pay homage when they meet. It's just a drop today, everyone is running out of ideas, and when I look, the old man Yu is kneeling down, so don't know each other, and bow down. It doesn't matter if this worship is done, this is considered a unanimous vote, and Yuwengo's guardian status is determined.

The first step was so easy that the rest was done. On the first day of the Lunar New Year in 557 AD, the common people were busy eating dumplings for the New Year. The central government was changed, and it was very thorough, and the last emperor of the Western Wei Dynasty, Tuoba Kuo, was laid off and replaced by the sixteen-year-old Yu Wenjue. Known as the king of heaven (the tower in his hand), the Northern Zhou Dynasty made a shining debut.

From the death of Yuwentai on October 4 to the first day of the Lunar New Year of the following year, in just over two months, the imperial court completely underwent a major operation, and the Northern Wei Dynasty of one hundred and seventy-one years died at the end of his life, the emperor changed, and the world was still the same world, but he was already surnamed Yuwen. The operation was very smooth, and the reason was, of course, because the chief surgeon, Yuwen, was a skilled nurse.

Where's Gao Ming? If you want to understand the work of the political family, we must first learn to use the brain of the political family to see the problem.

Since the death of Yuwentai, the current pattern of the imperial court has been completely different, there is no tiger monkey in the mountains as the landlord, Yuwentai is no longer there, Yuwentai is no longer the tiger, Yuwentai is not the only one who wants to be a monkey, I said, the relationship between Yuwentai and these heroes has always been the relationship between the boss and the younger brother, although everyone has not said it clearly, but has been doing things according to a rule, what rules?

The rules of the rivers and lakes, since the boss is gone, it is natural to choose a boss among the younger brothers, of course Yuwen Hu cannot abide by such rules of the rivers and lakes, because there is one of the rules of the rivers and lakes that is fatal to the Yuwen family, that is: the boss cannot be hereditary.

Yuwen Hu understands this very well, if he follows the rules of the rivers and lakes, the position of the prime minister should be one of the other big pillar countries and will not be their turn of the Yuwen family, of course, he himself has no share, so if you want to reverse your fate, you must overturn this Jianghu rule and replace it with another rule, that is: political rules.

To be specific, my Yuwen family is the emperor, and it can always be hereditary, what about military merits and qualifications, all stay aside, and listen to the ranks: Da Zhou is the big Zhou of my Yuwen family, and my Yuwen family is no longer a brother with you from now on, but another relationship: the relationship between monarchs and ministers. Who's again

This trick is quite ruthless, killing people and invisibly, those veterans saw that this matter was a foregone conclusion, and they thought forget it, as long as they don't move to my one-third of an acre, the emperor will be the emperor if you love you. It's a pity that they underestimated this newcomer Yuwen Hu too much, they never dreamed that people were playing a set of combination punches. Pick it up, old comrades:

That is, on the same day that Yuwen Jue became emperor, Yuwen Hu himself directly took over as Minister of Defense (Da Sima) and snatched the military power.

Comrade Duguxin, the former Minister of National Defense, was promoted to the post of Taibao (honorary adviser, directly overhead). Comrade Zhao Gui, Minister of Education and Culture, was promoted to Taifu (vacant position, directly overhead), and Comrade Li Bi, Minister of Civil Affairs, was promoted to Taishi (fictitious position, directly overhead). What do you think? This is called not doing one, not stopping, and not losing military power and power. Some people say, why are these three old comrades unlucky?

Then you underestimate Yuwen Hu again, take out the power of these three, Yuwen Hu's combination of punches can be described as stable and accurate, and >

Why? Let's analyze the situation of several pillar countries: the boss Yu Wentai and Li Hu of the pillar country are no longer there, Yuan Xin is the former Western Wei royal family, just an honorary advisor, which can be basically ignored, then the eight pillar kingdoms are left: Yu Jin, Li Bi, Hou Mo Chen Chong, Dugu Xin and Zhao Gui. Needless to say, Yu Jin has always been Yuwentai's old subordinate, loyal and reliable. Li Bi turned out to be the general of the enemy group Hou Mo Chen Yue, who abandoned the dark and turned to the light, in order to prevent being counted as old accounts, he usually behaved with his tail between his legs, and was very low-key, how could he think about anything wrong, Hou Mo Chen Chong, who used to be a subordinate of He Bayue with Yuwentai, after He Bayue's death, he has been following Yuwentai and is more loyal.

And Dugu Xindang followed the emperor of the Western Wei Dynasty into the customs, and the political zhì was inclined to the Tuoba clan of the Western Wei Dynasty, and it is recorded in history that this person is quite handsome, and "graceful and elegant, with great strategy", has a high reputation, and is also the Minister of National Defense, holding military power, is indeed a dangerous person.

There is an episode here, in order to win over Dugu Xin, Yu Wentai asked his eldest son Yu Wenyu to take Dugu Xin's daughter, and the two became in-laws.

Later, Yuwentai wanted to decide the issue of the heir, as we said earlier, the heir is generally not a successor, although the second Yuwenjue is young, but the heir, there is nothing to be embarrassed about, but considering that the eldest son Yuwenyu is Duguxin's son-in-law, considering Duguxin's feelings, he also held a special meeting, and no one dared to take a stand at the meeting, (Duguxin's prestige can be seen) This matter was almost stranded, and finally because the general Li Yuan came out and said: I support Yuwenjue, if Duguxin is not convinced, I will kill him, this matter is settled.

Maybe Li Yuan later felt that he was more impulsive at that time, and went to Dugu Xin to apologize. Although it is an episode, Yuwentai has to give him three points, taking into account his feelings everywhere, which shows how heavy Dugu Xin's weight is.

As for Zhao Gui, when He Bayue was killed, he was the first to support Yu Wentai as the boss, and in terms of merit, it was the first achievement, but this person has no fear, is arrogant and arrogant, and if he causes something one day, it is definitely a time bomb. Now you can see what it means to be stable, accurate, and ruthless, right?

It is accurate to point the finger at the dangerous people Duguxin and Zhao Gui at the first time, and the establishment of the Northern Zhou was announced here, and the two of them were pressed down over there, and there was no respite at all, and they were killed directly. To be ruthless is to directly receive the military power to the bottom, rather than being demoted to a deputy minister or something, and resolutely not giving a chance.

Stability is to rise and fall secretly, and the minister was directly promoted to the chairman of the CPPCC, knowing that it was a loss, and there was no reason to rebel. High, really high. The one asked, why was Li Bi also set up?

That's not a mistake, Li Bi rebelled, once Duguxin and others got into trouble, this person was very easy to win over, it was definitely an unstable factor, and it was necessary to set up an unstable factor.

With the cooperation of Yuwen Hu, the operation was completed, and a set of combination punches was also completed, and he called it a day, and was ready to go home to wash and sleep, but he didn't expect that this time it was a major operation, and although it was done smoothly, it was not so fast, and the knife began to become inflamed. So is the inflammation terrible this time? Please see the next episode: Three Knife Shooting Surprises.

Last time, Yuwen Hu as a novice in politics, and the old comrade Yu Jin together for the Yuwentai team did a major operation, and through guò skillfully used chain boxing, quickly turned the situation around, successfully ascended, and was about to go home to sleep well, unexpectedly, someone came to report that the knife edge after the operation was inflamed, and Yuwen Hu got up from the bed with a donkey: Say, who is the inflammation? came to report that it was Duguxin and Zhao Gui who were discussing rebellion? Yuwen Protector breathed a long sigh of relief, and as expected, he still came.

It is no wonder that since Yuwen Hu set aside Dugu Xin and Zhao Gui, the number of cabinet members is still six, but there are only three people who are actually in power: Yuwen Hu, Yu Jin, Hou Mo and Chen Chong.

But these old cadres who have been elevated are not the second generation of officials, and they can do it to this position today, and they can't do it without two brushes.

Especially Comrade Zhao Gui, who supported Yuwentai and made great contributions, and finally survived until he became famous after many years of fighting, he was transferred from his post by Yuwenhu Boy, retired to the second line, and was not angry, so he found another old cadre Dugu Xin to complain, in fact, Dugu Xin was angrier than him, not only his own defense minister was removed, but the old leader he followed back then, the Emperor of the Western Wei Dynasty, was also abolished.

The two of them had three glasses of wine, Zhao Gui couldn't sit still, and said that he wanted to give Yuwen Hu a good look at this kid, and if he didn't let me feel better, I would make him sad.

But Dugu Xin has a connotation, saying: Impulse is the devil, let's bear with it first. Originally, he complained at the wine table, you know and I know, this matter may have passed like this, but unfortunately this was somehow heard by Yuwenhu's other brother Yuwensheng (Yuwentai's son).

Report to Yuwen Hu overnight. Yuwen Hu didn't panic at all, what could a crocodile with a tooth extracted do? Since he is here, he will simply plan it, first take him Zhao Gui to open the knife, and make an example to deter those old guys.

Over there, Yuwen Hu opened the net, and Zhao Gui was still in the dark here, pretending that no one was going to work as usual the next day, and as soon as he stepped into the door, he immediately ordered an arrest, and then Yuwen Sheng came out to testify, and there was no need for any physical evidence. Yuwen Hu waved his hand, and Comrade Zhao Gui and his whole family were forcibly sent to Lord Yan to report to work.

Of course, Duguxin was not spared, although he was not shot while lying down, but it was a pity to die. Considering the huge influence of Lord Dugu in the imperial court, he will be shuanggui first and wait to deal with it. Don't think that Yuwen Hu is soft-hearted, because on the timetable of the shuttle bus to send the old cadre to hell, there is a person in front of Dugu Xin. Who? The last emperor of the Western Wei Dynasty, Tuoba Kuo.

When the emperor of the new dynasty ascended the throne, the emperor of the previous dynasty was like a broken chair in the renovated wedding room. Generally, after the last emperor is deposed, it is normal to find a reason or even kill him without a reason.

There are really not many people like Liu Chan and Pu Yi who can live to the end of their lives and live to be more than sixty. The main reason for doing this is to break the thoughts of those fans of the former dynasty, don't keep worrying about anti-Qing and restoration of sight and the like. Yuwen Hu did this for no other reason.

At the end of February, Tuoba Kuo stepped on the subway bound for the underworld. After all, Tuoba Kuo was the emperor, even if he went to the underworld, he had to be escorted by someone, Yuwen Hu really thought thoughtfully, on March 10, he forced Dugu Xin to commit suicide at home and went to the underworld to escort Tuoba Kuo.

However, thinking about it on the other hand, this matter seems to be evil, whether Zhao Gui really has rebellious remarks, there is no evidence to prove it, besides, how could the words of Zhao Gui and Dugu Xin on the wine table be known by Yu Wensheng who was far away?

Yu Wensheng himself is a member of the Yuwen family, of course, he protects the interests of the Yuwen family, and he killed Zhao Gui's family and Dugu Xin with only one of Yu Wensheng's evidence, and there is no way to convince people. So let's compare the whole thing before and after, there is probably only one possibility: after Yuwenhu snatched the military power, in order to prevent Duguxin and Zhao Gui from rebelling, he took a preemptive strike and arranged for Yuwensheng to be a witness, and accused Zhao Gui and Duguxin of rebellion, cut the grass and eradicate the roots, so as to prevent future troubles.

At the same time, it is entirely possible to achieve the effect of killing chickens and setting an example to monkeys. Anyway, within three months, an emperor and two elders died, and the people in the court were panicked and discussed, Yuwen Hu saw that the situation was a little wrong, the inflammation of the knife had not been completely cured, and the complications began again.