Wu Chengsi did not stop there. He always felt that with his loyalty to Emperor Wu, Emperor Wu had a tendency to make him his prince. Although Emperor Wu has a mother-son relationship that he can't give up, he believes that the contribution he has made to Emperor Wu is also something that Emperor Wu cannot ignore, and the bloodline of the Wu family can only be surnamed Wu and not Li.

In Wu Chenghe's wishful thinking, Emperor Wu's indecision was a great opportunity for him to actively strive for. He believed in his own power, and this power was given to him by the Martial Emperor. Therefore, he could not tolerate others to stand in the way, and wanted to take revenge on those who stood in the way with death.

He clearly knew that there was a force against him in the entire imperial court, and only by eliminating Cen Changqian and them could he set an example and further expand his influence; Only in the face of fait accompli can we strengthen Emperor Wu's determination to make him the prince. So, he teamed up with cool officials to come to Junchen to deal with Cen Changqian and them.

According to the steps set in advance, they first recommended Cen Changqian to lead his troops to fight against Tibet on the grounds that Tubo had committed crimes; After Cen Changqian left the court, they arrested Cen Changqian's eldest son, Cen Lingyuan, for treason.

Cen Lingyuan, who could not withstand the severe punishment, was forced to falsely confess that Cen Yuanqian and Ge Fuyuan rebelled. Immediately afterwards, they recalled and arrested Cen Changqian, who was on the way to the campaign, and extorted a confession for the crime of treason. Cen Changqian and others vigorously defended and swore to the death, and fought for more than a month. Lai Junchen executed Cen Changqian, Ge Fuyuan and other courtiers, forged confessions and signatures, and submitted them to Emperor Wu.

Obviously, Emperor Wu acquiesced to Wu Chenghe's actions. Although from the beginning, she couldn't bear to do this, Emperor Wu believed that Cen Changqian and they would not rebel, nor would they do anything unfavorable to Emperor Wu.

However. Emperor Wu eventually acquiesced to Wu Chenghe, and this acquiescence was undoubtedly supporting the atrocities of Wu Chengsi and Lai Junchen, allowing them to kill innocents indiscriminately with impunity. According to the judgment of Emperor Wu. The matter of establishing a reserve was provoked by Wu Chenghei, and it has been formed around the establishment of a reserve

There will be two opposing camps, and the existence of these two forces will inevitably clash. Emperor Wu did not object to Cen Changqian's clear position of supporting the prince Li Dan, but it was difficult to tolerate their snubbing and contempt for the children of the Wu family, they knew full well that both the prince and the children of the Wu family were protected by themselves.

Therefore. Emperor Wu thought that he could take this opportunity to deal a blow to Cen Changqian's arrogance and calm down the incident. Eliminate the hidden dangers that may be caused to the imperial court.

However, Wu Chengsi and they came to slaughter and then play, and easily executed the two ministers without her permission, and Emperor Wu always had a feeling of being used, and Wu Chenghe's murderous behavior disgusted her.

Wu Chengji did not perceive Emperor Wu's dissatisfaction and disgust. He also did not consider the disgust and hatred of the court for him. Stupid, he once again used Wang Qingzhi to mess with Emperor Wu and exert pressure, Emperor Wu was angry, and handed over Wang Qingzhi to Li Zhaode in a fit of anger.

Li Zhaode was one of those ministers who hated and hated Wu Chenghe, and he also acquiesced to his subordinates mercilessly beating Wang Qingzhi, a shameless villain, to death, in order to vent his hatred for Wu Chenghe's gang.

Emperor Wu originally just wanted to teach Wang Qingzhi a lesson, but he didn't expect to be beaten to death, after all, he was just a villain who was used by others.

Emperor Wu had an insight that Li Zhaode was venting his dissatisfaction. So he asked: "Doesn't Zhaode praise the establishment of the King of Wei as the crown prince?" Li Zhaode knew that Emperor Wu would ask him, so he made it clear that he disagreed.

Far from approving it. In turn, he said to Emperor Wu in a reproachful tone: "The minister doesn't understand what His Majesty thinks, the first emperor is the husband of His Majesty, and the emperor's heir is the son of His Majesty, if the son is unreliable, the nephew is even more unreliable." ”

These words are the same as Cen Changqian's tone and attitude, but they hit the nail on the head. Yes, if the son can't be trusted, who else can?

Seeing that Emperor Wu seemed to have an understanding, Li Zhaode understood that this constant mother-son relationship was the most convincing, and said: "If Your Majesty is planning for the aftermath, you can't make King Wei the crown prince."

It is natural for a son to build a temple to worship his parents, and he has never heard of a nephew who will set up a temple to worship his aunt. "It was the first time that Emperor Wu heard a courtier like Li Zhaode say so reasonably, so to the point, and he couldn't help but appreciate Li Zhaode's courage and courage.

Emperor Wu's face showed a look of pleasure; Li Zhaode understood that Emperor Wu was encouraging himself, and he could see Emperor Wu's thoughts to some extent, so he did not reserve it, and spit it out quickly: "Your Majesty has the world, and you will take care of the emperor on his deathbed, if your Majesty passes the world to Wu Chenghei, will he build a temple to worship his aunt, at least the emperor will never get blood food." Emperor Wu was completely persuaded by Li Zhaode, especially with her affection for the former Emperor Li Zhi, which was enough to shock her and make her wake up.

The qiē she got today, aside from other factors, traced back to the source is not from the former Emperor Li Zhi! Without his strong support, without his ability to overcome the public, she would either die of old age in the royal temple, or be an unknown imperial concubine, how could she have such a prominent position today?

Li Zhaode's words undoubtedly hit the key point of Emperor Wu, and at the same time, through this incident, Emperor Wu once again discovered Li Zhaode's character and talent. Afterwards, Li Zhaode was exceptionally promoted to prime minister.

This is undoubtedly a heavy blow to Wu Chenghe. Wu Chengsi's resentment towards Li Zhaode is self-evident.

Li Zhaode expected that Wu Chenghei would not give up, and that he might take advantage of Emperor Wu's special relationship at any time to turn the tables to retaliate against himself, so he preemptively played to Empress Wu: "King Wei is too authoritative, you must guard against it, please think twice." Emperor Wu disagreed: "The heir is my nephew, so he will entrust him." ”

Obviously, Emperor Wu didn't believe that Wu Chenghei would have two hearts. Li Zhaode knew that he hadn't said the key point yet, but it didn't matter, he had already thought about the words later, "How can the relationship between aunt and nephew be compared to the relationship between father and son."

For the sake of the throne, it is not uncommon for a son to kill his father, let alone a nephew? The king of Wei failed to seize the heir, it is inevitable that he will not hold a grudge, and he will be honored as the prince and the prime minister, and his majesty will trust everything to his heart, once there is a change, he is only afraid of regret. ”

Hit the nail on the head again. Emperor Wu was originally wary of the Wu family, and there were many restrictions on their use, but now that Li Zhaode said this, Emperor Wu had to believe it and have to be wary. Everything is about the safety of the royal family and itself. Emperor Wu would rather believe that he has it than that he does not.

Emperor Wu seemed to praise Li Zhaode, and it seemed to be self-reflective: "It makes sense." If it weren't for Aiqing's reminder, I would have almost made a big mistake. ”

So, in the third year of heaven, the prince of the Wu family, Wu Chenghei, and Wu Yu both resigned. A turmoil provoked by Wu Chengsi has come to an end for the time being.

Emperor Wu is always passionate about selecting and employing people. Seeing a large number of scholars gathered under his command, it was difficult to express his satisfaction.

A dynasty built and ruled according to her own desires, she craves talent, and needs a large number of talents at her disposal. It is used to support the imperial court and adapt to the world.

Emperor Wu was accustomed to making science and taking scholars, and he always issued edicts to seek talents. The edict recommended by hundreds of officials, and the way of employing people is eclectic, and only talents are raised.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the traditional scholar power. In addition, a large number of founding heroes formed a father-to-son official position system. so that the entire court is full of nobles, and the powerful ministers are specialized; The function of cultivating the children of the nobility is all over the world, and during the Taizong period, there were more than 8,000 students. Gaozong's thin Confucianism and heavy clerical officials are intended to break the situation that "the upper grade has no cold family, and the lower grade has no family" The famous nobles dominate the world.

He reversed the routine of taking scholars in three ways, abolishing the disciples and abandoning the Ming scriptures. The system directly takes scholars, and the most influential is the reign of Gaozong Xianqing. The first emperor raised people, opened eight gates, and personally raised 900 people, which was the first to set a precedent for the scale of the system.

Since then, the Ming Dynasty has been deposed, and the system has gradually flourished. Emperor Wu entered the royal family with a humble body, even though he was talented and deeply valued by the emperor, he was still inevitably not rejected by the wealthy nobles.

She has always been unwilling to be controlled by others and disdain the rules and precepts; She is new and old, light door valve, emphasis on meritocracy, go to personal favor, make a big system of science and take scholars, and issue edicts to seek talents, equal opportunities.

She can't tolerate the apprentices under the gate valve system, and she doesn't allow the schools all over the court to become the cradle of the world's wealthy families cultivating private power; She wants to take a more direct means and a larger scale than the emperor to break the gate valve system that emphasizes the door and learns lightly.

Let a large number of children of the Shu nationality enter the official career through the guò imperial examination. In February of the first year of Zaichu, students from all walks of life gathered in the Luocheng Hall to participate in the palace examination held by the imperial court.

This is a personal examination on the eve of Emperor Wu's proclamation of the emperor, the momentum is huge, the scale is unprecedented, and there are as many as 10,000 candidates for the edict. Empress Wu's move was intended to pass the comprehensive imperial examination, break the official position system of father and son, and freely take the examination regardless of whether they were noble or poor, and select the best and the best to be hired.

Empress Wu came to the examination room in person, taught on current political affairs, and asked questions. Since then, "the apprentices no longer take scripture as their intention", the world's articles are good, and the poor family has broken out of the cocoon, and thus opened the prelude to Wu Zhou's selection of talents.

Emperor Wu used poetry to ask for talents, not only to ask for advice from the poor family, but also to ask for advice in the world; They seek fame with their poetry and policy theories, display their talents in poetry, and express their political opinions in policy theory. Emperor Wu saw through the privacy and narrow-mindedness of the famous nobles, and wanted to win the people of the world with extraordinary actions, govern the world with the talents of the world, and integrate the wisdom of the world with the world.

So persistent, year after year. She doesn't care that the national culture is discarded under her persistence, and she doesn't care that the son is decaying under her persistence.

In Luoyang City, what she saw was the passion of students entering and leaving the palace; Through the palace officials, it seems to see the passion of the people in the world running to tell each other. Under the passion, it is the country's fame and fame.

On the one hand, there is a court with a wide career, and on the other hand, there are students who are eager to try, between the need and the need, Emperor Wu interprets it into a complementary and reciprocal relationship, which stimulates the students' hearts to be turbulent, and the hearts driven by fame.

No one doubts fame anymore, and no one will taboo fame, on the contrary, for the sake of fame, they can trust the horse, they can have no hesitation, and they have no distractions. Those poor concubines from the bottom of the society once regarded the court as so magical and unattainable.

When they entered the palace and saw Emperor Wu personally trying, they knew that this was the opportunity given to them by Emperor Wu, so that they had the opportunity to enter the imperial court and enter the official career, what a glory this was, how solemn, and their gratitude was self-evident.

Behind them is the ardent expectation of parents all over the world to hope that their son will become a Chan. How could the Martial Emperor not be able to perceive their feelings?

Thinking back then, when he was fourteen years old, he was valued by the first emperor Taizong and elected to the palace, wasn't this the mood at that time?

She is there to enable them in their gratitude and longing, to play their part in their strong desires. Emperor Wu is confident that no monarch can satisfy the desire of the world's concubines to get ahead and become famous in one fell swoop as she does.

She rejoiced in her kindness to the people. I am also proud of the talents of the imperial court. In the Luocheng Palace test, a policy article that pointed directly to the disadvantages of Emperor Wu's reuse of cool officials was selected by Emperor Wu in tens of thousands of answer sheets.

This is the policy text that Shizi Zhang said. Although it was aimed at Emperor Wu, and the reuse of cool officials also had her unspeakable hardships, Emperor Wu was still deeply moved by the courage and outstanding talent of the writer to write straightforwardly, so much so that he praised him in front of the ministers.

Aiwu and Wu, Shizi Zhang's countermeasures were handpicked by Emperor Wu as the first in the world, and were worshiped as the prince's school book.

Cewen was posted in Shangshu Province. Not only did the Manchu civil and military officers look down on the scholar Zhang Shuo, but also made the courtiers understand that Emperor Wu chose and hired people regardless of personal suspicion. As long as she is talented, even if he is a fierce horse that is difficult to handle, she will use it, and she will use it again. It is to make the heroes of the world useful.

Emperor Wu has always thought. Those who govern the world do not take the world as their own responsibility, the world breeds elites, and elites come from the world; Only by sticking to one pattern and competing in the stratosphere can we gather the world's elites in the DPRK and the central government and widely distribute the elites in the world. The career is open, full of challenges, and does not lose the mystery. It is a kind of grace and temptation for scholars and the world, and it is a rare treasure trove of talents and a source of wisdom for the imperial court.

Spit out the old and embrace the new. The cycle goes on and on, and Emperor Wu wants to let a steady stream of fresh blood flow in the blood of the Wuzhou Dynasty, so that the Wuzhou Dynasty will always maintain inexhaustible vitality.

Back then, Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty moved the capital from the north to Luoyang, in addition to the desolation of the north and the fact that he was not worthy of being the imperial capital, more importantly, the Northern Wei Dynasty had been more than a hundred years, and the courtiers and even his people could not help but become more and more angry.

For the long-term stability of the country, the far-sighted Emperor Xiaowen moved the capital to stimulate and invigorate the courtiers and people.

Nowadays, Emperor Wu has greatly promoted the imperial examination and used a large number of newcomers, which is to use newcomers to sweep away the twilight of the imperial court, so that the imperial court has a new feeling from time to time.

At the same time, we will end the era of strict families and nobles with a new concept of governance, and accept those poor concubines who dream of "being a Tian Shelang in the morning and ascending to the Tianzi Hall at dusk" with a larger space, and provide them with more opportunities to display their talents and realize their ambitions.

This is undoubtedly conducive to the realization of this new imperial court created by her and her grand cause.

Emperor Wu valued Confucianism, as early as the Taizong period of more than ten years, read a large number of Confucian classics, however, she has an instinctive resistance to Confucianism, she saw that there are too many traps, too much pedantic, too much Taoguang obscure, hidden Feng clumsy; I also learned the harm that the important ministers who were taught by the Confucian classics hurt themselves again and again.

She can't be cocooned, bound by the ethics of the sunna, then she will achieve nothing. She needs a bright and cool style; It requires superior and inferior countermeasures, and the work is easy to see; There is a greater need for talents who do not abide by the rules and advance bravely.

She wants to guide the world with poetry and advice, train scholars, free them from the shackles of Ming scripture recitation, and return them to simplicity and insight.

With his special status, Emperor Wu always shy away from the righteous gentlemen and gentlemen, and always doubted their true talents and the sincerity of cooperating with him.

She saw the hope and vitality of the imperial court from the poor concubines in the world, and constantly publicized the world and recommended talents, so that the candidates every year were connected from end to end, and thousands of scholars were in the stream; There is also a "southern selection" to select talents in the area south of Jianghuai. Emperor Wu added a rank to the junior scholar and entrusted him with reuse.

After she performed the Zen ceremony in Mount Tai during the Qianfeng period, she announced that "civil and military officials above the third rank will be given a first-class, and below the fourth rank will be given a first rank", and a large number of officials have become high-ranking officials of the fifth rank and the third rank through the general rank system. Emperor Wu wanted to give the grace of the king through such measures.

During the Gaozong period, Wei Xuantong, who was then a servant of the ministry, was worried that the imperial court would not be able to make the best use of his talents and dismiss the emperor.

Wei Xuantong questioned and criticized the past dynasties for "using copywriters to evaluate talents, and examining conduct according to copywriting records".

He pointed out that the measuring instrument of the length of the ruler is short; How can a container the size of a bell hold so many things.

What is not what can be achieved by the measuring instrument, where can it be measured; How can it be accommodated if it is not what the container can bear? It means that the world is big and the talents are wide, how can it be measured by incompatible measuring instruments and containers?

Tang Xuantong also objected to the fact that the children of the nobles did not go through school conditioning and moral cultivation, and sought official positions very early in accordance with the regulations.

The life of the Chongxian Pavilion of the Hongwen Pavilion, the thousands of cows and the body are still in the royal palace, etc., the investigation is shallow, and the skills are also low, but there is a door, and the prestige is high. Tang Xuantong also believes that the state employs people just like people use money, and the poor are satisfied with the chaff and think about coarse cloth clothes; The rich have abundant food and meat, and are dressed in splendid leather clothes.

However, when decay and withering lack of talent, it can be sharpened and spurred to be harnessed by pedantic and dull people; In the time of Taiping Toast, it should be carefully selected and appointed.

Although Tang Xuantong's Shangshu was not adopted by the emperor, however, Tang Xuantong criticized and pointed out these problems and drawbacks in Shangshu, and put forward some insights on how to use talents.

Emperor Wu still agreed. Emperor Wu saw the disadvantages of the imperial court's selection of people in the past, that is, to pass through his own initiatives, and change the children of noble relatives who do not go through training, do not seek talent and learning, and sit back and enjoy their success, and wear silver seals and green ribbons around their waists at a very young age.

the status quo of wearing vermilion clothes before twenty; Break the arbitrary selection of people, and evaluate talents by a small number of copywriters, and examine the conduct according to the records of the copywriting.

Although it is impossible for her to achieve her goal in one fell swoop by herself, she can make more talented children of poor families enter the official career, and let the world's useful talents be recommended by the world and be discovered and reused, at least it can create a group of new forces and change the contrast of various forces among officials at all levels of the imperial court;

By giving full play to the wisdom and role of these new forces, we can effectively spur and balance those noble relatives and children who do not want to make progress, and make up for the many shortcomings caused by the lack of talents in the imperial court.

In order to select talents and employ people, Emperor Wu is never tired of it. In the third year of heaven's grant, the pacification envoys of each province followed the will of Emperor Wu and recommended a large number of trial talents to the imperial court.

Emperor Wu personally received him, and did not ask whether he was noble or not, nor whether he was able to be wise or not, he was awarded an official position, and the highest official rank was given to the Fengge Sheren, and the lowest school secretary was the ninth grade.

Emperor Wu's indiscriminate abuse of people was satirized by the people of the time as limericks, and a tribute named Shen Quan even scolded Emperor Wu with "confused appeasement envoys, blind Holy Spirit Emperor".

The prophet of the Imperial History captured Shen Quan and reported to Emperor Wu to punish him, and Emperor Wu smiled disapprerovingly: "As long as you are not as indiscriminate as you say in limericks, why do you care what others say, it is better to release him." ”

In the eyes of the courtiers, this is not hesitating to change if there is a kind of generosity, and if there is none, it will be encouraged, and the true intention of Emperor Wu is more far-reaching than this. Emperor Wu's employment strategy is: meritocracy, grace and power.

That is, to provide more opportunities for the world's talents in the general election, and to identify and select more useful talents in use; It is to provide opportunities for more people of insight to participate in politics and governance.

Only by finding and selecting more and better talents can we find and select more and better talents. Recommending elections is only to open the door and open up channels for the selection of all kinds of useful talents, while the identification and training of talents ultimately depends on their use. (To be continued......)