Chapter 14: The Emperor and the Prime Minister (End)
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This is Lin Luo's first time as an emperor, he has never received any imperial education, unlike the princes, who have been exposed to it since he was a child, and he always has some success in his heart.
But Lin Luo is the first time that the eldest girl has been on the sedan chair.
If it weren't for the Book of Lin Luo, knowing what would happen in the future, Lin Luo might have had a headache.
But even so, Lin Luo was already about to retreat.
Lin Luo knew that the imperial technique, in fact, from a certain point of view, was the art of checks and balances, but after this period of time, Lin Luo knew that he could not control this court.
He is not relying on his own means and abilities to check and balance the people at all, but to be 'checked' and 'balanced'.
The court is now operating normally, and it has nothing to do with him at all.
Lin Luo finally knew why many monarchs and ministers in history would eventually part ways.
Even though their ultimate goal is the same - to make the country a better place, there are many differences. The emperor hopes that he can fully control the court, grasp the supreme authority and the right to speak, and the courtiers will act according to his orders, and the courtiers hope that they can go down in history, and hope that their advice to the emperor will be acceptable, and they hope to be able to shadow their wives and children......
At some point, these 'side dishes' have become the focus of the confrontation.
In the end, even the fundamental purpose was forgotten, and the struggle became the focus.
And Lin Luo feels like this himself.
When watching Jiang Hong's life in Lin Luo's book, Lin Luo didn't think how powerful this prime minister was, however, when Lin Luo experienced it himself, he realized that he had gradually become a puppet.
Although Jiang Hong has been deceived by Yao Xuelan for so many years, he didn't learn the truth until he closed his eyes. But he is much better than Lin Luo in handling political affairs and controlling the court.
Jiang Hong's life as an emperor can be regarded as a Tao.
Lin Luo knows very well that his original intention is, of course, to be a good emperor and a Ming monarch, so that the people can live a better life while successfully completing the task.
He was also sure that his intentions were good.
However, the decisions he made, the people below may not be obedient to follow them, the yang is in disobedience, there are policies at the top, there are countermeasures at the bottom, and in the end, it is not the ordinary people of this country who suffer?
And the prime minister, who has a lot of people in the court, is supported by officials more than the emperor's decision.
Of course, Lin Luo didn't want to be a puppet emperor.
But if this situation continues, the entire court will become the prime minister's one-word hall, and he will not be able to become a competent emperor in a short period of time, and the final result will be not much different from being a puppet emperor.
But if he wants to compete with the prime minister for □□ power, of course he can do so, he is the supreme emperor, the legitimacy of the imperial power, and the military power is in his hands - this is the only good news. However, if the prime minister is going to fall, the prime minister's friends and alliances will also fall, and a large number of officials will be vacated in the court, who will take care of the country?
Can he guarantee that when there are many vacancies in the court, the normal operation of the country is even better than when the prime minister did not fall?
Of course, there is no guarantee of forest fall.
He had almost thrown in the towel.
At least, the prime minister is still thinking about the common people in the world. He was a gentleman, not a villain. Although sometimes, a gentleman is more terrible than a villain.
He can't fight to the death with the prime minister in order to complete the task, but ignore the country and the common people, right?
He couldn't do that.
Lin Luo prides himself on not being a good person, but he can't complete this task, and there is another task that will allow him to earn soul points.
If he really can't do it, he won't continue to stumble.
He had already lost in a head-to-head confrontation, and Lin Luo admitted defeat. Throwing in the towel isn't as hard as you might think.
Lin Luo was going to put his mind on other places first, and then slowly learn how to be an emperor.
Ten years is not good, but in twenty or Chinese New Year's Eve years, he has time to learn, to figure out, and to apply.
If not, the prime minister is his opponent, Lin Luo simply admires him, the prime minister's age is only about ten years older than Jiang Hong, but he is already under one person, under ten thousand people, famous ministers and powerful ministers, he has done it, and it is inevitable that his name will go down in history.
In fact, looking at it this way, Lin Luo should admire Jiang Hong even more. In his previous life, under Jiang Hong's governance, the prime minister had no chance to emerge at all, and Jiang Hong's will was implemented by the court and from top to bottom, including the prime minister.
Lin Luo has been wondering if the court has seen that he is wrong, in fact, this result is inevitable, otherwise, how to explain that an emperor has suddenly lost the means and wisdom he used to possess and has become a novice? If it weren't for the fact that he was the true dragon emperor and the king of a country, someone would definitely jump out and kill him.
Perhaps, this court is keeping a secret that everyone knows.
Lin Luo would not take it for granted that the ancients were stupider than modern people, and modern people just stood on the shoulders of giants.
Whenever Lin Luo thought that he had been seen through by everyone, he would inevitably panic in his heart.
There are many good things preserved in the emperor's private treasury, such as hundred-year-old ginseng, thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum, and all kinds of strange medicines.
Lin Luo had learned alchemy medicine when he was cultivating □□, although there was no spiritual energy elixir in this world, and it was impossible to cultivate the truth, but it was not difficult to refine some elixirs that strengthened the body and prolonged life.
It's just that obsessed with alchemy and immortality is more like a faint king.
In addition, he spent a lot of time learning calligraphy and painting, obsessed with the way of calligraphy and painting, often called the world-famous talents into the palace, he was also obsessed with strange skills, and handed over all political affairs to the ministers of the DPRK and China.
The reason why Lin Luo dared to do this was also because he held the military power in his hands and was not afraid of rebellion.
In a blink of an eye, decades have passed, Lin Luo began to have gray hair, wrinkles on his face, and the prime minister is ten years older than Jiang Hong, and he is not as pampered as the emperor, and he has to work hard for national affairs every day, and he gets old faster.
Soon after, the prime minister died.
It was only at this time that Lin Luo took back the power of the court. Lin Luo has been waiting for this moment for decades, he has been waiting for this moment for decades, in the eyes of outsiders, obsessed with alchemy and immortality, obsessed with foreign ways, he is a faint monarch, for decades, Lin Luo has been practicing calligraphy and painting day after day, plus as an emperor, he can ask the top masters in the country for advice, and he is already a master in the second way of calligraphy and painting.
But from another point of view, it can be said to be a cover-up.
He has been learning the way of the emperor, learning from the prime minister how to handle government affairs and how to balance the power of the court. The longer he observed, the more Lin Luo discovered the power of the prime minister, and the more he discovered the gap between the two.
Until the prime minister was old, Lin Luo began to slowly practice the results of his learning over the years in the court, and unconsciously took back the authority of the court.
Therefore, as soon as the prime minister died, he was able to take back the power of the government in a short period of time, and the power represented by the prime minister finally collapsed.
However, Lin Luo knew that his actions were not hidden from the prime minister, after all, he made more moves in the later stage, and there were always clues that would be discovered. However, the prime minister doesn't seem to care about this, not only does the power he controls have no successors, but even his children and grandchildren are all mediocre people.
The prime minister obviously did this on purpose, but I don't know if he was trying to appease the emperor's anger and prevent the emperor from inflicting his anger on his family, or if he himself knew that prosperity would decline, or whether he himself knew that such a huge force was a double-edged sword. When the prime minister was there, this double-edged sword aimed at the corrupt officials and corrupt officials in the DPRK and China, but after his death, this double-edged sword may be swung at innocent people.
It can be said that Lin Luo survived the prime minister by virtue of his long life.
As for Yao Xuelan, she has been tortured in the palace, Furong Xuan has long become a cold palace, and a few years ago, Yao Xuelan had already passed away. To be honest, Yao Xuelan was able to live for so long under such harsh conditions, which Lin Luo also admired.
Lin Luo's life of possessing Jiang Hong has lived a long time, the former Jiang Hong died at the age of sixty-five, and Lin Luo relied on the life-prolonging medicine and the technique of spitting and strengthening the body, and the lifespan was almost twice that of the previous Jiang Hong.
In the eyes of the world, he is probably an 'old immortal', Jiang Hong's two sons have died a long time ago, and Lin Luo has never touched a woman in his life, so Jiang Hong has always only had his eldest son Jiang Ping and his second son Jiang Zhuang.
Several of his grandsons have also died of old age, and the rest look even older than Lin Luo. The courtiers in the court have changed batch after batch, but he is still alive, alive and well, and alive and fierce.
He not only survived Prime Minister Lu He, survived his son, survived his grandson, and survived many courtiers.
It seems that when Jiang Hong took back the power of the imperial court at the age of sixty-one, his young adult period had just begun.
And Jiang Hong is also the longest-lived emperor in history, and there is no one. For hundreds of years and thousands of years, countless people were studying the secret of Jiang Hong's longevity.
Some scholars have come to the conclusion that studying calligraphy and painting can nourish qi and prolong life because Jiang Hong has been practicing calligraphy and painting for decades, and has made great achievements in calligraphy and painting.
There are also people who conclude that Jiang Hong once obtained the elixir of immortality because Jiang Hong was obsessed with alchemy medicine.
There are many speculations, and so on. Of course, there are some speculations that are close to the truth.
Jiang Hong's deeds have been constantly mentioned and talked about by later generations.
But that's all for later.
In the century that Jiang Hong governed the country, he expanded the territory, the land area was huge, the country was safe, the country was rich, the people were sufficient, the culture was splendid, the economy was prosperous, the military was strong, and the history was known as "a hundred years of prosperity", "the light of the century", "longevity empire" and so on.
One hundred and nineteen years old, Jiang Hongbang.
Lin Luo passed the throne to Jiang Hong's fifty-seven-year-old great-grandson.