Chapter 0057 - Stripping the Cocoon
Saying goodbye to Liu Ying, and separating from Ji Bu, Wu Hu, and Zhao Yao at Sima Gate, on the way home, Yang Yi only felt a burst of joy.
- Imperial Doctor Zhao Yao, who is also from Liu Ying's camp!
And unlike Ji Bu, who burned Liu Ying's cold stove, and Wu Hu, who supported Liu Ying because of Liu Bang's order, Zhao Yao, like Yang Yi, took the initiative to join Liu Ying's camp!
Yang Yi also has a certain understanding of Zhao Yao.
Zhao Yao, the Marquis of Jiangyi, the only record left by the imperial historian Jiangyi in the history of Qing is the strange plan to replace the imperial historian Zhou Chang.
Speaking of which, in the "Historical Records" of Ma Qian of the Taishi Company, it also happened last year, after Emperor Gao Liu Bang quelled the rebellion of Huainan Wang Yingbu (黥布) and returned to Chang'an.
At that time, Liu Bang had been hit by a stray arrow, he was seriously ill, he abolished the position of Prince Liu Ying, and the plan to take Liu Ruyi as the reserve had also been cut in half, and Liu Bang was bedridden all day long, depressed.
Seeing that Liu Bang was depressed all day long, Zhao Yao, the imperial history of Fu Xi, stubbornly asked: Why is Your Majesty worried?
For Zhao Yao, Liu Bang naturally trusts him in every way.
It's normal to think about it: Fu Xi Yushi, his job is to be in charge of Fu Festival and Jade Seal on behalf of the Son of Heaven!
If it weren't for his complete trust, Liu Bang would not have been able to let Zhao Yao, an outsider, serve as his own Fu Xi Imperial History.
Zhao Yao's question, Liu Bang did not hide it, and directly expressed the worries in his heart.
Liu Bang said: I'm dying, and when I die, Liu Ruyi, the king of Zhao, will have no one to take care of me;
The queen and King Zhao's mother Qi Ji have a grudge, and I am afraid that after I die, King Zhao and Qi Ji will be killed by the queen.
Hearing this, Zhao Yao only smiled slightly, and suggested to Liu Bang: If Your Majesty is worried about King Zhao and Qi Ji, you can send a respected minister to be King Zhao's state minister;
In this way, after a hundred years of His Majesty, the queen will not have the opportunity to persecute King Zhao; King Zhao is here, and Qi Ji will not have an accident.
When Liu Bang heard this, he suddenly felt stunned, and asked again: Which old minister should be sent to be King Zhao's prime minister?
So Zhao Yao proposed to send Zhou Chang, the Marquis of Fenyin, the imperial historian, to serve as Zhao Xiang to protect Liu Ruyi, the king of Zhao, from being persecuted by the queen Lü Pheasant.
In this way, Zhou Chang, the imperial historian who was originally ranked as the third prince and was the 'Yaxiang' of the Han Dynasty, was driven out of Zhao Xiang by a nobody of Zhao Yao in a few words.
In his previous life, when he saw this story from "Historical Records", Yang Yi only felt a little absurd, but he didn't reflect what was wrong.
Soon after Liu Bang's death, Liu Ruyi, the king of Zhao, was poisoned by the Empress Dowager Lu Pheasant, and Zhao Xiang Zhou Chang was ashamed of Liu Bang's trust and failed to protect Liu Ruyi, so the record of 'depression and death' also resolved the loneliness in Yang Yi's heart.
But in this life, after personally participating in this 'confusing' historical period, Yang Yi finally discovered that there was something wrong with Tai Shigong's 'Zhao Yao's plan to replace Zhou Chang'.
- Zhao Yao, who replaced the position of Zhou Chang's imperial doctor, is not the founding father!
Even Zhao Yao was named 'Marquis of Jiangyi' because at the end of last year, in the process of quelling the rebellion of Chen Xuan, the acting prime minister, he was awarded the title!
Taken separately, there may be nothing wrong with these things.
But when Yang Yi substituted the identity of 'Liu Ying's confidant' in advance, and then looked back at the role played by Zhao Yao in this past, things became very interesting.
Zhao Yao's proposal to let Zhou Chang be the prime minister of Zhao Wang, in order to protect Liu Ruyi from the persecution of Lu Pheasant after Liu Bang's death, which is understandable.
As one of the best among the founding fathers, Zhou Chang, Marquis of Fenyin, does have this prestige and energy.
But Zhou Chang stepped down as the imperial doctor, why is his successor Zhao Yao?
The founding fathers of the Han Dynasty, there are one hundred and fifty-six marquis alone, and those whose qualifications and abilities are in line with the position of the imperial historian are no less than ten fingers!
Why didn't Liu Bang choose a respected old minister from among these founding fathers, such as Wang Ling and Chen Ping, to replace Zhou Chang, but let Zhao Yao, a nobody, be the imperial historian?
Just because of the position of the Imperial Doctor, it was vacated because of Zhao Yao's suggestion?
This, unreasonable, very unreasonable, extremely unreasonable!
As the founding emperor of the country, no matter how outrageous Liu Bang is, it is impossible to exaggerate to such an extent.
Moreover, in the early Han Dynasty, the court Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the Three Dukes, the Nine Qings, and even the courtiers and hundreds of officials were all the founding heroes of thousands of households.
On the other hand, at that time, Zhao Yao was only a palace official in charge of Fu Xi, and he didn't even have the right to participate in politics.
Such a little pawn not only soared into the sky, became the third duke, but also became the 'picket' of the founding fathers of the Manchu Dynasty?
Regardless of whether Liu Bang's arrangement is reasonable or not, and whether the hundred officials are not convinced, whether such a royal historian who has no prestige at all can still play the role of 'picketing hundreds of officials', I am afraid that a big question mark will be drawn.
But the strange thing is that for Zhao Yao to serve as the imperial doctor, the hundred officials of the court did not react, as if it should be like this.
In historical records, Zhao Yao was finally dismissed from office, and it was because of a funny sentence 'Lu Pheasant had a grudge against Zhao Yao because Zhao Yao had proposed to make Zhou Chang Zhao Xiang'.
All this made Yang Yi in his previous life feel weird, but he couldn't figure it out.
Zhao Yao's appointment as the imperial doctor, if it was just Liu Bang alone, it might just be an accident.
But the entire court was silent about this strange appointment, but Lu Pheasant was dissatisfied with it, this matter is probably not as simple as what Tai Shi Gong wrote......
"Heh......"
"It's worthy of being the 'son of the Red Emperor'......"
At this moment, in Yang Yi's mind, there is already another possibility that is very interesting and more in line with the facts.
- Zhao Yao, the Marquis of Jiangyi, the imperial historian, is the henchman of Emperor Gao Liu Bang who specially replaced his son Liu Ying and installed him in the court in advance!
——'Moving Zhou Chang to Zhao Xiang' is not Zhao Yao's plan, but Liu Bang's strategy!
——Last year, in the process of the rebellion of the Han Dynasty to destroy the Prime Minister Chen Xuan, Zhao Yao was awarded the title of Marquis of Jiangyi for his merits, and it was Liu Bang who made up the procedures for him to be 'not a merit or a marquis'!
In this way, the fact that 'Zhao Yao's strange plan to replace Zhou Chang', which is quite funny in the history books, makes complete sense.
If Liu Bang wants to install party henchmen in the DPRK for his successor Liu Ying, the first thing to do is to let the founding father in a certain position move his nest.
The explanation of 'worrying that after his death, Liu Ruyi, the king of Zhao, will be persecuted by Lu Pheasant', is undoubtedly a good excuse for Zhou Chang to step down.
- Marquis of Fenyin, you have to be optimistic about Liu Ruyi for me~
But Zhao Yao is also an official and a knight, and if he is allowed to be the imperial historian, the hundred officials will inevitably be dissatisfied, what should I do?
——Let Zhao Yao go to the army to gild, make some meritorious deeds, and be named the Marquis of Che!
In this way, Zhao Yao was a noble marquis, and he was carrying the vest of 'Emperor Gao's henchmen who were placed in the court for the crown prince', and Liu Bang appointed him as the imperial historian, and the hundred officials naturally understood and remained silent.
So what is the attitude of the Queen Mother Lu Pheasant to such a person?
I am afraid that this can be seen from the fact that after Liu Ying's death, Lu Pheasant dismissed Zhao Yao from his position and deprived Zhao Yao of his title.
"In the original history, the events of Liu Ying's reign in the past few years, the imperial historian Zhao Yao, I am afraid that Lu Pheasant suffered a lot of losses......"
With a sneer, Yang Yi's face slowly put on a strange smile.
"The person who can make Lu Pheasant grit his teeth with hatred......"
"Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey......"