Chapter 172: First and Second in Command

Gao Wei was furious at Gao Yanzong and Yang Su and then went back to the Xuanshu Palace, the road was very quiet, Liu Taozhi was originally trembling, but found that the emperor was not as angry as he appeared, and then he was relieved, Liu Taozhi followed several generations of emperors after all, and was good at observing Tianyan, and after careful thinking, you can judge whether the emperor is really angry or falsely angry, and now it seems that the emperor is indeed angry, but if you say what the anger looks like, it may not be. Didn't you see the emperor's eyebrows stretched out when he approved the folds? It seems that I didn't take it to heart......

According to Gao Wei's habits, every three days, there will be a doctor in Guozi Temple to come to preach the scriptures, Gao Wei is used to Yan Zhi to explain to him, and he does not want to change others for the time being, today Yan Zhi pushed Gao Wei to teach "Pipe". Yan Zhi carried out the ceremony, cleaned up the clothes, and then began to teach:

"There is a cloud in "Guanzi": 'If the king is not a king, the minister is not a minister, and if the father is not a father, the son is not a son. If there is discord between the top and bottom, the order will not work. If you are not properly dressed, the guests will not be solemn. If there is no way to advance or retreat, the government decree will not work. And with the prestige, the monarch is prepared. ”

A few days ago, the emperor just said that he wanted to listen to the emperor's imperial technique, so Yan Zhitui read the book for a few days at home and turned out these paragraphs to explain. Since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there have been various ideas, but in general, the vast majority of them are in the service of the rulers, paying attention to "respecting the inferior and orderly, and positioning the young and the old", this kind of thinking has limitations in later generations, but in the feudal era, it is an extremely powerful tool of rule.

Gao Wei listened very carefully, listened to the allusions of "pointing the deer as a horse", and listened to the allusions of the two emperors of Huan Ling in the Han Dynasty who were greedy for pleasure and misfortune to the country, and finally Yan Zhitui explained "Cui Shu killed the king", commented: "The king insulted the wife of his ministers, and Cui Shu was angry and killed the king...... The king's lack of virtue caused his courtiers to chill and kill him in anger......"

Gao Wei knows this allusion, Qi Zhuang Gong is Cui Shu single-handedly supported the upper position, according to the normal people's thinking, either Qi Zhuang Gong reuses him, gives his descendants glory and wealth, and makes him gradually fade out of the government and the opposition, or, looking for an opportunity to kill him with the righteousness of the monarch and the minister. In Gao Wei's opinion, it was very simple, and Qi Zhuang Gong didn't do two hundred and fifty things, and was finally killed by Cui Shu. The history books say this:

Cui Shu has a very beautiful wife, Jiang, Cui Shu likes it very much, and she is famous. Later, one day I happened to be bumped into by Qi Zhuang Gong, Qi Zhuang Gong's two hundred and five five eyes, the three souls and seven spirits and the few remaining festivals were lost, and he wanted to kiss Fang Ze, although Jiang was already a wife, but this did not prevent him from starting, in his opinion, this country is his, who dares to have an opinion if he sleeps with the wife of a courtier?

As the saying goes, a wife is not as good as a concubine, a concubine is not as good as a maid, and a maid is not as good as stealing...... Therefore, men, once their brains are controlled by the lower half of their bodies, they will do countless stupid things...... Qi Zhuang Gong obviously overestimated the authority of his own monarch, and also underestimated the energy of this old man who was cuckolded by him.

Cui Shu soon found out, and immediately took action. There was a very important court meeting, Cui Shu said that he was sick and did not go, such a heavyweight courtier was sick, of course the monarch had to go to condole, in fact, he was just looking for an excuse to have an affair with the Jiang family. And this is precisely in Cui Shu's plan, he has already prepared everything, when Qi Zhuang Gong patted the pillar and called Jiang's family, Cui Shu gave an order, locked Qi Zhuang Gong's guards out of the door, and then ordered his subordinates to besiege and kill Qi Zhuang Gong, and Qi Zhuang Gong did this The merry ghost who died under the pomegranate skirt did this......

In Yan Zhitui's view, this textbook is very good, and it is advising the king's subordinates to grasp a degree and pay attention to proportion, which has a kind of flavor of "the king regards his ministers as grass mustard, and the ministers regard the king as if he is an enemy". But he ignored one point, the student in front of him was the emperor, and the emperor's thinking was often different from that of normal people. Ordinary people may only think when they look at the problem: "Such a senseless and faint gentleman really deserves to die." From the emperor's point of view, this is a different matter.

"Your Majesty, you dare to make trouble, it's annoying and hateful!"

Yes, thinking about the problem from the perspective of the king, the first thing he thinks of will never be his own mistake, since it is not himself who is wrong, then the wrong one must be Cui Shu, who committed the trouble!

In a word, "I have examined my body three times a day, and I have found that others are wrong." ”

This is the emperor's train of thought.

A gentleman, no matter how modest he is, no matter how approachable and polite he is on the surface, his essence is definitely proud and ruthless, he knows his mistakes and corrects them, but he will never admit his mistakes.

Unless you encounter a natural and man-made disaster that has not been encountered in a hundred years, and it is really a time when you are helpless and the country is in turmoil, do you want an emperor to issue an edict to punish himself?

Wake up!

I didn't think there was anything before, but since he sat in this position, he deeply felt that Tang Taizong and Song Renzong's qi cultivation kung fu was really good, and it was enough to fight for the sake of future generations.

If he was still the same person as before, from the perspective of ordinary people, of course he would feel that Cui Shu was pitiful, and Qi Zhuang Gong should be killed. But from the emperor's point of view, it is not the same thing at all, what happened to the prince of Qi Zhuang molesting the wife? What's wrong with Qi Zhuanggong? Fornication and incest are still less in the royal family, is this one missing? - There's nothing wrong with that! The whole world is mine, even if you are dissatisfied, what can you do? How dare you?

Gao Wei felt that Qi Zhuanggong's only mistake was that he didn't kill Cui Shu after he took the throne, and went to tease other people's wives when they were in their prime, isn't this a brain into the amniotic fluid? If you want to molest people, you have to kill Cui Shu first...... Gao Wei seriously suspected that the reason why Cui Shu was so bold to help this second goods to the top was because he had a bad brain......

Gao Wei didn't like today's class very much, and even thought about re-examining Yan Zhitui.

So what does Yan Zhitui mean by telling himself these articles? Gao Wei's heart sank slightly, and he looked at this young historian curiously, Gao Wei told him very clearly, what he wanted to hear was the skill of ancient and modern emperors to govern the world, but what Yan Zhitui paid attention to was the "imperial model" in the eyes of the courtiers, he ...... What do you mean?

Is it really just a lecture, or is it ...... Implicitly covering the meaning of exhortation?

Yan Zhitui is a typical Confucian student, the ideal emperor of Confucianism, who rules by hanging the arch, and makes it clear that he is a puppet with peace of mind, and lets the courtiers guide the country below. It seems beautiful, but is it really like that?

Don't you see that "the king and the horse share the world"? The emperor has become a puppet, and it is true that he has achieved a superficial rule, but the political situation has become even worse. In this era, knowledge is in the hands of a very small number of people, these people are the family, and the family is not the country, "the dynasty of flowing water, the family of iron." "No matter how talented they are, the first starting point is for their respective families. Both the family and the imperial family are the ruling class that lies on the backs of the common people and sucks the blood, in other words, although the ultimate interests of the family and the ultimate interests of the emperor are the same, the competition leads to the inevitable confrontation between the two sides......

It's like the greasy between the first and second in command, the second in command is ostensibly subordinate to the first leader, but is always eager to share the authority of the first leader.

The struggle between the family, Confucianism and imperial power never stopped.

Sooner or later, he will have to free up his hands to deal with them.

Yan Zhitui is also from the family......

Cushman & Wakefield suddenly felt a sense of loneliness in his heart.

At this time, the historians were basically not as spineless as the Manchu Qing Dynasty, smearing history at will, whitewashing the peace, and relatively upright, Cui Shu had ordered the historian to revise the history book in order to cover up the fact of killing the monarch, but after killing many historians, there was still only one sentence recorded, "Cui Shu killed the king". Yan Zhitui adheres to the ancient family motto, and pays attention to the integrity of the historian.

Cushman & Wakefield didn't want to believe that Yan Zhitui was intentional.

It's just that...... In the future, you must never be at ease with Yan Zhi's push again......

He is a historian, so from now on, he will be a historian in peace. Although Yan Zhitui is talented, some scholars are angry and can't be used.

He is very regretful and helpless, not only because of the difference in philosophy, but also because this identity is destined that he will not have real friends.

He should be as cold as ice and as hard as a stone to guess.

Yan Zhitui explained very slowly, not noticing the emperor's mental activity at all. The young emperor was very patient, smiling from time to time, listening word by word, and said lightly: "Well spoken, reward ......"

When Yan Zhi retreated, Cushman began to reflect on the political gains and losses of these days.

If you want to suppress the old class, then you must support a new class, and it is time to start laying out the influence of the family......

Gao Wei began to be busy with heavy work, today he received a good news and a bad news, the good news is that Yuwen Hu began to blatantly cut off Yuwen Yong's wings, Yuwen Yong fell into an extremely passive situation, Yuwen Hu's first target was Wei Chi Yuan. The bad news is also very helpless, on November 9 of the first year of Wuping in the Northern Qi Dynasty, the Koubian Yingzhou of the Ya tribe adjacent to the Khitan and Goguryeo.

On a snowy winter day in northern Xinjiang, hundreds of miles of border plugs were lit with blazing beacon fires......