Chapter 774: War and Peace
The longer Emperor Yongtai held power, the more powerful and majestic his body became.
Hearing Emperor Yongtai's words, Jia Yun didn't feel much more relaxed, but said in a deep voice: "I don't know, what else is there in this capital that His Majesty doesn't know?"
"Jia Yun!" Emperor Yongtai's eyes were filled with a look of crazy annoyance.
Jia Yun was still smiling, calmly looking at Emperor Yongtai in front of him, and then said: "King Beijing has indeed looked for Weichen, and plans to find ministers to form an alliance and form a party together for personal gain, but the minister knows that His Majesty is a heroic and brave Ming Jun, so he naturally refuses to go along with him.
Presumably, His Majesty also knows that the relationship between the Jia clan and the King of Beijing, human exchanges, I am afraid it is also unavoidable human nature.
But if any of your ministers transgress the rules, do not obey the laws of the king, do not serve the court, and are not loyal to your majesty, please also ask your majesty to punish the sins of the ministers, and cut off the heads of the ministers and hang them at the east gate, so as to set an example."
"Yun Aiqing, why bother!" At this moment, the look in Emperor Yongtai's eyes gradually revealed a look of contemplation.
Jia Yun colluded with King Beijing, it was just a guess and a test of Jia Yun in his heart, but he didn't grasp any real handle, and it was unlikely that he would really cure Jia Yun's crime with such a fictitious guess.
People want to save face, and killing people in anger for no reason is the act of a tyrant, not the act of a virtuous king.
Emperor Yongtai is an emperor who is very happy, how can he let himself end up in a notorious position in front of the world? He didn't want to be the king of a dead country.
If Emperor Yongtai relied on his identity as an emperor to act recklessly, then he would not be far from death.
Not to mention that King Beijing and others are eyeing each other, they are royal relatives, and the ministers of civil and military affairs will have different intentions.
Immediately, Emperor Yongtai adjusted his mentality, but said with a smile: "He may have the intention of dragging you on the thief ship, but unfortunately, I have been on the throne for many years, and I have already mastered the military and political power, how can I let these little ones have any chance?"
After that, Emperor Yongtai remembered what he had just written on the secret fold, squinted his eyes slightly, looked at Jia Yun and said, "Recently, the Huns in Mobei have been dancing very happily, but I don't know what you think?"
As soon as the words fell, I saw Jia Yun frowning, carefully considering how to answer Emperor Yongtai's question.
After a long time, Jia Yun replied, "Your Majesty is worried about the Lord and faction within the imperial court?"
Since ancient times, there have been two general factions in the imperial court.
One is a conservative, who usually advocates that the law of the ancestors is immutable, and that the law of the court is the rules formulated by the ancestors.
It is man who follows the inherent, past, anachronistic dogmas and rules and shouts for his own interests.
It is because reform will inevitably bring destruction, and destruction will inevitably damage their interests.
Rather than carry out drastic reforms, shatter everything, and start all over again, it is better to maintain the status quo and the wealth in front of you.
And unlike the main and faction represented by the conservatives, it is the main war faction. qδ.net
Most of the time, the main war faction advocates the use of absolute violence to expand its territory, engage in war with enemy countries, advocate waging war, and hope to obtain endless benefits in such foreign wars.
As the saying goes, when the cannon goes off, there are ten thousand taels of gold.
The same is true in this feudal society.
Once a war breaks out, the money spent is like flowing water, and the profit from it will be expanded, and the profit space for enriching one's own pocket will be expanded, far more than the wealth that can be grabbed in peacetime.
Whether it is the main battle faction or the main peace faction, it is all for their own interests, and it is by no means really good-hearted.
In the feudal society, the civilian clique is generally soft-boned, advocating peace and surrender, especially the Song Dynasty is the most typical example of the civil clique governing the country, even if the Song Dynasty won the foreign war, the civil officials also actively advocated land cession and reparations and other humiliating behaviors
as a way to maintain their status and identity.
After all, the biggest opponent of the civilian clique is the military attache clique.
The military attache group has always been the main battle faction, advocating the use of force to expand the territory and confer the title of marquis, taking the road of immediately seeking fame and fame.
Once there is no war, the sea is peaceful, and the world is peaceful, then these generals will not have much room to play, let alone any beautiful things such as marquis worshipping generals.
The general is taken from the coming army, how can he become a prince by the imperial examination?
The more peaceful they are, the more room and energy they have to play, and they naturally hope that the world will be peaceful and that there will be no war, even if it is at the expense of the interests of the imperial court, losing power and humiliating the country, it is also at the expense of the country.
On the contrary, the military generals group must rely on military merits to be able to climb up quickly, obtain military merits, and worship generals, only by waging war can they obtain a higher social status and complete the rapid jump of class.
Since ancient times, emperors have reused civil servants and suppressed military generals in peacetime.
After all, the emperor knows better than anyone that as long as he masters military power, he is equivalent to mastering the wisdom of the world.
This was especially true of the emperors of the Song Dynasty.
Even if it is a loss of power and humiliation of the country, it will definitely not give those generals any chance to rebel against water and rebellion.
Even if they knew they could win, they wouldn't try to win.
This is also the sequelae of Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, after releasing the military power with a cup of wine, which led to the emperors of the Song Dynasty in all dynasties to let the civil officials under them grow, but to suppress the military attaches with all their might.
So much so that the later emperors, even if these ruling emperors found something wrong and wanted to change it, it was too late to regret it.
If the civil bureaucracy is too strong, the imperial power will be suppressed, and even the emperor will only be a mascot with little actual authority.
This is why Emperor Yongtai asked Jia Yun what he thought about the war.
Jia Yun, Minister of Military Aircraft, as the leader and exemplar of the civilian clique, can represent the opinions of the entire civilian clique.
In the past, Emperor Yongtai pushed Jia Yun to the throne, just to reduce the backlash caused by his own war, especially the collective opposition of the civil official group.
And if there is Jia Yun as a buffer and leader, then even if the civilian official group is unwilling and intends to oppose it, seeing that their bosses have surrendered and confessed, even if there are occasionally one or two ruthless people with a tougher backbone, they can't stand everyone collecting firewood and flames, and they are directly ignored.
In addition, Emperor Yongtai also left a hand, that is, once the war is tight, or there is a big defeat, he can also shirk the responsibility and let Jia Yun bear this responsibility, through a series of scheming methods, unload the mill and kill the donkey.