Chapter 70: The Newborn Ji Han

From Chengdu to Chang'an, it takes twenty or thirty days, and his father asked Zhuge Qiao to come to Chang'an, which should be not long after Zhang Fei received the letter from Chang'an. In this way, my father has already made up his mind about my affairs.

Zhuge Qiao looks much more mature than before. The first thing he said when he saw me was: "Your Highness is overjoyed, the battle of the quail, and the alliance of Jincheng are enough to make the ministers return to their hearts, and the king is reassured." ”

I shook my head. Put the yellow box into his hands.

Zhuge Qiao opened it suspiciously, and was suddenly dumbfounded: "This, how can this be." Your Highness, I have kept my mouth shut about this matter, and I have never confided in half a word, even if the king suspects it, there is no evidence. ”

"If a father wants to cure a man's sin, one suspicion is enough, why need evidence."

Zhuge Qiao spun around in circles: "How the king wants to deal with us, we have to think of a way." You can't sit still. ”

It seems that although Zhuge Qiao is smart, his nervousness is similar to mine when he first encounters this matter.

"Don't worry, my father will not pursue you when he looks at Mr.'s face. Do you think my father will let me go? ”

Zhuge Qiao realized my unhappiness and regained his composure, and then asked his father in detail about his father's actions these days, and sighed: "It doesn't make sense, how could the king let you go like this?" If I were the king, I would have cut you off first, and then lock you up, and it would not be possible to send me to you instead of punishing you as I am now—does he want to lead you to make another mistake, and then strike you a blow that will make you unable to turn over? Could it be that the king also has family affection? ”

I don't speak. Because there is basically no other explanation except family affection.

But Zhuge Qiao said: "Your Royal Highness, it should be like this, your merit is too great, your prestige is increasing, hundreds of officials in the court and the central government are supported by many people, and the king is only afraid that he will not be able to move you for a while, so he came up with this plan." Now, the four generals have the virtue of saving you twice, treating you as a son, my father Kong Ming is your husband, Ma Mengqi is willing to use it for you, and the three generals will become your father-in-law, the king is not unwilling to do it, but he can't bear to do it, can't do it, can't do it, even if he has more ideas, he can't ignore the court's discussion. At present, the prince should get married quickly and hold the three generals, and his status will be as stable as Mount Tai. ”

It was so cold, so cold that it soaked into the cracks of a man's bones. I seemed to have touched my family, and I was dragged back again.

I suddenly felt that Zhuge Qiao seemed to have embarked on an evil path. Every time I am with my husband, we talk about the national economy and the people's livelihood, but why is Zhuge Qiao together every time, and the talk is all about conspiracy and trickery? If he continues like this, is it possible for him to become a great talent like Mr. No, I'm going to get him out of the center of power and start from the grassroots all over again. Otherwise, the whole world will become a pawn in his hands at the mercy of the balance of power. I want him to grow into a gentleman, not into a Jia Xu.

In November, due to the death of Emperor Xian, my father was overly sad and became ill, and he could not be a director.

I know that my father's illness began with sadness, but not only because of the emperor who was far away in the world, but also because of me.

Once again, I settled in the Hanzhong Royal Mansion and served the decoction in person. I tasted every bowl of medicine with my own mouth, and then gently fed it to my father. The father didn't look at it, and drank it with his mouth open.

These days, my father and I have been very harmonious, and we are completely like a father and son. Due to the pacification of Liangzhou, the ministers who came to visit me often praised me in front of him, and the third uncle slapped me on the shoulder and laughed as an uncle and father-in-law, and whenever this happened, my father would smile kindly and look at me gently. That kind of gentleness is something I've never experienced before. However, I always felt a little cramped, and the box, and Zhuge Qiao's words, weighed heavily on my heart from time to time.

If he doesn't really forgive me, then how will I deal with myself in the future? If he really forgives me, how will my heart be at peace in the future?

Since then, no matter how close I have been, there has been an invisible rift between us.

But the dual relationship between father and son, the strangeness between the old monarch and the powerful prince, the clash between his power and my cunning, finally balanced on one point - I am the only one who can take his place at the moment, and he is the soul and pillar of our team, and no one can replace him for the time being.

It was also from this time that my father began to teach me the art of governing the country.

His mind was still confused for a while, and sometimes he didn't even recognize people, patting his side and shouting to the third uncle: "Yun Chang, come, sit next to me." Or he was angry at me: "Whose child are you, what are you doing in my house?" ”

At first I thought he was lying to me, but later I realized that he was really old - but even an old lion did not dare to touch his majesty again.

My father's knowledge is not very good, although he has studied under the famous Rulu value, but he has not learned anything. His skills are all killed from the battle with a knife and a gun, and washed out of the gushing blood. What he taught me was sometimes very direct, so it was also very vivid. Every day, Kong Ming reported to him the government affairs he handled, and he was sometimes groggy and nodded, but sometimes he could judge and deal with it very quickly.

He heard out of nowhere that I hated Han's idea of "ruling by doing nothing", so he told me what is "rule by doing nothing" and what is the triple realm of "doing nothing--doing--doing nothing" in Lao Tzu's thought.

"As a monarch, you don't need to manage too much, if you manage too much, you will make too many mistakes, and you will have to complain. In fact, a good monarch only needs to choose the right path to take and the people to use. He touched his nose and smiled childishly, "You see, I leave things to Kong Ming and them a lot of the time, and they do it better than me, don't they?"

"As a monarch, if you are not responsible for specific administrative matters, you are doing nothing. If the monarch does nothing, he will never make a mistake. Therefore, on the one hand, he represents the great majesty that symbolizes the country; On the one hand, the people will never be able to catch him making mistakes, and they will always be greater than the hope in the hearts of the people.

"But who will do it? Prime Minister "Zuo Tianzi", it is the Prime Minister who really does things. Because he bears the actual responsibility of the legislative, executive, and judicial aspects, even if he is promising, he will inevitably make mistakes. The prime minister is trained among the ministers, and if he makes a mistake, he can be replaced, but it will not affect the stability of the national political situation. The removal of the monarch is different, it will be bloody, and it will be a lot of blood.

So how do you ensure that the prime minister does his best and doesn't do anything wrong? So there was a royal historian who was behind him as an overseer, that is, he was impeached and found faults. Therefore, it is called the supervision of the imperial history. ”

"However, how can we ensure that the imperial doctor does not collude with the prime minister, if the two of them collude, the emperor will have nothing." I can't believe my father's words, in this era of the supremacy of imperial power, since Emperor Wu, he began to reduce the power of the prime minister and return to the emperor, how could he want to delegate power at this time?

"Is this it? Of course, you have to use people. When a monarch has no eyesight, he is blind. On the one hand, of course, it is necessary to select appropriate talents to be prime ministers and imperial historians; On the other hand, it is stipulated in the system that the Imperial Doctor has always been a candidate for the prime minister. However, his income was several times less. As long as he impeached the prime minister, he would immediately become prime minister. On the contrary, if the prime minister does not want to lose his honor and wealth, he must do good deeds. The government must be a clean and competent government.

"Therefore, the prime minister and the imperial history are the two poles of yin and yang, which are 'positive' and 'anti', and they are one, and they are 'together' in the monarch. In short, the administrative function of the prime minister and the imperial history is 'doing', and the monarch is 'doing nothing', and the two are unified in the country, and the state is 'doing nothing'. ”

I listened, nodded slightly, and vigorously digested this system that was initially set up in the Qin and Han dynasties, and then gradually declined.

At the beginning of the Western Han Dynasty, the Qin system was inherited, and the people who assisted the emperor in governing the country were mainly prime ministers and imperial historians. There is also the highest military commander, the lieutenant, but it is not always placed. From the time of Emperor Wu, due to the influence of scriptures, the prime minister, the imperial historian and the taiwei were also called the three dukes. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty weakened the power of the prime minister in order to strengthen the centralized system. During the reign of Emperor Zhao, Huo Guang served as an assistant to the Great Sima General, and later held the position of the Great Sima General. So the great Sima Quan was above the prime minister. In the first year of Emperor Cheng Suihe (8 BC), he adopted He Wu's suggestion to change the imperial historian to Da Sikong, and raised the Yulu of Da Sima and Da Sikong to be equal to the prime minister, and established the three-metric system of Da Sima, Da Sikong and Cheng Xiang. In the second year of Emperor Wai's reign (1 before), he changed the prime minister's name to Da Situ, which is exactly the same as the name of the three princes mentioned in the present text. The original Taifu and the new Taishi and Taibao were placed above the three dukes, with high titles and no real power. At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, although the three princes were established, they still had the greatest power in the Great Sima, such as Dong Xian and Wang Mang, who were in this position and specialized in court politics.

Emperor Guangwu because of Wang Mang's rebellion, so he implemented a more extreme imperial centralization, did not let the power go to the ministers, and still set up three noble officials in name, but the real power gradually returned to Shangshutai. Emperor He and Emperor An began, and relatives and eunuchs changed their autocratic power. Relatives Dou Xian, Liang Ji, etc., all worship as generals, and the generals open the government and place their official subordinates, and they are located on the three dukes. The three dukes were not only subject to Shangshu, but also had to bow down to their relatives, eunuchs, and some even their henchmen and cronies. According to the scriptures, when the prime minister assists the Son of Heaven in managing yin and yang, and shun the four times, if there are various disasters, the emperor and the prime minister will blame themselves. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the emperor pushed the blame to the three dukes, so whenever there were floods and droughts, the three dukes were often exempted. At this time, the three princes were in name only, just reserves. In the current world, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Dong Zhuo was the prime minister of the country, ranking above the three dukes. In the thirteenth year of Jian'an, Cao Cao dismissed the three dukes and placed the prime minister and the imperial historian, and made himself the prime minister.

However, my father smiled: "I'm just telling you, don't underestimate the wisdom of our ancestors, and don't think that if you have hundreds of years of knowledge, you must be better than them." Although I admire the art of the ancestors and the life of the world when Wenjing ruled the world, I am still reluctant to give up the power at hand. ”

"Father, I've been thinking, whether it's Zhou's Jingtian, or the Qin and Han Dynasty's three-metric system, until the current nine-grade Zhongzheng system proposed by Cao Wei, can there be a good system that can last forever?"

"Nope. Of all the systems in the world, there is only a system that can adapt to the situation at the time, and there is no perfect system. Tang Yao made people officials, but no one wanted to be them, because being an official was hard, and later generations sharpened their heads and wanted to be officials, because there are benefits to being an official. At this time, we have a good prime minister who can rely on him for everything, but can it still be the same decades later? ”

"But," said the father, "son, you can try to make the system a little better, a little longer." ”

I nodded vigorously, and suddenly felt a kind of warmth, the family affection at this moment, it was really warm.

The ministers began to think about their father's succession to the throne again. Qian Zhou came to report: "Recently, there is an auspicious wind and Qingyun Rui, and there are dozens of yellow gas in the northwest corner of Chang'an, rushing into the sky, which is in response to the king of Hanzhong as the emperor, in order to succeed the Han Dynasty." "I don't believe in these things, Cao Pi is Zen, and even the unicorn, phoenix, Huanglong, and Jiahe have come out, not to mention a little wind and clouds. Moreover, I don't feel very good about Qian Zhou, the man who tried to persuade me to surrender in the future, although his reputation is also very high.

However, putting aside these illusory things, the father's succession also has practical significance. Emperor Xian is dead (in fact, it is a miscommunication), and the Han family should not end. At this time, Sun Cao's two families were on good terms, and after the defeat of our army in Jingzhou, there was already a slight trend of dissipation, although there was a halo of Yongliang victory, but it was difficult to hide the emptiness inside. In times of internal and external troubles, where is there anything more justifiable and unifying than when my father ascends the throne as a king and vassals are vassals?

Of course, the disadvantages of his father being the emperor are also obvious, if there are three points today, Cao Pi is called the emperor, and his father is the emperor again, then Sun Quan will be in a very embarrassing situation.

The situation of the Three Kingdoms has actually taken shape.

Winter has arrived. In the winter of Chang'an, the north wind is howling, the yellow sand is all over the sky, and everyone is in the room, burning the hardwood brazier. I began to miss the winter in Jingzhou and Yizhou. However, according to my father, my hometown of Zhuo County, it is also so cold in winter.

As soon as the cold winter passed, his father's illness improved a little, and he ascended to the pole.

The country name is Ji Han, the capital is Chang'an, Wu is the queen, I am the crown prince, Liu Yong, and Liu Li are each the princes.

worship Xu Jing as Taifu and Situ; worship Zhuge Liang as the prime minister, record the book, and lead the Yongzhou pastor; worship Ma Chao as a hussar general, leading the Liangzhou pastor; worship Zhang Fei as the general of the chariot cavalry, the captain of the commander, and the pastor of Yizhou; worship Zhao Yun as the general of Jianwei; Feng Weiyan is the general of Zhenbei, the history of the Yongzhou assassin: Feng Huangquan is the general of the expedition to the north, the history of the Liangzhou assassin; Feng Lai Gong is the general of Zhenyuan, and he is too often relocated; Feng Pang De was the general of Zhendong; Feng Li Yan was named the general of Xingye; Feng Mengda as the general of the Xinghan Dynasty; Feng Ma Liang was the general of Annan and led the history of Yizhou assassination; Feng Liu Ba as Shang Shu Ling; Feng Liao was appointed as a servant......

It is very interesting that although my father is the son of heaven of the Han Dynasty and is also an official position of the Han Dynasty, he never follows the laws of the Han Dynasty, but he adds different meanings to each official position as he likes. For example, the governor I was most worried about who could appoint officials on his own became a fictitious position in my father's office, and became an assistant to him and the prime minister in dealing with the affairs of the state, and this assistant could propose the development plan of the state, propose personnel appointments, and implement policies, but was no longer directly responsible for the affairs of the state. I don't know if this is a fraud, but my father did start to reform the government in a planned way. Although his political reforms were influenced by his physical condition, he had a good prime minister. Even if the prime minister had only a grain of sand in his hand, he could turn it into a mountain.