Volume 1: Lin'an Turmoil Chapter 14 Hesitation
But this is Liu Chan's idea, but it is not the idea of the ministers.
In the eyes of the ministers, their Song Dynasty is dying.
The whole world attacked the Song Dynasty, 500,000 troops, what did the Song Dynasty use to stop it!
You can't just rely on Yue Fei alone!
Can Yue Fei stop it?
Even the Song Dynasty has been victorious in foreign wars for so many years; Even if Liu Chan completed the reform of the military system, the way of thinking of many ministers has not changed.
In the face of this situation, many ministers are unable to stop it, so let's hurry up and talk about peace.
Even generals like Yue Fei and Han Shizhong thought about keeping the enemy army out of the border, and they didn't have the idea of breaking the enemy army and achieving victory.
But Liu Chan didn't think so, he wanted to annihilate all the enemy troops who claimed to be 500,000 troops. Dare to help Zhao Huan, and dare to crusade against me, I'm impatient, right?
On the same day, Liu Chan sent a message to the generals of the Quartet, asking them to directly send troops to exterminate the enemy.
It's a pity that Liu Chan thought too simply. After all, this is the Song Dynasty, the era of scholars, even if he began to centralize power, but it was not completed after all.
Before the letter was sent, he was confronted with the advice of his ministers.
The ministers advocated immediately sending envoys to negotiate peace with the enemy, and no longer wantonly attacking other countries. And Liu Chan can't accept these at all, and then he doesn't seem to have fought yet, which kind of peace is discussed.
The most important thing is that if he wants a Han emperor to negotiate peace with the barbarians, where will he put his face.
It's too embarrassing, Liu Chan can't do it.
Even if it is to negotiate peace or surrender, it should be told to the Han people, and to the barbarians.
But the opposition of the ministers was too fierce, and some of the scholars also began to march, as if Liu Chan did not agree to negotiate peace, and it was intolerable.
Those people simply thought that the Song Dynasty had recovered all the lands, and the Jin Kingdom had also been destroyed, so why did they still have to go to war with foreign countries?
Since it is because of the war with foreign countries, the whole world is warned, so it is not good to negotiate peace!
Isn't it okay for everyone to be peaceful!
Everyone was convinced of this set of truths, so they were eloquent when they advised Liu Chan.
Liu Chan was so angry that he wanted to kill someone, and he said what kind of foolish words this was. Even if he is as mediocre as him, he knows that long-term peace between countries is simply impossible, let alone peace between different countries.
But the opposition between the ministers and the scholars was too loud, and if Liu Chan killed someone, the court and Taixue would be almost wiped out.
At this moment, Liu Chan felt extremely bored with the Confucian school, and simply refreshed the lower limit of his understanding of things.
You must know that Confucianism in the past was a chariot with one hand and a book in preaching.
Now, what has become of it.
There was a dispute between Confucianism and Mohism, but why did Confucianism win?
Is the truth of Mohism not as profound as Confucianism?
Or is there no sage in the Mo family?
No, it's neither!
After all, the sword in the hands of the Mo family is not as sharp as Confucianism.
Aren't you reasoning on par with me, then kill you, my reasoning is the most correct!
The sword of Confucianism was too sharp, and in the end, Confucianism stood out from the hundreds of sons and became the only voice in the world.
Maybe it's because they've been doing something eye-catching for a long time.
What stands out?
Of course, it is the promotion of something different from the mainstream that is the most noticeable.
Just like everyone in the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty said that Huo Qubing was the most capable general in the world, but someone grabbed him and was harsh on his subordinates, and he couldn't share weal and sorrow with his subordinates!
But no one else said anything!
For example, the mainstream of Confucianism during the Han Dynasty was clearly that men and women had the same status. It is necessary to say that women are inferior to men, and to gain great fame by not belittleing the status of women in order to attract people's attention.
Also, during the Han Dynasty, it didn't matter if a woman was married or not, and women who had children were even more popular. Even Emperor Wu of Han's mother was married and then remarried to Emperor Jing of Han.
However, there is no need to say much about what the Song Dynasty looks like now.
In the final analysis, Confucianism has been invincible for too long, and there are always people who want to come up with something new, a new way of thinking. Otherwise, how can you be famous!
But the point is, a lot of these new things are bad!
And as long as there is the first bad thing that makes people gain fame, then the bottom line of the subsequent person can be infinitely broken!
Just think about Sima Zhao killing the emperor of Wei on the street, and then what the emperor has become can be imagined.
Confucianism behaved roughly no differently than Sima Zhao.
Under such pressure, what can Liu Chan do, and what can he do?
Do you want to tell the generals not to ignore it and continue to send troops?
This world is not his Liu Chan alone, what if the generals send troops and the people below welcome Zhao Huan back to Beijing.
Don't tell me, it's a possibility.
Even if Zhao Huan was deposed as emperor by Liu Chan, as far as Confucianism is concerned, this is not passed.
Therefore, Zhao Huan still has the right to inherit the throne, and he can even ignore Liu Chan and inherit the throne directly!
Discussing peace is just a shame, and if peace is not negotiated, Liu Chan may lose the throne.
Who doesn't understand which is more important.
Liu Chan understood too much that this was the situation when the Eastern Han Dynasty was founded.
Is Liu Xiu powerful? Absolutely!
But when the country was founded, he still compromised with the family, forgetting that the emperor of the Western Han Dynasty could use military exploits to subdue everything. This made the Eastern Han family bigger, and it died in less than a hundred years.
Now Liu Chan is facing a similar situation, but he has been replaced by a scholar from a family.
Especially now the scholars still hold the military power, which is the price of Liu Chan's reform of the military system!
Liu Chan thought about it and felt that he should agree to negotiate peace, and if he was embarrassed, he would be embarrassed, anyway, not once or twice.
As the emperor of a country, he once surrendered to Wei, but now it is just a negotiation of peace and sprinkling water.
In this way, Liu Chan convened a court meeting, intending to use this court meeting to plan a good peace.
Unfortunately, he was wrong.
The faces of the ministers were too bullying, and they did not propose peace at all, and only asked Liu Chan to stop sending troops.
But if you don't send troops, won't you just negotiate peace?
Since the representatives are talking about peace, why is no one mentioning it?
Liu Chan was puzzled.
What the ministers thought was that now the Song Dynasty has been winning consecutive victories in foreign wars, which shows that the national strength of the Song Dynasty is not weak. Even in the face of the so-called 500,000 army of the barbarians, it is inevitable that it is not without the strength to fight.
In the event of a future victory, the ministers who mentioned the peace at this time would surely be recorded on the Wall of Shame.
Look at the current Qin Hui, because he has been fighting with the Jin State to negotiate peace, but after the Jin State was destroyed, even if Qin Hui made great contributions, he was still ridiculed by the great ministers and looked down upon by many people.
So now in this situation, the peace negotiation will be brought up by you, the emperor. Then the history books record that it can only be said that it is the emperor's idea in the future, and these ministers are just doing things.
So why not the main battle?
First, the enemy army had 500,000, and the ministers felt that they were not sure that they could defeat it, and second, the impact of the Jingkang Rebellion has not been forgotten to this day. If you come here once, it's not good.
Therefore, almost everyone agreed to negotiate peace and opposed war.
Moreover, the ministers looked at Liu Chan's attitude and knew that Liu Chan had given up the war.
Then what else to say, just watch the play.
Liu Chan didn't know what was going on, why no one mentioned the peace, so that he could get off the donkey down the slope!
But a third of the court meeting has been held, and many people have mentioned stopping the dispatch of troops, but no one has ever said peace!
Liu Chan is going crazy, he himself has given up his self-esteem, what are you doing here!
Playing with him, right?
Liu Chan clenched his fists, and blue veins appeared on his face, he wanted to kill everyone here.
Fortunately, he still had his senses, and left the hall directly with a wave of his sleeves. He did not meet the harem, but drove to the military school. didn't let anyone report, and went directly to the place where Han Shizhong was working.
As soon as Han Shizhong saw Liu Chan, he quickly stood up, and then knelt down to say hello.
Liu Chan asked the others to go out, and he wanted to talk to Han Shizhong alone.
Han Shizhong was uneasy, and he didn't know what Liu Chan was doing here.
Liu Chan said bluntly: "Liangchen, who are you loyal to?" ”
When Han Shizhong heard this, he knelt down again and said, "The last general is only loyal to Your Majesty!" ”
"What if I ask you to raise a butcher's knife against the minister?"
"The minister will definitely not disappoint Your Majesty."
"Then what if it's the ministers of the entire court!"
Han Shizhong was taken aback, looked up at Liu Chan, and then quickly lowered his head. The killing intent in Liu Chan's eyes was not fake, Han Shizhong knew very well that Liu Chan really wanted to kill the entire court!
Han Shizhong belongs to the kind of person who rides the wall, and although he is loyal to Liu Chan, he is not the kind of loyalty that is dead hearted!
If he is really desperate, after Liu Chan finishes speaking, he will definitely immediately say that he will never be soft. But he hesitated, and it was this hesitation that said a lot of things.
After killing all the ministers in the court, which emperor has done it!
Han Shizhong thought about it and didn't think of it. But now that Liu Chan wants to do this, what should he do!
"You're hesitating!" Liu Chan's eyes became colder and colder, he had thought that many people would hesitate, but he had not thought that Han Shizhong would hesitate at all.
Because compared to others, Liu Chan is not bad for Han Shizhong! Title, Han Shizhong has power, Han Shizhong also has it, in the military academy, he is an instructor, and in the imperial city, he is the temporary commander of the Imperial Forest Army!
Moreover, the most important thing is that Liu Chan did not feel sorry for Han Shizhong at all, nor did he punish him.
Liu Chan felt that anyone could hesitate, but Han Shizhong would not at all.
But this is all Liu Chan's opinion, Han Shizhong doesn't think like this at all!
The most disgusting thing about the wall-riding faction is that you can't give up, you have to be entangled in everything, and you have to hesitate to do anything.
If Liu Chan's power was completely greater than that of the courtiers, Han Shizhong would not hesitate to support Liu Chan.
And now Liu Chan's power is about the same as that of the courtiers, and even the power of the courtiers is faintly greater than Liu Chan's, which makes Han Shizhong have to think about it and hesitate.
And this kind of hesitation was not what Liu Chan wanted to see, so he directly opened his mouth to question.