Chapter 222: Power Technique (2)
Guo Yang is also a person who has been in the rivers and lakes and the court for many years, how can he not know the truth of rabbit death and dog cooking, if he wants to retreat, he can only make the emperor feel that he no longer poses a threat.
Since ancient times, there have been countless cases of the Son of Heaven killing and degrading powerful ministers, whether it is Han Xin and Lu Juan in the Han Dynasty, or Lan Yu today, Liu Bowen and Li Shanchang. It's all the same. When the courtier's ability or fame surpasses that of the monarch, then even if the courtier does not kill the king and usurp the throne, then he will invite death.
Tang Taizong Li Shimin is a good example, the Tiance army under the King of Qin and the staff of the Qin Wangfu posed a great threat to Tang Taizu Li Yuan and Prince Jiancheng, so he wanted to get rid of Li Shimin, Li Shimin then struck first and killed Prince Jiancheng and King Yuanji of Qi in front of the Xuanwu Gate.
Then Wei Chigong forced Li Yuan to force Tang Taizu to inherit the throne of Li Shimin and Tang Taizong.
And Guo Yang doesn't want to be Li Shimin, he doesn't have Li Shimin's ambition, and he doesn't want to be the second Hu Weiyong, and finally ends up ruined and beheaded.
Guo Yang wanted to choose another softer method, that is, Zhao Kuangyin, Shi Shouxin, Gao Huaide and others who imitated Zhao Kuangyin and Shi Shouxin, Gao Huaide and others. handed over power by himself, and then entrusted the alliance to Lou Yun and his son Guo Ye.
First, these two people are young people, although they have a high prestige status in the rivers and lakes, but they do not have the prestige to raise their arms and respond to tens of millions of people, nor do they have the prestige to convince everyone, let alone the experience and city government like him. Only by putting the alliance in the hands of these young men would the emperor be reassured.
The state league can be a good "dog" of the emperor, a "dog" that does not have the ability to bite the owner.
Although Guo Ye and Lou Yun have these shortcomings, they are still young, and they also have a certain ability to master the alliance, what they need is just time to run in.
Guo Yang thought that after Lou Yun finished his studies, he would let him return to Luoyang, and he would give him the position of the leader of the alliance, Lou Yun was the most suitable candidate, and no one could make him more suitable.
Although Lou Yun has a certain reputation in Wulin, there is another person who can check and balance him, and this person is naturally Murong Zheng, Marquis of Wuchang. And the emperor naturally can't let the Murong family dominate, and the only one who can balance Murong Zheng is the owner of Qiu Zhuang who is as famous as him.
And the owner of Qiu Zhuang has one of the biggest advantages over others, that is, Peacock Villa was slaughtered, and the Qiu family was injured. can still maintain the status of the four great families, all because of the face and support of the State League and the Tianying Society.
And the Qiu family's treasure Peacock Feather was unfortunately lost, and everyone in the rivers and lakes knows that the Qiu family has no Peacock Feather, which is a tiger without teeth, and a toothless tiger is not as good as a dog.
The rivers and lakes know this, and the emperor naturally knows it. There is also the fact that this Qiu Zhuang owner was unknown in the rivers and lakes before, except for the battle of Peacock Villa, he did not have a good record at all.
So it's not an exaggeration to say that Lou Yun is a fledgling hairy boy.
Therefore, Lou Yun is the most suitable candidate. If Guo Yang would support him on the throne of the alliance lord, the emperor would definitely gladly agree. After that, letting his son assist in controlling the real power can also give the emperor the illusion that the state league and the deputy league leaders restrain each other.
Because Guo Ye is the leader of the Young Alliance, it is natural for the leader of the alliance to pass on the throne to him, and if Guo Yang passes the position to a person with a foreign surname, it will definitely attract Guo Ye's "dissatisfaction", even if this "dissatisfaction" is from the perspective of outsiders. But as long as it's for outsiders to see, it's okay.
But this is not enough, because he is still there, and Guo Yang, the old alliance leader, can regain control of the overall situation at any time. In order to reassure the emperor, Guo Yang planned to show the emperor and let the emperor give him a mansion in the capital, so that he could "live for the rest of his life".
But in fact, everyone knows that it is called maintenance, but in fact it is house arrest. Only in this way can the emperor be completely reassured, so that Guo Ye and Lou Yun, these children in his eyes will be the safest.
However, Guo Yang later heard that the Nangong family had withdrawn from the Qiu family's marriage, and Lou Yun was engaged to Miss Lin again, which made him overjoyed.
Although businessmen are more treacherous and cunning than these martial arts people, what businessmen value is nothing more than the word "profit", and the so-called "profit" refers to money in many ways. Although money is not as good as a big businessman like the Lin family, money is a thing that has no substantive meaning to the Guo family, it is just a number.
Merchants can be bought, and the state league can also provide a lot of help to the merchant, so that he can get more "benefits", such as he can send his men to escort the goods of the caravan, and can use the connections of the state league to contact the magistrate, feed them and then "left" one or two percent of the tax silver. In short, there are many benefits.
If the leader of the state league is the son-in-law of the Lin family, then the Lin family will definitely assist wholeheartedly, because whether Lou Yun can sit firmly in the position of the state league is related to the practical interests of the Lin family, so that Lou Yun has an "old treacherous and cunning" think tank, and to deal with the old fox, it can only use another old fox, and it is a smarter old fox, and this fox and the tiger still have a symbiotic relationship, because the tiger needs the wisdom of the fox, and the fox also needs the majesty of the tiger.
Symbiosis of interests, the Lin family will become Lou Yun's "loyal minister", and he is an absolute loyal minister. A loyal servant who cannot usurp the "throne". A "loyal minister" who absolutely supports the "master".
Guo Yang thought of this when he signed the marriage letter between Lou Yun and Lin Luoyao, and he believed that the "old fox" who wrote this marriage letter must have the same idea as him, because they are the same kind of people, they are all old fritters who have been scheming and have been in the rivers and lakes for many years.
The state league can also use the merchants' rich trading and communication networks to collect intelligence, and can also openly break into the territory of other alliances, called escort caravans.
In this way, it can be justified in the hinterland of the "enemy", and the "enemy" has nothing to say, and when Lou Yun and Lin Luoyao get married, everyone in the rivers and lakes will know that the wife of the "Lord of the Autumn Alliance" is the young lady of the Northwest Jujia Lin family.
The son-in-law sent someone to escort the goods of the father-in-law, which even the emperor couldn't say. Because human ethics are always taken for granted.
This is also a good thing, if the emperor sees that the leader of the state league appointed by himself is a "wretched" who is greedy for money and small profits and indulges in women's sex, then he will be more at ease, so that Lou Yun and Guo Ye are also safer, so that they can better control the state league and firmly grasp the state league in their own hands. It was grasped by the hands of the Guo family, not by the hands of the imperial court.
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