Chapter 751: Sudden Change (1)
Li Fengyun's marriage was completed, and the time was in the blink of an eye to the beginning of November, on this day, suddenly a news from the capital Kaifeng flying pigeon passed the book surprised Fengyunwei.
At the beginning of November of the third year of Qianyou, Shi Hongzhao, Yang Wei, and Wang Zhang were ordered to go to the court, but they were killed on the spot by dozens of guards with strong martial arts in the corridor outside the palace. There is no doubt that it was the emperor Liu Chengyou who designed to kill the three people.
When this incident came out, the government and the opposition were shocked and killed ministers for no reason, which was a taboo in all dynasties and dynasties, and was one of the signs of faint kings and tyrants.
This is different from Liu Zhiyuan's killing of Du Chongwei before his death, when Liu Zhiyuan knew that he would die, and Du Chongwei was a subordinate, and he had no tricks, and surrendering Liu Zhiyuan was just an expedient measure. Therefore, even if Liu Zhiyuan killed him, the impact would not be too great, and with Liu Zhiyuan's death, the impact of this incident would gradually dissipate.
And Liu Chengyou killed Shi Hongzhao and Yang Wei and Wang Zhang, the three ministers are different, these three are all ministers who take care of their lives, and they were entrusted by the dying instructions of the former emperor Liu Zhiyuan to assist Liu Chengyou.
Although Shi Hongzhao and Yang Wei are arrogant, they are loyal to the Han Dynasty after all, and they have no objections, and although they are disrespectful to Liu Chengyou, that is also the true nature of military generals.
Not to mention Wang Zhang, he is a Wenchen, although he is closer to Shi Hongzhao, he has not made any mistakes, and he is even more innocent.
Liu Chengyou was punished without teaching, and killed three ministers at the gate of the main hall by means of assassination, which had already committed the emperor's taboo.
Even if the minister is guilty, he should be handed over to the three divisions for trial (Note 1) to determine that his crime should be punished, and his crime can only be questioned and beheaded after the crime is announced to the world. It's not that the emperor can do whatever he wants, and he can kill whoever he wants. If the emperor is allowed to act arbitrarily and recklessly, and arbitrarily kills the ministers who angered him, then what do you need to do with the three provinces and six ministries? What do you need to do with the Criminal Department, Dali Temple, and Yushitai?
As a minister, if there is no guarantee of his own life, and it is all between the emperor's joy and anger, how many people in the world will be loyal ministers and ministers? Wouldn't it be better to directly curry favor with the emperor, say something that the emperor likes to hear, and do what the emperor likes, in exchange for his own glory and wealth?
After all, in this world, who is really not afraid of death? How many people dare to risk killing their heads and accuse the emperor of being wrong in person? Throughout the ages, looking through the history books, there are only a few individuals. Otherwise, how could Wei Zheng become famous in history because of his face to Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty?
This is a restriction on imperial power, but also a protection of the Chinese heritage.
Even if the emperor is the honor of the Ninety-Five, ruling all the people on behalf of God, he cannot be unscrupulous, otherwise he will be a faint monarch. When the emperor can be unscrupulous and unscrupulous, it means that it is not far from the destruction of the country.
This is true of King Xia, King Shang, and Emperor Yang of Sui......
If the time is stretched out a little longer, to the dynasty where everyone has a pig's tail on their heads, the same is true.
In that barren Tang Dynasty, when there was no hair and no head, the rule of imperial power reached an unprecedented extreme, all the ministers became the emperor's subservient domestic slaves, and the Han people became the slaves of slaves, and it was difficult to guarantee even the minimum dignity of human beings.
The emperor can be unscrupulous, and millions of people of a certain nationality can roll up their sleeves and play with birds, do nothing, and be fed. The whole of China almost regressed into a slave society.
Then, when the artillery fire of the Opium War rang out on the land of China, the people could not be blamed for not only not helping the ruler's army, but leading the way for the invaders. Because it was not a war between the invaders and China, but a war between the invaders and rulers, and China was just the spoils of the victors, so what did that war have to do with the people?
Then, when the butcher's knife of the Japanese state is raised, it cannot be blamed for the southeastern provinces actually claiming neutrality, and a huge country can only rely on the strength of a few provinces to fight, and before the Japanese state does not show its hideous face, it is really impossible to see how much better the ruler is than the Japanese slaves.
In that dynasty, history can be arbitrarily changed as needed, and if you tell the truth, you will be killed, and if you say a wrong word, you will also be killed. The backbone of Huaxia was broken violently, and the Chinese inheritance was almost ended, making the whole of China full of inferiority, and later even the writing that carried civilization was almost completely abolished because of this inferiority. The history of the past, the glory and the humiliation of the past have all been erased.
The Chinese civilization has almost been swept into the pile of old papers of history, and since then there has almost been no more China in the world, only an empty shell that has lost its soul, just like the ambitious and cowardly neighbor.
Of course, people at this time will not know what will happen thousands of years from now. In this chaotic era, although the Central Plains is very chaotic and weak, the Chinese civilization is still the most powerful civilization in the world, and it is full of temptation to the barbarians around it, even if it goes back five or six hundred years, in the era of the five chaotic China, it is also the same.
Even though the Han people were humiliated, the Central Plains were occupied, the people were slaughtered, plundered, treated as two-legged sheep, and almost wiped out, all the barbarians preferred to abandon their original culture and invariably chose to assimilate into this civilization.
This is the charm of a powerful civilization.
In Dingzhou City, Jiedu Embassy, Li Fengyun's small courtyard, Li Fengyun, Gongsun Wuwu, Hua Jieyu, She Pocai, Wang Dashan, and Mo Qingyan were sitting around the stone table, discussing the situation in front of them.
"Shi Hongzhao and Yang Wei are powerful ministers, not traitors. Even if he is a traitorous minister, Liu Chengyou should not do this! This will only make the people panic and everyone will be in danger. Gongsun Wuwu analyzed, "Liu Chengyou has committed public anger, his emperor will not be long in office! A wise emperor should know how to maintain a delicate balance between imperial power and ministers, this little emperor does not seem to understand this, but only blindly uses power and strategy." If the Han is lucky, the ministers of Kuangfu Sheji will set up a new emperor, and if they are not lucky, the Han will not exist. ”
"Then what should we do?" Li Fengyun frowned and asked, this news was undoubtedly a bolt from the blue for the Central Plains, but for Fengyunwei, it couldn't be said that it was not a good thing, it seemed to give Li Fengyun a chance, a chance to sweep the Central Plains. Although Li Fengyun did not want to see this opportunity.
"We?" Gongsun Wuwu smiled bitterly, shook his head, and said, "We can't do anything, at least not now." This opportunity looks tempting, but it's actually just a decoy. If we raise troops now, Fengyun, tell me what the people of the world will say about us Fengyunwei, and what will be the attitude of the princes of the world?"