Three Kingdoms: Cao Cao and Liu Bei help me to ascend the throne

Chapter 14 The righteousness of the Spring and Autumn Period, marry a great country first!
Throughout the history of China, you will find an interesting phenomenon.

Most of the emperors like to use eunuchs, corrupt officials, and treacherous sycophants.

Of course, this is very different from people's inherent consciousness.

This is due to the "emperor's mind", and the "emperor's mind" has never been the same as what ordinary people think.

In the eyes of the emperor, eunuchs and corrupt officials would embezzle, commit crimes, and amass money wantonly, so...the emperor had their hands.

As long as you hold this handle, you can deal with them how you want to deal with them!

Whenever you want to clean them up, you can clean them up whenever you want.

besides…

The emperor asked the eunuchs to be corrupt in exchange for another thing.

That is to exchange power and money for the absolute loyalty and obedience of these treacherous and eunuchs!
In this way, if the emperor has any dirty business, the traitor will do it for him!
But honest officials are not necessarily, honest officials are loyal to their duties and ideals, and they are likely to stun the emperor for a while.

For example, Zhao Gou, Song Gaozong, was worried about several things when he was in power. The first one was that his father, Song Huizong, and brother Song Qinzong really came back from the Kingdom of Jin. What if they competed with him for the throne?
What he is most afraid of is that some capable ministers will really go straight to Huanglong and welcome back Hui and Qin emperors!

But Yue Fei is a loyal minister, he will not worry about these thoughts of the emperor, he is loyal to duty, loyal to ideals, he must go straight to Huanglong, and his army is called the Yue Family Army... yes it is the Yue Family Army, maybe the future will be "Hui, Qin The army of the "Second Emperor" is by no means Zhao Gou's army!

Seeing Yue's army winning battles and victories, can Zhao Gou not be afraid?

So... From Zhao Gou's point of view, he must get rid of Yue Fei.

But... In name, Yue Fei is a loyal minister. If Zhao Gou wants to get rid of Yue Fei, isn't he a faint king?So he can only pretend to be someone else, whose hand should he borrow?Borrowed by the treacherous Qin Hui!
After that, it was the "unnecessary" charges that shocked the world.

What does "unnecessary" mean, is there still a need?
Harmling Zhongliang, Qin Hui and his wife knelt for thousands of years in the Yuefei Temple of the later generations. Naturally, they deserved their crimes, but Zhao Gou...ah no, after "Wanyan", he should kneel even more!

Liu Yu explained the logic here to Cao Cao carefully.

Of course, he did not cite the examples of Yue Fei and Qin Hui. There are too many similar examples in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, and the struggle between Chu and Han, and Liu Yu came at his fingertips.

And Cao Cao was stunned when he heard it...

For the first time, he discovered that the world seemed far less simple than he had imagined.

Sure enough, just like Brother Yu said, everything in the world is not only black and white, it is inevitable that eunuchs like Shi Changshi can exert power and be favored and trusted by the emperor!

silence...

After Liu Yu's enlightenment, the whole Taoist temple fell into a deathly silence.

Cao Cao lowered his head and kept silent. He felt that his outlook on life had deviated.

"Ah, this is the emperor's mind, the emperor's considerations are naturally different from yours..."

"And our emperor came to Luoyang as a vassal king to ascend the throne since he was a child. At the beginning of his reign, he was surrounded and suppressed by his relatives and powerful officials! His life is not easy!"

"The former Emperor Zhi was killed by the 'domineering general' Liang Heng with a poisonous biscuit, and Wang Mang was in chaos... In order to prevent the emergence of a second Wang Mang from the big man, and to secure the throne... United with the eunuchs, this is the only thing that His Majesty can do. a way out!"

"It seems that the eunuchs are persecuting the party members, but in fact, who is really trying to weaken the party members? Does your majesty understand this game of chess?"

As Liu Yu said...

Today's son Liu Hong succeeded to the throne in the first month of the first year of Jianning, and the disaster of the party's imprisonment occurred in November.

According to the records in "Book of the Later Han Dynasty Chen Fan Biography", Liu Hong's wet nurse Zhao Rao had secretly contacted eunuchs Cao Jie, Wang Fu and others before the Danggu disaster.

So, here is the problem?
Was it the emperor Liu Hong who planned to initiate this disaster of party imprisonment, punishing officials in power, wailing relatives, and eliminating party members?Or the eunuchs Cao Jie and Wang Fu?

Perhaps, it's like the relationship between Zhao Gou and Qin Hui!
Cao Jie and Wang Fu are nothing more than a knife of the new emperor!

They just did a "lovely" dirty thing for the young emperor!
"Gudong..."

Subconsciously, Cao Cao swallowed a mouthful of saliva, his eyes were confused, and he stared blankly at the "Two Handle Theory" that had burned into a black ball in the brazier!
Naive, ridiculous!
For the first time, Cao Cao felt that he was too immature, and he took everything for granted.

Idealized, he is too idealized!

and many more…

Suddenly, Cao Cao seemed to realize something.

"Brother Yu? That's why...you repeatedly persuaded me to separate myself from the Song family!"

"That's right!" Liu Yu nodded. "Your Majesty got rid of his relatives Dou Wu and Chen Fan when he came to the throne, but in order to prevent the situation from getting out of control, he could only marry the daughter of the Song family who came from Fufeng's famous family, who is now Queen Song! He even recognized Hongnong Yang Yang Ci of the Yuan family in Runan was appointed as the emperor's teacher, Yuan Kai of the Yuan family in Runan was appointed as the grand tutor, and Yuan Feng was appointed as Sikong. After all these are "the disaster of the party", your majesty cannot comfort and compromise with the scholars."

"But in fact, this is just an expedient measure. Our emperor is too familiar with power tactics. In the past eleven years, he has established the Xiyuan School Weijun, held the military power in his own hands, and raised the Hongdu School to win over the poor. Supporting a large number of scholars under the scholar faction, and constantly giving Cao Jie, Wang Fu and other eunuchs great power, this is hiding their strength and biding their time, hiding their courage, and he wants to hold back a big wave!"

"Big one?" Cao Cao asked quickly.

Liu Yu's voice continued. "Ah Man, you have also read "Hanshu", you should probably know the difference between the relatives before and after Emperor Guangwu?"

Liu Yu didn't explain directly, but asked Cao Cao.

Cao Cao tapped on his forehead, recalling a little. "The empresses before Emperor Guangwu, such as Wei Zifu and Zhao Feiyan, all started in humble beginnings, and their relatives, such as Wei Qing, had to rely on fighting to gain fame! After Emperor Guangwu, all empresses came from famous families!"

"That's right!" Liu Yu nodded. "Emperor Ming's Empress Ma is the daughter of General Fubo Ma Yuan, Emperor Zhang's Empress Dou is the great-granddaughter of Da Sikong Dou Rong, the two empresses of Emperor He are from Zhijinwu Yinzhi, Taifu Deng Yu's home, and Emperor An's Empress Yan is The granddaughter of Shangshu Yanzhang, Emperor Shun's empress Liang is the daughter of the great general Liang Shang, the so-called "the righteousness of the spring and autumn, marry the first great country", the empress's birth reflects the rise of the powerful and noble families after Emperor Guangwu!"

"What does this have to do with it?" Hearing this, Cao Cao immediately asked: "Theoretically speaking, the relatives and His Majesty are a family, and they should help His Majesty consolidate the imperial power!"

Liu Yu motioned for Cao Cao to sit down. "Ah Man, you're taking it for granted again! Indeed, in theory... you're right, the relatives should be the tools for the Son of Heaven to join forces with powerful clans to consolidate the imperial power!"

"But in fact, it's quite the opposite... Foreign relatives have seriously threatened the imperial power! Because since Emperor Zhang, no emperor has lived beyond the age of forty, and there are many emperors who died at the age of nine, Emperor Shang died at the age of two, and Emperor Chong died at the age of two. Died at the age of three!"

"The emperor's death, the consequences are inevitable... the power of the big man falls to the relatives! Empress Dou, Empress Deng, and Empress Liang, I will appear on the stage after you sing, Dou, Deng, and Liang are also inevitable. Backlash against the imperial power!"

"For example, today's son of heaven is a young man selected by the Dou family from the Zong family's children, who is easy to control! But His Majesty is naturally unwilling, so he will not show it. He uses the wet nurse to contact the eunuch, gets rid of the powerful officials and relatives, and treats him even more. Its gangsters are suppressing, this is the real reason for the disaster of party imprisonment!"

Speaking of this, Liu Yu paused and changed the topic.

"Brother Man, have you found out that since Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, in the past hundred years of history, there are Chen Fan and Dou Wu in the near, and Deng Zhi and Liang Ji in the far? Fight against the relatives, and then choose another girl from a powerful family to be the queen, and everything is back to the original starting point!"

"But... the story after that is just the continuation and reincarnation of the eunuch's fight with his relatives again and again!"

Oh…

Cao Cao is extremely keen, and he has suddenly understood when he heard this.

"What Brother Yu means is that there is only one way to get rid of this reincarnation..."

"That means His Majesty will abolish the daughter of a powerful family, that is, His Majesty will depose Empress Song, and then appoint a daughter from a poor family as empress... Only in this way can the trouble of foreign relatives be eliminated!"

This is out of the way...

Liu Yu exhaled heavily.

Cao Cao, Cao Cao, you have finally realized it!
Now you know why the Cao family had to separate themselves from the Fufeng Song family, right?
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(End of this chapter)