Xuande

Chapter 762 The Beginning of the Establishment of the Great Han Third Empire

Mrs. Dong is still the Empress Dowager, Liu Yu is still Situ, Lu Zhi is still Taiwei, Zheng Xuan is still Taixue Jijiu, Ma Rike is still Doctor Yushi, Guo Hong is still Sili Captain, Cao Cao is still It's Henan Yin.

They have done a good job in this position. The current political environment is very stable, and there is no need to change it for the time being.

As for the vacant positions among the Sangong Jiuqing, Liu Bei does not intend to make any proper arrangements. In his plan, the Sangong Jiuqing system can move towards the direction of honor and vain positions.

Most of these positions would soon become honorary vacancies, offered to respectable old officials who were not part of his direct line, to give them honor and let them live out their old age.

In addition, what he really intends to use to govern the country is the six-part system that operated quite smoothly in the era of the General's Mansion.

In the era of the Great General’s Mansion, there were no actual officers in the six departments. It can also be said that the officers were all Liu Bei himself. In the six departments, there were only those in charge of affairs, and there were no officials such as ministers and servants. Although the organizational system was complete, it did not break away from non-professional attributes.

When they enter the professional era, it will not be too late to prepare for these things.

Some of the generals and officials thought that they could get a lot of rewards, hoping to make further progress in politics, but they didn't, which made them somewhat disappointed, but they soon discovered that no one was involved in this incident. What political benefits can be gained from it.

Everyone is the same, there are only material rewards and honorary rewards. In terms of actual power, Liu Bei has not changed.

So they all had guesses that maybe the real change was coming later, and Liu Bei needed stability, not change.

Such a guess is correct.

After the enthronement ceremony, Liu Bei announced that he would stick to the Jian'an reign until the end of the year, and next year, he would change the reign to Zhenguan.

The word "Zhenguan" is taken from the sentence "the way of heaven and earth, the one who watches Zhenguan" in "Book of Changes·Xici Xia". These two characters indicate the way of heaven and earth, that is, the development of everything in the world has its own certain objective laws. This rule is "positive".

Therefore, the meaning of chastity is to show people the right way.

Liu Bei believes that he ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor in order to bring the righteous way back to the world and let the righteous way shine in the world. He wants to change the people's hearts that have been declining for more than 100 years, and let people's will return to the right way.

Finally, Liu Bei announced that the traitors captured in the early morning operation to eradicate the traitors would be brought to the palace.

At this commemorative moment, he will conduct a public trial on this group of bastards on such an occasion, and completely nail them to the pillar of shame in history.

Zheng Tai, Jia Xi, and Dong Zhong led the "treacherous craftsmen" who were escorted by Liu Bei's Tiger Guards to the Chongde Palace. Under the watchful eyes of the Manchu officials, this group of people had disheveled hair, were tied up, and lost their dignity.

They themselves, and their families, were tied together, weeping, heads bowed, staggering.

The officials present saw the miserable scene, and began to exchange the identities of this group of people in private. Soon, the identities of this group of people who belonged to the ancient literature school and the group that Liu Bei did not deal with were exposed. spread among their groups.

The ancient literature school has never been monolithic. No matter in the past or now, Liu Bei has always had enemies, but they did not expect Liu Bei's enemies to end in this way.

Are they from the Fanyue family? Zheng Tai, Jia Xi, and Kong Po who cried loudly, they are all the masters of Fanyue after all, and now they are arrested by Liu Bei in this way.

Is Liu Bei going to get rid of them, who are also from the family of Fanyue?
Previously, the Fuyue family of the Modern Literature School had been purged. Now, is the Fuyue family within the Ancient Literature School also facing cleansing?
Starting from the Yuan family in Runan, this Liu Bei is really a bit of a killer, but he is obviously the master of the fan.

Everyone nervously waited for the result of this matter and how Liu Bei would deal with them.

Liu Bei's disposal is of course very simple.

Clan punishment.

Offending the emperor, or the emperor immediately, is it something that is easy to pass?

There are three fires for a new official to take office, and at least thirty fires for the new emperor to take office. The first fire must start from the Fanyue family, which has enough political weight, so as to establish himself and the past. The emperors of the Eastern Han Dynasty never had the same attributes.

He is not an emperor who needs to rely on prophecy and auspiciousness to stabilize his position.

At the very beginning of the establishment of the Third Empire of the Han Dynasty, it must start with the extermination of the Yue family and the eradication of the political science faction.

The main "criminal" among these people was escorted into the main hall of Chongde Hall by Liu Bei's Tiger Guards. The group looked up at Liu Bei who was dressed in the emperor's costume, and a large group of former colleagues with complicated faces, and that face. The former emperor Liu Xie with a curious look.

They know it's all over.

Especially Zheng Tai, looking at the solemn Liu Bei who lived in the hall, knew that everything was over.

His purpose of spreading the rumors was to make Liu Bei embark on the road of betrayal, but he never expected that Liu Bei would be so bachelor, and he would become emperor directly in one step.

That rumor is to make the people of the world and the royal family directly doubt him, and then set off a wave of doubts, causing Liu Bei to lose ground, thus promoting a full-scale confrontation between him and the royal family, which will cause dissatisfaction among the local power factions, and then set off a wave of dissatisfaction in the world. turmoil.

After Liu Bei's defeat, Zheng Tai grandly returned to the Central Plains as the Lord of the Hall to pick peaches and eat them.

He thought very well, but he didn't expect the royal family to kneel directly in front of Liu Bei, gave up struggling, and stopped resisting, and then Liu Bei became the emperor.

Now, what should we do?

He couldn't help but think of Liu Bei's warning to him at the beginning - even if I will be defeated, I will kill you three clans before I am defeated, and you will not get any benefits.

At this moment, at the moment when this warning became a reality, Zheng Tai really felt extremely strong emotions of regret, regret for what he did, regret for his stupidity, and regret for his impulsive behavior that he never considered the consequences at all.

I'm still impulsive when I'm old, what's the result?
Is there no play to sing?
Zheng Tai regretted it.

If he still has a chance to speak, then he will definitely speak, although he is not sure whether he wants to beg for mercy on the spot or yell at Liu Bei, but when they came in, they were gagged with rags to prevent them from making a sound, so as not to get dirty Liu Bei's ears.

So when Liu Bei announced the result of their trial, they had no other choice but to twist their bodies and make whining noises.

Even if they were twisting, their wiggling space was very small, and the hands of the Tiger Guard soldiers behind them were like iron tongs, tightly controlling them.

And Liu Bei's punishment for them is very intuitive.

The first is the heaviest punishment.

The Zheng family in Kaifeng, Henan Province and the Jia family in Fufeng Maoling deprived the family of Fanyue of their qualifications and exterminated the three families.

The disciple families and the core disciple families affiliated to these two families are clans.

Those of the rest of the disciples who were officials were abolished as ordinary people. The whole family was not allowed to be an official for five generations. They could only work in agriculture.

Although the Kong family in Fufeng Maoling and the Chen family in Cangwu Guangxin did not directly participate in this matter, they did not report what they knew about it, and their dissent was obvious. To be an official, you can only do farming.

All the disciples of the Kong family and the Chen family and their families were assigned to settle in Xuantu County. They were not allowed to be official within five generations, and they were not allowed to return to the Central Plains.

All the disciples of the Kong and Chen families and their families were dispatched to Liaodong County to settle down. They were not allowed to be official within five generations, and they were not allowed to return to the Central Plains.

Such severe punishment made the scholars and officials in the court shiver uncontrollably.

In the blink of an eye, the four conservative Fanyue families were abolished. Together with their disciples and families, they were also implicated and would be wiped out.

More than tens of thousands of people were punished?

Is this too heavy for some?
Some people want to ask for affection. We were colleagues in the past, and we have worked together. Don't do things so badly, isn't it good?
And more importantly, it doesn't matter if you abolish them, but they are also the ones who inherit the ancient Chinese classics, and they are also the ones who deeply participated in the formulation of "Jiade Tongyi". If you abolish them, what about the rules of the game?
How to continue to improve the basic ideological concept of governance of the ancient literature school reconstructed with "Zhou Guanli" as the core?
Even if the dead are not important, this matter is extremely important.

But those with this thought dared not stand up. Facing Liu Bei who had just ascended the throne, they really didn't dare to touch Liu Bei's bad luck at this time.

Of course, they also know that it is not that no one can speak to Liu Bei at this time. As long as they are willing, they can put forward some ideas and opinions to Liu Bei at this time.

For example, Zheng Xuan, for example, Lu Zhi.

Someone looked at Zheng Xuan and found that Zheng Xuan was doing nothing with his eyes closed.

Someone looked at Lu Zhi, and found that Lu Zhi was watching his heart, not doing anything.

Therefore, there is no suspense in this ending. The seven families of the ancient literature school, the seven families that have just become the top academic and political groups of the Han Dynasty, only three are left in a blink of an eye.

Or in the blink of an eye, there will be only three of the Fanyue family in the whole world.

The next ones to be punished were the eunuchs who were mainly ten permanent servants. Some of these people were killed before, and some were caught alive. Liu Bei's trial of them was simple and rough.

In the name of the Son of Heaven, they were sentenced to exterminate the three clans, and together with the gangsters of this group of people, they were all cleaned up by Liu Bei.

The group of uncooperative eunuchs headed by Shi Changshi has since left the stage of history.

Of course, this is also the necessity of the times. Even when the group of eunuchs were being dealt with, some people secretly applauded. Seeing this group of people unlucky, they were more excited than themselves getting promoted and getting rich.

There is no way, dealing with eunuchs is always politically correct.

Except for Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong, the other great eunuchs who were once astonished have all become Liu Bei's son of emperor experience pack.

Then Dong Zhong.

Because Dong Zhong also participated in this matter, and his intentions were too evil, Liu Bei announced that Dong Zhong would be deposed from all positions and titles, all property would be confiscated, and all guards and servants would be revoked.

Together with his family, he will be imprisoned in the other courtyard at the foot of Shouyang Mountain in Luoyang City for the rest of his life. He can only live in the other courtyard and can never leave. There will always be people guarding him, and that is their family prison. .

At this point, some people feel that they have seen something clearly.

Dong Zhong's ending should be the result of some agreements reached between Liu Bei and Mrs. Dong.

Dong Zhong is the nephew of Mrs. Dong and the uncle of the little emperor Liu Xie. Killing him in this situation would be too disrespectful to the former royal family who will be enthroned.

Therefore, Liu Bei made a compromise, keeping the lives of their family, and nothing else, and the son of Dong Zhong who was killed by Dian Wei will not be mentioned.

In fact, it is no different from his death. He cannot leave another hospital for the rest of his life. It seems that his standard of living will be very low. Mrs. Dong may be able to help him a little while she is alive. If Mrs. Dong is gone, Dong Chong How long can it last?
No one dared to say.

In the end, it was a decision to deal with the henchmen of this group of people.

Conservatives of the ancient literature school, eunuch group, and foreign relative Dong Zhong.

The partisans of these three forces will all be treated as rebellious groups of the imperial court, and those who are officials outside and those who hold power will be locked up and then investigated.

Those who have committed no crimes will be dismissed from office and returned home to provide for the elderly. Since then, they will no longer be able to serve in official positions, but no additional punishment will be imposed.

Those who have committed crimes should be punished severely, and they should never take advantage of it. They should spit out all the benefits they have gained over the years and squeeze them out, and they will never tolerate them.

The ones in charge of carrying out this task are Zhongshutai, Yushitai and the army.

These three parties will form a joint liquidation team to carry out a comprehensive liquidation of the party members of this group of daring criminals, just like the liquidation of the Jinwen School and its party members back then.

Because such a thing happened before, with the experience at that time, this wave of liquidation can be regarded as targeted, and others also somewhat expected the result of the liquidation.

The addition of the army indicates that there will be some instability in the local area. However, because the military region system has been implemented, five regular armies have successfully stationed in the five military regions. If there is any rebellion, the person in charge of each military region has The right to act autonomously.

Even if the liquidation team sent by the imperial court did not arrive in time, the heads of the major military regions still have the power to clean up all the rebels.

Therefore, this time, no one raised concerns about the instability of the world. No one thought that this emperor who had won the battle by military exploits could not subdue the "rebellion" in the world.

So let’s settle the case. Anyway, these guys are dead, and the political resources they vacated must be allocated after all, isn’t it?

The Enthronement Ceremony is almost over here. Liu Bei has finished dealing with the things that should be dealt with at this time, and then announced some rewards to all the officials, officials, and soldiers who participated in the Enthronement Ceremony to demonstrate benevolence.

Then everyone went back to their respective homes, each went to their respective mothers, and the rest of the affairs could not be dealt with in public.

Mrs. Dong was exhausted enough, and she had settled one of her worries, so she wanted to go back to rest.

Liu Xie served Mrs. Dong to leave, and when he passed by Liu Bei, he asked Liu Bei when he could leave Luoyang to "take office" in his fief.

It can be seen that this kid doesn't want to stay here at all, and wants to go to a free place to enjoy a free life.

Liu Bei then smiled.

"You can do it at any time. If you want, you can leave in a few days. However, the Empress Dowager is not in good health and cannot travel far. I suggest you stay in Luoyang to accompany her more. Maybe you won't have the chance in the future." gone."

Liu Xie is not stupid and knows the meaning of Liu Bei's words.

"Aunt, she..."

"Stay with her more, don't rush to leave, otherwise, it may be a lifetime of regret."

Liu Bei patted Liu Xie on the shoulder: "You still have a lot of days to come, and you can still enjoy yourself to your heart's content, but your eldest mother is not sure, she raised you up, you should send her for the last time. "

Liu Xie lowered his head, showing sadness.

"Okay, I see, uncle, I'm going to accompany my aunt."

"Ah."

Liu Xie lowered his head and wiped his eyes, then turned and left.

The harmony between the two is not like a pair of former and current emperors who have just completed the handover of power.

To be precise, during Liu Xie's five years as emperor, he did not hold power even for a single day.

He has never felt what it is like to have power, so he will not understand what it means to lose power. He has always lived under Liu Bei's wings, in the past, is now, and will still be in the future.

The only difference is...

He no longer has to do math problems.

(End of this chapter)