I, Liu Bian, Sanxing Han Dynasty

Chapter 131 Choice

Emperor Ling was very weak, and the word "He Jin" coming out of his mouth was weak.

But no one can ignore the weight of these two words.

Even though he was seriously ill, Liu Bian had no doubt that as long as Emperor Ling gave an order, Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong would carry it out without hesitation. Even if He Jin resisted, he would never be better than Dou Wu who only persisted for one day. longer.

The most likely scenario is that He Jin has no chance to resist.

For Liu Bian, He Jin, as a relative, was naturally Liu Bian's helper, and he also naturally shared the power that belonged to the emperor.

But now He Jin's performance is becoming more and more out of control as it was in history.

This dangerous loss of control will undoubtedly break the fragile balance between scholar-bureaucrats and eunuchs.

This was unacceptable to Liu Bian.

But Liu Bian's previous attempts failed to shake He Jin's ambition to eliminate eunuchs and become a leader of scholars.

Strictly speaking, Liu Bian's demand for He Jin is no longer as great as when he first entered the palace. There is also He Miao who can replace He Jin and inherit He Jin's political influence.

The most important thing is that he can already win the support of the ministers.

For ministers, it is a good thing for the emperor to be an adult, which means that the emperor can break through the restrictions of the ban and directly contact the ministers, thus reducing the influence of the eunuchs.

Even if he is not of age, as long as the emperor has the subjective will to contact and establish contact with the ministers, this is a good thing that the ministers dreamed of in the past.

In essence, the scholars headed by the ministers wanted to eliminate the eunuchs in order to break through the restrictions of the ban and directly contact the emperor, who represented the highest power. And this kind of contact means that participating in Emperor Guangwu's design of the top-level power structure completely left the emperor the highest decision-making power.

For this reason, officials, relatives, and eunuchs have been fighting for many years.

From this perspective, Liu Ben often discussed everything with his ministers, which was in line with the expectations of the ministers for the prince.

Able to involve them in decision-making.

After all, in principle, if Liu Bian did not want to discuss with the ministers when he was in power, he could just use the Chancery as a mouthpiece and the Sangong and Jiuqing as the executive agency.

This is completely feasible in the top power structure of the Han Dynasty, and this is what relatives do when they are in power.

Once upon a time, during the reign of Emperor Shun, Li Gu, as the representative of the public ministers, proposed to reduce the number of Zhongchang servants to two and the Xiaohuangmen to four. This was enough to ensure that it would not affect the original role of the eunuchs in serving the imperial eunuchs.

Facing his maternal relatives, Li Gu, as his deceased official, also chose to strike hard when facing the son of the leader. He believed that his maternal relatives should be restricted in their control of military power and their sphere of influence in the ban, and the previous story should be restored, with only the maternal relatives serving as Huangmen Ministers. .

All of this is to promote the king's way and allow the emperor to take power as his own.

Or to put it more bluntly, it is to prevent the eunuchs, relatives and eunuchs from using the emperor's power to do whatever they want and affect the emperor's authority.

Of course, the positions left vacant by relatives and eunuchs must be replaced by wise people.

In fact, this cannot be said to be entirely selfish, but to include the emperor's close officials into the entire bureaucracy to avoid the recurrence of relatives and eunuchs who stole the emperor's power.

To be fair, the average level of morality and ability of scholar-bureaucrats at the level of ministers is undoubtedly higher than that of eunuchs, but when it comes to averages, an inevitable problem will arise - maximum and minimum.

Nowadays, although times have changed.

Li Gu's failure led some officials and officials who had the same idea as Li Gu to choose more drastic methods to achieve more radical goals.

For example, become a foreign relative and use the power of the foreign relative to get rid of all the regular servants and Xiaohuangmen.

But the conservatives are the majority after all, and now, Liu Bian can easily stabilize the government.

The radicals represented by He Jin became a variable.

Before traveling through time, Liu Bian once saw someone discussing what a qualified emperor should look like.

One answer is being alone.

But does he really want to be this person? He Jin is not useless.

On Liu Bian's journey to becoming the crown prince, He Jin did some self-defeating things, but his 100% support cannot be ignored.

Liu Bian heard that Queen He was begging for help——

"Your Majesty! My brother is just bewitched by the people around him. He will never dare to do anything disobedient!"

Thinking of the past.

Liu Bian made his decision and said, "Father, I want to persuade the general again."

Emperor Ling looked at Liu Bian intently, and after taking a few breaths, he said: "Whatever Bian'er wants to do, just do it!"

Seeing Liu Bian leaving again, Emperor Ling secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, Emperor Ling was also very confused.

Liu Bian is a qualified heir in his heart, but his long-standing heartache has not been resolved. His original attempt to ease the relationship between Empress Dowager Dong and Empress He failed repeatedly, and now, he has no time.

The relationship between Liu Bian and Empress Dowager Dong has never been close. Emperor Ling knew the answer without even thinking about which side Liu Bian would take in the event of a conflict between the two palaces in the future.

At this time, directly taking down He Jin, who would destabilize the situation, would be the best choice.

But deep down in his heart, Emperor Ling did not want Liu Bian to choose this way, because it meant that Liu Bian would probably treat Empress Dowager Dong and Liu Xie in this way.

It was already dark when He Jin received the order from Liu Bian to summon him.

If it weren't for Xun Yu, the Huangmen's minister, who carried out the order, He Jin would have suspected that there were eunuchs among them who were causing trouble.

Liu Bian did not choose to wait for He Jin in Yuntai Palace, but chose to wait at Weixing Gate.

Lu Zhi was very efficient. Liu Bian only mentioned Zhao Yun to him in the morning, and Zhao Yun appeared at Weixingmen in the afternoon.

Upstairs at the palace gate, there was a gentle breeze.

Zhao Yun didn't know why the prince appeared here, but the prince didn't speak, so he just kept silent, standing beside the prince, blowing the wind together.

"Zilong was suddenly transferred here, are you still adapting to it? Because the matter is urgent, I didn't have time to tell you first."

Zhao Yun bowed his hands and said, "Yun will obey all orders from His Highness!"

Then Zhao Yun saw that the prince just nodded and said nothing.

After a long time, it became completely dark.

It was a heavy night, and Zhao Yun was hesitating whether to persuade the prince, but saw someone coming from Taige District.

"Bian'er, why did you call me here so late? But what's the emergency?" He Jin paid attention to the palace guards when he came in. There was nothing strange.

Xun Yu sent He Jin to him and left.

Liu Bian did not answer, but waited for He Jin to approach and asked, "Does the general want to be Wang Mang?"

"Why did Bian'er say this? I...I have never had such an idea!"

"Really, Bian'er, Your Highness... you have to believe in me. My feelings for His Highness can be judged from heaven and earth!"

Looking at He Jin who was at a loss because of his own words, Liu Bian said: "I see, I thought the general wanted the military power of the Eighth Colonel of Xiyuan and the Colonel of Chengmen because he wanted to be Wang Mang?"

(End of this chapter)