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Chapter 27 The Queen Mother is immortal (27)

Years later, Emperor Jianyuan continued to insist on placing his cronies in the court, and gradually isolated Bai Sheng's cronies. While not moving key personnel such as the prime minister, he assigned more important responsibilities to officials who took orders from him.

In other words, the power of the Empress Dowager was slowly being emptied out.

This kind of operation is not strange. Many emperors have done this. For example, the three princes in the Western Zhou Dynasty were all real high-ranking officials with real power. However, the three princes today can only be regarded as favors in vain. The reason is that their power has been The king was slowly divided and handed over to others.

This was what Emperor Jianyuan had in mind.

Allocate the rights that belong to the prime minister and the imperial censor to other officials, so that even if the officials serving as the prime minister and the censor are the empress dowagers, it will not prevent them from expanding their power and increasing their voice in the court.

It was impossible for Bai Sheng not to see this.

But she didn't intervene because she was busy with her own business. When her layout was completely stable, even if she didn't have a single confidant in the court, she really wanted to do something big, or she wanted to stop Emperor Jianyuan from doing something. When the time comes, Emperor Jianyuan will definitely be unable to stop him.

And her layout is——

All over the country, factories are being built to recruit people.

Weaving, metallurgy, salt production, etc. all require manpower, and land reclamation and planting also require manpower, so building factories across the country to recruit people is what Bai Sheng must do.

And she only needs to build factories in areas where there are more soldiers from the three armed forces when recruiting people, and give priority to recruiting relatives of serving soldiers, even disabled veterans, and relatives of fallen soldiers.

It was enough to easily deal with Emperor Jianyuan's assertion.

After all, no matter how much kings boast about the divine right of kings, the actual power is obtained by those with strong soldiers and horses. In other words, the rights obtained through other means are far less solid and unshakable than those obtained by strong soldiers and horses.

Previously, Bai Sheng held the tiger talisman, which could only be regarded as having the power to mobilize the three armies, and it was only part of the power. If Emperor Jianyuan really broke out and instigated rebellion against the top brass of the three armies, then Bai Sheng would probably not be able to rely on the tiger talisman to mobilize the three armies. Those soldiers of the three armies.

The actual effect is not as effective as filial piety suppression.

And what Bai Sheng is doing now is undoubtedly to exchange sincerity for sincerity, to exchange sincerity for loyalty, and by the way, to bundle the vast majority of low-level soldiers, along with their relatives, family members and future, into a common interest group.

When this interest group is formally formed, even if Bai Sheng does not have the Tiger Talisman in his hands in the future, they are unlikely to obey orders and do things that harm Bai Sheng.

Be loyal to your own interests.

It is always the choice of most people.

Considering that gaining the loyalty of the soldiers should be more important than having a few cronies in the court, Bai Sheng turned a blind eye and pretended not to see Emperor Jianyuan's little operation, and at the same time, he could take advantage of his attention. When everyone gathers in the court, they seize the opportunity to spread out across the country and expand the scale of industry. At the same time, they win over the families and relatives of soldiers in the three armies and help them find jobs and become rich.

Because each other had their own thoughts, the relationship between their grandfather and grandson seemed much more harmonious for a while.

Until May, Emperor Jianyuan summoned Dong Zhongshu.

Dong Zhongshu proposed three strategies of heaven and man.

That is, the influence of heaven and man, the divine right of kings, the promotion of Confucius, the suppression of hundreds of schools of thought, the unification of the Spring and Autumn Period, the respect of kings and the rejection of barbarians, the establishment of the Imperial Academy, and the reform of the talent selection system.

At the same time, the Three Cardinal Guidelines were formally summarized.

The king is the guide for the ministers, the father is the guide for the son, and the husband is the guide for the wife. Finally, he submitted a copy of the Spring and Autumn Jue Prison Policy.

Of course, Emperor Jianyuan was still thinking carefully at this time, and because Bai Sheng was still alive, he did not dare to support it very clearly. After all, Bai Sheng had specially emphasized to him before that Huang Lao's theory must be the basis for governing the country, and no He was shaken. If the Empress Dowager had passed away, of course he wouldn't have anything to worry about. But now that Bai Sheng was still alive, he was undoubtedly worried that Bai Sheng would abolish the Jianyuan New Deal again.

The reform measures he worked so hard to implement.

Abolish them all at once.

Then, before he could figure out how to tell the Empress Dowager about this, and how to achieve his goal in a relatively roundabout way, Chen Ajiao, after half a year of persuasion from her mother, and Emperor Jianyuan didn't come to her much recently. After this, I finally gave up completely and went to court in person at the recent court meeting and invited myself to leave.

Basically, it means that he has no children and feels that he has no virtue.

So I asked myself to leave the hall and go back to my parents' home.

At the same time, the eldest princess Liu Piao, who also rarely went to court, also stepped forward to express her willingness to take back her daughter.

Just when all the officials were surprised, talking a lot, and Emperor Jianyuan was a little unbelievable, Bai Sheng's Yizhi arrived at the right time. He said that one was his grandson and the other was his granddaughter. The palms and backs of the hands were full of flesh. Since they had been married for many years, they still remained the same. I have no children, and I have no physical problems. I guess I am not destined, so there is no need to force it.

I hope you can think of it as a family.

Don't let his cousin die alone.

Bai Sheng's edict was very clever. He didn't mention the emperor or empress, only his cousins, grandchildren, and granddaughters. He hoped to keep this matter within the scope of family matters and not extend it to the national system.

This should reduce some resistance appropriately.

However, this matter is not a trivial matter after all. It is impossible for Emperor Jianyuan to agree immediately as soon as Chen Ajiao mentioned it. Besides, the controversy among the officials was also very high, so Emperor Jianyuan only said that he would consider it in the end, and then hurriedly retreated from the court. When he left, he even vaguely There is a feeling of being on the run.

Although Empress Chen asked herself to come down, he still felt quite embarrassed and had a feeling of being humiliated.

As the news spread, this matter quickly became the top of the gossip list in Chang'an City. Almost all the people in Chang'an City who knew about it were discussing it with relish.

Officials and dignitaries also took advantage of it.

At the same time, they may not be able to go directly to the palace to ask Emperor Jianyuan what he thinks and Queen Chen what she thinks, but they can visit the eldest princess.

Not long after going to court, the eldest princess's mansion welcomed many princesses and princesses who wanted to eat a piece of melon, and even the wives of noble officials. They either directly or indirectly asked the eldest princess why she suddenly supported her daughter's abandonment. The position of queen, etc., what are you thinking about?
  At the same time, Emperor Jianyuan went to his mother and discussed it carefully for a while.

In the end, two guesses were made.

First, this is probably an operation of Queen Chen to retreat in order to advance. She probably wants to go through all the troubles to regain favor, hoping to get Emperor Jianyuan to compromise and let Emperor Jianyuan go to Jiaofang Palace more. It is a cry, make trouble, and hang himself. The behavior does not have too deep meaning.

The second is that it may be the Empress Dowager's plan to discourage Emperor Jianyuan from going too far.

The corresponding thing should be that he evades the rights of the prime minister.

The Prime Minister is a close confidant of the Empress Dowager.

(End of this chapter)