The bad emperor of Tang Dynasty

Unknowingly chatting for more than half an hour in the pavilion by the lake in the royal garden, Daizong was nothing more than chatting with Guo Nuan about some household matters.

Daizong and Guo Nuan haven't seen each other for half a year. Now that Guo Nuan has been transferred back to Chang'an from Leizhou in Lingnan, Guo Nuan guesses that his cheap father-in-law, who manages everything every day, is more than just chatting about family affairs.

After a long time, Daizong poured the seventh cup of tea into the purple sand cup. When the last drop of water dripped out of the spout, his face that was originally calm and chatty gradually became serious.

"Guo Nuan, what do you think of the Ten Commandments of the World?"

Daizong subconsciously leaned forward and stared at Guo Nuan on the opposite side of the stone table. The dignified tone of his lowered voice made Guo Nuan's heart twitch suddenly, and he said to himself, "Sure enough, today's main event is here."

"Uh, I don't know where to start..." Guo Nuan frowned, forming a deep Sichuan character. He felt hesitant to speak, and he wanted to talk about this sensitive issue. .

"Hehe, don't worry, but it's okay to say, I want to hear Aiqing's opinion, speak freely, and forgive you!" Daizong understood Guo Nuan's concerns, and he smiled and cast an encouraging look.

Guo Nuan smacked her lips and murmured to herself, "It's not that your son-in-law is nervous, it's that your old man has posed a big problem for my brother. This involves the political issues of centralization and local separatist forces. The issue of the two major factions of eunuchs and courtiers, as well as the plan to deal with the contradictions in the domestic economic structure in the later period of the Anshi Rebellion, the rest is a bunch of messy international border military strategy issues, a basket of countless clues... How can I suddenly Speak your mind."

"Hehe, if you don't lock your mouth, let's just say some personal opinions." Guo Nuan smiled awkwardly, looking at Daizong's father-in-law's expectant gaze, probably because of high expectations, Guo Nuan complained in his heart, I don't know why Daizong treated him It is very important.

"Quack, well, do you have a gold medal for avoiding death? I'm worried that the next topic I accidentally talked about will make you unhappy. If Longyan gets angry and my brother gets knocked out of his head and moves, you regret letting your eldest daughter be a widow." It's too late..."

Guo Nuan muttered, but he forgot that his old man Guo had placed an unused death-free card at home - "Iron Coupon".

Daizong saw Guo Nuan's mouth squirming quickly for a while, like a mosquito buzzing. Daizong was taken aback for a moment, and he couldn't help turning his ear and asked: "What did Aiqing say, speak louder, I didn't hear clearly?"

The thoughts in Guo Nuan's mind are overwhelmed, and the axis is spinning rapidly. It has been a year since he traveled to the Tang Dynasty. The teaching plan still has some cognition.

With regard to the conflict between ancient feudal kingship and local forces, Guo Nuan believes that many insightful people in the court, such as Yan Zhenqing, Liu Yan, the prince, and others, have thoroughly understood the root cause of the turmoil, but it is another matter to solve it Sigh, Guo Nuan believes that these people and he can only come up with such a point of view:

"The decline of the Mid-Tang Dynasty is an undeniable fact. Today's Great Tang Empire is like a patient who is seriously ill. Well... it is really difficult to save this patient who is rotten and decayed inside." Guo Nuan first The sentence opened, causing Daizong to nod slightly.

"Ahem, what do you want to say, if you don't make up your mind to do surgery and delay the disease, you can linger for a while, just like boiling a frog in warm water and slowly indulging in euthanasia? If you must die, everyone actually likes euthanasia... and boiled frogs understand Is it? Frog, oh, you know...at least you don’t have to die in too much pain, but in the end you will be boiled to death;

Besides the surgery, now the small troubles are only superficial, but the disease in the bone marrow is still getting worse. I see that the whole empire is in a mess. On the surface, the rebellion and suppression of the feudal town seem to be slightly prosperous after the war. But the ills of the system have not changed, and they will die in the end; " Daizong deeply felt pain and nodded heavily.

Guo Nuan rubbed the layer of sweat on his forehead, he straightened his mind and said, "If you really want to get rid of the root cause of the disease once and for all, I'm afraid the only way to do it is to have a carpet-style whole-body medical surgery. Quack, it's just a major surgery." The mortality rate is very high, and now no doctor comparable to Hua Tuo has been found. It’s like this patient has a tumor on his heart.” Guo Nuan vividly gestured to describe the appearance of the tumor. What is the tumor? Still very abstract.

"There are no high-tech doctors. It is so troublesome to have a tumor in the heart. Maybe the heart stops beating and you die when you use the scalpel. But even though the chance of using the knife is very low, there is still a glimmer of hope for rebirth. Looking at your old courage and courage, I believe that you, the emperor, also have such courage comparable to Emperor Qin and Han Wu."

Guo Nuan took a photo of Daizong's horse without any trace, and his father-in-law was very happy.Guo Nuan secretly rejoiced, and murmured in her heart: I have to work harder in the future, maybe my father-in-law is moved by what he said... The day when power is delegated to people of insight to drastically reform the malpractices of feudal governors and towns is not far away.

After Guo Nuan finished speaking, he explained to Daizong what "surgery, tumor, internal medicine and surgery..." Daizong slapped his thigh in amazement, and the cheap father-in-law's eyes lit up to signal Xiao Guozi to continue.

Guo Nuan suffered from heart disease in his previous life (heart disease not related to tumors), and he also has a general understanding of some medical knowledge about heart disease.It is extremely rare to say that the cases of heart tumors are very rare. About one hundred people with heart disease may have one or two heart tumors, and most of them are liquid tumors.

Today's Zhongtang after the Anshi Rebellion is like a big tumor growing on the heart. This is a patient with a strange disease that has been extremely painful for eight lifetimes.

In the old Suzong period, the crown prince was able to ascend to the throne because of the support of the eunuch Li Fuguo. In addition, the Jiedu envoys launched the Anshi Rebellion.

Most of the remaining followers are house slaves and eunuchs who will never leave. As for the central courtiers, when the country is in peril, most of the central courtiers turn to surrender, flatter and rebel. At the same time, the people in the next city fled overnight with their families' gold and silver treasures.

Several generations of former emperors suffered from this pain, and they all had a deep sense of distrust of the courtiers around them. Either the courtiers were mostly treacherous and disloyal, or the local military governors were self-respecting and arrogant. These generals should make the central government deeply vigilant Take precautions, the remaining domestic slaves can follow closely when the royal family is in distress.

In fact, the reason why the eunuch's house slaves tied their wealth and lives to the royal family is nothing to do.Guo Nuan saw through this very early on.

First of all, in the eyes of the courtiers who advocate the principles of heaven and morality, eunuchs without a penis in their crotch are unhealthy and lowly people in themselves. Of course, courtiers who claim to be noble and moral scholars disdain to be in the same class as eunuchs, so when Jiedu envoys rebelled Hey, the civil servants have to live with the faces of the generals and military officials, how can they care about the life and death of the lowly eunuchs.

Second, in history, whenever the capital city was breached and the royal family fled in a hurry, the eunuchs also wanted to surrender to the rebellious generals with a low eyebrow and apologetic smile. Unfortunately, the rebels looked down on them and refused to accept them.

Think about it, military generals want strong soldiers in rebellion, all of you dead eunuchs are pampered in the palace all year round, your skin is tender and tender, most of you have no strength to restrain chickens, and you have to bend down hypocritically to carry half a bucket of water Take a breath, how can it compare to the soldiers who fight like wolves, lions and tigers in blood all day long.

Besides, most of the eunuchs were illiterate, and most of them came from peasant families with extremely poor families. They had no choice but to either leave the palace or be sent to the palace as eunuchs because their sons would have enough to eat in the future.Guo Nuan remembered that Wei Zhongxian, the first eunuch of the Ming Dynasty, known as the "Emperor of Standing", was more than [-] people in power, and he still ruled the empire, and he was also illiterate.

illiterate?Military generals generally muttered in this way: Is there any use for it?Unable to fight and unable to read and write, how can I be a member of the staff and clerks under the tent, when I started a revolution, the logistics food and grass that fell from the sky were so tight that they were free to eat!

All the eunuchs should resolutely not want it, and let these parasites fend for themselves in times of war... Enen, if I become the master of the palace in the future, the three thousand beauties in the harem will find domestic slaves to make sure they don't steal men. Let’s talk about the matter later, the big deal is to find thousands of good people among the people and then castrate a batch, enter the palace as eunuchs with high wages and benefits, and after a batch dies, there will be a batch of voluntary capon chickens...

In short, the eunuch is something that the God Creator has never produced in the world. In a tragic situation, everyone is not trusted too much, so they have to die close to the ass of their emperor's master. All prosperity and one loss are all ruined. Next, pretend to accompany the smiling face to show loyalty and fight for a good reputation of loyalty.

Courtiers and military generals will emptied their own rights, no one will use them, there is no way, the emperors of all dynasties can only pick a slightly taller guy from the shortest Pan Changjiang pile to make do with.

In short, the extremely helpless emperors in the mid-Tang Dynasty had the illusion that the eunuchs were a little bit worthy of reliability and loyalty. Didn’t they know that once they were allowed to be in power, the people with the lowest status in the past would have the right to vent their terrible grievances!civil servant?If you don't like it, kill it!General?If there is danger, Zai Zai Zai!

"The Weichen family believes that the power of the central government is now declining, and the power of the local governors is growing. This is the cause of the disease that has been buried since the heyday of Zhenguan. Over time, the accumulation has led to the bitter fruit of the present. The reason is that the balance of power is imbalanced. As a result."

Guo Nuan has a lot of thoughts in his stomach, but he can't point out everything, otherwise it will make Daizong look bad. If you don't understand the world, you will be in the officialdom for nothing. Honest advice is too harsh, and good medicine tastes bitter without sugar. In short, try to be as tactful and subtle as possible to remind you to do it, so as to avoid side effects.

"Quack, the reasons for the weakening of the central government, firstly, there are many official factions in the DPRK and China, coupled with political discord, it is difficult to form a joint force to effectively operate the bureaucracy.

Quack, secondly, the power of eunuchs is deeply intertwined and difficult to eliminate.It is due to the fact that the royal family prefers to trust eunuchs, granting too many central military powers to eunuchs and eunuchs, resulting in eunuchs being corrupt and perverting the law. More importantly, eunuchs who do not understand political affairs have interfered in the administration of court officials all the year round. Depression is a certain phenomenon. "

Guo Nuan actually has no hatred for eunuchs. In fact, he still likes some loyal eunuchs, and he can't beat them to death, such as Master Huang Gonggong...

"Well, the local power is strong, and the military generals are self-respecting. They perform the post of state shepherd in the jurisdiction, taxation, civil affairs, agriculture and mulberry, public security and other civil and administrative affairs. They also command the defense area military, soldiers, corvee, War preparation, the appointment and dismissal of generals and staff are all included, in short, it is a big mistake to want to be a Jiedu, and more importantly, Jiedushi has the actual practice of heredity."

"Besides, the domestic territory collapsed and analyzed, and the foreign enemies immediately looked at it and tried to make some profit from it. To complete the situation of centralization and unification, the imperial court still has a long way to go!"

Guo Nuan actually wanted to talk about the people's livelihood and economy, but before he knew it, the sky was getting darker. Daizong, who was listening intently, raised his head and looked around and couldn't help being dumbfounded. Come to turn on the lights, the two discussed the country in the dark booth, and no one dared to come forward to disturb them.

For a long time, Daizong, who bowed his head in silence and thought, stood up tremblingly, because he had been sitting on the stone bench for several hours, his legs became numb and his eyes became dizzy when he stood up.

"Well, it's getting late, and Ai Qing must be tired after discussing all day, so let's go back for now, I'm going to the bedroom to think carefully about what Ai Qing talked about today."

Daizong picked up the Nine Links on the table and stuffed them into Guo Nuan's hands. He couldn't see any emotion on his face. Daizong waved his hand to Guo Nuan and said, "Here, this is a gift from Linger, Huanhuan Interlocking, implying the number of heaven and nine suns, it is a very clever toy."

Guo Nuan was taken aback for a moment, and after taking it, he bowed his head respectfully and bid farewell: "As ordered, I will leave!"