Power in the World: After Eternal Age

Empress Dowager Feng faced two choices in how to deal with Yihun's followers: one was to follow the old system and kill.In doing so, although the court can be temporarily peaceful through severe suppression, it looks stable on the surface, but in fact it leaves cracks in the ruling group, leaving the court empty and panicking, and there will be potential dangers and hidden dangers; the second is to implement benevolent governance, Dilute the treatment to win people's hearts and not make enemies on all sides.

Empress Dowager Feng finally chose the second option after careful consideration.She divided those who had followed Yi Hun into four categories. Except for those who committed the most heinous crimes, all others were treated leniently, even those with minor circumstances.

Although the empress dowager's decree made the courtiers feel more at ease, but after all, since the founding of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the successive monarchs have severely punished those who treasoned and corrupted, and those who had an affair with Yihun, so they are still worried.They were worried that this was an expedient measure adopted by Empress Dowager Feng because Yi Hun had just been killed and the government was not stable.

At this time, almost everyone in the court and the public was looking at Murong Baiyao, who was in collusion with Yi Hun and was at home claiming to be sick.To say that Yi Hun's biggest accomplice is none other than Murong Baiyao, how Empress Dowager Feng deals with Murong Baiyao can also give a glimpse of Empress Dowager Feng's true intentions.

Empress Dowager Feng has already had insight into the minds of the officials, and she is also thinking about how to deal with Murong Baiyao in order to stabilize the hearts of the world.

During the period of Yihun's dictatorship, Murong Baiyao shared the government with Yihun and became Yihun's main helper. The main strategies of Yihun's dictatorship and rebellion all came from Murong Baiyao.

Murong Baiyao was born in a family. When he was young, he was a low-level official in Zhongshu Province. Because Emperor Taiwu praised him for his straightforwardness, he was given to the East Palace.After entering the East Palace, Murong Baiyao performed very well in all aspects, won the favor of Emperor Taiwu, and gained the trust of the emperor's grandson Tuoba Jun.In Zong Ai's reign, Lu Li, Liu Ni, and Yuan He killed Zong Ai and supported Tuoba Jun as the empress emperor. Murong Baiyao was gradually promoted in the hands of Wencheng Emperor Tuoba Jun.

After the death of Murong Baiyao's father, Emperor Wencheng issued an imperial edict to entrust Murong Baiyao to inherit the title of Duke Gaoyang from his father, and Emperor Wencheng later promoted him to Northern Shangshu.

During this period, Murong Baiyao acted strictly according to the law without any partiality, and Emperor Wen Cheng appreciated him very much.After the death of Emperor Wencheng, Murong Baiyao's life changed dramatically. He moved to Shangshu Youpushe, became the Duke of Nanxiang, and added General Annan.

After the death of Emperor Wen Cheng, the Empress Dowager recuperated, the emperor was in mourning, and Yi Hun took over the power. Murong Baiyao suddenly felt that he had lost his restraint, and began to collude with Yi Hun.Although he had a lot of ideas for Yi Hun, when Yi Hun really wanted to rebel, he still flinched, saying he was sick and staying at home.Yi Hun was punished, and Murong Baiyao was restless at home, not knowing what fate he would face.In the eyes of most people, Empress Dowager Feng will inevitably send an imperial edict to punish her three clans in order to frighten the world. Even Murong Baiyao himself thinks this way, and he can't live in fear all day long.

Empress Dowager Feng considered that Murong Baiyao was born as an official in the Eastern Palace, not only Taiwu Emperor Tuoba Tao liked him before his death, but even her husband Wencheng Emperor Tuoba Jun also appreciated and trusted Murong Baiyao.Empress Dowager Feng believed that Murong Baiyao's basic qualities were good, at least he retreated at the last moment of the rebellion, and he was not Yihun's best friend.Preserving Murong Baiyao can also be regarded as saving the face of Emperor Taiwu and Emperor Wencheng, and it is easy to win the hearts of veteran officials in the court.

Furthermore, Empress Dowager Feng decided to keep Murong Baiyao's life out of strategic considerations.Just imagine, even Murong Baiyao doesn't have to worry about his wealth and life, so there is no need to talk about other people.Because these people who once followed Yi Hun cannot be compared with Murong Baiyao in terms of their crimes.Now that even Murong Baiyao is spared from death, others can rest assured that not killing Murong Baiyao can stabilize the political situation.

Five months later, Empress Dowager Feng began to deal with Yi Hun's party members according to the established policy.She still insists on the implementation of benevolent government, and the word stability is the top priority.As for Yihun's party members, we must distinguish right from wrong, and those who have done bad things must be cleared up; secondly, these people should not be allowed to get cheap easily.During the period of Yihun's dictatorship, if someone obtained official positions by bribing Yihun, although they could be exempted from their crimes, they must be deprived of their official positions and demoted to common people.Among the people who followed Yihun, if they relied on their ancestral shadows to obtain titles from the court, they would all be removed from their titles by the Ministry of Officials and relegated to common people.During the period of Yi Hun's dictatorship, although there were no serious mistakes, officials who were promoted due to lack of ability were demoted back to their original official positions.

As soon as Empress Dowager Feng's benevolent government came out, it turned out that those ministers who were anxious and anxious were all grateful, and they all praised the empress dowager for her kindness and thanked her for not killing her.Among the Queen Mother's policies to deal with these people, the most powerful thing is to remove officials and nobles. Among them, not killing them is the most important point, so that there is no need to have no firewood to keep the green hills.

If he is exempted from the title, he will still have the opportunity to make meritorious service in the future, and perhaps he can regain his title and official position.The best way for Empress Dowager Feng to deal with them is to ask them to write their own reports and honestly explain what they did during the Yihun dictatorship.

How these people should be punished depends on the reports they write.Of course, Empress Dowager Feng would not trust them easily. Before this measure was implemented, Empress Dowager Feng had asked her elder brother Feng Xi to investigate everyone's situation clearly.Empress Dowager Feng asked them to write it themselves, in order to let the courtiers feel that the Queen Mother gave them a chance, to be grateful to the Queen Mother, and to give the courtiers a sense of God's unfathomable power.Because the Empress Dowager issued a decree that if Yihun's party members reported dishonestly, it would be regarded as disrespectful, and they would be severely punished.

So these people are fearful and sincere, knowing that as long as they write honestly, no matter how serious their crimes are, they can save their lives.If he justified himself indiscriminately for the sake of keeping his official position by chance, he was afraid that the Queen Mother would have already received a secret report from Feng Xi, and in a fit of anger, she would kill them all.Therefore, Yihun's party members all confessed their mistakes seriously, and wrote honestly one by one to save their lives.

Empress Dowager Feng also saw the character of each official from the materials confessed by these people, and she had mastered a lot of secrets, which eliminated the greatest resistance for Empress Dowager Feng to the imperial court system.She won the hearts of the courtiers, including those who had followed Yi Hun in the past, and laid a solid foundation for Empress Dowager Feng to come to the court for the second time and carry out reforms.

Empress Dowager Feng decided to reform a large number of long-standing abuses in the Northern Wei Dynasty. She had a far-sighted vision and deeply understood that if people's ideas change, the reform will be successful.

Therefore, Empress Dowager Feng decided to start with the far-reaching, least difficult and easiest place to be accepted by the ruling and opposition parties.The Xianbei people attach great importance to learning Han culture, and Empress Dowager Feng also started with cultural education.