Three Kingdoms New Emperor

Chapter 170
The scorching summer makes everyone feel lazy, especially the Chang'an people who have experienced unprecedented catastrophe and escaped after death.After dozens of days, they have come out of their grief and started to rebuild their homes under the command and mobilization of the imperial court.

Because they were sure that Chang'an could not be breached this time, they paid great attention when building the house this time.In this way, it will naturally take more time.However, people in ancient times didn't have many entertainment activities. Such a slow pace and thinking about their future life in the cool night breeze can be regarded as a good rest.

However, such a leisurely life obviously does not belong to Liu Xie.

Renshen year of the lunar calendar, June [-]st of the third year of Chuping in the Eastern Han Dynasty.Fifteen days after the victory in the Chang'an Guard Battle, a grand court meeting was finally held in the front hall of the Weiyang Palace, which had been repaired a lot.

Sitting on the dragon chair again, looking down at His Highness' civil and military officials, Liu Xie's mentality is obviously different.

When Dong Zhuo was there, he was just a puppet on the throne; after Dong Zhuo died, he was not as good as the emperor when Dong Zhuo was.After all, Dong Zhuo, a warrior, has a very simple mind, and Liu Xie can still use his hands and feet to mediate.

But after Dong Zhuo's death, Liu Xie faced loyal officials who were loyal to the Han Dynasty.But in fact, those scholar-bureaucrats represented another court force.Moreover, this force has full experience in political struggle, and even to some extent, they can force Liu Xie with just words.

Finally, after the Battle of Chang'an, the situation changed.

The ideals that the scholar-bureaucrats upheld were crushed to powder in front of the iron hooves of the rolling Xiliang rebels.On the contrary, it was Liu Xie's deviant plan for a rainy day that was redeemed by history.

However, Liu Xie, who has been in power for some time, has long known the urine nature of scholar-bureaucrats in the Han Dynasty.Even if he was beaten to death, he would not believe that these scholar-bureaucrats would just lower their proud heads like this.He was waiting, waiting for this time, what tricks they would play again.

"Your Majesty, this is the case for calculating the battle losses, rebuilding Chang'an, appeasing the people, and canonizing heroes. Please read it over." The one who spoke was naturally Situ Wangyun, who was acting as the agent for major affairs in the Han Dynasty.

These days, the busiest institution in the Han Dynasty is naturally Wang Yun's Shangshutai.All the big and small things are reported to him, and after sorting out the statistics, he will discuss them in the court.

Liu Xie took over Wang Yun's manuscript and took a look. Unsurprisingly, he saw that Wang Yun rejected the emperor's canonization of Lu Zhi as worthy of Confucius.However, what's interesting is that Wang Yun seemed a little disheartened. This time, he did not refute fiercely. Instead, he adopted the method of chasing Lu Zhi as a tutor, hoping to offset their small inclinations against the king this time. little resistance.

Steering the rudder according to the wind is undoubtedly the specialty of scholar-bureaucrats. Today, Liu Xie's prestige is the same for a while, and the regal prestige is getting stronger day by day.If it was the first time because of Wang Yun's plan, they could still stand up as loyal ministers of the Han Dynasty to save the Han Dynasty.Then after the great victory in Chang'an this time, they had to clamp their tails tightly, and they had to clamp their tails so painfully that they could not show any dissatisfaction.

After all, Liu Xie slapped them hard with his actions.At this time, if anyone is ignorant of current affairs, they will probably become the target of public criticism and be condemned by the people of Quanchang'an.

The king wins the hearts of the people, just like a peerless master who gets the sharpest blade in the world, and he is invincible.

They naturally understand this simple truth.

Therefore, when Liu Xie just put the letter aside lightly and did not say anything.Wang Yun seemed a little flustered, and quickly explained: "Your Majesty, it's not that we refuse to obey the holy order, but that this proposal has met with strong resistance from one person."

"Oh, who is it?" Liu Xie felt interesting, and he really wanted to know who else in Chang'an is so short-sighted.

However, when he finished asking this sentence, he saw a slight curve of Wang Yun's mouth.At that moment, Liu Xie knew that he might fall into Wang Yun's trap again.Sure enough, Wang Yun put on a look of regret and said, "This person is not someone else, but Beihai Prime Minister Kong Rong Kong Wenju."

"Kong Rong, after Confucius?" Liu Xie smiled bitterly. This time, he really miscalculated.After all, Confucius is only a name in the distance to him.But in this day and age, that's clearly not the case at all.

Kong Rong, a native of Lu State, is the nineteenth descendant of Confucius.His seventh patriarch, Kong Ba, was the emperor's teacher of Emperor Han Yuan, and his father, Kong Zhou, was the captain of Mount Tai.

Moreover, from the perspective of historical records, although Kong Rong is not an arrogant and arrogant person, he is by no means a good-looking person—although he once left a story of "Kong Rong let pears", Teach the children of future generations to learn to be humble.

But Liu Xie can also imagine what kind of ideas Kong Rong would have been instilled in since he was a child with such an ancestor.So much so that it can be explained throughout the explanation of "Kong Rong let pears", and his refusal of Lu Zhi to enjoy the gift of Confucius this time.

After he made pears, he was praised as more delicious than pears.Because he is a descendant of Confucius.

And this time he refuted Lu Zhi's deserving of the gift of Confucius because of the pure reason that he is a descendant of Confucius.

He thought he was shouldering a great mission, just like his twentieth generation ancestor Kong Qiu worked hard to revive the Zhou ritual.Such a sense of mission does not allow one pear to ruin his reputation, let alone allow Lu Zhi to tarnish the honor of his ancestors.Even in that letter, he admitted frankly that Lu Zhi is a model scholar.

From this point of view, Kong Rong is actually not wrong.On the contrary, it was Liu Xie who maliciously speculated about Kong Rong's betrayal of pears when he was a child. It seemed that he was too inclined to preconceive people and speculate maliciously.

Such a small setback, however, was innocuous.Liu Xie smiled lightly, and replied with neither joy nor sorrow: "From this point of view, I am a bit abrupt. Since Kong Wenju does not approve of this matter, then it is better to pursue Master Lu as Taifu with the prince's intention. .”

After these words, the court really looked like a gentleman and minister.

However, Liu Xie knew in his heart that this was just an appetizer and dessert before the main course.Wang Yun's small counterattack gave the scholar-bureaucrat class a small advantage on the surface.But the price is that Liu Xie's originally joyful and relaxed face gradually revealed exhausted disappointment.

This confrontation made the guess in Liu Xie's heart confirmed by iron, and made him lose the last interest in these scholar-bureaucrats.

From this, he put aside all unnecessary hypocrisy, and went straight to the point: "My lord, although Chang'an is settled now. However, the great cause of reunifying the Han Dynasty is still a long way to go. I wonder if the ministers have a good plan for this? "

This sentence is the real main course of today's court meeting.At the same time, it was also Liu Xie's last chance for these scholar-bureaucrats.

But what Liu Xie didn't expect was that after he said this, Wang Yun's reaction was very violent.He bowed profusely, put his whole body on the ground, and said with righteous indignation: "Your Majesty, the old minister was wrong! During the battle of Chang'an, the old minister really understood that those scholars in the Kanto no longer regard the court as orthodox. They It’s not because they didn’t receive the appeal from the veterans, but they turned a blind eye to each other! How are these actions different from those of the Liangzhou rebels?!”

Wang Yun's actions made Liu Xie feel relieved for a moment.Wang Yun is not an idiot, after this battle, he can still see what is going on.

"The old minister begs Your Majesty to issue an imperial edict to the world, condemning those who betray the king and abandon the lord!" Wang Yun raised his head and said this sentence, then kowtowed heavily and wept blood.It seemed that these words were the most painful decision in his heart.

But Liu Xie's complexion suddenly darkened. He took the imperial edict prepared by Wang Yun, and after looking at it, his expression immediately became extremely disappointed.Unsurprisingly, this imperial edict is rich in rhetoric and passionate, and even many uncommon words and allusions are not recognized by Liu Xie at all.

But he understood the meaning of this edict.It said: Yuan Shao, you bastard, slandering the emperor and intending to set up a false emperor is a rebellion!Yuan Shu, the tortoise bastard, is so close to Chang'an that he would not save him, it is a rebellion!Liu Yan, Liu Biao, the tortoise bastards, who are the clan members of the Han family but betrayed their blood relatives, are even more rebellious!Lu Bu tortoise bastard, I, Wang Yun, are so kind to you, yet you eloped with a woman, a big rebellion!

Looking at the bloody and tearful edict, Liu Xie didn't know why, but couldn't help laughing at the end.This is not an imperial edict issued by the Han court to the counties, it is clearly a cursing of a resentful woman to her cheating husband.

Moreover, Wang Yun was not clear, but Liu Xie knew that once this edict was issued, the world would be in chaos immediately.

At present, although the imperial court has just recovered, it is still a matter of whether the government order can be unimpeded in the Guanzhong area.Taking advantage of this time, not thinking about how to quickly recuperate and restore strength, but thinking that things are not bad enough to provoke those warlords and princes, it is really a big brain hole.

Especially, if your strength is obviously not up to it, don't say it.Otherwise, it will only damage your own prestige.

Of course, Liu Xie also knows that this is actually inevitable.After all, these celebs are so pissed.

They are very good at adapting to the wind, but they often fail to recognize the current situation. They are best at planning big plans but are not practical. They think that they can reverse and change everything by themselves in the name of righteousness.But they often don't know what the court and the people are going to do.

It seems that Shangshutai, which is the brain core of the emperor, should be swept away and replaced by a group of people.

What's more, Cai Yong, an old guy, has eaten and drank enough in the palace. If he doesn't settle his matter, Liu Xie feels that he will lose money.

(End of this chapter)