Three Kingdoms New Emperor

Chapter 404 Still a Routine
The power of telling the truth against the truth is always much harsher than speaking well.

People in the Manchu Dynasty, who doesn't know that Zhong Yao, Zhong Yuanchang and Xun You and Xun Gongda are the most toiled people today?In addition to being responsible for the disaster relief in Guanzhong, Zhong Yao had to devote his attention to the political affairs of the DPRK and China; while Xun You devoted himself to the reform of the military system proposed by Liu Xie, he also had to keep one eye on the big man. In the current situation, they will not let go of any troubles of those princes.

One of these two people is in charge of the inside and the other is in charge of the outside. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are Liu Xie's right-hand men.But when the two of them were so busy and tired that they could hardly eat a bowl of rice or sleep for two hours a day, they still had to spare a night to discuss and sort out the list... What does this mean?
This is no longer an explanation, but a slap in the face of those who were in charge of the reform of the imperial examination: How many people who have read the scriptures and studied the officialdom took two months Made a nonsense statement.In the end, the first executive president and two managers of the big man had to go out in person, but it only took one night to get it out.What do you people eat?What's the use of the big man keeping you guys? !

If this is not a vegetarian meal, what is it?
If that's not shaming, what is it?
If that's not occupying the latrine and not shitting, what could it be? !

These few words hidden behind Liu Xie's words were like whips covered with spikes. During Liu Xie's silent and glaring time, some people were whipped one by one.The whip was stained with blood, and the souls of those people were screaming and wailing, and they almost flew out of their wits.

Liang Hu, Cai Yong, Jin Shang and those appointed by Liu Xie to be responsible for the reform of the imperial examination can no longer hide.He had no choice but to knelt on one side with Liang Hu with his head in his arms, prostrated himself on the ground in the most humble posture, and said in his mouth: "The humble minister is incompetent, and it is an unforgivable crime for making Your Majesty work so hard."

Liu Xie didn't seem to hear these people's words at all. The wrath of the emperor continued to pour out through his dragon eyes, as if he longed for the entire hall to be wiped out in his anger.His right hand unconsciously touched the Yitian Sword at his waist, rubbed it with his palm, trying to restrain his urge to draw the sword.

In the end, Liu Xie, who was furious, suddenly became very sad. He sighed a long time, and sat back on the dragon chair with a touch of deep loneliness and disappointment.It even looked a little lost, as if a bulging cowhide pocket was suddenly punctured.

Such a scene fell in the eyes of the ministers, and naturally made their hearts tighten a little more.The emotions of human beings are common, if the emperor is furious, the thunder will shake naturally, and millions of corpses will be laid down.But once this is not angry, it will make people even more terrified. After all, death is not terrible for people in this era. What is terrible is that they are not even qualified to die.

Obviously, today's Liu Xie is already in a moment of grief.At this moment, the entire hall was silent, and everyone was waiting for His Majesty's holy judgment on these people.

"I know that in your hearts, I am just a willful, perverse and violent emperor. In the past two years, some of my decisions have always used all kinds of means to avoid your criticism. Even if the court has improved a little now, you I still don’t think it’s due to me, but I just think it’s the aftermath of God’s Blessing of the Great Han and the mighty virtue of the Han family. So, you do everything you can to change me, so that I can use your methods to govern the world.”

Liu Xie spoke slowly, his tone no longer had the briskness of a young man, just like the emotion of a mature king who has ruled the world for many years.

"History never allows for assumptions, so you can't help but think, if I use your benevolent gentleman's way, would the Han Dynasty have already been unified?" Speaking of this, Liu Xie couldn't help showing a wry smile, inevitably with a hint of sarcasm.But in the end, his heart was still like calm water, and he said leisurely: "However, after all, there is only one king. It is impossible for me to surrender the country, and I can't be in love with each other, so I thought, maybe it is a good way to forget each other in the rivers and lakes." relief."

"The minister deserves death!" Liang Hu and others couldn't help crying at this moment, no matter what they thought in their hearts.However, it is already the biggest dereliction of duty as a subject to make the king say such things.

"Don't be afraid, gentlemen. I will dismiss you just because of this, let alone kill ministers because of this. The Han Dynasty has been in chaos for a hundred years, and there are not many elite ministers left. I always believe that disputes in troubled times should follow the trend For this reason, only in a peaceful world can we teach benevolence. Fortunately, the Han Dynasty now has a large and small place, and there is still a shortage of important county guards in various places. In this case, you may wish to contribute to this land full of pain. How about an ambition?"

After saying this sentence, Liu Xie stretched out his hand to take an imperial edict from Sima Yi, the servant of the Huangmen, who had come to him at some time. This time, he personally walked down the twelfth-step jade platform and handed the edict to his opponent. Liang Hu and others said: "Today's decision, I don't know whether it is right or wrong, and I hope you don't hold any resentment. After taking office, I will follow the way of Confucius and Mencius, be loyal to the emperor and love the country, and the herdsmen..."

"I don't dare. From then on, I will bow and die to repay Your Majesty's great kindness." Liang Hu took the edict with his hands in his hands, bowed deeply to Liu Xie three times, and bowed out of the palace gate , it gradually disappeared.

It was only at this time that the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty finally breathed a sigh of relief, rejoicing that the matter was resolved in such a smooth and gentle manner, they all bowed again and shouted loudly: "Your Majesty's sage is the blessing of the Han Dynasty."

Liu Xie waved his hand lightly, making all the officials stand up.However, at this moment, no one saw that Liu Xie's sad and sentimental face suddenly skipped a smile, and turned to look at Sima Yi who was on the side of the throne.And although Sima Yi lowered his head seemingly respectfully, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but pull out a smug smile.

Up to this moment, none of the people in the Manchu Dynasty could see that when the situation came to this point, they actually hadn't made any comment on the imperial examination at all.They have indeed read the letter, but the problem is that during this period, Liu Xie avoided the seriousness and used a trick of expressing his feelings lightly, mobilizing everyone's minds on his treatment of Liang Hu and others.But when they calmed down and wanted to discuss again after the disposal, they suddenly realized that the tone of the imperial examination reform seemed to have been set...

When was it decided?
Was it when the Son of Heaven was expounding emotionally, or when Liang Hu and others retreated respectfully?They couldn't figure it out at all, and chewed Liu Xie's words carefully, only to find that Liu Xie didn't seem to say a word about the imperial examination, but every word seemed to mean something.

Even, they couldn't figure it out, wasn't it the martial arts examination that they had been talking about before, why did they jump to the imperial examination all of a sudden?Exactly when did this topic come to the fore?
Only Liu Xie and Sima Yi knew that all of this was actually their conspiracy: After Duanmu Zhengshuo told the story of Henan and Xuzhou, Liu Xie called Sima Yi and Dong Zhao into the oath hall.In the hall, Sima Yi, inspired by Dong Zhao's "Tweeting Order", came up with a method similar to Zhao Kuangyin's "drinking wine to release military power".

According to Sima Yi, Liu Xie and those old-fashioned officials couldn't urinate in the same pot at all. Since the couple couldn't get into the same bed, they could simply get a divorce.As long as the means are not so crude, Liu Xie can still succeed by sacrificing some of his personal reputation accumulated over the years.

However, this suggestion was still rejected by Liu Xie, but not completely.Liu Xie believes that the price of Zhao Kuangyin's method of "releasing military power with a cup of wine" is to make those arrogant soldiers become rich. domestic pig.However, the power of the gentry in the Han Dynasty was extremely inflated and the land annexation was serious. If Liu Xie used gentle means to support them, it would run counter to the original intention of the imperial examination.

More importantly, those scholar-bureaucrats were not military generals who could not read a single word, and it was impossible for them to rebel. On the contrary, people like Liang Hu and Cai Yong were able to govern a county without difficulty.In addition, the expansion of the territory of the Han Dynasty has not been slow recently, so it is more than enough to fill in a few eunuchs who have no military power but only administrative officials.

After that, the three of them discussed all the procedures of the entire court meeting again. Finally, after Liu Xie let the two of them go out, they moved out the ghostly Li Ru, and finally finalized everything for today.

If the people in the court are not the traditional scholars who only read the Four Books and Five Classics, the Book of Songs and the Songs of Chu, and the Three Graves and Five Classics, but more people who read various schools of thought, you can see that Liu Xie used deceit from the beginning to the end. Skills: At the beginning, Liu Xie uncharacteristically brought soldiers and generals into the court, just to intimidate people, and then the discussion of martial arts was to confuse the public, and the last trick was to emulate the truth, perfectly skipping the link of discussing the imperial examination, and successfully achieved his own goal. Purpose.

It can only be said that all of this is a routine... If you want to blame, blame those courtiers for being too stupid and naive.

(End of this chapter)