Chapter 784: Guess what I mean
After Li Mu and others heard Li Tai's reminder, they all smacked their foreheads and touched their knees and lamented why they were so slow and didn't realize this problem in advance!
"No wonder your lord has such great trust and love for Duke Taiyuan. Duke Taiyuan really has a far-reaching wisdom! We are really stupid warriors and slow to see things. Such an obvious problem requires Duke Taiyuan to remind him in person. Be aware!”
Xi Zhongtian Hong slapped the table and sighed with an annoyed look on his face, and everyone else present also nodded after hearing this.
These generals from the Chinese and Foreign Governments are basically Yuwentai's die-hard confidants, and they do not have too complicated accomplice relations with others. Therefore, they are naturally happy to see Yuwentai's power and position further improved. It is best to directly replace Wei Zhizhi tomorrow, so that They are also addicted to the founding heroes.
"This day, thanks to the hospitality of the Duke of Taiyuan, I am giving you this teaching. Everyone is greedy in eating and drinking, and is not drunk enough to say anything wrong. Since we are all anxious to ask for a special title from the Lord, it should not be delayed. Why don’t we go together now?”
Someone stood up and spoke with an impatient expression. It's okay if he didn't realize it before. Now that he has said it here, how can he lag behind in this opportunity to perform in front of the Lord!
Hearing this, several people immediately stood up and responded to the call. The enthusiasm could not be suppressed at all.
"It's already dark now, where can I turn to? If I break into the imperial palace without permission, not only will I not be able to accomplish anything, but I will also be punished!"
There were always people present who kept their cool. Looking at the enthusiastic people, Li Mu couldn't help but pour cold water on them.
After seeing several people return to the table and sit down, Li Mu continued: "Although this is a matter of course, it has been unresolved for so many years, and there must be some difficulties and obstacles in it. If the reason is not clear, he will start it rashly, which will lead to trouble. If it doesn’t work, it will hinder the Lord’s idea, and it will be too late for us to regret it! We should first listen to Duke Taiyuan’s deeper insights and make a thorough plan before we can succeed!”
After hearing this, everyone nodded in agreement. For the time being, they suppressed their impatient mood to strive for performance, and then looked eagerly at Li Tai, wanting to see what else he had to add.
After Li Tai saw this, he smiled and said: "There is no so-called obstacle in the matter. The Lord has been in charge of state affairs for many years, and he has been the focus of people's hearts and expectations. The key to the failure of what he said in the past year lies in the situation in the country at that time. In times of crisis, in order to maintain stability and unite internal and external affairs, the Lord did not put personal gain first, but joined the masses to share the rewards of the royal family.
Now that the opportunity is no longer the same as in the past, it is natural for the Lord to be honored. Anyone who voices opposition is undoubtedly deliberately obliterating the situation created by the concerted efforts of the people since the unification! It's just that the country's affairs are beginning to clear up and public sentiment is stabilizing. As a general in the border town, if I am good at discussing the country's personnel affairs, I will inevitably give people a feeling of intimidation. So I tell you all, I hope you can actively make up for this leakage in national affairs! "
Although Li Tai had this idea, he did not intend to rush to the front by himself. Instead, he gave Li Mu and others some guidance to let them take the lead.
One thing is that now that his identity is here, he no longer needs to be the first to express himself in everything. He must give the people below him a chance. You have to do something at any level. He is the first to speak out. Maybe people will misunderstand whether this is Yu Wentai preparing to launch the final impact towards the supreme position?
As for Li Mu and others coming forward, there would be no such problem. These people are the hegemon's confidants. It is normal for them to do similar things in order to gain performance, and it does not make people too sensitive and vigilant.
Moreover, these people rushing to the front also allowed Li Tai to see how the crowd reacted. If only these few people can handle this matter, it means that the preparations made by Yuwentai have come to fruition. No matter how proactive Li Tai is, the extra points he can get from Yuwentai will be limited.
If these people alone can't handle it, then Li Tai can carry out united operations and promotion in a more targeted manner, and let Yu Wentai see who can really make the final decision at such a critical period!
In fantasy novels, there are usually enemies that hit the younger ones and jump out of the older ones. The enemies always come in waves following the level of the protagonist. This is certainly a dramatic plot arrangement in the novel, but in real life, especially when many people are involved, The political game between people's hearts and interests also requires a step-by-step approach.
There was no foreshadowing or testing, and the boss would jump in first to cause trouble. If something unexpected happened, the whole gang would be dead! Of course, if you are like the General of the Universe and just want to lead a squad without any long-term plans, then you can naturally do whatever you want, otherwise you will not be able to show your heroic spirit.
Several people had a superior-subordinate relationship with Li Taiben before, and they all saw with their own eyes his superb wisdom of making perfect plans, so they were quite convinced by what he said, so they began to discuss with great interest how to operate the matter.
The process of this matter is not complicated. First, the relevant proposing officials will submit the memorial to the Zhongshu Province, and then submit it to the emperor for approval. After the emperor thinks it is feasible, it will be handed over to the Menxia Province for the attendants such as Shizhong and Sanqi. Discuss and wait until a consensus is reached, and then the matter will be settled.
Of course, hegemony itself is not a normal political model, and business processes generally do not strictly follow such a set of procedures. Take the matter of submitting it to the emperor. Now that Yuwentai is in court, he can completely replace the emperor in deciding whether to hand it over to the province for discussion. So if Yu Wentai doesn't have this intention at all, then no matter how enthusiastic they are here, things will not progress to the next process at all.
Although Li Mu and others have been officials for many years, they still don't know much about such government procedures. When they heard that there were so many procedures, it was not as they thought that they only needed to report the matter to Grand Master Yuwen and the Grand Master nodded. This was done, and I couldn't help but cry out for trouble for a while.
But Li Tai then explained to them a little bit that only the more people know about this matter, the better they can perform as the initiators. Even if they do not get praise and rewards immediately, they will definitely get more performance and rewards in the future. Opportunities for meritorious service, such as the subsequent series of wars against Nanliang, etc.
This is not to deceive them. Why can Zhao Gui prosper just because he supported Li Li first? If he only told Yuwentai that I support you when the two of them were squatting in the tub, that wouldn't be called pursuing a career, but it would probably be just to cheat him out of toilet paper.
As for inducing these people to link the cashing of rewards if the matter is successful with the chance to fight in Jiangling, it is naturally Li Tai who uses honey on the outside and arsenic on the inside. If you fail to follow and take the credit, it is the unfair employment of Black Otter. It's so rude. If you go there, you must listen to me!
The clever method of alienation and guidance is not to force concepts and thoughts on you right away, but to let you take two steps first and then come back to buy the abduction on your own. Li Tai couldn't say for sure whether things would develop as he expected, but there was no harm in laying the groundwork first.
The group discussed matters at Li Tai's house until late at night, and when they left, they brought with them a memorial jointly signed by several people to request Yu Wentai's title. The next day, they all attended the morning court and submitted this memorial.
After the memorial was submitted, it was naturally placed on the desk of Yuwentai, who had been sitting in the Prime Minister's Mansion in the Imperial City. At first, Yu Wentai only said that it was a hymn to praise the new dynasty, but after reading it for a while, his expression suddenly changed.
Li Mu and others asked him to be crowned a king, which did not surprise him. Just last year, after he conquered Tuyuhun in the west and praised Wu Longyou and returned, there were other generals who accompanied him to do so, but they were directly stopped by Yu Wentai. . Because the conflict between him and the deposed emperor Yuan Qin was already extremely acute at that time, submitting the memorial would only make the conflict between them more acute.
Now that the new national education system has been abolished, Yuwentai's own prestige has also greatly increased. Therefore, the people at home and abroad hope that his reputation will be further improved. Yuwentai still has this ability.
But the unusual thing about this memorial is that Li Mu and the others did not simply ask for a title of king, but specifically requested that the land of Qiyang be split into pieces as a country to grant Yuwentai.
Yuwentai advocated the restoration of ancient rituals and promoted the reform of the system. He originally regarded himself as the Duke of Zhou, and Qiyang was the ancestral court of the ancestral Zhou Dynasty. Once the country was sealed here, it would undoubtedly have a clearer direction, and it would also give his reputation an initial legal inheritance. This made Yu Wentai have to be tempted.
He knew in his heart that the current reforms had just been enacted one by one, and it was not yet known how effective they would be. Any further progress would be unpredictable, so it was unavoidable that he was acting too hastily.
However, this just-right provocation made him feel itchy and unable to stop. At the same time, he couldn't help but said angrily: "This must not have been a clever plan by Li Xianqing and others! Those who are brave are brave, but they can't understand my deepest feelings!"
Of course he hopes that his fame can be further improved, but it doesn't matter how urgent it is, because now he is intensively laying the groundwork step by step, and seeing the future before his eyes, this matter is also a matter of course. But now that this was advanced, it happened to hit his sensitive point, making him no longer calm.
There were many trade-offs in his mind, but Yu Wentai was still unable to decide. He was afraid that the matter would be too risky and would be blocked. Although he can also force this proposal to pass, the purpose of strengthening his reputation is to make him more legitimate, rather than to gradually become a monoman standing in opposition to the masses.
"It's better to leave it to the emperor to decide!"
Yu Wentai struggled for a long time before he had another pair of memorials praising the new emperor's enthronement sent to the palace together with this one for the emperor to review in person. He was still deceiving himself and thinking that if the emperor didn't The memorial was distributed to the disciples for discussion, which meant that the matter of making him king would still have to be slowed down before the heat was reached.
But what if the emperor really didn't do this?
Thinking of this, Yu Wentai couldn't help but worry about gains and losses, and soon a cold light appeared in his eyes.