Chapter 1299 The White-haired Prime Minister

Chapter 1299 The White-haired Prime Minister

When Xiong Ansheng heard the words of the Supreme Being, his eyes suddenly shone, and he even opened his mouth and took a few deep breaths. Only then did he suppress his excitement for a while, and then bowed deeply: "I am deeply favored by you, and I was promoted to the court for the first time." , I pledged my life to the country, and the repayment of this knowledge has not yet been completed. I have not seen the dynasty's regulations deeply, and I dare to speak lightly about the important matter of the election! "

"The imperial dynasty uses codes to punish evil and promote good, praise merit and warn against crime, what the people want, what government implements, what scholars tend to do, where etiquette exists, where the Tao is, what the country uses, everything is people-oriented. Please don't be too old. Self-disrespect, the rituals of the three dynasties, the recommendation of scholars at that time, and the loyalty to the imperial court.

Although Xiong Ansheng's cautious attitude satisfied Li Tai, he still hoped that this old man could be more relaxed and not have too many worries. He would be brave enough to have sex with you. How many times in his life could he fight? ?

The reason why he was so courteous to Xiong Ansheng was not only because of his positive performance in previous public opinion turmoil, but also because of his status as an opposition Confucian. The courtesy to Xiong Ansheng was also Li Tai's attempt at the future employment system of Datang.

Compared with the Guanlong merger in the Western Wei and Northern Zhou Dynasties, the political pattern of the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi was more colorful. Regardless of the disputes and conflicts between nobles and nobles, nobles and nobles, and nobles and nobles, there was also a political force that was relatively mature. That is a blessing.

Enxing is the extension of imperial power. It is a political phenomenon that manifests itself in an unconventional form when the emperor's authority and desires cannot be released and satisfied in the normal political structure. Therefore, one of the characteristics of Enxing is that it destroys the established pattern and tramples on the existing rules.

Evil will exist in any era, but when it becomes a phenomenon or even a political force, it means that under the existing political structure, the emperor's wishes cannot be fulfilled and satisfied for a long time, and must be Do it in other ways.

Faunxing continued throughout the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi Dynasties, but towards the late Northern Qi Dynasty, the interference in politics became stronger, with He Shikai, Lu Lingxuan and others becoming prominent figures. Although Gao Zhan and Gao Wei's father and son were too defiant, the political situation in Northern Qi at that time was also too strange.

First of all, in order to avoid the lesson that his two brothers could not successfully pass the throne to his son, Gao Zhan passed the throne to his son before his death and became the Supreme Emperor himself. This directly violated the original political rules. For example, when Gao Zhan died, his half-brother Gao Ji was in office and calculated that I should be the one in order, but he was poisoned and killed by his successor Gao Wei.

And this matter is actually equivalent to depriving the nobles of an opportunity to vote and speculate. The nobles are the real ones in charge of the army. If you don't tell them the rules, how can you be good?

In order to maintain his dignity, Gao Wei can only rely more on Enxing, but in fact Enxing's power comes from him. What power can check and balance Xungui? It's nothing more than a playful way of breaking the rules, and the gambling nobles don't dare to fight to the death.

But soon an excellent gunman appeared, and that was Gao Wei's younger brother, Langya King Gao Yan. He was called the youngest powerful official in the Northern Qi Dynasty, but in fact, this naughty kid had been clearly arranged from birth to death, leaving him lonely.

Because Gao Yan was disgusted with He Shikai, Luo Tipo and others trying to gain power, he directly raised troops to capture and kill He Shikai. He even led his army to block the palace gate, but he did not dare to enter the palace because of the small number of soldiers. His cousin Gao Yanzong, the son of Gao Cheng, was an honest man. He directly said that Emperor Xiaozhao could kill Yang Min with only eighty men back then. Now he has thousands of men. Is that still a small number?

Facts have proved that there are really few. When Hu Luguang brought his master Gao Wei to the palace gate, the soldiers around Gao Yan were frightened and dispersed. Hu Luguang directly pulled Gao Yan to Gao Wei and said bluntly that he was still a child and it would be fine if he grew up.

This coquettish operation immediately made the faces of the emperor and the so-called powerful ministers swell, and he clearly told them who was the grandson and who was the master. If this had happened during the Gaoyang or even Gaozhan period, and Hu Luguang's family had not fed the fish and turtles in Zhangshui, He Liuhun's seeds would have been buried!

No matter what thoughts and considerations Hu Luguang had at the time, his domineering and weakness were fully exposed in this incident.

The domineering thing is that he doesn't take the majesty of the emperor and the laws and regulations of the country in his eyes. Raising armies and forcing the palace to rebel is a prank of a naughty child, so just give him a beating. The weakness is that the situation has reached this point, and the emperor is already a fish on the chopping block, but he still dares not go further, imagining that everything can still return to normal. He didn’t learn the essence of the Qianming Change at all!

The politics of the Northern Qi Dynasty were actually dead at this stage. It was difficult for the later master Gao Wei to complete the liquidation and punishment of this rebellion through conventional methods. Such power should have belonged to the emperor, but because of Hu Luguang and others The obstruction by nobles and other political forces made it difficult for the emperor to fulfill his most basic demands.

Therefore, when the Northern Zhou Dynasty invaded and the noble generals were busy fighting against the enemy, Gao Wei, the later master, began to vigorously promote the Enxing forces. After the military crisis was relieved, he quickly launched a counterattack and liquidation. After that, the Enxing family became the dominant force, and everyone from Jinyang nobles to Hebei aristocrats rushed to join it.

In the political structure of the latter Three Kingdoms, no matter what regime there are, there are two important internal components, namely military meritorious officials and family members, including today's Tang Dynasty court.

Generally speaking, military groups are responsible for expanding territory and conquering unconquered subjects, while members of the family are responsible for creating regulations and promulgating government decrees. Moreover, both of them have very obvious identity characteristics, so it is very easy to form political relationships. Interest groups one by one.

Although Li Tai has always paid attention to the diversity of his civil and military personnel during his rise, and has not focused on just one group. So far, there has been no intricate political alliance in the court, but it does not mean that there is no hidden danger, and it is still naturally present, that is, the aristocratic group represented by the five surnames.

What can make people strong will become a restriction one day in the future, and the more you rely on it, the stronger this restriction will be. Just like the Northern Qi regime and the Jinyang nobles, there is also such a connection between Li Tai and the five surnames.

Although his rise mainly depends on his own hard work, his background and connections also played an irreplaceable role in the critical period of his career development. If his father was just an honest farmer Li Laohan in Luoyang, then the possibility of a series of subsequent plots would basically be eliminated.

For Li Tai, the Guandong nobles are not like the Jinyang nobles and the Northern Qi regime, which can directly affect its rise and fall, but if they cannot be effectively contained, the Guandong nobles will inevitably become a fundamental factor affecting the diversity of the Tang Dynasty court in the near future.

Since Li Tai himself was born in a family of five surnames, many conventional means of attacking members of the nobles are not easy to use. Later generations played the so-called first sword on the shore, first cut the person of interest, and when it comes to him, he must first cut the fathers, the villagers, and the five relatives, which is even more outrageous than Bill Zhu Rong.

The reason why the spearhead was pointed directly at the Zhaojun Li family before was of course because the Zhaojun Li family itself had a way to die, and there was no direct kinship between the two Lis. But if it is done to other big families, it will break the bottom line of human ethics.

The reason why Li Tai went to great lengths to criticize public opinion was mainly to target the Hebei nobles, to define an original sin for them through public opinion, thereby reducing their certain exemptions in human ethics.

For example, if you want to punish a relative next year, you can say that the public opinion in Hebei criticized you so much that year, I don’t believe it, and I still want to give you important positions, but you died here, you deserve to die! In other words, you are a bunch of rookies, and I have already stored favors in your appointment. If you still can’t do it well, don’t blame me for handling it impartially.

Through this kind of public opinion, you can avoid being accused of being cold and heartless, and be on a moral high ground, which is more maneuverable than Gao Huan and his son singing a double act.

Li Tai has another advantage over the rulers of Northern Qi, that is, he clearly knows the answer to the version, that is, if you want to create a third political force besides military meritorious nobles and aristocratic families, you don’t need to vigorously support favors. It is more effective to establish a series of selection systems such as the imperial examination, and the impact is longer-term.

Although the imperial examination originated in the Sui Dynasty and took shape in the Tang Dynasty, it did not reach a prosperous state throughout the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Instead, it was once reborn by the aristocratic families and became a new way for them to monopolize political resources. It was not until the Five Dynasties that those aristocratic families suffered structural destruction, and the Northern Song Dynasty regime rebuilt in the ruins was revived.

It can be seen that the imperial examination as a system is indeed advanced, but it will also show different forms in different eras.

Li Tai himself came from the Five Surnames, so the regime he founded was more urgently in need of a perfect selection system, and he had to try his best to prevent this system from being usurped during the implementation process.

Therefore, he needed both the opposition masters with lofty academic achievements to stand on the platform, and also a group of officials from humble backgrounds to supervise the implementation of the imperial examination system. Otherwise, the referees and referees were all their people, so what could they do to fight them?

Xiong Ansheng was an opposition scholar, and he himself had no family background, but he had a profound influence in academia, and his disciples were as many as thousands of people, just like a tailor-made candidate for this purpose.

Especially in the early stage of the imperial examination system, the existence of Xiong Ansheng, a Confucianist, could greatly prevent the various links of the imperial examination system from being intentionally infiltrated and hijacked by the aristocracy, especially since he was an old fighter who said he would kill the treacherous ministers of Northern Qi, so Li Tai's expectations for him were far greater than he imagined.

The so-called white-haired three officials and white-haired prime ministers were not pure pie in the sky. If this old man could seize his historical opportunities and make appropriate cooperation, Li Tai would certainly not be stingy with his high position. The old pig farmer Gongsun Hong could be made a marquis and appointed as a prime minister, so what was the difference between Xiong Ansheng, a Confucianist in the north?

After hearing these words of encouragement, Xiong Ansheng's face flushed with excitement for a while, and he bowed deeply to the ground, without saying a word for a long time. Even after a long while, he just kept muttering: "How lucky am I... I must die for the Supreme!"

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