New Shun 1730

Wu Zixu was not a eunuch, but a true pre-Qin hero. So he could dig graves and whip corpses, he could angrily confront Fuchai, and he could watch the country fall before he died.

Wu Zixu could not do what Liu Yu did in recent years.

Tian Zhenyi saw that he had said it all, and also saw Liu Yu laughing awkwardly, and could not help but sigh and said: "Third brother, this is the way of the world. Since the Tang Dynasty, if you want to accomplish something, you have to do it this way."

"You know that it is actually very difficult to make such a request."

"If you have your ability and some insights, you may be able to follow the emperor's intentions, take advantage of the situation, and accomplish the right things."

"If you don't have your ability and your insights. It is easy to only learn to guess the emperor's intentions, obey the emperor, and become a group of treacherous and lucky ministers."

"But, third brother needs to remember: for those outsiders, they can neither enter the court nor govern the local areas. There is a difference between inside and outside."

"The emperor would rather have a group of flatterers and lucky ministers. He doesn't want those outsiders to have their own ideas and morals. ”

“If you have the ability of the third brother, you can fight for the situation in the South and the West; if you don’t, you only know how to please the emperor, and you will be defeated. What can you do with the sea blocking you?”

“Therefore, there is a difference between inside and outside, and the emperor needs a group of ‘eunuchs’.”

“Moreover, for this group of people, it is better to become flatterers and lucky ministers in the future, and they must never become important ministers, disobedient ministers, assistant ministers, remonstrants, and upright ministers with ideals and thoughts!”

“The orthodoxy of the national dynasty cannot be disrupted. Once they want to be remonstrants and upright ministers and go to the court, this is a dispute over the orthodoxy. The internal cannot be chaotic, and the external can fight, so it is said that there is a difference between the internal and the external.”

Although the word “eunuch party” is not very pleasant, it seems to be the truth.

Liu Yu paced a few circles with his hands behind his back, thinking about his previous actions and the possible worries of the emperor, and was convinced that Tian Zhenyi’s metaphor of the eunuch party made a lot of sense.

The emperor would rather let those people become treacherous and flattering ministers or even villains, rather than let them enter the world and become important officials, especially he did not want to cause many disputes: some things, the emperor let Liu Yu do, Liu Yu was the default lucky minister in the eyes of the world's scholars, and there was no shortage of big black pots; however, some things, once Liu Yu's people, who were court officials, argued at the court meeting, the meaning of the matter was different.

"Eunuch" can do evil, but eunuchs cannot say his "evil", which is the right way. You normal people have taken the wrong path.

The more he thought about it, the smoother his thoughts became, and Liu Yu's brows gradually relaxed.

Tian Zhenyi's words must not be said directly to those people. If they were said as they were, the emperor would lose face, and everyone would feel sick when they heard it.

But Tian Zhenyi's idea of ​​"great loyalty, secondary loyalty, and lower loyalty" can make the words sound nice and decent.

The content is still the same content, the connotation is still the connotation, but it doesn't sound so "insulting".

Tian Zhenyi saw that Liu Yu's pace was slowly decreasing. After years of knowing each other, she knew that Liu Yu's thoughts were almost sorted out.

"Third brother, I will give them another ancient poem to make these words more beautiful."

[Like frost and snow. Like the brightness of the sun and moon. ]

[The country has a great mission. It cannot be told to others. It will hinder their personal behavior. ]

[The phoenix is ​​chirping. Its wings are many. Its voice is like a flute. There are phoenixes and phoenixes. The emperor is happy. ]

[The long night is slow. I will always think of it. The ancient times were not slow. The rites and righteousness were not violated. Why should I care about what people say? The trickling source of water is not blocked or blocked. ]

[The hub is broken. So I enlarged the spokes. The matter has failed. So I sighed heavily. Ink is used as light. Fox is gray. 】

"If a superior minister is forced to serve a tyrant in a chaotic time and has no way to avoid it, he should praise his virtues, promote his goodness, disregard his evil, hide his failures, talk about his strengths, and not mention his weaknesses, so as to make it a custom."

"If a superior minister has to serve a tyrant or a monarch who has gone astray, he should talk more about the monarch's strengths and not talk about his faults. If the monarch does something bad, he should not directly oppose it. Anyway, they are all tyrants. Is opposition useful? Go with the flow, please the monarch, and get things done quietly."

"The phoenix is ​​autumn. It has several wings. Its voice is like a flute. There are phoenixes and phoenixes. The voice, reason, and praise of the phoenix not only make the emperor happy, but also achieve the righteous path of the phoenix."

"But if you don't have this ability, you can't please the emperor while getting things done quietly, then just learn the first half. If you can't get a phoenix, can't you get a pheasant and say it's a good omen to please the emperor?"

"With your majesty's temperament, he will never think that he is a foolish ruler, and he will never He will not think that he cannot control the situation, or feel that he cannot deal with new things. "

"However, because of his temperament, he firmly believes that the prince is far inferior to him. I am afraid that when the prince succeeds to the throne in the future, his ability will inevitably be inferior to his, he will not see far, he will look too close, he will not know how to deal with new things, and he will not know how to control new situations. "

"In this case, you heirs who have taken a new path should not be loyal ministers, remonstrators, and assistants, and argue with reason, or even lead the ministers and officials to force the king to resist the king's orders, steal the king's power, and do things against the king to save the country from danger..."

"If you have the ability, you should praise its beauty, promote its goodness, violate its evil, hide its failures, talk about its strengths, and not mention its shortcomings, and quietly accomplish things. "

"If you don't have the ability, you can only praise its beauty, promote its goodness, violate its evil, hide its failures, talk about its strengths, and not mention its shortcomings... Throw away the most important thing [quietly accomplish things]. "

"Do you think, with His Majesty's temperament, arrogance, and pride, he will think that the Crown Prince will be stronger than him in the future? He has already acquiesced that the Crown Prince is inferior to him, so he said these words today."

"I am both worried that the country and the country will not be in chaos, and I am also worried that the situation we have finally opened up will be in vain... If we were only worried about the former, it would be simple, just stop the development. But I am reluctant to let go, and I am worried that I will not be able to control it in the future. I am in a dilemma. , that’s all.”

"He is not only the emperor, what Westerners call the representative of Chinese sovereignty. But he is also the head of the Li family."

"It was one thing in the past, but now in the age of great strife, it is no longer the same thing. I'm afraid he himself doesn't understand what's important and what's light."

Tian Zhenyi raised her head and looked at the green grass, blue sky and white clouds outside the window. Thinking that the emperor was just a human being after all, she sighed and said for a long time: "The emperor asked the seventh prince to take charge of the navy and move around with you without any restrictions. I'm afraid he doesn't even know what he feels about in his heart." Zhu Xia always has the idea of ​​"leaving a fork in the road" as to where he will go in the future, and he also feels that the old road will no longer work. It's just that he doesn't want to admit it. "

"The seventh prince's condition is too poor. According to common sense, it is absolutely impossible, and the minister will never admit it. But if such a poor condition can be achieved in the future, it shows that the old road is completely rotten."

Liu Yu didn't care much about this and felt that Tian Zhenyi was overthinking it. It would be better if the emperor had such an awareness.

Thinking that if she continued to think along this line of thinking, she would add a lot of worries, worrying that she would be involved in the future. It was far better to escape from a distance and be a bystander, watching the inevitable history, no less than these thirty or fifty years.

So Liu Yu deliberately disturbed Tian Zhenyi's thoughts with a joke, and said with a smile: "If this is true, Dashun is really qualified to compare with Li Tang. Father is kind and son is filial, brother, friend, brother are respectful, the inheritance law of the Imperial Guard, hahahaha... seriously orthodox."

"Okay, don't think about it too much. I'm afraid the emperor himself hasn't thought about this in this way, but you have given him a lot of ideas. Don't worry, I really meant what I said on the hot air balloon that day. Things will come to pass. ”

"It's all right. Now that you've seen the future, all these things are nothing more than ants and dust. Just let them be."

Tian Zhenyi hummed, walked over, hugged Liu Yu gently, and said: "Then you must keep your word. Go ahead and make noise with your 'eunuchs'."

After that, he smiled softly and pushed Liu Yu away.

…………

Returning to the living room, after waiting for a long time, Li Han came.

After some courtesy, everyone sat down in their respective positions. Everyone did not talk about what happened in the forbidden palace, but waited quietly for Liu Yu to speak.

Li Han also knew that since he had just come now, Liu Yu must have already known about it, so he didn't need to say anything more.

Liu Yu had already organized the language in his heart. Following the ideas given by Tian Zhenyi, he used the connotations of "eunuch", "sycophant" and "happy minister" in very quaint terms, such as "The Book of Songs" with open mouth and "Xunzi" with closed mouth. The outer skin spoke out.

Everyone present is not stupid either. Although they rarely read scriptures, they still have some basic skills.

After explaining the general principles, I briefly explained the embarrassing marginal status of those in the Department of Practical Studies, and then I didn’t explain it clearly. I understood everything that should be understood.

While they were drinking wine, Liu Yu pretended to be drunk and said: "The ancients said: Those who serve the sage will obey and not argue with others."

"I said, 2 plus 3 is equal to 3 plus 2."

"So, what the ancients said actually means that a king who obeys and does not argue with others is a holy king!"

Everyone thought that Marquis Jing was talking nonsense without changing his expression. How could this be understood so well?

Because he is a sage, he can be obeyed without arguing.

But looking at it the other way around, it's obviously not true. This is obviously not the principle that 2 plus 3 equals 3 plus 2, but the sun rises and the rooster crows, so the rooster crows the sun.

Doesn't this mean that we'd better not talk in the future? As long as the emperor says something, we can just shout that His Majesty is right and His Majesty is wise?

This is actually very different from the way of being a minister.

They were not from orthodox Confucian backgrounds, but the characters shaped by outstanding figures of the past dynasties were indelible. In their subconscious minds, they still regard the ideas of "the poor are good at themselves, and those who are successful can help the world", "if you have a fault, you will remonstrate, and if you do not follow the remonstrance, continue to remonstrate" as a kind of human principle.

This cannot be changed easily.

Because of this subconscious mind, I felt something was wrong when I heard Liu Yu's words.

However, this nonsense was too much, so everyone raised their glasses together and said, "What the Marquis Whale said is true. It really made me feel like I was waiting for the sun to clear up from the clouds, and I had a sudden enlightenment!"

Liu Yu raised his glass but refused to drink, but with a arrogant attitude, he spoke of being a hero. Following the emperor's wishes, he talked about Wu Zixu, insulted him, and then said: "So, under the current system, Wu Zixu did something wrong."

"Since the monarch has not adopted the suggestions proposed by you, for example, with the current system, then he should be transferred to the reserve force of the navy. He should receive his salary and receive his salary, and he should eat and drink."

"When the country encounters a crisis, when the country employs people, they are transferred from reserve service to active service, and use their own abilities to fight against the enemy and safeguard the country. This is the right way for a minister."

"So, don't learn from Ji Zi, whose advice fails, and then go far away to establish the country of Korea; don't learn from Wu Zixu, whose advice fails, and gets angry and kills himself with a horizontal sword. You still want to see the country destroyed in anger. As for Zhou Gong, Yi Yin, The Marquises of Wu are all saints, and they are beyond the capabilities of human beings."

“Now that the navy system is in place, if you really transfer to the reserve, your rank will not be reduced, and you will not lack food, clothing, benefits and salaries. Song Taizu said: Life in the world is as short as a white horse passing by, so those who want to be rich and noble just want to accumulate more money, have more entertainment, and prevent their descendants from poverty. Isn’t this good now?”