As the saying goes, "A man becomes a virtuous." Ying Jieyan's words made Zhao Bing understand how he did it, but he felt extremely desolate in his heart. The old man revealed the true meaning of the officialdom and also named how he should deal with his relationship with his ministers as a king. Although he knew in his heart that this was his inevitable choice to reach the peak of power, he instinctively rejected and was unwilling to become a cold-hearted ruler.

What we know in the past and the experiences of the present have made Zhao Bing, who is in a high position, always very entangled. He has always insisted on treating his subordinates well and sharing the joys and sorrows with them, hoping to exchange sincerity for loyalty and hope that everyone's cooperation can begin and end well. But reality is often very cruel. Tragedies in history have been staged repeatedly in front of him. In order to protect himself and for great cause, he has to make up his mind to act.

Zhao Bing understood that there were many incidents of monarchs and ministers fighting each other in history. Many kings, especially the founding emperors, had without exception received strong support and assistance from a large number of outstanding talents in the process of seizing power. These people had a strong desire to "make achievements" or "help the world and the people". It can be said that they had devoted all their efforts and used all their tricks and wisdom to achieve success and fame.

In the struggle against the blood and fire of the common enemy, the monarch and ministers can often fully understand each other's strengths and weaknesses, especially the extraordinary courage and talent of the ministers, who are even more familiar with the monarch. These are magic weapons that the king cannot seek when fighting the enemy together. However, after gaining power, they make the king feel uneasy to sleep and eat, like bones in his throat and thorns on his back.

After all, it is common for feudal monarchs to rebel, and the strong can ascend at the right time. Moreover, the great ministers are very good at striking the master. Once they form alliances to form a climate, as the lonely king, they can only fall into the crown and separate their bodies and heads! Therefore, ruthless killing has become the main means for the emperor to intimidate and prevent generals from holding troops. In addition, they send confidant eunuchs to supervise the army; divide and govern them, and restrain each other; they are called preferential treatment, but actually placed under house arrest, and take the parents, wives and children of the generals who go on expedition as hostages, etc., which are also common ways to prevent and control mutiny.

During the Tang Dynasty, in order to monitor the generals on the expedition, the emperor sent eunuchs to the army as military supervisors, calling them military inspectors. This should be the beginning of eunuchs' intervention in military affairs. In the late Ming Dynasty, Yuan Chongxi, the Minister of War and Right Deputy Censor of the Ministry of War and the Right Deputy Censor of the Later Jin Dynasty, Yuan Chongxi, who fought against the Later Jin Dynasty in Liaodong, gave Huang Taiji a huge obstacle to the plan to march within the pass. Later, Huang Taiji took advantage of the self-conceited and suspicious mentality of Emperor Songzhen Zhu Youjian to fabricate and spread rumors such as Yuan Chongxi having a secret agreement with the Later Jin Dynasty. Zhu Youjian became more and more suspicious of Yuan Chongxi, who had military power, and finally arrested Yuan and executed Lingchi. The person who reported the above rumors to the emperor was the eunuchs in the army.

Even under various precautions, the emperor was undermined in history, and the autocracy of powerful ministers still emerged one after another. During the Second Qin Dynasty, Zhao Gao called a deer as a horse, and Hu Hai became a puppet in his hands, and even his life was in danger. During the reign of Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty, the eunuch Liu Jin encouraged the emperor to eat, drink, gamble, and get tired of the court affairs, so that he could become the "Emperor Liu" who formed cliques and excluded dissidents.

Empress Lü of the Han Dynasty, Empress Wu of the Tang Dynasty, and Empress Dowager Cixi of the Qing Dynasty monopolized power, the emperor was useless, realizing the situation of "co-governance between men and women", etc. Even the power and traitors in this dynasty were everywhere, including Cai Jing during Huizong, Qin Hui during Gaozong, and Han Tuozhou during the middle and late Southern Song Dynasty, Shi Miyuan and Jia Sidao were both powerful and dominating the court, both of them were shining and rebelling against each other, and they were all devastating to the country and the people.

However, Zhao Bing also knew that some people in later generations had a reservation about the appearance of powerful ministers in the Song Dynasty. They thought that this phenomenon was the case that the emperor succeeded with the instruct and support of the emperor when considering the safety of his throne. Some powerful ministers had to use power and steal the names of emperors such as imperial criticism, internal criticism, edicts, and imperial edicts. If they wanted to exclude dissidents, they would frame the crime of opposing contemporary emperors.

Moreover, from the more than 300 years when Zhao Kuangyin and Chen Qiao soldiers became the world of the child, to Lu Xiufu's family and lost the world of the child, they were all the Zhao family and the hereditary system of the Zhao family. In this sense, the abusive power of the powerful ministers was at best just a strange phenomenon in the framework of imperial autocracy. In his previous life, Zhao Bing also felt that this statement was somewhat reasonable, but when he became the emperor, he did not agree, but this might be the problem of whether his butt determines his head.

Zhao Bing thought that this kind of "powerful ministers abused power" was like the empress dowager and eunuchs interfering in politics, which was often worse than the monarch's autocracy itself. In addition, if you think from the perspective of others, you will know that you should not think that this is a manifestation of "democracy". Think about the supreme ruler of an empire, but you have to let others dictate. What is it like to act according to the eyes of the ministers? You can ask for the emperor's psychological shadow area at this time. However, he knew that no emperor would let this happen if he had the opportunity and ability.

Of course, Zhao Bing also knew that it was right to restrict power. After all, not every emperor was a wise emperor. It was not wrong to let those with power do whatever they wanted. There was nothing wrong with using the past for the present. Including the checks and balances of power, you can also get a mirror from the ancients. But don’t talk about the separation of power and checks and balances so beautifully that the emperor who enjoys the highest power could not do anything happy. This only means that the ministers and saints have heard too much, and they have become obsessed with the emperor and are forced to get angry!

After all, the emperor was not a clay figure, and the clay figure was still somewhat native! This kind of thing has not happened in the history of the Song Dynasty, and it all happened to several emperors who were considered to have some achievements. Among them, there were the "Yuezheng Words and Words" case of Fan Zhongyan who was called the unfamiliar king during the Qingming Festival of the Song Dynasty; the "Wutai Poetry Case" by Su Dongpo during the reign of Emperor Shenzong; the "Yuanyou Party Members" case of Sima Guang and other "Yuanyou Party" during the reign of Emperor Gaozong; the "False" case of Yue Fei's "False" case of Zhao Ruyu and Zhu Xi during the reign of Emperor Ningzong; the "Pseudo-learning and Rebellion" case of Zhao Ruyu and Zhu Xi during the reign of Emperor Lizong; the "Ji King Zhao Huo case" that was delayed for fifty years but failed to be rehabilitated.

However, these cases were classified as "unfair cases" by later generations. If Zhao Bing's ministers would feel resentful, they would give you advice with kindness, not for the sake of your emperor's goodness. Let you listen to everyone's opinions more, engage in democracy, and save yourself from making arbitrary mistakes. And to persuade the emperor to be frugal, it is to avoid the people's belief that the tax is heavy, so they oppose you and cause your rebellion. As for letting you be close to the gentleman and stay away from the villain, it is also to prevent the emperor from making mistakes... But the emperor just treats your kindness as a donkey's liver and lungs. Wouldn't you blame?

But Zhao Bing’s ideas as the emperor have different ideas. As the son of heaven and the lord of all people, I am worried about national affairs every day, and I don’t care about what I do, what I eat, what I live, and even have to worry about what I am happy with my wife at night. I have to listen to you for a long time. If you don’t like to listen, I will say that I am not good at accepting advice. One person can’t do it, but I also have to talk about it. You have to interfere with state affairs and family affairs. What are you doing?

What is feudal autocracy? The accurate definition of the autocratic system should be "the ruling system of the supreme ruler who controls the regime alone". As long as the person who actually controls the supreme power dominates the court's principles, then the autocratic rule is implemented. The first thing that the emperor thinks about is that you are going to usurp power, be powerful ministers, let me listen to you in everything, and treat me as a puppet. For another group of people, it must be a clique, to be an autocratic and to undermine me.

The emperor's first reaction would be to determine that these people are treacherous ministers, all of whom are ill-intentioned and want to seize power. If you don't rectify them, who will you punish them? As for the injustice? The emperor would also say that there must be, but this kind of thing is that it is better to believe that they have it than to not. Power is the emperor's fortune and life. For your own happiness, I can only be sorry. Whoever makes you talk too much and touches the emperor's bottom line is worthy of it!

Thinking of this, Zhao Bing was shocked by his transformation. How could a kind and kind young man in the past become like this? He did not hesitate to create unjust cases for power and selfish interests, implicating innocent people. Could it be that this is just because his position has changed, his power has become greater, or because he has been "neglected" for a long time, or he has lost his original intention and turned bad!

But now that things have come to this point, Zhao Bing cannot reflect any more. Whether it is because of a few small officials who want to invite fame, to maintain the old system, or to really want to stop themselves from taking charge of power, or being bribed by the enemy to create civil unrest, they need to make a decision at the moment to understand the truth, and they cannot end with a slight end. Besides, I was really wronged!

Zhao Bing still exchanged views with the two masters for how to properly handle the aftermath. Ying Jieyan and Jiang Yu believed that it was not wrong to detain Li Kuan and others on the charge of "slandering the emperor and disrupting the government" and it is not advisable to arrest other suspected personnel first. The palace ban can be lifted first to restore the work of various ministries and provinces, but there is no need to withdraw the guards who took over the city defense and important departments, indicating that this matter has not ended, so as to put pressure on the parties involved and prevent them from acting without any action.

Furthermore, because this matter involves the Shangshu Province, the Censorate, the Ministry of Personnel, and the Ministry of Revenue, it is suspected of being favored when handed over to the three departments for trial. The two believed that the "Imperial Trial" was the best, that is, Zhao Bing was the leader in charge of the matter, and the Ministry of Justice and Dali Temple assisted. The criminals were still under the supervision of the imperial guards, which cut off their contact with the outside world and avoided collusion. At the same time, the trial work was conducted secretly, rather than public trials in the past, but they could be arrested publicly after the accomplices were heard to serve as a deterrent effect.

Zhao Bing thought that this arrangement was more appropriate, so that he could accurately understand the nature of the incident. At the same time, he also had greater discretion and could control the breadth and depth of the incident. Thus, he could make arrangements calmly, avoid affecting the normal operation of the court, and make the ministers feel pressure from the imperial power.

In addition, Zhao Bing's wedding and government affairs are coming soon, so it is not advisable to kill a lot of people because of this matter. After all, this is an unlucky thing for both ancient and modern people. Therefore, the strategy of "strict entry and lenient exit" should be adopted when dealing with it. That is, to obtain conclusive evidence on the basis of strict trials, the person involved should be arrested, and those who have a weak role in it are only interrogated and not arrested; the same is true in handling, the first offender is strict, the threat is light, and the innocent is not implicated. In order to attack the minority, save the majority, and educate a large number of people...

At the afternoon court meeting, all the ministers found that the guards had withdrawn from the hall and the palace ban had been lifted, and they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. However, everyone once again felt the little emperor's control over the army. They knew that as long as the army was still loyal to it, the little emperor would have the ability to suppress all the ability to resist it, and at the same time let everyone feel invisible pressure. If His Majesty was forced to a desperate situation, he would break the balance in the court and establish a regime under the command of his military generals, and then their living environment would be even worse.

Next, the little emperor did not investigate the morning court, but only reported that in order to ensure the facts, the empress dowager wanted to personally examine the case, and the empress dowager approved the report. This made some people nervous. Everyone knew that the matter was targeting the young emperor, and as long as they were not stupid, they knew what the purpose was to achieve. Now that the empress dowager allowed the young emperor to personally examine the case, he would just mess with anyone he wanted. As long as he was rude, he would not know who would be unlucky. The heart that had just fallen out was lifted up again.

Zhao Bing was so angry that he thought he had found something to spend the last time before taking power. Although he was the judge, he knew that he was not the one who was not the one who was in charge of the military, and he had to transfer experts. So the case actually fell on the Bureau of Affairs, and Zheng Huchen specially organized an interrogation team to be responsible for this major case of "rebellion".

Zhao Bing is still confident about the case handling ability of the Bureau of Affairs. Not only are they rich in case handling experience, but they are also unmatched in the Song Dynasty. As for whether they can find the result, he never doubts. No matter how hard a man is, it is difficult for them to speak without saying anything. Moreover, those weak literati are afraid that those who can survive two rounds can be called heroes.

However, in this era, there was no rule to protect human rights and the provisions of corporal torture and forced the palace to force the palace was not allowed. Instead, the idea of ​​not asking or not responding was very popular. During the interrogation, there was no question beforehand, but the slap was first mentioned. Therefore, the torture in the palace was really inappropriate, so the case handling location was set in the Imperial Guardian General Office, which was hidden and safe, and was just tossing on his own territory.
Chapter completed!