It was not until Zhuge Liang's death that Liu Chan killed 3 ministers in succession, and people discovered that Liu Chan was not a simple person, and he had been hiding deeply.
The first minister was Li Mi
Li Mi was from the Hao clan of Yizhou, and the Li family was quite powerful in Yizhou.
He has three brothers, all of whom are worldly talents, known as the "Three Dragons of the Li Clan", except for Li Mi. It can be seen that this Li Mi is not very smart.
However, Li Mi is obviously unaware of this, and he is not only very self-conscious, but also a typical opportunist.
Li Mi had originally worked under Liu Zhang, serving as an unknown petty official, and he was naturally dissatisfied.
Therefore, when Liu Bei entered Yizhou, Li Mi resolutely switched to Liu Bei's men, hoping to use this to soar.
Liu Bei appointed him to Yizhou, and although this official was not large, he could often accompany Liu Bei around, and as long as he performed well, he would be promoted to a higher rank and get rich.
During a festival, Liu Bei invited the officials of the government to celebrate the festival with everyone, and Li Mi was also among them.
During the banquet, Li Mi actually accused Liu Bei of not taking Yizhou, and Liu Bei was so angry that Liu Bei wanted to cut him off on the spot.
Fortunately, Zhuge Liang saw that Li Mi was a straight man and admired him, so he strongly dissuaded Liu Bei and saved Li Mi.
Obviously, Li Mi scolded Liu Bei on purpose, in order to arouse Zhuge Liang's idea, so as to follow Zhuge Liang, it seems that he still dislikes Yizhou for engaging in this official.
After that, Li Mi was hidden in the snow for a long time, until Liu Bei died and Zhuge Liang took power, and he was able to see the light of day again.
Relying on Zhuge Liang's relationship, Li Miguan worshiped Qian as Taishou, joined the army of Xiangfu, and was a general of An Han, and for a time he was in the limelight.
In 228 AD, Zhuge Liang's first Northern Expedition, Li Mi was also in the entourage.
Zhuge Liang sent Ma Mo to lead an army into battle, but because Ma Mo did not listen to Zhuge Liang's arrangement, he was self-conscious and did not listen to advice, resulting in the loss of soldiers and the loss of strategic street kiosks.
Zhuge Liang decided to punish Ma Chen's capital offense as an example.
At this time, Li Mi ran out to sing the opposite tune, and also quoted the scriptures and said a bunch of big truths, just one meaning: Ma Mo can't be killed.
As everyone knows, Zhuge Liang did not want to kill Ma Mo, but if he did not kill Ma Mo, he could not calm the hearts of the army and give an account to the dead soldiers.
Zhuge Liang also didn't bother to talk nonsense with Li Mi and directly drove him back to the Shu Kingdom, so as not to look at him.
Since then, Li Mi has been beaten into the cold palace and is no longer reused. It wasn't until Zhuge Liang's death that Li Mi saw an opportunity.
At that time, Emperor Liu Chan was wearing filial piety and was guarding filial piety for Zhuge Liang.
Li Mi took advantage of the opportunity of no one around and ran to say bad things about Zhuge Liang. He said that Zhuge Liang's power had fallen to the opposition, which had seriously threatened the position of Liu Chan, the emperor.
Fortunately, Zhuge Liang was dead, and the Shu Han's Jiangshan did not know who it was.
Obviously, Li Mi wanted to use this move to show loyalty to Liu Chan, so as to get Liu Chan's reuse.
Fortunately, Li Mi was naïve, and Liu Chan was not stupid.
As Li Mi said, Zhuge Liang's power was tilted toward the opposition, and most of the officials in the DPRK and China were promoted by him, and whether Zhuge Liang liked it or not, these people had already formed a force.
Once Liu Chan released a hint of wanting to liquidate Zhuge Liang, these people did everything in order to protect themselves.
Therefore, Liu Chan had only one choice, that is, to kill Li Mi to reassure the hearts of these officials.
As a result, Liu Chan showed a look of great sorrow and indignation, and put Li Mi in prison, and soon executed him.
The second minister was Liu Yan
This Liu Yan is not simple, not only qualified to be old, but also distinguished.
When Liu Bei was serving as an assassin in Yuzhou, Liu Yan was serving under him, and Zhuge Liang did not know where it was at that time.
What is even more precious is that Liu Yan, like Liu Bei, is a relative of the Han Dynasty, and with his joining, Liu Bei's identity as Uncle Huang is no different from being more convincing.
For Liu Yan, this "relative", Liu Bei still attaches great importance to it, usually going out to socialize and pull relationships, always taking Liu Yan with him. And Liu Yan, with his good conversation, did win a lot of interests for Liu Bei.
After Liu Bei captured Yizhou, he made Liu Yan the Taishou of Guling Commandery.
And Liu Yan really made his mark after Liu Bei's death.
Liu Chan succeeded to the throne, Zhuge Liang took the throne, as an old minister of the Shu Han Dynasty and a relative of the Han Dynasty, Liu Yan was given the title of Marquis of Duxiang, and concurrently served as a wei lieutenant, a chinese army division, and a cheqi general.
His status was second only to Liu Bei's chancellor Zhuge Liang and Li Yan.
Because Zhuge Liang likes to do everything himself, although Liu Yan has a lofty position, he does not have much to do, and his main work is to check and fill in the gaps for Zhuge Liang and make suggestions.
But don't underestimate Liu Yan because of this.
The main reason for the failure of Zhuge Liang's Fourth Northern Expedition was that Li Yan, who was in charge of logistics, mischief-making, caused the Shu Han army to have insufficient food and grass and had to retreat.
Afterwards, Zhuge Liang found all the ministers to jointly impeach Li Yan, and the one whose name was written in the front was Liu Yan, and Zhuge Liang was still ranked behind him.
The ancients paid attention to the order of dignity and inferiority, and when writing the sonata, whose name was in front was very exquisite. It can be seen that speaking of identity alone, Liu Yan even surpassed Zhuge Liang.
Unfortunately, identity is a thing that is often virtual.
Once, Liu Yan and Wei Yan clashed, and the two directly quarreled.
At that time, Wei Yan was a red man in front of Zhuge Liang's eyes, and Zhuge Liang naturally stood on Wei Yan's side.
Zhuge Liang reprimanded Liu Yan fiercely, asked him to write a review, and then sent him to Chengdu.
Although Liu Yan's official position was retained, he was never reused since.
For a man, career and family are the two things he cares about the most.
Since Liu Yan had failed in his career, he naturally focused all his energy on his family, which was originally a good thing, but it caused him the disaster of killing.
In 234, the year of Zhuge Liang's death, Liu Yan's wife Hu Shi entered the palace to congratulate the empress dowager on the New Year according to the custom, and as a result, she stayed in the palace for a month before returning home.
Hu's beauty and charm, Liu Yan has always been proud to have such a wife, not seen for a month, very worried.
Since he had not seen his wife for a long time, he began to think wildly. Considering that Hu Shi did not go home in the palace for a long time, this was not normal, and there was only one man in the palace, Emperor Liu Chan, so he suspected that Hu Shi had an affair with Liu Chan.
When Hu returned home, Liu Yan sent people to torture Hu, and Hu said that he was innocent. However, Liu Yan did not believe it, and eventually gave Hu Shi a break and then drove him out of the house.
In those days, it was difficult for a woman to survive on her own.
The grief-stricken Hu clan went down to the government to sue Liu Yan in one breath.
Originally, the official government would not take care of this matter, although Liu Yan did not have any real power, but he was a high-ranking official of the imperial court. However, Hu Shi directly pulled out the emperor Liu Chan, and the nature of this matter was different and must be strictly investigated.
Eventually, Liu Yan was executed for slandering the emperor. In order to avoid similar incidents, Liu Chan abolished the custom of officials' wives entering the palace to celebrate the empress.
The third minister was Yang Yi
Yang Yi is a person with more than enough talent and insufficient virtue.
He originally served as the chief bookkeeper under Fu Qun of Jingzhou, but after analyzing the situation at that time, he decided to defect to Liu Bei.
Liu Bei was thirsty for talent at that time, and after talking with Yang Yi, he found that he was a talent, so he stayed by his side.
Later, Yang Yi successively served as Shangshu and Hongnong Taishou, and his real development did not wait until after Zhuge Liang took power.
During Zhuge Liang's reign, the most important target was the Northern Expedition, and Zhuge Liang's right and left arm in the Northern Expedition were Yang Yi and Wei Yan.
Every time Zhuge Liang went on a northern expedition, specific affairs such as logistics were entrusted to Yang Yi to take care of.
Whether it was the allocation of grain and grass, the specific arrangements for marching operations, and even the various rules and regulations in the barracks, Yang Yi was well organized and did not need Zhuge Liang to worry about it at all.
Zhuge Liang only needs to grasp the general direction.
Therefore, although Yang Yi's official position was not very high, he held the real power of the Shu Han army. This also made him not pay attention to anyone other than Zhuge Liang, including Wei Yan.
However, Yang Yi was arrogant, Wei Yan was even more arrogant, as a military general, he only served Zhuge Liang in this life, and did not pay attention to Yang Yi, a civilian official, and naturally did not want to obey Yang Yi's orders.
If it weren't for Zhuge Liang's presence, Shu Han wouldn't have had to go north at all, and the two of them would have fought first.
In order to reconcile the contradictions between these two people, Zhuge Liang did not worry less, but it was of little significance.
When Zhuge Liang died on the way to the Seventh Northern Expedition, the contradictions that the two had accumulated for many years broke out at once.
Previously, Zhuge Liang felt that his limit was approaching, so he secretly arranged a withdrawal plan, and the most important task was completed by Wei Yan.
At the same time, Zhuge Liang also warned Yang Yi and others that if Wei Yan refused to break the queen, he should not force it and let Wei Yan make his own decision.
So Yang Yi blocked the news of Zhuge Liang's death, did not let people know the news of Zhuge Liang's death, and then sent Fei Yi to test Wei Yan.
Wei Yan was a fierce general in the world, and immediately said that even if Zhuge Liang was gone, he could lead the Shu army to continue the Northern Expedition, and if he did not achieve some results, he would be willing to go back.
Besides, he Wei Yan was a man who stood tall in the sky, how could he give a person like Yang Yi the queen of the palace? In short, Wei Yan was absolutely unwilling to do the things behind the palace.
Yang Yi was naturally very angry after hearing this, and coupled with the fact that the two had never been compatible, he directly left Wei Yan behind, and retreated with a large army without greeting.
Only Wei Yan's army remained, alone.
Wei Yan had always been arrogant, and he had just said that he would lead the Northern Expedition, and as a result, the Shu Han army had all withdrawn, completely punching her in the face.
Therefore, Wei Yan led his army to catch up with Yang Yi's army and destroyed all the retreating roads and bridges.
Before this was over, Wei Yan also played Liu Chan, saying that Yang Yi intended to rebel.
Yang Yi did not show weakness either, and also played Liu Chan, saying that it was Wei Yan who wanted to rebel.
At this point, the two were destined not to die and simply fought.
However, Yang Yi obeyed Zhuge Liang's orders, which occupied an absolute advantage, and in the end, Wei Yan was killed by Yang Yi's people, and the storm came to an end.
Although Yang Yi won over Wei Yan, it was a pity that he was not the final victor.
He believed that he had diligently and earnestly beaten Zhuge Liang for so many years, deeply participated in zhuge liang's every plan, and was zhuge liang's successor.
However, what he did not know was that Zhuge Liang had made arrangements before he died, and he had secretly played Liu Chan, saying that Yang Yi was narrow-minded and could not take on heavy responsibilities, and once he was gone, he recommended Jiang Huan to replace him.
Therefore, when Yang Yi's class returned to the dynasty, he was not reused by Liu Chan, but saw Jiang Huan, whom he had always looked down on, sit in the position he had longed for.
He was indignant about this. In his opinion, his seniority is older than Jiang Huan's, his merits are greater than Jiang Huan's, and as for his talent, he is far superior to Jiang Huan, and he is stronger than Jiang Huan in all aspects.
Therefore, Yang Yi often complained about this matter with people, and the colleagues around her were worried about being implicated and did not dare to communicate with them.
Fei Yi did not care about this, and often went to Yang Yi's mansion to walk around.
Yang Yi felt that the world was cold, and Fei Yi was worthy of deep friendship, so he spat bitter water at him, and even said that he should have led his army to cao Wei in the first place.
He was originally drunk and gaffe, saying something angry, but he didn't want Fei Yi to say these words secretly to Emperor Liu Chan.
So Liu Chan didn't say a word, demoted Yang Yi to a commoner, and exiled to Hanjia County.
However, Yang Yi did not repent and continued to say bad things about Liu Chan and the imperial court, so Liu Chan sent someone to punish him for offending, and Yang Yi hanged himself in fear.
In fact, since Zhuge Liang's death, Yang Yi's death has been doomed.
After all, Yang Yi and Wei Yan were both Zhuge Liang's right and left arms, with great influence, and at the same time arrogant, Zhuge Liang barely suppressed them when he was alive, and now that Zhuge Liang was gone, Liu Chan had no confidence in controlling these two people.
For Liu Chan, these two people must be killed.
When Yang Yi got rid of Wei Yan, Liu Chan was looking for an opportunity to get rid of Yang Yi. Obviously, Fei Yi was Liu Chan's man, and he befriended Yang Yi on Liu Chan's orders in order to collect evidence to convict Yang Yi.
Thanks to Yang Yi's pretentiousness, he didn't even know why he died.
Liu Chan's deep intention to kill the heavy subjects
On the surface, the deaths of these three important ministers all had their own reasons, and they basically died by themselves. In fact, even if no one made a mistake, Liu Chan had to kill several important ministers.
Because after Zhuge Liang's death, Liu Chan wanted to take back the rights that should have belonged to him.
The world only saw that during Zhuge Liang's reign, Liu Chan was addicted to pleasure, ignored the affairs of the dynasty, and was a Dou who could not be supported.
In fact, Liu Chan's move was the smartest thing to do.
Who is Zhuge Liang? Liu Bei's entrusted and lonely subjects, the designers of the entire Shu Han Dynasty, were not comparable to Liu Chan in terms of ability and prestige.
If Liu Chan is not addicted to pleasure, what can he do? Handling government affairs? Everything was done by Zhuge Liang, even if he put forward some ideas, could he be smarter than Zhuge Liang?
At that time, it will only appear that he, the emperor, is incompetent, so that his majesty will be swept away.
However, indulging in pleasure and ignoring the government is different, and the so-called "no work can not make mistakes, which not only avoids Liu Chan's own embarrassment, but also maintains the emperor's face.
The appearance of this thing seems useless, but in fact it means that whether the leader is listening to the words or not.
When Zhuge Liang died, Liu Chan understood that it was time to take back his power. But to take over power is not the end of a few holy decrees.
After all, he had been ignoring government affairs for many years, and although his holy decrees still worked, those officials might have been perfunctory. At this time, he needs to kill Li Wei.
Only by killing a few important ministers would the ministers realize that this Shu Han was his Liu Chan's final say.
Of course, killing people is also exquisite, and it is necessary to kill them reasonably and reasonably, and it is necessary to understand which people can be killed and which people cannot be touched.
And the three people that Liu Chan killed were very representative.
Li Mi was the representative of the local magnates, Liu Yan was the representative of the Han dynasty, and Yang Yi was the representative of Zhuge Liang's ministers.
Killing these three people was actually a warning to these three forces that he Liu Chan was not easy to mess with.
Of course, in order to appease the most powerful Zhuge Liang ministers, Liu Chan also reused Jiang Huan.
This pull and a dozen barely subdued the ministers of Zhuge Liang's department.
As for the other ministers, naturally they only have the share of obedience.
As for Jiang Huan, although he seemed to have the same power as Zhuge Liang, Liu Chan, who had regained his power, could completely restrain Jiang Huan through other ministers, so there was no need to worry.
This is why, Jiang Wan's concept of governing the country, Liu Chan can veto it in one sentence.
At this point, it can be seen how far-sighted Liu Chan was in killing the 3 heavy ministers, and he was definitely not an unsupportable Ah Dou.
Of course, his talent stopped here, and he just played with the court's power plot.
Counting on his ability to turn the tide and save Shu Han from a dangerous situation is really too high to look at him. After all, Zhuge Liang's long-cherished wish that had not been realized for many years, how could Liu Chan possibly do it!