In the TV series "Know It or Not", the new emperor ascended the throne, and there was a new faction in the DPRK that supported the new emperor and the old faction headed by the empress, and since then, the various disputes between the courtiers have always been unable to escape the contradiction between the new and old factions.
After overcoming many difficulties, Zhu Yuanzhang finally established the Ming Dynasty, and two major gangs also appeared in the DPRK, namely the Huaixi clique headed by Li Shanchang and the Zhedong clique headed by Liu Bowen.
The world gradually stabilized, there was no need for the government and the opposition to unite with the outside world, there was no peace at the time of the uprising, and the accumulated contradictions made the two major gangs fight openly and secretly.
The leader of the Huaixi clique was Li Shanchang, the first meritorious servant of the founding of the country by Zhu Yuanzhang, and the head of the six founding dukes. The members of the Huaixi Group are almost all old ministers who followed Zhu Yuanzhang's self-made family, and they are Zhu Yuanzhang's own people who have nothing to say.
The leader of the Zhejiang Eastern Clique was Liu Bowen (Liu Ji), and although Liu Bowen also made a lot of contributions to Zhu Yuanzhang's fight against the world, after all, it was only a newcomer who turned to Zhu Yuanzhang when Zhu Yuanzhang had already achieved a small achievement, so Zhu Yuanzhang only gave him the status of a count when he was a great hero, and was the last count.
On the surface, the Huaixi Group has taken full advantage of the time and place, after all, the more marginal members of the Huaixi Group are probably higher than Liu Bowen's titles.
With such a huge disparity, according to common sense, Zhejiang East Group should have no counterforce against Huaixi Group. However, at that time, under the leadership of Mr. Liu Bowen, Zhejiang East Group was not only able to compete with such a strong Huaixi Group, but even suppressed the Huaixi Group for a time.
The reason for this is that there have been too many sayings since ancient times, and Xiaobian naturally has his own views.
1. Jealousy from the Emperor
As mentioned before, the main officials of the Huaixi Clique are all old people who started from scratch with Zhu Yuanzhang, which can be said to have made great contributions to his founding cause. But it is these ministers who are most likely to be proud of themselves.
The Huaixi clique not only had civilian officials in charge of the people's livelihood, but also military generals with heavy troops, and before the founding of the country, the Ming Emperor worked together from top to bottom, and Zhu Yuanzhang was not worried about the military power falling. However, after the founding of the country, these important ministers had heavy troops in their hands, and if they were to keep to themselves in peace, if one day they had a different heart, it would be quite troublesome to suppress.
The Zhedong Group was willing to find some trouble for the Huaixi Group, and Zhu Yuanzhang could not ask for it. Therefore, when Zhu Yuanzhang encountered disputes between the two factions, he often did not try his best to reconcile, but from time to time promoted the war between the two factions, such as "inadvertently" revealing some not-so-good comments of the Officials of the Zhejiang Eastern Group to the Officials of the Huaixi Group, and for example, some small actions made by the Ministers of the Huaixi Group in private, they could always "accidentally" let the Eastern Zhejiang Ministers discover.
Zhu Yuanzhang was happy to see zhu Yuanzhang's victory in such a harmless struggle for the country, and the supreme ruler of the feudal dynasty was not afraid of some contradictions among his subordinates, and as long as these contradictions did not delay major events, there was no problem, but he was afraid that his courtiers would unite as one, which was very unfavorable to the centralization of power by the emperor.
2. The plot of the chief Liu Ji
Liu Ji, the leader of the Zhedong Group, is definitely an important reason why the Zhedong Group can gain the upper hand.
Liu Ji, known as Zhuge Liang's reputation, said that there were so many ministers who founded the country, and no one could compare with Liu Ji on the art of power and scheming, even if it was Li Shanchang, the leader of the Huaixi clique and known as the first meritorious man, he was definitely not Liu Ji's opponent.
Originally, although the Zhejiang East Group and the Huaixi Group often had some disputes due to political disagreements, they were still able to maintain a superficial peace.
Although Liu Ji was powerful, in the end he did not have much power, and he was always under the defense of the Huaixi clique and the emperor, and even the most superb power and scheming skills had nowhere to be exercised.
However, this situation did not last long, and the fuse that ended the apparent peace between the two factions was a man named Li Bin. Li Bin, one of Li Shanchang's cronies, was arrested by Liu Ji for committing a crime.
After that, Li Shanchang repeatedly asked Liu Ji to release Li Bin, but Liu Ji was unmoved and insisted on killing Li Bin.
After all, Liu Ji had been suppressed by Li Shanchang for so long, it was hard to have a chance to make him uncomfortable, how could he let go of such a good opportunity?
Li Shanchang was very angry when he found out, and immediately found a crime and participated in Liu Ji's book with Zhu Yuanzhang.
Liu Ji knew Zhu Yuanzhang's dilemma at that time, and after some planning, decided to exchange his initiative for the guilt in Zhu Yuanzhang's heart.
In this way, even if he was forced to leave the political center temporarily, Zhu Yuanzhang would remember this person, and only when the time was ripe, he could still return to the emperor's side.
After Liu Ji took the initiative to resign and return to his hometown, he secretly supported his spokesman Yang Xian to become the leader of the new generation of the Zhejiang Eastern Group.
Who is Yang Xian?
Zhu Yuanzhang's intelligence officers in the early days were also Li Shanchang's sworn enemies. We can imagine that such a person became the leader of the Zhejiang Eastern Group, even if Liu Bowen and Li Shanchang did not have a grudge before, Yang Xian would also regard the Huaixi Group as a thorn in the flesh in his eye, and want to get rid of it quickly.
In short, Liu Bowen calculated every step clearly, plus he had no intention of really letting go, so he naturally retreated into the background and directed every step of the Zhejiang East Group's actions against the Huaixi Group. At this moment, even though the Huaixi clique was sitting on a heavy courtier, there was no countermeasure in the face of Liu Bowen, who was commanding in the shadows.
3. The combat effectiveness of officials in eastern Zhejiang
As we introduced before, because the Huaixi Group is an old man who started from scratch with Zhu Yuanzhang, most of the officials of the group have obtained relatively high titles and held important positions when they were greatly enfeoffed as heroes in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Compared with the prominent Huaixi clique, the latecomer Zhejiang Dong clique is far behind, but the Zhedong clique is composed of a group of officials of the imperial court, from the family trivia of the Son of Heaven to the character and talent of the courtiers, all of which these officials can talk about at will.
Therefore, the ministers of the Zhejiang Eastern Clique, headed by Yang Xian, exerted their privileges as officials and constantly said some rumors about Li Shanchang in front of Zhu Yuanzhang. At first, Zhu Yuanzhang certainly did not believe it, after all, these officials were not comparable to Li Shanchang, the "Xiannei Helper" who had followed him all the way, and other Huaixi group officials.
But even the most rational people can't bear to listen to these rumors every day. Gradually, Zhu Yuanzhang also had a different view of the Huaixi Group in his heart, and gradually began to alienate these people.
So since the Zhedong Group can slander the Huaixi Group at will, then the Huaixi Group is all dumb, and can't it treat its body in the way of others?
Not really. Although the officials of the Huaixi clique are much higher in rank than those officials, they simply cannot face the officials of the shangyan at all; first, they cannot say that they cannot speak of the officials, and second, the officials can say that they are not, because that is the work of those officials, but if they openly say that those officials are not, I am afraid that they will only attract the dissatisfaction of the emperor.
Therefore, under the strong combat effectiveness of the Zhedong Group, the Huaixi Group was gradually overwhelmed.
Seeing that the struggle between these two major gangs was about to end in a complete victory for the Zhejiang East Group, Li Shanchang finally realized that he was no longer suitable to be the leader of the Huaixi Group at this time, and the most urgent thing was to learn from Liu Bowen and support a "spokesman" who could be completely controlled by himself, and it was the wisest move to retreat behind the scenes.
And this person is the famous Hu Weiyong. Hu Weiyong did bring the Huaixi clique, which was about to collapse, back to life, but he also completely pushed Li Shanchang into a place of no return, which is the last word.
However, I think that even if the Huaixi Group really can't support it, Zhu Yuanzhang will not look at the Zhejiang East Group as a dominant family, and with the intervention of the emperor, it will be difficult to say whose hand the deer died.
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