From ancient times to the present, people's thinking has always been "everything is inferior, only reading is high", and the ultimate dream of all readers is to go to the temple to share the worries and difficulties of the emperor.
However, "under the whole world, there is no royal land." Lead the coast of the land, can not be the king's subjects. "The emperor holds the power of life and death of all people in a country, so people say that "accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger", and if you are not careful, you will reveal the rolling ground and live a blissful life.
There has always been a proverb in ancient China, which is called: "A king wants his subjects to die, and a subject has to die." The Father makes the Son die, and the Son cannot fail. This sentence is to describe the patriarchal political system of the family world, the king has the supreme power.
Fenghou Baixiang Pingbu Qingyun
Mr. Zhang Zai Zhang Hengqu, a great Confucian of the Northern Song Dynasty, once described the mission of the reader as "to establish a heart for heaven and earth, to establish a destiny for the people, to continue to learn from the saints, and to open up peace for all the worlds." ”
This sentence has been passed down from generation to generation and is deeply endorsed by readers, and Feng Youlan once called it "the four sentences of the horizontal canal". However, for readers, this is not an easy path.
Not to mention how difficult it is to select officials, otherwise there would be no such story as "Fan Jin zhongju", even if he can get the first place in the scientific expedition and get the appreciation of the monarch, and from then on, he will be able to sit back and relax?
Of course not, when the monarch has absolute authority, those around him must fear whether he is moody or not, and the killing is not too good.
Even the best strategists can not always please the king, such as the famous scholar Liu Yong of the Qing Dynasty, even if he has the reputation of "thick ink prime minister", he has passed by several times in his career and the disaster of killing, and he has escaped the disaster and been able to grow old by virtue of his clever mind.
Liu Yong, the character Chongru, was the eldest son of the military minister Liu Tongxun, carrying his father's ardent expectations, in the sixteenth year of Qianlong, the thirty-one-year-old Liu Yong was admitted to the jinshi, starting from the study of politics, successively served as a prefect, a press envoy, a cabinet scholar, and even an inspector of a province, Liu Yong's official fortunes can be called a smooth step.
Presumably everyone has heard of a TV series called "Iron Tooth Copper Tooth Ji Xiaolan", in which Ji Xiaolan and the traitors and the same dynasty officials, fighting wits and courage around Qianlong, it is very coincidental that Liu Yong also happens to live in this era, and his king is Qianlong Ye.
There is also a TV series called "Prime Minister Liu Luoguo" about Liu Yong, who entered Beijing to take the exam, and met Qianlong, who secretly traveled to observe the people's feelings, and the two of them met and hated each other late, and since then they have achieved a good story of kings and courtiers.
Unfortunately, this honest and honest pure minister also needs to fight with the great traitor and the cunning. After all, justice is about standing against evil.
The two sides of good and evil are one higher
Like Ji Xiaolan, Liu Yong also accompanied Qianlong Ye to the folk travels several times, and naturally he was surrounded by Hezhen, who was loved by Qianlong.
When they are anonymous, the boundaries between kings and subjects will be relatively blurred, and He Yan is just picking this opportunity to take revenge on Liu Yong.
In fact, He Yan had been upset with Liu Yong for a long time. After all, this upright and virtuous minister did not delay and embezzle money, which was bad for his good deeds. On the surface, he didn't care too much, but behind his back, he was eager to get rid of it quickly.
One day, the three of them went out to a river, the weather was just right, the atmosphere was happy and harmonious, everyone talked happily, and He Yan took the opportunity of joking to make the emperor let Liu Yong jump into the river to express his sincerity.
We have no way of knowing what Qianlong thought at that time, but in short, he agreed to this ridiculous proposal and even waited with great interest to see the hilarity.
Many times, malice is said in such a joking tone, and the person may feel uncomfortable, but there is no way to show that he cares. After all, it's just a joke, and if you're serious, you lose.
But this is a world of difference from other jokes! This time the joke gambled on Liu Yong's life, the things on the side can be laughed at, and how can the life-related relationship be easily ignored.
However, Qianlong could say it as a joke, but Liu Yong could not refuse like a joke. Disobeying the emperor's orders is also a great crime of killing the head.
In a hurry, Liu Yong thought of a way to delay time, he asked the emperor to let himself take a hot bath before jumping into the river to commit suicide, the emperor was very curious about what new tricks he could play, and agreed to this not too much request.
Just the time to take a hot bath, He Yan did not think that Liu Yong could escape this dead end.
The heat is full of brilliant ideas
After Liu Yong returned home, he took a comfortable hot bath, and in the heat of the turbulence, Liu Yong looked back on the first half of his life, not only was he sad from it, he had not yet completed his revenge, the imperial court moths and moths that squeezed the people were still alive, but he was going to be killed, how could this make people willing.
In the comfortable water vapor, Liu Yong's thinking was unprecedentedly open and fast, he thought of countless sages and gentlemen from ancient times to the present, and he felt incomparably empathy for their encounters, and then he thought of the earliest sage, Qu Yuan, which gave him the inspiration to get out.
Liu Yongxiao, who had found a way to save his life, was in good spirits, and he climbed out of the hot water and dressed up to find the emperor, who was waiting there to see the outcome of this farce, and he was also looking forward to the initiator of all this.
After Liu Yong met the emperor and expressed his loyal and patriotic fist and pure heart, he jumped into the river without hesitation, and everyone surrounded the river and watched this scene in amazement.
After a while, there was movement from the river, and Liu Yong was drenched but his eyes were calm and determined to climb out of the water.
Qianlong was not angry either, he was waiting for Liu Yong to give him an explanation.
Liu Yong said that he had already jumped into the water, held his breath to the point of some dizziness, and actually saw Qu Yuan, Qu Yuan asked, are you also jumping into the river because of your own monarch's inability to murder Zhongliang?
Liu Yong said that he firmly denied this, and in his heart, Qianlong was a very great and wise emperor, so he lost the qualification to jump into the river and committed suicide and climbed out of the water.
This passage made Qianlong fall silent, and he woke up at this time, his joke was really a bit big, and for a king, a little carelessness would lose his reputation as wise, and even lead to a catastrophe.
Therefore, Qianlong was very grateful to Liu Yong for these remarks, and even gave him many rewards for this, and the relationship between the two monarchs and subjects was as good as ever.
Qianlong thus gained some teachings, and Liu Yong gained more trust from the emperor, while He yan, who provoked right and wrong, gained nothing, and even added another insult to his already bad reputation.
However, this was also a matter of helplessness, after all, he had no way to distort Liu Yong's watertight words, so he had to secretly get angry.
With such ingenuity, Liu Yong lived to the age of eighty-five in the dangerous court, and was posthumously awarded the title of Prince Taibao by the emperor.