Former US Secretary of State Dulles once planned to pin his hopes for the peaceful evolution of China on the third and fourth generations of New China.
However, his plan failed.
Why did his plan fail?
Because, in the face of China, he is obviously too tender, and in this regard, China's experience is much richer than his.
In ancient Chinese history, such dramas did not happen, but emerged one after another.
The most typical, the teacher pits the baby, there are three times.
Let's take a look.
For the first time, Zhao Gao, a eunuch of the Great Qin Dynasty, punished his student baby, Huhai the Second King of Qin.
The eunuch Zhao Gao, a diligent person, was promoted by Qin Shi Huang to the post of Zhongche Fuling and was in charge of the emperor's public opinion.
In addition, because he was smart and studious and proficient in law, Qin Shi Huang also asked him to teach his young son Hu Hai and sentenced him to prison.
At this time, he became the teacher of Huhai of Qin II from a eunuch again.
So, as the teacher of Qin II Huhai, what useful things did he teach his student Wahuhai?
Then he must have taught Hu Hai something useful.
Otherwise, Qin Shi Huang, can he get by?
However, did he teach Hu Hai his own housekeeping skills?
That's definitely not handed over.
Otherwise, how could he later "point to the deer as a horse"?
This "pointing deer as a horse" is his own ultimate scheme to recognize and use people.
Of course, he would not hand over such a scheme to his student Waqin II Huhai.
If he let Qin II Hu Hai also understand this scheme, then how could he use this scheme himself?
And it was precisely because he did not teach Hu Hai the second Qin this scheme, so he used this scheme to identify those in the imperial court who obeyed him and those who did not.
Then, he used means to eliminate those who disobeyed him, and he finally took control of Huhai the second emperor of Qin and the entire Great Qin Dynasty.
Therefore, as the teacher of Qin II Huhai, he has been punishing his student from the very beginning, Qin II Huhai.
However, Qin Er Hu Hai, as his student baby, was shaped and guided by him, and he had no ability to guard against him at all, so it was easy to be pitted by him.
As a student, the consequence of Hu Hai, the second king of Qin, was punished by his teacher Zhao Gao, that is, not only lost his own life, but also buried their entire Great Qin Dynasty.
The second typical example of a teacher pit a baby is that the teachers of Li Chenggan, the crown prince of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin, pit their student Li Chenggan.
Li Chenggan was the eldest son of Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, and was a natural prince of the Tang Dynasty.
His teachers successively included Yu Zhining, Li Baiyao, Du Zhenglun, Kong Yingda, Zhang Xuansu, Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng, and more than a dozen of the most famous readers at that time.
However, these most famous readers at that time, as the prince's teachers, they all said to their own student doll, who was a prince, not to abide by the teacher's morality, follow the good manners, and teach carefully, but to pick their noses and eyes, bent on finding out the various faults of this student doll, and then, either accusing him in person, or going to complain to his father, Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin.
In 640 (the 14th year of Zhenguan), Li Chenggan was just building a house, and Yu Zhining went to Zhining, criticizing him for being too luxurious.
Li Chenggan had fun with the eunuchs, and Yu Zhining criticized him again, comparing him to Huhai the Second King of Qin.
In contrast, Kong Yingda is even more intense, as long as he feels that there is something wrong with Li Chenggan, he will immediately violate Yan directly.
The prince's nursing mother, Mrs. Sui'an, once persuaded Kong Yingda that since the prince was old, it was not appropriate to always criticize and accuse him in person.
Kong Yingda, on the other hand, said that I "die without hatred" for doing this.
There is also Zhang Xuansu, that is even more to the prince all the time, the eagerness of words, I can't wait for Li Chenggan to obey the order immediately, can't have the slightest bit of his own thinking.
So why are these teachers so harsh and harsh on their student baby, who is a prince?
This is actually due to the fact that in 639 AD (the thirteenth year of Zhenguan), Emperor Taizong of Tang Li Shimin issued an edict to set up the Chongwen Hall in the Crown Prince's East Palace.
The edict ordered that all students sent by class examination should enter the Chongwen Hall; A bachelor in the Chongwen Museum, he is in charge of the books of the Donggong scriptures to teach all students.
So, Tang Taizong Li Shimin, why did he set up this Chongwen Pavilion in the Crown Prince's East Palace?
Why did those teachers of the prince pick their noses and raise their eyes at the prince because of this?
This is because Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin, learned a lesson from the father and son of Yang Jian and Yang Guang in the Sui Dynasty and had to do so.
Yang Jian, the founding emperor of the Sui Dynasty, in view of the official selection system of the "nine-product zhongzheng system" during the Wei and Jin dynasties, which caused the gate family to threaten the imperial power and led to the world has been unstable, so he wanted to abolish the official selection system of the "nine-product zhongzheng system" and replace it with the official selection system of the imperial examination.
However, his move was not carried out in a resolute manner, but in an attempt to avoid open conflict with the existing gatekeeper family, and took a gentle approach and carried it quietly.
Although he held the imperial examination and selected some talents, he did not immediately place these talents in important positions, especially did not let these talents establish a close relationship with the crown prince Yang Guang.
This led to Yang Guang's later accession to the throne, and when he clashed with those gate valve families, he did not have his own intimate team available, resulting in Yang Guang being killed by the Yu culture of the gate valve family.
Li Shimin's purpose in setting up this Chongwen Hall in the Crown Prince's East Palace was to let the crown prince Li Chenggan establish close ties with those talents who were promoted through the imperial examination, and after he ascended the throne in the future, he would have his own henchmen available.
Then, this move by Li Shimin is undoubtedly a huge threat to those gatekeeper families.
Therefore, these teachers of Li Chenggan, in fact, they are trying to cooperate with those families and conspire to disrupt Tang Taizong Li Shimin's arrangements for his own posthumous affairs.
While they were picking their noses and eyeballs at the crown prince Li Chenggan, forcing the crown prince Li Chenggan to go crazy and make mistakes, on the other hand, the gatekeeper families were also vigorously building momentum for Li Shimin's other son, Li Tai the King of Wei, in order to encourage Li Tai the King of Wei to seize the concubine from his brother Li Chenggan.
Obviously, if Li Tai, the king of Wei, succeeds in winning the throne and is canonized as a prince, then those students who have been closely related to the old prince Li Chenggan's East Palace in the old prince Li Chenggan will definitely not follow the new prince Li Tai.
In this way, the new crown prince Li Tai will inevitably become a loner like Yang Guang, the emperor of the Sui Dynasty, and will be at the mercy of those gatekeeper families.
Of course, Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin, saw all this clearly, so after the crown prince Li Chenggan was forced to rebel and failed, he did not follow the wishes of those gatekeeper families and installed Li Tai, the king of Wei, who was promoted by those gatekeeper families, as the prince, but appointed Li Zhi, the king of Jin, who was not noticed by everyone, as the prince.
This also led to the fact that after Li Zhi ascended the throne, in order to consolidate his throne, but also to inherit the legacy of his father Li Shimin and overthrow those gatekeeper families, he had to use Wu Zetian as a helper.
Although those families were eventually overthrown by Wu Zetian and Li Zhi, the original prince Li Chenggan became a victim of the whole incident.
He went from being an ex officio prince to becoming a stepping stone to the final success of Wu Zetian and Li Zhi.
And he himself did not have much fault, he was completely pitted by his teachers.
The third typical example of a teacher in Chinese history is that of Huang Zicheng, Qi Tai and Fang Xiaozi, the teachers of the second emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yunjiang, who punished their student Zhu Yunjiang.
Zhu Yunjiang was Zhu Yuanzhang's grandson, because his father Zhu Biao inexplicably died of a violent illness, and he was his father's only remaining son, so he succeeded his father Zhu Biao as the crown prince and became Zhu Yuanzhang's grandson, and finally, after Zhu Yuanzhang's death, he successfully ascended the throne.
In the first few months of his accession to the throne, Zhu Yunjiang hurriedly began to reduce the domain, and in a very drastic way.
Within a year, he abolished the titles of five princes in a row on a number of charges, both with and without some offense, namely Zhu Wei the King of Zhou, Zhu Gui the Acting King, Zhu Bai the King of Xiang, Zhu Yu the King of Qi, and Zhu Feng, the King of Min.
This caused Zhu Di, the strongest of the other clan kings, to rebel, and eventually defeated his imperial army and seized his throne.
So, why did Zhu Yunjiang cut the domain in such a hurry? Is this his own independent idea?
In fact, Zhu Yunjiang is a puppet, and all his behaviors are controlled by his teachers behind the scenes.
And as the prince's teacher, the most learned person in the world at that time, these old pedants, it is impossible not to know that the mistakes of the early Western Han Dynasty were also cut by radical fabricated charges, and as a result, they were strongly rebounded and they were beheaded from the waist.
However, the later Emperor Wudi of Han used the method of "Tui En Ling" to form a geometric division within the various princely states, so that he successfully cut the domain invisibly.
So, why didn't Zhu Yunjiang's teachers advise him to adopt the successful method of reducing the domain in history, but manipulate him to adopt the failed method of reducing the domain?
This is because his teachers advocated the reduction of the domain, not to consolidate his imperial power, but to overthrow the policy formulated by his grandfather, Zhu Yuanzhang.
Of course, the policy formulated by Zhu Yuanzhang is that only his children and grandchildren, those clan kings, will adhere to most firmly.
Without the elimination of his children and grandchildren, the clan kings, it would be impossible to overthrow the policies formulated by Zhu Yuanzhang.
Therefore, if it is only to consolidate the imperial power and cut the domain, then of course you can not be in a hurry and take your time; Of course, it is necessary to use the "Tui En Order" method to cut the clan.
However, if the clan is cut in order to overthrow the policy formulated by Zhu Yuanzhang, then the method of the "Tui En Order" is undoubtedly too slow, and it will take several generations to succeed.
Therefore, the method of the "Tui En Order" must not be used, and it is necessary to adopt a radical way to cut the domain, so as to overthrow the policy formulated by Zhu Yuanzhang as soon as possible.
So, what policy are they going to overthrow?
Look at what Zhu Di did after seizing the throne, you can see, what are they trying to overthrow?
After Zhu Di seized the imperial throne, his most notable action was to move the imperial capital to Beijing.
Before his death, Zhu Yuanzhang also planned to move the capital, but Zhu Yuanzhang planned to move the capital to Chang'an, Shaanxi.
His crown prince, Zhu Biao, came back and died of a violent illness after inspecting the location of the relocation of the capital.
And Zhu Biao's violent illness and death disrupted Zhu Yuanzhang's plan to move the capital, so Zhu Yuanzhang's capital was not moved.
So why did Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di abandon Nanjing, the existing capital, and move the capital to Chang'an or Beijing?
Let's look at another of Zhu Di's most significant actions after he seized the throne - sending Zheng He to the West.
Why did Zhu Di send Zheng He to the West?
It is to make up for the shortcomings of Zhu Yuanzhang's "ban the sea" policy.
The purpose of Zhu Yuanzhang's "sea ban" policy was to curb businessmen from getting rich in business and prevent too many rich people from producing in society.
However, his goal was to target the rich, and the actual "sea ban" effect also hurt the poor who relied on industrial and commercial production to support their families, resulting in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions where industry and commerce were developed, forming a social atmosphere of great dissatisfaction with the imperial court.
The reason why Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di moved the capital was that the social atmosphere in Jiangsu and Zhejiang was extremely unfriendly to the imperial court, and it was easy to affect the implementation of imperial court policies by imperial court officials.
Therefore, Zhu Di sent Zheng He to the West in order to make up for the shortcomings of Zhu Yuanzhang's "ban on the sea" policy, help those poor people who rely on industry and commerce to live, and sell their products.
Looking at it this way, we know that Zhu Yunjiang's teachers are going to overturn what policy Zhu Yuanzhang has.
What they want to overthrow is Zhu Yuanzhang's "ban the sea" policy.
In other words, those teachers of Zhu Yunjiang stand in the position of the rich and seek benefits for the rich people.
It is precisely because they stand in the position of the rich and seek benefits for the rich that they not only want to overthrow Zhu Yuanzhang's "forbidden sea" policy, but they want to overthrow all of Zhu Yuanzhang's policies.
Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di's father and son, reused eunuchs, and arranged eunuchs in various departments to supervise court officials and those rich people.
Zhu Yunjiang's teachers, on the other hand, hated eunuchs very much, and after taking power, they severely attacked them.
So, as Zhu Yunzhang's grandson, why would he allow his teachers to act perversely and confront Zhu Yuanzhang everywhere?
Because, like that Qin II Huhai, Zhu Yunjiang was also shaped and guided by his teachers, and he also had no ability to identify and prevent his teachers at all.
There is nothing new in history, it is nothing more than a repetition of past history.
So, Chinese have experience in this area.
The careful thinking and little tricks of the Americans are really not enough to see in front of Chinese.
Under the careful planning of the Americans, there is no need to look closely at how many Qin II Hu Hai and how many Ming II Zhu Yunjiang are in our Chinese society today.
However, the Qin Dynasty was dried up, but the Ming Dynasty was still alive and well after Zhu Yunjiang.
That's the difference in creation.
Sometimes, people work hard and have to hope for heaven's help.