In ancient times, the emperor was the lord of the world, the nine-five-year-old, which can be described as the supreme existence of killing and seizing with the law, but today when we read history books or watch costume dramas, we will often find that the emperor will be suspended by the powerful ministers, and the emperor is often cautious to deal with, is afraid to be angry, rarely kills it with a sword, and implements the decapitation action, most of them are patient and do not resign themselves, and wait until the right time comes to fight back.
So since the emperor was empty, and the emperor, as the lord of the world, carried out the decapitation action and killed the power minister with a sword, wouldn't the world be too peaceful, why do many emperors dare not carry out the decapitation action, but they have to be careful, today Song Anzhi said.
Generally speaking, the emperor is the lord of the world, which can be described as "the coast of the land, can not be the king's subject", on the surface, it has absolute power, and has absolute control over the subordinates below, but in essence, the power comes from the obedience and cooperation of the subordinates to the superiors, and then the next level is passed on.
In layman's terms, the emperor is the largest representative of the vested interest group or the ruling group, the basis of his rule is to obtain the support of this privileged group, if the courtiers steal the support of some or most of them, it is equivalent to the actual biggest representative, the emperor is naturally suspended, and it is even more impossible to skip the ruling group and actually control the country.
And the power minister has become the largest representative of the actual ruling group, not only cutting off the obedience and cooperation of the subordinates to the emperor, but also becoming the biggest interest distributor, that is to say, he has the right to appoint personnel, which means that he can use this power to continuously consolidate his position, reuse his own cronies, and then represent a huge interest group, looking at the history books, which power minister is not a party henchman all over the world, or all over the key departments of the imperial court, so even the emperor must not be careful to deal with it. Often, it is not a decapitation action that can be completely resolved, but also the interest groups behind it must also be solved or appeased.
Because if you can't appease, or pacify this interest group, even if you kill the power minister, then you can't solve the fundamental problem, as long as the interest group is in one day, it will frantically fight back, it is not that the interest group is loyal to the power minister, but since it is on the side of the power minister, then it is on the opposite side of the emperor, the power minister is dead, they are naturally afraid of being driven out and killed, thinking that if they do not fight back, the next death will be them.
But why some emperors can succeed in carrying out beheading operations, not afraid of interest groups to counterattack, and smoothly pro-government, while some emperors can not, the following Song Anzhi to specifically talk about the history of the emperor in the face of several situations of being overtaken by the power of the emperor, to talk about the key reasons behind this.
First, the use of beheading was successful, but it was frantically counterattacked by the interest groups behind the powerful ministers, the most typical example being Emperor Xiaozhuang of Northern Wei.
Emperor Xiaozhuang of Northern Wei was a puppet Tianzi, but he was not willing to sit still, so he risked booby-trapping and booby-trapping Erzhu Rong, but after the successful execution of the decapitation operation, he did not have great power, but was instead counterattacked by the Erzhu family, who had military power, and after the defeat of the army, he was captured by Erzhu Zhao and went north, and finally hanged at the third-level Buddhist temple in Jinyang, at the age of 24.
Speaking of Emperor Xiaozhuang, he also had a desolate end, and finally he was hanged, not to mention, after being captured, he was also humiliated, and when he was imprisoned in the monastery, he was tied with chains like a dog, and he had to endure the cold, and a generation of Tianzi fell here, and finally did not wait until the time to break through the clouds and see the sky, which was really lamentable.
Second, the best example of the successful use of decapitation operations and the smooth pro-government is the Kangxi Emperor's wisdom capture of Aobai.
Regarding the allusion of the young Kangxi Emperor's wisdom to capture Aobai, I think everyone is clear, and I will not repeat it here, just to say the main point, why did the Kangxi Emperor clean up the power ministers and did not encounter the crazy counterattack of the interest groups behind him?
The biggest reason is that the power ministers also have a distinction between high and low, there are also three, six, nine and so on, if Cao Cao in the Three Kingdoms period is the strongest power minister, even said that he is not a power minister, but his own construction industry, his own fight in the world, but borrowed the orthodox banner of the Han Xian Emperor to better fight the world, so the Han Xian Emperor could not resist him at all, and the Qing Dynasty's Ao Bai, can only be said to be the weakest power minister, or reluctantly said to be a power minister.
Because during the period when Ao Bai was in power, he actually did not have a substantial grasp of great power, not counting the Kangxi Emperor, the main reason was that the Kangxi Emperor was young and could not independently exercise the emperor's power, and he was one of the four auxiliary ministers left by the Shunzhi Emperor, and indeed had room for unauthorized power.
Of course, even if Ao Bai abuses power, it is only equivalent to the continuation of the struggle between the Shunzhi Emperor and the regent Dolgun in the early Qing Dynasty, like the most famous thing about Ao Bai is to kill Suksaha, who is also one of the four auxiliary ministers, and Suksaha is the white flag, once Dolgun's confidant, although he fell to the Shunzhi Emperor in time after Dolgun's death, but the two white flags behind Dolgun and the two yellow flags behind the Shunzhi Emperor have been fighting for many years, and the grudge is already very deep.
In addition, the Shunzhi Emperor left four auxiliary ministers, in addition to Suksaha, including the first minister of the auxiliary government, Sonny, as well as Shubilong and Aobai are two yellow flags, so a three-to-one situation was formed, so Aobai has been suppressing Suksaha, first in the yellow flag and the white flag circle to exchange land, killed the university scholar Sunahai and other people who were born in the white flag and in charge of the household department Shangshu, in this case, for the common good, Sonny and Shu bilong naturally did not oppose, and later Aobai even more correctly killed Suksaha.
To put it bluntly, Ao bai seems to be usurping power, and despite the Kangxi Emperor's opposition to killing Suksaha, who is also an auxiliary minister, is actually a concrete manifestation of the struggle between the two yellow flags and the two white flags in the early Kangxi period in the early Qing Dynasty, and the reason why the other two auxiliary ministers did not oppose him so chaotically was mainly because they were both two yellow flags, had common interests, and could only turn a blind eye, so Ao Bai actually did not really hold great power, not to mention that there was also a high-prestige empress dowager Xiaozhuang in the palace.
It is precisely because Aobai is the weakest vassal, so even if there are many henchmen, but no real interest group has been formed, so the Kangxi Emperor carried out the decapitation action and captured Aobai, naturally he successfully grasped the power and was able to truly pro-government.
There is also the Ming Dynasty's Chongzhen Emperor's killing of the powerful minister (Quan Emasculation) Wei Zhongxian, which can also be regarded as a model of successful beheading and smooth pro-government.
Wei Zhongxian, like Ao bai, is actually the weakest minister, although on the surface Wei Zhongxian has more power, it is the power of the opposition, the party is all over the world, and even the Chongzhen Emperor who has just entered the palace is cautious, and he also has to bring food in, but in essence, Wei Zhongxian is not as good as Ao bai, because the Emperor of the Apocalypse appointed Wei Zhongxian in fact mainly plays a balancing role, using the castration party to suppress the Wenchen clique, and for a while it is a bloody storm, and Wei Zhongxian's party seems to have the upper hand, but in fact it is just a tool for the emperor's balance. It is even more offensive to the Wenchen clique, rather than dying endlessly.
Because of this, when the Chongzhen Emperor wanted to get rid of Wei Zhongxian, it was quite smooth, because with the full support of the Wenchen Clique, Wei Zhongxian was pushed by everyone against the wall, and naturally he was easily cleaned up.
However, the Chongzhen Emperor seems to be smooth pro-government, in fact, it is very different from the Kangxi Emperor, during the period of the Kangxi Emperor's pro-government, the Qing Dynasty just entered the customs, it is the time of prosperity, the bureaucracy is not bad to the root, after the Chongzhen Emperor pro-government, the Ming Dynasty is already the last year of the sunset of the Western Mountains, not to mention a bunch of mess inside and outside, the bureaucracy is even more inflated, and rotten to the root, so he killed Wei Zhongxian, and abandoned the castration party in the unused, it seems to be pro-government, but also purged the traitors in the DPRK, In fact, it broke the pattern of the eunuch party and balance of the Wenchen clique left by the Tianqi Emperor, and it did not yet have the ability to control the Wenchen clique, which meant that there was no real pro-government, making the Wenchen clique a monopoly, and the control over the imperial court was actually very low, so that when it came later, it used eunuchs to try to break the situation, but unfortunately, with the fall of the Ming Dynasty, it meant that the Chongzhen Emperor's attempt ended in failure.
On the whole, there are not many emperors who have successfully carried out decapitation operations and successfully pro-government, and they are mostly seen in the face of powerful ministers who have not formed interest groups, so they can not be afraid of regurgitation after getting rid of them.
Third, the most secure way is to stabilize the powerful subject, use the age advantage to consume him, and then grasp the overall situation, the best example is The Han Xuan Emperor
Emperor Xuan of Han was the lord of Zhongxing in the Western Han Dynasty, and only 4 emperors of the 12 emperors of the Western Han Dynasty had temple numbers, including Emperor Xuan of Han, and the temple number was Zhongzong, which was enough to see the excellence of Emperor Xuan of Han.
But it was such a shrewd emperor, met Huo Guang, a powerful minister, was helpless, in the face of Huo Guang, Emperor Xuan of Han was extremely uneasy, and even gave birth to the feeling of being like a man on his back, although he was not willing to be a puppet emperor, but Huo Guang was just like the sun in the sky, and he had just deposed Liu He, the king of Changyi, and established him as the new emperor, And Emperor Xuan of Han had no ability to resist at all.
Therefore, Emperor Xuan of Han judged the situation, chose to be patient, trusted Huo Guang quite much, stabilized Huo Guang, used the advantage of age to consume Huo Guang, and then slowly regained real power and redistributed power, two years later, the Huo clan that could not sit still began to rebel, and was easily suppressed by Emperor Xuan of Han, so that Emperor Xuan of Han was completely pro-government, cleared the obstacles, and began his own road of ZTE.
There are also Zhang Juzheng of the Ming Dynasty and Dolgun, the regent of the Qing Dynasty, which can also be seen as examples of the emperor using his age advantage to consume the power of his subjects, and then slowly grasping the power of the government.
Fourth, most emperors did not even have the opportunity to fight back in the face of the powerful ministers, because the powerful ministers had completely replaced him
The emperor was suspended by the powerful ministers, and there were actually many ways to fight back, such as like Emperor Xiaozhuang of Northern Wei, taking one step at a time, first trying to kill the powerful ministers, even if he died afterwards, but did not sit still, he was also a bloody person; or the Kangxi Emperor wisely captured Aobai and was able to smoothly pro-government; or he used the age advantage to consume the powerful ministers, and then carried out the autumn accounting.
But most emperors often do not even have the opportunity to counterattack, or even if they fight back, they cannot even lift a wave; such as Cao Cao, the most powerful minister explained above, this powerful minister cannot actually be summarized by a power minister, because he is not a high-ranking person who climbs to a high position step by step in the Eastern Han court and then steals the emperor's power, but the master of his own meritorious career, just borrowed the orthodox banner of The Han Xian Emperor, so the people below only recognize Cao Cao, only recognize the Cao clan, so the Han Xian Emperor's cloth belt edict is of no use, Therefore, even if Emperor Xiandi of Han took advantage of his age to survive Cao Cao's death, after Cao Cao's death, power did not return to the hands of Emperor Xian of Han, but to Cao Cao's son Cao Pi.
And there are many repetitions in history, the Cao clan, to Cao Cao to the Wei Wen Emperor Cao Pi, and then to the Wei Ming Emperor Cao Rui three generations, it turned out that one generation was not as good as a generation, one generation was shorter than the next, emperor Xian of Han consumed Cao Cao and did not seize the power, and miraculously realized in the hands of Sima Yi, who consumed three generations of Cao's family, Sima Yi through the change of Gaopingling, was to grasp the power of Cao Wei, after three generations of business consolidation, and finally Sima Yi's grandson Sima Yan period usurped Wei Lijin, during which time, said "Sima Zhao's heart is known to everyone" The Wei Emperor Cao Xian was not willing to be a puppet emperor, and led hundreds of servants to try to kill Sima Zhao, but as a result, he was killed without even seeing Sima Zhao's face, which showed how powerless his counterattack was.
Therefore, if the emperor faces a powerful minister who has his own interest group and has completely stolen the right to distribute benefits, he often has no chance to resist at all, either fight to the death and die with backbone, or wait for the power minister or the descendants of the powerful minister to usurp the throne, and pass the throne in the way of Zen in order to survive, such as Emperor Xian of Han and The last emperor of Cao Wei, Emperor Cao Yi.
And this kind of emperor is often the most tragic, even if the Qin Emperor Han Wu is still alive in the face of such a powerful subject, he cannot turn over, like the Han Xian Emperor in the king of the fallen country, in the ordinary world should be a good shoucheng king, but met Cao Cao, in that environment at that time, can only live a life of resignation.
Finally, to sum up, the powerful ministers of the past generations can be called the powerful ministers who can elevate the emperor, either form their own interest groups, or directly replace the emperor as the largest representative of the ruling group, such as Cao Cao; or even if they are not so powerful, they also have a lot of real power, behind which there is a lot of power, with a lot of henchmen, such as Aobai; and the reason why the emperor can carry out the decapitation operation successfully, and smoothly pro-government, is often for such the weakest ministers to succeed.
From the perspective of specific subdivision, the power minister can be divided into three stages:
The first is the junior power ministers, for various reasons can barely be said to be powerful ministers, such as the Ao Bai and Wei Zhongxian explained in the text, although there are many henchmen, but they have not formed their own interest groups, and there are other forces loyal to the emperor that can compete with them, and they do not really control the situation.
In fact, Zhang Juzheng can also be counted as one, after all, the reason why he holds great power is that the Wanli Emperor is young and has no pro-political power; second, the actual family of Empress Li fully supports Zhang Juzheng, so he can become a powerful minister in the Ming Dynasty, where the monarchy is highly concentrated.
Like this kind of powerful minister, the emperor still has the opportunity to turn the tables, usually vain and entrusted, taking advantage of his lack of preparation for a beheading operation, there is still a great chance to smoothly pro-government.
The second is to form interest groups, or steal the interests of the emperor to distribute power, in fact, the largest representative of the ruling group of the power of the courtiers, such power emperors basically have no opportunity to resist, often can only rely on the age advantage to consume it, in the power vacuum period to seize the opportunity to seize power.
Such as Emperor Xuan of Han and Huo Guang, at least have a chance to turn the tables.
The third is to go further on the basis of forming interest groups, so that the interest groups are strong step by step, and finally completely transformed into a ruling group that obeys themselves, and eliminates a small part of the forces loyal to the royal family, and deepens their rule step by step, so that the huge interest groups only recognize themselves, as well as their direct descendants, so that in their own generation, or the next generation, or even the next generation, to complete the final change of ownership of the sheji artifact, so that they or their descendants can further become emperors from the actual rulers.
Like Emperor Xian of Han and Cao Cao, Sima Shi and Emperor Cao Wei are the most obvious examples, and the emperor encountered this situation and had no chance of overturning.
It can be said that the above three kinds of courtiers, no matter which one is not a fuel-saving lamp, even the weakest vassal, although it is impossible to usurp the country, it is also very likely to abolish the emperor, or in the power vacuum period can greatly affect the transmission of the throne, is also a huge threat.
Therefore, the emperor is naturally cautious and wrestles with his wits and courage, even if the decapitation action is carried out, it is also a virtual and vicious snake, step by step booby trap, but there are few successes, because killing the power ministers, often by the crazy counterattack of the interest groups behind them, will re-select a power minister to control the overall situation, and the part that is rarely successful is basically in the face of the weakest power ministers who have not formed interest groups, so as long as they are controlled, other natures will be solved, and the so-called party henchmen are not systematic. Losing the main heart bone will naturally collapse and become vulnerable.
This also shows that the emperor is actually a high-risk profession, it seems that the lord of the world, is high above, in fact, also has to face various challenges, if it is overtaken by a powerful courtier, then the end is also very desolate, even ordinary people are not as good, but even so, there are too many people who want to become emperors one after another, because of the taste of power, once tasted, they can't quit, but they will become more and more obsessed, and even want to go to a higher position, even if the road is full of dangers, even if they sit on the throne, there are countless people peeping, and there are countless people who are looking at the tiger The word power is so magical, creating too much wonderful and bloody history.
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