Great Tang Southern Emperor

"That's why I summoned you to see if we can avoid the family. Let's play by ourselves."

Fang Xuanling still shook his head and said, "I'm afraid it won't work. The aristocratic family's roots in the court are very deep. There are disciples of the aristocratic family in almost every department. It is basically impossible for us to avoid them."

Li Shimin punched his fist and said in a cold voice: "In this case, we can only use Zhen Er's method, so that they can't take care of themselves and have no mood to meddle in our affairs..."

"Your Majesty, what do you mean...you already have an idea?"

"Actually, for this point, Zhen'er has already come up with a solution for me, and has prepared everything." Speaking of what Li Zhen left behind, Li Shimin couldn't help but sighed deeply again: "It's just that I deeply feel that this Objects are a double-edged sword. If you use it well, you can hurt the enemy. If you use it badly, you will hurt yourself. It is also because of this reason that I have always been concerned, and I have not used it... But now it seems that it can deal with This is the only thing that the family even counterattacked back."

Chapter 469

Chapter 142

Fang Xuanling and the others looked at each other, and became more and more curious about what Li Shimin said. They wondered what it was that the emperor said was so miraculous?But when they thought that this thing was left by Li Zhen, they were all relieved. Li Zhen has produced quite a few magical things over the years, and they have already gotten used to it, so it's not bad...

"Your Majesty, I don't know what exactly His Royal Highness Yue left behind?"

Li Shimin glanced at Wei Zheng: "The reason why I didn't release this thing is that apart from the fact that it is very dangerous, another reason is that I didn't find a suitable helm for it, but seeing your performance today, Xuan Cheng, I feel that it should be the best and most appropriate to put it in your hands, and I can rest assured that I will entrust this thing to you."

"Thank you for your trust, Your Majesty. I will make good use of this artifact and never let it harm Datang." Wei Zheng was so grateful that he knelt down to thank him, feeling extremely excited—Li Shimin was willing to put such a powerful thing in his hands. Here, this also means that he has regained Li Shimin's trust. In Wei Zheng's view, this is more important than any artifact.

God knows how he got here all this time?First, there was such a big problem at Yushitai, and then the prince was considered disrespectful by the emperor because of his rude words in the court hall and attacked his brother, so he abolished his position as prince.As the crown prince and grand teacher, Wei Zheng was the first to suffer the ridicule of many people. It was even rumored secretly that he was the prince's killer second only to Li Gang...

Li Gang, with the word Wenji and his first name Li Yuan, was a famous minister in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. He served as the teacher of the three princes in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, but two of the three princes died and the other was killed.

The first prince he assisted was Yang Yong. Everyone knows that Yang Yong was not liked by Yang Jian because of his extravagant life. Later, he was deposed and Yang Guang was replaced as the prince.

Li Gang's second assisted prince was Li Jiancheng... During the Xuanwu Gate incident, Li Jiancheng was killed...

The third is Li Chengqian, who rebelled in Zhenguan for 15 years and was demoted to Qianzhou...

In addition, before the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, Li Gang also assisted Yu Wenxian, King Qiyang of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. Yu Wenxian was also a wise and powerful prince with high prestige, so Yu Wenxian was killed by Emperor Zhou Xuan...

So later people were nicknamed "Prince Killer" by Li Gang - three princes of two dynasties were killed in a row, what is it not a prince killer?

Compared with Li Gang, Wei Zheng was only inferior. He didn't talk about it in his early years. After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, Wei Zheng was first worshiped by Li Jiancheng as the crown prince, so Li Jiancheng was killed...

Later, Li Shimin succeeded to the throne, worshiped him as the prince and grand teacher, and served as Li Chengqian's teacher, so Li Chengqian was abolished...

Compared with Li Gang, he only killed one prince less, and it is really not too much to be secretly called the prince killer...

This made Wei Zheng very depressed, but he couldn't explain this kind of thing—and he couldn't explain it either.

In addition, his own negligence led to such a big mistake in Yushitai. He was already at a loss, so naturally he was ashamed to explain it to Li Shimin. He could only stay at home and let others look at him with colored glasses, but he couldn't justify himself. , It's really aggrieved enough.

It's all right now, I finally got through it, and I regained the trust of the emperor, which is stronger than any artifact.

"Xuan Cheng, please get up quickly." Li Shimin smiled and asked Wei Zheng to stand up. In fact, he has always trusted Wei Zheng from the beginning to the end, and he did not remove him from the position of confidant. .

Of course he understands Wei Zheng's mood some time ago. The Yushitai, which he worked so hard to manage, has a scandal of concealment and failure to report. big.

Li Shimin wanted to comfort him, but he couldn't open his mouth for a while. After all, Yushitai supervised all the officials in the world. Now that there is such a big problem, and the prince was abolished later, if he still expresses his position on such a big matter, he still believes in Wei Zheng. …Then how would he explain to the officials, and how would the officials treat him—we only corrupted a little bit, and you, the emperor, beheaded and deposed. Wei Xuancheng had such a big problem, but you still believed He, how unfair is this?

Now we can only use this and that method to get out of the shadows. Besides, although Wei Zheng's luck is not very good, his character is still very guaranteed, otherwise Li Shimin would not call him his own mirror. .He is indeed the most suitable person in charge of such things in the current court.

Fang Xuanling asked curiously: "I don't know what the emperor said?"

Li Shimin smiled mysteriously, and did not answer, but asked: "Do you know that among the hundreds of scholars in the pre-Qin period, there is a school that records folk street talk and reports it to the monarch, so that the monarch can understand the people's livelihood as the main idea. Dear friends Qing, do you know which family this is?"

Fang Xuanling said without hesitation: "What the emperor is talking about should be a novelist among the hundreds of scholars in the pre-Qin period, and the novelist was created by a barnyard official. Street talk is made by hearsayers.

"Hanshu Yiwenzhi" written by Ban Gu said: "Novelists are created by barnyard officials; street talk is created by hearsayers." 'It means that what novelists do is mainly to record folk street talk and report it to their superiors.Novelists can represent the customs of the four quarters of civilian society.However, because of its small way, it is not valued by the world, and it will eventually be destroyed. "

"Fang Qing is right, but do you know?" Li Shimin first gave Fang Xuanling a thumbs-up, and then his expression became serious: "Novelists are not as simple as we imagined...According to Zhener, in fact The role of the novelist is terrifying, and if it is allowed to truly exert its power, its role should not be inferior to that of the Three Schools of Art of War."

"How is this possible?" Changsun Wuji blurted out, "If novelists are really so terrifying, then they wouldn't be so miserable that they would cut off their inheritance."

"I asked the same question at the time, but Zhen'er explained that it was because previous novelists only aimed their clients at the monarch." Li Shimin's face became more serious: "If novelists can change their thinking and treat their clients as It is the masses of the people, and that is when the novelist's power is fully erupted, no one can beat him... Even if it is a monarch of a country, if the novelist wants to kill him, it is a breeze..."

Chapter 470

Chapter 243 Public Opinion Advantage

"Is it so scary?" Li Jing asked with a frown. Hearing that Li Shimin compared novelists and military strategists, he felt a little uncomfortable——if you have to divide the nine schools into three, six, and nine according to their influence, Ru Mo Dao must be the top three schools, and the next one must be the art of war, and the names of peasants are at the bottom. As for the novelist...

Why is there such a saying?Because the tenth of the nine ten refers to the novelist...

A school that simply collects folk rumors and anecdotes for the monarch to check and understand the details of the folk, in the eyes of the emperor, it can be compared with the three schools of military art?Is the status still higher than that of the farm name and miscellaneous family?

Are you kidding me?

Today is not April Fool's Day.

"Of course, pharmacist, you know Zhen'er, he never tells lies." Li Shimin glanced at Li Jing, knowing what he was thinking, and explained in detail: "Actually, I didn't think much of what Zhen'er said, it's just a It’s just similar to Yushitai’s genre, how could it have such great power? But after Zhen’er’s explanation, I discovered that this genre, which ranks at the bottom of the top ten, actually has such a terrifying potential hidden. "

"I also ask Your Majesty to clarify the confusion for the ministers."

"I ask you, why are the aristocratic families and Confucianism able to control the world, and even affect the overall situation of the world?"

Wei Zheng said without hesitation: "Of course it's because they are famous."

"That's right, because they have a reputation accumulated for thousands of years, when they say bad things about a certain monarch, quite a few people will believe them. If they add some other small tricks, the reputation of this monarch will be rotten." Said At this point, Li Shimin's words changed: "But if I tell you that the novelist is the biggest nemesis of this kind of fame, I don't know whether you believe it or not?"

"...What does the emperor mean?" Several people looked at each other, and they all saw puzzlement in each other's eyes. Li Ji, who had been silent all this time, asked.

"Just now Xuancheng also said that the reason why the aristocratic family is so strong is because they are famous. In the eyes of the hardworking people, the imperial court may not be credible, but the aristocratic family's words are quite credible." Too much, his mouth was a little thirsty, Li Shimin picked up tea to moisten his throat, and then continued: "But I also said that the reason why the family can have such a great reputation is that they have accumulated thousands of years. But since fame is accumulated, it can naturally be consumed—and it is easier to destroy than to build. If the reputation accumulated by the family for thousands of years falls into the hands of novelists, it may only take three to five years to make them famous. Mourning, becoming a street mouse that everyone shouts and beats."

"..." Why did the more I said it, the more outrageous it became?Novelist... so powerful?

"You don't believe it? It's right if you don't believe it." It doesn't take a few people to express their opinions. Just from the expression, Li Shimin knew what he was thinking, and smiled: "When Zhener just said it, I didn't believe it either. But after he explained his idea to me in detail, I discovered that novelists can still use it in this way, and its power can even compete with Confucianism."

"Your Majesty is so blunt..." The five people hurriedly bowed to ask for advice, but they didn't think so in their hearts—it was getting more and more outrageous. Just now, they were no longer under the Second Art of War School. Confucianism has resisted... Your Majesty, can you have a little bit of morality?If a novelist is really so good, how can he still be in this situation today?

"Please, everyone, I will naturally clear up your doubts." Li Shimin smiled and said, "Let's start with the aristocratic family. The reason why the aristocratic family can influence the rise and fall of a dynasty is not only their powerful power, but also their reputation. What fame brings to them is the advantage of public opinion—you may not know what the advantage of public opinion is. You can understand public opinion as rumors or rumors. Because the family has considerable popularity and fame, the advantage of public opinion has always been They are all in the hands of the aristocratic family, as long as the public opinion spread from the aristocratic family can basically be accepted by the general public.

For example, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty was a foolish emperor. Everyone has come from that era and the real situation is very clear.To be honest, although Yang Guang can't be regarded as the emperor of the ages, he is definitely a wise king. It's a pity that he takes too many steps, and his personality is a little too hasty. He wants to use ten years to complete a great cause that takes 100 years to complete... ...This has led to the people's desperation, and the people's complaints.

And the aristocratic family took this opportunity to publicize the faults of Emperor Sui Yang among the people, even out of nothing, and put some things that never happened at all on his head, and even compared him with King Zhou and Qin Shihuang—— —I’m not saying that King Zhou and Qin Shihuang are bad, but that the two people’s reputation among the people is not very good...

Because of these actions of the aristocratic family, Emperor Sui Yang's reputation quickly declined, and he became a rat crossing the street.

In addition, Qin Shihuang and Shang Zhou, whom I mentioned earlier, were also stigmatized in this way.

Because the public opinion is not in their hands, and what they do in some places is really not very good, the people do complain a lot, and they are attacked by the survivors of the Six Kingdoms and Xiqi who control the public opinion... The fate of the two is also the same. We all know that the survivors of the Six Kingdoms and the royal family of the Western Zhou Dynasty completely ruined their reputation, and then took advantage of the trend to successfully overthrow the Great Qin and Shang dynasties.

This is the power of public opinion, which can infinitely magnify a person's shortcomings, and with some extra means, finally achieve the goal of killing this person completely. "

"Hiss..." The five people in the audience gasped suddenly. They didn't notice it before and didn't think it was a big deal, but now after Li Shimin's analysis, they realized that rumors can still be used in this way, which is indeed terrifying. strength.