Chapter 9 The Lies of the History Books
"Ahem!!"
Seeing that all the people who should come arrived, Li Zhi coughed violently a few times and said intermittently, "After my death, the Crown Prince Li Xian ascended the throne in front of the coffin and buried Qianling Mausoleum, so as to be frugal."
Shangguan Wan'er wrote a flying letter on rice paper, writing Li Zhi's last decree on his deathbed.
Wu Zetian suddenly asked coldly, "Master, the prince is weak and has no experience in handling national affairs. Should he arrange an auxiliary government to help deal with national affairs?"
Li Zhi nodded in pain and ordered the servant Pei Yan to step forward, grabbed Pei Yan's hand and squeezed it tightly, and said in a angrily manner, "Pei Aiqing, responsible minister, assisted the prince, and managed the national affairs."
The Secretariat was the head of the prime minister. Li Zhi appointed Pei Yan as the head of all officials and the minister of the regent, which was actually because he had high hopes for him. It was not the high hopes of managing the court, but the high hopes of restraining the tiger mother.
Yang Yao suddenly realized that the tiger mom and cat father had been in love and killing each other for decades. Before his death, the cat father was still strictly guarding against the tiger mom!
Pei Yan knelt down on the ground, respectfully took the order and retreated.
After Pei Yan left the hall, Wu Zetian asked coldly, "The emperor arranged for Pei Zhongshu to assist in the administration alone. Have you forgotten the disaster of Changsun Wuji and Chu Suiliang back then?!"
She repeatedly questioned Li Zhi hard, and everyone knew Sima Zhao's intention, even if Li Zhi wanted to give her the power to assist in the administration before her death.
Yang Yao lowered his head honestly and pretended not to hear it, because at this moment, his opinion was nothing.
To restrain Hu Mom and Pei Yan from each other was Li Zhi and Yang Yao, the father and son's established strategy. Li Zhi certainly would not refuse, "Okay, okay, Wan'er, add another will. If there are any military and national affairs that cannot be decided, please make the Queen of Heaven deal with the decision."
Li Zhi added the most important clause to the will, which is to let Wu Zetian rule the affairs behind the scenes. Any major military and national affairs must be decided by Wu Zetian. Of course, although there is no need to inform Wu Zetian of trivial matters, the right to speak of what military and national affairs are and what trivial matters are, is not in Yang Yao’s hands, but in Wu Zetian’s hands.
Seeing that Li Zhi had added clauses that were extremely favorable to her in the will, Wu Zetian finally calmed down and rubbed Li Zhi's temples one after another. There was no trace of joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness on her face.
Yang Yao, who was kneeling in front of the sickbed, felt chill all over. His father Li Zhi seemed to be unable to hold on for long. Unexpectedly, within a few days of traveling around, his happy days for Prince Xiaoyao would come to an end.
In the future, there will be no safe haven for my father, so he must face the strong wind and waves alone. Before his death, my father has paved the way for him. As for whether he can survive in the gap between Tiger Mom and Pei Yan, it can only be seen by Yang Yao’s own ability.
Yang Yao returned to the East Palace from Zhenguan Palace in a daze, sat in front of the bronze mirror and looked at the mirror in a daze.
It is too dangerous to fight against Tiger Mom and Pei Yan. Under the tyranny of Tiger Mom and the variables of traitors, it is still unknown whether Yang Yao can sit on the throne for a year. Moreover, as Tiger Mom's power becomes more stable, Yang Yao's power will inevitably be smaller, and the ability to kill the traitors will be smaller.
The way to quickly pass the game is to get the foolish lord value as soon as possible, and try to find the villain at the second prompt, and kill it and end.
After three days of attempt, Yang Yao made it impossible for him to make the tyrant value in a short period of time after using one hammer and one stick. He must adopt the modern flowing method to achieve twice the result with half the effort.
The so-called "flow-through" score is to treat each tyrant act as a production line. Through flow-through operations, it can be free from any external factors and can generate a fixed tyrant value every day.
Yang Yao analyzed six behaviors of the foolish monarch one by one: [greed for women] [aborting military and political affairs] [never attend court] [abortion and extravagance] [appointing villains] [alien] [alien] [alien] [alien] [alien] [alien] [alien] [alien] [alien] [don't attend court]. What can really be done is [augural and extravagance] and [never attend court]
【Authority and luxury】
The emperor, the greatest thing in the world is the king's land, and the cost is more luxurious in normal times. As long as it is not the kind of person who abuses people's power as Emperor Yang of Sui, the court officials usually will not object.
This involves a big lie in history books. Do court officials like arrogant emperors or frugal emperors?
In the slogans and in historical books, the arrogant and extravagant emperors are criticized and the frugal emperors are praised.
But, is the truth of history really?
The boss of a company is frugal by nature. The company's employees have neither subsidies nor year-end bonuses. On weekdays, they choose the most practical and cheapest ones, and no one has room for kickbacks. The company's employees will praise the boss for saving well, or secretly scold him for being a rooster and not giving up a penny? Are all officials in the Tang Dynasty's officialdom all the people's servants of the proletariat, serving the people wholeheartedly, consciously, and have higher personal qualities than the company's employees?
If the emperor does not build a building or repair the palace, how can officials of the Ministry of Works take kickbacks?
If the emperor does not sacrifice to heaven, earth and ancestors, how can officials of the Ministry of Rites take kickbacks?
How can the emperor reimburse the black accounts that the Ministry of Revenue officials cannot fill in every year?
The emperor is not good at military force and does not use military force to the outside world. Where can the officials of the Ministry of War make extra money?
The eunuchs and the palace provinces also have a large group of eunuchs. The palace maids are waiting for the emperor, empress, and concubines to be more arrogant and extravagant. They can also make some soup from them! If the emperor is not arrogant and extravagant, the money will not flow. How can it flow into the bags of these eunuchs and palace maids?
Therefore, the frugal emperor is not likable. Most of the arrogant and extravagant emperors will not really care about it except for verbally shouting and opposing a few words. Because this is a situation where everyone is happy and win-win.
In reality, everyone likes a generous boss who spends money and is generous; in history books, everyone likes a thrifty emperor.
Who is fooling who is fooling?!
【Never go to court】
To use this tyrant monarch value, you only need to become the emperor and not attend court every day. Moreover, the Tang Dynasty held a small monarch meeting every day, which was easy to use, and you can use 150 monarch value in a month.
But if the emperor did not attend court, would the court officials point at his nose and scold the foolish emperor?!
This actually involves the biggest lie in history books, that is, ministers like wise rulers to rule, and when they see tyrant rulers, they are heartbroken.
Do court officials like wise or foolish?
Of course, the court officials hoped that Yang Yaoying would be like Taizong, but not to mention that Yang Yao was really like Taizong, it would be like Taizong that the morning court would be held in accordance with the rules every day, and most of these ministers could not stand it.
Just like a company requires department managers to start at 6 a.m. every day, two-hour department manager meetings must be done first. During the meeting, everyone is in a suit and everyone is upright, and everyone is upright and their chests are raised. Who can stand the department managers?
From the bottom of my heart, these officials were eager for Yang Yao not to go to the political affairs hall to chat with the prime ministers and raise their relationships; they could also go back to their respective departments to wander around, drink tea, and brag, and the work of a day was easily completed.
If Yang Yao asked these ministers to do their jobs by themselves and complete their jobs with quality and quantity, they would probably have the desire to vomit blood.
The government affairs that the six ministers and ministers have to complete in one day are piled up. If they have to do their jobs themselves and complete them with quality and quantity, normal working hours will definitely not be enough. They must work overtime every day. It is simply that they get up earlier than chickens, do more than cows, and sleep later than dogs. Where can the ministers have time to recite poems, write poems, romance, accept bribes, and form cliques? Do they come to be officials to enjoy life, or do they serve the people as ascetics?
These officials will have unhappy hopes to meet a wise king to take care of themselves? They are all mean and have itchy skin and need to be thirsty!
Therefore, the court officials like wise rulers, hate foolish rulers, and the king and ministers work together to create a prosperous era. In fact, it is just a political fairy tale made up by literati. It would be fine if the emperor and the court officials were performing in person and acting. It would be strange if any emperor really believed it, it would be impossible to be played around.
The most typical example is the Emperor Chongzhen who has always demanded himself by the behavior of a wise king, but in the end he was hanged on the coal mountain and has not yet gained a good reputation.
What ministers like the most is not a wise ruler or a foolish ruler, but an emperor who can be good to you and me and everyone.
Isn’t it just that I embezzled some money, built some tofu projects, annexed some land, killed some people, forced some troublemakers, had some empty salary, fought some defeat, sold some food and supplies to the enemy, and was too late to serve the king. What a great thing? At worst, I will punish myself three times this time, and I will be a wise ruler, wise minister and good general!
Chapter completed!