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- Liu Biao is dead, Liu Zhang is dead, Liu Yu is dead, and all the princes of the Liu family are extinct.
Only he, Liu Bei, is still alive and still controls the three states of Hebei.
Liu Bei is the uncle of the Han Dynasty emperor appointed by Liu Xie, and he is also the king of Yan officially appointed by the imperial court. Legally speaking, if Liu Xie dies and Liu Xie's descendants cannot inherit the throne, then Liu Bei will be the most orthodox successor.
"And if the Han Dynasty in Chang'an were destroyed, then Liu Bei could openly declare in Yecheng that he would inherit the Han Dynasty and ascend the throne as emperor.
Chen Qun is right. Unless Liu Xie dies, Liu Bei will never be able to claim the title of emperor. At most, he will be the Duke of Zhou.
Only when Liu Xie dies can Liu Bei realize his dream of becoming emperor.
However, the excitement in Liu Bei's eyes only flashed for a moment, and soon his face was full of anger.
"Chang Chen, everyone in the world has seen that the king is loyal to the emperor and supports the Han Dynasty. You actually said such treacherous words. Do you want the king to imitate the traitor Yan and Cao Cao and become the treacherous minister who usurped the throne? "
Liu Bei puffed up his chest and rebuked Chen Qun sternly.
"Your Majesty, please calm down. I have no intention of doing so." Chen Qun pretended to be frightened, but said: "But I believe that as a descendant of the Liu family, your Majesty, as a descendant of the Liu family, not only wants to help the Han Dynasty, but also must step forward to continue the Han Dynasty. Otherwise, if Yan Liang dethrones the Han Dynasty and usurps the throne, the people in the world who miss the Han Dynasty will lose their allegiance, and their hearts will gradually drift away. Even if the king does not inherit the throne, I am afraid that he will no longer be able to hold on to half of Hebei. "
Chen Qun looks like he is loyal and gives advice, and his voice is full of emotions and is very contagious.
The anger on Liu Bei's face gradually calmed down.
Chen Qun also made insinuations, moving with emotion and understanding with reason. After some hard persuasion.
Liu Bei listened for a long time and finally sighed: "As the commander said, as a descendant of the Han Dynasty, if the day comes, the king should indeed shoulder the heavy responsibility of continuing the Han tradition. Otherwise, how can he be worthy of his ancestors?"
Chen Qun was overjoyed and praised Liu Bei for his wisdom.
"But, the king is still a little worried." Liu Bei changed the subject. Worried: "The king is just worried that these powerful families in Hebei may not support the king in proclaiming the emperor and continuing the Han Dynasty.
Chen Qun smiled and said, "Don't worry, Your Majesty. I have a plan here. It will surely make those powerful families wholeheartedly support Your Majesty in continuing the rule."
"What's your clever plan?" Liu Bei's spirit suddenly perked up.
Chen Qun then stroked his beard and said slowly: "If your Majesty wants to succeed you and ascend to the throne, you must align the interests of the powerful family with the interests of your Majesty. I'm sorry to say that I can't stand it. Only your Majesty and your Majesty can do it." The interests of the family are unified, and when everyone is prosperous and everyone suffers, the powerful people of the family will go all out to support the king."
Although Chen Qun¡¯s words are straightforward, they are also reality.
Today is no better than in the past. The majesty of the Han Dynasty has disappeared. This is why Liu Bei can rule the three states of Hebei. What he relies on is not his title of uncle of the Han Dynasty, but his fists.
in other words. Today, Liu Bei's fist is strong, so the powerful families in Hebei are loyal to him. Another day, Yan Liang comes to kill, and it is not impossible for the family in Hebei to see that Yan Liang's fist is even bigger. Driven by interests, they will collectively defect to Yan Liang.
This is exactly what Liu Bei is worried about. Zhuge Liang and others have not seen through this, but they do not want to expose it to Chen Qun.
"Then Chang Chen has a plan to benefit the powerful families in Hebei What is that, is it consistent with the king?" Liu Bei was too embarrassed to say the word benefit, so he replaced it with "that".
Chen Qun coughed a few times and said jokingly: "I have designed a method for selecting officials in private. If the king can implement this method in the country, I think that the scholars in Hebei will support the king wholeheartedly."
"How to select officials?" Liu Bei wondered, "What a method to select officials."
"This law, I call it the Law of the Nine-Rank Officials. The content of this law is as follows"
Next, Chen Qun explained to Liu Bei in detail the details of his ninth-level official law.
The nine-level official law mainly means that the imperial court selects "virtuous and discerning" central officials, who concurrently serve as chief and official officials in the prefectures, prefectures, and counties of their place of origin. They are responsible for visiting the scholars scattered in various places and comprehensively combining their virtues. Talent and family status are determined by "character" and "status", which are used by the imperial court as a reference for selecting officials.
The so-called "grade" refers to the grade evaluated based on the scholar's moral ability and family status, and is divided into nine grades.
The so-called "state" refers to the comments made by Zhongzheng officials on the virtues and talents of scholars, which is similar to the comments made by famous scholars in the Han Dynasty on characters such as "excellent virtues and few talents", "treacherous heroes in troubled times" and so on.
When determining the rank, the scholar¡¯s ??character will be taken into consideration and the corresponding official position will be awarded according to the grade."If your Majesty implements this law of nine-level officials, the powerful people of the world will have a smooth path to become officials and serve the King. In this way, the people of the world will give their full support to the King to ensure that their power as officials will not be affected. threaten."
"On the contrary, the king has gained not only the talents of the family, but also the support of the entire family, and has benefited a lot."
Chen Qun spoke eloquently about his system of selecting officials, which made Liu Bei even more excited and nodded in praise.
"It's really wonderful to follow this method. It can institutionalize the selection of officials, which is indeed much superior to the inspection system." Liu Bei praised it.
Chen Qun looked a little proud, stroking his beard and smiling: "I don't want to hide this from your Majesty. In fact, when I was in Chang'an, I also mentioned this nine-level official law to Cao Mengde, but Cao Cao used his trick of 'meriting only talents'." The method of selecting officials was rejected, but now it seems that the king is still wise. "
Liu Bei chuckled, "Cao Cao's meritocratic approach to hiring people is actually pretty good. The king has always admired his approach."
"It is true that meritocracy can select some useful talents, but if the selected talents are not of good moral character, they will be in power in the future, which will cause greater harm to the country. Therefore, the so-called 'meritocracy' is just This short-sighted move is not a plan for long-term peace and stability.¡±
Chen Qun severely criticized Cao Cao's employment strategies, seeming to vent his dissatisfaction that Cao Cao did not use his strategies.
Liu Bei deeply agreed with Chen Qun's evaluation.
Not long after the conversation that day, Liu Bei rewarded Chen Qun generously, and then summoned two important ministers, Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi, to discuss it later.
After an informal banquet, Liu Bei disclosed the ninth-level official law to the two of them and asked for their opinions.
Both Zhuge Liang and Zhuge Liang showed great interest in these ninth-grade officials.
However, after the initial novelty, Zhuge Liang handed it over and said: "Although this ninth-level official method looks good, Liang thinks that there is actually a hidden concern."
"What's the hidden worry?" Liu Bei asked suspiciously.
"This hidden worry is the appointment of Zhongzheng. All Zhongzheng officials in this law must be appointed by the central government, especially state Zhongzheng officials. They must first reach an official position of second grade or above, and most of the officials who can meet this standard are from aristocratic families. Born into a wealthy family.
After a pause, Zhuge Liang continued: "This means that at the beginning of the implementation of this method, most of the Zhongzheng officials, including the Zhongzheng officials at the state level, will be served by famous people from the family. These people are in the process of selecting talents. Most of them will be inclined to the aristocratic family. Over time, it will inevitably lead to a situation where family status is more important than virtue and talent when selecting talents. This seems a bit inappropriate. "
Liu Bei fell into deep thought and thought about what Zhuge Liang said, which seemed to make sense.
Sima Yi smiled and said: "Kong Ming is overly worried. With the great reputation of the king, the official selected must be a pure and upright man. When selecting talents, he will naturally be fair and unbiased."
Sima Yi's words "Your Majesty is wise" made Liu Bei feel comfortable when he photographed him, and made him smile with pride as he stroked his beard.
"Zhongda's words are reasonable. How can the king use those selfish people? It seems that Military Advisor Kong Ming is indeed overly worried." Liu Bei laughed.
"My king, you can be fair and strict, but can you guarantee that your descendants will be like you? Alas"
Zhuge Liang wanted to say these words directly, but after thinking about it, he felt that these words seemed to be cursing Liu Bei for an early death. After thinking about it, he swallowed it.
Liu Bei then made a decision and ordered his ministers to discuss the specific details and come up with a concrete plan to facilitate the implementation of the nine-rank official law in the Yan Kingdom.
Yan Liang, who was thousands of miles away, had no time to care about what Liu Bei was doing, but was busy with the matter of "usurping the throne and proclaiming himself emperor".
Yan Liang did give Liu Xie a few days to think about the banquet that day, but as soon as Liu Xie thought about it, seven or eight days passed without any news.
Yan Liang sent someone to the palace to inquire. It turned out that Liu Xie claimed to be unwell and hid in the palace and became an ostrich.
Of course Yan Liang knew that Liu Xie was a dead pig and was not afraid of being scalded by boiling water. He pretended to be sick to stall for as long as possible.
This trick may work with others, but it won¡¯t work with Yan Liang.
Early in the morning that day, Yan Liang came out of the palace in full force and led a thousand Tiger Guards into the palace in a menacing manner.
News of Yan Liang's entry into the palace was immediately transmitted to the inner palace. Liu Xie knew that he could not escape this time, so he had to change his court clothes reluctantly and hurried to the Jinluan Hall.
When Queen Fu Shou heard that Yan Liang led his army into the palace, she was afraid that Liu Xie would be unable to handle it alone and would suffer humiliation, so she hurried? He also hurried to the main hall.
The couple entered the palace together, and as soon as they sat down on the dragon throne, the door of the Jinluan Palace was rudely pushed open from the outside.
A thousand soldiers stormed in, quickly lining up on both sides of the hall. The sharp blades reflected the frightening cold light, turning the atmosphere of the hall into ice in an instant.
Liu Xie's heart trembled, cold sweat began to roll down his forehead, and his heart immediately rose to his throat.
Amidst the thumping footsteps, Yan Liang, wearing golden armor and holding a sword in hand, walked straight into the hall with his head held high.
Liu Xie took a deep breath and forced a smile: "The King of Chu is so anxious to enter the court. I don't know what happened. Come on, let the King of Chu sit down quickly."
However, Yan Liang ignored Liu Xie's smiling face and strode straight up the stairs. His iron tower-like body stood in front of Liu Xie in a blink of an eye. That towering body almost blocked the sunlight behind him.
With a knife-edge gaze directed at Liu Xie, Yan Liang said coldly: "Liu Xie, do you want to give up the throne or not? I will give the king a happy word today." - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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