Chapter 15 False and demoted to Changsha

The fuse of Jia Yi's demotion was related to the fact that he once again expressed affection to Liu Heng, asking Liu Heng to let the princes return to their respective countries. Ever since Jia Yi got Liu Heng's favor, this young man has been devoting himself to studying the New Deal like a chicken blood.Jia Yi was not only thinking about internal affairs. Of course, he also saw the most obvious contradiction Liu Heng was facing at this time - the kingdom issue, and suggested that all the princes should return to their respective fiefs. Of course, Jia Yi's plan was a bit reckless, after all, not all princes are useless to the court.At this time, it was October in the second year of Emperor Wen's Yuan Dynasty, and Chen Ping had passed away. In November, Liu Heng reappointed Zhou Bo, the Marquis of Jiang, and made him the prime minister.It's not appropriate to hurry people back when they just arrived, so Liu Heng adopted a compromise method and issued an edict saying: "I heard that there were more than a thousand feudal princes and kings in ancient times, and they each performed their duties. , manage a piece of land, and pay tribute to the central government on time. The people in their respective lands live leisurely, and the princes are also very happy. Now the princes live in Chang'an all day long, which is very far away from their fiefs. The materials are exhausted all day long, and the princes have no time or opportunity to teach and manage the people in their countries. I now ask all the princes to return to their fiefs, even if they hold positions in the court or have an edict to let them If you stay, you have to send your prince back."

In addition, according to Mr. Li Kaiyuan's textual research, in addition to asking Liehou to return to the country, Liu Heng also implemented a policy of relocating Liehou's fiefdoms to counties under the control of the central government. The power of the central government also needs to put the heroes under house arrest. These measures of Liu Heng touched the bottom line of the hero group.His idea is very simple, just to transform the contradiction between him and the heroes into the contradiction between the central government and the local kingdom.Although Jianghou Zhoubo, Yingyinhou Guanying and others have not been repatriated to their fiefs for a while, Liu Heng's actions have dealt a huge blow to the forces of heroes.The heroic group was holding back their anger to pick on Jia Yi, but they didn't dare to get angry with Liu Heng, so they accused Jia Yi of ulterior motives and disturbing Chao Gang.

At this time, Liu Heng was going to promote Jia Yi to the ranks of "Three Dukes and Nine Qings". Seeing that the momentum was wrong, the heroes rushed to Liu Heng and scolded Jia Yi bloody.All the princes want to enjoy the glory and wealth in Chang'an. Many of them have never been to their fiefs in their entire lives. Who knows what kind of place it is, whether there are luxury goods and beauties, whether there are luxury cars and mansions.Especially those who were sealed off in the southern region or the frontier area, they all have one head and three big ones.Because the conditions in the south were very harsh at that time, there were all kinds of strange diseases and insects everywhere, and the delicacy of the Yiliehous must have made Xideng bliss within a few days... These contents are included in today's archaeological discoveries It has been confirmed that schistosomiasis and so on are real, so they can't scare people half to death, so the heroes are not willing to go to Fengguo even if they are beaten to death.

The negotiators recommended by the meritorious group were Jianghou Zhoubo, Yingyinhou Guanying, Dongyanghou Zhang Xiangru, and the imperial historian Feng Jing. They all ran to Liu Heng and said bad things about Jia Yi: "That kid from Luoyang is young and frivolous I don’t have much culture, but he confuses the people with gossip all day long, and he wants to monopolize the power and control the court, Your Majesty, why don’t you hurry up and deal with this kind of disaster.” Liu Heng may not be so stupid as to believe the lies of Zhou Bo and others, but Liu Heng saw the threat, Jia Yi will not die, and the heroes will never give up!In order to force the princes to return to their respective feudal states, Liu Heng had to sacrifice Jia Yi to appease the public anger. As long as Jia Yi was punished, the group of heroes would have no excuse not to go to the feudal lands.So Liu Heng deliberately alienated Jia Yi, and later sent Jia Yi to be the Taifu of the King of Changsha. His official rank seemed to be promoted, but Jia Yi was estranged from the central government since then, which was actually demoted.

Apart from following Jia Yi's arrangement and ordering the princes to return to their countries, Liu Heng actually took actions as early as the first year of the first year of the Yuan Dynasty. While rewarding the sixty-eight marquises who followed Liu Bang into Bashu and Hanzhong, he granted the title of Zhou Yanghou to Huainan King Liu Chang's uncle, and Qi Wang Liu Xiang's uncle Si Jun to Qing Guohou. In the autumn of the same year, Cai Jian, the prime minister of the original Changshan King Liu Yi, was granted the title of Marquis Fan. In March of the second year of Emperor Wen's Yuan Dynasty, Liu Heng issued an edict, which said: "When Zhao Youwang Liu You was starved to death by Empress Lu, I sympathized with him very much. I have made his eldest son Liu Sui King Zhao. Liu Sui was six years old. The younger brother Liu Biqiang and the sons of King Hui Hui of Qi Liu Fei's sons Zhu Xuhou Liu Zhang and Dong Mou Hou Liu Xingju have contributed to the country, so they can be crowned kings."

So Liu Heng cut off Hejian County in Zhao State, and made Liu Piqiang, the youngest son of Liu You, King of Hejian; cut off several big counties in Qi State, made Liu Zhang King of Chengyang, and Liu Xingju King of Jibei. There is a problem here, which is the enfeoffment of Liu Zhang and Liu Xingju. Liu Heng didn't reward Liu Zhang and Liu Xingju properly. He didn't fulfill the promise he made to the Hero Group. He made one of them the King of Zhao and the other the King of Liang, and he didn't even give a reason for not fulfilling the promise.Liu Heng was too young. At this time, he still naively thought that these two people must be very loyal because they had helped so much in the coup d'état that made him enthroned. Like heroes, profit comes first, and their loyalty must be rewarded. In the final analysis, they are just two political gamblers.

Liu Heng's handling of the kingdom's issue has both successes and mistakes.From this, we can see that Liu Heng and Jia Yi actually have many similarities.Both of them have ambitions and courage, but both of them have fixed thinking. Liu Heng still failed to adjust his thinking to the mode of maintaining power that tyrants often have. He trusts others too much; while Jia Yi is always a stunned youth One, lack of sufficient political acumen and political emotional intelligence. This means that these two people will eventually experience hardships and learn these things that they have never learned.

After Jia Yi was demoted, he was very disappointed. When he passed by the Xiangshui River, he saw the rushing water, and his unhappiness was pent up in his heart, and it was difficult to express it for a while.He suddenly thought of Qu Yuan who was also not welcomed by the king during the Warring States period. The two were separated by time and space, but they had a good understanding.At this moment, in Jia Yi's heart, Qu Yuan is his bosom friend, so he exhausted the emotions accumulated in his heart, and wrote an eloquently written Fu to mourn Qu Yuan. This Fu is full of emotions and amazing literary talent. The author felt that my poor translation could not restore these good sentences, so I copied it as follows, and only briefly mentioned the main idea later. The Fu said:

Jia Yi wrote a poem lamenting Qu Yuan, but he clearly felt in his heart that he was lamenting himself. This "Diao Qu Yuan Fu" fully expresses Jia Yi's character.He is very bookish, arrogant and conceited, thinking that he is talented but underappreciated.However, he also showed a strong sense of urgency about the future of the country, which is why Shi Qian put Jia Yi and Qu Yuan together to write biographies.The two have the same strengths and weaknesses, both are patriotic and passionate, but both are very naive in politics, have high IQ but not high EQ, so these two people are separated by hundreds of years, but they echo each other from afar. That's how I see it.Du Fu wrote in a poem: "I will cry forever in the Han court, and pity the soul of Xiangshui from afar." ("Jiandu Twelve Rhymes") is about these two.

The strong sense of urgency stems from worrying about the fate of the country, and it also shows a person's keen insight.Jia Yi never held a high position in his life, and people always used to add the word "gifted scholar" before his name. On the one hand, he affirmed his insight and talent, and on the other hand, he denied his blind and impulsive political enthusiasm. Liu Heng selected grassroots and grammatical officials from the people as his party members for training. The advantage of this is that it can absorb excellent suggestions, but the disadvantage is that it encourages the stupid loyalty and recklessness of these people, which makes them unable to stand up after being relied on. Political experience.They are only suitable for being scholars and consultants, not for being politicians, and Jia Yi belongs to this category.