Chapter 46 Power ministers come

"Historical Records: Biography of Yuan Ang Chao Cuo" After describing Chao Cuo's family background and mentoring, there are four words for this person's character evaluation: straight and deep.These four words are placed before the description of Chao Cuo's political career, which shows that it summarizes Chao Cuo's personality characteristics throughout his life. "Steep straight and deep", the translation is harsh and severe.From this point of view, it is the general temperament of legalists. However, in the dark ancient officialdom, this kind of strictness always gives people a feeling of being unsophisticated, and it is a style of asking for trouble.And because his so-called "upright" actions are actually just to implement his sinister criminal methods and at the same time maintain the absolute autocracy of the monarch, this kind of "uprightness" cannot be compared with what ordinary ministers do to maintain dignity and freedom. conduct of integrity.

This is the reason why people like Chao Cuo and Shang Yang can't live together with the historical bones and admonishing ministers. A person like Chao Cuo who only cares about himself is often disliked for no reason.Most of the criticism they receive comes from the inner annoyance of others. This kind of people can never handle interpersonal relationships well. The officialdom is dangerous, so it's no wonder they are not unlucky. Chao Cuo looked at himself in the early stages of his political career, and he seemed to be the favorite of the emperor from head to toe, so he wrote dozens of letters to Liu Heng, and the sentences in Chao Cuo's letters were very straightforward, without embellishment In addition, Liu Heng believed in Huang Lao, had a kind nature, and had compassion for the princes and kings, and he didn't like the pure legalism preached by Chao Cuo at all, so he didn't adopt his opinion.However, in order to express his encouragement for actively advising, Liu Heng promoted Chao Cuo to be a Chinese doctor.

In short, Chao Cuo's performance this time did not leave a good impression on Liu Heng. So what exactly did Chao Cuo tell Liu Heng? Two points: cutting the vassal and revising the law. Chao Cuo didn't bring up the matter of reducing feudal vassals first. Jia Yi had chewed on this matter several times back then.Of course, Jia Yi's words were not as harsh as Chao Cuo's. Although the history books did not record what Chao Cuo said this time, judging from Chao Cuo's many extreme practices and attitudes in the future, it should be so. Liu Heng and Chao Cuo still fought haha, but Chao Cuo's colleagues didn't give him any face.Yuan An and others have always disliked Chao Cuo, and Chao Cuo also despises this group of people.Literati are friendly to each other, so as long as there is Chao Cuo, Yuan Ang will definitely turn around and leave, and where there is Yuan Ang, Chao Cuo will definitely leave with interest. The two have never talked in the same room.

After Liu Qi came to the throne, Chao Cuo was appointed as an internal historian, which was equivalent to the mayor of the capital city. Later, he was renamed Jing Zhaoyin, and his rank was Zhong Erqianshi.Although the rank is not as high as that of Jiuqing, Chao Cuo has obviously become the favorite of Liu Qi. The two monarchs and ministers often discuss military and state affairs together. .Chao Cuo opened his mouth and amended many of the original laws and regulations of the imperial court. To put it bluntly, he put all the suggestions to Liu Heng into practice. Chao Cuo's monopoly will naturally attract the hatred of many people, such as Prime Minister Shen Tujia.

Shen Tujia is also a strange person. He was born as a martial artist and has a background of heroes. When Liu Bang conquered the world, he became a member of the bow and arrow special forces because of his good arm strength. However, his previous status and meritorious service were relatively low. Zhou Bo, Guan Ying.Ordinarily, this kind of people should have very dark skin after receiving special training all day long. In the "Juyan Han Bamboo Slips", there is a special column called "skin color" for soldiers. In it, all soldiers write "black". The so-called "Qian Shou" is also , this is the name that the original Qin government gave to the people of the world.At that time, the soldiers were mainly ordinary people at the bottom. They lived a hard life and had no cosmetics at home, so their skin was dark and dark, especially their foreheads. Therefore, "Qian" means black, and "Qian Shou" means black skulls.

During the Han Dynasty, being an official paid special attention to whether a person was handsome or not, and his dark skin was definitely not popular, especially for a position like the prime minister, not to mention being tall, but at least he should be dignified, otherwise it would damage the image of the government .So it is estimated that this guy Shen Tujia has some whitening and maintenance secrets, otherwise he will be able to be a general in this life with his status as a veteran.It's a pity that he didn't leave a book like "Shen's Beauty Beauty Book" for future generations of beauty lovers to learn one or two secrets, which is really regrettable.

After the death of the former prime minister Zhang Cang, Liu Heng originally wanted Dou Guangguo, the younger brother of Dou Yifang, to be the prime minister, but after careful consideration, Liu Heng was afraid that he would lose his reputation as a relative because of this matter, so he finally chose the old minister Shen Tujia Became the prime minister. Shen Tujia is honest and upright, honest and honest, and has no cronies.When Deng Tong was favored by Liu Heng, Shen Tujia was particularly disgusted with Deng Tong.Once, when Shen Tujia saw Deng Tong and Liu Heng sitting together when he was in the court, he didn't get angry, and immediately began to sneer at Liu Heng: "Your Majesty, it is his fate that you favor the minister. , is his honor, but I think the etiquette between the monarch and his ministers should not be messed up."

As soon as Liu Heng heard this, his face immediately became serious, and he said angrily: "Don't talk nonsense, I just favor Deng Tong, nothing else, just mind your own business." Unexpectedly, Shen Tujia was very terrified. After returning to the prime minister's mansion, he wrote a subpoena to Deng Tong. Deng Tong was very scared, because everyone could see that this was going to pass the hell.The key to solving the problem is that Deng Tong also has a cunning side. Before he went to the prime minister's mansion, he first reported to Liu Heng that Shen Tujia wanted to deal with him. Liu Heng listened and replied calmly: "Don't worry Fuck you, I'll send someone to call you back in a moment."

As the emperor, Liu Heng had the right to annul the summons issued by Shen Tujia before Deng Tong went to the prime minister's mansion according to ordinary people's understanding. Deng Tong hurriedly went to Liu Heng to figure out what he meant.But from this incident, we can see that Liu Heng did not have such power, or in other words, he did not want to have such power in the past.He just wanted to send Deng Tong back after a while, and never thought of interfering with the judicial process with imperial power. It can be seen that the justice of Emperor Wen's dynasty was relatively fair, and at the same time, the emperor's intervention in the administrative department was relatively small. Huang Lao's skill in governing the country has made great contributions!

When Deng Tong came to the prime minister's mansion, he took off his hat and shoes as soon as he entered the door, and pretended to be cowardly towards Shen Tujia, but he kowtowed vigorously to plead guilty.Shen Tujia saw that Deng Tong's children were easy to deal with, so he issued an order in the high hall: "The court was set up by Emperor Gao. You are just a jester, and you dare to act presumptuously in the court. This is a crime of disrespect. Your head is worthless, someone, drag Deng Tong out and behead him." Liu Heng knew that Deng Tong's departure would be dangerous, so Deng Tong left. Liu Heng sent envoys to chase him back and said to Shen Tujia, "Deng Tong is my jester, please forgive him."

In the end, Liu Heng's resignation cost Deng Tong his life, the imperial power made concessions to the judiciary, and Shen Tujia personally made a compromise.Deng Tong staggered back to the palace, and as soon as he entered the door, he cried loudly to Liu Heng: "Your Majesty, Prime Minister Shentu almost let me die." In addition to Liu Heng's high personal ideological awareness and Huang Lao's governance factors, Shentujia's personal strength cannot be ignored to make the autocratic king bow his head in front of the judiciary. Chao Cuo, can he deal with such a powerful person? When Liu Qi came to the throne, Shen Tujia had been prime minister for five years, and he was highly respected, which is beyond doubt.In Shentu Jia's eyes, Chao Cuo's domineering attitude was full of provocation, especially since Liu Qi was not as close to him as he was to Chao Cuo, and this old man was inevitably jealous. Chao Cuo's Neishi Mansion was built on the open space between the inner and outer walls of the Taishanghuang Temple. This Taishanghuang Temple was used to worship Liu Taigong, the father of Liu Bang, and the gate opened to the east.Chao Cuo felt that it was inconvenient to go in and out like this, so he opened a door on the south wall of Neishi Mansion. It just happened to be in the small wall of the Taishanghuang Temple. When Shen Tujia heard that Chao Cuo had committed such a serious crime, he immediately geared up, thinking: "Haha, Chao Cuo, you have today!" Then he immediately went to the palace to meet Liu Qi, and demanded Liu Qi according to Chao Cuo's crime. Qi beheaded him. Shen Tujia's actions were all known by Chao Cuo's followers, and it seemed that Chao Cuo's followers were not only think tanks, but also detective teams.Chao Cuo was terrified, so he entered the palace overnight to plead guilty to Liu Qi. When he went to the court the next day, Shentujia prepared all the formal proposals for handling the matter, and he reported Liu Qichao's incident of staggering the south gate and destroying the small wall of the Supreme Emperor's Temple, and demanded that he be handed over to Ting Wei for legal action.However, Liu Qi had already listened to Chao Cuo's explanation at this time, and defended Chao Cuo: "What Chao Cuo opened the south gate to destroy was not the inner wall of the Supreme Emperor's Temple, but the small outer wall. Aren't there other officials living there? This place has been approved in advance, so Chao Cuo is not guilty." Shen Tujia reluctantly admitted his mistake.As soon as he came out of the court, he said to his long history: "Damn it, I really regret that I didn't kill the bastard Chao Cuo first and then report him to the emperor. I didn't kill him first, but let Chao Cuo take the opportunity to play tricks on me." gone." After returning to the Prime Minister's Mansion, Shen Tujia couldn't suppress his grief and indignation, and died of vomiting blood. It is said in the "Posthumous Law": "Good integrity and self-restraint are called festivals." It was Shen Tujia who insisted on fighting against Chao Cuo, because he himself failed to kill Chao Cuo because of his loyalty to the emperor, and he himself forced himself to be angry with others. die.Therefore, after Shentujia's death, his posthumous title was "Jiehou". The word "self-control" is actually in line with his experience and character. Shentujia actually pushed himself into a corner in the end. However, on the surface, it was still Chao Cuo who was so angry that the founding hero and prime minister Shen Tujia died. We can imagine that the day when Chao Cuo covered the sky with one hand has come. With the arrival of powerful ministers, the breathing of the empire has begun to become short.