Chapter 43 5. Fangs

124 BC, winter.Gong Sunhong ushered in the most proud years of his life.In November of this year, Liu Che dismissed Xue Ze from the position of Prime Minister, and Gong Sunhong, the official censor, took the old step and became the current prime minister.That year, Gongsun Hong was seventy-six years old. Gongsun Hong is a late bloomer, he is really comparable to Zhou Zhijiang Ziya.However, the surprising thing is yet to come.Liu Che felt that Gongsunhong seemed to be missing something.After thinking about it for a long time, he suddenly discovered that since the founding of the Han Dynasty, all the people who have been prime ministers have the status of Marquis, but Gongsun Hong lacks such a terrible thing.

Liu Che thought about it, this is terrible.It's a small matter that Gongsun Hong doesn't have a marquis, but the emperor's face is big.How can I, a ostentatious and lavish emperor like me, let the prime minister end up in a poor life?Therefore, Liu Che immediately thought, should he make Gongsun Hong a Marquis, and equalize his status with previous prime ministers? We know that the rules of the Han Dynasty are very strict.If you are not a relative of the Liu family and have no martial arts skills, you can still talk about it when you are an official, but let's avoid talking about being a Marquis.When Liu Qi wanted to make the Dou brothers marquis, Prime Minister Zhou Yafu desperately disagreed.The reason is that Gao Zu said the oath of the White Horse Alliance, and the relatives are not named Liu, so why should they be named marquises?

Later, after Zhou Yafu got out of class, Liu Qicai made several members of the Dou family marquis.Therefore, since the two fathers and sons of Wen Jing made their relatives marquises, this has become an unwritten rule in the Han Dynasty.All foreign relatives, as long as they are not idiots, can be named marquises. But after all, they are relatives, and they are related, so idlers can't tell.If you want to make Gongsun Hong a Marquis, what excuse do you have to find? Of course, Liu Che couldn't be troubled by this matter.Immediately, Liu Che issued an edict.He said in the imperial edict: Since I ascended the throne and became the emperor, I have not stick to one pattern and descended to talents.Military generals and civil servants, those who are capable will be promoted, and there is nothing wrong with being named a marquis and a noble.

Therefore, under the banner of eclecticism, Liu Che successfully named Gongsun Hong the Marquis of Pingjin, with 650 households in Shiyi.Liu Che's move created a myth: the prime minister and marquis began with Gongsun Hong. The ancestral grave of Gongsunhong's hometown in Qi State is puffing up with smoke. The first thing Gongsun Hong, who is smoking from his ancestral grave, is to eliminate dissidents.And the first choice, of course, is the mighty old Ji An. Gongsun Hong is not fighting alone.You know, although Ji An's branches are not deep and the leaves are not luxuriant in the court, he is more difficult to deal with.So, he had to find a partner.So, Gongsun Hong immediately thought of a person.

The person Gongsun Hong thought of was Zhang Tang, an old subordinate. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.What's more, Zhang Tang is still Gongsunhong's subordinate, and at the same time is a political partner, whoever he doesn't pull. Gong Sunhong and Zhang Tang conspired, and the two finally thought of a vicious trick: if you want to kill Ji An, you must use a knife to kill someone. Well, just do it. After thinking about it, the two went to see Liu Che.Gongsun Hong said this to Liu Che: There are many dignitaries and clans in Chang'an City. These two factions have always been troublesome and difficult to manage.Therefore, an important minister must be appointed in order to suppress them.I thought to myself, Mr. Ji An is tough, why not worship him as the special mayor of Chang'an City (right internal history)?

If you hate him, throw him in the fire pit.Gongsunhong's trick is called, wherever there is danger, push it there. Before playing, Gongsun Hong had already heard that Ji An was looking for trouble when he had nothing to do, and he only took care of it when he had something to do.So Liu Che was quite tired of this Ji An, and wanted to find a chance to kick him away.Therefore, Gongsun Hong concluded that the joint strategy he and Zhang Tang used had a high success rate. Sure enough, as soon as Gongsunhong submitted the letter, Liu Che approved it. Soon, Ji An became the right internal historian and managed the security of the capital.If it is managed well, it is his fate; if it is not managed well, at most he will be given the title of dying in the line of duty, and then a coffin will be placed on him.

What a murderous trick. I believe that Gong Sunhong must have laughed at this time.Zhang Tang also laughed.They had reason to believe that Ji An would not live long. However, the result? Let me tell you that the result is not what Gongsun Hong and Zhang Tang wanted.Not only was Ji An not beaten to death by the dignitaries and clan in Chang'an, but he ate well, slept well, and was in good health. Everything is fine. why?I think Gongsunhong is asking why he is dizzy right now.In fact, Ji An is not a fool, he knows who is messing with him, and he can guess what it means to be the special mayor of Chang'an.You, Gongsun Hong, want me to die quickly, but I want to live better than anyone else.This is a huge blow to political opponents.

Also, Ji An's skills in manipulating people are poor, but Ji An's skills in managing the place are just now.As soon as he took office, he gave full play to his strengths, and not long after, Chang'an, which was originally difficult to manage, was subdued by him, and no one dared to make a decision with Ji An to make trouble. At the critical moment, Ji An saved himself.