Chapter 60 4. Immortal Genius

Although Jia Yi was frozen by Liu Heng and squeezed out by Deng Tong, the current situation has improved after all.In Changsha in the past, Jia Yi also wrote "Diao Qu Yuan Fu" and "Fu Niao Fu", which are records of his bleak life experience.Time has passed, and the shadow left by Futiao who fell on the seat at the beginning has gradually faded away.On the contrary, Jia Yi finally worked diligently in his profession as Liang Taifu, and wrote a shocking political commentary. This is the famous "Public Security Policy". We have to talk about this political commentary, because it has a great relationship with the subsequent Seven Kingdoms Rebellion.Jia Yi's inner motivation for creating "Public Security Policy" originated from the rebellion incident of Liu Xingju and Liu Chang.Engaging in historical research has always been Jia Yi's specialty.Jia Yi summed up a classic historical experience from the rebellion incidents of Liu Xingju and Liu Chang, and proposed a plan to solve the rebellion of princes and kings once and for all.

The historical experience summarized by Jia Yi is: In the footprints of history, any powerful feudal state must be opposed first. Jia Yi, a strong man, first argues against it, and his inference is roughly as follows: the ambition and strength of a rebel are always directly proportional.For example, the king of Changsha, the reason why he is the only surviving king with a different surname is that he is weak and the situation does not allow him to have excessive ambitions.So their only way of survival is to be loyal to the central government and obey orders.For another example, the reason why Zhou Bo, Guan Ying, and Fan Kui did not rebel at the beginning was mainly because of their lack of strength.If Liu Bang had named them princes and kings at the beginning, they would definitely have become careerists and were eventually killed by the central government.

Going further, among the princes and kings in the early Han Dynasty, Han Xin, Peng Yue, Ying Bu, and Lu Wan rebelled successively.Among the four, Han Xin was the strongest, so he rebelled first; Lu Wan was the weakest, so he rebelled later. So, in response to such a lesson, is there a feasible plan to make the princes and kings be obedient and good kings like the king of Changsha?Jia Yi's answer is yes, the way is to weaken the power of the vassal states. Cutting power is a high-level game in the national game, second only to foreign wars, and it is also a gamble with high stakes.If the size is not accurately grasped, the country will be ruined, and even the emperor's old capital will be lost.However, Jia Yi will tell you that his power reduction plan will not involve the above sensational bloodshed.

In Jia Yi's view, as long as the enfeoffment system is vigorously implemented for the feudal states, the power of the vassal states will definitely become weaker and weaker in the long run.The reason is very simple. A feudal state is like a cake. At the beginning, the grandparents alone take it all over. After the grandparents gave birth to two sons, the cake had to be cut in half after the enfeoffment system was implemented. The two sons each gave birth to two grandsons. Just keep cutting in half. It is in line with the Chinese way of thinking to inherit the inheritance by cutting the cake.The advantage of this is, hello, hello, hello everyone.You have food to eat, I have food to eat, and everyone has food to eat.Only in this way can we achieve the concept of "harmony" proposed by Confucius.

As a result, the princes and grandchildren in the feudal country benefited, and the emperor gained even more advantage.There is only one result in this way, the central government is getting stronger and stronger, and the princes are getting weaker and weaker.If you want to rebel, weigh yourself first. Some people may ask, what if the vassal states unite to rebel?Don't worry too much about this issue.Chinese history proves that the so-called joint rebellion must first consider the issue of division.A rebellion of one prince is death, and ten princes and kings are also dead if they rebel; but if one prince rebels successfully, he will get a large piece; if ten princes and kings rebel jointly, they will get only one tenth.

According to the law of blood remuneration, the cost of paying is not directly proportional to the profit and profit, which will definitely scare these people away.The probability of rebellion or success is greatly reduced. Someone may ask again, if a certain vassal state has poor reproductive ability and too few descendants, the share is still large.What to do in such a situation? Don't worry, Jia Yi has already made careful arrangements for this issue.Jia Yi believes that if this happens, the state should be retained, but the throne must be emptied, and the prime minister sent by the central government will preside over the country's administration, and they will be authorized after they have more children and grandchildren.

If the above plan could not be described in one sentence, it would be too talented. Unfortunately, Liu Heng did not adopt it.And what Liu Heng adopted was another suggestion put forward in the "Public Security Policy": Encourage deposed princes or exiles to commit suicide. The reason why Liu Heng accepted Jia Yi's suggestion was because he suffered a disadvantage earlier.For example, if Liu Chang, the king of Huainan, was exiled, if he had been encouraged to commit suicide before he was detained, he would not have been accused of killing his younger brother; another example was the arrest of Zhou Bo, if he had been smarter and encouraged him to commit suicide, there would have been no Bo The embarrassing incident in which the Queen Mother swung his turban and yelled at him, not to mention the image of a bad monarch who is a cunning rabbit and a lackey.

Once a minister is found guilty, there will be a typical example of encouraging suicide. Unexpectedly, the person Liu Heng chose was Bo Zhao.The process of things is like this: First of all, Liu Heng's uncle Bo Zhao killed a Han envoy for some reason, so Liu Heng arrested him and questioned him.However, Liu Heng couldn't bear to do it himself, so he sent a group of ministers to drink with Bo Zhao, and hinted: I'll give you good food and drink, I hope you won't be hungry underground, please do it yourself. Bo Zhao was taken aback for a moment, good fellow, he came to encourage me to commit suicide.I want to commit suicide, two words: no way.So, all the ministers saw that Bo Zhao kept drinking wine and dancing, but it was a long time before he saw him slashing his neck with a knife, and he didn't even see him pretending.

Such a beautiful concept, how can it be so difficult to implement it! Liu Heng thought of another trick, that is to say, order civil and military officials to wear filial piety clothes and go to Bo Zhao's residence to cry loudly.A bunch of living people mourning for one living person, the reason why you should kill yourself is too obvious.Bo Zhao had no choice but to commit suicide. Liu Heng thought that by encouraging criminals to commit suicide, he could escape a bad reputation.In fact, some people in later generations still attacked him, and even thought that such an approach was stupid.For example, Sima Guang believed that Liu Chang and Bo Zhao were spoiled by Liu Heng when they were alive.As a result, when something happened to them, they made trouble for them.If Liu Heng knew how to prevent problems before they happen, how could there be two tragedies?

Ok, that's it for now.This is Liu Heng's business, not Jia Yi's business, let's go back to Jia Yi. Became the tutor of King Huai of Liang, Jia Yi's bad days did not stop.Unjust fate once again used bad luck to destroy this genius. In the eleventh year of Xiaowen (169 BC), summer.This summer, something unexpected happened. Liu Yi, King Huai of Liang, accidentally fell off his horse and died.When he died, he hadn't had time to leave behind a successor. How did Liu Heng tell Jia Yi at the beginning, to train my beloved child well.Could it be that this is the result of Jia Yi's training?Of course, the prince fell off the horse, it was an accident, how could it have anything to do with the teacher.

However, Jia Yi said openly: As the Taifu, I am guilty! This is a sin of the heart that can never be redeemed, not even by more tears.From then on, Jia Yi was still heartbroken and cried for many years.Tears seemed to be like the water of his life. After more than a year of tears, Jia Yi's life seemed to be exhausted. In the twelfth year of Xiaowen (168 BC), Jia Yi passed away in depression at the age of thirty-three.