The beginning of the Three Kingdoms Cheng Yuanzhi

Chapter 341 The Drama Begins
While walking back with his two daughters, Cheng Yuanzhi was thoughtful.

Judging from the reaction of Dawei Chaotang when the Tianshijiao secretly caused chaos this time, Dabai's ability to govern is a bit lacklustre...

But this is not to blame Dabai.

For one thing, Dabai has hardly been trained in the military, and his military ability is almost zero. He can't be like him, who can conquer the world when he is on a horse, and govern the country when he is off a horse.

No one can learn how to fight and govern a country without a teacher.

In the early years, when he first moved to Jizhou, because the government continued the Han system, extorting bribes was common practice, buying and selling officials has become a habit, and corruption is just a trivial matter.

And after he took control of the overall situation, he changed his unhealthy tendencies, rewarded his meritorious deeds fairly and justly, did not favor the slightest personal preference, and acted in accordance with the rules. In this way, the ruling and opposition parties took a new look under his rectification.

The characteristic of Cheng Yuanzhi's employment is pragmatism, he only pays attention to ability, and ignores the rest. This is very similar to Cao Cao in the original time and space.

In the original time and space, the courtiers were dissatisfied with Guo Jia, who was valued by Cao Cao, who was a womanizer and had bad conduct. However, Cao Cao believed that in troubled times, people with great talents should be more tolerant and should not stick to small details.

Because people with good conduct do not necessarily have great talents.

Facts have proved that Cao Cao's vision is very precise.

It was this concept of employment that helped Cao Cao wipe out many princes, defeat Yuan Shao with the weak and the strong, and unify the north.

Of course, Cao Cao's daring to employ people like this also stems from his extreme confidence in his own abilities, and he has the confidence to control all kinds of talents.

Cao Cao is indeed a rare and excellent monarch. He has a lot of swinging talents who are loyal to Han, anti-Han, and neutral; It is not something ordinary people can do. It requires strong leadership and charisma.

In view of this, Cheng Yuanzhi learned from Cao Cao's employment strategy after he moved to Jizhou.

And in a very short period of time (two or three years), Jizhou was well organized and flourishing.

Beizhou poured in, and the government and the public were in awe.

At that time, the situation in Hebei was not stable. Jizhou was divided into three, with a mess inside and many powerful forces outside. In the past, there are time bombs like Baibo Jun and Dong Zhuo in the west.The situation can be said to be precarious.

If you are not careful, there will be nothing left.

Cheng Yuanzhi became the lord of Jizhou at this time, and his own prestige was far less than Yuan Shao. The reason why he was able to easily control the situation in Jizhou took a lot of hard work.

After all, when the top three carved up Han Fu, Jizhou was in chaos and wars broke out, and the sky was angry and the people complained.

In fact, Cheng Yuanzhi was just an ordinary yellow-turban marshal at the beginning, not much different from those incompetent rich second-generations.In the end, being able to become an excellent ruler of the country is forced by the environment.

If you don't move forward, you will die.

After seven years of forbearance, development, and planning during the reign of Emperor Liu Hong of the Han Dynasty, Cheng Yuanzhi, who had been dormant in the wild for a long time, learned a lot.

It was the seven years of forbearance and little bit of planning that created his indomitable character. Finally, when Yuan Shao conspired in Hebei, he became a blockbuster and succeeded in backstabbing.

When he first took over as Jizhou Mu (self-appointed), there were countless civil and military officials in Jizhou, some were from aristocratic families, some were from cold families; He is a talented person with a wait-and-see attitude in his heart, and he doesn't really want to serve a adopted son of the Yuan family.

It is very difficult to arrange these various people and make them play their maximum role, but Cheng Yuanzhi arranged them in an orderly manner, making the best use of people and making the best use of their talents.

Order all officials to promote talented people, make young leaders wise, pity the poor and lonely, and abolish sluggish management.Shenpei, Fengji, and Jushou were in charge of government affairs; Qu Yi, Zhang He, Gao Lan, Yan Liang, Wen Chou and other governors and governors of the Quartet; Yang Jun, Dong Zhao, Guo Tu, Cui Jun, Su Bo and other Dianzhou counties; Zheng Xuan and other fourteen The great Confucians of the time conducted academic research and selected talents; Tian Feng, Xu You, and Xun Chen participated in military strategy; Chen Lin, Xin Pi, Xin Ping, Geng Wu, Min Chun, and others prepared for court discussions.

At that time, many people felt that the Han system was out of date and proposed to change the current system.This is actually a bit of a suspicion of digging a hole. How did Wang Mang lose the hearts of the world?Isn't it because Cheng Yuanzhi would not be fooled if he drastically abolished the old system and implemented the new law as soon as he came to power.

So he said to everyone: "The Book of Songs says: A king should know the past and the present, follow the laws of heaven, and not change it rashly. If there is a war, you can change one or two things as appropriate, otherwise you can't change it easily."

It can be summed up in one sentence: rule by doing nothing.

The world is in constant turmoil, with powerful enemies all around, and Jizhou urgently needs to recuperate. At this time, it is not appropriate to make any changes, and it is better to let nature take its course and restore national strength.

Such a simple truth is a blind spot of knowledge that most politicians in the past and present cannot touch in their lifetime.

Governing the country requires a certain degree of relaxation. When it is necessary to recuperate, it should be governed by doing nothing, and when it is facing a war, it should be turned into a wartime state. This is the highest state of governing the country.

Of course, to say a thousand words and ten thousand things, the problem is ultimately to return to the successor itself. For a power group, the ability of the first generation of entrepreneurs is important, but the ability of the second generation of successors is also indispensable , Once there is no good heir, the group will decline and collapse rapidly.

In history, there are many examples of this kind of subjugation in the second generation.

Cheng Yuanzhi was lucky to have such a pair of sons who could barely be regarded as excellent. After Dabai succeeded to the throne, he quickly stabilized the overall situation in the early stage of the power transfer.

But again, due to the limitation of his own talent, Dabai is still far away from being a sage and enlightened lord. Although he has a good reputation, it is not enough to govern the country and conquer the world.

To put it bluntly, it is mediocre.

With such an ability template, it is no problem to become the monarch of a country in a peaceful era. Cheng Yuanzhi can assist and stabilize the situation.

But it is a pity that the world has not yet settled down at this time.

The most terrible thing is that Dabai has no children, only a bunch of daughters. As for Xiaobai, he has no children or daughters at all.

This makes Cheng Yuanzhi worried about Dabai's prospects after taking over the power.

But even so, Dabai still succeeded to the throne smoothly.

There is no other reason. Apart from him, there is no other qualified successor.

Strictly speaking, it is not without, the third son Yuan Rui is an excellent model of a monarch.

Yuan Rui has been extremely intelligent since he was a child, and he has the appearance of a wise king, but he is too young to be useful for the time being.

Cheng Yuanzhi didn't want to overthrow the seedlings, so he had no choice but to let Dabai succeed him.

Get over the addiction of the emperor, and by the way, bear the infamy of forcing Liu Xie to abdicate.

After all, they are all their own sons, and the throne takes turns. This year it is the eldest son, and in a few years it will be the third son's turn.

Fair and reasonable.

However, although Dabai became the new king of Wei, and might even become the emperor, he did not control all the power of Wei.

Because when Cheng Yuanzhi abdicated, he had already separated the military power from the political power. The power was handed over to Dabai, but the military power was still firmly in his hands.

Just like the previous 18 years of Dabai Jianguo, he was in charge of the inside, while Cheng Yuanzhi was in charge of the outside.

So this gave Dabai the motivation to force Liu Xie to Zen.

Because what he has now is the same as before, he needs to go one step further, under the push of civil and military officials, become emperor!

He has this will and condition.

After becoming king, Dabai was no longer just a Han official, he was already the king of a country. Although his nominal status was slightly lower than that of Han Emperor Liu Xie, the difference was almost the same.

Therefore, it became a matter of course to take over the Han family and ascend the throne as emperor.

If you force Emperor Han to abdicate without becoming king, although there is no big problem in operation, it will not be good in reputation.

After all, people in this era attach great importance to following the ancient rules. For example, when Liu Bei became King of Hanzhong in the original time and space, because he could not find a legal basis, he had to adopt very far-fetchedly the five counties of Hexi in the early Eastern Han Dynasty. The precedent of Kui Xiao.

It can be seen that even if you have the strength, you cannot do whatever you want. You must find convincing excuses and precedents in order to convince the public and to block the mouths of tens of millions of people in the world.

Zen positions have existed since ancient times, and Yao, Shun and Yu Tang have set a precedent, and this example fits the current situation very well.

When Cheng Yuanzhi brought his two daughters back to the Huai County mansion, Dabai had passed the discomfort in the early days of taking power, and was confidently making the first move to Han Emperor Liu Xie.

Brother, you should move.

The Zen drama between the old and new emperors is about to kick off.

(End of this chapter)