"She is verifying your sincerity!"
In the Weiyang Palace, the Empress Dowager whispered to the new emperor.
Even though the new emperor followed your Majesty’s advice and was willing to be a good baby in front of the Empress Dowager, the new emperor did not expect that it would be so difficult to be an obedient grandson.
In just two days, Empress Dowager Dou followed the orders of the Empress Dowager and launched an extremely violent attack on the Confucian faction in the court, even directly reprimanding Zhao Wan, Wang Zang and others. , searching for evidence to allow the new emperor to attack the two top Confucian scholars.
The Empress Dowager did not directly suppress and capture Zhao Wan and Wang Zang, but handed the matter over to the new emperor.
This is to force the new emperor to be cruel to Confucianism, and it is also the new emperor's declaration of surrender.
Whether to choose the old and seriously ill Empress Dowager or the Confucianists who constantly insert Confucian scholars into the court system, the new emperor needs to make a final choice.
“Think about it carefully,” the Empress Dowager said, “but don’t try to delay time. The longer the delay, the worse it will be!”
“I got it!”
"Your uncle said that you can either take advantage of your illness to risk your life and bear the name of rebellion from now on, or you can gamble your life and see if the Empress Dowager will cut off your wings step by step or use the power of the sect to finally make you abdicate and replace you! ”
The Empress Dowager mentioned the reasons for the new emperor's difficult choice.
It was not that the new emperor was reluctant to give up the Confucian school, but after giving up the Confucian school, what did he use to draw on his strength?
The Empress Dowager can force him to cut off two important Confucian ministers today, and force him to cut off others tomorrow. In the end, the new emperor will have no basis.
This is far heavier than the price of bowing down that the new emperor had thought before, and it is even too heavy for the new emperor to bear.
If you invest in the Palace of Peace, it almost means gambling your life.
But if he didn't surrender to the Anle Palace, he would look like a joke guarding the Anle Palace late at night, further making the Empress Dowager think he was unworthy.
The possibility of his rebellion has been greatly reduced after that night. At least Li Guang will not take it seriously anymore. As for the feasibility of wooing Confucians to target Anle Palace, it is too low, far less than the new If the emperor makes arrangements, there is a high probability that he will be suppressed on charges of treason and other crimes.
The Empress Dowager seems to have mentioned two roads, but neither road is easy to follow.
Obviously the Empress Dowager was lying in the Anle Palace, but the new emperor felt that he was the fish waiting to be slaughtered on the chopping board.
He fell into a dead end. It seemed that he had a choice but in fact he had no choice. He could not control his fate whether it was to the left or the right.
"Mother, I understand!"
Watching the worried empress dowager leave, the new emperor looked at everything in Weiyang Palace.
This is the center of power of the Han Dynasty, but it is not the center of power.
One mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, and one dynasty cannot tolerate two voices.
Only one person can make the decision between him and the Empress Dowager.
Cintiq undoubtedly lacks advantages at the moment.
If Li Guang, the chief guard of Weiyang Palace, did not follow him in rebellion, the new emperor would have no choice but to lead a few young eunuchs in rebellion.
Correspondingly Tian Fu’s first choice is simply impossible to achieve.
But the second option was difficult for Cintiq to accept.
He used the most ceremonial methods of installing chariots, pulling silks, and adding jade to seek talents. However, in just half a year, he was about to exclude the schools that came to seek talents from the court.
This is undoubtedly a big deal in the world, and will completely destroy the prestige that the new emperor brought when he ascended the throne.
And this will also mess up all Confucian arrangements of Emperor Jing beyond control.
What’s more serious is that the new emperor no longer has any leverage to rely on. If he follows the wishes of Anle Palace and attacks Confucianism, all the ministers in the court will inevitably turn to the Empress Dowager, and he will be reduced to a The mascot placed on the dragon throne. "The old man's words are just words on paper and difficult to apply in practice. If I continue to do this, I will become a puppet. Even if I do things as the Empress Dowager wants, she will look down on my talents and abilities!"
The choice is difficult, and the consequences of the choice are also unbearable for the new emperor.
No matter how he chooses, he will always lose.
"I was supposed to be the master of the Han Dynasty and should have supreme luck. Why did I end up like this..."
The new emperor sat in the empty Weiyang Palace, The head is like an empty palace and it is difficult to find a place to put it.
He was in a daze for a long time, and it was not until the young eunuchs asked questions repeatedly that the new emperor came back to his senses.
"What's the matter?" the new emperor asked.
"Your Majesty, there are several great scholars outside the Sima Gate who want to see you. The leader said that he holds the Holy Order of Kong and that he can meet the saint!"
"The great scholar holding the Holy Order of Kong should be Kong Zhong, the successor of the Kong family. "What is he doing in the palace?"
Confucianism is inclusive, with not only diverse cultivation levels, but also extremely complex factions. The descendants of Saint Kong are not the masters of Confucianism, but these descendants are respected by the major Confucian factions because of their bloodline, and have survived peacefully to this day. .
This has to be said to be an extremely wonderful school model. Even if the dynasty changes and the school is destroyed, the Confucian family is still living well and is respected by various schools of Confucianism.
Even the Kong family belongs to the nominal heads of the major Confucian schools. Even if it is in name only, the other party does have this qualification.
The new emperor was in a bad mood and didn't want to see anyone at the moment.
But for Kong Zhong, who holds the Kong Shengling Order, he still has to take into account the nominal leader of the school.
"Xuan... I'd better go out of the palace to greet you!"
The new emperor just wanted to summon Kong Zhong and others to have an audience, but after thinking for only two seconds, he got up.
He treated Shen Peigong and Meicheng Confucianism with extremely high etiquette. If Confucianism, a nominal sect of Confucianism, came with Kong Shengling, but he just summoned them casually, it would undoubtedly be criticized.
Moreover, his current situation is not good, and he almost feels the same pain as Kong Zhong.
This caused the new emperor to come out of the palace to greet him personally, and the young eunuch shouted to inform him again and again.
The new emperor could not travel more than five hundred meters, and then he saw five dwarfs trotting in a row, led by the eunuch.
The dwarf at the front was holding a dark token, and his face was full of anxiety. This state made the new emperor sigh.
It was rumored that Kong Shengren was nine feet tall and six inches tall. The new emperor did not expect that the height of this generation of the Kong family would directly shrink by half.
"You are Kong..."
As the young eunuch said, "Your Majesty has arrived," the new emperor also spoke.
But before he finished speaking, the leader Kong Zhong knelt down holding the Kong Sheng Order, and the four dwarfs behind him also knelt down.
"There is no need to perform such a grand ceremony of kneeling and worshiping." The new emperor took a step forward to help him.
"Your Majesty, we deserve to die. We should not let those three monsters dig up your ancestral graves." Kong Zhong held the order and begged loudly for mercy: "We are not capable, but we did not expect Zhao Wan He and Wang Zang knew our little ability and asked us to garrison Yangling, which was invaded by powerful enemies. They should have sent Zhou Ba, Xia Kuan and others..."
Kong Zhong knelt on the ground and loudly criticized the imperial censor Zhao Wan and the doctor Wang Zang for their faults. Part of the content even involved the two illegally amassing money to gather Confucian students.
This made Xintei narrow his eyes slightly.
Until now, he finally thought of how to deal with Confucianism without triggering a backlash from the surrender school.