Chapter 345 Big times, small destiny!
a long time.
Li Shanchang moved his body, and his cloudy eyes gradually regained some of their expression, as if he had thought of something, and regained some of their color. He looked at Xia Zhibai, his eyes full of solemnity and indifference, and said: "What do you think I will do in the future?" The fate can only be Li Si and Sima Yi, but I don’t think so.”
"I have no selfish motives for Your Majesty."
"I have been loyal to Your Majesty for so many years."
"I am not only loyal to His Majesty, but also loyal to His Highness. My loyalty to the Ming Dynasty can be learned from the sun and the moon."
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Li Shanchang still had some words of defense, but as he spoke, his voice became quieter, and in the end, he lost his voice directly, because the words he said could be applied to Li Si and Sima Yi to a certain extent.
But Zhu Yuanzhang is not Ying Zheng, let alone Cao Cao.
Xia Zhibai sighed, stood up and poured a glass of wine for Li Shanchang, and poured another glass for himself. He tasted it carefully and said: "Although the wine is good, it must be in moderation. As a grand master, everything you do is actually a matter of taste." Wrong.”
"Perhaps the grand master now wants to escape unscathed."
"But Grand Master still remembers Liu Ji and Liu Bowen. Why didn't Liu Ji want to retire? But after he resigned, has the result changed? Where there are people, there will be rivers and lakes, and there will naturally be power struggles, and in China, Throughout the world, people have been practicing the tradition of drinking tea.”
"How can it be that the Grand Master has been in power for so many years without offending others?"
"I'm afraid that the grand master will not dare to retreat completely, and he will definitely contact the officials of the DPRK and China."
"And this is not a taboo!"
Li Shanchang remained silent.
He did think of retiring early as Xia Zhibai thought.
Just when Jing Xia Zhibai mentioned Sima Yi, it was difficult for him to even retreat, because Sima Yi had also used it. For a moment, Li Shanchang only felt an inexplicable irritability in his heart. He had an unprecedented feeling towards Sima Yi who had ruined his future. disgust.
What Li Shanchang is most anxious about is that he can no longer find a reason to escape intact.
Even if there is, His Majesty may not agree.
Even as long as I live for a day, His Majesty's suspicion of me will secretly increase.
As for dying directly, he would not consider it.
Li Shanchang pressed his body heavily on the table, and his breathing became a lot heavier. Finally, he looked at Xia Zhibai, with a look of boredom in his eyes. He was afraid that this was the real purpose of Xia Zhibai's coming, which was to Convince yourself and let yourself go the same way as him.
Li Shanchang gave a wry smile and said: "Sure enough, there are talented people in the country. I took all precautions, but you still schemed against me."
"Your casual words have completely aroused my uneasiness. You can just pat your butt and leave, but I will fall into a long period of anxiety and uneasiness. You are really amazing, all over the world, Besides Liu Bowen, you are the second person who makes me restless.”
"You win!"
Li Shanchang gave up in defeat.
He knew that he had been completely tricked by Xia Zhibai. He originally came to ask Xia Zhibai, but Xia Zhibai held him back with a few words. Now that the seeds of fear have been planted in his heart, he is destined to fail. Maybe even if nothing happens, he will always live in fear.
If I can't get out of this state quickly, I'm afraid your majesty's sword will fall soon.
Because my abnormality will be greatly magnified in His Majesty's eyes.
Sometimes it’s enough to kill you! Xia Zhibai shook his head.
He said calmly: "The Grand Master is joking, have I ever played chess with the Grand Master? Of course there is no winning or losing."
"The path of the Grand Master is indeed narrow."
"In other words, this is not the problem of the Grand Master, but the position of the Grand Master. In the past, this risk was borne by the Prime Minister. Now that the Prime Minister has been deposed, it naturally falls on the high-ranking Grand Master. This All dynasties and dynasties are not exempt from vulgarity.”
"However, the younger generation does have a solution, but the grand master may not be able to accept it."
Li Shanchang had calmed down his panic, drank the wine in the glass with all his strength, and said: "Tell me, I would like to hear what solutions you can come up with in this kind of place of life and death, but this may not necessarily be for me. The preparation, or the idea itself, is for your own future.”
Li Shanchang gave Xia Zhibai a cold look.
Xia Zhibai smiled and was noncommittal, and the two of them didn't say much about it.
Xia Zhibai said: "With Taishi's current status, it is basically impossible to escape unscathed, and it is unlikely that Taishi will accept it and leave alone. Therefore, we must ensure that Taishi still has a certain prestige, but do not cause any trouble." His majesty’s suspicion, in the eyes of future generations, has only one solution.”
"Abolish the life-long tenure of officials!"
One word fell.
Li Shanchang's pupils shrank slightly, with a look of surprise in his eyes.
Xia Zhibai continued: "The suspicions between emperors and ministers in the past dynasties all stemmed from the fact that they had been in power for too long and formed many cliques. In the end, they became too powerful at the end of the court and threatened the emperor's power. Therefore, the emperors in the past dynasties strictly guarded their powerful ministers, but At a certain time, the court urgently needs powerful ministers to appear.”
"So the court is always in a state of relative contradiction."
"The compromise is to abolish the tenure system and replace it with a year limit."
“Set the maximum number of years in service!”
"The higher you go, the more your tenure becomes stuck. Unless there are special circumstances, you will be dismissed from office at that point."
"For these retired officials, the court will give certain preferential treatment, allowing them to participate in some major decisions, or allowing them to directly write to the court to ensure that the retired ministers' power will not decline quickly and they will always have a certain degree of authority. Influence and voice.”
"As long as we advance and retreat in an orderly manner, even if we are in power again, it will not arouse too much suspicion from His Majesty, unless we really make a political mistake."
"However, even if this idea is put forward, it is extremely difficult, and the resistance it faces will be surprisingly large. There is resistance from both court officials and local officials. But this method is indeed a solution to the current predicament of the Grand Master. The best way.”
"Also the most eclectic."
"Of course this is just my humble opinion."
"The final choice of the Grand Master is up to the Grand Master himself."
"As for what the Grand Master wants to ask, I have actually told the Grand Master that the answer is that His Highness the Crown Prince has changed. His Highness no longer wants to be sheltered under His Majesty's wings. He wants to break away and do something on his own. A large part of it lies in restructuring. ! ”
"Reform some unreasonable systems in the world, and at the same time create some systems that are more beneficial to the world."
"Big times, small destiny."
"The world's stage is very big, and the destiny that each of us can choose is very small. Therefore, in this position, we must give full play to our talents as much as possible, live up to our time, live up to the people of the world, and live up to the time we have spent so many years in vain." Road.”
(End of chapter)