Chapter 1793: The tip of the iceberg
Seeing Ye Chunqiu's expression with sarcasm, Li Dongyang was still calm and calm, saying: "Your Highness, I was the chief minister of the cabinet at that time. I thought I was in charge of military affairs. Why do I need to conspire with others to choose this way of deceiving the emperor and disregarding the emperor?"
Seeing Li Dongyang as plain as usual, and his wrinkled face was hard to find any false behavior, Ye Chunqiu's mood couldn't help but feel a little complicated.
Because of all the previous actions, Ye Chunqiu was deeply prepared for Li Dongyang, but Ye Chunqiu felt that Li Dongyang could not see through it.
Ye Chunqiu calmed down and said nothing. Instead, he continued to look at the list in his hand. There were many familiar names, but most of them were civil servants, and occasionally some nobles were mixed with.
However, there are very few nobles, which is actually easy to understand. In recent years, these dukes and marquis have earned a lot of money in the Zhenguo Mansion and naturally live a free life. If they are mixed with some people at this time, they will be really full and full.
Ye Chunqiu had roughly read the list, but looked up in shock and said, "It's just these people? Mr. Li, if you rely solely on these people, will you dare to plot against major issues?"
Yes, although there are a Cabinet Grand Secretary, several Shangshu, and some court officials involved, to be honest, Ye Chunqiu may not take it seriously.
Li Dongyang smiled meaningfully and said, "Your Highness seems to have forgotten one thing. Yang Yiqing has always managed Ma Zheng in the border town. After entering the cabinet, he has always been in military affairs. Although he has no soldiers, he has promoted many people who were in the border town at the time. Many of these people have entered Beijing and hold important positions in the Beijing camp. Don't your Highness feel dangerous?"
Ye Chunqiu thought about it and still felt that these people were not enough to accomplish anything.
Li Dongyang naturally saw Ye Chunqiu's disapproval, and smiled again, and then said, "These people are just the tip of the iceberg. In fact, Your Majesty has indeed caused resentment in the past few years. I don't know how many people in the court are so dissatisfied. Look at this time, Your Majesty went out to sea, except for a few of your Taishan gang members, who said? Why? As I said at the beginning, I was heartbroken. This kind of thing cannot involve too many people, because the more people involved, the greater the risk. But as long as someone starts, are you still afraid that no one will respond at that time?"
Ye Chunqiu pondered for a moment and said, "The last question is, after that, you have retired from the Chief Secretary to the Bachelor's degree, will no one win over you again? After all, you were irreconcilable with me at the beginning. Logically, if you could win over you, it would be great, it would be like a tiger with wings."
Li Dongyang said with a smile: "At that time, they knew that you had competed with me everywhere and wanted me to win over me, which was equivalent to them fighting with you face to face with me. But what they wanted was not the authority in the court, but the world. It would be of no benefit to them if they emerged too early."
After pausing, Li Dongyang said again: "This... is just one of them, and the most important thing is that they are afraid that they will not accept me. Think about it, if this matter is done, who will be the first contribution?"
Ye Chunqiu said without thinking: "Yang Yiqing?"
Li Dongyang immediately said, "But if I also conspired with them, then who is the first merit?"
After this calculation, Ye Chunqiu finally believed it. If someone brought Li Dongyang to join, then with Li Dongyang's qualifications and weight, the first skill would be Li Dongyang.
Without Li Dongyang, once he succeeded, Yang Yiqing would be the first minister of the cabinet. However, after joining Li Dongyang, with Li Dongyang's reputation at that time, where else would there be anything else?
I'm afraid that a large number of people have some doubts about this.
Li Dongyang sneered coldly and said, "The key to the problem is here. People are selfish. So many people take certain risks and plan secretly. What is the purpose of? For this reason, it may be that they do not agree with the emperor today and the new policy, but at the same time, it is also for themselves. The Buddha was too big at the time and their temple could not accommodate it."
Ye Chunqiu couldn't help laughing. It seemed that his utilitarianism was not enough to be behind him. Unexpectedly, these scholars and officials had so many plans even if they were conspiring.
At this time, Li Dongyang looked stern and said, "But I am not a good-looking guy? Several of my disciples have participated. I know more or less, but I just pretend not to know."
Ye Chunqiu looked up at Li Dongyang and said, "So, which dragon do they want to go from?"
Li Dongyang said: "Once the crown prince succeeds to the throne, Xiao Gui and Cao will still appoint Wang Hua as the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet and implement the new policy. This is a sure thing. On the one hand, when the crown prince is young, he must follow the lead of the empress dowager and the empress. The empress dowager and the empress rely on only Wang Hua; on the other hand, the crown prince has no resistance to the new policy. After all, he is the blood of his majesty's relatives, so where is the reason why his son revolts against me? What these people need to do now is to block the crown prince from following the throne. The reason must be that the crown prince is young and has no master, and the crown prince of Xing Zhu Hougui is also the blood of Emperor Taizu, who can inherit the throne."
Ye Chunqiu frowned and said, "The Queen Mother and Empress Xia will refuse."
"They are women after all." Li Dongyang said unconsciously.
Ye Chunqiu then said: "My Lord Taishan will definitely refuse."
"It's hard to sing alone." Li Dongyang said four words, looked at Ye Chunqiu deeply, and said without any concealment: "To be honest, your Mount Tai is actually completely supported by you. In terms of qualifications and people's hearts, even Yang Yiqing cannot compare. How many people have he offended to implement the new policy? Now these people will inevitably backfire. Let me ask you, what if someone submits a letter to the people at this time, and asks Prince Lixing?"
Ye Chunqiu snorted coldly and said, "The people's spirit is available, but not. This so-called people's spirit is actually empty. When it comes to this, who will care about the book of the people?"
Li Dongyang said: "But if more than 70% of the ministers and local officials in the world write letters and ask the Prince of Xing to establish the prince, that would be different. You should know that after the implementation of the new policy, local gentry were wailing, and all the officials in charge of the local government were heartbroken by the new policy. Your Taishan, the new policy was implemented, using thunder means, but don't forget that although this thunder means was used, people were looking down on the people. He had no choice but to promote some backbone of the new policy in the court, but just a few people are far from enough. It is precisely because of this that there are so many people who have rebounded now. New policies, new policies, and Qinglong are not something that people can easily accept."
Chapter completed!