Chapter 228 Another possibility (9000 words for a monthly ticket)(3/4)
Chu Ge's solution also lasted two episodes.
The events in these two episodes lasted for five years. The first five years were mainly for seizing power, while the next five years were for stabilizing the position, suppressing the counterattack of the old party, blocking the emperor's eyes and ears, and finally using powerful force to
To implement the new law.
Although players already know this route, many viewers who see this solution for the first time are still amazed.
Especially in the drama series, the game "Ansha" automatically shows all the details of the reform process, showing it from different perspectives such as old party officials, military figures, emperors, and ordinary people. The details are more detailed and also
more convincing.
At the end of the episode, Meng Yuan looked at Wang Wenchuan: "Jing Gong, what do you think of this possibility?"
Wang Wenchuan's expression froze slightly. Apparently, Chu Ge's solution also surprised him.
However, this solution was still carried out under the historical conditions of the time, so it was not difficult for Wang Wenchuan, who was able to achieve the position of ruler, to understand.
After a moment, he gave his thoughts.
"This man's magic is indeed rare.
"To benefit the king, to cut off his ministers with the emperor's orders, and finally to carry out reforms through treacherous tactics, it is true that he can play with the world in the palm of his hand and get what he wants. Of course, it is not an issue to force a new law.
"There is no worry about losing the prime minister, no worries about constraints, power and prime minister have a path, it can be said that it is settled once and for all.
"It's just... once you embark on this road, you can never look back. Whoever started it has nothing to do with it?
"I am afraid that this move will not only leave a legacy of infamy for a long time, but may also cause instability in the country, party strife and strife, and the monarch's uncontrollable will."
Although the "backstory" of this method is not intuitively shown in the drama, both Wang Wenchuan and those smart players can basically guess it.
The road to power is equivalent to opening Pandora's box.
In the short term, it is indeed possible to impose new laws, but what will happen after the emperor dies?
Chu Ge's approach is to be worthy of the name of power. What he pursues is to pretend to be the emperor and become an uncrowned king as a civil servant.
Only by exercising imperial power as prime minister can the reform be successful.
In this process, it is absolutely impossible to use fair and just means, and we must use all possible means.
Use the Wude Division to dig up dirty information, fight between parties, deceive the emperor and flatter the superior, etc., none of which can be missed.
After finally becoming a powerful prime minister, if you use your power for personal gain and gain wealth through corruption, you will be infamy for the ages, and you will be ranked with Yan Maoqing, Wang Chong and other great traitors throughout the ages;
And if we implement reforms and really extend the life of the dynasty and benefit the people of Li, then maybe our reputation in history will be slightly better, but it won't be much better.
After all, those suppressed literati and officials will spare no effort to smear the historical data.
In the long run, although Chu Ge's solution can implement the new law more smoothly in the short term, it will cause more problems in the long run.
The autocracy of imperial power is almost irreversible. If the imperial power is actively strengthened in order to implement reforms, once the imperial power raises the butcher's knife towards you one day, it will be difficult to resist.
So, in the end, there are nothing more than three endings.
Now when the emperor was alive, he realized that something was wrong and used cruel methods to liquidate the powerful ministers.
Now after the emperor died, the new emperor who succeeded him found that something was wrong and used cruel methods to liquidate the powerful ministers.
The old emperor died, and the new emperor succeeded to the throne, but failed to take any action for the time being. After the death of the Prime Minister, he would use more cruel methods to liquidate the descendants of the Prime Minister and all his party members.
From a longer-term perspective, using such means to gain power will have a very bad impact on the atmosphere in the DPRK.
Other officials will surely follow suit and begin to use flattery, party fighting, and digging up dirt as their main means to suppress dissidents in a cruel way and strive for the top.
The emperor, on the other hand, is more suspicious of the officials and may constantly weigh restrictions to ensure the stability and concentration of imperial power.
Even if such extreme means are used to promote the new law as much as possible while Wang Wenchuan is in office, the results of the new law will probably not be very good.
The national treasury will definitely be full, and foreign wars will improve, but people's lives will not necessarily get better.
Most likely, they will still be stigmatized among the people for thousands of years.
And in this process, if there is a powerful prime minister or emperor who is really talented, then he can continue the life of the dynasty; if not, the entire dynasty will collapse at a faster speed.
Because of the stupid king's nonsense, naturally no one can restrain him.
Although Wang Wenchuan never considered the line of power at the beginning, he frequently clashed with old party officials during the reform process, and he definitely had a lot of experience in political struggle.
However, Wang Wenchuan still worked hard to maintain the bottom line of party struggle. Although he ostensibly expelled all the old parties from the court, at least there was still room for it.
He did not let the emperor go as he pleased, but always insisted on his own opinions, which even caused the emperor's dissatisfaction.
Judging from the results, the new law he implemented was not successful, but at least he achieved a happy death. The fierce partisanship between the old and the new parties only began after his death.
While he stubbornly adhered to the bottom line, he tried his best, although this attempt ultimately ended in failure.
Therefore, even though Wang Wenchuan saw Chu Ge's line at this time and knew that this power line could push the reform deeper, he only expressed his admiration and did not show much enlightenment.
This is a solution, but it obviously does not fit Wang Wenchuan's character.
Meng Yuan seemed to have expected this. With a wave of his hands, mist filled his eyes, and he was transported to another time and space.
"Look again, Mr. Jing, this is the second of the three other possibilities that this junior shows you."
Come to the fifth episode, Meng Yuan shows another possibility for Wang Wenchuan.
Wang Wenchuan cheered up again, obviously he also wanted to know what kind of other solution this was.
As for the audience in front of the screen, they were looking forward to it but also had some doubts.
Are there three other possibilities?
Judging from the previous clearances of players, Chu Ge's method is already recognized as the best solution in single-player mode. Regardless of the outcome of the power-phase route, at least the process is more pleasant.
I originally thought that Meng Yuan would show the solution to the Prime Minister route at the end, but he didn't expect that he would show it out first.
Even if the last possibility is group wear by players, what is the second possibility?
Everyone continued to watch the fifth episode carefully.
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After the fog dissipated, Wang Wenchuan was stunned, and the audience in front of the screen were also stunned.
Because...it was a completely unfamiliar sight before me.
Between the skyscrapers, old-fashioned cars are flowing continuously. Dense crowds are wearing modern Western clothes and walking in a hurry. Everyone's face is filled with happiness and confidence.
Wang Wenchuan was a little surprised: "This is..."
Meng Yuan explained: "Jing Gong, this is a foreign country more than nine hundred years later."
Wang Wenchuan looked a little dazed: "More than nine hundred years later... has it become so prosperous?"
In the picture in front of him, there were too many elements that he didn't recognize, whether it was a speeding car or a skyscraper, they all made him feel incredible.
But no matter how times change, people have not changed much after all.
What surprised Wang Wenchuan even more was that in the metropolis in front of him, although the pedestrians on the road were in a hurry, their overflowing happiness and confidence made people sincerely feel that their mental outlook was different from that of hundreds of years ago.
The ancients were completely different.
This scene is even somewhat close to the Yao and Shun period that Wang Wenchuan once imagined in his mind.
In ancient times, all literati must refer to Yao and Shun because Yao and Shun were already something similar to political correctness in the minds of ancient scholars.
In fact, from the perspective of modern people, no matter how much the Yao and Shun era is praised, it is nothing more than a primitive society. With extremely low productivity, it is absolutely impossible to have a peaceful and prosperous age where everyone is happy.
Therefore, modern people never envy the ancients.
However, when Wang Wenchuan's reform was carried out, he had to use the excuse of imitating Yao and Shun to implement it. I have to say that this can be regarded as a very sad thing.
For the audience in front of the screen, this scene is quite familiar.
"Hey, isn't this the scene at the beginning of the twentieth century?"
"Why do you want to show this to Wang Wenchuan?"
Many players are a little confused.
Although Meng Yuan had shown Sheng Taizu the living conditions of modern people before, it was after all what Sheng Taizu had requested.
Now, Meng Yuan was clearly showing Wang Wenchuan another possibility of reform, so why did he turn the lens to a foreign country in the early 20th century?
Wang Wenchuan asked doubtfully: "What does this have to do with the new law?"
In his view, the days of this foreign country were far better than those of the Qi Dynasty, and even surpassed the imaginary Yao and Shun periods. If this is the case, what does it have to do with the reforms he advocated for?
After all, he made the reform at that time because he saw that the Qi Dynasty had serious problems with three redundancies, was poor and weak, suffered from internal and external troubles, and had reached a point where it would lead to chronic death if the law was not changed.
And what does the happy scene of the faction in front of us have to do with the reform?
Meng Yuan did not answer directly, but waved his hand to speed up the flow of time in the huge city in front of him: "Jinggong, please wait and see."
The sky is full of wind and clouds, and the underground vehicles are constantly shuttling. This huge city is constantly alternating between night and day. The day is in full swing, and the night is brightly lit.
But one day, this prosperous scene suddenly disappeared forever.
People's faces are no longer filled with confidence and smiles, but are filled with sorrow, and their eyes seem to have completely lost their luster.
Immediately afterwards, this emotion quickly spread throughout the city like a contagion.
The construction site that was originally under construction in full swing has stalled. People who were walking back and forth among various buildings with smiles on their faces were walking blankly on the street. They were either carrying job signs on their backs or holding job search signs in their hands.
To be continued...