Three Kingdoms

Sure enough, as Fei Qian had guessed, Cai Yong's anger came from deposing the emperor. Strictly speaking, it was not the result of deposing the emperor, but more the process of deposing the emperor.

Today at the great court meeting, Dong Zhuo took advantage of the civil and military gathering to announce to everyone: "The emperor is weak and cannot rule the world. There is a policy document that should be read out." Then he ordered Li Ru to read the policy document to depose the emperor.

Li Ru's voice read out the policy one after another, which frightened the young emperor of Han Dynasty to the point where he was sweating and panicked.

With the acquiescence of Wang Yun and Yuan Wei, Dong Zhuo proposed to abolish the emperor. No one in the Manchu Dynasty said anything about the civil and military scriptures, except Shangshu. Lu Zhi, the former Beizhonglang general, stood up and angrily said: "In the past, Taijia was established, but it is unknown. Yin Fang's Tong Palace. The king of Changyi was established for twenty-seven days, and he committed thousands of crimes, so he was deposed by Huo Guang. Today, I am rich in the Spring and Autumn Period, and I have not made any mistakes. This is not a comparison of the past." - meaning before. There are precedents for the deposed ministers Yi Yin and Huo Guang, both of whom had valid reasons. Dong Zhuo, yours is not a valid reason. It is pure nonsense and cannot be compared with the previous Yi Yin and Huo Guang.

After speaking, Lu Zhi saw that the matter was irreversible, so he went straight down to the court to resign and went up to Gujundu Mountain to live in seclusion.

The poor Young Emperor of the Han Dynasty was sitting on the throne. When Lu Zhi first stood up, he looked around hopefully to see if any other ministers could come forward to oppose Dong Zhuo and help him say something, but it seemed that he only saw a group of people like him. The ministers lowered their heads like quails, and the expectant eyes of Liu Bian, the Young Emperor of the Han Dynasty, gradually turned gray.

A dramatic scene unfolded.

The crown seal of the Young Emperor of the Han Dynasty was lifted, and King Chenliu was invited to the throne. A group of people, as if they had rehearsed countless times, congratulated the former King Chenliu and the new emperor in a skilled manner...

In the current dynasty, Dong Zhuo was promoted to Prime Minister, which announced that the Dong family had officially become the largest family of relatives canonized by the imperial court...

Cai Yong was actually angry not only about Dong Zhuo's dethroning of the emperor, but also about the ministers' acquiescence and non-resistance, including himself of course - for a moment, he had the urge to rush up and make a generous speech with Lu Zhi. Impulsive, but thinking of his family and Cai Yan, he hesitated again, and just followed the trend in a confused manner, completing the entire process of the young emperor abdicating the throne and the new emperor ascending the throne.

But after going to court and returning home, Cai Yong felt that what he did today was in conflict with the Confucian concepts he had learned. However, he had no way to vent his conflicting feelings, so he had to hold back his anger in his heart.

Seeing Fei Qian standing solemnly with his hands hanging down, Cai Yong endured his aggrieved mood. Remembering that Fei Qian was here to thank his teacher today, he forced himself to give Fei Qian a few words of encouragement.

But after speaking to the end, Cai Yong finally couldn't hold it back and asked Fei Qian: "Zi Yuan, what do you think about this matter of 'If you can make up for it, Gun will not be abolished'?"

Although Fei Qian subconsciously wanted to follow the classic phrase "There must be something fishy about this matter", after all, Cai Yong was seeking a moral explanation in the name of literary research, so Fei Qian naturally couldn't be so shameless and fooling around.

"If you can make up for your mistakes, you will not be abolished." This is from Zuo Zhuan's biography of Duke Ling of Jin Dynasty.

Jin Linggong was a man full of advanced interests. He even liked to use a slingshot on the high platform of the palace wall to hit other people's little chirps. He felt very happy when he saw the pedestrians avoiding each other...

It is unique that a dignified prince likes to do this kind of thing.

Therefore, the ministers of Jin Linggong were very worried and felt that they should guide Jin Linggong on the right path of advanced ballistics. They could not play with slingshots and shoot other people's little chirps all day long, as that would be useless.

So one of the ministers, Zhao Dun, went to persuade Jin Linggong, but Jin Linggong said that he knew it and would correct it, but he refused to change it. Later, after admonishing him too much, Jin Linggong got annoyed and wanted to kill Zhao Dun, but Zhao Dun was lucky. To protect himself, he killed Jin Linggong several times but failed to kill him, so he killed Jin Linggong in turn, welcomed Jin's prince Heibu, and established Heibu as the king.

In fact, Fei Qian has seen Zuo Zhuan and is relatively familiar with Zuo Zhuan. Every time he sees this place, Fei Qian wants to laugh. People in the Spring and Autumn Period were so simple. The name is so well chosen and so vivid - Hei Buttocks, wow, wow... still the king...

However, the focus of Cai Yong's question today is not whether the monarch's buttocks are white or black, but quoting Jin Linggong to allude to what happened at the court meeting today - "If you can make up for it, Gong will not be abolished" - if Han If the young emperor can correct his mistakes, shouldn't he be deposed? Even if the Young Emperor of the Han Dynasty was at fault, shouldn't he be advised first, and then finally take the path of deposing the emperor when he was really hopeless?

Because in the Confucian concept, no matter how stupid and demented the so-called "Emperor" is, no matter how cruel and immoral, no matter how perverted, he is "sacred" and cannot be offended and cannot be easily impeached or punished, otherwise he will commit bullying. Your Majesty, you are guilty of profanity and rebellion.

Therefore, Cai Yong felt that he should dissuade the emperor when he made mistakes, but he failed to do so. The emperor was casually deposed like this, and he could not dissuade him. Now that it has reached this point, he feels uneasy.

Fei Qian thought for a while, he was a good master in everything, but he was a bit too idealistic. Didn't you see that not many people in the civil and military affairs of the dynasty made a sound, and most of them happily welcomed the new emperor, so who else would care about the deposed emperor? ah?

But you can't just say it to Cai Yong directly, otherwise you won't be scolded to death by Cai Yong. Even though Cai Yong didn't dare to scold Dong Zhuo in court, Cai Yong wouldn't think there was any question about whether he dared to scold his own disciples.

Fei Qian thought for a while and said: "Song and Chu made an alliance under the city, and the alliance said, 'I have no deceit, and you have no danger.'" - This refers to the deception between Chu and Song at that time, and it was written in the covenant Everything in it can be openly overthrown, let alone an emperor now. Master, you are an honest gentleman to others, but others may not be honest gentlemen!

Who doesn't cheat? Without fraud, it is difficult to stand and seek benefits for oneself. The so-called "unjust wars in the Spring and Autumn Period" also include, to a certain extent, interest disputes between countries, and always contain elements of fraud.

The current situation is also the same. Look at Dong Zhuo's army approaching Luoyang City. In this case, what second option is there? Besides, who among the civil and military officials in the Manchu dynasty was not seeking their own interests? Why didn't the Yuan family and Wang family say anything? Is there no fraud or profit behind this?

Cai Yong sighed: "That's the case, but..." Cai Yong didn't finish what he said, but he understood the meaning clearly. Everyone understands the truth, but when encountering practical problems, it is often not possible to do it.

Cai Yong shook his head. Although he seemed a little more relieved than before, he was still not in a good mood. He patted Fei Qian on the shoulder and told Fei Qian to go back and study hard, and then let Fei Qian go back.

When Fei sneaked out of Cai's house, he was still thinking, is Cai Yong's character the reason why Dong Zhuo cried so paradoxically in history? But looking at it now, Dong Zhuo didn't give Cai Yong a big official position. Cai Yong shouldn't be grateful to Dong Zhuo, right?

Fei Qian thought about it, and in order to ensure that his guess was correct, he felt it was necessary to go to another person to test it out, although it was quite difficult...