NOVEL FROG Chapter 958 Xizhou Mission
Chapter 958 Xizhou Mission
When playing in court, you must not speak plain English.
However, it is too complicated to say, and it is not a duel in court.
The purpose of duet is to communicate.
The emperor could know the opinions of his ministers through duels.
Ministers can also figure out the emperor's intentions through antiphons.
In addition, there are always some things that require the emperor to make his own decision.
The result of being good at making opinions is to have everyone copied and executed.
Therefore, the memorial to the court is different from the memorial to the court.
Vernacular and classical Chinese are basically half and half.
There are no lengthy citations.
Even the treasure seals on Emperor Chongping's desk were made by the Ministry of Rites. What are the specifications? How many treasure seals should there be in total? How many seals should be in a set? It is as big as the palace structure, such as the Panlong Pillar at the entrance. The number of roots, as small as the number of waterside pavilions, is the responsibility of the Ministry of Rites.
The Ministry of War said we can’t fight?
The Ministry of Rites does not understand drawings, only data.
Our Ministry of Rites can play strategic shock!
The meaning of the new Minister of Rites, translated into human terms, is nothing more than: Since the Ministry of War can't think of a way to repel the soldiers and horses of the Toyo Dynasty without using Lin Chaoci, why not let us, the Ministry of Rites, send Xizhou to envoy The group asked us to come up and make some excuses. Anyway, we have Lin Chaoci to tell the truth. Even though the fifth prince of the Feng Dynasty wrote so much in the letter, he would not have written this letter if he knew the background of our Later Han Dynasty. He would not have written this letter. The purpose of the letter is to test our Hou Han Dynasty, because he can't figure out the strength of our Hou Han Dynasty. In this case, we don't need to bear the pressure for Xizhou. We just push this problem to Xizhou, you Xizhou Your own troubles must be solved by yourselves in Xizhou. If you can't solve it, it's easy to deal with it. Just let us use this matter to control it. It's mainly about turning against guests. This is the routine that our Etiquette Department is good at.
Even modern people can understand it.
I, the Ministry of Etiquette, can bite the meat off the negotiation table!
Sacrifice, reward, entertaining foreign guests, negotiation, etc.
These are the responsibilities of the Ministry of Etiquette.
Because of this, the Ministry of Industry has a kind of beauty that does not care about life or death compared to the Ministry of Rites.
To put it bluntly, it’s like Party A and Party B. Party A says it needs colorful black, and the rest is Party B’s scope of work. What Party B does is Party B’s business. Party A can just take a look at the finished product.
Because few ministers can speak too clearly.
The Ministry of Works was responsible for drawing and construction.
The Ministry of Rites has a wide scope of authority.
Those who can do well are like the Ministry of Rites of the Han Dynasty.
The Ministry of Rites boasted, quoted scriptures, and searched for ancient systems. The Ministry of Industry could only work hard here, wishing to put bricks into the mouth of the Ministry of Rites to let these strongest kings understand the difficulties.
No, my etiquette department said yes!
At most, I think about it occasionally.
This is a position that is tougher than the Ministry of War if you can do it well, but the most cowardly position in the world if you can't do it well.
Especially the Ministry of Rites during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
In terms of diplomacy, the Ministry of Rites is also responsible.
Ministry of War?
You guys, we civil servants are not cowardly, but you are cowards!
Those who did not do well are like the Ministry of Rites in the Song Dynasty.
He keeps talking about "peace is the most precious" every day, or he uses nonsense like "We, the Song Dynasty, are a kingdom of heaven, so we should be tolerant and generous" as an excuse to cede territory to seek peace or betray the country for glory. .
Ministry of War?
A bunch of bastards who don’t understand the overall situation!
Therefore, the strength of the Ministry of War, the integrity of the Ministry of Personnel, the craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry, the favor of the Ministry of Punishment, the treasury of the Ministry of Households, and the bottom line of the Ministry of Rites are the most famous things in the imperial courts of the past dynasties. Sometimes, how low can the bottom line of the Ministry of Rites be? Even the Minister of Rites himself doesn't know about it, which is evident. The reason why the current Minister of Rites has no bottom line is related to his predecessors.
His predecessor was the previous Minister of Rites.
It advocates that harmony is the most important thing.
He advocated the use of marriage in exchange for border peace.
In fact, things like this did not happen in the Later Han Dynasty. The Supreme Emperor was defeated in a battle when he was young. Although he did not cede territory to seek peace at that time, he also sent a large amount of gold and silver treasures and a small amount of money to many tribes in Mobei. The noble daughter of the royal family counts as money to buy peace.
Until the rise of Jia Daihua's generation.
In the later stages.
Later Han Dynasty finally managed to feel proud.
However, even so, it is just to put gold on his face. The so-called feeling proud is just that he can defend the border defense line and will not be invaded by the barbarians in Mobei.
Externally, it is natural to say that one is proud and proud.
However, internally, the Supreme Emperor himself also knew it.
Therefore, after the Supreme Emperor grew up in the border army, he immediately turned his back and stopped transporting gold and silver treasures and royal ladies to the outside world. After several frictions occurred on the border, the matter was settled.
He can be regarded as a relatively bottom-line emperor.
Therefore, if we add up the temperament and temperament of all the Ministers of Rites in the Later Han Dynasty and calculate the average, although the previous Minister of Rites did not do very well, it is not considered a loss of power and humiliation of the country, especially when the frontier generals at that time had just been handed over by the Supreme Emperor. Less than a year after Emperor Chongping's reign, the Minister of Rites sought stability, but he was not of Qin Hui's generation.
However, he met the emperor who most wanted to achieve great things and the most unscrupulous Governor-General in Jinyi. In front of everyone, the Governor-General in Jinyi struck him with thunder, and all of his people were struck by lightning.
Entered the history books in another way.
Therefore, regardless of whether this senior was wronged or not, the current Minister of Rites must be a hardliner.
If you don’t want to die, you can only be a hardliner.
Fortunately, Emperor Chongping was also a hardliner.
Every soldier is raging, and a den of generals is raging. Emperor Chongping's tough attitude set a clear benchmark for the current political trend of the Later Han Dynasty. Literary officials died in admonishment and military personnel fought to the death. Although there are still some officials who pretend to be fake, Emperor Chongping continued to During his reign, he had the confidence to change Hou Han Dynasty into what he wanted.
With a wave of his hand, he agreed to the suggestion of the Minister of Rites.
The Xizhou envoys were summoned to the palace for an audience.
Negotiations and other matters can be put off later, and the Ministry of Rites is responsible for this aspect. The emperor will not bargain with an envoy in person.
The formal process is as follows: the mission submits the document → obtains the review record from the Ministry of Rites → the Ministry of Rites submits it to the emperor for processing → the emperor decides whether to meet or not → if not, stop here; if not, meet with the civil and military officials at the court → the audience is completed After that, the Ministry of Rites would arrange accommodation, and professional officials from the Ministry of Rites would be responsible for the negotiations → the emperor would intervene, or let the officials of the Ministry of Rites perform their own functions.
Leave professional matters to professionals.
It's like negotiating.
Is Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty necessarily better than the officials of the Ministry of Rites?
The lion mouth of the official of the Ministry of Rites could even scare Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty occasionally, because even if Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty came, he would not dare to do such a high-risk operation to press the line, for fear that the lion mouth would scare people away.
Therefore, some self-aware emperors will also delegate this kind of power.
For officials of the Ministry of Etiquette, this is the most comfortable.
However, since the Xizhou delegation dared to come, they were mentally prepared to face all difficulties after entering the palace, and had also thought about everything that might happen.
Under the silent gaze of all the civil and military officials of the Later Han Dynasty, a middle-aged man with an honest appearance, a little weathered, and a calm expression walked at the front, holding a scepter. He was the leader of the Xizhou mission and the subject of this negotiation. make.
Leading a man and a woman behind him.
He stepped into the hall calmly.
(End of this chapter)