sbdcsierra Chapter 607: Peace Negotiation Envoy
Chapter 607: Peace Negotiation Envoy
Although Zhou Guo's prince felt cold behind him, he finally lowered his head and said, "It's...it's the Yang family's fault..."
Emperor Zhou finally nodded in satisfaction after hearing this: "Since it is the fault of the Yang family, how should I punish the Yang family?"
"This..." The prince knelt on the ground, really speechless.
The Yang family is his reliance, weakening the Yang family is weakening him as the crown prince, his status is not as good as before, now if he secretly weakens the crown prince, how will he survive in the future?
Now he has changed from a certain prince to a semi-seized state?
Seeing that the crown prince was silent, the second prince turned to the cupped hands of the Chu emperor and said, "Your Majesty, if our country of Zhou negotiates peace with the country of Chu, our country of Zhou will definitely waste its people and money again. My minister thinks that the crime of the Yang family is unforgivable this time and must be severely punished! "
Hearing what the second prince said, the prince of Zhou Guo felt resentful, but he didn't dare to say a word.
Once the emperor really charged him with forming a party for personal gain, it would not be as simple as secretly weakening the party members of the own forces, and the position of the crown prince that he had always cherished might be lost.
Emperor Zhou thought about it for a while, and said: "Although the Yang family was at fault for this defeat, it was my Zhou State's humerus after all. I have worked so hard over the years, and even if it should be punished, it should not be punished too severely."
Master Zhou Guoguo took a look at Emperor Zhou, and he knew it in his heart.
Since ancient times, the emperor and the aristocratic family have always looked at each other at odds. Although they all respect the emperor, they have played tricks behind their backs.
And the aristocratic family controls most of the scholars in the world, and recklessly suppressing them will only hurt themselves.
If you want to suppress the family, you must have a reason. If the family is wrong, the emperor can do it.
Guilty first and punishment later.
In this way, it will not cause a backlash from scholars all over the world, and the aristocratic family will find no excuse to pinch their noses and admit it.
Of course, there is a more ruthless method, choose an aristocratic family that is not pleasing to the eye, start uprooting from the first person, and cut off all the foundations with a lightning speed.
In this way, scholars attached to this aristocratic family will immediately scatter and go elsewhere.
However, this method is easily unavailable and has many limitations.
The national power is strong, and there are no major internal and external troubles, and the imperial power must be highly concentrated.
Zhou Guo is currently unable to do this.
It should be said that it is difficult for any of the three countries in the Central Plains to do so.
On the one hand, foreign enemies are on the lookout, rushing to eliminate them may cause the country to be unstable, and on the other hand, it is because of the opposition between the prime minister and the imperial power.
Now the emperor has no way to order the court by himself alone, and there are two ministers on the left and right below.
Zhou Guo's imperial power and prime minister's power are mutually restricted. The advantage of this restriction is that the emperor's own words are not 100% true, and it can effectively prevent the emergence of a foolish emperor. Even if the next emperor is a fool, the country will not be too chaotic.
As for the disadvantages, if the emperor is a Taoist emperor, such restrictions will become the shackles on the emperor. He can't do what he wants to do, and after brainstorming, he will become rigid and timid in the end.
Even Emperor Zhou can only look for opportunities to weaken the power of the family bit by bit.
If he really wanted to uproot the century-old Yang family, he didn't have the courage.
...
Zhou Huang, who had shirked his responsibility, also indirectly achieved his own goal at this time. He looked at the prince standing in the imperial study and asked: "Although the Yang family needs to be punished, there is one more thing that is more important than punishing the Yang family." Urgent matter."
Standing up just now, the Crown Prince of Zhou Guo, whose forehead was still a little red and swollen, hurriedly asked, "I don't know what happened to the emperor?"
Zhou Huang glanced at him and said, "Who should we send to Chu to discuss peace?"
"This..." Prince Zhou couldn't help but fell silent when he heard this, not only Prince Zhou, but even the second prince and the third prince who had been serving as the atmosphere group had such a poor sense of existence that they both bowed their heads.
When the father asked this question, it was clear that he wanted to choose one of them to act as a peace negotiator!
Peace envoys are not comparable to the principal and deputy envoys on normal missions.
It is quite humiliating for the defeated party to send a peace envoy to the victorious party.
Because the peace negotiator has to sign the peace agreement, and all land ceding and compensation must be written on it.
Although the emperor ordered the peace negotiators to agree to these conditions, do the people dare to scold the emperor?
People dare not scold the emperor...
So who are you scolding?
Then you can only scold and talk.
Ceding land and paying compensation, traitors...
This job is not for normal people.
If they can promise to come down, then there is a ghost!
Besides, is there anyone who asks the prince of a country to act as a peace negotiator?
The prince doesn't want to face?
So is the second prince, he is also the son of a concubine, how can he do such a humiliating job?
Although the third prince has no sense of existence, at least his mother is also from a famous family and has a position above the court!
Is it appropriate to let him do the whole peace talks?
Obviously inappropriate!
The last time the peace talks envoys who went to the Chu State to discuss peace were scolded by the people, and they are still scolded by the people as traitors, and Zhou Guo paid them hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.
Seeing that many princes were silent, Emperor Zhou snorted coldly and said, "You talk all day long about sharing worries for the country and the world, but now when I want to use you, you all hold back and shirk each other's excuses. What's the point?"
The crown prince lowered his head and found an excuse: "Reporting to my father, my son has never been out of the state of Zhou, and I am not very familiar with the state of Chu. If I go rashly, I am afraid that my Zhou state will be damaged by improper handling."
Zhou Huang heard this and asked: "Who does the prince think is more familiar?"
The prince said: "Reporting to my father, the sixth younger brother has been sent to Chu as an official envoy. I think he should be very familiar with the court of the Chu state. I think it is more appropriate for the sixth younger brother to be an envoy."
The national teacher on the side heard this and said: "The sixth prince is a concubine. This peace talk is related to the great cause of our Zhou country. If the peace talks make a concubine prince go, I am afraid that the Chu country will feel that our Zhou country is not sincere. If Therefore, Chu State’s refusal to negotiate peace will cause our people to fall into military disaster again.”
Zhou Huang nodded and said: "The national teacher is right. I am going here to negotiate a peace. If the status of the peace negotiator is low, it will not show the sincerity of my country Zhou."
They defeated the war and negotiated a peace this time, rather than sending people to provoke a war.
The sixth prince is naturally not suitable.
Just when the prince lowered his head and was at a loss, the second prince said: "Father, I think there is a more suitable candidate."
"Oh?" Emperor Zhou asked, "Who is it?"
The second prince said: "Since the Yang family has made a big mistake this time, why not choose a high-ranking person from the Yang family to be the envoy for the peace talks? It was the Yang family who disturbed Shengting and caused the people to fall into military disaster. Going, it can be regarded as making up for it.”