After completing this thought transformation, Chu Ge suddenly felt enlightened.

As the saying goes, it is not easy to learn well, but it is easy to learn badly.

To be a good official, there are always too many constraints. There are many methods that cannot be used, and there are many bottom lines that cannot be broken.

But once you give up the idea of ​​being a good official, give up all moral constraints on yourself, and look at the problem from a different angle, you will find that many problems are not completely unsolvable.

In the final analysis, being a good official is going against the grain. It means I am in the light and the enemy is in the dark.

Just like Wang Wenchuan, is he a good official? Of course he is.

No matter how the old party attacks him, it cannot deny his personal morality.

Wang Wenchuan was an incorruptible man, and he did not even have any entertainment activities. His only pleasure was to write books and advocate reforms for the country.

But his implementation of reforms meant that the old party headed by Wen Junshi could use every means to attack him.

If any problem occurs during the reform, the old party can put the shit basin on his head; even if there is a drought or locust plague in any year, the old party can say that it is because Wang Wenchuan messed up the reform, causing anger and resentment.

This phenomenon reminded Chu Ge of a saying: Keyboard warriors are invincible.

Those who do practical things always have to deal with various contradictions and consider a series of issues, while keyboard warriors can remain invincible as long as they seize their loopholes and attack them continuously.

But what if we really let those keyboard warriors do things? It will only make things worse.

Wang Wenchuan was faced with such a problem at that time.

Because he is a practical person, and the emperor himself is not strong-willed, he will always be defeated by the old party's persistent and unremitting attacks.

But what if Wang Wenchuan changed his mind?

What if he does not try his best to promote the reform, but instead finds ways to protect himself? Then the offensive and defensive momentum will change.

When the old party is doing things, he can attack wildly without any bottom line. In this way, the status of both parties changes instantly.

Once Wang Wenchuan becomes a keyboard warrior, his destructive power as a keyboard warrior will never be weaker than that of Wenjun.

Many people attacked Wang Wenchuan, saying that he engaged in party strife.

There are even many people who, in the process of studying history, say that Wang Wenchuan's reforms started the party struggle in the Qi Dynasty and planted the seeds of the Qi Dynasty's demise.

But in fact, this is obviously a misunderstanding.

In Chu Ge's opinion, Wang Wenchuan was too kind during the reform process.

Although the old party has been criticizing Wang Wenchuan for being a clique, in fact, Wang Wenchuan used his own people to implement reforms, which is a blameless behavior in itself. Could it be that your old party is clearly against me, and I still want to give you

Are high-ranking officials well-paid?

Wang Wenchuan only drove these old party members out of the capital and relegated them to local areas, but he neither relegated them to a barren land like Lingnan, nor did he dig up dirt on them for retaliation, jail them for their crimes, and even gave some to the old party.

Interceding with members who have been wronged is obviously a very generous act in a political struggle.

On the other hand, after Wang Wenchuan was dismissed as prime minister, Wen Junshi and other old parties came to power and immediately abolished the new law and relegated all these new parties to Lingnan. This directly led to the old and new parties being at odds with each other and starting a long-term party struggle.

No matter how you look at it, it is not Wang Wenchuan who started this problem.

This may be because Wang Wenchuan and Wen Junshi, as famous ministers at that time, still had their own bottom line. Although the two people had completely different political views, they had very good personal ethics and even felt sympathy for each other.

But after a review, Chu Ge felt that Wang Wenchuan's kindness was indeed meaningless.

From a future perspective, the struggle between the old and new parties is inevitable.

Political struggle is inherently a matter of life and death, and Wang Wenchuan's kindness will not change the future political direction of the court.

The kindness towards these old parties has directly led to these old parties still attacking the new law endlessly even when they go to the local level, or trying every means to be uncooperative, and even blaming the new law for natural disasters.

The long-term party struggle is precisely because the new party and the old party have never been able to eliminate each other. What if one party completely eliminates the other? Then there will be no problem of party struggle.

Therefore, Chu Ge decided to do it thoroughly.

Take the traitorous official Yan Maoqing of the Great Sheng Dynasty as an example. When did you ever see him be kind to his political opponents?

When was there not a time when someone was framed for any crime and put to death?

Of course, if there is any benefit to Wang Wenchuan's doing this, of course there is.

Although Wang Wenchuan was finally dismissed from the prime minister and died in depression, at least he did not suffer particularly severe retaliation. Compared with other important ministers who failed in the reform, he had a good death.

Therefore, his kindness can be regarded as a good relationship for himself, and it did not lead to the tragic ending of death and annihilation of the family.

But for Chu Ge at this time, this made no sense at all.

Therefore, Chu Ge quickly determined the preliminary combat strategy.

Now that you have decided to be a traitor, you must make two points clear: first, get rid of all the ethics and bottom lines, I must protect myself wisely, I must do whatever it takes, and I must be the winner of the political struggle!

Second, we must not show any kindness to our political opponents. We will kill them as soon as we get the chance. If we don’t oppress our political opponents to death, is that still called cronyism?

After confirming these two points, Chu Ge suddenly realized that his future became suddenly brighter.

Although the reform has not yet been revealed, it is at least certain that after such operations, he will definitely be able to sit in the position of Prime Minister for a long time.

The game gave him ten years to win the Battle of Niuzhu. His first priority was to survive the ten years and not fail in the first year.

"Then the next step is to analyze carefully and from which angle we should start to attack political opponents."

Chu Ge has decided to take action on the old party.

But it is not easy to move these old parties.

At this time, the leader of the old party was Wen Junshi. Chu Ge had fought against him several times before and knew that this person was very difficult to deal with.

First of all, Wen Junshi doesn't have much to criticize in terms of personal ethics, which is exactly the same as Wang Wenchuan.

Secondly, Wenjun was extremely talented and knowledgeable, and his debating skills were also first-rate. In the eyes of later generations, some of his arguments were of course a symbol of backwardness and conservatism, but at that time, they were very confusing and could even win the title of emperor.

to the ministers and then to the unanimous approval of the people.

After all, at that time, Wen Junshi's thoughts represented orthodoxy.

On the contrary, Wang Wenchuan's reform concept seemed unconventional and shocking, and was opposed by most scholar-bureaucrats.

In the end, it was still the emperor’s problem.

The emperor's character and the political situation of the Qi Dynasty determined that it was difficult for the party struggle at that time to have any decisive results. The emperor was very concerned about his own reputation. Important ministers like Wang Wenchuan and Wen Junshi who were famous all over the world, even if they fell.

, nor will it be completely liquidated.

Even if Wen Junshi was demoted, he still had great appeal and influence, and could still influence the emperor's judgment.

Therefore, if you want to engage in party strife to bring down Wen Junshi, you have to think of a feasible way.

This method must be effective, and effective methods are often methods without a bottom line.

Chu Ge frowned and thought hard, walking further and further away on the path of the treacherous minister.

“In ancient times, what was the most effective way to bring down someone through political struggle?

"It's not to frame him, nor to use his power to suppress others, but to make the emperor hate him.

"As long as the emperor starts to hate him, then he is not far from being finished.

"If you want to make the emperor hate him, you have to analyze the emperor's character and prescribe the right medicine.

"What does the current emperor hate most? In other words, what does he care about most?

"political reform?

"No, reform will not work.

"Because it is not yet certain whether the results of the reform will be good or bad.

"Wenjun was really opposed to the reform, and his rhetoric was also very misleading, and the emperor would not dislike it.

"Like Yan Maoqing, I want to find the point that the emperor desires most, and then use this as a breakthrough to put Wenjun to death..."

As Chu Ge analyzed it, a plan gradually emerged in his mind.

The ancient political system was highly centralized, and the emperor held the highest power. Therefore, the most effective way to bring down someone was to make the emperor hate him.

For example, Yan Maoqing's downfall did not lie in his corruption and bribery, but in the emperor's change in his view.

Before, the emperor felt that Yan Maoqing could make money for him, so he let all Yan Maoqing's actions go unchecked and indulged him infinitely; later, the emperor realized that Yan Maoqing's existence was too big to be eliminated, and even affected his own money making, so he was able to vigorously suppress the entire Yan Party.

Uprooted.

In history, Wang Wenchuan did not do well at this point either.

Because he had his own character and was not completely determined to do things from the emperor's standpoint.

Or to put it bluntly, I didn’t act like a dog to the emperor in a down-to-earth manner.

Why was Wang Wenchuan dismissed by the emperor? It was because he and the emperor had different views on some issues, and the stubborn Wang Wenchuan was unwilling to fully accept the emperor's views.

As for Chu Ge, he has no such moral baggage at all.

Now that you have decided to be a treacherous minister like Yan Maoqing, you must make up your mind to be the emperor's dog; and in the process of being the emperor's dog, you cannot always just do your own thing, you must always figure out what the emperor wants and think.

Whatever you do, do it first.

In this way, the emperor's recognition and tolerance for himself will become higher and higher, and he can successfully suppress dissidents.

And after using the emperor's hands to kill political opponents, he had the initial ability to control the emperor.

After Chu Ge thought about it for a while, he had already thought of a perfect entry point.

After planning the entire plot from beginning to end, he started the trial again.

…

Three different talent cards appeared in front of Chu Ge.

[Xin · Impassioned Speech (Blue): Your speech becomes more infectious and persuasive. 】

[G·Strong-willed (Blue): You are strong-willed and have a strong ability to withstand pressure, and you will also become more stubborn.]

[Geng·Act in a low profile (blue): You act in a low profile and will not easily attract the attention of others.]

After thinking for a moment, Chu Ge tapped lightly on his talent of "acting in a low profile".

This talent was replaced by Chu Ge after he failed to clear the level last time, but he had not chosen it before.
To be continued...