After the Fifth Reunion made a "referendum" decision, his nine ministers were immediately infuriated and spoke out and advised him.

"How to deal with Wang Mang? Your Majesty can decide it alone. Why do you have to ask the people to get involved?"

From Geng Chun to Dou Rong, everyone felt that the Fifth Reunification move was too sarcastic. Geng Chun even said: "Let the people decide the major affairs of the country, only small countries and few people in the Spring and Autumn Period. I remember that in the "Zuo Zhuan", in the Spring and Autumn Period, the State of Wu coerced Chen to attack Chu. Chen Huaigong summoned the people to discuss and let the people from Chu stand on the right and the people from Wu stand on the left."

"What's the result? Among the Chen people, the fields and soil are in the west, and those close to Chu are willing to follow Chu, the fields and soil are in the east, and those close to Wu are willing to follow Wu. If there is no fields and soil, they will stand with the villagers."

In Geng Chun's view, it can be seen from this that the people do not understand current affairs at all. They only care about their short-term interests, or act blindly with the flow.

Isn’t it a nonsense to rely on them to decide on national affairs?

Dou Rong also said: "That's true, so the ancients said that fools secretly accomplish things, and those who know have seen them before they arise. People cannot start with worrying about them, but can succeed with happiness."

The people can achieve success with the view, but not with the beginning with the goal. It is well said, so the "wise" who can see far from the fifth relationship naturally does not need to share their thoughts with the "fools" who are limited by the times.

But some things need to be made clear. After all, the next work still requires the ministers to run errands. The fifth reunion said: "Thinking back then, Wang Mang also relied on 480,000 people to write letters to him, so he was able to add Jiuxi to Anhan Gong and start the cause of replacing the Han Dynasty. Wang Jujun took advantage of the public opinion."

"Since it is the people who have promoted Wang Mang to the throne, it is only by the hands of the people that they can pull him off from the so-called orthodox emperor!"

"In the past, it was water, but now it was water, it was overturned."

"Isn't this more reasonable than giving the winner's attitude and simply determining his life and death?"

The legitimacy of the regime is a mysterious thing, so emperors in ancient and modern times have to desperately find the will of heaven and auspiciousness for themselves, and even ancient famous ancestors as the basis.

The Han Dynasty flatly denied the legitimacy of the Xin Dynasty and regarded Wang Mang as usurping, but in order to declare that the Han Dynasty was exhausted, the fifth reunion had to recognize the orthodox reunion of the Xin Dynasty. However, in this way, how to deal with the Xin Dynasty and the obedience between Wei became a difficult problem. When the fifth reunion reigned, it was shouted loudly, but it was too radical after all. Nowadays, the righteousness of the monarch and ministers was like the seal of thought, and scholars often called him a minister unjust.

And now, it is a good opportunity to establish legitimacy.

The fifth reunion said to the ministers: "The Secretary of State said that the people are the foundation of the country, and the foundation is solid and the country is peaceful."

"Mencius said, "The three treasures of the princes: land, people, and government affairs. Among them, the people are the most important, the country is the second, and the king is the least important."

"The people are the foundation of national security, the foundation of survival, the source of rise and fall, and the key to the monarch's authority, blindness, and strength. It has been a consensus since ancient times."

"The reason why Wang Mang was defeated was that he was only dedicated to serving the people verbally, but he changed the currency system indiscriminately, and all five equals and six equals were out of reality. The reason was that he was too self-righteous and had no awe of the people!"

The fifth reunion said earnestly: "It is a lesson from the past, so I have created a new year. I am only afraid of one thing, that is, the Chinese people!"

Although these political correct words were empty, they were promoted over and over in ancient books and classics, and the ministers were not able to speak out for their opposition, so they had to retreat timidly.

To put it bluntly, the fifth relationship decided to go further on the basis of the "people-oriented" idea in the classics, and to tie the legitimacy of the regime to the heaven and the people to the lower part.

In the past, public opinion pushed you, Wang Mang, and replaced the Han family. This is your legitimacy as the emperor. Now, you have ruined the world in a mess. If the public opinion wants you to step down, you will get out of this position. It’s just a common man! The fifth reunion knows that this move has hit Lao Wang Mang’s lung tube, making him feel in pain.

However, public opinion is a more metaphysical thing. As a shameless politician, what the fifth relationship needs to do is to visualize, simplify and manipulate it, which is why this "referendum" is created.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I think the fifth relationship really wants to engage in "democracy"?

This is a fake democracy and a real dictatorship! How naive is it to believe the hypocritical nonsense of "I just collect evidence and report the case to the presiding officer"?

The reason why the fifth relationship plays such a big battle is just to make the world feel a sense of participation and make the people become accomplices in the judgment of Wang Mang, and to weaken the moral constraints on him by the past "righteousness of the monarch and ministers".

In fact, whether it is the Wei army, the Red Eyebrow captives, or the people from Luoyang and Chang'an, even if they are driven by the lieutenant and shouted by local officials, they will go to townships, county courts and other places, and throw a tiles to the left or right, and seem to have cast a key vote.

But after the submission, the Wei soldiers still had to go to various places with exhausted steps. Inspired by the dozens of acres of land they had obtained, they conquered the city and occupied the land for the fifth reunion, and many people filled the gullies.

The Red Eyebrow captives still had to return to the fields, put on the shackles that they had once broken free, faced the loess and backs to the sky, and did farm work that would never end.

And after a lively event, the people have to return to life and worry about the food rations for the family and the taxes that cannot be exempted. Generation after generation, there is no end.

They can't change anything.

They could not decide anything, because even if it was just about Wang Mang's life and death, they were still saved in the hands of the fifth reunion.

The only thing left is that the soldiers and civilians who participated in the "referendum" this time can still brag for their descendants many years later.

"Thinking back then, I, Naiweng, also threw a piece of tiles to decide the emperor's life and death!"

This may be the only seed that the fifth reunion can plant for future generations when doing this. Water collapses. It is no longer a false statement from the elites, but has become a fact that has been realized. Perhaps it can encourage future generations to try it out. After a hundred and a thousand years, do something bolder...

After coming back to his senses through thoughts, Di Wulun saw Zhang Yu, who was full of hesitation and wanted to speak but stopped.

"Zhang Yu, what are you worried about?"

Zhang Yu bowed down and said boldly: "I am ordered to supervise all the ministers and generals and collect information. I am Your Majesty's slave. I always feel that there are all kinds of rats everywhere in the world. I am only worried that if there is a great traitor in the future, I will learn from Your Majesty's tricks. In the name of public opinion, I will imitate the referendum and fight for power and profit, which may be like Wang Mang!"

"Who dares?" Di Lun glanced at him: "Do you refer to the Three Dukes and Nine Ministers, or which general?"

Zhang Yu was shocked: "Your Majesty is wise and powerful, so naturally no one in the world dares to do this, but..."

Zhang Yu’s meaning is very clear, but what about after you die? Although the Fifth Reunification believes that he can live as long as the Fifth Reunion, there will be an end.

After death, of course he will care about the flood!

The fifth reunification did not say directly. Zhang Yu's mouth was not tight enough. He was not yet established. He might change in the future, and even become the "big traitor" he is worried about now. Who can be sure?

After everyone left, the fifth reunion wrote this passage in his book "Lock for a hundred years" which was not enough. He had to take it into the grave for three or five hundred years. Otherwise, he would definitely have written this passage in the "diary" burned by unworthy descendants.

"Qin Shihuang hopes that Qin will pass on forever, and will die in the second generation, and will be destroyed in the seven temples."

"Wang Mang hopes that the Xin Dynasty will be passed down for 36,000 years, and even the year name will be determined. As a result, he died in one lifetime and was burned by nine temples."

"If my children and grandchildren are incompetent in the world, have left the people, and are played with by powerful officials, we welcome the ambitious people to change their dynasties!"

"If it is overthrown by the public's opinions, it will be even better."

"When the people are in trouble again, they may remember that they have decided on the life and death of an emperor. With the first one, there will be the second one."

"I hope that in our dynasty, two hundred years, three hundred years, and five hundred years, the people will have the courage and insight, and you can press my descendants under the guillotine, or hang them on the capital's Huabiao to have a real public trial of the emperor!"

As we all know, those who inherit your ideals to the greatest extent and innovate them are often not those unworthy descendants who insist on highlighting their presence in the opposite direction of their ancestors, or follow the rules and abide by the ancestral system.

Instead, he grew stronger from his body, took advantage of the situation, and eventually replaced his hero.

"Just like Liu Bang to Qin Shihuang."

The fifth reunion closed the diary and said softly:

"Also, the fifth relationship is to Wang Mang!"

...

The first to launch a referendum was the main force of the Wei army stationed near Jiyang. They experienced a series of wars and are currently resting and recuperating nearby. After the grain from the west is transported one after another, they will act with the grain truck and settle in the places such as Suiyang, Liangjun, which have already come to donate soil.

No matter which part of the Wei army, there were some former brave men and women. The eight hundred officials and soldiers who first followed the fifth reunion were officers at the brigade and battalion level. Although their own qualities could no longer keep up with the commander's organization, their loyalty was unquestionable.

The officers below the camp and the first-level garrison often had the best of the tens of thousands of people who raised their troops with the fifth Hongmen. Their status was not as prominent as the emperor, but they were also considered the emperor's "direct line" and had gained merits and were assigned to a lot of land, all of which were small landlords.

When he heard that His Majesty the Emperor asked the three armies to come together to decide Wang Mang's life and death, these usually steady officers jumped up one by one!

"A great thing!"

The reason why everyone was so happy was that they were mostly from hardships back then, or they remembered the hunger and coldness of their families under the rule of Mangchao, or their brothers or relatives and relatives who died along the way after being arrested as strong men.

After entering the camp, they were exploited by the officials of the New Dynasty and lived a life worse than dogs. If they had not met the fifth relationship, they would have probably gone north on the way to Xinqinzhong, or they would have died to conquer the battlefield of Green Forest and Red Eyebrows.

Isn’t it Wang Mang who caused all this suffering?

On weekdays, the new recruits who entered the camp complained, but now it is the officers' turn. When it comes to emotional things, some people can't help crying.

Their stories also lead to the tragic memories of ordinary soldiers.

"My family lives by the river. I heard that the reason why the river is flooded is because Wang Mang does not allow it to be blocked."

"My family used to be a hunter, and once Wang Mang's six-man guard came, there was no way out."

"My family is doing some small business in the county, just husband and wife. Wang Mang's currency has been exchanged four or five times in a few years, and the business cannot be done!"

Even the speculative factions who joined the Wei army halfway, such as the powerful men in the Jizhou soldiers, remembered the various "bad policies" that restricted the powerful men during Wang Mang's reign, and were immediately filled with righteous indignation.

The restructuring of wealthy, merchants, farmers, tenants, craftsmen, and Yu Lie, Wang Mang suffered as much harm to people of all classes in the past, as they hated him!

Even those who were once slaves can remember that Wang Mang did not allow slaves to trade, which led to his parents not being able to sell their younger brothers and sisters, and that they starved to death.

For a time, the "referendum" against Wang Mang in the Wei army was one-sided. Even the young soldiers who were young and had no idea about Wang Mang's evil only followed the commander and robes.

As a result, the 30,000 Wei troops near Jiyang voted 100% of the votes, and everyone hoped that Wang Mang would die!

The army was highly efficient and the referendum was completed in a few days, and the result was sent to the Jiyang Palace.

Wang Mang also lived there, and the treatment provided by the fifth reunion to Wang Mang was quite good, which was equivalent to house arrest, and gave him food the same as himself. What else did he say: "Wang Weng has been in the folk for several years and has suffered all the hardships he should have endured, so he should be more decent when he is in the face."

He even read it to Wang Mang. He heard that Wang Mang followed the Red Eyebrow Army to fight everywhere. Whenever he went there, he would search for Confucian classics that were not interested in Red Eyebrows to read.

The fifth reunion carried most of the light paper books printed by Chang'an Shaofu. Wang Mang read tirelessly, as if he had forgotten his own safety, and he looked like he was "heard the truth in the morning, and he could die in the evening."

But his good mood was destroyed by the fifth reunion. The fifth reunion deliberately showed the result of the army's referendum to Wang Mang, and said:

"Wen Wang, this may be what Zhuangzi said, 'Everyone can be punished'?"

Wang Mang ignored the fifth reunion. He still felt that the fifth reunion contained the victor's pride, and he used his own entertainment like a cat playing with a mouse! He only sneered: "Of course, your soldiers respect your orders. If this is not the case, wouldn't it be strange?"

It seemed that Wang Mang was still unwilling to accept it, and the fifth reunion smiled and said, "The Red Eyebrow Capture is coming soon, and the bond between Wang Weng and those people is quite shallow."

Wang Mang's hand was turning the book stopped. The Red Eyebrow Army was indeed the person the old man cared the most now. After all, this was the only time he had "going to the masses" in his life.

Will the Red Eyebrow Army forget the evil that "Wang Mang" has done when he is thinking about the good deeds of "Wang Mang"?

The fifth reunification seemed to want to break Wang Mang's ideals and expectations one by one, stood up, but before leaving, he turned around and said:

"Wang Weng, let's take a bet, let's see how Fan Chong will choose?"

"Is Fan Juren Wang Jujun dead, or do you want you to live?"

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Chapter completed!