I am the Empress Dowager!

Chapter 307 The White Horse Alliance and the National Destiny of the Han Dynasty
May the meritorious officials be hereditary and wealthy forever!

As long as the Han Empire exists, heroes will always be able to inherit hereditary titles, but it is only hereditary titles, and official positions cannot be hereditary!
To put it simply, your offspring will not be without food even if they have no ability. They will still have enough to eat and drink, and they will still be happy.

Just don’t harm the people!Don't harm the big man.

Emperor Taizu Gao relied on the benefits he promised to the heroes who had helped him conquer the world, and asked these heroes to help him maintain the stability and long-term peace of the Han Empire.

There was actually a problem with what Emperor Taizu Gao did. Liu Long knew very well that there was a big problem here, quite a big one!

After all, even Liu Long understands the truth.

That is, when the heroes face the temptation of greater interests, will they betray the interests of the Han Dynasty to seek their own interests?
Obviously, it will!

Whether it was Emperor Taizu Gao or at this time, this will happen!
Just look at the people in the court now who clamored for the emperor to be in charge and for his brother Pingyuan Wang, whom he had never met, to inherit the throne.

There has been no movement for a long time now.

Some people will never speak again in this life, and some people have already finished their lives.

But more importantly, this life is still long, and I can open my mouth, but what I say is all gratitude to Deng Sui, the Queen Mother, and Deng.
Because all their interests now belong to the Deng family and were given to them by the Queen Mother.

So they were willing to be loyal to the Queen Mother and say those words of gratitude to the Queen Mother.

And these were the first important ministers of the Han Dynasty, Chen Ping and Zhou Bo.

The important ministers who were once loyal to Emperor Taizu Gao actually agreed with Queen Lu's reason for enfeoffing the Lu clan after the death of Emperor Taizu Gao.

After all, with Empress Lu in charge, Chen Ping and Zhou Bo seemed much more tactful, and they had reasons why they had to agree.

Not only did Queen Lu hold the power and many soldiers, she could give them enough rights and etiquette.

And if I don’t agree, it won’t work for them.

First of all, they disagreed with Empress Lu's intention, which could range from dismissal from office to death, so how could they possibly disagree?
Drag the whole clan to die together?
This is the reason why the White Horse Alliance was initially ignored, but this is also the reason why the White Horse Alliance is taken seriously.

Because Liu Bang formulated the White Horse Oath, he did not formulate it alone, but in conjunction with the first two systems: the feudal princes and kings of the Liu family were agreed together with the system of prefectures and states. The White Horse Oath alone will not have much effect, but when combined, it will It can play a role in stabilizing the world.

Although Chen Ping and Zhou Bo succumbed to Empress Lu's intimidation, this was something they had no choice about at the beginning.

But Queen Lu is not immortal either.

When he passed away, her descendants and her people could not compare with her power back then.

Therefore, Chen Ping and Zhou Bo became one of the main forces in maintaining the Han Dynasty.

After the death of Empress Lu, Chen Ping and Zhou Bo united some members of the Liu family to annihilate all the Lu family. Their basis was the White Horse Oath.

At the same time, the basis for King Liu Xiang of Qi to directly raise troops to rebel against Lu was the White Horse Oath. Liu Xiang was a descendant of the Liu family and had legitimate reasons to kill the Lu family.

The White Horse Oath can be used as the basis for maintaining the Han Dynasty, the country, the country, and the country. It is the reason and basis for everyone to maintain the Han Dynasty, so this reason is here.

All those inside who want to seize the throne of emperor by usurping power can do no better than the White Horse Alliance!

Of course, this White Horse Alliance can also be used secretly as the most useful tool to obtain certain rights.

For example, in the same period, they also raised troops to rebel against Lu. Then wasn't Liu Xiang's ultimate goal to ascend to the throne of emperor himself?

Liu Long is very clear about this kind of thing.He absolutely did not believe that the ancestor of the royal family was the same as Chen Ping and Zhou Bo.

It's impossible, it's absolutely impossible!
The same heroes like Chen Ping and Zhou Bo used the White Horse Oath as a basis to kill the empresses, but they did not ascend the throne and proclaim themselves emperor.

But they don't want to support a weak monarch so that they can continue to hold the supreme power of this big man.

This is human nature, and it is also a temptation given to them by Emperor Taizu Gao, an obvious temptation!
I guarantee your wealth. If you want glory, you must rely on yourselves to protect your own descendants.

As for the wise emperor who chose Emperor Xiaowen by mistake, that is another matter.

In fact, the White Horse Oath has been basically observed by everyone in the Han Dynasty for hundreds of years.

During the hundreds of years since the founding of the Han Dynasty, apart from the kings with different surnames who were enfeoffed during the reign of Emperor Taizu Gao and when he first conquered the world, only Wang Mang, a king with different surnames, had existed.

At this point, he is rushing to proclaim himself emperor. This will confirm to the world that this person will not want to be loyal to the Han Dynasty.

The next thing is to make preparations in advance to recover the Han Dynasty.
Therefore, Liu Long admired his ancestor very much, so Liu Long was absolutely not worried about whether his queen mother would leave her position to the Deng family in the end.

In other words, Deng took this position away.

They can't take him away. With the White Horse Alliance, this relative has rights, but they can't change the world!

Therefore, Deng Sui was a fan of the authorities. She did not know that her son had never regarded Deng Sui as an opponent from the beginning to the end.

But Deng Sui's guess and worry were right, because Liu Long had always regarded the Deng family as his enemy.

In other words, he knows very well that this Deng family will not conquer the world, but it will be very troublesome!

very troublesome!

As the saying goes, "No one can rule without the Liu family." No one dares to mess around with this sentence.

But basically no one abides by the constraint of "no merit, no reward".

It's not just that in recent years, eunuchs have begun to create marquises to ward off the court and wealthy families.

This enfeoffment of relatives as marquises is basically an unwritten rule. As long as a queen is established, it is inevitable to ennoble the queen's relatives as marquises.

And this is not because of the Deng family, nor is it because of the previous Dou family.

This is a method that was not available a long time ago in order to fight against those officials in the sky, or the aristocratic families in places that had just begun to rise, or even in the court.

For example, during the period of Emperor Xiaojing, Emperor Xiaojing wanted to ennoble Wang Xin, the brother of Queen Wang Nuan, as a marquis. He was simply a marquis without any merit.

The prime minister at that time, Zhou Yafu, clearly opposed the enfeoffment of Wang Xin as a marquis based on the white horse oath of Emperor Gao of the Han Dynasty.

However, although Zhou Yafu was a famous general and had outstanding achievements, his Zhou family was not a good person back then, and Emperor Xiaojing had not really forgotten what Zhou Bo did back then.

Therefore, although he was opposed, Emperor Xiaojing still insisted on going his own way, and even suspected Zhou Yafu because of this matter.
Of course, Liu Long felt that this was reasonable and reasonable.

But now that Deng was a relative of the late emperor, Liu Long felt that he was not so suitable for this matter!

(End of this chapter)