At these words, Luo Jing jogged forward a couple of steps and bowed. "Your servant Jing pays his respects to Your Majesty. May Your Majesty enjoy peace and health!"
He then knelt in a seated position below Liu Heng and asked, "Your Majesty, you said just now that you had a question for me. What might it be?"
Liu Heng smiled. "Before he died, my uncle said that after his passing, I should recall those he had demoted and banished. But I have been thinking: since my uncle banished them, would recalling them not be disrespectful to him? What do you think I should do?"
Liu Heng still remembered what Luo Xin had told him before returning power to him: if an emperor wanted to accomplish anything, he first had to gain complete control of the court and form a group centered on himself with formidable fighting strength.
There could be infighting at court, but it must not reach the point of internal attrition. Once internal attrition became the dominant concern at court, foreign enemies would win without a fight.
Although the court currently held the dominant position in the realm, once infighting began-especially a fierce struggle to the death-everyone's energy would turn inward rather than outward.
Then the central government's control over the localities would slacken, and a brief power vacuum would appear.
Power would only shift; it would never disappear, nor would it leave a vacuum for even a moment.
The regional Lords King, and even the local powerful gentry whom the emperor thought beneath his notice, would certainly seize this opportunity to encroach, actively or passively, upon the power belonging to the Central Court.
This was why Luo Xin had driven those ministers out of Chang'an City. It was not merely to let Liu Heng bestow favors