The Queen Mother continued to talk and laugh and said: "But the old body still has to speak for Lord Lu Mengzheng, because after all, he is the crown prince of the former emperor, and the old body still understands something, and now he has gone with the first emperor, loves the people and is diligent, and is quite good, his family is prominent, his grandfather has been a household servant, and his father has been a living room, recording the emperor's daily officials. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info He was originally the son of an official eunuch, but everyone said that he was poor but Lu Mengzheng, because his father married a wife and took a concubine, liked the new and hated the old, and drove Dafang and Dafang's son Lu Mengzheng out of the house, and since then the mother and son have been in trouble, and Lu Mengzheng has been poor since then. He once studied hard with Kou Zhun in the broken kiln and experienced the warmth and coldness of the world. In the second year of Taiping Xingguo, Lu Mengzheng won the first place in the Jinshi examination, and since then, his official fortune has been prosperous, and he has been the prime minister three times. He is filial to his parents, open-minded, regardless of his father's suspicion of abandoning his wife and children, welcoming his second parents, living in the same house, and being well nourished. When he first entered the court, a courtier pointed out that this son was also participating in politics? Lu Mengzheng pretended not to hear, and his colleagues were upset and said that you have to know which one despises you. Lu Mengzheng said that if he knew his name, he would never forget it, so it was better not to know. There was also a minister who collected ancient mirrors, claiming that this mirror could reflect the scenery within a range of 200 miles, and wanted to dedicate it to Lu Mengzheng for appointment. Lu Mengzheng refused, and laughed and said that his face was the size of a saucer, where could he use a mirror that shone two hundred miles? In fact, the story of the Purple Moon girl was only half told, and it was not finished, and then the next person said that the old man has one tongue for a chicken, and how many tongues do you have in a bowl of soup, and you drink it every day. After Lu Mengzheng found out, he felt ashamed, changed his past mistakes, and never drank again. Knowing that mistakes can be corrected, and good is great. Buddhism has clouds, put down the butcher's knife, stand on the ground and become a Buddha, no one is perfect, and there is no gold barefoot. At that time, the emperor was young and had no one in his eyes, so Lü Meng wrote an article to warn the prince. So with this "Broken Kiln Fu", you can get a glimpse of Lord Lu. Although it is short in content, it contains infinite wisdom, especially the first sentence is the most famous, and it is used very frequently, women and children know that ,—— sky has unpredictable circumstances, and people have good and bad luck. The centipede has a hundred feet and cannot fly as well as a snake, and the rooster has two wings and cannot fly a crow. Horses have a journey of thousands of miles, and they cannot go by themselves without riding; people have the ambition to reach the sky, and they cannot pass by themselves without luck. Gaiwen: In life, the rich and the rich cannot be lewd, and the poor and the lowly cannot be moved. The article is world-famous, Confucius is inferior to Chen Bang, Wu Luo is outstanding, and Taigong is fishing in Weishui. Yan Yuan's life is short, he is not a vicious person, and the thief is old, how can he be a kind person. Emperor Yao was a saint, but he gave birth to a son who was not good; he was stupid and stubborn, but he gave birth to a son of great filial piety. Zhang Liang was originally clothed, and Xiao He was called a county official. Yan Zi was not five feet tall and was named the prime minister of Qi State; Kong Ming lived in a grass house and could be a military advisor of the Shu Han Dynasty. Although Chu was strong, he was defeated by Wujiang and killed himself; although the Han king was weak, he actually had thousands of miles of rivers and mountains. Li Guang has the power to shoot a tiger, and he has no seal until he is old; Feng Tang has the talent to ride a dragon, and he has never met it in his life. When Han Xin did not meet, he did not have three meals a day, and when he met him, he hung a three-foot jade seal on his waist, and once he was in decline, he died at the hands of the Yin people. There are those who are poor first and then rich, and those who are old and strong and young and decrepit. Full of articles, gray hair is not hit; The palace lady in the deep courtyard is a prostitute and concubine when she retreats; A young and beautiful woman, but she recruits a stupid husband, a handsome and beautiful man, but a rough and ugly woman. The dragon has not been encountered, diving between the fish and turtles, and the gentleman is lost in time, and he is under the villain. Although the clothes are torn, they always have the appearance of ceremonies, and their faces are sorrowful, and they are full of peace. If the heart is not deceived, it will definitely raise its eyebrows. The first poor gentleman is naturally born of bones, and the rich villain does not get rid of the cold body. When the sky is unavailable, the sun and the moon are not shining, when the earth is unavailable, the vegetation is not growing, when the water is unavailable, the wind and waves are uneven, and when the people are unavailable, the good fortune is not passable. If a person does not follow the foundation of the eight characters, how can he be the prime minister? I used to live in Luoyang, begging for monks' meals, staying in the cellar at dusk, thinking about clothes can not cover his body, thinking about food can not help his hunger, the master hates, the lower people hate it, humanity I am cheap, I will not give up. Now living in the court, the official to the best, the position of the three dukes, although the body bows under one person, and the position above tens of millions of people, there are the staff of the tart hundred bureaucrats, there is the sword of the stingy, there is a thousand boxes of Luo Jin, thinking of food and there are delicacies, out of the strong man whip, into the beauty of the favorite, the pet of the master, the people of the embrace. Humanity is precious to me, not my ability, this is time, luck, and life. In life, wealth cannot be fully utilized, poverty and lowness must not deceive themselves, listen to the cycle of heaven and earth, and repeat the cycle.

The people below began to say again: "The Queen Mother Shengming, if there is really a mother, there must be a son, the official family is wise and benevolent, and the Great Song Dynasty has been safe for seven hundred years——"

I have heard so much, and my good impression of Song Renzong is also increasing day by day, I really have both ability and political integrity, and I want to see the good emperor of the world, and see the true face of Lushan, but the timing is unfortunate, it is a pity, I am about to leave the palace, go away, and return to the palace is even more far away, I don't know what year and month, it is estimated that I will not have the opportunity to meet.

Seeing the early years of the Great Song Dynasty, the monarch and the minister's family, happy and happy, talking and laughing, suddenly thought of the Great Song Dynasty disaster a hundred years later - the shame of Jingkang, the foreign strong iron cavalry drove straight in, the Jin army broke through Tokyo, captured Song Huizong, Song Qinzong father and son and a large number of Zhao royal family, harem concubines and Guiqing, courtiers and other escorts to the north, the public and private savings in Tokyo were empty, the people were displaced, the lives were ruined, and the blood flowed into a river, the shame of Jingkang led to the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Northern Song Dynasty died from prosperity, only experienced a short period of 100 years, the former prosperity, The wealthy and prosperous Northern Song Dynasty was reduced to ashes in an instant. Another 150 years later, the Southern Song Dynasty was vulnerable, the Mongolian iron cavalry from the north swore to go south like a broken bamboo, conquered the capital Lin'an, the emperor and the harem, thousands of ministers were captured and moved north, the difficult scene of Jingkang was repeated again and again, the Southern Song Dynasty general Yue Fei wrote "Manjianghong" Jingkang shame, still not snowing, the courtiers hate, when to extinguish, lingering for a long time, but the ambition died first, the Southern Song Dynasty government ushered in the final battle of Yashan Naval Battle, this time directly related to the life and death of the Southern Song Dynasty Battle, the final Yuan army won more with less, and the Song army was annihilated. When the Southern Song Dynasty destroyed the country, Lu Xiufu committed suicide by throwing himself into the sea without hesitation with the young emperor Zhao Yu on his back, and many loyal ministers followed him, and 100,000 soldiers and civilians jumped into the sea to die in the country. After this battle, the Zhao and Song dynasties fell, and people could not forget the remnants of the last hope of Yashan, after Yashan, there was no China, and the Yuan regime soon replaced the Song Dynasty. The remnants of the Southern Song Dynasty were completely wiped out, and the Mongol Yuan finally unified all of China. For the first time, China was conquered by northern nomads in its entirety. Some people believe that this naval battle marked the decline and fall of Chinese civilization in the classical sense, and that the Battle of Yashan caused a fault in the Chinese civilization that has been inherited for thousands of years, and its impact has been far-reaching and continues to this day.

The destruction of the Great Song Dynasty by the Mongols is a great tragedy in Chinese history, and if the Song-Yuan War was a different ending, history would be different, just as no one knows what would have happened if the Persians had won the Battle of Salami, what would have happened if the Persians had won the Battle of Lepando, and no one knew what would have happened to the Song people if they had won the Battle of Yashan. But what we know is that the Chinese society during the Song Dynasty was the most prosperous, developed and promising period in China's thousands of years of feudal history, if history can be rewritten, is it that China has already entered the industrial age in advance, catching up with the British and the United States, full of enthusiasm, I want to change this scene, change history, and General Yue Fei, bravely kill the enemy, fight bloodily, and defend the country, but they are just praying mantis blocking the car, to no avail, can not block the direction of the giant wheel of history.

So why did the splendid edifice of the Song Dynasty suddenly collapse? What were the main factors? It is very difficult for a very powerful country like China to collapse from the outside, and the real collapse will inevitably come from within. The demise of a country often begins with internal decay, first bureaucratic corruption, then judicial corruption, then education corruption, and finally military corruption. When the country's bureaucracy, justice, education, and even the military are corrupt to the extreme, the country is terminally ill, incurable, and unable to return to heaven, so it can only watch the country die. The Great Song Dynasty had a million troops, but it could not defend the capital, resulting in the fall of the capital and the loss of half of the country. Why is that? I thought about it for a long time, and finally I had an answer. Although I don't know if I can use my mantis arm as a car, as a bloody Chinese, as a future person who has seen 5,000 years of Chinese history, I must say something.

Master Qian said thoughtfully: " Let's get down to business, the opinion put forward by the purple moon girl is good, it is easy to talk on paper, it is shallow to talk on paper, and it is shallow to know that this matter has to be done, once it is really implemented, it is very difficult, our court officials are pyramid structure, there are many grassroots officials below, the previous dynasty took thirty or forty people from each session, and we treated the literati leniently, often four or five hundred people, in 991 AD, the total number of scholars from the court reached 17,300 people, what a scary data, and a large-scale increase in Lu, little girl, you are not confident in calculating, how much money, our Great Song Dynasty treasury is not enough——”

I was unhurried and said with a purpose: "By the way, thank you Lord Qian for the just right reminder, there are too many people and not enough to send, so what we do should be a drastic streamlining of the organization and streamlining of personnel, which is the next important topic that the villain wants to say." Nowadays, the most serious situation that our Great Song Dynasty is facing now is that redundant officials, redundant army, redundant expenses, and it is very serious, and it is very urgent to govern and rectify, and it is urgent to delay, otherwise our Great Song Dynasty court will be overwhelmed by the three mountains that bear the load, which is a big problem that should not be underestimated.

Let's take a look at the source of these problems, first of all, we have to look at it from the ideological point of view, because thought determines action, and this thought is also the basic governing principle of our Great Song Dynasty, in fact, the national policy of our Great Song Dynasty is still biased. Because our Great Song Dynasty is actually not a good surrounding environment, full of trouble-making nomads everywhere, and the geographical location is not good, our Great Song Dynasty due to 936 A.D. after Jin Shi Jingjiao called Liao the emperor, and cut the sixteen states of Youyun to Liao. Since then, the northern gateway has been opened, so the Northern Song Dynasty has lost the natural barrier to resist the invasion of the nomadic high-mobility cavalry, and the Hetao area of the Hexi Corridor is not in the hands, so that the Great Song Dynasty has no grassland for raising horses, making horses extremely rare. Because there is no Great Wall in the north, these strategic places in the Taihang Mountains serve as barriers, and the cavalry of the Liao can drive straight in, and they can drink the Yellow River in a few days. Since the alliance of the first emperor and Yuanyuan, we have been peaceful and friendly with the Liao State for many years, so the princes and ministers feel that spending money to buy peace is a very cost-effective thing, in fact, there are advantages and disadvantages, the advantage is to maintain the Song-Liao border for a hundred years of peace, saving a lot of military spending, followed by the strong economic position of the Song Dynasty, from the trade between the two sides to obtain a lot of income, this alone is far more than the Song Dynasty every year to the Liao coin. But the disadvantages outweigh the advantages, our Great Song Dynasty court ignored the far-reaching consequences of spending money to buy peace, thinking that money is omnipotent, money can solve everything, relaxed vigilance, did not be prepared for danger in times of peace, and vigorously carried out effective army construction, so after the alliance of the Yuanyuan, our peace-loving monarchs and ministers of the Great Song Dynasty discovered the power of money, so that they were accustomed to the battle with Liao, Western Xia and Jin, regardless of victory or defeat, they took the initiative to send money and money, turning war into jade.

Although we have no leopard ambitions, but the surrounding nomadic people have the meaning of tigers and wolves, so under this kind of mentality of being content with the status quo, not paying enough attention to the ideology, and not being prepared for danger in times of peace, the combat effectiveness of our Great Song Dynasty army continues to decline, and the border troubles are continuous, you are civilized, you are friendly, you are loving, but you have to consider that people are barbarians, they talk about solving problems by force, and if they are backward, they will be beaten, robber logic, unreasonable, the more friendly you are to him, the more they have to make inches, wolf ambitions, endless, so we don't think that you can buy a long-term peace by spending a few dollars, that is to cover your ears and steal the bell, self-deceptionOnly when we have strong military strength, economic strength and other comprehensive national strength can they be impressed. Don't try to solve the problem with money in every war, and don't want to make progress, so we must be prepared for danger in times of peace, not careless, born in adversity, and die in peace.

Secondly, the idea of the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty has completely failed to keep up with the actual needs, and must be flexibly changed, and the military strategy of Wen Tao and Wu should be attached, as we all know, this fight the world depends on military generals, and the world depends on civil ministers. Under the two powerful enemies of Liaoguo in the north and Western Xia in the west, it is completely nonsense to insist on emphasizing literature and suppressing military force for a hundred years. Although it is a great progress that we did not kill soldiers in the Song Dynasty, we in the Great Song Dynasty should not kill military generals at will, and we should not kill them mercilessly. Throughout the history of our Northern Song Dynasty, military generals have always been like thieves, many border guards were killed, imprisoned, and demoted because of minor mistakes, and many military generals who have repeatedly made military exploits have not been promoted. Di Qing is the highest promotion based on his military exploits, but he is only a privy deputy envoy, and he may be dismissed at any time, people's hearts are long, the imperial court treats military attaches like this, it is biased, and if they need to use troops, they will be allowed to work the battlefield, and the temporary peace will be abandoned like a piece of, and the soldiers will protect their families and defend the country, but they will be suspicious everywhere, how can the army and the people be united? I suddenly remembered that Yue Fei was given death, some historians said that Gaozong killed Yue Fei and set a precedent for killing scholars, in fact, this assertion is not right, Yue Fei does not belong to scholars, but to military generals, so killing Yue Fei did not violate the ancestral system and did not violate the basic national policy!

Therefore, the guiding ideology of the imperial court is to govern the country with literature, which is problematic, and the application in the past does not mean that it is appropriate now, and things are always developing and changing. Nowadays, the external situation is not optimistic, we must not take it lightly, we must be civil and military strategy, not wasted, secondly, the use of people is not suspicious, suspicion of people do not use, although do not kill civilian officials, good treatment, but for military attachés, but extremely distrustful, as the saying goes, generals are outside, military orders are not affected. At present, however, the official family directly controls the military power, and the civilian officials control the army thousands of miles away, and the military generals who go into battle to kill the enemy are frequently mobilized, and the soldiers do not know the generals, so they will not be able to command the troops, so how can they fight wars? Therefore, our thinking on governing the court should change, not to follow the old ways, but to keep pace with the times, civil and military can not be abandoned, these dynasties and dynasties, the country is out of the fight, not you buy it with money, and the power comes out of the barrel of a gun.

Because it is the main factor, what are the problems in our internal environment? That is, under the above-mentioned guiding ideology of the imperial court, the products of the basic national policy are three mountains -- redundant officials, redundant soldiers, and redundant expenses.

Redundant officials are strengthened and enforced under the concept of emphasizing civil affairs over military force, and although it is conducive to the development and prosperity of culture, it is even more harmful. In ancient times, reading was closely related to being an official, and reading to put it bluntly promoted officials and made a fortune, so the national policy of attaching great importance to civil rule led to the prosperity of the imperial examination field, and the imperial court greatly increased the number of scholars in the imperial examination. Our Great Song Dynasty was too good to scholars, and the rewards were too generous, and the whole organization was bloated. The officials of the Great Song Dynasty were still kind, never streamlined their institutions, and generously gave gold, silver and jewelry to the princes and ministers. Therefore, by the time of the first emperor Xianping, there were specific figures, and there were more than 195,000 redundant officials in the world, and the salaries of those big officials who made the ministers honored were staggering. Taking the Sanban Courtyard as an example (worship officials, the left hall is straight, the right hall is straight), there were only 300 officials and bureaucrats in the early Song Dynasty, and there were more than 4,000 emperors in the first place, and now there are more than 10,000. Just as Master Qian said it is a matter of fact, the previous dynasty took 30 or 40 scholars per term, while the Song Dynasty often had 4,500 scholars, and in 991 A.D., the total number of scholars in the imperial court reached 17,300. The number of central officials in the previous dynasty was as low as 634, but now there are more than 17,000 subordinate officials inside and outside the central government, and the territory under the jurisdiction of the Great Song Dynasty is only half of the territory of the previous dynasty.

But where are there so many people who have been admitted to the imperial examination, where are there so many official positions? So the imperial court cleverly set up names and strengthened official names, and what was originally a lot of people is now done by two people, and after living there, three people will do it. The organization was bloated, and the efficiency of the imperial court was very low. People are floating in things, many idle court officials have nothing to do all day long, idle, the atmosphere is naturally lazy, scattered, there are groggy dozing off, sleeping on the table in a big pit, there is nothing to do to bite the pen stick, the pen shaft is bitten a big hole, there are from morning to night in the parents are short, talking nonsense, the mouth is said to be crooked, all day long, mixed rice, delayed life, wasted time, I suddenly remembered that some of the people exposed in modern society have the same thing, but the ancients are looking at it, people in modern society are more skilled, the way of mixing days is colorful, eclectic, wonderful, there are online mahjong, fighting landlords, browsing the web, watching European and American blockbusters, calling mobile phones, abound.

Moreover, corruption in the administration of officials is also a problem that cannot be ignored, and the phenomenon of the children of all kinds of high-ranking officials and the relatives of the emperor and the state going through the back door is common. The Song Dynasty gave special favor to the clan and its cronies, and conferred officials at will, and boys from the imperial clan could be conferred official titles at the age of seven, and some even had official ranks in their infancy, and received a stipend; outside the clan, other side branches, different surnames, and disciples could be given shade to fill the official ranks, and thousands of people poured into the bureaucratic ranks every year. The descendants of those royal families, relatives, meritorious heroes, etc., under the blessing of Enmengfa, a large group of people were born with ranks, and if there is a rank, there must be a fortune, and these people have money, leisure and spirit, and the population is rising geometrically.

In addition, the division of labor of officials in the Great Song Dynasty was too detailed, and the official position was divided into three parts: official, post, and dispatch, among which the official title was the official rank, which was mainly linked to the rank of Yulu, marking the level of class status. Therefore, the addition of officials to the knighthood in the Song Dynasty does not represent the promotion of real power, but with an additional title, there is an additional salary. One can imagine how lucrative some of the high-ranking officials and royal family members with a long list of titles earned. Therefore, the official system in the Song Dynasty was very chaotic, and those who had no real job could receive money, and those who had real jobs could add additional money. Officials and positions are two different things, officials are false names, the Song Dynasty called Jilu officials, used to indicate a certain level and salary, the position is to manage specific affairs, the Song Dynasty is called the ministry official, and later due to the expansion of officials, many ministers do not care about specific affairs. Only the officials who are specially assigned to take charge of something have something to do and have a real job. For example, the official titles of Langzhong, Longtuge Bachelor, and Zhikaifeng Mansion, Officials Langzhong is an official, Longtuge Bachelor is a post, and Zhikaifeng Mansion is the actual position, the first two are empty titles, and such idle high-ranking officials are full of central and local political power institutions.

The literati of the Great Song Dynasty lived an extremely prosperous life, and did not kill literati with their speeches, as long as they did not commit the crime of rebellion and did great bad things, the heaviest punishment was to be a petty official in a remote place, and crossing the sea and mountains was almost the heaviest punishment. Crossing the sea means being fined to Hainan, and crossing the mountains means being fined across Meiling to Lingnan, and the system is so tolerant that some officials who act recklessly are more willing to take risks in the face of light criminal laws, and they are even more unscrupulous and fearless. In such an environment, it was naturally a breeding ground for corruption, and the officialdom of the Song Dynasty was very corrupt and inefficient. The talent that emerges is either buried or eroded in the organization. Not only myself, but many of us in the Song Dynasty have seen the disadvantages of bloated institutions and excessive employment. Ye Shi said that since ancient times, there have not been so many officials, and Song Qi said that the prefectures and counties are not as wide as before, and the officials are five times as many as the old——"