"People like me, when I was placed in the pre-Qin period, I wanted to pull out the car outside the city gate to show the public."

Xiao Song stood on the city wall, looking at the funeral procession, and the coffin was filled with no one else, it was the old lady Pang who knocked Xiao Song down with his own strength, the old man's condition deteriorated sharply three days ago, and then died in the early hours of this morning.

For this reason, Zhao Xing also specially set a mausoleum for this respected old lady, in recognition of the old man who was loyal to the Great Song Dynasty and the Heavenly Family from beginning to end.

Don't look at it as just a side of the same, the significance of this is extraordinary, that is to say, the old lady will also have to eat incense when the emperors worship their ancestors in the future, which is tantamount to winning the grace of heaven for an old minister, which is the imperial grace that countless people can't think of.

But even so, when a person dies, he dies, and when he dies, he dies like a lamp goes out, and everything is closed. The old lady who was able to carry the coffin to the dynasty was written into the history of the Song Dynasty from today onwards, and it is impossible to appear again.

Xiao Song looked at the continuous funeral procession, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, he actually didn't resent this old man, let alone retaliate or anything, after all, was the old man wrong? Of course, there is nothing wrong with that, but is it still expected that an old man who is an ascetic Confucian scholar will try to accept new ideas and new things from a thousand years later?

Besides, whether they are pedantic or stubborn, there can be one or two people like this who dare to die with their lives, which is worthy of respect. Let him Song Beiyun go, does he dare? He dares to fart. Since he didn't dare, he was not qualified to ridicule those who dared, otherwise he would be a fly that stayed on the corpse of a warrior, and he would make himself look less decent.

Moreover, under the frenzy of money worship and consumerism that he brought to the entire Great Song Dynasty, it will be more and more difficult to come up with such warriors in the future.

But what else can be done, a copper plate has two sides, everything in the world has two sides, simple comments are meaningless, you can only choose the option with the greatest benefit under the continuous trade-offs and exploration.

In the adult world, there is no such thing as saying everything, only children are qualified to shout that everything is mine.

So today, when the warrior leaves the world, Xiao Song will send him a ride far away as an outsider, and regard this as a watershed between the new world and the old pattern.

"Lord Song is serious, since Lord Song implemented the new system, the Great Song Dynasty has been renewed, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the officials have implemented self-denial, but it is full of vitality under this bright and clear situation."

The name of the person next to him is Shen Cong, and there is only one word difference between Xiao Song and the literary master Shen Congwen, this person is the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, and he can be regarded as a royal literati.

Just like the sentence just now, I didn't say anything about the high opinion of the adult, but the adult was wise but licked deep into the bone marrow.

Xiao Song didn't answer, he just lay on the city wall with his hands and watched the funeral procession, far away quietly, no ghosts crying or beating gongs and drums, just so quiet and calm.

"Go ahead and write a eulogy." Xiao Song laughed: "Send the last sincere blessing to the true warrior." ”

"The villain understands that Lord Song is still broad-minded in the end."

Xiao Song smiled, turned around and left the city, never looking back again.

Today's atmosphere in the court is not very good, Zhao Xuan announced a three-day break from the court, which is not only to mourn the death of the Taishi, but also to let the hundred officials sort out the work in Zhao Xiang's hands to facilitate the handover.

And he was not idle in the past three days, but planned to go to the ancestral temple to fast and bathe, the reason is actually very simple, that is, there may be a problem with the feng shui in the court these days, and two important ministers have a situation one after another, and he is to blame for being the emperor.

Perhaps, as Xiao Song predicted, a new era may come abruptly at some point, as is the case with those who stand after the break, and now the leaders of the conservatives are riding west, and the leaders of the radicals are riddled with diseases. Only a group of centrists remained in the court, who were neither conservative nor radical.

Under normal circumstances, the partisan struggle would have reached a fever pitch and forced the emperor to take sides. But now that Zhao Xing is skillful, he hid directly, and the struggle without the emperor is actually boring, coupled with the Imperial City Division staring at the back, the original cruel political struggle has been visibly gentle.

In fact, before Xiao Song came to this era, he always heard about the so-called court struggle, and he had watched a lot of TV series, but he was never able to understand it. But when he came here, after going through and watching, he completely understood what the so-called political struggle was.

First of all, the struggle needs an enemy, and the political struggle is also a struggle between people, that is, two people who have different ideas or more regard each other as enemies, then the capital of political struggle is still people, and personnel is politics.

On the basis of human beings, the most common means of political struggle is actually political strikes, followed by attacks on mutual weakness, protests, arguments, etc., but in this imperial society, both sides of the political struggle are actually seeking a "master" who wants to be the master for me most of the time, who is this master? Naturally, it is the emperor.

Therefore, the struggle of this era is mostly in the form of passivity, neglect and decoupling, etc., digging holes for each other, compared with the political struggle after the capitalist revolution, it seems much more naïve, because armed struggle is not allowed, and the ideological struggle is only a matter of the emperor's words.

This is why since ancient times, imperial studies have worked very hard to divide the court into two or even more factions, because only after balancing each other, can the emperor become the "master" who you want to be the master for me.

And when the people under his command are all united, the unity of opinion will naturally no longer need the emperor to arbitrate, and then the imperial power will be epicly weakened, and finally there will even be a power revolution.

This is the reason why reform has rarely been successful in the past, because reform is ...... First of all, it is the life of the emperor, and the first and most significant feature that appeared after the reform is that everyone is of one heart and one mind, thinking in one place, and working in one place.

So what do you want the emperor to do at this time?

So in a real sense, the biggest obstacle to restricting social change is the idea of the supremacy of imperial power.

Of course, this is Xiao Song's point of view, he doesn't accept refutation because no one in this era can come to refute him, right or wrong, he thinks so.

Now Zhao Xing may also understand this truth, so he is still very tolerant of the factions under the court and lets them fight.

But this time...... The bigwigs of both factions have gone, Lao Ding is a school of governance, and he is actually not very involved in political struggles. So what is most needed in the court now?

It is the enemy, it is the enemy shared by everyone, it is the traitor and the minister, and it is the side of the Qing monarch who wants to be cleared.

Xiao Song doesn't want to be this person, so is there a suitable person?

Of course there is, the godson is that good choice, his reputation is enough, the eldest son of the old lady. The ability is not bad, the brain is flexible and experienced, and things will come. It was up to this person to come forward to reunite the old lady's friends, give him power, and let him act as this enemy.

Pang Ji is a person who refuses to suffer, if he is squeezed by Yan Shu's gang in the court, he will definitely think of tossing back, and the war on both sides will soon be rekindled.

Perhaps in a few months, this decapitation storm will subside, new factions will be established again, and under the judgment of the "Lord", the court will enter the stage of stability again.

As for whether there will be a few more powerful ministers, Xiao Song doesn't care, he is transcendent. As long as there is no problem with the emperor's thinking, he is an absolutely safe existence, if the emperor's thinking is wrong, he will take his family to Liaoguo to defect to Anu, it's a big deal, right, and Anu bow his head and serve her better, and then give some small gifts to coax her if there is nothing to do, and set off a fireworks or something every once in a while, things are not without room for maneuver. Girls, as long as you follow the hair, there is nothing uneven.

Will the negative slack union affect Xiao Song's future layout?

The answer is no, the Imperial City Division will be split and reorganized in April this year, becoming the third law enforcement agency independent of the Criminal Department and Dali Temple, after the reorganization of power, the Imperial City Division will be divided into three, one of which is specifically for the assessment of officials, and the year-end score is higher than 60, and continue to be officials. The year-end score is less than 30, and he enters Dali Temple. If the year-end score is higher than 90 and maintained for three years, it will be directly promoted, but if it is higher than 30 and lower than 60 for three consecutive years, it will be directly resigned and returned to farming.

Of course, KPIs have to be assessed, under this system, who cares about partisan disputes, parties can empty the imperial power, so why can't the imperial power empty the parties. And this rule is reasonable and in line with the general righteousness, and no one can find fault with it.

Of course, is there anyone in the Imperial City Division to supervise? Of course, there are also some things, first of all, the division will secretly assess the Imperial City Division, and if you find favoritism and fraud, you will be killed on the spot. Then the Imperial Historical Observatory assessed the Imperial City Division on the bright side, and if it was found that the judgment was unfair, it could enter the Imperial Historical Observatory for review, and if the review results were too different, the Imperial City Division would be held responsible.

This set of systems is linked one by one, and even Lao Ding said that it was wonderful when he saw it......

Although Xiao Song smashed the Yushitai, he never denied the importance of the Yushitai. Anyway, he remembered a sentence, power is a tiger, and if you release it, you have to eat people, so the tiger must be locked in a cage.

And what he has to do is to start with the big tiger of imperial power, go all the way down, and put it all in the cage. As for himself, he doesn't have the slightest power, he's just the one who pulls the banner of the tiger, and everything is just a vain.