Zhao Yu originally expected Ying Jieyan to raise objections in order to keep the position of the emperor, but he did not expect that he said that His Majesty would take the throne as the ruler of Chongling, and he felt that he was responsible for the education of the young master, so he had long wanted to ask for a sutra feast. The meaning of this www.biquge.info is very clear, that is, he agrees very much, and both of them agreed, who still objected, and unanimously agreed to petition the Queen Mother to hold a sutra banquet after returning to the court.

Originally, thinking about a rainy day, and there was nothing to do, Zhao Yu wanted to invite everyone to have a light meal to get closer to each other. But when he heard this, he was not interested at all, and he shook his hands and left angrily, making everyone confused, and the unprovoked little emperor was angry. However, he knew that after Xingchao Qiongzhou settled in the palace, it was not as convenient as before, and it almost became the only opportunity for these Confucian ministers to get close to him and exert influence.

Zhao Yu knew that the Confucian ministers attached great importance to the scriptures, in addition to being familiar, they also believed that the ultimate purpose of the banquet system was to reform the heart of the monarch, correct the heart of the monarch, and cultivate important measures for virtue; In addition, the banquet system is still a political system, which is the same as the system of admonishing officials, the system of prime ministers, the system of sealing and refuting, and the system of historians, which is a constraint on imperial power, emphasizing that the Taoist system is higher than the political system, and using the way of heaven to restrict the infinite expansion of imperial power; In addition, the banquet system is also a traditional etiquette system, but there are deep ideological and cultural roots behind it, and this root is science, they can be said to be the system of the Song Dynasty to share weal and woe, symbiosis and common prosperity.

In the past few days, Zhao Yu has worked hard to understand and learn the political system of the Song Dynasty from all aspects, and analyzed what he has learned in his previous life. It was found that these scholars and doctors of the Song Dynasty were not only traitors, but also talents, and they played a big game of chess. In order to keep Confucianism in power, they also use various means to influence the ruler or future ruler, and 'brainwash' them in disguise to maintain the political system of Confucianism.

As a science student, Zhao Yu knew very little about Confucianism in his previous life, except for the introduction to Confucius in textbooks, the burning of books and Confucianism, and a few classical Chinese texts. Of course, there is no prejudice and dislike, and the propaganda of that era was more about governing the country according to the law, and everyone was equal before the law, so it was impossible to comment on whether its theory of governing the country was beneficial or harmful to the country and the people.

After arriving in the Great Song Dynasty, Zhao Yu found that although Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism stood side by side, and did not exclude other external religions, Confucianism was still dominant, and in addition to the idea of governing the country, it also exerted a pervasive influence on people's daily life, and even restricted imperial power. He knew that the situation that led to the formation of Confucian dominance in the Song Dynasty was caused by Taizu Zhao Kuangyin, but he understood this, and although his choice was out of helplessness, it was also wise.

Historically, since the pre-Qin period, after countless massacres and purges for thousands of years, power has gradually been concentrated in the hands of monarchs and emperors, making them people who transcend legal limits. Zhao Yu thought that Zhao Kuangyin must have realized that power was a double-edged sword after becoming the emperor, and the difference was how to use it. If the monarch is wise and benevolent, the whole country will be happy; If they are cruel and cruel, the whole society will suffer together.

How can the monarch and the emperor be institutionally restrained so that they do not go further down the wrong path? Each dynasty has its own different practices, and Zhao Kuangyin's approach is to let Wenchen participate in the discussion of politics and point out the emperor's gains and losses. However, if the emperor was not broad-minded enough to listen to criticism, and in a fit of anger he took the life of Wenchen, and no one dared to criticize the emperor again. So Zhao Kuangyin made a rule not to kill the officials and scholars. Clever scholars took advantage of this 'loophole' to integrate Confucianism into the Song Dynasty's governing program.

Since Taizu and Taizong, the two founding monarchs, from the Northern Song Dynasty to the Southern Song Dynasty more than a dozen emperors have not done much, this phenomenon is very strange, according to the theory of probability, so many descendants of the Great Song Dynasty should also appear a monarch again, but the result is no, mediocre people are all over the ground. This can't help but make Zhao Hao think more, he thinks it should be related to the environment they are in and the education they receive, and these monarchs without exception have been baptized by Confucianism since childhood, and the problem may lie here.

On the surface, the Song monarchs, like other dynasties, were at the top of the pyramid of power, with supremacy and supreme secular authority. However, according to the political philosophy of the Song people, the "supreme authority" of the monarch should be symbolic, not as a physical ruling power. This point is very different from the Ming and Qing dynasties, which later flaunted the "dictatorship of cadres." The physicist Cheng Yi explained "Zhou Yi" and proposed: The Son of Heaven is only the sovereign of the world, and the prime minister is the ruler of the world. It shows that his ideal monarch is only a symbolic head of state who is virtuous and virtuous, and what he yearns for is actually to rebuild a system of hypocrisy, and all the 'deeds' are in the hands of the Magi and the doctors.

Don't look at Zhao Hao's research for only a few days, he can say with certainty that this is not Cheng Yi's idea alone, but represents a consensus among physicists. For example, Fu Bi, a famous minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, warned Song Shenzong that now government affairs "have more personal approvals, and if everything is in the middle, it is not the way of the king." Seven or eight out of ten, accumulate over time, and lose a lot. Obviously, Fu Bi opposed the monarch's "personal approval" of government affairs, even if the emperor was wise. Lu Jiuyuan, a physicist in the Southern Song Dynasty, also said: "The master of the people is arched high, does not participate in his own will, does not treat villains from time to time, and does not maintain the rope of the mere rope, so that his ministers are not hindered, and then they can be blamed for success." The expression is also the meaning of the hypocrite.

As far as Zhao Yu knows and understands, this kind of government is more similar to the modern constitutional monarchy, which is equivalent to hollowing out the emperor and losing the power to handle government affairs. So who should govern the country? The Song people believed that it was the prime minister. In Cheng Yi's words, "the world is in chaos and is the prime minister". The prime minister is the head of the government, and his functions and powers are: Zuo Tianzi, the chief hundred officials, the general government, and everything is unified.

At that time, fools understood that the political system of the Song Dynasty actually contained a double "separation of powers": the first is the separation of monarchical power and relative power. The political power belongs to the monarch, and the governing power belongs to the prime minister, in the words of the Song people: the power belongs to the master, the government is written in the book, and the world is not governed. The power and responsibility of the monarch is to appoint the prime minister, and the power and responsibility of the prime minister is to form a cabinet and govern the world. The monarch and the prime minister "have their own professions and must not invade each other", and if the monarch usurps the power of the prime minister, it is a violation of the rules and will be protested by the ministers. And this 'system' is understood by Zhao Yu to be the 'ancestral family law' concocted by the scholars and doctors according to the oath tablet of Taizu.

Zhao Hao tried to find out the specific content of this ancestral family law from various documents, so that he could study it carefully and see if he could find the flaws, but he soon found that it was all in vain. It's really bad to scold these scholars, the so-called ancestral family law is not only complex in content, vague in extension, but also lacks systematic written explanations, so that you don't have a clue, you can't find the basis, but it's everywhere, he just wants to use the 'grass mud horse' to greet their ancestors for eighteen generations.

In the end, Zhao Yu could only simplify the complex and summarize the definition and scope of the illusory ancestral family law, which was a constitutional practice and document of the Song Dynasty, which was intended to constrain the behavior of the monarch and standardize the political structure, which was fundamentally different from the general law that restricted the people. When the incumbent monarch behaves in a way that does not conform to Confucian ideals, the scholar clique often moves out of the ancestral law, forcing the monarch to make concessions, that is, targeting the emperor alone, and has nothing to do with others......

"Okay, the scar forgot the pain!" Zhao Yu said angrily as he walked.

Now that the ministers are going to open the feast, what do they want to do, of course Zhao Yu is like a mirror in his heart. At present, he is gradually participating in the government and controlling the army, and ignoring all kinds of 'rules', which has made those scholars and doctors blind. But they also know that it is not easy to replace themselves or use their young age to prevent them from approaching the court, and it is also very easy to cause his backlash, and it is not something they can stop and accept to act arbitrarily, so they want to overcome the rigid with softness, and want to use the ancestral family law to bind themselves, and then use the sutra feast to gradually domesticate themselves and become the Ming Jun in their minds.

Facts have proved that this way of educating the emperor in the Great Song Dynasty was very unsuccessful, and the emperors cultivated lacked bloodiness and were more cowardly, so that it was difficult to win in all previous foreign wars, and had to spend money to settle it, and finally lost a mess, even losing his pants. Zhao Yu felt that if he hadn't fallen from the sky, now that the Great Song Dynasty had become history, where would it be their turn to teach him a lesson. What is incomprehensible is that instead of reflecting on it, summing up the lessons, and seeking changes, these scholars still try to cultivate themselves into the perfect rulers they idealize to protect the interests of the group.

"Who made Your Majesty angry?" Ni Liang didn't know, so he asked Wang Dedao.

"If the minister wants to have a feast, the official family will be angry!" Wang De whispered.

"Eh, what big deal do I do, Your Majesty doesn't want to go, won't you get it!" Ni Liang said nonchalantly when he heard this.

"You know the, they want to put shackles on me and tie my hands and feet!" Zhao Yu twisted his face and looked up at the carefree big man.

"Tie up Your Majesty? I see that they dare, and their subordinates cut him first! Ni Liang said angrily.

"If it could be solved by a knife, I would have ...... long ago"

'Click......'

"Childlike words, God is not strange, God is not strange!" Before Zhao Yu finished speaking, suddenly a thunderbolt sounded overhead, splitting a branch of a big tree on the side of the corridor, and he was so frightened that he quickly swallowed the second half of his words back, and prayed again and again. I wondered if God felt that he was wrong.

"Official, let's go!" Wang De saw that the branch with the thickness of his arm was hanging down and lit a fire, and hurriedly helped His Majesty to walk quickly, and muttered in his mouth, "There must be a demon in this Pu family, even this tree has become a sperm, and God is going to split it!" ”

"What a mess, let's go!" Zhao Hao frowned and said, but he didn't slow down under his feet, for fear that a thunder would split him, and he wouldn't know where to cross over at that time, maybe it might not be as good as now!

Back in the dormitory, Zhao Yu ordered to add vegetables today, get a chicken, and then stew soft sheep in a pot, and his mind seemed to be much clearer after a big meal. He climbed to the second floor and pushed the window open a crack to look out. At this moment, the rain was pouring down, and the rain was collecting into the lake from all over the place, but there was no water overflowing the shore. He suddenly thought that the Great Song Dynasty could be established for 300 years, and if every emperor was held hostage by these scholars, the throne would definitely not be guaranteed. And Taizu would not have taken this into account when he formulated the policy of governing the military with literature, nor would he have looked at the pickled anger of these scholars, and there must be a way to balance it, so as not to fall into power.

"Loving and killing each other, complementing each other, is the way to govern the country, the ancestors are definitely not all foolish people, there must be a way of restraint!" Zhao Yu thinks that power is the basis of the emperor's existence, and whoever becomes a person will not easily give up the power in his hands, that is, he is a person who has never liked to play power, and now he is the emperor, isn't it also to 'snatch' power and not be able to eat and sleep! There must be something in it that I haven't been able to grasp. I think that Emperor Huizong called the famous faint monarch, but for Cai Jing, the powerful prime minister at that time, it was also said that he would withdraw if he withdrew, and he was not worried that it would cause chaos at all, and it would not be possible without checks and balances.

Thinking of the joints, Zhao Yu spread out the paper and wrote on it several major state institutions such as the emperor, Zhongshu Province, Shangshu Province, Privy Council, Sansi, and Taiji, and connected several lines between them. In fact, during most of the Northern Song Dynasty, the prime minister, the privy envoy and the three envoys were not subordinate to each other, and each was responsible to the emperor independently.

At that time, the Zhongshu Province and the Privy Council were called "Erfu", and they were in charge of civil and military; The three divisions are called "planning the province" and are in charge of finance. After the restructuring of Yuanfeng, the three divisions were abolished, and the financial power was returned to the household department and placed under the control of the prime minister. However, although the powers of the prime minister have been expanded, the division of powers between the deputy prime minister (participating in the governor's affairs) and the prime minister has also been strengthened. In the Southern Song Dynasty, the prime minister or the privy envoy gained the power to deal with part of the military and political affairs, but also made the deputy minister and the deputy envoy of the Privy Council concurrent. This practice was of course out of the needs of the Song and Jin wars.

Therefore, on the surface, it is the expansion of the power of the prime minister, but in fact, it is a measure to ensure that the emperor continues to be autocratic and centralized in the new situation. From this point of view, saying that the prime minister of the Song Dynasty has everything and is in charge of the government, in fact, it is a bit too much, only the three words of Zuo Tianzi are accurate, maybe this is just the ideal state that the scholars and doctors want to achieve, but they have not succeeded.

In short, the world believes that the separation of monarchical power and relative power in the Song Dynasty political system, and that the monarch and the minister "have their own occupations and cannot invade each other" is nothing more than to distinguish the nature of power and make the monarch and minister perform their duties. The legitimacy of the so-called political book comes from the design of the system in which the power belongs to the owner. In this case, the imperial power and the relative power are not separated, but a subordinate relationship, a master-subordinate relationship, and the administrative power is subordinate to the imperial power rather than independent of the decision-making power.

But the same imperial power will also be constrained by the power of the prime minister, the strength depends on the ability of the emperor of the dynasty, but the emperor can beat and remove the prime minister at any time through the Taiwan advice, if this system is properly operated, it can really realize the emperor's vertical arch and rule...... (To be continued.) )