Zhao Yu's wedding was in full swing, and the renovation project of the East Palace suddenly stopped, and it was not him or the Queen Mother who gave the order, but Shangshu Province. He was very puzzled, and called Zhou Xiang, who was in charge of the project, to ask what it was, but he didn't expect it to be a reason to laugh and cry, just because his renovation of Zhiyuan Hall was not approved by Shangshu Province, and was impeached by Taiwan.

"Fart, Lao Tzu's affairs still need them to talk more, you can continue to do it, and let them talk to me if you have something to say!" Seeing that the scheduled wedding time was approaching, the project was stopped, and with such a reason, he couldn't help but be angry.

"Your Majesty, you still need to be cautious in this matter, don't be impulsive!" Zhou Xiang did not immediately obey the order as before, but persuaded him.

"Why, don't you even listen to me?" Zhao Yu listened and said with a sinking face.

"Your Majesty, how dare your subordinates?" Zhou Xiang immediately knelt down and kowtowed, "Your Majesty, this matter is not because his subordinates are unwilling to obey his orders, but because there is a hidden secret. ”

"Say!" Zhao Hao said sharply.

"Your Majesty, the construction of the palace has been customized in the past, and no matter how big or small, it must be approved by Shangshu Province before it can be manufactured, otherwise it is not allowed to allocate money, and if it exceeds it, it will be questioned."

"And this kind of rule, how come I've never heard of it!" Zhao Yu frowned and wondered, whether it was building or rebuilding anything in the palace in Qiongzhou, he did it with a word, and he didn't get anyone's approval.

"Your Majesty, Shangshu Province has indeed never asked before, but you can move to Lin'an by yourself, and when you repair the North Palace, someone will bring up the old things again, but Your Majesty was not in the palace at the time, so I haven't heard of it." Zhou Xiang told truthfully.

"On the day of my memory, I asked you to repair the North Palace in front of the landing minister, and the money used was all from the inner treasury, and I didn't use a penny of the imperial court, and I didn't have any objections!" Zhao Hao thought back to the events of the day and said.

"Your Majesty's words are good, but later your subordinates thought that the pattern of the North Palace was a little small, and Your Majesty led the army to the west, so he asked Lu Xiang to expand the scope, and after discussing with the ministers, he agreed to divide the two palaces into the North Palace, and also allocated a sum of money, and the subordinates were very happy. But now that I think about it, it was what happened at that time, and let them calculate! Zhou Xiang kowtowed again.

"Oh, I see, get up and talk!" Zhao Yu immediately understood when he heard this, in the past, when they were in Qiongzhou, they were suppressed by themselves and couldn't raise their heads, and their power was greatly weakened, but now that the situation is improving, they want to make rules for themselves.

And in his impression, it is said that 'the whole world is not the king's land', and the Son of Heaven is rich all over the world, which means that the wealth of the world belongs to the emperor, and he can spend it as he wants. But today, when I hear this, I spend money to make it look like the Queen of England, and I need the approval of Congress. However, Zhao Yu also knows that there are many strange rules in the Song Dynasty, and maybe there are really them.

"Your Majesty doesn't know, there was indeed such a statement before, all the use of the inner court must be approved by the prime minister of the outer court, if the prime minister does not allow it, the inner court will not be able to take it. And if the Taiwanese advisor thinks that the imperial court has approved the improper spending of the inner court, he will also propose impeachment! Zhou Xiang got up after giving a salute and explained.

"And this kind of thing, you're kidding, right?" Zhao Yu laughed angrily when he heard this, which of his ancestors was kicked by a donkey, or was he caught by the door, he could accept this condition, he must have done something that was struck by lightning!

"Your Majesty, this is by no means nonsense from subordinates, but there is such a thing!" Zhou Xiang thought that the little emperor was still blaming himself, so he hurriedly saluted.

"Really?! Come, sit down and speak. Zhao Yu thought it was just a matter of talking, but he didn't expect that there would really be an emperor who accepted this kind of unequal treaty, which aroused his interest and asked him to tell himself.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Zhou Xiang breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this, knowing that the little emperor no longer blamed him, so he changed to the original slave appearance and told the stories he had heard vividly......

It is said that the incident happened in the Renzong Dynasty, and he used his private money to reward the monks who entered the inner court to do things. But because he was worried about being caught by the Taiwanese admonition, he had to confess to the rewarded monk, hid the purple Luo in his arms, and went out quietly, so as not to be bumped into by others, saying: "Come to the sunrise Donghua Gate, put Yiluo in your arms, don't let people see it, I am afraid that there will be a written argument in the Taiji." "It's like a thief. Why is it so secretive? Because he was afraid that the Taiwan counselor would see it and criticize it.

The other thing was done by Renzong, the harem concubines asked to enter the official, and then the monthly money should be increased after the promotion, of course, this matter must be approved by the government, not the emperor alone. In order to please the concubines, Renzong lowered the 'imperial pen' to write 'a certain palace and a certain clan to a certain official', and all the concubines were happy. When it came to the day, the concubines who were promoted each sent out a royal pen to ask for Zenglu, but Yousi didn't dare to do it, and they all retreated. The concubines came to Renzong one after another to complain, and he could only dismiss everyone with a smile, and there was no way at all.

Another incident occurred during the Shaoxing period, when Huizong died in the Jin Kingdom, and Gaozong replaced the imperial chair with an unpainted wooden chair during the mourning for his father. One day, the princess of the Qian family of Qiantang Jiang entered the pilgrimage and saw this dragon chair, so she asked curiously: "Is this a chair made of sandalwood?" A concubine surnamed Zhang covered her mouth and smiled: "In the palace ban, there are too many rouge and honey locusts used by concubines and palace maids, and the prime minister has to ask, where do you dare to use sandalwood as a chair?" ”

Therefore, even if the inner court wants to build a smoke cage that is only worth dozens of dollars and is used for smoke therapy to drive away mosquitoes, it must be approved by the imperial court at all levels. Why? Zhao Yu figured it out, obviously in order to save expenses, to prevent the emperor from making extravagant things with complicated procedures; Secretly, he wanted to use various means to achieve the goal of limiting the emperor's power.

"It turned out that Zhuang Gong danced the sword with the intention of Pei Gong!" Zhao Hao snorted coldly when he heard this, "Master Zhou, you will re-enter tomorrow to start work, and if anyone stops you, let them come to me for theory." ”

"Yes, my subordinates obey the instructions and immediately order the craftsmen of the craftsman's workshop to work!" Zhou Xiang nodded, but after thinking about it, he asked again, "Your Majesty, what if they forcibly order the work to stop?" ”

"What do you say?" Zhao Yu asked rhetorically with a wide range of eyes when he heard this.

"The subordinates are really damned, if they dare to stop the construction, the subordinates will beat them all out!" Zhou Xiang slapped himself twice in the face, and then saluted.

"Yes, things are not afraid to get bigger, everything is on my shoulder, you let it go!" Zhao Yu nodded with great satisfaction. In his heart, he secretly said that he must suppress this unhealthy trend......

Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, the emperor advocated ruling the world with scholars, so that the political atmosphere of the government and the opposition was quite enlightened. Song Taizu once boasted that he did not kill people with his speech, thus forming the basic principle of the "scholarly democratic system" and establishing a civil official system of "respecting literature and suppressing martial arts". The establishment of the civil official system in the Song Dynasty made the traditional "aristocratic politics and martial arts politics basically withdraw from the historical stage of feudal China"; and made the subsequent Chinese feudal society always continue to be unified; At the same time, the academy emerged, scholars came out in large numbers, and classics, history, literature, science and technology were all very developed.

Compared with the previous dynasties, the Song Dynasty's courtesy to scholars was unparalleled, therefore, in the Song Dynasty, except for a small number of corrupt officials who were sentenced to death in the early Northern Song Dynasty, in the rest of the period, scholars were rarely punished by swords and axes, and the heaviest punishment for ministers was to reduce their posts and transfer them. The combination of courtesy and preferential treatment cultivated the enthusiasm of the Song Dynasty scholars to actively participate in politics, and they "opened their mouths to discuss current affairs and discuss the glory".

However, the civil service system of the Song Dynasty also brought about various serious political consequences. As a result, the national strength is weakened, the border troubles are heavy, the emphasis is on civilian affairs over military force, and the bureaucratic contingent is too large. After Zhao Yu came to power, this situation has gradually changed, but what makes him uncomfortable is that the ministers are too nosy, from the emperor's actions, and the every move of the state and county officials. And in order to reject some decisions of the emperor or the prime minister, there are more than ten or even twenty letters in succession, even if they abandon their official positions and demote them, they will not resign.

Of course, if he just makes himself uncomfortable, Zhao Hao can tolerate it, and thinks that some different voices are not all bad, after all, the truth is also produced in the debate? However, if you care about everything, even your own family affairs, or even interfere with your privacy, then it will be over. This kind of behavior has not only made him uncomfortable, but disgusted.

Based on Zhao Hao's experience in fighting with the ministers for so many years, he thought that this matter was definitely not for the sake of such a small repair fee, because both he and the court officials knew that this money could not do anything big. However, the imperial court's implementation of the system of 'external control and internal control' for the consumption of the inner court seems to be reasonable under the banner of 'making future generations unreasonably make extravagant things, destroy money and goods, and send them to various places, and must have a Taiwan counsel and council', but in fact it has another profound meaning.

And a passage of Zhu Xi's words also exposed the intentions of the scholars, saying: (The monarch) all the food, wine, clothes, secondary houses, utensils, bribes, husbands, eunuchs, and palace concubines are all led to the tomb slaughter, so that the left and right, front and back, one movement and one stillness, all of them are controlled by the law of the division, and there is no gap in the mustard, and there is no fleeting moment, so that they can hide their selfishness.

According to the interpretation of Zhao Hao, the meaning is that the Son of Heaven has no selfish wealth, but should take the world as his home. The private affairs of the Son of Heaven are the official affairs of the world; The property of the world is also the property of the people of the world. Therefore, the monarch cannot spend extravagantly, and how the monarch spends his money needs the approval of the government. That is, all the expenses of the inner court must be approved by the prime minister of the outer court, and if the prime minister does not approve it, the inner court will not get the money. If the budget is exceeded, the government will be questioned. If the government believes that the government has approved the improper consumption of the Inner Court, it will also file for impeachment.

This kind of system seems to persuade the emperor to take the world as the public, and this concept seems to be in line with the ideas of modern democracy, the progress of the times, and if it is placed in a few hundred years, there will be no problem at all. First of all, it violates the ideological foundation of the feudal society's "the whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister", and destroys the class relationship between the monarch and the ministers.

If you do a deep interpretation of Zhao Hao's dark belly, it will be even more shocking, he can't help but suspect that the scholars and doctors want to use the favor of the king to usurp power, trying to elevate the emperor as a puppet, a puppet at their mercy, the merit is theirs, and let him take the blame if he makes a mistake. And restricting consumption, in modern times, everyone knows that this is the most effective way for Lao Tzu to discipline and gnaw on the old children, and the stupid children who have been cut off from their financial resources have to give in and act according to their wishes.

And the emperors of the Song Dynasty were not all stupid, so why did they often endure this breath knowing that this would weaken their power and even seize their own throne? Zhao Hao thought that this was also the wisdom of Taizu, who calculated the hearts of the scholars, and broke the inherent gate valve class through the imperial examination, so that the children of the common people could enter the house, forming a system of scholars governing the country.

The preferential treatment of the Song government also greatly stimulated the spirit of moral self-discipline of the Song scholars to practice Confucian ideals, and they closely linked their fate with the rise and fall of the feudal dynasty, fearing that the maladministration of the imperial court would cause the ruling class to revolt. Therefore, taking the world as its responsibility, and forming Fan Zhongyan's excellent idea of "congenital worries and worries, and the joy of the world after tomorrow" has been formed. This kind of thinking prompted generations of intellectuals to care about state affairs and people's livelihood, and played an important role in supporting the rule of the Zhao and Song regimes.

The Song royal family certainly appreciated this kind of grateful loyalty, and thus strengthened their confidence and determination to rely on this group of literati and doctors. A particularly critical point is that these literati doctors came from humble backgrounds, did not have a powerful family as a social background, and therefore did not have a deep social foundation and strength, and their glory and disgrace were in the hands of the emperor, even if they were extremely popular ministers, they would not pose a potential threat to the Zhao and Song dynasties.

Under the reciprocation, the experience of the eunuchs of Buyi Qingxiang determined their loyalty to the Zhao and Song dynasties, and their dependence on the royal family was extremely strong. And their source of power determines that once they are deposed, they will no longer exert influence on the government, if it were not for the emperor's favor to the old ministers, they would not even leave too many political roots in the court, so the emperor's indulgence and tolerance of scholars and doctors are based on ensuring that the imperial throne is not lost.

But in Zhao Hao's view, it is more like a political exchange, in order to achieve a balance between imperial power and relative power. Therefore, the intervention of Shangshu Province this time is another perennial issue, and the scholars have been trying to establish rules for the emperor, and the emperor wants to get rid of control. Of course, there are also emperors who enjoy it, such as Emperor Renzong, who has always been used as a model for educating Zhao Yu......