On the 21st day of the first month of the eighth year of Xuanhe of the Great Song Dynasty, when the great change of the Shangyuan Festival finally spread from Bianliang, Tokyo to the entire Gyeonggi area, and was known and amazed by more people, there was a violent earthquake in the government and the opposition in Beijing again, and this time because the imperial court took the initiative to spread the news, this series of things spread faster than before.

The first thing that everyone noticed, naturally, was that a series of names that were familiar to the people of the Great Song Dynasty had been put on the list of felons to be executed - Cai Jing, Liang Shicheng, Yang Jian...... This naturally attracted everyone's applause and cheers, shouting His Majesty's Holy Ming.

Then it was to correct the name of Sun Tu and his army of thieves, and the Son of Heaven had made a special decree to admit that their army was loyal to the country, not only without any fault, but also made great contributions. And as the main force on the side of King Qingjun this time, a group of generals and officials who have come down from Sun Tu have been exceptionally promoted-

Sun Tu, as the leader of the whole incident and the commander of the entire Qinwang Division, naturally deserves the first credit. In addition, he had made many military exploits in the north earlier, defeated Liao and broke gold, and recaptured the sixteen states of Youyun, and his merits were unprecedented in the hundred years since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, so it was natural to give a big reward.

So, when the Son of Heaven was in the palace, he announced that Sun Tu was the king of Yue - but Sun Tu strongly refused, saying that the Great Song Dynasty had never had a living king with a different surname, so he was lowered by one level, and was named the Duke of Yueguo, with 30,000 households, and its specifications were almost the same as those of the prince. In addition, he was also crowned as one of the three princes, in charge of the Privy Council and the world's military affairs, which can be regarded as a real grasp of the military power of the Great Song Dynasty.

These two titles alone have opened a precedent for the Song Dynasty in the past century, because since the founding of Taizu, there has never been such a young prince, and there has not been a military general who can really master the Privy Council and the world's military affairs. Compared with it, it is really nothing to add the feudal officials of Sun Tu, Shandong, Jiangnan and Jiangnan.

Of course, after this series of identities is implemented, Sun Tu is now the most powerful person in the Great Song Dynasty, and anyone with a discerning eye knows that the Son of Heaven is probably already in the hands of the new Sun Taiwei.

is covered by Sun Tu's dazzling official status, and other people's rewards are not so eye-catching-Tong Mu, a young man in his early thirties, actually directly entered the political hall to participate in politics, and hung up a part-time job as a secretary of the ministry; Huang Wenbing, a little-known local petty official, was actually named the chief envoy of the Imperial Court Transit Department, and also the secretary of the Ministry of Households. These two took all the political power and financial power of the court into their hands at once, and became the most powerful people in the court except for Sun Tu.

Song Jiang, who was born as a small official and has been a bandit leader for several years, has to be named Taifu and is in charge of the military department.

Dong Ping, who was only the governor of a state before, jumped into the dragon gate at this time, became the envoy of the Youzhou Festival, took charge of the military power of the northern army, and will set off to the north in a few days.

Luda and Wu Song, two guys who are regarded by many as martial artists, were entrusted with important tasks, and they served as the left and right palace commanders before entering the palace, and took charge of the forbidden army to protect the safety of the Beijing Division.

…… There are also too many officials and generals who have followed Sun Tu to raise troops and have been over-promoted, so that countless people who have just received the news are dazzled, and they can't tell who is who. Some people even laughed and said that thanks to Sun Tu this time, they wiped out dozens or hundreds of officials in the DPRK and China, thus vacating a lot of positions, otherwise they were afraid that these "heroes" might not be enough.

Of course, for many people, all this is actually a matter of course, and Sun Tu's military operation called Qinwang Qingjun's side is just a struggle for power between the Chinese and the military, so with Sun Tu's successful accession, he and his subordinates naturally want to quickly divide the fruits of victory.

Even for many scholars or local officials, Sun Tu's [Jiujiu fo] move was completely illegal and treasonous. It's just that now they are in power, and even the Son of Heaven is under their control, so that they can snatch all kinds of official positions in a justifiable way, while others have no way to do it.

Half a month later, when everyone was still discussing whether Sun Tu's move was similar to the actions of Cao Cao and others in the previous dynasty, the imperial court issued an edict that was even more unacceptable to countless civil officials and scholars - from today onwards, the local army and the township soldiers are directly under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council, local prefects and other officials are no longer allowed to meddle in military affairs, and military rations and other military materials are also uniformly distributed by the imperial court, and local yamen are not allowed to intervene.

This can be regarded as a complete liberation of the army from the shackles of civilian power. When this edict was spread to the world, it naturally sparked a wave of opposition and discussion, but with the strong orders of the imperial court and the strong support of those military generals, Ren was a local official who was no longer powerful and prestigious, and this time he could only accept the fact that he could no longer interfere in military affairs.

And this trick also invisibly defused a possible turmoil. Just when Sun Tu was fully controlling the power of the DPRK and China and taking the lead in completely controlling the army in his own hands, many local officials in the southwest of Lianghuai and other places were plotting to conspire, thinking of raising troops again to kill Sun Tu, a traitor who was only for the sake of the military general.

Not to mention whether the soldiers and horses under their command have this ability, once they really succeed in tandem and quickly raise troops, the Great Song Dynasty will inevitably have another turmoil, and maybe it is possible that the war will continue for several years. However, with the issuance of this edict, their entire plan was completely wiped out.

Several state officials in Huainan also tried in vain to struggle to forcibly seize military power from their subordinate generals. But as a result, as soon as they made a move, they were attacked by those military generals, and their yamen was surrounded by the garrison in the city, and all the officials and their cronies were arrested......

If it had been placed before, the generals who had been oppressed for many years would not have dared to resist this. But now, with Sun Tu as an example in front of him, and the edict of the imperial court as a basis, many military generals who already hold a grudge will naturally not be willing to be humiliated or even killed, so they simply led their troops into those yamen......

As a result, a military disaster was eliminated, and Sun Tu's previous advocacy of the Great Song Dynasty soldiers to be self-reliant was officially implemented. The military generals group, which has been suppressed and aggrieved for a hundred years, has finally risen today and has become a force that can compete with civil officials for a long time in both the capital and the locality, and even now it has faintly overshadowed the other party.

When these news came back to Tokyo one after another, Sun Tu also laughed: "Okay! They are still a little bloody, and it is in vain that I gave them such a chance. Now that the power of the civilian clique has been suppressed to the lowest point, it is time to make the next plan! ”

So, after entering April, an edict that is even more called civil officials and unacceptable to scholars all over the world has been promulgated, and this time the wording is more severe than before - starting from this year, the official correspondence between the DPRK and China will no longer use the ancient language, but the oral composition, and in the future, the DPRK and China will take the official position, and the imperial examination articles will only be tested in practice, regardless of poetry!

The issuance of this edict was tantamount to a violent storm blowing through the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, which shocked almost every scholar. What kind of behavior is this, isn't this about to directly cut off their path to progress?

It is said that the poor are rich and martial, but in fact, if it is really to be implemented on the road of the imperial examination, the children of poor families actually do not have many opportunities, and more than eighty percent of those who can really enter the officialdom are still those children of rich families or families. It can be said that these scholarly children with more noble backgrounds almost monopolized the entire officialdom and the right to speak in the entire era.

But Sun Tu now wants to get rid of this advantage of theirs from the roots. In fact, with the current level of wealth in the Great Song Dynasty, the children of ordinary people can read some books, but when they want to go further, they find that there will be a big moat in front of them - ancient texts.

This kind of style, which spans thousands of years of history and is mixed with countless allusions and cultures, is not something that ordinary people can understand only by how many words they can recognize. However, whether it is the so-called classics or poems, they are based on it, which requires every reader who is interested in learning to spend ten years or even decades to understand the content first, and then have his own opinion.

In Sun Tu's view, this is clearly a despicable means of dividing classes and discarding ordinary people outside of their official careers. The so-called ancient prose may have its advantages at the beginning, for example, when paper was not invented or prevailed thousands of years ago, these extremely compressed texts could save carriers such as bamboo and wood. But now, there is no shortage of paper in the Great Song Dynasty, so why do you have to continue to guard these old antiques? In the final analysis, it is still those who have the right to speak who are selfishly trying to use this means to protect their own interests, so that their children and grandchildren can easily embark on the shortcut of official careers than others.

Since he was destined to be inseparable from this conservative literati force, Sun Tu naturally wanted to do everything possible to completely eradicate their advantages. And this edict to abandon the ancient language from top to bottom was the beginning of his change of all this.

Of course, he knew that this was not an easy task, and he would inevitably encounter various obstacles in the process of implementation, and even some people would continue to jump out and rebel. But Sun Tu is not afraid, he has completely separated the civil and military forces, how can he be afraid that they will make any outrageous moves?

It was a harder and longer battle than any previous battle, but Sun Tu was ready for it. He has patience and more confidence, and will spend a few years fighting the old-fashioned scholars in these places, and when he has suppressed them all, he will be able to take the last step out.

Now, the arrow has left the string, and the door to a new era has been completely opened......