Article 454 Reinstatement of the new Act1
Now, on the surface, Zhao Xu did not punish those ministers who were in favor of ceding Sizhai for the time being. Because, all this needs a flashpoint, and this flashpoint is whether the Western Xia Congress will strictly abide by the peace between the two sides.
But will the Western Xia Kingdom really keep its peace all the time?
People of insight laughed when they heard this false proposition.
The Western Xia Congress maintained peace on the border, just as a dog can't change its.
It is no wonder that the ministers who had been on the show have been panicking since Liu Zhi returned to Beijing.
Although Zhao Xu wanted to destroy the Western Xia Kingdom immediately in his heart, he also knew that he had just become pro-government, and his country had been repeatedly harassed by natural disasters, and the Central Plains and the entire Northern Great Song Dynasty needed time to relieve, and the people also needed to recuperate for a period of time.
After hearing the news, the reactions of the entire northern people were mixed, and they said everything.
When some people discussed it in private, they all thought that this was Zhang Dian and others taking revenge on the conservative ministers, especially Sima Guang and Lu Gongzhu, both of whom were dead, and they were going to demote their entire family to the northwest, how dangerous it was on the border!
But some people will retort that how can it be dangerous on the border, the cession of Sizhai, although it was not handled by Sima Guang himself, but this proposal was indeed initiated by him first, and this is a fact that no one can hide up.
What's more, how is it barren in the northwest, the eight hundred miles of Qinchuan has been a land of ointment since ancient times, and the fields in Hetao are not bad. Comparatively speaking, Wen Yanbo's hometown Jiexiu, and even the entire Hedong Road, are not the main grain producing areas. It is forty miles away from Huanzhou, and in terms of area, it is tens of thousands of acres of cultivated land, and these cultivated lands are close to the Yellow River, so they are not afraid of drought at all.
If the Yellow River floods, it will affect the harvest of the year, but it will also make the washed land more fertile.
Some people are sad, some people are sad, and naturally some people will be happy.
After learning the news, the soldiers on the border of Song and Xia finally got angry, and this was the best blow to the beggar faction.
The Song-Xia border has never stopped fighting, just like the Song-Liao border is said to be peaceful for nearly a hundred years, but not counting the tide of Renzong, the Liao lord tried to send troops to coerce the Great Song State, in fact, on the border, the Liao army will launch some small-scale invasion operations every year, and the border army of the Liao State is called the grass valley.
The only thing that happened to the Wuhu was that the Hu people called the Han people two-legged sheep, and the difference with that was that the Liao army was not enough to eat people.
The soldiers and civilians on the border are always on the verge of life and death, which is something that those civil officials who have been in Bianliang City and are high above have never felt it. Now, the officials have finally let these ministers and their families, who only know about begging peace, feel it for themselves.
Of course, Empress Dowager Xiaoliang, who had already gained prestige, would naturally not be stupid enough to take the initiative to send troops to provoke the Great Song Kingdom at this time.
However, reality will force the Western Xia Kingdom and the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang to continue to send troops.
It's a moment that no one will have to wait long.
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Since then, the work of the DPRK and China has been gradually perfected and smoothly carried out. First of all, there are only two new laws that have been reinstated in the entire Gyeonggi region, namely the Exemption from Military Service Act and the Ordnance Supervision Act.
The Ordnance Supervision and Administration was responsible for the manufacture and development of weapons for all armies in the Great Song Dynasty. Of course, R&D is just a side hustle, and here, crafting sophisticated weapons and armor is the main business.
Cai Dao took the initiative to ask Ying and ended this errand, of course, on the surface, the person in charge of the Ordnance Supervisor was Kaifu Yitong Sansi, Zhao Yu, the king of Daning County, and this set of official positions was sealed by Zhao Xu when he first ascended the throne, giving his eldest brother. However, in the past few days, Zhao Mi has been promoted to King Shen and Sikong.
Since Cai Dao returned to the capital, as soon as Zhao Mi learned that he had lived in a nursery again, the newly baked King Shen took the initiative to ask Zhao Xu for his life, wanting to move in with Cai Dao, or invite Cai Daoyan to his palace, and he was even ready to fund the construction of a Taoist temple for Cai Dao in his palace.
If it were other younger brothers, Zhao Xu might think more about this request, but for Zhao Xu, Zhao Xu would be more tolerant. Because, everyone knows that this King Shen is blind. So, Zhao Xu granted Zhao Yu's request and allowed him to move to the nursery school.
And Cai Dao, a Taoist priest, wants to contract the weapons supervisor, and Zhao Mi naturally becomes the best shield. Even the most upright imperial historian has nothing to say about this person's appointment. Could it be that you can't hand over the important weapons of the country to King Shen, for fear that he will rebel?
Although Zhang Dian was the third envoy, Zhao Xu also handed over the errand of restoring the exemption law to him, and after a period of practice, Zhang Dian found that the new law was implemented nearby, which was indeed a lot of benefits. First, it is convenient for real-time monitoring and inspection, once his subordinates act negligently or make mistakes, he can learn about the matter on the same day and respond in time.
According to Cai Dao's suggestion, this time, the Imperial City Division also sent people to supervise the implementation of the new law throughout the process, and in the process of implementation, all the various mistakes that had occurred were recorded, summarized into a book, and submitted to Zhao Xu.
And the biggest benefit is that it trains newcomers. In order to extend the exemption law to the entire Great Song Dynasty in the future, more capable young officials were reserved.
This point used to be the biggest failure in the implementation of Wang Anshi's reforms.
A month later, these young officials went to the northern roads—the Northwest Road, the Hebei Road, the Hedong Road, and so on, except for the Huainan Road and the Jingnan Road. This is because the law on exemption from military service will be popularized and implemented in all northern roads. Wang Yansuo and Liu Anshi are members of the Shuo Party, so they naturally will not support it, and Fan Chunli's attitude is unclear, and Zhao Xu did not include this road in the scope of the implementation of the new law.
When Wang Anshi presided over the reform of the law, some of the new laws implemented were simply out of date, and some were very difficult to implement throughout the country because of a lack of supervision.
Therefore, when restoring the new law, Zhao Xu still had to listen to Cai Dao's opinion, and selectively and in batches only partially restored the new law.
In the second batch of new laws, in terms of the economy, the previously promulgated Seedling Law, the Farmland Water Conservancy Law, the Municipal Adjustment Law, and the Exemption Law have been re-implemented.
The Seedlings Law was to be implemented, but it was already allowed to be implemented all the way to Gyeonggi, and it was not intended to be extended to the whole country, for the simple reason that there was dual supervision by the Imperial Historians and the Imperial City Division in the Gyeonggi region, and the officials and officials in the Gyeonggi region did not dare to distort the true meaning of the Seedlings Law by distorting the true meaning of the new law by distorting it by distorting it in private.
The royal families and noble families, who had been resolutely opposed, also died down this time, and watched the government destroy the order of the entire usury market in the Gyeonggi region.
Similarly, after receiving Zhao Xu's warning, the various Taoist temples in the Gyeonggi area could only stand by while the Seedlings Law was implemented, but Cai Dao also compensated them accordingly.