Chapter 4: The Northern Expedition was a cool official, and the Southern Invasion of the Jin Army was finally purified
The cool officials that Sanniang said were Lou Minzhong and Huang Wenbing, and then after making a decision with Su Yuanjing, Huang Wenbing rushed back to Kaifeng from Shanxi the next day, and Sanniang was summoned in the house.
Huang Wenbing has not seen him for nearly ten months since he used troops in Shanxi with Lin Chong last year, and I saw that although he had lost a little weight, he was in good spirits and his eyes were full of excitement. After meeting Sanniang, Sanniang helped him up with a smile and said, "I heard that there are many beautiful women in Shanxi, how many concubines have you received in Shanxi?" ”
Huang Wenbing had already gotten up, and when he heard this, he was so frightened that he bowed down and said: "The villain doesn't dare, just because of the war in Shanxi, many women are displaced and have no families. The villain just chose a few lonely and helpless women to be by his side to take care of the daily life and food. ”
In fact, the military horses in Shanxi rescued many women who were kidnapped by the Jin, these women lost their families and were lonely, so after Lin Chong and Huang Wenbing discussed, they were matched to the single soldiers in the army, one to solve the problem of marriage for the soldiers, the second was to find a family to rely on for these poor women, and the third to find a local woman as a wife for the Shandong army soldiers, which could better integrate the relationship. Lin Chong had already reported this matter to Sanniang, and Sanniang thought that this matter was feasible, so she agreed to it, and at this moment it was just ridiculing Huang Wenbing.
At that moment, Sanniang hummed and said: "It's okay to accept a few concubines, but you have to be kind to others, and you can't abandon them from the beginning." Huang Wenbing responded: "The villain can save it." Sanniang asked a little playfully, "Did my Senior Brother Lin find a few concubines?" Huang Wenbing shook his head and said: "Lin Jiaotou didn't look for it, I and other generals persuaded him to accept a few, but he didn't accept it, and he still took care of his daily life and food." ”
Sanniang secretly praised Lin Chong's deep affection for Lin Niangzi, and asked herself if she couldn't do it, and secretly thought: "If you are still a man, you must have a few more, how can you hang yourself from a tree like a senior brother." "Thinking about it again, although it is a daughter now, there are not a few women who seem to have been faked by themselves, Song Yulian is one, Chen Liqing is one, and the current Empress Huanhuan, not counting Sun Erniang, Qiong Ying and others who have been sleeping happily for a few nights, it is difficult to change their temperament after all.
After sighing in her heart for a while, Sanniang ordered Huang Wenbing to sit down, and talked about the purge of officials and the replacement of officials in the world. At the end, Sanniang said: "Rectify the rule of officials, install people, this matter is related to the establishment of the dynasty in the future, I want to determine the country when no one opposes, but also want the world officials to be purged, this is a matter of killing two birds with one stone." Now the central officials of Kaifeng have Lou Minzhong to rectify, and other local officials, I want you to do it. ”
When Huang Wenbing heard this, he lifted the corners of his robe, bowed down to the ground again, and said: "The villain must do his best to clean up the world." Sanniang snorted, ordered him to get up, and said slowly: "It is not easy to clean up the rule of the world, I plan to appoint you as the waiter of the Ministry of Rites and the supervision of the imperial history, and prepare for you the three thousand forbidden troops of Yan Qing as wings, Mingli is your guardian who patrols all over the country and supervises the rule of the imperial history, this is the sword given to you on the surface." Secretly, the brocade guard was also handed over to you to allocate manpower, which is a secret sword. In addition, I will also order the White Lotus Sect members in various places to be your eyes and ears, and if necessary, I can also mobilize the sect members. With this three-pronged approach, I think you should be able to clean up those corrupt officials in the world. ”
Huang Wenbing was overjoyed when he heard this, he purged the world, if there were 3,000 military and horse guards, wherever he went, there would definitely be no dissatisfaction, and secretly there were Jinyi guards and White Lotus sect members to drive, so naturally there was no disadvantage.
Sanniang said again: "In addition, I will arrange for Chen Dong and Pei Xuan to be your right and left hands to help you act." Remember, to rectify the rule of officials, we must be ruthless, hot hands to rectify, in troubled times, we must not give up halfway. If there is any deviation in this matter, you don't have to come back, just wait for me to send someone else to get you. ”
Huang Wenbing bowed: "The villain will definitely live up to his mission, and he will definitely do a good job in this!" "Sanniang's use of Huang Wenbing is deliberate, Huang Wenbing, who is in his position in the original Water Margin book, is a person who plots his own affairs, in order to report an anti-poem by Song Jiang, and did what a Song Dynasty courtier should do. He is called a wasp sting, it can be seen that for those who have violated the law of the country, he is a wasp sting that bites and does not let go, and he is ruthless and ruthless, and uses Huang Wenbing to purge the local officials, Sanniang is very relieved, not to mention that she also arranged for Chen Dong, a student who is also jealous and hateful, and Pei Xuan, who is also an iron-faced and selfless face, as his deputy, and this matter will be safe.
Sure enough, after Huang Wenbing, Chen Dong, and Pei Xuan received the order, they each led the forbidden army out of Beijing, and visited and supervised the governance of officials in various places.
Originally, many old and serious courtiers in the court were opposed to purging the officials at this time of the Northern Expedition, but Sanniang was arbitrary, and it was at this time that the officials were purged. In a court meeting, Sanniang said in public: "Since the second emperor of Huiqin, the world has been corrupt for a long time, and its calamity is not less than the disaster of the golden soldiers entering the army. ”
Some courtiers were worried that such a method would mess up the rear of the country and be detrimental to the war in the north ahead, but Sanniang also refuted it. During the period of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea after the liberation of later generations, the country was also busy purging the domestic bandits and the remnants of the Kuomintang army, and was also purging the country, and at the same time carrying out the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
At this moment, the Great Song Dynasty is also like this, although the officials in various places have local real power, but these people harm the localities, and the people everywhere hate them deeply, who is willing to make trouble with him? What's more, the White Lotus Sect has long controlled public opinion among the people, so naturally no one speaks for those corrupt officials and corrupt officials. And those local heroes who colluded with corrupt officials and corrupt officials were either solved by the forbidden army that was opened, or secretly assassinated by the Jinyi guard, and they couldn't set off the storm. The most cheating thing is the local military system of the Song Kingdom, when those local officials who want to resist by force are ready to support the army, they find that the local soldiers in their hands are all old and weak soldiers, which can be regarded as the only good thing done by the Song Dynasty's national policy of concentrating the world's elite in the forbidden army.
At the same time, there was a strange regulation in the Song Dynasty that also helped a lot, officials from all over the country had to be transferred every three years, because many officials were actually not deep-rooted, and it was not difficult to replace them.
And after the rectification of the rule of officials, Shandong Road reserves a large number of civil and official talents, since Sanniang opened the town, every year insist on holding the imperial examination, the world's poor scholars have no nepotism or no money to dredge into the Taixue, all to Shandong Road to participate in the imperial examination, plus Sanniang Kaike not only pay attention to Confucianism, the rest but have a skill of people are hired, is to Shandong Road after the imperial examination every year there are many people as officials.
At that time, many people were admitted to various places on Shandong Road as officials, and there were a lot of officials for a time, but it was also because of this that Shandong Road had developed extremely rapidly in terms of civil affairs, military, production, and local management.
After receiving the edict, they successively went to Kaifeng to receive official seals, and then went to the north and south of the river to take up their posts, and went to pick up the local official positions after Huang Wenbing's combing.
And these civil officials from Shandong Road took over the locality, and began to purge the local officials, which is an important thing, just because the Song Dynasty officials changed places frequently, and the governance of the local government actually relied more on the local officials, and there were also corrupt people among these people, and there were not a few, and these people were still locals, so it was more difficult to get than the officials.
Sanniang's purge of the officials is divided into two steps, the first step is to replace the officials, and the second step is to rectify the officials. The method adopted to rectify the officials and govern Sanniang was to incorporate the officials into the formal official system, introduce her new policy on Shandong Road, replace the officials system with local township officials, and adopt the method of local villagers' elections to replace the officials in the local government once every five years. Of course, the purge of the officials was carried out after the victory of the Northern Expedition, and it was not reported at this time.
But said that after Li Gang received the order, he immediately boarded the ship from Laizhou Port and went north, when he saw the majesty of the Shandong Road Navy, Li Gang knew that the change of dynasty in the Great Song Dynasty was inevitable, and the female princess was unmatched in terms of military strength, popularity and power. When passing through several states and counties on Shandong Road, I saw that the people here lived and worked in peace and contentment, everyone praised Sanniang's holy virtue, and they were all praising Sanniang is the destiny of the stars, and the emperor and the son of heaven set by God, and the heirs are also given by God.
In Luzhou County, Shandong, Li Gang also saw many Confucian students, they are all preaching the mind founded by Sanniang, paying attention to the knowledge of things, the unity of knowledge and action, and the application of learning. Isn't it just to apply what you have learned to benefit the people of the world?
After going to sea, not a day to Yanjing, Niu Gao and other generals who stayed in Yanjing picked up Li Gang, and took over as the commander of the Northern Expedition Right Route Army in Yanjing, at this time Yue Fei had led the army east to cross the Liaodong Peninsula, Li Gang took over the whole army, only waiting for the arrival of Zongze's army, and attacked the fourth prince of Jinguo Wanyan Zongbi.
Zong Ze and Guan Sheng's military horses fought several fierce battles with the Jin army of Wanyan Zongbi's department in Hebei, Wanyan Zongbi's soldiers and horses were not as strong as the Northern Expedition Middle Route Army, and they heard that Yanjing was lost, the back road was broken, and all the passes in Yanshan had been lost, Wanyan Zongbi had to fight and retreat, and wanted to withdraw from the Datong Mansion Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, but the left army soon pounced, and Datong Mansion was also besieged.