Chapter 177 Monument of Divine Merit and Sacred Virtue
Di Qing prepared to build a martial arts academy, but it did not cause an uproar at first. In the concept of pride of civil officials, teaching and educating people without politics has always been the sustenance of the losers of the struggle to talk about masturbation. In their opinion, Di Qing's guy is following the example of Dongshi and wants to be a vassal and elegant...... It's just that I don't have ink in my stomach, so I can't teach scholars, so I have to enjoy martial arts.
But when they learned that the official family was going to be the head of this martial arts school, and they were going to put the name of 'royal' on it, the civil officials were angry, what happened to the official family? You want to get involved with those rude warriors? In other words, you have been an emperor for decades, how can you forget the national policy of emphasizing literature and suppressing military force in the Great Song Dynasty? Or is it not well and you are going crazy again?
In fact, this kind of psychology is like competing for favor in the harem, this concubine is exclusive to the holy family, and when she sees that the emperor wants to share a little rain and dew to another, she is envious, jealous and hateful. If the emperor is strong enough, he can only hold back until he is injured, and he doesn't dare to let go of his fart; However, the emperor is good-tempered, and his concubines are used to being unpresent, so he naturally wants to cry, make trouble, and hang himself, and resolutely does not allow the emperor to go out of the wall.
The military generals of Wenchen are the two concubines of the emperor. As I said before, because of historical reasons, Wenchen is the favored one, but the generals have all been reduced to slaves - but now the emperor feels that the Wenchen have been accustomed to being unpresentable, and after the threat of more Western Xia, the Great Song Dynasty is very likely to face the attack of two strong enemies, and the real threat makes him have to consider, whether the original national policy is overkill?
Eight years ago, Li Yuanhao was killed, the Western Xia civil strife, and the relatives did not hide the favor and took the opportunity to kill the prince Ning Lingge, and supported Li Liangzuo, who was still in infancy, to succeed to the throne. At that time, the internal turmoil in Western Xia was extremely high, and it was the golden opportunity for the Great Song Dynasty to regain the lost territory. However, the news reached Bianjing. Virtuous and virtuous ministers. However, he earnestly advised the officials to cherish peace and not start wars lightly.
This is easy to understand, because the power and status of civil officials need to be guaranteed by order, and they are like paper money. And war brings chaos and uncertainty. Even a serious devaluation, which is a threat to the civilian bureaucracy. So they are inherently against war.
As a result, the civil officials were comfortable, but the Great Song Dynasty also missed a good opportunity to take advantage of the fire to rob, so that the official Zhao Zhen, who was full of expectations. I almost got sick...... The reason why he never forgot about Western Xia. It's not because Zhao Zhen is aggressive by nature, but because he has a heart disease that torments him all the time, and the name of this heart disease is 'Divine Skill and Holy Virtue Monument'.
As soon as you look at the name, you know that it is used to praise the great achievements of the emperor. But the emperor could not see his own piece, because it was a monument standing in front of his mausoleum. And not everyone has this monument. Strictly speaking, an emperor who did not grab the land of another country during his lifetime, or who lost the land of his own country, is not qualified to be established.
To measure the emperor of the Song Dynasty by this standard, of course the founder Zhao Kuangyin can have it, the entire country was laid down by him, who is not qualified for him?
The second Zhao Guangyi, although the Yongxi Northern Expedition defeated the elite troops of the Song Dynasty, but he was still able to hold on to his brother's foundation and did not lose land, so he barely got a piece.
Then there is Zhao Heng of Song Zhenzong, that is, Zhao Zhen's father, this buddy was escorted by Kou Zhun to the imperial conquest, sued for peace with the Liao State in an advantageous situation, and signed the alliance of Lanyuan, which was regarded as a shame by the Song people. In order to calm the people, he ceded the five states of Dingnan to Li Jiqian, in fact, recognized the status of the Western Xia. After that, Li Jiqian captured Lingzhou and Liangzhou, the important towns in the northwest, cut off the trade route between the Song Dynasty and the Western Regions, completely cut off the source of military horses of the Song Dynasty, and made the Song Dynasty lose the conditions for fighting cavalry with cavalry.
Although later, in order to block the mouths of the people of the world, Zhenzong engaged in feudal superstition, and even went to seal Mount Tai with a face, intending to let God speak for him and prove that he was not so defeated. But his 'Monument of Divine Merit and Holy Virtue' was still not erected after all.
Every time I go to worship the Yongding Mausoleum and look at the bare stele, Zhao Zhen's heart twitches, because the Western Xia was officially ** during his reign, and Li Yuanhao's prestige is also based on the establishment of the Song Dynasty's repeated defeats. If you can't destroy Western Xia in this life, at least regain the lost land, then the future ...... In front of his own mausoleum, it will also be bare.
A monument can also be erected on the graves of ordinary people. The Supreme Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, a mausoleum ten thousand times more luxurious, but there is not even a tablet, as long as Zhao Zhen thinks about it, he feels that he has no face to see people. So he was completely disappointed in the civilian military situation.
The reopening of martial arts and the cultivation of generals such as Di Qing are all manifestations of Zhao Zhen's intention to balance civil and military...... The Great Song Dynasty has been founded for a hundred years, and his throne is inherited from Zhengda Guangming, and there is no need to prevent generals from rebelling like thieves. He has already understood that a country where military generals have no status is destined to be bullied......
Nong Zhigao's rebellion ruthlessly revealed that the clumsy performance of civilian officials in the war made the officials even more firm, and the military still had to rely on the idea of the military future, so Di Qing and Wang Deyong were promoted to serve as two generals in the Privy Council. However, how can the civil officials, who are so easy to turn over, can easily let the generals turn over? All kinds of non-cooperation and all kinds of stumbling blocks have made the efforts of the officials unable to achieve any results.
In this context, Di Qing was willing to dismiss all his posts and lean over to start martial arts education to change the decline of the Great Song Dynasty officers from the foundation, and the officials naturally agreed.
Moreover, Di Qing's proposal to establish martial arts was not his first initiative, but one of Fan Zhongyan's new policies in Qingli, and in December of the second year of Qingli, he was appointed as a professor of martial arts. In May of the following year, the martial arts school was officially established in the Wucheng Temple in Bianjing, with Taichang Cheng Ruan Yi as the professor. However, because the new policy failed quickly, it was suspended in August. In Chen Ke's previous history, it was not until the fifth year of Xining that the martial arts school would be re-established at the original site, and the military department would judge the students with hundreds of students, and the civil officials and soldiers would be selected as professors...... At that time, in the vigorous Wang Anshi reform, this small measure was not conspicuous, and everyone was busy opposing the ** of the Qingmiao Law and the Baojia Law, and they did not encounter any resistance.
But now, because of the appearance of Chen Ke's butterfly, the reset of martial arts has been advanced by more than ten years. Moreover, the specifications were raised to the point where the emperor served as the chief of the mountain, and Di Qing was appointed as the prime minister to judge martial arts...... Such a high standard made the civil officials feel very surprised, and some people even went online, saying that this was the beginning of the imperial court's 'emphasis on military force and light on literature'.
Under the opposition of the civil officials, the name of the "Royal Martial Arts Academy" was changed to "Bianjing Martial Arts Academy", and the official family did not serve as the mountain chief...... Even if it's just a name, it will make the tsundere civil officials sad.
Di Qing said that in order to ensure the loyalty of the generals, no one else should be the chief of the mountain. The officials said helplessly, having said that, the officials were very opposed. The position of mountain chief can only be temporarily vacant, let's start the martial arts first, and talk about other things slowly......
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Chen Ke originally thought that the civilian officials would be worried about forming a military general group and fighting against it. Who would have thought that the reason why the civil officials opposed martial arts was that the emperor was too involved in martial arts and promoted martial arts too much. But this is also normal, the emergence of a new thing, there is always a process of being recognized, arrogant civilian officials, not yet aware of the changes that this military school will bring, and after more than ten years, they understand that everything will be a foregone conclusion.
It is just right for the civil officials to look down on them, so they don't have to interfere, and Di Qingzheng can let go.
A good start is half the battle, if the head is bad, it will be difficult to have a good result in the future. Therefore, Chen Ke suggested that Di Qing should not be in a hurry to open a school, first choose the address, raise funds in place, and wait until the autumn season, he will help him carefully consult, finalize the charter little by little, and it will not be possible to open it again next spring.
As for the martial arts of this subject, time storage, it is definitely too late for systematic education. Chen Ke suggested that he temporarily tutor them in the form of training classes, and improve as much as he could.
Di Qing is now obedient to Chen Ke, so naturally he has no objection.
In the blink of an eye, in August, the flood has completely receded, but in Bianjing City, more than 100,000 houses have been washed away, the ground is full of silt three feet high, and even the walls of the inner and outer cities have been soaked by one-third...... Hundreds of thousands of people are still homeless, and the safety of Bianjing City is also facing great threats.
Seeing that the cold winter was coming, Fu Bi, who took over as prime minister, faced a severe test, but the rich minister was not in a hurry, and ordered the court to pay money, hire the affected people, and the government will pay for the reconstruction of the destroyed houses. Before the beginning of winter, in less than three months, more than 100,000 public and private houses were built, so that the people had a place to live.
Given the heavy losses of the people, many families are on the verge of bankruptcy. He also asked for an exemption from all kinds of taxes in the capital for three years, so as to help the people recover as soon as possible. In addition, Fu Bi has rich experience in post-disaster epidemic prevention and reconstruction, and under his command, the bureaucratic system of the Great Song Dynasty operated in an orderly manner, sheltering their people from the wind and rain, and avoiding secondary damage after the disaster.
However, at this time, the focus of the whole country's attention was no longer the post-disaster reconstruction, let alone Di Qing's martial arts academy, because the most solemn ceremony of the Great Song Dynasty, the imperial court's talent selection ceremony, was about to begin.
Although this autumn is only a solution test, and the official examination will have to wait until the next year, the Song Dynasty people attach great importance to the imperial examination, which is absolutely extraordinary. Everyone cares about the reconstruction of the Gongyuan, completely more than the concern for the reconstruction of their own home, under the priority guarantee of all aspects, it only took half a month for Shuntianfu to complete the restoration of the Gongyuan, and the tables and chairs inside are all new. On the first day of the first month of August, after the visit of the rich minister, he put a seal on it himself, and waited for the autumn festival to be opened eight days later.
Chen Ke and the others also began to register before the exam, because they belong to the off-site examination of the children of migrants, the procedures are more troublesome, and the review is much stricter than that of local students. Fortunately, the civil servants of the Song Dynasty were not so heavy in bureaucratic habits, and they would not bother people, and after three days, all the formalities were completed, and the examination was just to be opened. (To be continued)