Chapter 14 Reform of the Shadow after the Political Trial

As an important minister of the imperial court, Zhongyan served as a governor of the government, but his official position was not commensurate with each other. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info//, qВ5\

Fan's Mansion is located in Mahang Street, which is the official residence area of Taizong's time, and most of the official residences located in this block have a history of hundreds of years, and those official residences are full of historical vicissitudes, old and decayed.

This Fan Mansion is the mansion that the Empress Dowager Liu rewarded when Fan Zhongyan Tiansheng entered Beijing as the imperial envoy in the second year, this mansion is only the official treatment of the sixth grade, and Fan Zhongyan's current status is incompatible, but Fan Zhongyan has postponed the mansion rewarded by the official family three times and twice, on the grounds that poverty cannot maintain the cost of the mansion.

The Fan Mansion is very small, and the four courtyards plus the front and rear doors form the building system of the Fan Mansion, which covers an area of only one-tenth of the size compared with Zhao Lei's Zhao Mansion.

Fan Zhongyan, his wife and children, and the old slaves in the family, a total of more than 20 people live in this Fan Mansion.

At ten o'clock at noon, the Fan Mansion began to be lively, and at the invitation of Fan Zhongyan, Ouyang Xiu, Yu Jing, Fu Bi, Han Qi and other reformist backbones came to the Fan Mansion one after another, but every official could only shake his head and sigh a few words of Fan Zhongyan's fresh breeze when he saw the scale of the Fan Mansion.

"If you live in this kind of place, I'm afraid that since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, Brother Xiwen, you are the only one." Ouyang Xiu sat in the small study of Fan's Mansion, looked at the small study, and said to Fan Zhongyan a little awkwardly.

"Uncle Yong, you also know that there are many poor relatives and friends in my brother's hometown, and my children are at the age of entering school, and the expenses are not small, although the governor's affairs and the title of Wenyuan Pavilion scholar can support hundreds of people for my brother, but for my brother and the orphans of those soldiers who died in the battle against Western Xia, it is already a little beyond my strength to maintain the current Zhao Mansion, not to mention a larger mansion." Fan Zhongyan and Ouyang Xiu came out of Yan Shu's sect together, and they studied Yan Shu together. The relationship is like a brother, so he said cheerfully without any care.

"Lord Fan! The three heroes of the early Han Dynasty, Zhang Hao, Xiao He liked money, but he could die well, only Han Xin, who was poor and had no desire, supported the orphans with his family resources, and was admired by the soldiers, and was later murdered by Empress Lu, regardless of whether Han Xin had the intention of rebelling or not. His prestige has touched the bottom line of the emperor of the Han family, so he ended up in the disaster of punishing the nine clans, and now Lord Fan's situation is similar to Han Xinduo, I am afraid that the official family will be wary, and I hope that Lord Fan will make a decision as soon as possible. Han Qi heard the conversation between Ouyang Xiu and Fan Zhongyan, and thought of Zhao Lei's speculation that Fan Zhongyan had no desire and benefited the army, and couldn't help but say Su Xun's worries about Fan Zhongyan's future.

Han Qi's words made Fan Zhongyan and Ouyang Xiu slightly stunned, but Fu Bi next to him suddenly asked, "Lord Han has never heard of such things. Now I suddenly have a testimonial, I don't know where it came from. ”

Han Qi turned his head to look at Fu Bi. did not hide it, and told the room what he heard from Zhao Lei, and these reformist stalwarts said.

"I think Sanshi has been acting a little weird recently, as if he deliberately distanced himself from us, the matter of the new deal, it stands to reason that Sanshi has been very supportive, because he is also an official who wants to reform the evils of the Great Song Dynasty, but Sanshi has avoided it, and above the court, he has never explicitly supported the new policy, since Brother Xiwen entered Beijing. Sanshi has never come to visit Brother Xiwen, I really don't know what this Zhao Sanjue is thinking in his heart. Yu Jing frowned at this time and said to everyone.

Among the people present, Ouyang Xiu and Zhao Lei had the best relationship, while Han Qi was an official under Zhao Lei's account several times. has a close relationship with Zhao Lei, while Fu Bi and Zhao Lei have only met a few times and have no friendship. Only Yu Jing, who is not close to Zhao Lei, is the most qualified to comment on Zhao Lei's recent actions.

"Sanshi is planning the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Institute, and it is busy with mundane affairs, so it is understandable to meet less, how can you say that you will avoid it! Besides, when Brother Xiwen just returned to Beijing, didn't Sanshi meet Brother Xiwen! Specially came to visit, Sanshi and Brother Xiwen are both important ministers of the court, ranking among the top three grades, so they should avoid suspicion, how can they come to visit! Ouyang Xiu excused Zhao Lei at this time and said.

And Han Qi beside Yu Jing has grievances in his heart, Zhao Lei and Fan Zhongyan, who should take the initiative to visit whom, the hundred officials have their own judgment in their hearts, and it is not up to you Yu Jing to have the final say.

The so-called visit of the Great Song Dynasty is like the greetings of the subordinates to the boss during the New Year's holidays in later generations, of course, the subordinates take the initiative to visit the boss, and now Yu Jing said that Zhao Lei should take the initiative to visit Fan Zhongyan for the next, but in the hearts of the hundred officials of the imperial court, the official Zhao Zhen and even Han Qi, although Fan Zhongyan presided over the new policy, no matter the authority or the merit, it is a little worse than Zhao Lei, although Fan Zhongyan is more than ten years older than Zhao Lei, but can the officialdom be up and down by age!

"Lord Zhao doesn't want to break ties with the reformers, right?" Fu Bi pondered for a moment and said to everyone hesitantly.

"Leave it off! How to get rid of it, look at the ten reform methods in Brother Xiwen's book, three of which have already had small-scale changes in Sanshi, the Taiyi Bureau, the Imperial City, the imperial examination, and armaments, the reform of Sanshi is still in front of us, and this relationship is not clear. Ouyang Xiu pursed his lips and looked at Fu Bi and said.

"It's strange to say, why Zhao Lei's reform is so smooth, there are not many officials who oppose it, but when it is our turn, there are so many officials in the imperial court who are impeached!" Fu Bi continued to groan and asked.

"I have discussed this issue with Uncle Yong, several reforms of the three stones, the reform of the Taiyi Bureau, did not touch the interests of too many people, and the reform of the imperial city, and the rule of Zhenguan in the early Tang Dynasty as a precedent reform, is obviously beneficial to the Great Song Dynasty Jiangshan Sheji, and the precedent of the Ming Jun Tang Taizong is there, and the reform of the imperial city only affects the Zhongzong Temple, at that time, the king of Meng, Zhao Yuanyan did not object, and others had no reason to oppose it, and the imperial examination reform of the three stones

The imperial examination of Taizu and the early Tang Dynasty is a lesson, those officials dare to refute, and it is more obvious everywhere, the merits of Luzon and the resistance to Xia, so that no one is qualified to oppose the reform of Sanshi, so it is so smooth, and I waited for this change, there is no lesson before, and there is no result after that, and it is opposed by hundreds of officials, which is expected. Fan Zhongyan explained carefully to Fu Bi at this time.

"That's it! After the Sanshi incident, what we need to be concerned about now is whether to start the political trial of Bianjing officials now, or to avoid the biggest culprit first, directly start to suppress luck, and wait for the new policy to take root, and then start the political trial of Bianjing officials. Ouyang Xiu coughed, diverted the topic and asked everyone.

Ouyang Xiu's words were the main purpose of everyone coming today, and the political review had already covered all the state capitals of the Great Song Dynasty except for Bianjing, and now it had come to an end. Nowadays, there have been nearly 1,000 officials who have failed to pass the political examination and have been dismissed from office for the people, and at the same time, many shrewd and capable officials have been added to the ranks, the atmosphere of the Great Song Dynasty has changed, the efficiency of many yamen has improved, and the transportation and finance have been significantly improved. Now there are a mountain of impeachment of the New Deal and Fan Zhongyan and others in the Zhongshu, and they are sent to press the envoys, and under the black hands of the officials below, many of the renegades, degenerates, and shades have problems, and the envoys cost a lot of money, and if they continue, I am afraid it will become a burden, so Fan Zhongyan means that the envoys will be temporarily transferred back to Bianjing, after two or three years. Another political trial, once the three-year political trial becomes a habit. At that time, the atmosphere of the officialdom of the Great Song Dynasty will be completely corrected, the drawbacks will be completely eliminated, and the purpose of the reform will be achieved.

However, if the envoy is transferred back to Bianjing, will it make the hundred officials in Bianjing think that the officials in Bianjing have begun to try the officials in Bianjing according to the envoy, Bianjing is the center of power in the Great Song Dynasty, and Bianjing, a senior member above the fifth grade, accounts for more than eighty percent, if Bianjing is moved, it is equivalent to a major purge of officialdom, and the new deal with an unstable foundation is still a question of whether it can withstand this turmoil. Therefore, Fan Zhongyan called the backbone officials of the New Deal to discuss how to deal with the Bianjing political trial.

"Why not censor! Censorship, is there no moth and no scourge among the officials in Bianjing? What is the purpose of our reform, is not to find out those moth-eaten scourges and put capable officials in power? Therefore, we must also investigate the officials in Bianjing, and we must strictly investigate them, so that these officials cannot be allowed to ruin the prestige of the imperial court. Yu Jing's whole enthusiastic young fighter said in an impassioned tone, but who would have thought that this kid would be over forty years old this year!

"Check! It's easy to say, Bianjing officialdom is not a local official, any official can involve the important ministers of the imperial court, those important ministers of the imperial court, that one is easy to provoke, besides, Bianjing has hundreds of officials in the two courts, and hundreds of officials are impeached every year, and most of the officials who are impeached are Beijing officials. Han Qi said to Fan Zhongyan at this time.

"Not bad! This official also considered this, so he let go of the Beijing officials, and when more than 100 officials in Bianjing were eyeing each other, we still didn't want to intervene, and directly skipped the political trial of the Bianjing officials, and we began the next step of reforming "Suppressing Luck". Fan Zhongyan expressed his opinion at this time.

"It's not so easy to reform the shadow, those who can get the trust of the officials and get the qualifications for the shade are those who have made great contributions or made great contributions, these people have a lot of energy, if they rashly cancel the shade, the backlash will be greater, if these people oppose the new policy, they will have a much greater impact than those local officials!" Ouyang Xiu sighed with a headache at this time.

"Just like Lord Yu said, are we still afraid of the influence of those important ministers, the reform there can not touch the interests of those corrupt officials, Mengyin has now become the biggest burden of the Great Song Dynasty, five-year-old Mengyin, those children know what, they have begun to eat the imperial court, the Great Song Dynasty is currently under the age of fifteen children who are officials, has reached four hundred, occupying a large number of official positions every year, not to mention, just those Yulu, it costs millions of silver taels, this burden, if we don't clear for the imperial court, who will clear for the imperial court, It's a duty! Fu Bi said solemnly with a smile on his face but a resolute tone at this time.

"Fluke reform, I think it is better to listen to Zhao Lei's opinion on Lord Zhao, I know that Lord Zhao has long changed his mind about Mengyin, and listening to his opinion may be of great help to our reform." Han Qi suddenly mentioned Zhao Lei at this time and said.

Zhao Lei's opinion! Han Qi's words made Fan Zhongyan slightly stunned, and then thought of when he met Zhao Lei ten years ago, it was Zhao Lei who was still a physician who had not been a doctor, and Fan Zhongyan was already a court official of Wupin, and now ten years have passed, Fan Zhongyan has become the governor of Sanpin as he wishes, and Zhao Lei has also become the envoy of Sanpin's State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Academy, one has been promoted to six levels in ten years, and the other has spent ten years to cross the impossible task of fourteen levels, is the difference between people really so big! If Zhao Lei participates in the New Deal, can Fan Zhongyan still have the final say on the reform!

Looking at Ouyang Xiu, who was good friends with Zhao Lei, and Han Qi, who admired Zhao Lei, Fan Zhongyan made up his mind that his new deal must not involve Zhao Lei, the new deal is his glory, it is his decades of hard work, and he can't let others share it.

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