So it seems that it is inaction, but in fact, the timing is very good, and it fundamentally cuts off the reason for Western Xia and Liao to use force against the Song Dynasty again. In fact, how simple it is, for the Song Dynasty, these two barbarian neighbors were authentic evil neighbors, poor and tyrannical masters. Their things are not rare in the Song Dynasty at all, and there is no need to rob and care about them at all! If you want to say that there is something you are interested in, there is only one thing - Yanyun 16 states. It really makes sense to get this. Other than that, nothing to talk about!

Let's go back and talk about Song Renzong's performance in the Qingli New Deal, and see what kind of wisdom and plans are behind the quietness?

One of the things he is most criticized about is the same as when it comes to foreign wars. Numb like it wasn't his country, his people. He simply let the gentlemen behave, and then let the villains fight, and he has been ignoring it and completely invisible. It wasn't until he endangered his throne (Xia Zhu's rumors) that he used some power to make the gentlemen chill.

In the past thousand years, countless people have asked: You have made a big deal about the new deal, and you have left it alone for what you wanted, so that the gentlemen are embattled and disgraced? This is not only a joke about Fan Zhongyan and others, but also a joke about the future of the Song Dynasty!

So think differently, let Zhao Zhen firmly stand on the side of the gentlemen, whatever the gentlemen say, he will do, what will the situation be?

Whenever I read Ouyang Xiu's masterpiece "On Friends", I will think of a scene. Stephen Chow's "Wu Zhuangyuan Su Qi'er", after Su Can fell to a beggar, he met a mysterious figure among beggars, and praised him, "Seeing Your Excellency's dynamic behavior and spirit, all of them are the top grade among beggars, and they are really the overlords of beggars" Su Can asked hopefully, "So what" replied "Still a beggar"

Fainted, right? No matter how wonderful Ouyang Dacai said, it is still a friend, with this thing, it will form a potential force, and there will be a potential force. will compete with the emperor for power. Especially these people are forcing the emperor to "quit the villain", and they also point out the villains one by one... What should such artificiality support?

What's more, political struggle is like the law of survival in the wasteland, you have to fight! If such a great sage and gentleman can't even handle a few villains, how can I rest assured that I will hand over thousands of miles of rivers and mountains to you?

Therefore, it is the best management method at this time. Facts have also proved that Zhao Zhen has never lost control of the situation. And there's one thing to be aware of. is the so-called New Deal, and Zhao Zhen's handling of this reform incident with low intentions is so commendable.

Since ancient times, there has been an unbreakable truth about reform - "Reform? Prosperous. Don't change? Gradually dying. Ambiguous? "Mess through the history books, reform the country thoroughly." After the labor pain, they will be refreshed and given a chance to be reborn. Such as the Shang Dynasty of the Qin State. Don't change? A consistent country, like a certain period of time in various dynasties, such as the Qing Kangqian prosperous era has lasted for more than 100 years, trying to seek stability, but what is left to the next generation is a super bad mess, which is basically impossible to clean up. But in fact, this is not the worst, the most terrible is the last 5 words: ambiguous? Disorderly!

This example does not need to be found in other dynasties, the Song Dynasty decades later is the biggest classic!

Now it should be emphasized that Zhao Zhen belongs to the second category. Seeing that the situation was not good, he immediately stopped playing and stopped playing. In less than one year, the Song Dynasty gradually abolished the provisions of the New Deal and returned to the "do not change? Gradually dying... There are far worries about this road. But there is no near harm.

From this time on, the Renzong Dynasty has never had a super powerful minister like Lu Yijian, nor has there been a moral model like Fan Zhongyan. Even tough and principled characters like Fu Bi and Han Qi are extinct...

For what? Why does it become so boring? Very good reasons, to be honest. This was the happiness of the people of Li at that time, and it was also the hope of the people in every era that followed.

Ultimate explanation: because there are no conditions. Whether it is the soil that gives birth to powerful ministers or the opportunity for pacesetters to appear, they are completely gone. This is not difficult to understand: only there was a war. There will be heroes; Only when there is a battle will the powerful ministers be decided...

Now that everything is stable, Zhao Zhen uses his means to make every courtier have no chance to become bigger, let alone perform. Everyone commutes to and from work in a proper manner, and it is good to do their job well.

I don't know what others think, but I personally think it's a very wonderful situation, and it's almost the best for both the emperor and the common people. The three words "don't toss" are very simple, but they are indeed the greatest wish of the people of the Song Dynasty, and they died on the word "toss"... In fact, not only the Song Dynasty, but also throughout the ages, this is the most common voice of human beings...

After that, the "non-tossing" Great Song Dynasty quickly entered the peaceful and prosperous era that was most missed by future generations in 5,000-year history...

Quietly, the Song Dynasty, which is known as the most civilized and enlightened in China's 5,000-year history, has also had several miniature literary prisons, such as the Renzong Dynasty, which is related to the pavilion of the Song Dynasty's talent reserve bank. The museum refers to the royal libraries of the Song Dynasty, such as Chongwen Hall and Jixian Academy. Pavilion refers to the imperial palace of the imperial study, such as the Dragon Pavilion, Tianzhang Pavilion, etc. Generally speaking, with this kind of title, it is equivalent to half a foot into the two governments and two systems, even if you can't be rich for life, you must be famous all over the world... At this time, the pavilion and pavilion talents are very young...

Midsummer passed, autumn came, it is said that the Song Dynasty officials were the happiest in all Chinese dynasties, and there were 77 permanent statutory holidays every year. There are also 65 additional days, the total number of vacation days is more than 1/3 of a year, more than modern people, and there are some customary private parties.

This time it is the God Race Meeting that is held every spring and autumn by the Treasurer of the Jingshi Hundred Divisions. On this day, every official of the Song Dynasty could drink and chat until the whole night. In the concert hall, something happened. At this time, the person in charge of the concert was called Su Shunqin, who was very young and a famous poet in the Northern Song Dynasty.

On the same day, according to the custom, he sold the waste paper in the concert hall, and then took out 10 taels of silver by himself to prepare a sumptuous banquet. Things are gathered by like, and people are grouped. Naturally, he invited people who were young, talented, and wild. It was the 10 people who were in the limelight in the pavilion at that time. They have the same officialdom symbol - the person recommended by Fan Zhongyan. None of them have gone through the normal process of official promotion, and they have not been "polished". It is the beneficiary of the "recommendation system" in the New Deal.

So that night, 10 young scholars who were born in the prosperous era and were proud of the spring breeze gradually lost their temperance. They drove away the singers and the guards of the guards, closed the gates, and found two military prostitutes... They were all drunk, and the most popular after-show was to make poems. Wang Yirou became the idol of that night. became even crazier than Li Bai, when the poet was the most arrogant. It's just getting drunk and letting Gao Lishi take off his boots and letting Yang Guifei grind ink. Wang Yirou is good, he wrote such two lines of poems "Drunk and lying in the North Pole to send the emperor to help, Zhou Gong Confucius drove him into slavery" The emperor is his attendant, Zhou Gongdan and Confucius are his slaves! Is there any Heavenly Principle King Law? It's a lot of forgetfulness!

It's no wonder that others, the history books always emphasize at this time that there was a villain named Li Ding at that time. He wanted to attend the banquet, but Su Shunqin refused, so he went to the Yushitai to tell the truth, which was really despicable and shameless. But you didn't do anything, what can he tell? As a Confucian student, such a big rebellion. If others don't tell you, you should all commit suicide when you wake up!

Wang Gongchen, the prefect of the Imperial History Observatory, was overjoyed when he heard the news and reported to the emperor overnight. Zhao Zhen's anger can be imagined, the royal literati actually repaid the emperor's favor like this! What are you waiting for, arrest people overnight, throw them directly into Kaifeng Mansion, special cases, and be strict and severe!

For the first time, Wang Yirou was beheaded, and all other people involved in the case were dismissed. Never hired. The second time was a little lighter, on November 7, Wang Yirou was never hired, and this group of pavilion personnel was collectively scrapped. was demoted to a local official, and the host Su Shunqin was punished by one degree, and the incident occurred in his yamen, and the crime was "self-theft by guards" and was demoted to a commoner.

Su Shunqin should indeed be treated differently. Because he is Du Yan's son-in-law, he is regarded as the core of the new policy gentleman...

On the 7th, Yelu Zong really returned to his teacher. 10th. Zong Zhen decreed: Yunzhou will be upgraded to the fifth capital of the Great Khitan - Xijing Datong Mansion.

On December 8, the Great Song Dynasty sent Zhang Zizao to Western Xia to canonize Li Yuanhao as the lord of the Xia State, and Li Yuanhao officially declared himself a minister to the Great Song Dynasty again and served the Great Song Zhengshuo. At the same time, the field and the year were also met according to Li Yuanhao's requirements. The Song Xia Qingli Peace Conference was officially established...

In the first half of the year, Huanzhou Zhizhou Shiheng built an ancient thin waist city. The city is built and the world is balanced.

Before his death, the old minister completed a more difficult fool of Li Yuanhao. Last time, he used the monk Guangxin to kill Yeli Wangrong, and this time the idea hit Yeli Wangrong's younger brother Yeli Yuqi. This is very difficult: 1 anti-intermittent plan can be indispensable, and it will be invalid if it is used again. 2. Yeli is more difficult to start than Yeli Wangrong. He is the commander of Tiandu Mountain, the base camp of Western Xia, where Li Yuanhao's palace was built, and the degree of his cronies can be imagined. What to do? Chong Shiheng had to spend a lot of money to keep an eye on the movements of the Western Xia side, waiting for Yeli to beg for his own mistakes.

It is said that only saints do not make mistakes. On the Chinese New Year's Eve of the last night of 1043, Yeli Yuqi led a large group of men and horses to the border of the Song Dynasty, and his work attitude was very serious, he went deeper, and only returned to Tiandu Mountain four or five days later. But when he came back, he was greeted not by flowers, but by Li Yuanhao's suspicious gaze: Xiao Qi, what are you doing so far for the New Year? It took four or five days to come back, and the New Year was over. Who have you met? Yeli Yu begged a little confused, I just went to fight, kept running, kept looking, but the Song people were timid, no one responded, so I came back. Li Yuanhao stared at him for a while that day before letting him go. Afterwards, he inquired and found out that it was Li Yuanhao's nurse who sued him, saying that he tried to defect to the enemy, and he had only been there for so many days... He was very depressed, but there was no way to explain this kind of thing, and even the more he described it, the darker it became, so he simply threw it away. But what's terrible is that this matter has made Chong Shiheng know the way.

Thousands of miles away, whether it is the movements of the Western Xia generals or the details of the Western Xia Palace in Tiandu Mountain, they are all in the hands of Chong Shiheng! After that, he made some arrangements. First of all, he sent someone to infiltrate Tiandu Mountain, and the degree of infiltration was incredible, making people unbelievable, his people actually stole the treasure knife that Li Yuanhao gave to Yeli Yuqi! Chong Shiheng then spread rumors on the border that his close ally Ye Li Yu had been killed by the brutal Li Yuanhao. He was so distressed that he decided to set up a sacrifice for his beggar brother on the border line to pay tribute to the spirits of the dead...

That night, Chong Shiheng traveled in full costume and lit a raging fire on the border, and it is estimated that as long as the Western Xia side is not blind, they will definitely find the location of the memorial site. The officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty erected a wooden plank, on which was a memorial written by Chong Shiheng, comprehensively recalling the common hope for peace and the common boredom of Li Yuanhao with him and the two Yeli brothers, especially the happiness when he met with the beggar on Chinese New Year's Eve not long ago. What a beautiful ideal, I made an appointment with Li Yuanhao, but I didn't follow people's wishes, and I was killed by Li Yuanhao first when I met my beggar brother... There was a lot of rambling, and he read it with emotion, until it was estimated that the cavalry on the Western Xia side was about to arrive. They threw the memorial planks, treasure knives and other objects into the fire, and then ran away with their horses, so that the Tanguts could rescue the scene... The Xixia people are very capable, and the writing board and treasure knife are all intact and sent to Li Yuanhao... A treacherous person is the most intolerant of others' treachery towards him, especially his cronies! Yeli meets beggars, you wait for bad luck!

On the 21st, Li Yuanhao enlarged the Khitan horse Xiao Hu and returned to China. In January of the 5th year of Qingli (1045), Liaoxia negotiated peace.

On the 28th, Fan Zhongyan and Fu Bi were dismissed from the governor's office. On the 29th, Prime Minister Du Yan was dismissed. Jia Changchao was a privy envoy and prime minister. Song Zhensheng, a bachelor of the Senior Administration Palace, participated in the governor's affairs. Wu Yu and Pang Jisheng were promoted to privy deputy envoys. On March 5, Han Qi was dismissed as the deputy privy councillor. Maybe only then will he wake up: Without Fan Zhongyan, what is he Han Qi? The funniest is Yoon-so. This person who especially likes to drown and pinch with Fan Zhong faces the facts, and sorrow comes from it: regret or pain? I can't tell... He wrote a letter to the emperor, lamenting that "in the past, it was useful, but now it is sparse" is all a matter of your words! But what is the reason why the emperor said this? Is there any effort from your Yoon-so? Yoon-so was very sad, and after 2 years, he fell ill and died in 1047. Earlier than he died was the fanatical poet Shi Jie, who wrote hundreds of words to Xia Zhu, and Xia Zhu only replied with one word, he couldn't stand it, and hung up a few months later. Great literary geniuses are so fragile...

In this way, the gentlemen of the New Deal led by Fan Zhongyan were kicked out of the court by the "little people" from top to bottom, from head to toe, and the Qingli New Deal, which had been implemented for more than 1 year, completely failed! The method is clean, reasonable and legal, and the result is once and for all... In contrast to this, the gentlemen's collective languishing faces, what is our failure for?

This issue is very private, and in the long years that followed, these famous ministers and gentlemen of the eternal style have never been openly discussed on any occasion, nor have they been explained in their respective written materials. Even the "Story of Yueyang Tower", which was later circulated through the ages, only expressed his life ideals and ambitions, and never showed any frustration, self-blame or complaints about anyone. (To be continued......)