At the end of the eighteenth century, after a brief visit to China, the British minister Magalny said: "The Chinese have no religion, and if there is one, it is to be officials." It can be said that he accurately pointed out the social evils at that time, but he only knew one and did not know the other, and the 'official culture' can be said to be a part of the Chinese tradition, which has been developed with history for thousands of years.

People with rich knowledge and excellent talents are easier to obtain power than ordinary people in the feudal era, and having power, in addition to being able to realize the grand ideal of helping the people through the world, also means a bumper harvest of wealth and interests, which makes the scholars of all generations have a strong interest in politics and officials. Moreover, in addition to studying to gain merit and fame, some people also do everything in order to become officials, and Lu Xun once had a profound evaluation of this: 'The Chinese's official addiction is really deep, Han is filial and honest and has buried children and carved wood, and Song has high hats and broken boots...'In short: that soul is doing official -- exercising official power, putting on official tone, and playing official words.

The Song Dynasty was the first dynasty dominated by literati in the history of our country. Because the emperors of the past dynasties deliberately advocated literary affairs and selected officials from Confucius, the cultural atmosphere of officialdom was very strong, and many officials were also well-known scholars and poets of great reputation.

After Song Zhezong Yuanyou, the habit of competition in officialdom reached the point of no return. Cai Jingdong's resurgence is set against the backdrop of Tong Guan; Wang Huang is in the official position, and Liang Shi is the backstage; Wang Anzhong wrote poems to praise Liang Shicheng. "The teacher reads it. Great joy", "recommended to the above, not a few years, climb the forbidden forest, enter the government"; Li Bangyan rose to prominence because he curryed favor with the eunuchs, until he paid homage to the prime minister... And all of them are the objects of the officials' rivalry. In particular, when Cai Jing was in power, many officials entered his court, and 'those who took refuge were not enough to take refuge in Gao, Kui, Ji, and deeds', but Cai Jing did not refuse to come and opened the door to accept bribes. Rich enemies in the country, foreign treasures, death is still in the door.

What's even funnier is that the entire Song Dynasty. Because of Benjing, officials have also invented a lot of new officialdom terms. "At the beginning of the body, the heart is exhausted", this is called "Nazhong"; "At the beginning of use, first be bound", this is called "remembered"; "Before going out of the door of a certain clan, one is not satisfied, and then turns to him", this is called "surrender"; "Yin is in harmony with it, and yang is in tune with it. to frame dissidents and make them unpredictable" is called "wandering". In short, in the Zhao and Song dynasties, there are countless absurd words and deeds like this...

On the first day of the third year of Xuanhe, under the holy decree, the western division was meritorious, and Cai Jingen was added, and the official was one of his sons; Zheng Juzhong is a young master; Yu Shen is less insured; Zhao Ta added the title of Taifu... For a time, the government and the opposition shook. Prince Yan has once again become a popular figure in Beijing, and this time the crown shows that his holy grace is still there, and everyone has speculated that he will take any position, and Zhao Ta's good foundation has the name of 'benevolence, filial piety, loyalty, and righteousness'. In addition, it performed a play in Kaifeng Mansion, which made people feel more 'good'. Therefore, Prince Yan's Mansion, which had been in the cold for a long time, returned to liveliness again. There is an endless stream of people seeking refuge and seeking officials...

On the fifth day of the first month, Zhao Ta entered the palace to ask Niangniang to finish, and saw the Daqing Palace, passed through the corridor to the Wende Palace, and prepared to go home with the guards outside the Donghua Gate.

"A few people, please report it, the southeast is urgent!" Before Zhao Ta went out, he heard someone begging for the forbidden army guarding the door, and after walking a few steps, he saw four or five tired sergeants outside the door, his lips were chapped and oozing bloodshot, his eye sockets were deep-set, his face was full of dirt, the mane of the horse behind him was rising, the corners of his mouth were foaming at the mouth, his tail was low, his hooves were full of blood, his head was drooping and panting, and he was half-dead and crumbling. Zhao Ta knew at a glance that it was obvious that the master was in a hurry, and he did not hesitate to run all the way with horsepower, and the horse was wasted, even if he cultivated for a while, it was difficult to recover! …,

"Which yamen are you from?" The foreman's gatekeeper asked.

"The messenger under the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Transshipment Division!" Said the sergeant who delivered the letter.

"The king has an order, and the envoys from Jiangsu and Zhejiang are not allowed to enter, please go back!" The officer guarding the door said coldly.

"Big brothers, something really happened in the southeast, please be accommodating!" The messenger from Jiangsu and Zhejiang begged while stuffing silver into the hands of the officers guarding the door.

"I'm really sorry, I will let it go in the past, but now there is a strict order from above, people from the southeast are never allowed to enter Beijing, look at a few hard people to get out of Beijing quickly, otherwise they will be caught by the people of the Terracotta Division, and they will have to eat lawsuits." The officer at the gate looked at the silver and sighed before sending back.

"What's wrong, what's the noise?" Zhao Ta walked over and frowned and asked, these money strings don't even dare to ask for silver, it can be seen that Wang Hao blocked the news from the southeast and gave a strict order.

"Prince Yan, it's a few messengers who are making noise, and the villain will drive them away!" The officer guarding the door saw that it was the prince and hurriedly saluted.

"Lord Yan, save the people of the southeast!" When the messenger heard that Prince Yan seemed to have seen a savior, he suddenly knelt down and said.

"Do you know this king?" Zhao Ta looked at a few people and asked.

"Lord Yan Xuanfu Jiangnan two years ago, and the villain has seen it from afar in Hangzhou!" The messenger replied.

"What happened in the southeast, and I went to Beijing to spread the book during the Chinese New Year?" Zhao Ta nodded and asked knowingly.

"Qi Yu Wangye, the southeast chaos, the grass people rebelled, twenty-nine years ago, the rebels invaded Hangzhou, killed Chen Jian, the two Zhejiang Road system envoys, Zhao Yue, and Zhao Ting, Zhizhou, abandoned the city and left, and now the rebels not only captured the Hangzhou officials, but also dug the ancestral grave of Cai Taishi's family, exposing their bones!" The messenger hurriedly said, "Now Shisheng in Suzhou, Lu Xing'er in Gui'an County, Huzhou, Zhu Yan and Wu Bang in Lingshantong in Lanxi County, Wuzhou, Chen Shishi in Fangyanshan in Yongkang County, Huo Chengfu and Chen Hoop in Jinyun County, Chuzhou, etc., are all in trouble. Lu Shisang of Xianju County, Taizhou, Qiu Rixin of Yuezhou County, and Zheng Mowang of Quzhou also responded. The peasants of Hu, Chang, Xiu and other prefectures also gathered their followers to attack the prefectures and counties, and the people looked at each other with no less than one million, and all the 52 counties in the six southeastern prefectures were lost. ”

"Huh?! Why did such a major event be reported? Zhao Ta said in shock.

"Lord Wang, the southeast messenger reported three times a day, please send reinforcements, but there is no news, Hangzhou is lost, my family sent the little ones into Beijing overnight, but they don't let us go in here..."

"Such a big event happened in the southeast, and there was no news in the DPRK and China, so it must have been blocked by you and others, don't you know how to die?" Zhao Ta was furious when he heard this, and pointed at the sergeant guarding the door and shouted.

"The prince is angry, there is no order from above, the villain has a few heads that dare to block the messenger from entering Beijing, and please let the villain go!" Seeing Zhao Ta angry, the door guard was also frightened, and knelt down.

"Give the letter to the king, and wait here, and the king will go to them and talk to them." Zhao Ta snatched the messenger's letter bag from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, turned around and was about to enter the palace, but was stopped by the doorkeeper, they also knew that the matter was very important, if this kind of thing let the emperor know the way, even the king may not be able to hold it, so while they tried their best to stop it, they reported to the book and let people deal with it.

"Get out of here, this king doesn't have time to worry about you at the moment, come back and settle accounts with you!" Zhao Ta slammed away the sergeant in front of him and said angrily. It was a big deal to break into the palace without an edict, and I knew the stakes well, so I hurriedly went to pull the prince, but I was pushed by the prince and fell on all fours, but I couldn't care about it, I got up and chased after it, and the sergeant guarding the door also followed, dragging my arms and legs to delay time.

The palace city is not big, the south of the Daqing Palace, is the central government office, and there is a gatehouse between the two. The Zichen Hall in the north of the Daqing Palace, is the front hall of the emperor's view of the dynasty, and the congratulatory meeting of the monthly Shuowang, the congratulatory and the Khitan envoys when the suburban temple ceremony is completed are all held in the Zichen Palace. The vertical arch hall on the west side of the Daqing Hall is the place where the emperor listens to the government on weekdays. The Wende Hall between the purple and vertical arches is the place where the emperor stays and rests before and after retreating. …,

Zhao Ta is like a god at the moment, whoever dares to stand in the way will fight, and now the people in the palace have seen the power of Prince Yan, he doesn't know where to pick up a brick, smash left and right, and slap it on the head in a hurry, and soon smashed several sergeants guarding the door who were blocking the road to the ground. He thought that he didn't see his father in the harem today, he must be in the Vertical Arch Palace, so he broke all the way over, but the warriors of the town hall who got the police letter also hurried over, they were outnumbered, well-armed in their hands, and well-trained, but it was not easy to deal with, Zhao Ta flew up a brick, first smashed the leader's head with a red face, and grabbed the iron bone in his hand into his hand, 'killing' into the crowd.

"This king has an urgent matter to see the saint, who dares to stop it, don't blame this king's subordinates for being ruthless!" Of course, those warriors knew Prince Yan, and they inevitably had scruples, but Zhao Ta got cheap, and with a hammer in his hand, he was even more powerful, and he overturned a few warriors in a blink of an eye.

"Prince Yan, stop, do you know that breaking into the palace is a big crime? Gu Nian you don't understand the rules, go home early for the New Year! "The officials on duty in each department and room received the report, and they also hurried out to 'escort', and the preference of Shangshu Province on duty was Shaozai Wang Huang, and when he saw Zhao Ta scattering the wild, he led a team of sergeants to arrive and shouted in front of him.

"Hmph, Chinese New Year? This king is not as interested as Wang Xiang, Fang 13 is celebrating the New Year in Hangzhou City at the moment, and I am afraid that I will go to this Bianjing City for the New Year next year! Zhao Ta pointed at Wang Huang and snorted coldly.

"Prince Yan, don't listen to those street rumors, the southeast is just a few demon sects and demons making trouble, it's a small trouble, when the heavenly soldiers come out after the year, it can be swept away, don't disturb the saint with such trivial things!" Wang Hao was taken aback, he had already sent people to the various post houses on the way into Beijing to intercept the southeast messenger, all the chapters about the southeast people were pressed in the middle book, how did this kid know about Lu Dao, if he made trouble in front of the saint, he would have to go around without eating, now let's pacify this 'little devil' first... (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )