On weekdays, guests come to the house to cook a few more dishes and buy some good wine, not to mention that the emperor comes to his home to eat, what an honor it is, and it is also a face-saving thing. But when Li Gang's family tried their best to prepare a feast to entertain the emperor, they left suddenly, and their mood at this moment can be imagined, not only disappointed, but also panicked.

"Say no more!" Li Gang couldn't bear it in the face of his family's chattering complaints, and looked back and shouted.

"It's a great joy for the emperor to visit the courtier's house in person, why doesn't the prince want to leave the emperor for a meal, even if he only drinks a glass of wine and a bowl of vegetables, it's a pity......" Mrs. Li looked at the table in front of her and said, this is what she emptied her mind, poured everything she had in the family, and mobilized all the strength in the house to prepare, but how willing she was to end up with this scene.

"Do you know that you have committed the emperor's taboo, the family banquet you prepared is more than the banquet of the New Year's Day court, how dare Your Majesty use it!" Li Gang threw the recipe on the table and said, his wife is really real, just looking at the plate to prepare thirteen lines, fifteen wines, seven food insertions, ten wine fruit banks, ten flavors of wine and wine, ten food and twenty points, regardless of the dishes and programs, they will give a banquet on New Year's Day this year.

"Huh?! No, the concubine just thought that His Majesty would try her best to make the emperor eat well, and she didn't think much about it! Li was frightened by her husband's words and said in a trembling voice.

"Although His Majesty enjoys the wealth of the world but hates luxury the most, this year Xuande Building in front of the Ao Mountain, the color shed has not been built, the New Year's Day banquet is a formality, much smaller than in previous years, and my house is just a family banquet on the thirteen lines; Moreover, the emperor wanted to cancel the official rank of the monk and buy the temple property. Before the festival, all the ladies in the palace did not go to Xiangguo Temple to incense, but you were clamoring to go. Being seen by the emperor again, it really killed me! The more Li Gang spoke, the more angry he became. His extravagant 'crime' is confirmed, and the mansion can make such a big battle in a short time without preparation, it can only be said that this is the case on weekdays, otherwise the materials to kill him will not be complete, let alone make it done.

"Xianggong, the concubine just felt that His Majesty had come down to the mansion and we had entertained him, and his children and grandchildren could get some shade, but he didn't expect to cause such a big disaster!" Li Gang is already a very popular minister, but there are not many children and grandchildren. Li pondered and asked the children to come forward to meet when they were drunk, maybe the emperor was happy to eat and give an official and give an order, so he had already let them dress up and wait to see him, but he didn't expect that a little selfishness would cause trouble.

"Your Majesty is so shrewd, how can you not see the heart of a woman, I didn't expect that I have been careful everywhere for more than ten years but it will be ruined by you and others!" Li Gang waved his hand to stop his wife from continuing, and sighed to the sky.

"Is there a remedy?" Li Shi panicked and said timidly, she wanted to be opportunistic. I didn't expect it to be self-defeating and implicate my husband.

"Alas, the matter has been done, and we can only resign ourselves to fate!" Li Gang sighed again. turned around and entered the study, threw a large family on the hall and stared wide-eyed, thinking that it was Fu Lu coming to the door. But in the blink of an eye, it became a disaster from the sky, casting a haze on the Li Mansion on this happy day......

Li Gang understands very well that the 'mistakes' he has made are all problems in small sections. Even if it is known to outsiders, it will not be a big deal, but it happens during a sensitive period that people can't help but worry. Especially when the emperor came suddenly. But he suddenly drifted away, trying to recall every word, every movement and demeanor of the emperor after he entered the door, trying to find something in it. But except for a few joking sarcasm, it seems that the emperor did not show any dissatisfaction, but what Xiye's words implied.

Just when Li Gang was puzzled and couldn't figure out what the emperor was doing, news came that the emperor had not only visited their home in the past few days, but also harmed several other deacons. Xu Jingheng on the left, Chen Gongbo on the right, Zhao Ren on the Privy Council, etc., plus none of the six Shangshu were missing, making every family a mess, panicking, and only a piece of chicken feathers were left behind, and the emperor was helpless to send the emperor away with a smile.

Through the experiences of several families, Li Gang somewhat figured out that all this was the emperor's prank, and he was taking revenge on everyone. On that day, the emperor wanted to personally conscript, but it was they who resolutely opposed it and united as one to leave the emperor alive. At that time, the emperor's expression of announcing the abandonment of his personal expedition was still vivid, just as the emperor left his house with the expression of his own wife, and his helplessness was full of disappointment, resentment and reluctance. Now that I think about it, everyone thinks that the matter is over, but the emperor has not forgotten, and he is bent on avenging the revenge of an arrow, so he chose such a naughty child-like method.

Li Gang figured out the puzzle that had plagued him for many days, but he felt that it was wrong, it was reasonable for the emperor to harm himself in such a childlike way, but it should not be for Zhao Ren, the envoy of the Privy Council. He was originally a small servant beside the emperor, and the relationship with the emperor was also a servant and a minister, so it was most appropriate to say that he was a retainer. It would be abnormal for the emperor to toss Zhao Ren in the same way as he treated himself and other courtiers, but instead kicked him a few times and beat him up, which made people feel more appropriate.

"Could it be that the Great Song Dynasty is going to repeat the old story of the struggle between kings and ministers?" Li Gang suddenly thought that this time the emperor took revenge on them to prevent the emperor from conquering in person, but this is also a rare unity of the ministers in the court since the emperor ascended the throne, and this time it has indeed been done, they have not acted passively against each other, so that the decree is not compatible, and the emperor's will is difficult to leave the capital. In the emperor's view, Xiangquan already has the ability to contain the imperial power and break the balance of power in the court, which every emperor does not want to see......

Since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, because Taizu ruled the world with scholars, the power of the prime minister has been strengthened, and the scholars of the Song Dynasty have carried it forward, and gradually made it a golden law that restricts the imperial power. In the textbooks, the scholars were instilled: The world is not the world of the emperor alone, so the emperor cannot dictate the affairs of the world. Prime Minister Du Fan once had a very good explanation of this: Whenever it is abolished and taken away, (the emperor) will discuss whether it is possible or not to do it in accordance with the ruler, and then see how it is implemented. If there is any impropriety, the giving and giving can be refuted, and the Taiwan and admonition can be discussed. It is to take the world as the world, not to take oneself as the world, although it is not easy for eternity.

In this atmosphere, Song studies cultivated the concept of the Song Dynasty intellectuals. The scholars and doctors of the Song Dynasty all had a subjective understanding of the safety of the society and the welfare of the people, and integrated this subjective understanding into their own achievements in the world. In terms of political rights and interests, intellectuals seem to have won a certain right to speak and obtained certain things that they pursued. But they were unwilling to become officials, so they had to compete with the emperor for power and restrict the growth of imperial power.

The overall consciousness of the scholars of the Song Dynasty was also manifested in their understanding of the party. 'Friends party' has existed in ancient times, Confucius said: gentlemen are not the party; Xun Ziyun: friends are more than Zhou, and they are usurpers and ministers who take the ring to the private as their business. Therefore, the monarchs and ministers who take the traditional Confucian thought as the guide to governing the country only think that the concept of 'villains have a party, but a gentleman has no party' is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and they hate and hate their friends as much as they are secretive.

After the Song Dynasty, with the improvement of the status of scholars, the tradition of disparaging friends and parties changed, and some scholars put forward a new view that 'a gentleman also has a party'. Instead of rejecting all the friends, they analyzed it and pointed out that there is a difference between the 'party of gentlemen' and the 'party of villains'. The emergence of this theory was a change in the Song Dynasty scholars' view of the party, and Ouyang Xiu openly advocated the rationality of the party, and distinguished it between 'Shangdao' and 'Shangli'.

With the deepening of this kind of thinking, in the eyes of the scholars, as long as a wise monarch can distinguish between the party of gentlemen and the party of villains, and has the skills of slaves, then he can create an ideal political pattern. Therefore, the scholars and doctors of the Song Dynasty openly divided their parties under the banner of "fellow believers" and fought for power in the court to realize their political views. As a result, the party struggle became a tool for the various factions in the DPRK and China to oppose each other, which not only hindered social reform, but also caused a century-long struggle in the political arena of the Great Song Dynasty.

Then again, the relationship between scholars and state power has always been a superficial relationship. Their mentality and behavior ultimately depend on the actual political ecology, especially the state of operation of state power. Often only the relative power to suppress the imperial power can enable the scholars to show their ambitions, but which emperor is willing to hand over the power in his hands, so the open and secret struggle between the scholars and the emperor is full of courts, and the party struggle has also become a tool for the emperor to control power. He can gain the right to speak in the court by supporting or suppressing another party, so as to achieve the goal of consolidating imperial power......

In this dynasty, the scholar group had declined after the Jingkang Revolution, and the disdain of some scholars in the Jurchen invasion was also chilling, so that the emperor was able to carry out a large-scale purge of the scholar group, ending the party struggle that lasted for a hundred years, and re-establishing a new political pattern of equal emphasis on civil and military affairs by solving redundant officials and improving the status of martial artists. Compared with before, the power of the minister has been greatly weakened, and the right to speak has been reduced.

In the following ten years, the emperor through continuous wars and a series of national policy adjustments, the Great Song Dynasty was able to quickly get rid of the post-war decline, quickly recover, and re-emerge as a powerful country in the east. The DPRK and China have also formed a political pattern of civil and military control, and imperial power has become an important weight to balance the power between civil and military. And the emperor's martial arts have won him a high reputation in the court and the opposition, and no one can challenge his authority.

The scholars were educated so that they were not willing to be relegated to a supporting role, and after the initial confusion they re-emerged as a political group. But they know that they are not the emperor's opponents who are allied with the warriors, so they can only confront the imperial power by temporarily alliing with the warriors, and joining forces to extinguish the 'abdication turmoil' can be said to be their joint attempt, so this one-sided opposition to the emperor's personal conquest by the civil and military can be regarded as a joint challenge to the imperial power...... (To be continued......)