Everyone knows that it's not their turn to speak. Finally one day, Shenzong asked Wang Anshi. In the face of the emperor's panic, Wang Anshi behaved very calmly, "Things like droughts and floods, even the ancient saint Yao Shunyu soup are inevitable, they are just natural phenomena. We do our best, there is no need to panic at all" From the perspective of modern people, Wang Anshi is not wrong at all. But in the eyes of Song Shenzong, his words were wrong, and they were very completely wrong! It can be said that this is the farthest difference in thinking between this pair of monarchs and ministers!

Wang Anshi's attitude confirmed Zhao Ji's worries, how could people who are not afraid of the sky be forgiven by heaven? What I have done in the past 5 years, not only do people disagree, but it seems that even the heavens oppose it... The emperor said, "What I am afraid of is that we did not do our best, on the contrary, we all did wrong!"

So just a few days later, all of a sudden, the new law was abolished! A bolt from the blue! Wang Anshi was stunned, he didn't know what went wrong. Even the entire New Party group, including Lu Huiqing, Zeng Bu, Deng Juan and many other negative characters, did not find out who did what, and turned all this upside down! This exposes the biggest weakness of Wang Anshi and his clique - too low vigilance and too poor political means! Politics is not only about governing the country, but also about governing people, that is, how to rectify people! Wang Anshi fell on this, as the prime minister of the empire, he has been in charge for nearly 5 years, what kind of authority is this! Throughout the history of the Northern Song Dynasty, the previous prime ministers such as Zhao Pu and Lu Yijian served longer than him, but none of them achieved the authority of his time! To this extent, the new law with the same life root was suddenly abolished, and I don't know what happened! What could be more stupid? Is there a more innocent and pure prime minister than him, who does not make things right?

The mystery has to do with a man who guards the city gates. This city gate official was famous in the history of the Song Dynasty, and even guarded the city gate. left his personal biography in the history of the Song Dynasty. His name is Zheng Xia.

Zheng Xia was a student of Wang Anshi, a Jinshi background, and first joined the army as a judicial officer in Gwangju. Later, he was transferred to the capital. But the work is not very good, and I am guarding the city gate at the door. At the beginning, Wang Anshi still valued this disciple very much, but now he is a staunch anti-reformer!

At this time, there was a severe drought in the Central Plains, and victims from all over the country flocked to the capital. Zheng Xia stood on the city gate and looked at the skinny, poorly clothed, and displaced victims, and his heart was suddenly "extremely painful" This is all caused by Wang Anshi's new law! The victims are proof of this, and the drought is even more proof, even God is angry!

So he wrote a piece of music. Count the disadvantages of the new law. After the most reluctant, he 'regarded death as home' and claimed: Please ask the emperor to remove the new law, and it will rain in the sky! If I don't do it within 10 days, ask the emperor to cut me down! Except for the recital. He also painted the suffering of tens of millions of victims into a "Diagram of the Displaced People". After writing and drawing, Zheng Xia began to worry: how can I let the emperor see it? It's a question... His position is too low, if he takes the normal way, he must first be seen by Prime Minister Wang Anshi? This will not work! He came up with a good idea: first go outside Kaifeng City, claiming that this is a tantric performance. To expedite the stagecoach. Send it to the Gintai Division!

So the emperor saw it for the first time, the 26-year-old young emperor was deeply shocked by the "Wandering People", and the history said that he couldn't sleep all night, and the next day, on the morning of April 6, the emperor and no one discussed, and ordered the whole country to revoke all new laws!

On that day, heavy rain...

On the 7th, all the courtiers included the new party and the old party. They all entered the palace to congratulate the emperor and finally it rained. Shenzong took out "The Diagram of the Wanderers" and Zheng Xia's recital for everyone to see. Everyone realized that this was the case. So Lu Huiqing, Deng Juan and other members of the New Party wept in front of the emperor. In the end, in addition to the Fangtian average tax law was abolished. The rest of the new law is temporarily reinstated ...

On the 9th, Sima Guang, who was far away in Luoyang, Xijing, sent an urgent recital, actively responding to the emperor's edict.

He summed up a total of 6 articles, with a unique vision, and it is necessary to study them in detail in order to see how superb the famous and glorious Master Sima is:

1 "Scattering the money of the green seedlings widely, so that the people are increasingly in debt, and the county officials have no income" - I wonder where he came to this conclusion? All right! Even if the people are suffering because of the Seedlings Law, but the government has nothing to gain? Where did the money come from for the 32 pile-sealing warehouses?

2 "Exempt from the battle of the upper households, collect the money of the lower households, and support the floating people" - it is not accurate. The service of the upper household is exempted, but you also have to pay money! If you really don't let the upper household hand it over, I guess you won't say anything, old bastard. It is not false to collect the money of the household, it can be divided according to the household, and each has its own taxes, as long as it is not the people with ulterior motives in the Dongming County incident who deliberately confuse the ranks, what is unfair?

3 "Buying the market and changing the company, competing with the small people for profit, and actually dissipating official goods" - the city change law did conflict with private trade, which to a large extent curbed the high operation of free commerce in the Northern Song Dynasty. But beware: this is a great benefit to the country's rapid accumulation of funds, military spending, this most important issue, the old bastard actually chose to ignore.

4 "China has not been governed and invaded the four provinces, and there are fewer gains and more losses" - the most unbearable is this sentence! Dare to love only when your country is perfectly governed, can you go abroad and regain lost territory? In addition, "intrusion" and "gain less and lose more" are good words! As a master of history, what is the relationship between the land of rivers and China, and you don't know the way?

5 "The regiment practiced to protect the armor and taught the murder weapon to disturb the peasants" - it seems that the duty of the peasants is to farm the land, and it is forbidden to touch knives and guns and other things, so as not to become violent. Well! This idea is very good, and it coincides with the later Mongols, it is best to let the peasants share a kitchen knife, so that it is really "simple and lovely, and easy to raise".

6 "Believe in the crazy and cunning people, vainly build water conservancy, and work the people and spend money" - speaking in numbers: from 3 to 9 years in Xining, there are 10,793 places in the government boundary and Zhulufan, which are strange for the 361178 of the fields. Are these lands all fake? Where did some crazy and cunning person come from, how can it be said that it is "vain water conservancy"

Do you need to say anything more? Here, I wish the old bastard good health, good food, no more, no less, 1 more year longer than Wang Anshi, so as to smash the good fortune of the Northern Song Dynasty like the jar in his childhood...

None of them were true, but each one was met with great cheers! It's been five years, and someone has finally spoken out for the once glorious scholar class, but now they are being cornered. It's just that what you say in your heart is not the same as what you say in your heart. Few hearts speak out of a moral conscience. For the sake of profit!

So on the 19th. Wang Anshi dismissed the prime minister. Another important member of the New Party, Han Jiang, served as prime minister. In addition to the original Feng Jing and Wang Qi, Lu Huiqing, the "protector of the law and good god", was also promoted to the governor. And the day before Wang Anshi's resignation, on the 18th. In April of the lunar calendar, it actually rained a big hail...

Now let's analyze: First, what was the Divine Sect shocked about? Looks like I'm talking nonsense, poor victims! But there is one point, Zhao Ji, the emperor, has never been out of the capital in his life. In other words, he has never seen the victims of the disaster at all! Second, why is Zheng Xia so excited about Lu? It's nonsense again, poor victims! But regardless of whether the new law offends heaven and earth. Just one question: Is there a difference between the drought during the new law and the drought under the old law? The new law is "skinny, unclothed, and displaced", and the old law means that everyone is full of red faces, wearing silk and satin, and driving RVs to travel? See you Zheng Xia's living ghost! Have you lived so long and only seen a great drought? Have you only seen this group of victims? Why didn't I see you painting "Wandering People" before!

In the final analysis, Song Shenzong was afraid that it was the truth at that time - a disaster from heaven. This is the official reason for the failure of the first round of Xining's reforms. But there have been some very subtle "little things" that have happened in it, and perhaps they are even more decisive.

The first is a sub-family talk. One sunny day, Song Shenzong went to the harem to visit his mother and adoptive grandmother. After a few common words, the Empress Dowager Cao said, "In the past, I only needed to hear about the people's suffering. I will tell Emperor Renzong. Renzong will approve me and make the people feel better. It should be like this now" Zhao Ji was very vigilant and replied with 4 words, "There is nothing else to do today" Grandmother wants to interfere in politics? Block it now!

But my grandmother continued, "I heard that the current folk green seedling law, the money for the assistant service is unreasonable, you should remove them" Zhao Ji replied, "This is for the benefit of the people, it will not be bitter"

Then the Empress Dowager Cao's grandmother directly put forward the most important request: "Wang Anshi is indeed talented, but there are too many people to offend." If the official family really cherishes him, let him temporarily go to Beijing to fill in his foreign duties. I really want to use it. Recruit it back later," Zhao Ji rejected again, "No!" Now only Wang Anshi can be a national minister in a sideways"

Every sentence was dismissed, and the Empress Dowager had an old problem. She was deflated, and stopped talking as if she was bullied by Han Qi and others.

At this time, Zhao Hao, the second brother of Zhao Ji and the king of Qi, stood next to him and interjected: "What the Empress Dowager said is all wise words, truth." Your Majesty, you have to think about it."

At this time, Emperor Shenzong was full of anger and couldn't control it anymore, and yelled at his younger brother, "Am I corrupting the world?" Then you will be the emperor."

King Qi cried, and he said very sadly, "As for this?"

What do you think after reading it, do you think Zhao Ji is making a big fuss? No! Whether it is "grandma" or younger brother, they are doing the most dangerous thing in the feudal era - interfering with imperial power! The family is the father and son, and the government is the monarch and the minister, this is the meaning of imperial power! In this sense, Mrs. Cao and the second brother Hao are both looking for death and violating the ancestral family law! Even if the officials of the Song Dynasty were super tolerant and would not punish them for this, they themselves had to understand how big the mistakes they had made!

is not a biological grandmother, an ignorant broken little brother, these two people can ignore the emperor's opinions, and they can roar. But then the biological mother appears, and the situation will be different.

For the first time in her life, the Empress Dowager Gao, who is extremely brave and fierce in the future, expressed her opinion on political issues, and her attitude was actually very sensational? It was crying and saying to his son, "You just let Wang Anshi go!" He has messed up the world, and everyone can't live anymore," Emperor Shenzong was silent. The sky is on fire, and the backyard is on fire, what is he going to do!

After that, the "Wandering People" and Sima Guang's recitals were handed in one after another, and the emperor finally completely lost his self-control, and abolished all the new laws that had been painstakingly operated for 5 years...

Now it is necessary to figure out another thing: for what reason did the emperor's grandmother, mother, and younger brother say these words? The answer given by traditional history books is, of course, that Wang Anshi illegally disrupted the government and disrupted the world! The three top royals took the risk to do so out of the righteousness of the world. This is reminiscent of the opposition's mantra "the whole world thinks so", and it is easy to assume the posture of an officialdom spokesperson or even a spokesman for the world. Let's see how many of them really are? There's a very accurate number. During the six years that Wang Anshi was in power, the total number of opposition officials who were demoted from the capital was about 30, including 13 Taiwanese advisers. Compared with the total number of super huge officials in the Great Song Dynasty, this number is like a drop in the bucket, right? Even if they are all bigwigs in the capital, each of them has a large number of connections, can they reach the level of "the world is raging"? If you really want to be like what they said, all the officialdom is against Wang Anshi, so who has done so much of his political achievements in the past five years?

It is clear that "out of righteousness" is simply not reliable. These rich and scattered people who hid in the palace and didn't care about anything on the surface were actually cut off by Wang Anshi and cut off their financial routes! Generally speaking, Wang Anshi offended the scholar class, and the scholar class is just a general term, and there are various detailed divisions such as the landlord class, the bureaucratic class, and so on. There are many kinds of new laws, and they have offended them all over again...

For example, the Qingmiao Law harmed the interests of the landlord class, the Exemption Law harmed the interests of the bureaucratic class, and the Market Law harmed the interests of big businessmen. The new law that harms the interests of Shenzong's grandmother, mother, and younger brother is called "free money"

It is said that Kaifeng City, Tokyo, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, was the most prosperous place in the world at that time, and if you want to live the most enjoyable life here, what way do you have to use? Just like the emperor, the royal family, the ministers, these people, if they see some good things, how can they get them? Take money to buy? Just kidding, is that still the power class? The Song Dynasty's method was very ingenious, which was to re-apportion in addition to the collection of taxes. That is to say, to do business in Kaifeng City, in addition to paying normal taxes, the goods, materials, and people needed by the government are also unconditionally paid tribute by the relevant commercial firms. Specific methods include exploitation, bribery, embezzlement, and participation in monopoly operations. This is the secret of their ability to ensure that they enjoy themselves at the top of the bustling capital, and instead of participating in labor, they directly become the biggest bosses with no capital. But "free money" suddenly smashed this dream life!

Exempt money means that the government collects another sum of money according to a certain standard after the normal tax collection. After this money, the comptoir does not have to pay any more money to any party! It is equivalent to cutting off the road to wealth for all the royal relatives and the capital's officials with one sword! From then on, everyone could only live on a small salary. What kind of life is this? Isn't it pushing people to their deaths?

As a result, there was the tearful advice of the Empress Dowager Cao and the Empress Dowager Gao regardless of the imperial power, and the younger brother dared to challenge the supremacy of the elder brother and make irresponsible remarks about the national decrees!

But for Wang Anshi, this matter is too hidden, unless he can have a deep friendship with the eunuchs like Ding Wei, Lu Yijian, and Wen Yanbo before, so that he can get some warnings, otherwise he can only be kept in the dark.

However, I still have to say that the exemption of money implemented in September 1073 and his resignation in April 1074 have been warned by very stimulating events for more than half a year, and Wang Anshi has still not woken up and been on guard, which can only show that he is too bad at "rectifying people" and seriously underestimating the political danger!

That very exciting event happened during the Lantern Festival in 1074. It is very famous in history and is one of the famous Wang Anshi's bad deeds. The process fully shows how arrogant and domineering Wang Anshi is.

At that time, Shenzong ordered to go to the city to watch the lanterns, and hundreds of officials attended together. As the prime minister, Wang Anshi looked very special, riding a high-headed horse, bringing a lot of people, to the palace Xuande Gate did not get off the horse, entered the city gate still did not get off the horse, and then went inside, about to go out of the city gate into the palace, and was finally stopped by the guards on duty! The guards were very angry, and while shouting angrily, out of indignation, they whipped Wang Anshi's horse. At this point, should it be said that the guards acted very legally? After all, the imperial power is supreme, how can there be a reason for a courtier to ride into the palace on horseback? The guards are innocent!

And Wang Anshi's reaction was the opposite. Not only did he not repent, but he intensified his anger and turned arrogance into wildness. Furious, he got off the horse and went directly to the emperor, asking Shenzong to send all the guards on duty to Kaifeng Mansion for punishment, for some reason, he also implicated the eunuchs of a royal medicine hospital, and they were also sent together... (To be continued......)