Exemption from military service
When the whole world was at a loss for the order to abolish the exemption and reinstatement within 5 days, an official document was placed on Sima Guang's desk - the states and counties around Kaifeng City had completed their tasks on time, all the exemption laws in the areas under their jurisdiction had been abolished, and the conscription law had taken effect! Sima Guang was pleasantly surprised, who was so well-behaved at this moment and became his commando leader? Look at the signature of the official document - Yin Caijing of Kaifeng Mansion!
Cai Jing... The New Party? Wang Anshi's relatives? This in itself is Sima Guang's taboo, but at this critical moment, it is the best typical demonstration! Think about how even the people of the new party support him in this way, how should the old party react? Sima Guang immediately summoned Cai Jing: Okay! If everyone does what you do, what command can't be followed? As a result, Cai Jing got the second pot of gold in his life, and Sima Guang, the leader of the old party, appreciated him...
Wang Anshi sent Cai Jing to the grassroots level, and Sima Guang set up Cai Jing as an exemplary model. Thinking about Cai Jing's actions decades later, who should pay for this demon? It is true that Cai Jing was still in the embryonic form at this time, but Sima Guang still looked away, and he did not find 2 crucial flaws:
First, Cai Jing's character. There are people who vacillate between the old and new parties, such as Prime Minister Tsai Qu, who is about to step down. No one has ever rebelled so blatantly, and the first step is to take the political foundation of the former leader! But that's what Cai Jing did! Such an unprincipled and bottom-line behavior, Sima Guang not only does not despise shì, but also advocates, what is his own background? If he serves the government with a qiē and takes the achievement of the goal as the criterion, then where is the aura of holiness that he has maintained over the years?
Second, Cai Jing's danger. Let the huge states and counties around the capital repeal a law and enact a law within 5 days. How complicated does this have to be? In the vicinity of the capital full of high-ranking officials, Cai Jing can avoid all obstacles, quickly get all the clerks, and run at full speed for his desires, which shows a convincing skill! With such ability and such a character, Sima Guang actually turned a blind eye. Where is his vision? Where is the huge historiographical knowledge?
The old party raised its eyebrows, and the leader of the Sima party was mighty! Fifteen years later, the new party was uprooted, which is really admirable! Excited. They unconsciously moved closer to Sima Guang's side. Among them. Only a few remain awake. They are Su Shi, Fan Chunren, and Han Wei.
Let's talk about Fan Chunren first, the second son of Fan Wenzhenggong. He has a balanced heart. This rare soul originates from the family style of Fan Zhongyan, the first person in three hundred years. Wen Zhenggong has gone through a complete life from poverty to nobility, from civil servants to military generals, which has also brought him a tolerant and impartial heart. People who have this kind of heart. When he was a ruler, he had mercy on the people. Maintain self-esteem while being a civilian. Ping Suri is gentle and elegant, and rushes to the forefront when there are foreign enemies. After passing on to the second generation, Fan Chunren retained some of his father's characteristics. At the same time, it formed its own style. The Fan family's heirloom characteristics, knowing that they can't do it, they have to be loyal to their hearts even if they know that they want to offend the powerful, and even knowing that they can't do anything, they have to share their worries for the country. The so-called "in the temple is high, you are worried about its king, and you are worried about its people when it is far away from the rivers and lakes"
Fan Chunren's balanced mind sensed that there was something wrong with Sima Guang's behavior, and he ran to remind him that it was a good thing to abolish the exemption law, but it depended on how to do it. If you are too anxious, it will make a mess at the grassroots level, and the people will be at a loss. In particular, if the person who implements the repeal decree is not chosen well, it will cause a lot of chaos!
In all fairness, this is common sense. When Wang Anshi reformed, he and Song Shenzong repeatedly studied and studied it for more than two years before it was gradually implemented, first in the suburbs of Beijing and then in Hebei, and then spread to the whole country. He Sima Guang is good, and the whole country will change it in 5 days! This kind of impatience is simply a madman can come up with!
Therefore, Fan Chunren wants to remind this, and he also thinks that anyone who is a little rational will agree. But he was wrong! The state and mind of the old bastard at this time must not be measured by a normal person! This awakening was useless, Sima Guangli ignored it, and completely ignored it...
Su Shi appeared second. To be honest, Sima Guang didn't expect to hear different opinions when he came up, thinking that classmate Su was a firm old party, and he fought with Wang Anshi with sparks, and many years later, it was the eternal lightning in the hearts of the old party members... But more than ten years have passed, Su Shi has become Su Dongpo, people's experience determines the soul, from the first step to the sky of the small landlord, degraded to the field to become a political criminal, return to the land to precipitate the soul, this step by step, Su Shi's view of things is completely different from before. This is also the biggest difference between him and Sima Guang! Even if Sima Guang returns to Luoyang, he is at the top of humanity and enjoys the worship of the world, there has never been a change in identity, and his soul has always been a pure scholar class...
Su Shi reasoned with the facts, and told Sima Guang about his field experience of exile all over the country: Whether it is the exemption law or the errand service law, in fact, there are advantages and disadvantages, and none of them is perfect. When you really measure it, you can't really tell the difference between good and bad, just look at which beneficiary class you are looking at... At this time, Sima Guang was silent.
Su Shi's stomach was full of ripples, and a large number of quotations poured out. Suddenly, there was a transition from two specific laws to the root of the change of the law, and he wanted to thoroughly explain the origin and changes of the law from the original point. To this end, he started from the three dynasties of the Xia and Shang dynasties in the mythical period, went through the five dynasties of the Qin, Han and Tang dynasties, and finally talked about the Song Dynasty. Sima Guang remained silent.
Su Shi jumped up and felt greatly insulted. Su Dongpo, a dignified contemporary literary leader, said something, and the audience actually showed anger and unhappy expressions, which was a great contempt for his knowledge and style! But he didn't know that in Sima Guang's heart, he Su Shi had insulted the greatest historian of our time to the point of being defenseless. And the author of "Zizhi Tongjian" said history? I ignore you, you actually started from the Xia Dynasty and said, a lot of verbose all the way to this dynasty. You don't know what I've been doing for 15 years, do you? Use you to tell me history? What's more, you keep saying that laws and regulations must change and that they must keep pace with the times? I think you've forgotten your roots. Fifteen years ago, the leader of the party promulgated the old party's decree concept that the law is immutable! It is best if the ancient law of three generations has been passed down to this day, and the Song Dynasty will be the most perfect society. Singing against me face to face like this, you're a traitor, aren't you?
It's a pity that Su Shi's mouth is like a river, and he keeps talking, and Sima Guang's psychological dynamics are ignored by him. Seeing the displeasure on the face of the party leader, he became angry. I feel that I should give each other an official etiquette lesson! Su Shi said: When you and Han Qi were arguing about the Shaanxi assassination incident, you had a very bad attitude and spoke very sharply. Han Qi was very unhappy, and you persevered to the end. Now that you are the ruler, don't you allow your subordinates to speak?
Everyone watched, Sima Guang Lao squeezed out a smile with difficulty, it seemed that he recognized Su Shi's accusation, and his depression increased exponentially! At that time, as long as anyone with a little heart could perceive the many evidences of Sima Guang's mismatch and inconsistency in words and deeds over the past few decades, he dared to point it out to his face. There is only Su Dongpo!
A quick mouth. To put it clearly, Su Shi was refreshed for a while. At least Sima Guang admitted that he lacked strength and was narrow-minded. But Sima Guang is embarrassed to be embarrassed, embarrassed to be embarrassed, and the most important thing is to achieve the goal! Even if he admits to losing face, Su Shi's words still don't approve it! On the same day, Su Shi returned home with a dark cloud. While undressing, he shook his head and sighed, "Sima Niu!" Sima Niu: "In addition to that. He couldn't think of anything else...
Then. Supervising the imperial history Wang Yansuo, he advocated the implementation of the "Law of Mutual Assistance to All Servants", as the name suggests, both exemption from military service and recruitment are flawed. Why not neutralize them and complement each other's strengths?
Sima Guang was furious, the official is in charge of discipline, who allowed you to discuss national policies indiscriminately? Shut up! Wang Yansuo shut up. This thunder was not wronged at all, he didn't understand why Sima Guangding wanted to use the conscription law to replace the exemption law? Let me ask Sima Guang that since he admired the ancient law, there were too many military laws in China after three generations, why did he choose this controversial conscription law? The answer is thousands of miles away in Jiangnan...
In Jinling, the news of Sima Guang's administration spread all over the world, but he was deliberately shielded outside a small courtyard. This is Wang Anshi's home, and his family can't bear to let him know that the new methods he worked so hard to create back then are being destroyed one by one. But the controversy over the exemption law was too big, and it still reached Wang Anshi's ears.
Wang Anshi was stunned. He said, "Do you even want to abolish this?" The Exemption Law was co-founded by me and the first emperor, and it was promulgated after thinking about it for more than two years, and the content is comprehensive, mature and complete, and it cannot be abolished so lightly" From this time on, Wang Anshi's aging and injured health became worse, he almost didn't think about eating, and he was silent day by day...
On February 2, the prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty and the left servant of Shangshu shot Cai and was indeed dismissed. Sima Guang, the servant under the door, was promoted to the left servant of Shangshu. On the 4th, Shangshu Zuo Cheng Lu Gongshu was reappointed as a squire.
said Cai Qu, the top boss who has been wandering erratically, and the old and new parties are left and right, suddenly anxious, without warning, he actually came to a catastrophe... In fact, he still had some premonitions, and he also made some efforts to redeem it. He knew very well that on the issue of Zhezong's accession to the throne before, at the instigation of Xing Shu, he said goodbye to the Empress Dowager Gao. It's not good, but no one takes it too seriously. Because the Song Dynasty was too relaxed, not to mention stealing the limelight a little, it was embarrassing the emperor in person, and there were no consequences. It's just that there are always exceptions, and there are no miracles for the first time. Unfortunately, Prime Minister Tsai won this historic award... And what happened to him was the beginning of an era. The process of the end of his life was the beginning of the repeated pinching and non-ending struggle between the old and new parties...
A fatal excuse began with Song Shenzong's funeral. In fact, it is not difficult to make this position in the mountain mausoleum, first of all, it is a temporary work, from the funeral to the tomb, as long as the process is completed smoothly, it will be completed. In addition, according to the custom, the Shanling envoy is the prime minister of the dynasty and works part-time. At the end of the funeral, the prime minister is routinely about to resign. So who cares and embarrasses someone who is about to quit? Even if it's his enemy, they'll let him go gently. After all, officialdom has its rules of the game. The envoy of the mountain and the prime minister who is about to retire, under this double insurance, Cai did have an accident. The newly appointed Taiwan officials in the old party caught his three major mistakes:
1 As a mountain envoy, he should lead his ministers to keep vigil for the gods. But except for him, the ministers are all there, but this protagonist has been missing all night...
2 On the day of the funeral, he should be inseparable from the coffin of the first emperor. But he will run forward for dozens of miles, and then run backwards for dozens of miles, and disappear for a while in between, I don't know where he went? One wonders if he crossed over...
3 More than 1 month after the burial of Shenzong, he still did not resign. Not to mention that he will not resign from the post of prime minister, even the post of mountain envoy has always been hanging. I wonder what he's going to do?
The above three articles are enough to convict a big crime of disrespect. We must also admit that these three crimes are really not very honorable, too dereliction of duty, too rash, and too out of tune! It's just that there are some other things in history. On the night of the vigil, Cai did disappear, but Xiao Zhezong had a record of talking to him. On the day of the funeral, he didn't walk with the coffin, and even rode back to the city, what did he do? Some information shows that he had an exchange with the Empress Dowager Gao. As for not resigning at all, it looks like it's a love affair, but it was the Chinese New Year, so it's a big holiday, okay?
All in all, each has its own reason. But I have to admit that Cai himself was suddenly hit and unprepared. For this, he wants to remedy! He proposed a very harmonious construction and reinstated Gao Zunyu. Gao Zunyu is the maiden family of the Empress Dowager Gao, and in the Battle of the 5th Road War, he played to death the imperial dream like an undercover agent of a Xixia person, and of course received a little punishment accordingly. He was demoted. At this time, Cai did plead with the Empress Dowager as the prime minister: on such a beautiful day as the new emperor ascending the throne, even the criminals in the prison can be pardoned, not to mention the first relative of this dynasty, General Gao? Let him be reinstated, right?
What a good comrade, think what the leader thinks, and do what the leader has in mind. Usually if you do this, even if you attract the leader's reprimand first, you will get the leader's favor afterwards... So at the beginning, when the Empress Dowager Gao yelled at him, he was still not very afraid, although the Empress Dowager Gao roared very well, revealing some details in the history of the Song Dynasty that no one knew. For example, when Gao Zunyu collapsed the Western Expedition, Emperor Shenzong sighed around the bed that night and stayed awake all night, aggravating his condition. It was at this time that this historical material was made public.
But after that, Cai Qu's heart sank, because the Empress Dowager Gao finished scolding people, and after she had done a high profile, she did not regain the official of Gao Zunyu. That's the key! It shows that she will not forgive Gao Zunyu, and second, she will never accept Cai Zhen's love! It shows that she holds a grudge! Until this time, no one knew what Cheng dù could be remembered by this woman's grudge. Cai really has to use the cost of his life to make a lamp, to show the true face of 'Female Zhong Yao Shun', so as to remind others...
On February 8, the Seedlings method was abolished, and the previous method of standing position was restored. (To be continued......)