Chapter 219: The New Emperor's Three Fires

Since it was the gold lord Wu Qimai who spoke, Wanyan Wushu had to follow; By the time the eight-member Jin delegation returned to Bianliang City, it was already two months later.

In this short period of two months, the Song Dynasty turned upside down, and the situation was very different.

The biggest thing, of course, was that Zhao Gou proclaimed himself emperor in Yingtianfu and formulated a series of enlightened policies in an attempt to reunite the hearts of the Song Dynasty.

Policy 1: Amnesty for the world:

In the history of China, when a new emperor ascended the throne, he usually gave amnesty to the world as a sign of kindness. But there are prerequisites for this kind of amnesty, and there are certain sins that cannot be forgiven, such as the so-called "heinous heinous".

Gaozong Zhaogou's amnesty this time was different from the previous amnesty, and he added some private goods.

History of the Song Dynasty. It is recorded in the "Gaozong Benji": Amnesty, and those who do not forgive are often pardoned.

In other words, this amnesty is very thorough, and all crimes are erased; It is obvious that Emperor Gaozong wanted to regard himself as a founding emperor and completely cut off from his father and brother.

Policy 2: Strike the World Shenxiao Palace:

The full name of the Tianxia Shenxiao Palace is the Tianxia Shenxiao Yuqing Wanshou Palace, which is the ten-sided jungle and small temple of the Taoist Shenxiao School at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the Song people are also called "Shenxiao Upper Courtyard" and "Shenxiao Lower Courtyard". It is one of the largest, majestic and solemn Taoist palaces in history.

The establishment of the Shenxiao Sect is based on a Taoist scripture called "Lingbao Immeasurable Human Superior Quality".

According to the "Daozang" is a "High Shenxiao Grandmaster's Sutra Ceremony": "After Song Zheng and Renchen (1112), Emperor Donghua began to pass on the Shenxiao Qiongbao Secret Collection "Lingbao Sutra" (卽 "Duren Sutra") 60 volumes, and the original volume is 61 volumes. ”

In fact. This so-called "Lingbao Tao Sutra". It is the classic of Wenzhou Taoist Lin Lingsu imitating Buddhism and Taoism. A book made up by himself, but it was praised by Emperor Huizong.

Emperor Huizong called himself the "Daojun Emperor", and the leader of this sect was the leader of Shenxiao Taoism.

Because of the Song Huizong, the Shenxiao Taoist sect grew from scratch, from small to large, and became the largest, richest, and most powerful sect in the Song Dynasty.

In February of the seventh year of Zhenghe, the Emperor of Huizong ordered the Tianning Wanshou Temple in the world to be rebuilt into the Shenxiao Palace, and the small state, the army, and the prison were replaced by Buddhist temples, and the counties that were not affiliated with the state were newly placed.

In the first month of the first year of Xuanhe, Huizong ordered again: "And the temple is the palace, and the courtyard is the view instead of the county, and the temple is changed to the Shenxiao courtyard, the most day, to the end of Xuanhe."

According to statistics, the Huizong Dynasty had 351 prefectures, prisons, and prefectures, and 58 armies. Only that, at that time, there were at least 400 lower courtyards of Shenxiao Palace in the country. Each Shenxiao Palace, "the beginning of the allocation of thousands of acres, and (Taoist priests) have been endless." Xijing (Luoyang) takes Chongning Courtyard as the palace, according to its production of 12,000 acres, the name is rebuilt, and it is actually newly repaired.

The above is the process of the rise of Shenxiao Palace, and it is also the process of the destruction of Buddha by the Son of Heaven of Huizong; Of course, this aroused the strong opposition of scholars and Qing officials and celebrities all over the world, and Cai Jing and others also won the trust of the Emperor of Huizong by firmly supporting Shenxiao Taoism.

Now, as soon as Emperor Gaozong took office, he stood on the opposite side of his father. First, it can please the world's scholars and the huge community of believers in Buddhism, and more importantly. The money and food that has been accumulated in the Shenxiao Palace for many years is just used as a huge expenditure for the new government.

Policy 3: Living in scattered green seedlings:

The green seedling method is a very important part of Wang Anshi's reform. To put it simply, it is a kind of agricultural loan issued by the government to farmers when the crops are not green; There are two types of loans: spring loans and autumn loans.

History of the Song Dynasty. Wang Anshi's Biography records: The Qingmiao method is used as the Qingmiao money in Changping, scattered with households, and the interest is divided into two, and the spring is scattered in autumn.

History of the Song Dynasty. Food and Goods Zhi 4": "Put the green seedling money today, if you borrow 10,000 in the spring, you will make 2,000 in half a year, and then 10,000 in the autumn, and 2,000 at the end of the year." ”

From the perspective of the original intent of the legislation, the Seedlings Law is a very good policy that can really help farmers to cultivate and produce. Unfortunately, in practice, this policy has deviated significantly.

First of all, according to Wang Anshi's regulations, borrowing is voluntary, but in practice, local officials adopt compulsory borrowing and collect as much interest as possible.

As Sima Guang pointed out: "Today's scattered green seedlings have no rich or poor people, willing or unwilling, strong and suppressed, and the total amount of taxation." (Sima Gongwen Collection.) Volume 44)

Second, when the money was dispersed and collected, the executive officials cheated and extorted the poor peasant households.

Lu Tao, a member of the Zhongshu House, said in his recital to Song Renzong: "At the time of dispersion, in addition to the head money, reduce the gram and increase the amount, collect the surplus, and use Chen Su and rotten wheat to see the money instead; The warehouse officials were entered, and they increased the doudou surface, and hundreds of ends were invaded, and it was difficult to count them all" (Jingde Collection Volume 3: Playing the begging power to dismiss the scattered green seedlings for a year to widen the people's strength)

Wait a minute

The suspension of Qingmiao money, when the war was in chaos, was definitely a major policy to benefit the people.

Policy 4: Let go of speech, solicit the opinions of the ministers, and do not criminalize words.

"Gojong. It is recorded in this book: Chinese and foreign ministers are allowed to talk about the suffering of the people, although they slander, they will not be guilty. If an official commits a crime, he will not be judged by special purpose.

"If you can't punish a doctor, you can't be a courtesy" is an old Chinese saying. According to the Legalist interpretation, the correct interpretation of this sentence should be "the doctor does not increase the criminal responsibility because he understands the criminal law, and the common man does not reduce the criminal responsibility because he does not understand the etiquette system." ”

But later Confucianism interpreted this sentence to mean that "doctors should not be punished." According to the record: "If the punishment is not to the doctor, the punishment is not on the king's side." ”

It should be said that the Song Dynasty was a dynasty that implemented the tradition of "not punishing doctors" more thoroughly. Looking at the entire Song Dynasty, no doctor was killed; But in the era of Huizong, this tradition was greatly shaken, and Huizong connived at the Taishi Cai Jing to erect the "Yuanyou Party Monument", not only sent the Yuanyou Party disciples to other places, but also explicitly ordered his descendants not to become officials, and so on.

Gaozong's policy is not only to win the hearts of the people, but also a correction to Huizong's policy.

Policy 5: Punish traitors

"Gojong. It is recorded in this chronicle: Cai Jing, Tong Guan, Zhu Mian, Li Yan, Meng Changling, Liang Shicheng, Tan Zhi and their descendants, not to mention the narrative.

This policy is relatively easy to understand.

In the early days of Huizong, the Great Song Dynasty also publicized the location of the prosperous era to its subjects, but in just twenty or thirty years, it was suddenly attacked by foreign races from the so-called prosperous era, and Gaozong could not blame his father and brother, so he could only put the crime of the fall on the heads of those "traitorous ministers" recognized by the people, and let them be scapegoats.

Policy 6: Promote talents

"Gojong. It is recorded in this book: The ministers of the interior and the outside are limited to one person who has the material to carry cloth for ten days. Yu is like a story.

Wait a minute

Compared with Qinzong Zhao Huan, who is inactive and full of mistakes and omissions, Gaozong Zhao is much stronger; As soon as he ascended the throne, he immediately formulated a series of policies.

Objectively evaluated, these policies of Emperor Gaozong are very targeted, not only to put things in order for Emperor Huizong's many "mistakes", but also to show sympathy for the common people, as well as to curry favor with scholars, Yuanyou party members, and Qingliu, and so on.

It can be said that the "three fires" burned by Emperor Gaozong at the beginning of his accession to the throne were all-encompassing and well-intentioned.

However, to Emperor Gaozong's surprise, except for the policy of "striking the world Shenxiao Palace" that quickly achieved results, the rest of the policies could not be implemented.

To put it simply, as soon as Emperor Gaozong ascended the throne, he encountered a great trouble:

Poor command!. (To be continued......)

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