Chapter 490: The Big Secret
Then chased the emperor's uncle Fu Wang Tingmei as the king of Qin, and gave the emperor's brother Wei Wang Dezhao Taifu and Qi Wang Defang Taibao.
At this time, Zhao Kuangyi's body had not yet entered the mountain mausoleum.
Some people say that Zhao Yuankan, no, now that he has changed his name to Zhao Heng, he is doing a bit mean. Actually, it's not, it's a sign of lack of self-confidence.
The reason for this lack of confidence is the environment in which he grew up. eldest brother, and the kind of fate of a mother-raised eldest brother, and then to the second brother. He finally became a prince and didn't dare to do anything. In the second year of his reign in Kaifeng Prefecture, all 17 counties under Kaifeng reported a severe drought, and the people had no harvest.
Anyway, this is a good old man, and he has an even better son, the only emperor in Chinese history who can be called Ren.
So he rode down and looked at it, and when he saw it, he couldn't bear it anymore, so he ordered a tax exemption.
This is a manifestation of love for the people, and with such a successor, the people of the Song Dynasty should be happy, but some people made a small report, saying that the crown prince exaggerated the drought and bought people's hearts.
Zhao Kuangyi was furious when he heard this, and immediately sent someone to investigate, and Zhao Heng was trembling with fear in Kaifeng Mansion those days. Fortunately, one of the people who went down to investigate was an official named Wang Qinruo, who came back and said that it was really serious and that the tax reduction was not enough.
Zhao Hengcai escaped.
People who grow up in this environment will either become crazy people like Yang Guang, or they will become cautious and timid. It is this kind of psychology that gives rise to the Abyss Alliance. Of course, the situation is different now, at that time, Bashu was chaotic and chaotic, the northwest wolf Li Jiqian grew up and took Lingzhou, and the general environment of the Song Dynasty was indeed too bad.
So under this kind of character, Zhao Dezhao and Zhao Tingmei were immediately posthumously crowned, not to mention how aggrieved Zhao Dezhao's brother was, Zhao Tingmei really rebelled?
It's the hell.
This is the reverse side of Ann. Release the old grudge, who was right and who was wrong before. That's my Lao Tzu and my two cousins and uncles, and it has nothing to do with me. We also posthumously sealed. The son and grandson were also added to the ranks. It's all about me.
If you use this excuse against me again, it will be your fault.
Then put the inner palace maid.
In fact, there were really few eunuchs and palace maids in the palace at this time, at least 230 people when Zhao Kuangyin was there, and only 300 people when Zhao Kuangyi was there.
To put it mildly, the servants of some large families may have exceeded this number.
He posthumously presented Xiao Pan as the queen, and the beautiful Xiao Pan died early, which was also a pain in his heart.
With the appointment of Cao Bin as the privy envoy, Cao Bin was obedient for no other reason. It has a great influence on the military and is used to calm the morale of the military. How did Li Weiqing get Liu Shi down, and Liu Shi was angry to death, Zhao Heng saw it clearly, and used Qian Ruoshui to replace Li Weiqing with the Privy Council, and continued to use Xiang Minzhong and his teacher Xia Houqiao as the privy deputy envoy, and Zhou Ying as the northern envoy of the Xuanhui Yuan. The new leadership team was set up, Dongfu Lu Duan, Wang Huaji, Wen Zhongshu, and Li Zhi. Li Xin, Xifu Cao Bin, Xiang Minzhong, Xia Houqiao, as well as Qian Ruoshui and Zhou Ying.
But there are two more......
In the second year, Lu Duan was seriously ill, with Zhang Qixian and Li Xin as prime ministers. Xiang Minzhong was the governor of the council, Yang Li and Song Xiang served as privy deputy envoys, and Li Zhi, Xia Houqiao and Wen Zhongshu were dismissed as their own officials.
But there are two more......
In the third year, Yang Li and Cao Bin died. Wang Xian was appointed as the privy envoy, and there were still two people who did not move.
There are some understandable reasons for this......
The reward of the bounty was rewarded. Zhao Heng opened his eyes wide and looked at the world outside at this time.
The world outside is not very good. Bashu gave him a slap in the face again.
There was Zhang Yong in Sichuan, and the Sichuan cavalry was set up, and for a time, the "Fan Qiang barbarians" came to the court one after another, expressing their allegiance to the Song Dynasty. Everyone thought that Bashu was safe and sound, but in fact, the side households were canceled, coupled with Zhang Yong's internal governance, the heavy trauma caused by the two rebellions, and most of the people in Bashu did not want to rebel anymore.
However, the internal harm is always greater than the external harm.
Just like if Li Zicheng doesn't covet Chen Yuanyuan's beauty, if the real girl is really over 10,000, she will be invincible?
Just like Zhao Gou didn't kill Yue Fei, would the Southern Song Dynasty be like that? Recovering the Central Plains, the strength is stronger, can Kublai Khan successfully take the Song Dynasty?
This incident was caused by internal contradictions.
There were many contradictions in the military system of the Song Dynasty, especially the conscription system, which raised all the soldiers together, the noble soldiers looked down on the civilian soldiers, the soldiers in the capital looked down on the foreign soldiers, the forbidden soldiers looked down on the village soldiers, including the Sichuan soldiers, and many low-level generals acted recklessly and were greedy for ink, which led to many contradictions in the army. In particular, the forbidden soldiers stationed in Bashu could not return home, so they resented the turmoil of the people of Bashu, and also put this hatred on the Bashu soldiers who were recruited.
The envoy of Xichuan Metropolitan Envoy Han Jingyou took his subordinates to Huai'an, and it was this contradiction that made Liu Ming, a soldier of Guangwu, unbearable, and led everyone to attack Han Jingyou, and Han Jingyou climbed the wall and escaped. Liu Yang plundered Huai'an, rebelled and fought many times, resulting in not even a complete city wall, and attacked Hanzhou, Yongkang Army, and Bazhou. Fortunately, Ma Zhijie and Shangguanjie quickly sent troops to suppress it, and the matter did not get bigger.
This shows that there are many problems in the country.
Therefore, Sun He, Wang Ji, Ma Liang, Wang Yuyan, Tian Xi, including Zhang Qixian and others wrote to demand "deepening reform". "If you keep the old rules, do your best, and be able to establish a new law, it will be a miracle."
It should be from the perspective of internal governance, in the hands of Zhao Kuangyi, the basic framework has been built, and there are still many drawbacks, especially in the past two years, Zhao Kuangyi has been seriously ill, the dragons have no leader, and it is not auspicious, on the contrary, it is not auspicious at all, and the drawbacks are aggravating.
However, the steady faction Lu Duan, Li Zhi, Li Xin and others were very opposed, "The benefits are not hundred, and the law will not change." ”
It's okay not to move, but there will be a lot of problems right away when you move.
So is it not moving? If this is the case, Li Xin will not become a "holy minister", he is the same as the later Lu Yijian, the Tang Dynasty's Yao Song method of doing things, not immovable, but fine-tuned, but his reputation is better than Lu Yijian, just because he is not as domineering and bold as Lu Yijian.
However, this controversy did not cause turmoil in the court, there are several reasons, the first is that the current crisis is not as serious as that of Xining Song Shenzong, coupled with Song Jiu's various fine-tuning, the economic, people's livelihood and military situation is far better than another time and space.
Secondly, although Zhao Heng moved, he did not move as thoroughly as Wang Anshi.
The third reason is a big secret......
Everyone wrote the book, but Zhao Heng did not say it or not.
But he began his first move.
The people's tax arrears.
If you owe it, you have to ask for it, and the process of asking for it will be very miserable. The officials came over and knocked on the bones and sucked the marrow. If they didn't listen, they were immediately arrested and imprisoned, and they were beaten with canes, so that their families would be ruined.
Wang Qinruo wrote down these situations and the amount of tax arrears in the world and handed them to Zhao Heng, more than 10 million yuan. This is a terrible number, equivalent to the total income of a country in the Tang Dynasty for half a year.
Zhao Hengda was shocked and asked, "The first emperor doesn't know?" ”
This thing is a bit difficult to answer. But he didn't stump Wang Qinruo, and replied slowly: "The first emperor knew that this was specially reserved for His Majesty to give the people's grace. ”
Zhao Heng was overjoyed, and immediately issued an edict to Wang Qinruo to preside over the matter, exempt all the more than 10 million yuan of tax arrears, and release thousands of imprisoned poor people together.
But there is a problem, Liu Shi only exempted Jianghuai from tax arrears, which almost shook the court, and exempted Wang Qinruo from the world's tax arrears. But safe? In the history books, he is a traitor, the main reason is that he is against Kou Zhun behind the alliance of the Yuanyuan, but why does Liu E want to reuse this traitor? Didn't Kou Zhun suppress his political opponents?
That's the secret.
Since ancient times, the economy can be open source and bread can be made bigger. The right is still that right.
Song Jiu was still thinking about the system in Suzhou, and he was still at a loss. What is done fairly has to admit that it is the democratic system of the West, but its secret is not the participation of the whole people in politics. That's. The whole people participate in politics, and those who do not have a house hope that the house price will fall to 100 yuan per square meter. Some houses hope to rise to 1 million square meters, and real estate developers hope to rise to 100 million square meters. As for the life and death of the people, take care of the real estate dealers! Isn't that a mess?
So many countries have fallen into the pit.
The real secret lies in an electoral system, where you will be elected if you promise well, but if you can't, you will be defeated in the next election, which forces officials to be careful.
But even the real mystery of democracy still has many drawbacks, and in order to please the voters, there are still several party constraints, so we dare not do things, or we procrastinate in doing things. Even in order to solicit votes, raise election funds, become the spokesperson of the powerful and interest groups, and have a fart relationship with the participation of the whole people in politics?
Even this system, which has mixed advantages and disadvantages, cannot be implemented now, and first of all, the opposition of the elite group, one can imagine how many repercussions it will cause once it is implemented, and the consequences are simply unimaginable.
Secondly, the people do not have the ideological awareness, let alone the necessary transportation conditions for the election, let alone the transparency of the election.
So back to the original path.
Wang Qinruo and Song Jiu knew the Tao, but after entering the political arena, he didn't believe in the evaluation of the history books, which was written by the scholars, and he must have stood in the perspective of the scholars, so Wang Qinruo developed naturally and did not interfere with his growth path.
After hearing Wang Qinruo's news in Suzhou this time, Song Jiu began to reflect, why?
Could it be that Kou Zhun did the right thing later, and kept the merits of the Yuan Yuan on his lips all day long, where did he put the emperor in his place?
Besides, now Kou Zhun has shown so many shortcomings, and he is a young man with brains.
The last thing to think about is the reason, and that is the right.
Except for a few traitors who have been bought by five cents and brainwashed public knowledge, most of them will definitely love this country if they are external. But within a country, they will love their hometown. But within the family, they will love their relatives and brothers. This is the natural survival response of group animals.
If the system is still like this, then how does the emperor govern the world, with the improvement of the system, it is impossible to think that Zhao Heng will run around on horseback. Therefore, he can only listen to the people around him.
Therefore, as the emperor's arm, there are nothing more than four kinds of people, one is a civil servant, the second is a military general, the third is a relative, and the fourth is a eunuch and a favorite concubine.
In the Song Dynasty, eunuchs and relatives gradually lost their role, so the fight was between the civil servants and the military generals.
The military generals had no right to speak under the suppression of Zhao Kuangyi, so they became the dominant Wenchen, but there was one more person above them, and that was the emperor.
It is certainly not good to be a vassal emperor, but if the emperor opposes it, he insists on it, and it may not be right.
However, with this subconscious, Wenchen will spontaneously suppress the emperor's prestige. Especially in the Northern Song Dynasty, which was becoming more and more enlightened. Therefore, Kou Zhun is a Qing minister, and Wang Qin is a traitor.
This doesn't matter, the terrible thing is that later, as the emperor's power shrank, it became the dominant Wenchen, but continued to fight, and the children of the official eunuchs who made up for the shadow had no right to speak, and the officials who were promoted from the officials had no right to speak, and they were still fighting after becoming the imperial examination and entering the world.
On the surface, Xining's reform is the Conservative Party's defense of the interests of the elite group, but in fact it is a struggle for power between reformers and conservatives. Even the most Lu later evolved into regional disputes, Shuo Party, Luo Party, Shu Party, and New Party.
This made Zhu Yuanzhang fail, Zhu Yuanzhang had the harm of punishing the Song Dynasty's party strife, so he concentrated the imperial power more, but the most rear, the power was still controlled by the scholars, and as a result, in order to balance, many emperors in the Ming Dynasty had to use eunuchs, east and west factories, and brocade guards.
On the contrary, the Manchu enslavement, on the contrary, there was no problem......
After figuring it out, Song Jiu was speechless. (To be continued......)