Chapter 284: Reform

Although Zhao Yu is gone, the court meeting will still be held. Li Gang, as a prisoner, stood on the side of the dragon chair. There are also eunuchs shouting beside him: "There is a book to play, but there is no book to retreat." "According to the original prison of the country, it is generally the prince who supervises the country, or the prince who supervises the country, and there are a few examples of ministers supervising the country. Zhao Yu did not establish a prince, and obviously did not have enough faith in the character and ability of the princes, so he made the prime minister to supervise the country, of course, it was not the first prime minister to temporarily supervise the country in history.

"The minister has the book!" Ouyang is the first.

"Come on!"

Ouyang Dao: "The Bashu Qiang tribe did not accept the king, first imprisoned my Great Song Qincha, and now attacked my Great Song border trade. Not only is he not grateful for the care of my Great Song Dynasty over the years, but he also takes revenge, harms the people of my Great Song Dynasty, and causes chaos on the side. Therefore, the minister thought that he should immediately send troops and kill them. ”

Li Gang said: "Your Majesty explained when he left, the matter of the Qiang tribe, let everyone think about it first, and wait for her to come back and deal with it." ”

Ouyang Dao: "Li Xiang, now the Qiang people are arrogant and domineering, if they don't send troops to encircle and suppress, and wait for Your Majesty to come back in more than half a year, I am afraid that it will harm one side, not to mention, and it will also worsen the contradictions at the border pass." ”

Li Gang thought for a while and said, "Even if this is the case, it is still necessary to play Your Majesty first, and Your Majesty will make a decision." Besides, we don't have the right to transfer troops. ”

"En......" Ouyang turned around and said, "As a prisoner, Li Gang hesitated in the face of things, did not dare to draw conclusions, and did not dare to be responsible. Therefore, this minister earnestly asks all the ministers to agree to open a court meeting, and let everyone vote on whether Li Xiang will hand over the power of supervising the country. ”

"......" Li Gang was stunned, he didn't expect Ouyang to point the finger at him. It is true that Ouyang is right, Zhao Yu appointed Li Gang as the supervisor of the country, and Li Gang is responsible for this kind of playbook, and he can no longer kick the ball to Zhao Yu.

Ouyang said here: "After the investigation of the original appearance, there are only about 4,000 people in the Qiang tribe, and there are only about 2,000 people in the young and strong. But he forced me to endure the Great Song of 50 million people. What makes sense. Since Li Xiang does not dare to make a decision, please give up the right to be released from prison. The Prime Minister will inevitably make a plan for sending troops, which will be implemented with the approval of the courtiers. ”

A minister said: "Minister Ou is right, the person in charge of the country cannot shirk responsibility." Ou Xiang is a person who does practical things, and he also asked Li Xiang to agree to supervise the power of the country. ”

"Although the emperor is explaining to Li Xiang to supervise the country, the results of the court meeting can be reported to the emperor, no matter what the result is, the minister will not fail to approve it when he sees the emperor."

Li Gang saw that the people below were about to move, and then he understood that this was a premeditated seizure of power! However, Li Gang would not think that Ouyang was going to rebel, because the prison country did not have the right to send troops. Even if you want to send troops, you need the emperor's approval. Li Gang asked himself if he didn't have the courage to mobilize an army to attack the Qiang, but at the same time agreed with Ouyang's statement that he couldn't wait for Zhao Yu to come back before dealing with the Qiang. Thinking of this, he nodded and said: "Tomorrow, the court will discuss and see who will be in charge of the country!" "Zhao Yu is not far away, if Zhao Yu feels that Ouyang is messing around, he can do it with one sentence.

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Li Gang said: "The emperor traveled far away, and the ministers supervised the country. I want to settle the place and not have any more strife. The court is stable, and the people are naturally stable......"

Ouyang said: "The people must be raised, and the bandits must be suppressed." If we don't pay attention to the opinions of businessmen and ordinary people, they will be bullied and reasoned with. We can't whitewash the peace, and we can't tolerate adultery. What happens is what happens, and we have to seek truth from facts and find a way to solve this problem. Today's business, solved today. Not only refers to the Qiang ......"

The styles of the two people are different, Li Gang is old-fashioned, and when necessary, he will sacrifice local interests, whitewash the peace, and maintain harmony. In general, he looks like a shield. And Ouyang is enterprising, like a sharp sword, problems arise, no matter how big or small they are, they must be solved, and he can do whatever it takes to solve the problem.

Ouyang's appearance to seize power was unexpected by many people, but many people also expressed their understanding. The commercial activities of border trade have reached the point of irreconcilability. The state's original policy not only undermined the prestige of the state, but also harmed the direct interests of the merchants. Zhao Yu continued to take the means of forbearance, but everyone understood that Ouyang would not tolerate it. Although this person reads Confucianism, he is capable and pays attention to the word fairness.

Ouyang Dao: "I have drafted an official document, if the ministers agree to let me supervise the country, I will issue an official document to ask the emperor for permission, along with an official document that can mobilize the 30,000 forbidden troops of the Tokyo garrison to the Bashu border to suppress bandits." In addition, if I am in charge of the country, I will adopt a group discussion method. For example, should we adjust the tax profits on some industries? As you know, the price of rice fluctuates very much now, and many of the reasons are caused by high tax profits, as well as the tea tax, which Ouyang revised and cannot follow the pace of social development in the Great Song Dynasty, and it must be changed. I don't guarantee how good we can do, I can only guarantee that if everyone supports me to supervise the country, first, don't lose face to the outside world, we don't bully others, but others don't want to bully us. Second, we should focus on improving people's livelihood, increase taxes on profiteering industries, reduce taxes on daily necessities, and reduce the prices of essential goods for the people. Third, it is necessary to raise the prices of rice and wheat and stimulate peasants' enthusiasm for farming. Fourth, the healthy development of commercial market norms and the realization of the principle of mutual benefit ......"

Ouyang said a total of ten, but Li Gang didn't say a single one. Compare with each other, and everyone knows who to choose. From a policy point of view, Ouyang is more aggressive, Ouyang is looking for problems, or asking about problems that may occur to solve them. Li Gang is to find a way to solve the problem after it happens.

The ministers also understood that if it weren't for Zhao Yu's acquiescence or at least not objecting to Ouyang's behavior, Ouyang would be a blind toss, and Zhao Yu would be able to beat Ouyang back to his original form with a single edict. And Ouyang dared to speak like this, everyone felt that he had confidence, and the reason for his confidence was probably the emperor's support.

However, even so, Wu Min, the right minister who represented Zhou Ping and other young radical businessmen, expressed opposition and misgivings about Ouyang's vain attempt to seize power: "I do not doubt Ou Xiang's pure loyalty, nor do I doubt Ou Xiang's enthusiasm for the country and the people. However, everyone knows that Ou Xiang was originally the magistrate of Yangping, and to tell a secret that everyone knows, Ou Xiang rarely takes care of Yangping's affairs. Then I have to think about it, does Lord Ou have the ability to supervise the country? On the other hand, Li Xiang has served as the imperial historian, served as the envoy of the Northwest Military Road, and also served as the tax collector of a county. Although the European minister was also busy dispatching, it was mostly a matter of military affairs, and in terms of government affairs, it was indeed a step worse. ”

There are also ministers who directly accused Ouyang of being shameless, and also said that the emperor explained that Li Gang was in charge of the country, and Ouyang didn't know the rules and didn't say anything, and he had to be accompanied by hundreds of officials to mess around.

Ouyang could see that although he opposed his seizure of power in several interest delegations, he expressed appreciation for the act itself, that is to say, although they did not want Ouyang to be in charge, they supported Ouyang's seizure of power. But some non-interest groups are blaming themselves.

Li Gang felt that he was the most defeated representative of the group. Wu Min made a speech demanding that he be given the power to supervise the country. Bai Shizhong, the servant of Zhongshu Sect, who represented the position of the landlords, also announced his participation in the seizure of power. However, Li Gang, as a representative of the bureaucracy, only said a few words that had no substance, and even he himself was disappointed.

As the most detached official position, the Qing Doctor has read several opinions of the Qing Discussion in the past few days, the first of which is Ouyang's proposal to have the interest and ability to carry out joint governance. Coalition government means that Ouyang cooperates with several interest representatives to implement policies. If the policy is opposed by the partner, the court will be held***. Due to the cooperation of interest groups, the cooperative groups can also get benefits, they can issue *** proposals that are beneficial to themselves, and at the time of the court meeting, the major interests will fully support. In other words, the assumption put forward by Ouyang is that all bills must be passed by the court, and the difference between cooperation and non-cooperation is that the cooperative group can put forward bills, and non-cooperation has no right to put forward bills. A cooperating group may request a court meeting, and a non-cooperating group does not have the right to do so. On the other hand, the non-cooperative group has the right to propose the convening of a court meeting to dissolve the ruling group, and the cooperative group has no right to propose it, but it can do so in the court meeting.

There were nearly 100 officials in the imperial court, and more than 50 people had a clear standpoint. There are still forty or so people who don't know what's going on, although they don't know, but at the moment they have to ***, whether you know it or not, you have to choose one of the candidates. And Li Gang was not fully prepared and did not plan to govern jointly, and he didn't know who he represented, so in the end, only Ouyang, Wu Min, and Bai Shizhong competed.

As a result of seizing power, Ouyang won by a big score!

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Zhao Yu slowly flipped through the official documents sent from Tokyo, the commercial power represented by Ouyang defeated the major forces, of course, this is not because of the strength of the commercial force, it can only be said that Ouyang himself has a strong strength. Ouyang invited Bai Shizhong to form a coalition government, and Wang Min became the largest opposition party.

Jiugong said: "I received the news that Wu Min is meeting with Li Gang secretly. Talk about coalition government. ”

Zhao Yu said with a smile: "Ouyang didn't set any rules for the game. ”

"Your Majesty, the rules of the game have been set. Cleared up the doctors, and the counselors sorted them out. The Ninth Gonggong took out an official document and pointed out: "This is written, and it will be two months before it is allowed to raise doubts about the ability of the ruling personnel and ask for court discussion." If the number of people agreeing reaches 30%, the government can open a court council, and if there is no trust in the ability of the ruling party to take the majority, the ruling party will step down and the original opposition party will take over. What's the mess? ”

Zhao Yu asked, "Do you see the benefits?" ”

The ninth father-in-law shook his head after thinking about it: "Our family didn't see it." ”

"The businessmen represented by Ouyang are a little different from the younger generation of businessmen represented by Wu Min, Ouyang represents the interests of the whole, and Wu Min represents the individual interests of the businessmen. As far as the Qiang people are concerned, Wu Min will not use troops against the Qiang people because of the interests of individual businessmen, because this will lose a lot of votes against the use of force against the Qiang people. Zhao Yu said: "Ouyang went up, became an executioner, and helped me get rid of the scourge of the Qiang people." If there is an adverse reaction in the future, Ouyang will step down and change to a gentle person, such as Li Gang.

The Ninth Father-in-law gasped: "Listen to Your Majesty's meaning, don't you want to care anymore?" ”

"It's not that I don't care, but I don't care about something." Zhao Yu said: "I have the right to send troops and appoint officials, and nothing I can say. But like the Qiang people, I don't want to deal with it, and I don't want to deal with the remaining Jurchens, and I don't want to deal with it for the sake of fame. In this way, I only need to look at the official documents, and I can completely ignore the government. You don't have to be trapped in the deep palace. And you can listen widely***. ”

The Ninth Duke suddenly said: "Your Majesty is wise." ”

"Those are all Bian Mo, what is the wisdom?" Zhao Yu asked: "For example, I know that Ouyang is greedy for ink, or he uses power for personal gain. I don't care about this matter, and who wants to care about Ouyang and greedy ink? In this way, the atmosphere of the court will be broken. But now after this is implemented, if Ouyang dares to be greedy for ink, he will inevitably be overturned by Wu Min, and Wu Min will show the courtiers that Ouyang is greedy for ink, so that Ouyang can only step down. The courtiers are no longer in harmony, and everyone is staring at each other's filth, this is the emperor's weighing technique, which is the real wisdom. ”

The ninth father-in-law thought about it for a while and asked: "In this way, will it be used by people with ulterior motives?" ”

"Nope! The power of the army is in my hands. Zhao Yu said: "Moreover, they are all staring at each other, not to mention disobedience, even if they push down an old man on the street, they will be attacked for disrespecting the elderly." Zhao Yu discussed with Ouyang and rejected Ouyang's proposal of two factions, but cut them into four factions. and also secretly met with Bai Shizhong and Wang Min. The intention of the reform of the government was expressed. Of course, there is also a supervisory body, and the doctor is a tool for supervision, because the first doctor cannot be bought, and second, the doctor has no conflict of interests. Thirdly, the Qing Doctor does not belong to any faction.

Are the famous emperors of all dynasties more capable than the famous ministers of all dynasties? Obviously, no matter what the factor, it is difficult for the emperor's talent and insight to surpass all the courtiers of this dynasty. It's just that the courtiers don't show their heads. Zhao Yu knows this very well, and knows that although his governing ability is stronger than that of Song Huizong, it is indeed inferior to Li Gang's hard work, Ouyang Jinjin, etc. And because of his scruples about reputation or other reasons, no one below dares to do it.

In the Emperor Taishang incident, if she was not in power, Ouyang and Wu Min would not have ceased war unless they were in power. Bai Shizhong will have an armistice and peace talks, but it will not last long, because the waste of military spending will inevitably be impeached and opposed by Ouyang and them. In the case of Song Huizong, Zhao Yu's identity is the most difficult to deal with, she can't stop fighting, she has good reasons for armistice, and others dare not say that she wasted military spending, resulting in her helplessness if she doesn't want to stop.

This is Zhao Yu and Ouyang's exploration of the model. Although Ouyang knew the advanced systems of various systems, he also felt that he might not be able to adapt to China's national conditions. Zhao Yuhui's agreement to weaken certain royal rights had a lot to do with the fact that he had no heirs. Although he lost some power, the emperor was no longer the focus of contradictions. Whether the emperor is a tyrant or not is not directly related to whether he is overthrown. In this way, it was very effective to put an end to the pertinence of the peasant uprising to the emperor and keep the emperor out of the matter. But at the same time, the emperor also controlled the military power, the right to amnesty, the right to appoint and dismiss officials, and other powers that were enough to influence the decision-making of the imperial court. Although they are not directly involved in the management of government affairs, they are in control.

Zhao Yu replied to the official document, saying that he agreed to give Ouyang the right to transfer the 30,000 forbidden troops in Tokyo, and at the same time complied with the public opinion and gave Ouyang the right to supervise the country. He also wrote several letters to the opposition parties, encouraging them to grab Ouyang's pigtails.

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Although Zhu Da is not a famous general, it is undeniable that he is still a relatively good general and has experienced a lot of battles. Murong Mo has a lot of combat experience, and because he was originally a person from the Northwest Military Road, he has a good understanding of the characteristics of nomadic warfare in the high mountains.

After Ouyang received a majority vote of confidence in the court meeting and supported the war against the Qiang people, he gave the Privy Council the right to send troops, and appointed Zhu Da and Murong Mo as generals, and the Privy Council would be responsible for the achievement of the strategic goal of these 30,000 people. As for how to command the army and how to fight, Ouyang wanted to intervene, but was stopped by Wu Min. Wu Min thinks that Ouyang is a layman in the war, and he is thousands of miles away, and pointing fingers is suspected of talking on paper. Ouyang accepted the criticism.

Before Zhu Da left Beijing, the court discussion system of the Qing Dynasty doctor was put in front of everyone. The form of the court meeting is laid down in words, the relationship between the ruling party and the opposition faction, and so on. The most important point in the text is that Dali Temple and Yushitai will come out to become a supervisory body. For example, if someone catches Ouyang's sore feet, they can sue Dali Temple, thinking that Ouyang is not qualified to govern again. Then Dali Temple and Yushitai came forward to investigate, once it was confirmed that Ouyang had violated the court system, Ouyang could be forced to step down, if Ouyang was a problem in other aspects, Yushitai could only report and propose a new election.

Juda set out, leading 30,000 armed to the teeth of the Tokyo Forbidden Army. Ouyang is a representative of the hawks, and he likes to adopt the method of division and assimilation of nomads and border tribes. Ouyang did not allow them to form a gathering area and have their own language. Wu Min was in favor of this, but Li Gang was against it, and Bai Shizhong, who was in power with Ouyang, also opposed Ouyang's idea. However, because of *** needs, Bai Shizhong supported Ouyang, and Wu Min opposed Ouyang. Wu Min and Li Gang were waiting for Ouyang's policy to have a big problem, and finally pulled him down. For example, Zhu Da was defeated, and other border clans panicked, all of which could make Ouyang step down.

Li Gang has little desire for power, but he is very opposed to Ouyang's policy towards the border tribes. In order to change all this, he can only change his policy after regaining power. This is different from dealing with the emperor, you may use reason or a book of ten thousand words to move the emperor and reverse the emperor's policy. Li Gang knew that it was impossible for him to convince Ouyang at all, because the policy adopted by Ouyang was a unified understanding within his administration. If Ouyang messes around, Ouyang is likely to be knocked out of power by his own people.

This system is not just a matter of talking, this is an idea that Zhao Yu has been planning for a long time. However, there was no Ouyang among the original representatives. Zhao Yu thought that Ouyang was either wandering or being punished by himself, and it was almost impossible to go to the court. Ouyang himself was not interested in being an official, especially in the complicated situation of the court, but he was attracted by Zhao Yu's reform plan.