Chapter 4 The Legend of the Cat Ghost (55) - A pair of dancing boots
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At the court meeting, the emperor held Wang Guangyuan's recital in his hand, praised the above things, and said that he was a good minister who assisted Sheji, and even expressed the idea of calling him back to Beijing immediately. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Immediately, there were ministers who came out to oppose it. These opposing voices either say that the Hidden Fire Army is the elite of the Forbidden Army, and how can they let masons and bricklayers and porters join, or they talk about the regulations of Taizu's troop transfer, saying that the military system is the foundation of the Great Song Dynasty and cannot be shaken, the establishment of the Hidden Fire Army cannot be changed, and the rules of the ancestors cannot be overcome.
Just when everyone was talking, Han Wei suddenly came out and responded in a deep voice.
Although Han Wei is the most important staff member of the current emperor, he has always maintained a strict and low-key style, which was the case when the little emperor was still the crown prince. Han Wei rarely spoke in court discussions, so he suddenly spoke out, which surprised many courtiers.
He first refuted the ministers' statement that civilians could not join the submarine fire army: "You all say that masons, bricklayers, porters and petty workers cannot be compared with the elite of the forbidden army. There are these people that you are talking about, and they have saved countless lives! If there is a fire in your house, will you stop these people and prevent them from putting out the fire?"
As soon as these words came out, the color on everyone's faces changed. At present, how many ministers' relatives and friends are pestering themselves every day, wanting to trust their relationships and go through the back door, just to meet these "civilian stars" who have seen Wuban! If you let everyone know that you have said "bad things" five times in the court, you will first make a fuss when you go home, and you will not be able to pass the pass of the lady, the side room, and the concubine, and I have never seen them coexist so peacefully, and they will work together to target the "Xianggong"!
And that's probably the power of stardom.
Han Wei attacked the second article again, and his words were sharper. He said loudly: "The new emperor and the new policy, in addition to the old and the new, the weather is updated, and you continue to bring out the rules of your ancestors, which is really a cliché. It would be even more nonsense to say that the old rules could not be changed. ”
When it comes to the old rules that cannot be changed, Han Wei does not like to quote scriptures as much as Sima Guang, starting from the past dynasties, he only talks about the affairs of his own dynasty, Taizong and Zhenzong have precedents for changing the rules of Taizu, which shows that the emperor who keeps his business is not a rigid rule, and should change in due course. In the end, he suddenly mentioned that Taizu had not yet established the country, and when he was still the former governor of the Later Zhou Palace, he had implemented similar troop transfer regulations in several large battalions of the Forbidden Army, so if you want to be strict, this rule is also the rule of the former and later Zhou.
He looked at the ministers in the palace, raised his voice and asked, "In this way, do you also have to keep it?"
In fact, Lord Han used a strong argument technique, and he was also suspected of secretly changing concepts, but he came prepared, and several old ministers were speechless for a while. They all secretly looked at Sima Guang, hoping that he could come forward to argue with Han Wei, but who knew that Sima Guang turned a blind eye to it, with an attitude that had nothing to do with him and hung high.
The next day, Sima Guang spoke. Everyone thought that he would go back and think about it carefully, and argue again today, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he directly asked the emperor to "reform", so angry that several old ministers almost vomited blood.
He presented his recital. The above reform plan is more "radical" than Wang Guangyuan's, but it is also more efficient.
Sima Guang only put forward one criterion - to do it thoroughly. Since civilians have been allowed to join, don't engage in such a fictitious job as "logistics". Facts speak louder than words, and the five teams of the military and the civilian integration are more effective in fighting fires than all other teams of the forbidden army. Therefore, one should not be obsessed with selecting only the Hidden Flame Soldiers from the Forbidden Army.
He said that it is difficult to determine whether the establishment of both military and civilian personnel involves exceeding the regulations on troop transfer. Therefore, it is necessary to "restructure". Sima Guangjuan asked the emperor to establish a "latent fire division" from Kaifeng Mansion to be in charge of matters related to the latent fire army. The Forbidden Army that is already in the various teams of the Hidden Fire Army can decide for itself whether to return to the Forbidden Army or stay in the Hidden Fire Army. Even if you stay, you can enjoy the treatment of the forbidden army. Those supernumerary "civilian heroes" should enjoy the same treatment as the submarine fire army.
This move is tantamount to transferring the submarine fire army from "military politics" to "civil affairs". Correspondingly, the problem of overlapping areas will no longer exist, because they are all under the control of the "Kaifeng Prefecture".
The content of Sima Guang's recital can be said to have stirred up a thousand waves in the court. The ministers whispered and chattered, and those conservative old ministers couldn't figure it out even if they thought about it, why did Sima Jun suddenly go crazy when he was in front of him?
The little emperor looked calm and relaxed, and the overall situation was in control, which really made many courtiers secretly frightened, and couldn't help but praise the new monarch for becoming more and more calm.
In fact, it was because Wang Guangyuan had prepared a "trick plan" for the emperor before he went to the top.
It should be said that Wang Guangyuan's twist and turn is a good method that he came up with after studying the major and small matters of the fire administration thoroughly. From a policy point of view, these reforms can be described as perfect, and the only thing that hinders their implementation is only the matter of officialdom.
The "clever plan" is to let the emperor praise Wang Guangyuan in the court, and deliberately show his willingness to recall him back to Beijing. This is undoubtedly a multiple-choice question for some people in the court, whether to let Wang Guangyuan's compromise new decree be passed, or to agree with the emperor's recall of Wang Guangyuan?
Wang Guangyuan expected that the Empress Dowager Cao would do everything possible to prevent her from returning to Beijing. Since you don't want me back, you always have to make some concessions. As the saying goes, there are gains and losses, you can't disagree with these two things, and provoke the anger of the saints, right?
So, you'd better let the new decree pass smoothly and stopping.
This is not a multiple-choice question, it is better to choose both.
Of course, Wang Guangyuan didn't think that his opponent would be so stupid!
Sima Guang was the one who answered the question for the Empress Dowager, and he didn't move yesterday because he had his own considerations. After going to the court, he told Uncle Cao Guo his idea, and Uncle Cao Guo went into the palace to ask the Empress Dowager.
That's where we are today.
In Sima Guang's view, the lesser of two evils. We must not allow such a treacherous villain as Wang Guangyuan to return to the capital! Moreover, at present, the "five times" have a very high reputation among the people in Beijing, and if they are obstructed, they will lose the support of the people, and the gains will outweigh the losses. In that case, it's better to get things done thoroughly!
As everyone knows, the emperor has a bag in his hand, and Han Wei has another in his hand.
Sima Guang has fallen for Wang Guangyuan's radical method again!
If anyone argues about Wang Guangyuan's performance, Sima Guang will not care, but Han Wei will come forward, but he will definitely take care of it.
Han Wei is the son of Han Yi. Han Yi's eight sons are all officials in the court, but Han Wei has no fame and enters the court as an official with his father's shadow.
Han Wei has a significant characteristic, if he was born in the Zhou Dynasty, he would be an example of a gentleman who lives in peace with etiquette. The gentleman in Confucius's mind is by no means just a person with an upright heart and a sense of national mission; he is not a person who is knowledgeable, well-read, and can read merely a book; a gentleman must also have a good appearance, behave appropriately, and pay attention to the word "etiquette." This "rite" is not an ordinary etiquette, but an extremely cumbersome and complicated set of etiquette rules.
Han Wei never dresses upheavily, his gestures are standardized, and his words and deeds are in line with "Zhou etiquette". That kind of personable, polite and humble demeanor seems to be born with him.
There is courtesy on the outside and music on the inside, and the young Han Wei has such a cultivation. When his father died, Han Wei, who was 28 years old at the time, closed his door.
In the third year of Huangyou's reign, the disadvantages were quite deep, and the capital was full of people who were eager to forge ahead, and Prime Minister Wen Yanbo recommended Han Wei, Wang Anshi and Zhang Gui in order to change the atmosphere of officialdom. He said that Wang Anshi was self-guarded, and Han Wei was a good scholar of ancient times, and they were all talents needed by the imperial court. It's a pity that Wang Anshi and Han Wei resigned together and refused to take office. Later, when Song Qi recommended talents, he recommended Kong Ningji, a descendant of Confucius. At that time, Kong Ningji lived in seclusion in Runan, and Song Yi went to Kong Ningji's residence, but saw Han Wei's poems on his table, and then he knew that the two had a close personal relationship and sang and harmonized with each other on weekdays. Song Qi liked Han Wei's poems, so he recommended Han Wei to Kong Ning, saying that he was a young Qing Xiu, and he was about to be forty years old, and it was time for him to become a leader.
It's a pity that Han Wei hasn't had enough days of idle clouds and wild cranes and secluded friends.
Four years passed in a blink of an eye, Ouyang Xiu recommended Han Wei five times, and said to Renzong, "The eight sons of the Han family, the three sons of Jiang, Wei, and Zhen are the most outstanding. So Renzong ordered Han Wei to enter the Taichang Rite Courtyard to be in charge of national ceremonies and rituals. Later, Yingzong's reason for choosing Han Wei as the prince's staff was also to take a fancy to his temperament. I hope that he will teach Zhao Ji so that the prince can learn that kind of temperament.
However, in Sima Guang's eyes, Han Wei relied on his father's shadow to enter the officialdom, and not participating in the scientific examination was a "hard injury". No matter how upright he looks on the outside, he has no real talent in his belly, so he can't be called "exemplary". Now that you are a "hidden dragon man" and consider yourself an emperor, you dare to speak in the court?
Wang Guangyuan understood Sima Guang's psychology. As long as Han Wei supports his own twists and turns, Master Sima must take the opportunity to show his "true talent and learning". However, I have to admit that the measures proposed by Master Sima greatly surprised them. Wang Guangyuan originally thought that Sima Guang would definitely revise some details and put forward some new plans on the basis of his own improvement methods to show his cleverness, but he did not expect that he would completely overthrow and completely solve the shortcomings of the fire administration.
Sima Guang's twist and turn was to slap Wang Guangyuan and Han Wei in the face. If I want to do it, I will definitely do it a hundred or a thousand times better than what you do, and see whose merit the common people will remember in the end?
Although the final result was slightly different from the original expectation, Wang Guangyuan and Han Wei were happy to see it, and they were not people who were rigid about small things.
After Wang Guangyuan was the founder of the country, Han Wei was a member of the rising political family, which was the "right-hand man" of the current emperor Zhao Ji. Over the years, they have worked closely together and each has their own responsibilities. Wang Guangyuan is far-sighted and unscrupulous, but he is easy to offend people. Therefore, he wants Han Wei to maintain the appearance of not smiling and rejecting people, it is such a person who is high up and does not eat fireworks, and the occasional sentence or two is more effective.
Han Wei saw that today's plan was completed, and he was happy in his heart, but he pretended to be ugly on his face, like a defeated dog who had lost the battle, and he saw Sima Guang proud.
Han Wei deeply admired Wang Guangyuan's foresight. He suddenly recalled that a few years ago, the eldest prince Zhong Jian gave the name "顼", the first king of Ying, built a mansion, and selected staff, which was the beginning of their cooperation. It's just that they didn't know each other at that time, and after that, the two had differences in the cultivation of the prince, and even looked down on each other.
Who would have thought that what made them know each other was a pair of "dancing boots"
Zhao Ji, like ordinary children, liked beautiful clothes and delicate accessories, and he asked Li Xian to get a pair of bow-like boots in the popular style of Beijing, with pointed, curved toe toe and glittering sequins. He wears it when he is deliberating, and his heart is happy. After finishing speaking, Han Wei coldly threw down a sentence: "Wang An uses dancing boots?"
To put it bluntly, it means "Is the prince wearing fancy boots and ready to dance?"
"Confucius said: A gentleman does not decorate with cyanosis, and red and purple do not desecrate. "What clothes to wear on what occasions, what ornaments to wear, such as "the cloth of the lamb, the plain clothes of the fur, the yellow of the fox fur", it is required to wear a lamb fur in the silk clothes of the court, and it is a black sheepskin, plain clothes and fierce clothes, you need to wear a white deerskin inside, and the yellow clothes are the clothes of the wax sacrifice, and it is advisable to wear a fox fur inside...... Han Wei is a perfectionist in terms of clothing and has always been strict with Zhao Ji.
Zhao Ji was very ashamed and hurriedly ordered Li Xian to destroy the boots.
Just a few days later, Han Wei gave a lecture to King Ying in the study, accompanied by Wang Tao and Sun Sigong. Wang Guangyuan wore a strange costume and a pair of bow-like boots, walked into the study, and deliberately made a tapping sound.
King Ying looked at it, it was similar to the one he had worn before, and he was a little uneasy in his heart, not understanding what Wang Guangyuan meant.
Wang Guangyuan ignored Han Wei's face, and directly presented a piece of paper to King Ying, and said, "This is obtained by Weichen wearing dancing boots and dancing!"
King Ying took it and looked at it, with surprise and puzzlement on his face, and hurriedly handed the piece of paper to Wang Tao again.
Wang Tao shouted loudly, it was a trade contract between the two countries sent by the Tubo mission, and it also came with a gift list for a separate gift of twenty good horses to King Ying. This time, the Tibetan delegation arrived in the Great Song Dynasty, the emperor summoned, the main hall feasted, the process went smoothly, and the ministers who received it also did their best, three days of a big banquet, two days of a small banquet. The envoy came to the capital for more than a month, but he always did not see the special envoy proposing to sign a contract and submit a credential. Everyone has just come back to their senses, and this is to deliberately make things difficult. The emperor immediately sent someone to appease the Tibetan envoy, and at the same time to find out what the other party wanted, but who knew that the Tibetan envoy did not let go at all, and no one knew what he wanted. When the ministers had a headache and hollowed out their minds to think of countermeasures, Wang Guangyuan actually did the matter. King Ying not only made great achievements, but also got twenty good horses, how can this great thing not surprise people?