Back to the Song Dynasty as a tyrant

"Cai Xianggong is not confused at all, it's just that he is old."

Cai Mao's heart skipped a beat, there was definitely something in what Zhao Guanjia said.

Cai Mao defeated Zhao Ding because Cai Mao knew that Zhao Ding's current position was very embarrassing. He had been prime minister for 17 years, and Zhao Guan's family had the idea of ​​changing people.

It's just that Zhao Ding has made great contributions, has an excellent reputation, and has disciples all over the world. It is not so easy for the Zhao family to change the prime minister.

So Cai Mao took a dangerous move at this critical moment.

But unexpectedly, this matter was much more complicated than he imagined.

In Qin Hui's case and Li Hui's case back then, Cai Mao was indeed behind the scenes.

But what Cai Mao did was very clean, or he thought it was very clean.

Chapter 1510 Saints Don't Die, Thieves Don't Stop (Second Change)

It wasn't until someone began to impeach Cai Mao based on Li Hui's case that Cai Mao realized that someone behind this probably wanted him to resign.

As for who that person was, Cai Mao decided to submit his resignation after thinking about it for a while.

Cai Mao laughed a few times in embarrassment, he didn't dare to say anything more, Zhao Guan's family was already benevolent.

Zaizhi's fate, except Qin Hui's death, was a good death.

"I plan to set up another school in Jinling, and I want you to be the head of the mountain there, what do you think?"

Cai Mao was stunned for a moment, now he couldn't figure out what kind of medicine was sold in Zhao Guan's gourd.

"Didn't you always advocate that the court should not interfere with the people too much? With your resignation, this kind of thinking gradually weakened in the court. Isn't it a pity?"

"The minister is willing to go."

Cai Mao left Bianjing in the midst of controversy, and his grandson Cai Heng was dismissed from office and left with him.

In November, Li Guang, who had been in Jiangdong, was suddenly transferred back to the capital and appointed Minister of Honglu Temple.

Half a month later, Li Guang was appointed as Shangshu Youcheng, entered the political affairs hall, and became the new ruler of the Song Dynasty.

In December, Shaanxi Chief Envoy Hu Quan was ordered to return to Beijing, and the power center of the Song Dynasty began to reconfigure personnel.

On December 25th, at the end of the 18th year of Jingkang, Zhao Guanjia convened Zaizhiyuqian to discuss politics.

The theme of the political discussion is simple: restructuring!

This time, Zhao Ning did not listen to Zaizhi first, but spoke first himself. He said a few key points:

[-]. Restructuring of state-run commercial corporations.

"Currently, some state-run commercial corporations controlled by the imperial court and local government have become places where many people eat vegetarian meals. Every penny collected by the imperial court from the common people was created by the sweat of the common people in the Song Dynasty. State-run trading companies, some people just suck it into their pockets."

The conclusion drawn is also very clear: except for the necessary commercial companies for the people's livelihood, such as iron smelting department, grain storage department, salt department, and gunpowder department, which must be controlled by the imperial court, the rest can be delegated to the private sector.

For example, soap workshops, tattoo workshops, wine workshops, vinegar workshops, etc., have all been converted into private trading companies.

The implication is that the necessary strategic resources are all controlled by the imperial court, and all products without thresholds that rely on large-scale production can be thrown out.

Second, further strengthen the control over officials' behavior.

Without the order of the imperial court, officials at the road level are not allowed to inspect the prefectures at will.

Without the order of the imperial court, state officials are not allowed to visit counties and towns at will.

This is to prevent the situation where superior officials go down to cheat food and drink when they have nothing to do. When various officials go to the local area, the local officials force the people to present flowers and ask the people to welcome them in order to welcome their superiors.

Therefore, without instructions from Bianjing, the superior cannot move around at will.

This article was actually stipulated by Li Shimin in the early Tang Dynasty.

Li Shimin got the inspiration from the lesson of the demise of the Sui Dynasty.

Most of the overwhelmed civilians are caused by officials, among which there are many unscrupulous things in order to cater to the superior officials, and it is the common people who finally pay the bill.

Officials at all levels from the imperial court to the local government must regulate their behavior and not use official power indiscriminately.

That's why Zhao Ningcai said that Li Shimin ruled the country with Taoism and rested with the people, which greatly restricted the power of local officials.

Not only that, Li Shimin also had great restrictions on the officials of the capital, such as the Tang Dynasty's group-level discussion system.

In order to satisfy all the bureaucrats, he himself also practiced self-restraint, and did not use the king's power indiscriminately.

Otherwise, how could the rule of Zhenguan appear in one generation?

[-]. Regarding the improvement of the laws of the Song Dynasty, a court was set up as a legislative office.

The name of the Court comes from Wang Anshi's "Response to Sima's Admonishment Book" which says "discuss the law and fix it to the court".

It means to formulate a legal system and revise it in the court.

This was the idea of ​​Wang Anshi's reform back then.

In fact, the Great Song Dynasty in history was the dynasty with the most complete laws, and the complexity of the procedures was unprecedented among ancient dynasties.

The Zhao officials in the Northern Song Dynasty also obeyed those laws to a certain extent.

However, the birth of the Parliamentary Court here is obviously not as simple as Wang Anshi said to discuss and formulate laws and rest in the court.

Instead, parliamentary courts have been established from the imperial court to the road level, state capital level, and county level.

This council is a yamen independent from the military, administration, and judiciary.

Its function is to legislate.

Speaking of this, Li Guang stood up and said: "Your Majesty, I dare you."

"Let's say it's impossible."

"The Legislative Yuan's legislation is likely to cause a lot of opposition from the entire court."

Li Guang has his reasons for saying this. In the past, the laws were all discussed by officials, and finally the essence was compiled.

Now a yamen, independent of the administration, military administration, and judiciary, is specially set up to make legislation.

What if the law that is enacted is not good for everyone?

This is an easy question to think about.

But Zhao Ning asked, "Why do you object?"

Zaizhi look at me and I look at you, officials, aren't you asking nonsense?

Yu Yunwen came out and said: "Because the legislative power is not in the hands of bureaucrats, they worry that they will not be able to control it."

Zhao Ning asked again: "Why are they worried?"

"Because everyone has selfish intentions." Yu Yunwen said again.

Being able to say this kind of thing in person shows that Yu Yunwen has a fair heart.

Zhao Ning said with a smile: "Everyone has selfishness. If we don't restrict it, the peace in this world will soon fall into turmoil again."

"I was reading "Zhuangzi" a few days ago. Zhuangzi said that saints are immortal and robbers are not dead. What do you mean?"

Hu Quan came out and said: "The morality of a saint is artificially flaunted. Everything is blamed on artificiality. People have selfishness, but virtue cannot be correct. Since everyone has selfish desires, how to judge whether morality is true or false? ?”

The successor ministers present all acquiesced that everyone is not an ordinary official, so there is no need to play the trick of singing praises here, otherwise they would not be able to enter today's imperial court.

Now that the words have been spoken, there is no need to hide them.

Qian Yuqing came out and said: "Since it is difficult to tell the truth from the fake by man-made, but some people flaunt themselves with holiness, specialize in dirty things, harm others and benefit themselves, such people who deceive the world and steal their reputation are shameless thieves. If we want to put an end to such things, we must Don't overemphasize holiness anymore, if you don't deliberately emphasize holiness, no one will use holiness for personal gain."

"That's why it is said that saints never die, but thieves never stop."

Everyone nodded involuntarily.

Zhuangzi is one of the representatives of Taoism.

The so-called Taoism governing the country is by no means finding some Taoist priests to believe in Taoism.

Taoism and Taoist scholarship are two completely different things.

Not deliberately flaunting holiness does not mean disrespecting those with good moral character.

The so-called Taoism follows nature, that is, it does not deliberately praise or belittle it, it is just like that.

Tao is like that.

Chapter 1511 The new prime minister (first update)

Zhao Ning asked again: "What kind of person most hopes that the saint will last forever?"

Yu Yunwen said: "Naturally, those who are ignorant and incompetent, they hold the plaque of saint all day long and pretend to be a pious gentleman. As long as this is the case, they don't need to have political achievements in the local area. They even put on a gentlemanly face to the outside world, rape and plunder in private, if the world no longer flaunts holiness, wouldn't they lose this plaque, how will they achieve their goals in the future?"

Zhao Ning said again: "If you don't flaunt your holiness, will some people think that there is no difference between a person who has done a good deed and a person who has done a bad deed?"

Yu Yunwen asked back: "Why do people do good things?"

This question was asked in the depths of the souls of everyone present.

Mencius said that human nature is good.

People do good things when they are kind.

But Yu Yunwen also said: "A farmer in a village does good deeds because he does not want others to do evil to him. It is a kind of self-protection for ordinary people, so parents will educate their children to do more good deeds. , then everyone around him will avoid him, and when he encounters difficulties in the future, no one will help him."

Qian Yuqing on the side glanced at the few people around him, feeling in his heart that Yu Yunwen's rhetoric had completely deviated from Confucianism.

The ministers around him also grew up in the New Deal, and they are all realists who have experienced bloody storms.

When they heard Yu Yunwen's words, they would never be like the juniors who read two books in a certain part and thought they were bathed in the holy light.

In fact, Confucianism in the Northern Song Dynasty was in a transition period.

Morality has not yet been turned into a weapon of selfishness on a large scale.

After the Southern Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, Confucianism completely began to become cancerous.

As for things like chastity archways, they are all competing with each other. Whoever has more archways will be more virtuous and will be sought after and praised by the world.

Those who don't have a chastity archway don't seem to have done any evil, as if they are inferior to others, and it seems immoral not to praise those who have a chastity archway.

This is called moral monopoly.

Under such a situation, whenever a person with no talent and a mean heart sees that others have made achievements, he will shout out the classic saying: You must be a good person!

If that person does not respond humbly with the sentence "I must be a good person", then that person must be a shameless person and will inevitably encounter group attacks.

As for whether that person has actually made achievements, it is no longer important.

Yu Yunwen continued: "So I feel that a person's good deeds are not necessarily related to whether he deliberately flaunts his holiness. The common people's good deeds and mutual help are very simple emotions. On the contrary, some people with ulterior motives want to use this Use emotions to seek personal gain for yourself, and harm the country and the people.”

"So, don't you persuade people to be kind?" Hu Quan asked again.

"We need to persuade and tell our children in the books of each school to be a kind person from an early age, because that is to protect them from growing up smoothly and making more friends." Yu Yunwen added, "As for Praise and praise are unnecessary."

Regarding this matter, Yu Yunwen seemed to have a lot to say.

He continued: "Regarding the matter of praise, a certain person has taken it seriously recently. Yue Pengju resigned. Some people feel sorry, some are happy, and some curse. Why is it so?"

Hu Quan said: "What Binfu means is that if someone praises Yue Fei and asks others to sing along, if they don't speak up or speak slowly, they will be attacked by others?"

"There is indeed such a phenomenon." Yu Yunwen said, "Pengju is a person who understands righteousness. He is admired very much. History books will give him the most fair evaluation. He did what he could do. He never thought I want the folks to praise him like this, and I don't want one group of people not to sing him, and another group of people attack him. He, Yue Pengju, doesn't have that much thought, but some people praise him too much, and some people in the court think that it is Yue Fei's people. What they do in private is to gain a greater reputation, so how can the people tell the difference between right and wrong?"

"So, all things that are too beautified are whitewashed and have other purposes. The scary thing is that we can't tell who the person with other purposes is."

"Let these people who are good at drilling business be promoted, and those who really work hard will be squeezed out, not only the loss of folk talents, but also the loss of the court, the loss of the Song Dynasty, and the loss of the people of the world!"

The crowd took it for granted.

In recent years, in the Song Dynasty, there are still few officials seeking personal gain under the slogan of morality, serving the country and the people?

Didn't Zhao Guan's family kill such officials?

But if the group's fanatical pursuit of holiness doesn't disappear, can those hypocrites be killed?

Zhao Guanjia sighed, and said: "Since our monarchs and ministers have reached a consensus, then we have to rely on you."

"I would like to do my best for His Majesty."

Zhao Guanjia said: "No, it's for the world."

Heavy snow covered the bustling Bianjing. The 18th year of Jingkang passed quietly with the ringing of the New Year.

The first major event in Jingkang's 19 years was the announcement of the Prime Minister of Song Dynasty.

Yu Yunwen!

This undoubtedly caused a great shock in the ruling and opposition parties.