Back to the Song Dynasty as a tyrant

Wang Boyan's heart tightened in the crowd, and cold sweat broke out on his back.

"How did Wang Shizhe, the former chief registrar of the soap shop, die?"

"I don't know!"

"I still want to quibble even now!"

"It's all done by Wang Shilang's ministers!"

The eyes of the crowd shifted to Wang Boyan in an instant, Wang Boyan's face turned pale, and he walked out tremblingly, shouting: "I am wronged..."

"Whether you're wronged or not is up to you now!"

"His Majesty……"

Zhao Ning ignored Wang Boyan and asked Li Zhuo, "How did Wang Shizhe die?"

"It was Wang Shilang's idea. He asked me to see Wang Shizhe, and then Wang Shizhe committed suicide!" Li Zhuo trembled all over, his mind completely collapsed, and he said whatever he thought of.

"You went to see him and committed suicide. Why?"

"Wang Shizhe...he...he received a lot of kickbacks when he was in the soap shop."

"How did you know?"

"Because the raw material supplier of the soap shop was recommended by the minister."

"You took it too?"

"Wang Boyan asked me to take it!"

"Your Majesty! He's talking nonsense..."

"Your Majesty, it is absolutely true that when Yue Fei resigned, it was Wang Boyan who asked his ministers to find some storytellers among the people and deliberately fabricated the facts in order to pour dirty water on Yue Fei so that Yue Fei would never come back to the court!"

Wang Boyan hurriedly said: "Your Majesty! Li Zhuo is greedy and shameless, his words cannot be trusted!"

Unexpectedly, Li Zhuo said again: "Your Majesty, I didn't take the money alone, I also gave Liu some of the wine!"

Liu Yu on one side was stunned on the spot, and knelt on the ground with a thud: "Your Majesty! He is wronging my minister! He is wronging my minister!"

Li Zhuo hurriedly continued: "Liu Jijiu also told the minister that if those state-owned commercial companies are transferred to private companies, it will be difficult for us to get more money from them in the future, so we must oppose this matter!"

"Your Majesty, he is talking nonsense..."

"Zhou Botong!" Zhao Ning shouted.

"Chen...Chen never took money from Li Zhuo!"

Zhao Ning said: "What do you think about the transfer of state-owned enterprises to private companies?"

Zhou Botong immediately said righteously: "This is a state policy that benefits the country and the people. Anyone with a conscience will support it!"

Zhao Guanjia looked around again, ignoring the shouts of Liu Yu, Wang Boyan and others, and asked everyone: "What do you think?"

Everyone immediately said: "This is a national policy that benefits the country and the people, how dare I not support it!"

Zhao Ning said again: "What about legislation?"

Everyone shouted one after another: "That's to protect the people, that's His Majesty's sage's grace, even if I go through fire and water, I will not hesitate!"

It seems that the apparent resistance of the House of Representatives has also been eliminated.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! Li Zhi wronged my minister!" Liu Yu crawled forward.

Zhao Guanjia ignored him, but asked Han Xiaozhou: "Han Shangshu, according to the current laws of the Song Dynasty, what is the crime of embezzlement and conspiring to kill the court officials?"

"Reporting to His Majesty is a capital offense."

"Oh, capital crime, then there is nothing I can do, take it down and hand it over to the Ministry of Punishment for trial."

"Your Majesty, for the sake of your contribution to the New Deal, please spare your life! Your Majesty..."

The sound faded away.

This case stirred up waves in the Song Dynasty, which had been quiet for a long time.

The huge controversy about the transfer of state-owned enterprises to private enterprises suddenly disappeared in a short period of time.

The voices that originally planned to oppose the "Great Song Temporary Contract Law" and the "Great Song Temporary Labor Law" are gone.

As for Wang Boyan, Liu Yu, and Li Zhuo, there is already a large amount of evidence. The first trial in Dali Temple passed in almost one day, and the review by the Ministry of Criminal Justice took only two days.

All three were sentenced to death and beheaded a few days later.

This case is very strange. It is reasonable to say that the three of them were unknown, but the criminal department quickly closed it.

In people's minds, it seems that it has been a long time since an important court official has been killed.

This incident caused a great sensation among the people.

As a negative case, it quickly brought out the justice of the "Song Temporary Contract Law" and "Song Temporary Labor Law", so that the people cheered from top to bottom.

In the next month, all the government servants in Kaifeng Mansion patrolled the streets like they had been injected with chicken blood.

Whenever someone reported that a trading company violated the "Great Song Temporary Labor Law", immediately a bunch of office servants rushed over frantically to invite the owner of the trading company out for a cup of tea.

It is said that a man who has been working as a government servant for ten years and has not been promoted, found that the soap shop of the richest man in Tokyo, Ma Weizhe, was operating illegally and generally lowered the salaries of employees.

This matter quickly spread in the law enforcement system of Kaifeng Mansion.

The eyes of the yamen are shining, like wolves looking for lambs on the grassland.

So much so that the businessmen in Kaifeng Mansion began to recite the "Da Song Temporary Contract Law" and "Da Song Temporary Labor Law" overnight, and went to the factory the next day to get a raise for those who should get a raise and get off work for those who should get off work.

Of course, businessmen will never consider this the norm, and most of them remain on the sidelines.

Many people have always believed that these are the three fires of the people below in order to cater to the new prime minister above.

That being the case, let's burn it together.

When the rumors pass, those who should cut their salaries will cut their salaries, and those who should work overtime will work overtime to death!

From the perspective of the court, this matter is not over yet.

In the next few months, this matter was sent to various parts of the country by the East Mansion.

Its purpose is also very clear, let officials from all walks of life know.

If anyone opposes the transfer of state-owned enterprises and the "Contract Law" and "Labor Law" in the future, they may have similar experiences with Li Zhuo and others, and the judiciary should check it out!

This undoubtedly cleared the barriers of disagreement for this restructuring.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, in mid-April, Zhao Ning announced the establishment of the Parliamentary Court.

The bureaucrats who had just recovered from the transfer of state-owned enterprises and the "Labor Law" and other incidents, when they heard that the Parliamentary Court was coming, they all looked like chickens with fried feathers.

For a time, the court was up and down, and the wind was surging.

Chapter 1519 Zhu Xi (first update)

The scholars of the Song Dynasty have never encountered such a situation today.

They looked through the ancient books and searched for the holy scriptures of the sages, but they couldn't find such an existence as the Parliamentary Court no matter what.

Since ancient times, legislation has been made for the king, and legislation is made for the king.

That's why it is said that it is the law of the king, not the law of the people.

The essence of the king's law is the king's law, and the king's words follow the law.

But the existence of the Senate is really strange. He actually set up two judges in each administrative office.

The initiation of legislation is from top to bottom, but the procedure of legislation is from bottom to top.

What is even more surprising is that the Dongfu, headed by the prime minister, has completely lost its legislative power.

As we all know, the tax is under the management of Dongfu.

For example, Dongfu now feels that there are too many commercial tax evasions among the people, which have seriously affected the tax revenue of the court.

This brought up a problem that some people resolutely opposed: Dongfu lost its legislative power, and there were loopholes in the commercial law. If Dongfu wanted to amend it, it had to go through the process to the Parliamentary Court. The Parliamentary Court was convening a discussion. The process of this discussion was very complicated. up.

It is so complicated that the House of Representatives asks various state capitals and counties to propose amendments to the law, then discusses the matter, and finally votes to make a decision. After the decision is made, special people are organized to amend the bill.

After the revision is completed, it will be submitted for review. The first trial will be reviewed by the Court of Appeal, the second review will be jointly reviewed by the East Mansion and the Court of Appeal, and the final review will go to His Majesty the Emperor.

After a complete set, it may take a year if it is fast, or ten years if it is slow.

Immediately aroused strong opposition from a group of people.

There is no way of knowing how many people opposed this group, but the voice of opposition has grown rapidly in just over half a month.

The reason is also very simple: in this way, if the imperial court wants to solve civil problems, it will be tied up, making it impossible to solve the problems in a timely manner.

Objecting from the starting point of solving the problem, this objection reason is not so easy to overturn or be rejected.

Time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it was June of 20th Jingkang, which was the season when the summer wind was rolling and the lotus was green.

On this day, a young man rode a horse and arrived in Bianjing in high spirits.

His arrival caused a sensation in the academic circles of Bianjing.

To be precise, it caused a sensation in the Confucian world, and people from other schools also came here after hearing about it.

After all, these days, the academic circles of Song Dynasty have blossomed everywhere.

For example, the new science of physics, law, marketing, currency and so on.

Gephysics is divided into physics, biology, agronomy, and astronomy.

There is also a new Taoism.

Confucianism has changed from a dominant school to just one of many academic schools.

After all, Xinxue has been grasped for more than ten years. If a teenager starts to learn Xinxue at the age of seven, he has already grown to more than twenty years.

This is the rise of a new generation.

But it is impossible to say that Confucianism has completely disappeared.

The reason why Confucianism has been able to prosper in the past dynasties is also due to the irreplaceable advantages of Confucianism.

The benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and faith advocated by Confucianism are all good in themselves.

At least many Confucian scholars in the era of Song Zhezong and Song Huizong are still alive.

The arrival of this young man seems to have awakened the long-silent Confucianism in Bianjing.

It is said that he read the "Book of Filial Piety" at the age of five, was able to draw gossip at the age of six, and was familiar with Confucian classics at the age of ten. Locally he was called a child prodigy.

Later, someone reported his name, recommended him to Bianjing, and entered Bianjing University, but he himself refused.

He said that the world should be governed by the learning of sages, and the new learning is practical learning, not the learning of governing the world.

His name is Zhu Xi.

In the summer of the 20th year of Jingkang, Zhu Xi went to Bianjing for the first time.

Before his arrival, his articles and books had been circulated in Bianjing for a long time.

Until he himself arrived, countless people went outside the city to welcome this young Confucian master.

Therefore, besides Qinglian and the singing of cicadas, there are many more stories about this young man in Bianjing on this day.

In the evening, news of Zhu Xi's arrival in Bianjing reached Zhao Ning, who was fishing in the back garden.

"Zhu Xi?"

"Yes, the official, I have inquired about it. I heard that this person has been a child prodigy since he was a child, and he takes the promotion of the sage's theory as his own responsibility. He is only 16 years old this year, but his books have been published in various places a few years ago, and he has received a lot of attention. Lots of good reviews."

"Oh, I remember you mentioned it to me before." Zhao Ning said.

Seeing that Zhao Guan's face was as usual, Gao Qiu said tentatively: "But I think this person is academically dishonest and demagogic. Now that he has arrived in Bianjing, all the Confucian scholars in the city are very happy to welcome him. I think that this person should be controlled."

"Get it under control?"

"Yes, lest he confuse the public with his rumors in Bianjing and affect Xinxue."

As he said that, Gao Qiu also took out a book written by Zhu Xi called "Tian Li".

"Officials, look, he said that people must eliminate their own desires in order to make benevolence, righteousness, reason, and wisdom eternal." Gao Li held the book and said with certainty.

Zhao Ning took it and read it.

Zhu Xi in the official history did not write this book. Zhu Xi in this era is probably influenced by many new studies.

But he still walked into the pit of science.