As Zhao Bing's wedding was in full swing, the renovation project of the East Palace suddenly stopped. The one who ordered was not him or the empress dowager, but the Secretariat. He was very puzzled and called Zhou Xiang, who was in charge of the project, to ask what was going on. Unexpectedly, it was a reason that made people laugh. It was just that his renovation cost of the Zhiyuantang was not approved by the Secretariat and was impeached by the censors. Now he had to conduct a comprehensive review of the renovation of the East Palace to see if there were any places that exceeded the standards.
"Fuck me, they need to talk too much about my affairs. You can do it as much as possible and let them talk to me if you have something to say!" Seeing that the established wedding time is approaching, the project has stopped, and the reason used is this, I couldn't help but say furiously.
"Your Majesty, you still need to be cautious in this matter, don't be impulsive!" Zhou Xiang did not obey the order immediately as before, but instead advised him.
"Why, don't you even listen to my words?" Zhao Bing said with a deep face after hearing this.
"Your Majesty, how dare I?" Zhou Xiang immediately knelt down and kowtowed, "Your Majesty, this matter is not because my subordinate refuses to obey orders, but because there is a hidden truth."
"Say!" Zhao Bing said sternly.
"Your Majesty, the construction of the palace has been customized before. No matter how big or small, it must be reviewed by the Shangshu Province before it is allowed to manufacture. Otherwise, the payment will not be allowed. If it exceeds the amount, it will be questioned."
"There are also such rules, why have I never heard of them!" Zhao Bing frowned and wondered. In Qiongzhou, the palace was built or renovated in one sentence, and it was not approved by anyone.
"Your Majesty, the Secretariat has never asked about it before. He can move to Lin'an on his own. When repairing the Northern Palace, someone mentioned the old things again. However, Your Majesty was not in the palace at that time, so he had never heard of it." Zhou Xiang reported truthfully.
"I remember that day I asked you to repair the Northern Palace in front of the Prime Minister, and the money used was all from the inner warehouse. I did not use a penny in the court, so I had no objection!" Zhao Bing recalled what happened that day and said.
"Your Majesty said it is good, but later my subordinates thought that the North Palace was a little small, and Your Majesty led his army to fight westward, so he asked the Prime Minister to expand the scope. After discussing with the ministers, he agreed to transfer the two palaces into the North Palace and allocated a sum of money. My subordinates were very happy. But now I think it was the matter that happened at that time, so they had planned it!" Zhou Xiang kowtowed again and said.
"Oh, I understand, get up and talk!" Zhao Bing immediately understood after hearing this. When they were in Qiongzhou in the past, they were suppressed by themselves and could not raise their heads, and their prime minister's power was greatly weakened. Now the situation is getting better, so they think about setting rules for themselves.
In his impression, they all said, "All the kings under the world are the land of the kings." The emperor is rich all over the world, which means that the wealth in the world belongs to the emperor, and he can spend whatever he wants. But today, he said that he spent money like the Queen of England and would have to be approved by the parliament. However, Zhao Bing also knew that the Song Dynasty had many strange rules, and maybe there were really.
"Your Majesty doesn't know anything. There was indeed such a statement before. All the costs of the inner court need to be approved by the prime minister of the outer court. If the prime minister is not allowed, the inner court will not be able to take action. If the censors think that the court approved the improper expenses of the inner court, they will also propose impeachment!" Zhou Xiang stood up after showing his respects and explained.
"There is such a thing, are you joking?" Zhao Bing was angry and laughed. Which of his ancestors was kicked by a donkey or caught by a door. He could actually accept this condition. He must have done something that was struck by lightning!
"Your Majesty, this is not a nonsense, but a fact that this is true!" Zhou Xiang thought that the little emperor was still blaming him, so he quickly bowed.
"It's really there? Come on, sit down and talk." Zhao Bing thought it was just a matter of saying it, but he didn't expect that an emperor would accept such an unequal treaty, which aroused his interest and let him tell him to himself.
"Thank you!" Zhou Xiang breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this. He knew that the little emperor no longer blamed him, so he changed to the original appearance of a slave and told the story he had heard vividly...
It was said that the incident happened in the Renzong Dynasty. He used his private money to reward each monk who entered the inner court to perform rituals. However, because he was worried that he would not let go of the censors, he had to instruct the monks who were rewarded to hide the purple robe in his arms and quietly go out to avoid being caught by others. He said, "Sundays to come, I will put the Luo in my arms and do not let people see him, for fear that the censors would have written statements." It made him look like a thief. Why are you so hiding? Because you are afraid that the censors would criticize him when they see him.
The other thing was made by Renzong. The concubines in the harem asked to become officials, and the subsequent one was to increase the monthly money after the level was promoted. Of course, this matter must be approved by the government, and it is not up to the emperor alone. In order to please the concubines, Renzong surrendered the "Imperial Pen" and wrote "A certain palace and a certain official" and all the concubines were happy. On the day of salary, the promoted concubines each sent the imperial pen to request an increase in their salary, but some officials did not dare to do it, so they all retreated. The concubines all went to Renzong to complain, and they could only smile and disperse the people, with no choice.
Another incident happened during the Shaoxing period. Huizong died in the Jin Dynasty. Gaozong replaced the imperial chair with an unpainted wooden chair while mourning for his father. One day, the Qiantang River Princess Qian came to the court and saw the dragon chair, and asked curiously: "Is this a chair made of sandalwood?" A concubine named Zhang covered her mouth and smiled: "In the palace ban, concubines and palace maids used rouge and soap acacia, and the prime minister had to ask, how dare they use sandalwood to make a chair?"
Therefore, even if the inner court wants to build a cage worth only a few dozen cents to be used to treat and remove mosquitoes, it must be approved by the court layer by layer, and the ministerial minister will be given the head office, the ministerial minister will be given the head office, the ministerial minister will be given the head office, the ministerial minister will be given the head office, the ministerial minister will be given the head office, the ministerial minister will be given the head office, the court will be given the order, and the order will be given to the order to save money, and then the order will be given to the construction of luxury goods. In secret, it is necessary to use various means to achieve the goal of limiting the emperor's power.
"It turns out that Gong Zhuang dances his sword intent is in Pei Gong!" Zhao Bing snorted coldly after hearing this, "Master Zhou, you will re-enter the venue tomorrow. If someone stops it, let them come to argue with me."
"Yes, my subordinates obey the order and immediately ordered the craftsmen in the craftsmen to work!" Zhou Xiang nodded, but then he asked again, "Your Majesty, what if they forced the order to stop the work?"
"What do you think should I do?" Zhao Bing asked with a glaring eyes after hearing this.
"I deserve to die. If they dare to stop the construction, I will beat them all out!" Zhou Xiang slapped twice in the face and then saluted.
"Yes, I'm not afraid of being big. I'm responsible for everything, so let it go!" Zhao Bing nodded with great satisfaction. But he thought in his heart that he must suppress this unhealthy trend...
Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, the emperor advocated the rule of the world with the scholars and officials, so that the political atmosphere in the court and the opposition was quite open-minded. Song Taizu once claimed that he did not kill people by words, thus forming the basic principle of the "democratic system of scholars and officials" and establishing a civil servant system that "respected literature and suppressed martial arts". The establishment of the civil servant system in the Song Dynasty made the traditional "noble politics and military politics" basically withdraw from the historical stage of feudal China from then on"; and made the subsequent feudal society of China continue to continue with a unified situation; at the same time, it led to the rise of academies, and the emergence of scholars, and the classics, history, literature, science and technology, etc. were all very developed.
Compared with the dynasties before and after, the Song Dynasty's courtesy of the scholars and officials was unparalleled. Therefore, except for a few corrupt officials in the early Northern Song Dynasty who were sentenced to death, in the remaining periods, the scholars and officials rarely were punished by swords and axes. The most serious punishment for the ministers was to remove their posts and impartiality. Combining courtesy and preferential salaries and other measures cultivated the enthusiasm of the scholars and officials in the Song Dynasty to actively participate in politics and make decisions. They "opened up to take on current affairs and argued for glorious things."
However, the civil servant system of the Song Dynasty also brought about various serious political consequences. As a result, the national strength was weak, the border troubles were severe, the emphasis on civil servants over military force, and the bureaucratic team was too large. There is no need to say much about these. After Zhao Bing came to power, this situation had gradually changed. What made him feel uncomfortable was that the civil officials were too fond of meddling nostalgia, and from the actions of the emperor and the county officials, anyone who violated the rituals and deviated from the law would have tried his best to impeach. In order to reject some decisions of the emperor or the prime minister, some people who gave more than ten or even twenty memorials in succession would be resigned and demoted.
Of course, if you just make yourself uncomfortable, Zhao Bing can tolerate it, and think that some different voices are not all bad things. After all, is the truth also arose in the debate? However, if you have to care about everything in every detail, and don’t even let go of your own family affairs, or even interfere with your own privacy, then you will be spared. This behavior is no longer just making him uncomfortable, but disgusted.
With Zhao Bing's experience in fighting with civil officials over the years, he thought that this matter was definitely not for such a little repair cost, because both himself and the officials of the court knew that this amount of money could not be done much. The court implemented a system of "outside the internal control" for the consumption of the inner court, which seemed to be consistent with the principle of "making future generations and descendants create extravagant things without reason, destroying money and goods, and sending them to various places, and they must have a reasonable banner of "the censors to pay attention to it". In fact, it has a profound meaning.
Zhu Xi's words also exposed the intentions of the scholars. He said: (The monarch) All food, wine, clothes, tools, money, bribes, husband, eunuchs, palaces, concubines, were led by the tomb priests, and left and right, front and back, every movement and stillness was controlled by the law of the officials, without any gaps in the short time. In a flash, he could hide his private interests.
To interpret Zhao Bing, the person involved, it means that the emperor has no selfless wealth and should regard the world as his family. The emperor's private affairs are the public affairs of the world; the property of the world is also the property of the people of the world. Therefore, the monarch cannot squander excessively. How the monarch spends money needs the government's approval. That is, all expenses of the inner court must be approved by the prime minister of the external court. If the prime minister does not approve, the inner court will not get the money. If the cost of the inner court exceeds the budget, it will be investigated by the government. If the censors believe that the government has approved the improper consumption of the inner court, they will also file impeachment.
This system seems to be an advising emperor to take the world as the public. This concept seems to be in line with the idea of ​​modern democracy and is a progress of the times. If it is placed hundreds of years later, there will be no problem. But now it is a great rebellion. First of all, it violates the ideological basis of the feudal society's ruling ideological foundation of "all the kings under the world are kings, and all the kings and ministers are kings and ministers" and destroys the class relationship between kings and ministers.
If Zhao Bing's dark mind is used to make a deep interpretation, it will be even more shocking. He cannot help but suspect that the scholars and officials want to use the favor of the king to usurp the ranks and seize power, trying to put the emperor in vain and treat the puppets at their mercy. Their merits are theirs, and if they make mistakes, they will take the blame. In modern times, restricting consumption is known to anyone. This is the most effective way for me to discipline my children. The stupid children who have been cut off from their financial resources have to surrender and act according to their wishes.
The emperors of the Song Dynasty were not all foolish. Why did they often endure this tone even though they knew that this would weaken their power and even seize their throne? Zhao Bing thought that this was the wisdom of Taizu, which accurately calculated the hearts of scholars, and also broke the inherent aristocratic class through the imperial examinations, allowing the children of common people to enter the house, forming a system for scholars to govern the country.
The favorable experience of the Song government also greatly inspired the moral self-discipline spirit of the literati and officials of the Song Dynasty to practice Confucian ideals. They closely linked their destiny with the rise and fall of the feudal dynasty, for fear that the court would have bad policies to cause resistance from the ruling class. Therefore, the world was my responsibility and formed the excellent idea represented by Fan Zhongyan's "innate worries and worry about the world's happiness". This idea prompted generations of intellectuals to care about national affairs and people's livelihood, and played an important role in supporting the rule of the Zhao Song regime.
The royal family of Song Dynasty certainly appreciated this gratitude and enthusiasm, and therefore strengthened their confidence and determination to rely on this group of literati and doctors. The particularly important point is that these literati and doctors came from humble origins and had no power as their social background, so they did not have deep social foundations and strength. Their honor, disgrace, prosperity and decline were in the hands of the emperor. Even if they were extremely ministers, they would not pose a potential threat to the Zhao Song Dynasty.
With the support of his favor, the experience of the common officials of the common people determined their loyalty to the Zhao Song Dynasty and their dependence on the royal family. Their source of power determined that once they were dismissed, they would no longer have an impact on the government. If it were not for the emperor's favor to the old ministers, they would not even leave much political foundation in the court. Therefore, the emperor's indulgence and tolerance of the scholars and officials was based on ensuring that the throne did not lose.
Chapter completed!