Chapter 177 Battle for Military Power?
"But Mr. Zhang has more than enough courage, but not enough officials."
What Zhao Ye means is that Uncle Zhang Yekong has personal courage, but his administrative ability is very average.
He said that Zhang Shuye's ability to govern was an allusion to yesterday's mutiny among the recruits.
Although the matter has been dealt with, its impact has just begun.
"Martial men are the source of great chaos in the world. In the five generations of warriors, they disrupted the government, and the emperor became a laughing stock, and all life was in ruins. Only when Taizu wore a yellow robe and initiated civil rule did the world in the Song Dynasty achieve peace."
Zhao Ye continued to speak, and Zhao Ning continued to listen.
"The mutiny of soldiers is related to the safety of the country and cannot be ignored."
"Well, what you said makes sense!" Zhao Ning expressed his agreement on the surface, but was dismissive in his heart.
Zhao Kuangyin's reputation was ruined by these literati, who often made complaints about Taizu.
Zhao Kuangyin really wanted to start civil administration, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he began to recruit scholars from all over the world to serve as officials in the court.
After all, in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, rituals and music collapsed, wars were fought every year, ten houses were empty, and the world had been tired for a long time, so it needed a stable environment.
Moreover, by the Song Dynasty, the aristocratic families had been disintegrated, and poor people had the opportunity to serve the king in the temple.
It is correct to use literati to govern the country.
But Zhao Kuangyin did not overly improve the treatment of literati, he just treated this matter with a normal attitude.
Moreover, the so-called release of military power over a cup of wine does not mean suppressing military men. It is just that after the emperor ascends the throne, he takes back the military power of generals to prevent the generals from losing their power and prepare for the subsequent division of civil and military work.
In almost all stable countries in the 21st century, civilians control the military and government, and military attaches lead the troops.
Zhao Kuangyin's approach itself is a great progress of the times.
If you don't see it, it would be easy for the Han and Tang warriors to control the military and government at the central level, and it would be easy for them to create local separatist regimes or even military governments.
Once this happens, it will be a nightmare for everyone in the world.
It was his younger brother Zhao Guangyi who really started to move in the direction of literati on a large scale. A typical example was the large-scale expansion of the number of people in the imperial examination.
During the Zhenzong period of the Song Dynasty, the number of people in the imperial examinations was further expanded, the number was expanded crazily, and the salaries of literati were raised crazily.
Think about it, who implements the policy of improving the treatment of civilians?
Yes, it was carried out by literati.
Since it was carried out by civil servants, of course they had to use force to execute it, which eventually led to excessive force and an explosion in the number of civil servants.
This led to the phenomenon that half of the treasury revenue during the Renzong period was used to support literati, which further triggered the Qingli Reform, followed by the Wang Anshi Reform of the Shenzong Dynasty.
Everything has a process, but the problem is that Zhao Kuangyin was the founding emperor, so all the weird policies that came out later were attributed to him in order to find irrefutable basis for his arguments.
Zhao Ye's words are nothing more than clichés, and he wants to use this mutiny to intimidate Zhao Guan's family with his remarks of "military rebellion."
In the past, ministers of the Song Dynasty basically used this method to put pressure on the emperor.
This kind of routine is just like a businessman constantly intimidating those girls in order to sell goods.
In addition to paying for their own greed, people often "pay" for their own fears.
When Zhao Ye heard that the emperor agreed with his words again, he was so happy that he almost flew up.
It seems that Zhao Guan’s family is already grudged about what happened yesterday!
In this way, it is not too difficult to impeach Zhang Shuye and remove Zhang Shuye from power.
Zhao Ning further said: "I am lucky to have a pillar of the country like you, and the Song Dynasty is lucky. You recommended Fan Ne, the Minister of War, and I will discuss it with Zhang Shuye."
In fact, Vanne already held an important position in the Privy Council.
If Fan Neyu is involved, can it be said that this is a power-grabbing drama between the Privy Council and the Military Council?
The Privy Council used to be in charge of the military and political affairs of the country, but Zhao Ning separated the military and political affairs of the central line and assigned them to the Military and Political Council.
If the center line under the control of the Military and Political Council loses in this war, the Military and Political Council will inevitably be attacked by everyone and will naturally be dismissed.
But the center line played very well, not only defending Wu Shu's attack, but also scoring a great victory in Shangdang.
The new government office of the Military and Political Yuan has finally gained a foothold.
But this situation is equivalent to completely devolving part of the power of the Privy Council.
This is unacceptable to many people.
Zhao Ye said: "Your Majesty is wise."
If you want to destroy a woman, everything must go her way.
If you want to kill a minister, give him constant affirmations and don't allow anyone to question him. The most direct and effective way is to give him an iron certificate.
Of course, Zhao Ye does not need the iron certificate of the alchemy, he is just a speculator, and he always wants to know the emperor's thoughts.
Now he knows, and he also knows the success rate of the next step.
After Zhao Ye retreated, Zhao Ning felt that the conversation with Zhao Ye was still very meaningful.
So far, Zhao Ning has not been able to completely confirm that this is the Privy Council and the Military Council seizing power, but at least he knows that this mutiny is just a scene deliberately staged by someone.
However, there are indeed problems with the Military and Political Council. Otherwise, how could there be a chief to collect money and lead people to work?
It’s not scary to have problems, but it’s the scariest thing not to solve them.
Of course, Zhao Ning encouraged Zhao Ye not out of recognition of Zhao Ye, he just wanted to see what Zhao Ye wanted to do next and whether Fan Ne was really involved.
If I didn't punish Zhang Shuye for this matter, what other tricks would they come up with?
After Zhao Ye returned, he ran to Fan Ne not long after and told Fan Ne what Zhao Guan's family had said to him today, adding even more detail to it.
"Shilang Fan, are your people capable?"
Fan Ne said: "Don't worry, there will definitely be results in these two days."
April 20, Luozhou.
Huang Qianshan, the magistrate of Luozhou, has just finished writing a report on the situation in Luozhou to Daming Mansion. Currently, there are many refugees and soldiers and civilians who were defeated in Xingzhou in the Luozhou area.
It seems to have formed a problem for people's livelihood.
In his notes to Zhengshitang, Huang Qianshan also used very miserable words to describe the current people's livelihood in Luozhou.
The core meaning is that there was a food shortage and thieves were everywhere. Those soldiers who were defeated from Xingzhou were regrouped and naturally got a bite to eat and continued in the army.
But those who were not regrouped became bandits in the mountains and fields in order to survive, blocking roads, robbing people, killing people and taking goods.
After writing down the commonplace issues, Huang Qianshan ordered people to send them to Daming Mansion, with the purpose of asking Zongze for food.
Not long after, a young man walked in. He saluted and said, "Huang Zhizhou."
"Chongwen, you're here, sit down quickly."
"Thank you, Huang Zhizhou."
"Chongwen, I am really lucky to have a young and promising official like you in Luozhou. I have worked hard for you during this period."
Lu Zhaoyi immediately stood up, bowed and said: "Huang Zhizhou said something serious. If Huang Zhizhou hadn't recommended this official, he would have been a low-ranking official with Xianfu at home."
"Chongwen, there is something very urgent and important that you need to do now."
Chapter completed!