Chapter 1,751 Complex Causes

Most of the magistrates in the Zhending area were warriors, and their administration was rough. They often treated the common people like soldiers, and even minor crimes were dealt with according to military law.

After Liu Fengshi took office, he gathered the prefects together, distributed pen and ink, and then sent them an article, saying that this was the latest decree of the Four-Route Transport Department. Each of you can write a review. You can read it here.

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The military officials and governors looked at each other in shock. This is a shame, Hanlin University scholar is cheating people. All my chapters and memorials are written by my master. How could this happen?

Liu Fengshi said, if you can't even write this article, then I will have no choice but to petition Your Majesty to have you all punished for not understanding the official documents...

The governors were dripping with cold sweat and hurriedly begged for mercy.

Liu Fengshi then warned: Ordinary people are not sergeants, just like you who don't know how to make a fuss, how can you deal with them according to military law?

After all, in the future, the crimes committed by sergeants will be governed by military law, and the crimes committed by the common people can only be based on Bi Siqing's "Song Xingtong Legal Affairs Class".

Ask your master to read that book more. If a similar situation happens in the future, I will have to ask you to come to the transfer office to write an essay again...

Well, I’ll treat it alone next time. I can’t afford to pay for food and drinks for so many people out of my own pocket...

The magistrates all left in awe, and the whole road to Hedong was in great peace.

There are countless funny things like this, but the effect is very good. The officials understand the intention of the transfer department far more deeply than the formal writing, and the execution is more effective.

Civilian law is much more lenient than military law. The people on Zhending Road were so happy that they compiled various jokes about this funny bachelor into a series and spread them. Now the old Yin family in Bianjing City has added a story called "Liu Yunshuai Riding a Donkey" to their storytelling business.

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The reason why Liu Fengshi was called this was because when Liu Fengshi first entered the Imperial Academy, everyone else was riding horses. He was poor, so he got a donkey to ride on.

Everyone said what he was right and wrong, so he hung a curtain behind the donkey's butt.

Everyone laughed even more and asked why he did this. Liu Fengshi replied seriously: "I'm just covering my mouth."

From now on, no one dares to say what is right or wrong about him. Are you kidding? Whoever said that, his mouth is like a donkey’s butt hole!

Su You admired Liu Fengshi's political methods very much and praised him more than once for "his laughter and anger are all written down".

Liu Fengshi was Da Su's best friend. When they were in the Hanlin Academy, they were equally capable of making jokes, and they often made honest people like Gu Lin dumbfounded.

But in terms of business, Liu Fengshi was much better than Da Su, and he successively served in the History Office, Privy Council, Criminal Department, Officials Department, and Household Department.

He was also outstanding in literature. He presided over the revision of national-level books such as "Xining Epigraphy and Stone Illustration", "Catalogue of Dunhuang Stone Chamber Posthumous Letters", "An Examination of the Thirteen Classics", etc. He can be called a generalist in liberal arts.

Su You was also bad, and often praised Liu Fengshi as an "expert in literature and history."

Zhao Xu took charge personally and was restored to the official position of the king, and the colander was returned to the throne.

Zhao Xu put on a show and did the whole thing, saying that this was a recent example and he shouldn't return it.

Liu Fengshi immediately said: "There are indeed recent examples. The problem is that Your Majesty can't knock on the door one by one and tell the world that there are recent examples of this."

"The common people don't care about this. They only look at what your Majesty did first and what he did next."

Even Zhao Xu was rendered speechless and immediately retracted his will.

How could Su You refuse to hand over such people when they came under his rule? He happened to have some free time after the autumn harvest, so he drove a small steamer and rushed to Zhending Mansion.

Today, in the upper reaches of the Hutuo River, ships can only reach Zhending.

In Huolu Town, across the river from Zhending Mansion, a huge military-industrial complex has been built.

This is the starting point of the Zhentai Railway and the end point of the Hutuo River Waterway.

Copper from Taiyuan, coal from Dingxiang, steel from Handan, petroleum and salt chemical products from Bohai, Binzhou and Jiaodong are all concentrated here.

Shi Yong, the most powerful industrial base manager in the Song Dynasty, personally promoted Hebei Military Industry. Now the most powerful 1,000-horsepower four-stroke diesel engine in the Song Dynasty is also installed in the Hebei Military Factory.

In the huge steel frame factory, Su You was watching the barrel of a national-defense general cannon being bored out by a huge boring machine.

This is the fortress cannon of the Song Dynasty. It has been upgraded for several generations. Its weight has not changed, it is still 2,500 kilograms, but its power has been increased several times.

Until now, the Song Dynasty has not had a warship capable of withstanding the power of the Zhenguo General's artillery, mainly because there is no point in spending the money.

However, Su You still recommended that the country build fortresses and deploy such heavy weapons in important cities such as the Four Capitals and ports with shipping companies such as Ming, Hang, Quan, Guang, Yun, Macheng and Longya Port.

The current gun was customized for the Weihaiwei Fort.

After appreciating the large machinery, Su You asked Shi Yong to take him to inspect the other products.

One of the thunder cannons attracted Su You's strong interest.

The main reason is that the gun mount of this gun is particularly weird.

The ordinary Thunderbolt artillery carriage has two wheels and weighs more than a thousand kilograms, but this carriage has four wheels, all of which are gear-shaped and covered with a ring of iron sheets.

"Treads? Did you make this thing?"

"Eh? This name is really appropriate!" Shi Yong said: "The Fourth Route Capital Strategy Bureau pointed out that the northern grassland was muddy after the rain, and the Thunderbolt cannon was relatively heavy and easily fell into the soft soil. So Scholar Shen imitated the pulley and came up with it.

This thing is quite useful."

Su You twitched the corner of his mouth. Damn it, this thing now looks like a naked little tank, but the barrel is backwards and there is no power. It is obviously pulled by horses.

"The subsidence problem has been solved, but how to turn it around?"

Shi Yong said: "Before transportation, a small two-wheeled device will be attached to the iron nose in front as a steering wheel, similar to the steering mechanism of a four-wheel carriage."

Knowing what Su You was going to ask, Shi Yong pointed to the three screws on the gun carriage: "When in use, rotate these three screws, put down the iron feet and lift the wheels off the ground, and they can be effectively fixed."

"Yes, this idea is good and it can win an award!" Su You expressed his admiration.

Shi Yong found it funny: "There is no chance. Bachelor Shen has won too many awards. The academy thinks this is too much and has formulated a new rule."

"What's the rule?"

"After winning the same award three times, the college will award a Lifetime Achievement Award. Those who have won the Lifetime Achievement Award are recognized as masters in this academic industry. In the future, they can only serve as judges and cannot be candidates."

"Ah? Hahahaha..." Su You couldn't help but laugh: "This rule is okay!"

The military transformation and weapons replacement work across the country has been proceeding in an orderly manner. Today, the Military Aircraft Department is responsible for command staff and strategic planning, the Privy Council is responsible for training management, promotion and appointment, and equipment development, and the Ministry of War is responsible for logistics support, disciplinary inspection, and recruitment and mobilization.

Huang Shang, the Minister of the Ministry of War, is very qualified for his position.

Speaking of the Song Dynasty, ten-year-olds in later generations often know the saying "emphasis on literature over military affairs." In fact, if you carefully study the evolution of the military system in the Song Dynasty, you will find that history is not that simple.

It is common sense that we must rely on warriors to fight wars. No matter how stupid the Song people were, they would not be ignorant of this common sense.

In fact, at the beginning of the founding of the Song Dynasty, almost all the privy councilors were warriors, and this pattern continued until the early days of Renzong.

It was not until the middle of the Renzong Dynasty that it began to become a mixed bag of civil and military affairs.

The fundamental reason is that by this time, the warriors had already disgraced the Song Dynasty and themselves.

Under the Song Dynasty system, literati were in charge and were not allowed to leave without authorization. Therefore, all foreign wars were conducted by military personnel.

As a result, starting from Taizong, the Song Dynasty's foreign wars basically ended in failure, and the warriors handed in extremely bad answers again and again.

When the situation turned from offense to defense and foreign enemies began to attack the Song Dynasty's homeland, the civil servants responsible for defending the territory stepped onto the stage of war.

In fact, it was still bad, but compared to the performance of military generals, the civil servants of the Song Dynasty relied on their relative advantage in defense to barely deliver results that were slightly better than those of military generals.

From that time on, civilian officials gradually became the protagonists of the military.

The most prominent manifestation is that in the late period of Renzong, basically all the privy ministers became civil servants.

This is an abnormality, but the causes of such an abnormality are both subjective and objective. The main reason is objective, and it is gradually formed by the evolution of the situation.

If the sentence "use culture to control force" can be said clearly and clearly, then it is unless the ancients are really all fools.

Even Di Qing, who is often used as a template, cannot be compared with Wang Shao and Zhang Kai in terms of achievements.

Wang Shao was only a deputy envoy to the Privy Council for opening up the Xi River and Mintao; Zhang Kai almost killed Xixia, killing hundreds of thousands of enemies without losing, and he was only a bachelor of the Privy Council until he was old enough to retire as a Privy Councilor.

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