Sun Fujia had some doubts in his heart, but finally couldn't help but asked before entering the Liangyi Hall: "Du Zhili and Changsun Shunde formed a clique for personal gain, and their morals are despicable. This alone can lead to conviction and execution.
Why is Your Majesty still subjecting him to severe trials?"
Li Po knew that this guy was obviously thinking of Gao Shen. If he really had this intention, Doctor Sun would probably remonstrate with him.
It's just that the situation today is different from that of five or six years ago. Why do we still need such methods to scare the monkeys? If we go too far, it will easily cause shock in the court.
Since ancient times, there has been a saying that punishment is not good enough for a doctor. No matter how literati interpret Qiao Shi literally, it is essentially a way for the ruling class to protect their own interests.
No matter from which aspect you look at it, Du Zhili belongs to the class of scholar-bureaucrats, so if you want to deal with him, you must take care of the dignity of this class. This is especially important in a period of political stability.
In other words, if the emperor wants to kill people, he must also pay attention to methods.
In particular, you should not show an attitude of killing people like chickens. That will make the ministers feel unsafe. The ministers like a "reasonable" king.
What we are looking at now is how Li Po can explain the truth more clearly, otherwise he has to act according to the "rules".
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Li Po still basically agrees with this rule. A stable political situation and stable imperial power are actually the product of compromise. Overly intense political methods are actually not advisable at this moment. Mature rulers are suppressing dissidents.
, will maintain enough patience when carrying out reforms or striving for development.
The kind of idealists who want to overturn everything that is currently in place and build a new world will only appear in special historical periods. When everything is settled, most of them will change and become the current rules.
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This is easy to understand, because everyone has vested interests, and their positions will naturally change fundamentally. For example, Li Po was undoubtedly one of the rebels in the late Sui Dynasty, and he was full of disgust towards the aristocratic interest groups at that time.
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But now that he has become the emperor, he must rely on the aristocratic group to effectively rule, and he must follow the rules of previous dynasties.
Li Po had this understanding very early, so his throne would become more and more stable, because he was ruling an empire in a way that already existed and was recognized by the majority of people.
He never did anything too outrageous, and he was gradually changing the image of the king as a mediocre and tyrannical king since the late Jin Dynasty. This was undoubtedly welcomed and supported by most people.
Power never comes from power itself. Its roots lie in the soil from which it is generated. Most people who have power do not understand this very well, so power in their hands becomes fragile and easily shaken.
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Li Po stood in front of the door of Liangyi Palace with his hands folded and sniffed. The temperature outside was higher than inside the palace, which made him feel quite comfortable.
Here he quietly replied to Sun Fujia, "If Du Zhili is only greedy for some money, why should I kill him? If I just want to kill him, what evidence do I need?"
These words sounded a little awkward, but Sun Fujia understood immediately. Killing Du Zhili was only for state affairs and had nothing to do with anything else.
Sun Fujia had nothing to say. It was his duty to provide useful advice to the king. In the position of Zuo Jianyi, the most taboo thing was actually to accept death.
Adherence to etiquette cannot be extended to stubbornness... The reason why Sun Fujia was able to stay in this position for two years and win the emperor's trust was that he understood these principles.
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In March of the eighth year of Yuan Zhen, the former Chang'an Academy offered wine to Gai Wenda, and Jiangling Academy offered wine to Cui Yu. They were executed. Without waiting for the end of the year, the court allowed their families to collect their bodies and bury them in ancestral graves, and it did not harm them.
The family of wives and children obviously left room for literati.
However, the imperial court organized the priests from various academies who were still in Chang'an to observe the execution and gave them the most severe warning. Then the priests from various places left the capital with a little fear and what they saw and heard in the capital.
At the great court meeting at the end of March, Ma Zhou, the sacrificial wine of Chang'an Maritime Academy, was awarded the title of Bachelor of Guanwen Palace, promoted to Secretary and Young Supervisor, and was in charge of the affairs of the Academy of Arts.
He is a bit special as a secretary and young eunuch. He does not work in the Secretariat Department, but goes to the Zhongshu Provincial Department. He will work with the officials of the Zhongshu Provincial Department to make reforms in various affairs of the Academy of Arts. The first is to abolish the Imperial College...
The incident at Chang'an Academy that occurred at the end of the seventh year of Yuanzhen brought the affairs of the Academy of Arts into greater focus. This major incident, which affected a wide range of people, did not lower the status of the Academy, but instead increased the popularity of the Academy of Arts everywhere.
More and more people realized that the imperial court attached great importance to the Academy of Literature. Starting from the eighth year of Yuanzhen, the Tang Dynasty established maritime academies on the coast and in various places in Huaihe and Huaihe Rivers, adding more luster to the plaque of the Academy of Arts.
At this time, some people in the court had received news from the local area. Some people felt that the court should stop it. If the troubles spread all over the world, wouldn't it... mess up the rules?
The general meaning is this. Of course, I won't put it so straightforwardly. Most people say that too much of the Academy of Literature was built, which would harm the national strength of the Tang Dynasty, or that it would damage the reputation of the Academy of Arts in the future.
It can be seen that at this time, some people can already foresee the benefits of bearing the name of a liberal arts college in the future, and many interest groups will inevitably form from this. As vested interests, they naturally want to monopolize this.
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This is the daily operation of nobles, and it is not surprising.
There is some discussion between the DPRK and China on this, but the construction of more liberal arts colleges is a major policy of the country and the DPRK that is closely related to the imperial examination, and the general direction cannot be changed now.
Perhaps only at a certain point in the future, when there are enough liberal arts colleges, there are signs of a surplus of trained talents, and interest groups become strong enough, then the national policy will be changed.
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In March of the eighth year of Yuanzhen, with the execution of Gai Wenda, Cui Yu and others, the six-month-old Chang'an Academy uprising came to an end.
Fifty-four people were killed here and more than 1,200 people were exiled.
The rest, including Sun Shunde, the eldest minister of the family, Du Yan, the minister of rites, and other people involved in the case are still waiting for a result. They are basically people from the Henan aristocratic factions that the officials in the capital have said in recent years, with some Kansai figures mixed in among them.
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The number of people involved far exceeded that of Gao Shen. Although the court had been more restrained, it was still equivalent to a purge, which left a very deep memory for people in the early Tang Dynasty.
When Wen Yanbo, the Minister of Fashion, talked with Xiao Yu, the Minister of Zhongshu, Wen Yanbo gave an evaluation of this situation, that is, it was a great good to eliminate the remaining poison of the late Sui Dynasty and rectify the reputation of the imperial court.
Xiao Yu obviously did not agree with his characterization, because the noble families in Henan had always been related to the clans in Guanxi. This was a situation caused by Yang Guang's move to Luoyang.
Many people from Guanxi served as officials in Luoyang and married into Luoyang aristocratic families. Both the eldest grandson Shunde and Du Yan were such figures.
Wen Yanbo was from Jin. In his eyes, the Guanxi clan might not be much better than the Luoyang clan. They were also a scourge in the court, and the culprit that caused the chaos in the late Sui Dynasty has now become a residual poison.
Today, His Majesty used the big eucalyptus to purge some of the noble families in Henan. One day it might be the turn of the Kansai people. Wen Yanbo is so proud of himself at this moment. Isn't he worried about the future situation of the Jin people?
Most people from Shandong and Hebei serve in the military, and there are also many factions. The people from Shu have always been close to the people from Guanxi, and the various characters in the south of the Yangtze River are self-contained. In the past, people like Chen and Liang were used to describe them. Nowadays, people from the south are young.
A generation has long forgotten the past.
But in the fourth year of Yuanzhen's reign, didn't those scholars who came to Beijing to take the exam still start a dispute between the north and the south?
Therefore, Xiao Yu had mixed feelings in his heart. He felt that the emperor's actions were akin to killing a donkey and killing a rabbit, but he also felt that these people from the Henan aristocratic family could not hold up the wall and deserved to be severely punished.
The two prime ministers had different temperaments and naturally different mentality.
Fan Wenjin was not like them. He was not involved with any faction in the court, and he did not have the constraints of his eldest grandson Shunde. In addition, Du Chuke was Du Yan's nephew.
Although I had broken up with my uncle, I couldn't bear to see my uncle die like this, so I went to the emperor and cried.
Li Po is not a psychiatrist. He has to take care of patients and plead for Du Yan, just because he is your uncle?
Even though Li Podang angrily rebuked him for only caring about personal matters and not caring about the overall situation, and asked him to go home and reflect behind closed doors, he has not yet been released. He will probably have to wait until Du Yan is asked to kill him.
So Fan Wenjin took over all the power in the province, and his life became more and more comfortable. He was not as busy as the other two prime ministers. Now he only cares about his own one-third of an acre of land.
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By the end of March of this year, the matter of reducing redundant officials in the Ministry of Civil Affairs had lasted two years. This year actually came to an end. Fang Qiao and Yan Shigu withstood the pressure and finally got the matter done.
Perhaps because he received too much criticism, Fang Xuanling was very annoyed. He wrote a letter suggesting that this should be done every three to five years to prevent some mediocre and corrupt officials from sneaking into the ranks of officials.
In addition, he was also very dissatisfied with Wang Gui, the censor of the temple who had resigned. In the past two years, the censor of the temple was the main force involved in the impeachment of the official department.
Some censors were simply instructed by others to ask for permission to wait and then made unreasonable accusations against the officials without any basis. Even if Wang Gui was not involved, he was still guilty of dereliction of duty.
It is estimated that this guy saw that the incident in Chang'an Academy finally came to fruition, so he had an idea and wanted to imitate King Ma Bin and set off a big attack again to vent his bad breath.
Unfortunately, everyone seemed tired, and there wasn't much movement after Fang Qiao submitted the letter.
Wang Ze, the Minister of Civil Affairs, was more sensible than him. He personally wrote to the provincial government to ask for credit for Fang Qiao and Yan Shigu. The provincial government responded this time and quickly added Fang Xuanling and Yan Shigu to the committee.
Among the list of year-end merit awards.
Needless to say, their achievements are mainly in the reduction of titles and reduction of redundant officials. The two of them successively entered the Ministry of Personnel and faithfully implemented the policies set by the emperor. Their future prospects are limitless...