Chapter 188 Checks and balances of power are very important, I promote Li Gang Zongze
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Chapter 188: Power checks and balances are very important, I promote Li Gang Zongze
Li Ji, a native of Shouchun who presented the bamboo musket, carefully held the design drawings of the musket, fire blunderbuss, earth cannon, and red cannon given to him by Zhao Guan's family, kowtowed and resigned.
The junior official who announced the decree led Li Ji, who was named Chengjielang by the emperor, to the firearms workshop under the jurisdiction of the Ordnance Supervisor in the capital to report and serve as the deputy envoy of the firearms workshop...
Zhao Ji led the crowd to leave the Imperial Garden and move to Wende Palace.
At this time, the eunuch Liang Shicheng presented a pile of memorials and reported them respectfully, saying:
"Of these several memorials, one memorial was written jointly by many ministers, and there are several memorials written by several ministers individually to give advice."
Zhao Ji yawned a little tiredly and said:
"Sir Liang, open the memorial. What does this memorial say?"
Liang Shicheng knelt down happily and said: "I obey the order."
The reason why Liang Shicheng was happy was that during this period of time, that is, after the official's temperament changed drastically, Zhao Guan's family had done everything personally, such as reviewing memorials, and no longer looked for him, the so-called "hidden prime minister" Liang Daguan, as before.
Did it for you.
Liang Shicheng was very thoughtful. Since the official family no longer allowed him to help review the memorials, he was already worried that his position of being favored by the Zhao official family would be lost.
However, at this time, Zhao Guan's family gave him the important task of reading the memorial, and Liang Shicheng was naturally very happy.
In fact, Zhao Ji no longer personally reviewed the memorial today, but asked Liang Shicheng to do it for him. This is because:
On the one hand, Zhao Ji really felt quite tired. On the first day after he returned to Beijing after a victorious expedition to the southeast, he first listened to a nearly hour-long report on state affairs by the prince Zhao Huan, who was in charge of the country, and then accepted congratulations from the officials.
After doing this, he met Li Ji from Shouchun who presented the bamboo musket in the imperial garden, and also gave him drawings of the musket, fire blunderbuss, earth cannon, and red cannon.
Regardless of the exhaustion from the journey after returning to Beijing, Zhao Ji really felt tired after doing so many things.
On the other hand, Zhao Ji really has not yet made up his mind whether to kill the last two remaining thieves known as the Six Thieves of the Northern Song Dynasty, namely Tong Guan and Liang Shicheng.
Zhao Ji was like a mirror in his heart, knowing that whether Tong Guan or Liang Shicheng, if they were officials for many years, held great power, and had a lot of wealth, they would be able to find out the corruption problem.
However, the reason why Zhao Ji still keeps Tong Guan and Liang Shicheng is that they are still useful, but very useful.
Zhao Ji previously sent Tong Guan to the southeast to supervise the construction of large ships for long sea voyages, and asked Tong Guan to open routes to the New World and search for high-yielding crop seeds. These things can also be sent to other people.
However, Zhao Ji still left a chance for Tong Guan. This was not because Zhao Ji was soft-hearted. It was because Zhao Ji knew the emperor's ability to control people.
One of the emperor's methods of controlling people is to maintain the formation of two or even multiple factions among his ministers, so as to check and restrict each other, so that no one faction of ministers can have greater power.
half of the imperial power.
Nowadays, Zhao Ji very much wants and must promote civil servants and generals from the main war faction such as Li Gang, Zongze, civil servant Zhang Jun (not one of the four generals of ZTE), Han Shizhong, Yue Fei and other civil servants and generals.
In this way, although they are all loyal ministers according to historical records, the Northern Song Dynasty in the world I traveled to, because of the butterfly effect brought about by me as a time traveler, may not necessarily be regarded as the main war faction.
Civil and military ministers, when the power in their hands expands to the point of explosion, will they have any ambitions in their hearts?
Taking a step back, even if they are loyal to the emperor and love the garden, they will not do the immoral thing of wearing royal robes;
But will they learn from Huo Guang, a powerful official in the Western Han Dynasty?
It will be very possible.
After all, Huo Guang still considered himself a loyal minister until the day he died!
However, Huo Guang ‘was entrusted by the Han Dynasty to help the country and the country... It was only three years since his death that his clan punished the barbarians.’
Sima Guang of the Northern Song Dynasty commented on him: "Huo Guang's assistance to the Han Dynasty can be said to be loyal; but if he can't protect his clan, why? A man who is powerful and blessed is a tool of the emperor. If the ministers hold on to it, they will not return for a long time."
, so rare.'
In other words, Huo Guang devoted his whole life to the prosperity of the Han Dynasty.
Before Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty died, Huo Guang asked Liu Fuling, an eight-year-old orphan, to ascend the throne. Liu Fuling was Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty. Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty died childless at the age of twenty-one.
Liu He, the king of Changyi, was the first emperor. More than ten days after Liu He took the throne, Huo Guang and Zhang Anshi planned to depose him. On the twenty-seventh day of Liu He's reign, he was deposed as a commoner by Huo Guang because of his excessive lewdness and failure to protect the country.
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Although Huo Guang, who claimed to be a loyal minister, never rebelled in his life, he allowed his family to do whatever he wanted just because of his great power.
Huo Guang's wife, in order to make her youngest daughter Huo Chengjun a queen, ordered people to use poison to kill Empress Xu, who was pregnant with her second child by Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty (Liu Xun) who was then in power.
Two corpses...
Murdering the queen was a crime against the nine clans. However, with the powerful minister Huo Guang protecting his wife, the poisoning of Queen Xu was ignored.
Huo Guang's son Huo Yun liked to build large-scale construction projects and build mansions. Huo Yun often did not go to court and asked his servants to ask for leave. The servants also relied on others' power. One time, they even argued with the imperial censor's servants. Huo Guang's servants actually destroyed the imperial palace.
Doctor Shi's door was open to him, and he refused to forgive him. Later, Doctor Yushi went out in person to kowtow and apologize. On the surface, the Huo family was very prosperous, but this move made the civil and military officials of the court hate the Huo family even more for their arrogance and unreasonableness.
Even more than a year after Huo Guang's death, Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty had already taken charge of the government. Another year later, Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty appointed the eldest son of Queen Xu as the crown prince. (Huo Guang's wife) Huo Xian, when he heard about this, he was afraid that he would be dead.
Her youngest daughter Huo Chengjun, who was the second emperor, gave birth to a son and could not become the crown prince. She was very angry and could not eat. She was so angry that she vomited blood and ordered her youngest daughter Queen Huo to poison the crown prince.
After the conspiracy failed, Huo Xian, his son-in-law and his children, plotted a rebellion...
Soon, the Huo family's rebellion was put down, and all Huo Guang's relatives were executed...
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As a time traveler, Zhao Ji will never let so-called "loyal ministers" like Huo Guang appear again in the Song Dynasty.
Zhao Ji will definitely not only promote and reuse loyal ministers, but also find candidates who can check and balance the loyal ministers and good generals.
For the time being, Liang Shicheng, who is known as the "hidden prime minister", and Tong Guan, who is known as the "lady prime minister", can be temporarily selected as the 'weight' at the other end of the scale.
Therefore, Zhao Ji still has great trust and respect for Liang Shicheng on the surface.
After Liang Shicheng received Zhao Ji's edict, he immediately happily read the memorials of the ministers...
Zhao Ji was leaning on the dragon chair with his eyes closed, enjoying the massage services of the two beautiful palace maids behind him, rubbing their shoulders and squeezing their legs...
A quarter of an hour later, Liang Shicheng had carefully read all the memorials.
However, Liang Shicheng saw that Zhao Guanjia was being served so comfortably by two beautiful palace maids, so he stood beside him without saying a word, not daring to disturb Zhao Guanjia who was leaning on the dragon chair with his eyes closed to relax.
Zhao Ji, who was suffering from this, heard the friction between papers when Liang Shicheng was not reading the memorial, so he slowly opened his eyes and asked:
"High Officer Liang has read all the memorials? What is said in these memorials?"
Liang Shicheng immediately responded: "I have carefully read all the memorials.
Among these memorials, there is a memorial jointly signed by the officials, asking the officials to punish the traitor Zhang Bangchang and his relatives who were unfaithful and unjust, betrayed the imperial court, and surrendered to the Fangla bandit army. Please approve it."
Zhao Ji took the memorial from the officials, opened it and looked at it briefly.
I actually saw many officials who used to be attached to Zhang Bangchang. When they saw that Zhang Bangchang was in trouble, they immediately drew a clear line with Zhang Bangchang. They even signed a joint petition to viciously attack Zhang Bangchang and his family. Some even went so far as to even go to the police.
The three clans requesting the execution of Zhang Bangchang...
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