Chapter 1026: Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers
Zhang Yue carefully looked at the appearance of the three late emperors.
The royal appearance of Taizu Zhao Kuangyin: Taizu wore a white robe, had a dark face, a long and strong body, eyes like red phoenixes, and a nose like hanging gallbladder. This is the appearance of a dragon or a phoenix among people.
In addition to the imperial portrait of Taizu that is kept in the palace, Zhang Yue also saw it in Dingli Courtyard, and the two paintings were similar.
Taizu spent his whole life in the army, so his skin was dark.
As for the royal appearance of Taizong Zhao Kuangyi, his complexion was much fairer. Compared with Emperor Taizu who was the founder of Wufu, he looked like a white-faced scholar. In terms of appearance, he was prettier than Taizu and had a bit more elegance.
It was from Emperor Taizong that the Song Dynasty embarked on the road of governing the country with culture.
It is described in Taizong's Annals that Emperor Shen made decisive decisions and had the ambition to conquer the world. However, a great man in later generations added three words after this description, "but incompetent".
The third one is Emperor Zhenzong. Emperor Zhenzong is wearing a red robe and has a smile on his face. He is very lucky.
Emperor Zhenzong was able to turn disaster into good fortune throughout his life. He also loved articles and art the most.
The papers of all the top scholars of the past dynasties will be burned in his shadow hall.
It was he who built the Longtu Pavilion and collected countless collections here. Later, Emperor Renzong built the Tianzhang Pavilion.
These three emperors, plus Zhang Yue who met Emperor Renzong and Emperor Yingzong, are the six emperors of Zhao and Song Dynasties.
In the Tianzhang Pavilion, which was built in the fifth year of Tianxi's reign, in front of the portraits of the three late emperors, Han Jiang and Zhang Yue were writing notes and ink.
Han Jiang said to Zhang Yue: "To save it, you write it!"
Zhang Yue hurriedly gave way and said: "Prime Minister, this is absolutely unacceptable."
Han Jiang said: "As a matter of fact, I was a Jinshi in the second year of Qingli. At that time, the whole world was abuzz with discussions about the Battle of Xixia and Duke Fan Wenzheng. At that time, our Jinshi was young and vigorous, but he also had a lot of reform experience in his mind. worldly aspirations.”
"In August of the following year, Tianzhang Pavilion was opened in the Ren Temple, and Fan Wenzheng and Fu Zheng were given seats, asking them to come up with strategies for reforming the world. Only then did the Qingli New Deal come into being. Today's officials follow this move because you did it yesterday. I'm afraid that you won't be able to explain what I've discussed in detail, so I asked you to write it down in detail on paper."
"So if you have any knowledge in your mind, just write it down on paper. As for me, as I am getting old, I have become a bit like the old man in these years. Like the rich Zheng Gong who was in this pavilion back then, he has lost his vitality."
Zhang Yue said: "Why did the prime minister say this? I remember when Renmiao ordered the prime minister to be the censor, he once said that you were promoted by me and you should speak out frankly about the country's ills."
Han Jiang seemed to recall Emperor Renzong's instructions back then and said with a smile: "Yes. In fact, what Renmiao told me at that time was that we could neither accommodate it temporarily nor be too aggressive, but we should keep the general rule of the court and make it feasible. But Han But he didn't listen, and in the end he offended someone and was dismissed. Fortunately, although Han did not have the opportunity to serve with Fan Wenzheng, he was appreciated by Han Wei Gong and learned the character of a Qingli gentleman from him."
Zhang Yue said: "Ouyang Wenzhong is as kind as a mountain to me."
Han Jiang nodded and said, "Yes, although you and I were not involved in the Qingli New Deal thirty years ago, Han Wei Gong and Ouyang Wenzhong taught you and me a lot."
Zhang Yue said: "How dare I compete with the Prime Minister? The Prime Minister was the right-hand man of Han Wei Gong at that time, and I am just a junior member of Ouyang Wenzhong's family."
In the fourth year of Jiayou's reign, Han Jiang was already a general under Han Qi and served as the censor Zhongcheng, while Zhang Yue was only a student of the Imperial Academy and had just been appreciated by Ouyang Xiu.
In terms of qualifications, no matter how hard you try, you can't catch up with Han Jiang.
Han Jiang smiled at Zhang Yue and said, "I looked at it the same way when I was the same age as you."
"But after so many years, I have seen one thing: changing the law is not necessarily right, and changing the law is not necessarily wrong."
"The system of the imperial court was designed after countless trade-offs. All the disadvantages you see actually have causes and effects that are unknown to you."
"We have made some changes, but often the result is not for the better, but for the worse."