The official hurriedly entered the palace and said to Zhang Yue: "Li Ding's words are even excessive. It is your fault that you have been wronged."
Zhang Yue said: "Your Majesty clearly distinguishes between loyal and traitorous people, and I have no shame in doing so."
The official said: "I think Li Ding is indeed a little arrogant."
The official's words also meant to protect Li Ding.
Zhang Yue said: "Your Majesty, Li Ding is definitely not a treacherous official. But there are only two political disputes in the past and present, one is the battle for line, and the other is the battle for power. Every line struggle is accompanied by a power struggle, and every power struggle
There is a line struggle in China."
What does Zhang Yue mean by this? Yes, Li Ding is attacking him. Your officials have to explain that it is okay to fight along different political lines.
However, there is no pure line struggle in political struggles. Every line struggle includes a power struggle.
Similarly, even if it is a power struggle, it is also in the context of a line struggle.
Under Zhang Yue's words, the official finally admitted: "It is true that Li Ding is guilty."
Zhang Yue said: "Your Majesty, in political struggles, it is indispensable for the poor and the powerful to take sides. If the poor win, the reform will be successful, otherwise, it will be defeated."
"At that time, Cao Cao acted on meritocracy and wanted to reform the electoral system in the late Eastern Han Dynasty in one fell swoop. However, after Cao Pi came to the throne, Chen Qun's nine-level Zhongzheng system was ruined, and the way for poor families to advance was blocked."
This sentence is a summary of the political struggle, and further, there is class struggle behind the line struggle.
Going back to what Zhang Yue said to Li Ding before, only when the new class wins and replaces the old class to form new interest groups can the reform or revolution be considered successful.
The official knew what Zhang Yue was going to say next, so he held Zhang Yue's hand and said: "I remembered what Cai Bian said at the Sutra Banquet yesterday, and I spoke from Sang Hongyang's three questions!"
"The imperial court spends a lot of money every day, and agricultural taxes alone cannot support it. If there is no official government and a monopoly, where will the imperial court's finances come from?"
“What can we do if we encounter a natural disaster or a war and the treasury is empty?”
“If we don’t centralize finance at the center, what will happen once local governments are separated?”
"However, the Han Confucians asked Sang Hongyang these three questions, looked at the left and right, talked about benevolence, righteousness and morality. I think this is a corrupt Confucianism."
Zhang Yue said: "Your Majesty, I think so too."
"I divide the subjects of the world into three classes. The first class is the rich and noble families, the second class is the scholars and people from poor families, and the third class is the common people."
"But if it is true as Shang Yang said in the Five Skills of Controlling the People, if the poor people are weak and the people are tired, then there will be no rich people in the world, only poor people. Then not only the people will be poor, but the country will also not be rich. If you arrange them from top to bottom, it will be like the other side of the world.
of nails.”
"On the contrary, the best thing in the world is that the first class people have less money, the second class people have more money, and the third class people have less money. It's like a spindle."
"From ancient times to the present, people's livelihood sufferings are inseparable from annexation and inequality between rich and poor. That is, the first class of people have more money, the second class of people have less money, and the third class of people have no money. This is like an inverted
Triangle.”
"Whenever a country is in trouble, the second class of people slips into the third class. For example, farmers are forced to sell their fields, small traders go bankrupt, craftsmen are unemployed, and scholars are resentful."
"Xining's new government wants to break up the annexation, but local officials harm these four people and make industry and commerce depressed. I can't bear this."
The official sighed after hearing this: "Where is the root of this?"
Zhang Yue said: "Your Majesty, in the final analysis it is a lack of productivity."
The economic problems of feudal society can be roughly attributed to insufficient productivity, while the economic problems after feudal society can be attributed to excess productivity.
When productivity is insufficient, the middle class is unwilling to produce, and the unwillingness to produce means liberating productivity; when productivity is excessive, the middle class has no money to consume. Consumption without money requires the government to intervene to redistribute wealth.
The Northern Song Dynasty faced the problem of insufficient productivity.
How to liberate productivity?
A slave has no personal freedom, and a farmer only has personal dependence, so productivity cannot be solved.
Only when most of the money produced by producers belongs to themselves can their enthusiasm for production be actively mobilized.
Zhang Yue said: "It is very easy for people from poor families to get ahead in production. Officials exploit one level, while wealthy families exploit one level. This is a disease."
"If the family has a little money, they will be targeted and slaughtered as fat sheep. This is not because people's hearts are corrupt, but because the world is like this. In a place, let alone the county magistrate and other official officials, a subordinate official can easily make a family happy.
The people’s families were destroyed.”
"So if you have a little wealth, you can only rely on wealthy families or subordinate officials."
The official said: "How to solve it?"
Zhang Yue said: "This disease is a serious illness, and we can only treat it carefully. If your Majesty wants to be effective, you can only attack Dangxiang and the Liao Kingdom first, and then go back and eliminate the long-standing evils."
The official said: "Yelu Yi's departure to the Song Dynasty was part of Qing's plan."
Zhang Yue said: "Your Majesty, please forgive me. This matter is not reported to Your Majesty. It is about Yelu Yixin going to the Song Dynasty. I dare not say that it is a sure thing. I always thought that it was only 30% possible, so I took the attitude of giving it a try."
But I was worried that Your Majesty would be disappointed, so I didn’t report it directly.”
"Until this time, Yelu Yixin's letter was about to be returned to the Song Dynasty. I felt it was hard to take it seriously, so I didn't dare to report it."
The official suddenly said: "I see. If this hadn't happened, I wouldn't have believed that Yelu Yixin, who was under one person and outnumbered ten thousand people in the Liao Kingdom, would rebel and return to our dynasty. Your caution is indeed justified."
"But now that our dynasty is accepting people like Yelu Yixin, what should we do if the Liao Kingdom finds out in the future and asks for people from this dynasty?"
Zhang Yue said: "Your Majesty, you can take it seriously and cover it up and not report it. The Liao Kingdom will not accuse us of this in two or three years."
"What's more, Yelu Yixin said in his letter that the Lord of the Liao Dynasty, Yelu Hongji, had the intention of going south to intervene in the dispute between the Song Dynasty and Dangxiang."
When the official heard this, he lost his voice and said, "Is this true?"
Zhang Yue said: "I dare not confirm it. At present, it is just Yelu Yixin's one-sided statement."
The official looked a little ugly.
Zhang Yue remembered a saying: Don't change history just to change history.
The time and space he lives in today is very different from the previous history. The Song Dynasty achieved a comprehensive victory on Xihe Road.
For example, in the original history, Huangzhou, Huizhou, and Xi'an were captured in the second year of Yuanfu (1099).
The Jishi Army captured it in the second year of Daguan (1108).
Kuozhou was captured in the third year of Chongning (1104).
The latest Taozhou was gradually incorporated in Yuanyou and Shaoshengnian.
Now Zhang Yue was ahead of schedule, and in the second year of Yuanfeng (1080), all these states were incorporated into the territory of the Song Dynasty.
In the Lanzhou victory, he killed Liang Yimi, the Xixia Prime Minister, and achieved a great victory.
At the same time, the prevention of Han Zhen also prevented the failure on the Hengshan front line, and all efforts were made to consolidate Xihe Road, paving the way for the next attack on Liangzhou.
Compared with history, the gap in national power between the Song Dynasty and Dangxiang is even greater, and the advantages are more obvious. Zhang Yue said that Dangxiang would be destroyed within ten years. This was not bragging, but was based on strength.
In order to achieve the goal of destroying the party in Song Dynasty, Zhang Yue changed history.
But changing history for the sake of changing history, can history really be changed? If the news brought by Yelu Yixin is true, the Liao Kingdom fully supported Dangxiang and did not allow the Song Dynasty to destroy Dangxiang due to the purpose of losing his lips and teeth.
So can the Song Dynasty resist the two-sided attack by Dangxiang and Liao?
Will true history tell Zhang Yue that everything you have planned is in vain?
Of course, there is still a question mark about Yelu Yixin. Yelu Yixin may also have deceived him and the officials, fearing that they would hand him back to the Liao Kingdom, so he told a big lie.
But Zhang Yue’s intuition from many years of handling government affairs told him that this was true.
The Song Dynasty's advantage over Dangxiang expanded. Dangxiang's superiors and subordinates were bound to fight for the survival of the country, and there were still knowledgeable people in the Liao Kingdom.
Perhaps the top leaders of the Liao Kingdom were unwilling to start a war between Song and Liao, but they understood that if Dangxiang was destroyed, the next Song Dynasty would regain the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun.
Zhang Yue sighed, why do Taoists and Buddhists object to you working too hard? This is the reason. For example, if you have a higher official position, your colleagues will be more afraid of you, but the emperor will also be more afraid of you.
When the officials heard this, they were naturally worried. Zhang Yue said: "Your Majesty, this dynasty knows very little about the Liao Kingdom, and we need people like Yelu Yixin to make suggestions."
"I think that the benefits of Yelu Yi Xin's trip to the Song Dynasty outweigh the disadvantages."
The officials were silent after hearing this. He still did not want to go to war with the Liao Kingdom. No one wanted to fight on two fronts.
Zhang Yue said: "Your Majesty, everything has good and bad consequences."
"At this time, you must always know what your highest goal is and see whether it is near or far away."
"I dare to ask, compared with the Chanyuan Alliance, has the strength of our dynasty improved or fallen behind? Has the strength of the Liao Kingdom improved or fallen behind?"
The official thought for a moment and said: "Although I am not as good as the real temple, my national power may not be inferior. On the other hand, the Liao Kingdom should be worse than before."
Zhang Yue said: "Your Majesty, I also think so. The current Lord of Liao, Yelu Hongji, seems to have had a promising start in his administration. However, in recent years, he has been slandering and slandering, killing his own flesh and blood, and turning various tribes against him. The use of armored soldiers has continued year after year, day after day.
One day.”
"The Lord of the Liao Dynasty, Yelu Hongji, wanted to reuse Yelu Yixin, Zhang Xiaojie and others from poor families in order to maintain imperial power and weaken the power of the Khitan aristocracy through centralization. Now that Yelu Yixin has left, all the people from poor families who were appointed after the establishment of the dynasty have been eliminated.
After catching them all in one fell swoop, the Khitan nobles gained power again. From this we can see that there is nothing to fear."
What Yelu Yixin's exodus meant to the Liao Kingdom was equivalent to the Song Dynasty's Wang Anshi, Zhang Yue and other officials who were determined to reform and maintain the imperial power and authority all left. Internal reforms came to an end and were replaced by conservative officials such as Wen Yanbo and Sima Guang.
Send officials to the stage.
In this case, you don't have to worry about the Liao Dynasty using large-scale troops against the Song Dynasty.
Although the far-sighted people in the Liao Kingdom will continue to support the party due to worries about death, this matter will definitely be opposed and obstructed by the conservatives.
The Liao Kingdom has been using troops for many years now, and it also has border troubles from the northwest.
Those who were most willing to reform the status quo of the Liao Kingdom were the poor Khitan nobles represented by Yelu Yixin and representatives of new Khitan Han families such as Zhang Xiaojie.
The conservatives are unwilling to make trouble. For example, in another time and space history, when Xiao Fengxian, the Northern Privy Envoy of the Liao Kingdom, was in power, the Jurchens were already in rebellion and repeatedly attacked cities and territories. However, this person concealed defeats all day long and reported good news but not bad news.
When Emperor Tianzuo wanted to kill Wanyan Aguda at the fish head feast, the other party was also a peacemaker, so he saved Aguda's life, causing great trouble for the Liao Kingdom.
After hearing what Zhang Yue said, the official felt a little calmer.
