Wang Anshi was almost at the end of his rope. Without the emperor's support, the team he had finally organized fell apart in an instant.
In fact, Yun Zheng is very clear from Wang Anshi's reform to the present. At the beginning of Wang Anshi's reform, he even gave him a money bank method when he and Wang Anshi were hiding from the rain in a haystack, and successfully turned the Qingmiao method into
Qianzhuang, thus laying the glorious first blow of Wang Anshi's reform.
As a later person, when he was studying history, Wang Anshi's reforms were a must-take in every history exam. Therefore, he was full of curiosity about Wang Anshi himself. Now that he had the opportunity to watch Wang Anshi tossing around him, he had to take this step no matter what.
Watch this great drama from beginning to end.
For this reason, when Wang Anshi found fault with the Yun family, Yun Zheng chose to stay away. He wanted to inventory the Yun family's land. Whatever, he wanted to deal with business oligarchs like the Yun family. Whatever, I will let you do whatever you want. The Yun family doesn't care about that little bit.
Loss.
What he really wanted to see was how Wang Anshi accomplished something truly great in this selfish and ignorant court.
Now that it is almost coming to an end, there is no reason not to continue watching the show.
The real reason why Wang Anshi was abandoned by the emperor was that he implemented the exemption law that harmed the interest groups of the royal family, descendants and powerful people.
Before Wang Anshi's reform, all purchases by the palace and the powerful, especially the purchases in Kaifeng City, were not free of charge. Each business bank must unconditionally provide the government and the powerful with the goods they need. Not only that, the government and the powerful
They also wantonly blackmailed these businesses into providing goods that far exceeded purchasing needs.
If things don't go as expected, they will rely on their power to punish them. For example, Peng Du, the deputy envoy of the Third Division, bought twenty leather boots because of bad leather. The merchants suffered heavy losses due to the lawsuits, and many small traders lost their jobs.
In April, Xu Zhongzheng and others from the Kaifeng Meat Shop requested that they no longer supply meat to the government and dignitaries, and that they should pay the labor exemption money in accordance with the labor exemption law.
The emperor ordered the City Yiwu and the Kaifeng Prefecture Secretary Lu to determine the interests and harms of various activities in detail.
In August, the Municipal Affairs Bureau formulated the "exemption regulations" and implemented them in Kaifeng commercial banks. Each bank paid exemption money according to the profit, exempting the bank account from supplying the government. In other words, after the merchants paid the exemption tax, they no longer
Provide free goods to the government and dignitaries. Even if the government prohibits the sale and purchase of goods, they still have to do miscellaneous sales and purchase, and the price of goods will be assessed by the Department of Market and Trade.
This was like poking a hornet's nest. The reason why the Yun family was popular among the neighbors was largely because the Yun family never bought or sold by force. They only gave money to others when they took things. Yun Zheng felt that this was a natural thing.
However, the royal family, descendants, and other nobles do not see it this way. The exemption of money will increase the income of the court, which is also more beneficial to the merchants;
The targets of the attack were those who wanted to extort and profit from the lawsuits, as well as the banned royal family, descendants, and eunuchs on the left and right. These people started to oppose the implementation without paying money.
Wang Anshi should never, never should have exposed the fact that Empress Cao's family bought trees on credit without paying the money, and instead had the ministers complain under false names, and used this as an example to the emperor who was lying on the bed.
He also said in front of Zou Tong: The scholar-officials were dissatisfied with the government affairs of the court and colluded with the recent eunuchs. Your Majesty only saw how many officials in the court, big and small, did not avoid eunuchs, and you knew how harmful eunuchs were to politics.
With just this sentence, Zou Tong fell to his knees and kowtowed, forgetting even his duty to translate the emperor's words.
As a result, Xianggong Ao succeeded in offending everyone in the world. People who were not opposed to the reform began to strongly oppose the reform when they saw that Wang Anshi would not give everyone any way to go. For example, Zou Tong was like this.
The younger members of the family have often done things like putting half a foot of red gauze and a piece of silk on a bull's head. How could he not be frightened?
Then there was the humiliation of Xuandemen Wang Anshi.
On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Wang Anshi was invited to go to the palace to watch the lanterns as usual. The location was Xuande Gate, the main entrance of the palace.
After Wang Anshi's carriage entered Xuande Gate, he didn't expect this seemingly ordinary move to cause trouble. Du Heng, the eunuch on duty here, first shouted at him to stop, and then signaled the gatekeeper to step forward and grab the groom who was holding Wang Anshi's horse.
Unexpectedly, there was a flurry of punches and kicks, hitting Wang Anshi's carriage at the same time.
The horseman scolded: "You are blind, this is Mr. Wang's carriage!" Zhang Mao scolded: "My Mr. Xian is also a minister, do you want to be regarded as Wang Mang who does all kinds of things?"
Wang Anshi was naturally very angry that a prime minister of the current dynasty was so insulted by his subordinates. He immediately went to the emperor to comment: "Your Majesty, I am not the first to dismount from the emperor. I have accompanied Pang Ji and Pang Xiang to accompany the emperor to the inner capital.
so."
The emperor also felt that this reminder was reasonable: "Well, when I was a prince, my status was under the prime minister. Didn't I also dismount in the door? Why is this happening today?"
Unexpectedly, Wen Yanbo, who had always been at odds with Wang Anshi and had just returned to Tokyo from Qingtang, coldly uttered a sinister remark: "Old ministers always only dismount outside the door." The implication is that this is a rule that ministers should understand. Is it just you, the king?
Is the Grand Prime Minister special?
In order to calm the public anger and deal with it impartially, the emperor transferred the case to Kaifeng Prefecture for trial. The people who took over the Xuandemen case were Kaifeng Prefecture judge Liang Yanming and the recommended judge Chen Chen.
These two people were plucked out by Wang Anshi to facilitate the implementation of reforms and packed into the Kaifeng Mansion. Naturally, they did not hesitate to sentence the guard to death with a cane and beat the two bold madmen to death.
At this point, the matter could have come to an end. However, Wang Anshi felt that this incident was no accident. Otherwise, how could a small guard have such courage? So he strongly demanded that the emperor thoroughly investigate the behind-the-scenes instructions, and his temperament of subjugating his father-in-law was fully demonstrated.
The Xuandemen case aroused heated discussions among the ministers in the court, and many officials unceremoniously accused Wang Anshi of his fault. The censor Cai Que publicly stood up to defend the wronged guard: "The duty of the guard is to protect the emperor.
When Wang Anshi dismounted without following the rules, the guards should have stopped him. However, the two judges in Kaifeng Prefecture broke the law and knew how to rely on high-ranking officials. Not only did they not enforce the law impartially, but they slapped the guards hard. From now on, who of the guards will dare to be loyal to their duties?
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Things got worse and worse. At this time, Wang Anshi realized that no one in the civil and military ministers of the dynasty had said a word to him. Even Zeng Gongliang, who was always eager for justice and justice, lowered his eyebrows. As for Yun Zheng, he looked at him curiously.
Myself, with a malicious face!
The lonely Wang Anshi took sick leave, and his son Wang Yu died of illness, which made him completely exhausted mentally and physically. He submitted three memorials in a row to resign. The emperor agreed after the emperor's efforts to retain him were ineffective...
However, outsiders did not intend to let him go. They wanted to completely overturn Wang Anshi's method and return the Song Dynasty to its previous state.
This was something Wang Anshi could not tolerate, so Wang Anshi, full of grief and indignation, carried a white flag and sat outside the gate of Fanlou, asking for help from the people in Tokyo, hoping that even if his reform could not win the support of some nobles, at least,
The people who have benefited should say a few words of justice on their behalf...
Yun Zheng looked at Wang Anshi outside Fan Tower, sighed and lowered his head...
At this time, Wang Anshi was miserable...
His head was covered with rotten vegetable leaves and broken eggs, and the egg yolks hanging on his long face looked indescribably funny. His gown was covered with black dog blood, and a pair of black soap boots were stuck in the excrement.
But the whole person still stood proudly, looking up at the nobles on the upper floor of the building and roaring: "Heaven knows what I, Wang Anshi, have done, and heaven knows that I, Wang Anshi, have a clear conscience! Heaven knows that this world can only be possible if we continue to reform.
There will be real fairness!”
Hou Tanzhi, the commander of the Five Cities Military and Horse Division, leaned on the railing and laughed loudly: "You are no longer my husband, and I don't need to be polite to you. You want the people's support, and you have won the people's support. How can you defeat my husband at this moment?"
Still satisfied?"
Wang Anshi turned his head and looked at the people who kept making noises and said painfully: "The people are ignorant, they need guidance...
Hou Tanzhi, you have to sit in a high official position, ride a fine horse, and enjoy the fatness of the people, but you do things that prey on the common people. As a disciple of a saint, don't you feel ashamed?"
Hou Tanzhi laughed and said: "Your disciple Deng Wan once said something that I find very agreeable, which is: "I will obey you if you laugh or scold me, and I will do it for you as a good official."
Wang Anshi's face changed. He opened his mouth and vomited out a mouthful of black blood. He laughed and said: "It's great, it's great. The depression for many days is gone. It seems that God forbids me, Wang Anshi, to die young. Just wait for me."
Resurrection!"
After suffering such severe humiliation, Wang Anshi actually left Fanlou with a smile, took the white flag from his family, put it on his shoulders and strode out of Fanlou.
Hou Tanzhi was shocked and angry. He stood up and climbed on the railing. All kinds of obscene words spewed out from the mouth of this third-rank official in the dynasty.
Yun Zheng smiled and said to Pang Ji, who was sitting across from him: "It was such a good show. There is so little blood and it feels like it's not enjoyable enough. Can Pingzhang allow me to add fuel to the flames?"
Pang Ji's cheek twitched a few times and said, "Don't go too far!"
When Yun Zheng saw that Pang Ji had agreed, he stood up with a smile, walked behind Hou Tanzhi, and kicked Hou Tanzhi hard on the buttocks.
Because he was angry, the force of this kick was a bit stronger. Hou Tanzhi jumped out from the second floor of the Fan Building in a dance, and hit Wang Anshi hard where he had just stood.
Seeing Yun Zheng return to his seat, Pang Ji looked at the people in the box and said solemnly: "The Northern Expedition is the top priority, and the rest is just the last minute. As long as the Northern Expedition is victorious, our Song Dynasty will surely reach another level of glory.
It is not difficult to be glorious for thousands of years. Everyone, we must work together to achieve a great cause. When the Northern Expedition is victorious, it will be the time when we leave our names in the history books!"
Everyone respectfully said: "I will obey Pingzhang's order!"
Yun Zheng stood up and said with a smile: "The fifth day of October is the day when Yun pays homage to the general. Please come and watch the ceremony!"
Pang Ji smiled and said: "This is what it should be. I and others will definitely go there!" (To be continued)