In the Chongwen Academy where the capital is located, Zhao Ding once again heard these words, and this time the person who came to speak was Liu Dazhong, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel. "If this continues, I'm afraid there will be another party dispute!"
Zhao Ding, who was dealing with official duties, sighed secretly when he heard this, but on the surface he calmed down. He waved to Fan Zongyin, a member of the Zhongshushe who was on business, and other officials in the public house to stay away for the time being.
Asked: "Hu Quan is good at publishing supplements again?"
"It doesn't matter if he is good at publishing supplements, the key is the content!" Liu Dazhong was almost furious. "If he publishes supplements to talk about original learning and practice, tell stories, record news, and even advertise the Cuju competition, why would I do this?"
"What about the content?" Zhao Ding's expression remained unchanged. "Liu Shangshu, please sit down."
"My son happened to be on duty in Taixue today to copy the imperial newspaper. As soon as he finished copying, he rushed out and told me that his family members told me that Hu Quan published an allusion about the good and evil of Duke Huan of Qi today!" Liu Dazhong said with a puff of his sleeves.
Tell me, does he mean to ask all the central officials to directly remove half of them?!"
Hearing this allusion, Zhao Yuanzhen also had a headache.
Without him, this allusion is so famous. It tells that Duke Huan of Qi came to a small town and saw that the place was in ruins. He was very curious. As a result, others told him that the monarch here was "good and evil", so he perished. Qi
Of course Duke Huan didn't understand why the city was still in ruins because he "recognizes good people and hates bad people".
As a result, the local people continued to tell Duke Huan of Qi that this monarch recognized good people but could not use them, and hated bad people but could not get rid of them, so his city turned into ruins.
This allusion is so famous and ancient that it has become a standard allusion for almost everyone to suggest that the monarch impeach others. In addition, Hu Quan himself, who previously scolded those who advocated peace and reconciliation as being meticulous, and the current situation, the intention
It's even more obvious.
"Liu Shangshu, please sit down." After a moment of headache, Zhao Ding still tried hard to maintain his prime ministerial demeanor.
Liu Dazhong sneered, finally found a chair and sat down casually, then waited quietly for Zhao Ding to speak.
But it is said that Liu Dazhong took office when Zhang Jun went south to supervise Dongting Lake, and the person who recommended him was Zhao Ding. Since he took office, he has almost obeyed Zhao Ding's words. In fact, everyone knows that Liu Dazhong from the Ministry of Personnel and Hu from the Ministry of War
These two ministers, Shijiang, together with Liu Ji, the extremely cooperative deputy prime minister of the capital, are the key support for Xianggong Zhao to control the world's government affairs like an arm and a finger in the capital.
Relatively speaking, Zhu Shengfei, the Minister of Rites, has a gentle temperament. Although he has always cooperated with the provincial work, he is recognized as Lu Yihao's person; Lin Qi, the Minister of Household Affairs, has been in this position for three or four years and is from the Li Gang shogunate; Wang Shu, the Minister of Punishment, should have been with Zhao Ding
They were close, but unexpectedly they were very close to the Privy Council because of their extraordinarily war-fighting stance; as for the Minister of Industry, he had brought Zhang Jun, Tian Shizhong, and Yang Yizhong to escort him, and he had served as deputy
Marshal, Liang Yangzu, who supervised the tea and salt affairs in the southeast, and finally came to Beijing because he gave up his extraordinary post after the war in Yaoshan... This man had great political capital and came from a well-known family (his father was the prototype of Liang Zhongshu in Water Margin), but he had always been modest.
He is an impartial and fair gentleman.
All in all, after the restructuring of the imperial court in Nanyang, and the six ministers gaining more and more weight, Liu Shangshu, who sat in such an important position, knew without asking that he was naturally someone with the same arm as Zhao Ding, so facing this person, Zhao Ding had no ability at all
No reason to hide your feelings.
"Liu Shangshu, officials talk about 'meritorious work' and admire Wang Shu Wang, and even with "Guanzi" becoming a prominent scholar, we can't find anything wrong with Hu Quan's acceptance of this. Moreover, the issue of this matter does not lie with Hu Quan at all, but with the officials.
Home." After thinking about it carefully, Zhao Ding was finally honest.
"Xiangong Zhao." Liu Dazhong also regained his breath at this time, but he shook his head repeatedly. "You don't understand what you said about the official, but the official's intentions are so straightforward, which inevitably makes people doubt that Hu Quan has won the official.
Instruction!"
Zhao Ding finally sighed.
In other words, there is no need to elaborate on what Zhao Guanjia’s intentions are. They are the main battle and the Northern Expedition! The attitude of this official family is very obvious from the beginning to the end... The edict of Huaishang not to take the initiative to make peace has been still in effect until now.
It was not revoked, and the person who came from the north to deliver the letter was ignored. The Jin people went to the palace to burn incense, and directly kicked them out without giving any chance to the ministers to speak. So that after "Jueying", he just walked away. What else did he want to do?
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"There must be no official instructions. This matter was definitely done by Hu Quan privately. However, the official attitude is ambiguous and there is no need to hide it deliberately." Zhao Ding continued to ponder. "What I mean is, we need to make it clear.
Officials are at the crux of this matter..."
"The walls have no ears, so even if your husband says it," Liu Dazhong frowned slightly, but couldn't help but add a few more sentences. "If the walls have ears, it would be a waste for my husband and the Minister of Rites to do anything!"
Zhao Ding ignored the other party's complaints, but said slowly in the audience: "I think there are two cruxes. One is that the official's intention to lead the war cannot be shaken, and I have seen that half of the officials in the dynasty are willing to negotiate for peace.
, inevitably arouses the monarch’s determination to have his own way..."
"Wouldn't it be great if we could capture the south of the Yellow River without fighting, welcome back the Two Saints, negotiate a little peace, and recuperate for a few years?" Liu Dazhong shook his head helplessly. It was obvious that he expressed his intention to negotiate peace during the last division of the battle that day.
"This matter is fair to both the public and the mother-in-law... If peace is negotiated, everything will be fine, but how can we deal with the hearts of the survivors of the two rivers? Even if we don't talk about the survivors of the two rivers, how many people have escaped across the river? How?
Explain?"
"Isn't it true that an official's job is meritorious?" Liu Dazhong stamped his feet in the audience. "Why do we only talk about justice and not utilitarianism at this time? What if we take a short rest and recuperate, and then start the Northern Expedition again?"
Zhao Ding was silent for a moment, but he continued: "Let's not mention this matter for the time being... Let's talk about what I just said. Secondly, the officials seem to be resistant to welcoming back the two saints..."
"It's not that it seems, but there is no doubt about it." When Liu Dazhong heard this, he became solemn again. "And Xiaguan thinks that this matter is more difficult to say. My husband, I was in other places before, and I didn't believe it when I heard the rumors.
Only today do we know that the Heavenly Family’s suspicion has reached this point!”
"The officials may not be suspicious. In my opinion, they are more resentful." Zhao Ding replied seriously.
"Whether it's suspicion or hatred, it's hard to explain, and the top can't explain clearly, and the people below can't explain either." Liu Dazhong said helplessly. "We say it's suspicion, but the officials say it's hatred. We say it's hatred, and the officials say it's hatred."
People are doubtful if they can't say it... Zhao Xianggong, the key is not here. The key is that everyone knows some things clearly, but why do the officials have to do this? Can't the matter of peace negotiation be changed slightly? The Second Saint
Can't we cover up the matter a little? The consequence of exposing it without any restraint is that we will now be suspicious both internally and externally, and our dignity will be completely lost!"
Zhao Ding also nodded slightly.
In fact, this was the problem, and it was also the root cause of the strange atmosphere in the DPRK in just a few days after the Jin envoy left that day - the actions of the Zhao Guan family had unmistakably touched the foundation of Confucian society, which is basically the three cardinal principles and five constant principles.
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The patriarchal social system created by Confucianism, no matter whether it is good or bad, is indeed a stable and useful thing. Over the years, everyone has adapted to using it to maintain social stability...Wang Anshi and Sima Guang held it during the reform period.
A Dengzhou Ayun case has been going back and forth for decades. Is it idle? It is not about the foundation of Confucian ethics!
And now, the Zhao Guan family not only wants to challenge ethical issues themselves, but also pushes such an ethical contradiction to these bureaucrats... You say that the king is the guide for the ministers, and the father is the guide for the son, but who is your king and father now? The king and father do
What should you do if something extremely wrong happens that violates ethics? Oppose it? What is the difference between you and the officials? Do you acquiesce or agree? Wouldn't that be helping the officials to violate the rules and regulations?
But if the Zhao Guan family is more secretive and more pretentious, can't they just let these things pass in a fool's errand? Will everyone have to be embarrassed?
It should be noted that the impact of the Battle of Yaoshan was too great. The situation between the two countries, as well as the internal military, political, and personnel affairs of both sides, including the authority of the leaders, all underwent drastic changes.
After that battle, everyone who cared about it understood that in the internal political situation of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Guanjia already had the ability to overturn the table. But the problem is that as the prime minister, isn't your main historical mission to prevent this official from overturning the table?
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Don't forget, this is not the first time Zhao Guan's family has tried to engage in low-end ethical jokes about the Second Saint. He did it last time after returning to the old capital, but Lu Haowen made him cry on the spot... If you have the ability this time,
Zhao Ding also cried back?
"Liu Shangshu, I think there is a choice between two things." After Zhao Ding nodded, he finally confessed.
"What do you mean by Mr. Xianggong...retreating one of the two and taking the other two?" Liu Dazhong immediately realized.
"That's right." Zhao Ding finally said his response. "What I mean is that we jointly submit a letter to the province, the Privy Council, the six ministries and nine ministers... Everyone who was in the palace that day signed it together.
Please plan the Northern Expedition to show your selflessness and non-partisanship. But please also ask the officials to show some dignity in the matter of the Two Saints!"
Liu Dazhong was silent for a while.
"Liu Shangshu, it is unlikely that the peace negotiation will come to fruition if the officials are so pretentious, and the resistance to this matter is greater than you think... There are two things you may not know yet, Wang Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment (
Wang Shu) came over to me after he came down from the palace that day and said that Hu Quan's words made him feel a lump in his heart. And Prime Minister Zhang had just written a note, asking for the reason that Hu Quan was the editor of the Privy Council and reported the matter to the military aircraft.
The province handed over the matter of the residence newspaper to the Privy Council."
Liu Dazhong raised his head in astonishment: "Is this really a party struggle?"
"We can't argue!" Zhao Ding said solemnly. "As I said, the government's intentions are there! And since I, Zhao Ding, am the Prime Minister of the province, I will not allow any more partisan disputes between the government and the government!"
Liu Dazhong sighed for a moment, but finally nodded: "In that case, we need to find someone to talk to the officials."
"No need." Zhao Ding said seriously again. "Firstly, we can't control the officials after all; secondly, the officials are frivolous and stubborn on the surface, but in fact they have a general idea in their hearts and they must understand what we mean."
"Forget it!" Liu Dazhong thought for a long time and finally stood up. "In that case, I will contact your colleagues in all provinces for you..."
Zhao Ding finally felt relieved.
However, he said that while Mr. Zhao was working hard to maintain the unity of the imperial court, the Zhao family, which had caused disunity among everyone, did not realize anything. On the contrary, he was in a high mood these past few days and had been dealing with martial arts matters.
As I said before, the Zhao Guan family was uneducated and had no idea that Zhao Song had always had martial arts. They thought they were innovating the system... In fact, their martial arts existed since the Renzong Dynasty, and they were imitated.
It comes from Taixue, where students are admitted and taught, and it cooperates with the martial arts system. It is very advanced, but it does not have the kind of high-level martial arts that the Zhao Guan family expected that can intervene in the promotion of generals.
Not only that, as the saying goes, one learns from one's mistakes. After careful questioning of Bao and Yang Yizhong, Zhao Guan's family found out that Zhao Song actually had a nursing home, a shelter for the disabled, a medical promotion bureau, and a cemetery system.
However, systems are all good systems, but their actual implementation varies greatly.
For example, the highest institution of martial arts under the Imperial College has only one professor per year, and like Taixue before Cai Jing's restructuring, it only provides training for the imperial examination.
For another example, nursing homes and shelters for the disabled are of course very good, but in fact they generally remain at the level of model projects produced by some officials, and they only lasted a few years before they were completed.
The cemetery system is also similar. The assessment methods are also very good, but there is no way to supervise them. The favorite trick of the monks in charge of the cemetery is to dismantle the corpses like Kindaichi, breaking the five corpses into six, and gathering enough to go to the court.
To pay an ultimatum... In this case, many poor people would rather choose cremation than be admitted to the cemetery.
The only thing worth mentioning is the medical promotion system... At the end of the Song Dynasty, both the official and the private sector paid unprecedented attention to the promotion of medicine and traditional Chinese medicine. Not only famous doctors emerged in large numbers, but the medical administrative agencies, medical business agencies, and medical education institutions were all very sound.
.The center not only has Hanlin Medical Academy, Imperial Hospital, Imperial Medicine Academy, and even Imperial Medical College that corresponds to Imperial Academy, but it is also more advanced than martial arts, and is directly sorted and graded according to the Sanshe method. Not only that, various government offices, military camps,
Medical officers are stationed in local areas, and a large amount of anti-epidemic materials are allocated to remote areas every year.
It can only be said that when it comes to the medical system alone, after Pan Guozhang explained it throughout the article, the Zhao family felt that they were truly ashamed of the times.
However, these things were destroyed in Jingkang. It was not until the third year of Jianyan that the central corresponding institutions were rebuilt. Only last year did they start to repurchase medicines, but they still used military expenditures, and most of them were spent in military camps... And Pan Guo
The father-in-law seemed to want the Zhao family to allocate some funds to restore his former glory as soon as possible, but in the end he was fooled by the official family.
It’s good that he didn’t ask the father-in-law for money, so why should he allocate funds?
In fact, the Zhao Guan family spent a lot of money on the reconstruction of martial arts. Part of the unused Yanfu Palace behind the palace was used as a school building, and then Li Qiong, Wang De, Yang Yizhong, Liu Yan and others took turns as professors.
Wu Jie was a bit better than Zhang Jun. Not only did he send corresponding officers for training, he also sent dozens of young Guanzhong disciples to enrich his martial arts.
"What's your name?" After Zhao Guan's family chatted with the Imperial Guards and Right Army officers for a few words, he couldn't help but notice the Guanzhong disciples and turned around. He looked at the leader with no hair on his lips.
The young martial arts student is all the same, but his body is extremely tall and majestic, and his shoulders are extremely muscular. He feels a bit like one of the world's elites.
You must know that just by looking at this man's skeleton, he feels like he is facing Han Shizhong.
"I..." This person was obviously at a loss because he was young. He wanted to speak but didn't know what to say. He wanted to salute but didn't know how to salute. He was just stunned for a moment.
"Go back to the officials." Wu Lin, who came to see off these officers and martial arts students for Wu Jie, quickly stepped forward from behind to respond. "This man's double name is Zhongfu, which happens to be the same name as Zhang Zhongfu, the commander of the Imperial Cavalry Army.
, but his surname is Wang, and he was born into a local wealthy man in Jingzhao... He entered the county school at a young age, and made good progress, but he is still a natural martial arts prodigy. At the age of eighteen, he has already beaten all the invincible opponents in Jingzhao.
A few months ago, the Prince of Yan'an County was in Chang'an. Hearing his name, he went to test him out. After the first try, he suffered a loss. He also thought he was a genius. He was originally going to be employed in the army, but later he heard that the officials were going to organize military affairs.
I wanted to learn from him, so I recommended him and asked my minister to bring him by the way."
Zhao Jiu put his hands behind his hands, nodded slowly, as if he was extremely satisfied, and then went to see the next student.