"Your Majesty, the alliance between the three families is inevitable, but Your Majesty, the honor of Wancheng, should not leave Bian Jing lightly. I would like to ask His Highness Baoding to go north to Zhending Prefecture and join the Liao and Zhou dynasties."

The one who asked to go north was Su Chi, the director of the Zhishumi Institute. Wu Juhou, the former director of the Zhishumi Institute, asked Gongguan to go home to recuperate from the same age as he was sick and unable to deal with a lot of troubles. The two years ago, Zhao Ji asked Su Chi, who was relatively young and powerful, to take over the mess of the Privy Institute.

By the way, according to the evaluation of later historical books, Zhao Ji during the Zhenghe period had already passed the period of hard work to govern, and began to indulge in Taoism and neglect government affairs. He also lost interest in military reforms that had achieved great achievements in the early days of his reign. He gradually embarked on the road of people not losing their lives and political affairs.

Of course, the government is just Zhao Ji's good wish! Sometimes it is easy to open a magic box, but it is very, very difficult to close it and catch all the monsters flying out of it.

So this time, Zhao Ji was really a guide to the bourgeoisie by Wu Haogukeng...

A feudal emperor actually opened the magic box of the bourgeois revolution by himself. It’s so painful to think about it!

Zhao Ji, who was a little awakened but not yet fully awakened, could only work hard to "rest in politics".

And in this "policy" process, the power of the Privy Council once again increased.

Because during the process of "Daozong's New Policy" ("Song Daozong" was Zhao Ji's temple name in this time and space), the Ministry of War was weakened, and a considerable part of its power was included in the Dujun Ji Office. The Dujun Ji Office was later incorporated into the Privy Council. Therefore, the power of the Western Prefecture (referring to the Privy Council) was increased, and once again achieved a status comparable to that of the Eastern Prefecture.

While the power of Xifu was increasing, the issues that Xifu had to deal with also became very complicated.

Because of the two major troubles of the "cradle of revolution", military academies and universities were also introduced to the political structure of Kaifeng Prefecture by Wu Haogu! Positivism and rationalism also took root and sprouted on the land of the Song Dynasty.

At the same time, some areas of the Song Dynasty (including the capital Kaifeng Prefecture) also entered the introductory stage of capitalism!

That’s right! Capitalism in the Song Dynasty also sprouted!

Can it not sprout?

There are seven modern universities on the land of the Song Dynasty, including Qingcheng Academy, Gezhi University, Shanghai University of Arts and Sciences, Luoyang Tianli University (Sacred Land of Neo-Confucianism), Yuzhou Yuntai Academy, Yuqing Daode Palace, and Kaifeng Martial Arts College.

Rationalism, positivism, and natural philosophy can now spread more freely these three ideologies that Wu Haogu came up with are so powerful. You can't take them back as long as you want... These propositions are impartial and just answer the questions of Confucian sages, and raise Confucianism to a height that can be crushed and exaggerated by the Tao and can resist the three religions of Apocalypse.

Moreover, the rationalists, empiricalists and the Tianli faction now have their own armed forces. If Zhao Ji had engaged in literary inquisitions in the Song Dynasty, it might have been possible that the Tianli knights in Hexi, the citizen warriors in Yan land, and the Ji family pirates in the southeast would have started to make a fuss together.

Therefore, Zhao Ji, who was born timid, could only vigorously support the Yuqing Moral School and Neo-Confucianism to fight against the rational school, the empirical school and the Tianli School.

Therefore, the works of Aristotle, Wu Haogu, Li Gang, Lu Haowen, Li Qingzhao, and Song Daozong himself were all integrated into the textbooks of these seven universities. Even the Taixue Biyong Academy, which belongs to the right path of the imperial examination, now teaches these things. The achievements of the Taixue reform led by Su Dongpo and Cai Jing have been greatly preserved.

Now the imperial examination officials who have passed the Jinshi have to study in the Biyong Academy for two to three years before they can get the actual lack of official positions.

Therefore, an intellectual class that is very different from the traditional Confucian scholars and officials is also mass-produced at a rate of no less than 2,000 people per year.

These people should have no good way out in the Song Dynasty, where civil officials ruled.

But now it is not the Song Dynasty, but a bourgeois republic has emerged.

If the Song Dynasty did not give a way, they would all go to Wu Haogu... These are all talents who can do things!

Moreover, the Republican Army, which has military officers as its core backbone, has indeed shown amazing combat effectiveness.

Therefore, Zhao Ji and a group of civil officials who wanted to protect the Song Dynasty did not dare to close the Kaifeng Martial Arts Academy. If you locked the military academy, who would defend the Song Dynasty?

Therefore, the military system, including the Privy Council, military academies, new army, and weapons production, has become an important way out for bourgeois intellectuals who want to become officials.

Su Chi, a half-new and half-old figure, has now become one of the leaders of the bourgeois intellectuals of the Song Dynasty. Ji Yi, Su Shi, Zhang Yuan from Hexi, and Han Xiaozhou from Hebei are also leaders of the bourgeois intellectuals of the Song Dynasty...

In other words, a new party has also been quietly taking shape in recent years!

And Su Chi, Ji Yi, Su Shi, Zhang Yuan, and Han Xiaozhou are the core leaders of the new party.

Now that Su Chi proposed to protect the prince from going north, it immediately aroused the vigilance of Cai Jing, who had become the leader of the conservative school.

Zhao Ji is a little discouraged now, so he just uses the new party, not trusts. But His Highness Ding is different. People think that he is young and promising and can cheer up!

If Su Chi is deceived, once he ascended the throne in the future, it will be troublesome.

"Your Majesty," Cai Jing immediately went out to report, "Your Highness Ding is also a body of gold, how can you take this strange risk? Why don't you let the old minister go to Hebei?"

Su Chi immediately said: "Your Majesty, the northern room of the Privy Council under my jurisdiction reported yesterday that Empress Dowager Xiao of Liao was interested in begging His Highness Ding as a concubine. King Ding went north, but it was actually a blind date. How could there be danger?"

"What?" Zhao Ji frowned, "The news is reliable?"

"It should be reliable." Su Chi replied.

The source of the news is Wu Haogu, how could it be unreliable? But Su Chi couldn't say it clearly, so he had to push it to the north room of the Privy Council.

Su Chi said: "Before the three-party alliance, there will be a delegation from the Liao Kingdom coming to Kaifeng Prefecture. At that time, this matter should be officially mentioned."

"Your Majesty," Cai Jing replied, "The daughter of Empress Xiao is called a nobleman, but she is actually a barbarian, and she cannot be a princess!"

Su Chi said: "But Empress Xiao wants to return Taiyuan in the name of dowry and pacify the two places."

"Your Majesty..." Cai Jing wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Zhao Ji's wave of his hand.

Zhao Ji said: "If Taiyuan can be taken back and the two places can be pacified, how could King Ding not marry the Khitan princess as his concubine?

Confucius wrote the Spring and Autumn Annals and said: If the barbarians are like China, then China will be Chinese. If China enters barbarians, then barbarians will be. If the remaining miles into China, I should regard them as Chinese people."

Zhao Ji's words were so high-sounding, but in fact they had ulterior motives. He did not like his eldest son, King Ding Zhao Huan, who was like his mother, Queen Wang, and was not very smart. Zhao Ji's third son, King Jia, was simply carved from the same mold as Zhao Ji. He was smart and smart, with both calligraphy and painting, and he read very well. No matter how new and old theories are learned, he could learn them all at once.

This is the prince’s first choice!

But the problem is that King Ding Zhao Huan is the eldest son, and he cannot be deprived of his inheritance without a suitable reason!

Moreover, Zhao Huan's "stupidity" is just about Zhao Ji and Zhao Kai. If you really want to test your IQ, there is no problem with over 100.

Therefore, Zhao Ji just stuck to the position of the prince and refused to give it to Zhao Huan, but he could not make Zhao Kai the prince.

The "marriage to Khitan" mentioned by Su Chi is a good opportunity.

Zhao Huan used the Khitan princess as his concubine, and it seemed that it was not suitable to inherit the throne of the Song Dynasty... Otherwise, if it was passed on, wouldn't it be that an official with barbarian bloodline appear?

Cai Jing frowned, as if he wanted to speak, but Zhao Ji picked up a memorial on the imperial case and said, "This is Ji Yi's memorial, accusing the prince of Jiaozhi, accusing the rebellious emperor of his country, claiming to be the emperor in his country, and also hosting pirates and plundering our merchant ships, which has caused trouble to Guangnan Sea for many years.

A few days ago, when Ji Yi personally led a warship to wipe out the pirates, he followed the clues to pick up the pirates' nest on Jiaozhi land, and then he discovered many of the bad deeds of the Prince of Jiaozhi... What should I do if you think it should be done?"

Ji Yi is making a fuss!

Although the Jiaozhi Li Dynasty was called emperor in China, it has never been a minister to the Song Dynasty, and even sent troops to plunder the border during the reign of Emperor Shenzong. However, the sea was indeed not a place where Jiaozhi Kingdom could play.

Especially after the establishment of the Hailu Maritime Control Department, the "colonial and naval" yamen office.

Now, there are only two powers, namely the Dasong Hailu Maritime Control Department and the Zhou Navy, on the seas in East and Southeast Asia, and there is no room for a third party to survive.

"Your Majesty," Su Chi, the Privy Council, immediately reported, "I have always known that Jiaozhi's country has no king, and Ji Yi's report should be true."

"Even if it is true, it is also arbitrarily provoked border problems!" Cai Jing said sternly.

"This is not arbitrary border provocation," Su Chi said tit-for-tat, "but to being loyal to his duties. The Hailu Maritime Control Department had the responsibility to wipe out pirates to ensure smooth sea routes. The Jiaozhi Kingdom was a state of the Song Dynasty, and the king of the country was hereditary of the Annan Protector. The coast of Jiaozhi was originally the jurisdiction of the Hailu Maritime Control Department!"

"But they don't admit it!" Cai Jing said.

Su Chi smiled: "If you don't admit it, why did you submit a complaint to the court for accusing Ji Yi?"

Hey, it seems that's the reason...

The ministers present were stunned.

This time, Jiaozhi Kingdom did not send troops to disturb the territory, but sent envoys to sue Ji Yi respectfully. Isn’t this acknowledgement of the sect sovereignty of the Song Dynasty?

What's going on? It doesn't conform to the style of Jiaozhi Country!

Su Chi said again: "Since Jiaozhi Kingdom recognized the power of the sect leader of our dynasty and submitted a complaint. Then Jiaozhi is a place of custody, not an independent country. The coast of Jiaozhi is the jurisdiction of the Hailu Maritime Control Department, so Ji Yi's actions are naturally not a question of opening a border quarrel. As for whether his actions are too appropriate, the court can send a censor to investigate."

Zhao Ji nodded, saying it was right! This matter should be investigated clearly.

Cai Jing said: "Where will I send the censor to investigate?"

Su Chi said: "It's true that Jiaozhi is in China! We must not only check whether the Hailu Maritime Control Department is inappropriate, but also check whether the Prince of Jiaozhi is a disobedient!"

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Chapter completed!