Chapter 95 Undercurrent
Later generations, a very famous financial scientist living in Hangzhou once said: Any institutional innovation is not wishful thinking, but the result of multi-party game.
The inherent meaning of this sentence is that the system of reform is not imagined by a person out of thin air. What can be promoted in the end must be the result of fierce collision between multiple parties and the final compromise between the forces of all parties.
Zhao Huan also fully realized the correctness of this sentence. For example, he wanted to abolish corvee labor with one size fits all, and the temple had not yet officially published a document nationwide, and the southern gentry could no longer hold back.
If this matter is carried out immediately, the consequence will be that there will be a fire in the south and the new army will go south to put out the fire.
The new army must have awesome combat power, but the south is the granary of the Song Dynasty. Jiangsu and Zhejiang Road and Jinghu Road are both the two places with the highest tax revenue in the Song Dynasty. Once the Wang Army starts war with these two places, the gentry in Shu may not be allowed to wait for an opportunity.
These places are relatively far away from the capital and are difficult to control. The new army is strong in combat effectiveness. Even if they win in the end, it will be a loss for the Song Dynasty.
The north has just experienced war, and the south must not be able to use the knife directly.
Zhao Huan did not sleep all day and night. Finally, in the early morning of early June, when the rain and dew were not dry, he drank a cup of calming the spirit tea, sootheed his emotions, and slowly fell asleep. He slept until the afternoon.
As soon as Zhao Huan finished his meal, Hanlin Grand Secretary Yang Shi hurried to meet the saint with a group of old men from the Hanlin Academy. Zhao Huan thought for a while and ran away from the back door. He didn't want to be surrounded by a group of old men and talked about the way of a saint with him.
The bachelors of the Hanlin Academy waited for a long time, and the little eunuch sent away the angry people on the grounds that His Majesty the Emperor was not in the palace.
The Hanlin Academy is now full of sorrows. To describe it in the words of the old scholars of the Hanlin Academy, Shi Xun's child is domineering in the Hanlin Academy and is disrespectful to his elders. Every day the remarks published in the Dasong Palace newspaper point to the saint's nose and curses.
These newspapers were distributed to Tokyo City, causing a great shock in the city.
Because Dibao became popular, these civilians were not all believers of Confucianism. They were so excited when they saw this kind of article, especially when there were craftsmen. When they saw Dibao scolding Confucian scholars and praising public institutions, they were so excited that they burst into tears.
Is the State of China reviving hundreds of schools?
For some reason, even the storytellers in the restaurants have a vague tendency to be anti-Confucian. However, a very small number of people who are interested will notice that these storytellers were invited by the Imperial City Office to have tea. On the day of the tea, a young man also entered the Imperial City Office. The matters in the Imperial City Office were top secrets, and ordinary detailed works could not be found out, so he could only make random guesses.
It would be fine if you don’t make a guess. Once you guess, all parties can’t stand it anymore. The new policy has just been introduced, and academic debates have started again.
Moreover, the development momentum of Dibao is quite strong. In just a few days, newspapers with Dibao opened one after another on Jingxi Road and Jingdong Road. The original officials of the Jinzuoyuan were said to have been found out by the inspector and sent to prison for corruption.
The newly formed team quickly occupied various prefectures, prefectures, counties and the next step was to go deep into the village, and all the residences in the village were free of charge.
Next, the Dibao began to penetrate into Hebei, Hedong and Yanyun.
At the same time, subtle personnel transfers occurred between the two prefectures. Due to the complexity of military and political reform, the emperor dropped the Minister of Rites Zhang Shuye to the Privy Council on the excuse of signing the Privy Council and reorganizing the military headquarters with Zong Shidao and Li Gang.
The day after Zhang Shuye was transferred, the Imperial City Department captured Liu Tongzhi, the Minister of Rites in a brothel in Tokyo, and was sent to the prison for occupying fertile land and evading taxes. On the same day, Chen Yang, the former Minister of Rites who was exiled for "salt and iron-spoken" had arrived in the capital and took over the position of Minister of Rites, and temporarily in charge of the Ministry of Rites.
At the same time, in the imperial examination administration, the power of the school was separated from the ritual part and was transferred to the Hanlin Academy.
This series of changes has not attracted public attention, but it indicates the arrival of a storm of the reform of the education system in the Song Dynasty.
The Hanlin Academy was originally the emperor's advisory group. Now the imperial examination administration and school establishment are under the jurisdiction of the Hanlin Academy, which is equivalent to the emperor directly taking it. It can be said that he further stripped part of his power from the East Prefecture.
In addition, a new department was also singled out and temporarily affiliated with the Hanlin Academy. This department is called the Department of the Arts and Political Affairs, which are famous actors from the dynasty. These people were responsible for political tasks and began to perform dramas where the New Deal is located.
These dramas are about the invasion of the Jin thieves. The Song army bravely resisted under the leadership of the wise and Shenwu emperor, and successfully recovered Yan Yun. They also involved King Su occupying fertile land and slaughtering the people. Today, when Zi was furious and sentenced to death by King Su.
There is also a drama called "The Girl of the Huan Family", which tells the story of a small village under the jurisdiction of Longde Mansion, Hebei. A beautiful girl named Luo Sang often washes clothes by the river. She was spotted by the young master of the Zhang family, a bully in the same village, and forced to be taken as a concubine. After Luo Sang's beloved Zhou Ze found out, he went to Zhang's family to beat him to death by sticks. Luo Sang then jumped into the river and committed suicide.
Such tragic stories suddenly became popular in the countryside. The Lingzheng Department quickly recruited personnel and began to arrange stories, deepening these stories into the countryside.
At the same time, an additional imperial proclamation officer was sent to each level of administration, whether it was a prefecture, prefecture, military, supervisor, county, or even to a village. This imperial proclamation officer was coordinated by the Inspectorate and was specifically responsible for the education and publicity of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism of the military and civilians in each prefecture.
While everyone was still in the warm water, a major case occurred on Jingdong Road and Jingxi Road. From the prefect to the county magistrate, more than 30 people were found to have committed crimes of embezzlement and bribery and murder, and were all taken to the capital by the Imperial City Office.
As soon as the old official was captured, the new official was already on the road and took office. While taking office, he began to thoroughly investigate the past of the state prefecture. For a moment, everyone in the big families in various places were shocked. They were facing the suppression of the new officials and the resistance of ordinary people from below.
This situation soon began to break out. On June 20th, a seemingly small murder occurred in Hedong. A farmer named Li Xiaoer, who was farming for the Kong family in Qufu was beaten to death.
Who was beaten to death? According to investigations, he was beaten to death by a local bully named Wang Jinlong. If this matter was put in the past, there would not be a single small wave. But now not only the few prefectures in Hedong are talking about this, but even Tokyo City is starting to talk about it.
All of them are because there is a line of big words on the mansion: I would like to ask the two ministers, when will the bully who oppress the people stop?
Whether it was the founding of the Song Dynasty or the previous dynasties, there was no incident of a civilian being beaten to death in the public opinion of the prefectures and the capital, but it happened in this dynasty.
And for some reason, this incident immediately caused widespread controversy, and two factions emerged. One side believed that the civilian must have stolen things, and the other side believed that the perpetrator was a famous bully from far and wide. Such bully colluded with local bureaucrats and became accomplices for the tiger, and the court should completely eradicate it!
Chapter completed!