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Chapter One Hundred and Nineteen

When Han Xiaowei arrived at Qinglu Pavilion, he learned that the emperor was arguing with several officials and officials.

After Qin Hui was ordered, after several months, he finally wrote the "Notes on the Establishment of Schools" with the essence of Wang Anshi's letter to Emperor Renzong that day, and suggested opening schools across the country, setting up primary schools in counties, and teaching six arts, including learning classics, arithmetics, court rules and regulations, laws, and even riding and shooting swords and techniques.

The prefecture is divided into categories and adds middle schools and primary schools to further study in middle schools. After graduation, students can be selected as officials or even officials.

Those with more profound academic studies can enter the Imperial College of the Capital, and their treatment is year-on-year. After graduation, they can serve as officials in central departments or local officials.

In fact, Wang Anshi had long proposed this series of methods in the school reform method. It was a major change in reforming the imperial examination system and not trying to change poetry to classical meanings, but the effect after the reform was not good. When taking poetry, candidates specialize in poetry, songs, and memorizing the classical meanings, and memorizing the same rote memory. More than a hundred years later, they were even set up to a dead end.

Wang Anshi's original intention was to reform the examination method only at the beginning. Establishing schools in various places, teaching specialized knowledge and then replacing the imperial examination with the school system is the essence of his reform.

Unfortunately, in his time, he was too constrained, and with his status, he could not make too many changes in the examination and study content. Despite this, this reform method has been too much resistance.

Zhao Huanyuan also intended to reconstitute the tax, green seedlings, and farmland water conservancy laws, but he spent too much military energy, so he could not spend a lot of energy and time to fight against the literati and officials in the court. The only method of equalizing the tax in square fields is actually similar to the one-whip method in later generations and the one-spreading method in which he violated all the interests of the literati and officials. The Qingmiao Law was borrowed by the US government in economic difficulties in the 20th century and became a template for small-scale agricultural loans, and offended the land. However, it was a wealthy and wealthy gentleman who was qualified to lend.

As for farmland water conservancy, Zhao Huan did not promulgate and implement it in the form of administrative orders, which was considered to be ineffective.

If we cannot borrow the test method, there are many methods to restrict it. With the laziness of the officials of the Song Dynasty, we would have wanted to do nothing during our tenure. After several years, many corrupt officials were dismissed, and now the interests of the officials are also known to us. There is no obstacle in political affairs. For example, the veterans and important officials in the Shenzong Dynasty dared to openly resist the law and fail to comply with the law in their tenure.

Even so, Zhao Huan still deeply felt that of course a considerable number of middle and lower-level officials who were obtained by the imperial examination method were hardworking, loyal and honest. Although most officials did not dare to be greedy, they did not like to have many things. For example, reforms became law, hard work but could not get more benefits. It was handed over to these officials, but they were half the result with twice the effort. They were lacking in ability and had rigid thinking.

Even if the good decrees are promulgated, there are many people who do things perfunctorily or just do a one-size-fits-all approach.

The so-called reform is the most important thing, which was also the most important point that Wang Anshi and Emperor Shenzong of Song made a comeback.

Zhao Huan's reform has gone through several years and has reached the stage of preparing to reform the system fundamentally. If he wants to reform the system fundamentally, he must first clear the administration of officials, and the administration of officials cannot just start from the perspective of corruption and the appointment of capable ministers. The so-called gaining people means cultivating available talents in a large number of land.

As a slander, Qin Hui naturally had a clear understanding of the "holy intention". Since returning to Chang'an to report a few times, he has studied Wang Anshi's works at home. In fact, Zhao Huan explained to him with a letter every day that others thought that he, as a minister, was fine, but he did not know that he was hiding at home and fabricated a big article about school reform.

The current assistant ministers are just Zhang Suo, Xie Liang, Zhao Kai and Qin Hui. The former two were both ministers who had been in Xuanfu all the way before the Jingkang two years ago, and were famous war pro-war factions. In fact, their virtues and talents were just limited to full-time positions, and their talents were not enough in the position of assistant ministers. Fortunately, Zhao Huan did not need a prime minister who dared to take responsibility, so the two of them followed the class for several years, and most of them were responsible for government affairs. Zhao Kai was a capable financial minister, and he was in charge of the three departments. He was actually a prime minister. He had nothing to do except transferring wealth. Qin Hui was ordered to go out and abolish local officials and assess officials. He made great contributions to promoting the implementation of the reduction and exemption of prefectures and counties and the implementation of the examination laws in the local area.

The entire Central Jishu mostly relied on the emperor's decision to act, and was unique in the history of the Song Dynasty. One is that Zhao Huan's reputation has increased significantly, which is more frustrating than the founding emperor. The other is that Zhao Huan's energy has been devoted to military affairs in recent years, and his reform of political affairs is only aimed at saving money and eliminating waste, which has less impact on the original political system.

Despite this, after many measures such as the examination and the law, the opposition was louder and louder. The Song Dynasty had family rules that could not be killed, and there was no need to speak of sinners. Many middle and lower-level officials who were fearless, including a large number of censors, all had various criticisms about the government. If Zhao Huan had not been determined and punished in disguise in the name of the study class, and Li Gang and the pressure relief valve, he could barely support it. To make a big change into a law, it would actually be much more radical than Wang Anshi back then. There were more places to reform, and it would have to be changed by the central government system and the prime ministers.

Zhao Huan's understanding quickly turned into action.

During Zhao Ji's reign, the so-called six thieves led by Cai Jing were in trouble in the name of implementing the new law and land, making the Song Dynasty even weaker. Therefore, the name of the new law was already unacceptable after Zhao Huan ascended the throne.

When Qin Hui brought up a plan to establish a school that was obviously a disciple of Wang Anshi, he first had a good time in the political affairs, and several officials argued in court, and had different opinions. When Han Xiaowei was ordered to come to see the emperor, several prime ministers were already quarreling in front of the emperor.

Zhao Kai was responsible for finance and responsibilities. Although he was also a Jinshi, he was always pragmatic. Qin Hui set up a school. He just felt that it would cost a lot of financial expenditures, so he spoke out against it. When he saw Qin Hui listing the actual role of the school one by one, and the cost of establishing an Imperial College in the capital was not as much as that of Jin Mingchi. Zhao Kai knew very well that this person had always followed the emperor's orders, and the political situation in the court was obviously about to change. It would be better to be clumsy than to say more. So he pretended to be refuted by Qin Hui and retreated aside and silently.

Zhang Suo and Xie Liang were typical old literati. When Qin Hui came out, he was already furious. In addition, he had a bad impression of this person, and he became more and more resistant.
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