Chapter 843 Shuozheng
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"Since ancient times, there are only two ways to govern the people. One is the foolish people. Typically, the nine-rank Zhongzheng system of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, telling the people that when some people are born, even if they are fools, they are superior. When some people are born, even if they are talented, they are inferior as long as they are poor. In this way, put the people of all classes in a constant position, and then use some means to make the people become ignorant and willing to live a poor life, and the country will be stable. Oh, by the way, in addition to some backward dynasties in our previous China, there are also Brahmins in small southern barbarian countries, which also use this method to maintain the stability of various countries."
In fact, the Song Dynasty sometimes implemented some policies to fool the people, but most people had denied the nine-rank Zhongzheng system of the Northern and Southern Dynasties.
All the people.
"There is another kind of thing, that is, pay attention to people's livelihood and make the people have no worries about food and clothing. In summary, it is to put people first. The king is the boat and the people are water. Water can carry the boat and can also overturn the boat. However, the best implementation is still our dynasty. Therefore, even if there are some riots and bandits, they cannot shake the foundation of the country."
"This article is recognized by all scholars and officials, but the question is what kind of people and people are this person and this people! Or, are the poor people a person or a people? Your Majesty, all the masters, I have completely different ideas from many scholars and officials on this issue. For these poor people, I have always called common people, equal equality, or poor people, poor people. But many people say that they are common people and upright people."
"I don't say whether this kind of praise is right or not, but one thing I want to say is that the reason for these praises is that these people are poor, have no chance to study, receive education, are they illiterate, and do not know the meaning of poetry, books and scriptures. But are these people really ignorant? First of all, I am talking about morality. Even the common people in the poorest areas actually have morality, hate cheating, fraud, and robbery, and also have simple morality, right and wrong, and human affairs."
"Another, when it comes to loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, the court's requirements for literati and officials are only to be more public and less selfish, and to place the interests of the court above the interests of the individual family. But in the northwest, it is an army composed of illiterate, ignorant of poetry, books, and classics, and to protect the safety of the Song Dynasty with their lives! What is the most precious thing in the world? It is not glory and wealth, but life. Even if you don't have life, what else can you talk about glory and wealth!"
"But what did the court give to these little people? What did the scholars and officials give to them!"
In fact, that country will not truly be united. Don’t mention that the Chinese like internal struggles. Just see the dispute between the two parties between the US and the imperialists. Why is this earthly damn good at the sky? It’s also an internal struggle.
But now is the most critical moment for whether the Song Dynasty can revive. Can we create this earth-shaking world?
In other words, these high-ranking officials, officials and powerful people who receive unprecedented salaries are not as good as ordinary people and soldiers who don’t even know a big word!
"My ancestors recognize the idea of elite governance, and I also recognize the idea of elite governance. However, whether our ancestors, or His Majesty, or me, while acknowledging the power of governance, I still hope that everyone will be more public and put the country first, and try to give ordinary poor people more vitality. Therefore, we can unite people so that the country can last for a long time and our descendants can enjoy the glory of a stable, prosperous and powerful dynasty."
The prime minister of the East Prefecture is divided into two levels: Pingzhangshi and the political affairs of the magistrate. The political affairs of the magistrate are undoubtedly the deputy prime minister. However, there are still some differences between Pingzhangshi, and this difference is easy to distinguish. The one who adds Pingzhangshi, the Grand Secretary of Jixian Hall and the Grand Secretary of Zhaowenguan, can only be called prime ministers, but not prime ministers. Only those who are supervising the national history are the real prime ministers. Therefore, this supervision of national history is not really supervising the national history, but just a distinctive honorary title. Later, it was reorganized, and the Zhongshu Ling was the prime minister. In history, the Zhongshu Shilang was the prime minister and the Right Pushe was the second prime minister.
Therefore, the only prime ministers of the Zhao Xu Dynasty were Han Qi, Zeng Gongliang, Han Jiang, Wang Anshi, Wu Yun, Wang Gui and Cai Que.
But it also depends on it. Just like when Fan Zhongyan was the chief minister of state affairs, there were Zhang Dexiang and Yan Shu in the East Mansion. However, because of the Qingli New Policy, the government power was actually not in the hands of Yan Zhang and the other two, but in the hands of Fan Zhongyan. Similarly, when Zeng Gongliang and Han Jiang were prime ministers, because of Wang Anshi's reforms, they did not have more real power than Wang Anshi.
This nature extends to Wang Ju. Although Wang Ju entered the East Mansion for the second time and did not serve as prime minister, either Lao Wang or Cai Que was present. However, Wang Ju is the one with the most real power, especially when the Prime Minister fell into Cai Que's hands after Lao Wang died.
Now, Wang Ju has more or less a huge influence in the court, but what should I think? If Cai Que is narrow-minded, the two of them will turn against each other and become enemies if they don’t do it well. However, Wang Ju has always done a good job. First, the Prime Minister Cai Que is indeed equivalent to being given to him by Wang Ju. Second, Wang Ju has never fought with Cai Que. In addition, the two have not had much conflict in government affairs, so overall, Cai Que and Wang Ju are still in good relationship.
At this time, what did Wang Ju want to do when he visits Cai Que?
Not long afterwards, Wang Ju left the capital without even having the Lantern Festival.
Now the northwest is still cold and the earth is frozen, so Wang Ju doesn't have to be so anxious at all. Therefore, this makes some people even more worried. They are not worried that Wang Ju will learn from An Lushan. It is okay to be a powerful minister in the Song Dynasty, but it is difficult to be An Lushan. The reason for worrying is that once Wang Ju goes to the front line, it is easier to cause some storms.
However, those who are worried or those who are worried are only a very small number of people who know the inside story.
The most talked about in the capital was what happened at the palace banquet, Wang Ju's inexplicable actions at the banquet, and the court's agreement to negotiate peace with Xixia.
It doesn't matter what happened before, but Wang Ju got nervous.
The main thing is that later, why did the imperial court negotiate peace with the Xixia under this great situation?
Short of money?
Maybe there is a little shortage. If it weren't for a senior official, I wouldn't know Wang Ju's next huge immigration plan and the cultivation of a Great Wall, and I would even think that the imperial inventory could handle the next Pingxia War.
Are you missing a general? Stop teasing.
Are you short of weapons? Not to mention it.
Or there is no logistics, which is not right. I don’t know how much logistics have been transported to the northwest in recent years.
In fact, if it is a little late, the logistics will make many people suspect it, but now the weather is still very cold and most transportation has stopped.
Therefore, many officials really thought that the court had negotiated peace with the Xixia.
This puzzled many officials and the people.
In fact, the Song Dynasty exposed its "ambitions" at the end of last year, because an edict was issued since the end of last year, and the year name was changed from this year to "Shuozheng".
If the year name is not changed, this year will be the eleventh year of Yuanfeng. This doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t have to change the year name after ten years. Just like Emperor Taizong of Tang, who was the 23rd year of the king, only used one year name, Yongzhen.
Some kings like to change the year number. For example, Emperor Renzong of Song used nine year number, while others did not like to change the year number. For example, Emperor Taizong of Tang only used one year number, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang only used two year number. The emperor who did not like to change the year number may not be a good emperor, and the emperor who liked to change the year number may not be a bad emperor. This is just a personal hobby.
Zhao Xu used only two year names in his dynasty, Xining and Yuanfeng, and now he used Zhengshuo, but only three year names, which is actually not much. Even Taizu of Song used three year names.
However, there are two precautions for the year number. The first one cannot overlap with the year number of the previous dynasty.
There is a story here. It is said that Zhao Pu has read very little. Zhao Kuangyin once summoned the ministers to discuss changing the year name and changing the Yuan of Gande. Gan is the hexagram of Jiyang. The hexagram of the king. The king has virtue. Zhao Pu repeatedly said it was OK. A trace of dark smile flashed across Lu Duoxun's face. A few years later, the Song Dynasty destroyed Hou Shu and some items in the Hou Shu palace were sent to the palace. Zhao Kuangyin accidentally discovered the word Gande. He was shocked and immediately summoned the ministers to ask. Lu Duoxun immediately stepped forward and said that this was used by the pseudo-Shu. The year name. Zhao Kuangyin immediately sent someone to check the classics, and it was true. So in anger, he picked up a brush and slapped Zhao Pu's face. Zhao Pu left the court with a sad face, and asked him to wash his face, but Zhao Pu refused. The next day he went to court, Zhao Kuangyin saw that the ink marks on Zhao Pu's face were still there and asked. Zhao Pu said that I had made a big mistake and did not dare to wash my face without his majesty's words. Zhao Kuangyin laughed and the matter was over. But from then on, Zhao Pu and Lu Duoxun formed hatred.
This story is not credible, because Lu Duosun was a local official at that time. He did not serve as a Hanlin bachelor's degree until Kaibao and entered the senior management practice. How could he be qualified to conferencing the year number during the Gande period?
Therefore, there was another version. Zhao Kuangyin used the Gande reign title, but everyone did not pay attention to it. Until after the destruction of Shu, a palace maid was sent to the harem. One day, Zhao Kuangyin looked at the mirror box of the palace maid and found that there were five words "Kande" cast in the four years on the back of the bronze mirror. He was very surprised. So he summoned important officials to ask, and the prime ministers and other prime ministers could not answer. Zhao Kuangyin summoned the scholars and scholar Tao Gu again, and Dou Yi said that this mirror must be a matter of the former Shu. Wang Yan of the former Shu had used this reign title. Zhao Kuangyin suddenly realized and said, "The prime minister must be a scholar."
But this rumor is not very credible, especially the following sentence, which was mostly made by the literati and officials later. After learning about this, Zhao Kuangyin did not change the year name. It took him three years to go through the Gande reign. It was not until the second year of the sixth year of Gande that the Kaibao reign was changed.
However, it was indeed a mistake made by Emperor Taizu of Song.
Why?
In ancient times, it was impossible to have many years in AD, but to have many years in which the year name was used. For example, in the fifteenth year of Zhenguan, Emperor Taizong of Tang ordered Li Daozong to escort Li Daozong's daughter Princess Wencheng to Tibet. It was actually what happened in 641 AD. For example, Zhao Xu died in the spring of the eighth year of Yuanfeng in history, which was actually what happened in 1085 AD.
This is a unified era. Even in the era of separatism, the year names should not overlap. For example, when Kaibao was founded, because the Southern Tang and Wu Yue surrendered to the Song Dynasty, the year names used by these two countries were Kaibao, but other separatist countries used other year names, such as the Northern Han Dynasty was Tianhui, Guangyun, the Southern Han Dynasty was Dabao, the Liao Dynasty was Yingli, Baoning, Dali was Shunde, Mingzheng, and Khotan was Tianzun. The Ding'an Kingdom established by the Jurchen Uprising in the northwest used the year names of Yuanxing.
If you open the books or some things in the Southern Han Dynasty at this time, with the words "Dabao Ten Years" on it, it was 968 AD, which is the first year of Kaibao in the Song Dynasty.
But if the year name is used randomly, the whole time will be messed up, and at least a lot of chaos will occur when sorting out historical books.
Next, the year name has certain symbolic meanings, such as Xining, Xi, prosperity, harmony and noisy, Ning means peace and peace. The two words are combined to understand Zhao Xu's painstaking efforts. Well, now that I have ascended the throne, my father has been buried in peace, so the disputes caused by the Puyi dispute can be calmed down.
There is also a famous Xi, Kangxi, and An Ding dispute. It is a foregone conclusion that our Qing Dynasty was buried in the Central Plains. You Han people should not resist again!
For example, Yuanfeng, in fact, the "economic crisis" of the Song Dynasty had been resolved since then, at least it was lost and the treasury began to fill, so this year's name was used.
This caused another problem. There were not only many unified dynasties in China, but also many small separatist countries and pseudo-states. If the year names do not overlap, they must have certain symbolic and auspicious meanings. Then the later it becomes more and more difficult to get the year names. Therefore, the kings in the Ming and Qing Dynasties had no choice but to use only one year number.
Therefore, there is no need to explain the year number this year, and the key is the symbolic meaning of this righteousness.
What is the correct word? Then it depends on another word, the correct word.
The first day of the Lunar New Year is called Zhengshuo, and the newly issued calendar by the emperor is also called Zhengshuo. Therefore, in ancient times, from Xia to Shang to Zhou to Qin to Han, the emperor had to change the calendar after his surname changed. It was not until the time of Emperor Wu of Han that the legendary Xia calendar was used, which was the earliest lunar calendar, which was passed down to later generations, and this calendar was stabilized.
However, Zhengshuo has given more meaning since then, that is, the most orthodox dynasty in the world.
Therefore, in order to beautify the orthodoxy of Shu during the Three Kingdoms, Yong Kai, the minister of Shu, said that today there are three main principles.
Obviously, Shu Kingdom is definitely not the true meaning of the Three Kingdoms.
So what happened to the Song Dynasty? The Song Dynasty seemed to be unified, but why did Hei Khan call the Liao Kingdom China?
Because the Song Dynasty, as a unified dynasty, had the most powerful area and was very weak. Don’t ask about the Western Jin Dynasty. If it weren’t for the Eight Kings Rebellion within the Western Jin Dynasty, let alone the remaining pitiful Huns, even the Xianbei people would not have been able to enter the Central Plains!
Therefore, as some people with lofty ambitions, I always feel that the Song Dynasty, the righteous dynasty is a bit unworthy of its name.
So what kind of dynasty can be called a true dynasty that matches the name and reality?
First of all, Jiaozhi had to take it down, because since ancient times, Jiaozhi has been a jurisdiction under the Central Plains dynasty.
Dali does not have to be truly governed, but at least it must be made within the throne of the Central Plains dynasty.
These two goals have been achieved in advance.
But what about the north?
Let’s not mention the Western Regions in the northwest. Nowadays, scientific and technological productivity and transportation are like this. Even if all tribal regimes on the Western Regions and Qinghai Plateau take the initiative to surrender to the Song Dynasty, how can they be governed?
But at least Hexi Corridor and Lingyuan Plain, Hetao in the north and south must be ruled or detained.
But this large area not only failed to govern and restrain, but instead became a nightmare of the Song Dynasty.
Let’s look at the northeast, let’s not mention the Goryeo area north of the southern Liaoning River. At least the sixteen states of Youyun, the most critical portal in the north, must belong to the Central Plains dynasty. Only at this point can the Song Dynasty be truly called the Great Song Dynasty or the real Zhengshu Dynasty.
Okay, if you understand this meaning, you will know what Shuozheng is. That is, from this year, the Song Dynasty began to advance towards this truly Zhengshuo Dynasty.
But at this critical moment, the court negotiated peace? The court negotiated peace!
Chapter completed!