Brother Song Taizu

Chapter 167 Zhao Guangmei: They have to learn to grab it themselves
"My lord, I am ashamed to see you, Your Highness. My lord, I am ashamed."

With that said, Sun Xingzu kowtowed to Zhao Guangyi with tears streaming down his face.

"Sun Xingzu, among the 22 counties under the jurisdiction of Kaifeng Prefecture, you are the one I am most optimistic about. This year, you are the only one who will be selected for the Beijing Examination. I treat you with all my heart and trust, right?"

"I am ashamed, I am... guilty."

Zhao Guangyi waved his hand after hearing this, not harshly, but instead ordered Shi Xizai to bring him a bench, and asked Yang Shouyi to make tea for him, and then asked: "You were going to be the prefect soon, I want to know, why? If you are said to be greedy, short-sighted, and daring, I won’t believe it. But...do you have any difficulties? "

This gesture made Sun Xingzu unable to hold back. He burst into tears and cried bitterly. He knelt on the ground and kept grabbing the ground with his head, until blood came out, and he still had snot and tears.

"I am guilty, I am ashamed of Your Highness, I... But I can't do anything, I really can't do anything. Your Highness, even if you are at the feet of the Emperor, how can you get the king's law in the countryside?"

Zhao Guangyi nodded and sighed. After he had cried enough, he asked him to sit on the chair again and said calmly: "I also know that you must have had no choice but how did you have no choice?"

"Your Highness clearly knows that although I am the county magistrate, I am still an official after all. I am the county magistrate of Liushui, and Huang Qichang is the iron-clad master. I can make my own decisions on matters within the county, but outside the county, really In the countryside, what does the government want to do without the cooperation of the local powerful people? The reason why I have always had good political performance is because I have a harmonious relationship with the powerful people in the county, and most of them are charitable and knowledgeable. A man of understanding.”

"Haha, a local tycoon, knowledgeable, sensible, and willing to do good deeds?"

Sun Xingzu also looked embarrassed and said: "To put it bluntly, I mean that I am willing to cooperate with my official duties and share my worries. Of course, I will also share my worries and solve my problems when conditions permit. Local officials and local officials Powerful people are meant to complement each other and promote each other. If we get along well, everyone will be happy. He will get rich and acquire land, and I will gain political achievements and be promoted."

Zhao Guangyi nodded when he heard this. The local government, especially the real grassroots government at the county magistrate level, indeed had this principle. He had been working as the governor of Kaifeng in recent years. Of course he knew about this kind of thing.

"So you are tied to this person named Huang because of this? Haha, in Zheng County, does you, the magistrate, have the final say, or does his person named Huang have the final say?"

Sun Xingzu smiled bitterly and said: "If it is in the county, then the minister must have the final say, but if it is in the countryside, I am afraid he has the final say. Besides, there are seven items in the new policy, one of which is to streamline the subordinate staff. If I, a slutty county magistrate, really want to support the New Deal, I’m afraid I won’t be able to control those iron-clad subordinates.”

Zhao Guangyi frowned and said: "But another item of the New Deal is to log all subordinate staff into the accounts of the Ministry of Personnel, and have them eat royal food at the expense of the imperial court. Do you know how much additional expenditure the imperial court will have to increase just for this item and just for Kaifeng Mansion? This Isn't it for the sake of subordinates?"

Sun Xingzhu smiled bitterly when he heard this: "There are two types of officials. One is those who have no power but have skills or strength, such as midwives, Kuxun, squad servants, navy, etc., and the other are those who are skilled in officialdom. People of this type either have inextricable connections with the big tycoons in the county, or they have friends with countless heroes and gangsters in the vicinity, such as custodians, scribes, accountants and the like."

"The former are hard-working and poor, and are often looked down upon by others. Throughout the dynasties, some criminals were even needed to fill the job, and they often had to rely on extortion of property and other methods to support their families. Officials are listed in the books, which is of course important to them. Good thing.

But since ancient times, whenever layoffs have been made, when has it not started with those people who have no power, no one at the top, and low social status, who work hard?People have been streamlined, so what does it have to do with them if they can't get salaries?
As for the former, how many people in power really live on their salaries?Whether the salary is paid or not has little impact on them, but if a large number of people from the countryside pour into the city, the impact on them will be great. "

When Zhao Guangyi heard this, he couldn't help but feel heavy and look sad. He, the governor of Kaifeng, was airborne and had no experience of working from the bottom up. The work contents of the county magistrate and the prefecture magistrate were completely different. To put it bluntly, the magistrate , he rarely cares about the real front-line business, not to mention that he, as a governor, is not an official, but an iron-clad master. There are some things that he really didn't know beforehand, or couldn't think of beforehand.

Then he instinctively glared at Shi Xizai.

Meaning, I don’t understand, and neither do you?
Shi Xizai is also very aggrieved. His current position is Kaifeng Prefecture's promotion official, which is the vacancy of Yao Shu. Yao Shu was secretly promoted by Zhao Puming and moved to another place to be the magistrate. There are some things that Yao Shu will definitely understand. , because Yao Shu worked his way up step by step through normal channels, and he, as an official, turned out to be Zhao Guangyi's secretary-general. Before becoming secretary-general, he was Ban Zhi of the Dianqian Department, and was Zhao Guangyi's colleague in the later Zhou Dynasty.

In other words, he was actually a bodyguard who became a secretary, and then he was promoted from secretary to deputy mayor. He really doesn't understand what happens next.

In the appointment and dismissal of officials in the early Song Dynasty, what stood out was a person who followed his own whims. However, the original history also proved that such people later became the prime minister and were indeed a scourge to the country.

But the most interesting thing about human society is this. We know that such people are a scourge, but after the dynasties entered the middle period, almost all the people in the court were like this. It is almost impossible to find people who started in the state capital and served as county magistrates. , a senior official who understands real front-line work.

Zhao Guangyi thought for a while and said: "If that's the case, why do you have to help the villain?"

Sun Xingzu smiled bitterly: "The subordinate officials in the county and the local tycoons in each township are already on the same page. There is no room for my objection. If I don't agree, what can I do? If I get involved, things can still be controlled. If I If we don't get involved, who knows what will happen? Maybe there will be a popular uprising or rebellion."

As he said this, he was complaining in his heart that he was unlucky.

In fact, he and the man surnamed Huang actually had an agreement. The three members of the family hung up on the official road to warn other unruly people in the village so that they would not dare to have such rebellious thoughts. The reason why they were spreading rumors everywhere was that Behind them was Zhao Guangyi, and because of this, everyone unanimously used Zhao Guangyi's banner as a tiger skin.

How can you be so unscrupulous? If you scare me like this, you will naturally not dare to do it. How can you tell the truth from the lie?

If the plan goes well, I will hang out for three days. With Zhao Guangyi's name blocking me, who would dare to cause trouble?Besides, I am afraid that most of the officials in the court were against the New Deal. They might have added fuel to the fire. The bodies were removed after three days. The unscrupulous people were unable to expose the matter. Those who were capable thought it was the King of Qi. If you are fighting with the King of Qin, you will definitely not take the initiative to get involved. This matter may be over secretly.

In a few months, he should be promoted, and should know the state. If he survives this final term, everything will be fine.

On the contrary, if he did not get involved, it would not necessarily be just a family of three who would die, nor would they just hang out for three days. If something really happened to the court, the court would first question him as the county magistrate, and as for those Xu Generally speaking, as long as officials and local tyrants openly rebel, the court will not touch them.

So... isn't this just bad luck?

The corpses of a family of three hung on the side of the road for three days, and then they met Zhao Guangyi.

Why did he leave the city? Which grandson lured him out?
Zhao Guangyi couldn't help but have mixed feelings after hearing this.In fact, if he hadn't received the self-destruction from Xu County, it was really unlikely that he would have left the city and seen the bodies of this family of three. Maybe they would have been fooled by this matter.

Nine times out of ten, the other twenty or so county magistrates are in a similar situation to this Sun Xing group.

Kaifeng County!

This is still the case at the emperor's feet, but what about other places?This time, the first article of the new policy is not just for Kaifeng Prefecture, but for the entire Jingdong and Jingxi roads.

How can this new policy be implemented smoothly throughout the country in the future?

This was really beyond his expectation. He had thought that the implementation of the New Deal might be difficult, but he really didn't expect it to be so difficult.

It was rare that today Zhao Guangyi simply took matters into his own hands and stayed in Zheng County for several more days, thoroughly arresting and sending away all the tycoons who had blocked the court's new policies, threatened, bullied, and even killed the people during the recent period. Return to the capital and prepare for the joint trial of the three departments.

In this way, he was delayed for another two days. Two days later, he originally wanted to go to Xu County, but Yang Shouyi told him that there was no need to go. The magistrate of Xu County had already entered the city yesterday, and it was said that he was on one side. He wrote a letter criticizing the new policy and yelled at His Highness King Qin at the gate of the palace.

Isn't this not to prevent people from being punished for their words? Zhao Kuangyin gave Zhao Guangyi, who was the governor of Kaifeng, a very reasonable task: just pick his faults and beat him to the end within one day.

Zhao Guangyi couldn't help but admire him a little: "Not only is he smart, but he is really decisive in what he did. If he was beaten to the end because of this, he will definitely become famous because of it. He really dared to bet. Now It seems that he really won the bet."

This kind of thing is just a removal from office, and it is impossible to kill his head. Even the harder he scolds, the more Zhao Kuangyin must protect him from death. Who asked him to flaunt himself as an enlightened monarch and never let anyone be blamed for his words? If you are convicted, why do you want to carve it on a stone tablet as an ancestral instruction?

He was really numb now. He was furious at first, but he wanted to be strong again. He pulled out his sword and killed his mother in Zheng County with his head rolling around, so that the world could see the courage of Zhao Laoer. So that the world would know that the Zhao family is not the only one who dares to do things that everyone in the world would not dare to do.

Now that I think about it, forget it, let's go back to Beijing first. It's enough for two of the three brothers in the family to be responsible and independent. My personality is suitable for giving them the answer.

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After returning to Kaifeng, after thinking about it again and again, Zhao Guangyi still did not report to Zhao Kuangyin immediately. Instead, he took the initiative to find Zhao Guangmei. Hearing that he was teaching Lu Mengzheng and others in his backyard, he couldn't help but become curious. I was asked to report it, so I touched it myself.

Suddenly, Zhao Guangmei was holding a drink in one hand and writing non-stop lectures on the whiteboard with charcoal:

"The etiquette, justice and integrity in Confucianism constitute the national character and organization of our civilization. It can be said that only with etiquette can there be a nation. Without etiquette, there is no way to talk about national identity.

The greatest significance of Confucianism is to ensure that below the county level, where the power of the court is almost out of reach, local clans can spontaneously manage rural society in an orderly manner in accordance with Confucian etiquette, integrity, ethics, and norms. , it can also be said that it greatly reduced the management cost of the court.

Therefore, I have always emphasized that Confucianism is definitely the most important discipline among hundreds of scholars. The Han Dynasty dismissed hundreds of schools of thought and only respected Confucianism. New ideas must not violate this basic principle.

If the new Confucianism does not have the organizational ability to organize the rural grassroots, the better you do, the greater the harm will be to the country. No matter how you change it, this basic principle cannot be changed, and no dynasty or generation can afford it. The high cost of direct management below the rural level. "

After Zhao Guangyi heard this sentence without hesitation, he instinctively thought of the Sun Xing Group and some situations in Zheng County. He instinctively stopped and fell into deep thought. However, he vaguely began to transfer some of the things he had learned before. My study of the classics and my knowledge still corroborated each other, and I gradually began to gain something.

In fact, he can only control the Sun Xing group at the county magistrate level, plus at most three or four eighth- and ninth-grade officials such as his county magistrate and eunuchs, and further down, he The prefect had nothing to do anymore and had to leave it entirely to the county magistrates, and he had no way to get involved.

Even the county magistrate himself found it difficult to get involved. He had to find the local tycoons in each township. Any policies the court had could only be implemented with the support of these local tycoons. Even in collecting taxes, only these local tycoons cooperated. , this tax can be collected, and even after the tax is collected, the wealthy people's taxes will be refunded in full.

'Sure enough, the third brother is indeed worthy of being admitted to the top of the imperial examination. He is not against Confucianism, but he can see the essence of affairs better than ordinary mediocre people. Is this what he always said, the ruler's perspective?But... in this case, wouldn’t this New Deal become an unsolvable matter? '

"I have talked a lot with Xiao Lu in the past few days. The ideas of Neo-Confucianism are very good. Things from 1000 years ago are indeed not suitable for our Song Dynasty 1000 years later. But you have added a lot of Mohist things. I don't think so. Like, although Mohist thought is the ideological tool that best represents the interests of the citizen class, in fact it has a lot of dregs and is still outdated."

"For example, frugality, who put this kind of thought into New Confucianism? If the rich people all frugally use money and don't spend money, how can the poor make money by serving the rich? The way of economics has always been The rich are greedy and the poor are greedy. This is a truth that Guan Zhong could understand more than 1000 years ago. As people from the Song Dynasty, are you not as good as Guan Zhong more than 1000 years ago in terms of thinking?"

"........."

"The most important thing is not to attack, but to agree. Can these two ideas be used? You actually still advocate being kind to others? Are you crazy? If everyone is kind to others, there is peace and order, even if they are oppressed, it will not matter. If you dare to resist, how can I implement my new policy?

You pick up the male sheep Chunqiu!This idea in Confucianism is the most useful to us. To implement the New Deal, we must let the people of the Song Dynasty, especially the poor people, regain the courage to repay the hatred of the ninth generation!

In this world, resources, wealth, power, even IQ and appearance are all unequal. There is only one thing that is equal to everyone, and that is life!Everyone has only one life. Even my eldest brother will die if the knife is on his neck.

Don’t have the momentum and want to implement a New Deal?Damn it, I don’t have that much ability. I can’t snatch the meat and stuff it into the mouths of those poor people in Guizhou. They have to learn to snatch it by themselves! "

(End of this chapter)