Brother Song Taizu

Chapter 257 Zhao Song does not rule the world

Political participation is a mysterious thing, but in the final analysis, urban population and rural population have completely different logics in social operation, and governing urban population naturally requires completely different political ideas.

Of course, the premise is that the employment in the city must be created by oneself and not set up by the metropolitan country, otherwise it will become a big colony.

Those who cling to the so-called ancestral laws, ethics, and the teachings of sages, whether they are really stupid or simply bad, will just be kicked away. As for what will happen to these people after they are brought to Zhao Dezhao, then It's all about Zhao Dezhao.

In fact, Zhao Guangmei has never been petty, and he doesn't even have these insects in his eyes.

To be honest, because Zhao Guangmei came from modern society, she naturally has her own ideals and understanding of politics. Of course, she is not a selfless saint.

Among all the politicians in the twentieth century, the one he admired most was Li Guang (Yao). In essence, all the reforms he made in the Song Dynasty were actually similar to Li Jiapo.

He is an aristocratic emperor and the crown prince of the country. Even if the country enters urbanization, he would be too short-sighted to promote democratic reforms, especially the one-person-one-vote system. Li's politics is indeed his best choice.

That is to say: he hoped that the Song Dynasty would become a group of Song Dynasties that adhered to the "Zhao Guangmei" doctrine. The highest power was controlled by these civil servants who adhered to the "Zhao Guangmei" doctrine, but they restricted each other. The Zhao family could not even be the emperor. The emperor has too much power but also too much responsibility, but the real lifeline of the Song Dynasty, that is, the Royal Commercial Bank of the Song Dynasty, must be firmly in the hands of the old Zhao family.

In this case, if any of the descendants of the Zhao family are really unable to support themselves and are not suitable to be emperor, or have insufficient experience and ability, they can no longer be emperors. When the descendants of the Zhao family feel that they are capable again, they can Take this emperor back.

If one day in the future, the imperial court becomes decadent and defeated, the descendants of the Zhao family can throw away the throne and become shopkeepers with peace of mind. They can even sell the emperor and join the new emperor at any time, avoiding the royal family in the past dynasties. The reckoning one has to face when one dies.

perfect.

Zhao Kuangyin was also confused. He was so confused after being told by Zhao Guangmei that he finally decided to do whatever he wanted.

Now they have really completed their historical mission and have been running in the direction of debauchery all day long.

Let Zhao Guangmei take care of this matter.

Therefore, Zhao Guangmei went crazy this time. Half a month later, he held a grand ceremony for the Crown Prince Debate in Luoyang, openly proposing that the world should be governed by virtue. If the Zhao family is immoral, the Zhao family should also Let the world.

What primogeniture, bullshit.

Zhao Guangmei even publicly announced that the prince does not have to have the surname Zhao. As long as he has made great contributions to the court, the world, and the country, he should become the prince.

For example, should Chai Zongxun, Zhao Pu, and Lao Xue be included in the role of crown prince for consideration?

This reaction made everyone in the civil and military dynasties think that His Highness King Qin was a fucking crazy ball.

It's enough to actively support the peasant uprising. How can you openly support someone who seeks to usurp the throne?

Zhao Pu and Xue Juzheng were even more stupid. We are both civil servants, civil servants who have been loyal to us all our lives. Military generals have always usurped the throne. How could they put this knife on the necks of these two civil servants? What's up?
As for Chai Zongxun?
It is said that he was so scared that he peed his pants. Wasn't this just the old Zhao family who found a reason to kill him?
As a result, the entire ritual discussion was extremely absurd. It was basically Zhao Guangmei's state of arguing with the Confucian scholars. This nonsense method was basically equivalent to destroying the foundation of ritual.

Therefore, all the civil servants refuted Zhao Guangmei's absurdity and argued with him. Among the local civil and military officials who could write a letter, they all cursed Zhao Guangmei.

If you don't scold them more fiercely, it will appear that they are not loyal enough.

The common people are also talking about this: His Highness King Qin is having convulsions again.

Of course, what people loose is the soil under their buttocks, which is a blatant act of prodigality.

In fact, Zhao Guangmei did not have to go to such trouble. Even if the candidates were directly limited to the Zhao family, there was nothing wrong with it. Although the number of candidates in this generation is scarce, there will definitely be more in the next generation. After a few generations, the entire Song Dynasty will There may be as many as one hundred and eighty thousand among the royal relatives.

This makes sense.

But Zhao Guangmei was determined and insisted on letting Zhao Pu and Lao Xue be roasted on the fire.

That is to say, these two people, one is Zhao Kuangyin's mastermind, and the other is Zhao Guangmei's die-hard supporter. Needless to say, political loyalty and political status. If it were anyone else, even Li Chongju and Lu Duoxun would have to resign. But go.

Zhao Pu and Xue Juzheng also expressed their resignation, but Zhao Kuangyin refused.

As for Zhao Kuangyin, he is just watching the show happily, as if Zhao Guangmei is not harming his country.

In fact, although all civil and military officials in the court were confused, Zhao Kuangyin was the one who saw it relatively clearly among all the confused people. He threw away the resignations of Zhao and Xue with a smile, and comforted:
"He is just practicing formalism. You don't have to have any psychological burden. This kid really thinks so. After all, human history has evolved to this point. Even the most optimistic people have to look away. Sooner or later, this world will Are you done? This kid is just showing the world that although I, Zhao Song, should be named Zhao in every generation for at least the next 100 years, Zhao Song is not the only family in the world. You two are just an embellishment, even Zhao'er is. Embellishment, this brat talks about fair competition, but in fair competition, who can beat him?"

"But future generations..."

"In the past, it was all under one family, but who has ruled the world for more than 100 years? It's just the Han and Tang Dynasties. But the Han Dynasty has two periods. Each generation has relatives involved in politics. Palace coups are almost once every 15 years on average. In the Tang Dynasty, actually In my eyes, the Tang Dynasty after the Anshi Rebellion was just like that, and it was also a coup from generation to generation. Did the descendants of Li and Tang Dynasties die less during the transfer of power in each generation? The family world may not be able to survive even 100 years. , No matter what the third child does, I believe that our old Zhao family will not have any big problems within a hundred years. It is the business of future generations, so why should we care about him?"

"But Zhou Li..." "Bullshit Zhou Li, Zhou Li's so-called 800-year-old country, who knows the details? Besides, the world was not centralized at that time. People in the Shang and Zhou dynasties all farmed collectively. To put it bluntly, It’s almost the same as Dali now, and the princes are just like the chieftains over there. This damn thing is still the same thing as it is now? Anyone who talks about Zhou Li is either bad or stupid. Who should think that? It’s a time of peace and prosperity, I will send him to Zhennan Mansion to find Zhao’er to serve him now.”

The two had no choice but to retreat as if appointed.

Zhao Kuangyin is absolutely right. Zhao Guangmei is not afraid of anyone competing with him, so he is so confident. Of course, both Zhao and Xue understand that... it is too uncomfortable to be roasted on the fire like this. , and this matter has no precedent. No one knows how the two of them will be written down in the history books in the future.

Soon, this grand ceremony naturally spread from the court to the market. The minutes of the meeting began to be reported in large articles in the imperial newspapers. They were even compiled and bound into volumes and distributed everywhere. The sales volume was extremely shocking. Almost every People who can read and digitize can't help but buy it and read it, and in the Song Dynasty today, there are many people who can read and digitize.

Looking at the remarks, Zhao Guangmei looks like a rebellious official and a traitor. Those who didn't know better thought they were actual records of Cao Cao's speeches in his later years.

But Zhao Guangmei was the confirmed crown prince, and he was poaching his own corner, so that people all over the world were shocked. After being shocked, they were deeply admired.

Because no matter how high-sounding the matters of etiquette and law are, they are still essentially private property that allows everyone in the world to be the emperor. This kind of social operation logic is not suitable for the civil economy.

Even if this world belongs to your Zhao family, we, the Zhao family, really cannot guarantee that every generation of you will not produce mediocre people, or even fools.

Folks who do business also know that if their sons are not useful, they must support a shopkeeper to take care of the store and let the children reap the dividends as the owner. When will a capable person emerge from the descendants and be able to manage the store well, then the store can be managed. Take over again and take care of it.

Isn’t this what His Highness King Qin said?

This is true for private shops, and it should naturally be the same for Zhao and Song Dynasties.

Ordinary people are not stupid. Of course they know what is good and what is right. In fact, as long as it is not a military coup and there is no bloody conflict, of course the world should be a place for those who are capable. However, in real society, most of the time The so-called capable people are often those who have strong soldiers and horses, but who is the strong man often needs to be beaten to know, which makes the world miserable.

If there really was a way to tell who was capable without relying on the strength of soldiers and horses, how could this not be a good thing?

As the crown prince, His Highness the King of Qin is actually able to be so noble and upright, and his situation is so big. What is this if not a reincarnated saint?
As for the officials, it doesn't matter what the officials say. They themselves may not believe the lies coming out of their own mouths.

The so-called public sentiment is fierce, but the people in the market are not so round and round. Naturally, there are many people who support Zhao Guangmei. The entire market public opinion generally believes that the official opposition is actually a kind of hypocrisy, so they oppose Zhao Guangmei's reforms. Naturally, all the words spoken by people became hypocritical official rhetoric, and gradually, there were not many people speaking.

Then, Zhao Guangmei made another mistake.

The first step is to rebuild the Imperial Ancestral Temple. Zhao Guangmei believes that the Imperial Ancestral Temple is the Imperial Ancestral Temple, and the family temple is the family temple. Our Zhao and Song dynasties are not family dynasties, so the Imperial Ancestral Temple and the family temple must be separated.

As for the family temple, it starts with their great-great-grandfather Zhao Tiao and goes down one generation at a time. However, this is the family temple of their old Zhao family. The members of the old Zhao family can just worship it. There is no need to worship the rest of the civil and military officials. The important ministers and generals are loyal ministers and generals of the country, so there is no reason to accompany them in family temples.

As for the Ancestral Temple, it is the ancestral temple of the country. Including his father Zhao Hongyin, the tablets of the old Zhao family in front must be removed. They all died when Zhao Song founded the country, so what qualifications do they have to appear in the Ancestral Temple?
On the contrary, Guo Wei and Chai Rong, and even the previous Liang, Tang, Jin and Han dynasties, although not our Zhao and Song dynasties, are of the same origin as the Zhao and Song dynasties. The founding of the Zhao and Song dynasties also inherited the legacy of the Five Dynasties. In terms of emotion and reason, the incense tablets of these people, They should all appear on the Ancestral Temple.

Even Chai Zongxun's name should appear there, right?

As for those buried in the Ancestral Temple, including Feng Dao, the roly-poly of the Five Dynasties, Li Cunxiao, the most powerful figure in the Five Dynasties, and Fu Cunshen, the unparalleled loyalty and righteousness, these people should also be buried in the Ancestral Temple of our Song Dynasty.

To put it bluntly, Zhao Song was forced to bring the Five Dynasties and Zhao Song together and treat them as one dynasty. The separation of the family temple and the Ancestral Temple really showed the determination of the old Zhao family to never create a family world.

That's all. After all, the people affected were dead people. What's even more surprising is that Zhao Guangmei actually announced: "In order to prevent future generations from having such foolish kings as Hu Hai, Sima Zhong, and Yang Guang, we must abandon the bad habits of our family and the world. Let the capable people of the world live there, but those who bring chaos to the world, will they alone be ignorant of the ruler?"

"Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was too old and foolish to issue the Luntai Sinji Edict. Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty lived too long, which led to the Anshi Rebellion. Even Li Shimin, the Khan of that day, actually showed signs of mediocrity in his later years. Fortunately, he It is by dying young that he can keep his reputation for the rest of his life."

"So the emperor has a lifelong tenure. When the emperor becomes an old emperor, the old emperor will inevitably become an old bastard. Therefore, in the future, our emperors of the Song Dynasty should set a benchmark. As long as they reach the age of 60, they must be passed down as Leave it to the next one, retire and become the Supreme Emperor, and from now on you can no longer ask about political affairs."

As soon as this plan came out, the whole world was in an uproar. Everyone even thought that His Highness the King of Qin disliked the officials and lived too long, so he was here to show off.

Then Zhao Guangmei followed closely and said: "Officials must have rich administrative experience in order to manage the world well. Otherwise, if a child who knows nothing takes this position, it will inevitably lead to powerful ministers becoming bigger and relatives intervening in politics. There are hidden dangers in future palace coups and world turmoil, and experience is a valuable asset."

"So if you want to be the emperor, you must not be too young. At least, you have to be 40 years old, right? You have to be in your forties to have enough mind to handle the affairs of the government, right? Anyway, you have to have some experience before becoming the emperor. He has more than [-] years of administrative experience, right?"

Of course, the principles are all correct. In this case, the emperor's term of office will only be 20 years at most, but...

A thoughtful person will find out if he does a little calculation.

No, in this case, even if the official family and the King of Qin both live a hundred years, when the official family retires at sixty, His Highness the King of Qin will not be forty at all.

If this article is strictly enforced, wouldn't there have to be someone to make the transition between the official family and His Highness the King of Qin?

If the excessive one lives a little longer, maybe His Highness King Qin won’t be able to become the emperor?
Your Highness the King of Qin, this is a true saint!
The world was in an uproar again.

And this reform has been discussed for so long. In fact, there is still one most important issue that everyone has not yet understood: Although they all understand that there are no options for choosing a prince in this generation, and they are setting rules for future generations, but among the princes, Who is good and who is bad, and who should decide?
(End of this chapter)