Seeing Shi Kuanzhi's expression as if he had seen a ghost, Li Yun was stunned for a long time and asked tentatively: "Why, can't you kill the imperial students of your country?"
"How could..." Shi Kuanzhi yelled half a sentence loudly, then lowered his voice: "Of course you can't kill!"
By this time, the two of them almost understood what the other party meant, and also understood that there was a slight glitch in their previous ideas.
Shi Miyuan was naturally a powerful minister, and his authority was so strong that only a handful of them had since the founding of the Song Dynasty. He was able to bypass the emperor in any military and political affairs and directly issue provincial decrees, and later write imperial edicts to ratify them. The emperor would not disapprove of anything, and the world would take it for granted.
Therefore, when Guo Ning was dealing with diplomatic affairs with the Southern Dynasty, he faced Shi Miyuan directly and ignored the empty-headed emperor. He compared his own power with Shi Miyuan's power, thinking that Shi Miyuan was naturally capable of suppressing dissent.
The problem is that Guo Ning's power comes from fighting in the flames of war, but Shi Miyuan's power comes from conspiracies and exchanges and trade-offs of interests within the regime. This has led to great hidden dangers both inside and outside its political group.
Within it, the personnel are mixed and full of impurities.
In the past six months, when Li Yun and others gradually infiltrated and bribed Shi Miyuan's officials from sea to land, the whole process was a piece of cake. When Guo Ning received a confidential message from Kaifeng and wanted to confirm the exchange of political interests with Shi Miyuan, there was no obstacle to the leak of the secret.
And externally, there is a raging political dispute that never ends.
In the view of Zhou Guogong Guo Ning, there are too many things to do in Ding Haijun to stabilize the north and establish a new dynasty. At the moment, it is best to stabilize the money bag of the Southern Dynasty, and take advantage of the verbal advantages of brothers, uncles and nephews. It's all little things. He just used this suggestion to test the political trend of the Southern Dynasties.
But in the case of Shi Xiang, once the news that Duke Zhou was willing to be brothers with the Song Dynasty was leaked, the Song Dynasty and the opposition, which were entangled and fiercely fought by many political forces, immediately had another reason for political strife.
The people of the Southern Dynasties read many books, and their skills in speaking, writing, and ink were ten times better than those in the North. Such and such principles are not for the purpose of doing the things at hand, but just to criticize someone who is regarded as a thorn in the side of the scholars.
Unfortunately, Shi Miyuan advocated peace talks and changed the title of uncle-nephew to uncle-nephew to avoid military confrontation with the Jin Kingdom. Countless people wrote countless impeachment memorials while enjoying the benefits of peace, saying that Shi Miyuan had lost his power and humiliated the country and could be killed.
Now relying on the cooperation with Ding Haijun, the north and the south will become brothers. As a result, those people changed their rhetoric and concluded that since the Jin Kingdom collapsed, the Song Dynasty would have the ability to draw chestnuts from the fire. If you can't get much real benefit and can only be satisfied with nominal gains... then Shi Miyuan will still lose his power and humiliate the country and can be killed!
What is different from the situation back then is that Shi Miyuan has been in business for many years, and has filled the capital and Taiwan with sensible and silent people. No matter how many impeachment memorials there are, not a single copy will reach the emperor's hands, and it will not cause much trouble. But who would have thought that those who were afraid of the world being in chaos would actually incite the imperial students to submit a letter to Fu Que!
Imperial students were the essence and the most popular among the young scholars of the Song Dynasty, and because they were young and vigorous, they were easily deceived by others. Therefore, since the imperial student Chen Dong wrote a letter and was killed in the first year of Jianyan, which caused a huge political uproar, the imperial court and the powerful officials in power such as Qin Hui and Han Yuzhou were very taboo about this.
They repeatedly issued orders to supervise students, strictly prohibiting imperial students from leaving the palace, and also adjusted the academic rules of the Imperial College, and punished scholars for all kinds of extraordinary behavior, which may be considered a crime of discipleship, a crime of tattooing, or a crime of death. Qualifications, prohibition from being an official.
Under the strong suppression, in the past hundred years since crossing to the south, Taipei students have only written petitions a few times. In the past few years, Shi Miyuan was extremely tolerant of scholars of Neo-Confucianism and old men of the imperial court. Therefore, political battles seldom aroused the Imperial Academy, and the Imperial Academy students themselves were unwilling to risk their own future by confronting the sophisticated rulers of the court. .
Therefore, in the past ten years, Taixue has been stable and rarely turbulent, with only two incidents of trouble.
Once in the second year of Jiading, the prefect of Lin'an, Zhao Shigai, punished two martial arts students who violated the rules and ran property for others. As a result, the martial arts and Taixue students successively issued ultimatums to strike classes and wrote letters of support, saying that Zhao Shigai punished the students without authorization and was contemptuous of the school. There is no king or father. In order to avoid grudges against scholars, Shi Xiang dismissed Zhao Shiqi from the post of prefect of Lin'an, and the imperial student's enthusiasm also passed.
Another time was after the Kingdom of Jin was divided into two parts, the DPRK and China discussed the matter of annual coins. Many imperial students made a fuss, asking Qiao Xingjian, who continued to pay the annual coins, to be beheaded to thank the world. Qiao Xingjian was originally a mouthpiece promoted by Shi Xiang. Shi Xiang tried it out with him and had a complete set of means to continue paying the annual coins. He also took advantage of Ding Haijun's opportunity to develop sea trade and reset the Huainan Money Supervisor. , the capital for the two companies to cooperate was born out of thin air.
After all, that trip was not directed at Shi Xiang, and there was nothing difficult to deal with.
But this trip in front of them was no small matter. These young scholars suddenly became angry and took nothing seriously from the cooperation between the Prime Minister and Zhou Guogong. Thousands of them crowded in the palace, jumping around and making many ridiculous demands!
These imperial students act as they please, and talk about their reputations as high as the sky. Do they really want to go to war and provoke their powerful neighbors in the north? That's simply impossible. They just want to interfere with the normal political order and target the historical situation!
Shi Kuanzhi hated them so much that he envied Ding Haijun's neat style of beheading with a knife.
What Zhou Guogong Guo Ning established in the north was an out-and-out military regime. The warriors were not only the backbone of the army, but also became the main body of local government affairs through the military household system. They also relied on the internal teaching system of the army to cultivate talents trusted by Zhou Guogong. Under this system, civil servants only played a role in assisting in sorting out the affairs.
Not to mention that the Imperial College in Zhongdu City is full of Jurchen nobles’ children, which means they must be different from people of my race. Even if nothing happens, Duke Zhou will not allow them to act recklessly; if they cause trouble, they will naturally behead them with a broad stroke. After the heads are rolling, the world will be peaceful.
But can this method be used in the Song Dynasty?
impossible. The Song Dynasty paid attention to clothing, etiquette, music, benevolence, justice and morality, but they were not as rude and easy to kill as the Han people in the north! Shi Kuanzhi thought about this method of massacre carefully, and suddenly broke into a cold sweat.
Taixue must not be messed with, but Taixue students cannot be touched easily. Behind these young people, there are thousands of official and official marriages and thousands of talismans.
Therefore, the top priority of the history minister is to find out who is behind the instigation of the imperial students’ letter to Fu Que? If the court is in turmoil, who will benefit? Where are the omissions in our control of the court and Lin'an?
Naturally, Shi Miyuan had dedicated subordinates to deal with these troublesome problems, and Shi Kuanzhi came to meet with Li Yun. According to the results of the discussion among many think tanks of the Shi Party last night, he made a request to remove the firepower:
Please don’t mention the brotherly country, and don’t sell it. The relationship between the two countries, Zhou Guogong can have your intentions, but it must be done step by step according to the rhythm of the Song Dynasty and the wishes of the Prime Minister.
In the final analysis, even if the two countries finally reach a brotherly alliance, it cannot be initiated by Guo Ning. Compared with the behavior style of the Great Jin Kingdom, that kind of attitude was too weak and too reasonable, and it immediately caused many fools to look forward to Shu.
Can Prime Minister Shi really follow their demands and force his powerful neighbors in the north? Zhao Fang has already tried it once, but failed. If trouble continues, what if a war actually breaks out?
Let’s continue the relationship between uncle and nephew. If uncle and nephew become brothers one day, it must be the result of Prime Minister Shi's manipulation and coercion from the northerners.
The entire process can be completed in one and a half years, or three to five years. As long as Prime Minister Shi controls the progress of the negotiations between the two parties, he will have room to move forward and retreat freely in the court. He can also take this opportunity to continue to mobilize many cronies and stuff them into official offices.
After the results are finally achieved, Prime Minister Shi will rely on this result to subsidize his own family and show it off in a big way to suppress those who are arrogant in the government and the public!
To put it bluntly, everything must be conducive to the governance of the Prime Minister, and everything must be conducive to the stability of the court. Anything, even if it is of great benefit to the Song Dynasty, will not be happy to see it if it cannot have such an effect.
"I see..." Li Yun suddenly realized: "We were the ones who were abrupt."
Shi Kuan was overjoyed, but also a little nervous: "How about it? I need to trouble my dear brother to come forward and explain that we are still the country of uncles and nephews, and Duke Zhou has no intention of changing. Can it be done?"
Duke Zhou sent a message to Song to show his goodwill, but the prime minister of Song hoped that Duke Zhou's envoy would distort it and suppress Duke Zhou's goodwill. This request was a bit excessive no matter how you look at it.
