As the weather gets colder, Zhao Tie's theater has opened. It is not the common tiled stalls on the street with a full range of acrobatics and tricks, but a simple theater where only dramas and operas are performed.
Qi Hongyu searched several places for the location of the theater, and finally Zhao Tan settled on a place on Quyuan Street in Nancheng.
This Quyuan Street is next to Zhuque Street and is located to the west of Yu Street. It is not far from Xiangguo Temple at the top and Zhuque Street is at the bottom, very close to Suiyulou.
Zhao Tong chose this place for a reason. This Quyuan Street is a lively place in Southwest City. Almost all people living in this area are civilians. It is also close to the outer city. People from the outer city go to the inner city and mostly hang out. here.
Zhao Tao's advocacy of opera was never a whim. Although there were already prototypes of newspapers in this era, they were not accessible to ordinary people.
Therefore, if you want to take the initiative of public opinion and spread some news and ideas to the people, you can only use opera to interpret it in the form of performance.
Both the lyrics and the content of the opera spread very quickly, especially for some new plays. You don’t necessarily have to watch it with your own eyes, but if it is passed down from ten to ten, it will spread in the market within a few days. s story.
Through opera, he gradually grasps the direction of public opinion in the market, and then releases some ideas to the people. This is Zhao Tong's real purpose.
And this purpose is only to deal with the world's nobles in the future.
The real internal conflicts between the Northern and Southern Dynasties in the Song Dynasty and the Northern Dynasties for hundreds of years have never been about civil and military opposition, nor about monarchs and ministers being enemies, nor about the common people in the court being like fire and water.
It is the conflict between the gentry, the gentry and the king, and the contradiction between the gentry and the people.
The people who destroyed the Song Dynasty and hollowed out the foundation of the Song Dynasty were the gentry. The gentry were the biggest worms in the Song Dynasty. Once their own interests were involved, all the kingdoms, the country, the kings and the people could be betrayed or betrayed.
Even regarding the death of Yue Fei, when later generations were debating which of Zhao Gou and Qin Hui was more guilty, they forgot about the noble clan.
Some people say that if Zhao Gou doesn't say anything, who dares to kill Yue Fei? The truth is correct, after all, Zhao Gou is the emperor.
Others say that Qin Hui is a spy of the Jin Kingdom and must want Yue Fei dead! This is correct. Qin Hui was indeed a spy sent back by the Kingdom of Jin. Yue Fei advocated the Northern Expedition and he wanted to kill Yue Fei.
But there are several problems here.
It is a bit ridiculous to say that Zhao Gou wanted to kill Yue Fei because he was afraid that Yue Fei would go straight to Huanglong to take back Emperor Huiqin and make him lose the throne.
According to the system and social situation at that time, even if Yue Fei really had the ability to take back the second emperor, it would be impossible for the second emperor to ascend the throne again.
Scholar-officials cannot tolerate stains, not to mention that the emperor of this dynasty is the greatest scholar-official.
Although this proposition sounds full of gimmicks, it can actually be solved by depriving Yue Fei of his military power, and it will not kill Yue Fei at all.
The Song Dynasty deprived military attachés of their military power and then reused them everywhere. Liu Guangshi, Han Shizhong, etc. were all deprived of their military power.
Zhao Gou is not a fool. It doesn't make sense that he killed Yue Fei and destroyed the Great Wall instead of using such a simple method.
Another theory is that Yue Fei was involved in the matter of establishing the crown prince, and he petitioned Zhao Gou several times to establish the crown prince.
Is this a big deal? Isn't it the minister's duty to advise the emperor to establish a heir apparent?
During the Renzong Dynasty, there were such memorials almost every day. Even in the Zhezong Dynasty, ministers would report from time to time, asking Zhezong to choose a descendant of the clan as the crown prince.
Therefore, these two reasons for Zhao Gou to kill Yue Fei are basically far-fetched and completely untenable.
Zhao Gou killed Yue Fei probably not because of these.
Then look at Qin Hui. Qin Hui slandered and wanted to kill Yue Fei. Can Zhao Gou easily believe it?
Qin Hui was not only a spy sent back by the Jin Kingdom, but also a representative of the gentry. Qin Hui put forward the famous theory that "people from the south should return to the south, and people from the north should return to the north."
It is advocated that those who fled from the north to the south should return to the Jin people.
This argument made Zhao Gou so angry that he cursed others. Zhao Gou said, "People from my north will return home in peace." !
Qin Hui and Zhao Gou were in conflict.
Whose interests does his argument serve? Of course it is beneficial to the Kingdom of Jin, but it is more beneficial to the southern gentry.
Qin Hui had conflicts with Zhao Gou and was suspected of surrendering. Why was he able to sit in the court for so many years? It was the support of the Jin people and the southern nobles that allowed Qin Hui to serve as prime minister for so many years.
Does Zhao Gou know this? Of course he knew it, but Zhao Gou could do nothing about it!
But Qin Hui still couldn't touch Yue Fei at this time, and Zhao Gou would not allow Qin Hui to touch Yue Fei.
During the Jingkang Revolution, the gentry of the Song Dynasty gave the two emperors Huiqin and the clan in Tokyo to the Jin people. The Jin people presided over it and elected the gentry to establish the Chu State headed by Zhang Bangchang.
However, the Chu State had no army, and Zhang Bangchang was once a Song minister and was not recognized by the people. Therefore, he was abandoned by the nobles soon, and they quickly established Zhao Gou as emperor.
Zhao Gou was twenty years old when he came to the throne. He was martial by nature and received royal education. Although he was frightened by the Jin soldiers when he fled south, how could he be easily controlled by these nobles?
Therefore, Zhao Gou encountered a mutiny only more than two years after he took the throne.
In the third year of Jianyan, Miao Fu and Liu Zhengyan used local troops in Hangzhou to surround Zhao Gou's palace, forcing Zhao Gou to abdicate and give up the throne to his two or three-year-old son.
At that time, Miao and Liu forced the palace in the name of killing traitorous ministers and clearing the emperor's side, but this reason could not withstand scrutiny at all. Just think about it and you will know that it is too false.
Because you really serve the country and the people, how can you support a two or three-year-old child as the emperor?
This is simply nonsense, it is ignoring the country and the country, and it is for the sake of controlling power, because children are easier to control.
Sure enough, the truth was revealed later, and the Jiangnan gentry took control of the government in the name of Empress Dowager Longyou, a descendant of Meng Ke.
This is a typical example of civil servants colluding with the harem!
However, the Western Army did not know about the Miao-Liu mutiny in Hangzhou at first.
The Song Dynasty favored martial arts in the north and commerce in the south. Most of the elite troops were hereditary military households from the north.
The reforms of Huizong and Gaozong, including the salt tea franchise and the recovery of minerals, were all aimed at the south and had little impact on military households in the northwest.
As a result, the southern gentry dared to depose and establish the emperor without even saying hello, and with a few soldiers and generals, this was just like a joke to the Western Army. How could the Western Army compromise on such a thing.
Then the Northwest Army, represented by Liu Guangshi, Zhang Jun, and Han Shizhong, led troops from the front to fight back to Hangzhou.
The main force behind the Miao and Liu rebellions was Miao Fu, Liu Zhengyan, who was captured from Fujian and brought back to Hangzhou, chopped into minced meat, and then re-established Zhao Gou as emperor.
Because of the kindness of Liu Guangshi and others, Zhao Gou relied heavily on the Northwest Army.
Zhao Gou gave Liu Guangshi, Zhang Jun, and Han Shizhong the titles of Jiedushi of the three towns, and the title of hero of the country. Yue Fei did not have these two titles.
In addition, Zhao Gou also replaced all the pro-army troops around him with the Northwest Army, and there was no Southern Army.
This is the reason why although Zhao Gou is in Hangzhou, neither the Jurchen forces represented by Qin Hui nor the gentry forces in the south can touch him.
However, after Zhao Gou regained the throne, he found that although the Northwest Army supported him as emperor, they did not support his Northern Expedition.
Especially Liu Guangshi. After Liu Guangshi encountered the Jin soldiers, he not only refused to fight, but even openly disobeyed the holy orders and ran back.
why is that?
Because after the Jingkang Incident, although the north was nominally controlled by the Jurchens, as a tribe, the Jurchens did not have the energy or the population to control such a huge territory including the entire Liao Kingdom and the northern part of the Song Dynasty. turf.
The north is actually controlled by aristocratic families.
For the sake of territory and benefits, the Kingdom of Jin has no lower limit, both politically and morally. It can promise anything and agree to anything.
For example, Qin Hui's father-in-law Wang Zhongshan was appointed magistrate of Fuzhou, Jiangxi, but he actually had a large amount of land in Jinan Prefecture, Shandong, which had long been occupied by the Jin Kingdom. Naturally, these were given by the Jin Kingdom.
In order to win over the Song Dynasty gentry, the Jin Kingdom could pay a lot of money, recognize all their assets in the north, and offer more generous conditions.
To put it simply, the nobles did not need to pay taxes on their land, which Zhao Gou could not do.
The nobles of the Southern Song Dynasty originally annexed land to evade taxes and labor, and used the euphemistic name of "keeping wealth for the country". All these words and calculations were saved in the Jin Kingdom.
Liu Guangshi is a general in the northwest, and he has a lot of land in the northwest. So what motivation do you give him to go to the north?
Zhao Gou saw this, so he began to weaken Liu Guangshi's military power and support Han Shizhong, Yue Fei and others.
Han Shizhong and Yue Fei were born as civilians, had no family background, and had nothing, so they could only follow Zhao Gou.
But it takes money to support these people. Where does the money come from? Taxation is the only way!
In this way, Zhao Gou fell into a vicious cycle. The Northern Expedition required taxes, raising troops required taxes, and supporting direct descendants required even more taxes. But the more taxes were imposed, the more the nobles hated him.
In the tenth year of Shaoxing, a decree issued by Zhao Gou completely led to the murder of Yue Fei, and even Han Shizhong almost lost his life.
"History of the Song Dynasty" records that in February of the 10th year of Shaoxing, Emperor Gaozong ordered that the new Fuzhou Army search and seclusion, and all the road managers garrisoned the fields.
This means that in the newly recovered northern states and counties, once the land hidden by the gentry is discovered and the land that has not paid taxes to the state will be confiscated.
The military, namely Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and several other military commanders, took over directly and converted private land into official land and into military settlements.
Throughout the dynasties, it was a common phenomenon for nobles to hide their land. Zhao Gou suddenly demanded that the hidden private land be confiscated directly. This step was too big and too radical.
He forgot that Liu Guangshi, Zhang Jun, and even Zhang Jun’s subordinates Yang Yizhong and Wang De, these veteran military households in the northwest, had many hidden private lands, so as soon as Zhao Gou’s edict came out, the northwest The army then completely joined forces with the southern gentry.
But soldiers still have to be raised, taxes still have to be levied, and military pay still has to be paid.
So Zhao Gou came up with a series of national policies of borrowing land from the gentry, or even enclosing land, so that the gentry and landlords could temporarily hand over their land to the military or the court, and directly use the rent money to raise troops to solve the problem of military pay.
The History of Song Dynasty "Shi Huo Zhi" records that Zhao Gou first sent civilian officials to take charge of the land enclosure and farming work. Due to the fierce opposition of the gentry and landlords, Zhao Gou had to let marshals from various places manage the land enclosure and farming work. With the help of large armies and force, he This work was barely going on, and Yue Fei and Han Shizhong, as "handsome ministers", were both in charge.
So those who really want Yue Fei to die are not only the Jin Kingdom, but also the nobles of the Song Dynasty!
Qin Hui, on behalf of the nobles of the Jin Kingdom and the Song Dynasty, united to oppose. At this time, Zhao Gou actually relented. Under pressure, he began to compromise, and he wanted to take the blame for his loyal ministers and generals who had done things for him.
Even Han Shizhong was destined to die, but Han Shizhong saw that something was not good and took the initiative to cry to Zhao Gou, revealing the scars from when he rescued the driver. Zhao Gou recalled that Han Shizhong had made a contribution to the rescue and even wrote the words "loyalty and bravery" for him. .
Moreover, Han Shizhong also donated all his family property and temporarily saved military pay.
These are things Yue Fei did not have. In the end, Yue Fei died unjustly and Han Shizhong was dismissed from office.
Perhaps Han Shizhong was able to save his life because of the bargaining between Zhao Gou and the nobles.
Therefore, Yue Fei died at the hands of Zhao Gou, Qin Hui and the noble clan.
And now, whether Zhao Tao supports the Song Dynasty or goes against the Song Dynasty in the future, in addition to dealing with the Jin Kingdom overtly, he also has to deal with the Song Dynasty gentry that has been in power for many years secretly.
But if you want to deal with the gentry, the emperor can't do it because the gentry is pinching the emperor's weakness. The court ministers can't do it because these ministers themselves are representatives of the gentry. Neither can the generals of the Western Army, because the generals of the Western Army and the gentry have common interests.
Only ordinary people!
Only the common people can become the greatest force against the gentry.
Why can Fang La fight a small country war? It is because most Mingjiao disciples are ordinary people who have no interest entanglements with the nobles, and are even bullied and exploited by the nobles. They hate the nobles.
All Zhao Tong has to do is plant a seed and wait for it to sprout.
And this seed was planted on the stage, and then slowly spread throughout the world...
Zhao Tong was in his room reading the lyrics of a big song written by his mother, and he named it a script.
The girl has already finished writing, with a total of 50% off, but has not yet named it, so she asked him to name it.
Zhao Tong thought for a while and said, "Just ask Baifa to remember."
The girl nodded and said, "This is a good name, it fits the play."
Zhao Tong looked down.
The young lady looked at him nervously, fearing that he would say that her writing was not good.
After Zhao Tong looked at it for a moment, he shook his head and said, "It's not intense enough, and the sense of contradiction is not prominent. Hey, this girl named Le'er is not miserable enough!"
The young lady lowered her head: "Mr. Lang, I think it's already very miserable!"
Zhao Tong said: "You wrote a tragic story, but you may not be able to perform it on stage, so you have to reflect it in Le'er's lyrics."
The young lady raised her head and looked at him: "Please also ask Mr. Lang to teach me."
Zhao Tong looked at her delicate and graceful appearance, then moved forward and said, "What do you want me to teach you, madam? Haven't you already taught her a lot?"
The girl immediately blushed: "Of course it's... the script."
Zhao Tong smiled and said: "This is simple, I will change it for you at the beginning."
After saying that, he took the small pen, dipped it in ink, and added on the paper before the lyrics of Leer's appearance:
The north wind is blowing, the snowflakes are fluttering, the snowflakes are fluttering, the new year is here.
Daddy went out to avoid paying bills, but he still didn't pay back the money for seven days. I was waiting for Daddy at home, waiting for Daddy to come home to celebrate the New Year.
My father's daughter had flowers to wear, but my father didn't have enough money to buy them. So he cut off three inches of thorn branches and made them into hairpins for me to tie up.
The young lady watched Zhao Tong write without blinking, a soft light appeared on her face, and she suddenly hugged Zhao Tong gently.
Zhao Tong said: "There is also Le'er going up the mountain, and I also need to add some words."
The young lady said: "Mr. Sir, please write."
Zhao Tong thought for a moment and wrote:
If you want to force me to death, your eye sockets will be blinded! Ladle water that never dries up and put out a fire that never goes out!
I don't want to die, I want to live! I want revenge, I want to live!
I can't scratch my thousands of grievances, thousands of hatreds, thousands of hatreds, and thousands of hatreds, but they will scratch my bones and be remembered in my heart!
After finishing writing, he suddenly threw away the pen and said, "There are also words for the rogue, and I will write them later."
The young lady asked curiously: "Mr. Sir, why do you have to wait and write again?"
Zhao Tong said: "There are serious things to do now."
The little girl was confused: "What's the matter..."
Before she could finish speaking, Zhao Tong picked her up by the waist and walked towards the couch: "Important business."
The young lady whispered softly: "Mr. Sir, it's daytime now."
Zhao Tong smiled slightly, walked inside, and gently placed the girl on the couch...
(End of chapter)
