In the tenth year of Tianhui, AD 1132, the Kingdom of Jin began a series of changes.
First, he moved his capital from Huining Mansion in Shangjing to Zhongdu, which was Yanjing in the Song Dynasty and Beijing in later generations.
Today's Beijing is not a good place to establish a country as a capital. Neither the Song Dynasty nor the Jin Dynasty was a suitable place to be a country. The erosion of Hebei Road not only left them without a granary but also without a suitable buffer.
At the same time, the climate in Yanjing is not so kind, but there is an unprecedented benefit here.
For the Jin people, establishing their own country here represented their attitude, an attitude of fighting the Song people to the end.
Later, Wanyan Sheng also wanted to take the opportunity to reform the government.
Prior to this, in order to ensure the stability of the Jin Kingdom, and also because of the special nature of the Jin Kingdom, the Jin Kingdom implemented the parallel operation of the two governments and the separation of military and political affairs.
But now Wanyan Sheng wants to monopolize the monarchy, but it is obvious that this matter will not be passed, let alone Nianhan, even if other people are silent, this matter will not be passed.
In the end, out of desperation, Wanyan Sheng chose to do the next best thing and did not touch their military and political system. Instead, he divided the Jin Kingdom into five capitals and nineteen roads.
The Five Capitals were originally the Five Capitals in the form of the Tang Dynasty, but they were of little use. Jin’s theory was a remnant of the Liao Kingdom, which was also the reason for his further sinicization.
Today they are Shangjing, Tokyo, Xijing, Nanjing and Beijing, respectively Huining Prefecture in Shangjing, Liaoyang Prefecture in Tokyo, Dading Prefecture in Beijing, Datong Prefecture in Xijing, Daxing Prefecture in Zhongdu and Daming Prefecture in Nanjing.
Historically, it should have been Kaifeng Mansion, but now Kaifeng Mansion has no relationship with the Jin Kingdom, so it can only be converted into Daming Mansion, becoming the new forefront of the Song Dynasty.
The Zhongdu Daxing Mansion became the place where the country concurrently commanded.
The other 19 routes followed the Song system from the Jin Dynasty, including Zhongdu, Shangjing, Xianping, Tokyo, Beijing, Xijing, Nanjing, Hebei East, Hebei West, Shandong East, Shandong East, Damingfu, Hebei Province, Hebei Southeast, Jingzhaofu , Fengxiang, Futing, Qingyuan, Lintao 19th Road.
He generously rewarded meritorious ministers and also generously rewarded Wanyan Sheng's subordinates.
At the same time, the Song Emperor Zhao Shu, who was supported by the Jin State, died suddenly in his mansion. The Jin State once again supported the new emperor Zhao Ji to become the new Song Emperor.
Zhao Ji, on the other hand, reciprocated the favor and personally took his concubines in the Kingdom of Jin to thank the Jin people for the reward with the Song Dynasty ceremony of kneeling down. He personally came to Wanyan Sheng, knelt down to express his gratitude, and called him his father.
At the same time, the Song Dynasty was nominally merged into the Jin Kingdom, and together with Liu Yu and Du Chong, they became the King of Qi and the King of Chu. They demoted themselves to the King of Song, and the three kings stood side by side.
All surrendered to the knees of the golden man.
This incident caused an uproar across the world, but after the uproar, people really faced a problem.
So who is the orthodox? This ridiculous question has actually become a problem. After hearing the rumors in the world, Li Gang was so angry that he threw his wat and pointed at everyone's nose in the court and started to curse. .
"Is it possible that you all have no conscience in your hearts? Is it possible that you still don't know what the late emperor is?
In order to protect his own power, he and the Empress Dowager "shared the power to handle military and state affairs". What does that mean?
It was for the sake of his own status that he completely destroyed the situation that Renzong Shenzong had managed to create back then, and even allowed those damn corrupt officials to cause harm to the world.
The left prime minister Zhang Dun and the ruling Cai Bian were attacked one after another. Cai Bian was first demoted to the post of prefect. The good situation was ruined in one day, ruined in one day!
If Cai Jing, Wang Fu and other thieves are appointed, and Gao Qiu and other traitors are appointed, what kind of virtue have the officials and generals become?
The redundant officials have made the finances of the Song Dynasty no longer as simple as making ends meet, and everything has collapsed!
No one in the Song Dynasty knows what Meng Yin has done to the Song Dynasty!
Enyin, Enyin, En, a group of white-eyed wolves came out, a group of rats that ate up my Song Dynasty! "
Seeing that Li Gang had obviously gone astray, everyone knew that this was not about scolding the late emperor. Now that the official's status was here, what was he afraid of?
He is not afraid of anything. He even dares to kill officials and wipe out their families. What is he afraid of?
Nowadays, Li Gang's scolding has become a cliché again in the eyes of today's officials. It is nothing more than excessive redundancy of officials, and we must work hard to reform and reform again.
Is there anything wrong with this theory of changing redundant officials so that only those who are able can be appointed?
no problem!
But we don’t want to hear it!
This is the concept of most officials in the Song Dynasty and even the world today.
At this time, Zhao Kai, who was in charge of supervising the country in the court, looked at the current situation with helplessness on his face. He knew that the most important thing his royal brother asked him to do was to change the official system of the Song Dynasty.
But if you want to change the official system of the Song Dynasty, the first thing to do is to solve the problem of redundant officials.
But it is obvious that this matter is very difficult, almost impossible.
Why is it so difficult? Zhao Huan, who had secretly returned to Luoyang with a serious injury, was explaining this matter to Yue Fei.
"Now that the war situation is temporarily stable, we must take advantage of this opportunity to partially resolve the issues in the court. At the very least, we must break the situation first.
Pengju, haven't you ever asked me, why don't you just destroy and then establish, and replace the existing old people with new ones promoted by the imperial examination? This is not an easy thing.
In fact, this is not easy, it can even be said to be like a dream.
You are good at military strategy but not at strategy, so you can just know this kind of thing and don't need to worry too much.
Since the emergence of the imperial examination, even though printing technology is now rampant in the Song Dynasty and there are more and more scholars, there are really not many officials who have actually passed the imperial examination.
In fact, with the continuous refinement of the functions of various government offices in our court, the number of civil servants in this world has become very large.
In terms of high-level personnel alone, there were almost 10,000 people in the Tang Dynasty, but this number has been soaring, and now in the Song Dynasty, it has exceeded 100,000 people.
To be honest, with the current situation, 10,000 people is already a lot. If the world is restored to Zhenguan, around 20,000 people should be enough.
But you have to know that the number of people admitted to each subject of the imperial examination is only 300 people. It’s not that we don’t want to increase the number, but we can only take 300 people.
No matter how much... no matter how much, it would be better to get your son, Zhang Xian's son, Zhang Suo's son to be more reliable.
There are 300 people in one department, and they rely on it once every three years. Even if it lasts for 30 years, they are just 3,000 people. Of these 3,000 people...how many of these 3,000 people can last until the next thirty years?
What to do with the remaining 7,000 people?
Even if I add Enke, it will only be half, still less than half.
And... speaking of human nature, if you Yue Fei really regained the world one day, destroyed the Jin Kingdom, and made great contributions to our Song Dynasty, it would be the first contribution.
Then you have five sons, four of them have been with you for many years, and the last one has a little... bad brain.
Could it be that I just watched him starve to death after the separation?
If you don't give him the command of troops and give him a nominal general position, why not let the court support him?
Your Yue Fei's son is worthy of the court's doing this, and so is your grandson. When the Song Dynasty is here, your descendants are all worthy.
Enyin, of course I know that this thing has been criticized, and I also know that this thing has completely become the scourge of the Song Dynasty.
After an official reaches the fifth rank, he can request the court to recommend another person to be an official. The official position will be at least three ranks lower. This is the so-called favor system.
The number of Enyin is one person of the fifth grade Enyin, and ten people of the first grade Enyin. This number is getting more and more.
Ten people, I’m going to fuck his uncle’s ten people! "
When Zhao Huan said this, he couldn't help but scold his mother. This is a man. If his relatives are not prosperous enough, he will not be able to make up the ten people!
Not to mention sons and nephews, even retainers and staff can help you along.
This thing is how one person can achieve enlightenment, chickens and dogs ascend to heaven!
"And that's not the most important thing." Zhao Huan looked at Bai Yuefei, a young official in the officialdom, and continued to add to him, "This Enyin, whether it is one person or ten people, is just a once-in-a-lifetime amount..."
"What?" Yue Fei was really shocked. Although he was also a general, he had never been in contact with the court for even a day. "Is it possible that this thing happened many times?"
"Yes, many times, and there are many opportunities." Zhao Huan sighed with a look of helplessness on his face, "In addition to Deng Qi Enyin's trip every three years, if I am in a good mood today on my birthday, I can come once.
There is something big going on in the court, so you can have a ceremony like this.
Even if you, Yue Fei, have made outstanding achievements in the war, you can do this once.
The most stupid thing is that according to the rules, even if I die, I can still come... Damn it! "
Yue Fei looked at Zhao Huan in front of him, his mouth had grown longer at some point, and Zhao Huan wanted to popularize it for Yue Fei more vividly.
He directly gave Yue Fei a list.
"I know you are not available. You have meritorious service and your official position is sufficient. This is a quota for your family. There are eight quotas in total.
Among them are your younger brother Yue Fan, your niece's uncle Gao Zemin, the eldest son Yue Yun you just found, and the second son Yue Lei. There are four in total.
There are still four left, one of which is given to Zhang Xian's son Zhang Diwan, and three more... one is given to your late father Yue He, and the other is given to the son of Wang Gui, your favorite general.
There is another one that you can fill in yourself. "
"This..." Yue Fei knew that this was definitely wrong, but when this list was placed in front of him, Yue Fei had to admit that he could not want it, but he really couldn't say it.
Why?
Did he take his biological father out of it? How can I explain it to my mother if I take out my brother?
The two sons are my mother's favorites. Now that her mother is already this age, she doesn't have long to live. If he...
As for Zhang Xian and Wang Gui...
"Hey!" Yue Fei sighed for the last time and pushed the list back, "I don't dare to accept it, let alone read it!"
