Things in the village are just a small microcosm, and every official does not appear out of thin air.
Even though Zhao Huan's reforms have been carried out a lot, the process of selecting officials has not really begun yet.
The reason why this was not reformed was because of the problem of the imperial examination. After a large number of officials had just been eliminated, the newly added officials turned out to be corrupt again in a very short period of time.
It was even more excessive than before, and because Zhao Huan granted a lot of rights to local and court officials.
Their road to corruption has become smoother, and they have moved from corruption to forming a party for profit. After forming a party, there is only one last way left to go.
At this time, Zhao Huan came to Luoyang, the capital, and summoned his important officials.
"Li Qing, bring up the things from the censor's desk. If it weren't for the resident censor below being so anxious, I would still be cleaning up the mess in Liangzhou."
Zhao Huan didn't give everyone a chance and went straight to the point. By the way, he also gave them the eight hundred miles secretly played by Han Shizhong.
"Han Shizhong wrote that he has taken control of Jinling, Hangzhou, Wuchang and other places.
Although he didn't say it clearly, if I don't stop him, I'm afraid the butcher's knife will appear on the heads of Jiangnan officials in the next moment. "
"Your Majesty, no!" Li Gang and Zhao Ding no longer cared about avoiding suspicion at this time, and stood up almost at the same time to stop this matter.
Li Gang and Zhao Ding looked at each other at this moment, and then bowed to Zhao Huan again at the same time.
"Your Majesty." This time it was Li Gang who stood up first and also sent Wu Biaochen's memorial to Zhao Huan, "This is the memorial from Wu Biaochen, the censor of Yangzhou.
The Yushitai has checked the authenticity, and now it cannot prove that Tang Situi, Lu Benzhong, Zhang Jiucheng, Feng Shixing and dozens of others had an affair with... some important officials in the court.
But the relationship between the two parties does not... There is no empirical evidence.
Even Wu Biaochen only said that the two parties were too close to each other.
I hope Your Majesty will not be impulsive..."
At this time, in front of Zhao Huan were Li Gang and Li Guang, the censors of the Imperial Procuratorate, Zhang Jun from the Rites Department, Zhao Ding from the Household Department, Lu Yihao from the War Department, Hu Quan from the Punishment Department, and Yu Wenxuzhong from the Personnel Department.
Old Chen, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, couldn't care anymore. He didn't even go to court because Zhao Huan found something for him to do.
During the Battle of Xixia, Zhao Huan found some documents about the cyclone cannon and captured several apprentices. Xixia wanted to burn everything in the whirlwind cannon, but Zhao Huan picked it up half a step too late.
Now this thing has been sent to the Ministry of Industry and the Royal Workshop by Zhao Huan. Old Chen and many officials from the Ministry of Industry are working day and night and can't take care of it.
Among the remaining people, except for Li Guang, he was the top leader of the Six Departments, and the "suspect" consciously locked himself in the mansion and refused to come out.
The door is open but does not receive any guests. From outside the door, you can see Zhao Kai himself in the central hall.
This was his attitude. He could be killed or chopped into pieces as he pleased. He thought that he had not done anything to regret Da Song.
Li Gang's words contained a lot of support for Zhao Kai, but Zhao Huan was noncommittal about this. He just looked at Zhao Ding, who had also stood up before.
"Whatever Zhao Qing wants to say, you can speak out."
"Your Majesty, I feel that King Yun's matter is not that important anymore." Zhao Ding's words were even more decisive, and he changed the focus of this matter.
"Actually, Your Majesty knows in his heart that from the beginning to the end, Your Majesty is not worried about what happens to King Yun, because King Yun himself knows it well, and His Majesty also has trust in his heart.
And there are means.
But up to now, more than a year has passed since the reform of the Song Dynasty, and all places have stabilized.
But our problems are also very serious. Just the corruption cases reported by the censors from various places have already piled up the documents in the censorship desk.
In addition to corruption, many other problems have arisen, such as bullying the people, taking bribes and perverting the law, and even the new Jinshi can be said to be rigorous when they are in the court.
But after entering the place, it was completely different.
These things are worthy of our deep thought, and whether we have taken the wrong path. The first thing to be reformed is not the officialdom system, nor the official selection system.
The first thing we are waiting to solve is... should I be an official in the Song Dynasty? How should I be an official?
If this matter cannot be solved, then I am afraid that the Song Dynasty will never have peace. We will kill one group and replace it with another, and the cycle will continue!
We can't kill all the scholars in the world! "
Compared with Li Gang's outspokenness and daring to remonstrate, Zhao Ding understood better what Zhao Huan wanted, and the military power in the world was still in his hands.
At least within ten years, he will not worry about anyone daring to take action against him, such as Yue Fei, Zhang Jun, Han Shizhong, Liu Qi, Wu Jie, and Yang Weizhong.
Even Guo Yaoshi, Wang Yan and others now have no problem with their loyalty to Zhao Huan. In addition, they have been sitting on the front line one after another, and their prestige is as high as ever at this time.
Are those people so stupid that they dare to do anything at this time?
In the final analysis, it is nothing more than that as soon as they got the power, a group of people were already eager to form a party for personal gain.
And the most terrible thing is that in order to be able to form cliques for personal gain in a more reasonable way, this group of people has begun to affect Zhao Kai.
Yes, it is affected.
Tong Guan wants power, Tang Situi wants to implement his own political ideas of peace, and there are also a group of people who are seeking fame and profit.
In short, this group of people all had various reasons, and they gathered around Zhao Kai, hoping to make this person...a barrier for them.
Zhao Kai has the power given by Zhao Huan himself to supervise the handling of national affairs in the country. By his side, as long as it is not obvious, he will say things that should not be said and do things that should not be done.
Then it is reasonable for them to form a party. Who would have known that Tong Guan, a man who is eager for quick success and quick gain, would appear.
Seeing that he was getting older, in order to regain power, he directly encouraged them to plan rebellion, and even led them to do these things himself.
Let them change from a simple clique for personal gain to a deliberate conspiracy.
This behavior is very similar to when Zhao Huan and Yue Fei lured the generals of Hebei to surrender to the Jin Kingdom...
Zhao Huan looked at Zhao Ding and said nothing for a long time. He knew that Zhao Ding was also interceding with those people. The so-called finding the root cause first was nothing more than giving those guys a chance.
Compared to the new greedy people, these guys still have experience to use, and they can still use it after suppressing it.
When the war breaks out again, new people will no longer be available.
"Zhao Qing, since you said it, you must have gained some insights. You are my confidants today. If you have something to say, why don't you just say it."
"I wonder what your Majesty thinks of Confucianism and Taoism?"
"Confucianism and Taoism...the unity of heaven and man?"
"No, this union of heaven and man is nothing more than Dong Zhongshu's attempt to fool the people.
At that time, Emperor Qin and Emperor Gao, Taizu of the Han Dynasty, both ordered the collection of books from all over the world, and the order to ban books was spread throughout the world.
Therefore, all the talents and learning in the world were in the hands of the royal family and powerful families, so as to monopolize talents, learning and official career. However, this matter has changed slightly after the emergence of Taixue.
At that time, Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty personally issued an order to lift the ban on books and return the world's talents and learning to the world.
After that, Kong Anguo of the Kong family donated the family knowledge passed down by the Kong family to the world for free, so that everyone in the world can practice it.
From then on, the learning of the world was no longer limited to the powerful families in the world.
It was not until the Wei and Jin Dynasties that He Yan, the adopted son of Cao Mengde, began to rise to the Wei and Jin Xuanfeng. He first used Confucianism to explain Taoism and put governance by inaction on the bright side.
From then on, students, celebrities and even officials all over the world began to talk about mysteries. Even if they were facing the enemy, they would still talk about mysteries.
Although there are talents who have experienced both heaven and earth, they can take care of both, but the foundation is chaotic and they don't know it.
Later, as clans and clans rose up and the world's talents were gathered together again, Confucianism completely began to enter a state of decline, and the ways of Huang and Lao began to prevail in the world.
Li Tang claimed to be a descendant of Taoist Laozi, and his Taoist studies became the art of Chinese studies. Taoist temples spread all over the world, and advocating Taoist etiquette naturally replaced the Confucian style.
When all the nations came to court and encountered Li Tang's openness to all rivers, Taoist Wuwei was indeed more suitable for the situation at that time.
But Wanwan never thought that the Wu Zhou incident would occur in the middle.
Your Majesty also knows that the Empress Dowager Liu E of Zhang Xianmingsu was respectfully invited by officials to ascend the throne and proclaim herself emperor, following the old example of Emperor Wu.
Although this matter was rejected by the Empress Dowager Zhang Xianmingsu, Emperor Wu invited Buddhists to suppress Taoism in order to suppress the Li Tang royal family and successfully ascend the throne.
From then on, Buddhism became popular all over the world, and countless Buddhist temples had countless privileges. This Buddhist classic also entered the world.
Talking about Xuan, Taoism about inaction, and Buddhism about rebirth, these thoughts are the current trend in the world, and it is also because of these thoughts that led to the chaos in the late Tang Dynasty, and the ambition...ahem...um..."
Zhao Ding said that he did not dare to say anything else at the last moment. After all, the bouts of coughing that followed let him know that if he continued talking, his head might have to move somewhere today.
This involves hundreds of thousands of changes in customs, and of course it also involves many things that should not be said.
For example, the Kong family is now in decline. Of course, it is not in decline now.
He said that Kong Anguo sent his family to study for free because Liu Yu, King Gong of the Han Dynasty, demolished the ancestral home of the Kong family at once when he expanded his palace.
According to rumors, his ancestral hall was demolished...
Then they directly "invited" the Confucian family's family study "Shang Shu", and because the fonts in it were different from the original ones, after a series of unknown confrontations, the Confucius family translated the family study themselves, Then he threw it out to the world in anger.
Of course, it was precisely because of this incident that the Kong family, which had been hanging on the wall, became furious. From Wen to the officialdom, the Kong family occupied more than 30% of the official positions in the late Han Dynasty before Kong Rong.
There are a total of fifty-three people in the family serving as nine ministers, ministers, governors, and prefects, and seven are princes.
There were countless local officials, famous scholars and bachelors. You have to know how many prefects and governors there were in total at that time...
Moreover, Kong Rong, who scolded his mother all day long, is not the direct descendant of the Kong family. The direct descendant should be Kong Yu, one of the eight horses of the same generation.
General Liang Ji summoned him to serve as an official, but Kong Yu did not respond.
The Taiwei recommended virtuous and upright people, but Kong Yu resigned because his answer to the question was not in line with the emperor's wishes. Later, he was banned from serving as an official due to party restrictions.
When Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty came to the throne, he used a public car to worship Kong Yu as the minister, and the replacement official was the Luoyang order.
As a result, Kong Yu still looked down upon the emperor, so he resigned from his official position and never returned to the world because of the death of his teacher.
Even after being imprisoned by the party, Kong Rong dared to point his finger at the powerful officials and eunuchs of the Manchu Dynasty.
It's because the Kong family relies on fists...
After killing Kong Rong's family, Cao Mengde had to send people to visit the Kong family to protect the reputation of the Kong family.
After the Han Dynasty and the Great Rebellion, the Kong family lost power and was hung on the wall again. Until now, Zhao Huan has no intention of taking him off the wall.
Of course, their Confucian version of "Shang Shu" was also lost when Yi Guan traveled south. In fact, many people know this. However, although the "Shang Shu" that is circulating now is fake, it is still useful. Everyone Just see through it, don’t tell it.
He acquiesced to the Kong family's loss of power and hung it on the wall.
As for the meaning behind Zhao Ding, the old Emperor Taizu of the Zhao family was the leader of the Forbidden Army of the Later Zhou Dynasty. He was a powerful official and commanded the most elite army among all the soldiers of the Later Zhou Dynasty.
There is only such a large army, and if you continue to talk about it, you will really be swearing.
And after saying so much, Zhao Huan finally understood what this guy wanted to do, which was just to revive New Confucianism.
"Does Zhao Qing want to bring out the Neo-Confucianism of brothers Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi?"
"No, the Neo-Confucianism of the Cheng family brothers is really difficult to put into practice. Although it is good, it is not practical. If I use the Cheng family brothers' words, then I will probably follow the same path as my predecessors in the end.
What I mean is that your Majesty please use the New Confucianism of Zhang Gongshi! "
