After criticizing Ye Mengding and Yang Dong, the mood of the officials rose again.
In the face of interests, Prime Minister Xie Fangshu's suppressive aura was no longer effective, and the scene became lively again.
In addition, Zhao Guanjia on the throne has remained silent, which is tantamount to connivance in disguise.
"Zhao Mengfu is a baby. It's uncertain whether he will grow up to be a child. How can he inherit the royal family? If he dies in infancy, wouldn't it mean that the official family will suffer the pain of losing a son?"
This makes sense. The infant mortality rate in this era is too high. For example, Zhao Guan's family originally had three sons, but they all died shortly after birth. This is why Zhao Mengqi is still called Shiro.
"Haha, Zhao and Min have several sons. They are all very healthy. They are much better than Zhao Mengxi who has bad conduct!"
"A foreigner like Wei Guansun still wants to join the imperial family? Can Taizu Taizong agree!?"
"Zhao Heyun wanders around, walking in and out of Huajie and Liuxiang all day long. How can he be steady and moderate? I'm afraid someone has received a big gift. Tsk tsk, who doesn't know that those clans in Quanzhou are so fat!"
"Bitch thief! How dare you spurt people with blood? A certain family sits upright and never accepts gifts!"
"Don't accept gifts!? Where did your twenty-some concubines come from!?"
"Zou! How qualified are you, a man who takes over people's fields, to criticize a certain family?"
"If you fuck your mother, I'll throw dirty water on you, right? I'll tear your mouth off!"
"Fuck! Who will hit me..."
"Whose fucking boots are so smelly!"
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Gentle?
I don’t know where I was thrown into.
At first, we should present facts and reason, and if we can't win, we will find fault with the other party.
After much provocation, this building started to go astray, and began to expose shortcomings and report negative information.
Some of these civil servants have clean bottoms, so let’s hurt each other!
As he talked, his anger gradually grew, and his words seemed too pale at this time.
With an excited heart and trembling hands, I punch you, and you scratch his face, and there are shadowless feet over there.
Shoes and hats were flying everywhere in the hall, wolves and pigs were running around, shouting and cursing loudly, and wailing everywhere.
"The scene was very chaotic for a time." The reason for the fight had been forgotten. It was even unclear who was on the same side as who. It was simply a matter of revenge and grievance.
What? No grudges? The day before yesterday, your mother-in-law laughed at my wife for being a fat pig. I have been putting up with this for a long time!
Don't think that scholars don't fight. Once you become an official, you can really cultivate your moral character. It is not uncommon for martial arts to be staged in the imperial court of the Song Dynasty.
If you haven't seen it before, think about the 'parliament' in certain areas, for example, a certain...
In the main hall, the only peaceful places are near the throne and a corner on the side.
Of course, the Song Dynasty also had military officers and nobles who were qualified to go to court, but compared to civil servants, there were many fewer.
They usually don't have much sense of presence, and they don't get to talk about big or small things. Most of the time, they just act like sculptures.
Now that the civil servants are fighting in a group, they don't want to start a fight, and they don't dare to join in the fun. It's the right way to stay away and avoid being taken advantage of.
"Hey, this trick of monkey stealing peaches is wonderful..."
"Oh, I can't kick with my fists!"
"Haha, I really didn't notice it. The buttocks of Mr. Liu are quite white..."
They hid aside and watched the play, commenting in low voices from time to time, but their gloating expressions were well hidden, for fear of being seen by civil servants, as they would have to wear small shoes in the future.
Although the scene was lively, in the eyes of a cavalry commander, it might not even be as good as a rogue fight, and even a bit boring. I originally thought of leaving the court early and going to Lichun Tower for a walk, but now I don’t know when it will be. Head, can not help but make a complaint.
"I said there's nothing to argue about. If you think Prince Zhong is a fool and can't be the crown prince, why not just let Prince Rong become the crown prince? It's not like brothers will eventually become brothers."
Tsk tsk, take a look, what are you saying? If you don’t say it first, is it feasible? There are so many taboo words in just this sentence.
Sometimes, military generals are suppressed by civil servants, and it is not without reason.
It’s okay to say that King Zhong is a fool. Anyway, everyone in the government and the public said so, but you said that it is wrong to say that brothers will eventually become brothers. The entanglement between the two brothers Taizu and Taizong involved "the sound of axes and candle shadows", and they were all the same throughout the Song Dynasty. Taboo.
What's even more outrageous is that King Rong is only two years younger than Guan Jia. By saying this, aren't you cursing Guan Jia to die early and not survive your own brother?
What's more, Prince Rong has no other sons besides Zhao Mengqi. Won't he come back again in the future?
Of course, the real situation in history is that Rongwang Zhao Yurui not only outlived his brother Zhao Guan's family, but also outlived his own son Zhao Mengqi until Lin'an surrendered and was sent to Dadu in the Yuan Dynasty to live for eleven years.
If Prince Rong really succeeds to the throne, it will be better than the fool Zhao Mengqi becoming the emperor.
All these things are not important at this time. What is important is that the commander's voice was a bit loud and he thought he was whispering, but Zhao Guan's family happened to hear it.
The Zhao Guan family was originally watching the drama with relish. Thinking of the humiliation they suffered yesterday, their hearts were filled with the pleasure of revenge.
As soon as the military attaché heard what he said, he couldn't help but burst into anger. He didn't want to really break up with this idiot. In anger, he lost his interest in watching the show. Instead, he realized that the scene at hand was unbecoming of the court.
With half-serious and half-false anger, he picked up the porcelain paperweight on the imperial desk and smashed it to pieces at the foot of the stairs.
"enough!"
The harsh sound of impact and cracking was coupled with this majestic roar.
It was like a thunder that woke up all the officials and they all stopped.
"You are so impudent! Where are you? This is the place where the country discusses politics, but you are all like shrews roaming the streets. How can you behave like this!"
“The state’s nurturing of scholars has produced a person like you!?”
"All the poems and books of saints have been read into the dog's belly by you!?"
"The face of the imperial court is worthless in your eyes!?"
"The Three Cardinal Principles and the Six Disciplines, is this how you practice it!?"
"Benevolence, justice, propriety, wisdom and trust, what else do you have left!?"
"It's okay to force me, but now everyone wants to imitate Cao Mang and do the destructive thing!?"
Heart-breaking words poured out from Zhao Guan's mouth one after another, like a steel knife scraping through the bodies of hundreds of officials, like a wave flooding the tops of hundreds of officials.
All the officials had earth-colored faces, and their hearts were filled with panic and anxiety. They all knelt on the ground, "I am guilty!"
Standing on the jade steps, Zhao Guan's family looked at these trembling officials coldly, but felt proud in his heart.
So cool!
You bandanas are here too! ?
Haha, he usually acts like a dog and tells me how to do things, but now he is paralyzed! ?
Zhao Guan's family is just having fun, and the law does not punish everyone. He can't really drag these people out and kill them, otherwise the country will be in chaos immediately.
"Just take care of yourself and retreat from the court!"
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Zhao Guan's family is in a very beautiful mood. Thirty-one years after he ascended the throne, he has rarely been so happy in the court. After all, scholar-bureaucrats in the Song Dynasty have always been proud of resisting the imperial power. If they take advantage of it, they will grab the emperor's sleeve and spit. A common thing.
"Let's go to Qingyan Hall."
"Ah? Don't you want to go to Ciyuan Hall? The imperial concubine just sent a message asking the official to go over and talk." Dong Songchen tried to dissuade the official from meeting Zhao Mengqi.
He didn't know that the scene in the court was the Zhao Guan family's strategy to retreat in order to advance, nor did he know that this idea came from Zhao Mengqi. He really thought that the Zhao Guan family was planning to give up on Zhao Mengqi, so he didn't want the two father and son to meet at this time to avoid Things have changed for easy storage.
Zhao Guan's family didn't notice Dong Songchen's dirty thoughts, and said casually, "I have banned Madam Yan. I think she is getting angry, so I won't get into trouble, so as to save her from crying again..."
When he arrived at Qingyan Hall, Dong Songchen realized that something was wrong. The palace servants here had actually changed their faces, but none of the people he had assigned before were missing.
Considering his position in the palace, it is really strange that no news of such a thing happened was received at all.
When he saw Lin Yaban wandering around, fear appeared in his eyes, and he was even more surprised in his heart. How could this old immortal be here?
Lin Yaban saluted casually, "The official family is safe."
Zhao Guan's family was also very casual, "Old Lin, what are Shiro doing?"
"In the study, I moved a lot of books and files. I don't know what to do."
"Oh? It's like a different person, he actually took the initiative to study, haha, let me go and have a look..."
When Zhao Guan's family entered the study, they saw Zhao Mengqi flipping through an account book while frowning and calculating.
"What are you looking at?"
As he said this, Zhao Guan's family took the booklet over and flipped through the cover. It turned out to be a bypass booklet for the first year of Baoyou's reign on Liangzhe Road.
The 'bypass book' is similar to the financial statements of later generations. It usually summarizes and compiles the accounting information of a certain place or department every year or every six months, and reports it to the court for review and accounting. It not only contains detailed text data, but also simple and intuitive charts. .
This opened Zhao Mengqi's eyes and realized that the management methods of the Song Dynasty were much better than he imagined. Civil officials did not rely on Zihu to govern the country.
However, it was full of Chinese numerals and complicated measurements, which still gave him a headache. It took a lot of effort to extract some useful information.
"What do you think this is?" Zhao Guanjia threw it away casually, "If you have the time, you might as well read the "Annotations to the Four Books" or read "Tai Shang Induction Chapter".
As the king of a country, it is not that Zhao Guanjia does not pay attention to finance, but he has always believed that these are government affairs and should be left to the officials. As the saying goes, the king governs people and his ministers govern affairs.
As for the "Collected Commentary on the Four Books" he mentioned, it was written by Zhu Xi. He admired Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism throughout his life, and therefore received the title of Lizong after his death. The "Tai Shang Ying Pian" is a Taoist classic, which is the work of the old Zhao family. Traditional beliefs are also his political philosophy.
But Zhao Mengqi was not very interested in Neo-Confucianism and Taoism. What he wanted to know most was, of course, how much money the Song Dynasty had.
"Isn't there a saying among the people that if you don't know the family, you don't know the oil, rice and salt? If you want to be a minister, governing a country is the same as governing a family. You must have some understanding of the family background."
After hearing this, Zhao Guanjia couldn't help but smile, "Let's not talk about whether what you think is right or not, are you so sure that you can stabilize your position and govern the country in the future?"
