I'm very lucky that Saburo is fine. I'm very lucky.
In the tenth month of the golden autumn, grass grows in the south of the Yangtze River, there are mixed peanut trees, and flocks of orioles fly around. When I see the voice and appearance of an old friend, I feel that I have been born in the past, and when I am stroking the strings and climbing the ridge, wouldn't I feel melancholy...
Looking back three years, I received a personal letter from Houpu informing you that an accident had occurred in Guangnan. I used various connections to search for you, but there was no trace of Saburo. Everyone thought you were not alive. After receiving this letter, I will have three more days to eat.
I think back to those days, with your help, I was like a tiger with wings. I could complain to you about many miscellaneous matters. I quite agree with your high opinion.
In the past, you wanted to return to your hometown of Qingyuan, but I tried to persuade you to stay, but you were unable to do so. I don’t want a separation to become an eternal separation!
Most of the people around me today are rising stars, and what they say and do has not been what I want for a long time. I'd like to try it to find your equivalent.
I also know what you want, not to be bound by the world, only when the sky is high and the sky is wide and unfettered can you be at ease! But you and I are both chess pieces of the world. If we make mistakes, we will not get what we want. How can we be free? This is the case in Bianjing, the same is true in Qingyuan, and the same is true in Guangnan! Now that you have entered the world, you can never escape!
I heard Houpu’s letter. You are still alive, so why have you heard nothing from me for so many years? I must have had an accident in Guangnan. Now that I'm back, are you willing to go back to Bianjing? I've been waiting here for Saburo for a long time!
The northwest is initially decided, and the party items are back. The south is not stable, the Nong people are causing chaos, there are Japanese barbarians in the east, and Yue thieves in the south. The world is more chaotic than the previous dynasty. Since the late emperor, there have been many cases of poverty in the imperial court! Since the Northern Han Dynasty, dozens of battles, large and small, have been carried out, each of which cost hundreds of millions of national funds. Over the years, people's livelihood has been declining, and the people have complained, and the court has also paid a heavy price. The official system is redundant, the halls are dizzy, and the army is disorganized and has a large number of personnel! The number of officers and soldiers was ten times that of Taizu's when he founded the country, but his combat power was not as good as in those days. Every time he encountered an enemy, he collapsed! The fighting power is shocking!
The officials are determined to straighten the court, but the court is full of useless people!
Fan Fu and his like are actually scholars, and the scholar's views will cause endless harm!
Now there are two people, Fan and Fu, who have written ten cases in order to change the current affairs. What he said: clear the emperor, suppress luck, pay tribute, select officials, share public land, support farmers and mulberry trees, cultivate military equipment, benevolent and trustworthy, emphasize orders, and reduce corvee labor.
At first glance, it seems to be for the public and the people, but upon closer inspection, it is actually harmful to the people!
The ten points presented by the two men are all just words on paper, and none of them can be put into practice. Now that the people's strength has been exhausted, it is time to recuperate and recuperate. For example, if a person is infected with severe illness, he should first drink it with rice porridge and take it with medicine. After the internal organs are harmonized and the body gradually stabilizes, then use meat to supplement it and use strong medicine to cure it, then the root cause of the disease will be eliminated and the person will be able to live a full life.
The Ten Articles are the medicine of tigers and wolves. They are not useless to save the country. They can break the fate of the Song Dynasty!
The country's difficulties are blamed on the lack of solutions, but the real difficulties are caused by the situation! There are Khitan in the north, Western Xia is strong, South Vietnam is under wolf control, and civil unrest is breaking out all over the country. At this time of life and death, the country's power has been exhausted, and it is still necessary to cut out the flesh of the people to mend the country's sores!
Looking at the ten articles carefully, all of them are for the people, but in fact, all of them are alienated from morality, and none of them are practical for restoring vitality! The scholar's views are of no use to the country. If they could be used in the present moment, I would not be so heartbroken!
There are powerful enemies outside the imperial court, and there are bad policies within the court. If the government does not implement policies that are not the imperial court's, in fact, the officials will compete with the people for profit. Nowadays, the imperial court spends millions of national funds to support officials every year, and there are also millions of imperial troops, Xiang and Fan armies, which is even more wasteful. Today, there are more Xixia coins. The imperial court has more names for exploitation, and the people are squeezed at all levels. Without any covering, there is no place to stand!
The most urgent task at the moment is to build good relations with our neighbors externally, stop fighting with each other, reorganize the government internally, and release millions of soldiers to return the power of the people. After ten years of work, the people should have a chance to take a break!
If not, the Song Dynasty would be in danger!
During the three dynasties of Yu Li's official career, I saw countless heroes and chatted with those who saved the building from falling. Fan Fushi is a criticizing minister, but he is not a capable minister. They are dedicated to the country, but have no strength for the people. The river is surging, the wind is strong, and the grass is strong. They originally wanted to submit a book to Zhao Guan's house, but no one in the court is willing to observe a certain painstaking effort. !
Over the past few years, Yu's speaking and speaking skills have declined, and he no longer has the energy to engage in court battles. As you think of it, Houpu and his daughter are still young and have nothing to do. Protect them and not be my officials. Instead, you should protect their wealth and lives, and you should have a strategy to turn things around! qδ.net
This book will be burned as soon as you read it, and no three people will see it!
If you return to Beijing to discuss important matters together, it will not be for the sake of fame and fortune, but in fact, it will benefit the people of the world!
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The above is Xia Chang’s relative
After reading all the contents of the book, only Liang Chuan and Sun Houpu were left in the room. Liang Chuan held the letter and his eyes filled with tears. He couldn't help but raise his head and stared blankly at the roof beams above his head.
Only this posture will prevent tears from flowing down unsatisfactoryly.
Fatty Xia is such a strong and competitive person. Throughout his life, he has never had an opponent, whether on the battlefield or in the officialdom!
No opponent of any kind has ever made him succumb!
But looking at the tone between the lines, he, Xia Song, had only been begged by others in his life. How had he ever used such a tone to beg for help?
Liang Chuan didn't see Xia Song's face, but he could already imagine how anxious Xia Song's face was in the darkness!
The struggle in the court has probably reached a point of life and death. Xia Song's situation at this time is extremely difficult!
It is undeniable that Xia Song is defined according to the standards of an honest and fair official. He is not even basically competent. He has been in the Metropolitan Procuratorate a hundred times. He is corrupt, bribery and gluttonous, all of which are standard features for female officials. He did not fail to occupy them all. The Yushiyan family was just afraid of his identity, otherwise this impeachment document would probably be piled up into a mountain!
But since ancient times, neither fairness nor integrity have been the definition of a good official. This is just the wishful thinking of ordinary people and the self-packaging cloak of Qingliu!
Even ordinary people know that it is equally good to spend money to get things done and not to spend money to get things done. If you really want to define it, both of them are not good!
But the people all want to get things done! There is only one purpose, and this steel scale is still clear!
Qingliu in the court claims to be asking for orders for the people and bringing peace to all generations, but what can they accomplish? They can't! Most of their abilities are limited to copying dull knowledge from books. They will only introduce ancient policies that are out of date and eliminated by the times in ancient books, let the emperors be like Yao and Shun and other saints, require the people to be obedient, and force all levels to Officials must keep their hands and feet in check and conduct politics with integrity!
You cannot look at the laws of things from a developmental perspective. This is nonsense! Failure to adapt to the development of the times will only be counterproductive!
Scholars also want to change the world, but all their knowledge comes from the books of their predecessors. They cannot break through this knowledge barrier. They can only ask their predecessors for advice when they encounter problems. The Song Dynasty was the pinnacle of their system, but they had to ask In the past, it was not as good as their dynasties to ask for advice, and let scholars mess around like this. If there is no problem, then there is something wrong!
Xia Song is a scholar, but not just a scholar! He has a wide range of contacts, and he is a brother-in-law with businessmen. He is very powerful in Guan Qiu and Guan Qiu, and he is in every direction in the political arena.
Only people who can break through the limitations of their own understanding can see where the crux of this society lies!
But Xia Song's current situation. .
Very difficult.
After Liu E's death, Zhao Zhen was once again stimulated by the rebellion of the Nong people in Guangnan. He deeply felt that he had failed the people of the world and was determined to wipe out the accumulated shortcomings of the previous dynasty.
This kind of thinking is very scary.
What the bosses of big companies fear most is not that their sons go around drinking and picking up girls, but that their sons are too ambitious and want to start a business!
They can't make much money even if they drink every day for a year, but once they want to start a business, it's over. Not only will the company get involved, but they will also owe a lot of debt!
The principle is the same. The emperor came to the throne only after my father died and his son came to the throne. They couldn't see what their sons were doing and were generally worried about it, so they set up a few auxiliary ministers to help.
How many of the auxiliary ministers can enjoy their old age? Look, if Huo Guang hadn't died early, he would have been cut into pieces by the Five Bulls, and his descendants would have been slaughtered! Why, because if the ministers were to fulfill their duties, they would have to get involved in politics, and they would have to confront the rebellious emperor, and the policies would have to be reversed!
When a new leader comes to power, in order to show that he has made a difference, he has to do something new, otherwise it will be a lazy administration of inaction! This objection is doomed to a very tragic end!
The Song Dynasty finally had a peaceful situation. What they were afraid of was the chaos of the officials. It originally cost more, but the people also earned more, but it was only delayed by the troubled times.
If we recover now, the country will be able to recover, but these writers
Everyone thinks that they are Hua Tuo when they are still alive, and they insist on complaining for the people and messing with this policy that is "for the people" in name!
Xia Song was right. The imperial court had also fallen ill, but it was not serious. Taking some warm tonic could restore its vitality. As a result, the clear water was mixed with some fresh seafood, ginseng, swallows and abalone to nourish it. .
Poor Zhao Zhen, if he really wants to do something for the people, it is not difficult. He just needs to walk a few laps where the people work the hardest, and have a few laps with these small officials in the county and township and Baozhenglizheng. , he will understand the root causes of so many social problems.
These officials at the lowest level are not incompetent. On the contrary, they have to solve the most direct, practical and acute people's livelihood problems. They are the executors of the great empire's policies. They can best provide intuitive feedback on the loopholes in the policies.
But this feedback channel is blocked. Officials are officials, officials are officials, and they do not conspire with each other. It is impossible for officials to listen to the opinions of these petty officials. It is a huge insult to them. Even if they achieve results, it will be a black mark in the history books!
The current problems of the Song Dynasty are not only policy issues.
This is an era of great explosion of nomadic peoples. Not only the nomadic peoples in the north, but also the ethnic minorities in the south are the most active, because during this century period, the climate is the most stable, the people's lives are the best, and they are most able to support foreign affairs. Fight!
Many historians have studied that this era had the most officials and the most troops! It has become a burden to the country!
This damn thing is just beating the cook while eating! The Song Dynasty was the era when the commodity economy was most developed. Once the economy developed, society would have countless more problems than before.
The functions of government departments can only be simplified, but cannot be decentralized, otherwise the problem will not be solved! In the past, as long as a county government had six officials, it could take care of everything. Can it be done now? How many people are needed for water transportation alone? How many public officials are needed to support the derived warehousing, transportation, trading and other departments? With the economy developing to this level, these people must exist and are not redundant!
Qingliu thought that these people only occupied the latrine and did not shit. They usually crossed their legs to get benefits and get cards. They were the worms of the imperial court!
The common people were moved by these clear streams and thought that these people were redundant! They are all corrupt elements!
But they need to know that most of the people in these positions are their children and relatives. Do they want their children to do these things or support their children to do these things? There will be disorderly people everywhere, and wherever there is light, there will be darkness. We can only try to eliminate them as much as possible. It is impossible to completely eliminate them!
Let’s talk about the army! The armies of the surrounding countries are super powerful with their equipment and tactics developed to the pinnacle! The large-scale installation of iron weapons alone is incomparable to any era. Facing such an era, it is the blessing of the era to have one or two heroic generals who can suppress these nations.
If not, then we can only win with numerical superiority. If we don't have a huge army, how can we defeat these countries?
This is the problem of the Song Dynasty, but it is also the solution of the Song Dynasty!
It is conceivable that in order to break through this problem, we cannot approach it from these aspects!
Even Xia Song might not understand this very well.
But Xia Song knows the simplest truth. To reform these problems in the world today, it is absolutely impossible to rely on the policies of Fan Zhongan and Fu Bi!
Not only is this not possible, it will plunge the country into chaos!
It's a pity that Zhao Zhen now thinks that as long as he uses these clean officials, the country will become a mess, because they have no selfish motives, but they don't know that good intentions can also do bad things, and they can be taken advantage of. .
Xia Song had lost power at this time.
Although he is greedy for power and flattery, he cannot mess around with matters of right and wrong. This is the same attitude as facing party members. It's life and death, no compromise!
He firmly stood on the opposite side of Qingliu and firmly opposed the New Deal!
This was an opinion put forward with Zhao Zhen's tacit approval. His opposition to Qingliu was on the opposite side of Zhao Zhen!
In the past, Zhao Zhen had small ideas and small ideas, and Xia Song did what Qingliu didn't do.
, but unexpectedly one day, Qingliu wanted to do it, but he, Xia Song, firmly disagreed!
Everyone on the street has a dog nose. They can smell that unusual smell, and then start to protect themselves and start to quietly fall in line.
Xia Song suddenly discovered that his Pingzhang residence was deserted. All the people who used to flatter him were gone. Even when he met in Chaoshang, there were only a few people who greeted him, for fear of getting into trouble!
Xia Song knew that this day was the carnival of their Qingliu party members, and he was branded as a female official. Although he was still in power, he had lost power!
Looking at the situation, there is no one available, no one dares to discuss countermeasures with him, Xia Song expressed his grief and indignation in the letter, and this kind of environment can drive Xia Song to the edge!
Bigan also had to have his heart ripped out, not to mention that he was Fei Zhongyouhun in the eyes of others!
Xia Song said that he was the only one who was loyal, and maybe Liang Chuan was the only one in the whole court who could understand him, because they had the same idea! Only Liang Chuan dared to support him, because they were people who had carried guns and visited prostitutes together!
Looking at the letter, Liangchuan sighed repeatedly.
Everyone has good intentions, but they have different political opinions and have become mortal enemies!
Liang Chuan knew about this reform.
The momentum was too great. It seems that Fan Zhongyan did not understand his Yueyang Tower story back then.
If only he had read it a few more times. .
No, each one has its own destined ending. This is due to personality and habits. Fan Zhongyan is too strong, and failure is his destined outcome!
But now the whole court is in a frenzy, and everyone is optimistic about Fan Zhongyan. With the support of the officials, he has returned from the northwest with gilding, his reputation is unparalleled, and his resume and character can be recognized by everyone. If he still The status quo cannot be changed, no one can do this!
