Chapter 15 The Provocation of Bureaucracy
In fact, the Song Dynasty had its own newspaper distribution organization called Dujinzouyuan.
Jinzouyuan existed in the Tang Dynasty.
The main content of Di Bao includes the following points: the emperor's activities, the emperor's edicts, the appointment and dismissal of officials, officials' memorials, and important political and military intelligence.
It is equivalent to the capital announcing some important information to the world.
The main readers of Di Bao are officials from various places, and it is the channel through which the capital conveys central orders to officials in various places.
The Dujin Memorial Hall of the Song Dynasty was subordinate to the Zhengshitang, and its execution power was in the hands of the prime minister of the Zhengshitang.
The prime minister is an official of the foreign dynasty.
The Tokyo Daily, which Zhao Ning split off, belongs directly to the emperor himself and is equivalent to the emperor's mouthpiece.
Its readers are not just officials, but also ordinary people.
As for the fact that many people are illiterate, there is a solution.
This is the deployment of public opinion institutions, which can influence the people to a great extent.
If you want to fight an all-out war with the Jin Kingdom and Xixia, you must have a strong army.
If you want to have a strong army, you must have a sufficient logistics system, including weapon attack, manpower mobilization and sufficient military expenditures.
If you want to have an adequate logistics system, you must make many internal reforms.
Just like Wang Anshi's reform, although it failed, the idea of the reform was definitely correct.
If you want reform, you must wage war on the existing bureaucracy.
If you want to wage war against the existing bureaucracy, you must divide the bureaucracy within itself and win over the people all over the world.
To win over people all over the world, public opinion mouthpieces such as Tokyo Daily are one of the necessary tools, and their influence is very large.
Moreover, it can counteract the influence of Confucian orthodoxy to the greatest extent.
The great man also said something similar, the position of public opinion is there, if you don't occupy it, the enemy will.
Qin Hui retired to actively prepare for the Tokyo Daily News.
The sky is getting brighter, but the snow still hasn't stopped.
The news that Xu Bingzhe was killed also spread quickly.
"What! The officials killed someone!" Tang Ke suddenly stood up, his face full of disbelief.
"Yes!" Wang Shiyong sighed, "He chopped the man down just outside the Chui Gong Hall, and all of us heard the screams."
They were angry in their hearts. A minister was chopped into pieces like a chicken or duck. This challenged the dignity of a scholar-official and a scholar!
This knife struck Xu Bingzhe's neck, but it also struck the Holy Dao's face.
In ancient China, there was a special group called scholars.
The Taoist legal principles of scholars are the supreme spiritual belonging.
In the case of limited productivity in ancient times, maintaining unity actually relied more on this kind of orthodoxy.
A penniless scholar can despise a wealthy businessman, because this scholar is a disciple of a saint and the interpreter of the rationality of public opinion and political law in society.
They also believe that what they grasp is the truth for governing the country and bringing peace to the world.
At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the five surnames and Qi Wang were slaughtered by the Yellow River, which marked the end of aristocratic politics. In order to curb the chaos of the Five Dynasties, the Song Dynasty initiated civil rule, and the status of scholars increased unprecedentedly.
Only then did Wen Yanbo's sentence come into being: The king and the scholar-bureaucrats rule the world together, not the people.
The real meaning of this sentence is that the scholar-bureaucrats have mastered the secret of the saints in governing the country and bringing peace to the world. The emperor has no temporal administrative power, but if you want to stabilize the country, you must rely on us.
Now people are being killed, and they are being killed outside Chui Gong Hall, just like killing chickens and ducks, and the crime is not recognized by everyone.
In the Song Dynasty, this was definitely an arrogance of invisible power and a provocation to the disciples of the saints.
"Ms. Tang, what should we do now?"
Tang Ke pondered for a moment, and then he said: "Calm down first, Zhang Shuye comes to the stage and see what clever plan he has. If he is like He Li, all the grudges today will be returned to him!"
"If Zhang Shuye has made great achievements, wouldn't it mean that all the fame and honors belong to Zhang Shuye?"
"What do you mean by making achievements?"
"If we can resist the Jin army..." Wang Shiyong's voice was a little soft, and he was not confident when he said this.
"Impossible!" Tang Ke shook his head, "This is a war with unequal strength. We can't defeat the Jin Army and have no chance of winning unless we negotiate a peace and move the capital."
What Tang Ke said is correct. The difference in strength between the Song Army and the Jin Army in head-to-head combat is like that between a child of a few years old and a strongman in his twenties.
After being defeated in many consecutive battles, these scholar-bureaucrats of the Song Dynasty were completely stunned.
"You mean, it's only a matter of time before Zhang Shuye steps down?"
"It's just a matter of time."
"What about Gao Qiu?" Wang Shiyong said angrily, "You haven't seen how arrogant and domineering Gao Qiu is and how disrespectful he is!"
"There is no need for us to take action. Gao Qiu has already caused public outrage. Someone will impeach him. If the Yushitai does not impeach him, arrange for someone to remind the Yushitai!"
Today's situation was something no one expected.
I originally thought that with He Li stepping down, it would be time for the peace faction to take charge, but who would have thought that Xu Bingzhe was beheaded directly after saying something about peace in the court.
Now his head is hanging on the city gate, attracting countless people to watch.
Xu Bingzhe's charges were also announced.
The news spread quickly in the city, and for a while, countless people were excited.
Officials have made a statement!
The official family expressed their position with the head of a surrender minister: resolutely take the lead in the war!
This is the voice of countless people!
However, Xu Bingzhe's death seems to have made the government more tense, and no one knows what will happen next.
From today's drama in the court, Zhao Ning actually gained the following points:
First, suppressing the momentum of the Zhuhe faction, Xu Bingzhe's death will definitely shock the city of Tokyo.
The people of Tokyo City are eager to take the lead in the war. Now I will use the heads of the capitulationists to tell all of you that you will resolutely take the lead in the war!
Second, by supporting Zhang Shuye as the coordinator, the subsequent defense efficiency will be improved.
It’s time for the Song Dynasty’s national war machine to start moving!
Third, killing Xu Bingzhe with the help of Zhang Shuye and Gao Qiu is equivalent to supporting a new faction in the current situation.
Why do you say that?
Zhang Shuye will definitely be hated by some bookworms who read books about sages, and countless people will scold him. At this time, he was promoted by the emperor, and he can be regarded as the emperor's man.
Of course, in fact, strictly speaking, the ministers are all the emperor's people, but Zhao Ning, a time traveler, has to start cultivating a faction that listens to him.
That is to say, we are fighting against each other.
The same is true for Gao Qiu. Gao Qiu has now offended all the civil servants. If he wants to continue to live, he must become the emperor's lackey.
This is what Zhao Ning wants to see most.
If you have your own eagle dog, you will be able to do things more efficiently in the future.
Fourth, the biggest impact is actually to tear apart the concept of political stability after Song Taizong.
After Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty almost no longer killed ministers. Wen Yanbo's statement that the king and the scholar-bureaucrats rule the world together pushed the status of the scholar-bureaucrats to another peak.
As a result, the ideology of the entire Song Dynasty was running in a distorted direction. The status of warriors was getting worse from generation to generation. The martial arts of the Song Dynasty were weakened, which is why the Jin army besieged the city today.
But today, Zhao Ning completely broke this bottom line.
What was originally a game of dismissal and removal from office was turned into physical destruction by him.
Why did he do this? Is it because he doesn't understand politics?
No no no.
Because the next situation is a hell mode, and there is no way to reverse the situation of the Song Dynasty without severe punishment.
After eating some light food in the morning, Zhao Ning was not idle in the palace.
He asked for copies of all the accounts of the Sansi Yamen to be sent to him, as well as all the tax records and land survey records from past dynasties.
He needs to digest these carefully and prepare for the overall situation later.
Governing a country is by no means just a matter of a few people.
The Song Dynasty was surrounded by powerful enemies, but it was plagued by numerous diseases. It did not fully realize the country's potential, and it was difficult to survive in the cracks. The entire Southern Song Dynasty was just lingering.
Throughout the morning, he immersed himself in these taxes, discussing income, and various expenditures of the dynasty, and a series of figures took shape in his mind.
"Guanjia, Guanjia."
Wang Huaiji came running quickly.
"What's the matter?" Zhao Ning raised his head.
Chapter completed!