Since ancient times, it has been believed that the emperor of China is supreme and has absolute power throughout the country. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info the emperor's will is the law, so the emperor can do whatever he wants without scruples. Even Montesquieu in the West, in his book On the Spirit of the Law, said that China was an authoritarian regime, but it was slightly different from Persia. But in Zhao Hao's opinion, this is definitely a fallacy, it is nonsense, at least he can't make a constitution now, and his ancestors are also very distressed by this.

Although the war is urgent these days, it is a rare day for Zhao Yu to be idle. In this era, there are no movies, television, and you can't go clubbing, and you can't go out shopping, so reading has become the only choice, but fortunately, the Pu family has a book building with a collection of tens of thousands of books. When he entered the palace, he ordered someone to seal it, and asked all the books to be carried to his own boat, and of course a few of them were taken out of it in case he was bored.

Since it is used to relieve boredom, of course it is not those classics, it is used for hypnosis. However, the most suitable for relieving boredom is naturally rare and curious books, Zhao Yu found that the most gossip in this era is the scholars, and they will also record all kinds of rumors in their notes, and he chose a few gossip notes. And Zhao Yu found that these scholars all have a common habit, that is, they like to watch the emperor of this dynasty eat deflated, they not only recorded it in detail, but also added annotations, it seems that only in this way can they satisfy their 'perverted' psychology and reflect the superiority of scholars.

Zhao Yu, who was still a small citizen in his bones, saw those royal secrets at the beginning and read them with relish, but when he looked at it, his scalp exploded, and a cool breeze came from his neck, realizing that these records were all the 'glorious deeds' of his ancestors, and he was no longer the former Xiaomin of Shengdou, but the emperor who was high, and those things that the scholars were proud of would also happen to him one day, and at the same time, he also realized that the feelings of the ancestors and ancestors as emperors must be the same as himself - not being able to act happily!

Since the pre-Qin period, power has gradually been concentrated in the hands of monarchs and emperors, making them people who transcend the limits of the law, who have the full power of the entire dynasty ***** deal with the chatter of a few literati. You must know that the Chinese scholars before and after, including literati, scholars, and intellectuals, were regarded by the rulers as the "followers" of the royal family, and as "rags" that were used when they were needed and discarded when they were not needed. However, none of the emperors of the Song Dynasty could do it, but they were elbowed by all sides, and it was difficult to get their way.

During the Zhao Kuangyin period, he himself felt that all he saw every day was jade utensils, and suddenly one day he wanted to use a bamboo to have an ecological feeling. I submitted an application by myself, but the Ministry of Books has not been approved for two months. sent someone to ask 4 times, and the reply turned out to be no. The reason is very simple, it doesn't conform to the rules、、、、、 Zhao Kuangyin just shook his head and sighed, Bage Yalu, who stipulated it?!

Emperor Yingzong was an extremely nonsensical and selfish person. There is no normal human mind. After a few years in power, he died of anger because of narrow-mindedness. However, he set a Guinness World Record for the Great Song Dynasty: in three years, 609 decisions, appointments, needs, ideas, and opinions were denied by the Zhongshu Province and shot to death!

He wanted to promote his cronies when he was the crown prince to be the Hebei operation envoy, but he was shot to death by Prime Minister Han Qi and his team!

He wanted to promote his benefactor when he was the crown prince to be the lord of Yushitai, but he was shot to death by Prime Minister Han Qi and his team......

Pap, papa, pap, it was heartbreaking to hear, Zhao Hao estimated that Emperor Yingzong was shot to death like this!

Song Renzong wanted to promote Zhang Guifei's uncle, and once he was promoted, he would be level four. According to the feudal autocratic dynasty in the world, who does the emperor want to promote and degrade whom, is not a matter of one sentence? But it's a bit of a tricky thing to do. 1. Upgrading to the fourth level in a row is an unprecedented initiative in the Song Dynasty, which does not conform to the ancient system; Second, Zhang Guifei's uncle has limited skills and is difficult to convince the public. In order to show the spirit of democracy, Renzong took the matter to the imperial court for debate, intending to gain the support of the ministers.

Unexpectedly, the officials led by Bao Zheng opposed this proposal one after another, and Renzong was a little unhappy. I want to promote my own countryman, please discuss, it is to give you face, and I don't really need your approval. How can you be so ignorant? Renzong defended two sentences, but the officials fought back even more violently. Bao Zheng said that when he was intense, he actually pointed his hand in front of Renzong, and the saliva stars on his mouth splashed straight on his face.

Renzong was so angry, but there was no way, he could only endure it. Consider yourself unlucky. After work, when she returned to the dormitory, Zhang Guifei happily came over to ask her uncle about his promotion. Renzong finally seized the opportunity to vent, and said angrily, "You know the Xuanhui envoy, the Xuanhui envoy; Don't you know that there is a history of Bao Zhengyu? "It's better than Bao Zheng, and you have to count Kou Zhun. One day, Kou Zhun discussed things with Song Taizong. The two of them stopped talking and talking. Taizong was very angry and stood up to leave, but was pulled by Kou Zhun by his sleeve and was not allowed to leave. Taizong had no choice but to stay, and only after the matter was dealt with, did he leave in a huff.

Scholars are cattle B, and ordinary people are also cattle B. In the Southern Song Dynasty, the official Zhuang Xuan went to Jiangxi to take up a post, and when he passed through Ganzhou, he sent officials to buy daily necessities, but the locals said that the money they brought was minted during the Song Dynasty Huizong, "It is the emperor's money, and it is not used in this." "What do you mean? They believed that Song Huizong was a kingless man, so they refused to accept his currency. This is really 'there are angry young people boycotting Japanese products today, and there are people boycotting faint kings in ancient times'. Of course, there is a difference between high and low behavior in ancient and modern times, and there are still high and low realms. The emperor of the Song Dynasty also did even more strange things, in order to achieve his wishes, he did not hesitate to bribe his subordinates.

Song Zhenzong wanted to do a great cause like Emperor Qin and Han Wu to leave a name in history, but his ability was really average, and under normal circumstances, there was no hope. However, there are intimate people in every era, and Wang Qinruo, a scholar of the Senior Administration Palace, spied on his heart, and first mentioned Feng Zen to cater to the wishes of the gods. The ancient emperors were only qualified to go to Mount Tai to worship the sky called "Feng", and to worship at the foot of the mountain called "Zen", but Song Zhenzong did not make a major event of Wenzhi martial arts, just to satisfy his vanity.

And to seal Zen, there needs to be a key technical problem, you must first get Tianrui, that is, the "auspicious omen" given by God, before you can seal the Zen ceremony, this truth, Zhao Heng also understands. Wang Qinruo had an idea, so he said that he could fake Tianrui, as long as the emperor himself believed in and revered it, and then issued an edict to the world, it would be no different from the real Tianrui, and said that the kings and lords of the past dynasties had done so. But anyone who wants to engage in ghosts is always empty-hearted, and Song Zhenzong is the same, he is afraid that Prime Minister Wang Dan will obstruct him, what should he do?

After the death of Li Kang, who was born in Wang Dan and was known as the "Holy Minister", Kou Zhun first became the prime minister for a period of time, and then Wang Dan succeeded him as the prime minister. His official ability is honest and self-controlled, he does not need to be private, and his prestige is relatively high. Song Zhenzong was afraid that this prime minister with a good reputation would talk about it and even expose his fake tricks, so Song Zhenzong invited Wang Dan to the palace for a banquet, and after the banquet, he gave him a jar and said: "This wine is excellent, you can take it back and share it with your wife and children." Wang Dan went home and opened the altar to see that it was a priceless pearl. The means of bribery are very ingenious: if you give wine, the wine vessel is not wine but pearls, is this a bit like people give cigarettes and the money is rolled in them!

This old minister, who has been in the court for decades, understood that the emperor might have a request for him, so when Zhao Heng and Wang Qinruo forged the Book of Heaven and made the decision to seal Zen, he became a mouthless gourd. Not only did not reconsider, but also participated in these things, when someone formally proposed the matter of sealing Zen in the court, Song Zhenzong pretended to say that he was not worthy of sealing Zen, Wang Dan actually took the lead in writing five times to ask for sealing Zen, and he himself was named the "great envoy" of sealing Zen and participated in the sealing of Zen activities. A string of pearls from Song Zhenzong made this loyal and upright prime minister a partner who built his own book of heaven and held a confession......

Thinking that these ancestors were so embarrassed, Zhao Yu was deeply glad that he had not fallen to their point, but it was not far away. What he gave out in order to maintain his alliance was not comparable to a jar of pearls, but it was given in the name of 'giving', so he didn't drop his face on the ground like Emperor Zhenzong, and let those scholars record it as a joke.

However, Wen Tianxiang made a fuss in the court meeting that day, which made Zhao Hao feel that the crisis was imminent, this guy completely ignored his kindness to save him back then, and acted against him with the ancestral family law in front of so many people. Of course, I can't say that he is wrong, because people are also performing their duties, doing things according to the rules, and they can't find fault at all, and you are not afraid to use the title of the emperor to press others, and there is a large number of scholars and doctors behind him who take the ancestral family law to cheer for him and support him!

If Zhao Hao hadn't traveled to this era, he would not have been able to appreciate the power of the ancestral family law, but modern people may still find it difficult to understand why the ancestral family law has become an insurmountable obstacle for every emperor. Let's put it this way, although there was no so-called constitutional theory in ancient China, or there was no "Constitution" based on law, the intangible constitution still existed, that is, a set of behavioral norms based on "etiquette", from the emperor and the general minister, down to the common people must abide by these laws, that is, everyone is equal in front of the "etiquette system" or "the law of the ancestors", and the emperor's behavior must be restrained in addition to the changes of the sky.

When it comes to the ancestral family law of the Song Dynasty, people often think of the oath tablet set up by Zhao Kuangyin, 'do not kill scholars, do not kill those who advise', in fact, the "ancestral law" of the Song Dynasty is not like the Ming Dynasty, which is the most important ancestral family law, from the hands of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the country, but is composed of a series of stories of the first emperor, customary law, conventions, and classics.

It is precisely because the scholars participated in the collation of the ancestral family law that they also had the opportunity to take advantage of it, and in the process of screening and interpreting the "ancestral law", they undoubtedly incorporated the Confucian ideal of governance. Therefore, the ancestral law of the Song Dynasty cannot even be said to be the meaning of any Zhao and Song emperor himself, but an unwritten charter that was collectively shaped by scholars and doctors and formed over a long period of time.

In particular, it should be pointed out that the "ancestral law" of the Song Dynasty, as a political concept, was officially put forward after the Song Renzong Dynasty. Anyone who knows a little about the history of the Song Dynasty knows that Emperor Renzong is a benevolent king, but he is a master with mediocre qualifications. In the Song-Xia War, the Song army won first and then lost in the three battles of Yanzhou, Haoshuichuan, and Dingchuan, and had to pay New Year's coins in exchange for peace; It was also a great failure for the Liao State, breaking the alliance that had already been signed, and re-appraising the Chongxi Currency in exchange for peace; The redundant army of more than 1.2 million has caused a huge financial burden on the finances; In addition, land annexation also reached its peak, intensifying social contradictions and laying the ground for the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty.

However, the Song people's evaluation of it was not hesitant to praise it, saying that it was 'Renzong reigned the longest, Deze was the deepest, and it was appropriate to specialize in Renzong.' Gai Han and Tang Dynasty, the person who speaks of the family law, is not as good as my dynasty, and the quintessence of the family law of my dynasty is not as good as Renzong', and after his death, he was shaped by the scholars and doctors into a benevolent and holy monarch who can set an example for future generations, you must know that before Song Renzong, no emperor can take benevolence as a nickname or crown with benevolence.

Why did the scholars of the Song Dynasty establish a monarch who had died with mediocre political achievements as a holy monarch? They can hide it from the world, but they can't hide it from Zhao Yu from the next generation. He knew that Renzong had two most respected virtues among scholars, being good at admonishing and being afraid of ministers, to put it bluntly, he listened to what everyone said, and was afraid of the people under him. Anyone with a discerning eye can see where this emperor is, and it is clearly a bag of anger. Then their purpose is self-evident, of course, the purpose of elevating Renzong is not to praise the emperor, but to set a standard for the reigning monarch, so as to regulate the emperor's behavior and elevate the status of the scholar class.

If it weren't for Zhao Yu's coming from later generations, and retaining the thinking of an adult, think about a person who has been brainwashed and educated like this since childhood, and used it as the correct standard of behavior for an emperor, what the consequences would be, and everyone knows what kind of emperor will be born. And if you refuse to comply, you are violating the law of your ancestors, and you will be condemned by the entire group of scholars, and you will be 'corrected' back on the right track.

Zhao Hao was now facing such a crisis, and if he wanted to achieve his goal, using the army under his control to suppress and purge the scholar group like Qin Shi Huang seemed simple and painful, but it also destroyed the entire ruling class of the Song Dynasty and pushed them to the enemy's side. Then who do you rely on to manage and rule a country, and who do you rely on to give you advice? However, it is by no means easy to break the shackles that were placed on them to marry the emperor and implement their own policies without touching the scholarly class...... (To be continued.) )