At this time, the young emperor, who had just ascended the throne for more than a year, was on the golden palace of the Jiankang Palace, and said firmly in a slightly childish voice: "In the past fifty years of Nandu, my Great Song Dynasty has been in a safe corner, accumulating disadvantages for a long time, and I am determined to make a decision. If you have any good ways to eliminate maladministration, enrich the country and strengthen the army, and any good way that is beneficial to the Great Song Dynasty, you can submit a letter to me, and I will definitely consider it as appropriate. ”

As soon as these words came out, a small voice of discussion immediately sounded in the main hall, and every minister couldn't help but think in their hearts: 'Promote the good and eliminate the bad, and push the new' emperor to implement the law?

"Changing the law" was a very taboo event in the Great Song Dynasty. Because during the Xining period of Song Shenzong, Wang Anshi once presided over a change that lasted for more than ten years, which had a profound impact on the Great Song Dynasty. It was that change of law that led to the decades-long struggle between the old and new parties in the Great Song Dynasty, and even the continuous exhaustion of national strength and popular support in the struggle between the new party and the old party.

Although Wang Anshi, the leader of that reform, was able to maintain his personal reputation because of his outstanding literary talent and blameless personal morality, the other ministers who participated in that reform, such as Lu Huiqing, Zeng Bu, Han Jiang, Zhang Dan, and others, were all branded as treacherous and ended up in disrepute. However, after opposing the reform, Sima Guang, Fan Chunren and others were all ministers who were recognized as honest and loyal by later generations.

And Cai Jing, the minister of power in the Huizong period, also took the opportunity of changing the law to take the position, and was able to take charge of the government, and mistook power to harm the country, so that the government was corrupted, so that Jin Yuan had an opportunity to take advantage of, and then there was the Jingkang Rebellion, the two emperors hunted in the north, and the court crossed to the south, losing half of the country.

Although this is more due to Emperor Huizong's personal incompetence, improper employment and a series of governance mistakes, it has little to do with the changes of the year. But for the imperial court, the emperor could not be at fault, and could only blame the source of a series of mistakes in the defeat of the Great Song Dynasty to that change. So much so that the imperial court after the southern crossing had a great deal of talk about changing the law and changing color. However, now that the new emperor seems to be about to reopen the way of reform, many ministers cannot help but worry and hurry. However, several ruling ministers were still able to calm down at this time, and they figured out the emperor's favor in their hearts, and did not rush to speak.

However, Chen Junqing immediately thought of the court meeting three months ago.

At that time, it was not long after the whole territory of the Great Song Dynasty was pacified, Zhao Chen ascended the throne in Jiankang Mansion, officially put on the dragon robe, sat on the throne, and proposed to several auxiliary ministers: "Although I ascended the throne in the year of the weak crown, I am not willing to stay alone in half of the country, sit back and wait for death, if you want to restore the old Yi, the Great Song Dynasty, the shame of the ancestors, and the achievements of the Han and Tang dynasties." How do you think it should be administered? ”

Liu Heng, the privy deputy envoy, immediately replied, saying: "Revenge is shameful, sincerity is still a top priority, but the minister thinks that if it is not for ten years of work, internal political affairs, external military reform, I am afraid that it should not be moved lightly." ”

Zhao Chen couldn't help but be a little puzzled, and said: "In the past, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty and the second emperor of Guangwu. It started from the puppet and had the world, but it took a few years of hard work, and the Gaozu and Taizong of the Tang Dynasty also took the world with the defense of a county, and it was only a few years of hard work. Although there is only half of the country left in the Great Song Dynasty, there are still thousands of miles south of the Yangtze River, tens of millions of people, and more than 500,000 armor, why must it be accumulated for ten years. ”

Liu Heng replied: "It is precisely because the Gaozu of the Han Dynasty and Guangwu started from Pifu, and the Gaozu and Taizong of the Tang Dynasty only guarded a county, so they can have no scruples, and Your Majesty is the weight of the heirs of the sect, and its severity is not compared with the four monarchs." What's more, at the end of Qin and Sui, the second and Sui Yang were mediocre and immoral, and the heroes were competing for the deer, so the Han and Tang dynasties kicked high and shouted, and the world should respond, and now the Jin country is stable and there is no chaos, how can it be easily taken. ”

At this time, Xin Qiji also came out and said: "Your Majesty, the minister heard that the heroes of the ancient times must first have the spirit of the whole army inside, and the heart of breaking the enemy outside, so he said: "Before fighting, just nourish his energy." He also said: "The ancestors had the heart to win people." However, since the Southern Crossing of the Great Song Dynasty, Emperor Taishang used the dictatorship of Qin Hui for 19 years, all of them took peace as peace, treated the enemy with joy and better than between gold and silk, and established the country by taking advantage of the situation in the danger of mountains and lakes, and did not want to forge ahead. So that Yue Fei died tragically, Han Shizhong and Liu Qi were idle, so that passers-by knew about it. And the people in the upper position were afraid of the enemy and avoided it, thinking that Yidi would be invincible and that the battle and defense would not be feared, so the morale of the army was completely lost. Later, although Emperor Xiaozong cheered up a little, but the accumulation of disadvantages for a long time, not a moment to change, if the war, can it be victorious? May Your Majesty first cultivate the spirit of victory, and then fight, so that it can be broken in one drum. ”

Zhao Ruyu also said: "Your Majesty, how can it be a battle to restore a major event, it will be a protracted battle, and then the winner will be decided." And the protracted expenses, the urgency must be used, all taken from the people, if the people have no spare strength, then the officials will not leave no profit, and the country will not be able to get rich. The ancients, the king of the outside, rejected his enemies from the outside, and must first be kind to his people from within, and the order of his origin and end is the same. Otherwise, the wealth has been exhausted, and the wealth has been exhausted and the people are unbearable, although there are small successes but cannot be continued. Therefore, the top priority at the moment is to cultivate virtue and establish government, use virtue and ability, eliminate disadvantages and promote benefits, collect money and food, love the people and raise soldiers, and His Majesty will also do it one after another, and the ministers cannot do it all. ”

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At that time, after Zhao Chen listened to the words of these ministers, although he nodded yes, he didn't ask deeply, and Chen Junqing also thought that it was just a general question from the emperor, so he didn't think about it. Now Chen Junqing can't help but think that maybe it was at that time that the emperor began to have the idea of changing the law and reforming the system.

While Chen Junqing was thinking, the counselor Chen Liangyou came out and said: "Your Majesty, it is not easy for the ministers to change the law and innovate, the ancestral legal system cannot be changed lightly, and if it is not very good, it will definitely shake the hearts of the people and mess up the world, and I hope Your Majesty will think twice." ”

Zhao Chen frowned, and said: "I didn't say that the ancestral system must be changed, but to promote the advantages and eliminate the disadvantages. If it is prescribed by law and kept by future generations, then why did the ancestors change it repeatedly? What's more, the law set by Taizu Taizong was also thought to be two hundred years ago, and the law at that time may not be applicable to the present, so I want to amend the law of the first emperor. It is precisely because it is not easy to promote the good and eliminate the disadvantages, so I asked the secretary of state, and I hope that the secretary can not be subordinated to teach. ”

The emperor's words just now were also impeccable, and the emperor did not make any decisions, but was just asking the ministers, Chen Liangyou also felt that it was difficult to refute for a while, so he had to give a salute and retreat into the train.

Zhao Chen then said: "All the secretaries think that the imperial court can be used to suppress luck, fine tribute, select officials, all public fields, thick agricultural mulberry, repair military equipment, reduce forced labor, Qin Enxin, re-order the reform of the old and the new, and be interested in peace, can all be said." ”

The ten measures proposed by Zhao Chen are not innovative at all, and they are all tenable at any time. More importantly, these ten measures are the content of the new policy presided over by Fan Zhongyan during the Qingli period.

Compared with the changes in the Xining period, the new policy in the Qingli period is much worse in depth and breadth. And it only lasted for a little more than a year, and many of the charters ended before they could be formulated. However, contrary to Xining's reforms, whether it was Fan Zhongyan, who led the new policy, or Fu Bi, Han Qi, Ouyang Xiu, Shi Jie, and others who participated in the new policy, they were all recognized as virtuous and loyal ministers, and became models for later generations of scholars and doctors to follow. In later generations, many people even believed that if the new policy presided over by Fan Zhongyan at that time could be adhered to, perhaps there would not have been the later Xining reform.

After listening to Zhao Chen's words, the other ministers were a little relieved, it turned out that the emperor wanted to use Fan Zhongyan's new policy, but it was better than using Wang Anshi's new law. They were silent for a while, but now the emperor has only just proposed reform and reform, and the ten measures are only a programmatic proposal, and there is no complete new statutory law, and there is no way to say whether it is bad or good, so everyone is thinking about the emperor's words, and no one says anything for a while.

Zhao Chen saw that all the ministers were silent, knowing that no one objected for the time being, and he did not expect anyone to put forward a good opinion immediately, so he was about to announce the dissolution of the dynasty, when a duty officer walked into the hall and said excitedly: "Your Majesty is overjoyed, I have a great victory in the southwest of the Song Dynasty, and I will attack the city of Dali by warp." ”

There was another chatter in the hall, but this time it was all joy.

Sure enough, as Yang Yan expected, although Gao Jianming colluded with Huang Qishan, Qian Zhiqiao, and Zou Pingzhu to make a surprise attack and regain the throne of Dali, but after all, the time is short, the foothold is not stable, although there are more than 10,000 available soldiers under his hands, but they are all newly recruited new troops, plus after Gao Jianming occupied Dali, he killed the Duan clan and the ministers loyal to the Duan clan, which was too much, and also caused the fear of many other Dali tribes and did not dare to trust Gao Jianming. As soon as they heard that the Song army had sent troops again, they immediately responded to the Great Song Dynasty and crusaded against Gao Jianming.

And after the Song army went through the training of the battle against Jin, with strong combat effectiveness and the guidance of Liu Renxian, Gao Jianming was not an opponent at all. Bi Zaiyu led the Song army into Dali in mid-December, and won five battles in a row, all of which were completely victorious, and it only took more than a month to fight under the city of Dali. And Jiaozhi didn't expect that the Great Song Dynasty would send troops to Dali immediately, and he was not ready to send troops. In addition, before Bi Zaiyu marched into Dali, he stationed 5,000 men and horses on the border of Song Jiao in Ziqi, as a suspicious soldier, which made Jiaozhi even more suspicious, and he did not dare to send troops easily.

At this time, Gao Jianming's soldiers were less than 5,000 people, and the Song army conquered Dali City and helped Dali restore the country.