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Qingli three years, for the Song Dynasty is an extraordinary year, first experienced the food crisis and famine in the second year of Qingli, the whole Song Dynasty fell into a crisis-ridden situation, bandits and bandits from all over the country swarmed, if it were not for the imperial court to make a decision, sent Su Jin Lei to Yangzhou grain as a breakthrough to resolve the food shortage crisis, the New Year of Qingli three years will be a tragic year.

After the food crisis, Xia and Liao jointly put pressure on the Great Song Dynasty, the Liao people used force as a threat to take advantage of the fire to rob and knock a bamboo bar, and the negotiating team headed by Su Jinfubi scared the Liao people away, and then Yuan Hao took advantage of the opening of the peace talks to increase the weight on the negotiation table with a big victory, but was burned by Su Jin to burn the army's grain and grass, and was forced to sign an unequal treaty.

The turbulent waves in the first half of the year did not subvert the big ship of the Great Song Dynasty, although it was the result of the joint efforts of the upper and lower levels, but several major events were inseparable from the participation of one person, that is, a new star rising like a comet, Su Jin, a civil and military all-rounder in the eyes of the Great Song Dynasty.

But none of these things can compare to another thing that made the Great Song Dynasty shake up and down and become a topic of discussion on the streets and alleys, that is, the new coup law initiated by Fan Zhongyan and others.

Starting from the impeachment of the deputy prime minister Wang Juzheng by the four officials, Lu Yijian, who was seriously ill but controlled the government, was also impeached and fell from power, and died of depression; Immediately afterwards, Xia Zhu, the former deputy privy envoy of the Northwest Marshal, was also impeached and dismissed, and then several officials who did nothing to control important positions became the targets of the four officials and were dismissed.

In September, Ouyang Xiu, Han Qi, Fu Bi, Ouyang Xiu and others formally formulated ten strategies for changing the law, except for the military reform to obtain Zhao Zhen's permission, the other nine articles from the rule of officials, the enrichment of the country, and the rule of law, the introduction of Ming and dethroned, the suppression of luck, the fine tribute, the selection of chiefs, the public land, the thick of the peasants, the push of grace, the heavy order, the reduction of conscription and other reform measures, clear reform goals and rules for the reform, vigorously promulgated the world.

For a time, the world was in an uproar, everyone was vying to talk about the content of the new deal, with mixed opinions and opinions, and those who agreed with it celebrated with the crown, if these nine articles can be implemented, the court will inevitably take on a new look, and the Great Song Dynasty will be strong and rich in the near future; Opponents, on the other hand, point out that once this reform measure is implemented, the first to suffer will be the many officials and magnates in office, whose vested interests will be greatly damaged, and their privileges will be greatly weakened.

Take the Ming Dethronement of the Law Reform as an example, that is, the strict promotion and promotion system of officials. First, it is necessary to change the disadvantages of officials who are promoted and promoted without asking how they work and rest, and do not look at the quality of their political performance, and only based on their qualifications. Let the officials not seek merit, but seek no fault, and follow the rules, and the style of doing nothing has changed. The reform of the law proposes to evaluate political performance, promote those with great merit and obvious political achievements, and remove guilty and incompetent officials, so as to put an end to the confusion of mediocre people; This article made the people who mixed with the officialdom have nothing to hide, and a large number of officials in various parts of the Great Song Dynasty were removed and degraded, and everyone mourned for a while.

Let's take Jungongtian as an example. Gongtian, or Zhitian, was one of the fixed incomes of the magistrates of the Great Song Dynasty, but it was often unevenly distributed. As a result of the uneven supply, why could the officials not do their best, and the law was changed to propose that the imperial court balance the income of officials; Those who are not given vocational fields shall be given to them according to their ranks, so that they may have enough income to support themselves. Then we can rebuke them for their integrity. Those who violate the law can also be punished or dismissed, while those who occupy too much land must be recovered, and officials who violate the specifications of land and occupy public property without permission must be severely punished; As soon as this move came out, there were basically no incumbent officials who did not have Juntian, but there were a lot of more, in fact, it was a disguised attempt to take back the Juntian that the officials were greedy for, and the officials naturally could not accept it.

Taking the suppression of luck as an example, the suppression of luck means restricting the ways of becoming an official and being promoted by chance. Every year, the officials of the Great Song Dynasty had to recommend their children to serve as Beijing officials, and after 20 years, there were 20 people whose sons and grandsons of a family became Beijing officials. Entering the imperial court one after another not only increased state expenditures, but also these gentlemen did not do their jobs, but only knew how to shield each other and form parties for personal gain. Therefore, the reform of the law was for the sake of the country's political clarity and the reduction of financial expenditures, to limit the privileges of the favor of the great officials, and to prevent their children from being unable to fill important positions in the pavilion; In conjunction with the fine tribute policy of Article 3, more talents were selected for the Great Song Dynasty to serve as important positions in the imperial court.

These nine articles are basically a copy of Su Jin's ten disadvantages of strategy, and those who have read Su Jindian's trial strategy theory know this, and some people use this to make a big fuss, saying that Fan Zhongyan and others picked up people's teeth and plagiarized Su Jin's proposals, which is really a person who does not learn and has no skills; Fan Zhong can endure the humiliation and burden, although he already has these thoughts in his heart, but for some reason the similarity with Su Jin is quite high, which makes him feel strange, as for the culprit, Su Jin will certainly not be stupid enough to come out to excuse him and say that he plagiarized his music.

In the first month of the implementation of the law change, under the strong support of Zhao Zhen, there was a thunderous momentum, and I have to mention one thing here, Zhang De, who took over as the foreign prime minister, did not recognize the limelight, and actually wanted to exercise the power of the prime minister, vetoed several strategies to change the law, and immediately attracted the impeachment of the four officials, and he was forced to step down after only four months of prime minister's addiction.

The post of prime minister is vacant, but the best candidate has not been released for a long time, and it is surprising that the privy envoy Du Yan actually strongly recommended Yan Shu to take over, which is a big surprise; And Zhao Zhen, who originally wanted Yan Shu to be the prime minister, hesitated for a long time, and finally responded to his request; What is even more strange is that Yan Shu, who is bound to win the position of prime minister, refuses to serve as prime minister.

A series of accidents made the officialdom in the capital a mess, no one could guess the cattiness, but the people involved knew it well, Fan Zhongyan said when he discussed this matter privately with Han Qi and others: "Du Yan recommended Yan Shu, because he knew that Yan Shu did not agree with the proposal to change the law and pulled him to fight against us and others, as for Yan Sansi's reluctance to take over, it was also because he was unwilling to stand on the cusp of the storm and sing against us during the extraordinary period; As for the emperor's thoughts, we don't have to guess, what the holy will is is not something we can guess. ”

If Su Jin heard this, he would definitely tell them that the holy will was naturally unpredictable, but it was obvious in this matter that the emperor obviously didn't want Yan Shu to become the target of public criticism, and kept Yan Shu in the shadows, if there was anything wrong in the future, Yan Shu could come out and turn the tide; And all this exposes that the emperor's heart to change the law is not strong, and he uses people to change the law but has a back hand, saying that it is difficult to hear this is called duplicity, and it sounds good, this is the way of power and strategy, the way of the emperor.

But in the end, Yan Shu was appointed as the prime minister in October, but Zhao Zhen attached a condition, regarding the change of the law, the prime minister did not need to intervene, and entrusted the deputy prime minister and privy deputy envoy Fan Zhongyan with full authority, so as to completely cut off the possibility of direct confrontation between the two factions, which is not unintelligent.

When Su Jin was in full swing to make money, the change was also in full swing, from the Beijing division to the locality, the winter thunder rolled throughout the Great Song Dynasty, in the eyes of some people, the winter of the third year of Qingli was very cold, cold to the bone.

However, reform is an easy thing to do, there is no difficulty in the world, as the saying goes, habits are difficult to change, a person to change their own habits is still difficult, let alone a country's accumulated shortcomings in the past 100 years.

Nearly 100 third-level officials in the prefecture and county of the Great Song Dynasty have been dismissed in a few months, and most of these people, except for a few who consider themselves unlucky, have backers and backgrounds, but those who can sit in the first-level positions of the state capital have more or less some background in the court, and the beating of dogs still depends on the owner, and a group of dogs are beaten, how can the owners sit idly by; What's more, the law-changers who don't know what to do are unabashed, and they have become old and angry young people one by one, relying on Zhao Zhen's support, and they all treat everyone equally.

This unstrategic approach soon provoked a backlash, and when the first snow fell in early November, Su Jin was taking Yan Biyun and others back to Beijing to sell his Baoshan charcoal cakes and briquettes, and a movement was quietly brewing in the capital.

The weather after the snow is particularly cold, on the sixth day of the first day of November, after the early dynasty of the imperial palace, in the big square outside the Yide Gate of the palace city, out of nowhere, hundreds of thinly dressed old and young appeared, these people collectively knelt in front of the Yide Gate, blocked the Yide Gate tightly, and blocked all the officials of the lower dynasty in the door and could not leave the palace.

Most of the people kneeling were familiar faces, especially for Fan Zhongyan, Han Qi, Fubi and others, these people were the most familiar, not only the faces were familiar, but some even knew their names; They were the officials of the deposed state capitals and counties in various places, and for some reason, they gathered outside the palace gate and knelt in the ice and snow.