Chapter 293: Veterans Besiege the Heavenly Council
The "Consultative Law" "bribed" scholars and scholars, clan leaders, and wealthy merchants to advise the court and help the court supervise local officials.
While "buying" the Confucian group, Liu Xing also firmly put a set of shackles on them. From then on, the government will contribute money, effort, and manpower to help them pass on their works. Those who do not obey will be severely punished immediately.
As soon as Liu Xing's two decrees and new laws were promulgated, the Confucian scholars shut up.
Because they understand one thing, that is, those who follow Mrs. Liu prosper and those who oppose Mrs. Liu die.
Anyway, they also got a share of the meat in the big fat sheep of the imperial court, so why bother to sell their names to learn from Tao Yuanming. In just a few days, a wave of scolding initiated by Confucian scholars was extinguished by Liu Xing with a new law.
However, there are advantages and disadvantages to everything, and some people who get benefits will no longer oppose it, and other people who will not get benefits will become a new opposition group.
When Liu Xi and Jin Nu began to lead their troops to "recruit" the bandits and grass robbers from all walks of life in Shaanxi and Long, and the rest of the former dynasty, a group of middle and upper-class generals who had just been eliminated from the army gathered in Wutai City, and hundreds of people poured together outside the Dawei Building of the Heavenly Lord's Court.
Veterans besieged the Heavenly Academy, this matter is a big deal.
As soon as he received the news, Liu Xing hurried to the outside of the Heavenly Academy.
Liu Xing's carriage stopped, and before the curtain could be lifted, a man who was about a martial artist and still wearing the old official uniform of a six-rank military attache knelt down in front of the carriage.
As soon as the veteran fell to his knees, he immediately shouted something. What did he shout? What he shouted was: Mrs. Liu, you have stood up for Wufu, and you have given Wufu an equal opportunity with Confucianism. However, as soon as your new law and the "Treatise on Chapters" were promulgated, didn't this give those Confucian scholars the opportunity to ride on the heads of our martial artists and make a fortune?
As soon as he shouted, the remaining hundreds of veterans rushed around the carriage. After kneeling on the ground, there was a cry of sorrow, and the cry shook the heavens and the earth.
In the cries of the veterans. Lei Zhen lifted the curtain of the carriage, and Liu Xing jumped out of the carriage onto the street.
Look around. Looking at these veterans, Liu Xing sighed helplessly and said, "Why do you old brothers do this? If we have something to say, why kneel on the streets? You are all loyal ministers of the Great Song Dynasty, and you have all fought bloody battles for the Great Song Dynasty, hurry up, get up. ”
As he spoke, Liu Xing stepped forward to pull the six-grade veteran who took the lead, but he didn't expect the veteran to get up at all, and still cried and shouted: "Taifu can't let me continue to be oppressed by those Sven scum, I would rather kneel and die here, old man." ”
As soon as I saw this. Liu Xing got angry and said secretly: Your grandfather's, the little master pulled you up, and you dare to compete with me! You old man, you don't know how to lift, right?
Angry in his heart, Liu Xing poured his true anger into his arms, and with a strong force, he dragged the veteran from the ground like a dead dog.
The veteran was pulled up from the ground suddenly, and in a state of astonishment, Liu Xing had already turned to the others and shouted out loudly.
What did Liu Xing shout? There are two core contents: First, Liu Xingsheng praised these veterans who have retired from the army as the foundation of the imperial court and the pillars of the country, and hopes that they can give the cabinet and the Heavenly Council some time to formulate and improve the rules and regulations on the placement of retired veterans in the army.
Second, Liu Xing hoped that the veterans who participated in the incident of the veterans collectively besieging the Heavenly Council would think about it. Do they all have official positions now, and whether the imperial court has given them official positions exceptionally. Whether it is river engineering, salt and iron, transshipment or the official supervision and commercial system, which imperial court really treats them badly. Not to mention that the class is not necessarily lower than that of Confucianism. Which one is lower than Confucian in terms of income?
The imperial court did not treat them badly, so who did they bear who caused trouble by besieging the Heavenly Council to make trouble and create an impact that was unfavorable to the cabinet and the Heavenly Council? Who's sorry for whom?
After these words were shouted, Liu Xing stopped talking, turned around and sat on the wheel of the carriage.
After hearing these words, the veterans first collectively fell silent for a moment.
People's hearts are exchanged for people's hearts, and four taels are exchanged for half a catty. When they figured it out in a short time, they suddenly turned into a mountain and quickly dispersed like birds and beasts......
A farce of veterans besieging the center was dispersed by Liu Xing's words. When Zong Ze, Zhang Suo and other cabinet ministers arrived, they only saw a mess, but they didn't see any veterans who came to surround them, which made the two veterans and the ministers admire Liu Xing's ability to handle things even more.
The minister's admiration was a good thing for Liu Xing, and it also stimulated Liu Xing's evil nature again.
As soon as he brought a group of ministers into the Tianshu Yuan and asked everyone to sit down in the Tianshu Pavilion, Liu Xing immediately announced that he would promulgate a new law and the "Military Preparation Law" to formally ensure the interests of retired officers and soldiers.
The law was issued specifically for veterans, which made Zhang Suo, Zong Ze and those courtiers couldn't help but be surprised again.
What were they shocked? What is surprising is that in the past, in order to win the hearts of the people, some emperors were able to not abandon the chaff and issue a few holy decrees to the veterans, which was already very good.
For thousands of years, since the beginning of King Yu's biography, there have been dozens of dynasties and thousands of monarchs in the thousand-year-old history of Chinese civilization, but no monarch or court has really made a special legislative thing for veterans.
Once a son of heaven and a courtier, the holy purpose of a monarch is easily overthrown by his successors after he dies of old age and abdicates.
Once the legislation is enacted and a formal law is promulgated, any successor who wants to change the laws of the previous dynasty in the future will first be labeled as unfilial, unjust, and disloyal. Therefore, unless there is a more evil and crazy ruler than Liu Xing in this court in the future, once the law is established, it will become the foundation of the imperial and political inheritance and will be used by future rulers from generation to generation.
Everyone understands this truth, but not everyone agrees with it.
After Liu Xing said that he wanted to legislate for veterans, the six scholars who had been avoiding everywhere and did not dare to contradict and disobey Liu Xing blew up the temple and stood up against it.
In order to object, there must be good reasons. Zhao Ding's reason was that military affairs should not be regarded as the norm, and Ouyang Xun's reason was that military affairs could not be used as a fixed thing for a long time, increasing the burden of the imperial court in the future......
In fact, the reasons of several ministers can be summed up in one point: soldiers should not be allowed to become the foundation of the society, and martial arts should not be allowed to become a burden on the imperial court in the future.
When the ministers spoke, Liu Xing just watched coldly and allowed them to say all the reasons they wanted to say.
But when they finished speaking, Liu Xing just said one sentence, which made all the Confucian ministers from the imperial examination speechless.
What did Liu Xing say? Liu Xing said this: The lack of a perfect military system is the key reason why the Great Song Dynasty was frequently harassed by the Khitan and the party, and then directly abducted the two saints by the Jurchens.
If you don't want the emperor to be arrested again and end up with a broken country, you can only achieve it by normalizing your armaments.
Oppose coming and sending right, do you who were born in the imperial examination want this imperial court to continue to follow the old path of becoming a weak country? No, just shut up for me. (To be continued......)