Chapter 119: Dismissal
When Han Xiao rushed to the Qingchu Pavilion, he knew that the emperor was arguing with several governors.
After Qin Hui was ordered, after several months, he finally used the essence of Wang Anshi's book on the day of Emperor Renzong's book, and wrote the "Parliamentary School Notebook", suggesting that schools should be opened all over the country, and primary schools should be set up in counties, and the six arts should be taught, including learning scriptures, arithmetic, court rules and regulations, laws, and even riding and archery.
In the state capital, there are further categories, and secondary schools are added, and students who have graduated from primary school can go to secondary schools for further study, and after graduation, they can be elected as officials or even officials.
Those who are more advanced in their studies can enter Beijing to study and be treated as officials in the same way as officials, and after graduation, they can serve as officials in central departments or go to local officials.
This series of methods, in fact, Wang Anshi has long proposed in the school reform method, the reform of the imperial examination system, not to try the poetry to change to the scriptures, is already a big change, but the effect after the reform is not good, the examination of poetry is the candidates to study poetry and songs, the examination of the scriptures, then the memorization of the scriptures, the same rote memorization, and more than 100 years later, it was set up eight shares, and the imperial examination completely came to a dead end.
And Wang Anshi's original intention was that reforming the examination method was just the beginning. The establishment of schools in various places, the teaching of specialized knowledge, and then the replacement of the imperial examination with the school system were the essence of his reforms.
It's a pity that in his time, there were too many constraints, and with his status, there was no way to make too many changes in the content of exams and studies, but despite this, this reform method was met with too much resistance.
Zhao Huan originally intended to reinstate the laws of land tax, green seedlings, and farmland water conservancy, but he spent too much energy on military affairs, and it was impossible to spend a lot of energy and time to fight against the scholars and doctors of the Manchu Dynasty at this time. It is only a law of equal taxation of Fangtian, in fact, it is similar to a whip law in later generations and the apportionment of the mu to the mu, and it is all the interests of scholars and doctors who are offended. The Seedlings Act, which was borrowed by the economically struggling U.S. government in the twentieth century, became a template for small-scale agricultural loans. But it is a wealthy gentry who can be qualified to lend.
As for farmland water conservancy, Zhao Huan did not follow the law, but promulgated and implemented it in the form of an administrative order, which can be regarded as not working.
If you can't borrow the examination method, there are still many methods to restrain it, and with the inertia of the officials of the Song Dynasty, they simply want to do nothing well in their tenure, and work hard for a few years. Many redundant and corrupt officials have fallen one after another, and now the officials with interests are also aware of it, and there is absolutely no obstacle in political affairs, like those old and important ministers of the Shenzong Dynasty who dare to openly resist the law and disobey the law in their offices, which has not yet appeared under Zhao Huan's rule.
Rao is like this, Zhao Huan still deeply feels that of course, a considerable part of the middle- and lower-level officials who are obtained purely by the method of science and technology are hard-working, loyal and honest, and then although most officials dare not be greedy for ink, they do not like to do too much. Like reform into law. Something that is hard work but can't get much benefit. In the hands of these officials, it is half the effort. They are incompetent and rigid in their thinking.
Even good decrees are promulgated, and perfunctory in order to save trouble, or simply do a one-size-fits-all approach, abound.
The so-called change of law is the first thing to win people, and it is also the most important point that Wang Anshi and Song Shenzong Yue first put forward when they played against each other.
Zhao Huan's reform has gone through several years, and it has reached the stage of preparing to fundamentally reform the system, and if you want to fundamentally reform the system, you must first clean up the officials, and the rule of the officials cannot only be from the perspective of eliminating corruption and appointing capable ministers. The so-called winning of souls means cultivating a large number of available talents.
As a minister, Qin Hui naturally has a clear understanding of the "holy will". Since returning to Chang'an to play a few times, he has studied Wang Anshi's writings at home with peace of mind, and more details are actually explained to him by Zhao Huan with a codex every day, others thought that he was a governor who was okay with political affairs, but how did they know that he hid at home and concocted such a big article as school reform.
Present Governor of the Governor's Office. It's just Zhang Suo, Xie Liang, Zhao Kai, and Qin Hui. The first two were both ministers who preached the road before Jingkang two years ago, and they were also well-known main battle factions, in fact, judging by their virtue and ability, they were just full-time limitations all the way, and their talents were too insufficient in the position of participating in political affairs. Fortunately, Zhao Huan didn't need a prime minister who dared to take responsibility, so the two of them also followed the class for a few years, and most of them took orders in government affairs. And Zhao Kai is a financial management minister, in the palm of the three divisions, in fact, except for the transfer of wealth, nothing has been heard, Qin Hui was ordered to go out, abolish the locality, assess officials, and make great contributions to the promotion of the implementation of the exemption and exemption of prefectures and counties and the examination law in the locality.
The entire central pivot mostly relied on the emperor's decisive actions, which can be said to be unique in the entire history of the Song Dynasty. One is that Zhao Huan's prestige has risen sharply, and he is not more worried than the founding emperor, and the other is that Zhao Huan's energy in recent years has been spent on military affairs, and the reform of political affairs is only based on frugality and financial endowment, eliminating waste, and it has less impact on the original local political system.
In the Song Dynasty, there was a family law that did not allow the killing of scholars, let alone sinners, and many middle and lower-level officials who were not afraid of death, including a large number of imperial historians, all had all kinds of criticisms on the government and politics. If it weren't for Zhao Huan's ingenuity, a disguised punishment in the name of the study class, and Li Gangzai as the pressure relief valve, this would barely be supported. In order to change the law, in fact, it is much more radical than Wang Anshi back then, and there are more places to reform, so it must be changed from the central bureaucratic system and from the deacons.
Zhao Huan's understanding was quickly transformed into action.
During the reign of Zhao Ji, the so-called six thieves led by Cai Jing caused chaos in the world in the name of implementing the new law, making the Song Dynasty more and more weak, so the name of the new law was already stinky after Zhao Huan ascended the throne.
And when Qin Hui came up with the method of establishing a school that was obviously inherited from Wang Anshi, first in the political affairs hall, several governors argued in the hall and had different opinions, and when Han Xiao was ordered to meet the emperor, several prime ministers were already arguing in front of the emperor.
Zhao Kai is in charge of finance, although he is also a Jinshi, but he has always been pragmatic, Qin Hui set up a school, he just felt that it needed to cost a lot of financial expenditure, so he spoke out against it, and when he saw Qin Hui a list of examples of the actual role of the school, and the cost of the Beijing teacher to set up a Taixue, not as much as the Jin Mingchi banquet flowers, Zhao Kai also knew that this person has always been adhering to the emperor's orders, and at this time the political situation in the DPRK and China is obviously about to change, it is better to be clumsy than to say, so he pretended to be refuted by Qin Hui, and retreated to the side silently.
And Zhang Suo and Xie Liang are typical old party doctors. As soon as he heard Qin Hui's method come out, he was already angry, and he had a bad impression of this person, so he became more and more resistant in his heart.
Otherwise, it would have been rude for an official like the prime minister to quarrel in front of the emperor.
Qin Hui's heart was stable, knowing the emperor's support, seeing Zhang Xie and the two entangled in themselves, his heart became more and more determined, and he only said: "The second prince is already pure spirit, and now I didn't say that I want to boycott the imperial examination, but just build a school so that everyone in the world can study, what's wrong with this?" ”
Seeing his expression, Zhang felt more and more uncomfortable, seeing that Zhao Huan was silent, he knew that the news of the recent change of reference was not groundless, since he could not be in this position, he simply said more and more, and immediately angrily reprimanded Qin Hui and said: "Xianggong's move is obviously to destroy the ancestors and confuse Your Majesty with demonic and evil words." ”
Xie Liang also said: "If it is not settled today, the prime minister will have more troubles, which is ridiculous!" ”
Qin Hui said: "The law of the ancestors is not immutable, how can the construction of a school be a multitude of incidents? ”
"Sima Wengong has long said that changing chaos into law will not benefit except for bringing chaos to the world."
"Is what Sima Guang said all right?"
Zhao Huan couldn't bear it after all, and said categorically: "Sima Guang is on the side, he was beaten by the Xia people, and he was stubborn when he opposed the change of the law, and he only knew the harm of the new law, but did not see its benefits. After taking power, he did not need to reform the new law, and all of them were reprimanded within five days after more than ten years, is this for the sake of the overall situation of the world? Even Su Shi wrote against him, this person is unconscious, and his old age is already ridiculous! ”
Sima Guang has distinguished himself in the world for his virtue in his life, and all doctors have praised each other, even Wang Anshi also praised his high character, but Zhao Huan directly reprimanded him at this time, and even made such a bad comment, not only Zhang Suo and Xie Liang had no faces, but Qin Hui and Zhao Kai also changed color on their faces.
Zhao Huan was still angry, and said again: "This person sells his reputation and reputation, and he is only famous in his life."
What are the suggestions for local governance? After living in Luoyang for fifteen years, he only knew how to have fun, and he only wrote more than 100 words a day to compile the general knowledge of capital governance, and he still dared to show his merits. For the sake of government, he only knows the party dispute, and the law of protecting the armor is bad, so that the border defense of Hebei Hedong is lost, and Cai Jing is reused, so that the treacherous and evil often control the court situation, and the bad people who are in the world of the Great Song Dynasty are really Sima Guangye! ”
Xie Liang and Zhang Suo looked miserable, and they understood in their hearts that the emperor accused Sima Guang like this, on the one hand, the emperor really didn't like Duke Wen, and on the other hand, he was showing his heart to the two of them, and the intention of the court to change the law must not be stopped.
Thinking that Yu Ping and Zhang Shou both worshipped Hanlin in the past month, and Qin Hui and Yu Ping were both known for their pursuit of profit and low ethics, the emperor used these two people, obviously to ask the government to follow him and reduce constraints.
The two looked at each other, then stopped talking, and only bowed to the emperor.
Zhao Huan knew that both of them begged to go, and the seal of resignation would be presented after they returned, and he would keep it according to the routine, but it was just a false story.
Thinking that these two people have worked really hard in the past few years, and they have excellent integrity, and they have passed Qin Hui and others. Zhao Huan couldn't help but change his face, and said warmly to the two: "Qing and the others have good intentions, I really know it, and there is no intention of changing the law now, just to cultivate more talents for the imperial court." ”
The emperor said this, he had already given the two prime ministers a lot of face, and the two of them were moved in their hearts, knowing that it would be difficult to see each other again after this farewell, but they knew that the emperor had been summoned at this time, and they had to bow and thank each other and withdraw in turn.