The Song Dynasty has been deliberate for 16 years, only to know that it is the Water Margin

Chapter 319

As the weather got colder, Zhao Tun's theater had already opened. It wasn't the kind of roof tiles and gouges that are common on the street, and it was full of juggling and tricks inside, but a simple theater, which only performed sets of dramas and operas.

Qi Hongyu searched several places for the location of the theater building, and finally Zhao Tuo settled on a place on Quyuan Street in Nancheng.

This Quyuan Street is next to Zhuque Street, located in the west of Yujie Street, not far from Xiangguo Temple on the upper side, and Zhuque Street on the lower side, which is very close to Suiyu Tower.

There is a reason why Zhao Tong chose this place. This Quyuan Street is a relatively lively place in Southwest City. Almost all the people living in this area are civilians, and it is close to the outer city. here.

Zhao Tun's advocacy of Quju has never been a whim. Although there are newspapers in this era, they are not something that ordinary people can buy and watch.

Therefore, if you want to take the initiative of public opinion and spread some news and ideas to the people, you can only use opera to perform it in the form of performance.

No matter the libretto or the content of opera excerpts, the speed of dissemination is extremely fast, especially for some new plays, you don’t have to go to see them in person, but once they are passed on to ten or ten, within a few days, the market will spread the words sung by this play. s story.

Through opera, gradually grasp the direction of public opinion in the market, and then release some thoughts to the people, this is the real purpose of Zhao Tong.

And this purpose is only to deal with the nobles in the world in the future.

The real internal conflicts in the Northern and Southern Dynasties of the Great Song Dynasty for hundreds of years have never been civil and military confrontations, nor are the monarchs and ministers against each other, nor are the people of the court like fire and water.

It is the gentry, the contradiction between the gentry and the emperor, and the contradiction between the gentry and the people.

It was the gentry who destroyed the Great Song Dynasty and hollowed out the foundation of the Great Song Dynasty. The gentry were the biggest moths of the Great Song Dynasty. Once their own interests were involved, any country, society, king or common people could be betrayed and betrayed.

Even with regard to Yue Fei's death, when later generations debated whether Zhao Gou or Qin Hui was more guilty, they forgot about the gentry.

Some people said that Zhao Gou didn't speak, who would dare to kill Yue Fei!The truth is right, after all, Zhao Gou is the emperor.

Others said that Qin Hui was a spy of the Kingdom of Jin and definitely wanted Yue Fei to die!That's right, Qin Hui was indeed a spy sent back by the Kingdom of Jin. Yue Fei advocated the Northern Expedition, and he wanted to kill Yue Fei.

But there are a couple of problems here.

It is a bit absurd to say that Zhao Gou wanted to kill Yue Fei because he was afraid that Yue Fei would go straight to Huanglong to take back Emperor Huiqin and make him lose the throne.

According to the system and social situation at that time, even if Yue Fei really had the ability to take back the second emperor, it would be impossible for the second emperor to ascend to the throne again.

Scholar-bureaucrats cannot tolerate stains, not to mention that the emperor of this dynasty is the biggest scholar-bureaucrat.

And although this proposition sounds gimmicky, it can be solved as long as Yue Fei is deprived of his military power, and it will not kill Yue Fei at all.

In the Song Dynasty, military officers were deprived of their military power, and they were used repeatedly. Liu Guangshi, Han Shizhong, etc., were all deprived of their military power.

Zhao Gou is not an idiot. It doesn't make sense to kill Yue Fei and destroy the Great Wall instead of using such a simple method.

There is also a saying that Yue Fei was involved in the matter of establishing the prince, and asked Zhao Gou to establish the crown prince several times.

Is this a big deal?Isn't it the minister's duty to suggest that the emperor establish a crown prince?

During the Renzong Dynasty, there were such memorials almost every day. Even in the Zhezong Dynasty, there were ministers' memorials from time to time, asking Zhezong to choose a son of the clan to be the heir apparent.

Therefore, these two reasons for Zhao Gou to kill Yue Fei are basically far-fetched and not tenable at all.

Zhao Gou killed Yue Fei probably not because of these.

Then look at Qin Hui again, Qin Huijin slandered that he wanted to kill Yue Fei, could Zhao Gou easily listen to him?
Qin Hui was not only a spy sent back by the Kingdom of Jin, but also a representative of the gentry. Qin Hui put forward the famous theory that "people from the south return to the south, and people from the north return to the north".

Those who advocated fleeing from the north to the south returned to the Jin people.

This argument made Zhao Gou angry and scolded others. Zhao Gou said, "I am from the north, will I return to safety?" !

Qin Hui and Zhao Gou had conflicts.

Whose interest does his argument serve?Of course, it is beneficial to the Kingdom of Jin, but it is more beneficial to the southern gentry.

Qin Hui had conflicts with Zhao Gou and was suspected of surrendering. Why was he able to sit in court for so many years?It was the support of the Jin people and the southern gentry that allowed Qin Hui to be the prime minister for so many years.

Does Zhao Gou know this?Of course he knew it, but Zhao Gou had nothing to do about it!

But at this time, Qin Hui himself still can't touch Yue Fei, and Zhao Gou will not allow Qin Hui to touch Yue Fei.

During the Jingkang Change, the gentry of the Great Song Dynasty gave the two emperors of Huiqin and the clan of Tokyo to the Jin people, and the Jin people presided over them, and the gentry elected them to establish a Great Chu State headed by Zhang Bangchang.

But this state of Chu had no army, and Zhang Bangchang was once a minister of the Song Dynasty, so he was not recognized by the common people, so he was abandoned by the gentry in a short time, and they quickly changed Zhao Gou to be the emperor.

Zhao Gou was 20 years old when he came to the throne. He was martial-minded and educated by the royal family. Although he was frightened by the Jin soldiers when he fled south, how could he be easily controlled by these gentry?
So Zhao Gou suffered a mutiny only two years after he ascended the throne.

In the third year of Jianyan, Miao Fu and Liu Zhengyan used the local troops in Hangzhou to surround Zhao Gou's palace, forcing Zhao Gou to abdicate and give up the throne to his two or three-year-old son.

At that time, Miao Liu forced the palace in the name of killing traitorous officials, which was the side of the Qing emperor, but this reason could not stand up to scrutiny at all, as long as you think about it for a while, you will know that it is too false.

Because it is really for the country and the people, how can you support a two or three-year-old child as the emperor?

This is simply nonsense, it is disregarding the country and the country, and it is for controlling power, because children are easier to control.

Sure enough, his feet were exposed later, and the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River took control of the government in the name of Meng Ke's descendant, the Empress Dowager Longyou.

This is a typical civil servant colluding with the harem!

However, the Western Army did not know about the Miao Liu Mutiny that occurred in Hangzhou this time.

The Song Dynasty favored martial arts in the north and business in the south, and most of the elite troops were hereditary military households from the north.

The reforms of Huizong and Gaozong, including salt and tea monopoly and the recovery of mineral products, were all aimed at the south, and had no effect on the military households in the northwest.

As a result, the southern gentry dared to abolish the emperor without saying hello. To the Western Army, it was like a joke. How could the Western Army compromise on such a thing.

Then Liu Guangshi, Zhang Jun, and the Northwest Army represented by Han Shizhong led troops back to Hangzhou from the front line.

Miao Fu was the main force in the Miao-Liu mutiny. Liu Zhengyan captured him from Fujian and brought him back to Hangzhou.

Because of Liu Guangshi and others' reinvention, Zhao Gou's reliance on the Northwest Army cannot be increased.

Zhao Gou gave Liu Guangshi, Zhang Jun, and Han Shizhong the titles of Jiedu envoys of the three towns, and added the title of meritorious minister of the auxiliary country, two titles that Yue Fei did not have.

In addition, Zhao Gou also replaced all the pro-army around him with the Northwest Army, and there was no Southern Army.

This is why even though Zhao Gou is in Hangzhou, neither the Jurchen forces represented by Qin Hui nor the gentry forces in the south can move him.

But after Zhao Gou regained the throne, he found that although the Northwest Army supported him as emperor, they did not support him in the Northern Expedition.

Especially Liu Guangshi, after Liu Guangshi met Jin Bing, he not only refused to fight, but even ran back in open disobedience to the holy order.

Why is that?
Because after the Jingkang Incident, although the North was nominally controlled by the Jurchens, as a tribe, the Jurchens had neither the energy nor the population to control the entire Liao Kingdom and the northern part of the Great Song Dynasty. territory.

The north is actually controlled by the aristocratic family.

For the sake of territory and interests, Jin Guo has no lower limit, whether politically or morally, and can promise and agree to anything.

For example, Qin Hui's father-in-law, Wang Zhongshan, was a magistrate in Fuzhou, Jiangxi, but he actually had a large amount of land in Jinan Prefecture, Shandong, which had long been occupied by the Kingdom of Jin.

In order to win over the gentry of the Great Song Dynasty, Jin Guo could pay a lot of price, admit all their assets in the north, and offer more generous conditions.

To put it simply, the land of the gentry does not need to pay taxes, which Zhao Gou cannot do.

The gentry in the Southern Song Dynasty originally annexed land to evade taxes and avoid labor, and called it "keeping money for the country". These words were all saved in the Kingdom of Jin.

Liu Guangshi himself is the general of the Northwest, and he has a lot of land in the Northwest, so what motivation do you give him to go to the North?
Zhao Gou saw this, so he began to weaken Liu Guangshi's military power and support Han Shizhong, Yue Fei and others.

Han Shizhong and Yue Fei were born as civilians with no family background and nothing, so they could only follow Zhao Gou.

But supporting these people requires money, where does the money come from, only taxation!

In this way, Zhao Gou fell into a vicious circle. The Northern Expedition needed to be taxed, raising soldiers needed to be taxed, and supporting the direct descendants had to be taxed even more, but the more taxes were collected, the more the gentry hated him.

In the tenth year of Shaoxing, a decree by Zhao Gou completely killed Yue Fei, and even Han Shizhong almost lost his life.

"Song History" records that in February of the tenth year of Shaoxing, Gao Zongzhao: The new Fuzhou army searched for seclusion, and the managers of various roads garrisoned the fields.

It means that in the newly recovered northern counties, once the land hidden by the gentry is found, the land that has not paid taxes to the state will be confiscated.

The military, that is, Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and other military commanders, took over directly, and the private fields were changed to official fields and military settlements.

Throughout the dynasties, it was a common phenomenon for the gentry to hide their land. Zhao Gou suddenly demanded that the hidden private land be directly confiscated. This step was too big and too radical.

He forgot that Liu Guangshi, Zhang Jun, and even Zhang Jun's subordinates Yang Yizhong and Wang De, these veteran military households in the Northwest, have many hidden lands and private fields, so once Zhao Gou's edict came out, the Northwest The army and the southern gentry thoroughly joined forces.

But soldiers still have to be raised, taxes still have to be levied, and military salaries still have to be paid.

So Zhao Gou came up with a series of national policies to borrow land from the gentry, or even enclose land, so that those gentry and landlords would temporarily hand over their land to the army or the court, and directly raise soldiers with rent money to solve the problem of military pay.

According to the Records of Shihuo in the history of Song Dynasty, Zhao Gou first sent civil servants to take charge of the work of enclosing land and farming. Due to the fierce opposition from the gentry and landlords, Zhao Gou had to let marshals from all over the country manage the work of enclosing land and farming. This work is barely going on, and Yue Fei and Han Shizhong, as "handsome ministers", are both in charge.

So those who really want Yue Fei to die are not only the Kingdom of Jin, but also the gentry of the Great Song Dynasty!

Qin Hui, on behalf of the gentry of the Jin Kingdom and the Song Dynasty, united against it. At this time, Zhao Gou actually softened, and began to compromise under every step of intimidation, and wanted to take the blame from the loyal minister who did things for him.

Even Han Shizhong was on the list of death, but Han Shizhong saw that something was wrong, so he took the initiative to go to Zhao Gou and cry, revealing the scars from when he rescued him back then. .

And Han Shizhong also donated all his family wealth and temporary military pay.

These are what Yue Fei didn't have. In the end, Yue Fei died unjustly and Han Shizhong was dismissed.

Perhaps Han Shizhong's ability to save his life was also the result of Zhao Gou's bargaining with the gentry.

So Yue Fei died at the hands of Zhao Gou, Qin Hui and the nobles.

But right now, no matter whether Zhao Tong will support the Song Dynasty or oppose the Song Dynasty in the future, in addition to dealing with the Kingdom of Jin in the open, he must also deal with the gentry of the Great Song Dynasty who have been in power for many years in secret.

But if you want to deal with the gentry, the emperor can't, because the gentry pinches the emperor's weakness, and the court ministers can't, because these ministers themselves are representatives of the gentry, and the generals of the Western Army can't do it, because the generals of the Western Army and the gentry have common interests.

Only ordinary people!
Only the common people can become the greatest force against the gentry.

Why was Fang La able to fight a small country war?It is because the Mingjiao disciples are almost all ordinary people, and have no interest disputes with the gentry, and are even bullied and exploited by the gentry, so they hate the gentry.

What Zhao Tun has to do is to plant a seed and wait for it to germinate.

And this kind of seed is buried on the stage, and then it is slowly spread all over the world...

Zhao Tun was in the room reading the lyrics and lyrics written by Xiaoniang, and he named this thing the script.

Xiaoniang has finished writing, there is a [-]% discount, and he hasn't named it yet, so Xiaoniang asks him to name it.

Zhao Tun thought for a while, and said, "Let Baifa remember it."

Xiao Niang nodded and said, "This name is good, it fits well with the play."

Zhao Tong looked down.

The little lady looked at him nervously, for fear that he would say that her writing was not good.

After watching it for a while, Zhao Tun shook his head and said, "It's not intense enough, the sense of contradiction is not prominent, hey, this girl named Le'er is not miserable enough!"

The little lady bowed her head: "Mr. Lang, I think it's already very miserable!"

Zhao Tong said: "Your writing is miserable, but it may not be able to perform on stage, so it must be reflected in Leer's libretto."

Xiaoniang looked up at him: "Please teach me, sir."

Zhao Tang looked at her delicate and soft, and leaned forward: "What do you want me to teach, my lady? Haven't you already taught me a lot?"

The girl blushed immediately: "Of course it's...the script."

Zhao Tong smiled and said, "This is simple, I'll change it for you at the beginning."

After speaking, he took the pen, dipped it in ink, and added before the lyrics of Leer's appearance on the paper:

The north wind blows, the snowflakes flutter, the snowflakes flutter, the year is here.

Daddy went out to hide the debt, and he still hasn't returned it for seven days. I waited for Daddy at home, waiting for Daddy to come home to celebrate the New Year.

The family's daughter has flowers to wear, but my father can't buy them with little money. He cut off three inches of thorn branches, made them into hairpins, and tied them up for me.

The little lady watched Zhao Tun writing without blinking, with a soft light on her face, she suddenly hugged Zhao Tun gently.

Zhao Tong said: "There is also Le'er going up the mountain here, and I need to add some words."

The little lady said: "Your Majesty, please write."

Zhao Tun thought for a while, and wrote:
You want to kill me and blind your eye sockets!The water that can't be scooped up can't put out the fire!

I am not dead, I want to live!I want revenge, I want to live!

Thousands of grievances, thousands of hatreds, thousands of hatreds, thousands of hatreds that can't be exhausted, are drawn down to my bones and engraved in my heart!

After finishing writing, he suddenly dropped the pen and said: "There is also that rogue, I have to add words, I will write later."

The little lady asked curiously: "Mr. Lang, why did you have to write it later?"

Zhao Tong said: "There are business matters to be done now."

The little lady was puzzled: "What business..."

Before she finished speaking, Zhao Tang picked her up by the waist and walked towards the couch: "It's important business."

The little lady whispered softly: "Mr. Lang, it's daytime now."

Zhao Tun smiled slightly, walked inside, and gently placed the little girl on the couch...

(End of this chapter)