I served as an admonisher in the Song Dynasty

Chapter 129 Xia Song: Taiwan’s remonstrance is so powerful that officials dare not speak out!

Catastrophe of the river.

It comes big and fierce, and goes quickly.

After Ouyang Xiu ordered people to dig out the Henglong and Shanghu entrances, the water of the river gradually returned to normal and receded from farmhouses, fields, and roads.

But the actual damage caused has already been done and is lasting.

This year, the people around the river will have nothing to gain.

It is even more difficult for people whose houses have collapsed to rebuild their homes.

After Ouyang Xiu found out the scope of the disaster, he requested the court to exempt the affected areas from land taxes and compensate all the people affected by the disaster.

This disaster was entirely man-made.

The imperial court should take the main responsibility.

Even if Zhao Zhen agreed, he would be exempted if he should be exempted and compensated if he should be compensated.

The "Edict of Sin" is only a reflection of attitude. When real money and money are used on the people, it is the real admission of mistakes.

at the same time.

The main cause of this river disaster was also investigated.

First, the strategy of diverting the big river into the Liuta River is actually a strategy on paper, caused by a lack of understanding of the water potential of the big river.

Secondly, Zhao Zhen and his court officials were deceived by the saying that "the great river flows eastward and becomes a military barrier to protect the Liao Dynasty" and made wrong decisions.

Thirdly, during the period of dredging the Liuta River, Jia Changchao, who was in charge of river affairs, and Li Zhongchang, the director of the river canal department, were very happy about their achievements.

Soon, the court punished these people.

The river officials involved in this incident were severely punished.

Among them, Jia Changchao was deprived of all official positions and ordered to return home for retirement.Li Zhongchang was directly sentenced to two thousand miles of exile.

As for the officials in the court.

Anyone who proposed the policy of supporting the eastward flow of the river would be fined two months' salary.

Ouyang Xiu and Su Liang were generously rewarded for their courage in speaking out.

As for the subsequent management of the Yellow River, Zhao Zhen approved Ouyang Xiu's strategy.

"We will not divert the river back to the river for the time being, but focus on repairing the river channel, cleaning up the downstream sediment, building high dams, and planting more trees to avoid large-scale flood disasters during the flood season."

At present, even with all the efforts of the whole country, the troubles of the river cannot be eliminated at all.

What the court has to do is to avoid major disasters as much as possible.

As for the big river flowing into the Liao territory, it will take a long, long time!

Instead of worrying about the Khitan attack, it is better to enrich the country and strengthen the people and cultivate combat effectiveness to deal with the coming war.

……

May 28.

After Ouyang Xiu had almost settled the matter.

Tang Jie, the imperial censor, and Fan Zhen, the imperial censor, recommended the current Tianzhang Pavilion candidate Zeng Gongliang to the Daming Mansion.

Zhao Zhen readily agreed.

Daming Mansion is the northern gate of the imperial court and must be guarded by important military officials.

Ouyang Xiu was good at handling civil affairs, but in terms of military layout, he was far inferior to Zeng Gongliang, who edited the "General Essentials of Military Classics" in the fourth year of Qingli.

After experiencing this.

The courtiers began to reflect on themselves, and the court gradually became quiet.

Many officials couldn't figure out why Su Liang and Ouyang Xiu could predict the river danger in advance and still argue with reason when faced with the resistance of most officials in the court.

Even the officials at Yushitai were particularly curious.

According to their understanding of Su Liang, Su Liang was not very familiar with river affairs.

Yushitai, inside the Chaoyuan.

"Su Yushi, can you tell me why you and Ouyang Xueshi are so sure that the river will collapse?" Supervisory Yushi Li Xinglu Hui asked curiously.

Zhou Yuan on the side also turned his face.

Su Liang smiled slightly and remembered that he had asked Ouyang Xiu this question when he was patrolling on the river bank.

Ouyang Xiu replied with words that made Su Liang awe-inspiring.

Su Liang immediately used it.

"Mencius said that the people are the most valuable, the country is the second most important, and the king is the least important. If you think about it with these words, it doesn't matter if you are wrong!"

After saying that, Su Liang puffed up his chest and walked out of the room.

Lu Hui and Zhou Yuan looked at Su Liang's back and felt that he was very tall.

Such words are always spoken by officials and scholar-bureaucrats, but few actually practice it and put the interests of the people first.

"Uncle Ouyang Yong and Jing Ming are true gentlemen!" Lu Jie couldn't help but praise.

……

June [-]th, the morning of the DPRK.

The ministers gathered in Daqing Hall.

Su Liang was sleepy and a little tired.

Last night, four-month-old Su Zimu fell in love with Su Liang.

Don't let Tang Wanmei hug me, don't let Tao'er hug me, don't let Tang Ze hug me, only Su Liang can hug me.

Su Liang hugged him, but he still didn't sleep.

A pair of big round eyes stared at Su Liang closely, and his little mouth babbling, kept talking to Su Liang.

Moreover, his little hand pointed at Su Liang's mouth, asking Su Liang to speak.

Su Liang looked helpless and started talking about the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf, Little Red Riding Hood and Snow White...

Su Zimu didn't make trouble until the second watch before falling asleep.

At this time, Su Liang was almost getting up.

There has been little business in the court recently, and Su Liang hopes that the court meeting will be shorter so that he can go back to the Yushitai to catch up on his sleep.After a while.

Zhao Zhen was sitting on the throne, but he had not spoken yet.

I saw the three ministers of Zhongshu, Chen Zhizhong, Wu Yu, and Zhang Fangping, who stood up first.

Zhao Zhen couldn't help but smile and asked: "It's rare to see three gentlemen take such initiative. What do you want to report?"

Wu Yu took the lead and said: "Guan family, I drafted a memorial yesterday to transfer Teng Zongliang, the magistrate of Yuezhou, to the magistrate of Suzhou. I wanted to submit it to the emperor, but unexpectedly, it was suppressed by Prime Minister Chen and Prime Minister Zhang. I don't know what happened. Got the rules!"

Chen Zhizhong quickly came out.

"Teng Zongliang, the magistrate of Yuezhou, once embezzled public money and had shortcomings in private ethics. How could he be promoted to Suzhou, a major tax-rich state in the south of the Yangtze River?"

"I dare to ask Prime Minister Chen, does Teng Zongliang's transfer of Suzhou to the prefecture violate the rules of our dynasty's investigation and relocation? What does his tenure, public opinion, political achievements, and academic performance not comply with?" Wu Yu asked in return.

"Teng Zongliang can be transferred to an official position, but it is not suitable to be transferred to Suzhou in the south of the Yangtze River as an official. His merits are merits and demerits, and his virtue is not enough to support his appointment as the governor of Suzhou!" Zhang Fangping also stood up and said.

"It's just an old story. You two keep claiming that Teng Zongliang is corrupt. Is there any evidence?"

"Teng Zongliang burned the bills and made the case of embezzlement of public money undocumented. The officials demoted him, which proved that he was indeed embezzling! Who can guarantee that he would not be embezzling when he went to Suzhou? Suzhou is an important city in the south of the Yangtze River. Don't give it to Teng Zongliang!" Chen Zhizhong looked cold.

……

For a time, not only did Su Liang stop dozing off, but the officials also became energetic.

in the hall.

It is not common for three prime ministers to have conflicts and fight each other like this.

Everyone also understood.

This matter seems to be a debate on whether Teng Zongliang is qualified to serve as the magistrate of Suzhou. In fact, the debate is about how long the three of them can stay in office.

As we all know, Teng Zongliang is Fan Zhongyan's best friend.

At that time, Fan Zhongyan left the court partly because of Teng Zongliang's embezzlement of public money case.

Now if Teng Zongliang is mentioned as the magistrate of Suzhou, his voice in the court will be strengthened.

In the future, he will definitely be one of the main force in urging Fan Zhongyan to return to the court.

Chen Zhizhong regarded the position of prime minister as very important, while Zhang Fangping simply did not want the Song Dynasty to be tormented by Fan Zhongyan again.

Therefore, they both opposed Teng Zongliang's appointment as magistrate of Suzhou.

But Wu Yu is not like that.

Although Wu Yu's ability to handle political affairs was average, he, like Ouyang Xiu, looked down upon Chen Zhizhong, who was not a Jinshi, as prime minister no matter what he did.

After the three husbands argued for a while, Ouyang Xiu joined the fight.

"In the official family, I think that Teng Zongliang's time for grinding and surveying has expired. He has a good reputation for his political achievements in Yuezhou. His change to the post of magistrate of Suzhou is a normal move without any problems."

"As for the matter of embezzling public money, he has already been punished and should not be raised at this time."

"I second the proposal!" Yushi Zhongcheng Tang Jie stood up.

"I also second the proposal!" Zuo Sijian He Tan stood up.

"My minister agrees!"

"My minister agrees!"

……

Zhao Pian, the right officer of the admonishment court, Fan Zhen, the censor in the palace, and Su Liang, the censor of the palace, all stood up.

The current Yushitai is all about innovation.

There are many complaints about "Chen Zhizhong, who only works hard where officials see him."

Tai remonstrated with the officials and collectively stood up to support Wu Yu. For a while, other officials did not dare to speak out.

Nowadays, Tai Jian’s voice is indeed somewhat strong.

"Cough cough..."

At this time, Xia Song stood up.

"Officials, I think this matter does not need to be discussed further. Just listen to these remonstrating officials. Today's court has become the court of remonstrating officials. Do other officials dare to speak?"

Xia Song's words were full of murderous intent.

All of a sudden, the attack direction was turned to all Taiwan admonishment officials.

a few days ago.

Tang Jie and Fan Zhen recommended Zeng Gongliang to Daming Mansion, which made Xia Song a little dissatisfied.

Xia Song continued: "Tai Jian Guan does have the power to admonish the monarch, supervise hundreds of officials, and participate in the government. But now, all the yamen in Bianjing City, including the two government offices and the three departments, all change their expressions when mentioning Yu Shi Tai and Jian Yuan. , the power of Taiwan’s remonstrators is even higher than that of Zhongshu’s officials!”

Although Chen Zhizhong still felt resentful about Xia Song scolding him that day, his words were actually helping him.

He quickly stood up and said: "In the official family, the admonishing officials in the past all upheld their own ethics, but now they have gathered together to make all officials dare not speak!"

At this moment, Ouyang Xiu and Tang Jie were both confused.

They only wanted to make the Song Dynasty better, but they never thought that they would be labeled as "powerful and officials dare not speak out".

Zhao Zhen had a gloomy expression and was a little hesitant.

He originally advocated that Teng Zongliang be appointed as the magistrate of Suzhou, but after what Xia Song and Chen Zhizhong said, he suddenly felt that the current Taiwanese admonishers were gaining momentum.

As an emperor, he pays attention to balance and knows that it is not good for the court for any party to be powerful.

At this time, Bao Zheng stood up.

"The officials and I think that what Prime Minister Chen and Prime Minister Xia Shu said are both wrong."

"What does it mean to be powerful? In terms of official position, salary, and status, when can Taiwan's admonishment officials be as good as those of prime ministers? Moreover, whether the words of Taiwan's admonition officials are determined or not are determined by the officials. If there is no official nod, if there is no success, An edict is issued under a book, and the admonitions of an admonishing officer are nothing more than a few scraps of paper."

"As for making officials dare not speak? It's even more of a joke. When have I dared not speak? Those who dare not speak either feel guilty, or they are hiding bad ideas that benefit themselves and harm others."

Bao Zheng's words made Zhao Zhen smile involuntarily.

Taiwan’s admonishing officials are only responsible for admonishing, but do not have the power to make decisions. Naturally, today’s officials have the final say in the world.

At this moment.

Xia Song said in a sinister tone: "Xueshi Bao, who doesn't know that you are an old admonisher from Taiwan, so you naturally speak to the admonishment officials from Taiwan!"

(End of this chapter)