I served as an admonisher in the Song Dynasty

Chapter 18 Is this a compliment to me?This is putting me on the fire!

The front yard of Yushitai, afternoon.

There was still half an hour before Su Liang's second lecture on the first day, and the courtyard was crowded with officials from various yamen.

Yushitai has always been disliked by many yamen, and they will never visit him unless there is nothing wrong.

Nowadays, it is a very rare phenomenon to have a bustling crowd.

In this scene, Emperor Zhao Zhen and all the ministers are not here, but the officials are still gathered here, and there is an increasing trend.

Naturally, he was attracted by Su Liang's mind mapping technique.

The crows that often made noisy calls in the locust trees in the courtyard were driven elsewhere by this formation.

This technique, if learned, is useful and extremely beneficial to one's official career.

Naturally everyone came one after another.

In the next two days, many officials came uninvited and trampled on the floor tiles of the Yushitai.

What Su Liang said was very exciting.

From time to time, he made extensive quotations and frequent quotes, and his talents amazed many officials.

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Although the palace walls of Bianjing City are high, there are almost no secrets.

Soon, Su Liang's mind mapping method was the first to spread in Bianjing City, attracting praise from countless scholars.

At the same time, some of the best quotes from his speech spread.

Among them, two sentences are the most widely spread.

The first sentence: What is the worst official?Every sentence has a response, but everything has no answers.

Second sentence: If you look at people with a villain's mind, everyone will be a villain.

As the saying goes, there are many people who are popular.

Scholars in Bianjing love to study and analyze randomly when they have nothing to do.

Some good people made a fuss out of Su Liang's two sentences.

Some people say that Su Liang's sentence "What is the worst official? Every sentence has a response, but everything has no answer" is a satire on the current lack of ability to govern, and he is looking forward to the return of Fan Zhongyan and Fu Bi who have been released.

present.

Although Fan Zhongyan and Fu Bi were released to patrol the border, they each still held the posts of counselor to the governor and deputy privy envoy.

The New Deal lasted more than a year.

Although it is only "a light rain has passed and the ground is wet", if these two people return, it will mean that the New Deal will continue to unfold.

The people are happy about the New Deal.

Because the dismissal of many officials is beneficial to the grassroots.

But most of the court officials were opposed to it.

They even regarded Fan Zhongyan, Fu Bi and others as treacherous ministers who disrupted the national law.

Su Liang said this and was classified into the new party's faction.

The interpretation of the second sentence is even more magical.

The context in which Su Liang said this was an analysis of the outcome of a case, and did not refer to anything else.

But pick it out individually.

It was interpreted as support for the opening sentence of Ouyang Xiu's "On Clique": "Gentlemen and gentlemen are friends of the same way, and villains are friends of the same interests. This is a natural principle."

You know, Zhao Zhen does not like this "On Clique".

In his eyes, whether a gentleman or a villain, forming a party is a serious crime that harms the country and the people.

Su Liang looked helpless.

The interpretations of those scholars among the people are really ridiculous!

At this time.

Sun Fu, the Zhijianyuan, also stated in public that Ouyang Xiu, who was in Hebei, wrote to him in a letter, praising Su Liang's talent and saying that he had the appearance of a minister.

As soon as it was reported that Su Liang had spoken out in support of Ouyang Xiu's "On Clique", it was immediately reported that Ouyang Xiu wrote a letter saying that Su Liang had the appearance of a leader.

Isn’t this just mutual compliments between cronies?
This is not over yet.

Shi Jie, who spoke directly in the former Imperial College and was released due to suspicion of treason, also spoke up in a lecture venue.

He said: Su Jingming, the censor, is a new gentleman.

a time.

Su Liang is called the leader of young new gentlemen by folk scholars.

None of these people have any bad intentions.I feel that Su Liang is a role model for young officials because he can play three consecutive songs a day and create mental maps.

But they are all pig teammates.

Especially Shi Jie, who has high literary talent but extremely low emotional intelligence.

At the beginning of the New Deal last year, he wrote an "Ode to the Holy Virtue of Qingli", seemingly praising the reform of the New Deal.

In fact, this article was the trigger for many officials to accuse Fan Zhongyan and others of forming a clique.

The list of party members is all in the article.

Most of the people praised in the article were relegated or released.

Su Liang couldn't laugh or cry.

These people are not praising themselves, they are clearly putting themselves on the fire!
These words of praise.

This will only make many officials in the court think that Su Liang is a member of the New Party and intends to initiate changes again.

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These days in Bianjing.

Su Liang also had some understanding of party struggle.

The so-called reformists and conservatives are not actually right or wrong, they just have different political views.

The reformists headed by Fan Zhongyan, Fu Bi, and Ouyang Xiu believed that only through reform can the country become rich and the people strong.

The ten reform proposals put forward by Fan and Fu were all strategies to strengthen the country.

However, it greatly damaged the interests of the scholar-bureaucrat class, and due to insufficient implementation, various sequelae occurred.

So ever.

Lu Yijian, Zhang Dexiang, Xia Song, Jia Changchao, Wang Gongchen and others spoke out against it.

These people felt that scholar-bureaucrats and officials were the top priority of the Song Dynasty. If they were disturbed, the country's foundation would be disturbed.

The interests of both parties conflicted.

There is a serious discrepancy in values.

When it comes to the New Deal, Fan Zhongyan and others are very strong, but when it comes to strategy, the conservatives have the advantage.

Once the big label of clique was thrown off, the reformists almost fell apart.

In a nutshell:
The reformists had good intentions and wanted to create a prosperous Song Dynasty, but failed; the conservatives resolutely defended the interests of scholar-bureaucrats and were unwilling to compromise.

This led to party strife and chaos.

Wang Gongchen and Qian Mingyi wanted to take down Su Liang, not because they had any personal vendetta, but because they regarded Su Liang as a reformist.

Su Liang wanted to revive the Song Dynasty.

But I don’t fully agree with the strategies of Fan Zhongyan and others.

As the saying goes, strong medicine cannot be used for serious illnesses.

At the beginning of the new coup law, official governance was launched first and the momentum was too strong, which was destined to be opposed by many officials.

It is inevitable that things will be difficult to achieve.

As for Emperor Zhao Zhen, his current attitude is:
He believed that he was unable to create a prosperous Song Dynasty, and he did not completely compromise, but he had zero tolerance for cliques.

As a Taiwan admonishment officer.

Su Liang will neither join the reformists nor the conservatives.

but now.

He must take off his label as a "revolutionary youth leader" as soon as possible.

Otherwise, according to the soft-eared character of Emperor Zhao Zhen, it is very likely that Su Liang would be transferred to the palace after listening to some false accusations.

Su Liang didn't want to spend the rest of his life chewing books and compiling history;

In that case, life will become a pool of stagnant water, which is not what he wants.

And this moment.

Wang Gongchen and Qian Mingyi were sitting in a private room of a teahouse, absolutely delighted.

"The trees are as beautiful as the trees, but the wind will destroy them. Su Liang supported the reformists in such a high-profile manner, and the reformists kept praising Su Liang. The two sides were flirting with each other. Can the officials not suspect that he is a party member?" Qian Mingyi said with a smile. .

Wang Gongchen took a sip of tea and said: "The official is kind and may not pay attention to these remarks. If he continues to stay in Taiwan to remonstrate, we need to add more fire."

After saying that, the two of them whispered quietly.

The two men share the same values ​​and are proud of impeachment. They both believe that every impeached official is ironclad evidence that helps them leave their names in history.

(End of this chapter)