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Chapter 449 Sima Guang Sima Junshi

The protagonist has already left, and there is no one who wants to watch the play.Even if the civil servants are not reconciled, but the little emperor's determination is so firm, how can he succeed in admonishing him directly?And the little emperor's excuses are also very good, even if someone dares to risk his life to speak out, he will be regarded as ill-intentioned.

The civil servants group lost a complete defeat in this battle, not only failed to make the little emperor change his mind, even the last hope was blocked by the little emperor with golden words.In the past, it was just the implementation of the ten-rank official system. Now the little emperor has made it clear that the only way to become an official in the future is through the imperial examination.If you want to rely on unfair competition such as Menyin and Nali, the consequences of being exposed are difficult to predict.

The civil servants are quick-witted, how can they not know that the little emperor is afraid of the power of the civil servants?Since the Han and Wei dynasties, aristocratic families have occupied most of the official positions in the court. Whether they are civil servants or military officials, once the aristocratic families are united, the power generated is that the emperor will also retreat.

After Dashun established the dynasty, in view of this situation, he decided to abolish the nine-rank Zhongzheng system and use the imperial examination to select scholars.However, after the war, the big families were weakened, and the small families were obviously in decline.It has been a hundred years now, and the influence of the aristocratic family has been weakened to the minimum.However, through transformation, some smart aristocratic families can use well-educated members of the family to pass the imperial examination, and then through methods such as door shade and Nali, they can also preserve the glory of the family for decades.

At the time of Taizu and Wenzong, the world had just stabilized, so it was natural not to make drastic reforms and focus on restoring production.Otherwise, with the knowledge of Taizu and Wenzong, how could they not know how to increase taxes?And two generations later, the emperor of Dashun was born in rich clothes and fine food. Even if he was smart, how could he understand why he was diligent in political affairs, but the treasury was still stretched?
When it came to Yuanshou, the treasury was really tearing down the east wall to make up for the west wall.Every time there was a famine and the national treasury was empty, these quick-thinking civil servants suggested to Emperor Yuanshou the trick of Nali.Emperor Yuanshou was having a headache on how to fill the treasury. At that time, Fan Zhongyan hadn't started reforms and had just ascended the throne. He was inexperienced and didn't know what to do.How could Emperor Yuanshou not know the harm of publicly selling officials and nobles?But I couldn't wait, so I had to pinch my nose and admit it.

Later, Fan Zhongyan became the prime minister and implemented the New Deal, which made the treasury more full.However, after he was accused of forming a party for personal gain and stepped down after being criticized, Taishi Yang came to power and returned to his original state.So far, Menyin and Nali have reached their peak as officials.The civil official group slowly twisted into a rope, and with Taishi Yang leading the way, he not only forced the military officer, who was a natural enemy, to the edge of the cliff, but also controlled the government.Even if Emperor Yuanshou regretted it, his old body could not stop Grand Master Yang's ambition.In order for Lu Chengqi to succeed to the throne smoothly, Emperor Yuanshou chose to swallow his anger and silently indulge Grand Master Yang.

Just for some reason, Grand Master Yang actually compromised with the fledgling little emperor who had only ascended the throne for more than a year when he had the right time, place and people.Maybe Grand Master Yang also wanted to follow Sima Yi's example and usurp Wei, but Sima Yi held the military power, and most of the civil servants fell to the Sima family. He, Grand Master Yang, suppressed the warriors too much before, and he didn't even have a trace of military support.If you want to learn from Sima Yi, you still lack some enthusiasm.

Coupled with the little emperor's sudden attack, Grand Master Yang didn't have time to deploy his troops even if he wanted to.In addition, the little emperor didn't leave any way out, other than begging for the bones to go home, he had to entangle civil servants to carry them to death.But Dashun's civil and military system is too reasonable, as long as the military power is in the hands of the emperor and the Privy Council, even Zaifu has no right to intervene.The little emperor only needs to mobilize the imperial army, and Taishi Yang's subordinates are all civil servants who are powerless, how can he fight against it?

If you resist stubbornly, once you are labeled as a traitor, you will definitely die without a place to bury him. "Leaving a name in history" is even more certain.It's better to go downhill with the trend, not only preserve yourself, but also obey the little emperor's wishes, killing two birds with one stone.As for the life and death of the nominal students, civil servants and party members, what does it matter to him, Grand Master Yang?A dead fellow Taoist is not a poor Taoist, as long as he can rely on the name of the emperor's teacher to escape, he will burn incense and worship Buddha.If Grand Master Yang knew that Lu Chengqi didn't have the confidence to control the army at that time, and he did it entirely out of passion, would he be so regretful that he would bang his head against the wall?
To this day, only civil servants who survived the catastrophe recalled why the once powerful Grand Master Yang suffered such a miserable defeat.It is all because the system established by the Taizu is so good that there is no danger of military power falling into the hands of civilian officials.If the emperor wants to take power, as long as the situation has not deteriorated to the point of being out of control, he can rely on the army to bring it back.Any clanking and iron bones will look extremely pale in front of the raised butcher's knife.

Thinking about it this way, today's defeat is not too bad.After all, Grand Master Yang is so powerful that he can only protect himself.They can make the little emperor not want to kill, thanks to only the head of state Zhou Yanhua directly admonishing him.

The civil servants who had figured this out came to pay respects to Zhou Yanhua one after another.However, Zhou Yanhua, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, is a person who is not good at flattery and hates flattery from others. No matter who the officials who come to strike up a conversation are, they always put on a cold expression.

Only when Yushi Zhongcheng Li Ran came over did Zhou Yanhua say a few more words.

"Zhou Shangshu's words today are resounding, but the Holy Majesty is too determined to carry out the New Deal. If time is given, the Holy Majesty will change his mind after seeing the harm of the New Deal."

Facing Li Ran's remarks, Zhou Yanhua suddenly sighed, and said in a low voice, "I didn't actually come up with this speech. It was a memorial delivered by Sima Junshi. Junshi and I are old friends, and I just got the letter from him." And know."

Li Ran suddenly realized that Zhou Yanhua had always been simple and down-to-earth, so how could he quote scriptures like this, it turned out that there was an expert behind him! "It turned out to be Sima Guang, Sima's transfer envoy, no wonder! I heard earlier that Sima Jun is indeed the pillar of the country. Today, I heard that he really deserves his reputation!"

Zhou Yanhua sighed, and said: "What's the use? The emperor insists on going his own way, and keeps admonishing him, and I don't know what troubles will happen..."

Even if Li Ran dared to speak out, he didn't have the guts to say that the little emperor was in trouble, so he quickly tugged at Zhou Yanhua's sleeve and said, "Shangshu Zhou, there are too many people here, be careful what you say!"

Zhou Yanhua also knew that he had slipped the tongue, sighed quietly, and then followed the retreating officials out of the Xuande Gate.

At the same time, Liu Qi also seemed to have lost his soul, and left the Daqing Palace in a daze, falling behind all the officials.As soon as he stepped out of the Daqing Palace, he was stopped by others: "You beast, stop!"

After receiving such a shout, Liu Qi slowly raised his head to see that it was actually Liu Geng from Zhongshushe. "Uncle, why are you here? Aren't you..." Before Liu Qi finished speaking, Liu Geng covered his mouth, took advantage of others not paying attention, and pulled him to a remote place, and said in a deep voice: "You little boy You bastard, do you want to kill your uncle?"

(End of this chapter)