The rise of the late Song Dynasty reigns supreme

Chapter 307 Abolition of the Three House Law ([-])

Zhao Gou's sonorous and forceful, ups and downs of words deeply moved Zhao Ji, which coincided with what he thought, and only by doing so could he get it done once and for all.If in the past Zhao Ji might have ignored it and allowed the situation to develop, now he would never have such an idea, he would fight if he wanted to, and would never back down.

Zhao Ji praised: "What Gou'er said won my heart deeply. This is the key point. I am very pleased."

Therefore, Zhao Ji directly issued an imperial decree to use troops against Xixia, and sent [-] troops from the Song Dynasty to the front line to fight the Xixia army.At the same time, Li Gang could go to Yan'an Mansion as the commander-in-chief. In addition, he sent Wu Jie and Song Jiang as deputy generals, and a dozen pioneers, and issued an imperial edict to Taiyuan Mansion to dispatch troops to support Li Gang.

In order to prevent the Kingdom of Jin and the Kingdom of Liao from taking advantage of the situation, Song Huizong ordered the troops of Hejian Mansion and Zhending Mansion to strengthen their defenses, and they must not act rashly, so as not to bring trouble to the Kingdom of Jin.This matter was handed over to Zhe Kecun as the head coach, who led several lieutenants and dozens of vanguards to go.

Zhao Gou was a little surprised that Song Jiang participated in the struggle against Xixia. Not only that, but even Prince Zhao Huan and others were stunned.However, Zhao Ji did not explain too much.In addition, Zhe Kecun is a powerful party in the cloud, and the three generations are all generals in the court, which can be compared with the Yang family.

It was the first time Zhao Gou heard about Zhe Kecun, but there were only a few records in the official history, so he didn't know about his deeds.However, the ministers of the court, even Zong Ze, Li Gang and others admired him, especially Zhe Kecun, who had served in the army for three generations. They were all famous generals, but Zhe Kecun rarely entered the court. In the northwest border, no one moved rashly.

If we go back to the past, I'm afraid that the Zhe family is even more famous. They were able to occupy the prefecture alone and guard the northwest without entering the dynasty. They got the imperial decree issued by Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin himself, but the privilege of inheriting the prefecture was the only one in the Song Dynasty. There is no semicolon, the Zhe family is full of loyalty and loyalty to the court, even if Zhao Ji is fatuous and incompetent, he still sticks to the northwest, and will never let foreign enemies step into the Central Plains.

It is precisely because Zhe's family is stationed in the northwest border, so they seldom enter Beijing, and they are not allowed to leave their posts without authorization if it is something important. This is also the imperial decree of the Taizu, and no one dares to disobey it.In addition, Zhe Kecun's army did not have literati to control the army, which is also a rare situation in the Song Dynasty.

Everyone heard that Zhe Kecun went to Zhending Mansion and Hejian Mansion. He himself was a general who fought against the Xixia army all year round. The victory of the "Battle of Hengshan" has a lot to do with Zhe Kecun, but he did not enter the imperial court, nor was he greedy for fame and fortune, so he was stationed at the northwest border with peace of mind.

"Are you all wondering why I didn't let General Zhe stay in the northwest, but let him go to Zhending Mansion instead?" Song Huizong Zhao Ji glanced at everyone's puzzled eyes, and said lightly: "General Zhe has been stationed in the northwest border for many years. The Xixia army had no scruples in this surprise attack. However, General Zhe has never received my order, so he dare not easily dispatch troops to condemn the general, and my behavior is to tell him that he can give it a go and don't worry about it."

"Lord Li, I want you to bring a sentence to General Zhe: If the Xixia army makes a comeback again and raids the city of Song Dynasty, don't worry about it. I allow him to have the power to dispatch troops and generals. He is only allowed to win but not to lose, so that the Xixia monarch can see the truth." Song's Tianwei."

Li Gang replied respectfully: "I obey the order!"

"General Zhe has been in the northwest for many years, and the morale of the army has long been stable. However, the army of Zhending Mansion and Hejian Mansion is not far from the army of Yan'an Mansion. If the country leads troops to invade, you can let him dispatch troops to resist, so that he will not be helpless."

Although Zhao Ji did not speak directly, everyone heard that Zhao Ji wanted to fold Kecun to be familiar with the military affairs of Zhending Mansion and Hejian Mansion, and to lead troops directly to fight when necessary. That is to say, Zhao Ji was taking precautions against Jin and Liao It can be seen that Zhao Ji's vision is far-sighted, which is far from what it used to be.

"From now on, I will let everyone know what is the majesty of heaven. Regardless of the Jin Kingdom, Liao Kingdom, or Xixia and other countries, as long as they dare to take a step beyond the thunder pool without authorization, I will let them come and go." Zhao Ji said loudly. Said, and glanced at the crowd faintly, "I know that you are divided into two factions, the main battle group and the main group. , will be killed without mercy."

Everyone respectfully replied: "The minister receives the decree!"

Zhao Ji said indifferently: "Several months have passed since the martial arts examination, and the next big thing is the selection of talents."

"Minister of the Ministry of Rites, tell me!"

The Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites is Pan Lianggui, with a Chinese character face, upright and awe-inspiring, without squinting his eyes, he bowed and replied: "Reporting to the emperor, since I became the Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, I have elected a total of 130 Jinshi, 410 of Jinshi A, and Jinshi B. There are 100 and 19 people in the division, and there are [-] people in the Jinshi C division."

Zhao Ji asked again: "How much is it like to be an official in the court now?"

Pan Lianggui said in a deep voice: "Reporting to the emperor, there are only 350 seven people who have entered the court as officials, including both Division A and Division B. Only Jinshi from Division C are excluded without exception. There are also some people in Division A who have not been officials. There are no vacancies in the various official positions, so they have to be vacant."

Zhao Ji frowned and said, "Why are there so many vacancies?"

Pan Lianggui reported the truth without any concealment.The imperial examinations in the Northern Song Dynasty followed the Tang system. The content of the imperial examinations for Jinshi was complicated. The subjects included in the examinations were Tie Jing, Mo Yi, and Poetry and Fu. Its meaning is useless to learn.

After Wang Anshi became a political adviser, he began to change the content of the imperial examinations, canceling poems, Fu, scriptures, and Moyi, and only selected scholars based on classics, theory, and strategy.The so-called scriptures, similar to theories, are short essays, limited to using the sentences in the scriptures as the title, and using the meaning of the scriptures to develop.

In addition, Wang Anshi's reform of the examination content lies in the application of classics.In the eighth year of Xining, Song Shenzong ordered the abolition of poetry and prose, posting scriptures, and Mo Yi to select scholars, and issued Wang Anshi's "Three Classics and New Meanings" and theories and policies to select scholars.In addition, "Yi Guanyi", "Book of Songs", "Book of Books", "Zhou Li" and "Book of Rites" are called great classics, and "The Analects of Confucius" and "Mencius" are called concurrent classics, which are designated as must-reads for scholars who take the exam.

It is expressly stipulated that the Jinshi examination is divided into four sessions: one test for major classics, two tests for concurrent classics, three tests for theory, and the last test for strategy.The palace examination is only a test of strategy, with a limit of more than a thousand characters.In addition, the selection of inspectors so far has been mainly based on Wang Anshi's "three houses method", which divides Taiyuan into three grades: outer house, inner house, and upper house. There are 2000 people in the outer house, 300 people in the inner house, and 1100 people in the upper house .

If the children of officials can enroll without taking the exam, the children of ordinary people need to pass the exam before they can enter.Not only the Taiyuan Academy, but even local states and counties continue to use this method, so it is easy to leave loopholes in the election of officials and be manipulated by people with intentions. There are too many officials, but some are vacant. It is difficult for the children of the common people to become officials. The children of officials can easily become officials. Another way is to bribe them. There are very few vacancies, and this part is composed of common people's children.

(End of this chapter)