Guide to traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty

Luoyang, Dongxi Garden.

Zhu Ming took the royal family members to the royal garden to escape the heat, and also brought a radio and a radio operator.

Although they said they were going to escape the heat, they actually had to work.

Li Hanzhang was ordered to come to Dongxi Garden to meet the emperor. He sat in the pavilion in the middle of the lake and waited. What caught his eye was the green lotus swaying in the wind and the flower buds that had just revealed their pointed corners.

He already knew about the things in his hometown, but he didn't know the details.

Since letting his brother go back to divide the family and relocate his household registration, Li Hanzhang has no contact with his family.

Many Chinese words have their origins, but they have become commonplace because they have been used for a long time.

Just like Zhu Ming's first reign title "Fuxing Zhonghua", people at that time did not think it was vulgar, and it was abbreviated to "Fuxing" or "Xinghua" with other meanings.

The same is true for "sun". People hundreds of years later must think it is a common name.

Then why is the spoken language for the moon not "Taiyin"?

And it is becoming more and more popular. In the Ming Dynasty, it was called "Yue Ming", and in the Qing Dynasty, it was called "Yue Yue".

The evolution from Yue Ming to Yue Yue is the normal trend of popularization and colloquialism.

The evolution of the colloquial name of the sun, from popular to elegant, is contrary to the law of language development.

Because the three characters "日", "入", and "正" are homophones, the vulgar words such as "straight niang thief" and "人妻的" can be directly replaced by the word "日".

Even when cursing people, it is directly simplified to one word: day!

So the colloquial "日" and "日头" in the Song and Yuan Dynasties were gradually replaced by the more elegant "日" in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

If you point to the sky and say the sun in the Song Dynasty, it is no different from pointing to the night sky and shouting the moon. It is an elegant and ungrounded behavior. Because everyone usually shouts the sun, even in poetry, the sun is often used.

We are accustomed to "dividing the family", but this word also has a history.

The emperor established a country, and the princes established a family, and together they formed a country.

"Jia" specifically refers to the fief of the scholar-officials, which can also be called a fief.

The descendants of the princes multiplied too much, and the previous fiefs could not support them, so they had to split up and find another way out.

Those who stayed in the original place were called Zongzi, and those who split up were called Zhizi.

According to Zhou Li, "Zhizi does not offer sacrifices", that is, the Zhizi who split up did not have the right to offer sacrifices to the ancestors.

After the collapse of rituals and music, some Zhizi began to take over the main position.

Later, Zhizi could also offer sacrifices to the ancestors, but usually they still abided by Zhou Li: the split family opened a separate hall, and the one who opened the hall was the ancestor of the branch line, and the descendants would no longer offer sacrifices to the main ancestor.

Li Hanzhang's "separation of the family" behavior was a real "separation of the family", not a simple change of household registration book - the separation of the family in the colloquial language should be called "dividing the property and dividing the household", and the sacrifices remained unchanged.

Generally speaking, one will not directly split up the family when migrating, because this is an "unfilial" behavior of forgetting one's ancestors. Usually, the family is officially separated and the ancestor is offered sacrifices to the ancestor three or four generations after the migration.

Of the Jiangxi clans that were forcibly relocated to Hunan by Wei Liangchen, none of them have split up at present. All of them are normal households, and they have the right to offer sacrifices to their ancestors from a distance.

Li Hanzhang was ruthless and cut off the clan directly because he expected something to happen in his hometown.

Modern people naturally think it is nothing, and even think that he is taking advantage of loopholes.

But from the perspective of the ancients, Li Hanzhang has betrayed his ancestors, and he is currently in a state of "no ancestors to offer sacrifices to".

He cannot offer sacrifices to his ancestors from a distance with formal etiquette, and can only return to his hometown as a branch son to participate in the ancestral worship activities of the main clan.

Moreover, his descendants born after the split up are not qualified to enter the Chuzhou Li Clan Ancestral Hall, and at most they can be added to the appendix when the family tree is continued.

If such behavior were placed in the Han, Tang and Song dynasties, he would be impeached by the censor and directly dismissed from office and never employed again!

Can you expect a person without ancestors and fathers to be loyal to the emperor?

No one would believe such a thing. Li Hanzhang did not deliberately publicize it, but only reported it to the emperor and informed the Ministry of Personnel. Of course, the Chuzhou Li family also hid their secrets, and they also had to take advantage of the prime minister.

So, what did Li Hanzhang have to be afraid of?

"Greetings to the emperor, greetings to the prince!" Li Hanzhang stood up and bowed.

"Sit down."

Zhu Ming also sat down with the prince, and casually said: "Your nephew committed suicide."

"He brought it upon himself." Li Hanzhang said.

He hated Li Xiaojian very much.

Although the two were of different generations, they were not much different in age, and they often played together when they were young.

At that time, although Li Xiaojian was not well educated, his character was not bad, and he also had the passion to scold treacherous officials.

It was not until a few years ago that an elder in the clan wrote a letter to Li Hanzhang to complain and denounced Li Xiaojian for ruining the Li family style that he realized that his nephew and childhood friend had changed.

Others did not know that Li Hanzhang actually sent people many times to secretly return to his hometown to warn Li Xiaojian to stop, and summoned the elders of the clan to discuss and deal with it.

But Li Xiaojian's lineage is the direct lineage of the Chuzhou Li family, while Li Hanzhang belongs to the side lineage of the Li family.

Li Xiaojian always agreed on the surface and swore to be a good person.

This guy kept donating money and land as family property, and paid for famous teachers to teach Li's descendants, and also supported those Li family members with difficult family conditions.

Gradually, most of the Chuzhou Li family members actually thought that Li Xiaojian was a good person, and even elected him as the head of the Li family!

And what Li Hanzhang did was to only care about himself and not the family.

Faced with complaints from many family members, Li Hanzhang finally made up his mind to cut ties with the family.

Zhu Ming said: "Your nephew is quite capable of making trouble. The Huainan Provincial Censorate is completely rotten from top to bottom. I'm afraid there are not many good people. Even if there are some officials who are not greedy, they must be excluded and unable to do anything. The Metropolitan Command is also rotten. At least from the Salt Canal to the Canal, the garrison and the Canal Army there are engaged in smuggling. At least half of the officials at the prefecture and county levels are rotten, and the clerks are probably all corrupt and law-breaking. It is difficult to judge how many officials of the three Huainan offices have committed crimes."

Li Hanzhang was dumbfounded.

When he asked his brother to go back to divide the family, Li Xiaojian was far less arrogant than he is now. The officialdom of Huainan Province at that time was much cleaner than it is now, otherwise it would have been exposed long ago in previous crackdowns.

It's only been a few years?

The officialdom of Huainan Province has been corrupted to the point of being almost completely corrupt!

The speed of corruption is not "1+2", but a geometric development. Especially in the past two or three years, as the Shahe Society continued to grow, many clerks joined the gang, and even Li Xiaojian could not stop the "black and white integration".

According to Li Xiaojian's original intention, clerks were clerks, gangs were gangs, and the black and white cooperated with each other.

What was the result?

Gang members were constantly hired as clerks, and clerks were constantly serving as gang members.

Black and white were no longer distinguished, and newly appointed officials were easily dragged into the water without knowing it.

The hometown made such a big fuss that Li Hanzhang could not escape the blame even if he split up the family. He stood up and bowed: "I would like to retire and recuperate."

Zhu Ming said: "Prime Minister, you continue to do it first, all the promotions will be deprived, and the official title will be reduced by three levels."

This punishment made Li Hanzhang feel fortunate and disappointed.

In addition to the prime minister's position, all his honorary titles were directly stripped, and his official title became the bottom in the cabinet.

Outsiders may think that this is a self-punishment.

But those who really entered the officialdom knew that every position, whether real or fake, represented glory and power.

For Li Hanzhang himself, this was also a dangerous signal.

If he made a mistake again next time, he might be dismissed!

Fortunately, he cut ties with his family early, otherwise the punishment this time would definitely be the same as Zhai Ruwen's direct retirement.

After accompanying the emperor and the prince to visit Dongxi Garden for a while, Li Hanzhang bowed and left.

Looking at the still confused prince, Zhu Ming asked, "Don't you understand?"

Zhu Yang bowed, "Please explain to me, father."

Zhu Ming explained in detail:

"Li Hanzhang used to control the Ministry of Personnel, and he entered the cabinet at a young age, and he has been the prime minister for many years. His students and former officials are all over the world, but I have replaced several ministers of the Ministry of Personnel. In addition, during those times of strict investigation of corruption, there were great changes in officials, and the newly emerged officials had serious conflicts with Li Hanzhang's students and former officials."

"The leaders of several major civil servant factions don't want to cause any more trouble, at least they don't want to take the initiative to cause trouble. But the officials of their respective factions will push them to go in order to get promoted. They have to fight even if they don't want to, otherwise how can they be the leaders of factions? This incident is nothing more than turning the secret struggle into an open fight on the table."

"The person who planned it is Zhang Su, the right governor of Huainan. He is your grandfather's man..."

"Grandfather?" Zhu Yang was shocked.

Zhu Ming nodded: "When your grandfather abdicated and became the emperor, many people cried and tried to dissuade him, and some of them were sincere in their persuasion. Zhang Su is the great-nephew of Zhang Shangying, the former prime minister of the Song Dynasty. He used to be the chief clerk of Xixiang County. He was the first to discover that there was a problem in Daming Township. But because he was constrained everywhere, he did not cause any damage to Daming Township, but instead became friends with your grandfather." "If your grandfather was still in power, Zhang Su would have been promoted to the center long ago, at least a left assistant minister, only one step away from the minister. But your grandfather abdicated, and he was promoted very slowly. He planned to expose the Huainan case, first, to drive away the left governor, and take the opportunity to temporarily take over the position and be responsible for the Huainan immigration to gain political achievements; second, to help Liang Yi attack Li Hanzhang." Zhu Yang nodded and said: "Lao Liang is my grandfather's direct disciple, I heard that he almost became my grandfather's adopted son. He is indeed the leader of this faction. But even if Prime Minister Li is dismissed from his post, there are still two people ahead of him in the cabinet. How can it not be his turn? "

Zhu Ming smiled and said, "The cabinet ministers ahead of Liang Yi are Zhang Tong and Chen Dong. Although Zhang Tong is a scholar, he came from the military and led troops to fight. Now the Ministry of War and the Privy Council are all controlled by military generals, and Zhang Tong cannot be the prime minister. Similarly, Chen Dong came from the Supervisory Council, and another cabinet minister Wei Liangchen also came from the Supervisory Council. The Supervisory Council is too powerful, and even the Left Censor-in-Chief was replaced by me. If two censors enter the cabinet, can one of them be the prime minister? "

"If my father personally appoints and dismisses the prime minister, anyone can take this position. "Zhu Yang said.

Zhu Ming shook his head slightly: "Of course it is possible to forcefully appoint a prime minister. This is the power of the emperor. But the military power must not be too strong, otherwise it will be difficult for the army to suppress it. Chen Dong and Wei Liangchen, who were born as censors, have offended too many people. Once they become prime ministers, they will intensify the contradictions between the civil officials." Zhu Yang said: "Then they can never be prime ministers in this life?" "Of course not," Zhu Ming said, "If one of the positions of the Minister of War or the Privy Councilor is held by a civil servant, Zhang Tong can be prime minister. If one of Chen Dong and Wei Liangchen dies or retires, the other can be prime minister." Zhu Yang thought carefully and bowed: "Thank you for your teachings, father." Zhu Ming didn't say another word. He suspected that Zhang Tong was also involved! Zhang Tong was the deputy prime minister. Would he have thought about going further?

Zhang Tong and Li Bao can barely be considered as fellow townsmen, and they have a very good personal relationship. Li Jiang, the general of Huainan, is also Li Bao's confidant.

Is it possible for Zhang Tong and Li Bao to go with the flow and work together to dismantle Li Hanzhang and Zhang Guangdao?

After all, Guo Xiong, the commander of Huainan, is Zhang Guangdao's man. If Li Hanzhang and Zhang Guangdao are taken down together, Zhang Tong will have the qualifications to be the prime minister!

Although Zhang Tong entered the cabinet as a military man, Zhang Guangdao, who was in charge of the Ministry of War, was a burden on Zhang Tong's promotion to prime minister.

Zhu Ming was not particularly angry about these messy struggles.

There are open and secret struggles among elementary school students in the election for class monitor, let alone the power of the prime minister of such a big country!

This Huainan corruption case was just a tentative attack.

Regardless of whether Zhang Tong personally participated in it or not, he and Zhang Guangdao would definitely become enemies.

No matter how much you fight, just follow the rules.

Zhu Ming doesn't mind killing anyone who dares to extend the conflicts in the court to the battlefield, even if they are founding heroes!