Song Dynasty's Ignorant Prince

Li Gang thought for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, although corvée makes the people unhappy, the country is always managed by people. If no one acts as corvée, many things cannot be done. Soldiers are not enough, too many people. That will increase the number of redundant troops, and it will cost tens of millions of dollars more in financial expenditures..."

It's not easy to do this, you need people, and you have to reduce expenses.

You must know that corvés do not pay wages, and generally they are hired by households above the fifth rank. However, those people are landlords, and they always try their best to get this corvée to the poor people. In the end, the poor people were made poorer, so the people were even more disgusted with this corvée.

Zhang Shuye hesitated for a moment, "Your Majesty, do you want to be given a certain subsidy for corvée?"

"Good!" Zhao Ji said, "the salary should be paid, otherwise, how can you be motivated by working for nothing? But this will increase the court's expenses. It is better to let the rich pay, and the poor will give money. What do you think about the salary?"

"Your Majesty Shengming!" Several people said.

But this kind of thing is very easy to say, and it is necessary to plan carefully. After deliberation, it was decided that the collection should be based on households. First-class households receive 100 yuan per year, second-class households receive 80 yuan per year, third-class households receive 50 yuan per year, fourth-class households receive 30 yuan per year, and fifth-class households receive 10 yuan per year. .

Each province and city collects and uses it by itself, but it is necessary to publish a list, which one collects how much, and it must be recorded in the book. Some places are rich, and part of the expropriation must be handed over, while for poor places, state subsidies are needed.

Zhao Ji made a decision immediately and did it.

These scholar-bureaucrats are mothers-in-law and mothers, and they have to find an ancestor for everything, which makes Zhao Ji very disliked.

Moreover, in the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a speech officer, that is, an officer who specialized in stinging.

In the feudal era, the emperor was inviolable, and even the emperor's name should be avoided. ...As for scolding the emperor, that's something that most people don't dare to think about!

But the Song Dynasty was an exception.

Incorrupt officials may be found in every dynasty, but the Song Dynasty has the most officials who can handle cases fairly, such as Bao Zheng from Kaifeng House, Song Ci, a criminal officer in the Song Dynasty, etc. Everyone knows that they can be arrogant and not corrupt, but if they want to prevent others from corrupting, Especially for those in high positions.

These people make people love and hate, because the Song Dynasty has the ancestral system not to kill the scholar-official, so the scholar-official dares to speak and scold. Whoever scolds, whoever scolds!

For example, Song Lizong was scolded by scholar-bureaucrats in person: a scholar-bureaucrat named Wang Boda said to Lizong: "Today, the general situation is like a decisive decision in a river, and it is becoming more and more irreversible. ... The great cause cannot be seen in the world, and the people who call the world to slander and talk about it, what is the nationality of the people? Talking about the harm of virtue, the world will take your majesty as the ruler of Shang Zhou and Zhou You.”

It's almost as if Song Lizong was the king of barren silver and the king of subjugated kingdoms like Shang Zhou and Zhou You.

Please note that this is not a written memorial, but Wang Boda's face-to-face scolding of the emperor when he was "into the right". I don't know if Dao Zong was furious after hearing this, but he couldn't convict Wang Bo for this, and could only admit that what Aiqing said was reasonable.

Song people scolding the emperor is like educating their own children, as soon as their emotions come up, they can't stop them, and they are almost ready to do it. If you were in the Qing Dynasty, daring to speak out and remonstrance would be at the risk of beheading!

Even Song Huizong was directly admonished, tearing his sleeves.

However, Zhao Ji cannot condone this situation, because many thesis on impeachment mainly focus on people rather than things, and they prefer personal attacks, tend to attack a minister, put themselves on the moral high ground, try their best to slander others, and don’t hesitate to attack them personally. .

There were as many as 23 ministers who were impeached and dismissed by Emperor Renzong of the Song Dynasty.

During the reign of Emperor Yingzong of Song Dynasty, there was a "dispute over the title of King Pu," Yingzong's biological father. Like a jackal.

"Fujian Senator Ouyang Xiu, who was in political affairs, first opened up evil opinions to please people and masters", which can be described as a personal attack, deliberately intensifying contradictions. During the reign of Shenzong Xining, Lu Hui, who was then the censor of Zhongcheng, repeated his old tricks, frequently attacking Wang Anshi, who presided over the reform, "showing simplicity on the outside, clever and deceitful in the middle, arrogant and slow, and evil thieves".

Due to the alienation of the functions and behaviors of the remonstrance, the forces of the remonstrance developed morbidly, which greatly hindered the ministers in charge. If you don't make progress, you will not attract criticism; if you want to make a difference, if you want to make a difference, it will cause controversy and attack.

The Taiwan remonstrance force developed morbidly in the Northern Song Dynasty, and was deeply involved in the "criminal disputes", which created many conflicts and internal frictions, which seriously affected the administrative efficiency of the government.

Later, Song Huizong appointed Cai Jing. At this time, the officials were out of luck. Anyone who dared to spray indiscriminately, Cai Jing immediately exiled them. Spray again, exile again...

Dozens of speech officials were exiled one after another, and finally made others afraid.

Moreover, Cai Jing brought in his own people and became an official, so he didn't need to talk about it later...

Zhao Ji himself didn't like this kind of behavior, so he cut the number of speakers, and he wanted to have something to say, and he couldn't make nonsense out of nothing.

The current Yanguan is also the later inspector, supervising the hundred officials, and Chen Chaolao came to serve as the inspector of the censor, belonging to the first rank. The specific responsible affairs of the supervisory censor are equivalent to the affairs of the current procuratorate president, the style and performance of the supervisors, etc., and report to the emperor in a timely manner and deal with relevant matters.

And Chen Chaolao also has the Shangfang sword given by Zhao Ji. For officials below the third rank, if the evidence is conclusive, they can be executed first and then served!

Many people don't like to see Chen Chaolao, this guy killed a lot of people, but Zhao Ji trusts Chen Chaolao very much, so they can't do anything about it.

"(Nuo Zhaozhao) Chen Aiqing, you have to control the officials, mainly to supervise the ministers, but don't look at me all the time. In addition, you must provide evidence for everything, don't say anything about the situation, if If you think it affects badly, write it as a memorial, don't say it in the court..."

Zhao Ji and Chen Chaolao had a heart-to-heart relationship. This Chen Chaolao helped Zhao Ji a lot, and he was an upright person. He was just another scumbag.

"Your Majesty, even if Your Majesty has done something wrong, Wei Chen should also point it out, because His Majesty's actions are more important than other ministers..." Chen Chaolao is indeed a guy who accepts the truth.

Chen Chaolao has not been in the capital for a long time, and has been monitoring the corruption and bribery of hundreds of officials in various places, and after Song Huizong's destruction, almost no officials dared to speak up. When Zhao Ji cut officials, he cut them again and again, so that the officials never played a role.