Spoiler History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 691: People’s Lives Are the Most Important

The facts were indeed almost exactly what Li Shimin had guessed.

Xun You was sitting closer to his master, so he could see more clearly.

While everyone else was shocked by the light curtain, he saw with his own eyes that Zhang Fei, who was beside Ming Gong, secretly wrote a note and then forced it into Ming Gong's hand.

Prime Minister Cao has difficulty walking, and the two sides were still getting along well until yesterday.

Therefore, although Xiahou Dun and Xun You both took the initiative to take care of Prime Minister Cao, it was Zhang Fei who finally sat next to Cao Cao.

Just when Xun Yu, Dong Zhao and others were surprised at the sound, light and shadow of the light curtain, as well as the Japan mentioned by Li Shimin.

Xun You watched as Zhang Fei forcibly pried open Ming Gong's arm and threw the crumpled note into the light curtain.

Then a line of text appeared on the screen.

Cao Cao was immediately furious:
"Zhang! Fei!"

"I'm listening, I'm listening."

After cleaning his ears, Zhang Fei looked at Cao Cao, then at his leg which was still in a splint:

"A defeated general, why don't you talk about bravery first?"

Cao Cao was furious, but someone else jumped out first:
"Zhang Yide, do you know how to behave? Although Cao Gong was defeated, he is still the Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty. How can you humiliate him like this?"

"Where did I insult you?"

In this situation, Zhang Fei stood up and fought back without hesitation:
"Why, you were not defeated and captured, but were invited by my brother to a banquet and an outing?"

The atmosphere in the hall suddenly stagnated, but Zhang Fei became more aggressive and pointed at the people who jumped out to defend Cao Cao:
"If Xiahou Dun had said this just now, I would respect him for his brotherly love."

"But if it was you, Liu Ye, who said it, hey, if Emperor Guangwu knew about it, he would be ashamed of you!"

"You!" Liu Ye's face flushed, and his finger pointed at Zhang Fei tremblingly, but when he looked at Liu Bei's calm expression above him, he was speechless for a moment.

Everyone present knew Liu Ye's background. Cao Cao slapped the table. Although he didn't like Liu Ye very much, he was still a minister who defected to him:
"Zi Yang took the risk and risk to respond to the will of Heaven and the people. At that time, I could unite all the counties and states. Zi Yang is willing to help me unify the world and bring peace. What is there to be ashamed of?"

Zhang Fei saw his brother's gesture and sat down and waved his hands:
"If you want to talk about this, then there is a lot to say. Old Cao, just read it first. After you finish reading it, I will talk to you about your affairs after death."

Although Liu Ye felt humiliated and Cao Cao had many doubts in his mind, in the end, because the light curtain in front of them was truly magical and dazzling, they finally sat down again and turned their attention back to the light curtain.

In the Guangzheng Hall of Bianliang, Zhao Kuangyin looked up at the words of Cao Cao that floated across the light curtain.

He immediately looked down at Qian Chu and Li Yu, who were still shocked and no longer cared about the quarrel.

So Zhao Kuangyin simply pointed at the stone table with a friendly look on his face:

"Would you like to give it a try, Chongguang? You can also see Tang Taizong and Zhuge Wuhou writing on this stone table."

Li Yu was a little moved, but immediately shook his head:
"It is quite inconvenient to look up. If I bend down to write, I am afraid my neck will ache, so I won't do it for now." He was not stupid. Judging from what Cao Cao said, Zhao Kuangyin might want him to write something similar.

Being caught was already unpleasant, and now making him write such self-defeating words would be better off dead.

Moreover, although the country's name is Tang, the family knows their own business. Apart from sharing the surname Tang, his Jiangnan Li family and Emperor Taizong of Tang's Longxi Li family are not related at all, so there is actually nothing to say.

"Dad, although this light curtain is magical, it is indeed difficult to look up at it... Can you please put it on the wall of the temple?"

Zhao Dezhao agreed with the first half of Li Yu's words in a low voice, which made Zhao Kuangyin suddenly remember the sightseeing scene mentioned by Han, Tang and Ming people three months ago. His face suddenly darkened. He originally planned to say that the news that the Song Dynasty had already settled in the south and was just waiting to go north to unify it was temporarily put on hold.

Let’s first take a look at what kind of people existed before the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty.

On the other side, Zhao Pu was whispering to Li Yu and Qian Chu about what the light curtain was, causing the two to either exclaim in surprise or frown in thought. Only then did a slight smile appear on Zhao Kuangyin's face.

For Zhao Kuangyin, although the south had been pacified, it was still some distance away from being completely incorporated into the Song Dynasty.

There is no need to worry about Qian Chu being a cunning guy. The only problem may be his clan, but it is entirely possible to make the "King of Qiantang" a thing of the past by breaking them up and resettling them.

Li Yu was a little more troublesome. He had good intentions but was extravagant and wasteful. He was unwilling to surrender but did not improve the military. In addition, his literary reputation was obvious, as was the importance of the Jiangnan region due to its coastal location. Of course, the most important thing was the power struggle with the central government after the economic center shifted south, which was mentioned more than once in later generations.

These made Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Pu study for a long time, and finally they both determined one thing:

If you don’t want the Jiangnan clans to become too powerful to be controlled in the future, then it would be best to start with Li Yu to govern Jiangnan.

So how to make Li Yu, who insists on his own opinion, change his mind? The best way is the light curtain.

But... Zhao Kuangyin's gaze shifted to his bald brother who was looking up at the screen with great interest:
If Li Yu and his brother start fighting, who should he help?
[We said in the last issue that Meng Gong can be called the paperhanger of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Relying on the triple-line strategic in-depth mobile defense, a tactical idea that was ahead of its time, the Southern Song Dynasty successfully survived the fierce offensive of Mongolia, and also successfully brought decades of peace to the rear of the Southern Song Dynasty, and also allowed a scholar who we remember to live his life in peace.

He was born in an ordinary bureaucratic family. After entering school, he became a top student because of his excellent grades. However, when it came to the imperial examinations, he failed repeatedly. It took him nearly ten years to finally pass the exam and become a second-class Jinshi.

After entering the official career, he moved around and served as county magistrate, Sinong Cheng, Judicial Commissioner, prefect, and governor. After governing the local area for more than 20 years, he finally died of illness while in office.

During the more than 20 years that Song Ci served as an official, he did not shy away from saying that he was very hostile to the uprisings of the Southern Song peasants who were dissatisfied with the exploitation and oppression of the corrupt feudal dynasty at that time. He had suppressed peasant uprisings in many places, including Nan'an in Jiangxi, Tingzhou, Shaowu, and Jianzhou in Fujian.

But at the same time, he also sympathized with the poor people at that time. When he was the county magistrate of Changting, the local people were troubled by the need to levy corvée labor all year round to consume Fujian salt, which caused a lot of public resentment. He petitioned to change the transportation of salt by sea to only take three months per month.
When he was the magistrate of Nanjian Prefecture, the prefecture encountered a natural disaster. The local powerful families and wealthy people gathered and occupied the prefecture. Song Ci implemented relief measures to ensure that "no one was hungry" and the people survived the famine.

Personally, although he had a salary of ten thousand stones and lived as a prefect, he had no fertile fields or stables, and he lived his whole life in plain clothes.

Such a resume was far from being outstanding in that era. At most, people would praise him as a scholar who was serious about governing the local area.

But it was precisely because of this serious attitude that Song Ci, when he was the chief judge of the criminal justice system, relied on the experience of his predecessors and his own summary, supplemented by a serious attitude towards handling cases and the concept of "putting people's lives first", and finally wrote a truly immortal work:
"Xiyuan Jilu".

　Every time I change the rhythm, I have to go through an awkward period to get the feel for it.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)