In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 248 Give the official a hard time

After Zhao Yurui seized power, many former deputy ministers worshiped in Dongxiao Palace.

At that time, the emperor was very careful, and moved Xue Ji and other family members to Jeju Island. These people lived and boarded in Dongxiao Palace, and no one was allowed to visit, which was tantamount to house arrest.

After being locked up for nearly three years, they were finally released in January this year, and these officials were allowed to go home and live, but they still had to go to Dongxiao Palace to report every day.

Since the opening in January, many officials from the capital have visited.

Yuan Shao originally thought that this was done on purpose by the emperor, and wanted to see who had a better relationship with people like Xue Ji, so he never went.

But now I can't bear it any longer. Zhao Yurui went against the grain, measured the fields, killed civil servants, and forced his shops to sell at lower prices. He was the most cruel and shameless emperor since the Song Dynasty. He couldn't let Zhao Yurui continue to mess around like this.

Yuan Shao braved the cold wind and came to Dongxiao Palace.

Dongxiao Palace is a famous Taoist temple, also known as Dadi Dongtian and Tianzhu Temple. It is even the largest official temple in the Song Dynasty. Take the post of "observation envoy of Dongxiao Palace".

In the Song and Song dynasties, retired officials or officials who had left important positions were more cared for, and they were all arranged to be enshrined in shrines.

Among them, the promotion of Dongxiao Palace Observer is the highest position, and the monthly salary is at least four to five hundred guan.

At this time, Xue Ji was appointed as the observation envoy of Dongxiao Palace, Xuan Zang was the deputy envoy, Nie Zishu, Lin Jie, etc. were also in the palace, their ranks were a little lower, and they all had money and did not need to do anything.

But this Dongxiao Palace is still a bit far from the capital, and the snowy road is not easy to walk. Yuan Shao went out as soon as the city gate opened in the early morning, and arrived at Dongxiao Palace around noon in a carriage all the way.

As soon as he arrived at the gate of Dongxiao Palace, he saw that there were also carriages parked outside, and there were quite a few of them. There should be many people who arrived before him.

He got out of the carriage and came to the gate. Sergeants stood on both sides of the gate, and there was a canopy-like building beside it, and there was a simple hut behind it.

The sergeants wore leather armor, leather helmets, and something around their necks, which seemed to keep them warm.

Yuan Shao was a little surprised, because a lot of equipment was not what Song Ting had before.

The other party didn't know him, but his attitude was good when he saw someone coming. He stepped forward and asked for his name and what he was here for.

Then it says to register.

At this time, a small official came out from the storey and took a note to write down his name.

Hearing that his name was Yuan Shao, the other party didn't react at all. Yuan Shao thought that this little official didn't know him at all.

"There is an order from the imperial court that the visiting time should not be too long, and each person should be limited to half an hour." At this moment, the little official said loudly, "Do you hear me clearly?"

"Listen clearly." Yuan Shao smiled, thinking to himself, it's not about going to jail, but also setting a time limit, it's simply low, and he despises the emperor even more.

He turned his head, glanced and followed.

Immediately, he went forward and handed over ten guanhuizi to the small officials and sergeants.

The clerk and the sergeant looked at each other, then accepted it directly in front of him, and then saw what the clerk wrote on the paper.

Yuan Shao glanced at it from the corner of his eye, and was stunned for a moment, only to see that the little official wrote: "Today, I will receive ten pieces from Yuan Shao's meeting." The time for collecting money is written on the back.

"What is this for?" Yuan Shao couldn't help asking.

The little official said with a smile: "The imperial court allows us to collect money, but the money received must be half and half of the imperial court."

"..." Yuan Shao was stunned.

"Official Yuan, please come in." The little official laughed.

Lie Miao, Yuan Shao secretly scolded the emperor again in his heart.

How can the imperial court allow the following people to receive benefits.

He gave money to the little officials, just trying to get closer, but he didn't expect that the other party could collect money according to the order, and the money was tantamount to free.

After entering Dongxiao Palace, I found that many people had already come.

He is more famous. He knows Chen Wei, a doctor of the Ministry of Industry, Wang Mai, the official of Tanzhou Observation, Liang Bing, the former general judge of Chuzhou, Zeng Shizhong, the former envoy of Liangzhe West Road, Zheng Sun, the former envoy of Sichuan, and Beijing. The West and Hubei Road System Department is in charge of Ji Yiwen, Xiangyang Tongju Shi Songzhi, etc.

In addition to these officials, there were Huang Ziran, Huang Hong, Zhou Datong, Xu Shilong and others who were students of the Beijing Normal University. There was a crowd of about 40 to [-] people.

The composition of the officials present was very complicated, including Shi Miyuan's former confidantes, such as Chen Wei, Shi Songzhi, etc., there were also former local military and political leaders, such as Zeng Shizhong, Zheng Sun, etc., and there were also Qingliu like Wang Mai, who had a good reputation as an official. Not bad, but hate the emperor's indiscriminate killing.

Most of them have some characteristics, that is, they used to hold high positions, but after Zhao Yurui took power, they were slowly relegated to the second line.

After Zhao Yurui took power, Zeng Shizhong immediately set up an envoy from Huainan West Road and transferred him to Liangzhe. After only one year of service, he was enshrined in the shrine.

Zheng Sun didn't say anything, and was directly replaced by Zhao Yurui with Cui Yuzhi, and he was recruited back to serve in the shrine.

Liang Bing was transferred back by Zhao Yurui after Li Quan was exterminated. Although he was not enshrined in the shrine and he was appointed as a doctor of the Ministry of War, but like Chen Wei, he was not assigned anything to do, which was tantamount to being idle.

Wang Mai was originally in Tanzhou, but due to the restructuring of the imperial court, the former observers and other departments were merged, and he lost his position as an observer officer.

The most surprising thing at the scene was Shi Songzhi. Shi Songzhi was Shi Miyuan's nephew, and his ability was also good. After Shi Miyuan's downfall, the emperor did not suppress him in the past two years. Songzhi was good at accumulating grain in the local farmland.

Historically, Shi Songzhi ran farms in Xiangyang, accumulating 68 shi of grain, and was rewarded by the court.

It can be said that the emperor treated Shi Songzhi well, but Shi Songzhi actually came today.

Some of the imperial students Huang Ziran, Huang Hong, Zhou Datong, Xu Shilong and others who were present at the scene had just passed the February provincial examination (also known as the spring examination) and had just been listed the day before yesterday.

Among them, Huang is naturally No. 1 in the provincial examination, provincial yuan, and some of the others are on the list, and some are not on the list.

Usually about ten days after being on the list, there will be a palace test.

The imperial examination in the Southern Song Dynasty was held every three years. Last year was supposed to be Zhao Yurui's first imperial examination after he ascended the throne, but Zhao Yurui postponed it for a year due to restructuring.

There is another characteristic of these Tai students, that is, when Qiao Xingjian united with the Jin Dynasty to fight against Mongolia, they all opposed it, and they knelt together at the main gate of Lizheng, asking Emperor Ningzong to behead Qiao Xingjian.

Now these imperial students, together with veteran officials like Yuan Shao, gathered together and began to complain about the meeting.

Perhaps because of the tradition of not killing civil servants, these people were very courageous and gathered openly without taking the court seriously.

Yuan Shao came late, and when he entered the main hall, there was already a lot of noise inside. He stood on the side and listened for a while, and he probably heard that these people were divided into two factions.

One group is dominated by ether students, who want to unite more students who are on the list, and go to Lizhengmen together. Just like the last time they asked Qiao Xingjian to be beheaded, they knelt at Lizhengmen and asked the emperor to behead Qian Hongzu.

The reason is that Qian Hongzu killed many landlords and officials in Fujian.

Of course, many of the new students on the list are not landlords, so everyone is trying to prevent the emperor from killing officials indiscriminately in the future. This is to force the emperor to express his position, and he will not be able to kill civil officials in the future. We must maintain the fine tradition of not killing scholar-officials in the Song Dynasty .

After all, all the people on the list will be officials in the future, and most of them will also become landlords. (Historically, more than 100 of the Jinshi who participated in the palace examination were from official families, and more than 300 were ordinary people. Of course, many of these ordinary people still received the support of landlords or businessmen, and some of them were small traders in their families. , poor scholars are still very few.)
Whether the emperor fights the landlord or kills officials, it will definitely conflict with their future interests.

But the old-school officials headed by Zheng Sun and Zeng Shizhong felt that the newcomers were too immature, so it would not work to force the emperor to kill Qian Hongzu, and the emperor would kill civil servants and landlords in the future.

The only way to force the emperor to surrender is to commit the crime and admit his mistakes, and then he can no longer kill civil servants.

The matter of measuring the land is not right either, stop it.

They also united many officials and landlords in Zhejiang, Jiangnan, Guangdong and Guangxi, and wanted to write blood letters together, and hoped that these Tai students would unite and support them.

Everyone went to Lizhengmen to speak out. If the emperor did not admit his mistakes, the Gongsheng students who were listed on the list would not participate in the palace examination, nor would they be admitted as Jinshi.

Zheng Shu and the others wanted to use new students to force the emperor to back down.

But naturally, Huang and the others are not stupid. They finally made it to the list and had the opportunity to take the imperial examination. How could they do this?

The two sides are arguing about how to force the emperor.

Zheng Sun and the others said that the emperor didn't care about the former officials. You see, we have all been enshrined, but the Song Dynasty must have new officials to make up for it. Only if you all strongly oppose it, the court and the emperor will make concessions.

You have to let the emperor know that if you kill the civil servants again, the emperor will stop being an official in the future. Who do you think will help you rule the world?
The two groups were arguing, Xue Ji, Xuan Zang, Nie Zishu and other confidantes of Shi Miyuan in the crowd remained silent.

Yuan Shao saw that everyone was arguing for nothing, it was a waste of time, this place is quite far from Lin'an, if this fight continues, there will be no time to return to Lin'an City's home before the dark gate.

"Stop arguing, and listen to Mr. Xue."

From Xue Jiguan to Deputy Prime Minister, Yuan Shao called Xue Xianggong, which was regarded as respect.

Xue Ji and Xuan Zeng looked at each other, thinking that it's useless for you to make such a fuss, and it's only useful if you get Zhao Yurui out of power.

But they dare not tell the truth.

After Xue Ji saw that everyone was quiet, he said decisively: "The thinking and methods of the officials today are different from those of the officials in the Song Dynasty."

Don't you know, this bastard mobilized troops to seize power on the day of his wedding.

"Your little fights won't change anything."

"Then according to Mr. Xue, what should we do?" Huang Ziran asked loudly.

Xue Ji turned his head and glanced at Nie Zishu.

Nie Zishu sternly said: "The only way to deal with the officials is to remonstrate with blood."

"Someone has to be willing to sacrifice."

"To let this incident shock the world, to wake up the students and the officials (and landlords) of the world, let everyone work together and support us, so that the officials will be afraid, and even consider openly confronting the students of the whole world and the consequences for officials."

Hearing the word blood remonstrance, there was an uproar all around.

Lin Jie immediately said again, you will soon become officials one after another, Fujian can easily massacre civil officials, and you will not be able to guarantee safety in the future, this is not speaking for us, this is for yourselves.

In the future, you will also have many grain fields. If Fujian can easily measure everyone's grain fields, there will be no escape for your wealth in the future.

(End of this chapter)