Song Gexing

Chapter 225 Zhao Fang’s Unique Thoughts (The previous chapter was wrong, it should be Chapter 220)
"How does Your Majesty plan to arrange for the Liang family? She is different from the Wuzang family. It is impossible to give her the position of nine concubines, right?"

After talking about the affairs of the Liao Kingdom, the next focus is on the Xixia side. Li Liangzuo's execution and Liang Luoyao are already on the way.This is a promise not to go back on the promise not to hide Derong.

At this time in the Song Dynasty, no one knew that Liang Luoyao had committed an adulterous affair with Li Liangzuo and had secretly informed and betrayed Wu Zangpang. Otherwise, they would never have agreed to this matter.

This kind of secret history of the palace was hidden by Xixia itself and could not be exposed. Later generations knew this because it was an old story dug up by the opponents when Liang Luoyao was listening behind the curtain.

Zhao Fang knew about this, but he would not say it out loud. There was no need to increase resistance. In the end, he would still have a headache.

From his standpoint, of course, the simpler it is to annex Xixia, the better. Marriage is the simplest thing, but the scholar-officials of the Song Dynasty will never compromise.

Except for that bastard Huizong, the Song Dynasty never used women to marry, and even the Liao Kingdom couldn't marry a princess of the Song Dynasty.

Princesses of the Song Dynasty, starting from the Zhao Kuangyin era, had only married into wealthy families in the Song Dynasty. It was not that they were not used for marriages, but they were all internal marriages.

Zhao Fang was not willing to marry like this, but he still agreed with the marriage of foreign married women, but the scholar-bureaucrats of the Song Dynasty were not even happy with this.

Xiao Guanyin was already an exception before, but it was also this exception that this time the opposition was quickly suppressed.

Liang Shi, who was in Taiyuan, said, "My emperor rules the world, aren't Dangxiang women subjects of the world?"

This sentence originally said that Wu Zang married Zhao Fang, but later it was changed to Liang Luoyao, so naturally no one objected anymore, not even the Dangxiang family, not to mention that the Liang family was Han.

"Speaking of the ninth concubine, I remembered that Han Zhaoyi should be promoted to a higher rank after giving birth to the second son of the emperor. Then she can be canonized as a virtuous concubine."

Zhao Fang did not answer Han Qi's question, let alone Liang Luoyao's arrangements, and talked about Han Xue.

Han Qi frowned, and immediately showed his face and said: "Yes, it is true that Han Zhaoyi should be rewarded according to the rules, then do as His Majesty said."

He was not polite. Zhao Fang secretly despised him. His father-in-law still loved his daughter, but he just liked to take care of her. This was what he disliked the most.

I also have a daughter, and I take the time to hug her every day. How can I be so arrogant like him and ride a horse for my precious daughter?

After despising his father-in-law, Zhao Fang smiled and said: "Pan'er and the others are just concubines, so don't even think about it. Giving Jieyu is just for her original status as the Princess of Xixia."

Han Qi nodded and said, "That's right. Queen Xia is just the princess of Song Dynasty, and Liang's concubine is just the concubine of the county prince."

This statement was recognized by everyone. Xixia was a vassal state enshrined by the Song Dynasty. There was no such thing as a vassal king in the Song Dynasty. The king of the vassal state was lower than the prince and could only be regarded as a county king.

If she negotiated terms with Wu Zang Derong, Liang would have been sent to the palace as a prisoner of war, and being a palace maid would be a promotion to her.

There was also Zhao Xin's mistake. Regardless of whether it was calculated by others, as long as no evidence was found, he still had to appease the Xixia surrender ministers, so he had to give Liang a better position.

Ten days later, Liang Luoyao arrived in Bianjing, and the head of Li Liangzuo was also delivered. Zhao Fang was not interested in verifying whether it was him. The Imperial City Division had already reported this information.He waved his hand magnanimously and said: "It's good to have a good burial. Burying him outside Bianjing City according to the regulations of the Jiedu Envoy is an affirmation of Li Sigong's suppression of the rebellion."

The ministers were puzzled. There was no need to give him such a reward. After all, Li Yuanhao was considered a traitor and a traitor. It would be considered kind to not dig up the ancestral graves of the Li family.

Zhao Fang didn't think so, and said in a low voice: "Li Liangzuo was buried generously. I want to tell the world that no matter you are a Song Dynasty person, a Dangxiang person, a Khitan person, or even a Jurchen, as long as you have served your country loyally, I will honor you." I will remember your merits, and at the same time, even if you are Han, if you are a beast like Zhang Jiao and Huang Chao, I will dig up your ancestral graves and exterminate your descendants."

This statement shocked the officials, and someone immediately asked: "Is Your Majesty going to liquidate the rebels of the past generations? But the descendants of these people have long been unknown. Besides, when it comes to rebellion, Liu Bang, the founder of the Han Dynasty, does not count, and Li Yuan and his son do not count. How to put it, do we have to talk about success as king and defeat as bandit?"

After Zhao Fang shook his head and denied it, he said solemnly: "The emperor has no way, and the subjects can rebel all they want. It's not their fault. The reason why I want to settle accounts is not because of these two rebellions, but because of their cruel methods. They are not for the sake of the people." And rebellion, but to drive good people to do evil ghosts, wherever they go, they are like locusts crossing the border. They not only kill the dignitaries who usually hate, but also the grassland people who are also like duckweed. Their behavior is more despicable than animals. , these beasts are not considered human beings at all, metaphors like beasts are defiled beasts.”

Zhao Fang's words were astonishing. It was not that he was scolding those who rebelled, but that he was saying that the emperor was innocent and his subjects could rebel. You must know that he was the emperor.

The shocked ministers were stunned for a long time, and they all screamed.

But for Zhao Fang, no matter in this life or in the previous life, he believed that these two people were not good people. Zhang Jiao used religion to confuse the people, let alone talk about rebellion for the people.

There are many people who cannot survive, but they are definitely not their brothers. Huang Chao is even more hateful. He failed to pass the imperial examination and resented the imperial court for rebelling. He said it in a high-sounding way, but it was actually for his own ambition.

And you can see that the fighting style of these two people is exactly the same as that of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong later. They used innocent people as cannon fodder, exhausted the fighting power of the officers and soldiers, and then followed them to kill them.

This kind of behavior is really worse than animals. Liu Bang and Li Yuan were rebels, but they set up a battle array to confront the government and the army. Those who died on the battlefield were soldiers, not unarmed civilians.

This is an essential difference. Although they were all for their own ambitions, the emperors of the Han and Tang Dynasties could claim that they were asking for orders for the people because they did not treat the people as human shields.

There is no need to plunder a land after capturing it. Some of them are to appease the people and continue their lives after the capture. On the basis that the people can survive, they collect resources and continue the war.

In other words, they did not exploit the people but did not abuse them. Li Zicheng did the same thing in the later period, but he was also a beast in the early stage.

Looking through the Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms and the History of the Ming Dynasty, you can see that it is no different from the Five Hurans in China. People cannibalize people everywhere. The two-legged sheep is not a unique invention of the Hu people.

Cao Cao used human flesh as food for his army. This is why the idea of ​​respecting Liu and restraining Cao became the mainstream in ancient times. Those who used sticks in later generations only saw the heroic side of Cao Cao and did not see his cruelty.

Isn't it the Cao family's retribution for the Sima family to destroy Cao? On the contrary, Liu Bei, who was despised by later generations as a hypocrite, never did such a wicked thing.

It can only be said that the moral values ​​of future generations have collapsed, so they will worship Cao Cao and belittle Liu Bei.

If this kind of people were thrown into the Three Kingdoms era, I would like to see whether they would be willing to follow Liu Bei and wander around, or whether they would be willing to be slaughtered and used as dried meat by Cao Cao.

(End of this chapter)