I served as an admonisher in the Song Dynasty

Chapter 230 Su Jingming vs. Xia Song, the three commanders cursed in anger!

About two quarters of an hour later.

Wen Yanbo, Xia Song, Zhang Fangping, Wu Yu, Song Xiang, Ouyang Xiu, and Bao Zheng came to Chui Gong Hall one after another.

The seven people quickly circulated the joint memorial written by Su Liang and four others.

After reading.

Everyone either had a gloomy expression or frowned.

Zhao Zhen looked at the ministers and asked, "What do you think of this matter?"

Xia Song stood up first with a dark face.

He first glanced at Fan Zhongyan and the others, and then said coldly: "Guan family, the court is planning to establish the Department of Reform, not the Department of Chaos!"

"The public trial in front of Xuande Gate and the execution of the county magistrate and county magistrate all violated the laws of the Song Dynasty. The wealth of village households changed greatly, and the information was always inaccurate. If the county magistrate and county magistrate were beheaded because of this, then at least if they were treated equally, at least I also want to chop off thousands of heads all over the world!”

Immediately, Wen Yanbo stood up.

"This move is extremely harmful to the exemption law. I think there is nothing wrong with holding a public trial in front of Xuande Gate to warn the world, but the sentence of beheading is a bit harsh!"

"I second the proposal!" Zhang Fangping, Wu Yu, and Song Xiang said at the same time.

At this time, Bao Zheng stood up.

"I also believe that the sentence of beheading is against the "Song Penal Code" and is absolutely unacceptable."

Bao Zheng has always followed court laws and regulations and never speaks for personal gain.

Hearing this, Xia Song couldn't help but feel happy.

This time, he finally caught the loopholes in the Reform Department.

He expected that the person who proposed this strategy must be Su Liang.

Fan Zhongyan and Liang Shi were both well-known gentlemen. They had always been benevolent and Confucian and had never advocated the use of capital punishment.

Sima Guang had no say in the Reform Department. Only Su Liang could come up with such a reckless idea for the sake of reform.

Just when Xia Song was about to suppress him again, Ouyang Xiu strode out.

"I think this method is very good! In the suburbs of Beijing, county and town officials are so rampant, and I'm afraid it's even worse in other places. Killing these two people can alert local officials all over the world, and it's worth doing! In extraordinary times, extraordinary measures should be taken , this matter should not be too rigidly adhered to the "Song Xingtong", otherwise it will destroy the great cause of the imperial court!"

Ouyang Xiu has always hated evil.

Xia Song stood up with a dissatisfied look on his face.

"Sister Ouyang, if it is as you said, the Reform Department can kill innocent people indiscriminately and punish minor crimes with heavy punishments for the sake of reform. Isn't this nonsense? What's the use of having two governments? Let the officials of the Reform Department decide everything That’s it!”

"Xia Shuxiang, how do you think this matter should be handled?" Ouyang Xiu asked.

"The two of them lied and deceived the government. In addition, they delayed the official affairs of the court and were dismissed from their posts. After that, the entire Song Dynasty reprinted the fifth-class books. This was not a big deal. Why should they make a special case? The public trial in front of Xuande Gate was actually the responsibility of certain officials. To be executed by beheading is a ploy to gain favor from the public, and it is because some officials want to gain power and establish their authority!”

Although Xia Song did not mention any names, every word pointed to the six people from the Reform Department.

Su Liang couldn't help but stand up.

"Xia Shuxiang, if according to you, after remaking the fifth-class book, the information is still inaccurate, and officials still help the rich and bully the poor, how should we explain it?"

"Su Yushi, there are tens of thousands of scholar-bureaucrats and officials in the Song Dynasty. They are all selected from the best of the court. You are not the only ones who are thinking about the court. Others are thinking about corruption and promotion. They also Get down to business!”

"In addition, a cold illness can turn rural people from rich to poor. Household status changes greatly. No matter what the statistical review, there will be errors. If the exemption law does not include such errors, then I suggest this method For now, let’s think about a complete solution!”

Xia Song blamed all the blame for this incident on the exemption law.

"Error? An error is an error. It's done deliberately! It's just like our army. There are so many people eating empty pay. How can we just let it go? What everyone eats is the money of the court!" , Su Liang's words were also offensive.

There are many people in the ranks of the Forbidden Army who live on empty wages.

Xia Song, on the other hand, sometimes turned a blind eye and even enriched himself.

These words immediately aroused Xia Song's anger.

"Officials, if my prediction is correct, Su Liang will probably check the salaries of the Forbidden Army next. If there are empty salaries, will he also submit a memorial and recommend that I be sentenced to death?"

"Guan Jingming, take a look at Su Jingming now. He is already above the laws of the Song Dynasty! If the entire Song Dynasty's reform did not listen to him, would it be wrong? Everything Su Jingming did was right. Everything others do is wrong?”

Xia Song, armed with a gun and a stick, scolded Su Liang until he was useless.

Su Liang wanted to refute.

But he was pulled back by Fan Zhongyan who was on the side.

Fan Zhongyan understood that Su Liang had paid too much for the reform of the entire Song Dynasty.

Preparations began after the failure of the Qingli New Deal. It was he who rekindled the government's desire for reform. It was he who promoted the three-year reform in Qizhou. It was also because of him that reforms such as the official investment policy and the land annexation policy were introduced. Strategy.

Su Liang wanted the reform to be successful more than anyone else, so he advocated the death penalty to frighten officials all over the world and ensure the smooth implementation of the exemption law.

Su Liang was stopped by Fan Zhongyan and gradually calmed down.

When he was young, he could speak forcefully in front of the officials, but now that officials from both governments are here, if he continues to be strong, he will roar in the court and be easily targeted by the officials.

The more favored you are, the more you are in power and doing great things, the more you have to keep a low profile.

Even if the officials have no doubts about him, if he is opposed by the vast majority of court officials, it will be more difficult to do things in the future.

Su Liang thought for a while and was not ready to say anything more.

At this time, the chamberlain came to report, and Wang Yaochen, the envoy of the Third Division, asked to see him.

Zhao Zhen announced it immediately.

Wang Yaochen strode into the Chui Gong Hall and spoke first before anyone stopped.

"Guan Jia, there are [-] households in Gezhai Village. I checked overnight and found that all [-] households have problems such as household failure."

"The county magistrate and county magistrate of Dongming County, these two scoundrels, are no better than beasts for the sake of their personal career!"

"There is a poor family whose father, lame mother and blind son died unexpectedly. All because a widow took care of the two and a half-year-old children, the family was actually classified as having three male laborers and was classified as a third-class household. Even animals could not work. For this kind of thing, I beg the officials to make an exception and punish these two beasts with death to appease the people!"

Wang Yaochen was even more excited than Su Liang just now. He was obviously shocked by the various facts in the village.

After saying that, he took out a document about the situation of the Gezhai villagers that he had written overnight and submitted it.

Wen Yanbo and Zhang Fangping were a little dumbfounded.

To be able to make this scholar, who was always well-spoken and known for his "gentle diction," get so angry that he cursed in the court, which shows that the lower-level officials are really hateful.

After Zhao Zhen read the document, he immediately passed it on to the officials.

The situation in Gezhai Village is unimaginably bad.

Some poor households were classified as upper-class households and because they did not dare to offend officials, the men in the family simply chose to commit suicide in order to reduce the amount of free money.

As Su Liang said, the lower-level officials really turned the policy of exemption from service that enriched the country and the people into a policy of rebellion for the people.

There is no problem with the reform strategy, but it is still a human problem.

(End of this chapter)