The first prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 1093 Knows God's will better than the emperor?
"The Kingdom of Shu is really too courageous. At this time, they dared to provoke us. Your Majesty, please send troops to conquer the Kingdom of Shu and let this country submit to my Song."

Hu Yanzan has been suffocating for the past few days, so he has returned to his original position, and now when he hears that there is a war, he will jump out again.

"I also agree that this is a provocation against my Great Song Dynasty. I also heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Qian was besieged by Shu Kingdom martial arts people in Shu Kingdom for a while. This is declaring war on my Great Song Dynasty. As long as Your Majesty makes an order Cao Bin is determined to die."

Cao Bin is a Confucian general. This Confucian general is not so elegant on the battlefield, and he is also a murderer without blinking an eye.

In Song Taizu's dynasty, even the literati were warlike. They all lived in troubled times, and they had a kind of gangster spirit in themselves. They also had a kind of desire for war, and even had an extravagant hope of being able to go to the battlefield.

The Song Dynasty began to be weak after the Taizu Taizong, and the Song Dynasty was basically very stable at the time of Zhenzong, and the literati gradually became docile, and a weak breath slowly spread throughout the entire court. Come.

But the literati at the beginning of Zhao Kuangyin's career were not as useless as the later ones. Seeing the generals eager to try, these literati couldn't bear it anymore.

"Your Majesty, I think it's time to teach such a disobedient country a lesson. We must make Meng Mengchang pay for it." This is Zhao Pu. At this time, after Zhao Kuangyin returned, Zhao Pu was still the prime minister. There are also a few deputies.

Lv Qingyu and Xue Juzheng were appointed as political advisers to limit his power. It's not that the emperor doesn't trust him, but because the emperor wants balance. If you are a prime minister and you have all the power, what will the emperor do?

The emperor can only use some means to let the ministers below fight, and the emperor mediates in the middle, which can also make the emperor feel that he has a sense of power.

"The prime minister's words are a bit wrong. How could we, the celestial kingdom, go to war because of his unreasonableness? Peace is the most important thing."

This is Kong Yi, the contemporary Wen Xuangong, he should be in Shandong, but now he happened to come to Chaozhou to have an audience, and it just happened to happen. He is a descendant of Confucius, and he naturally inherited Confucius' thoughts.

"Master Kong, what's wrong, this country of Shu actually wants to unite with the Northern Han Dynasty and wants to attack my Great Song Dynasty, shouldn't we retaliate with an eye for an eye?"

Although Zhao Pu was later called half of the Analects of Confucius to rule the world, it shows his ability, and it also shows that he is not a Confucian in the traditional sense, so he does not have so much awe of Confucianism.

"Our Confucianism pays attention to convincing people with reason. How can we make people want to fight just because of a word from others? As the saying goes, a gentleman uses his mouth but not his hands. How can our Song Dynasty make rash moves because of this? How much harm will this bring to the people? Disasters cannot be caused by one's momentary atmosphere."

"The ancestors once said that we should persuade people with reason, but it is better not to use troops to dissuade your Majesty, as long as you send envoys to the Shu Kingdom to inquire and find out, it is very good, and it will also save the people of the two countries from the suffering of war. .”

Don't you know that the emperor has wanted to attack the Shu Kingdom for a long time, this elm bump? Now that he has such an opportunity, can the old man let it go? You are talking here and there, do you have any collusion with the Shu Kingdom? Zhao Kuangyin's ministers began to mutter in their hearts.

"That's right, Duke Wenxuan said it well. The sage Confucius said that. Please think again, Your Majesty."

"Think twice, Your Majesty!"

The name of Confucius is really too great. Many old officials jumped out immediately when they heard what Kong Yi said. Kong Yi is a direct descendant of Confucius. Does he represent the thoughts of Confucius? The contemporary Wenxuan Gong After speaking, the others quickly expressed their views.

Zhao Kuangyin saw that this was going to be a bad thing. These old courtiers were all from the previous dynasty, and they were loyal to him, but they were a bit pedantic, and they were all about them all day long. These are things that can be had in prosperous times. Now it is troubled times. You tell me this.

These people are old courtiers, Zhao Kuangyin can't deal with them hastily, it will make the scholars in the world chill, and it seems to be a embarrassment for the emperor.

"Destroy Wudao and punish Qin, raise the pole!"

Just when everyone was thinking about how the emperor should answer the truth, such a sentence suddenly sounded at this moment. This nonsensical sentence made everyone feel very puzzled, what does this person mean.

"Destroy Wudao and punish Qin, rise up! Have you heard this sentence?" At this time, the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty finally saw clearly who was speaking, it was the current prince Zhao Xu.

"I don't know what His Highness means by this. Now the officials are talking about whether His Majesty should send troops to the Kingdom of Shu. I really don't know His Highness?"

Kong Yi only met Zhao Xu once, and he didn't have a good impression of Zhao Xu. When the Song Dynasty was established, Confucius was supposed to be worthy of the Taimiao, and the emperors of all dynasties did the same, so the emperors of the Confucian family would also become even higher.

However, at this time, Zhao Xu said that Confucius was not worthy of the Taimiao, but a Guozijian was built next to the Taimiao, and Confucius' tablet was placed there, and it was also enshrined by others. However, the status of the Confucius family has dropped a lot since then.

So Kong Yi didn't respect Zhao Xu at all because of his identity, but complained to him a little bit. In fact, Kong Yi forgot that if Da Song didn't canonize him, would he still be where he is today?

"I don't study much. I want to know what your Confucians think about and define what I just said?" Zhao Xu frankly admitted that he didn't study much. Don't lie to me. According to your Confucian interpretation, this sentence is What.

"Of course it's an act of justice. To defeat the injustice and punish the tyrannical Qin Dynasty, the rise of the rebels opened the prelude to the demise of the Qin Dynasty. It was an act of justice to overthrow the tyrannical Qin Dynasty, and then there was a strong and powerful Han Dynasty. , we Confucians define this as an act of justice."

Kong Yi naturally wouldn't say anything bad, he still proudly said that Confucian people have this kind of virtue.

"That's a good answer. It is justice to punish the injustice and tyranny of the Qin Dynasty. Could it be that my Great Song's attack on the Shu Kingdom is an unjust act? Today, the world is torn apart and the people are miserable. My Great Song Dynasty stands in the sky, and Your Majesty is the Son of Dragon, Your Majesty What you are doing is in accordance with the will of the people and the will of heaven, why do you want to stop it, or do you understand the will of heaven better than your majesty?"

Zhao Xu's series of rhetorical questions made these ministers break out in cold sweat. It means that we are going to rebel. The emperor calls himself the Son of Heaven, which is the Son of Heaven.

Responsible for communicating with the heavens, representing the will of the heavens, but now the prince says that we understand the will of the heavens better than your majesty?
Isn't this putting us above the emperor? This is a soft knife that kills without blood. It is higher than the emperor's position. Will the emperor spare us?

(End of this chapter)