The first prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 153
Since there was no such emperor before, let me, Zhao Kuangyin, be such a person.

That is an emperor who carries on the past and ushers in the future, so what he does must be done by no one else, otherwise what is it called carrying on the past and ushering in the future, no one before?
Just like Qin Shihuang, who was the first to unify China and thought he was the emperor. Who has done this before.

But he did so, so he became the emperor through the ages, no matter what the posterity said about him, he was always the emperor who thought he would carry on the past and usher in the future.

Now Zhao Kuangyin just wants to become the emperor who thought the past was the future, and become such an emperor.

Just like what he thought just now, I don't care what the previous emperor was like, but I want to become an emperor who never appeared before.

"Xu'er, it took me a few days to understand why the emperor called himself a widow?"

It stands to reason that when he said this, he should have looked very sad, but Zhao Kuangyin said it with a smile.

Zhao Xu knew that his father had figured out something, but he didn't know what it was, otherwise he wouldn't have expressed such emotion.

"That is, as an emperor, he must first be responsible for the entire country. He is no longer alone, he already represents the entire country."

"He doesn't have the same freedom as before, because he has to put aside his personal feelings. He must first consider the community and the stability of the country."

What Zhao Kuangyin said is not wrong. The top leader of a country must first consider the country. This is his mission.

He is the emperor, the emperor, the supreme of a country, possessing supreme power and absolute authority.

He is admired by all people, and he is given all good things first. It can also be said that he gets all resources first.

This is his power as an emperor, because there is no king's land within the four seas, and no king's ministers on the shore of the land.

The whole country is our own, so isn't everything in the whole country also our own?

So the emperor has a lot of power and can enjoy many things that others can't imagine, which is what he deserves.

But to use a more fashionable saying nowadays, rights and obligations are unified and relative.

Since you enjoy rights by relying on your own power, you should fulfill some obligations, otherwise no one will obey you.

So you emperor should do your best to govern the country, let the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the people are rich, so that the people can support you.

Only in this way can your position be stabilized, and you can continue to maintain your privileges, your position of disdain for all sentient beings.

So what Zhao Kuangyin said is to start from the perspective of Sheji first, which is not unreasonable.

If you think about yourself first, then who will obey you, King Zhou You, but he only cared about making his concubine happy, and the princes of Fenghuo opera burned his own country all at once.

Xia Jie only cared about his own enjoyment, and brazenly compared himself to the sun, but the people were unwilling.

The common people were miserable, and they said, if you were the sun, we would rather perish together with the sun. In the end, Xia Jie died, but the sun did not perish.

Needless to say, King Zhou, who eats meat and other things all day long, has long been abandoned by him, and his fate can be imagined.

None of these people did not start from the community first, but enjoy themselves from their own perspective. As a result, the community was lost, and they themselves were left with a bad reputation for thousands of years.

After Zhao Kuangyin finished speaking, Zhao Xu's mind unconsciously came up with these few people.

It's not worth it, so I naturally thought of these people, maybe I hated these people very much in my previous life.

"Father, just based on what you said just now, you will definitely become a righteous and enlightened emperor. In this regard, you have already surpassed many enlightened emperors in history."

What Zhao Xu said was not a compliment to Zhao Kuangyin. The old Zhao in history was really a very respectable emperor.

"Hehehe, how dare I compare with those people, I just know that I can do what I should do well, and that's enough for the common people to live a good life."

"In the future, if the common people can say that I am a good emperor, then I will be really satisfied."

"Hahaha, Dad, as an emperor, you should have arrogance. Didn't you say that you want to be an unprecedented emperor, so what you should have is confidence. You should know this better than anyone else."

Ok?
What my son said was right. Didn't he want to claim to be an unprecedented emperor? Why did he lose his confidence just after he finished speaking?

The emperor is the son of heaven, and the son of heaven is the son of heaven, the son of heaven, and the agent of heaven in the world.

If you don’t even have this bit of confidence, why not be an emperor, why don’t you go home and have a baby. Since God made me an emperor, then I will do my best.

Either don't do it, or do it to the best. This is my creed, Zhao Kuangyin, and Zhao Kuangyin's confidence returned for a while.

Once again, he became the confident Zhao Kuangyin back then, and Zhao Xu could clearly feel the change.

Zhao Kuangyin did not continue to entangle on this topic, but continued to talk about the topic just now, that is why the emperor called himself a widow.

"Just now I said that an emperor should consider everything for the country first. Of course, what I said was done by an emperor who wanted to be famous in history, but he also considered himself first."

"But these people who want to think about themselves first have become negative teaching materials in the end. I will not do this for the sake of our Zhao family's Great Song Dynasty."

It seems that Zhao Kuangyin still sees clearly that he is a very clear-headed person, otherwise he would not be able to rise quickly.

"It is precisely because we emperors always start with the country first, so we don't have time to ask about many personal relationships. Gradually, the emperor has very few friends, so that it is said that companionship with the monarch is like a tiger."

When Zhao Kuangyin said this, he seemed a little bit lost. This is also the sorrow of the emperor. Who can make them the emperor if there is no way?
"Father, it's all from those who have no ambitions. You see, why don't those capable ministers say this sentence, and besides, how can they guess the emperor's actions?"

What Zhao Xu disliked the most was these people. They didn't want to do anything. They thought that governing the country should be done according to their wishes.

They feel that they are capable ministers who have the power of heaven and earth, and that they are the emperor's right-hand man. If the emperor does not use them, it will be a loss.

Can they know that things are not as simple as they think? Can the emperor think about things that are so simple?

So sometimes they offended the emperor and were demoted or imprisoned by the emperor, but they said the emperor was wrong
It is true that the emperor is ignorant and deceived by treacherous officials, but not every emperor is like this.

What companions are like companions to tigers, I think it's all nonsense, it's all their complaints for themselves, everyone is like, want to be a bitch and want to set up a memorial archway.

After Zhao Xu said these words, Zhao Kuangyin couldn't help laughing out loud. This guy usually talks in a set way.

Why is what I said today a little bit.ruffian flow.The taste of hooligans, those who are self-proclaimed as if they want to be bitches and set up memorial archways.

I don't know what the reaction will be if those people hear it, but it's true when I think about it, but I can't say it directly.

Zhao Kuangyin knew that these were the literati that Zhao Xu was talking about, but he couldn't figure out why his son was hostile to these literati.

Although I don't like these literati, such people should rest assured that they don't want military generals to rebel. The so-called literati rebellion will not succeed in three years.

"Xu'er, we feel that what you said was aimed at a certain person, or those literati. They are all officials who govern the country. You are..."

Zhao Kuangyin was born as a military general and won the position of emperor. He didn't want such a thing to happen again, so he rejected military generals very much in his heart, but trusted civil servants very much.

"No, I'm just lamenting history. By the way, you said that those literati are capable ministers who govern the country. It is undeniable that many of them are good at governing the country, but not everyone is good at governing the country, right? Study and be an official!"

A person who can read may not be a good official or minister, or he may be a nerd who only talks about poetry all day long.

"No way, those literati are all familiar with the books of sages, so why can't they be good officials? Ever since there was an imperial examination, this is a good way to select officials?"

Although Zhao Kuangyin is not very proficient in writing and ink, but he is not an idiot, and he knows many things.

"My father, look at that sage book that says how to be a good official. Such a sage book can only cultivate one's moral character. Can it teach you how to judge a case? Can it teach an official how to sentence a criminal?"

After Zhao Xu asked such a question, Zhao Kuangyin also realized that there are really no such things in this book, why didn't he pay attention to this before? /
"Well, I really didn't find out about this before. By the way, I was thinking about opening a course to obtain scholars for our Song Dynasty. How can I obtain scholars?" Zhao Kuangyin hesitated.

"It's not easy. It's good to start a subject to obtain a scholar, but can we change the content of the test? For example, we can divide the imperial examination into several subjects. Those who have literary talent can also test the criminal law of our Song Dynasty. Finally Summarize their grades and decide whether to hire or not."

Since we want to select truly capable talents, we can't just look at their literary talent, good literary talent is not necessarily good for others.

This depends on their overall quality, that is, they must be developed in an all-round way, so that the elected officials are not poor literati.

Because people who can only write a few articles will definitely not win, and there are other things to examine. This is Zhao Xu's general thinking about the imperial examination.

Later, Da Song implemented his imperial examination subjects. Needless to say, the people selected were all talented and practical talents.

(End of this chapter)