Song Dynasty Cannon Fodder Counterattack Record

Chapter 195 The Emperor's Painful Foot

After Li Buqi went to the Hall of Wende to salute, he asked the emperor about his decision on the establishment of a police department. Zhao Zhen said, "I have read your memorial, and there is indeed some truth. It's just that all the ministers said that the functions of the police department overlap with the existing departments. There is really no need to set up a separate company. That's it, Chen Qing."

Chen Zhizhong said: "That's exactly the case. The functions of the Police Division overlap with those of the local government, the Privy Council, the Imperial City Division, and the Yushitai. It is really inappropriate to have another police officer to waste money and food."

Zhao Zhen looked at Li Buqi: "Buqi, what do you think is so?"

Li Buqi understood the emperor's meaning as "give me a punch and slap them in the face hard".Seeing that the emperor even gave him a wink, saying that he would silently support him behind his back, Li Buqi cursed in his heart: Damn, this is the leader!
While greeting Zhao Zhen's ancestors in his heart, Li Buqi said, "I don't agree with what Xianggong said. Can I say a few things, and I will make a conclusion after hearing it?"

Chen Zhizhong then nodded.Li Buqi said: "It is widely rumored in the Shaanxi army that Han Qi was stationed in Jingyuan. At night, someone brought a dagger into the dormitory and lifted the curtain. Han Qi asked: "Who, what? The man said, "Come and kill the advice." Han Qi asked: "Who sent it?" "The man said: "Xixia Zhang Xianggong (Zhang Yuan) ordered. "Han Qifu leaned on his pillow and said, "Take the remaining head and go." "The assassin couldn't bear it, so he just took Han Qi's gold belt out, and Han Qi didn't ask about it the next day. But soon a gatekeeper offered the gold belt that the assassin took away yesterday, and it turned out that the assassin took the gold belt to publicize this To shake the morale of the officers and soldiers. Privy Xia, you should know about this, right?"

Xia Song's face was so gloomy that water dripped out, but he still nodded.

He couldn't turn his head.The story of Han Qi was circulated in the Shaanxi army, so he naturally knew about it. The emperor could find out as long as he inquired about it, so he dared not hide it.What's more, there is still a big pile of shit on his own butt, for fear of getting angry, Li Buqi will throw it out for him.

Li Buqi looked at Chen Zhizhong and the others, and they had no choice but to nod to show that they had heard of it.This incident is usually used to show the courage of the literati, so it is widely spread, and they dare not deny it, but they did not expect Li Buqi to use it today to demonstrate the necessity of establishing a police force, but he is also shooting himself in the foot.

Li Buqi went on to say: "It's fine to let the enemy take advantage of the loopholes occasionally, but if you let the enemy take advantage of the loopholes repeatedly, you can only make the enemy laugh. At the beginning, the imperial court imprisoned Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao's family members who recognized the thief as their father in Suizhou to contain the two thieves. In the second year of Qingli , Yuan and Haoqian sent spies to rob everyone with just a piece of paper, and the officials and people were ignorant. What's annoying is that when their family members arrived at the border, the two led horses and light carts to meet them, and intentionally Dazhang played drums for a long time. The lower officials thought they were mocking me for the incompetence of the Da Song government. The lower officials heard that the Xixia people still laughed at me every time this matter was brought up, thinking that I could be bullied."

Even though Zhao Zhen has always been good-tempered, he still shook his head and sighed when he heard that Da Song was underestimated by Xi Xia.

Li Buqi also said: "Furthermore, your Majesty's palace once released a group of palace people, and Yuan Hao sent people to buy several of them, so that Yuan Hao knew everything inside and outside; there were also spies from Liao and Xia who were rampant in Bianliang. Collecting intelligence for several years without the imperial court being aware of it; Maitreya sect infiltrating everywhere but the local government cannot stop them, these are lessons from the past.”

"Let's talk about the immediate matter. Zhang Deyi's violent expropriation and excessive taxation during the Beizhou Rebellion could be regarded as an introduction even if it wasn't the cause. His evil deeds are so obvious, why didn't Yushitai have any references to him? As long as he was killed three or four months earlier How can there be thieves rampant when punished and dismissed from office? Moreover, when the Beizhou Rebellion broke out, if a strong army went to the surrounding area of ​​Beizhou to suppress and disperse the Maitreya Sect who gathered in Beizhou, how could Beizhou fight? It took fifty days to take it?"

Seeing that Chen Zhizhong wanted to speak, Li Buqi hurriedly continued: "There is one more thing. I heard from the people who traveled in the West that there are silks and satins in the West, and now I still buy silk from the Song Dynasty, but their silk is not as good as that from the Song Dynasty. Originally, the West did not produce silk, and their silkworms were stolen from our Central Plains!"

Zhao Zhen now has Li Buqi and a group of nobles who often preach in front of his eyes. He also knows that sea trade is a profitable business, and silk trade is the highlight of it. Hearing that his silkworms have been stolen by others, he can't help raising Beginning to show his concern.

"Many years ago, two western monks came to our Central Plains in the name of preaching. They cheated silkworm eggs and hid them in the holes of their walking sticks and brought them back to Daqin. Since then, there has been silk in Daqin. Fortunately, there are no mulberry trees in Daqin. So silk is not as good as my Da Song’s, and the richest people still want to buy my Da Song’s silk. But since we can get Da Qin’s apple trees, wouldn’t Da Qin’s people try to take away our mulberry trees? And I Da Qin There are many good things in the Song Dynasty, such as tea, which is not available outside the Central Plains. In addition, the iron smelting technology of our Song Dynasty has just made a major breakthrough. If these technologies fall into the hands of the barbarians, they can produce more swords."

The biggest characteristic of the emperors and ministers of the Song Dynasty is that they are cowardly.Maybe he can be indifferent to Li Buqi's previous words, but he shudders when he hears that the barbarians may produce more weapons.

Xia Song said: "Since this is the case, I request that this iron smelting technique can only be used in the government's own smelting field, and should not be spread."

Li Buqi said: "The lower officials thought it would be really difficult if there was no special department to supervise this matter. For example, the craftsmen from Daqin offered two very good weapons, and the lower officials thought it would be easy for Liao and Xia to imitate them." Go, it will be much more convenient for the Liao and Xia armies to attack the city again, so the order must be strictly kept secret. Unexpectedly, last year, there was a second-ranked Jinshi who just took a job in the test field to satisfy his desire to show off. I drew a diagram and showed it to him in the same year. Fortunately, the arresting and robbery department got wind of the incident and captured the official. It’s just that the rumors have leaked out, so it’s hard to know whether Liaoxia knew about it.”

Li Buqi easily killed a subordinate who could only babble and not do business, and completely frightened Zhao Zhen and a group of ministers to death.Zhao Zhen immediately said to Li Buqi: "In the future, let the arrest and robber department pay attention to the leak."

Li Buqi said: "This is the matter of the arresting and robbery department. Please also issue an order to the Imperial City Secretary. And let me say one more thing, in fact, the function of the arresting and robbery department is not here. It is a bit unfair to care about this matter." Shun."

Li Buqi then went on to say: "Some things seem trivial, but they are of great importance. The local government, the Privy Council, the Imperial City Secretary, and the Yushitai each have their own priorities, and the affairs are complicated. One is that they may not be able to manage these trivial matters. One may not know how to manage it. So we need a yamen with a special position and specialization in this matter to take care of these things. The territory of my Song Dynasty is so large, and His Majesty rules the world and cannot follow what others say. It is necessary to know the real situation of the people, at least to prevent it from happening again An official like Zhang Deyi has brought disaster to the country and the people, so there must be a channel that can reflect the feelings of the people in various places to His Majesty."

Li Buqi repeatedly used Zhang Deyi as a negative example, and Xia Song peeked at the growing anger in Zhao Zhen's eyes.He couldn't help but pay more attention to Li Buqi-this painful foot is accurately grasped!
When he had just conquered Beizhou, Li Buqi wrote a memorial, using Zhang Deyi's violent expropriation to force him to rebel against Xuan Yi's army. He said that Zhang Deyi should be killed. The emperor defended Zhang Deyi on the grounds of "scholar bureaucrat", and the emperor who wanted to kill Zhang Deyi had to ask Dali Temple to interrogate Zhang Deyi and convicted him again and again.

Based on the resolute agreement of civil servants on the issue of "the government does not kill scholar-bureaucrats", Xia Song believed that Zhang Deyi was the one who was most likely to be assigned to Qiongya, but things turned around later.Before Zhang Deyi was sent to Bianliang, Beizhou found out that Zhang Deyi surrendered to Wang Ze and accepted Wang Zefeng's official position.

It is conceivable that Zhao Zhen's anger got the news.The Emperor of Song Dynasty could tolerate the incompetence and corruption of officials, but he wanted you officials to be a little loyal, but now that there is no loyalty at all, what would the emperor think?
The officials in charge of the prime minister were all so red-faced because they defended Zhang Deyi in front of him, they dared not speak anymore, so Zhang Deyi was beheaded as soon as he arrived in the capital without any accident.However, the scars in the emperor's heart seemed to have not healed. Xia Song, who was so good at understanding the emperor's psychology, could already feel that the emperor's attitude towards civil servants had undergone a subtle change.

Li Buqixuan kept poking the scars in the emperor's heart at this time, the timing was too good.Xia Song, who was familiar with Zhao Zhen, knew that the emperor was full of evil spirits and couldn't get out. At this time, whoever caught the bad luck was sure to die, so he decided to give up.Having made up his mind, he glanced at Chen Zhizhong, Wen Yanbo and others again.

Now he hoped that Chen Zhizhong would fight with the emperor, maybe the emperor would take Chen Zhizhong down and replace him as his husband.

PS: The robbed stone lump asked when the cannons would be released, and said responsibly, soon, there will be a war on Tamna Island, and the muskets will be used immediately, and the cannons will come out in the next step.

Book friend 170208144911816 said that it was meaningless not to rebel in the Song Dynasty, but it would drive the emperor crazy and seize the throne in the future. This is also a kind of rebellion.

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