Song Dynasty Cannon Fodder Counterattack Record

Chapter 286 Building Prestige
With the emperor's full recovery, the borders of Shaanxi became more and more uneasy. The ministers of Shaanxi and the court wrote letters saying that the affairs of Shaanxi must be Li Buqi, and asked the emperor to send Li Buqi to appease Shaanxi.The emperor had no choice but to ask Li Buqi about his intentions, but Li Buqi resigned from office to serve his parents at home on the grounds that he had been stationed in Guangnan for five years and had not fulfilled his filial piety. He also recommended Guo Kui, Jingtai and others.

In the Song Dynasty, filial piety was greater than the sky, and officials often asked to change their location on the grounds of serving their parents, so Li Buqi's request was not a problem.Even the emperor was embarrassed. At the beginning, Li Buqi went to Guangnan without saying a word. He was only under [-] years old. He didn't even have a woman around him for more than four years. Going to Shaanxi, I don't know how many years it will take to come back, it is indeed a bit unreasonable.

In the past, when Li Buqi went to Hebei and Guangnan, he would go without saying a word, but this time he went uncharacteristically and made some people who were full of worries think too much.Li Buqi also insisted not to go to Shaanxi. Some people became more and more anxious. In the end, Han Qi, the deputy privy envoy, suggested that Li Buqi take his family to Shaanxi to take up his post.This is definitely a serious violation of the Great Song Dynasty's system, but the prime minister and others agreed, and they vouched for Li Buqi's character.A few officials who jumped out of Taiwan to admonish them could not make things happen. In the end, the emperor really made an exception and asked Li Buqi to move his whole family to Jingzhao Mansion.

After meeting the requirement of taking his family members to take office, Li Buqi made further progress and wrote a thick memorial, calling for the implementation of a local budget system and a tax sharing system between the local government and the imperial court in Shaanxi. Immigrants from mountainous areas, the most excessive is to request that all the area west of the Yellow River, which originally belonged to the East Road, be assigned to the Yongxing Army Road in Shaanxi.He made so many requests, it was obvious to others that he just didn't want to go to Shaanxi.But so many people are eager to kick him to Shaanxi, how can he let him go?
The budgetary system and the tax-sharing system between the local government and the imperial court have been preliminarily rolled out in Guangnan, showing a positive role in promoting local economic development. Therefore, although Zhao Zhen was somewhat suspicious, he agreed under the persuasion of Wen Yanbo and others.

Because of fear of rebellion, the officials of the Song Dynasty most tabooed the unified command of the army. However, many people have raised this issue—such as Fan Zhongyan, Ouyang Xiu, and Ming Hao—already a cliché. It's just that he was the first courtier in the Song Dynasty who dared to ask for power for himself.But this can also be explained that Li Buqi was afraid that something would go wrong and damage the reputation of the famous general, so most of the important officials in the court were inclined to support Li Buqi's request.However, this can be regarded as a major change to the Great Song Dynasty's system, so it is certain to argue for a period of time in the court.

At this moment, the third prince Zhao Sheng suddenly published a chapter of the Eight Classics that shocked the entire court.In this chapter, Zhao Sheng not only asked to share his father's worries and go to Shaanxi to guard the frontier, but also proposed that the Zhao family clan should not enjoy high officials and generous salary without doing anything. ability to reduce the pressure on the people.

This memorial really stirred up a thousand waves with one stone, just as Li Buqi expected, the court was divided into two completely opposing factions.

Before Qingli, the reform of "redundant officials, redundant soldiers, and redundant expenses" that swallowed up the finances of the Song Dynasty became popular. But for the item of "redundant officials", it was the descendants of the Zhao family who were raised in the deep house and compound that accounted for the most.These people don't contribute a single inch to the country, but everyone has a big official title on their heads, and the salary of one person is equivalent to dozens of ordinary officials.It's just that this matter involves the royal family, even Fan Zhongyan and Ouyang Xiu dare not say it clearly, they can only call it "redundant officials" in general.

No one dared to mention this matter, and the emperor dared not touch it for fear of getting a bad reputation. It seemed that there was no possibility of solving this matter.But now that the third prince actually brought it up, the old foxes in the court naturally saw that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to solve a difficult problem. How could those insightful people who have been thinking about solving the problem of "redundant officials" let it go? What about this chance?Immediately, there were many memorials echoing Zhao Sheng, including Fu Bi, Pang Ji, Sima Guang and others.

There are also many people who oppose Zhao Sheng's proposal, such as Wen Yanbo and Han Qi.Li Buqi heard that Fu Bi asked Han Qi privately why he opposed Zhao Sheng's proposal. Han Qi said that if he supported the Zhao family's clan to come out to do things, there was no reason not to let Zhao Sheng become an official and take power.The implication is that this is the achievement of Zhao Sheng.

Yes, in the eyes of ordinary people, Zhao Sheng invited himself to go to Shaanxi to guard the border at this critical moment of establishing the crown prince, to share his father's worries, first took the title of "filial son", asked to support himself to lighten the burden on the people, and became "virtuous" again. Reputation, Zhao Sheng's reputation has been initially established.If Zhao Sheng was allowed to make some more contributions with the help of Li Buqi, then his reputation would increase a lot. Wouldn't Han Qi and the others just shoot themselves in the foot by hyping up the crisis in Shaanxi?

Zhao Sheng's memorial finally gave the imperial family a chance to express themselves, and the royal family who usually have no right to speak about anything can finally comment on their own affairs this time.Most people are in favor of reducing their salaries so that they can come out and do things.

Different from the women of later generations who "would rather cry on a big Benz than smile on the back seat of a bicycle", these Zhao families squatted in the magnificent buildings all day and watched the sky, and regarded going to court as a release, and grave-sweeping as travel benefits. Prisoners yearn for freedom even more.

Li Buqi successfully disrupted the imperial court, and all the ministers joined the battle group out of public and selfish reasons. The two factions of ministers and a group of clans debated Li Buqi and Zhao Sheng's demands in the court almost every day, and it took about a month. Stopped, the noise was so loud that even the emperor who had just recovered could not bear it.

In the end, it seemed that the need to kick Li Buqi out of the capital was more urgent. Under the persuasion of Wen Yanbo and Han Qi, Zhao Zhen agreed to Li Buqi's request for unified command of the Shaanxi army. Placed under Shaanxi.This can be regarded as the first time after Taizong succeeded to the throne, the army on one side was concentrated in the hands of one commander.

The long-standing problem of military command power has been solved, and other problems are naturally out of the question. In the end, Li Buqi got his wish.Li Buqi guessed that Wen Yanbo and others were not prepared to see him stumble, because Shaanxi is different from Guangnan.Guangnan was smashed to pieces at the time, and it was a blank sheet of paper. Li Buqi could draw whatever he wanted, but in Shaanxi, all forces were intertwined. , but no matter where Shaanxi lost the battle, Li Buqi was responsible.

Therefore, Li Buqi has not been idle during this period of time. The start-up funds prepared by Fu'an Bank for the strategy of Shaanxi have begun to flow into Yanzhou, Fuzhou and Qinzhou secretly.Zhang Kang from Yongxing Army Road in Yanzhou is an old acquaintance, and Pang Ji from Qinfeng Road in Qinzhou owes Li Buqi a favor, so they will naturally take care of the property of the Fuan Consortium.Zhejia in Fuzhou is Li Buqi's basic market, so don't worry about it.Moreover, there have been a large number of Shaanxi students studying in Qingyuan Academy over the years. The matter of Li Buqi's going to Shaanxi has not yet been decided, and many Shaanxi students from Qingyuan Academy have returned to Shaanxi to make a stand.Therefore, Li Buqi's power in Shaanxi has actually been mobilized.

After Li Buqi bargained with the emperor, it was already August. Even if he set off for Shaanxi now, he would not be able to play a role in autumn when the activities of the Xixia people were at their peak.But Li Buqi is still not ready to leave immediately, he is still waiting, one is waiting for the opening of the Bianliang rugby league, and the other is waiting for the Royal Proving Ground and Qingyuan Academy to perfect the granule gunpowder.

To be honest, Li Buqi did not expect that Song people would think of granulating gunpowder so quickly to solve the many shortcomings of gunpowder.However, a student of a Qingyuan student who opened a pharmacy at home probably had a deep research on Gaodan Wansan when he was a child. After discovering the shortcomings of gunpowder that is easy to absorb moisture and the components are easy to separate, he proposed to make granular gunpowder, and also achieved a lot. initial success.Now, Li Buqi can build an army full of firearms in advance.

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