Doctor of the Great Song Dynasty: In the beginning, Li Qingzhao and Li Qingzhao made a private decis

Chapter 195 Sima Guang's Four Major Crimes
"Officials are not allowed! Prime Minister Sima is gentle and courteous, upright, loyal to the king, and has always abided by his duties as a courtier. If innocents are cut off and given posthumous titles, the official family must not let loyal officials be chilled." Seeing this, Su Zhe also quickly persuaded.

Although he did not object to conferring Wang Anshi's posthumous title, but the dead are the greatest, and it would be too much to remove Sima Guang's posthumous posthumous title and destroy the stele bestowed at the beginning.

"'Loyalty and Pure Virtue' is a stele bestowed by the officials on behalf of Lord Sima. Now that they want to destroy it again, wouldn't it be unfair to His Majesty." Su Shi also objected.

Zhao Xu was immediately entangled. Sima Guang was a model of morality in the Song Dynasty. If he wanted to remove Sima Guang's posthumous posthumous title, it might not be an easy task.

Zhang Dun sneered and said: "Sima Guang bullied the officials when he was young, ignored the officials in everything, and acted arbitrarily. I am afraid that the officials gave the monument back then was not the official intention."

"You are not joking! Officials are the nine-five-year-old, even if they are young, they are still golden." Yang Wei said solemnly.

Cai Bian sneered and said, "Ninth Five-Year Honor? Back then, Empress Dowager Gao listened to the government behind a curtain, and the officials were just puppets on strings!"

Zhao Xu's face darkened immediately, thinking that above the court, he could only see the past events on the backs and buttocks of the officials. The origin of the officials' indifference to Zhao Xu began with Sima Guang.

"The dead are the big ones, Mr. Sima is not at fault! How can he be liquidated after death." Lu Dafang said firmly.

for a while.

Above the court, the battle for posthumous names has turned into a liquidation between the old and the new parties.

Until the next dynasty, the old and new parties were still arguing endlessly.

Yuhu!

Zhao Xu ran vigorously around the Yuhu Lake, which is now a frequent way to vent stress.

"Sima Guang!"

Zhao Xu was sweating profusely, and gritted his teeth, saying, Shenzong's 16-year-old political reform had been abolished by Sima Guang once, if not, how could he face such a passive situation after he came to power.

However, Sima Guang is the moral code of the Song Dynasty, and countless people have advertised him as a role model, a person who is almost perfect in morality.

Sima Guang became famous when he was young, and the fact that Sima Guang smashed the vat is well known all over the world. When he was young, Sima Guang was a Jinshi and ranked first.

So far, Sima Guang has gone through four dynasties, from official to prime minister, but he has been an official all his life, upright and upright, and he has never even bought a house in Kaifeng City.

In terms of private life, Sima Guang is a model of morality. He and his wife have no children, but Sima Guang insists on not taking concubines. In the end, he only adopted his brother's son as his adopted son.

As an official, he is even a good old man, and he often pleads guilty for others!Even taking it on himself, the official reputation is excellent.

However, for such a perfect loyal official, Zhao Xu couldn't help gnashing his teeth, but there was nothing he could do.

"Officials think twice, don't make impulsive decisions, it will often be worse." Fan Zheng persuaded from the side.

"Is there really such a perfect person in this world?"

Zhao Xu took a deep breath, a hint of helplessness appeared on his face.

Fan Zheng asked instead: "Of course there is no perfect person in this world. Just like cold-forged armor, the defense is the highest, but it is extremely heavy. Cotton is light, but the defense is lower. Sima Guang is naturally not a perfect person. His crime There are four."

"Oh!" Zhao Xu raised his brows and said, the perfect moral model in the old party's mouth, but in Fan Zheng's mouth, there are four major crimes.

Fan Zheng nodded and said: "The first crime is to change the son with the mother. When the late emperor died, Sima Guang borrowed the name of the Empress Dowager to abolish the new law, and changed the son with the mother. , What kind of ulterior motives are this."

Zhao Xu nodded slightly, Sima Guang seemed to make sense in the name of changing his mother to a son, but in fact he couldn't stand up to scrutiny.

"Sima Guang's second crime: small benevolence but great inhumanity!" Fan Zheng said solemnly.

"What is small benevolence? What is great inhumanity?" Zhao Xu asked.

Fan Zheng asked: "Sima Guang is an upright official, and he has indeed achieved benevolence. However, this kind of benevolence can only be called small benevolence. Any reform will damage the interests of some people. As soon as Sima Guang sees the people making a fuss, he immediately opposes it. People, he protects the interests of the people who are making noise in front of him, but he doesn't know that the silent people are the majority. Sima Guang abolished the new law, putting the country's safety at risk and ignoring the interests of the silent people. This is "big inhumanity" .

"Compassion does not control soldiers, righteousness does not control wealth!" Zhao Xu's heart moved, and he immediately understood where his awkward feeling towards Sima Guang came from.

"That's exactly the reason." Fan Zheng nodded.

"The third crime is the offering of land by Xixia. At the time of the first emperor, although there were victories and losses in the war against Xixia, the Song Dynasty had a great family and business, and the Xixia background was shallow. The Song Dynasty had almost dried up the oil consumed by Xixia. And Sima Guang After coming to power, he even took the initiative to donate the Mizhi Four Villages, and at the same time restore the market and old coins, bringing Xixia back to life and ruining the great situation of the Song Dynasty."

Zhao Xu's face was embarrassing. Since he took the throne, Xixia has repeatedly attacked Song Dynasty, and Song Dynasty used Mizhi Sizhai and Suibi, which not only failed to bring peace, but also made Xixia worse. Sima Guang has an unshirkable responsibility.

"What about the fourth crime?" Zhao Xu asked.

"Ayun case!"

A trace of unbearable expression appeared on Fan Zheng's face.

"The Ayun case?" Zhao Xu's face suddenly became serious.

The Ayun case was the most influential case in the Song Dynasty. Ayun was a young girl who was still in mourning, and was sold to a [-]-year-old bachelor by a money-grubbing uncle.

Ayun was unwilling to be reconciled to such a fate. On a dark and windy night of one month, Ayun tremblingly picked up a kitchen knife and touched Wei Ada's bedside. For the rest of his life, Ayun swung the knife and hacked randomly.

In his panic, Ayun only cut off one of Wei Ada's fingers, and the others were skin injuries. However, Ayun was convicted of murdering his own husband and sentenced to death according to the laws of the Song Dynasty.

Everyone sympathized with what happened to Ayun. Both Wang Anshi and Song Shenzong wanted to pardon Ayun's death penalty. Sima Guang strongly opposed it. After being amnesty by the imperial court, he returned, finally married and had children, and lived a peaceful life.

It stands to reason that this is already the most perfect ending, taking into account both legal and rational principles, but Sima Guang has kept this matter in his heart for 16 years. Ayun was re-sentenced to death by hanging.

"Let's not mention that Sima Guang's 16 years of vengeance must be revenged. On the surface, he only killed one Ayun, but in fact he killed countless Ayuns, causing women all over the world to suffer from blind marriages." Fan Zheng said sadly.

Fan Zheng felt extremely inconceivable that such a stubborn and pedantic Sima Guang turned out to be a model in the minds of scholar-bureaucrats.

"Small benevolence, but great inhumanity!" Zhao Xu said softly.

At this moment, he really understands what is small benevolence and great inhumanity, and the image of benevolence and righteousness created by Sima Guang has disappeared in his heart.

(End of this chapter)