Li Er of the Tang Dynasty: Ancestor Xie is here!

Teng Zongliang wanted to ask Zhuge Liang, but then he thought that the prime minister must be working overtime now, so he would not have time to visit Yueyang Tower.

After much thought, Teng Zongliang couldn't help himself, so he asked Zhuge Liang about his current situation. After hearing that Zhuge Liang settled in the Zhenguan Dynasty and taught at Chang'an Royal University, Teng Zongliang also wanted to visit.

The reason why Zhuge Liang chose to settle in Chang'an is also very simple. After all, the Zhenguan Dynasty was the main world, and it was very convenient to go anywhere. Coupled with the advanced science and technology in Chang'an, Huang Yueying and Zhuge Guo both yearned for Zhenguan, so Zhuge Liang accepted the invitation and came to teach at the university.

The main reason is that Zhuge Liang asked Li Qing to accept Zhuge Guo as his disciple, saying that this girl was destined to be immortal.

Li Qing didn't refuse. If it had been someone else, he might have declined politely. But the person who spoke in front of him was Zhuge Liang. Who could refuse the prime minister?
The main reason is that Zhuge Guo is also quite cute and Li Xiuning likes him very much, so Li Qing accepted Zhuge Guo as his disciple.

In fact, Li Qing himself doesn't even know how to cultivate immortality...

Speaking of cultivating immortals, there are still two planes left before you can receive mission rewards.

Therefore, Li Qing was not in a hurry, and just stretched it slowly.

After listening to "The Story of Yueyang Tower", Li Bai on the side ran to Li Shimin and started teaching Yuan Nu to recite poems.

Yes, it’s Li Shimin’s purple and blue macaw from before.

"The roc rises with the wind in one day!" Li Bai opened his arms and chanted loudly.

"The roc rises with the wind in one day!" Yuan Nu also spread his wings and imitated Li Bai's speech.

"I think you two are really similar." Gao Shi complained from the side: "You two play very well."

Li Bai snorted and did not answer, but continued to teach Yuan Nu to read poems.

Yuan Nu's IQ is getting higher and higher, and it's not much different from that of a teenage child. It's just that he can't transform into a human being.

But his aesthetics are still that of birds. When passing a falcon, Yuan Nu will comment on it.

It's not that there are falcons that want to attack him. After taking the elixir, Yuan Nu's combat effectiveness is no weaker than that of an adult brown bear. While flying in the sky, he encountered an eagle that came to catch him. The male was bitten to death, and the female was taken back to be his little wife.

So what kind of person would have what kind of pet? Wei Zheng complained in private more than once, saying that this Yuan Nu... was quite like Taizong.

The gathering at Yueyang Tower was very successful. Everyone was very satisfied with the trip these days, especially the food of the Song Dynasty, except Zhao Kuangyin.

Without him, everyone understands the external style of Song Renzong's period.

Of course, this peace cannot be said to be bad, but it is too weak to the outside world. Once the atmosphere softens and the bones are broken, it will be difficult to harden and stand up again...

The docile style that started in the two dynasties of Song Zhenzong and Song Renzong did not end until Lao Zhu re-established the Ming Dynasty.

Not idle at Yueyang Tower, Li Qing dragged Zhuge Liang over again. Starting from the next day, with Zhuge Liang as the leader, the emperors and famous ministers of each dynasty gathered together and began to plan for Fan Zhongyan's Qingli New Deal, pointing out the shortcomings, correcting them, and adding to the actual situation of the Song Dynasty. List reform goals.

As the saying goes, three cobblers are better than Zhuge Liang - now a group of Zhuge Liang can't just be better than the cobblers, right?

The day after the fun, Li Qing took Fan Zhongyan to the court.

Together with them, there was Zhao Kuangyin, the ancestor, and Zhao Heng, who was verified.

From the first moment he saw Zhao Heng, Zhao Zhen couldn't hold back. Fortunately, this is not the Ming Dynasty, so the famous scene of "Dad, you're not dead" won't happen.

Zhao Zhen was quite frightened. Think about it, you are an emperor and have been on the throne for more than 20 years. Suddenly, the former emperor was resurrected overnight and came to the court.

What is your first reaction?
Hmm... If it were those weirdos from the Northern Qi Lao Gao family, the first thing might be to directly declare that he was not the late emperor.

But the emperors of the Song Dynasty were still relatively Buddhist, especially Zhao Zhen, a well-known good old man. He had no doubts about the return of the late emperor. Moreover, all the officials in the dynasty came from that era, and everyone knew Zhao Heng, so it would be useless for him to deny it.

The most important thing is that Zhao Zhen is still very confident. He didn't believe that the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty wanted to go back to the era when the heavenly books were everywhere and the whole country was enshrined in Zen.

Then, he met Emperor Taizu.

Zhao Zhen still felt a little guilty, after all, Taizu's descendants did not become emperors.

One of the more famous jokes is - "Song Zhenzong said in a speech: 'The inheritance system of the Song Dynasty is advanced and superior, and the West will only be at this level a few hundred years later - you see, Taizu's son Just don't become emperor.'"

Zhao Heng especially focused on introducing Zhao Zhen's uncle, Yelu Longxu, who is now named Li Longxu.

As an aside, Yelu Abaoji's Chinese name was Liu Yi, but in fact Yelu Longxu should have been named Liu.

Li Longxu no longer complained about Zhao Heng now. By studying history, he discovered that his miserable imperial brother had died out since Zhao Zhen - Zhao Zhen was Zhao Heng's last son, and Zhao Zhen had no descendants, so this Let me explain a problem: none of the subsequent emperors were descendants of Zhao Heng, so the betrayal of the alliance naturally had nothing to do with the emperor's brother.

Yelu Longxu is relatively open-minded in this regard. He really made me cry to death.

Seeing that the family recognized each other and were happy, Lao Zhu said happily: "Then let me tell you a joke."

Hey, Lao Zhu also knows Song Dynasty jokes? Li Qingqi was surprised.

Zhao Kuangyin slapped him on the face, and Zhao Zhen, who still didn't know what happened, looked at Zhu Yuanzhang happily, waiting for the emperor's uncle to tell a joke.

"Song Taizu tells us how to rule, Song Taizong tells us how not to rule, Song Zhenzong tells us that all fools can rule, Song Renzong tells us that not all fools can rule." Zhu Yuanzhang finished the joke in one breath.

Zhao Kuangyin:......

Zhao Zhen was still smiling and asked: "Ah, who is Song Renzong?"

"It's you, my silly grandnephew..." Zhao Kuangyin said with a sigh.

Zhao Zhen couldn't take a breath and almost choked. He glanced at Zhu Yuanzhang resentfully and sighed.

Fan Zhongyan immediately bowed his head again and presented to Zhao Zhen the new policy plan that drew on the strengths of many families.

Zhao Zhen was very satisfied with Lao Fan's change of subject. But in fact, the failure of Qingli’s New Deal was not due to the failure of the New Deal itself. In fact, the Qingli New Deal alleviated the plight of the Song Dynasty to a certain extent, and even began to see new opportunities. Fan Zhongyan and Fu Bi's various reform measures included "clear deportation", "suppression of luck", "jinggongju", etc., the central idea The goal is to eliminate incompetent officials, and eliminating redundant officials and streamlining institutions are the core contents of the reform.

Moreover, the Qingli New Deal also decided to reduce the number of admissions for the imperial examination to solve the problem of too many officials. Therefore, the opponents of the reform were by no means a few conservatives, but the entire class of scholar-bureaucrats - the class basis of the rule of the Northern Song Dynasty. If we want to reform, we must sacrifice the interests of the scholar-official class. If we sacrifice the scholar-officials, we will shake the foundation of our rule. Therefore, any attempt to break or limit the privileges of the bureaucratic aristocracy will undoubtedly touch the interests of the bureaucratic aristocracy and meet with fierce opposition from them.

Except for a few enterprising and far-sighted people, bureaucrats, landlords, wealthy businessmen and other vested interest groups are mostly satisfied with the status quo and only care about personal and immediate interests, regardless of national and long-term interests. Once the new deal violates their own interests, they will resolutely oppose it. , the group rose up to attack.

As the New Deal progressed, opposition continued to rise. The reason why "cronies" were used as a weapon to attack was that "cronies" would endanger the emperor's authority, arouse the resentment and suspicion of Renzong and Zhao Zhen, and violate his core interests. Clique warfare has always been a thorn in the side of the Northern Song Dynasty and continued into the Southern Song Dynasty. Qingli's New Deal failed due to factionalism, and Wang Anshi's reform also failed due to factionalism between the old and new parties.

Speaking of this, I have to mention Ouyang Xiu's great wisdom. This byd was afraid that he would not be beaten enough to death, so he wrote an article "On Clique" and directly handed someone a knife. It doesn’t matter if you are a party of gentlemen or a party of villains, just say whether you are a party or not.

Originally, he was a little bit resentful towards Lao Fan, but after he rescued him in time, Zhao Zhen put aside his original little displeasure.

He took the plan book and the signature on the title page shocked him.

"Qingli Second New Deal Plan"

Authors: Liu Bang, Li Shimin, Zhao Kuangyin, Zhu Yuanzhang, Xiao He, Zhuge Liang, Fang Qiao, Yao Chong, Song Jing, etc.

Zhao Zhen took a deep breath, glanced at Fan Zhongyan wanderingly, and then looked down at the plan in his hand.

No, Lao Fan, why don't you play All-Stars with me and leave it here?

I'm just trying to be your friend once, what are you doing?

Quite unique?

Lao Fan's plan, which was almost a performance art, was immediately silenced by Zhao Zhenqian.

After a long while, he asked in a solemn voice: "Liu Bang? Li Shimin?"

"It's Naigong." Liu Bang crossed his legs and was eating the grapes held by the maid.

When Zhao Zhen asked, Liu Bang raised his head and spit out a mouthful of grape skin. It's a coincidence that the grape skin got stuck directly on Zhao Zhen's eyes...

"Ah, this is an accident." Liu Bang said quickly: "Nai Gong, this was also careless."

How could Zhao Zhen still be in the mood to care about the grape skin? His mood was now close to collapse.

"Grandpa Taizu, Emperor Father, is this... is this true? This plan was written by Emperor Gao, Taizu of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Taizong Wen of the Tang Dynasty, and their famous ministers?"

Zhao Kuangyin was also eating grapes. He wanted to spit the skin on Zhao Zhen's other eye, but unfortunately he spit it out of the way. Old Zhao didn't feel discouraged. He clapped his hands and said with a smile: "What else? You are really suspicious and stupid. Think about it carefully. Could Fan Zhongyan and others be cronies? "

"A lot of words make a fortune, but a lot of people accumulate it and destroy it." Zhao Zhen sighed helplessly: "Fan Qing and others have violated the interests of most people. Even I don't dare to go against so many people. I must slowly figure it out. Of……"

"This picture of yours will destroy Lao Fan." Li Qing spread his hands and said: "If nothing happens, five years later, Fan Zhongyan changed his name to Yingzhou and died of illness in Xuzhou on the way to take office. Sixty-four years old.”

"What? Fan Qing..." Zhao Zhen's eyes suddenly turned red.

The monarch and his subjects have known each other for so many years, and it is impossible to say that they have no feelings for each other. Lao Fan put a lot of effort into preventing the story of Liu E's behavior as the Great Sage and Queen of Zetian. Now suddenly hearing such bad news, of course Zhao Zhen couldn't accept it.

Speaking of Xuzhou, Li Qing felt that his DNA was a little moved.

In Xuzhou, Li Dai Daguo has praised it more than five or four times, but it has always been criticized and murmured...

"It's not a pity that my minister died, but it's a pity that the New Deal died prematurely, and the Song Dynasty..." Fan Zhongyan couldn't help but shed tears.

To be honest, hearing that I am going to die in a few years is hard for anyone to accept.

And Lao Fan didn't finish what he said. Since the failure of the New Deal, conservatives have counterattacked wildly, social conflicts have become more acute, land annexation has become increasingly serious, redundant military expenses have doubled, and ethnic conflicts have intensified.

"I already know my love for you!" Zhao Zhen said with a heavy nod.

In fact, Zhao Zhen knew what the situation was like now. Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, not only did it not suppress the annexation of land, but it also condoned the annexation of land by heroes and generals. Land sales and pawning are quite common, the trend of land concentration is accelerating, and the number of farmers losing their land is increasing. "The rich have a lot of land, but the poor have no place to stand. The powerful have no land to plant, and those who have land have no land to cultivate."

The people of the Song Dynasty had a heavy burden. Residents across the country are divided into principal households and customers. In addition to paying taxes according to the prescribed amount, taxpayers also have the burden of "transfer" and "transformation". In addition to the two taxes, there are also Dingkou tax, various miscellaneous taxes, corvees and errands. This is another heavy burden in addition to taxes.

It is said that the Song Dynasty was prosperous, but the farmers suffered a lot. It was at this point that the uprising of Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun broke out, and for the first time the concept of "equalizing the rich and the poor, equalizing the high and the low" was proposed.

Since Zhao Zhen came to the throne, the phenomenon of land annexation has become more serious, farmers have fled in large numbers, uprisings have broken out one after another, and even the Gyeonggi area of ​​Kaifeng Prefecture has been frequently visited by bandits. This is quite an explosive event in any dynasty. .

At the feet of the emperor, in the most virtuous area, there are actually bandits running rampant?
The most breathless thing is that at the same time, the foreign wars are still being defeated year after year. After losing the Liao Kingdom, they will lose the party items. After losing the party items, people will build the country. After that, there will be no one to lose.

If the foreign war could be won, it might be possible to avert the conflict, but history has not allowed it. Due to the political corruption of the Song Dynasty and the weakness and disorganization of the army, countless money and food were wasted on border wars, but both people and land were lost.

After losing to Xixia, the Song Dynasty paid 255,000 taels of annual coins to Xixia every year. When the Liao Kingdom found out, it felt unbalanced and asked for an additional 100,000 taels of silver and silk each year.

Having reached this point, the Song Dynasty should actually reflect on its situation. It doesn't matter if you can't defeat the Liao Kingdom. To deal with the small country of Xixia, you have to cede territory and pay compensation, and pay tribute every year...

Looking at the memorial on the desk, Li Shimin's blood pressure rose.

*Rage value from Li Shimin +100000
"Can you still be an emperor? If not, let me teach you how to govern the country!" (End of Chapter)