Zhao Zhen had known this farce of the royal family for a long time, not only did he know it, but also saw it. At the entrance of the city gate at Xuande Gate, Zhao Zhen felt a little helpless when he saw Liu Xiang and Zheng Ziguan walking away in a mess.

While helpless, Zhao Zhen felt a little sad. Has the royal family of the Song Dynasty fallen to the point of falling?

Zhao Zhen looked at some things. With the extremely developed economy and extremely stable dynasties, the aristocrats fell extremely quickly. Not only the aristocrats, but also officials began to fall.

This is so similar to China in later generations. Once the country becomes strong and prosperous, it will eventually lead to the temptation of wealth that cannot be stopped.

The pursuit of wealth is the original sin of mankind itself, because wealth can bring people the simplest and most direct satisfaction and enjoyment, which can satisfy almost all human desires. After having wealth, rights will slowly follow.

Bribery and bribery are often achieved through money transactions. The degeneration of the royal family is so fast, which is related to the national policy set by Taizu Taizong.

In fact, Taizu Taizong formulated and strengthened national policies to spend money, and raised the royal family of the Song Dynasty and the nobles who had seized military power.

Give them wealth and titles, and let them be a leisurely and silence in the Song Dynasty. This did solve the biggest hidden danger of the turmoil in the Song Dynasty in the shortest time, and also caused no large-scale local separatist and rebellion of nobles and military generals in the hundreds of years of national reign.

In fact, if Zhao Zhen had not changed the original history, Zhao Yuanyan would not have had a rebellion. Even Zhao Yunrang's turmoil was planned by Zhao Zhen, in order to completely make the royal family lose the possibility of coveting power.

After the incident of Zhao Yuanyan and Zhao Yunrang, the royal family became much more honest. Not only was they honest, but they were even very resistant to entering the power center because they felt that if the emperor gave them a chance, they would "sharpen their knives and goats."

The royal family was extremely clever to avoid the possibility of entering the power center. They did not need much power. As long as they had a title, they would have countless wealth and a high status.

Do you still need rights when you have these two things? Obtaining rights is just to gain wealth and status.

Before Zhao Zhen issued an order to reform the royal family and titles, all the royal family felt that they were superior to others and had things that others might not be able to obtain for their lifetime.

As long as the royal family of the Song Dynasty was not an extremely indifferent blood relative, they would receive more or less titles. The titles may be high and low, but in the end there are still some.

During the New Year Festival, the reward of titles will be passed on to the royal family. After all, there is a chance for the emperor to meet with the royal family every year. Even the clans who are far away in the water will receive the reward of titles. The county and the county and the county and the county and the county and the county and the county and the county and the county and the state and the founding man have never been rewarded.

Zhao Zhen knew that this was a hidden danger left by Taizu Taizong. The royal family could only rely on titles to gain wealth and social status. In addition, the annual subsidies for clans were not enough to support their extravagant expenses.

When a person is excluded from the possibility of a power competition, the pursuit of wealth will increase day by day.

Before this, Zhao Zhen heard about the murder of servants in the royal family, and not only that, this was a blatant murder, a trampling on national laws, and an insult to the face of the family and the royal family.

Such things will happen, and it is conceivable that bullying and abuse of prominent status in the market may also happen often.

Although the laws of the Song Dynasty had been improved, the aristocratic class still enjoyed special rights, and it was these privileges that made them become unscrupulous.

Even if the royal family did not join forces with the nobles of the wealthy families in Dongcheng, Zhao Zhen planned to rectify them because the royal family was different from the nobles, to some extent, they represented the image of the family among the people.

Therefore, no matter whether the royal family formed an interest group with the wealthy families in Dongcheng, Zhao Zhen had to rectify the royal family. The number of people was increasing, and the number of titles was increasing. Of course, the treasury of the Song Dynasty could support them. According to the current economic situation of the Song Dynasty, it could even support them for a hundred years, but Zhao Zhen wanted to get rid of this burden for the Song Dynasty.

With the progress of society, the development of dynasties, and the advancement of civilization, the privileged class will become less and less popular. This is normal, because the people's thoughts are also improving. When life is better, the level of culture will inevitably increase.

The increasing development of technology has also prompted ordinary white-skinned people to start learning. Most people in Shendu City, whether rich or poor, were able to read newspapers independently. This is to some extent a miracle in the feudal era.

The reason for this is a miracle is that the rate of illiteracy in the feudal era was extremely high, and almost nine out of ten people were illiterate illiterate.

Otherwise, the business of writing letters would not be so developed, and this business was still a very popular business until the Republic of China.

However, in the Song Dynasty, this business was not easy to make money, and even disappeared for a while. The simplest reason was that the literacy rate of the people in the Song Dynasty began to increase, especially in Shendu City, where even the workers in factories had to read, because those who read could earn a lot of more wages than others.

Knowledge has gradually become a kind of wealth. In addition, Zhao Zhen's continuous urging to establish schools and literate lecture halls, the popularity of culture began to soar, and the prosperity of the literary and political system of the Song Dynasty began to advance by leaps and bounds inadvertently.

The continuous improvement of the people's cultural quality has also made the opposition between classes begin to highlight. The law is there, and anyone who is literate can understand it. The behavior of nobles like the royal family using their privileges to transcend the law naturally makes the people unhappy.

The contradictions between the people and the nobles have been around for a long time, but the contradictions are not the same in various dynasties. Before the Song Dynasty or before the Zhao Zhen’s reform, people’s thoughts were still advanced according to the feudal ideas provided by Confucianism, so the idea of ​​being superior to the nobles is natural.

But now the Song Dynasty has taken off its economy, developed science and technology, and culture is blooming everywhere. Various learnings have begun to revive, and the people's wisdom has been opened.

In this case, the "mistake" that was originally taken for granted finally returned to its essence. The wrong thing is wrong, and injustice is injustice. The law has already had a very high status in the Song Dynasty. It is not only because the emperor Zhao Zhen personally committed "the prince violated the law and committed the same crime among the common people", but also because the law can protect all rights.

The actions of the royal family often break the law because of their titles, they are given lighter punishments, and even escaped from crimes.

At this critical moment, Zhao Zhen's behavior of reforming the royal family was something that was supported by his servants except for the royal family and the aristocratic class.
Chapter completed!