Chapter 1529: Death of Sima Guang

Gao Taotao suddenly felt more comfortable. Han Wei and Lu Gongzhu had just made it clear that they still wanted to circumvent the system and add some unsupervised personnel appointment and removal rights; while Sima Guang and Su You tried their best to plug this loophole.

In the end, Su You's compromise plan was that this loophole could be opened under special circumstances, but the hand that opened this loophole could not be Zaizhi's, but must be the emperor's and Gao Taotao's.

And this kind of person must be a great sage who has been widely praised by public opinion. At least he must be the kind of Wang Anshi before he entered the imperial court, and Su Shi before he became a Zhongshusheren.

Even if this was discussed, Sima Guang couldn't hold on to the rest of the military affairs, so he had to give up.

On Dingyou, Sima Guang acted quickly and left the capital hall first, then paid a visit and said that he would no longer enter the court.

In Renchen, Gao Taotao and Zhao Xu came to the King of Jingyang. The mother, son, uncle and nephew didn't know what they talked about. The final result was that the imperial court promoted Zhao Hao and Zhao Kai's sons to officials, and the two emperor uncles left Bianjing to Zhongmou, one Tiju Medical College, a Tiju School of Economics.

In the ninth month of the ninth month, Bingchenshuo, Sima Guang, the minister Zuopushe and his servant, died at the age of sixty-six.

The Empress Dowager was crying and the Emperor was also filled with tears.

It was presented to the Grand Master, Wen Guogong, with the posthumous title Wenzheng. The imperial seal marked his tomb path and read: "A monument of loyalty to the Qing Dynasty and pure virtue."

When Sima Guang was ill and retired, he was no longer conscious, and he spoke as earnestly as in a dream, as if it was all about the affairs of the court and the world.

After Sima Guang's death, Sima Kang collected his books and obtained eight pieces of memorial, all of which were unfinished manuscripts discussing the important affairs of the world.

When the people heard of his death, they went to the market to pay their respects, swung their clothes to pay homage, passed by in the streets crying, and their carriages numbered in the tens of thousands.

The people of the capital painted his portrait, engraved it, and kept a copy of it at home, and they must wish him well when eating and drinking.

Su You had just finished arranging arrangements for the two princes in Zhongmou, and immediately returned to the capital after hearing the news.

In fact, Su You secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the news of Sima Guang's death.

Sima Guang made Su You feel very conflicted.

There is nothing good to say about his character, Su You respects him very much.

In fact, many of the "bad things" that Sima Guang did in real history were limited to his knowledge or historical experience and lessons.

He did not have the understanding and divine vision of future generations of historical trends, so some of his judgments were too harsh.

Take the famous "traitor" incident as an example. Sima Guang only gave up four fortresses at that time. Compared with Wang Anshi's abandonment of the entire 700-mile border between Song and Liao, it was actually just child's play.

So when it comes to "traitors", Wang Anshi and Zhao Xu are much more powerful, but there is no statement on the Internet that Wang Anshi is a traitor.

What's even more strange is that instead of accusing Wang Anshi, there were countless comments made to whitewash Wang Anshi, saying that he was not a participant.

But no matter how you clean up, it is an iron fact that Wang Anshi was the Prime Minister of the Song Dynasty from the eighth year of Xining to the ninth year of Xining when the territories were ceded.

So Wang Anshi really has no responsibility at all?

In fact, this is just a kind of "non-ancient" trend of thought at work, that is, I must overturn what the predecessors have concluded, and I must affirm what the predecessors have denied. Only in this way can it appear that "modern people are better than ancient people."

But no matter what, in today's time and space, Sima Guang's death has left only moderates in the court. Su You has delayed several key new laws until now, and they have not been abolished as in real history. Finally, A disguised "victory" was achieved.

This is best. At least in this time and space, the stigma and destruction behind Sima Guang and Wang Anshi will be much smaller than the time and space Su You traveled to.

Regardless of whether it is true or not, the Song Dynasty also needed such two benchmarks as examples for all officials today.

Another reason why Su You hurried back to the capital was that Sima Guang made a will before his death, asking Su You to preside over his funeral.

This was a big event. In another time and space, Sima Guang's funeral was presided over by Cheng Yi. This situation remained unchanged, which led to a big partisan dispute between Shuluo and Shuluo parties. The conservatives were completely divided, and were later overturned by the reformists.

Of course Su You must suppress such a thing with all his strength, and now he also has the strength to do so.

Cheng Yi could dissatisfy Su Shi, but he dared not dissatisfy Su You.

Regardless of officialdom, in terms of academic seniority, Su You was on the same level as Zhang Zai, Sima Guang and Wang Anshi, and he was the founder of Neo-Confucianism. The school motto of Songyang Academy, "Natural principles and human relations", was the first to be uttered by Su You. At the same time, he

He is also the largest patron of Songyang Academy.

On the periphery of Songyang Academy, there are Zhengzhou Institute of Technology, Songyang Arsenal, and a large industrial base controlled by the powerful clan officials of the Song Dynasty.

Su You's influence in these places will undoubtedly be reflected back to Songyang Academy.

If we really wanted to talk about it seriously, Cheng Yi would have called Su You the chief of the mountain and the uncle of the master.

Due to the deep friendship between Sima Guang and Su You, no one in the Song Dynasty thought that Sima Guang's death was inappropriate.

Starting from the investigation of Hebei, the two became comrades-in-arms countless times.

When Sima Guang was in his deepest depression, Su You was always not far away accompanying him and supporting him.

This kind of support is not just simple greetings and care on the surface, nor is it designing a hermit pastoral-style independent paradise for Sima Guang, but Su You created a miracle in Shaanxi, proving that in addition to the tricks of defeating Xianggong, the Song Dynasty actually had better

This choice has preserved the conservatives’ “universal world” and “political correctness”.

In Sima Guang's heart, this is called "being sincere and sincere".

And the most amazing thing is that in Wang Anshi's mind, Su You used the same thing to preserve his reputation, status and "political correctness" after his death, and he did so with the same sincerity.

This is the reputation and status that Su You achieved after being in office for twenty-six years.

Magical and funny, yet indescribably wonderful.

Again, national policies have a certain continuity, and the outstanding political achievements of those in power are actually the result of the efforts of their predecessors.

It is not uncommon for the predecessor to do practical things, get a bad reputation, and be ousted. The successor comes to power to enjoy the political achievements that the predecessor has worked so hard to achieve and gain great fame. This kind of thing has happened all the time.

Today's common people don't know about big topics such as national economy facing collapse, national finances facing depletion, and national security facing huge threats. They only know that when Mr. Anshi was here, our lives were very hard and all kinds of burdens were so heavy; Anshi

After Xianggong left, the burden was greatly reduced, and everyone had enough to eat every year with good harvests. After Sima became prime minister, he abolished all kinds of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and life suddenly became barely comfortable.

They also don’t know Suyou’s prediction of the severe disaster situation in the next few years, and they don’t care much about the winter drought last year and the spring flood this year, which did not pose a huge threat. They don’t know that the next successor may be Sima Xianggong.

The "Kanzheng" government over the past many years has taken the blame.

Therefore, Sima Guang's reputation reached its peak of glory after his death.

Throughout his life, he was filial and loyal to his friends, from childhood to old age, and his words were never false.

He once said to himself: "I have no fault with others, but what I have done in my life is nothing that I should not say to others."

Su Shi once commented that the reason why Sima Guang touched people's hearts and moved the world can be summed up in two words: sincerity and one. Intellectuals at that time thought it was a serious statement.

But things have to be looked at from both sides. The honest one is pedantic, and the other is stubborn. If a pedantic and stubborn person becomes prime minister, it may not be a good thing for the country.

No matter what, things did not get out of hand, so in September of the first year of Yuanyou in this time and space, Sima Guang was in the minds of Gao Taotao and Zhao Xu, all the people in the world, and even foreign monarchs and ministers. He is a model of humaneness.

Sima Guang specified that Su You should attend the funeral. It is difficult to say that he did not have the idea of ​​​​using his reputation to help Su You regain his last halo.

The direction may not be right, but the attitude of devoting oneself to death is undoubtedly.

However, Su You was not grateful and even felt dumbfounded.

Because for more than a year, he had racked his brains and energy in order to delay the attack on Sima Guang.

If the old man's soul in heaven knew that Su You was even a little lucky about his death, I wonder if he would be equally dumbfounded.

The first thing Su You did when he returned to Beijing was to write to the court. The mourning period of Sima Gong conflicted with the auspicious period for Emperor Shenzong to enjoy the Mingtang. He requested that the mourning period of Sima Gong be postponed by one day to facilitate the officials to pay their respects.

When Cheng Yi gave lectures at the Jingyan, he mostly used ancient rituals. Su Shi said that he was unkind, deeply ill, and insulted him every time.

Cheng Yi had a good relationship with Tai Jian, and Su Shi had a high status among Hanlin scholars, so the relationship between the two became increasingly bad.

In real history, after Mingtang granted pardon and the officials paid their congratulations, officials from the two provinces wanted to pay homage to the emperor, but Cheng Yi thought it was impossible and used the ancient etiquette: "Zi then said, if you cry, you will not sing."

A guest who was in trouble said: "Confucius said that if you cry, you will not sing; if you don't talk, if you sing, you will not cry."

Dasu said a wisecrack next to him: "This is a gift made by Shusun Tong, the Shishishi, in vain."
Chapter completed!