Chapter 359 Attitude
Freedom of speech, whether in ancient times or in modern times, Zhao Bing knew that it was a luxury. Every regime would control speech to make public opinion lean towards itself, take the initiative, and then facilitate the implementation of the policies and policies he formulated. Therefore, he also understood that his rhetoric also had sophistry elements in it, not all truth. However, under the suppression of hundreds of years of Song Dynasty, the scholars in the Song Dynasty have become a stagnant pool and lost their due vitality. At any stage in history, any regime needs the assistance of the scholar class to maintain their rule, but to change the current situation and gain the support of these people, Zhao Bing must do something.
Zhao Bing knew that 6 Xiufu was at least a good person, and he was involved in various factions and was inevitable to swallow his anger for the sake of harmony in the court. But he was still a civil servant, the weather vane of the Shilin, and his words and deeds had a great influence on scholars. Now Zhao Bing wanted to change the style of scholastic people to select useful people from scholars, but he did not let them just stay at home and complain and complain about the world and be pitiful. But now he is in charge of the family and has little influence in the Shilin, so he can only express his attitude through 6 Xiufu's mouth, which will only cause him to suffer some grievances and run him.
Now Zhao Bing has released the signal, but he knew that this was not enough. He had to take advantage of the fact that he had not completely digested his remarks and pushed him. So he summoned his own secretarial team to draft an edict overnight. The main meaning was that he was surprised to hear that Wen Tianxiang was defeated and captured, and was deeply worried about the loss of pillars of the country. He even heard that a small little girl took the opportunity to hype up the death of Wen Xiang to claim loyalty and righteousness, achieving the goal of being unspeakable. He was very angry about this and felt ashamed of his behavior. As for how to denounce Wang Yanwu's own aides, he only had one requirement to make it smell bad, and it was not smelly.
Next, Zhao Bing announced that in order to protect Wen Tianxiang and safe, he was willing to send envoys to negotiate with the Tartars and pay 10,000 taels of gold to redeem it. However, for the gangster literati such as Wang Yanwu who claimed to be loyal and righteous, he decided to redeem his fame, destroy his official status, and give a reward of money and a penny to call on the military and civilians of the Song Dynasty to arrest him and return to the court. Cai Qiao and his men were surprised. The difference between 10,000 taels of gold and a penny was more than ten thousand times. No one picked up a penny. Who would go to the bus for a penny to arrest people!
Several people thought that His Majesty was wrong, and asked again, but each of them was blinded and a big roll of eyes, and asked them to write as follows. After the writing was finished, Zhao Bing reviewed it again. It was indeed much better than his own plain language. He asked Wang De to stamp it with a seal, and sent it to the Secretariat for review and then told the world. His intention was that a few guys who had just been involved in the officialdom could not understand, but those people knew what was going on at a glance. He didn't understand why His Majesty had such a great hatred for a small Wang Yanwu, and probably he couldn't even figure out who it was. But these people were all oil men, and they suspected that it was an adult who instructed His Majesty to do so. They didn't make any trouble for a small person, and they didn't say anything and passed the stamp.
After reading the emperor's edict, several prime ministers in the court did not know what to do for a moment. Strictly speaking, this was the first edict from the palace, and everyone still attached great importance to it. Liu Fu saw it and laughed and said that this son should be killed, and His Majesty did it well. The war has been urgent recently, and Zhang Shijie probably is not as good as Zhao Bing. He may not know which fish Wang Yanwu is, and he only felt that it was not worth it to exchange it for Wen Tianxiang, but if the Mongolians did not necessarily agree, he would offend these civil officials in the court. After all, in their eyes, he was an alien. He did not have to make any mistakes and did not express any objection.
The new Right Prime Minister Yao Liangchen was promoted from the Guangdong Transport Envoy. He still knew what His Majesty had done to lead his troops to capture Guangzhou last year, especially because he did not plunder it there, but instead handed over the treasury in his entirety and made up for the gap in the account. This made him feel grateful to His Majesty for his goodness. Thinking that his actions in Guangzhou seemed absurd, but were very popular. This time, he was a little angry with a little bit of unknown little man. He felt that there must be something inside. He agreed after hesitation.
Another deputy general, Xia Shilin, had a lot of complaints about His Majesty's edict. He thought Wang Yanwu did a good job, and Wen Tianxiang should have sacrificed himself for his country when he was captured, and he had a full reputation. But seeing that three of the six people who participated in the court meeting had agreed, he wanted to see the wind direction before so as not to stand in the wrong team, so he did not ask whether to send the edict to Wang De, the Tongzhi Privy Council. Wang De licked his lips. He knew that he was a newcomer, and these people, including the emperor, could not afford to offend them, so he smiled and pushed them to Liu Xiufu and asked him to speak first.
6 Xiufu is not a stupid person. One night is enough for him to digest what His Majesty said. He knew that the intention of His Majesty's edict was not Wen Tianxiang, nor was it a small person Wang Yanwu. He wanted to take the opportunity to change the decadent and empty talk of Shilin. He also understood that under the current situation, Your Majesty was also taking risks in doing this. How could a hundred years of accumulated corruption be changed with just a single edict? If he might be criticized by the entire Shilin. At the same time, he also knew that His Majesty did not look so naive, and his edict was also testing the attitude of the ministers in the court, especially himself, otherwise he would not have said anything to him yesterday.
6 Xiufu looked at Your Majesty's draft edict again. He found that there was a secret secret in it. Your Majesty still squandered his thoughts. Wen Tianxiang was promoted as the top scholar, served as a senior official, served as the right prime minister, and served as the Privy Councilor. Both among the people and the Shilin were very important. This is also one of the reasons why Wang Yanwu wanted to persuade him to die. Although Your Majesty did not praise Wen Tianxiang in the edict, he spared no money to save him, and he was willing to send envoys to negotiate with the Mongolians. After all, in the past, His Majesty threatened to die in the hall in order not to negotiate with Mongolia. In this way, it is impossible to say that Your Majesty attaches great importance to the scholars and has no intention of discrimination.
However, His Majesty Wang Yanwu listed all kinds of mistakes in his edict. The demotion was only worth a penny. As long as the edict was once, it could be said that his idea of becoming an official was cut off, which was "vicious". However, his status and reputation in Shilin were thousands of miles worse than Wen Tianxiang. His Majesty's praise and criticism were divided and disintegrated. Moreover, His Majesty's attitude was very clear. He would use scholars who were truly loyal to the country at all costs, but those who only wanted to show off their verbal benefits and tried to talk about patriotism and advanced in the empty talk were all delusions.
Chapter completed!