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Chapter Eighty-Three

Killing corrupt officials is a good kill, but Zhao Huan, who is in a slight mind, also knows that there is no official in the world who does not take money, and corrupt officials cannot be killed. For example, the later cowherd kids in the Ming Dynasty, the one who killed corrupt officials was so cruel.

At most, Zhao Huan beheaded, scouted his home, and then exiled his corrupt officials' family.

But it is not that simple for herding cows. They are all kinds of tortures such as peeling, playing the pipa, washing combing, and sucking intestines.

Do you think it’s very literary when you see playing the pipa? Do you think that although the cowherd is a monk, you don’t expect to be a literary young man? You can also comb, take a bath and comb your hair?

Playing the pipa is to use a sharp blade to pick people's bones one by one, not to play them with your hands!

The combing became even more hungry. Put the person on the iron plate, strip it naked, then pour boiling water on it, and then use an iron brush to scrape the person's flesh and blood down until the flesh is exposed. Isn't it more sour than killing a pig?

Liu Bang, who was also the founding emperor, killed his ministers because he wanted to use his wife and Prime Minister Xiao He to kill him in a roundabout way.

Why did the cowherd dare to do this directly? It was because the Ming Dynasty was defeated by the cowherd with the generals. Liu Bang stopped at the six good things about hiring people, so his natural methods were different.

And what about Zhao Huan? A northern expedition moved the national border northward, making the momentum of the Song Dynasty suddenly become stronger. The passionate young men had long been devoted to the emperor, and they were so admiring that they could not help but run to the emperor and take off their pants and say, Your Majesty, do whatever you want to do.

So, Zhao Huan is not as anxious as the prime ministers of the two prefectures, thinking that the sky has fallen.

The sky cannot fall this day. Liu Bang was supported by the founding of the Han Dynasty, and cowherds were supported by the founding of the Ming Dynasty. Now that the Song Dynasty is rising, Zhao Huan is supporting by the support, what are you going to do? Just rely on the elite soldiers and generals under the emperor!

At this time, the emperor raised his arms and shouted, and the new army led by Zong Ze would meet and correspond, Yanyun's army, the three towns in Hedong, Hebei, and the elite troops in the northwest, who were not born and died with the emperor?

The emperor personally sent the soldiers who died in battle to the Martyrs' Temple, and the compensation was in place and the military salary was in place. Who would not say that the emperor was the saint?

The only weak thing now is the south. People there cannot feel the power of the emperor, and the army there has not really gone north to fight with the emperor, but the power of the Imperial City Department is infiltrating wildly into the south.

On this day, the blood outside the Five Dynasties' Gate had not yet dried, and more than 300 people's heads fell to the ground. In just half a month, more than 1,000 people were executed by the emperor. The sky of the Song Dynasty was killed red, and the prime ministers of both palaces were scared to death.

This time the case of transporting grain and pay was called the "Jingkang Grain Transportation Case" by later historical books. Later historians, Emperor Yan, used the heads of more than a thousand people to sacrifice flags for the new policy, and opened up the mighty new policy of Jingkang.

More than 300 heads had just landed, and a voice from the people in Tokyo actually reached the temple in the Nine Heavens. An official knelt in front of the palace and wrote a letter to the emperor, saying that if the Song Dynasty wanted to innovate officials, it was necessary to promote the argument of hundreds of schools, and that the Confucian family was not the only one.

The Imperial City Guard immediately arrested the official and threw the official into prison.

But his voice resounded like a tiger roaring in the mountains and forests, making all scholars unable to sleep.

If the emperor killed corrupt officials, it was reasonable and well-founded, but what was the basis for the study of the hundreds of schools of thought?

The emperor punished corrupt officials severely and showed great trend of promoting Legalism. At this time, is it a coincidence or is there someone behind the scenes?

Some officials went to the palace overnight to meet the saint and asked the emperor to execute the sage to correct the country on the charge of "slandering the sage"!

When the emperor was killing corrupt officials, he did not see these people coming to the palace to meet the saint overnight. Now an official came, which made these people feel uneasy and surrounded the emperor and criticized them. The emperor did not see him in the name of rest and sleep, so the officials knelt outside and did not get up. Finally, the emperor asked the eunuch to spread a message saying that he would handle this matter well, so the ministers were reluctant to go back.

The current situation is not easy for ministers. Which minister has no shame in his hands? The Imperial City Guards are spread throughout Tokyo, and their tentacles are even extending to the north and south. They have a lot of information in their hands.

It is not easy for the ministers to force the emperor too much, otherwise the emperor would find a reason to start slaughtering people. The emperor would not just slaughter the ministers with minor problems. After all, someone still needs to work. As long as the emperor's bottom line is not violated, there will be a delicate balance between the two sides.

Just talking about the matter of the official, after the ministers received the emperor's promise, although they were still anxious, they had no choice but to go back. Otherwise, if you keep kneeling here and angering the emperor, the situation will be impossible to deal with.

Shortly after the ministers left, the emperor read all the information of the official in the imperial study, as well as a letter from him, "The Commentary on the Hundred Schools of the Great Ages" which explained the harm of corrupt scholars to the country. As in the Spring and Autumn Period, the words of hundreds of schools were raised, the sea was adopted, and the Neo-Confucianism was attacked with severe words, and scolded him as a theory of harming the country and the people. It was the poison of Chinese culture!

"Shi Xun?" Zhao Huan frowned slightly, the name was a bit familiar.

Xie Dahai said: "Your Majesty, you killed the prime minister at the Five Dynasties that day. This man was talking with a friend named Li Huaian. The young man heard by His Majesty was Shi Xun and his courtesy name was Ziming."

The emperor immediately remembered that he also praised Shi Ziming's bold remarks at that time.

This person is from Jiangling. He was born in poverty and his parents died early. He was supported by his brother and sister-in-law. Unfortunately, this person has been rebellious since childhood, often criticized Zhou Cheng's Neo-Confucianism, and even made fierce remarks about orthodox Confucianism. He yearned for Han Feizi's Legalism theory, and believed that the prosperity of a hundred schools of thought was the orthodox Chinese orthodox!

Such people were still in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, so there was nothing wrong with them. Even in the former Tang Dynasty, there was nothing, but in the Song Dynasty, where Confucianism was the most prosperous, wasn’t this seeking death?

Shi Xun is already twenty or seven years old this year, but has not yet won fame and fortune. He has been living a hard life in Tokyo. In the words of later generations, he is the lowest-class ants of the divine ants drifting in Beijing.

According to the information that Xie Dahai has, this person often speaks wildly and has the ambition of Han Xin, and wants to assist the Holy Lord in creating a foundation for all generations.

If it weren't for a time traveler, Zhao Huan would have regarded this person as a lunatic. However, when Zhao Huan, who grew up in later generations, saw Shi Xun's "The Great Hundred Family Memorials", he couldn't help but applaud, and even wondered if this guy had also traveled through time travel in later generations?

After thinking about it, he ordered Xie Dahai to take good care of this person, provide good food and drink, but do not let the prison out of heaven, no torture, no others are allowed to approach him, every meal must be inspected according to my specifications to ensure that this person is foolproof!"

"Abide by the order!"

Zhao Huan was looking for such a person who dared to fire at the prosperous Confucianism of the Song Dynasty.

Reform of officials is not as simple as killing people. Killing people is just a rough means to set up a bottom line of rules. To be completely replaced by the bureaucrats of the Song Dynasty, it is necessary to innovate from both the system and the spiritual culture, otherwise everything will be futile.

Institutional innovation can be enforced through political skills and military power. Innovative spiritual culture is the most difficult and the widest range of aspects.
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