408. The Time Has Come to Conquer Bashu (Please Order the Whole Thing)

As expected.

In the palace examination, Bai Gui used "Heaven's Mandate Black Bird" as the first question to test the students. And the answers of these scholars were also very clever, answering this question with "Although Zhou is an old country, its destiny is to be renewed."

The Heaven's Mandate Black Bird descended and gave birth to the Shang Dynasty.

This refers to the destiny of the Shang people. The Song State in the Spring and Autumn Period was the remnant of the Shang people. Bai Gui used the Heaven's Mandate Black Bird as the topic to ask "Is the destiny in Qin or Song now?"

Combined with recent rumors.

This is forcing the candidates of the palace examination to stand on the right side.

If you stand on the wrong side, not only will your reputation be changed, but you may also be killed.

The candidates are also very aware of the current situation. .

Although Zhou is an old country, its destiny is to be renewed.

It implies that the current destiny has fallen on Qin King Bai Gui.

Qin, or Yongzhou, was originally the old land of the Zhou people.

Zhou replaced Shang, Qin replaced Song.

The candidates' awareness was within Bai Gui's expectations. But among the 134 candidates who entered the palace examination, not even a loyal minister of the Song Dynasty was found, which was beyond his expectation.

In the past dynasties, those who dared to usurp the throne were always scolded.

But he thought about the virtue of the Song Dynasty and the emperor Zhao Huan of Song Qinzong, and understood the feelings of these palace examination scholars.

Although it is said that loyal ministers are seen in times of turmoil, but... such a shameful emperor, how could anyone go to support him.

Besides, Qindi and Longdi were recovered by Bai Gui, and the local scholar class had long lost their awe and loyalty to the Song Dynasty. It would be too easy for the current palace examination candidates to make a choice.

Although Qindi was lost in the hands of the Song Dynasty not long ago, the scholar class in Qindi did not actually have much good feelings towards the Song Dynasty. Not to mention the loss of Qindi, in the imperial examinations of the Northern Song Dynasty, more and more southerners passed the examinations than northerners...

For example, Zhang Yuan, a failed student in the Renzong Dynasty, was from Huayin, Qindi. When he was young, he was "chivalrous", "arrogant and talented", but because he failed in the exams many times, he and his good friend Wu Hao joined Li Yuanhao of Western Xia and finally became the prime minister of Western Xia.

In the battle of Haoshuichuan, Zhang Yuan assisted the Xia army, and the Song army alone lost more than 10,000 people. Zhang Yuan also wrote a poem in Jieshang Temple: "Xia Song has never been so proud, and Han Qi is not surprising. The river is full of dragon and tiger chariots, and they still talk about military strategies."

After the poem, Zhang Yuan left a series of official titles, including Tai Shi, Shang Shu Ling, and Zhong Shu Ling.

Han Qi and Xia Song were the prime ministers of the Song Dynasty at that time.

If you say that Zhang Yuan has no talent, it is definitely impossible.

Zhang Yuan is just a microcosm of these scholars in Qin.

Now Bai Gui opened the imperial examination to recruit scholars, and all the scholars selected are from Qin and Long. These people are too happy to flatter the Song Dynasty.

...

In the evening.

Qin Wang Palace, Council Hall.

"The people can be used."

Tang Hong set the tone for today's palace examination candidates and said.

People, not ordinary people. But these Qinlong scholars. Bai Gui opened the imperial examination to recruit scholars, and most of those who could come to participate in the imperial examination were local wealthy families. Now that these scholars have been selected, it is equivalent to winning over the gentry class in Qinlong.

Gentry, is the people, is the common people.

"This king has taken over Guanlong and Long. Although Xia has imperial examination scholars and hundreds of officials, only one or two can be selected. Now that the imperial examination in Chang'an is over, these palace examination scholars will be placed in Qinlong and Longzhou as governors..."

Bai Gui nodded and said.

"Governor?"

Tang Hong was surprised.

Although the governor is another name for the prefect, Bai Gui's words do not seem to be about setting up a prefect, but wanting to turn the nominal title of governor back into a real official.

"Song has three major drawbacks. Redundant officials, redundant soldiers, and redundant politics."

"Officials are divided into official posts and official dispatches. It is too complicated and I don't want them. Redundant officials lead to redundant politics, and the annual expenditure is too much..."

"Now that the new policy has just been established, if we want to change it, we must change it thoroughly."

Bai Gui said in a deep voice.

Official posts are the official titles of the old three-province and six-department system. For example, Yuanwailang, Shangshu, Pushe, but in Song Dynasty, these official titles were separated from the actual positions. The official names were only used to indicate the official position and salary level, so they were called temporary salary officials. Official dispatches refer to official positions that are "established for events and withdrawn afterwards", such as Zhizhou, whose full name is "Quanzhi of a certain military state", and is a dispatched official.

These three drawbacks led to the fact that there were many good generals in the Song Dynasty, but they could not win battles.

The reason is that the Song Dynasty selected talents from all over the country. Since the end of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, due to the chaos of the vassal states, there were many generals. So there are generals. But the three disadvantages made the Song Dynasty really like a separatist force, with no place to use its strength and serious internal consumption. So there were no soldiers and no food.

Strategy can't win people, and tactics will be used again. Unless there is a big victory, it will be a small fight.

"Although the Song Dynasty has many disadvantages, this method can stop rebellion."

Tang Hong persuaded.

These three disadvantages are not without advantages. The advantage is that it can avoid local rebellion to the greatest extent.

"The Song Dynasty chose this method at the beginning to avoid the rebellion of the Five Dynasties..."

"To govern the chaotic world, use heavy punishments. On the contrary, if it is a prosperous era, light punishments and amnesty for the world. Now there is no vassal state to cause trouble, and this bad policy is no longer necessary."

Bai Gui said.

As long as there is no chaos in the central government, it is almost impossible for the local government to expand. Moreover, if he is the emperor of mankind, he is an immortal who lives for a long time. For him, this little trouble is not worth worrying about.

To change the three disadvantages is to change the grassroots organization.

Only in this way can the power of the entire feudal court be used.

In this case, even if the people ruled by Guanlong are less than half of those in the Southern Song Dynasty, the strength of the troops formed will far surpass that of the Southern Song Dynasty.

"The King of Qin has a far-sighted vision."

Tang Hong praised.

He was just doing his best to remind Bai Gui, but in his heart, he was still willing to change the system. Several restructurings such as Yuanfeng's restructuring and Jianyan's restructuring also showed that the Song Dynasty was aware of the problem of redundant officials.

But the disadvantages have been accumulated for too long, and even if you want to change them, it is difficult to change them.

Now that Qin Long is blank, it would be easier to set the tone from the beginning.

"Thank you, father-in-law."

"It's late. My son-in-law won't accompany his father-in-law. Sister Huixian is still waiting for me."

After discussing political affairs, Bai Gui stood up, cupped his hands, and said with a smile.

Although they were monarchs and ministers in the court, privately they were still father-in-law and son-in-law. Addressing someone like this in private at this time can also easily enhance feelings.

"King Qin, walk slowly."

Tang Hong bowed, not daring to exceed the courtesy.

Although Tang Wan is his daughter, Bai Gui is his son-in-law. But today is different from the past. Bai Gui can call him father-in-law in private out of affection, but he cannot be arrogant about it.

"By the way, King Qin, there is one more thing."

"King Kang built many passes near Jianzhou and levied civil servants, which caused resentment among the people. Many people in Bashu had already fled to Qin, and the people in Bashu had long had grudges against the Song Dynasty..."

Tang Hong stopped Bai Gui and talked about this matter.

Commercial taxes in the world are the most important among the Four Shu.

When the Song Dynasty ruled Shu, it treated Shu differently. As a result, Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun revolted in Bashu, a prosperous land. Shi Pudu, who pursued Li Shun's uprising army, said: "The rebellion in Shu was caused by the urgent need to collect taxes. The farmers were unemployed and unable to survive, so they fell into the trap of thieves."

Zhao Kuangyin also said: "Shu people never forget Meng Chang."

It's not that Meng Chang, the leader of Later Shu, managed Shu very well, but that the Song Dynasty exploited Bashu too much.

"Zhao Gou lost his virtue, and Bashu will not be restored."

Bai Gui chuckled.

When he captured Jianzhou, he guessed that Zhao Gou would do this.

"In July, we will send troops to Bashu."

"Now I order the learned men to write a memorial and send it to the states of Shu."

he ordered.

The time to take Bashu has not come yet. Now there is only public resentment, but it is not serious. And his mission was to force Zhao Gou to make this opportunity more mature.

This is conspiracy.

No matter what Zhao Gou did, he was still making wedding clothes for him.