'Congratulations to the host for completing this mission. The reward will be received after returning to the main world.'
'After the mission is completed, the host can return at any time. If he does not make a choice, he will be forced to return within 48 hours.'
On the way back to Funing Hall, Li Jie suddenly heard the long-lost system prompt.
mission completed?
Then I thought about it, it was also true that Zhao Zhen in history almost grew up in the shadow of Liu E when he was a boy.
Even at the age of reaching the crown, Liu E still firmly maintained the government.
In his twenties, he was in the prime of life, unable to interfere in state affairs, and had nowhere to vent his energy.
Then, I can only indulge in female sex.
Renzong's reputation for being obsessed with women was passed down to later generations.
In fact, this was a helpless move. Renzong was lustful, and Liu E must bear at least half of the responsibility.
Now, Liu E has retired to the inner court early and does not care about political affairs. The successive foreign war victories have pushed Li Jie's reputation to another peak.
Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, martial arts has never been more prosperous than in the current dynasty.
Although Taizu also conquered the east and west, he made outstanding achievements and successively pacified the Jingnan, Houshu, Southern Han, Southern Tang and other regimes.
But in terms of enemy-defeating efficiency, it's still not as good as it is now.
Moreover, Li Jie is still very young. If nothing unexpected happens, he will be able to stay in office for at least 40 years in the future (according to outsiders' opinion).
After three years on the throne, he was able to achieve his current achievements. After ten or twenty years, who knows what the Song Dynasty will become?
Seeing the official pause slightly and stop in place, seemingly lost in thought, Zhang Mao waited patiently for a while.
After a while, Zhang Mao couldn't help but shout softly.
"Official family?"
"Um."
"Go back to Funing Hall."
Hearing the voice coming from his ears, Li Jie came back to his senses, then raised his steps and continued walking towards Funing Hall.
Just now, he made a decision.
After returning to the main world, he will take time to come back again, at least to push Da Song Dynasty to the world leader's position.
Besides, his addiction to the emperor has not been over yet.
Fighting with others is endless fun.
Li Jie is almost certain that when the new examination method is promulgated, it will inevitably face great resistance.
Why did the Qingli New Deal fail?
On the surface it was because of clique fighting, but in fact it was because Fan Zhongyan had touched the cake of the vested interests.
From the Jingyou period to the Qingli period, in just a dozen years, the number of envoys serving the Third Class Court increased from more than 4,000 to more than 6,500.
In the past ten years, the number of people who only receive salary and do not work has increased by 50%, which is simply unheard of.
Not only did the number of people on free wages increase by 50%, but the number of senior officials in the Academy of Sciences and the two provinces and above also increased from more than forty to more than sixty.
The growth rate is also around 50%.
Similarly, the number of officials in Beijing increased from less than 2,000 to more than 2,800. Although the growth rate was slightly less than 50%, it was not far behind.
(The data comes from Zhang Fangping's memorial, so there should be no problem with its accuracy, but this is just central data. The redundancy at the local level can be imagined)
The harm of redundant officials is evident.
The Qingli New Deal also started with the purge of officialdom. In Fan Zhongyan's "Replying to the Imperial Edict and Chen Shi Shi", the first item was to depose the emperor in the Ming Dynasty.
(deposition: the promotion and removal of officials)
Changing the method of grinding and surveying (examinations) was also the focus of Qingli's reform. Fan Zhongyan took the Taizu and Taizong dynasties as examples. The state did not have the method of grinding and surveying.
The ancestral dynasty used the official's actual performance as a reference to evaluate the promotion of officials.
But now, it is true that the standard is to move people with literary qualifications every three years and military positions every five years, regardless of internal or external restrictions, regardless of work and rest.
Such examinations will only make officials lose their enterprising spirit and seek no merit but no faults.
To paraphrase later generations, throughout the Song Dynasty, lazy politicians abounded.
As long as you don't do it, you won't make mistakes. If you don't make mistakes, you can slowly pass the qualifications, queue up, and divide the results.
Fan Zhongyan's method of making it easier to grind and analyze, as well as the method of redefining Yinzi, are undoubtedly true insights.
However, Fan Zhongyan's sword skills were not good. Without making the cake bigger, he simply and crudely redefined the distribution system, which seriously affected the interests of big landowners and big bureaucrats.
Having angered some of the most powerful people in the dynasty, Qingli's New Deal would have to fail.
In order to hinder the New Deal, those with vested interests, on the one hand, spared no effort to throw dirty water on the reformists; on the other hand, they did their best to exclude and suppress the reformists, dividing them, co-opting them, and using all kinds of means.
What a coincidence, Song Renzong was not that kind of person with a strong will.
Song Renzong, who was too soft-spoken, saw that Fan Zhongyan and others had gathered together as friends and then as a party. How could he dare to trust them 100%?
Having lost the emperor's trust, Fan Zhongyan, Du Yan, Fu Bi, Han Qi and other Qingli Party officials were deposed one after another.
Conservatives such as Jia Changchao and Zhang Dexiang came to power one after another.
As soon as the conservatives came to power, they immediately abolished various policies of the Qingli New Deal. The first to bear the brunt were the Grinding Law and the Yinzi Law, which were related to the administration of officials.
As the Qingli Party members moved away from the center, the internal contradictions of the Conservative Party became prominent again, and they soon fell into a factional struggle for power.
After that, although Fu Bi, Han Qi and other Qingli Party members occasionally resurrected, the Qingli Party members seemed to have lost their enterprising spirit after the revival.
After all, the enemy's power is too strong, and there is a pig teammate (Emperor) in our own camp.
How can there be any hope of winning in a battle with such a huge disparity in power?
certainly.
The failure of the Qingli New Deal was not completely ineffective.
At least the reforms in the imperial examination, culture and education were inherited, and the princes of the Manchu Dynasty were not fools.
If you continue to take the exam with Ci Fu, the imperial examination system will only become more and more frustrating.
In addition, Wang Anshi decades later also learned the lessons of the Qingli New Deal and did not continue to touch the bureaucracy.
This piece cannot be moved.
Whoever moves will die.
Therefore, Wang Anshi's reform was more focused on economic system reform and open source.
As long as there is enough money and the growth of taxes far exceeds the growth of officials, the original political system can continue to play.
But for things like Yin eating Mao Liang, the fault tolerance rate is too poor. Once there is a problem in a certain link, a thunderstorm is not far away.
Human greed is a bottomless pit. No matter how much money you have, it cannot fill the bellies of those giant rats.
Just like Zhang Juzheng in the Ming Dynasty, Wang Anshi's reform also ended in failure.
Similarly, the two men also faced counterattacks by the opposition. Wang Anshi was hacked for hundreds of years after his death, Zhang Juzheng's house was confiscated after his death, his eldest son was forced to commit suicide, and his family was ruined.
Two reformers, separated by hundreds of years, have similar fates. There really is nothing new under the sun.
certainly.
The reform led by Li Jie will definitely not fail.
At worst, use the guillotine to create a bright future.