Seeing Shi Kuanzhi's expression as if he had seen a ghost, Li Yun was stunned for a long time and asked tentatively: "Why, can't you kill the imperial students of your country?"
"How could..." Shi Kuanzhi yelled half a sentence loudly, then lowered his voice: "Of course you can't kill!"
By this time, the two of them almost understood what the other party meant, and also understood that there was a slight glitch in their previous ideas.
Shi Miyuan was naturally a powerful minister, and his power was so powerful that he was one of the few since the founding of the Song Dynasty. He was able to bypass the emperor in any military and political affairs, directly issue provincial letters, and later write imperial edicts to ratify them.
It's accurate, and the world is used to it.
Therefore, when Guo Ning was dealing with diplomatic affairs with the Southern Dynasties, he faced Shi Miyuan directly and ignored the empty-headed emperor. He compared his own authority with Shi Miyuan's authority, and felt that Shi Miyuan was naturally capable of suppressing dissent.
The problem is that Guo Ning's authority comes from fighting in the flames of war, but Shi Miyuan's authority comes from conspiracies and exchanges and trade-offs of interests within the regime. This leads to great hidden dangers both inside and outside his political group.
Within it, the personnel composed are mixed and full of impurities.
In the past six months, when Li Yun and others gradually infiltrated and bribed Shi Miyuan's officials from sea to land, the whole process was a snap. Guo Ning received a confidential message from Kaifeng and wanted to confirm the exchange of political interests with Shi Miyuan.
, there is no impediment to the leakage of secrets.
And externally, there is a raging political dispute that never ends.
In the view of Zhou Guogong Guo Ning, there are too many things to do in order to stabilize the north and establish a new dynasty. It is best to stabilize the money bag of the Southern Dynasty at the moment, and take advantage of the verbal advantages of brothers, uncles and nephews.
It's all trivial. He just used this suggestion to test the political trend of the Southern Dynasties.
But in the case of Shi Xiang, once the news that Duke Zhou was willing to be brothers with the Song Dynasty leaked out, the Song Dynasty and the opposition, which were entangled and fiercely fought by many political forces, immediately had another reason for political strife.
People in the Southern Dynasties read a lot of books, and their skills in speaking, writing, and ink were more than ten times better than those in the Northern Dynasties. They could explain the truth no matter what the reason was. Such and other reasons were not for the purpose of doing well in the matter at hand, but only for criticism.
Someone who was considered a thorn in the side of the scholars.
Unfortunately, Shi Miyuan advocated peace talks and changed the name of uncle-nephew to uncle-nephew to avoid military confrontation with the Jin Kingdom. While enjoying the benefits of peace, countless people wrote countless impeachment memorials, saying that Shi Miyuan had lost power and insulted the country and could be killed.
Now, relying on the cooperation with Ding Haijun, the North and the South will become brothers. As a result, those people changed their rhetoric and concluded that since the Jin Kingdom collapsed, the Song Dynasty would have the ability to draw chestnuts from the fire. If they could not get much practical benefits, they would have to be satisfied.
The nominal gain... is still Shi Miyuan's loss of power, humiliation to the country, and death!
What is different from the situation back then is that Shi Miyuan has been in business for many years, and has filled the capital and Taiwan with sensible and silent people. No matter how many impeachment memorials there are, not a single copy will reach the emperor's hands, and it will not cause much trouble. But.
Who would have thought that those who were afraid of the world being in chaos would actually incite the imperial students to submit a letter to Fu Que!
Imperial students are the essence of the young scholars of the Song Dynasty, and they are popular. Because they are young and vigorous, they are easily deceived by others. Therefore, since the first year of Jianyan, Chen Dong, a Tai student, wrote a letter and was killed, triggering a huge political uproar.
, the imperial court and the powerful officials in power such as Qin Hui, Han Yuzhou, etc. were very taboo about this.
They repeatedly issued orders to supervise students, strictly prohibiting imperial students from leaving the palace, and also adjusted the academic rules of the Imperial College, and punished scholars for all kinds of abnormal behaviors, which were considered to be a crime of apprenticeship, a crime of tattooing, or a crime of death.
Qualifications, imprisonment and prohibition from serving as an official.
Under the strong suppression, there were only a few petitions from Taipei students in the hundred years since the southern crossing. In the past few years, Shi Miyuan was extremely tolerant of Neo-Confucian scholars and old officials of the imperial court, so political battles rarely arose.
Taixue and its students themselves are not willing to risk their own futures by going head-to-head with the sophisticated rulers of the current dynasty.
Therefore, in the past ten years, Taixue has been stable with little turmoil, and there have been only two incidents of trouble.
Once in the second year of Jiading, the prefect of Lin'an, Zhao Shigai, punished two martial arts students who violated the rules and ran property for others. As a result, students from the martial arts and Taixue schools successively issued ultimatums and went on strike. They wrote letters of support, saying that Zhao Shigai punished students without authorization and despised the school.
There is no king and father. In order to avoid any grudges against the scholars, Shi Xiang dismissed Zhao Shiqi from the post of prefect of Lin'an, and the imperial student's enthusiasm was gone.
Another time was after the Kingdom of Jin was divided into two parts, the DPRK and the Central Government discussed the issue of annual coins. Many imperial students made a fuss and asked Qiao Xingjian, who continued to pay the annual coins, to behead him as a thank you to the world. Qiao Xingjian was originally the prime minister of history.
Shi Xiang tried out the microphone he had rolled out, and found out that he had a whole set of means to continue paying the old coins. He also took advantage of Ding Haijun's opportunity to develop sea trade and reset the Huainan Money Supervisor, creating capital for the two companies to cooperate out of thin air.
After all, that trip was not directed at Shi Xiang, so there was nothing difficult to deal with.
But this trip in front of them was no small matter. These young scholars suddenly became furious and took nothing seriously from the cooperation between the Prime Minister and Zhou Guogong. Thousands of them crowded in the palace and made many ridiculous demands!
These imperial students act as they please, and talk about being as high as the sky. Do they really want to fight, or really want to provoke their powerful neighbors in the north? That is simply impossible. They just want to interfere with the normal political order and target the Prime Minister!
Shi Kuanzhi hated them so much that he was somewhat envious of Ding Haijun's neat style of beheading with a knife.
What Zhou Guogong Guo Ning established in the north was an out-and-out military regime. The warriors were not only the backbone of the army, but also became the main body of local government affairs through the military household system. They also relied on the internal teaching system of the army to cultivate talents trusted by Zhou Guogong.
Under this system, civil servants only play a role in assisting in sorting things out.
Not to mention that the Imperial College in Zhongdu City is full of Jurchen nobles’ children, which is really different from our kind. Even if nothing happens, Zhou Guogong will not allow them to act arbitrarily; once they cause trouble, they will be beheaded with a savagery, and their heads will be rolling.
After that, the world was at peace.
But can this method be used in the Song Dynasty?
Impossible. What the Song Dynasty paid attention to was clothing, etiquette, music, benevolence, justice and morality, but they were not as rude and easy to kill as the Han people in the north! Shi Kuanzhi thought about this method of killing carefully and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.
Imperial College students must not be messed up, but Taixue students cannot be easily touched. Behind these young people, there are countless connections between officials and courtiers, and there are thousands of talismans.
Therefore, the top priority of the Prime Minister is to find out who is instigating the imperial students’ petition to Fuque. Who will benefit from the turmoil in the court? What oversights have there been in our own control over the court and Lin’an?
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Naturally, Shi Miyuan had dedicated subordinates to deal with these troublesome problems, and Shi Kuanzhi came to meet with Li Yun. According to the results of the discussion among many think tanks of the Shi Party last night, he made a request to remove the firepower:
Please don't mention the brotherly country, and don't sell it. The relationship between the two countries, Zhou Guogong can have your intentions, but it must be done step by step according to the rhythm of the Song Dynasty and the wishes of the Prime Minister.
In the final analysis, even if the two countries eventually reach a brotherly alliance, it cannot be Guo Ning's initiative. Compared with the Jin Kingdom's style of conduct, that kind of attitude is too weak and too reasonable, and it immediately caused many fools to look forward to Shu.
Can Prime Minister Shi really follow their demands and force his powerful neighbor in the north? Zhao Fang has already tried it once, but failed. If he continues to cause trouble, what if he really starts a war?
Let’s continue the relationship between uncles and nephews for the time being. If uncles and nephews become brothers one day, it must be the result of Prime Minister Shi’s manipulation and coercion from the northerners.
The entire process can take one and a half years, three or five years. As long as Prime Minister Shi controls the progress of the negotiations between the two parties, he will have room to move forward and retreat freely in the DPRK, and he can also take this opportunity to continue to mobilize many cronies.
, stuffed them into various official offices.
After the results are finally achieved, Prime Minister Shi will rely on this result to subsidize himself, show it off with great fanfare, and use it to suppress those who are arrogant in the government and the public!
To put it bluntly, everything must be conducive to the governance of the Prime Minister, and everything must be conducive to the stability of the court. Even if anything is beneficial to the Song Dynasty, if it cannot play such a role, the Prime Minister will not be happy to see it.
"I see..." Li Yun suddenly realized: "We were the ones who were abrupt."
Shi Kuan was overjoyed, but a little nervous: "How about it? I need to trouble my dear brother to come forward and explain that we are still the country of uncles and nephews, and Duke Zhou has no intention of changing. Can it be done?"
Duke Zhou sent a message to Song to show his goodwill, but the prime minister of Song hoped that Duke Zhou's envoy would distort it and suppress Duke Zhou's goodwill. This request was a bit excessive.