Chapter 319 White Hair Notes

Author: Purple Water

Chapter 319 White Hair Notes

As the weather got colder, Zhao Qiong's theater had already opened. It was not the common tiles and trash on the street, but all the juggling tricks inside, but the simple theater, which only performs dramas and music books.

Qi Hongyu searched for a few places in the theater, and finally Zhao Qi set a place on Quyuan Street, Nancheng.

This Quyuan Street is next to Zhuque Street, located west of Yu Street, not far from Xiangguo Temple on the top, and Zhuque Street below, which is very close to Shuyu Tower.

Zhao Jie chose this place for a reason. Quyuan Street is a lively place in the southwest city. Almost all living in this area are civilians. And near the outer city, the people in the outer city walk around in the inner city, and most of them are wandering around.

here.

Zhao Qiong advocated that Qu Opera was never a whim. Although this era had already had the prototype of newspapers, it was not something that ordinary people could buy and watch.

Therefore, if you want to take the initiative of public opinion and spread some news and ideas among the people, you can only perform it in the form of performance and opera.

The opera is spread very quickly, both in the lyrics and contents, especially in some new plays, which do not necessarily have to be watched with your own eyes, but one is passed through ten, ten is passed through hundreds, and within a few days, the singing of this play will be circulated in the market.

The story.

Through opera, gradually grasping the public opinion orientation of the market and then releasing some ideas to the people is Zhao Qi's real purpose.

And this purpose is only to deal with the gentry in the world in the future.

The true internal contradictions of the two dynasties in the Song Dynasty for hundreds of years have never been a confrontation between civil and military affairs, nor is it an enemy of the monarch and ministers, nor is it an enemy of the court and the people.

It is the contradiction between the gentry, the gentry and the king, and the contradiction between the gentry and the people.

The one who destroyed the Song Dynasty and hollowed out the foundation of the Song Dynasty was the gentry. The gentry was the biggest borer in the Song Dynasty. Once it involved its own interests, all the country, kings and people could betrayed or betrayed.

Even when later generations argued about Yue Fei's death, Zhao Gou or Qin Hui, which was a serious crime, he forgot about the gentry.

Some people say that Zhao Gou doesn't speak, so who dares to kill Yue Fei! The reason is true, after all, Zhao Gou is the emperor.

Some people also say that Qin Hui is a spy from the Jin Kingdom and must want Yue Fei to die! This is true. Qin Hui is indeed a spy sent back by the Jin Kingdom. Yue Fei advocated the Northern Expedition and he wanted to kill Yue Fei.

But here are a few questions.

It is a bit ridiculous to say that Zhao Gou was afraid that Yue Fei would go directly to Huanglong to take back the two Emperors Hui and Qin and let him lose the throne.

According to the system and social situation at that time, even if Yue Fei really had the ability to take back the two emperors, the two emperors would never be able to ascend the throne again.

The scholars and officials should not tolerate stains, not to mention that the emperor of this dynasty was the biggest scholars and officials.

Although this proposition sounds very gimmick, it can be solved by depriving Yue Fei of his military power, and he will not kill Yue Fei at all.

The Song Dynasty deprived military officers of military power and repeated use of the military power, including Liu Guangshi, Han Shizhong, etc., and the military power was deprived.

Zhao Gou is not a fool. Such a simple method is not used, but he kills Yue Fei and destroys the Great Wall by himself. This is unreasonable.

There is another saying that Yue Fei was involved in the matter of establishing the crown prince and submitted several times to request Zhao Gou to be the crown prince.

Is this a big deal? Isn’t this the minister’s duty to suggest that the emperor establish a crown prince?

During the Renzong Dynasty, there were such memorials almost every day. Even in the Zhezong Dynasty, there were ministers who would occasionally make memorials, asking Zhezong to select the descendants of the royal family to be crown princes.

Therefore, these two reasons for Zhao Gou to kill Yue Fei are basically far-fetched and are not valid at all.

Zhao Gou killed Yue Fei probably because of this.

Then look at Qin Hui. Qin Hui slandered and wanted to kill Yue Fei. Can Zhao Gou easily believe it?

Qin Hui was not only a spy sent back by the Jin Dynasty, but also a representative of the gentry. Qin Hui proposed the famous theory of "the southern people return to the south, and the northern people return to the north".

Those who advocated that the north flee to the south return to the Jin people.

This argument made Zhao Gou so angry that he scolded him. Zhao Gou said, "I am from the north, how can I return to you?"!

Qin Hui and Zhao Gou had conflicts.

Whose interest does his argument fit? Of course it is beneficial to the Jin Kingdom, but it is more important to the southern gentry.

Qin Hui and Zhao Gou had conflicts and surrendered, so why could he sit in the court for so many years? It was the support of the Jin people and the southern gentry that made Qin Hui become the prime minister for so many years.

Does Zhao Gou know this? Of course, he knows it, but Zhao Gou has no choice but to do anything about it!

But Qin Hui himself could not move Yue Fei at this time, and Zhao Gou would not allow Qin Hui to move Yue Fei.

During the Jingkang Incident, the gentry of the Song Dynasty gave the two emperors Huiqin and the royal family in Tokyo to the Jin people. The Jin people presided over and elected the geniuses to establish a Great Chu State headed by Zhang Bangchang.

But the Chu State had no army, and Zhang Bangchang was once a minister of the Song Dynasty and was not recognized by the people, so he was abandoned by the gentry for a short time. They quickly changed Zhao Gou to the emperor.

Zhao Gou was twenty years old when he ascended the throne. He was a martial artist and received royal education. Although he was frightened by the Jin soldiers when he fled south, how could he be easily controlled by these gentry?

Therefore, Zhao Gou only encountered a mutiny after he ascended the throne for more than two years.

In the third year of Jianyan, Miao Fu and Liu Zhengyan used the local army in Hangzhou to surround Zhao Gou's palace, forcing Zhao Gou to abdicate and give the throne to his two or three-year-old son.

At that time, Miao and Liu forced the palace to kill treacherous officials and clear the king's side, but this reason could not stand the scrutiny at all. Just think about it for a little bit, you will know that it was too false.

Because I really serve the country and the people, how could I support a two or three-year-old child as the emperor?

This is simply a nonsense, a disregard for the country and the country, and is for control, because it is easier for children to master it.

Sure enough, the slightest slap in the Jiangnan gentry controlled the government under the name of Queen Mother Longyou, a descendant of Mencius.

This is a typical collusion between civil officials and harem!

However, the Western Army was not aware of the Miao and Liu mutiny that occurred in Hangzhou this time.

The Song Dynasty was the martial arts in the north and the merchants in the south. Most of the elite troops were hereditary military households from the north.

Huizong and Gaozong's reforms, including the salt and tea specialization and the recovery of minerals, targeted the south and had no impact on military households in the northwest.

As a result, the southern gentry did not say hello and dared to depose the emperor if they got a few shrimp soldiers and crab generals. This was like a joke for the Western Army. How could the Western Army compromise such a thing?

Then the Northwest Army represented by Liu Guangshi, Zhang Jun and Han Shizhong led troops back to Hangzhou from the front line.

The main force of the Miao and Liu mutiny was Miao Fu. Liu Zhengyan captured him from Fujian and returned to Hangzhou, chopped him into meat paste, and then made Zhao Gou the emperor again.

Because of the reinvention of Liu Guangshi and others, Zhao Gou's reliance on the Northwest Army was beyond reinforcing.

Zhao Gou gave Liu Guangshi, Zhang Jun and Han Shizhong the titles of Jiedushi of the Three Towns, and added titles of heroes of the auxiliary country. These two titles were not available to Yue Fei.

In addition, Zhao Gou also replaced all the personal troops around him with the Northwest Army, without a single Southern Army.

This is why Zhao Gou was in Hangzhou, but even the Jurchen forces represented by Qin Hui could not touch him.

However, after Zhao Gou regained the throne, he found that although the Northwest Army supported him as emperor, he did not support him in the Northern Expedition.

Especially Liu Guangshi. After Liu Guangshi met the Jin soldiers, he not only refused to fight, but even openly disobeyed the Holy Order and ran back.

why is that?

Because after the Jingkang Incident, although the north was nominally controlled by the Jurchens, as a tribe, the Jurchens had neither the energy nor the population to control the entire Liao Kingdom and the northern part of the Song Dynasty, so huge

Territory.

The north is actually controlled by the great families.

For territory and benefits, the Jin Kingdom had no lower limits, both politically and morally, and could promise anything and agree to anything.

For example, Qin Hui's father-in-law Wang Zhongshan was a magistrate in Fuzhou, Jiangxi Province, but he actually had a large amount of land in Jinan Prefecture, Shandong. It was long occupied by the Jin Kingdom, so these were naturally given by the Jin Kingdom.

In order to win over the Song Dynasty, the Jin Kingdom could pay a lot of money, recognize all their assets in the north, and give more abundant conditions.

Just to say that Zhao Gou could not do this without paying taxes on the land of aristocratic people.

The gentry of the Southern Song Dynasty originally annexed land to evade taxes and evade service, and called it "guarding wealth for the country". These discourses were saved in the Jin Dynasty.

Liu Guangshi himself is a general in the northwest, so he has a large amount of land in the northwest. So what motivation do you give him to fight the north?

Zhao Gou saw this, so he began to weaken Liu Guangshi's military power and support Han Shizhong and Yue Fei and others.

A civilian born in Han Shizhong and Yue Fei, who has no family background and nothing, can only follow Zhao Gou.

It takes money to support these people. Where does the money come from? Only taxation is required!

In this way, Zhao Gou fell into a vicious cycle. The Northern Expedition required taxation, the raising of soldiers required taxation, and the support of the direct lineage required taxation, but the more tax it was, the more the gentry hated him.

In the tenth year of Shaoxing, Zhao Gou's decree completely led to Yue Fei's murder, and even Han Shizhong almost lost his life.

"History of the Song Dynasty" records that in February of the tenth year of Shaoxing, Emperor Gaozong issued an edict: The Xinfuzhou army searched for seclusion and the managers of various routes were stationed in the fields.

It means that once the newly recovered northern prefectures and counties are found, the land hidden by the gentry and the land that did not pay taxes to the state will be confiscated.

The military, namely Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and his other military commanders, took over directly, and the private land was turned into official land and military garrison.

Throughout the dynasties, it was a common phenomenon for the gentry to hide the land. Zhao Gou suddenly asked the hidden private land to be confiscated directly. This step was too big and too radical.

He forgot that Liu Guangshi, Zhang Jun, and even Zhang Jun's subordinates Yang Yizhong and Wang De, these old military households in the northwest, had many hidden land and private lands, so when Zhao Gou's edict was issued, the northwest

The army completely joined forces with the southern gentry.

But soldiers still have to be raised, taxes still have to be collected, and military pay still has to be paid.

So Zhao Gou came up with a series of national policies to borrow land from the gentry, or even enclose land, so that those gentry landlords could temporarily hand over the land to the army or the court, and directly use rent to support soldiers to solve the problem of military pay.

The "Food and Goods" records that Zhao Gou first sent civil servants to be in charge of land enclosure and military farming. Due to the fierce opposition of the gentry and landlords, Zhao Gou had to let the marshals in various places manage land enclosure and military farming. Only under the army and force, he would

This work can barely continue, and Yue Fei and Han Shizhong are both responsible as "supervisors".
To be continued...