On weekdays, when guests come to their home, they have to cook a few more dishes and buy some good wine, let alone the emperor's meal at his home. What a glory and a very proud thing. But just as Li Gang and his family tried their best to prepare for it.

When the table was feasted to entertain the emperor, they suddenly left. At this moment, they were imaginable, not only disappointment, but also anxiety.

"Don't say more!" Li Gang couldn't bear it anymore in the face of his family's endless complaints, and looked back and shouted.

"The emperor went to his minister's house to visit him. This is a great joy. Why didn't my husband find a way to leave the emperor to have a meal, even if he only drank a glass of wine and picked up a piece of vegetables. It's a pity..." Mrs. Li looked at the one in front of him.

Table Cai said, she had hollowed out her mind, devoted all her family and mobilized all the forces in the mansion to prepare, but how could she be willing to end this scene?

"Do you know that you have violated the emperor's taboo? The family banquet you prepared is more than the New Year's Day celebration. How dare Your Majesty use it?" Li Gang threw the recipe on the table and said, his wife was really real, just looking at the plate

Thirteen rows, fifteen cups of wine, seven dishes, ten dishes of wine, ten dishes of wine, ten dishes of wine, and ten dishes of wine, and twenty dishes of wine, and all dishes and programs were given to this year's New Year's Day.

"Ah?! No, I just thought that His Majesty would try his best to make the emperor eat well, but I didn't think too much about it!" Li was frightened by her husband's words and said in a trembling voice.

"Although your Majesty enjoys the world's wealth, he hates luxury the most. This year, the Aoshan Mountain in front of Xuande Building has not been built. The New Year's Day banquet is all in a formal way, which is much shorter than in previous years. However, our mansion only has a family banquet.

Thirteen ranks; furthermore, the emperor wanted to cancel the rank of monks and Taoists and buy temple property. Before the festival, the ladies in the palace had not gone to Xiangguo Temple to burn incense, but you were clamoring to go. The emperor saw it again, which was really a death.

Me!" Li Gang said more and more angry, and shouted. His extravagant "crime" was confirmed. The mansion could create such a big battle in a short time without any preparation. It can only be said that this is on weekdays

All of them are. Otherwise, even if he is beaten to death, he will not be able to make it up, let alone make it.

"My grandpa, I just think that our Majesty has come to the mansion and we can get some extra benefits, but I didn't expect to cause this big disaster!" Li Gang was already an extremely important minister, but not many children and grandchildren have served in office. Li's family

I thought about letting the children come forward to pay homage when I was drunk. Maybe the emperor was happy to be appointed as an official and a royal decree, so I had already let them dress up and wait for the meeting. Unexpectedly, a little selfishness caused trouble.

"Your Majesty is so smart, how can you not see the heart of you, a woman. I didn't expect that I was careful in the face of the prefect for more than ten years but ruined my hand!" Li Gang waved his hand to stop his wife and continued to speak, sighing to the sky.

"Did you have any remedies?" Li said timidly. She wanted to take advantage of the situation, but she did not expect to backfire and implicate her husband.

"Oh, the matter has been done, so I can only leave it to fate!" Li Gang sighed again. He turned around and went into the study room, threw a family in the hall and stared at him. He thought it was a blessing, but it turned out to be a disaster in the blink of an eye.

From the sky, the Li Mansion was cast a haze on this happy day...

Li Gang knew very well that the "wrongs" he made were all problems in the minor details. Even if he knew about them, there would be no major events. It just happened in a sensitive period and made people worry. Especially when the emperor suddenly arrived, he suddenly floated up.

And when he went, he tried to recall every word, every movement and expression that the emperor had after entering the door, trying to find something from it. But apart from a few joking sarcasm, it seemed that the emperor did not show any dissatisfaction, but it was Xi Ye who was the one who was happy.

What does the words imply.

Just when Li Gang was puzzled and couldn't figure out what the emperor was doing, news came again. In the past few days, the emperor not only visited their house, but also harmed several other prime ministers. The left prime minister Xu Jingheng and the right prime minister Chen Gongbo,

The Privy Council envoy Zhao Ren and others and the six ministers of the Ministry of Justice did not miss any of them, causing chaos in each family and panic. In the end, there was only a mess left, and he could not help but send the emperor away with laughter.

Through the experiences of several families, Li Gang understood that all this was the emperor's prank, and he was revengeing everyone. On that day, the emperor wanted to fight in person, and they firmly opposed it and united to leave the emperor to life. At that time, the emperor announced that the emperor had announced.

The expression of giving up the personal expedition is still vivid in my mind, just like the expression of his wife when the emperor left his mansion, with helplessness full of disappointment, resentment and reluctance. Now everyone thinks that the matter has passed, but the emperor cannot forget it.

To take revenge for one arrow, I chose such a naughty way.

Li Gang figured out the puzzle that had troubled him for many days and was in a good mood, but he felt that it was wrong. It was reasonable for the emperor to harm him and others in this way of childlike intent, but it was not the case for Zhao Ren, the envoy of the Privy Council.

A servant around the emperor has a relationship with both a servant and a minister, and it is most appropriate to be a retainer. It would be abnormal if the emperor tortured Zhao Ren in the way he treated himself and other court officials, but instead kicked him hard.

, the beating him makes people feel more appropriate.

"Is the Song Dynasty going to repeat the old story of the struggle between the king and the minister?" Li Gang suddenly thought of the emperor's revenge. They prevented the emperor from personally expeditioning, but this is also the rare unity of the ministers in the court since the emperor ascended the throne, and this time it was also

It has indeed been done over. They use inaction to negatively confront each other, making the government orders blocked and the emperor's will difficult to leave the capital. In the emperor's view, the prime minister's power has the ability to curb the imperial power and breaks the balance of power in the court. This is every

What the emperor doesn't want to see...

Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, Taizu governed the world with scholars, and the prime minister's power was strengthened, and the scholars and officials of the Song Dynasty carried forward this, gradually making it the King of Jin Ke, who restricted the imperial power. In textbooks, he went to scholars.

The son instilled that the world is not the world of the emperor, so the emperor cannot be dictatorial in the affairs of the world. Prime Minister Du Fan once gave a good explanation of this: if you abolish and take it away, (the emperor) everything is carefully discussed by the prime minister, and then

If you see the implementation, if you don’t give it, you can give it to refute it, and you can give it to the public, and you can give it to the public. Therefore, if you take the world as the world, you will not be able to do it for yourself, even if you have never been able to do it.

Under this atmosphere, Song Xue cultivated the worldly philosophy of intellectuals in the Song Dynasty. The scholar-official class of Song Dynasty, from the top to the safety of the country and the interests of the people, all had a subject that was no better than me, and they took this subject as well as the people.

Integrate knowledge into their achievements when they were in the world. In terms of political rights, intellectuals seem to have gained a certain right to speak and gained something they pursue. But they are unwilling to become officials, so they have to deal with

The emperor fought for power, which restricted the growth of imperial power.

The overall consciousness of the scholars and officials of the Song Dynasty was also reflected in their understanding of the cliques. "Friends" had existed since ancient times. Confucius said: "A gentleman is a group but not a party; Xunzi said: "Friends are compared with Zhou, and they are committed to the pursuit of private affairs." This is a usurpation of ministers.

. Therefore, the monarchs and ministers who take traditional Confucian thought as the guide to govern the country only believe that the concept of "villain has a party, but gentlemen have no party" is deeply rooted in people's hearts and hates and hates the cliques, and is so secretive.

After entering the Song Dynasty, as the status of scholars improved, the tradition of derogating all cliques changed. Some scholars put forward new insights on "gentlemen also have party". They did not deny all cliques, but analyzed them and pointed out that

There is a difference between a "gentleman party" and a "villain party". The emergence of this theory is a change in the view of cliques among the scholars of the Song Dynasty. Ouyang Xiu even openly advocated the rationality of cliques, and used "shang Dao" and "shang liberty"

'Add to distinguish.

As this idea deepens, in the eyes of the scholars and officials, as long as a wise monarch can distinguish between the gentleman's party and the villain's party and the slave has the skills, he can create an ideal political pattern. Therefore, the scholars and officials of the Song Dynasty were

The party-parties are openly divided under the banner marked by "comrades" and fight for power in the court to realize their political views. Therefore, the party-strife has become a tool for the forces of various factions in the court, which not only hindered social reform, but also caused the political arena of the Song Dynasty to last for a hundred years.

The battle.

It has to be said that the relationship between scholars and state power is always a superficial relationship. Their mentality and behavior ultimately depend on the actual political ecology, especially the operating state of state power. Often, only by suppressing imperial power can the scholars be allowed to

People were able to show their ambitions, but there was an emperor willing to hand over the power in his hands. As a result, the open and secret struggle between scholars and the emperor filled the court, and party struggles became the tool for the emperor to control power. He could support or suppress another

The Party has gained the right to speak in the court, thus achieving the goal of consolidating the imperial power...

By this dynasty, the scholar group had declined after the Jingkang Incident, and the despicable performance of some scholars in the Jurchen invasion was also disappointing, which allowed the emperor to carry out a large-scale cleaning of the scholar group, which ended for a hundred years.

The party struggles and the establishment of a new political pattern of equal importance to both civil and military affairs by resolving redundant officials and improving the status of military personnel. Compared with the previous period, the power of the general was greatly weakened and the right to speak was reduced.

In the more than ten years that followed, the emperor, through continuous wars and a series of adjustments to national policies, enabled the Song Dynasty to quickly get rid of its post-war decline, quickly recover its vitality, and rise again to become a powerful country that dominated the East. Civil and military forces also formed in the court.

With the political structure of the general rule, imperial power became an important bargaining factor in balancing the power between civil and military forces. The emperor's civil and military achievements also won a very high reputation in the court and the public, and no one could challenge his authority.

The education received by the scholar group made them unwilling to become a supporting role, and after the initial chaos, they became a political group again. But they knew that they were not emperor opponents who had formed an alliance with the military, so they could only form an alliance with the military.
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