Zhao Jiu is destined to have a gap with the people of this era, and it is a huge gap that is difficult to overcome.
This gap may not be due to any difference in ideological awareness, or the difference in education system, or even the difference in world view. It is also caused by a natural cognition...
For example, people of this era always think that the emperor should like three palaces, six courtyards and seventy-two concubines.
But in fact, even the Sea King of later generations has to follow the procedure of catching fish, catching one and releasing one. There may be a few people who keep four or five houses, but do you think everyone looks at him with a curious and playful mentality? People who grew up in this environment will really keep three to five hundred young women at a time for their personal needs?
Do you recognize the face?
For example, there are always some civil officials who worry that an emperor will engage in large-scale construction, be extravagant, and test all kinds of limits with the pitiful productivity of the time... But how can a person who has seen a jungle of steel and concrete and enjoyed industrialized life have such a mood?
If you have 40 billion, wouldn't it be better to use it to build maps and expand territory?
For example, there are always bureaucrats who would speculate from an extremely selfish perspective that the official did this in order to consolidate military power, or to disrupt dissenting opinions... However, the official is actually just lazy and ignorant, and he just did it to go with the flow.
Sometimes he can indeed think of it, but sometimes he wouldn't know it and could explain it that way unless you told him.
Let's stop talking nonsense and talk about the spring when everything flourishes. In late February, the original school, which was forcibly added with Shu Wang's new school and Guanxue as the orthodox school, officially became the official doctrine, the main basis for imperial examination teaching, and the guiding ideology of the country... However, thanks to the previous hype and warm-up, and the unconditional endorsement of the emperor in the imperial society, it did not cause much waves.
Because the court needs to do things.
The first thing was the discussion about the unrest in Nanling after all the bandits in Dongting Lake were wiped out.
It is said that the Nanling turmoil had already begun during the Jingkang period. In other words, the area where Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan and Jiangxi meet has actually been in a state of anarchy for six or seven years. So far, according to statistics from the surrounding government, there are a total of twelve kings, three or four hundred factions of varying sizes, with a total of 130 to 140,000 people, affecting more than a dozen state armies in the entire Nanling region...
As to why it is so chaotic, there are many reasons.
First, it is an ethnic minority settlement area, and the culture is somewhat different from the surrounding areas; second, it is a typical hilly area with inconvenient transportation and easy to defend but difficult to attack. The term "malaria land" was invented referring to this area; third, not to mention the Song Dynasty, this place has always been a place where bandits are rampant and the people are fierce since ancient times. Often, if some powerful family in a mountain stronghold is unhappy, they will directly rebel, so there has always been a tradition of rebellion.
There's nothing we can do about it, it's a remote and poor place...and geographically it's in the heart of South China, so bandits from all directions run there when they can't stand it anymore, it's the same reason why bandits have been coming out of Taihang Mountain since ancient times.
Historically, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty in another time and space, the Ming Dynasty was sweeping the north, which did not prevent it from rebellion in more than a dozen prefectures in the back, and then it tossed around for many years, let alone now after experiencing the Jingkang Incident?
Of course, thanks to the previous fruitful efforts such as holding on to the Huai River, stationing in Nanyang, and recovering the old capital, the current situation in the Song Dynasty has improved a lot. From the perspective of internal troubles, there is basically only this big hole left.
Therefore, the court treated the last rebellion suppression operation as a top-notch event. The provincial governor, the de facto prime minister Zhao Ding, also proposed his own plan based on the characteristics of Nanling. He asked the exhausted imperial army to withdraw and rest, and replaced Han Shizhong and Zhang Jun to go south together, one from Fujian and the other from Hunan, and then let the local volunteers from Guangnan and Guangdong go out to suppress the rebellion from three directions.
However, this plan was immediately opposed by Privy Councilor Zhang Jun, who believed that the movement of troops would be a waste of time. Since Yue Fei had already arrived in the south, he should move south quickly while the weather was not too hot and end the battle before summer arrived.
In this regard, Zhao Jiu once again expressed his support for Zhang Jun, but agreed with some of Zhao Ding's opinions. Finally, he ordered Yue Fei to decide at his own discretion how many troops to take south and how many troops to return for rest, and gave him the authority to dispatch government volunteers from Jiangnan West Road, Fujian Road, Guangnan East Road, and Guangnan West Road, and to recruit Miao soldiers from local Miao villages.
At the same time, generals, soldiers, civil and military officials from Guangdong, Guangxi and Nanling were sent south to provide guidance to resolve this last large-scale rebellion.
Since the government had made the decision, the matter was quickly carried out.
Just as the decision was made on the suppression of the rebellion in the outer court, another earthquake-like important event soon broke out in the city of Tokyo. That was that the authority to receive and transport secret letters was suddenly revoked for Yang Yi Zhong, the commander of the Imperial Guard, and Liu Yan, the second-in-command of the Imperial Guard, was put in charge of the matter instead.
There was a trace of this. Before this, the Governor of Hubei had submitted a formal memorial impeaching Yang Yi Zhong on the issue of the secret letter. However, the original academic affairs and the military arrangements for suppressing the rebellion were more important at that time. Now that the matter was settled, the government naturally dealt with it.
However, the fact that Yang Yi Zhong, who had always been regarded as the emperor's most trusted confidant, was suddenly treated in this way still aroused suspicion and speculation among many people in Tokyo City. Almost on the second day after the incident, dozens of memorials were sent to Emperor Zhao's desk through the Privy Council, all of which impeached Yang Yi Zhong and demanded his death.
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