At the end of October, Bianliang began to feel deserted.
The weather changed suddenly. It was already mid-winter. Although it had not snowed, a long, cold wind could be heard blowing across the wilderness.
Compared with spring and summer, the water transport in Bianliang is much less, and there is an off-season.
The pace of pedestrians in the streets and alleys has quickened a bit, they are more hurried and less elegant than before, and even the leisure time for drinking tea has decreased.
The grass outside the Constitutional Court had completely withered, and only the evergreen trees, which were always like spring, were still rustling in the cold wind.
Zhao Jun is still handling government affairs.
These days he has gradually become familiar with political affairs and is able to handle problems with ease.
Even if I encountered a problem I didn't understand, I could just talk to Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng and the others and they would understand it after a little thought. But compared to Lu Yijian and the others, I was still far inferior to them.
There is a big gap in political acumen and experience.
So much so that today, when he needed to ask Lü Yijian for advice again, Lü Yijian teased him, "Well, it's not easy to sit in this position, is it?"
"It's indeed harder than I imagined, but the fundamental purpose of my compromise is to remove the obstacles that hinder modernization, not to make the Han people suffer. You should also remember this and stop bending your back."
Zhao Jun responded in a light tone, which choked Lu Yijian and made him leave in anger.
However, even though he retorted, he felt quite uncomfortable.
Only when you actually sit in this position can you understand how difficult it is.
Those in power are concerned about the country's regime security and social stability, so they are bound to make compromises in many areas.
For example, if you were a rebel, you wouldn't care about the attitudes of the imperial court or the landlords. Huainan is suffering from drought, the harvest is failing, and the people can't survive, so let's rebel.
Kill all the corrupt officials, kill all the landlords who hoarded grain, and rob them of their grain in order to survive. Why bother about whether the country will perish?
But from the perspective of the Song Dynasty, although the landlord class is hateful, they will at least help the court maintain local rule. As long as they do not rebel, the court will turn a blind eye to many things.
Moreover, since the large landowner class had representatives in the court, the court would tend to favor these large landowners when making actual decisions, and even if it wanted to appease the local areas, it would be difficult.
Even at the last moment, they still had to worry about these large landlords who owned large amounts of land, grain, and population rebelling, and they did not dare to do anything to them.
As a result, the court was seen by the people as dark and corrupt, a dynasty that should be destroyed.
In the eyes of the court, the people are all troublemakers, thugs, and traitors.
The two sides have different perspectives on the issue and it is difficult for them to reach a consensus on ideology, so it is naturally difficult for them to understand each other's difficulties.
Over the past two thousand years, in feudal society alone, only Zhu Yuanzhang was half aware of this.
He was aware of this because he basically did not show any mercy to the big landowners and corrupt officials, thus maintaining the political integrity of the early Ming Dynasty and alleviating land annexation in the early Ming Dynasty.
To say that he didn't realize this is because he himself belittled the Red Turban Army as rebels and said that the Yuan Dynasty lost its rule because of its too lax politics.
Obviously, once you sit in that position, your butt will decide your head.
It is a pity that Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants did not inherit his attitude of continuing to take action against corrupt officials and landlords, and were eventually deceived.
By the end of the Ming Dynasty, not only was it difficult to clean up the bureaucracy, but even taxes could not be collected.
As a later generation, Zhao Jun should actually consider the issue from the perspective of the common people.
But at least not yet.
The main reason is that Western Xia and Liao are still hidden dangers.
If we want to take drastic measures and learn from Zhu Yuanzhang and the attitude of the new China towards corrupt officials and landlords, we will have to do it now, just like in the late Ming Dynasty.
There will suddenly be countless rebels inside, and the Western Xia and Liao Kingdoms will be watching covetously from outside.
At that time, under internal and external troubles, it is possible that the Liao Kingdom might really follow the example of the Qing Dynasty, enter the pass and move south to occupy the vast territory of the Central Plains.
So Zhao Jun is still enduring it for the sake of the overall situation.
The same thing.
Many young people in later generations may think that considering the overall situation is a joke, but when you really reach that position, you will find that sometimes it is good enough to have a way to consider the overall situation.
The problem is that I can't even consider the overall situation.
"It's not easy to transform the ancient heroic view of history into a people's view of history. Rebellion is a dangerous end to one's life, and sitting in the position of ruler is just as precarious. No wonder countless prime ministers have said for thousands of years that this position is lonely at the top."
After Zhao Jun finished reviewing today's government affairs, he put down the brush in his hand and rubbed his temples. He felt even more tired than when he was in high school in his previous life.
Incense charcoal has been lit in the house.
The weather is getting colder and winter is about to come. No one knows how many people will freeze to death in Bianliang.
"The cotton seeds are here."
At this moment, Wang Zeng stood up and walked over to Zhao Jun with a letter in hand. He said to him, "Fan Yong has submitted a letter stating that they have successfully brought back over 8,000 kilograms of cotton seeds from the Western Regions."
"oh?"
Zhao Jun hurriedly asked, "Is this the African cotton I mentioned?"
"It should be."
Wang Zeng said: "It is indeed a different variety of cotton from our own country. It has been cultivated since the Wei Dynasty of the Eastern, Western, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and has already appeared as a relatively expensive cotton clothing in the Tang Dynasty."
Wang Sui also came over and said, "I've looked through historical records and discovered that this type of cotton was promoted during the Tang Dynasty. They tried to grow it in Hebei and Henan, but it seems it wouldn't survive."
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