Back to the Song Dynasty as a tyrant

Chen Biqing explained: "Fu refers to revival, and society refers to associations."

Association culture is one of the characteristics of the Song Dynasty, and Song people like to form associations most.

To drink, you need to form a wine club, to play cards, you need to form a card club, to find a woman, you need to form a real man club.

Zhao Ning has no plans to attack the civil society for the time being. After all, for Zhao Ning, the main conflict now is still the extermination of Xia Fajin.

There is no way to eradicate this society for the time being, but it will cause a lot of unnecessary troubles.

However, what Chen Biqing said about restoring the society obviously had ulterior motives.

Zhao Ning asked: "I don't know what is the revival of this society?"

"Naturally, it is the ancient etiquette and benevolence that educate the people, make the people stable, and keep the society safe for a long time."

The ancient etiquette refers to the ancient system of Zhou etiquette.

The Zhou Dynasty ruled the world with etiquette, and Confucianism was born out of Zhou etiquette.

Zhao Ning couldn't help but sigh in his heart, it's still Confucianism.

Even the Confucian Mansion was taken over by him, but these Confucian scholars still wanted to go back to the past.

Zhao Ning said again: "Is this also the reason why you oppose the death penalty, Brother Chen?"

Chen Biqing said: "Actually, it is not easy for the court to train an official. Some officials have political achievements. It is a pity that they will be executed for corruption."

Zhao Ning didn't say much, just smiled, clasped his fists and said, "I still have some things to do, please leave."

"If Officer Zhao is willing to join Fushe, we welcome it at any time."

"Okay, if I have an idea, I'll go find you, little brother Chen."

After speaking, Zhao Ning turned and left.

He was not very interested in staying any longer, and walked towards the door.

Along the way, I heard people talking about what happened just now.

"Officials, I have found out clearly that the person who argued with Chen Biqing is Li Mengbo, the son of Li Guang, the governor of Jiangdong."

"Oh, so it's Li Guang's son."

Zhao Ning was a little surprised, but Li Guang was quite low-key. His son was sent to study in Tokyo without saying a word.

Li Guang's demeanor is indeed worthy of the title of "one of the four famous ministers in the Southern Song Dynasty".

Not long after, Zhao Ning walked to the door, and those who had collected the money before saw Zhao Ning, and immediately respected him.

"Is the officer going back now?"

Zhao Ning clasped his fists together and said, "I'm going back, I have some trouble today."

"The official is too polite, the official has a good journey, welcome to come again next time."

Money is fun.

Once a person has money, the people around him are good people, and they are all polite to you.

At this time, Gao Li ran over with someone: "Officer, I'm back."

"Let's go."

"Officer, let me tell you, this garden is extremely luxurious. I don't know how much it costs to build such a garden. Think about it, where did he get so much money? It's really..."

"Go back and ask him?"

"okay!"

After leaving here, Zhao Ning strolled around again.

When I returned to the palace, it was already afternoon.

"Gao Qiu."

"The minister is here."

"Haven't you heard of Fushe?"

"Of course I know."

"you know?"

"I know that Fushe was established by a group of scholars. It's nothing to write articles, travel around mountains and rivers, and recite poems on weekdays."

"Is there someone named Chen Biqing in Fushe?"

"Ah, it is true. His father is a councilor in Hexi, and his elder father is a transfer envoy on Jiangnan West Road. We have records in the Imperial City Division."

"How is this person usually doing?"

"This man is a student of the University of Tokyo. He is excellent in all subjects. He is favored by many people. He has a lot of friends on weekdays. He is said to have good morals."

"Is there any criticism of the court?"

"Not really. I heard that there was an article praising the imperial court's tough attitude towards the Kingdom of Jin." Gao Qiu asked, "Why did the officials suddenly ask about this person?"

"It's nothing, you send someone to watch him carefully, and record what he said and who he met."

"Yes!"

"Don't be found out."

"Don't worry, the officials, we are very reliable." Gao Qiu's eyes flashed like stars.

He suddenly remembered something, and said, "By the way, officials, recently some people in the court are discussing those corrupt officials in the Jiangdong case, and the debate is quite heated."

"Oh, how to discuss it?"

"I heard that some officials think that this group of officials should be dealt with lightly."

"How do you get away with it lightly?"

"According to the previous rules, it should be beheaded. Recently, an official from Dali Temple applied to the Ministry of Punishment. It is best to kill him carefully. The Ministry of Punishment has disagreements on this matter."

"What difference?"

"Some people think that they should be killed and should be strictly enforced to serve as an example to others. Others think that they should not be killed any more, and they can be sentenced to prison or sent to serve as border officials."

"There were so many differences before?" Zhao Ning continued to ask.

"It happened before, but it was quickly resolved, but this time I don't know why it's so big, and other yamen are also involved."

Zhao Ning said thoughtfully: "Tell me, what do they say?"

"It's also about Jiangdong's case. Some people say that he should be executed, while others say that he should not be executed."

It seems that today's debate is not a coincidence!

Zhao Ning's brain turned rapidly.

Both Dali Temple and the Criminal Department were cleaned up by Qin Hui.

When Qin Hui was the minister of the Ministry of punishment, he had a lot of power.

His authority was naturally given to him by Zhao Ning, and it was Zhao Ning's acquiescing to clean the Ministry of Punishment and Dali Temple.

Why did Zhao Ning acquiesce?

Because of the situation back then, his official Zhao family planned to use a group of cruel officials to attack the old faction and surrender faction in the court.

Qin Hui executed these very well.

After several major cleanings, Qin Hui finished it very beautifully.

After the Great Purge, all parties were filling their own people, and overall there was unprecedented support for the New Deal.

This also weakened the resistance to the implementation of the New Deal in the Song Dynasty a lot.

Why is it that in the past when corrupt officials were found out, those who deserved to be killed, and those who should be confiscated and exiled, there was such a big controversy this time?

Zhao Ning asked Gao Qiu: "Why do you think there will be controversy this time?"

"The officials in Jiangdong are all from Mr. Qin, and so are the Ministry of Punishment. Naturally..."

Gao Qiu was quite courageous, and he might say some high-sounding words, so he directly stated the most fundamental reason.

"You mean, the people from the Ministry of Criminal Justice want to give extrajudicial mercy to the officials in the Jiangdong corruption case?"

"This is just my guess."

Zhao Ning thought about it, and things might not be that simple.

The people in the Ministry of Punishment wanted to kill carefully, so why did people like Chen Biqing use benevolence to promote not to kill in public?

Zhao Ning immediately realized the crux of the problem.

After the end of the Fifth Song-Jin War, the interest groups within the Song Dynasty coincidentally emerged a group of people who advocated restoring the past ideas.

In the past few years, he, Zhao Ning, had killed too many people, and there were still some people who did not object on the surface, but were always terrified in their hearts.

Most of them have a clue, and they are also worried that their heads will be lost after being caught.

Therefore, we began to start from the law, promoting lenient punishment, and trying to return to the past era when the scholar-bureaucrats were not killed.

Moreover, it is not just one or two people who have this idea, let alone the Ministry of Criminal Justice, but a huge interest group.

Chapter 853 The Waves Come Again (Third Change)

Who does the law made by this feudal interest group serve?

Naturally, it is to safeguard the interests of feudal and decadent bureaucrats.

However, after all, governing the country requires righteousness, so this group of Confucian believers always hope to put on a cloak of magnificence and righteousness when doing things.

For example, when Chen Biqing was debating this time, he opened his mouth and kept his mouth shut as benevolent government, with a face for the sake of the common people.

Young people who are not deeply involved in the world are very fond of him.

Even when I heard the vocabulary of those macro concepts, I was immediately moved to tears.

When he, Zhao Ning, appeared, he swung the butcher's knife at the bureaucrats mercilessly, and the bureaucrats endured for eight years trembling and frightened.

Now that the situation in Song and Jin Dynasties has finally calmed down, some people started to make troubles.

Their means of doing things are not incomprehensible. While provoking disputes in the court, the folks have also begun to influence many young people with spring and autumn brushwork.

In the end, more and more people believe that if they should not be killed, they have achieved the purpose of building up public opinion, using public opinion to coerce the people and fight against the imperial court.

Zhao Ning walked back and forth in the hall: It seems that some people have finally realized that my basic policy is public opinion, and they have begun to influence public opinion to put pressure on me.

When public opinion appeared to oppose "indiscriminate killing" on a large scale, Zhao Ning could no longer kill people easily.

Because the basic disk has already expressed its position.

"Officials, do you want to check all the officials who oppose the killing?"

"In what name is the investigation?" Zhao Ning said coldly, "The ministers just express their opinions and express their opinions, and you will investigate them? Who will dare to discuss politics in the future?"

"Yes, the official said so."

"Continue to observe, don't mess around."

"Yes!"

"Go! Go find Luo Congyan, and Hu Yin, and let them come to see me."

"Yes!"

Facing the situation in front of him, Zhao Ning naturally had a solution.

Even if someone spreads ideas among the people and wants to influence public opinion, it cannot be done in a short while.

This is not playing games, and it is not about clicking the mouse to complete the task immediately.

To influence public opinion, it is necessary to find a large group of influential people, let these people speak out, influence more people, and wait until ideas are widely spread to form a trend.

Finally, after a certain case appeared, the people behind it used this case to detonate public opinion.

For example, if there is an unjust case in a certain place, and many people have already accepted the idea of ​​abolishing the death penalty, it is very easy to detonate public opinion at this time.

How could he, Zhao Ning, not understand this kind of operation?

This is an internal public opinion war.

Luo Congyan is the Taishan Beidou of official school, and he has great influence among young officials.

Hu Yin is in charge of the Dasong Newspaper and is the vanguard of public opinion.