The fierce peasant woman is busy farming

My thoughts return to the current impeachment case. Prime Minister Cui has fallen to the point of being a prefect, and yet he was impeached in this way.

It would be better to say that the saint has a rebellious heart than to say that he has a rebellious heart.

It's really speechless. It's speechless at home.

But the people in the Censorate are responsible for this job, and they can't be said to be wrong when they report things based on hearsay.

However, the Dahui Dynasty was different from previous dynasties in that there was no precedent for literary inquisition.

Taizu established the rule: "The emperor and the literati rule the world together." It's no big deal if the literati like to write articles, poems, and songs.

Therefore, in the more than seventy years since the founding of this dynasty, no one has been convicted for speech.

Moreover, it is impossible that Prime Minister Cui, who had made great contributions to the court, would be thrown into prison because of a poem.

Zhao Zhen rubbed his throbbing temple and pushed away a tall stack of notes. He pushed with a little too much force and accidentally dropped all the notes to the ground.

He didn't want to alarm the waiters outside the hall, so he bent down to pick it up himself.

When he saw the last note, he was stunned.

This note was handed over by General Su.

When I opened it, I found that it was also an impeachment of Cui Renjie.

Aren't they friends?

Zhao Zhen stood up, sat on the throne, opened it curiously and looked at it carefully.

After reading it, he closed the book and thought about it. It turned out that General Su did not really impeach Cui Renjie.

He wrote the title as "Impeachment of Cui Renjie for treason" in order to avoid scrutiny by officials of the Senate.

He was afraid that his letter would never reach the emperor's hands.

Zhao Zhen frowned. Is the government affairs in the court so lax now?

Although the dynasty valued civil officials over military officials, General Su, as a relative of the royal family, went to the border when he was a teenager and started as a small soldier.

Over the past twenty years, he has become the commander-in-chief of the border with only a civilian qualification.

This is also a characteristic of our dynasty, with civil officials in charge of military affairs.

Although General Su was a general, his official rank was that of a civil servant, which made it easier for him to be promoted.

This was also the love that the late emperor showed him. He was indeed a weak scholar who could not even lift the lightest Mo Dao.

It took him many years to learn how to ride a horse after he arrived at the border, and he suffered a lot during that time.

His wife and children are all in Beijing, and are actually being held as hostages.

His wife was allowed to visit him once a year for a month and then had to come back.

Before they had children, General Su's parents could not leave Kyoto to visit him at the same time as his wife.

After having children, they were not allowed to travel with the general's wife.

Under such a strict system, there was a serious shortage of military generals in this dynasty.

In recent years, several veterans have reached their forties, and some have even reached their sixties, but they are still not allowed to return to Beijing to retire.

This is because there is a real shortage of talent at the border.

Among the younger generation, most people have been studying and taking the imperial examinations since childhood, and they do not like to practice martial arts or join the army.

It was said that "learn the literary and martial arts and sell them to the emperor's family", but now it has become "be a farmer in the morning and enter the emperor's palace in the evening".

Everyone takes pride in studying and hopes to pass the imperial examination, have his wife and children honored, and bring glory to the family.

Being a soldier is hard and dangerous, with slow promotions and low social status.

Who would be willing to do this thankless task?

Song Yuan is such a person.

He was the son of a noble family and a serious scholar who had passed the imperial examination. At first, he went to the Dali Temple and became a black-faced constable that everyone avoided.

It also specializes in cracking down on major human trafficking cases.

If he became a constable to crack down on human trafficking, there must be some personal grudges involved.

It is incomprehensible that he went to the border to die.

Zhao Zhen's thoughts wandered far away, east and west.

After reading General Su's note, he knew that he wanted to protect Cui Renjie.

But General Su is still too naive in politics. The more he favors someone, the more disadvantageous it will be to that person.

Collusion between civil officials and military generals is a taboo in the court.

Cui Renjie was impeached for the crime of treason. As a high-ranking official, it was actually very dangerous for General Su to stand up and speak up for Cui Renjie at this time.

If you are not careful, you will be accused of forming a clique.

Of course, the saint understands both of them.

Before leaving, the late emperor also told Zhao Zhen that Su Wu and Cui Renjie were capable of great use and worthy of trust.

Although the saint understands it in his heart, he still has to put in surface efforts.

He asked the Dali Temple to send people to investigate the matter thoroughly.

In order to favor Cui Renjie, he specially selected Cui Renjie's students to investigate the matter.

The discerning people in the court knew at a glance that the sage intentionally favored Prime Minister Cui.

There's nothing I can do about it. After all, he's been my master since I was a child.

The master and disciple are like father and son. The late emperor was busy, so Cui Renjie was responsible for the teachings of the sage.

Although Cui Renjie did not do a very good job and lost the saint for a while.

But it did not affect the trust of the saint and the harem in him.

In particular, after the saint ascended the throne, he immediately appointed Cui Renjie as a Hanlin scholar and in charge of imperial edicts.

He was directly sealed after a few months.

From then on, the emperor and his ministers joined hands to crack down on the aristocratic families, reform the imperial examination system, eliminate bad policies, remove redundant officials, and give the government a new look.

But the conservatives they faced were also very powerful.

For example, some people standing behind the Empress Dowager and those from the Empress Dowager's family were either nobles or members of the royal family and aristocratic families, and they were all very powerful.

They always spared no effort to attack Prime Minister Cui, the reformists, and even the military generals.

In recent years, the Privy Councilor has been replaced several times. It can be said that the position of Privy Councilor is a hot potato, and whoever holds it will lose sleep.

Later, the Privy Council no longer took them seriously and replaced them with the Prime Minister.

The Deputy Privy Councilor and the Deputy Prime Minister were like a revolving lantern, replaced almost twice a year.

This is a huge hidden danger to the stability of the government and the continuity of policies.

This is the case even in the highest levels of government, and the lower-level bureaucratic system is even more precarious. Civil officials and military officers live in fear every day.

Prime Minister Cui was unwilling to be manipulated by them and proposed drastic reforms, but the sage was somewhat hesitant.

He is the emperor and he has to look at the overall situation.

The reforms proposed by Prime Minister Cui would highly concentrate power in the hands of the prime minister.

This is a great disadvantage to the imperial power.

Rights are unique and exclusive. If the power of the prime minister is too great, the power of the emperor will inevitably decline.

"How can I allow others to sleep peacefully beside my bed?" Although the sage is young, he is the legitimate son of the late emperor and has a talent for power in his bones.

Instinctively, he was disgusted by Prime Minister Cui's innovation.

Later, Prime Minister Cui was slandered, and the harem and the saint all chose to ignore it.

They felt that Prime Minister Cui was too capable and had made too many contributions, and that it was time for him to suffer a little.

Political struggle is so cruel that naive people cannot become high-ranking officials.

Prime Minister Cui has been immersed in officialdom for decades, and he knows rationally that the ups and downs in officialdom are all illusory.

But he was still emotional and felt that the saint and the harem had been very kind to him and he must repay them with his life.

Political struggles are so cruel that if even a little bit of emotion is mixed in, soft-hearted people will inevitably get hurt.