A Piece of Li Song Changting Twilight

After that, Zhao Pingzhen was suspended by Zhao Nanke for several months to cultivate.His post of "Marshal of Hebei Bingma" became vacant.

During this period, Zhao Pingzhen visited the queen mother once in the palace.

In fact, the Queen Mother didn't think as much as Zhao Nanke and the first emperor, but simply spoiled her youngest son.When she learned that Zhao Pingzhen had escaped death in Yingtian Mansion, she was terrified, so she had to take credit for taking Zhao Pingzhen out of the way.

Seeing Zhao Pingzhen standing in front of her with good arms and legs, the Queen Mother breathed a sigh of relief, and hugged and kissed Zhao Pingzhen, wishing that her heart would never be hurt again.

In fact, Zhao Pingzhen didn't like to be close to the queen mother very much after he grew up, but this time he was extremely obedient to the queen mother. When the queen mother asked him about the battle, he only briefly explained it in one or two sentences.When the queen mother said that she hoped that he would never be in danger again, Zhao Pingzhen said sadly: "Mother, since the death of my father, I have not had a peaceful night's sleep... As soon as I close my eyes, the gold thief will enter Bianjing , the scene where the father personally set fire to the palace... Yanhe Hall, Taihe Hall... are all such familiar scenes. Later, I couldn't tell whether these were real or illusory. I saw my father throwing himself into the fire I want to pull him out, but I can't do anything..."

What he said touched seven points of the truth, so the empress dowager was also touched in her heart, and she hugged him again and howled.

Zhao Pingzhen patted the Queen Mother's back lightly to comfort her, and said softly: "Mother, I spent the first half of my life in a daze, and I didn't know the meaning of life until my father died... I want to go out and kill the enemy, I want to serve my father To avenge the emperor and want to take back Bianjing for my brother."

Seeing the firmness in his eyes, the queen mother knew that her youngest son had made up his mind.In fact, she was relieved and worried in her heart, and she tried a few more words of persuasion, but Zhao Pingzhen still didn't change her mind.

The queen mother finally had no choice but to sigh: "Come on, come on. A man has ambitions everywhere, and you are a member of the royal family... let you go!"

Zhao Pingzhen smiled bleakly when he left the residence of the Empress Dowager.In fact, it's not that he doesn't understand Zhao Nanke's mind, he has understood it before, but his mind was not in the officialdom, so he was willing to be a playboy.But now he has the intention of making contributions, but without any backing or party support, the only thing he can play is the family card.

I hope that Zhao Nanke can trust him and give him a chance based on the family relationship of more than [-] years.Besides, he really just wanted to kill the golden man for revenge, no matter how much, he really didn't want to, after all, being an emperor was too hard work, and it wasn't suitable for him.

Zhao Pingzhen was free, but Qin Xiaolou was not.Zhao Nanke discovered that Qin Xiaolou was not only capable of serving people with sex, so he was seriously assigned an official position in the court, and he somewhat intended to win him over from Zhao Pingzhen.Qin Xiaolou's attitude was very ambiguous, he would not refuse the emperor, and Zhao Pingzhen would not let go.

This made Zhao Pingzhen feel unhappy.But he didn't do anything, because he knew that Qin Xiaolou would not completely defect from his camp, at most, he would go everywhere.And he was not qualified to make Qin Xiaolou reject the emperor, so he just watched coldly.

And after he was free, he started to become a playboy again, but he changed from the playboy prince in Bianjing to the playboy prince now.His favored concubines and servant boys had almost dispersed when they got married with Meng Jinling. After Meng Jinling's death, Zhao Pingzhen was very tired of these things for a while, and did not find another beautiful woman.After escaping to Lin'an, none of his pets brought him, and even Qin Xiaolou was so busy that he didn't have much time to accompany him, so that Zhao Pingzhen wanted to find someone to sleep with at night, but he couldn't find anyone!

So Zhao Pingzhen took in five concubines and two child prostitutes in ten days, three of them were brothel women, and the two child prostitutes were bought by good people.It was nothing unusual for this matter to reach the ears of all the officials - on the contrary, during the time when Zhao Pingzhen was in peace, all the officials felt that the Fifth Prince was bewitched by something, right?

On this day, Zhao Pingzhen took a servant to go around the suburbs of Beijing, and met a young man on a small hill.The young man looked five or six points similar to Qin Xiaolou, especially his eyes with slightly upturned corners, but one had gentle eyes like water, and the other was guarded like a small animal.

On a whim, Zhao Pingzhen flirted with the boy, but the boy ran away in fright, which made Zhao Pingzhen feel frustrated again.

On the same day, Qin Xiaolou handed over a memorial in the early court, listing five policies and requesting reform.

"First, buy horses from neighboring countries, introduce high-quality horse breeds, and train cavalry to resist the golden cavalry. The reason why we were beaten back and forth by the golden soldiers was because we didn't have cavalry at all. We have almost never lost a hundred battles! We need to know that infantry fights against cavalry, victory is not complete, and defeat is complete defeat! You adults can see that we have almost never wiped out the enemy in a single battle for many years when we have fought against the golden soldiers."

Just after Qin Xiaolou finished the first article, someone retorted: "The barbarians pay more attention to horse breeds. How can they let you introduce them? If you buy horses directly, how many war horses do you need to buy? Horses are expensive, even if you spend all the horses in the treasury The money is not enough for thousands of horses, so who is willing to sell us so many horses?"

Qin Xiaolou had one word in his heart, but he didn't say it - steal!

Neighboring countries refuse to sell good horse breeds, so steal them!There are so many ways, there is always one that works.However, because this method is not elegant, and because he is afraid that there will be foreign eyes and ears, Qin Xiaolou hesitated to say it.He was thinking of using official words to block people back, when Zhao Nanke on the dragon chair said: "Qin Qing, let's talk about the second one."

"Secondly, change the status quo of Yan Wen's emphasis on martial arts, vigorously promote generals, and encourage people to join the army. Since the Tang Dynasty, due to land annexation and other reasons, the government military system has been destroyed, and the recruitment system has replaced it. The status of military personnel has been reduced. Joining the army is a scourge, and most of the soldiers are prisoners, beggars, and people who have lost the ability to work and have nowhere to go. How can such soldiers fight against the golden men?! Therefore, the court has been in a state of "the court is full of nobles, full of scholars."

Zhao Nanke said: "Qin Qing has any specific countermeasures, please tell me."

Qin Xiaolou said: "[-]. Encourage joining the army and increase military pay; [-]. Anyone who commits a crime can be punished with a hundred gold for three years of service, and can be exempted from the death penalty after seven years of service; Fairness and justice to civil and military officials."

It should be known that the rule set by the Taizu back then was not to kill the speaker, in order to spread the word.However, gradually this rule gradually evolved into that no matter what mistakes the civil servants made, they were just exiled to become officials.For the same crime, civilian officials are only demoted and fined, while military officials are often capital crimes.

Minister of Rites Zhou Ci'en said: "How to be fair?"

Qin Xiaolou said: "Exempt from an unwritten rule - do not kill scholar-bureaucrats."

With this statement, the interests of all the officials present were almost violated, and the court exploded in an instant.

Numerous literati and Confucians have repeatedly quoted scriptures to prove that Confucian scholars should not be killed or not, and how harmful the killing of civil officials is to the court.Later, some people even yelled red-faced that warriors are not in the first place and should be inferior, and even won a reconsideration from a group of ministers.After all, the concept of Yanwen over martial arts has been deeply rooted in everyone's heart for a hundred years. To pull out this root requires a lot of muscle and bone. Qin Xiaolou was already mentally prepared, but he still didn't expect that all the officials and officials would come. The attitude can be so excited.

He refuted them one by one eloquently. The great Confucians cited the example of the emperor of the previous dynasty killing outspoken civil officials and harming the country. The pillars of the country, he said that the military is the foundation, who will support the pillars of the country without the foundation?However, after all, he couldn't defeat three mouths with one tongue, and he really couldn't argue with the anger of all the officials.

Even Prime Minister Wang couldn't help but sternly retorted: "Your lords have just said that the reason for not killing the scholar-officials is that the Taizu wanted to open up the way of speech and accept advice, so as not to let the punishment block the opinions of the officials. Furthermore, strengthen the What is the relationship between the military and not killing scholar-bureaucrats?!"

Qin Xiaolou said unhurriedly: "First of all, killing scholars and bureaucrats is not the same as killing indiscriminately, but killing those who deserve to be killed! Today's sage is a wise king, and he has his own sage, so he will never be blinded by this. You adults naturally don’t need to worry. The second is for fairness! Since the Taizu Dynasty, how many military officials have committed crimes that many scholar-bureaucrats have committed, but have their families ransacked and exterminated?! If it is more than 20 taels, you will be exempted from the official rod responsibility, and if it is more than 20 taels, it will be a death penalty! How many warriors have been chilled by this kind of differential treatment? However, the death penalty cannot be abolished. If this is the case, then we should treat civil and military officials fairly."

The great Confucians started to spit again, Zhao Nanke was so quarreled that his head buzzed, he picked up the jade seal and smashed the Dragon Smashing Case hard, shouting: "It's here today! Retire!"

When the officials left the palace, Qin Xiaolou deliberately walked in the back.As he expected, a eunuch came to summon him in a short while, and the emperor wanted to hear him explain in detail the few policies that he had not been able to say just now.

Zhao Pingzhen returned to the mansion from the suburbs of Beijing, and immediately someone reported to him the wonderful performance of Qin Xiaolou in the court today.The more Zhao Pingzhen listened to it, the more unhappy he felt, and he kicked that servant out before he finished hearing how Qin Xiaolou was fighting with the Confucians.However, he hadn't been driven away by him for a long time. He took a sip of tea, smashed the cup again, and said angrily, "Get him back! Let him finish talking!"

After he finished listening, he kicked the person away again, and then walked around the room a few times very irritatedly.

Then he was about to go to Qin Xiaolou, but was stopped by a servant.The servant handed Zhao Pingzhen a letter, saying that it was sent by the Qin family when the prince was out this morning.

While opening the letter, Zhao Pingzhen said angrily, "Why didn't you give it to me earlier?"

He opened the letter, shook the letter paper and saw that there were five reform strategies and specific methods written by Qin Xiaolou himself, which was more detailed than what he said in the court.

Zhao Pingzhen looked at it for a long time, and after making sure that he had memorized everything on the paper, he went back to his room and burned the letter paper.

When he saw the fire ball devouring the letter paper, he sneered and sighed: "Qin Xiaolou, Qin Xiaolou, you are really... smarter than I thought."