Son of Song Dynasty

Chapter 178
When Empress Song saw the father and son talking about state affairs, she pulled Zhao Defang away, not wanting to participate.

"Father! I've been thinking about these things a lot lately, and I want to find a good way to get the best of both worlds, so that the common people don't suffer, and the rich and powerful can restrain themselves."

"During the Zulong era, the rich and powerful annexed the world's land. Every time a new dynasty is established, the situation becomes more and more serious. Relatives and dignitaries account for [-]%, and Lu Guogong is not too much of it. The land in the past dynasties is too concentrated. I think the consequences are very serious!"

Zhao Kuangyin put his hands behind his back, "Since you said that you have been thinking about this problem recently, have you found a way to solve it?"

Zhao Dezhao pondered for a long time, then Fang said, "There is no way to solve it! The two geniuses, Emperor Qin, Han and Wu, can't do anything about this matter."

Seeing Zhao Kuangyin's sarcasm, Zhao Dezhao finally said, "But I feel that since the problem cannot be solved, then we should solve the people who caused the problem! Only by solving the people who caused the trouble can this kind of thing be alleviated."

Zhao Kuangyin raised his head in amazement, looked at his son, and thought that I thought I was ruthless enough to build a new dynasty and kill a lot!Unexpectedly, this son has even more murderous intentions. When the world is under his control, he wants to kill him.I gave birth to the son of a god-killing butcher!
Seeing that he was not angry, Zhao Dezhao felt at ease, and continued, "Actually, I pacified Lingnan this time because I wanted to do an experiment in this barren land."

"I have four reasons for killing those soldiers. It is to establish the prestige of the Song Dynasty, to overwhelm the Nanman, and to avenge the blood of the border residents. Most importantly, to reduce the population of the Nanman. I believe that within ten years, they will Can't recover."

"Even if the population recovers in ten years, the prestige of the Song Dynasty has been established, and they will never dare to invade the border people again. Therefore, this killing of mine actually ended the decades of peace in southern Xinjiang."

Zhao Kuangyin stared at his son without commenting, and asked him to continue talking.

Zhao Dezhao said again, "The killing of those local literati is my big test of combating land annexation. The southern barbarians dared to invade the border, half of them were barbaric by nature, and half were because of survival problems. Most of the local land was annexed by powerful literati."

"The common people have no land to grow, and if they can't eat enough, they naturally have the desire to invade and plunder. Only by eradicating those dignitaries and bureaucrats, the people of the Nanman will have land to grow and food to eat, and there will be fewer invasions of the border. It is great for me and him. Good thing."

Zhao Kuangyin nodded, then shook his head again, "What you said is certainly reasonable, but those censors are not women who listen to the wind and rain, without conclusive evidence, do you think they will believe it?"

Zhao Dezhao said with a smile, "Of course I have the evidence. It is these evidences that confirm my judgment, and I dare to deal with this group of dignitaries."

As he spoke, he turned his head and clapped his hands. When Jiang An saw it in the distance, he immediately walked over with a booklet in his hands.

"Father! I have investigated these figures in the local area. There are evidences to check. The imperial court can send people to the local natives to inquire at any time, and they can be confirmed."

Jiang An bowed and offered the booklet with both hands.

Zhao Kuangyin took it, nodded, and said to Jiang An, "Thank you for your hard work these days."

Unexpectedly, he was able to be comforted by the Holy Majesty, Jiang An immediately knelt down and kowtowed, with tears in his eyes.

"Get up and talk, I have something to ask you."

Zhao Kuangyin opened the booklet, the more he looked at it, the more frightened he became, and the more he looked at it, the more angry he became.

This kind of thing is indeed as Zhao Dezhao said, there are so many things, and if you have thoughts in your heart, you will naturally not think about it.

But once he took the evidence in his hand and looked through it one by one, the anger still couldn't help flooding his heart.

"These... are they all true?"

Zhao Kuangyin shook his hands in anger, pointed to one of the pages, and asked Jiang An.

Jiang An stepped forward and took a look, then nodded immediately and said, "It's true. This is the family I personally went to investigate. The Jiang family in Lingnan was just the order of a county. They occupied 36 farms, thousands of fertile fields, and maids and servants at home." More than three hundred people."

"What about this one!"

"This is also true. The Bai family in Lingnan, the local aborigines, must drink human milk every day. There are servants in the family who become pregnant every month, and they drink milk for him. Some of their slaves often rebel, and they kill dozens of people every year because of this. People up and down."

"And this! It's just a chieftain, who has been hereditary for ten generations, and has saved a few hundred thousand taels of silver... It's too much. The king of the Song Dynasty, the king of the Song Dynasty, can't live as well as these bastards!"

Zhao Kuangyin couldn't bear to read it any longer, so he smashed the booklet in his hand.

The empress of the Song Dynasty has the most servants in the palace, with only more than 100 servants. Zhao Kuangyin himself only has 90 servants, and there are actually more than 300 county magistrates in Lingnan.

That place is vast and sparsely populated, and the people in a county may not have as many people as the palace.

Some even drink human milk every day;
A tasteless local village, hereditary ten generations have saved hundreds of thousands of silver...

This is only in the wild land of southern Xinjiang. In the whole Song Dynasty, such absurd but real situation is simply unknown.

Sure enough, as Zhao Dezhao said, most of the limited national resources have been occupied by these powerful people and seized them for themselves.

Not to mention that the people had no choice but to rebel, even the imperial court lost a lot of treasury revenue.

It seems that what Zhao Dezhao did in Lingnan was not because he was young and energetic, but because he had deep meaning.

"Actually, when I let you go to Lingnan to suppress chaos, I naturally believed that you could do a good job. Looking at it now, what you did is indeed beneficial to the court. However, those officials talk too much."

Zhao Kuangyin put the booklet into his arms, motioned Jiang An to step back, and turned his hands to the sky, "So although I understand what you've done, it's still unwise for the little reputation you've managed to accumulate to disappear in an instant."

Zhao Dezhao was silent for a while, and groaned, "...My husband! I have tried to seek the heart of ancient benevolent people, or the difference between the two. Why? Don't be happy with things, don't be sad with yourself; if you live in a high place in the temple, you will worry Its people, when they are far away in the rivers and lakes, worry about their lord. They are also worried about advancing and retreating. But when will they be happy? They must say: "First worry about the world's worries, and then enjoy the world's joy."

This is a sentence in "The Story of Yueyang Tower" that he "wrote" when he was in Yueyang Tower.

He is reading these few sentences now to express to his father that as long as it is beneficial to the country and society of the Great Song Dynasty, I, Zhao Dezhao, don't care about my personal reputation and reputation.

Zhao Kuangyin looked back at him and finally smiled.

He didn't hesitate to praise him in a complimenting tone, "Well! It seems that all my hard work was not in vain. You have finally grown up."

"It's very good to say, 'Don't be happy with things, don't be sad with yourself'! 'Worry about the world's worries first, and enjoy the world's joys later' is more ambitious! My son has finally grown up! The responsibility of the country's long-term considerations! Very good!"

(End of this chapter)