Northern Song Dynasty Justice

Chapter 551 Three redundant first battle (3)

Chapter 551 The first battle of the three redundancy ([-])

"Mr. Su is gone?"

Not long after Su Zhe left, Xu Zhiqian walked over.

Zhang Fei nodded.

Xu Zhiqian asked: "Has he decided to go up to the court to disarm the army?"

"Ah."

Zhang Fei smiled and said: "He has already obtained the accounts provided by the Transshipment Department, and there are millions of coins missing in the accounts. He already has enough reasons to appeal to the court and propose disarmament."

Xu Zhiqian frowned and said, "He didn't see anything, did he?"

Zhang Fei said: "Maybe there is some suspicion. After all, he knows about my relationship with Wang Xueshi, but he can't figure out my whole plan."

"I know that too."

Xu Zhiqian worried: "Your plan is so complicated, I feel a little worried."

"It just seems complicated."

Zhang Fei said with a smile: "At that time, the process will become very simple and rough. One faction supports it, while the other faction opposes it. Then the officials finally choose to share the rain and dew. Everyone gets what they need, and everyone is happy."

Xu Zhiqian pursed her lips and smiled, "Is it as simple as you said?"

Zhang Fei shrugged and said: "Human nature is like this, I can't help it."

Xu Zhiqian asked again: "Then what are we going to do next?"

Zhang Fei said: "Our work has already been done. Now we just need to stay out of the matter, build the imperial court, and watch the changes by the way. The battlefield is no longer here."

In fact, what Su Zhe wanted was not the evidence in the hands of the soldiers. Those evidences could only prove that many soldiers were owed or withheld their salaries.

However, Su Zhe's goal was to disarm the army, and these evidences alone were not convincing. What he wanted was evidence that the imperial court was indeed unable to pay the full amount of military pay.

Having said that, the imperial court has always known about this, because the current fiscal deficit is a well-known fact, and there is no national debt these days, and if it cannot be paid out, it will not be paid out.

Then you can only play the role of officials. In fact, this kind of deduction, default, and many means of collecting money are also acquiesced by the court.

This is why those officials are confident.

You just give me this little money, and you want me to support so many people. If I don't play some crooked ways, how can I afford it.

And Su Zhe just wanted to make this case a big deal, and then take off this fig leaf, forcing the court to make changes.

Of course, he is not a fool!

He still has a certain degree of certainty.

It is because he can also see that the ambitions of Zhao Xu and Wang Anshi are to expand the territory and fight wars, and the conservatives in the DPRK and China are worried about this, and even resolutely oppose it.

In this atmosphere, disarmament is obviously a clear signal to curb the emperor's ambitions.

He just wants to use this to achieve the purpose of disarmament.

After discussing with Zhang Fei, Su Zhe immediately packed up all the evidence, as well as his own situation and solution to the Northwest Army, and secretly sent them to the capital quickly.

Who is the receiving party?

Sima Guang of course.

Sima Guang was the most trustworthy person Su Zhe had in the capital.

After all, Sima Guang's moral character is there.

At least at least it is impossible to betray him.

This is the most critical.

And what is Sima Guang's thought of governing the country, saving money.

So disarmament is very much in line with Sima Guang's proposition, but Sima Guang really took the ancestor's legal affairs as a defense, and integrated them into his bone marrow.

As soon as I saw this letter, my head was all big.

Are you playing this big?

So, he hurried to find Fu Bi and Wen Yanbo to discuss countermeasures.

"Sure enough, the public prosecutor's law will go here, and you will not live in peace!"

After watching it, Fu Bi couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

Although the letter talked about disarmament, it is not difficult to see from the background that the public security law is walking on thin ice there.

There are hundreds of such cases like Chen Guang's across the country. The reason why it is so big is because the local government of Hezhong Prefecture is targeting the public security law.

Sima Guang was also very clear, sighed and said: "The matter has come to this, how should we deal with it now?"

Wen Yanbo immediately said: "I think what Ziyou said in the letter is very reasonable. A redundant army is harmful to the country and has no benefit. It seems that there are many soldiers, but in fact they are mobs, and they will collapse at the first touch.

It's not that I'm not good at fighting, but it's the widespread phenomenon of Chen Guang that makes soldiers lose their will to defend their homes and the country.

And when there is no war, it drags down the finances. Sixty-seven out of ten of the current finances are used for military expenses. Such a burden is indirectly passed on to the people, so that the people abandon their land and flee, making the finances even worse.

This disease has accumulated for a long time, it should be treated in time! "

On the point of disarmament, his attitude has always been relatively decisive. In the past few years, he has been advising disarmament and carrying out reforms behind the back of the three redundant mountains. This is tantamount to drinking poison to quench thirst.

If you have not finished throttling, just go directly to open source, which is putting the cart before the horse.

And Su Zhe's letter really suits his intentions.

The key point is that disarmament is the least resistance of the three redundancy.

Sima Guang was worried again: "Although this is the case, if we trace the root cause, it still lies in the annexation of land, and the failure of business and commerce, so that the people have no way of finding a livelihood, so they can only enlist in the army to survive.

If the army is disarmed, I am afraid that they will have nowhere to survive, and they will gather together as thieves, causing chaos in the world, and the gains outweigh the losses.

In addition, this case was born in the struggle between the government and the public prosecutor, and there will be people who will cause trouble, and the consequences will be unimaginable! "

In fact, he was also in favor of disarmament, but he thought a lot about it. The key point was that he was still very smart. The reason why so many people joined the army was because of serious land annexation, and the industrial and commercial scale could not support so many people.

To cure the disease of redundant soldiers, we must first cure land annexation.

If the imperial court does not have enough land, how will the soldiers be laid off?

So many people suddenly lost their livelihoods, and the consequences were dire.

Sima Guang is very entangled in the issue of disarmament. It can be understood that he advocates disarmament, but opposes it.

Fu Bi caressed his beard and said: "If it is implemented properly, it will not cause too serious consequences. At present, I am 61 years old to be discharged from the army. If it is reduced to 50 years old, some people can be laid off.

In addition, in fact, many people do not want to be soldiers in their hearts. They can freely choose to stay or leave, and some people can be laid off.

And neither of these two parts will cause turmoil.Based on this, the risk can be minimized by laying off some soldiers who are eating and drinking in the battalion. "

"Fu Gong is right!"

Wen Yanbo nodded, and said to Sima Guang: "Junshi, the key point is that this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The lawsuit in Suizhou last time made many officials in the court dissatisfied, and many insightful people think that officials It is intentional connivance of the imperial court, and its purpose is to start a war.

If we propose disarmament at this time, we will definitely be able to gain the support of many people and reunite the hearts of the people. "

Sima Guang's expression was a little moved, and he said immediately: "But this also involves a dispute between the public prosecutor's law and the local government, I'm afraid..."

Wen Yanbo was in a hurry, and said: "Junshi! This should be stopped, and you will be disturbed by it. If you don't do this, what will the procuratorate do?"

Fu Bi hurriedly hit the rails while it was hot: "Ziyou wrote very clearly in the letter that this matter was initiated by the procuratorate, and has nothing to do with the imperial court or the police station. If there is any responsibility, it is their procuratorate who will fully bear it.

Those who oppose the public prosecution law in the court are mostly against the imperial court. The procuratorate was originally set up to supervise the imperial court. If the procuratorate is lost, the imperial court will dominate. This is what they don't want to see, and we can leave it at that convince them. "

Sima Guang was speechless for a moment.

Yes!

He also has to consider the Procuratorate.

Things have gotten to this point, and it's hard to back off.

Under the persuasion of Fu Bi and Wen Yanbo, Sima Guang was finally persuaded by them.

At this point, he didn't have much choice.

If the imperial court does nothing, the procuratorate can only file a lawsuit with the imperial court. If the imperial court makes up for it, it will definitely not have the money to make up for it. So what should we do?

It's still a dead end!

After the three of them summed up, Sima Guang presented Su Zhe's memorial to the emperor, and expressed his support for Su Zhe's suggestion, that is, support for disarmament.

The Department of Regulations of the Second Government was established.

Lu Huiqing quickly came to Wang Anshi's house and reported: "Master, Bachelor Sima has already appealed to the officials and asked for disarmament."

"it is good!"

Wang Anshi was overjoyed when he heard that, he slapped the table and said: "This old fox has taken the bait, you immediately ask people to protest this matter. Remember, there are two points first, one is national defense. The other is how to arrange those who have been laid off. Soldiers. In addition, they will attack the procuratorate for interfering in military affairs."

"Students know."

Wang Anshi's operation this time is tantamount to a guiding light.

After Sima Guang Suzhe's disarmament plan was submitted, there was a lot of opposition from the court. Many officials knew about it secretly. They had hoped that the case of military pay would go up in the capital, and then use it to attack the public prosecutor.

This is a dispute between the administration and the judiciary.

But they never expected that Su Zhe would go directly to the court and suggest that the court disarm instead of appealing to the imperial court.

This caught them by surprise.

As a result, things have become extremely complicated, because many ministers who oppose the public security law also support disarmament, and there are also peacemakers and warlords. They are also considering what to do, which is more in line with their own ideas.

However, the reformist faction headed by Chen Shengzhi and Han Jiang opposed disarmament, which made everything clear again. They didn't have to think too much, and they just took sides.

The reason is that the young crop method will not come out at present, and the forced labor method and the equalization method are being popularized all over the country. Behind this, innovation and conservativeness are inextricably fighting each other.

At present, the reformers are more dominant, because the emperor supports Wang Anshi, and many conservative officials were transferred out of the capital by Wang Anshi.

This also made the struggle between the two sides more intense.

At this moment, the flags of both sides are extremely clear.

What you, Wang Anshi, support, I must oppose.

And vice versa, if you Sima Guang supports it, I, Wang Anshi, will definitely oppose it.

In addition, Wang Anshi was clearly a war faction, and he made money just to fight, while Sima Guang was a peaceful peace faction. This peace faction didn't need to think about it, and stood directly on Sima Guang's side.

After all, Hezhong Mansion is just a mansion, and no matter how entangled its interests are, it cannot compare with the overall situation of the world.

The two sides began to have a heated argument.

As long as you enter the cycle of party struggle, all issues depend on the outcome, not on the nature of the issue.

Disarmament becomes a fortress.

The reformers have become the defensive side, insisting that they cannot disarm, while the conservatives have turned into the offensive side, and they are determined to disarm.

(End of this chapter)