Since ancient times, people have always believed that the Chinese emperor is supreme and has absolute power in the entire country. "The emperor's will is the law, so the emperor can do whatever he wants without any scruples. Even the Western Montesquieu said in his book "The Spirit of the Law", that China belongs to the ** regime, but it is slightly different from Persia. But in Zhao Bing's view, this is definitely a fallacy, nonsense, at least he cannot make a statement now, and his ancestors were also very distressed by this.

Although the war has been urgent these days, it is a rare day for Zhao Bing to have a leisurely life. In this era, without movies and TV, he can't go shopping, and he can't go out for shopping. Therefore, reading became the only choice. Fortunately, the Pu family had a bookstore with tens of thousands of volumes of books. After entering the mansion, he ordered people to seal it and let someone move all the books to his boat. Of course, he also took a few books from them to help relieve boredom when he was bored.

Since it is used to relieve boredom, of course it is not those classics, which are used for hypnosis. However, the most suitable books for boredom are naturally rare and curious books. Zhao Bing revealed that the most gossip in this era was the scholars. They would also record various rumors in their notes, and he chose a few gossip notes. Zhao Bing showed that these scholars all had a common habit, which was that they liked to read the emperors of this dynasty. They not only recorded them in detail, but also added comments. It seemed that only in this way could they satisfy their "perverted" psychology and reflect the superiority of scholars.

Zhao Bing, who was still a villain at first, was also relished when he saw those royal secrets, but as he looked at them, his scalp exploded and a cool breeze blew from his neck. He realized that these records were all the "glorious deeds" of his ancestors. He was no longer the early promotion and fighting villain, but the arrogant emperor. Those things that were proud of by scholars would be born on him one day. At the same time, he also realized that the feeling of the ancestors as emperors must be the same as that of him - he could not act happily!

Since the pre-Qin period, power has gradually been concentrated in the hands of monarchs and emperors, making them become people who exceed the restrictions of the law. They have a word and a fairy tale, and have a complete dynasty. The ***** who has completely owned the entire dynasty to deal with the endless chatter of several literati. You should know that before and after that, Chinese scholars, including literati, scholars, and intellectuals were regarded as the imperial "followers" that were called upon and swayed by the rulers, and were regarded as "rags" that were used when they were used when they were used and thrown away when they were not used. However, none of the emperors of the Song Dynasty could do it, but were held by all parties, which was difficult to achieve.

During the reign of Zhao Kuangyin, he felt that he could only see jade vessels every day, and suddenly one day he wanted to use a bamboo to have an ecological feeling. He submitted an application, and the Secretariat had not approved it in two months. He sent someone to ask 4 times, and the reply was actually whether it was. The reason was very simple and it was not in line with the rules. Zhao Kuangyin just shook his head and sighed, "Ba Geya Lu, who stipulated it?"!

Emperor Yingzong was an extremely nonsensical and selfish person. He had no normal mind. After being in power for several years, he was so angry that he died of narrow-mindedness. However, he created a Guinness World Record of the Song Dynasty: in three years, 609 decisions, appointments, needs, ideas, and opinions were denied and beaten to death by the Secretariat!

He wanted to promote his confidant when he was the prince to be the Hebei operation envoy, but was beaten to death by Prime Minister Han Qi and his team!

He wanted to promote his benefactor when he was the crown prince to be the Censorate, but was beaten to death by Prime Minister Han Qi and his team...

Pa, Pa, Pa, it sounds heartbroken. Zhao Bing probably was beaten to death by Emperor Yingzong!

Song Renzong wanted to promote Concubine Zhang's uncle, and the first was to be promoted to the fourth level. In other words, the feudal ** dynasty in the world was not a matter of one word? But this matter was really a bit difficult to deal with. First, the promotion to Concubine Zhang's uncle was unprecedented in the Song Dynasty and did not conform to the ancient system; second, Concubine Zhang's uncle had limited ability and was difficult to convince the public. In order to show the spirit of democracy, Renzong took this matter to the court for debate, intending to gain the support of the ministers.

Unexpectedly, the censors who were Bao Zheng were opposed to this proposal one after another. Renzong was a little unhappy. I wanted to promote his father-in-law and ask you to discuss it. It is to give you face, not really need your approval. How can you be so ungrateful? Renzong defended a few words, but the censors fought back even more violently. When Bao Zheng spoke in a fierce way, he pointed his hand in front of Renzong, and the saliva on his mouth splashed on his face.

Renzong was so angry, but he had no choice but to endure it. He had to accept his unluckyness. After get off work, when he returned to the dormitory, Concubine Zhang happily came over to ask about his uncle's promotion. Renzong finally got the opportunity to vent and said angrily, "You know Xuanhui envoy, Xuanhui envoy; don't you know there is a Censor Bao Zheng?" Kou Zhun is even more awesome than Bao Zheng. One day, Kou Zhun discussed things with Emperor Taizong of Song. The two of them were talking and said nothing. Taizong stood up and wanted to leave angrily, but Kou Zhun held his sleeves and refused to leave. Taizong had no choice but to stay and leave after the matter was handled.

Scholars were awesome, and ordinary people were also awesome. In the Southern Song Dynasty, an official Zhuang Chuo went to Jiangxi to work. When he passed by Ganzhou, he sent officials to buy daily necessities. However, the locals said that the money they brought was minted by the Emperor Huizong of Song. "It was the emperor's unrighteous money, and it was not used here." What does it mean? They believed that Emperor Huizong of Song was a unrighteous king, so they refused to accept his currency. This is really 'the angry youth boycotted Japanese goods today, and the people boycotted the foolish king in ancient times. Of course, there are differences in the past and present, and the realm is still high and low. The emperor of the Song Dynasty had done even more bizarre things. In order to achieve his wish, he actually did not hesitate to bribe his subordinates.

Emperor Zhenzong of Song wanted to be a great cause like Qin Emperor and Han Wu to leave a name in history, but in fact he had average abilities and no hope under normal circumstances. However, there were caring people in every era. Wang Qinruo, a scholar of the Zizheng Hall, learned about his thoughts and recommended Fengshan to cater to the best. In ancient times, only those who were incomparable in civil and military achievements were qualified to go to Mount Tai to worship the sky as "Feng", and those who worshiped the land at the foot of the mountain were called "Zen". However, Emperor Zhenzong of Song did not do major things in civil and military achievements, just to satisfy his vanity.

To Fengshan, there is also a key technical problem. You must first get Tianrui. Only by giving the "auspicious omen" from God can you perform the Fengshan ceremony. Zhao Heng also understood this principle. If Wang Qin had an idea, he said that he could fake Tianrui. As long as the emperor believed in it and respected it, and then declared the world, it would be no different from Zhentianrui. He also said that the kings and masters of all dynasties did this. But most people who wanted to make trouble were always guilty in their hearts, and the same was true for Emperor Zhenzong of Song. He was afraid that Prime Minister Wang Dan would obstruct him. What should he do?

After Li Kang, who was born as a Jinshi and known as the "Saint Prime Minister", died, Kou Zhun became a prime minister for a period of time, and then Wang Dan succeeded as prime minister. His official role was honest and self-reliant, and he did not need to be private, and his prestige was relatively high. Emperor Zhenzong of Song was afraid that the prime minister who had a good official reputation would say his shortcomings and even exposed his fake tricks, so Emperor Zhenzong of Song invited Wang Dan to the palace for a banquet. After the banquet was dispersed, he gave him a jar and said, "This wine is very good, you can take it back and share it with your wife and children." Wang Dan went home and opened the jar and saw that it was a jar of priceless pearls. The method of bribery was very clever: it was hypothetical that wine was given, and the wine vessel was not wine but pearls. Is this a bit like people send cigarettes and rolled money in it!

This old minister who had been in the court for decades knew that the emperor might have asked for him. So later, when Zhao Heng and Wang Qinruo faked the heavenly book and made the decision to Fengshan, he became a mouthless gourd. Not only did he not reconsider, but he also participated in these things. When someone formally proposed the Fengshan matter in the court, when Song Zhenzong pretended that he was not worthy of going to Fengshan, Wang Dan took the lead in writing five letters to ask Fengshan, and he was named the "Great Quotation Envoy" of Fengshan and participated in the Fengshan activities. A string of pearls by Song Zhenzong made this loyal and honest prime minister a partner who made the heavenly book and held Fengshan...

Thinking about the miserableness of these ancestors, Zhao Bing felt deeply glad that he had not fallen to their level, but was not far away. What he gave to maintain his alliance was not comparable to a jar of pearls, but was given in the name of "gift". At least he did not throw his face to the ground like Emperor Zhenzong and let those scholars record it as jokes.

However, the situation Wen Tianxiang had made Zhao Bing feel that crisis was approaching. This guy completely ignored his kindness for saving him back then, and he fought against his ancestors' family laws in front of so many people. Of course, he could not say that he was wrong, because he was also performing his duties and doing things according to the rules. He could not make any mistakes at all. Moreover, you are not afraid of using the title of emperor. There is also a large number of scholars and officials who are cheering for him with the ancestors' family laws and supporting him!

If Zhao Bing had not traveled to this era, he would not have been able to appreciate the power of the ancestor's family law, but modern people may still find it difficult to understand why the ancestor's family law became an insurmountable obstacle for every emperor. Let me put it this way, although there was no so-called constitutional theory or the law-based Constitution in ancient China, the invisible constitution still exists, which is a complete set of behavioral norms based on "ritual". From emperors, generals and ministers to ordinary people, they must abide by these laws, that is, everyone is equal before the "ritual system" or the "laws of the previous kings", and the emperor's actions must be subject to restrictions in addition to adapting to the changes of nature.

When it comes to the ancestors of the Song Dynasty, people often think of the oath monument set by Zhao Kuangyin, "Don't kill scholars or advisers." In fact, the "ancestral law" of the Song Dynasty did not come from Zhu Yuanzhang, who founded the country like the Ming Dynasty, which valued the most ancestral family law. Instead, it consisted of a series of stories of the late emperors, customary laws, conventions, and classics. What is even more tragic is that the sorting of these classics and routines is usually completed by the group of scholars and officials.

It is precisely because the scholars and officials participated in the sorting of the family laws of ancestors that they also had the opportunity to take advantage of it. In the process of screening and interpreting the "ancestral laws", they undoubtedly incorporated the Confucian governance ideals. Therefore, the ancestor laws of the Song Dynasty could not even be said to be the meaning of the Emperor Zhao Song himself, but were collectively shaped by the scholars and officials and formed over a long period of time.

It is particularly important to point out that the "ancestral law" of the Song Dynasty, as a political concept, was officially proposed after the Song Renzong Dynasty. Anyone who has a little understanding of the history of the Song Dynasty knows that Emperor Renzong was a kind-hearted king, but he was a lord with mediocre qualifications. In the wars of the Song Xia Dynasty, Yanzhou, Good Shuichuan, and Dingchuan, the Song army won first and then lost in three battles, and had to pay annual monies for peace; it was also extremely failed for the Liao Kingdom, breaking the long-signed Chanyuan Alliance, and re-referring to Chongxi to increase coins in exchange for peace; and the redundant soldiers was more than 1.2 million, which caused a huge financial burden on the finances; in addition, land annexation reached its peak, intensifying social conflicts, and laying the thunder for the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty.

However, the Song people praised him without hesitation, saying that he was "Renzong was the longest in power and had the deepest virtues, so he should specialize in law Renzong. From the Han and Tang dynasties, no one who talked about family law was as good as our dynasty, and no one who was as pure as Renzong's family law was as good as Renzong'. After his death, he was portrayed by scholars and officials to be a model for later generations. You should know that before Emperor Renzong of Song, no emperor could use benevolence as his posthumous title or benevolence.

Why did the scholars and officials of the Song Dynasty establish a monarch with mediocre political achievements as a saint? They could hide it from the world, but they could not hide it from Zhao Bing from later generations. He knew that Renzong had two advantages that were most highly praised by scholars, such as being good at accepting advice and being afraid of ministers. To put it bluntly, everyone listened to what they said and were afraid of the people under his command. Anyone with discerning eyes could see that this was not the emperor, and it was clearly a burden of suffering. Then their purpose was self-evident. Of course, Renzong was not to praise the emperor, but to set a standard for the incumbent monarchs to regulate the emperor's behavior and elevate the status of the scholar class.

If Zhao Bing had not come from later generations and had retained the thinking of adults, think about a brainwashing education since childhood and used it as the correct standard of behavior for an emperor, what would the consequences be like? I believe that what kind of emperor would be born? Everyone knows what kind of emperor you will be born. If you refuse to follow, it would be that you violated the laws of your ancestors and were condemned by the entire literati and official group, and you will be "corrected" again on the right track.
Chapter completed!