Judge of the Song Dynasty Chapter 551: The first battle of the three redundancies (4)
"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 to court to disarm the army?"
"Yeah."
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?"
Zhang Fei said: "Maybe he has some doubts. After all, he knows about my relationship with Wang Xueshi, but he can never figure out my whole plan."
"I know that too."
Xu Zhiqian said worriedly: "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 government finally chooses to share the rain and dew, and everyone will get what they need. Everyone will be 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."
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Actually, 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. These evidences alone were not convincing. What he wanted was the evidence that the imperial court was unable to pay the full military salary.
Then again, 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 they can only play the role of officials. In fact, this kind of deduction, default, and many methods 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, how can I afford it if I don't play some crooked ways.
And Su Zhe just wanted to make a big fuss about this matter, 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.
Because he also saw that Zhao Xu and Wang Anshi's ambitions were to expand their territories and fight wars, and the conservatives in the DPRK and China were worried about this and even resolutely opposed 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?
Of course Sima Guang.
Sima Guang was the most trustworthy person Su Zhe had in the capital.
After all, Sima Guang's moral character is there.
At least it is impossible to betray him.
This is the most important thing.
And what is Sima Guang's thought of governing the country, throttling.
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 made it into his bone marrow.
As soon as I saw this letter, my head was all big.
Are you playing this big?
Therefore, he hurried to find Fu Bi and Wen Yanbo to discuss countermeasures.
"Sure enough, the public prosecutor's law is here, so you can't live in peace!"
After watching it, Fu Bi couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
Although the letter talks about disarmament, it is not difficult to see from the background that the public prosecutor's law is walking on thin ice.
There are hundreds of cases of eucalyptus like Chen Guang's across the country. Why is there such a big fuss? Isn't it 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, what should we do now?"
Wen Yanbo immediately said: "I think what Ziyou said in the letter is very reasonable. Redundant troops are harmful to the country and have 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.
When there is no war, it also drags down the finances. Sixty-seven out of ten of the current finances are used for military expenses.
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 recent years, he has been advising disarmament and carrying out reforms with the mountain of three redundancy behind his back, which is tantamount to drinking poison to quench thirst. a reason.
You have not finished throttling, so you go directly to open source, which is putting the cart before the horse.
As for Su Zhe's letter, it really suits him.
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 go back to the source, 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 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 some people will make trouble from it, and the consequences will be disastrous! "
In fact, he is also in favor of disarmament, but he thinks a lot about it. The key point is that he has a good brain. Why so many people are in the army is because land acquisition is serious, and the industrial and commercial scale cannot support so many people.
To cure the disease of redundant soldiers, land annexation must be cured first.
If the imperial court does not have enough land, how will the soldiers be laid off?
The sudden loss of livelihood for so many people has dire consequences.
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 carried out properly, it will not cause too serious consequences. At present, our government stipulates that only 61 years old can 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 these two parts will not 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, It is believed that the officials are deliberately conniving with the imperial court, and their 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 looked a little moved, and then said: "But this also involves a dispute between the public security law and the local government, I'm afraid..."
Wen Yanbo was in a hurry, and said: "Junshi! This should be broken, 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 that will bear it all.
The majority of those who oppose the public prosecution law in the court are against the imperial court. The procuratorate was originally established to supervise the imperial court. If the procuratorate is lost, the imperial court will dominate. You can convince them of this. "
Sima Guang was speechless for a moment.
Yeah!
He still has to consider the Procuratorate.
It's hard to back off when things get to this point.
Under the persuasion of Fu Bi and Wen Yanbo, Sima Guang was finally persuaded by them.
At this point, he doesn'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 pays for it, it will definitely not have the money to pay, 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."
"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 report against this matter. Remember, the first is national defense. The second is how to arrange those Soldiers who have been laid off. 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 secretly knew about it. They were hoping that they would go to the capital with the military salary, and then use it to attack the public security law. .
This is a dispute between administration and justice.
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 off guard.
As a result, the matter has 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 revolutionary faction headed by Chen Shengzhi and Han Jiang protested against disarmament.
The reason is that at present, the young crop method will not be released, and the forced labor method and the equalization method are being popularized throughout the country. Behind this, innovation and conservatism 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 makes 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.
Conversely, if you Sima Guang supports it, I, Wang Anshi, will definitely oppose it.
Furthermore, Wang Anshi was obviously a war faction, he made money to fight, and Sima Guang was a peace faction, so this peace faction didn't need to think about it, he just stood on Sima Guang's side.
Hezhong Mansion is just a mansion after all, 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 turned into the defensive side and insisted that they cannot disarm, while the conservatives have turned into the offensive side and are determined to disarm.