Chapter 52 Memorial

Recently, Xue Chongxun saw two memorials by Du Xian. The first one was to describe the actual combat effectiveness of cannons made in Wugong County, which played an important role in the Battle of Yingzhou. However, the disadvantage was that they were inconvenient to motor transportation and poor materials. They were scrapped after only two use before and after.

After this memorial arrived in Chang'an, the ministers basically didn't care, just like a small stone thrown into the Taiye Pool and couldn't arouse the prodigal son at all.

But Xue Chongxun personally attaches great importance to it. As Du Xian said in the memorial, if there is no weapon like a martial arts cannon that completely surpasses the Dongyi army, it would not be so easy to capture Yingzhou, and the price it pays cannot be the same.

However, the bureaucrats in the court did not think so. They used great principles such as justice, strategy, and military system to summarize the victory of the Battle of Yingzhou.

After the establishment of the Jin Dynasty, because of Xue Chongxun's personal likes and dislikes, his foreign policy was almost contrary to the former Tang Dynasty, and he completely abolished diplomatic means of stable situations such as marriage ties, and instead sought a national policy based on military advantages.

Xue Chongxun believes that to maintain this domineering strategy, it is necessary to maintain the generational difference of force, and maintaining the leading weapon is much simpler than complex governance in military system and administration, which is also the reason why he attaches so much importance to several cannons.

According to Du Xian's information, Xue Chongxun did two things. He first organized all the workshops, schoolyards, and soldiers and craftsmen in Wugong County to develop and produce iron cannons into the Beiya system, and established the Shenji Office parallel to the Jiafang Office, and specially developed new weapons, which was affiliated to the Beiya Imperial Army Headquarters.

At this time, Xue Chongxun had already mastered the highest power in the world, and it was much easier to do things. Such a thing was just arranged lightly in a study room in the Greenhouse Hall.

The eunuch Yang Sixu was responsible for the specifics. Xue Chongxun first authorized Yang Sixu to take full responsibility for the matter, and then described his own idea: continue to recruit talented people, fix the methods of rewarding those who have made meritorious cannons with laws and regulations to form reward and punishment rules.The four cannons were scrapped in Yingzhou in the early stage because they were not able to use and were scrapped. The technology of iron smelting and casting was insufficient, and the reward specifications were improved. Whether officials or craftsmen had breakthroughs in technology, they would reward them very much...

The dark and thin eunuch in front of him listened carefully and pondered the emperor's thoughts. He would combine these sporadic information to do his own job.

The Han people value understanding and learning from one example and applying it to others, just like officials wanting craftsmen to make something, they only need a rough description to achieve the effect.

In addition to this matter, Xue Chongxun also issued an order specifically to approve Yingzhou's memorial: destroy the useless artillery and do not fall into the hands of other clans.

Xue Chongxun recently canceled the presidency and seemed to be suspected of being negligent. In fact, he would meet some people every day to deal with the important matters quietly.

Just like this morning, he did not go to the grand court in Hanyuan Hall. At that time, many foreign envoys wanted to worship the emperor. Later, Princess Taiping accepted congratulations from various countries in the Xuanzheng Hall, and held a state banquet in Linde Hall, which was very lively...

This led to many foreigners who came back to Chang'an for the first time only had an impression of Princess Taiping, but had no idea about the emperor, and had never even seen him.

Some people are still thinking that the Central Plains has returned to the situation where women rule since Wu Zetian.

But the people who were in the dynasty knew very well that the Central Plains dynasty would not have another second queen.

Du Xian's first memorial was silent, but the second letter caused an uproar.

According to the northeastern border that he had privately agreed with the emperor before he had not gone abroad, he captured Yingzhou and proposed to restore the Great Wall in Hebei to consolidate the territory within Yuguan (Shanhaiguan) with fortifications and ensure the defense line of half of the eastern part of the Jin Dynasty.

This incident immediately aroused sensational opposition in Chang'an, which was expected.

The reason why courtiers objected was simple: it cost too much.

The Tang Dynasty did not build the Great Wall but came to the court from all directions to the court became an example of everyone's reference. Some people quoted classics and used great principles to write letters to advise. The fundamental reason for maintaining the country lies in the implementation of benevolent policies and winning the hearts of the people, the rectification of officials and military preparations, not the Great Wall.

The snow-like memorial inadvertently revealed a positive attitude towards the Tang Dynasty, which directly led to Xue Chongxun's idea of ​​making an appointment to revise the "History of Tang".

Because today's history has become the destruction of Tang Dynasty, the problems of the upper class have led to the change of dynasties, unlike the original history when the Tang Dynasty was extremely decayed, so that some hidden problems were not exposed.

It is naturally difficult for people to foresee the problems one or two hundred years later. Instead, they believe that the national policy implemented by the Tang Dynasty is still acceptable. Only after experiencing the tragic situation of warlord separatism at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the capital changed hands several times, and the subsequent Hebei and other places completely fell into the hands of the Hu people without any dangers, will the world awaken those hidden dangers.

Xue Chongxun had long considered the adverse effects of the construction of Hebei Fortifications. No matter how the court officials argued, he was indifferent. He made up his mind to build a barrier to completely isolate the Hu people outside the pass, and use this stable territory as the foundation to expand outward to form a broader strategic depth.

So the bureaucrats turned their dissatisfaction to Du Xian, believing that Du Xian was favored and inciting the emperor's bad idea. At the least, they would be called a bad idea to ruin the country, and at the worst, there would be people with darker psychological implies that Du Xian was too strong in the Northeast and might be rebellious.

This is already very heart-wrenching. Since ancient times, what people who are emperors are most worried about is that they are driven off the throne by the people below. This suspicion cannot be judged by ordinary people's psychology, and Xue Chongxun is no exception.

But he finally remained rational in the matter of Du Xian: Du Xian was not an important figure at all during the Tang Dynasty, but had a life-and-death friendship with Xue Chongxun on the battlefield. He had no motivation to restore the Tang Dynasty at all, and his family was not mentioned in Chang'an. His daughter was still a concubine in the palace. Why did he rebel?

Xue Chongxun's view on Hebei's strategy is completely opposite to most bureaucrats. Even the direct descendants of the cabinet did not agree with the construction of frontier fortifications, and he could not find a way to convince those ministers who were full of knowledge.

So Xue Chongxun did not attend court for another half a month, and the ministers of the Southern Ya above the third rank had not seen him for more than ten days.

Autumn has arrived, and even if you live in the palace all day long, you can feel the breath of autumn from the fallen leaves on the stone path and the cool breeze in the sky.

Perhaps it was influenced by the atmosphere of the season, Xue Chongxun was thinking: Will the series of innovations and layouts in his mind be too anxious?

Will it have the opposite effect?

Perhaps sometimes a person who holds great power will do nothing but better than doing a lot of things, such as Wang Mang and Chongzhen.

In recent days, he has begun to revisit "The Biography of Wang Mang" again without any worries.

One day, he accidentally saw Princess Jincheng bathing in the bathing pool of Penglai Hall, so he stopped the palace maid from alarming her and peeked behind the curtain. He felt that her skin was more beautiful than snow. He was indeed the number one beauty in the Ming Palace...

But when he thought about why he happened to encounter Jin Cheng taking a bath here?

It was probably because she did it deliberately, but he felt that none of this matter, so he moved into Jincheng's bedroom and stopped coming out, neither attending court nor handling memorials.

Fortunately, the central structure of the cabinet and the Political Affairs Hall has gradually matured. Xue Chongxun could barely maintain his political affairs, but all kinds of decrees are no longer sacred edicts but are signed by the Cabinet Political Affairs Hall.

Moreover, Princess Taiping is also interfering in the government affairs and has approved the memorials of Princess Hezhong interfering.

Anyway, nothing big was wrong.

Build guns and guns to promote weapons technology, add institutions to arrange a new political pattern, develop monarchy and centralization, and new foreign policies and tax systems that start with the advancement of Yingzhou...

The idea is that Xue Chongxun wants to do after ascending the throne, but when he actually does it, he will always encounter obstacles and worries of varying importance. There is another thing he is considering: the imperial examination.

Wu Zetian has always maintained the path of enrolling scholars in the imperial examination since then. What Xue Chongxun wanted to do was to improve the system and further weaken the influence of the gentry.

Because his regime is not very supportive of the gentry, some even have hatred for the new regime, but they always need talents to rule the country. Now Xue Chongxun's party maintains its rule by pacifying the people's hearts and wooing the gentry.

To further consolidate the regime and improve the imperial examinations, the fundamental solution is to solve the problem.

The current imperial examination system is incomplete in all aspects, and it is simply a slight witch compared to the system in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

It is called the Imperial Examination. In fact, the aristocratic families and ministers in the court have most of the resources, and are appreciated and recommended by powerful people are more effective than actual talents, and there is a lack of fair competition rules.

Xue Chongxun has advanced insights in his memory. Of course, he could easily think of how to improve this set of things, but he had a doubt in his heart: When I have the final say today, do you still have to copy the Mingjing Eight-Legends?

Is there any other way?