Emperor Huizong of the Northern Song Dynasty reigned for twenty-six years. In the first half of the Song Dynasty, the Northern Song Dynasty returned to the state of the Tang Dynasty, and the territory of the Northern Song Dynasty reached its peak during the Song Huizong period, but after a short period of hard work, he began the professional burnout of his imperial career, his interest was not here at all, he loved art, to the point of obsession.
In the heart of Emperor Huizong of Song, it was always art supremacy, subordinating politics to art. He put the cart before the horse, and with the attitude of playing art, he teased the whole imperial politics and regarded the serious imperial politics as a child's play. Of course, he was also abandoned by imperial politics.
Emperor Huizong of Song wanted to build the garden "Gongyue", which needed strange stones to be acquired by the people, which was originally a matter for the imperial family itself, and it was also the emperor's hobby. Since the whole government served the emperor, his personal hobby became the administrative affairs of the government, which was done layer by layer, and the indicators were decomposed layer by layer, from the central to the road (the name of the administrative region in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, equivalent to the provinces of the Ming and Qing dynasties), from the road to the state, from the state to the county, and the main task was borne by the heads of the southeastern provinces.
Although, in order to collect these strange stones, the royal family has allocated a certain fee and paid special funds to buy them from the private sector. However, during the execution process, distortions and changes occur.
The Qingxi Kou Rail is a history book written by the Song Dynasty Fang Spoon, which reads: The house of the mortals, a stone and a wood, that is, a person who leads a jian pawn straight into his home, uses a yellow seal to identify it, refers to it as a thing in front of the emperor, so that it can be regarded as a precaution, and it is not careful, that is, it is accused of great disrespect, and issued, it will be removed from the wall of the house. People are unfortunate to have a small difference, which is referred to as ominous, but fears that it will not be fast.
Grassroots officials went to a certain member's house, went to the door and said, I know that your family has a big stone, quite strange, is a good thing, now the emperor likes, you sell it to the imperial court, but the government asked for a low price, you bear to sell it, even if it is. If you want a reasonable valuation, it's a little more troublesome, and you have to give the handling official a little benefit.
If the low price can be sold, it is still a good thing, even if you eat a little loss, the problem is that you do not have such a thing at home. However, xu official came to the door and said, I heard that there is a stone in your house, and asked you to take it out and sell it to the emperor. Then you say: My lord, you heard it wrong, we don't have this thing at all.
If you insist that you don't have it, he will say that you are hiding, it is the crime of deceiving the king, and without saying a word, first seal your home, or seal the shop.
In fact, it is to blackmail you and blackmail you with this matter.
Then you have only two choices, one is to buy a stone yourself and give it to the government, or you will bribe officials and donate money to local finances. In short, find a way to get the executive officer to cross you off the list of acquisitions.
As a result, the tasks assigned by the imperial court were broken down layer by layer, and when it came to the grass-roots government, it became his financial income-generating business or an opportunity for the officials themselves to be corrupt.
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Do you think it's over, not yet. Scoundrels, people who have made enemies with you, people who are jealous of your eyes, take the opportunity to report you, saying that your family has requisitioned materials for royal use, anyway, some of them are not, he can make them up at will.
The report was successful, and he helped the official complete the target and get the bonus. If the report is not successful, it is also watching your family's bad luck, the chicken flying dog jumping toss and turning, he is also very happy, very happy.
However, it was not finished here, because the strange stones and strange materials scavenged needed to be sent to the capital city of Tokyo (Kaifeng City, Henan Province), and with the means of transportation at that time, customized transport ships were needed to be able to hold strange shapes and tons of stones.
During the transportation process, the height of the bridge is likely to be insufficient, the bridge hole is low, the ship cannot pass, and the bridge needs to be demolished first, and after the fleet has passed, the bridge will be rebuilt.
You see, it's a toss-up.
There is also the transportation process, manpower and material resources, these costs, all need to be borne by the local governments through which the fleet passes, so these local governments have another burden, only in the jurisdiction to apportion to collect fees, the people along the way also need to bear additional servitude, become free labor.
So it makes people miserable.
This is not the end, everyone knows, the story of Yang Zhi buying a knife in the Water Margin.
Why yang zhi want to sell knives, is related to the strange stones and strange materials, Yang Zhi was originally responsible for escorting the work, the result was very bad luck, in the Yellow River encountered a storm, overturned the ship transporting strange stones and strange materials, he was afraid of being held responsible, ran, also lost the official, and later encountered the amnesty of the world, he returned to Tokyo to seek reinstatement of the official position, entrusting people to find relations, it was not smooth, all the money was spent, poor and poor, had to sell the ancestral sword, the result was a disaster, and then lost the birth anniversary, after several twists and turns, and finally went to Liangshan, Embarked on the road of rebellion.
You see the strange stone and the strange material, and indirectly created a good man of Liangshan, and then a fierce general who rebelled, which is an unexpected effect.
This is the famous granite class in history. The Flowerstone Class is a special transportation traffic name in Chinese history that specializes in transporting exotic stones to meet the emperor's preferences. The meaning of the program is the formation of the transport team, and a transport team composed of ten ships is called a gang.
The "History of Song" records the Battle of Huashigang: "The people who poisoned the prefecture and county for twenty years" were recorded. In order to do this, it is like branches growing on the trunk, branches on the branches, and small branches on the branches. From one thing to countless troubles, it has been tossed for up to 20 years.
Hua Shi Gang is only a representative story of the endless troubles caused by the government's administrative apportionment, not that all apportionments will cause so much trouble. If he is only a small-scale apportionment by a local government, the impact is limited. The more extensive the apportionment, the more it catches up with the era of the corruption of the officials, the worse the consequences will be, and the more it will be like the Huashi Class.
Layer-by-layer task apportionment is the most common and effective way for governments to solve problems, but it is extremely costly. The more governments with low governance capabilities, the more extensive the government, the more they will favor such means, and often the problems he creates are more serious than the problems he originally wants to solve.
The most serious consequence is that the Flowerstone Class caused a change in the distribution of state power, and the national political ecology was irreparably damaged.
In the name of developing art and culture, the imperial court used the supreme national imperial power to loot the rare cultural relics in the southeast region, and the "Zuozuo Bureau" in Hangzhou and the "Ying Feng Bureau" in Suzhou commanded the Huashi Gang, the expansion of the power of the Ying Feng Bureau, the pressure that you dare to disobey the will of the Holy Father, and the "one-vote veto" effect on other government departments and local governments, which caused the normal operation mechanism of the government and society to be greatly damaged, and even the need to use stability maintenance forces.
If the ships originally prepared by the Bureau could not cope, thousands of ships carrying grain were forcibly replenished, even alongside the merchant ships. There are also Taihu stones, four feet high, carrying huge ships, serving thousands of people, passing through the prefectures and counties, there are demolition water gates, bridges, and chiseled city walls. Even more officials took advantage of the opportunity to extort and extort money, making a lot of windfalls, causing great disasters to the people of the southeast, and became one of the reasons for the Fang La uprising.
After the Fang La Rebellion, in 1126 AD, in the first year of Emperor Jingkang of Qinzong, the Jin army attacked the Northern Song Dynasty from the south, at this time the Northern Song Dynasty was powerless to resist, and at the beginning of the next year, the capital Kaifeng fell, and the Jin soldiers sent Song Huizong and Song Qinzong the Second Emperor, together with the imperial relatives, concubines, palace women, officials, craftsmen, geisha, and more than 14,000 people, to drive north, using the strange stones and strange materials collected to build Gengyue, which had not reached five years, and also destroyed this war, and the Northern Song Dynasty was destroyed.
In 1135, at the age of 54, Emperor Huizong of Song died in exile in the Five Kingdoms City, north of the present-day Yilan County in Harbin.
Hua Shi gang did not disappear with Emperor Huizong of Song, because the feudal autocracy remained unchanged, and such irreparable harm was constantly repeated, and always appeared in history with the appearance of justice.