Bold Official, Who Asked You to Change the Law?

In the eighth year of Jiayou's reign in the Northern Song Dynasty, Renzong died and his adopted son Zhao Shu ascended the throne. The beginning was a mess: three redundancies accumulated, the treasury was empty, and border troubles were frequent. Fan Zhongyan's "Qingli New Deal" had long since been buried in the grave, and the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty denounced "reform" as avoiding snakes and scorpions. Han Qi is mature and prudent, and only wants stability in the court. Ouyang Xiu weighed his options and was most afraid of offending his colleagues. Sima Guang was in charge of the platform and regarded "Gengzhang" as a scourge. As for Wang Anshi, who would shock the world in the future and who was still in office and writing tens of thousands of words in his local post, no one cared about him yet. What's worse is that the new king can't even sit on the throne. The elders of the clan asked in court, "How can the Tuan Lian envoy be the emperor?" The eunuchs of the three dynasties secretly provoked the two palaces. Empress Dowager Cao wanted to take advantage of the emperor's "heart illness" to listen to politics behind the curtain. However, the real fun begins on the day of the "Reform Movement". The elimination of redundant officials will destroy the iron rice bowl of many hereditary favors. The merger will destroy the pocketbooks of many wealthy families. The reform of the military system will destroy the old dishes of many Forbidden Army veterans. As soon as a piece of edict was issued, the court officials piled up a mountain of bullets, and the clan's secret arrows pierced like a rain. Those with vested interests will not give way. The nobles and nobles of the court who have been influenced by Cheese set ambushes everywhere and press forward step by step. Only then did Zhao Shu understand that the real "reform" was never a political decree, but a desperate fight from the dragon chair to the clay leg. Let's see how this "bold official" turned a bad hand into a comeback for the Song Dynasty.