In the Song Dynasty, there was no law or order.

Zhao Zhen covered his face with his sleeves, feeling frightened at this moment.

Zhao Jun got angry and sprayed people, which was straight into people's lungs.

Strictly speaking, Lu Yijian and the others did not necessarily come here just to intercede for the Han family and the Ma family.

Because Zhao Jun surrounded Kaifeng Prefecture, which had a huge negative impact, the majesty of Kaifeng Prefecture was wiped out in the future, which would have incalculable consequences for Kaifeng Prefecture's governance of Bianliang in the future.

In the future, the common people will never trust Kaifeng Mansion again. Even if there are upright officials in Kaifeng Mansion, they will definitely despise the imperial court under such public opinion.

But it was about the face of the Kaifeng Mansion and the imperial court. Lu Yijian and the others had no choice but to come over and seek discussion to see if Zhao Jun could save some face for the Kaifeng Mansion and the imperial court.

Zhao Jun knew that the so-called face had always been a major issue related to the state system in the Song Dynasty.

In the "Chongxi Increasing Coins" incident, Xingzong of the Liao Dynasty requested that the Song Dynasty's transfer of annual coins to the Liao Dynasty should be called "Xian" or "Na". Fu Bi believed that this was insulting to the state, so he insisted on calling it "Gift".

They were all forced to pay, which in itself was a matter of losing power and humiliating the country. However, just because of a word difference, in order to save the so-called face, Fu Bi insisted on calling it "gift", which shows how well they whitewash peace and are good at comforting themselves. .

Today, Zhao Jun wants to break this so-called face, make them lose face, make everything public, and make the Song Dynasty court lose face.

"Actually, what Mr. Lu and the others said makes sense. After all, this is a matter of Kaifeng Mansion and the face of the imperial court."

Zhao Zhen heard Zhao Jun's words and said hesitantly: "How about."

"There is no alternative."

After Zhao Jun poured out his anger on Lu Yijian and the others, he gradually calmed down. He shook his head and said, "The face of the court has never been important. If a dynasty wants to be strong, it must look directly at its own problems instead of simply covering them up."

"You can hide it for a while, but you can't hide it for a lifetime. Just like your so-called Renzong's prosperous era, the history books praise peace, but no one among the people will record it, and no one will know the truth?"

"Also, the history books say that Song Huizong and Song Qinzong were the two saints Beishou. What next? Can putting gold on the faces of those two guys in this way get future generations to have a good opinion of them?"

"wake up!"

"History will only record that you, Zhao Zhen, were mediocre and led by those civil servants. It will only record that Song Huizong and Song Qinzong were incompetent fools who were led to the north by the Jin people like two dogs."

"Face has never been important. Only when the country is strong and has the hearts of the people all over the world can the Song Dynasty truly have face. Just as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was comatose in his later years and once issued a self-incriminating edict, which delayed future generations from recognizing his talents. Evaluation?”

Zhao Jun spoke rudely again. This time, Zhao Zhen was actually very powerful and withstood a lot of pressure. Moreover, he was able to arrest people because of the authority given by Zhao Zhen.

But Zhao Jun still has to continue to CPU him.

Because I'm really worried.

Historically, this guy was really good at covering up corrupt officials.

During the Zhihe period, a corruption case occurred in Tanzhou where local officials confiscated merchants' pearls and sold them at low prices without authorization.

At the beginning of the first year of the Yuan Dynasty, Guangzhou businessman Ji Shunzhong carried five kilograms of pearls and went to the northern region to sell them. Unfortunately, he suddenly fell ill and died while passing through Tanzhou. After the pearls he was carrying were discovered by local officials, the tax stamps for the pearls were missing, so the officials confiscated the pearls on the grounds of tax evasion.

Subsequently, officials such as Ren Zhuan, the then magistrate of Tanzhou, and Li Zhang, the transshipment judge of Hunan, sold the pearls worth more than 3,000 guan at a price of more than 400 guan without authorization and bought them themselves.

Soon, the son of businessman Ji Shunzhong, Ji Zi Qiao, came to Tanzhou to look for his father. When he learned that his father had died of illness and the pearls he brought were sold at a low price by local officials, Ji Ziqiao was very angry and reported the matter to the court. The imperial court ordered the Hunan Criminal Division to send people to investigate the case.

But after some investigation, the officials responsible for handling the case felt deeply troubled.

This is because some of the officials involved in the case have deep backgrounds. For example, Li Zhang, the Hunan transit judge, was the son-in-law of Chen Zhizhong, the prime minister of the dynasty, and Lan Weiyong, another official involved in the case, was the son of a well-known person in the court.

Therefore, the case-handling officials of the Hunan Criminal Tribunal Division hoped to reduce this major matter to a trivial matter.

Later, the matter was known to an upright censor, who wrote a letter of impeachment. At his insistence, Zhao Zhen was forced to let Wang Gongchen, the third envoy at the time, supervise the case.

Unexpectedly, after Wang Gongchen arrived in Hunan, instead of thoroughly investigating the case, he instead handed over the pearls confiscated from the officials involved to enshrine Liao Haoran and sent them to the palace for use.

Since the pearl, which is a key piece of evidence, is missing, the value of the pearl cannot be determined, and the officials involved cannot be convicted. As a result, the case can only be dropped.

Therefore, on May 12, the second year of Zhihe, the upright imperial censor wrote another memorial titled "Memorial to Ask Wang Gongchen to Accept the Stolen Pearls", impeaching the Third Chief of Staff Wang Gongchen for ignoring the facts and engaging in favoritism. Perverting the law.

In fact, the facts of this case are not complicated. The key is that the official involved in the case has someone in the DPRK, which has led to the delay in closing the case.

Under the censor's repeated insistence, Song Renzong had to let the Criminal Court review the case again. In the end, the officials involved in the case and Wang Gongchen, the criminal who harbored the case, were all demoted.

It sounds like this matter ended successfully, but in fact it is completely different.

On the surface, both the officials involved and the criminals who harbored the case were dealt with, but in fact the punishments were light, and most of them were later promoted.

For example, Ren Zhuan, the former magistrate of Tanzhou, became a direct bachelor of Longtuge in the second year after his demotion. In his later years, he served as a guest of the prince. Li Zhang, the transfer judge of Hunan, was soon transferred to the central government as the Shaoqing of Dali Temple.

After the harborer Wang Gongchen was demoted, Song Renzong still favored him. Less than a month after Zhao impeached Wang Gongchen, Song Renzong wanted to arrange another important position for him, which aroused strong dissatisfaction among the censors, so he gave up.

There are also Wang Kui, Sun Miao, Guo Chengyou and others. The situation of the entire Renzong Dynasty is the same as Journey to the West. Those with backgrounds basically have nothing to do. If those without backgrounds are Jinshi or above, they will be demoted at most. As for the confiscation of their homes, Extermination is impossible.

Therefore, Zhao Jun is not at all worried about Zhao Zhen.

Even though he had told Zhao Zhen many times about the outcome of the Song Dynasty, and he had been beaten by the CPU many times, he was still afraid that his old illness would relapse, and he was too soft-spoken to listen to the nonsense of those in the court, which would hold him back.

"Yes Yes Yes."

Zhao Zhen heard Zhao Jun's words and nodded in agreement.

Zhao Jun continued: "Brother, I am a descendant of the poor, and I am telling you this for your sake. I can only remind you, don't forget the shame of Jingkang."

"Of course I will keep these in mind."

Hearing Zhao Jun mention this, Zhao Zhen suddenly became more serious.

Zhao Jun shook his head and said: "Not only the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty, but also after Song Qinzong was abdicated by Song Huizong, those civil servants ignored the opinions of the people in the city who wanted to resist, and actually forced Song Qinzong to go out to negotiate with the Jin people. Tell me, what will the civil servants do? Do you care about you as the emperor?"

"Is there such a thing?"

Zhao Zhen was shocked.

Zhao Jun said: "I didn't tell you in detail before, but I remember telling you that Song Qinzong went out of the city to negotiate with people in the Jin army camp, and was detained as a result."

"yes."

Zhao Zhen thought that Zhao Jun had indeed told him so.

"The Jin army attacked Bianliang City and asked the emperor to go to the Jin army in person to negotiate peace."

Zhao Jun said: "Those scholar-bureaucrats were frightened. They just wanted to negotiate a peace and send away the Jin army as soon as possible, so they kept encouraging the emperor to negotiate. The first time he went there, he came back safely, but the second time he went there, he was detained. After that, the Jin army broke through Bianliang. , wantonly looted and kidnapped the two emperors of Huiqin, this is what happened. "

Zhao Zhen's face became very ugly.

No emperor would look bad after learning that he had been betrayed by a scholar-bureaucrat.

"Also in the late Ming Dynasty, the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River colluded with the court officials to prevent the emperor from collecting taxes in the south of the Yangtze River. The gentry in the south of the Yangtze River also united to resist tax arrears. As a result, the richest southern region in the late Ming Dynasty failed to collect taxes, and the court had no money to use. In the end, Destroyed by the peasant army."

Zhao Jun continued: "The most interesting thing is that Emperor Chongzhen hoped that the court officials would donate money to tide over the country's difficulties. The ministers all cried out for poverty. In the end, Chongzhen only raised 200,000 taels of silver. When the rebel army Li Zicheng entered Beijing, Isn't it ironic that more than 70 million taels of silver were seized from the homes of these ministers? "

"The gentry of the Song Dynasty should be different from the gentry of the Ming Dynasty."

Zhao Zhen forced a smile.

"They all have the same virtue. It is human nature to seek good fortune and avoid misfortune. When the Song Dynasty fell, they became the cornerstone of their rule for the Mongols. After the Mongols fell, they worked for the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang knew their virtue, so he They started killing. Unfortunately, Lao Zhu could only protect the early Ming Dynasty, but could not protect the late Ming Dynasty, so they became gentry in the Qing Dynasty. "

Zhao Jun said: "In fact, there are also patriots among the gentry who are willing to sacrifice their lives and blood for the country and donate all their family property. But brother, you must remember that there will always be only individuals who betray the class, but not the class. If the system If there is no change and productivity does not change, history will become a cycle.”

"I understand."

Zhao Zhen took a deep breath.

Historically, he was a criminal who protected the scholar-bureaucrat class from doing whatever they wanted.

But now Zhao Jun has instilled a lot of things into him after all, and he also knows that the Song Dynasty is about to perish. If he continues to protect the scholar-bureaucrats as he did in history, he will not be an emperor, but a fool.

In the final analysis, he protected those people just to maintain stability. But now that he found that sheltering these people could not maintain stability, he naturally had to use other methods.

Zhao Jun nodded and said: "Brother, it's good that you understand these principles. As the capital of the Song Dynasty, Bianliang will be the hub of science and technology, education, and development in the future. I must maintain the stability here. If this place becomes a mess, what will happen if it becomes chaotic?" How can the Song Dynasty be strong if those people are holding them back? So we must eliminate them when they need to be eliminated, and we must not be lenient.”

"That"

Zhao Zhen hesitated and said, "What are your plans?"

"Of course, keep digging."

Zhao Jun said without hesitation: "There are several high-ranking officials in the DPRK who are the protective umbrella of those people behind the scenes. I will dig all the way to the bottom."

"But now there are Yushitai and Jianyuan."

"I don't want to talk to them. When the time comes, let Cao Xiu take Ping'er over to shut them up."

"All right."

Zhao Zhen was helpless, Ping'er could indeed shut everyone up.

"Then let's do this first."

Zhao Jun stood up, glanced at Zhao Zhen and said, "I'm going back to the Imperial City Department first. There are still many people to interrogate and many severe punishments to be used."

"That clan daughter."

"I'll get her out."

"Dasun, Dasong will be entrusted to you."

Zhao Zhen said seriously.

"Um."

Zhao Jun just nodded, bowed his hand to Zhao Zhen, and left Chongde Hall.

After dealing with Zhao Zhen, Lu Yijian and the others, he had to go back and deal with the people he had captured.