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

In the Chui Gong Hall, hundreds of officials from various departments were already in place. San Xiang San Shen slowly walked to the front of the team. With Wang Shouzhong's high-pitched "Your Majesty has arrived," the officials bowed and saluted.

"No gift!"

Zhao Zhen waved his hand.

After all the officials were back on their feet, the head official shouted: "If you have something to do, please leave early. If you have nothing to do, roll up the curtain and retreat."

"I have my heart and I want to report it."

Zhou Huairen, the censor of power supervision, said: "I am impeaching Fan Zhongyan, the secretary and young prisoner, for being lawless and absent from work many times. He has not been seen in the secretary prison for several days."

"I also have my own intention to report."

Liu Qua, the supervisory censor, said: "I impeached Yan Shu, the censor, and Yan Shu Tongtian was appointed as the head of the censorship station. He did not want to work hard on official duties, but he was never seen on duty all day long. As a result, the censorship station had a high accumulation of official documents and supervised the affairs of hundreds of officials. There is so much slack.”

The remonstrating officer Gong Dingchen said: "I impeached Tong Zhongshu's subordinate Ping Zhang for Lu Yijian's affairs. He ignored the government's affairs and acted wantonly."

The right secretary admonished Han Qi and said: "I impeached Tong Zhongshu's disciple Pingzhangshi Wang and followed him. He served as prime minister for one year. He was mediocre and accomplished nothing. He was involved in political affairs and had a sinister and eccentric personality. He often excluded his colleagues!"

He Tan, the imperial censor in the palace, raised his hands and said: "I impeach Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng, and Wang Sui, who are under the command of Zhongshu Menxia, ​​Pingzhangshi, and Song Shou, Cai Qi, and Shengdu, who are the counselors. The corpses are eating nothing, and the flies are camping and the dogs are sleeping. There is no one in the political hall all day long. Now that the country is in ruins, he was even late for the last morning meeting and is not worthy of being the prime minister."

"I second the proposal!"

"I also second the proposal!"

"I ask your Majesty to severely punish these people!"

Several imperial censors and admonishment officials below spoke out one after another and attacked Fan Zhongyan, Yan Shu, Lu Yijian and others with great momentum.

There were really too many officials in the Song Dynasty, and Lu Dang and Fan Dang were actually only a small part of them.

More officials are not just sitting on the wall or doing nothing, but they either have their own small circles, or they stay alone, neither clinging to the powerful nor flattering, and focusing on doing their own thing.

The most awesome thing about Fan Zhongyan and his friends is that the Qingli New Deal directly unified the originally disunited Song Dynasty officialdom to their opposite sides. They all opposed his New Deal, causing the New Deal to quickly fail.

Now that the New Deal has not been launched, there is no such thing. After all, no matter how powerful Lu Yijian is, it is impossible for thousands of officials in Bianliang City to follow his lead.

In particular, the officials of the Admonition Court and Yushitai have never been afraid of offending the prime minister. Anyway, as long as the other party does something wrong, they will dare to attack, no matter who you are. Therefore, they all take the initiative to impeach. Once the impeachment is successful and the prime minister is dismissed, it will be a great honor for the official.

Seeing this big scene, Zhao Zhen felt a headache for a while.

Nowadays, both Yan Shu and Fan Zhongyan are stationed in Houyuan, accompanying Zhao Jun every day. Indeed, they rarely appear in their respective yamen and court meetings. It is understandable for the officials to impeach them on the pretext of absenteeism. According to Song law, at least they will be dismissed from office. .

And He Tan was even more heavyweight. He directly impeached the three ministers and three ministers. If the officials were really punished according to the impeachment, then there would be no need to deal with state affairs, and the prime ministers would go home and farm together.

He had to find a way to resolve this matter.

"You don't have to be so angry. I asked Fan Zhongyan to compile classics and he can just do it at home. I asked Yan Shu to do some things. As for the prime ministers."

Zhao Zhen paused for a moment, then found a reason and said: "The prime ministers are old, so I will allow them to arrive late for the court meeting."

"Since His Majesty ordered them to compile classics and do other things, why not go through Zhongshu and save the imperial edict?"

He Tan pressed forward step by step: "If it's just oral instructions, then they are still absent from work."

Zhao Zhen quickly looked at Lu Yijian.

Lu Yijian understood and winked at Li Min, the man from the Zhongshu House who was not far away. Li Min said, "This matter has been handled by the Zhongshu Province."

"Since the book has been sent to the province, why is there no announcement?"

He Tan asked again.

Lu Yijian said: "It is a trivial matter for the secretary to supervise the revision of the scriptures and for the censor Zhongcheng to investigate the case. Should it be announced to the world so that everyone knows about it?"

He Tan wanted to say something else, but Zhao Zhen interrupted: "Okay, let's let this matter go. From now on, Fan Zhongyan will be writing books at home. As for Yan Shu, he will be the Secretary of the Ministry of Hubu and the Deputy Envoy of the Third Department. The affairs of Yushitai will be left to Jia Changchao and Let Yu Zhouxun deal with it, where is Prime Minister Lu?”

"I'm here."

"Draft the edict and send it to Zhongshu Province."

"yes."

Lu Yijian responded.

Seeing that the matter was settled, He Tan and others could only retreat in anger.

Then the court proceedings continued.

Zhang Yuan, a doctor from the Water Resources Department of the Ministry of Industry, reported that the Baiqu was in disrepair and was increasingly overflowing.

Zhao Zhen ordered the Xiang army to build canals and control floods.

Then Xu, the magistrate of Yidu Branch and the doctor of the Ministry of Industry, applied for the casting of new money. He suggested that it should be mixed with medicinal iron, with copper accounting for three parts and iron accounting for six parts, to make a copper-iron alloy and fill the treasury.

This suggestion actually led to serious deliberation among the officials. In the end, Cheng Lin, the Third Chief of Staff, and Sun Zude, the deputy director of Tianzhang Pavilion, strongly opposed it and sternly stated the harm and serious consequences that iron money would bring to the country. Give up.

Otherwise, if Zhao Zhen really listened to Xu Shen's lies and cast iron coins, it would be a lot of fun.

The main reason is that the national treasury is indeed short of money. During Renzong's period, the annual fiscal deficit reached more than 2 million guan, and a total of more than 30 million guan was accumulated.

Moreover, Li Shen was still working on money laws and was almost emptying the treasury, which made the imperial government's finances even worse. That's why some people came up with bad ideas, and many people agreed with them.

Later, during the reign of Emperor Huizong of Song, iron coins were simply minted. There were small iron coins and large iron coins. Iron coins became the mainstream currency during the Southern Song Dynasty.

But now Zhao Zhen no longer needed it. After getting the Jiaozi method from Zhao Jun, he naturally did not adopt iron coins. Instead, he ordered Shengdu, the assistant minister of state affairs who had been involved in the salt and iron economy, to establish the "Jiaozi Office" and conduct a pilot project in Bianliang as soon as possible, and merge it with the "Jiaozi Office" in Chengdu to form a bank connection between Bianliang and Chengdu.

The "Jiaozi Office" did not need to be discussed by the court. Zhao Zhen directly issued an imperial edict and passed it through the Zhongshu Province and the Menxia Province. Now, even if the three ministers and three assistant ministers who controlled the Zhongshu Province and the Menxia Province had different political views, they had unified the "Jiaozi Office" and therefore passed it quickly.

So without the knowledge of the officials, Shengdu had already officially started the work of establishing a bank.

Soon, the bustling court meeting ended.

It was already noon. Zhao Zhen asked the three ministers to stay in the palace on the pretext of discussing state affairs. After that, they had lunch together and headed towards the back garden.

Zhao Jun would usually have lunch at this time, and then chat with Yan Shu and Fan Zhongyan, but Yan Shu was not there today.

Because he went back after taking medicine from Zhao Jun in the morning and asked Zhao Zhen for leave.

So now Fan Zhongyan was serving Zhao Jun.

"I'm full, Uncle Nima. While Uncle Lari is away, let's tell some jokes about Zhao Guangyi today."

When Zhao Zhen and his friends had lunch and arrived at the back garden, as soon as they reached the door, they heard Zhao Jun, who was basking in the sun outside, saying with a smirk: "After the Battle of Gaoliang River, the Song and Liao sides sent envoys to each other, hoping to discuss peace. In order to bluff Liao Jingzong, the envoys of the Song Dynasty told Liao Jingzong that the Song Dynasty had developed a new drug, and after taking it, men could run around Bianliang within a quarter of an hour. So in order to see the power of the drug, Liao Jingzong decided to send an envoy to find out. Zhao Guangyi was in a panic when he learned about this, and asked the civil and military officials in the hall what to do. He only heard a palace maid in the corner say faintly: "Your Majesty, the Liao army has reached the outside of the city." After hearing this, Zhao Guangyi drove a donkey cart and ran to Fujian in the blink of an eye."

Zhao Zhen's face darkened instantly.

Lü Yijian, Wang Zeng and others covered their mouths, shrugged their shoulders, and forced themselves to hold back.

They almost laughed out loud.

Why does Zhao Jun, this kid, always poke at the government's lungs?