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

"Old Cao."

After Zhao Jun arranged some things in the Imperial City Division, he summoned Cao Xiu to meet him in the backyard alone.

Cao Xiu bowed to him and said, "I know that the Director is suspecting that I am taking revenge for personal gain, but Wang Shilong is arrogant and domineering. He often suppresses the news of many yamen and officials who have done evil things collected by the Imperial City Division and does not report it to the government. If the Director keeps him, it will only be a disaster."

"Yeah."

Zhao Jun nodded and said, "If that's the case, then you are right. And he was drinking and having fun outside when he was on duty, so it's normal for me to dismiss him. The main thing is that you should have told me on the way here. If there is such a thing, I will not disagree. There is no need to think about it."

"Yes."

Cao Xiu looked embarrassed.

He did this because he was scared by Zhao Zhen.

He reported Wang Shilong's actions to Zhao Zhen many times, but Zhao Zhen covered them up, which made him angry.

So this time when Zhao Jun took office, he simply did not report him, but used some tricks.

At that time, even if Zhao Jun also protected Wang Shilong like Zhao Zhen, Zhao Jun would definitely have to save face. Wang Shilong was late for the first meeting, so he would definitely be dismissed.

Although he was also worried that Zhao Jun would be angry with him because of this matter, at least he felt that as long as he explained it clearly to Zhao Jun, there should be no problem.

As he expected, Zhao Jun was still very sensible and did not get angry because of this matter.

"I heard that the Cao family received a reward some time ago?"

Zhao Jun pretended to ask casually.

He heard about this when he was traveling in Bianliang, and it was a sensation.

Cao Xiu bowed and said, "Yes."

"Then do you know why the Cao family was rewarded?"

"Is it because of the government for the Jiaozi shop?"

"I asked the government to open the Jiaozi shop. Now you understand it."

Zhao Jun had also visited the Jiaozi shop before. There was an endless stream of people going there to deposit money. Obviously, this would provide strong support for the war in the northwest of the Song Dynasty.

But the same thing, the existence of Jiaozi Shop can only speed up the circulation of money, but it can't make the cake bigger.

And to completely break the old system, it is necessary to support the new system.

Although reform will bleed, nothing can be solved by killing people. Did Zhu Yuanzhang kill few people in the early Ming Dynasty? But killing so many people still didn't solve the problem.

Therefore, Zhao Jun had already made up his mind to learn from Park Kaka, first supporting some emerging asset forces to combat the old and corrupt official monopoly system, so as to increase market competition and change the business environment of the Song Dynasty.

Then, through the inflow of silver, accelerated circulation of commodities, and improved productivity to make the cake bigger, strengthen the national strength, and then let the Song Dynasty open up overseas to further expand capital.

Finally, with the great ideas of great men and leaders as the ideological program, curb the barbaric growth of domestic capital, and build a better welfare system to benefit the Song Dynasty.

On this point, he planned to talk to Fan Zhongyan and Ouyang Xiu later.

Because Ouyang Xiu supported this, he once submitted a petition to support businessmen, abolish state-owned monopolies, and abolish the monopoly of commodities by the bureaucratic class.

In this way, the tea, salt, grain and oil and other commodities that were originally monopolized by local officials will completely enter the free market, and will no longer be monopolized as before, leading to corruption, embezzlement, bribery, abuse of power and other things.

However, these things cannot be solved overnight, and Zhao Jun does not intend to completely open the free market. It still needs a part of state-owned enterprises to ensure the bottom line of prices and prevent big merchants from monopolizing and raising prices.

Therefore, the establishment of Jiaozi Shop is a preparation for the future reform of the state-owned monopoly system. After Zhao Jun further gains power, he will carry out systematic reforms.

Hearing Zhao Jun's words, Cao Xiu looked at him in shock, and then hurriedly said: "Thank you, Chief Secretary!"

"The Song Dynasty is now full of insects, corrupt officials are rampant, and the princes and nobles are reckless. The people are in dire straits. The government is determined to reform and want to change all this, so it will greatly increase the functions of the Imperial City Department."

Zhao Jun said in a deep voice: "You are a capable person. I heard that the Cao family is a little lonely now. Whether you can revive the Cao family depends on your intelligence."

Cao Xiu hurriedly said: "I swear to be loyal to the government and the Chief Secretary until death."

"Well, very good."

Zhao Jun said again: "Since I am in charge of the Imperial City Department, the Imperial City Department will be completely renewed in the future and strictly abide by the established laws and regulations. I will revise the department regulations later, and you will send people to distribute them at that time."

"Yes."

Cao Xiu nodded.

"In addition, the things that the commanders have investigated must be sent to me within three days."

"Yes."

"In the future, the Imperial City Division will not only have the duties of spying and patrolling, but also the functions of arresting and interrogating. You are responsible for building two pacification divisions in the city, responsible for the east and west of the city respectively, with government offices and prisons."

"This"

"What's wrong?"

"To build new government offices, you need money."

Cao Xiu said with difficulty: "The government approved 100,000 strings of cash before, which is only enough for half a year's salary, expenses and other expenses. He said that the next step will depend on the director himself."

"Well, I understand."

Zhao Jun rubbed his temples.

Zhao Zhen, this coward, obviously didn't dare to support him with all his strength. He probably used this as an excuse to perfunctorily deal with Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng and others.

For example, tell them that the expenses of the Imperial City Division will be borne by himself in the future, and it won't be long before there will be no money. At that time, he will inevitably be helpless and can't do anything.

So I guess I will have to make money on my own in the future.

But it is better to ask for others than to ask for yourself.

It would be good to be able to force Zhao Zhen to give the Imperial City Division the power to arrest and interrogate. This matter is expected to cause an uproar in the court within two days, and objections will fly to the emperor's desk like snowflakes.

He can grant himself a hundred thousand yuan, plus withstand the pressure from the court, which is basically his limit.

After all, the scholar-officials of the Song Dynasty were not the scholar-officials of the Ming Dynasty, and the emperor of the Song Dynasty was not the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Being able to obtain the power of arrest and interrogation from the scholar-officials of the Song Dynasty was no different from snatching food from the mouth of a tiger.

Therefore, Zhao Jun did not blame Zhao Zhen.

That is to say, if I had traveled through the early Ming Dynasty and met Zhu Di and his son, he would have become imperial masters long ago and reached the peak of his life. There would be no need to argue with Zhao Zhen for power, or with the imperial court. Swarms of insects fighting for power?

"Then we won't build new government offices. We'll wait until we have money later."

Zhao Jun said: "Does our Imperial City Division have its own prison now? Or a place where prisoners can be held?"

Cao Xiu thought for a moment and said, "The only option is to borrow the military execution chamber of the Dianqian Division. The Dianqian Division is in charge of the Imperial Army. If the Imperial Army soldiers break the law, they will not be under the jurisdiction of the Kaifeng Mansion, but will be dealt with by the three yamen of the Imperial Army. They have their own cells."

"Can you borrow it if you come forward?"

"It should be okay. My second brother Cao Ren is now the front office of the palace, Zuoban Dianzhi. Just ask him to say hello. The torture chamber is behind our Imperial City Division."

"The relationship is good. When the time comes, I will ask Di Qing to escort the people here from the Yulong Direct Barracks. Those people are very important. In the future, it may be my way of destroying Wuyou Cave. I will imprison them in batches and interrogate them separately, forcing them to They drew a diagram of the internal structure of Ashoka Cave.”

Zhao Jun was very happy to hear what Cao Xiu said.

The Cao family is good. As the most famous generals in the Song Dynasty, a group of distinguished disciples occupy various yamen, and there are people in the yamen who are easy to do things.

In fact, although Cao Xiu's younger brother was only a Zuoban Dianzhi, the commanders of the Palace Front Division, the Guards' Horse Army Division, and the Guards' Infantry Division's commanders were only nominal officers with no real power and could not mobilize the army.

Therefore, the actual power was in the hands of lower-level officials. This led to the fact that Zuo Ban, a small front minister of Cao Ren, was able to use the execution room of the front minister. This can be regarded as the result of the extreme decentralization of power in the Song Dynasty.

But there is a problem.

There seems to be a problem with the naming of the old Cao family. The eldest brother is called Cao Xiu and the second child is called Cao Ren?

Cao Xiu and Cao Ren?

Will there be Cao Hong, Cao Pi, Cao Zhang and the like?

Zhao Jun couldn't help but think about it.

"yes."

After hearing Zhao Jun's words, Cao Xiu nodded to express his understanding.

After that, Zhao Jun gave some other instructions.

Then he said: "During this period, I plan to carry out internal rectification first. What I need is a group of capable soldiers, not a group of idlers."

Cao Xiu scratched his head and said: "How does Zhisi plan to rectify the internal situation? There are indeed many shortcomings in the Imperial City Department. Even I, the Imperial City Envoy, have been hiding a lot of things. From what I know, many people have to be dismissed. ”

"If it's time to depose, then depose them. The Imperial City Department must not become a place harboring filth and evil. These black sheep must be cleaned up."

Zhao Jun waved his hand and said: "Even if what I ordered today is an internal self-examination, it is also a test of the loyalty of these people. You should use your confidants to investigate their actions first, and report to me at any time if there is anything unusual."

"yes."

Cao Xiu responded and left.

Zhao Jun watched him go out, stroking his forehead and thinking.

He has arranged some things for his people to do.

One is to test their abilities, and the other is to find out the bad apples within the Imperial City Division.

Because he also heard from Cao Xiu that due to the special nature of the investigation in charge of the Imperial City Division, he was able to master a lot of dirty information about officials and dignitaries.

Although the emperor of the Song Dynasty was very protective of the wrongdoings of officials and dignitaries, the scholar-bureaucrat class also wanted to clear their name. If dirty information was exposed among the people and the officialdom, they would often be attacked by censors and admonishers.

For example, in the first year of Jingyou, that is, two years ago, Sun Miao was transferred from the central supervisory censor to serve as an official in other places. When he arrived at the local level, he quickly fell into corruption. When he was the magistrate of Chuzhou, Hangzhou and other places If you don't do anything, no one will know.

More than ten years later, during the Huangyou period, Sun Miao, who had been promoted to be the pacification envoy for Hunan and Jiangxi roads and the pacification envoy for Guangnan East and West roads, was transferred to the central government and became the deputy privy envoy for assisting Di Qing in pacifying the Nong Zhigao rebellion. .

After he was transferred back to the central government, all the dirt he had done in the past was quickly thrown out, and he was frantically attacked by Yushitai and Jiantai.

In the end, this senior official of the imperial court, who had committed crimes that would have killed him several times in any dynasty, was demoted to the deputy envoy of the Ningguo Army without real power after being verified by Song Renzong Zhao Zhen.

Although I don’t know if there is a political struggle in this, it also reflects from the side that the scholar-bureaucrat class in the Song Dynasty must at least maintain the image of an upright official on the surface.

Therefore, once the Imperial City Division has the evidence of these corrupt officials, these people can only spend money to buy it from the Imperial City Division in order to prevent the black information from spreading and being besieged by the Yushi and Jiantai, causing the same situation within the Imperial City Division. Totally corrupt.

The evidence and materials on the crimes of officials and dignitaries stored by the Imperial City Division are now mostly incomplete, and most of them have been sold by that group of people.

If Lao Cao hadn't been quite capable and told him the inside story, he would probably be kept in the dark now.

Therefore, this time is the time to deal with these borers within the Imperial City Division.

After arranging things, it was already afternoon, and it was time for Lü Yijian and others to go to class.

At this time, Zhao Zhen had not yet ordered the expansion of the powers of the Imperial City Department. They still came to class as usual. Today, it was Lü Yijian who came.

Zhao Jun returned to his residence under the protection of Di Qing and the other inspectors of the Imperial City Department. When it was Youshi in the afternoon, Lü Yijian, who had gone home to eat, came with something.

In the room, Zhao Jun was still reciting the "Book of Filial Piety" seriously. This thing requires Mojing and Tiejing.

Mojing means reciting ten sentences, telling you the previous sentence and asking you to recite the next sentence. Tiejing means filling in ten sentences, and only giving you the middle part of a sentence, filling in the front and back. So you have to recite the whole text.

Now Zhao Jun has not planned to completely turn against Lü Yijian and others. As long as he gives them hope and makes them think that they will still enter the officialdom through the imperial examination, there will not be too much conflict between the two sides. Therefore, he will still follow the other party's wishes to learn these things for the time being.

This is also a strategy.

He needs time to investigate the situation in various places and to gain a deep understanding of the real situation among the people. As long as the research work is done, he will throw the facts in the faces of these people and put them in front of them. I believe they will have nothing to say.

After Lu Yijian came in, his face looked a little bad. He coughed twice and said, "Jun boy."

"Old Lu."

Zhao Jun looked up at him, stood up and said, "Have you eaten?"

"I have eaten, how is your study?"

Lu Yijian came over with something, sat next to him, and waved his hand to signal him to sit down.

Zhao Jun sat down again and said, "It's okay, I have basically memorized it. It's just two thousand words, divided into small stories and savored."

"Don't miss the annotations, explanations, and studies. Although there are not many tests in this area in the provincial examination, you must be careful of being dismissed."

Lu Yijian reminded him and said, "You have to read the other scriptures. Although you often belittle them as dross, you should also learn more about the wisdom of our ancestors."

"Got it."

Zhao Jun frowned.

These guys just want to win him over all day long.

The key is that Zhao Zhen sometimes wears the same pants as these people, which is really a headache.

When will he wake up and realize that those in power must stand on the side of the people, not the side of the bureaucrats and literati?

Lv Yijian sat down, and then pretended to be casual and said: "I heard that you sent Di Qing to arrest some people yesterday?"

"Hehe."

Zhao Jun sneered: "The people from Wuyou Cave kidnapped a child in front of me, and came to retaliate against me afterwards. Why can't I catch them?"

Lv Yijian shook his head and said: "The country has its own legal system. If you catch them, you should send them to Kaifeng Prefecture. How can you take them to the barracks of Yulongzhi? Isn't this a private court?"

"How do you know I didn't send them?"

Zhao Jun said expressionlessly: "Guess how fast the Kaifeng Prefecture yamen came after I caught them? After I handed the people over to them, those people came to retaliate against me with their men a few days later. How did I feel when I saw them? Kaifeng Prefecture is rotten, and the officialdom of the Song Dynasty is also rotten."

"Uh"

Lv Yijian was speechless for a moment, and then said: "So this is exactly what you need to study hard. After you pass the imperial examination and enter the officialdom, reform the malpractices of the officialdom and cut off these things."

"Okay."

Zhao Jun responded. He only had one attitude towards these guys.

You guys play yours, I do mine.

As long as they are happy.