"There is a way that the Dharma rites are nothing more than favors, the Criminal Department and Dali Temple are in that position, and they will always be used by some officials in the court, they will come to ask for help, and the Criminal Department and Dali Temple will always sell some favors.

After coming and going, there are more cases where there is no way to see people.

Bao Zheng now wants to turn these cases over and retry them.

Naturally, they were reluctant. ”

Kou Ji truthfully told Zhao Zhen about the interests behind Bao Zhengqing's investigation of the old case.

After Zhao Zhen listened, he said with some displeasure: "I don't dare to talk about human feelings in dealing with the affairs of the emperor's relatives and relatives, but they have told me about human feelings." The Criminal Department and Dali Temple, that is the place where major cases, important cases, and homicide cases are handled, and if there is a mistake, that is, a human life, how can it be swayed by human feelings.

Let Bao Zheng investigate, investigate fiercely, I really want to see how many flies and dogs are behind this. ”

Zhao Zhen is now relatively upright, his eyes are black and white, and there is no gray area.

So after hearing the hidden story behind Bao Zhengqing's investigation of the old case, he decided to let Bao Zheng investigate thoroughly.

Koji has no objection to this.

He felt that being an emperor should be like this, his eyes were black and white, and he couldn't often stay in the gray area, let alone tolerate the existence of the gray area.

If the emperor can tolerate the gray area in his eyes, then the officials below will dare to turn all the gray into black, and even turn all the white into gray.

Human desires and ambitions cannot be filled.

As long as the person at the top gives the opening, the person at the bottom can turn the mouth into a piece of heaven.

Therefore, the people above must block all the openings, and the people below have no openings to drill, let alone turn the openings into a piece of sky.

For example, the matter of Dengwen Drum.

After the imperial court approved Kou Ji's request to set up Dengwen drums for the yamen in various places, it also approved the matter of killing the mighty sticks.

The purpose of the imperial court's approval of the local yamen to kill the powerful sticks was to prevent the occurrence of false accusations in the local area.

However, when the local government enforces this decree, it is very likely that the killing rod will become a killing stick.

As long as the magistrate is a greedy man, as long as the defendant feeds the magistrate, then the plaintiff will be beaten to death by the killing rod when he enters the yamen.

The cruelty and audacity of local officials are always beyond everyone's imagination.

It is precisely because of this that there are so many unjust cases among the people.

Zhao Zhen wanted to see what was behind the old cases handled by the Criminal Department and Dali Temple, so he ignored the impeachment of Bao Zheng, not only that, but also personally wrote a thorough handwritten letter and sent Chen Lin to give it to Bao Zheng.

As soon as this incident came out, the impeachment of Bao Zheng disappeared in an instant.

Zhao Zhen's move is clearly to tell everyone that I am supporting Bao Zheng, and I asked Bao Zheng to investigate, if you are dissatisfied with Bao Zheng, you are dissatisfied with me, as my courtier, if you are dissatisfied with me, then you can die.

After the Manchu civil and military forces realized Bao Zheng's deep meaning, they dared to impeach Bao Zheng.

wanted to use some insidious means to deal with Bao Zheng, but they didn't dare.

Because Kou Ji, the prime minister of the DPRK, is the one who hates officials to use indiscriminate means to deal with his colleagues.

Thinking that the people in the court used indiscriminate means to deal with Li Di, they were scolded by Kou Ji for a bloody squirt.

Kou Ji didn't have so much authority to keep Li Di in the hands of the Manchu civil and military forces, so Li Di was finally deposed and exiled to Hexi.

Now that Kou Ji is so powerful, those who oppose Kou Ji will hardly end well.

He stared at the court with tiger eyes, who dared to use insidious means under his nose?

The people of the Criminal Department and Dali Temple had no way to impeach Bao Zheng, so they could only follow Kou Ji's old story and write a letter to ask for credit for Bao Zheng, saying that Bao Zheng's merits were big and his political achievements were a lot, so that Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji could arrange Bao Zheng to a position that was more in line with his merits and achievements.

In short, ask the imperial court to promote Bao Zheng.

It's a pity that Bao Zheng is not Zhang Lun.

Bao Zheng was born in Jinshi, so no one deliberately suppressed him because of his background.

Therefore, the credit for his establishment has been praised by the imperial court, and the speed of promotion is still very fast, which can be called a steady progress.

Therefore, no one paid attention to the performance of the Criminal Department and Dali Temple to promote Bao Zheng.

Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji ignored the matter of the officials of the Criminal Department and Dali Temple asking for Bao Zheng's promotion, but Wen Yanbo and the others looked at it.

It's all a student who sits down, how long have you Bao Zheng been in Beijing, and you have asked so many officials in Beijing to ask for credit for you.

We haven't done anything, and no one has taken credit for us, so doesn't that mean we're inferior to you?

Wen Yanbo and others are all outstanding people, and they think that they are not inferior to Bao Zheng in terms of talent and ability. How could they let Bao Zheng be beautiful?

So, in the Ministry of Rites, he asked the imperial court to check the world's Mengxue to see if the world's Mengxue was accurately laid to the place where he should have laid, and whether anyone was greedy for money in the process?

Shouldn't county schools and government schools be established?

Now that the second and third batches of Mengtong are about to graduate, and the imperial court will not set up county schools and government schools, wouldn't it be a waste of the talents that have been cultivated with great difficulty?

The turmoil of the Ministry of Rites has just set off, and it has not yet become a settlement, and those in the household department have also begun to ask the imperial court to check the population and acres of land in the world.

The reasons given are strong.

In recent years, the imperial court has moved people out in large numbers, and the people who migrated away have more or less left some land.

Among them, the military households left the most when they moved out of the hinterland of the Central Plains, but the imperial court did not receive a huge number of acres, so it was necessary to thoroughly investigate and see who occupied the land left by the people who migrated out.

Zhao Zhen attaches great importance to the field, so after the household department handed it over, Zhao Zhen approved it without thinking about it.

And in front of the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, he told the household department to strictly and thoroughly investigate, and he must give an explanation.

Zhao Zhen needs an explanation, so if you don't kill a few people and find out some amount of land, I'm afraid it will be difficult to explain.

When Zhao Zhen played the affairs of the household department, the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of War, Honglu Temple and other yamen successively played things.

The things that the various yamen asked for were like water poured into an oil pot, causing the entire oil pot to boil.

Chen Yaozuo lost a lot of hair, and Wang Zeng's eyes were bloodshot.

The two old men stood by Kou Ji's side, one left and one right, staring at Kou Ji with staring eyes.

Kou Ji put down the pen of the review, glanced left and right, shortened the teacup on the table, took a sip, and asked: "What are the two of you doing in the political hall when you don't sit in the Imperial History Terrace and the Criminal Department at this hour?" Could it be that the official family has already promoted two to participate in political affairs? Are you going to run an errand in the government hall in the future? ”

The two old men stared at each other without speaking, just glaring at Kou Ji so fiercely.

Kou Ji put down the teacup and said non-salty, "What do you mean?" Tell me? ”

Wang Zeng said in a hoarse voice: "Bao Zheng is your student?" ”

Chen Yaozuo asked, "Tang Jie is your guest?" ”

Kou Ji said righteously: "Strictly speaking, Bao Zheng can only be regarded as my protégé, not my student. He called me sir, but I didn't teach him anything.

For example, Shouwang, Wang Anshi, Zeng Gong, Su Jingxian, Su Shi, and Di Yong are my students.

Tang Jie went to my house to pay a visit, but it was just a visit to the official and asking for advice, not a guest.

The threshold of my Koufu is high, and not everyone can become a guest of my Koufu. ”

Wang Zeng blew his beard and glared: "The old man doesn't care if he is your protégé or your student, it is your fault that you instigated him to murder the old man." ”

Kou Ji looked Wang Zeng up and down in disbelief, and said puzzledly: "Instigating him? Murdering you? I can't afford to be guilty of such a sin. As a scholar of the Criminal Department, you should know the criminal laws of the Great Song Dynasty, and instigating others to murder other people's lives is a big crime. It is also a great crime to attempt to bite and slander the important ministers of the DPRK and the central government. ”

Wang Zeng shouted angrily: "The old man is sixty years old this year, and he has long been defeated by the old man. The energy is not as strong as it used to be. Your instigator is looking for the old man day and night, and the old man is not eating and sleeping well, even if he returns to the house, he can find the door.

He pulled up the old man's sleeve and chatted for a night.

How can the old man's body and bones hold it?! ”

Kou Ji raised his eyebrows and said, "The young man asks the elder for advice, is there a problem?" ”

Wang Zeng blew his beard and glared: "You just want him to keep looking for the old man, and then exhaust the old man!" ”

Kou Ji rolled his eyes and said, "You are also a person with status and fame, is it really good to wronged a good person like this?" Bao Zheng wants to investigate the old cases of the Criminal Department and Dali Temple, did you nod your head and approve it?

Did you nod your head and approve it, and then he went to play for me and the official family?

Now that I'm annoyed with him, why don't you find the reason for it in yourself, but you plant it on me? ”

Wang Zeng shouted angrily: "Is that your treacherous plan? ”

Kou Ji said angrily: "Is it a trick for the time being, you are a criminal department scholar, and you can still be handled by a subordinate?" If you dislike him for being annoying, disgusted that he disturbed your purity, just keep him out? ”

Wang Zeng gritted his teeth and said: "A person who buries himself in the pile of files day and night in order to overturn the old case, and only eats two cakes and a bowl of water for each meal, how can you let the old man refuse?"

Every time he appeared in front of the old man, the old man smelled the vegetable oil on his body, and knew that he had been busy with the lamp and oil for another night.

With such a talent for the country and the people, how do you let the old man turn him away? ”

Kou Ji spread his hands and said: "So in the final analysis, it is you who can't be ruthless, conniving at him to find you again and again, and finally making yourself lose your energy."

Then why do you blame me? ”

Wang Zeng said arrogantly: "The old man can't bear to speak ill of him, so he can only blame you for not being strict." ”

Kou Ji was annoyed, "I didn't teach anything!" ”

Wang Zeng said very scoundrelly: "It is your protégé, and you have the responsibility to teach." ”

Kou Ji glared and said viciously, "Why didn't he exhaust you!" ”

Wang Zeng snorted coldly: "Murdering important ministers in the court is a big crime. ”

"If you really feel that you don't have enough energy, you should drive out all the beggar bones, so as not to die of exhaustion in office, and the official family will have to shed tears for you."

Kou Ji cursed Wang Zeng very viciously.

Wang Zeng tilted his head and said, "As long as your protégé is a little more restrained, the old man thinks that the old man can live a few more years." ”

Kou Ji shouted, "You are a scourge to live. ”

Wang Zeng said unceremoniously: "You are the one who is the scourge!" ”

Chen Yaozuo saw that the two of them were fighting endlessly, and couldn't help but say: "Can you two slow down, can you solve my problem, and you can fight again?" ”

Kou Ji glanced at Chen Yaozuo, and said unceremoniously: "Are you also tired?" ”

Chen Yaozuo shook his head and said, "That's not ......."

Kou Ji raised his eyebrows slightly.

Chen Yaozuo sighed and said, "It's too idle......"

Kou Ji said angrily: "It's not good to be idle?" I wish I didn't do anything every day, ate and drank spicy food every day, and found a few beauties to serve. Those days were more comfortable than those of the gods. ”

Chen Yaozuo sighed and said: "Since Tang intervened in the Yushitai, he has a notebook for all matters, big and small, and everything is too big or small. It's been more than a month, and the old man hasn't put on a single notebook.

The old man has nothing to do every day, sleepless nights, and always feels that his corpse is a vegetarian meal.

If you lose your hair every day, and if you fall down again, the old man should go to Daxiangguo Temple to be the host. ”

Kou Ji said with bad intentions: "It's okay to take a knife to accompany Chen Lin." ”

Chen Yaozuo shook his head decisively and said, "That's not good?" ”

Kou Ji sneered: "Scared? ”

Chen Yaozuo said with a straight face: "The old man is a humerus of a country, and if he is tortured by the palace and enters the palace, others will say that the official family is unkind, which is not good for the reputation of the official family."

For the sake of the reputation of the official family, the old man still reluctantly continued to sit on the Yushitai. ”

Kou Ji snorted coldly: "You are quite good at making excuses for yourself. ”

Chen Yaozuo pulled his beard and said righteously: "As a minister, you can't trap the official family in injustice. ”

Kou Ji glanced at Chen Yaozuo, then at Wang Zeng, and snorted: "So you two came to me to make trouble, purely because your subordinates are too capable?" ”

Chen Yaozuo looked up at the sky full of dark clouds.

The king bowed his head and counted the bricks and stones on the ground.

Koji spoke their minds, but they couldn't admit it.

Admitting that his subordinates are too capable is equivalent to admitting that he is a little incompetent.

The two are now well-known figures, how can they admit that they are incompetent?

Kou Ji was just about to say a few words to the two old men, when he saw Chen Yao enter the political hall with a snort.

After seeing Chen Yaozuo and Wang Zeng, he first bowed to Kou Ji, then bowed to Chen Yaozuo, shouted 'Second Brother', and finally bowed his hand slightly to Wang Zeng.

Whether it is Chen Yaozuo or Chen Yaozhi, they are both older than Wang Zeng.

Chen Yaozuo bowed to Chen Yaozuo, that was because Chen Yaozuo was his own brother, and he had to be respected, regardless of grade.

Arched his hand to Wang Zeng, it was purely the two of them equal, and there was no need to bend down to Wang Zeng.

Chen Yaozhi can take the lead in giving gifts to Wang Zeng, which is already polite.

If the two of them had nothing to do with each other and met on the street, Wang Zeng had to take the lead in giving Chen Yao a salute and calling him an elder.

Kou Ji saw Chen Yaozhi and said angrily: "You are also because the people under your command are too capable?" So you came to me to complain? ”

Chen Yaozhi was stunned when he heard this, glanced at Chen Yaozuo, and then at Wang Zeng.

The two old men took advantage of the situation and pinned their heads to the side.

Seeing this, Chen Yaozhi smiled, understood the meaning of Kou Ji's words, and shouted at Kou Ji: "The old man is here to ask for someone." The whole army is now a bunch of fools, and if they can't do it well for a little time, it makes people angry when they look at it.

Do you still have any capable protégés?

Divide two to the old man. ”

After listening to Chen Yao's words, Kou Ji nodded, and said: "Since the reform of the military system, most of the people in the military department are from the army, and they are all good at marching and fighting, and there must be some deficiencies in literature, you should guide them well, and at the same time promote some talents."

You are a Jinshi, a rich scholar with five cars, and from a family of eunuchs, when you were young, you mostly served as a clerical worker, so you can handle literary affairs like a fish in water.

But you can't ask everyone to have the same background as you, and you can't ask those who don't have much knowledge to handle literature better than you. ”

Chen Yao shouted: "Even so, why don't you arrange one or two beautiful handwriting for the old man?" One by one, the writing is like a dog crawling, and the old man is not happy when he looks at it. ”

Kou Ji rolled his eyes, "The military's documents and orders can be understood, what are the requirements so high, what are you going to do?" ”

Chen Yaozhi gritted his teeth and said, "The old man gritted his teeth and admitted this matter. But this year's martial arts of the imperial court must be presided over by the old man, and the old man has to choose some who are proficient in both the art of war and knowledge. ”

Kou Ji groaned, "It's okay for you to preside, but there is one thing I must remind you. Don't take out the formation plans you did again.

If I find out that there is a formation diagram in the martial arts scientific examination again, be careful that I will turn against you.

The last examiner who used the formation diagram as an exam question in the martial arts has been cut by me. ”

As soon as these words came out, without waiting for Chen Yaozhi to speak, Wang Zeng took the lead in saying: "The formation diagram is Taizong'......"

Wang Zeng only said a few words, and when he saw Kou Ji and Chen Yaozhi looking at him like idiots, he immediately closed his mouth.

Chen Yao snorted and said: "The terrain on the battlefield is ever-changing, the enemy situation is ever-changing, and the battle formation must also change rapidly. Holding the formation diagram and creating a barrier is to find death.

You go back and forth is a set of formation maps, or a set of anachronistic maps, you don't eat defeat, who doesn't eat defeat.

What's more, the people who take the array diagram often can't keep secrets.

Before the formation map reached the hands of the soldiers in front, the enemy had already obtained the formation map.

In such a situation, what kind of battle is there to fight?

It is also more comfortable to stay in the enemy camp with your hands tied than to confront the enemy. ”

When Wang Zeng heard this, his face was a little ugly.

Chen Yaozuo snorted coldly, and shouted at Chen Yao: "Shut up! The national policy set by Taizong is something you can discuss. ”

Chen Yaoshi snorted and did not speak again.

If you continue to talk about it, if you are targeted by someone with a heart, you will not be able to escape the charge of slandering Taizong.

Although Zhao Zhen also knew that Taizong Zhao Guangyi gave the soldiers a formation map, it was a bit of a trick for the soldiers to march and set up the formation and build a fortress.

But you can't talk about it on the surface.

If you talk about it, it is contrary to filial piety and is easy to be scolded.

If someone tells the truth, Zhao Zhen has to deal with it, otherwise he will still be said to be contrary to filial piety.

Seeing that the atmosphere was a little awkward, Kou Ji waved his hand and said: "Okay, okay, although the matter of the formation map is a national policy set by Taizong, but when some people make the formation map, they will not turn to Taizong for help in everything."

Therefore, many formation diagrams are made up by low-level people.

The fault lies with those who are fooling around. ”

Although Kou Ji despised Zhao Guangyi's approach very much, at this moment, he had to say something nice to help Zhao Guangyi exonerate and Chen Yaozhi to exonerate.

Because of Zhao Guangyi's stupidity, he humiliated a country's talents, and he couldn't get it.

Chen Yaozhi heard that Kou Ji was excusing himself, his face softened a little, and after echoing two sentences, he said bluntly: "You don't have to worry, I won't let the formation map appear in the army again." I will not choose those who can only talk on paper to be martial artists. ”

Kou Ji nodded and said, "In this way, you will preside over the martial arts examination today, and I will let someone from the Privy Council be the deputy examiner." ”

Chen Yaozhi nodded with satisfaction, "A word is a certainty." ”

Kou Ji advised: "When choosing martial scholars, we must pay attention to whether the scholars are loyal and patriotic. A large number of them will serve as overseers in the various armies, and only a small number will become the commanders of the army. ”

Chen Yaozhi nodded solemnly and left the political hall.

After Chen Yaozhi left, Kou Ji said to Chen Yaozuo and Wang Zeng: "If you two feel that you don't have enough energy, then beg for bones." ”

Chen Yaozuo and Wang Zeng stared at Kou Ji.

Kou Ji sighed: "The two of you have to learn to let go. Don't cling to power and end up dying of exhaustion. It's not worth it, and it's not worth it.

You can see the talents of the younger generations.

You can also feel whether the juniors can shoulder your heavy responsibilities. ”

Chen Yaozuo said unwillingly: "Without the old man and others to check the gates, can they handle the government well?" ”

Kou Ji said bluntly: "Those juniors are full of momentum, do you think you can hold it down? I don't dare to say it to others, my protégés are all rare heroes, and they can be said to be the fastest people in my Song Dynasty.

They are not like the late Taixian Gong Su Yijian, who is alone in the lead.

They are a group of people who go hand in hand.

Like a tidal wave, menacing. ”

After listening to Kou Ji's words, Chen Yaozuo and Wang Zeng felt a trace of loss in their hearts, glanced at each other, and let out a long sigh.

Wang Zeng stared at Chen Yaozuo and sighed, "You are old......

Chen Yaozuo said with a bitter face: "You are also ......"

Wang Zeng said faintly: "That's it, let's sit in the court for a few more days, and take a good test for the juniors, if they can really take over the heavy responsibility of the Great Song Dynasty from us, we will take the initiative to go."

lest they be impeached for coveting power.

so as not to be looked down upon by a group of juniors. ”

Chen Yaozuo hesitated for a moment and nodded approvingly.

He was ten years older than Wang Zeng, but his body was stronger than Wang Zeng's.

But even so, he was gray-haired and old, and now he was starting to take off his hair again.

When he thought of standing in the court with a bare head and being laughed at in private by his juniors, he was not happy.

The two old men carried their hands behind their backs, bent over, and moved out of the political hall step by step.

The two old men have worked hard for Da Song for half their lives, and it is very difficult to give up everything and leave.

Kou Ji felt that he was a little cruel to persuade the two old beggars to be bones.

But the court is a cruel place.

If you don't leave when you don't have energy, and you still dominate your power, that is to ignore people's lives, and to careless about the lives of people in the world.