Section 24 The imperial power is fierce

The chaos in Shu was reported by the emperor to the most dangerous areas in Shu by the emperor when he spoke for Zhao Gonglian. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

These few rare officials with pursuit and backbone, who are in charge of the ethnic minority areas where barbarism, ignorance, and superstition are difficult to effectively control and manage, not only did not die in the dangerous and complex conflicts between the Han and the barbarians and between the barbarians that occurred from time to time, but on the contrary, they made some achievements, and there was no danger in the catastrophe in Shuzhong.

They are remote and backward, with inconvenient transportation and information blockage, and there are many mountains and few lands. There are very few Han people, and by the main inhabitants of the minority tribes oppressed and occupied, the proportion of land that can be cultivated is very small, life is difficult and difficult, before there have been successive defection of pirates, so that the Han population is more and more declining and weak, but the formation of an invisible influence, in the outbreak of the swept Shuzhong frenzy driven, more poor and good families and children of officers and soldiers also defected in a big way, causing a fatal lack of force to the local government rule.

The overall rule of the Song Dynasty in Shu is out of control, and this situation is usually a good opportunity for the minority minorities who are not subject to the rule of the Han to take the opportunity to make trouble and fight for more rights and interests from the government, or even directly rebel against the independence of the Han rule and occupy the minority regime in Shuzhong.

But things didn't go according to the usual logic.

Because there's another force here – pirates. Among them, the members of the espionage organization are mainly from the local ethnic minorities.

Chen Xizhen and Ma Ling's efforts to eradicate the rule of Tusi also started from these states first.

When the great turmoil and disaster in Shuzhong inadvertently caused by the insidious and greedy Zhu Shengfei came on a large scale, the Tusi of these states no longer existed, and the tribal and native democracy had either actively or passively left Shuzhong with the current, and those who had gone early had been diverted to various parts of the pirate empire to settle down and start a new life with trepire surprise and surprise.

The greatest and most terrible threat of rebellion has been eliminated from the ground.

In the past, they were arrogant and domineering, and dared to act wantonly on people's lives, and did not take the government in their eyes at all, and listened to those who were advantageous, and those who were unwilling to do whatever the holy decree and decree were all rolled aside, this uncle and I had the final say, not only dominating the countryside, but also widely weaving forces to infiltrate and even control the main posts of the government, and even dared to kill the civil and military officials who were loyal to the imperial court, dared to oppose their interests, and dared to sweep their faces, so that the Song rule was nothing but a nominal good-looking.

The imperial court knew that this was the case, but there was no way to cure it, so it could only let nature go.

Because these heroes are all big bullies that can only be formed by close collusion with Tusi in the form of marriage or any kind of interest.

This kind of area cannot afford to raise soldiers, and there are few officers and soldiers guarding the town, so it is impossible to deal with the local tyrants.

If the imperial court dispatches troops to violently and forcibly rectify the situation, it will lead to the conflict between the Han and the barbarians and even the rebellion of the Tusi group.

The power of traitors is so great that the whole world is deeply "impressed" in another life, and it is at least the most famous in the East in this era.

The surrounding countries of the Song Dynasty all knew that the Han people were best at infighting and cannibalism.

The traitor's loyalty, sincerity, bravery, and talent to the alien race can show the sun and the moon, betray the mother country and harm the same clan, the means are clever and shameless, the sinister and far-reaching stratagem, the ferocious and vicious and effective, all of which shocked the barbarian country and impressed the breadth and profundity of the Han civilization, and they all know how to effectively use the traitor to achieve various goals lightly.

In this era, the Han people can become powerful in ethnic minority areas, all of them are traitor elites who know the essence of the Han Dynasty, and they are all good at instigating right and wrong, causing trouble, and profiting from it.

Haoqiang lost the armed support of the Tusi Tusi people, undoubtedly lost his support, but his own armed forces should not be underestimated, and there were many murderous and violent maniacs and evil forces collected by his subordinates, and they recruited a lot of barbarian people who refused to move away and had no owners to rely on.

Just when these Han heroes felt that the heaven-sent opportunity to dominate the local area had come, they wanted to take the opportunity to completely control the government in their own hands, and when there was a real and nameless real king, they were cold, and the bandits who made them frightened and puzzled before suddenly appeared again, not only severely damaged and swallowed up their invasion team, but also swept the old nest clean.

It's all a laughing stock.

Chen Xizhen's ministry and the spies cooperated to sweep away the evil forces of the Tuhan and Han in these states, and also made it so that no matter whether it was Tu or Han, there were few residents left, and it became a de facto ruined state.

But the few hot-blooded Zhizhou who should have died have no existential threat and have time to rectify their forces.

With the indirect help and reminder of the spies in various ways, the governors used the armed forces they had worked hard to cultivate and win over, and used inducements and other means to control the remaining unbearable army, and together with the available officials, they took the opportunity to eliminate the great trouble of those civil and military officials who had colluded with the powerful and powerful to eat inside and out, and formed a temporarily stable and unified power.

They are also talented scholars, they are all smart, it's not that they are not proficient in the way of officialdom fighting, from this disaster they saw a good opportunity to rectify the forces of Cai Jing in Shuzhong and their own ascendancy, they were degraded because of their support for Zhao Gonglian, and they were naturally the same party in Shuzhong, and they automatically united without the prompting of spies to play the same disaster in Shuzhong.

What Zhao Ji saw was that Zhu Shengfei and other officials caused great disasters due to their own greed, but many important officials died in the conspiracy they planned and deserved it. It's hateful that it broke Shuzhong. The officials he maliciously degraded not only did not participate in selfish evil, but also fought bravely in the disaster, exterminated the evil thieves who were waiting for the opportunity to cause chaos, eliminated the evil forces that the Tusi and the Han people had planted in the government for profit but were difficult to cure, kept the property of the government, and more importantly, maintained the dignity of Song rule.

However, the displacement trend has exploded, and these states are not immune. In the face of the fact that the ethnic minority people also overthrew the Tusi rule and defected overseas, with only the local government strength, they could only watch the loss of people.

Zhao Ji was shocked that Shuzhong, one of the pillars of the Great Song Dynasty's taxation, was also rotten, this blow was too heavy, and the Great Song Dynasty could really collapse if it was not good, and he was strongly ashamed that he was interested in the Neng Chen, but it was a group of thieves who were in calamity, and he was not pleasing to the eye, and the few hot-blooded stunned young officials who wanted to die indirectly were really loyal to the imperial court and capable of valuable talents.

It's a great irony.

This makes Zhao Ji, who loves vanity very much, not be particularly shocked and annoyed.

The emperor is the most incomprehensible of creatures.

If according to the emperor's style, it is not that you will be favored if you prove your loyalty and ability in the disaster, but on the contrary, slapping the emperor in the face becomes the source of the emperor's laughing stock, and even if the emperor has to reward him afterwards to show fairness and clarity, he will soon eradicate these officials in various forms and eliminate the thorn in the heart. Bad officials may be forgiven, or even rise to the top. People like Zhao Ji undoubtedly want to do the same.

But the current situation forced him to do what he was used to.

Most of the main civil and military officials in Shuzhong were killed and injured in the riots, and those who were not killed or injured were the first to be punished, and it was disloyal, unreliable, and incompetent to be punished without punishment, and they must be abolished and adjusted, especially Zhu Shengfei, a stupid thief, who did not die, and he had to be punished severely. In this way, there are few important people available in Shuzhong.

At present, the situation in Shuzhong is not an ordinary crisis, and it is very likely that it will quickly fall into an independent den of thieves and break away from the rule of the Great Song Dynasty, and that will be the end.

If you want to quickly restore the rule of Shuzhong and avoid the most terrible consequences, the only way is to reuse those hot-blooded governors and let them quickly preside over the overall situation and restore the functions of the government.

This matter is much more important than the urgency of the Hou Mansion incident.

Hou Fu affairs can be considered and dealt with slowly. After all, Zhao Gonglian is far away in Cangbei, and he will not be able to know about the evil things in Tokyo for a while and react angrily.

But the affairs in Shu never dared to delay a little.

Zhao Ji sighed secretly, the officials who dared to support Zhao Gonglian with a hard neck and died under the suppression of the general trend, like Zhao Gonglian, really have loyalty, great ambition, persistence and talent. Those who are so-called Ming Da and will be officials are incompetent and unreliable in comparison with the crisis.

It's a pity that Zhao Gonglian's influence is too great and has become a hidden danger for the imperial court. From Cangzhao business is also unprofitable. The more capable and loyal you are, the more you must get rid of the stinch.

But these degraded stunned young people may be reliable and reusable, and the court has been favored by them, believing that they should be able to be grateful to Dade to serve their lives.

Zhao Ji was very anxious, and the fire in his heart was boiling.

Killing Cai Mao with a cane can't solve the problem, and Zhao Ji's anger is far from being happy.

Finally regained his senses, with a calculation, the new Kaifeng prefect Xu Bingzhe also came, Zhao Ji first dealt with the urgent situation in Shuzhong, and did not seek the opinions of the prime ministers, and directly issued an order to promote those governors to be the chief officials of the main state capitals in Shuzhong, and brought subordinate officials and the army to take office, with the right to arbitrariness on the spot, the most important Chengdu Mansion is an exception, only appointed as the second-in-command of the general judgment, Zhu Shengfei is still the prefect, and the holy decree has a lot of praise and gratitude, saying that the Tusi system in these states is destroyed, and the local people defect, which is not a sin, but a merit. Without Tusi in Shuzhong, the people are more conducive to rule.

This is also the truth and the wish of the Song rulers.

Not to mention that the Tusi and the Tumin have always contributed little to the imperial court, and often need the state to reverse the benefits, and have always been the source of the great troubles and troubles of the rule, but they cannot be cured.

Now it's all right. They all left the Great Song Dynasty. The court was finally calm and at ease.

Run pirate that?

As far as the ignorant and fierce Tusi natives are concerned, the pirates accept the way of doing things and the strange customs of the unruly Tusi natives, and wait for the headache or even the collapse of civil strife.

The holy decree was sent to Shuzhong in the most urgent way of eight hundred miles.

Zhao Ji deliberately asked Chongchen: "Who can replace Zhu Shengfei?" How is Zhu Shengfei's crime determined? ”

Bai Shizhong and Zhang Bangchang saw with their own eyes the emperor's extreme horror and anger at the Shuzhong incident, and knew that Zhu Shengfei could not be saved, and he was afraid of his life.

The destruction of Shuzhong undoubtedly greatly increased the pressure on them, the court bigwigs, and the political risk of sitting in a high position, and they also hated Zhu Shengfei and others.

The emperor did not know that Zhu Shengfei was the backbone of the Cai party.

But how can Bai Shizhong not understand,

With this opportunity, I can't wait to kill this person and further cut off Cai Jing's powerful arm, and I really want to recommend direct execution or even capital punishment.

This is also in line with the emperor's current resentment and wishes.

But they themselves are a piece of shit, and even more harmful and culpable, even more damned, they are afraid that they will have such a day.

At present, try to reduce Zhu Shengfei's punishment as much as possible, and maintain the great political traditions of the Great Song Dynasty that the emperor and the scholars rule the world together, and the great political traditions such as not punishing the scholars and doctors, and not killing the scholars.

People have long front and back eyes. To defend one's unfortunate fellow is to defend oneself.

Bai Shizhong suggested on behalf of the ministers: Zhu Shengfei's responsibility is indeed heavy, but he has also done his best to govern Shuzhong before, and he has made great achievements and merits. If you want to be punished, it is better to send a certain place to atone for introspection?

Zhao Ji understands the careful thinking of these important ministers, and now it is further verified that in the bad situation at this moment, the feeling is very different from the past, and I feel that these important people are too selfish, none of them are reliable, and maybe none of them are really loyal to him. This evil fire rose again in an instant, and the murderous intent became even more intense.

With a cold snort, he said gloomily: "Distribution? ”

"Wow, it's a good match. The plan is to behead all the chief officials involved in the conspiracy such as Zhu Shengfei on the spot. Send all his family to the land of Lingnan smoke miasma, and he will not be able to return to the Central Plains if he dies. ”

Lingnan was already a place where pirates were rampant, and it was almost not controlled by the imperial court.

Zhao Ji thought viciously: When you dogs go to Lingnan, you dogs will not die under the knife of the murderous pirates who claim not to be wicked, but you will also have to rot in the miasma wilderness. Dare to make me uncomfortable. Don't let any of you live comfortably.

Under extreme horror and anger, Zhao Ji was punished so heavily, and Zhao Ji did not understand his hatred.

Executing all those who caused him troubles and worries in the Marquis Mansion would make him feel greater. It's a pity he can't do that.

When Bai Shizhong heard this will, he was all shocked and changed, and this time he really understood how angry and fierce the emperor was in his heart.

Thinking of admonishing the ancestral tradition of the privilege of the doctor, they opened their mouths, but they finally did not dare to speak under Zhao Ji's cold gaze.

I can only have reservations.

Subsequently, it was urgently agreed that Wu Min, who was young and strong and showed considerable ability, would take over as the prefect of Chengdu and the supreme military and political governor of Shuzhong, and lead a team of forbidden troops and civil and military officials selected from Tokyo to supplement the power in Shuzhong, and immediately go to the post as soon as possible, and summon the garrisons near Shuwai to urgently enter Shu to suppress the turmoil, and strictly investigate what hidden secrets and conspiracies there are behind Zhu Shengfei and other gangs. All officials involved in the conspiracy shall be put to death, regardless of their official position. All family members will sell it.

For the first time, the Great Song Dynasty showed the ruthlessness and courage to govern and rectify corruption, but, hehe

Tokyo was able to have many fast horses to take on this urgent mission, but it was also due to the merits of Marquis Wencheng's Ma Zheng in managing the border passes.

Otherwise, the waterways of the Yangtze River are being occupied and exploited by pirates. The Great Song Dynasty government did not dare to touch the side at all. Without this convenience, Wu Min, who was also a traitor at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, and his accompanying officials and troops rushed to the distant and difficult Shuzhong, I am afraid that it would be a few months later. It's too late for anything.

But imperial power is not just and fair, and imperial power is not something that can be measured and restrained by human conscience.

No matter how great Zhao Gonglian's credit is, at this time, the emperor will not let him go, but he will enjoy the benefits again in the matter of horses, and he will finally blush a little.