Several core bigwigs in the imperial court have their own plans, and they want to watch the dynamics first and then respond to the situation, and they don't plan to clean up Zhao Yue immediately, which does not mean that Zhao Yue is safe in the capital.

In this world, opportunists want to take risks, make meritorious contributions, get promoted to official positions, get rich, step on celebrities to become famous, and like to harm people and play fierce and powerful...... There are too many people.

And the prestige and credibility of the imperial court are now about to fall to the extreme, and the deterrent power of the local government is very subtle, relying on the prestige of the imperial court and the power of the state to make a statement, which is terrifying, and responds to every call, and the control and binding force of the bigwigs who live majesticly on the capital has naturally almost dropped to the freezing point, and there are too many people who violate the yang and yin, even the henchmen of the bigwigs may not really listen to the orders of the bigwigs.

At this time, in the Great Song Dynasty, even the words of Emperor Zhao Ji may not be easy.

Besides, Zhao Ji was deceived and deceived by all the powerful ministers in the past, and the orders and words he gave to achieve his goal had already been deliberately misinterpreted and distorted. He is just a generation of supreme beings who are feared by all the ministers on the surface, who follow the law, and whose domination over the subjects of the world is extremely powerful. Zhao Ji is vain and conceited, and he doesn't know it.

In addition, the new emperor ascended the throne, Geng Nanzhong became the right minister, the DPRK has this promising new force, but suffers from a great lack of manpower power, is in need of someone to take long-term vision and understand the current affairs to join quickly, since this life has no hope of being able to be called Hou Zuozai The middle and high-level officials want to take advantage of the change of dynasty to abandon the old dependency relationship of power and ministers, and instead drag the tail of the new emperor dragon to the high position of power like Geng Nanzhong, or conceited talent or humble talent but conceited scheming and ambitious but lack of effective backing to appreciate and promote reuse, and the official micro position is small, I feel depressed and unwilling, and I am unwilling, and I will go out to fight when I see the opportunity....... are seizing the opportunity to vote for the new emperor and the new minister.

These officials are very likely to regard Zhao Yue as a stepping stone to meritorious service and the best target to display extraordinary political means, and will do everything possible to deal with Zhao Yue without authorization.

As for those petty officials in the lower echelons of the capital, there are even more people who dare to mess with Zhao Yue.

This kind of little person is short-sighted, the most philistine, and often acts more arrogantly, arrogantly, brutally, and inhumanely, and is the most terrifying and feared in the eyes of the small people.

Because they don't need to be like big people, they still need to care about the image and reputation of the individual, and they want to leave a name in history, at least not too stinky and infamous or something, they only pay attention to the practical benefits in front of them, and often do what they want, they act simply, rudely and directly, consciously look at the limelight, and have no scruples about what they can't provoke, as long as they are happy and happy, they just want to maximize the little power and small evil forces, have face, satisfy vanity, make people afraid of him, fear him, respect him, and respect him.......

This kind of people who are not in the yamen, such as ruffians, are not bound by the future of the yamen, and are not afraid of losing anything, it is the so-called barefoot who is not afraid to wear shoes, as long as the money and property benefits are big enough, as long as someone can support and promise to protect them, they dare to do any bad thing, and it is not appropriate to kill people, but they are not afraid of the Cangzhao family, which has no authority in Beijing......

Zhao Yue and his entourage entered the most prosperous long street in the north of the city and walked slowly, giving the capital time to react, and by the way, they walked around the scene of the capital after the national disaster......

Although Zhao Yue only came to Beijing for the second time in a few years, he was not familiar with the capital, but he felt that things were right and people were wrong all the way!

Well, no, in today's capital, things are gone.

The dense crowd that had been crowding around was gone; Many of the dilapidated houses, which were densely packed and overcrowded, were also missing; The rest are mostly decent brick mansion compounds or something. Many streets and alleys that were originally extremely narrow and difficult to walk are much wider as a result, making people feel that their eyes are open, and their hearts are also much more open and comfortable; There are many places that are not small, and there are also abrupt and irregular vacant land that is obviously not in harmony with urban planning, which is obviously impossible in the past capital where every inch of land is expensive, and it is undoubtedly the result of the demolition and cleaning of buildings; The many taverns and shops that were once thriving have almost all closed......

A depressed and decaying city after a severe disaster.

On an exceptionally cold day after a heavy snowstorm in winter, people in the capital are not at home to avoid the cold, and it seems that they are still busy.

Instead of being busy with the usual daily activities of this era, such as opening shops and trading, killing pigs and selling meat, selling vegetables in the market, and selling goods, they are clearing snow and clearing the streets, and more often they are scattering around in groups to tear down old ownerless houses and collect all kinds of useful things, and clean up useless construction waste out of the city...... There are men and women who do the work. There are also half-sized children, who are not in full swing, and there is obviously no enthusiasm and enthusiasm for labor, but they are all doing it, because some people are crooked and squinting and remembering the performance.

Zhao Yue already knew from Yang Lin's time move that this was the life of the remaining people in the capital after the national disaster in exchange for money and food to support them.

The pirates extorted the power of the country, and really looted Gyeonggi, which was extremely rich and prosperous for a while.

Gold and silver treasures, copper and iron metals, cloth and good clothes, fine porcelain, fine wine, beautiful women and children...... Almost all of the food, including rice, was scraped off.

The treasury is empty.

The wealth of the wealthy merchants and the various goods are empty.

The pockets of the Gyeonggi people are also empty.

Even the palace of the Emperor Supreme was empty......

Naturally, the hearts of the people were scattered, and the court and the king had no prestige.

In such a crisis situation, in order to calm the hearts of the people in the capital and prevent riots in the capital, the officials, the army and their families naturally gave priority to the supply of food by the imperial court with the only rice, so as to ensure that the ruling force itself would not be hungry and red-eyed, and simply abandoned the imperial court and took the opportunity to rebel and kill the emperor...... Those who stabilized this part of the imperial court could implement wartime military control and rationing.

Ordinary people in Beijing have also received some free rice to survive, so that they will not be starved and will not break out into civil unrest......

As the additional taxes from the local government arrived in the capital one after another, the imperial court had money and food, and could pay the officials and the army salaries, and the pirate envoy Zhong Xiang also left, and promised that as long as the Song court honestly completed the agreement, it would not send troops to destroy the Song Dynasty, and would never loot the Great Song Dynasty with a large army. The Song rule undoubtedly escaped the catastrophe and was able to survive again, and the morale of the officials and the army was further stabilized, and they were naturally willing to continue to follow the more comfortable and secure work of the imperial court......

The more a society is in a catastrophe, the more it reflects the importance of power.

This is a social phenomenon that has been repeatedly verified and embodied by history since the emergence of the class. No matter how hard it is, it will not be hard for the leader. It is always the powerless people who are unlucky.

If you look at the history of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, it is clear: the Japanese invaders occupied most of China, the country was in difficulty, the finances were bankrupt, the currency was issued indiscriminately, the country's civil and foreign debts were piled up, the debts were high, hundreds of people were displaced and starved to death, drowned, all kinds of death, all kinds of life was worse than death, but the bureaucrats were more and more able to indulge in extravagance and corruption and pleasure.

Exactly: Xing, the people are suffering; Death, the people suffer.

It has been the case since ancient times.

On the other hand, it can be said that after experiencing this disaster, the officials and soldiers in Gyeonggi can feel the decent benefits and superiority of the officials more than before, and no, no matter how difficult the country is, it is necessary to give priority to ensuring the survival of the public servants and appease the hearts of the public servants. With this body odor, he attaches more importance to his official identity than before, and he is relatively more loyal to the imperial court. The imperial court also gained confidence and a more secure ruling power, at least regaining effective control over the Gyeonggi region.

At this point, the imperial court has the courage to no longer blindly distribute free food supplies and appease the people of the capital.

On the one hand, it can't afford it.

On the one hand, it is reluctant.

The population of the capital has plummeted, but not counting the nearly 200,000 forbidden troops stationed in the capital, how can there still be hundreds of thousands of people, and a large number of women and children have been extorted by pirates.

We can't get used to the grass people, and in times of trouble, the country should naturally raise the consciousness and laziness of the people in the capital......

The grass people are used as cattle and horses to sacrifice for the country, how can there be a reason for the country to dedicate and respect the grass people?

Moreover, at this time, we must not let the grass people be idle and idle, otherwise they will be idle and provoking things, causing uncontrollable turmoil and danger in Beijing......

However, now the commerce of the capital is almost non-existent, the people have nothing to do if they want to work, and the family is destitute, only the pirates are not rare to extort the little copper plate and a few days of rations to survive, and there is no condition or ability to do a small business as usual in the past, and it is a city person, and it is winter, and it is impossible to arrange to engage in farm work to consume energy, in this case, if the court ignores the people and completely ignores them, and allows them to fend for themselves, the people have spent all their copper plate savings in a blink of an eye, and they cannot afford to buy grain. Hungry, he was angry and even hated the court that he already despised, if anyone took the opportunity to deliberately incite rebellion......

The imperial court can't just like the local people affected by the disaster, according to the practice of the Great Song Dynasty, the people of the capital are also organized into homeless people who go to eat elsewhere and send them away, they can't afford to lose that person, and they don't dare to do that, otherwise what will happen to the capital without the people? A pure military city like a side stopper? The little majesty of the Great Song Dynasty was gone. Not to mention that foreign enemies such as the Liao State will laugh at and despise and have annexation ambitions, even the local government will lose confidence and hope in the imperial court, let alone have no sense of awe, and the world will fall apart......

Therefore, the imperial court implemented cash-for-work.

This is not something that modern innovations can use. Ancient people have played this hand a long time ago.

There are no normal jobs in the capital that can be arranged to do it like in the past, but ....... There's a house to tear down.

At this time, the population of the capital, not counting the army, is not even one-fifth of the peak in the past. In the past, there were many people and few houses were extremely tense, and it was a real sky-high housing market, don't be too expensive, you may not be able to buy a slightly decent Beijing house if you have money.

Senior officials who do not have enough real power, do not have enough dignity, and do not make enough money have to be aggrieved and live in rented houses.

But now it is the complete opposite, the houses in the capital, if the vast shack area where the poor live, there are too many idle, and the capital is no longer as in the past to the Song people have infinite charm can attract all kinds of people to move in and settle down to find a way out, the capital is now the most likely to attract pirates in the eyes of many people, and there are many abandoned fields and real estate that can be freely occupied, and in the local area than in the capital can live unrestrained and more comfortable, in the future, Outsiders must also very few people move to the capital, the capital is uninhabited, and it is the easiest place to harbor evil and breed trouble, and it is correct to demolish all the useless dilapidated houses.

It was not that the imperial court had not mobilized for demolition before, but at that time, after the population and living conditions of the people in the capital were greatly adjusted, the housing was good, and the poor and white people even took the opportunity to have shops, and they were enjoying the unexpected benefits of the national disaster. Unexpected shock, when the turmoil, the court and the government were also shocked, scared a little timid, and did not dare to force the people to demolish it, for fear of making a big mess again, and the bad news of the disaster came to Beijing one after another, the sky of the Great Song Dynasty seemed to be about to fall, the bigwigs had too many major things to deal with urgently, and the people below were panicked, and few had the heart to be serious in official business, and the demolition was not urgent and unimportant and aside.

And now that the officials have been idle, they finally have leisure, and they need to use the demolition to achieve the purpose of restraining the people, so it is more serious......

Objectively, in winter, the capital also needs a lot of firewood and grass for cooking and heating.

The large amount of wood and thatch obtained from the demolished shacks and broken houses can be used, which is much more convenient and cost-effective than going out of the city to cut firewood in the distant mountains.

As for the people, they have cut off the free food of the imperial court, there is no hope, they need to stare at the eyes to earn money and food to maintain the long and terrible winter after the rice is exhausted at home, and they also need to quickly get some capital to reopen the various livelihoods of the past to maintain their lives in Beijing, which is also the imperial court wants the people to recover as soon as possible The normal life of the residents and the economic cycle will save the trouble of not having a house to be demolished and the life is unsustainable.

There was money and food to be obtained by demolishing the house, although the poor court was becoming more and more harsh on wages at this time, and officials who wanted to be corrupt also took the opportunity to extend their black hands...... But it's also a way to live, and by the way, get some firewood.

Well, I don't want to be angry and controlled to participate in the demolition of houses to make money, and I don't have that condition if I want to chop firewood to make a living.

The pirates have an endless demand for iron, and almost all the firewood knives and axes of the Gyeonggi people have been copied by the officers and soldiers to send them to the pirates. As a citizen who has no weapons to use, he has no tricks, so he can't chop wood with a small kitchen knife. That's not the best thing. I can't cut a few firewoods even if I'm tired, let alone have to brave the wind and snow and even venture out of the city...... In this way, the people are finally a little active in demolishing houses and are willing to do it.

So what Zhao Yue saw when he entered the city was this busy scene.

It is not only ordinary Beijing people who are working hard, but also many former big families in Beijing who used to be fat and big-headed, red-eyed, and red-faced, but now they are more shabby and difficult than ordinary people.