The emperor's edict, coupled with the endorsement and support of the senior prime minister Shi Hao, no matter how much the officials and courtiers objected, it was useless.

Although the heat could not change the edict, the performance of the officials still flew to Zhao Yan's desk like snowflakes, and he could not widely publicize the major events of the Northern Expedition, so he naturally could not explain it, which gave him a headache.

In order to cover Yang Congyi's preparations for the Northern Expedition, in desperation, Zhao Yan could only ask Shi Hao to launch an action to punish corruption and bend the law, find something to do for the officials, and divert their attention.

Unexpectedly, this anti-corruption action personally initiated by the emperor and the prime minister lasted for two years, affecting most of the prefectures and counties in Jiangbei, down to the county order, up to the six ministries, during which many officials were implicated in demotion and dismissal.

In this huge, two-year-long anti-corruption action, most of the village sages who were presided over by Prime Minister Chen Kangbo and obtained official positions and titles through donations were removed from their official positions and their titles were cut, and even Chen Kangbo, who had passed away for many years, was pulled out by the officials, and the deceased was not investigated, but his son, who was an official in the court, was demoted to a remote place in Shuzhong, and I am afraid that he will not have the opportunity to enter the court again in this life.

In addition to those who donated, a large number of officials who had served as officials in the Jin State during the reign of the Jin State were also implicated, and most of them were directly dismissed, even the officials with normal performance were demoted, and only a small number of officials with outstanding political achievements and good official reputations were retained and promoted.

As a result of this anti-corruption campaign, a large number of official vacancies appeared in various prefectures and counties in Jiangbei, and there were no officials to fill them.

As soon as this news came out, it spread all over Jiangnan within three or two months.

In the Jiangnan region, after passing the scientific examination, hundreds of people who are famous but can only wait for election at home, and low-level officials who have no way to be promoted, have gone north to seek officials.

Even the students in Lin'an City and the students of academies in the south of the Yangtze River have gone north, Lin'an is old and decaying, and the young students have not had many opportunities at all, since Bianjing needs a large number of talents, it must be the imperial examination, and then they will be able to beat the Jiangbei students like the first imperial examination in Bianjing, and climb to the sky in one step!

In the past two years, officials have been demoted and dismissed almost every day, and the vacant positions in front have not yet been selected, and there are vacancies and requests for officials.

In order to select talents for the election of officials, the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Rites were so busy that even the two waiters were replaced, all because of mistakes in the busyness, they were grabbed by the officials, and they had to resign, or they were directly dismissed.

Selecting people to fill the officials, the busy officials and the Ministry of Rites were closely watched by the officials of the Imperial Historical Observatory, and the household department in charge of the treasury and the world's taxes was also stared at by the Imperial Historical Observatory, not to mention the Criminal Department and the Ministry of Industry, the officials would not let it go at all, but the military department, which was extremely low-key and had almost nothing to do, was difficult to attract the attention of the Imperial Historical Observatory.

The two years of anti-corruption are the most glorious two years for the officials of the Imperial History Stage.

In the past two years, as long as the officials they are targeting, it is almost impossible to escape the fate of demotion and dismissal.

When it comes to Yushitai, from Bianjing to the localities, officials of all sizes have changed their complexes when they hear it, especially those local officials who are old and have complicated officialdom relations, they don't know when they will be involved by whom.

Of course, this anti-corruption action, in addition to the beautiful Yushi Tai officials, the hundreds of students gathered in Bianjing City, as well as the young scholars waiting to be dispatched, also liked it very much. Through the fight against corruption, officials with low official positions have gained an unparalleled sense of achievement, while students and scholars have the opportunity to quickly enter the official career.

This vigorous anti-corruption campaign launched in order to divert attention did not gradually end until May of the eighth year of Beiding, when the Great Song Dynasty and the Jin Kingdom completely tore their faces, tore up the peace treaty, and turned their attention to the border passes.

Soon after the start of the anti-corruption campaign in Bianjing, the relationship between Hejian Mansion and Zhending Mansion and Yanjing suddenly became tense, and in order to prevent the Xijin and Dongjin from uniting to seize Hejian Mansion in the south and invade the Great Song Dynasty, Yang Congyi, the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, asked Ying to rush to Jinan Mansion in Shandong Province to personally preside over the front-line defense.

The situation in Hejian Province is tense, everyone in the DPRK and China knows about it, and Zhou Zhen was also dismissed from his official position because of this matter, and it was Yang Congyi who asked for his order to go to the front, and there was not much opposition in the DPRK and China, and he was able to make the trip.

In April of the sixth year of Beiding, two months after the second wife Meng Yunniang gave birth, Yang Congyi left Bianjing alone, without any family members, of course, people like him with heavy troops, it is impossible for family members to leave Bianjing, unless they hand over the power in their hands.

After leaving Bianjing, Yang Congyi rushed directly to Jinan Mansion, and then stationed here, reorganized the army, and had the potential to increase troops in Hejian Mansion and forcibly seize Yanjing and Zhending Mansion.

During this period, he went north to Hejian Mansion many times to inspect border affairs, and each time he asked the guards to train the border army diligently and repair the city, in case the Zhending Mansion and Yanjing Jin Army suddenly attacked, and warned the border army guards more than once that if any state and county in Hejian Province were lost, military law would deal with it!

After several rounds, the Hejian garrison began daily non-stop drills, and each army was mobilized, and the combat readiness level was suddenly raised.

Because the Song army in Hejian Province suddenly raised its combat readiness level and trained its troops day by day, Zhending Mansion and Yanjing could not sit still, and began to strengthen their armaments one after another, so as to guard against the Song army suddenly launching a war.

Preparing for war required a large amount of financial and civilian resources, and further strengthened armaments, and Zhendingfu and Yanjing, which were already underfunded, were even poorer, so they could only levy additional taxes on the local people and gentry, and forcibly levy conscription.

As a result, the burden on the people of Zhendingfu and Yanjing increased, and they sensed that the war was approaching, so they began to flee from the land where they had lived for several lifetimes, but there were not many places they could escape, the weather was cold to the north, which was not suitable for farming, and to the west was the tall mountain range, there was no land to cultivate, and the only choice was to go south.

So the people of Zhendingfu and Yanjing began to flee to the south at the risk of death, they fled all the way from the periphery of Yanjing to Hejian Mansion, and after receiving relief, they felt that Hejian Mansion was not safe, so they fled from Hejian Mansion to Cangzhou, and when they arrived in Cangzhou, they thought that Binzhou in the south was safer, and finally they fled all the way to Shandong under the relief of various government agencies, and gradually stabilized.

The people who fled south from Zhending Prefecture to the Daimyofu did not all stay in the Daimyofu, and many of them crossed the Yellow River directly and came to the territory of Xingren Mansion on the south side of the Yellow River.

The situation in the north continued to be tense, the people of Zhending and Yanjing fled one after another, and Hejian Fu did not get much better, even if the government repeatedly appeased, as the tense situation continued, most of the people moved to the Shandong prefectures south of Jishui in order to survive.

As a result, there was a large amount of uncultivated land in Hejian Province, and even if the local garrison was to cultivate the fields, they could not cultivate so much land, and after a few months, those fertile fields became wasteland.

At the same time, with the migration of countless displaced people from the north, there is not much land for them to cultivate in Shandong, and how to arrange for their resettlement without causing unrest has become a problem.

Fortunately, Shen Jin, the prefect of Yidu Prefecture and the pacification envoy of Shandong, had ruled Shandong for many years before, and although the governors of various prefectures did not know much about him, the local officials and squires in Shandong knew his name and were grateful for his merits.

The rebellion in Shandong was quickly pacified under his leadership, and countless displaced people were able to live in peace, exempted from taxation for three years, allowing them to tide over the difficulties, survive, and accumulate some food and assets, and then the imperial court continued to exempt them from taxation for three years, and after six years, Shandong gradually became rich.

Therefore, Shen Jin came forward for this group of displaced people who went south, and with a little call, they were all quickly resettled.

Some of these people rented fields and continued to farm, some went into factories and workshops, and some of them entered the transportation and land transportation, as long as they worked hard, there was no problem in eating enough.

Seeing that the number of people in Shandong has increased greatly and the people's power is sufficient, after planning, Shen Jin has joined hands with the gentry and giants in Yidufu, Jinan, Weizhou, Mizhou and other places to build cement roads connecting Mizhou, Weizhou, Laizhou, Binzhou, Yidufu, Jinan and other important cities in Shandong.

After years of experimental research, he brought the talents of Yidu Prefecture from Liuqiu back then, and he has developed better cement to build cities and roads, which is more than enough.

At that time, a large amount of cement was used for the rebuilding and reinforcement of the city of Jinan, which greatly shortened the progress of the project, and the construction period was reduced a lot.

Today's cement is better than those of the past, since the states and governments spend a lot of money and money on road construction every year, so why not widen the official road and spread cement on it?

The cement is strong, so it doesn't need to be rebuilt every year, once and for all.

In addition, Mizhou and Laizhou are near the sea, shipping is gradually developed, and the demand for cargo transshipment is large, coupled with the Linji water of Jinan Prefecture, and Jishui is connected to the Yellow River, the canal, the Huai River, and the Yangtze River is communicated.

Therefore, it is very necessary for the gentry and magnates of the Shandong state capitals to build strong official roads, but it is impossible for them to build them themselves, because only the government has the right to build official roads.

So when Shen Jin approached them to discuss the construction of a hardened pavement, they showed great interest.

But then, when it came time to discuss how much money each would pay, a disagreement arose.

Some people suggest that the official road between the two states should be built by local businessmen themselves, such as the hardening of the official road from Laizhou to Weizhou, and the gentry and merchants of these two states will pay for the construction, no matter how much it costs, they will bear it themselves, and of course some people suggest that all businessmen should share the money for road construction equally.

Everyone was arguing, and they paid for the construction of the road, each with their own ideas.

After the repair, the businessmen from other places and the businessmen who did not pay to repair the road want to transport goods to the official road, they have to pay a certain amount of tolls according to the distance, and part of the toll collected each year is used to repair the road, and part of the money is returned to the businessmen who paid for the road repair according to the amount of capital.