Relying on this alone, Fan Chunren, the prime minister, has already made the empress dowager and the little emperor extremely relieved.

Therefore, no matter how outstanding Yang Weiluo's ability to fabricate charges is, when it comes to Fan Chunren, he can only return in vain.

However, from what Yang Wei did, it is not difficult to see that Lu Dafang is not as simple as he seems, and he doesn't want to be so simple and honest as the history books of later generations, and he doesn't make friends.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for Yang Wei to repeatedly attack the prime ministers who were in the same hall as Lu Dafang for no reason.

This is not any good for Yang Wei himself. Even if Su Song and Fan Chunren went to the phase one after another as he wished, it would not be his turn to covet a small imperial history.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Gao Taotao demoted all the important members of the Luo Party from Bianliang City. And the person who succeeded Liu Zhi as prime minister was a more talented minister, and he was Cai Dao's fellow countryman Su Song.

In the first year of Yuanyou, Su Song was recruited into the capital by Sima Guang, and he worshiped the secretary of the criminal department, and then transferred to the secretary of the ministry and the attendant. And this time he held the position of Shangshu Zuocheng.

Yuanyou has been in the prime minister's position for four years, of course, there are more than these three people.

However, at that time, it was really famous that these were three people, because these three prime ministers did not belong to any local party, and they were fair.

With their concerted efforts, the Great Song Dynasty, which had been greatly injured, finally ushered in a chance to breathe.

Under the reign of Lu Gongshu and Wen Yanbo, in fact, the treasury of various places has begun to be in an emergency, if it were not for the Grand Canal built by Emperor Yang of Sui, the grain in Jiangsu and Zhejiang and the grain obtained from the large-scale cultivation of Jinghu South Road opened up by Zhang Dian arrived in the capital in time. It is estimated that the city of Bianliang will soon be unable to send out the salaries of the hundred officials and the forbidden army.

Although, with the support of these two places of money and food, the situation is getting worse, leaving aside the treasury, even the inner treasury of the royal family is about to be borrowed by Wen Yanbo and Lu Gongzhu. For this, even Gao Tao, who has always been very supportive of the two of them, is very dissatisfied.

In the final analysis, that is also the wealth left by Song Shenzong to Zhao Xu, and in the past few years of listening to the government, there has been a monstrous discussion about changing the mother to the son. This makes this 'female Zhong Yao Shun' also bear this great pressure.

Fortunately, in the next three years, the territory of the Great Song Dynasty finally did not encounter any major natural disasters again.

Moreover, these three Zaifu are neither party members, nor are they strictly northern wealthy families. Although they did not approve of the new laws implemented by Wang Anshi, in the three years they were in power, they also stopped the pace of those big families to annex land to a certain extent.

Of course, all this is only superficial, temporary.

Because, with the continuous development of Cai Dao's secret rat plan, the granaries in the state capitals and counties of the Central Plains, Huainan, Shandong and other places and the people's standing positions are about to be hollowed out by the seven-color collar and corrupt officials.

In order to ensure stability on the border, Cai Dao has always told the diamond collar of the seven-color collar not to touch the three places in the north to meet the enemy, that is, the three regions of the northwest, Hedong and Hebei Zhulu.

The person from the Chai family also knew the priority of the matter, and verbally agreed to Cai Dao, and did the same in his actions.

However, Cai Dao and the others did not touch these places, but the corrupt officials and prospective corrupt officials in these three roads began to look at the officials in other places. Officials in the prefectures and counties of the Central Plains, Huainan, Shandong, and other places have made a lot of money because of their participation in grain reselling.

As a result, Cai Dao's Shuo Rat Plan, which had begun since the eighth year of Yuanfeng, started from the Central Plains and gradually spread to the surrounding areas, and the momentum of corruption began to become more and more fierce, even after Lu Dafang, Su Song and Fan Chunren came to power, they gradually noticed this matter, but they could not completely curb it.

Because, the three of them, except for Su Song, the other two are also members of the conservatives in the final analysis, and they don't form a party, which just means that they don't form a party among the conservatives.

Wang Anshi's change of law infringed on the fundamental interests of these northern families, and the Lantian Lu family and the Fan family were also a very large family. There are naturally family interests within the family.

Those officials involved in corruption in the north cannot be killed, and even if the three Zaifu want to completely remove them, they can't do it. After the incident, these people can only demote them at most.

Fan Zhongyan once said, 'How can a family cry like crying all the way', it sounds quite lofty, but in fact, it is not what everyone imagined at all.

First of all, in the Great Song Dynasty, the salaries and benefits of civil officials were very generous. Even a county boss, a small official, is enough to support his family. Only an official like Su Shi who is lavish and does not know how to run his family will become embarrassed in the local area because of money problems.

The punishment mentioned earlier, he offended the Empress Dowager Gao Tao so much, and he was just demoted to Jinghu North Road as the governor.

Of course, there is a high and generous point in this, but it is also enough to see the attitude of the ruling people of the current dynasty towards civilian officials.

When Fan Zhongyan clarified the rule of officials, he was really clarifying the rule of "officials", and the "officials" here did not refer to civil officials, but those who were not born as scholars, and were in the local state capitals and counties, as well as the small officials in various yamen in Bianliang City.

These people are officials, if they only rely on their income, it is not enough to run a family, and with the official status of this small official, they can get a lot of gray income. Therefore, when Fan Zhongyan reformed the rule of officials, the first thing was to use them with a knife.

Affected by the general environment, even if these three prime ministers transferred away those corrupt chief officials, but that was a nest case at all, as long as those small officials were still in the yamen, even if the three of them sent to take over were all clean officials like Bao Zheng, there was no way to organize a large loss of local grain. Even, there are many officials who are rich and famous, but not long after they take office, they are immediately corrupted by sugar-coated shells and fall into it.

In the end, the situation was getting worse and worse, and the situation in the entire Great Song Dynasty was like a soft bow that was pulled apart, and once the bowstring was broken, the bow was abolished. The current situation is only going to be maintained. If a large-scale disaster occurred again in the Great Song Dynasty, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Lu Dafang, Fan Chunren and Su Song tried all means, but they were unable to curb this frenzy of corruption.

This point, let alone the imperial court, was unexpected by Cai Dao himself and the Chai family.

Yuanyou has been in the past five to seven years, and the wind and rain have been smooth in these three years, which has delayed the outbreak of the situation to a certain extent. And Cai Dao's method of offering seeds also made up for a little loss in the imperial treasury in the past three years.

In the past three years, whether it is Lu Dafang, Fan Chunren and Su Song, or the empress dowager Gao Taotao in the palace, they have all lived tremblingly and walking on thin ice, for fear that bad news will come along the way one day, and their fragile rule will collapse immediately in an instant.

After these three years, if there is a real disaster, at least the three Jaesuke will be able to ensure the stability of the Gyeonggi region.

However, Gao Taotao can finally be freed.