So, in front of the yamen of Kaifeng Mansion, it was completely lively. Many people took advantage of the night to gather here with their bedding rolls, and there were many shrewd small merchants and hawkers who actually set up small stalls here.

If you put aside the past, these traders will not dare to come here to do business, if they are targeted by the officials, the business will definitely not be done, and they will have to lose a lot of money.

It's not that there are no vendors in front of Kaifeng Mansion, but they are all legs in Kaifeng Mansion. Naturally, he was not afraid of being blackmailed by those officials.

But this time is different, the officials of Kaifeng Mansion don't need to be ordered by the adults in the house, and no one dares to blackmail those people outside.

How scared they are!

Cai Dao is the backstage of the craftsmen, and they are naturally the first to know. This fortune boy is so bold that even the civil officials dare to sue, and they naturally don't dare to take the initiative to find it at this time.

The matter quickly reached Zhao Xu's ears through the Imperial City Division, and he immediately laughed heartily and said, "These moths should be treated like this. However, he came up with this idea too narrowly. ”

Yang Wei, Xie Liangzuo and Shangguan Hui naturally also had their own eyes and ears, and after learning about this, the three of them all had the same expressions, and their whole faces were dark.

So, that night, after most of the civil officials learned of the incident, they immediately sent their own officials to find those craftsmen, and they all expressed their willingness to come up with a large sum of money to settle with them privately. If the lawsuit is withdrawn on the spot before the court opens tomorrow, these stewards are willing to pay money on the spot.

In this way, a huge turmoil was easily settled by Cai Dao's small idea.

Of course, there are many die-hards among civil officials, and for these people, let alone officials, even Xie Liangzuo and Shangguan Hui will not show mercy to their subordinates, since they are so ignorant of current affairs. Then punish according to the law!

These people were not only fined heavily, but also dismissed from office, according to Zhao Xu's orders, they were also banned for life, and they were not allowed to be officials for the rest of their lives, and even those who worked when they led to the death of craftsmen, not to mention the loss of money, the whole family was escorted to the northwest and Wen Yanbo's family to be companions. No one expected that Zhao Xu would punish this matter so harshly.

In fact, these civil officials are the victims, and in the final analysis, they still pay for Sima Guang, Wen Yanbo and Lu Gongzhu.

Originally, this matter was closed.

However, the civilian clique refused to give up.

A few days later, some soldiers in the forbidden army sued the generals in the capital to Kaifeng Mansion, these civil officials really couldn't find Cai Dao's handle, but they wanted to deal with those generals who watched the excitement on the sidelines, it was really easy to find.

It is a pity that this counterattack by the civilian officials was already doomed to fail from the beginning, and they lifted a stone and shot themselves in the foot. Cai Dao didn't want to mention this stubble, these people jumped out by themselves, of course he wouldn't be polite.

This time, the military attachés did not fight back, they just united at the court meeting, in front of everyone, to take the initiative to admit to Zhao Xu that they were serving for themselves and deducting military salaries, and begged the officials to punish them severely. In addition, he also took the initiative to pay the stolen money and compensate the losses and remuneration of those forbidden troops.

When Han Jin looked at those stunned civil officials, he felt helpless in his heart, these people are all pig brains. In Bianliang City, private service has made the forbidden army a common practice, this is not a secret at all, the generals are using it, but the civil officials are useless?

So, Han Zhen was also the first to stand up and took the initiative to admit his mistake to Zhao Xu.

Fortunately, Han Zhen saw the opportunity quickly, otherwise, Cai Dao would have to implicate him.

This farce provoked by the civilian-bureaucratic clique opened extremely quickly and closed even faster.

The civilian clique's counterattack had to end hastily.

However, this incident aroused Zhao Xu's vigilance, and the ministers of civil and military affairs were privately serving the forbidden army defending Bianliang City, and the combat effectiveness of such an army could be imagined to be poor.

Zhao Xu didn't believe that when the Empress Dowager was alive, she didn't know about this situation in the forbidden army, but Gao Tao really sat back and ignored this kind of thing, and no one ever mentioned it to him on this matter.

His cronies, Liang Shicheng, Yang Wei and Zhang Dian, eunuchs, civil officials and military generals did not even say a word in front of him.

As a result, the second method of strengthening the army in Wang Anshi's reform, the method of cutting troops, opened vigorously in this background.

The Law of Arms Reduction, when you see the name of this new law, you will naturally know its meaning. As long as the new law takes advantage of the opportunity of rectifying the army and the forbidden army, the soldiers who are not qualified or exceed the age limit will be discharged or transferred to the next level of the army.

The previous new law required soldiers to retire after the age of 50. When testing soldiers, those who fail to pass the test in the forbidden army will be changed to the box army, and those who fail the test in the box army will be directly changed to civilian nationality.

However, Wang Anshi's one-size-fits-all approach is obviously full of drawbacks, and directly allowing some soldiers who can only wield knives and guns all their lives to turn into farmers or retire from the military will have great consequences for social order.

Therefore, the new law reinstated this time is to avoid the great impact on society caused by those retired veterans. As a result, the new law stipulates that veterans over the age of 50 in the forbidden army must also be tested.

Those who have the ability, those who want to open up territory for their families overseas, are naturally willing to accept them.

In this era, there were actually very few naval battles to experience to capture those islands, and most of the battles, whether they were facing those natives or facing the big cannibals who now crisscrossed the South China Sea Islands, the final solution to the battle still depended on the army troops. Then these capable veterans will become treasures.

Of course, digging the corner of the forbidden army is naturally to report to Zhao Xu. Moreover, the first unit to be trained by this group of veterans is Cai Dao's troops who will go on an expedition to the Great Yue Kingdom.

And those soldiers and ruffians who were completely chaotic in the forbidden army could not be dispersed to the people, but after they were eliminated, they were gathered together, and they were willing to go to the south with Cai Dao, where there were large-scale farms developed in Guangxi, mainly planting two crops, sugarcane and cotton.

If you don't want to go to these miasma places, Cai Dao will not be reluctant, the northwest region has lacked top families since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, and now the big landlords there are also interested in following the footsteps of the Lantian Lu family, taking the initiative to migrate to the south, and dedicating the land in their hands to the official family. Therefore, the entire northwest has now begun to build large-scale tuntian.

Putting these soldiers and ruffians on the border to settle in the fields, even if they don't collect their land endowments and Dingkou money, it is also profitable for the Great Song Dynasty. Because these people, even if they are bastards, know better than the average person how to protect themselves in war.

At that time, if Cai Dao destroys the Great Yue Kingdom, he will get a large number of women and children, and he will also be able to solve the lifelong affairs of a large number of singles by taking this opportunity.

Therefore, the matter of the southern expedition has a lot of benefits, but Cai Dao knows that this matter is urgent, and he has the ability to capture the Great Yue Kingdom now, but the premise is that Lu Huiqing must be prepared. In case the border generals of the Great Yue Kingdom see that the general trend has gone and prepare to burn the jade,