After Renzong, especially when Zhao Ji succeeded to the throne, in the face of the economic burden caused by the corruption of the officials, the court and the central government had no choice but to extort a law from the people. The supervisors not only "sat idly by" and "watched and did not look at the lawbreakers", but also "went behind the public and operated their own business, relying on orders to riot the public", and even colluded with the orders to oppress the people. "If the people complain about a certain observance, the person who will hold it will seal his resignation and send it to a certain guard; If a civil sue for a certain order, it will be issued to avenge the order. "This kind of dereliction of duty and bribery by the supervisors has accelerated the corruption of the officials, and now the time has come to clean up completely.

With the support of Zhao Tan, Li Gang began to do it, he united Xu Jingheng, Zong Ze, and Chen Guoting to impeach several Shangshu who remained in office in the court, and the 'official family' dismissed all the people in a rage, and the palace was solemn, no one dared to say anything anymore, they could see that the monarchs and ministers were taking a few unlucky ghost sacrifice knives, and they didn't know who they were going to cut off on their heads...

Chen Gongfu, the word Guozuo, the person is like his name, the word is like his person, and he is indeed a good talent for the country. Zhenghe took the upper house exam for three years and won the first place. At that time, Cai Jing reformed the imperial examination, and once adopted the 'three rounds' method of examination, the upper house was the highest grade of the examination, and the first place was equivalent to the champion of the Jinshi examination. The official work time was not long, and he was pointed out by Geng Nanzhong as Li Gang's comrade and demoted to the locality. After Li Gang returned to power, he recommended Gongfu and was appointed by the Empress Dowager as a member of Shangshu Zuo.

Since Chen Gongfu entered the official career, he has advocated integrity, is loyal and outspoken, and does not look at other people's faces. When he was a professor in Pingjiang Mansion, Zhu Mian was so red and purple that he was scorching. Many officials bowed down before him, but Gongsuke would never make friends. When his brother died, he held a funeral, but Gongfu not only did not mourn himself. He also taught that his students were not allowed to go.

The "prodigal prime minister" Li Bangyan was dismissed, but a few days later he was awarded the title of Dazai, and for a while "the people were shocked," but most of the officials in the DPRK and China dared to be angry but did not dare to speak, and Chen Gongfu wrote a letter of impeachment overnight, listing all kinds of facts and bad deeds of Li Bangyan who betrayed the country and defected to the enemy, and finally caused Li Bangyan and his henchmen Wang Xiaodi and Cai Mao to be dismissed. Even Li Gang, who has a good relationship with him, can be impartial and upright for the country. When the whole dynasty was talking about 'peace talks'. However, he said that the ministers and doctors should give priority to "integrity and loyalty" and criticized the capitulation faction of the government and the opposition.

This kind of good minister who does not form a party or a faction, can be loyal to the country, and is upright and upright, of course, quickly entered Zhao Ta's eyes. He knew that although this kind of person has a big temper, says that he is 'stinky', and confronts his superiors, he can do things impartially, and this is exactly the basic quality that the 'cadres and ministers of the Great Song Dynasty' should have. Maybe I'll cause myself a little bit of trouble in the next work. However, it can ensure the fairness of the election of officials.

With the appointment of Chen Gongfu, the new secretary of the ministry, the two tasks of cleaning up redundant officials and integrating officials and soldiers finally drove out of the station, and some people took this bus, while others had to get off this trip. And Chen Gongfu lived up to expectations. After several discussions in succession, Zhao Ta was very satisfied and immediately issued an execution. The clean-up was fully rolled out under Chen Gongfu's vigorous and resolute work style...

Uncle Zhang's performance in guarding Bianjing City and the subsequent northward journey is remarkable, which can be described as both loyalty and righteousness. He was rescued and returned to Beijing in the battle of the Baoding Army, and Li Gang recommended him as the secretary of the military department. Zhao Ta thought about it, this is both civil and military. He has been a grassroots magistrate, and he has also been in charge of the state capital, and what is even more rare is that he has led troops to go on an expedition, and he has made great achievements. After the summons were answered, Zhao Ta was very satisfied and made up his mind.

Subsequently, Zhao Ta ordered Zhao Yi to serve as the squire of the military department, although he is the 'old man' of the palace, his ability is not bad, but his qualifications are still shallow, and he lacks the experience of presiding over the military administration of a big country.

The household department is also a key department of reform this time, and the scale of the three divisions can be said to be the largest department after the merger, and now the financial scarcity is scarce, the government treasury is empty, and the household department shoulders the heavy responsibility of resuming production, collecting taxes, and managing the country's finances. Zhao Tan thought about it again and again, and decided to take Chen Yu as the head of the household department and Zhou Xingji as the squire, so that the two of them could shoulder the heavy responsibility of restoring the economy of the Great Song Dynasty.

After Zhou Xingji came to Beijing from Datong, he asked Zhishi to return home for the elderly because of his old age and frailty, but Zhao Ta left him behind. It turned out that after Zhao Ta ascended the throne, he found that the financial system of the Great Song Dynasty had collapsed, and it seemed that the economy was highly prosperous, but it was a false prosperity, and there was too much water in it. The Song court could not bear the heavy burden of financial deficits and redundant soldiers and redundant officials for many years, and in order to make up for the financial deficit, the government began to use crooked brains.

In order to solve the fiscal deficit, from the first year of Zhezong Shaosheng, the Song court began to print and issue paper money indiscriminately. The direct consequence of the short-sighted behavior of drinking doves to quench thirst is that in the first year of Zhao Ji's Daguan, in just over ten years, the paper money in circulation in society has reached 42 times that of the Shenzong Dynasty. Later, Zhao Huan took over to make money, and Zhao Gou also did this in order to raise military funds, which caused a sharp depreciation of "Jiaozi" and serious inflation.

And what makes the Song people think clearly is that their indiscriminate printing of paper money will greatly depreciate the value of the currency and inflation, but instead put the responsibility on Wang Anshi's reform, as if this outcome is directly related to the change. Zhou Xingji had some research on this, and had guided the cabinet of Fuzhong Sitang to issue silver coupons, accumulating experience, so Zhao Ta had high hopes for him to reorganize the financial system of the Great Song Dynasty.

After Chen Yu took office, he recommended Zhang Wei as the transfer envoy of the two Huai, saying that he was good at financial management, and he still knew the benefits and disadvantages of the money valley, which was the tax center of the Great Song Dynasty, and nearly half of the financial revenue came from here. But this person is a person from the Marshal's Mansion, who once raised food and salary for King Kang and persuaded him to ascend the throne, it is said that he is a person who restricts the use of it, and it is really uneasy for him to take care of the 'treasury' of the Great Song Dynasty.

Next, Zhao Ta appointed Yang Shi as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Ma Kuan as the squire of the Ministry of Rites; The Shangshu of the Criminal Department was given to Zhang Xiaochun, who had made meritorious contributions to Taiyuan, and the Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry was given to Sima Pu, the grandson of Sima Guang, who refused to serve as the puppet emperor of Chu, to reward his loyalty. Chen Guoting was the middle of the imperial history, and Chen Dong was the servant of the imperial history, reconstructing the six cases and six inspections, and supervising the administrative institutions and local officials of the imperial court.

Yang Shi recommended his brother Hu Anguo to the official family as the country's chief priest, he is also a member of Cheng Yimen, a Jinshi background, a doctor of Taixue, and has a wide range of knowledge, and has a deep research on economics, science and politics, and has a great influence in the political and academic fields. With his "Treatise on Current Politics", "Treatise on Governing the Country", and "Biography of the Spring and Autumn Period", he established the "Hunan School" style of combining the study of the mind with the application of the world, which on the one hand made important contributions to the development of science, and at the same time provided a set of useful classics for the ruling class.

Although the Huxiang School is also a faction in the Lina, it has opposed the "corrupt Confucian" style of study since its inception; He advocates "being familiar with current affairs" and "paying attention to the economy". Hu Anguo advocated practical production and labor, and advocated that scholars might as well hoe the ground and grow vegetables; He believed that the most important thing in the study of a gentleman was a "real" "Yu", and in addition to the classics and history, he must also devote himself to the practical study of the classics such as soldiers and farmers, and he has a lot of involvement in this kind of knowledge in his own writings.

Therefore, in terms of the relationship between knowledge and action, the Huxiang school expounds on the "mutual development of knowledge and action", pays special attention to the role of "action", emphasizes "practice", that is, practice, and believes that "knowledge". This pragmatic attitude is of course very much to Zhao Ta's appetite, what he needs is someone who has ideas and can do things, and he immediately agreed.

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The army is the capital of Zhao Ta's start, and it is also his forbidden land, so he must firmly grasp it in his own hands. He originally planned to let Zong Ze serve as the secretary of the military department, but as the head of the military department, he was suspected of being demoted, and he would leave the tongue of unloading the mill and killing the donkey, so he didn't move him, and he waited for a suitable position, but according to the development of history, he was already angry with Zhao Gou at this time...

The Privy Council has four rooms as offices, and the three yas that are incorporated are equivalent to the headquarters of various services in later generations, and are headed by Zhao Lian, Marquis of Duyu. Zhao Ta appointed Zhao Yan as the commander of the infantry division, and the artillery was not independent this time, but was assigned to the infantry division, and Zhao Xiao was also in charge of the deputy capital; The commander of the Ma Jun Division was held by Zhao Li; The Navy and Military Divisions are in charge, and Cheng Xuan takes over; The Military Intelligence Department is still headed by Jiang Fei; Of course, the Heavy Division is still Zhao Zhi's territory. This time, in order to improve the status of the martial arts, Zhao Ta raised all positions from the past five to three grades, so as not to become the followers of civil officials.

As the most rearly defensive line around the emperor, the Imperial City Division has a great responsibility, and the soldiers and horses are not dispatched by the Ministry of War and the Privy Council, but are divided into two shifts, the Soldiers and Horses Division and the Jiyi Division, and are in charge of the palace city entrances and exits, Zhou Lu Su Guard, the opening and closing of the palace gate, and the duties of spying on intelligence. Now it happens to be the Guards Division and the Intelligence Division, which have been led by Zhao Ta in the past, and they are still under the command of Zhao Zhong and Li Jun respectively.

In this way, only Zhao Xin and Zhao Yong did not arrange the 'top ten generals' who followed the prince to create the palace army in the past. Zhao Xin is now the imperial concubine and cannot take on the military position, so she is naturally excluded. Zhao Yong is the number two person in the government army, the founder of the Xijing army, and has made great achievements for the government, but unexpectedly he does not have any real position.

At this time, everyone thought of another important figure in the army, Gao Chong, who had also been idle, he was the first commander of the dragon generals, and after the conquest of Western Xia, he was transferred back to Beijing and has been unknown. After the Jin army short-lived and led the Tiger Wing Army to fight a battle with the officials when the Jin army went south for the second time, it was silent again.

Just when everyone was confused, the emperor issued an order to lead the army to the south with Gao Zhong as the southeast pacification envoy, and led the soldiers and horses of Lianghuai and Liangjiang to clear and suppress the liukou in the south of the Yangtze River, and quickly extinguished the bandits. And Zhao Yong was appointed as the envoy of Lianghe Town, commanding the soldiers and horses of Hebei and Hedong to guard the north, and preparing to recover Yanjing, conquer the Jurchens, and welcome back the first emperor. (To be continued......)