Just as Han Dewei was about to raise troops to the west, the officialdom of the Song Dynasty ushered in a great change.

Wang Wei jumped up and down, Song Jiu didn't take it seriously, compared to Zhao Pu, Wang Wei was too tender.

But some people are very unhappy.

Jiang Zheng came to the branch of the third division, Wang Huaji recommended it, Jiang Zheng wanted to express his gratitude, and Wang Huaji vaguely said the stakes.

Success is also Xiao He, defeat is also Xiao He.

But you must not complain about Song Jiu, without Song Jiu, there would be no academy, and even if the banner of Song Jiu falls, the children of the academy may not be able to ascend to the throne. There were more and more officials in the Song Dynasty, and the phenomenon of redundant officials was serious, and many ministers noticed this phenomenon.

The relatives of the children of the eunuchs should be supplemented, the meritorious soldiers should be promoted, and the jinshi should be officials, and the number of officials vacated every year will become more and more tight. Without Song Jiu, who would be the most vulnerable? It must be a student of the academy. Even the literati will gradually encroach on the field of military attachés.

Jiang Zheng has also been a magistrate for many years, and as soon as Wang Huaji said it, he understood everything.

Then he didn't say anything, and silently entered the third division to do things.

The degree branch division, so the name suggests, is mainly in charge of the cashier.

Then he discovered one thing, Wang Wei's younger brother Wang Zhun embezzled tens of thousands of dollars when he was in charge of the incense medicine Yiyuan.

That's a huge amount of corruption.

Now it has not yet entered the era when the prime ministers of the two governments are obsessed with tens of thousands of dollars a year in salaries and rewards, and Song Jiu and Zhao Pu, who receive the most salaries, have only about 10,000 yuan a year. However, neither of them cared much about this.

In other words, the financial revenue of the entire Song Dynasty is only about 60 million yuan in total. This figure is quite staggering, almost equivalent to two-and-a-half to three times that of the early Song Dynasty.

But not two taxes. Among them, the various workshops are not only the workshops opened by Song Jiu. Most of them are still workshops run by the imperial court, but the profitability is a little worse. and the money from the auction contract, plus the income from the mines, and the income from several forbidden franchises, it was close to 40 million. There are also commercial taxes and others, which account for nearly 10 million yuan, that is, the two taxes seem to be a large amount, but they are only about 15 million to 178 million yuan. If it were tax exemption or disaster relief in the previous two years, this figure would drop dramatically.

That is to say, there were more than 300 state capital armies in the Song Dynasty. The two taxes in one state are converted together, and they are only 50,000 yuan.

Wang Zhun alone embezzled two taxes a year in a state.

Afraid of Wang Wei's power, the court only fought perfunctory private battles after finding out, and the three divisions continued to fill this black hole, but no one dared to say it.

Jiang Zheng didn't dare to say it, after all, he had not been in the Third Division for a long time.

Song Jiu and Zhao Kuangyi began to implement the long-formulated plan, and Wang Wei jumped even more happily.

Of course, he also has a reason to jump. After all, the imperial court seems to be carrying out some major actions, and as the second prime minister of Xifu, he is kept in the valley, which does not conform to the system of the Song Dynasty.

Jiang Zheng couldn't stand it anymore. After all, he had received Song Jiu's favor back then, and it can be said that without Song Jiu's primary school, he would not have his current status.

Therefore, when reporting to the middle school. He gave these pieces back to Chen Shu.

Chen Shu didn't want to give Wang Wei face, so he wrote a note of the news and handed it to the inner palace.

After Zhao Kuangyi saw it, he called the prime ministers of the two governments to the political hall for discussion. First said: "Let's talk about those mistakes in national government affairs. Causing a plague of locusts from the sky? ”

Compared with the locust plague in the spring, the current locust plague situation is a little better, but there are still some areas, and there are serious grain production failures in some areas.

But compared with the catastrophes of the previous two years, the disaster situation this year is much better, as long as it is not a major disaster, and a major war, with the current financial situation of the Song Dynasty, it is not a crisis.

Many people knew about Wang Zhun, but no one said anything.

What is fairness, and at this point, there are still people who believe in the fairness of Shenma?

Then Kou Zhun took the initiative to stand up and said: "According to "Hong Fan", the minister speculated that the locust plague and drought were caused by unfair punishment, and Zu Ji and Wang Zhun were both corrupt and perverted the law, but Zu Ji was executed and confiscated the family property, and Wang Zhun, the younger brother of Wang Xun, only accepted the punishment in the private room and continued to be an official. Two people are guilty of the same crime, one is sentenced very heavily, and the other is very light, so unfair, how can God not send a warning of disaster? ”

Zhao Kuangyi looked at Wang Juzheng, a little dissatisfied.

What is a minister, that is, not avoiding relatives and enemies.

Song Jiu did something wrong, and he was impeached as such, and Wang Wei did something wrong, and he also had to be impeached, this is a good speaker.

Wang Juzheng was helpless, and said five things the next day.

One abolished three divisions and restored Shangshu Province, and the Song Dynasty had Shangshu Province, but it was a fictitious institution with no real power. It is to restore some of the official systems of the Tang Dynasty, let Shangshu Province replace the three divisions and become the new executive body, the Zhongshu and the Privy Council continue to be a decision-making body, and the two systems and the Yushitai retain the right to review. Increase efficiency and reduce redundancy.

Respectfully, the imperial court wanted not to make the loss of civil talents, so the edict begged people, but the people raised were uneven, so the further implementation of the guarantee system, did recommend a capable person for the imperial court to be rewarded, but the punishment should be punished, then officials at all levels will be cautious.

In the name of the chief and deputy envoy of the Zhulu Transit and the interviewer, the corruption of the military officials in the state government in the current inspection department will directly put an end to the phenomenon of corruption among officials at all levels.

Fourth, it is a cliché and a redundant official. Fifth, the selection of distant officials, the court used the remote officials mostly use the guilty people to serve far away, but the farther away, the more difficult it is to govern, after these officials go down, most of them are not good people, they are poisoned and disabled, and the people are far away, and they cannot appeal, not because the court has the intention of being far away. Please ask the court not to allow the guilty to go to Sichuan and Guangnan as governors in the future.

It may not be that Zhao Kuangyi will accept it, if the right to interview the transfer envoy is given, then the power in the hands of the transfer envoy will become bigger and bigger, the jurisdiction area is wide, and the development is not good, it will become the various feudal towns of the Tang Dynasty in disguise.

But these five articles all cut into the disadvantages of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyi issued an edict to reward, and officially appointed Wang Juzheng as the middle of the imperial history, rather than the right to know the imperial history.

Then Wang Wei was sad and soon quit. Hearing the edict, Wang Wei went to find Zhao Kuangyi and cried bitterly, he has been too rampant in the past two years. Once out of phase, it's uncertain how many people will take advantage of the situation to retaliate. He is not Zhao Pu and Song Jiu. Compare anti-fighting......

So I hope Zhao Kuangyi's subordinates will be merciful.

can let Zhao Kuangyi come out.

Within a few days, Wang Wei, who was only in his forties, had white hair. Under the depression, Wang Wei died the next year.

In fact, it is not Wang Wei's fault, the older generation of ministers immediately withdrew from the stage one after another, and these newcomers came up, most of them were Jinshi ascendants, no matter who they were, they were more or less stained with some scholarly spirit. This is completely different from Wang Ming and others who came from the top of the Xu officials, they may have their own advantages and disadvantages, but they lack the calmness of the Xu officials. More impetuousness.

But it's not over yet.

After Chen Shu was transferred to Dongfu, the imperial court asked Fan Zhigu to serve as the third envoy, and this person measured the width and narrowness of the Yangtze River with a small boat, and he was also quite talented.

When Song Jiu was in Dongfu, he also communicated with him several times for the current affairs of Jiangnan.

Fan Zhigu may have been under pressure because of the pressure, but after he arrived at the Third Division, he was not as good as Chen Shu and others, and some of them did not do a good job, so Zhao Kuangyi often criticized.

Zhao Kuangyi criticized Fan Zhigu for being nervous. The easier it is to make mistakes.

Chen Shu and Fan Zhigu are not fellow villagers, one is from Chizhou and the other is from Hongzhou, but they are both from Jiangnan. Usually the relationship is good. Whenever he heard that Zhao Kuangyi was dissatisfied with the three divisions, Chen Shu was a little anxious, and Chen Shu, who was eager to protect his friends, often found Fan Zhigu. leaked the emperor's dissatisfaction, he came from the third division. He has the ability to do so and is very familiar with the three divisions. As a result, recommendations have been made from time to time.

However, Fan Zhigu didn't know the severity, and every time he went to report to Zhao Kuangyi, he would explain Zhao Kuangyi's dissatisfaction one by one. Once Zhao Kuangyi didn't pay attention, and after many times, Zhao Kuangyi felt puzzled, so he asked: "How do you know that Lu Dao is not doing well?" ”

Very bad, Fan Zhigu may have said excitedly, and without thinking, he said, "It was Chen Shu who told me." ”

This involves the system of the Song Dynasty.

First of all, the officials of various ministries and departments must keep secrets, not only in the Song Dynasty, but also in the Han Dynasty, it is a mistake to spew big mouths and leak government affairs to irrelevant people.

Then there is the decentralization system of the Song Dynasty, and various departments are not allowed to interact casually, so Song Jiu supported the Privy Council, Zhao Kuangyi likes it, and he can also say that in the Ming Dynasty, Chen Shu was originally the deputy prime minister, and he summoned Fan Zhigu to Dongfu, where he did something wrong, he did it right, which is not excessive. However, it cannot be said in private, this is one of the taboo things in the Song Dynasty.

made two serious mistakes in a row, although Chen Shu was a capable minister, he was still dismissed, and Fan Zhigu was demoted to Sichuan as a transfer envoy, it didn't matter, it was still a big official position. But it's ......

His sorrow is no less than that of Wang Wei.

But it didn't end, just when Zhao Kuangyi was thinking about who would replace the two vacancies, it came again.

Zhao Kuangyi's leg injury was serious, and many officials knew about it.

It just so happens that Zhao Yuanxu has been in Kaifeng Mansion for five years, and there is no lack of political affairs, and he has done a good job. Song Xin, Yin Huangsheng, Feng Zheng, Wang Shize, and Hong Zhan jointly made a recital, and they asked Zhao Kuangyi to appoint Xu Wang Yuanxi as the crown prince.

There may be two reasons, one is that the second prince is doing well and is a qualified heir to the empire. If the crown prince is not established, the name of the country's East Palace will always be incorrect. If Zhao Kuangyi ascends to the throne, if Zhao Kuangyin makes Zhao Dezhao or Zhao Defang the crown prince and gets the right name, Zhao Kuangyi will have a headache, and even have to wait for death sadly.

There is also a secret reason, Zhao Yuanxi also wants to be on the throne, not that he wants to be the emperor, but what he wants is to set the title of the crown prince, so he hooked up with Zhao Plümeng, and even wanted to win over Song Jiu. These people were all co-opted by him, so they created momentum for Zhao Yuanxi.

But they were wrong!

Zhao Kuangyi really doesn't know the small movements behind his son's back?

As long as it is not done too much, it is tacitly approved. However, as soon as the crown prince is established, it has to be like the Han and Tang Dynasties to formally establish the East Palace, a small court that is opposed to the imperial court, and the son's actions are not small, how can Zhao Kuangyi rest assured?

Don't be as vigorous as Li Longji, just learn from him, a cup of poisonous wine will be in your stomach, and you, the old man, will see the king of Yama.

After seeing the edict, Zhao Kuangyi was furious and said: "The princes are still young, their habits have not yet been formed, and their studies have not been refined. ”

All five were exiled.

This matter should have come to an end, but at this time, Wen Zhongshu decisively raised the banner of righteous annihilation, saying that Song Xin was recommended by Lu Mengzheng and was the brother of Lu Mengzheng's wife, and then criticized Lu Mengzheng for invoking intimacy and stealing peace.

After the book was published, Lu Mengzheng also went down.

But think about what Lu Meng is doing for Wen Zhongshu......

Therefore, Yang Zheng, a generation of famous ministers, saw Kou Zhun and Wen Zhongshe riding horses together in the capital, and the spring breeze was proud, Yang Zhengzhi said sadly: "Wen Zhongshu and Kou Zhun won a straight name to take a noble position, setting a bad example for the younger generations, and harming the world." ”

Therefore, the name of the two is Wen Kou!

It's not a good word, although Wen Kou is the result of Zhao Kuangyi's hand, he said how much I hope that Jia Yi will appear in my court.

It's okay to say Wei Zheng, is Jia Yi really a good minister? Look at his time as Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, the best dynasty in Chinese history, when he talked about politics, he immediately sighed and cried, so the world called him crazy.

said that Yang Zhengzhi, a big mouth, is also a big mouth, and he has repeatedly advised Chai Rong to kill Zhao Kuangyin.

However, is Yang Zhengzhi wrong?

I am not afraid of a big mouth, but I have to be reasonable, virtuous, and righteous.

Look at what Wen Zhongshu did!

If this continues, who else is willing to be gracious and gracious?

And he also said that if it continues to develop, the Song Dynasty will become more and more impetuous. First there was a chaotic war, then there was a clique, and then there was no follow-up.

Including Kou Zhun, in fact, Kou Zhun will deduct the earth-shattering contributions made by the Abyss Alliance in history, and divide the rest of Xiao Kou, which is really a bit difficult to say.

But now it's different, Song Jiu is protected, the emperor appreciates it, Zhao Pu strongly recommends it, Yang Zhengzhi has no choice but to watch Xiao Kou's daily luxurious night banquet, embrace the beauty and have fun, and stand on the side and stare dryly.

However, the truth may be slightly wrong with what Yang Zheng thought, Wen Zhongshu's incident is too shameful, but Lu Mengzheng himself is also at fault, not Song Xin, but himself, he himself has always been unclear with Zhao Yuanxi. You are the prime minister, alas, and you have to make friends with the future crown prince, what do you want to do? This is the reason why Wen Zhongshu was dismissed as soon as he was on the spot, and then he dismissed Lu Mengzheng.

It seems that Zhao Pu and Song Jiu can't see it well, so Zhao Kuangyi has to find a candidate by himself.

First of all, Zhang Qixian was promoted to a flat chapter matter.

Jia Huangzhong and Li Xin were then transferred to Zhongshu to serve as governors. But Zhao Kuangyi was afraid that there would be any more demon moths in Zhongshu, so he transferred Li Fang to Zhongshu again, not expecting Lao Li to become famous, but hoping that Lao Li could suppress everyone's impetuous emotions, stabilize these juniors, and bring them with him.

But Song Jiu looked at this list and was a little worried, Lao Li was definitely not good, Zhang Qixian was able to serve as the prime minister in military affairs, and he was not Zhang Qixian's director. Although Jia Huangzhong is not drawn, he has a cautious personality and lacks responsibility, and he may have done well in the local area, but he is obviously not a good candidate for the two governments.

It's not good to have a big mouth, it's not good to have a strong sense of power, it's not good to dare to take responsibility, yes, this is the prime minister of the two governments, so how easy is it?

As for the future saint Li Xin, Song Jiu does not know the way, so he does not understand and pay attention to it, he is a Jinshi of the Taiping Rejuvenation of the country for five years, and he is awarded the title of supervisor and sentenced to Tanzhou, and then summons the History Museum, and quickly enters the two systems as the knowledge system, and then gives him the bachelor of Hanlin, and then comes up.

Such a resume made Song Jiu even more uneasy.

If it's just usual, Guan Jianfeng is up, how can such a big personnel transfer be done? (To be continued......)