At the following court meeting, these officials recommended some people who they thought could serve as county guards in the three provinces.

In this regard, Zhao Jun did not refute it, and all of them passed it unifiedly.

Just when the hundred officials wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue and take down all the remaining middle and low-level officials, Zhao Jun suddenly took out a list in the court.

After only listening to it twice, the hundred officials immediately understood why the Holy Lord did not refuse all the candidates they had recommended before.

The list that Zhao Jun took out was clearly all officials from the political affairs hall.

Since Zhao Jun has given up the position of a senior official just now, at Zhao Jun's insistence, it is not good for the hundred officials to continue to argue with Zhao Jun about the matter of middle and low-level officials.

In the end, I had no choice but to pass.

After the court meeting, the hundred officials dispersed, but Zhao Jun left Zhang He, Jiang He and even Zhang Zheng and took them to the imperial study together.

Up to now, Jiang He has become a secretary of the ministry, a dignified official of the six ministries.

And after Zhang Zheng was transferred to Bianjing, he is now the right attendant of the ministry, Zhao Jun originally planned to directly let him be the left attendant, but Zhang Zheng refused.

said that he had just arrived, and it was already a blessing of heaven to be able to become the right waiter of the six middle officials' department, and if he entered the left waiter again, he would eventually fall into the mouth.

Seeing that he insisted, Zhao Jun went by him.

After arriving at the imperial study, Zhao Jun did not let the three of them stand, and as soon as they came in, he asked Wang Huaien to bring chairs to the three of them.

After everyone sat down, Jiang He took the lead in speaking: "Your Majesty, why do you want to let out all the senior officials of the new three counties.

Your Majesty, you know what kind of virtue those people are. ”

As for who those people in Jiang He's words were, everyone present knew that they were not officials from the imperial examination.

The corners of Zhang Heting's mouth twitched on the side, he was also from the imperial examination, and even you Jiang Hearen are also from the imperial examination?

As a result, now he directly said those people, and all those who were born in the imperial examination were classified together.

Zhang Zheng on the side listened to Jiang He's words, and when he saw Zhang Xiang's appearance on the side, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but turn up slightly, and he secretly snickered.

When Zhao Jun heard this, he waved his hand and said with a smile: "As the saying goes, if you slap a slap, you have to give a date, and you can't bear the wolf."

If I hadn't let the senior officials out, wouldn't you think they would have been willing to let all the middle- and lower-level officials use officials from the political office?

It's just a compromise. ”

Zhang He also continued after Zhao Jun's words ended: "Besides, Your Majesty's victory over the middle and lower-level officials is equivalent to completely taking down the three new counties.

Although the position of senior officials is high, it is always the middle and lower level officials who really control the place.

If the middle and lower-level officials are united, those high-ranking officials above will just be set aside.

Those people thought they had got the biggest cake, but they also gave up the actual control of the three counties. ”

Jiang He couldn't help muttering when he heard this: "But this is too much, and there is no one left."

What if they use their power to replace all the middle and lower officials? ”

Zhang Zheng said with a smile on the side: "No matter who they want to replace, they have to be sent by the imperial court, if they remove the middle and lower-level officials appointed by the imperial court, but the imperial court does not send them new officials."

There was chaos in the local area because of the lack of officials, and Lord Shangshu thought who would be punished in the end? ”

Jiang He opened his mouth and finally figured it out.

Your Majesty, this is a scheme.

With him and Zhang Zheng here, all the appointments and dismissals of officials in this court must go through the hands of the two of them.

If those people want to do something to the middle and lower-level officials, then they can not add new people to them, so in the end, something goes wrong, where do they get rid of these high-ranking officials?

Then it occurred to him that if they made a mistake......

Jiang He raised his head and said with a look of surprise: "If those people make mistakes, we will take them down on this ground, and they have no reason to refute it, it just so happens that the middle and lower levels are all people from the political affairs hall, and it will be us who will replace them at that time."

In this way, those people are just taking a false name, and the actual rights are all in the hands of His Majesty! ”

Zhao Jun smiled and nodded: "That's right." ”

Jiang He hurriedly surrendered his hand: "Your Majesty is wise!" ”

Zhao Jun waved his hand, and then said with a straight face: "This matter is a foregone conclusion, and I didn't leave the three of you here for this purpose."

The reason why I want to keep you after the court meeting is because I want to discuss something with you. ”

"Your Majesty, please!"

The three of them gave up their hands in unison.

Zhao Jun then said directly: "Next year is the new year's Jingcha, the last time was in the second year of Xingwu, at that time, the first Jingcha was imperfect in all aspects, and there were many loopholes.

This is the second Beijing inspection, and I hope to thoroughly screen all the officials in the entire capital, and screen out all those who are on the corpse and vegetarian food.

So that I don't have to be hindered in what I'm going to do next. ”

Impede?

A question mark appeared in the heads of all three people.

You are also the lord of the Great Song Dynasty, who dares to restrain you?

But the three of them didn't speak, but continued to listen to Zhao Jun's story.

Just listen to Zhao Jun continue:

"It's like poison in the body, Zhang Xiang may not know very well, but Jiang Aiqing and Zhang Aiqing are both from Yunzhou County, you should know very well.

Although the county with poison is big, it is not much bigger than the county of the Great Song Dynasty.

But how much do they tax each year?

What is the annual tax for the same county in the Great Song Dynasty?

For example, the Namri-gun and Gyeonggi areas around Biankyung are about the same size.

All of them are in 300,000 hectares of land.

The arable area of Nanli County is 270,000 hectares, and that of Bianjing is 140,000 hectares.

Twice a year, Nanli County collects about 54 million stone of grain.

Bianjing has a harvest once a year, and the arable land is less than half, even if I am a quarter of Nanli County, that is the tax of 13.5 million stone grain.

But what about reality?

Last year, the tax revenue of Bianjing was 4 million stones, and the reported cultivated land area was more than half less than 140,000 hectares at the beginning of the founding of the country, becoming only 70,000 hectares!

The gap between the two can be described as the difference between cloud and mud!

Where did the nearly 10 million stone grain in Bianjing go?

Where did the 70,000 hectares of land go?

Can you give me an answer? ”

Zhao Jun's eyes swept over the three of them, but everyone knew that his gaze mainly fell on Zhang He's body.

Zhang He frowned, sighed, and arched his hand:

"The fields are hidden, and many dignitaries take advantage of their privileges to evade taxes.

As a result, land is reduced and tax revenues are reduced.

But Your Majesty, the form of Bianjing is complicated, the emperor's relatives are everywhere, and there are many nobles and nobles, and there is no difference here.

If you want to check it, it's really hard to reach the sky! ”

Zhao Jun sneered:

"Hard?

What are they!

What a thing!

Now even the Huangzhuang Commercial House under my name has to pay a lot of taxes, why don't they pay?

Aren't they more noble than me? ”

Zhang He sighed helplessly: "I can't compare to Your Majesty." ”

"In this case, what is as difficult as climbing to the sky!

I have already made up my mind, and it was the instability of the country before.

When the time came, I turned a blind eye to them.

But now that the country is stable, I don't have to put up with them anymore.

I will take advantage of this Jingcha to select a group of qualified and capable officials, and kick out those black sheep!

Then I will check the entire land of the world!

Zhang Zheng! ”

"The minister is here!"

"This Jingcha is presided over by you! Can you do what I ask for?! ”

Zhang Zheng thought for a moment, and then said with a firm look in his eyes: "The minister must do his best!" ”

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(End of chapter)