Chapter 35: Let's make some jokes about today's Great Song Dynasty
In the vertical arch hall, hundreds of officials from various departments have long been in place, and the three phases and three staff members slowly walked to the front of the team, and with Wang Shouzhong's high-pitched "Your Majesty has arrived", the officials bowed their hands.
"Excuse me!"
Zhao Zhen waved his hand.
After waiting for the hundred officials to calm down, the head of the palace shouted: "If you have something to do with the class, you will play early, and you will retreat from the court without any curtains." ”
"The minister has a book to play."
Zhou Huairen, the supervisor of the imperial history, said: "The minister impeached the secretary and young eunuch Fan Zhongyan was lawless and absent from work many times, and the secretary and supervisor did not see anyone for a few days. ”
"The minister also has a book to play."
Liu Kang, the superintendent of the imperial history, said: "The minister impeached Yan Shu in the imperial history, and Uncle Yan was added as the chief of the imperial history platform, and he did not think about diligent official duties, but he never saw him on duty all day long, resulting in the high accumulation of official documents in the imperial history platform, and there was a lot of slackness in supervising the affairs of hundreds of officials. ”
Gong Dingchen, the counselor, said: "The minister impeached Lu Yijian, the subordinate of the Tongzhongshu Sect, for ignoring the government and acting recklessly. ”
Han Qi, the right secretary, said: "The minister impeached the king of the same Zhongshu Sect Pingzhang, for a year, mediocre and mediocre, and achieved nothing. Participate in the political affairs, guess the personality of the danger and perverse, often crowd out colleagues! ”
He Tan, the servant of the palace, arched his hand and said: "The minister impeached Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng, Wang Sui, and the governor of the political affairs Song Shou, Cai Qi, and Sheng Du, and the corpse was vegetarian, and the flies were not seen all day long. ”
"The minister seconded the proposal!"
"The minister also seconded it!"
"Your Majesty, please punish these people severely!"
Several of the imperial historians and officials in the palace below spoke out one after another, attacking Fan Zhongyan, Yan Shu, Lu Yijian and other people, and the momentum was huge.
There were too many officials in the Song Dynasty, and the Lu Party and the Fan Party were actually only a small part.
More officials are not grassy or do nothing, but either have their own small circles, or they are alone, neither clinging to the powerful nor flattering, and concentrate on their own affairs.
And the most awesome thing about Fan Zhongyan and his friends is that a Qingli New Deal directly unified the originally disunited Song Dynasty officialdom to their opposites, and all opposed his New Deal, which led to the rapid miscarriage of the New Deal.
Now because the New Deal has not been launched, there is no such thing. After all, no matter how powerful Lu Yijian is, it is impossible for thousands of officials in Bianliang City to follow him.
Especially the officials of the Imperial Court and the Imperial Historical Tower, they have never been afraid of offending the prime minister, anyway, as long as the other party does something wrong, they will dare to attack, no matter who you are. Therefore, one by one, they are all impeached, and once the impeachment is successful and the prime minister is dismissed, it will be a great honor for the speech official.
Seeing this big scene, Zhao Zhen felt a little headache for a while.
Now Yan Shu and Fan Zhongyan are both stationed in Houyuan, accompanying Zhao Jun every day, and indeed rarely appear in their respective yamen and court meetings, it is understandable for the officials to impeach them in the name of absenteeism, according to the Song law, at least it is a dismissal.
And He Tan is even more heavyweight, and he directly impeached the three phases and three ginseng, if he really asks for the guilt according to the impeachment of the officials, then there is no need to do state affairs, and the prime ministers go home collectively to farm.
He had to figure out how to fix it.
"You don't have to be so angry, Fan Zhongyan asked him to revise the classics, just repair the books at home. Yan Shu asked him to do some things, as for the prime ministers. ”
Zhao Zhen paused for a moment, and then found a reason and said: "The prime ministers are old, and I will allow them to arrive late for the meeting." ”
"Since His Majesty ordered them to revise the classics and do other things, why didn't they go through the Chinese Book Provincial Draft?"
He Tan pressed step by step: "If it's just a verbal message, then they are still absent from work." ”
Zhao Zhen hurriedly looked at Lu Yijian.
Lu Yijian understood, so he glanced at Li Min, a person from Zhongshu not far away, and Li Min said: "This matter has been handled by Zhongshu Province." ”
"Since you have passed through the province of Zhongshu, why don't you see the announcement?"
He Tan asked again.
Lu Yijian said: "It is a trivial matter to let the secretary supervise the scriptures and let the imperial history investigate its case, do you still have to tell the world that everyone will know about it?" ”
He Tan still wanted to say something, but Zhao Zhen interrupted: "Okay, this matter is over, in the future, Fan Zhongyan will repair books at home, as for Yan Shu, the secretary of the household department and the deputy envoy of the three divisions, the matter of Yushitai will be handled by Jia Changchao and Yu Zhouxi, where is Lu Xiang?" ”
"The minister is here."
"Draft the purpose, send the book to the province."
"Yes."
Lu Yijian responded.
Seeing that the dust had settled, He Tan and the others could only retreat in a huff.
Afterwards, the court proceedings continued.
Zhang Yuanyu, director of the Water Conservancy Department of the Ministry of Industry, reported that the white canal was in disrepair and was becoming more and more flooded.
Zhao Zhen ordered the Xiang army to repair the canal and control the flood.
Then he applied for the minting of new money, and he suggested that medicinal iron should be cast, with copper at three points and iron at six, to make copper-iron alloy and fill the treasury.
This suggestion really made the officials seriously discuss it, and in the end, it was Cheng Lin, the envoy of the third division, and Sun Zude, the waiting system of Tianzhang Pavilion, who strongly opposed it, and sternly stated the harm and serious consequences brought by iron money to the country, and the matter was considered to be over.
Otherwise, Zhao Zhen really listened to Xu Shen's nonsense and cast iron money, and it would be a lot of fun.
The main reason is that the national treasury is indeed short of money now, and during the reign of Injong, the annual fiscal deficit reached more than 2 million guan, and a total of more than 30 million guan was accumulated.
Moreover, Li Jian is still working on the money law, and he almost wants to empty the state treasury, which makes the finances of the imperial court worse, so some people have bad ideas, and many people agree.
Later, in the period of Huizong of the Song Dynasty, they simply began to mint iron coins, which were divided into small iron coins and large iron coins, and iron coins in the Southern Song Dynasty directly became mainstream coins.
But now Zhao Zhen can't use it, and he got the Jiaozi method from Zhao Jun, so he naturally decisively did not adopt iron money, but ordered Shengdu, who had originally engaged in the salt and iron economy, to set up a "Jiaoziwu", which was originally engaged in the salt and iron economy, and was piloted in Bianliang as soon as possible, and merged with Chengdu's "Jiaoziwu" to form a bank exchange between Bianliang and Chengdu.
Zhao Zhen directly issued a holy decree and passed the Zhongshu Province and the Menxia Province, and now the three phases and three counselors of the Zhongshu Province and the Menxia Province are not in agreement, but the matter of "Jiaozi Affairs" has been unified, so it was quickly passed.
Therefore, without the knowledge of the officials, Shengdu has officially started the establishment of a bank.
Soon, the bustling court meeting ended.
At this time, it was already noon, Zhao Zhen used the excuse of leaving the three ministers and three counselors to discuss national affairs, and let them stay in the palace, and then everyone had lunch together, and went in the direction of the back garden.
Normally, Zhao Jun will also eat lunch at this point, and then chat nonsense with Yan Shu and Fan Zhongyan, but Yan Shu is not here today.
Because he went back after taking the medicine from Zhao Jun in the morning, he asked Zhao Zhen for leave.
So now it is Fan Zhongyan who is waiting for Zhao Jun.
"I'm full, Uncle Nima, take advantage of Uncle Lari's absence, let's have some jokes about Zhao Guangyi today."
When Zhao Zhen and the others arrived at Houyuan after lunch, as soon as they arrived at the door, they heard Zhao Jun basking in the sun outside the door say with a hippie smile: "After the battle of the Gaoliang River, the Song and Liao sides sent envoys to each other, hoping to discuss peace matters. In order to bluff Liao Jingzong, the envoy of the Great Song Dynasty told Liao Jingzong that the Great Song Dynasty had developed a new type of drug, and the man could run around Bianliang within a quarter of an hour after eating it. So in order to see the power of the drug, Liao Jingzong decided to send a messenger to find out. When Zhao Guangyi learned of this, he couldn't help but be in a hurry, and asked what should happen to the full hall of civil and military. I only heard a palace maid in the corner say quietly: "Your Majesty, the Liao army has hit outside the city", Zhao Guangyi listened, set up a donkey cart and ran to Fujian in the blink of an eye. ”
Zhao Zhen's face instantly darkened.
Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng and others covered their mouths, shrugged their shoulders, and forcibly held back.
They almost burst out laughing.
Zhao Jun, this kid, how can he poke the lungs of the official family?