"Defeat the Liao State and Western Xia? That's easier said than done. ”

Fan Zhongyan heard Zhao Jun's words, laughed at himself and said: "Even if you are fully prepared, at most you can deal with Western Xia, the Liao State side, the soldiers are strong and the horses are strong, how to compete for power?" ”

Zhao Jun glanced at Fan Zhongyan and said coldly: "If you can't even beat yourself, then you really can't beat it." ”

"This"

Fan Zhongyan was stunned for a moment, then hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, even if Fan dies, he will never let Liaoma go south." ”

Zhao Jun said with a smile: "It's not that serious, there are many cavalry in the Liao Kingdom, and now the Great Song Dynasty actually has gunpowder, I don't plan to make muskets and artillery for Zhao Zhen and them immediately, but I can get you granular gunpowder and grenades, this is relatively simple." ”

If muskets and artillery are made, the Great Song Dynasty is indeed invincible in foreign wars, then Zhao Zhen and they will have no courage to reform, so sometimes they must be forced, otherwise it will not be a big deal.

"A grenade?"

Fan Zhongyan was puzzled: "What is this?" ”

"You don't have to care, I'll just make it for you to show when the time comes, as long as you can defeat the Western Xia and Liao, and let the Great Song Dynasty leap from the lowest position of the Three Kingdoms to the boss, you should be able to raise Zhao Zhen's courage."

Zhao Jun said: "As long as you can fight for a few years of peace, so that the Western Xia and Liao do not dare to invade the border, you can win Zhao Zhen's support for reform." But Zhao Zhen is unreliable, so you can only rely on me. ”

"By you?"

"Yes, Zhao Zhen, I estimate that after defeating the Western Xia and the Liao State, he should support your reform in a fake way, but is that really the reform you want?"

"What do you mean?"

"These people don't dare to beg me openly not to attack the scholar class, so they can only secretly use conspiracies to lure me into the trap, which shows that they themselves are weak and incompetent, and they want me to keep the Great Song Dynasty, and they also hope that I will not cause too much social change and maintain their power, so they want to assimilate me."

"Yes."

"Zhao Zhen didn't dare to kill people, and at most deposed some corrupt officials. If you don't completely change the system, it will be difficult to change the system, so I will kill people, and you will do things. ”

"You kill people, I will do it?"

Fan Zhongyan frowned and said, "If it's okay to kill one or two, if you kill too much, will they?" ”

"No, it won't."

Zhao Jun shook his head: "Maybe they even want me to kill a few people to satisfy my willingness to reform a little, otherwise do you think I can see the shortcomings of Bianliang and the world so easily?" ”

"What do you mean?"

Fan Zhongyan thought for a moment, and then said, "Those are deliberately made for you to see?" It shouldn't be possible, where can they control the lives of millions of people in Bianliang? ”

"They really can't control it, but they can control it to change things before I go, but it's just too deliberate, and I won't be stupid enough to see it, so they decided to let it go."

Zhao Jun smiled: "My feet grow on me, they can't control where I go." It's better to just let me see it, after all, I have also seen those drawbacks from the history books, so it's better to push the boat down the river and simply let me kill some people and do something. ”

"Hmm"

Fan Zhongyan groaned.

Zhao Jun continued: "In this way, when I find some officials who are full of evil in the future and let me die, they will pretend that you have also killed them, and you have reformed them, which is equivalent to rectifying the officialdom, and won't the entire bureaucratic system be preserved?" ”

"You say so well and reasonably, why didn't you think of it before?"

Fan Zhongyan was shocked.

Zhao Jun seems to have changed a lot this night.

"Didn't you understand it before? In fact, I don't know much about the social class situation and the degree of corruption of the bureaucracy in the Great Song Dynasty, and the only thing I know is that they want me to go into the mountains. ”

Zhao Jun shook his head: "The so-called "I don't know the true face of Lushan, only because I am in this mountain", there are still too many things that I have been blinded about, and I still have to see more of this world. ”

"And what's next for you?"

Fan Zhongyan asked.

Zhao Jun said with a smile: "I plan to go to Zhao Zhen first to make trouble, and force him to release the authority of the Imperial City Division to the whole country, just like the Jinyi Guard of the Ming Dynasty." ”

"Do you want to open a brocade guard in the Great Song Dynasty?"

Fan Zhongyan was shocked, and then hurriedly said, "Don't open this opening." ”

In the final analysis, he is also a civilian clique.

Although he dared to kill people, he did not want the trial power of the civilian clique to be taken away by the Imperial City Division.

Zhao Jun said: "Since the power can be put down, it can naturally be taken back." Opening the Imperial City Division is just an expedient measure, and when the shortcomings of officialdom are eliminated in the future, it will be enough to rein in the Imperial City Division. ”

"Hmm."

Fan Zhongyan had no choice but to say, "Then do what you think." ”

"Old Fan, it's good that you have such an awareness, and you are a person who can do great things."

Zhao Jun gave a thumbs up and said: "In the future, you will continue to be a person on the side of the scholar class, pretending to have learned the lessons of history and reduce the intensity of reform a little, and it is best that we will become a hostile force in the future." ”

"Hostile forces?"

Fan Zhongyan thought for a moment, lowered his head and said, "You mean that the official family needs us to be a hostile force?" ”

"Yes, I will force Zhao Zhen to reform and force him to put you on the throne, you just need to compromise with King Lu Yi and Jian Zeng and them, and then pretend to put your own people up. Zhao Zhen is afraid of friends, then I am hostile to you, and a balance will be formed, and when the upper echelons are all your people and I can take charge of the Imperial City Division, I will give him a combination of inside and outside, kill him upside down, and catch Zhao Zhen off guard. ”

Zhao Jun laughed, worthy of being an old fan, Geng Zhi is a little straight, but it does not prevent him from being smart.

"Okay, I promise you, anyway, you're a murderer, it's none of my business."

Fan Zhongyan responded.

He thought it would be better to let Zhao Jun make trouble.

Anyway, no matter how much Zhao Jun did it, Zhao Zhen didn't dare to do anything with him.

As long as the scholar class focused on Zhao Jun, he would be able to carry out reforms calmly.

After all, if Zhao Jun is really crazy, he will kill everywhere, compared to being investigated by the Imperial City Division to the end of corruption, and then beheading and killing. Naturally, it is better to be dismissed and investigated, and exiled to Lingnan.

In this way, if he can drive Lu Yi, Jian, Wang Zeng, and these old people out of the court, he Fan Zhongyan, as well as Fu Bi, Han Qi and others will hold power, and Zhao Jun will be able to attack the officialdom from the bottom to the top, and they will be able to complete the dream he wants to complete all his life.

But then Fan Zhongyan seemed to remember something, and said, "Do you still participate in the imperial examination?" ”

"Participate."

Zhao Jun smiled: "Why don't you participate?" I'll come to you in the morning, and I'll go to Zhao Zhen to make trouble later, which should be what I should behave normally. ”

Fan Zhong was stunned for a moment, then laughed and said, "You are even smarter than I imagined. ”

Zhao Jun also smiled.

The current situation is that the emperor and the group of prime ministers begged him to do things, but they didn't want him to make too much trouble and poke a big hole in the officialdom.

So he planned to pull him into the system, and wanted to use the system to assimilate him and prevent him from changing his life.

Therefore, Zhao Jun's participation in the imperial examination, or let him promise to be born as a jinshi and smoothly join the officialdom, is the most important thing for these people.

The rest of the things, including what he wanted, the emperor and the group of ministers would give him, even if he made too much trouble, as long as he did not touch the basic plate of the Great Song scholar class, he would be left to go.

Obviously, these hangers made up their minds to engage in routines and play white prostitution, trying to open up permissions for him step by step, so that he felt that this was the way he should go.

Then squeeze the knowledge in his head, and when he enters the system, won't he still have to be wasted by the system in the end?

At that time, even if Zhao Jun is promoted quickly, and he will go all the way from the local government to the prime minister like a rocket, he will be in his thirties and forties, and he will not be able to do anything.

But how is this possible?

Since Zhao Jun agreed to come out to change the Great Song Dynasty, it is impossible to let the common people still hold the mountain of bureaucrats and doctors on their heads.

He needs to get rid of all ills and push the bureaucratic class into the dirt.

It's just that he doesn't have power in his hands, so he naturally has to take power.

And now there is an excuse.

However, in order to prevent Zhao Zhen and the ministers from seeing that he had seen through the other party's thoughts, he couldn't immediately say that he would not participate in the imperial examination.

After all, letting him participate in the imperial examination is the top priority of those people, as long as Zhao Jun agrees to this matter, then everything else can be discussed, even if he pokes a hole in the sky.

So Zhao Jun decided to take the plan, temporarily participate in the township test, fool those people, and wait until he got the power, what kind of Jinshi Chunqiu, he didn't bother to take care of it, and even if Lu Yijian begged him to get the champion, they all abandoned it.

After discussing with Fan Zhongyan for a while, it was already the beginning of the hour, and they chatted for two hours, and the two sides decided to reach a cooperation, and Zhao Jun would firmly support Fan Zhongyan's reform in the future.

The content of the reform is also very simple, Fan Zhongyan intends to carry out a large-scale elimination of the entire officialdom, eliminate the black sheep, and solve the problem of redundant officials by the way, killing two birds with one stone.

But he would not have imagined that Zhao Jun already had the idea of breaking the entire bureaucracy and carrying out a great revolution, so he decided to have other plans.

Lao Fan wanted to get his help, and he couldn't talk about using him, but Zhao Jun was already thinking about using him.

This is also the first lesson that Lao Fan taught him, but he used it flexibly.

"These old Deng want to calculate me, these scholars in the Song Dynasty, including Zhao Zhen, the emperor, are really incorrigibly stupid."

"It seems that I thought too simply, thinking that with the support of these people, I would be able to do a great job, in fact, Zhao Zhen was afraid of these scholars, and King Lu Yijian had not been able to get rid of their lives, so they wanted to pull me into the water."

"I don't want to be dragged into the quagmire of feudal bureaucracy by them, and then talk about revolution. At the end of the day, I must remember who I am, I am an outsider and a revolutionary, and I cannot go along with them. ”

"Lu Yijian Wang Zeng and these old Dengs, I used to think that they were good people, but I didn't expect that they were a little selfish at most, and in fact they were still the defenders of the bureaucratic system of feudal society, so I still can't think of them too well."

"Zhao Zhen is not honest, and he hasn't recognized the reality yet. still thinks that the scholar class is his biggest helper, but he doesn't know that the more unlimited power is given to the scholar group, it is to harm his own country. ”

"This thing is too bad, and when I become strong in the future, I must over-establish a constitutional monarchy and put him in the air. But not yet, you have to disguise yourself and pretend to be genuinely good for him. ”

"Well, I'll go and scold him later and give him some "reasoning". Even as a last resort, I may really go against the grain and do a full martial arts against the ancestors of the side branches. ”

On the way back, Zhao Jun quickly sorted out his thoughts in his mind.

Zhao Zhen cooperated with the civil official group and really wanted him to scold his mother, obviously he was a member of the Zhao clan, and he came to save the Great Song Dynasty from fire and water, but as a result, he only thought about prostitution in vain, he really didn't do anything, and he could make people vomit blood.

So since Zhao Zhen is not a good person, he can't blame himself. The road he chose was wrong, so Zhao Jun can't be blamed for deciding to flip the table.

Coming out of Fan Zhongyan, Zhao Jun asked Di Qing to summon two chazi over.

He asked Chazi to go to Cao Xiu and told him that he was going to enter the palace.

Waiting for the inspectors to report to the office, Zhao Jun went home.

He put his laptop on his back, and under the protection of Di Qing and others, he didn't go far from Qingtai Street and arrived outside Xihua Gate.

At this time, Cao Xiu was already waiting outside the Xihua Gate, and when he saw him coming, he wondered: "Xiaolang, why do you suddenly want to go back to the palace today?" ”

Zhao Jun said: "I remembered something and took me in." ”

"Okay, the official family has instructed that if Xiaolang wants to come back, he will come back at any time, but the official family is still in the court."

After Cao Xiu said this, he hesitated again and said: "What Xiaolang did yesterday has been spread, and today there is a servant Yushi who impeached Yulongzhi and arrested the people at will, set up a private court, and asked the official family to kill Di Qing to set an example." ”

"Huh."

Zhao Jun sneered and did not speak.

If he had been, he wouldn't have thought too much. But now that I've figured it out, and with my previous understanding of history, I suddenly have a sense of God's perspective.

Where are these imperial histories impeaching and arresting people at will, it is clear that Di Qing and they arrested people to the capital of the Imperial Dragon Direct Camp and tortured them, making the civilian clique feel that the judicial power they control is threatened.

Therefore, they must take Di Qing to prevent Zhao Zhen from having the power to divide the power of judgment. Let's not say that Di Qing is his person, even if he is not, the order is also from him, what can Zhao Zhen do to him?

Soon, with Cao Xiu's token opening the way, Zhao Jun was familiar all the way to the Houyuan Guanjia Palace.

As soon as he arrived, Wang Shouzhong hurried over, he was accompanying Zhao Zhen in the upper court, but when he heard the report that Zhao Jun was back, he immediately came over to inquire about the situation.

"Xiaolang, why do you have time to come back to see the official family today?"

Wang Shouzhong said with a smile.

Zhao Jun smiled: "Where are those books left to the official family before?" I plan to take some photos and rearrange the content when the time comes, but the knowledge points of these primary school textbooks are still insufficient. ”

"This"

Wang Shouzhong hesitated for a moment.

Zhao Jun's face instantly became gloomy: "What? That's my stuff, can't I even come back and take a picture? ”

Wang Shouzhong shook his head and said: "No, it's just that these things are placed in the Guanjia Palace, and the official family has to watch it every day, but do you want to say hello to the official family?" ”

"Good guy, I'll take my things to take pictures, and I have to greet the official, you're fine."

Zhao Jun said angrily: "You don't have to worry about this, I'm just taking a photo." ”

Wang Shouzhong saw that he was really angry, so he had to shut up obediently.

He didn't know what it meant to take pictures.

Zhao Jun walked straight into the Guanjia Palace, he saw that all the books were really placed on the table, obviously Zhao Zhen was reading and studying every day.

Zhao Jun walked over and turned on the computer, and then saw Wang Shouzhong watching from the side, he said: "This is confidential, as far as I and the official family can see, do you want to be killed?" ”

Wang Shouzhong shrunk his neck, hurriedly left, and even closed the door when he left.

After he left, Zhao Jun used the high-definition camera that came with his notebook to take pictures of every page of all the textbooks, save them as pictures, and then set a password for his notebook.

Immediately afterwards, Zhao Jun searched around, found a spittoon in the Guanjia Palace, and took out the fire sickle from Di Qing from his pocket.

He threw the book on the ground, tore each page to pieces, threw it in the spittoon, and then lit one of the pages with a fire sickle, threw the fire into it, and saw that the fire rose and burned to ashes, and then shouted to Wang Shouzhong outside: "Old Wang, bring water up." ”

Wang Shouzhong didn't know why, and thought he was going to drink tea, so he hurriedly ordered the palace maid to take water.

Since Zhao Zhen now lives in the back garden, the water has already been carried on his back, and soon Wang Shouzhong carried a pot of tea, hurriedly pushed open the door, and saw Zhao Jun burning something, so frightened and panicked: "Xiaolang, what are you burning?" ”

"What do you say?"

Zhao Jun sneered.

He used to think too well of Zhao Zhen, but now after recognizing Zhao Zhen's true face of being cowardly and incompetent, and only infinitely compromising with the scholar class, he plans to put all the hole cards in his own hands and not give the other party a chance at all.

Wang Shouzhong rushed to the place and poured water into it to extinguish the flames, but by the time he rescued the things from the spittoon, there was only ashes left inside.

"Xiao Lang. This. ”

Wang Shouzhong's face was already pale.

Zhao Jun said: "It's none of your business, what are you afraid of, I have a backup, and I haven't destroyed it, I'm just worried that these things will be found out by the spies of Western Xia and Liao, and it will harm the Great Song Dynasty." I'm afraid you don't know that Western Xia and Liao are in the Great Song Palace, and they have long had internal responses. ”

"Impossible."

Wang Shouzhong was shocked and said: "Absolutely impossible! ”

"The official family knows about this, you just ask him when the time comes."

Zhao Jun sat lazily on the chair and said, "You go to the official's house, I'll wait for him here." ”

"Yes."

Wang Shouzhong had no choice but to leave the hall.

Zhao Jun's identity is really unprovoked by him now, so he can only let it go.

After about a quarter of an hour, Zhao Zhen's side barely managed to cope with the civil official group and came back in a hurry.

He had already heard that Zhao Jun had burned all the things, and as soon as he entered the door, he asked, "Eldest grandson, what's the matter with you, why did you burn all my books?" ”

Your book?

Zhao Jun sneered in his heart, and then said: "Official, I remembered that there were so many spies in the palace in Xixia, you put the book in the Guanjia Palace, once it is stolen, do you know what the consequences will be?" ”

"This"

Zhao Zhen was dumbfounded, because he remembered that Zhao Jun had indeed said this.

Then he could only say, "Then these things must not be destroyed, and it is better to hide them." ”

"Don't worry, I'm hiding in my computer."

Zhao Jun pointed to the notebook and said, "By the way, I came today to find something to do with the official family, and Cao Xiu should have told you about the matter." ”

"Ugh."

Speaking of this, Zhao Zhen sighed and said, "Eldest grandson, you are too impulsive, how can you let Di Qing and them set up a private court?" Do you know that more than a dozen imperial historians were impeached this morning, and they were going to force me to behead Di Qing! ”

Zhao Jun looked at Zhao Zhen with an unkind face, Zhao Zhen was stared at a little hairy, and said in confusion: "Eldest grandson, is there anything on my face?" ”

"There's something, you have three words written all over your face, there's a serious illness!"

Zhao Jun stared at him and said word by word: "Official, are you, is there something serious?" ”

(End of chapter)