What is my serious illness?

Zhao Zhen's eyes widened, although he could think that Zhao Jun might be angry, but as for being so angry?

Some time ago, we got along day and night, and it is clear that the relationship between our ancestors and grandchildren has deepened a lot.

Why did he become like this after only twenty days out of the palace?

Sure enough, the distance was estranged, and when they were together every day, the eldest grandson didn't scold himself much, but as soon as he left the palace, he immediately became rusty.

Zhao Zhen felt aggrieved and glanced at Wang Shouzhong, who was so frightened that he withdrew from the hall in a panic and closed the door by the way.

"Eldest grandson, what's wrong?"

Zhao Zhen didn't dare to scold Zhao Jun, he couldn't scold or fight. If you call someone, if Zhao Jun is annoyed, he will directly mess up or simply commit suicide, it will be a big trouble.

So he now feels that in front of Zhao Jun, he is not an ancestor, Zhao Jun is an ancestor, and sometimes there is really nothing to do with him.

And Zhao Jun didn't have any scruples about scolding Zhao Zhen.

The first is the identity of Zhao Junming's card traverser, whether it is Zhao Zhen or those ministers, they all ask for themselves, their own attitude is the correct attitude, if they suddenly become cautious, they will make those people suspicious.

Therefore, without directly debunking that they do not plan to take the imperial examination route, as long as they still maintain this attitude, then they can only offer themselves as ancestors.

It doesn't even matter if it's debunked, at most it's a stumbling block for yourself everywhere, and the two sides will enter endless quarrels because of different positions.

Then Zhao Jun can be rotten, he can choose not to say anything, do nothing to resist, facing the threat of Western Xia, Liao, the Yellow River and Jingkang, and they must be in a hurry when the time comes.

The second is that Zhao Zhen's personality is like this, and he is praising him when he says he is weak and incompetent.

If he didn't show himself a little bit stronger, with Zhao Zhen's weak character, he would definitely still be fooled by the civil officials and couldn't find the north, and in the end he still achieved nothing.

So he has to be strong in order to win the rights and interests he deserves.

"What's wrong?"

Zhao Jun sneered: "You still have the face to ask me?" I went to the outer city for more than ten days, and I saw fights, petty thefts, robberies in the city, and even stealing children. ”

Zhao Zhen squirmed his mouth for a moment, and then sighed: "Big grandson. I can't help anything about Sanssouci Cave. They are hiding in the sewers crisscrossed by Bianliang, and the government has surrounded and suppressed them I don't know how many times, but it is really impossible to completely eliminate them."

"Huh."

Zhao Jun was amused and said with a smile: "When Fan Zhongyan was the Yin of Kaifeng Mansion, he found it all out. They send hundreds of thousands of dollars to the officials of Kaifeng Mansion every year, and a pusher named Han Yuan has shielded them I don't know how many times, Fan Zhongyan impeached him, and they were all suppressed, you are really a good emperor. ”

Zhao Zhen's face was slightly embarrassed, in fact, not only this Han Yuan, there was no shortage of honest imperial histories in the officialdom, and when he was inspecting around, he found a large number of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, but he was pressed down every time.

For example, Wang Kui, Sun Wei, Guo Chengyou and others, unless the movement is too big, ordinary corruption is not a big deal at all.

It is no wonder that in history, Fan Zhongyan's "Letter to the Ruling Party" talks about corruption and corruption. Su Shi wrote "Decisive Strategy", saying that if the people want to find the government to redress their grievances and do things, they must use money to open the way, otherwise they will not be able to do anything.

There are also Bao Zheng's "Bao Zheng's Recital" and Wang Anshi's "Words in the Book", all of which talk about how corrupt and dark today's officialdom is, and there are very few truly upright officials.

Song Zhenzong and Song Renzong, father and son, continued to connive officials!

"Sure enough, the name of your Renzong is really blown out by those people, you will only be benevolent to the scholars, not to the people at all, to the country! I found out that you are really sick in the brain, do you really think that you can stabilize your country forever by relying on those scholars? ”

Zhao Jun held back his anger and said: "Even if you want to consolidate the imperial power, it is not so consolidated, the power is not in your own hands, and it is handed over to those civil officials, you don't think there are many rebellions in the Song Dynasty, right?" ”

"I"

Zhao Zhen opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but couldn't say it.

"I know you're weak and incompetent, but can you have a little ambition? I've said it tens of thousands of times, don't be crooked, you should be on the side of the people, not the bureaucrats! ”

Zhao Jun pointed to his chest, and said with a look of hatred: "Do you know how the Yuan Dynasty fell?" Zhu Yuanzhang said that the Yuan died in the wide, and the leniency referred to here does not mean that it is lenient to the people, but to the scholars. Taxation, governance, and justice were all handed over to the scholars, and the scholars could squeeze the people and cause the fall of the Yuan Dynasty! ”

Zhao Zhen was stunned and said, "This is how the Great Yuan Dynasty perished? ”

"What do you think?"

Zhao Jun said angrily: "Do you know how the scholar class of the Yuan Dynasty and the Manchu Qing Dynasty gave them reasons to claim their legitimacy and legitimacy? The Great Song Dynasty is destroyed, they are nothing more than a change of emperor and continue to be powerful, if the Zhao family dies, you and I are nothing, can you be sober! ”

Zhao Zhen scolded him so much that he could only say with a smile: "But I can't help it, the world needs officials to govern, if all these people are deposed, who will govern the people?" ”

"You are really hopeless, if you don't depose these people, they will only squeeze the people into rebellion."

Zhao Jun said coldly: "You won't be naïve to think that just finding those yield-increasing crops and the industrial revolution can always ensure that your country will last forever, right?" I'm telling you, you're thinking too much. The Qing Dynasty was already the pinnacle of feudal society, and the productive forces were enough to feed 400 million people, but in the end it didn't perish? ”

"Do you believe that if I make artillery and flintlock pistols, they can be stolen and sold to Western Xia and Liao after a while? Believe it or not, even if there are high-yield crops, the squeeze on the people at the bottom will only be deeper. ”

"At that time, the entire Great Song Dynasty will be even more chaotic, not to mention the industrial revolution, even if you want to stabilize your current country, it will be impossible."

"The key to maintaining power is the need for balance, and the civilian clique has now formed a flood of beasts, although they will not directly subvert your country, but they will continue to plague your country. Let the Great Song become rotten and stinky, and the slightest touch between external and internal forces will explode like a powder keg. ”

"You have to be glad that I fell in the back garden and was met by you, if I fell somewhere else, I would definitely kill the official and rebel. As for those officials who continue to oppress the people, all of them have killed no innocent, and you still put them up to confess, you are really seriously ill! ”

At the end of his words, Zhao Zhen was silent.

Why didn't he know that?

Historically, he has also initiated several reforms, and has also issued some edicts to investigate and punish corrupt officials.

For example, there are five articles in the Qingli New Deal that clarify the rule of officials, which shows that Zhao Zhen was also very determined to rectify the officialdom at that time.

But in the end, it was still over, and the voices and waves of opposition were too great for him to withstand the pressure.

Now that he knows the reasons for the failure of the Qingli New Deal, Zhao Zhen actually still feels afraid, he is afraid that the opposition of the civil officials will come like a tide, he is afraid that all the officials of the Great Song Dynasty will be suspended, and he is afraid that the country of the Great Song Dynasty will collapse in an instant.

So he's still tormenting these days.

I wanted to insist on Fan Zhongyan's reform, but I didn't want his reform to make too much trouble, so I wanted to drag Zhao Jun into the officialdom.

Once he entered the officialdom, people from all over the world would rush over, wanting to tie up with him, and there were countless people who sent fields, money, precious calligraphy, paintings, jewelry, and women, and these things were not illegal in the Great Song Dynasty.

Anyway, it will be a few years before Lao Fan's reform is also at war with Western Xia, and Zhao Jun will always be adapted to the officialdom at that time, and it will be embarrassing to want to kill the officialdom.

But apparently the current Zhao Jun is still full of enthusiasm, seeing the tip of the iceberg, full of resentment, and came to the door to point at him and scold.

After a long while, Zhao Zhen slowly spoke: "It's not that I don't understand these truths, it's just"

"Just what?"

"It's just that if there is a large-scale arrest, imprisonment, and beheading of officials, do you know how much turmoil it will cause?"

"Huh."

Zhao Jun sneered: "At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang killed tens of thousands of people, guess how much impact it caused?" In fact, as long as you are ruthless, it's not that you can't do things, if you can't do it, I'll do it for you. ”

"What do you want to do?"

Zhao Zhen's eyes widened, he was most afraid that Zhao Jun would do something too out of the ordinary.

"I want the Imperial City Division, and I also want the Imperial City Division to spread throughout the Great Song Dynasty, like the Ming Dynasty Jinyi Guard. The power of the bureaucrats and doctors is already too great, and it seriously threatens your imperial power, no matter how stupid you are, you should strengthen your power and pinch a certain amount of judicial power and judicial power in your own hands, otherwise the civil officials will not be afraid of you, they will only fool you like a fool! ”

Zhao Jun said lightly: "Although they can't directly overthrow your country, but when they squeeze the people to the point where they can't bear it, they are the direct driving force behind the defeat of your country. ”

In the Song Dynasty, the emperor always had only one way to deal with civil officials, that is, to depose them, transfer them to officials with no real power, or demote them to Lingnan and the like.

Civil officials are not monolithic, and there are many officials with ideals, such as Fan Zhongyan, Wang Anshi and others, who want to make a difference and reform the system.

Therefore, the infighting within the civil bureaucracy, coupled with the emperor's power to depose officials, can form such a delicate balance.

The civil official group is not as able to threaten the imperial power as the family gate valve group of the Jin Dynasty, but in order to make up for the civil official group, and in order to let the civil official group suppress the forces of Wu Xun, Jiangmen, relatives, eunuchs, etc., it can only give the civil official group other powers without restrictions, such as committing crimes and not dying, arbitrarily corrupting the law, and oppressing the people.

And the result of this is that the forces of Wuxun, Jiangmen, relatives, and eunuchs are suppressed and submissive, but the people are miserable. Seven or eight out of ten officials in the world are corrupt and pervert the law, land annexation is serious, the people at the bottom are struggling to make a living, and finally there are continuous uprisings and rebellions.

Therefore, Zhao Jun has been instilling in Zhao Zhen the idea that the civilian-official group must be suppressed.

But Zhao Zhen was still hesitant, and said hesitantly: "If it's like Jinyiwei, I'm afraid the Manchu officials will oppose it again." ”

"They are against it because you are strengthening the imperial power and threatening them, and the Imperial City Division is originally a minion of the imperial power, bypassing the civil system and making them afraid."

Zhao Jun looked at him indifferently and said, "Do you know how the future world hegemon, the American imperialists, controlled the world?" There are several of their secret services, which collect intelligence all over the world, and meddle in and control the world's disputes. Any system of political power, only with its own intelligence and special agencies, can rein in the central power! Instead of sitting in the palace and not knowing anything. ”

"This"

Zhao Zhen's face was embarrassed.

"I found that it was really hard to talk to you, and I hesitated and hesitated, I really want to pick on you with this attitude, you know?"

Zhao Jun was really convinced.

He actually knew that Zhao Zhen in history was this kind of person, looking forward and backward, and he didn't have much courage.

Just looking at the history books, I don't think it's anything, but now that I'm really on the show, I can make people angry to death.

No wonder Fan Zhongyan, Shi Jie, Di Qing and others died depressed.

Zhao Zhen had no choice but to smile again.

His attitude made people even more angry, Zhao Jun asked: "Let me ask you, what is your surname?" What's my last name? ”

"We are all surnamed Zhao, and you are a descendant of the Zhao family."

Zhao Zhen said involuntarily.

"That's it, since I came to Da Song, I helped you instead of those people outside. They will harm you, will I harm you? ”

"And we are all surnamed Zhao, and blood is thicker than water, but the problem is that I don't even have the identity of a clan in the Great Song Dynasty, and unless I go to rebel, there is no legal reason to inherit the throne."

"I am your descendant, will I go to rebel against you and threaten your imperial power?"

"The power of the Imperial City Division and me is originally dependent on you, and I can't pose any threat to you, so I must not harm you."

Zhao Jun spread his hands and said: "It's not wrong to strengthen the imperial power, you need to understand what the people are doing, what the officials are doing, and even the Imperial City Division can infiltrate into the Western Xia and Liao Kingdoms, so that the stable one is our Great Song Dynasty Old Zhao family!" ”

"Strengthen imperial power?"

Zhao Zhen muttered to himself.

Because Zhao Jun seems to be right.

The Song emperor's control of imperial power was almost pathological, and he would never let go of an opportunity to strengthen it.

During the Zhao Kuangyin period, he would never let the civil official group jump like this.

In history, Zhao Zhen also tried to strengthen imperial power, such as frequent changes of appearance, and supported the reform of Fan Zhongyan and others, but basically failed.

The bureaucratic gentry still have the upper hand.

Therefore, Zhao Zhen actually wanted to rein in the imperial power all the time, but his weak personality and poor health in the middle and late stages made the imperial power dispersed, and the bureaucratic and doctor class became more unscrupulous.

Now Zhao Jun proposed to strengthen the imperial power, which is actually more in line with Zhao Zhen's wishes.

And most importantly, these words obviously pulled Zhao Zhen and Zhao Jun themselves into one camp, and then pulled the civilian clique into another camp.

Zhao Jun told Zhao Zhen that the civil official group seems to be helping you rule the country, but it is actually corrupting your country, and when the people can't stand it and set off a large-scale uprising, even if there is no foreign invasion, it will be the time when the Song Dynasty will fall.

Therefore, only by strengthening the imperial power, restricting the civilian clique, and alleviating the increasingly acute class contradictions, can we suppress the growing civil unrest and maintain the rule of the Song Dynasty.

In other words, in addition to the threats of Western Xia, Liao, the Yellow River and Jingkang, Zhao Jun added another article to him, the unscrupulous civil official group will cause the threat of continuous uprisings among the people, and further deepen Zhao Zhen's sense of crisis.

"Yes, strengthen the imperial power."

Zhao Jun said coldly: "If you don't want to be imprisoned by them, you must give me power." If you can't even do that, why don't I help you carry out reforms. And I'll tell you the truth, I may not be able to suppress my anger, and if I meet the kind of official who makes me unbearable, I will kill someone. So you either give me the Imperial City Division and let me go and cut people in the name of it. Either don't give anything, I will leave the Great Song Dynasty directly, if you see corrupt officials and corrupt officials oppressing the people on the way, angrily draw knives and cut people, and then go up the mountain and fall into the grass, then don't blame me! ”

Zhao Zhen was already dumbfounded, so he had to say: "I depend on you, I depend on you." ”

"Also, I want the appointment power of the entire Imperial City Division, and I have the final say in all matters, big and small. No matter how loud the opposition of the civilian clique is, you will suppress me, just like you are shielding them. If you dare to rebel in the future, then I will really beat you, or you will kill me, or I will rebel, and I will not say it a third time! ”

Zhao Jun's saliva was about to spray on Zhao Zhen's face.

"Yes, yes, yes."

Zhao Zhen hesitated: "It's just. . . It's just that now the treasury is empty, and the money from the internal treasury and Jiaozipu will be used to prepare for the war in the northwest. If you want to set up the Imperial City Division all over the country, you will spend countless coins. ”

"I'll figure out how to deal with the money myself, I only have one request, that is, you don't care what I do, if you dare to help those civil officials interfere in my affairs, I will come and fight with you!"

Zhao Jun said viciously.

He found that Zhao Zhen was really a cheap bone, this kind of person couldn't do it without a few meals, if he didn't say cruel things to him and pick a son, he would definitely stand aside with the civil official group and pit himself.

"Then I will appoint you as the Imperial City Division, and all the affairs of the Imperial City Division, including the appointment of the Imperial City Envoy, will be under your jurisdiction."

Zhao Zhen was forced to have no choice, so he had to respond.

Fortunately, the Imperial City Department is an institution independent of the bureaucratic system, and is not under the jurisdiction of the bureaucratic system, and the imperial city envoy does not need to take the imperial examination, so this appointment basically only needs to be ordered by the emperor, and it does not even need to go through the government affairs of the three provinces.

It's like wearing Ming must first control Jinyiwei and Dongchang outside the bureaucracy, and only if you are not in the system will you not be bound.

Zhao Jun continued: "Also, if I go to the place, I ask to mobilize the troops in various places, and now there are continuous uprisings in all parts of the Great Song Dynasty, if you want to protect my safety, I must have a certain amount of military power." ”

Zhao Zhen snorted: "Do you have to go to the place?" Is it bad to stay in Bianliang? ”

"Huh."

Zhao Jun sneered: "The filth you see in Bianliang is only the tip of the iceberg, and I don't know how much there is in the place. I have to do in-depth research, otherwise I will hide in the deep palace like you, and I won't go out of the door, I won't do anything, I won't understand anything, and the Great Song Dynasty will be finished sooner or later. The ancestors of our Zhao family are all as cowardly as you that they will send me over to save the Great Song Dynasty, if you don't trust me anymore, then I'll just go. ”

"Yes, yes."

Zhao Zhen didn't dare to reply, and nodded again and again.

Although military power is the lifeblood of the Great Song Emperor, the good news is that the main troops of the forbidden army are stationed in Bianliang, and the local troops are only 400,000 Xiang troops, the 18th road of the Great Song Dynasty, more than 200 state capitals, and the average is divided down to more than 20,000 people per road and more than 1,000 people per state.

And in fact, the Xiang army is also mainly distributed in Hebei Road, Fengxiang Road and other places, that is, the northwest and north border areas with the Western Xia Liao State, and there are very few Xiang troops in the hinterland, basically no more than 1,000 people in each state.

So this is not too much to ask.

"You give the order. Tell Cao Xiu and Wang Shouzhong that in the future, my words will be your words, and if your order conflicts with my order, then my order will prevail. ”

Zhao Jun rubbed his temples and felt a little tired.

In the past, I still felt that with Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng, Wang Sui, Song Shou, Cai Qi, Sheng Du, these scholars and doctors, how to govern the country well.

Only now did I find out that Zhao Zhen was also a worm, and a big worm, hiding in the ground as an ostrich, never looking up to see that the Great Song Dynasty was already full of holes and devastation under the governance of his so-called scholars.

"Then do you still participate in the imperial examination?"

Zhao Zhen hesitated for a moment, then turned his head and asked, "If you don't want to participate, you can also participate."

Zhao Jun was stunned for a moment, and suddenly laughed: "It's okay, I'll participate." ”

He found that although most of the time Zhao Zhen did not look like a person.

But occasionally, there will be times when you are human.

(End of chapter)