"Old Cao."

After Zhao Jun arranged some things in the Imperial City Division, he summoned Cao Xiu to meet in the backyard alone.

Cao Xiu bowed to him and said: "I know that the prefect is suspecting me of communiqué personal vendettas, but Wang Shilong is arrogant and domineering, and often suppresses the news of many officials and officials who have done evil collected by the Imperial City Division, and does not give it to the official family. Leaving him alone would only be a scourge. ”

"Hmm."

Zhao Jun nodded and said, "If that's the case, then you're doing the right thing." And when he was on duty, he was still drinking and having fun, so it was normal for me to exempt him. The main thing is that you should tell me on the way here, I will not refuse to agree to such a thing, there is no need to be so careful. ”

"Yes."

Cao Xiu looked embarrassed.

He was also scared by Zhao Zhen when he did this.

He reported to Zhao Zhen many times what Wang Shilong did, but he was all covered up by Zhao Zhen, which made him half angry.

So this time when Zhao Jun took office, he simply did not report him, but used some small means.

At that time, even if Zhao Jun is like Zhao Zhen to protect Wang Shilong, Zhao Jun will definitely have to be faced, Wang Shilong will be late for the first meeting, and he will inevitably be dismissed.

Although he was also worried that Zhao Jun would be angry with him because of this matter, at least he felt that as long as he explained it clearly to Zhao Jun, it should be fine.

Sure enough, as he expected, Zhao Jun still understood things very well and did not get angry because of this matter.

"I heard that the Cao family got a pen reward some time ago?"

Zhao Jun pretended to ask inadvertently.

He heard about this when he traveled to Bianliang, and it caused a lot of trouble.

Cao Xiu bowed and said, "Yes." ”

"Then do you know why the Cao family was rewarded?"

"Is it the official family for Jiaozipu?"

"I asked the official family to open the Jiaozi shop, now you understand."

Zhao Jun also went to see Jiaozipu before, and there was an endless stream of people who went to save money, obviously this would provide strong support for the war in the northwest of the Great Song Dynasty.

It's just that the existence of Jiaozipu can only speed up the circulation of money, and it is impossible to make a big cake.

And in order to completely break the old system, it is necessary to support the new system.

While reform will shed blood, nothing will be solved by killing people alone. Did Lao Zhu kill less in the early Ming Dynasty? But killing so many people still didn't solve the problem.

Therefore, Zhao Jun had already made up his mind to learn from Pu Kaka, and first support some emerging asset forces to crack down on the outdated and corrupt officialdom monopoly system, so as to increase market competition and change the business environment of the Great Song Dynasty.

After that, through the inflow of silver, the accelerated circulation of commodities, the improvement of productivity and other methods to make the cake bigger, strengthen the national strength, and then let the Great Song Dynasty banner open up overseas, further expand capital.

Finally, the great ideas of the great men and leaders were used as the ideological program to curb the barbaric growth of domestic capital and build a better welfare system for the benefit of the Great Song Dynasty.

At this point, he planned to talk to Fan Zhongyan and Ouyang Xiu's gang later.

Because Ouyang Xiu supported this, he once demanded to support businessmen, abolish the state-run monopoly, and abolish the monopoly of those bureaucratic classes over commodities.

In this way, the tea, salt, grain, and oil commodities that were originally monopolized by local officials have completely entered the free market, and they will no longer monopolize and sell as before, leading to corruption, embezzlement, bribery, abuse of power, and so on.

However, these things cannot be solved overnight, and Zhao Jun does not plan to completely open up the free market, and still needs a part of the state-run to ensure the bottom line of prices and prevent big businessmen from monopolizing and raising prices.

Therefore, the establishment of Jiaozipu is regarded as paving the way for the future reform of the state-owned sales system, and after Zhao Jun further grasps power, systematic reform will be carried out.

Hearing Zhao Jun's words, Cao Xiu looked at him in shock, and then hurriedly said, "Thank you Zhisi!" ”

"The Great Song Dynasty is now full of insects, corrupt officials and corrupt officials are rampant, the princes and officials are reckless, and the people are like fire and water. The official family is determined to innovate and want to change all this, so it will greatly increase the functions of the Imperial City Division. ”

Zhao Jun said in a deep voice: "You are a person who can do things, I heard that the Cao family is also a little lonely now, whether you can revive the Cao family's family depends on whether you are smart or not." ”

Cao Xiu hurriedly said: "The subordinates swear allegiance to the official family to the death, and swear allegiance to the Zhisi." ”

"Well, that's good."

Zhao Jun said again: "Since I am in charge of the Imperial City Division, the entire Imperial City Division will have a new look in the future, and strictly abide by the laws and regulations that have been set, and I will make additions and modifications to the regulations in the future, and you will send someone to distribute them at that time." ”

"Yes."

Cao Xiu nodded.

"In addition, those commanders have investigated and asked them to send them to me within three days."

"Yes."

"In the future, the Imperial City Division will not only have the duties of espionage and inspection, but also the functions of arrest and interrogation, and you will be responsible for building two town divisions in the city, which will be responsible for the east and west of the city, respectively, and there will be a government office and a prison."

"This"

"What's wrong?"

"To build a new government office, you need money."

Cao Xiu said with a sad face: "The official family approved 100,000 yuan before, which is only enough for half a year's salary, expenses and other expenses, and he said that the next step is to rely on the governor himself." ”

"yes, I see."

Zhao Jun rubbed his temples.

Zhao Zhen, a coward, obviously didn't dare to fully support himself, and it was estimated that he would use this as an excuse to perfunctory Lu Yi and King Jianzeng.

For example, tell them that in the future, the expenses of the Imperial City Division will be responsible for themselves, or they will run out of money in a short time, and they will inevitably be helpless at that time, and they will not be able to do anything.

So in the future, it is estimated that you will have to rely on your own money.

But it is better to ask for others than for yourself.

It is already good to be able to force Zhao Zhen to give the Imperial City Division the right to arrest and interrogate, and it is estimated that this matter will cause an uproar in the court within two days, and the folds of opposition will fly to the emperor's table like snowflakes.

He can give himself a hundred thousand yuan, plus withstanding the pressure of the court, it is basically his limit.

After all, the scholars of the Song Dynasty were not the scholars of the Ming Dynasty, and the emperors of the Song Dynasty were not the emperors of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Zhao Jun did not blame Zhao Zhen.

That is, to sigh, if I had traveled through the early Ming Dynasty and met Zhu Di's father and son, it is estimated that I would have become a national teacher and go to the peak of my life, how could I still quarrel with Zhao Zhen for power, and fight for power and profit with the insects in the imperial court?

"Then we won't build a new government office, and we'll talk about it when we have money in the future."

Zhao Jun said: "Do we have our own prison in the Imperial City Division now?" Or a place where prisoners can be held? ”

Cao Xiu thought for a while and said: "Then I can only go to borrow the military torture room of the front division of the palace, the front division of the palace is in charge of the forbidden army, if the soldiers of the forbidden army break the law, they are not under the jurisdiction of Kaifeng Mansion, they are dealt with by the three yamen of the forbidden army, they have their own cells." ”

"Can you borrow it?"

"It should be possible, my second brother Cao Ren is now the front of the palace, just let him say hello, the execution room is behind our Imperial City Division."

"That's a good feeling, I'll let Di Qing escort people here from the Yulong Direct Barracks Station, those people are very important, in the future, it may be my means to destroy Sanssouci Cave, detain them in batches, interrogate them separately, and force them to draw a diagram of the internal structure of Sanssouci Cave."

Zhao Jun was very happy to hear Cao Xiu's words.

The Cao family is good, as the most famous Jiangmen in the Great Song Dynasty, a group of noble children occupy various yamen, and there are people in the yamen who are easy to do.

In fact, although Cao Xiu's younger brother is only a left-class palace leader, the commander of the front division of the palace, the commander of the guard Ma Junsi and the commander of the guard infantry military division are only nominal chiefs, with no real power and no ability to mobilize the army.

Therefore, the actual power is in the hands of lower-level officials, which leads to Cao Ren's small palace front division Zuoban Dianzhi can use the torture room of the palace front division, which can be regarded as the result of the extreme decentralization of power in the Great Song Dynasty.

But there's a catch.

It seems that there is a bit of a problem with the name of the old Cao family, the eldest is called Cao Xiu, and the second is called Cao Ren?

Cao Xiu and Cao Ren?

Will there be Cao Hong, Cao Pi, Cao Zhang, etc.?

Zhao Jun couldn't help but think about it.

"Yes."

Hearing Zhao Jun's words, Cao Xiu nodded to show that he understood.

After that, Zhao Jun ordered some other things.

Then he said: "During this time, I plan to carry out internal rectification first, what I need is a group of elite soldiers, not a group of wine bags and rice bags." ”

Cao Xiu scratched his head and said, "How does Zhisi plan to rectify the interior?" There are indeed a lot of shortcomings within the Imperial City Division, and even I, the Imperial City Envoy, have been concealed a lot of things, and if I know what I know, I have to depose many people. ”

"If you should be deposed, you should be deposed, the Imperial City Division must not become a place to hide filth and dirt in the future, and these black sheep must be cleaned up."

Zhao Jun waved his hand and said: "Even if the things ordered today are internal self-inspections, they are also testing the loyalty of these people, you first use your henchmen to investigate their actions, and report to me at any time if there is any change." ”

"Yes."

Cao Xiu left in response.

Zhao Jun watched him go out, so he stroked his forehead and thought.

He's already arranged something for his men to do.

One is to test their abilities, and the other is to find out the black sheep within the Imperial City Division.

Because he also heard Cao Xiu say that due to the particularity of the Imperial City Division in charge of investigation, he can master the black material of many officials and magnates.

Although the emperor of the Song Dynasty was very protective of the evil deeds of the officials and magnates, the scholar class tried to clear their names, and if the black material was exposed in the people and officialdom, it would often be attacked by the imperial history and the imperial stage.

For example, it was still that Sun Wei, in the first year of Jing You, that is, two years ago, he was transferred from the Central Supervision Imperial History to other places as an official, and when he arrived at the local level, he quickly degenerated and corrupted, and when he was the governor of Chuzhou, Hangzhou and other places, he did not do personnel, and no one knew about it at all.

More than ten years later, during the reign of Huang You, Sun Wei, who had been promoted to the pacification envoy of Hunan and Jiangxi roads and the pacification envoy of Guangnan East and West Roads, was transferred to the central government and became a privy deputy envoy because he assisted Di Qing in quelling the Nong Zhigao rebellion.

After he was transferred back to the center, the black material he had done before was quickly shaken out, and he was frantically attacked by the Imperial Observatory and the Imperial Tower.

In the end, this criminal was enough to kill a senior member of the imperial court in any one dynasty, and after the verification of Song Renzong and Zhao Zhen, he was demoted to the deputy envoy of the Ning Guojun Festival who had no real power.

Although I don't know if there is a political struggle in this, it also reflects from the side that the Song Dynasty scholar class must at least ensure the image of a clean official on the surface.

Therefore, once the Imperial City Division grasps the evidence of the crimes of these corrupt officials and corrupt officials, these people can only spend money to buy them from the Imperial City Division in order to prevent the black material from being besieged by the Imperial History and the Imperial Bureau, resulting in corruption within the Imperial City Division.

Now the evidence of the crimes of those officials and magnates stored by the Imperial City Division is basically incomplete, and most of them were taken and sold by that group of people.

If Lao Cao hadn't been able to tell him the inside story, it is estimated that he would have been kept in the dark now.

Therefore, this is the time to deal with these moths within the Imperial City Division.

Arranged things, it was already afternoon at this time, and it was time for Lu Yijian and them to go to class.

At this time, Zhao Zhen had not yet ordered the expansion of the powers of the Imperial City Division, they still came to class as usual, and it was Lu Yijian who came today.

Zhao Jun returned to the residence under the protection of Di Qing and the rest of the Imperial City Division, and when it was time in the afternoon, Lu Yijian, who had gone home for dinner, came over with his things.

In the room, Zhao Jun is still reciting the "Book of Filial Piety" seriously, this thing needs ink scripture and paste scripture.

The Book of Ink is to write ten articles silently, tell you the previous sentence, and let you write down one sentence silently. Sticking to the scriptures is to fill in ten articles, and only give you the middle part in one sentence, before and after filling. Therefore, it is necessary to memorize the whole text.

Now Zhao Jun doesn't plan to completely turn his face with Lu Yijian and them, as long as they are given hope and let them think that they will still enter the officialdom, then there will not be much conflict between the two sides, so he will still follow the other party's will to learn these things for the time being.

It's also a strategy.

He needs time to investigate the situation in various places and to gain an in-depth understanding of the actual situation among the people, as long as the research work comes out, throw it in the faces of these people, and put the facts in front of them, I believe they will have nothing to say.

After Lu Yijian came in, his face was a little unsightly, he coughed twice, and said, "Jun boy." ”

"Old Lu."

Zhao Jun raised his head and glanced at him, got up and said, "Have you eaten?" ”

"How did you learn after eating?"

Lu Yijian came over with something, sat down next to him, and waved his hand to signal him to sit down.

Zhao Jun sat down again and said, "It's okay, basically memorize about the same, just 2,000 words, just divide it into various small stories." ”

"Don't miss the annotations, explanations, and studies, although there are not many in this aspect of the township examination, but you should also be careful of being deposed."

Lu Yijian reminded him, and said: "There are other scriptures that you have to read as well, although you often belittle this is dross, but you also have to know more about the wisdom of your ancestors." ”

"Got it."

Zhao Jun frowned.

These guys just want to get themselves into the gang all day long.

The key is that Zhao Zhen sometimes wears the same pants as these people, which is really painful.

When will he come to his senses that those in power must be on the side of the people, not the bureaucrats?

Lu Yijian sat down, and then pretended to be casual and said, "I heard that you sent Di Qing to arrest some people yesterday?" ”

"Huh."

Zhao Jun sneered: "The people in Sanssouci Cave abducted children in front of me, and came to take revenge on me afterwards, why can't I arrest them?" ”

Lu Yijian shook his head and said: "The country has its own legal system, if you arrest them, they should be sent to Kaifeng Mansion, how can you take people to the barracks of the Imperial Dragon Direct Station?" Isn't this a private court? ”

"How do you know I didn't send it?"

Zhao Jun said expressionlessly: "Guess how quickly the officials of Kaifeng Mansion came after I caught them?" After I handed them over, how did I see them feeling when they came with men and horses to take revenge on me a few days later? Kaifeng Mansion is rotten, and the officialdom of the Song Dynasty is also rotten. ”

"Amount"

Lu Yijian was speechless for a while, and then said: "So this is exactly what you need to study hard, and after you enter the imperial examination, reform the shortcomings of officialdom and cut off these things." ”

"Okay."

Zhao Jun responded, he had only one attitude towards these guys.

You play yours, I'll do mine.

It's good if they're happy.

(End of chapter)