The next day, early in the morning.

In the early dynasty, Zhao Zhen announced that he would restore the Taizu system, and ordered the Imperial City Division to regain the power of arrest, review, and trial.

During the Zhao Kuangyin period, the Imperial City Division was still called Wude Division, and it was called the True Wude Division at that time.

At that time, the Wude Sichazi were basically composed of elite soldiers who had just pacified the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms by Zhao Kuangyin, so they had great authority and could arrest people like the Jinyi Guards of the Ming Dynasty.

But in the era of Zhao Guangyi, Wu Desi was seriously weakened, only the right to arrest and review, no right to judge, after the arrest of the prisoner, even if the evidence is conclusive, it can only be handed over to Dali Temple and Kaifeng Mansion for trial.

Then in the period of Song Zhenzong, the Wude Division, which was renamed the Imperial City Division, further declined, and even had no arrest power, only the right to censorship, completely changed from the emperor's knife to the emperor's ear, and it was still a half-deaf ear, and the intelligence ability was declining day by day.

This is also the reason why the brocade guards of the Ming Dynasty were famous in later generations, while the Imperial City Division of the Song Dynasty was little known.

After all, no matter how good the ears are, they are not as famous as knives.

However, this is a bolt from the blue for the civilian clique.

Because it was the efforts of generations of civil officials that they snatched the right to arrest and judge from the emperor, how could they be taken back by the emperor again?

Therefore, as soon as Zhao Zhen's order was announced, it immediately caused an uproar, and the civil officials of the Manchu Dynasty stood up to oppose it.

Even Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng and others were taken aback, everyone rarely stood in the same camp, leading hundreds of officials out of the ranks, asking Zhao Zhen to withdraw his order and cancel the holy decree just now.

Their reason is nothing more than that, if there are many talents and great sages are all over the Song Realm, the official family should use the children of saints to help the emperor govern the world, and should not borrow these despicable villains as their eyes and ears.

What else should the Son of Heaven be above board, and should not do these things of stealing chickens and dogs. In other words, the Imperial City Division stripped off the bribes and resented the people, and it should not be reused, and it should be abandoned.

Basically, it is to belittle the Imperial City Division to the lower three indiscriminate, which is also the rhetoric of the Song Dynasty civil officials who often belittle and impeach the Imperial City Division.

For example, Lu Yuqing, Wang Zongsi, Xu Xiufu and others in Zhao Guangyi's era all used this method to take away the power of Wu Deshu from Zhao Guangyi's hands.

But Zhao Zhen remembered Zhao Jun's words (CPU), remembered that this was a way to strengthen the imperial power, gritted his teeth, insisted on this order, and bypassed the three provinces, and directly gave the authority of the Imperial City Division, which did not need the approval of the prime minister or the like at all.

After all, the Imperial City Division does not belong to the bureaucratic system, but is semi-subordinate to the army, not under the jurisdiction of the bureaucracy, and the funds also come from internal funds. Therefore, as long as Zhao Zhen gives the order, the officials will not have any way.

Therefore, in the midst of the opposition of the Manchu Dynasty, this order was still forcibly carried out.

After the dispersal of the dynasty, Lu Yijian, King Zeng, and other insiders guessed that it was estimated that Zhao Jun had the idea, so they hurriedly asked to meet Zhao Zhen alone, and then brainwashed Zhao Zhen and fooled him.

Zhao Zhen was so annoyed that he sent someone to invite Zhao Jun to come over and tell them.

At noon, in the Guanjia Hall at this moment, the atmosphere was slightly solemn, except for Fan Zhongyan who did not come, the rest of Lu Yijian, King Zeng, Wang and other three phases and three ginseng and Yan Shu were there.

Sitting on the chair one by one, or drinking a cup of tea, or closing their eyes to recuperate, or looking at their nose and nose, they did not speak.

The only thing everyone has in common is that their faces are as heavy as water, and their faces are not very good-looking.

The breeze outside the hall came slowly, and it did not bring a trace of coolness to everyone when the Mid-Autumn Festival was about to arrive.

After all, if you want to be seized power, and there may be a mountain of the Imperial City Division pressing on your head in the future, no one will feel comfortable.

After about an hour, Zhao Jun was late.

It's not that he is not easy to find, his location is well known to the Imperial City Division, the main thing is that he went out of the city today to investigate Zhitian, and he is a little far away from the city.

When Zhao Jun stepped into the Guanjia Palace, he suddenly felt a sense of familiarity when he saw the appearance of everyone.

Isn't this the scene when everyone used to talk freely in the temple of the flowers?

He couldn't help laughing, Shi Shiran entered the door and said, "Hello everyone, it's all here." ”

As he spoke, he sat in the back seat.

Since these people are calculating him behind his back, then he doesn't have to give the other party a face, everyone should be on an equal footing.

Anyway, modern people have long been accustomed to not having imperial power and have received education in the new era, so there is no need to bow to these people and be any slaves.

Now he has also seen that he saved the Great Song Dynasty in order to prevent the Meng Yuan and the Manchu Qing from enslaving the Han people, not for his own ancestors and these old social systems.

So if these people continue to block their path, then he doesn't mind completely turning against them.

Seeing Zhao Jun's attitude, Zhao Zhen was a little helpless, he said: "Eldest grandson, look at it, you want to use the Imperial City Division, the officials of the Manchu Dynasty are all against it, and the slashers are all over my desk." ”

"Take it as firewood, and their words will be treated as farts."

Zhao Jun said nonchalantly.

"Zhao Jun, you went too far this time!"

Song Shou couldn't hold his breath, and when he heard his words, he couldn't help but scold: "I don't know how harmful the Imperial City Division is, how can I give them the right to arrest people at will?" ”

"yes."

Cai Qi also said: "These inspectors do everything they can, specializing in stealing chickens and touching dogs, and then slandering and spreading rumors to others. Do you know how many innocent people were arrested by the Imperial City Division during the Taizu period, and how many people were ruined? ”

Sheng Du shook his head: "Zhao Jun, you are too impulsive, there are some things, you still have to think twice." ”

And all the people looked at him.

Zhao Jun said with a smile: "What are you doing so seriously?" In this way, I asked Lu Xiang a question, I want to know, why did the Great Song Dynasty want to return to the river with three easys? ”

Lu Yijian was named, pondered for a while and said, "Didn't you say it, is it because the later deacons want to stop the Liao army?" ”

"Wrong."

Zhao Jun shook his head: "It is to make the people think that this can stop the Liao army, those rulers and the Liao army know that this cannot be stopped at all." ”

Everyone: "."

"You say how many innocent people have been arrested by the Imperial City Division, but you don't know how many innocent people have been harmed by those mediocre officials, bad officials, and stupid officials? Sanyi returned to the river, harming millions of people in Hebei. Corrupt officials and corrupt officials ran rampant all over the country, harming tens of millions of people in the Great Song Dynasty. Although the Imperial City Division has disadvantages, the benefits must outweigh the disadvantages. ”

Zhao Jun looked at them and said seriously: "I still say the same thing, the interests of the country are supreme, as long as the interests of the country can be guaranteed, then no matter what means are the right means." ”

"Is it also right to wantonly spy on hundreds of officials, slander and distort?"

Wang Sui frowned.

How could this not be true? Power needs to be monitored, and the security of the country needs to be guaranteed. And do you say that slander and distortion is slander and distortion? As a secret agency, the Imperial City Division has the right to investigate all intelligence, and it must be all over the country and even overseas. ”

Zhao Jun insisted: "Because only in this way can we know whether the officials are corrupt, whether they are oppressing the people, and whether they are in the township." Only then can we understand the lives of the people, understand their thoughts, and the most important thing is that the Western Xia knows that they are looking for traitors to understand our intelligence, but we have no spies in the Western Xia and Liao, is this reasonable? ”

"Then the Imperial City Division shouldn't have the ability to arrest at will, do you know how many people they will kill?"

"Yes, power does need supervision, but it is enough to have the imperial history and the imperial platform, and there is no need for the imperial city division! The existence of the Imperial City Division will only make the Great Song Dynasty even more chaotic. ”

"If one Imperial City Division alone can solve all the problems, then you said before that Daming has Jinyiwei, East Factory, and West Factory, and it will not perish in the same way?"

"Yes, in my opinion, it should be added to the Imperial History Lines all over the country. The imperial history and the counselors supervise the hundred officials, and that is enough. ”

A few people told me word by word, and the core idea was still not to give power to the Imperial City Division.

This will have a huge impact on the original bureaucracy.

"Huh."

Zhao Jun sneered when he heard this: "You guys are really interesting, let the corrupt officials investigate the corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and let yourself supervise yourself?" ”

Wang Zeng was dissatisfied: "Zhao Jun, now there are countless upright imperial historians and officials in the court, and they have been performing their duties and impeaching illegal officials, how can they be said to be supervising themselves?" ”

"Zhao Zhi case, Cui Bai case, Miao Wen case, Li Si case"

Zhao Jun said more than a dozen big cases in one breath, and then said with a smile: "These are all old cases that I saw in the Imperial City Division, and they are also the tip of the iceberg. I haven't finished reading more cases yet, and the imperial history and admonition officials involved in it involve Kaifeng Mansion, local governors, general judgments, magistrates, and county orders, I'm afraid there are no less than hundreds or thousands of people. ”

What he said was the case investigated in the early days of the Zhenzong Dynasty.

The co-governance of scholars and doctors in the Song Dynasty was not like this at the beginning, but there was a gradual process.

From Zhao Kuangyin's treatment of scholars and doctors, to Zhao Guangyi and Zhao Heng's early days, they were slightly relaxed, but they were still tightly controlled.

Therefore, Zhao Heng still did a lot of big things in the early days, such as investigating and punishing corrupt officials.

Like the Zhao Zhi case, more than 70 officials were involved, and a large number of imperial historians, officials, and Kaifeng Prefecture magistrates were dismissed, and even a few were killed.

But in the late Zhao Heng and Zhao Zhen periods, the attitude towards officials was very relaxed, and even issued an edict to openly exempt corrupt officials from their crimes.

Especially Zhao Zhen, who used to make a show, demoted all the criminal officials, and then didn't even pretend, even if the evidence was conclusive, he would often cover up, unless the movement of the government and the opposition was too big, otherwise he would generally not be blamed in the past.

From here, it can be seen why in the historical materials, there are still many records of corrupt officials being investigated and punished in the Zhao Guangyi and Zhao Heng periods, but there are many fewer in the Zhao Zhen period.

It's not because there are fewer corrupt officials, but because these corrupt officials in TM are no longer investigated or shielded by the emperor, and they are not treated as corrupt officials at all.

Therefore, in the village where officials of the Renzong Dynasty oppressed the people and fished and meat, it became the norm to kill, destroy and humiliate the people with punishments at will.

It is no wonder that in the absence of so many detailed records in historical materials, upright people such as Fan Zhongyan, Su Shi, and Bao Zheng will lament how many corrupt officials, traitorous officials, and evil officials there are in the world.

After Zhao Jun finished speaking, he smiled and said: "These are nothing, guess what I learned when I went outside the city to investigate Zhitian this time?" Guess how many people in Zhitian Huangzhuang, including you, make cattle and horses for you, but they can't even eat all year round? ”

"This"

Everyone looked at each other, and after a little thought, Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng and the others reorganized their language and prepared to fight back.

But Zhao Jun didn't give him a chance, and shouted: "The reason for your high-sounding is nothing more than that you are afraid that there is an imperial city division on your head that can investigate and punish corrupt officials at will, but you don't know that if you really care about this country and are good for this country, you must have some special functional departments to play a special role." ”

"Did you know that the United States, the first power in later generations, has more than a dozen intelligence agencies, such as the CIA, the Investigation Bureau, the Intelligence Bureau, and the Security Agency? Did you know that in later generations our country also had its own intelligence agency? Even influential countries in the world have their own intelligence services! ”

"The intelligence services are not just internal, but also external. They can scout everything and eliminate any instability. Supervise hundreds of officials internally and understand the people's suffering. Spy on the military situation externally, clarify the movements of the enemy country, and even provoke the enemy country internally. ”

"Even the world, which is more than a thousand years ahead of you in terms of productivity and technology, needs a large number of intelligence agencies to maintain it. Even we, in China, also need a national security department, why do you think it can't be done? Is it true that your power surpasses all the great powers of the generations to come? Or do you think you are beyond the wisdom of future generations? ”

"At the end of the day, it's just that you're selfish and want your group to have more power and more unscrupulousness. I don't want to have a pair of eyes on my head and a pair of ears around me listening. On the surface, many officials have a selfless and honest official face, but they secretly do more things than anyone else. ”

"The current Mizhou governor Han Yuan, do you know what he did when he was the governor of Kaifeng Mansion? And what did Wang Yiwen, the governor of Xiuzhou, do you know when he was supervising the imperial history? Don't tell me about any cases, a large number of cases are not called cases, but the norm of officialdom. ”

"To tell the truth, Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng, you people have also left a good reputation in the history books. Don't force me to scold you, please take your ass out of your bureaucratic system, think from the perspective of the interests and perspectives of the people, think from the interests and perspectives of the country, don't TM for your own selfish desires, okay? ”

In the end, Zhao Jun almost roared, and his saliva was about to splash on everyone's faces.

Although he had read a little bit of Song history before, because he didn't know much about it, he only knew the surface situation, so in the face of the flickering of these old foxes, he didn't think about it so much at that time, so he believed it.

As a result, it has been more than 20 days since his eyes have regained his sight, and if he really goes to understand the situation, just the information placed in the Imperial City Division, as well as the information given to him by Fan Zhongyan, can make people dumbfounded.

Although there is nothing new under the sun, as long as Zhao Jun doesn't care about those things, he only thinks about the wind and snow, and is happy every day in the Goolan, brothels, and Vasheri in the inner city, and doesn't see those human sufferings, then these things will not be seen at all, and they will not happen.

Even further, Zhao Jun only cares about himself, he doesn't care about what the Great Song Dynasty has become, and he chooses to go along with these people, so he can completely ignore his conscience and only care about his promotion and wealth.

But the problem is that Zhao Jun himself has his own ideals, and he is not interested in the Great Song Dynasty, a country that has never been hardened by poverty and weakness. He is only interested in making the Chinese nation great again, so that the Han people will no longer be enslaved by foreign races.

That's why he will go to the depths, to see the darkness of the Great Song Dynasty, and to drill wherever there is a problem.

However, it doesn't matter if you don't look at it, you will be shocked when you see it.

The pile of information given by Fan Zhongyan alone is outrageous, who would have thought that the entire Kaifeng Mansion would be black nine times out of ten. Look at the pile of files of the Imperial City Division, it is even more exaggerated, there are many relatives of the emperor and the country.

The most terrifying thing is that these are the tip of the iceberg, the Imperial City Division has also been corrupted, it is common for insiders to buy and sell news, and more things have been hidden and not seen the light of day.

Therefore, in the questioning of these people today, the more Zhao Jun spoke, the more angry he became, and he simply lifted these evils directly, tore off their hypocritical masks, dissected these scholars and doctors from the inside out, and picked their black hearts and intestines on the bright side.

Hearing Zhao Jun's question at this moment, everyone looked at each other and remained silent.

The unspoken rule of officialdom in the Song Dynasty is basically that I am greedy for my gold and silver, you do your bad things, and they all know each other.

Now that Zhao Jun is tearing apart the bloody reality like this, he is already slapping the faces of these scholars and doctors who are clamoring for what the Son of Heaven should "rule by hanging the arch".

To put it mildly, these people are actually not corrupt officials, anyway, the historical records do not say that they are traitors.

But now the emperor has almost all the ownership of the emperor, in addition to the military power and the appointment and dismissal of high-ranking officials.

In this way, the officialdom is all supported by some people with solid family backgrounds or who are upright themselves, and the remaining seven or eight out of ten are corrupt officials and corrupt officials, how can they continue to do this?

So Zhao Jun told a bunch of truths.

Truth.

is the most ugly word.

"Why, don't you speak? To be honest, I don't know if I don't investigate, if I go deeper, I believe that your faces will be ugly. ”

Zhao Jun sneered and said: "You can not be greedy or take it, it doesn't mean that others can't." I didn't do anything wrong, what are you afraid of? What I want to do is not to kill the entire officialdom, but the current situation really needs to be rectified, otherwise even if you can survive Jing Kang's shame, do you have the confidence to survive the rise of Meng Yuan under the condition of continuous official pressure and rebellion? ”

"And what are you going to do next?"

Lu Yijian's face sank like water, and finally asked.

Zhao Jun said without hesitation: "Reform is not only in officialdom, but also in the outside. I am ready to emulate the great sages of later generations, while devoting myself to officialdom and understanding the disadvantages of officialdom. On the one hand, he supported the officials to strengthen the functions of the Imperial City Division, so that the Imperial City Division could spread all over the country and even abroad. ”

"Okay, since that's the case, then you should work hard for the imperial examination."

"Well, it's autumn in a few days, I hope you can focus on your studies first."

"Read more books to increase wisdom."

Hearing that Zhao Jun did not intend to abandon the idea of entering the officialdom, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Because before Zhao Jun regained his sight, they had already felt that Zhao Jun was very murderous, and they were afraid that Zhao Jun would kill him once he regained his sight, so they hoped to lure him into the game.

The first is to slow down the speed at which he holds power, and the second is to hope that the system will assimilate him, even if the reform is implemented in the future, it will be more gentle, and he will kill all the corrupt officials at every turn.

It's just that what they don't know is that Zhao Jun was actually a keyboard warrior at that time, and he didn't know that he was in the Great Song Dynasty. It's just that now that I have really arrived in the Great Song Dynasty and seen this dark corner, I really want to kill.

Therefore, although the result is the same, the process is different, if they had chosen a gentler way and fully supported his idea, maybe it would not have made the current Zhao Jun so angry and fight against them.

"Ugh."

Yan Shu sighed, got up and said: "Now the officialdom really needs to be rectified, the people are in turmoil everywhere, and it is not a bad thing to seek change, I just hope that Jun boy can grasp the proportions, if this Imperial City Division becomes a knife, I am afraid it will hurt a lot of innocent people." ”

"Alright, I got it."

Zhao Jun said: "You don't know less about the situation of the Great Song Dynasty than I do, if you can sincerely support me in carrying out reforms and stop pointing fingers at me, the future of the Great Song Dynasty will be much brighter, I hope you can recognize some things yourself, don't keep sitting on your ass." ”

Everyone had already gotten up, and after looking at each other, they bowed their hands to Zhao Zhen and said, "The officials, the ministers and others have retired." ”

This time, Zhao Jun completely took the authority of the Imperial City Division into his hands.

Although it was only the three phases and three counselors and others who reluctantly agreed, the officials below estimated that they would still make a fuss, but as long as Zhao Zhen and Lu Yijian were silent, it would be useless for the officials below to make a fuss.

(End of chapter)