Zhao Jun had a fight with old bureaucratic conservatives such as Lu Yijian and Wang Zeng in the palace.

After they left, they sent a message to Zhao Zhen, and continued to deepen his idea of using the Imperial City Division to stabilize the imperial power.

Zhao Zhen's weak personality is weak in character, and he is still more concerned about strengthening the imperial power, so he also said in front of Zhao Jun that he would persevere.

Although Zhao Jun doesn't trust him, before his strength becomes stronger, he can only rely on this guy for the time being, and there is no way, so he can only go crazy and tell him again and again, and then leave.

After leaving the palace, Zhao Jun did not go to the Imperial City Division, but went directly back to his residence, and he needed to sort it out to a certain extent.

When he returned home, he opened Zhou Xin and other imperial city inspectors, went back to his room and took out his notebook from the locked suitcase, and then sat at the desk in front of the window to conduct statistics.

Situation of vocational fields around Bianliang City: Wangjiazhuang was allocated 367 acres of vocational fields, and each mu was divided into one stone to eight or nine buckets. Beigang Village was allocated 298 mu of vocational land, and each mu was divided into 9 to 78 dou. Dongguanzhuang Village..

Zhao Jun recorded the situation of the vocational fields investigated today, and after a period of time, after the end of the autumn season, he planned to go to the countryside to the grassroots level, and go to Henan, Huaibei, Xuzhou and other hinterlands of the Central Plains to understand the actual situation.

Now he has many other things to do besides going to the outer city to investigate the darkness of society. For example, how much burden the current vocational land system has brought to the people, and how many people's families have been ruined and their wives separated due to the expropriation, oppression, and exploitation of the government.

The simplest example is that he saw in the archives of the Imperial City Division that the shipbuilding timber of the Qinlong Xiegu Office was levied and demanded from the people; Seven more states pay taxes on the bamboo ropes of the river bridges, which are generally hundreds of thousands.

And the reason why this matter was recorded was because there was an official in the Song Zhenzong period who was greedy for this money, and later that official was transferred to the central government, and there was a matter of impeachment of him by the imperial history, Song Zhenzong was furious and asked the Imperial City Division to investigate thoroughly, which existed in the archives.

In other words, if no one is greedy for this money, or if no one is greedy and no one exposes it, then Zhao Jun doesn't even know about it.

It's just that what he didn't know was that this matter lasted until the late Song Renzong period. It was later that Bao Zheng was transferred to the deputy envoy of the Ministry of Households, and found that there were so many harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes levied from the people in the country, and asked for some exemptions, which was considered to be the end.

This shows how serious the apportionment, collection, expropriation, forced labor, and taxation of the Song Dynasty government were. It is evident that not only ordinary people rebelled, but even many small and medium-sized landlords could not stand such exploitation and rebellion.

Now Zhao Jun is investigating a kind of vocational field, which is to support the officials and masters, not from the existing land, but to let the officials recruit their own people to open up the wasteland.

It sounds like a good policy, but the problem is that most of the land that is cultivated is inferior to the soil, and the output is limited. The people were unwilling to rent, so the officials could only force the people to rent through administrative means, and the rents were high, and they did not reduce in the face of disasters, which seriously exploited the people.

In many villages, the government will even directly replace the good fields of the common people with vocational fields to seize their land, and under the heavy burden, it is common for entire villages and entire villages to flee their homes.

After Zhao Jun left the city, he looked for people to ask in the countryside villages outside Bianliang City, and the people in the countryside were not as vigilant as the people in the city.

Although there were also people who saw them from outside and kept silent, Zhao Jun used the excuse that he was a businessman and wanted to buy some land outside the city to inquire about the situation. Since he can't buy or sell, there will always be upright or simple people who will tell him the truth, and he can ask a lot of questions.

"Outrageous, plus the information Fan Zhongyan gave me, the things I have seen and known in the past 20 days alone add up to more than 10,000 words, recording I don't know how many people's families have been ruined and their wives have been separated."

"This is what I see now, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, there are imperial histories and admonitions staring, these people generally don't dare to go too far in order to prevent the black material from flowing out, basically just accepting bribes and acting as an umbrella for the underworld forces. Later, when I left Bianliang and went to all parts of the country, I don't know how many things I encountered. ”

"Sometimes I see too much of this kind of dark thing, it really makes people depressed, forget it, let's think about what I should do in the future."

Zhao Jun recorded all the information, and after typing the last word, he closed the document, turned on the music, leaned back in his chair, accidentally caught a glimpse of the mobile phone on the table, and plugged his mobile phone into the computer again, trying to charge it again.

At the beginning, the mobile phone was short-circuited in the mudslide, but I didn't turn it on after that, and now after a few months, the inside should be dry. I have tried to charge it many times, but it has been unsuccessful, and I don't know if it is completely broken.

But even so, he kept it in the habit all the time. What if one day it suddenly can be charged? There are still a lot of photo albums of my parents in my mobile phone, which can be regarded as a thought.

After plugging in the power supply, he looked at the screen, but there was still no movement, so he could only lean back in his chair and look out the window in the backyard and think.

"Now that I have obtained the authority of the Imperial City Division and the Xiang Army, I can't start to do anything special right away, first, I want to clean up the internal inventory of the Imperial City Division, and second, I need to continue to investigate and clean up a large number of crimes in the outer city of Bianliang."

"The internal rectification is imminent, not only the imperial dynasty and Bianliang, but also the whole country, and now we can only first spread the imperial city division all over the Great Song Dynasty to sweep away the evil and corrupt officials in the whole country, just like the country will carry out an anti-corruption and anti-crime campaign every few years in later generations."

"However, these are palliatives rather than root causes, if the entire system, social development and productivity cannot be improved, a large number of evils will continue to breed, and in a few years, officialdom corruption and underworld forces will make a comeback, so at present, I can only do something that can be done temporarily."

"Just arresting some corrupt officials, getting rid of some bullies, and cleaning up some landlords is just a pasteur in the end. In order to completely change the Great Song Dynasty, except for the imperial power that cannot be touched for the time being, the rest of the social system must be greatly changed. ”

"After this autumn festival is over, I will stay in Bianliang for a while, and then immediately set off to various parts of the Great Song Dynasty to conduct grassroots research, gain an in-depth understanding of the basic situation of the Great Song Dynasty, and make preparations for the future reform of the system while surveying the governance situation in various places."

"Then there was the Song-Xia War and the possible Song-Liao War, and then the diversion of the Yellow River, and these things were basically within ten years. I had to put the whole officialdom in order after the end of the Song-Xia War. ”

"When the internal stability is temporarily settled, the Great Song Dynasty can officially start to the outside world."

Zhao Jun pondered the current path.

Governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh, and many things cannot be rushed and cannot be rushed.

It is certainly not right to start reform immediately, but it is necessary to go deep into the people, understand the contradictions between social classes, and understand the actual situation before we can start with the system.

It's just that more than 20 days after regaining his sight, the situation he saw was already very unpleasant, and I am afraid that there will be more unhappiness waiting for him in the future.

I hope that these people under the hands of the Imperial City Division can have fewer moths and make themselves not unusable.

Zhao Jun looked out the window and thought to himself.

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After Lu Yijian and others left the palace, they were surrounded by Xia Zhu, Chen Yaozuo, Jia Changchao, Wang Gongchen, Zhang Dexiang, Chen Zhizhong, Liu Yuanyu and other henchmen.

But Zhao Jun's matter is confidential, no matter how bold they are, they don't dare to say it, so they can only avoid it and leave directly.

After that, he and Wang Zeng and others exchanged breaths and agreed to meet in the private room of the East Building.

It stands to reason that Wang Zeng and Lu Yijian are mortal enemies, and the two sides are like fire and water, and they will not agree to conspire with him.

However, in the past, it was only political disagreement, and it took continuous accumulation of contradictions to erupt in April next year, and now there is no escalation of contradictions to that time.

What's more, now that there is a serious problem of stance, they can only stand together because of the same stance.

At this moment, except for Fan Zhongyan, all the insiders are here.

In the private room, incense burners are burned on the table, cranes and welcome pines are painted on the screens on both sides, and the remnant sun is reflected in the room through the paper windows, lining everyone's faces with light and dark.

"The official family hates friends the most, and they don't want Zhao Jun's matter to spread out, so in order to avoid suspicion, we should have dispersed and stopped meeting again."

Lu Yijian looked around and was the first to speak: "But now that you have seen the matter, Zhao Jun did not go according to common sense, but took charge of the Imperial City Division, and what we were most worried about happened." ”

At the beginning, it was Lu Yijian who arranged for Yan Shu to propose to Zhao Zhen to let Zhao Jun take the path of being born as a Jinshi to enter the office, and it was also Lu Yijian who persuaded Zhao Jun to reluctantly step into the imperial examination when Zhao Jun asked him to take the imperial examination.

The reason for this is that before Zhao Jun's eyes recovered, he opened his mouth and closed his mouth to kill a group of corrupt officials who violated the law and discipline, and those profiteers who raised prices and embezzled state assets also exterminated their families one by one.

At that time, including Zhao Zhen, they were all amazed at how the people of later generations killed decisively, their blood was strong, and they killed people, they were all slaughtered in batches, and they were also raided and exterminated, and the methods were extremely ruthless.

Although Zhao Jun was talking about the methods used by the great men of later generations to treat these people and the idea of online keyboard warriors at that time, they didn't know about Lu Yi and King Jian.

Therefore, when they heard Zhao Jun's words, they panicked at that time, fearing that Zhao Jun would really kill the officialdom after regaining his sight, so he hoped that by letting Zhao Jun take the path of the imperial examination, he would first enter their system step by step and carry out assimilation treatment.

As a result, he never expected that even if Zhao Jun had already taken the path of the imperial examination, he still secretly said that he had moved the official family, strengthened the authority of the Imperial City Division, and took the authority of the Imperial City Division, as if he had the ability to kill.

It scared the crowd out.

That's why Lu Yijian took the risk and summoned everyone to meet secretly and privately to discuss countermeasures.

"After all, it is because of the many words that Zhao Jun said before he regained his sight that the official family has been shaken, and the official family has now been determined to restore the power of the Imperial City Division, and it is not easy for us to do it now."

"Or just let it go, now the officials of the Manchu Dynasty have written against it, but the officials are still indifferent, which shows that the officials completely believe Zhao Jun's words."

"In fact, Zhao Jun's words are not unreasonable, if you can say that Zhao Jun can be moved, we will open up to our disciples. Maybe we can't support him to carry out a big reform, but it's not our children who are dying. ”

"None of your families have protégés, and it's not uncommon for them to make mistakes once in a while. But Zhao Jun looks at his words and deeds, and seems to be a reckless young man. What if he is unmoved and insists on doing something to his disciples? ”

Everyone was at a loss.

Everyone has his own desires.

Although the power of the Song Dynasty was weakened, the door shadow was still strong, even if it could not become a high-ranking official, it could also become a middle and lower-level official, so there were many children of each family.

For example, in the Lu family, Lu Yijian's sons were all in the shade of the door, and only the third son, Lu Gongshu, got the shade of the door first, then took the imperial examination, and finally became the prime minister.

Counting his grandson and the Lu Mengzheng family, historical records record that there are more than 20 people in the Guangmen of the Lu family.

This is only within three generations of Lu Mengzheng, Lu Yijian and other descendants, and there are many people who will enter the Lu family in the future, such as the Southern Song Dynasty Confucian Lu Daqi, Lu Zuqian, Lu Zujian, etc., the ancestors are all door shadow officials, and they are also door shade when they enter the office.

So don't look at them as honest officials one by one, as if they have a clean breeze on their sleeves, but in fact, there are huge families standing behind them. This is also the reason why historically they opposed Fan Zhongyan's reforms.

After all, no one wants their family members to be expelled from officialdom.

Before, Lu Yijian planned to let Zhao Jun go through the imperial examination to enter the office, firstly, to assimilate him, and secondly, to win him over and find a way for the children of the family in the future.

But now Zhao Jun has found another way and opened up the way of the Imperial City Division, which naturally makes everyone sad.

Some people thought that they might as well conspire with Zhao Jun and sell the middle and lower-level officials and the rest of the senior officials in the same camp. Some people also felt that Zhao Jun had a strong personality and would not necessarily agree to their request, so they hesitated for a while.

Lu Yijian looked at Wang Zeng and said, "Xiaoxian, what do you think?" ”

Wang Zeng frowned, his face was slightly embarrassed, and he said hesitantly: "I don't think Zhao Jun is joking, now that he is in charge of the Imperial City Division, he has the power to arrest, review and dispose of it, I am afraid that it will be serious, I think it is better to take a three-pronged approach." ”

"You say."

Lu Yijian said.

Wang Zeng said in a deep voice: "First, we must continue to let Zhao Junke enter the ranks, let him enter the officialdom, and then urge him to make firearms to distract him." The second is to restrain the children of the family and not let them cause trouble, but if there are evildoers, they should immediately ask the official family for their guilt and be deposed, so as not to kill Zhao Jun. Three comes."

"Three for what?"

"Sanlai still has to test Zhao Jun's meaning, in fact, we all know that after Zhao Jun comes, there will be unprecedented changes in the Great Song Dynasty. Change is unstoppable, and in the face of major rights and wrongs, we still have to recognize the reality clearly, and we can't resist the rolling torrent with our bodies, but we should still be obedient."

Wang Zeng looked at everyone and said: "I am afraid it is unrealistic to blindly try to win over Zhao Jun, hoping that he will show mercy to you and his subordinates." Everyone also understands the situation in various parts of the Great Song Dynasty, and Zhao Jun will not stop, so only by devoting himself to it and helping him can the family survive the torrent. ”

"Hmm"

Lu Yijian looked at Yan Shu and asked, "Uncle Tong, what do you think?" ”

Yan Shu sighed and said: "What the king said is extremely true, and the general trend cannot be changed. In the future, the sky of the Great Song Dynasty will change, if we can't change our minds in time, fail to devote ourselves to it, or even go against Zhao Jun, I'm afraid it won't end very well."

"Do you think so too?"

Lu Yijian asked others again.

Wang Sui and Sheng Du glanced at each other, the two of them had far less power to speak in the political hall than Lu Yijian and Wang Zeng, and they had always followed the crowd more, so they didn't speak.

Only Cai Qi and Song Shou pondered for a moment, as if they had figured out a lot, and they all spoke: "What Wang Xiang said is reasonable. ”

The scholar class is always weak and compromised, not to mention that they are only the highest officials in the scholar class, and they cannot represent the entire scholar class, and if Zhao Jun really conflicts with the bureaucracy in the future, they will find a way to stay out of the matter.

"Hmm."

Lu Yijian finally let out a long sigh and said: "Then let's do it first, fortunately, Zhao Jun will still be admitted to the imperial examination, and he doesn't seem to be aware of what we think in our hearts, so we will let it go first, unless it is absolutely necessary, or avoid being an enemy with him." ”

Shaking his head as he spoke, he stood up and prepared to leave, but after getting up, he seemed to stumble a little. In the end, he carried his hands behind his back and walked out of the private room.

The figure.

But he is a little older, far from being like Lu Xugong, who monopolized power in the political hall and was almost alone!

(End of chapter)