Zhao Zhen covered his face with his sleeve, and he was terrified at the moment.

Zhao Jun started a fire and sprayed people, which was poked straight into people's lung tubes.

Strictly speaking, Lu Yijian and the others came over, not necessarily to intercede for the people of the Han family and the Ma family.

Because Zhao Jun surrounded Kaifeng Mansion, causing a huge bad impact, the majesty of Kaifeng Mansion was swept away in the future, and it would have immeasurable consequences for Kaifeng Mansion to govern Bianliang in the future.

In the future, the common people will no longer trust Kaifeng Mansion, and even if Kaifeng Mansion has a Qing official, under such public opinion, they will definitely spurn the imperial court.

But it is about the face of Kaifeng Mansion, and it is also about the face of the imperial court, Lu Yijian and they have to come over to seek consultation to see if they can let Zhao Jun save some face for Kaifeng Mansion and the imperial court.

Zhao Jun knew that the so-called face had always been a big problem related to the national system in the Song Dynasty.

In the "Chongxi Coin" incident, Liao Xingzong asked the Song Dynasty to send New Year's coins to Liao should be called "dedication" or "acceptance", Fu Bi thought that this was insulting to the national body, so he insisted on calling it "gift".

was forced to pay money by others, which is a matter of losing power and humiliating the country, but because of the difference of one word, in order to fight for this so-called face, Fu Bi insisted on calling it "gift", which shows how much they whitewash the peace and are good at self-comfort.

And today Zhao Jun wants to break this so-called face, let their face be swept away, make everything public, and make the face of the Great Song Dynasty clean.

"Actually. Lu Xiang also has some truth in what they said, after all, this is about Kaifeng Mansion and the face of the imperial court. ”

When Zhao Zhen heard Zhao Jun's words, he hesitated and said, "Or."

"No, no."

After Zhao Jun poured his anger on Lu Yijian and them, he had gradually calmed down, shook his head and said: "The face of the imperial court has never been important, if a dynasty wants to be strong, it must look directly at its own problems, rather than simply covering it up. ”

"If you can cover it up for a while, you can't cover it up for a lifetime. Just like your so-called prosperous era of Renzong, the history books boast of peace, but is there no one among the people who will record it, and no one will know the truth? ”

"There are also history books that say that Song Huizong and Song Qinzong are the two saints of the North Hunt, and then what? Applying gold to the faces of those two goods in this way can be exchanged for a good evaluation of them by future generations? ”

"Wake up!"

"History will only record that you Zhao Zhen is mediocre, and you are led by the nose by those civil officials and doctors. It will only be recorded that Song Huizong and Song Qinzong were incompetent fools who were taken to the north by the Jin people like two dogs. ”

"Face has never been important, only when the country is strong and wins the hearts of the people in the world, can the Great Song Dynasty really have face, just as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was deaf in his later years, and he once issued an edict against himself, does this delay the evaluation of his eloquence by later generations?"

Zhao Jun spoke unceremoniously again, this time Zhao Zhen was actually very powerful, withstood a lot of pressure, and he was able to arrest people, which was also the authority given by Zhao Zhen.

But Zhao Jun still had to continue to CPU him.

Because I'm really not at ease.

Historically, this guy was really a good hand at shielding corrupt officials.

During the Zhihe period, there was a corruption case in Tanzhou in which local officials confiscated the pearls of merchants and sold them at a low price without authorization.

At the beginning of the first year, Ji Shunzhong, a merchant in Guangzhou, carried five catties of pearls to the northern region to sell. When passing through Tanzhou, he unfortunately fell ill and died. After the pearls were discovered by the local government, the officials confiscated the pearls on the grounds of tax evasion because the tax stamps of the pearls were missing.

Subsequently, officials such as Ren Yuan, then the governor of Tanzhou, and Li Zhang, the Hunan transit judge, sold the pearls worth more than 3,000 guan at a price of more than 400 guan without authorization, and bought them themselves.

Soon, the son of the merchant Ji Shunzhong, Qiao, came to Tanzhou to find his father. Knowing that his father had died of illness and that the pearls he was carrying were sold cheaply by local officials, Ji Ziqiao was very angry, so he reported the matter to the court. The imperial court ordered the Hunan Criminal Division to send someone to investigate the case.

The officials in charge of the case found it difficult to investigate the case.

Because some of the officials involved in the case have deep backgrounds, such as Li Zhang, the Hunan transfer judge, who is the son-in-law of Chen Zhizhong, the prime minister of the dynasty, and Lan Weiyong, another official involved in the case, is the son of a well-known person in the court.

Therefore, the case-handling officials of the Hunan Criminal Investigation Department hope to make this matter a big matter and a small matter.

Later, the matter was known to an upright imperial historian, so he wrote a letter of impeachment. At his insistence, Zhao Zhen was forced to let Wang Gongchen, the third envoy at the time, supervise the case.

Unexpectedly, after Wang Gongchen arrived in Hunan, not only did he not thoroughly investigate the case, but instead handed over the pearls confiscated from the officials involved in the case to Liao Haoran and sent them to the palace for retention.

Due to the absence of pearls, which are key exhibits, the value of pearls cannot be verified, and the officials involved cannot be convicted. In this way, the case can only be closed.

Therefore, on May 12 of the second year of Zhihe, the upright imperial historian wrote another memora of "Begging to Ask Wang Gongchen to Accept Stolen Pearls", impeaching Wang Gongchen for ignoring the facts and bending the law for personal gain.

In fact, the facts of this case are not complicated, and the key is that there are officials involved in the case, which has led to the delay in closing the case.

At the repeated insistence of the imperial history, Song Renzong had to ask the trial court to retry the case. In the end, the officials involved in the case and the harborer Wang Gongchen were all demoted.

It may sound like it's a happy ending, but it's not the same thing at all.

On the surface, both the officials involved and the aboveters were dealt with, but in reality the punishments were light, and most of them were later promoted.

For example, the former governor of Tanzhou was appointed to leave, and in the second year after his demotion, he was reinstated as a direct bachelor of Longtu Pavilion, and in his later years, he was a guest of the prince. Li Zhang, the Hunan transfer judge, was transferred to the central government as Shaoqing of Dali Temple not long after.

After the harborer Wang Gongchen was demoted, Song Renzong still favored him. Less than a month after Zhao impeached Wang Gongchen, Song Renzong wanted to arrange another important position for him, which caused strong dissatisfaction among the imperial historians, so he gave up.

There are also Wang Kui, Sun Wei, Guo Chengyou and the like, the situation of the entire Renzong Dynasty is the same as Journey to the West, there is no basic with a background, and if it is above the Jinshi background without a background, it will be demoted at most, as for what to raid the family and destroy the clan, it is impossible.

So for Zhao Zhen's goods, Zhao Jun is not at ease at all.

Even if he had told Zhao Zhen many times about the ending of the Song Dynasty, he had already told him many times, but he was afraid that this old disease would recur, and he listened to the nonsense of those people in the court and dragged himself back.

"Yes, yes, yes."

When Zhao Zhen heard Zhao Jun's words, he nodded again and again.

Zhao Jun continued: "Brother, I am a descendant, and I will tell you this for your sake. I can only remind you, don't forget the shame of Jing Kang. ”

"I naturally remember these things."

Hearing Zhao Jun mention this, Zhao Zhen suddenly became much more serious.

Zhao Jun shook his head and said: "Not only the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, but also after Song Qinzong was ceded by Song Huizong, those civil officials ignored the opinions of the people in the city who wanted to resist, and actually forced Song Qinzong to go out to negotiate with the Jin people, you say, will the civil officials care about you, the emperor?" ”

"There is such a thing?"

Zhao Zhen was shocked.

Zhao Jun said: "I didn't tell you in detail before, but I remember telling you that Song Qinzong went out of the city to negotiate with people in the Jin military camp, but was detained." ”

"Yes."

Zhao Zhen thought that Zhao Jun had indeed told him so.

"The Jin army hit the city of Bianliang and asked the emperor to go to the Jin army in person to negotiate peace."

Zhao Jun said: "Those scholars were scared, and they only hoped that they would send the Jin army away as soon as possible, so they kept instigating the emperor to negotiate, the first time they went to come back safely, and the second time they went, they were detained, and then the Jin army broke Bianliang, wantonly looted, and kidnapped the second emperor of Huiqin, this is what happened." ”

Zhao Zhen's face became very ugly.

After any emperor learned that he was betrayed by a scholar, his face would not be good.

"And at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Jiangnan gentry colluded with the court officials to prevent the emperor from collecting taxes in Jiangnan. In addition, the gentry in Jiangnan also united to resist tax arrears, resulting in the most prosperous southern region in the late Ming Dynasty not being able to collect taxes, and the imperial court had no money to use, and was finally wiped out by the peasant army. ”

Zhao Jun continued: "The most interesting thing is that Emperor Chongzhen hoped that those court officials would donate money to tide over the difficulties for the country, and the ministers cried poor one by one, and Chongzhen only raised 200,000 taels of silver in the end. When the rebel army Li Zicheng entered Beijing and looted more than 70 million taels of silver from the homes of these ministers, is it quite ironic? ”

"I'm a gentry of the Great Song Dynasty. It should be different from the gentry of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Zhao Zhen smiled reluctantly.

"All have a virtue, it is human instinct to seek good fortune and avoid evil, and when the Song Dynasty fell, they used the Mongols as the cornerstone of their rule. After the Mongols perished, they worked for the Ming Dynasty again, and Zhu Yuanzhang knew their virtue, so he went on a killing spree. It's a pity that Lao Zhu could only keep the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, but not the end of the Ming Dynasty, so they became the gentry of the Qing Dynasty later. ”

Zhao Jun said: "In fact, there is no shortage of patriots among the gentry, who are willing to shed their blood for the country and donate all their family property. But brother, you must remember that there are always only individuals who betray the class, and there is no class that betrays the class. If the system does not change, the productive forces do not change, history will become a cycle. ”

"I see."

Zhao Zhen took a deep breath.

Historically, he was a cover-up for the doctor class to do whatever they wanted.

But now that Zhao Jun has instilled a lot of things in him after all, and he also knows that the Great Song Dynasty is about to perish, if he continues to protect the scholar doctor like in history, he will not be an emperor, but a fool.

In the final analysis, he shielded those people to maintain stability. And now that he has found that shielding these people does not maintain stability, he naturally has to use other methods.

Zhao Jun nodded and said: "It's good that my brother understands these truths, Bianliang is the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, and if I want to carry out science and technology, education, and development in the future, I must maintain stability here." If there is a mess here, and those people are dragging their feet, how can the Great Song Dynasty still be strong? Therefore, it must be cleared, and it must not be soft-hearted. ”

"That"

Zhao Zhen hesitated for a moment and said, "What are you going to do?" ”

"Keep digging deeper, of course."

Zhao Jun said without hesitation: "There are several senior officials in the DPRK and China who are the umbrellas behind those people's scenes, and I will dig all the way to the end." ”

"But now the Imperial Observatory and the Imperial Academy."

"I don't really want to deal with them, let Cao Xiu take the bottle over and shut them up when the time comes."

"Okay."

Zhao Zhen is also helpless, the bottle can really shut up everyone.

"That's it for now."

Zhao Jun got up, glanced at Zhao Zhen and said, "I'll go back to the Imperial City Division first, there are still many people to interrogate, and there are still many big punishments to use." ”

"The Sect Girl."

"I'll get her out."

"Big grandson, the Great Song will be entrusted to you."

Zhao Zhen said seriously.

"Hmm."

Zhao Jun just nodded, bowed to Zhao Zhen, and left the Chongde Palace.

After dealing with Zhao Zhen and Lu Yijian, he really has to go back to deal with those who have been arrested.

(End of chapter)