Zhao Jun was handling government affairs in the Constitutional Yuan at this time.

The itinerary has been decided, and the first stop is to take a boat to Nanjing.

This Nanjing is not the Nanjing Jinling of the later generations, but the Yingtianfu of Nanjing in the Song Dynasty, that is, the Shangqiu City of Henan in the later generations.

Then take the land route to Bozhou on Huainan East Road.

Because it is not too far from Bianliang, it is estimated that it will only take two or three days to arrive.

When the time comes, go around Huainan East Road and Huainan West Road, stay for two or three months, deal with Huainan affairs, and then go to Hangzhou.

Basically, they will first go to Huainan and Jiangdong for a walk, and then they may go to Guangdong to inspect foreign trade, and finally from Guangzhou to Hunan, Hubei, and Sichuan, to inspect the agriculture and economy of the entire south.

Judging from the current situation, the north is still not able to go for the time being. There were few people and many wars in the border areas, so he went purely to add to the chaos, and the south was the center of economy and agriculture, so it was most suitable to go to the south.

Knowing that Bao Zheng was coming, Zhao Jun asked people to take Bao Zheng to the Constitutional Yuan. After he asked people to go to the ministry to bring Bao Zheng's information, he went to the small conference room and waited while reading the materials.

Soon there was a knock on the door, and after a "please come in", the chamberlain opened the door and said, "Zhiyuan, Bao Zheng is here." ”

"Hmm."

Zhao Jun put aside the information in his hand and raised his head to look at it.

Bao Zheng walked into the conference room.

He was dusty all the way, with a blank look on his face, and after he walked in and saw Zhao Jun, he was slightly surprised at first, and then bowed and said, "Bao Zheng has seen the Zhiyuan." ”

"Sit."

Zhao Jun motioned for him to sit opposite him, and then waited for Bao Zheng to sit down before he began to look at the other party.

There is no crescent moon on his forehead, and his face is really a little darker than ordinary people.

However, it is not as black as charcoal as in history, but the skin color is slightly darker, and the overall skin tone still tends to be yellow.

I think the folk are good at mythologizing people.

Bao Zheng was not afraid of the powerful and impartially enforced the law because of his slightly darker skin, which led to the people's word of mouth because of his slightly darker skin, which evolved into the image of black charcoal and crescent moon later.

At least Zhao Jun has now seen Bao Zheng in history with his own eyes, just an ordinary middle-aged man with slightly darker skin and a more serious and resolute face.

"Bao Zheng, when you were the county governor of Jianchang and the tax supervisor of Hezhou, you had outstanding political achievements and outstanding talents, and you were a rare talent in the imperial court."

Zhao Jun sighed, and then said: "It's a pity that you have only been in office for less than three years, of which you have not been employed for more than seven years, and you lack qualifications, which is a pity." ”

Bao Zheng said with a serious face: "Filial piety to parents is a matter of course, Bao Zheng is not a pity that he has less time in office, but it is a pity that he does not spend enough time with his parents, and he can't do his filial piety for a few more years." ”

"But in this way, your promotion will be affected, remember that Han Qi, Wen Yanbo, and Wu Yu seem to be the same as Ling, they are all first-class jinshi in the fifth year of the Heavenly Sage."

Zhao Jun asked rhetorically: "Now these people are all backbone officials, and Han Qi is the right counselor, and he is in charge of the Taiwan spokesperson. Wen Yanbo was sentenced to Jiangzhou the year before last, and at the end of last year, because of his outstanding political performance, he was already supervising the imperial history. Wu Yu is now also a member of the Audit Department, and he is a pillar of talent, don't you regret it? ”

"No regrets!"

Bao Zheng shook his head: "The tree wants to be quiet but the wind does not stop, and the son wants to raise but does not wait." Compared with being an official, filial piety to parents is more important. ”

"Good!"

Zhao Jun praised: "Filial piety comes first, this is the standard of people, you can be so filial, which shows that you are of noble character and worthy of my entrustment to you." ”

The reason why Bao Zheng is nearly forty years old and is only a low-level petty official is not because he did not do well in the exam or has poor political performance, but because he is to support his parents.

In fact, he, like Han Qi, Wen Yanbo, Wu Yu and others, is the first rank and first rank in the fifth year of the Heavenly Sage.

But because his parents were old, he resigned and went home to pay tribute to his parents after serving as a tax supervisor for less than a year. In the next few years, his parents died one after another, and he had to keep filial piety for several years.

went back and forth, delayed for a full eight years, and also made him a big step behind in terms of qualifications compared with Han Qi, Wen Yanbo, Wu Yu and others who were on the same list at the beginning.

At present, those people are basically around five or six grades, which is equivalent to department-level cadres in later generations, and because of their qualifications and achievements, the future is bright.

In a few years, they will have the opportunity to step into the position of the five-pinned robe leader, such as Han Qi served as the deputy prime minister and governor after only five years in history, Wu Yu also became the deputy prime minister after seven years, and Wen Yanbo was ten years later.

It can be said that the reason why Bao Zheng did not become the prime minister in history, and only served as the prime minister at the highest, in addition to being selfless and offending many powerful colleagues, the lack of qualifications in the past eight years is also very important.

This is a rather regrettable place.

At least Zhao Jun feels that he needs a very principled person like Bao Zheng to be an assistant by his side, and it will be much easier to deal with many things in the future.

But this is also the charm of Bao Zheng.

Filial.

Straight.

Fair.

There are principles.

Otherwise, he would not be the famous Bao Zheng Bao Qingtian in history.

At this moment, Bao Zheng still maintained a resolute expression, and did not show joy because he was valued by the Governor of the Constitutional Yuan.

For him, the most important thing as an official is to complete his own work, not to take advantage of the camp, to meet the wishes of the superiors, and to gain more power.

I saw Zhao Jun pondering for a moment, and then said, "You can go to Kaifeng Mansion to serve as a judge first." ”

"Yes."

Bao Zheng should give up.

The judge of Kaifeng Mansion is a seventh-grade official, and his previous tax supervisor was from eighth-grade, which was obviously a promotion, and he was directly promoted to three levels.

However, this is not considered a skipping promotion, because the normal promotion is originally to be awarded redundant official positions such as supervisors and Dali judges after the entrance examination.

Then, when there is a real shortage in the locality, he is released as a county magistrate or a magistrate, and he serves as a low-level official in various ministries.

If the political performance is good, it can be promoted to the category of local general judgment and judge, or it can be transferred back to the central government, and go to the third division, the imperial history platform, the admonition platform, and the six supervisors of the nine temples to be a seven- or eight-grade lower-level official, or go to various literary museums to revise history.

After two more years of accumulation, they can basically become the backbone officials of the fifth or sixth grade like the current Han Qi, Wen Yanbo, and Wu Yu.

Therefore, sending Bao Zheng to Kaifeng Mansion can be regarded as a promotion with outstanding political performance.

For Bao Zheng's future career, Zhao Jun has also already considered, first went to Kaifeng Mansion to exercise, then released to Zhizhou, and then transferred back to the central government to serve as the right to know Kaifeng Mansion.

As for whether it will be transferred to the police department of the highest law enforcement, or the Dali Temple of the Supreme People's Court, or the trial court of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, we will see when the time comes.

After all, Bao Zheng is still the same Bao Zheng, but it is not good to say that because of the different trajectories of his life, and his political achievements have become different, he needs to observe in the future and look at his political achievements and deeds before he can make a decision.

"Alright."

After Zhao Jun conferred the post on Bao Zheng, he encouraged him and said: "Now the officials in the Great Song Dynasty are corrupt, and corrupt officials are rampant. It is very rare for an upright official like Bao Zheng to work hard in Kaifeng Mansion first, and I can only continue to promote you after making achievements. ”

"Yes."

Bao Zheng got up again and bowed.

"Go ahead."

Zhao Jun waved his hand to signal him to leave.

Although Lao Bao is old, Zhao Junsheng knows how to make good use of people and can put talents in the right position, so there should be no problem with such an arrangement.

The only pity is that all the tumors in Kaifeng Mansion have been swept away by themselves, and it is estimated that Lao Bao has no place to show his strength.

However, the people will still litigate normally, and now that Fan Zhongyan has gone to the northwest, there is Lao Bao who can also enforce the law impartially in Kaifeng Mansion, so that there will not be such a thing as an official misjudging a case.

Later, let him go out to Zhizhou.

arranged Bao Zheng, Zhao Jun returned to the political room, there are not many things today, except for Li Di coming over from time to time to hang around, disgusting and disgusting Lu Yijian, nothing else happened.

As a former prime minister, Li Di knows the truth that whoever is close to the center of power can grasp power, so he will hang out in front of Zhao Jun if he has nothing to do.

Zhao Jun naturally understood what he meant, but it was not good for Li Di to be transferred back to Bianliang and then promoted soon, so he put it on hold first, and then transferred him to the Constitutional Yuan when there was a vacancy in the Constitutional Yuan in the future, or Li Di's political performance was good.

Compared with the group of old people in the Constitutional Yuan, how can they personally promote people to make it easy? After all, Li Di and Lu Yijian are in the same situation, if Li Di enters the Constitutional Yuan and does not hug Zhao Jun's thigh, without Zhao Jun's support, I believe that Lu Yijian will not mind removing him again.

In the afternoon.

Zhao Jun went to the back garden, where Zhao Zhen was watching a movie.

Now Zhao Zhen is proficient in using a laptop, at least he can click the mouse, and he knows which files are in which folders.

Zhao Jun hid those things that shouldn't be shown to him in the system SSD, and frantically established hundreds of sub-folders, plus the hundreds that were originally in the system disk, it can be said that there are layers of nesting dolls and hiding, and they can't be found at all.

As for why you don't set a password for the folder, it's also easy.

He won't.

However, Zhao Jun had already intimidated Zhao Zhen and told him not to touch the things in the system disk, telling him that it was the system hard disk, and once it was moved, it would cause the system to crash, thus breaking the notebook.

This obviously frightened Zhao Zhen, so much so that even if he kept the computer by his side every day in the past few days, he didn't dare to touch it casually, and he didn't even dare to click on the various software icons on the desktop, so he only dared to follow the steps taught by Zhao Jun to open the data folder of the D drive, either to see the information, or to watch the movie.

"The eldest grandson is here."

Seeing Zhao Jun coming, Zhao Zhen turned off the movie, and then asked, "I heard that Bao Zheng is back?" ”

"Hmm."

Zhao Jun nodded and said, "He just arrived in Bianliang today. ”

"I'm curious about what this person in history looks like."

Zhao Zhen said with a smile: "Is it true as you said, the face is like black charcoal, and there is a crescent moon on the forehead." ”

"The face is indeed a little dark, but it is just ordinary tanning, it should be tanned."

Zhao Jun shrugged and said: "There is no crescent moon, there are false rumors among the people, and there is no record of Bao Zheng's appearance in history." ”

"I'd like to see you next time."

"I'll have a chance later."

"Where is Bao Zheng arranged?"

Zhao Zhen asked again.

"Let's serve as a magistrate in Kaifeng Mansion first."

Zhao Jun said: "His qualifications are too shallow, and it is really difficult to mention." ”

"Well, that's fine."

Zhao Zhen replied.

The two of them were talking, and Lu Yijian and the others also came over.

In addition to reporting on some state affairs today, it should also be the last lesson Zhao Jun will teach.

Not forever, but this year.

Zhao Jun expects that he will have to go out for at least a year, so this time is not only a lecture, but also a final explanation before leaving.

Everyone sat down as usual.

Zhao Zhen smiled and said, "Eldest grandson, what are you talking about today?" ”

"There are many things to talk about in later generations, there are also many things to talk about history, and I have also talked about a lot, and you should also digest and digest it."

Zhao Jun said: "Today I think it's better to talk about this year's plan, after all, the new year is coming, and every year should have a goal to be completed every year." ”

"Oh?"

Lu Yijian asked, "Then what should happen this year?" ”

Zhao Jun pondered: "This year's task is to extend the reform of the Constitutional Yuan to the entire Great Song Dynasty, according to what I set before, the roads, prefectures, and counties will begin to decentralize power, and the public procuratorate and law will be separated. ”

"Did it start this year?"

Lu Yijian was surprised.

He asked before how to promote efficiency to the whole country, and Zhao Jun said at the time that it was not the right time, why did it change again in the blink of an eye?

But Lu Yijian obviously didn't know that what Zhao Jun said was not the time to restructure, but to reform.

At that time, Lu Yijian asked how to improve efficiency.

However, the current restructuring only divides the powers of local officials and clarifies their responsibilities, rather than improving their efficiency.

In essence, it is still the same as Bianliang, due to the decentralization of officials, more departments have been added, resulting in more posts, and the original redundant officials can take up their posts.

However, there is no direct connection between the appointment of officials and the improvement of efficiency, and without supervision and encouragement, officials should be lazy or lazy.

"Hmm."

Zhao Jun nodded and said: "Starting this year, it must be completed by the middle of the year, and new departments must be established across the country, and I believe that other local officials will not oppose it except for the local governor." ”

"That's natural, if I'm a training envoy of a certain regiment in a certain state, it was originally just a redundant and fictitious position, but now I can become a real official, it's too late to be happy."

Wang Zeng said with a smile.

Zhao Jun continued: "In addition to extending the system to the whole country, the economy can not be relaxed, I propose to set up special zones in Quanzhou and Guangzhou, in the future these two states will no longer be under local jurisdiction, the status of Zhizhou is comparable to that of a transit envoy, directly under the leadership of the imperial court, statistics of overseas trade, it is best to personally send envoys to Southeast Asia, India, Central Asia, West Asia and even Africa and other places to investigate." ”

"Oh?"

Everyone wondered, Sheng Du was puzzled: "Why do you have to go to sea so much?" We have already formed a fleet to prepare for the Americas since last year, and it is estimated that we may have to set off this year, and if we form a fleet again, the cost will be huge, and I am afraid that the imperial court will not be able to afford it. ”

"Quite simply, the essence of the Industrial Revolution is to export goods by upgrading manufacturing capabilities through machines. Now in this era, the West favors our tea, silk, porcelain, spices and the like. But the textile industry is the starting point of industry, and we must also examine whether the West can form a market and accept our textile industry. ”

Zhao Jun explained: "In addition to that, we also have to look at their minerals and see their national strength. In the case that the industrial capacity was not fully improved, the Great Song Dynasty could not occupy many places with the army. Therefore, local minerals need to be dug up, and local raw materials need to be collected. Then we export commodities and they export raw materials, which is the right way for us. ”

The export of raw materials is actually the export of resources, and now the Great Song Dynasty has not taken off. It was just through handicraft manufacturing, using tea, silk, porcelain, and spices to occupy the Maritime Silk Road, and then let the gold, silver and copper from the West flow into the East.

But if industry opens up and trade exports increase greatly, then in the future there will be not only gold, silver and copper, but also other resources.

Such as wood, iron, coal, aluminum, and so on.

Therefore, it is necessary to investigate in the early stage, at least you have to find out the situation of the other party, so as to be able to make what kind of industrial output. At least Zhao Jun felt that in the East, he had to turn those monkeys in Japan into mining islanders before he could be considered a qualified industrial start.

(End of chapter)