Considering the consequences of angering Zhao Jun, Zhao Zhen thought about it again and again, and decided not to be stupid, everything was based on Zhao Jun's meaning.

As a result, the imperial court officially issued an edict on the Huainan disaster relief and corruption case, and the matter was published in the Di newspaper from beginning to end, and the newspaper in Bianliang also exaggerated it, publicizing the hatefulness of those people to the public.

For a time, Bianliang, whether it was officialdom or the people, caused an uproar because of this incident, and the voices of the Manchu Dynasty were endless, and the actions of these people were attacked in groups.

In the final analysis, the officialdom of the Song Dynasty was indeed dark. Corruption, oppression of the people, and doing all kinds of evil are almost the norm, and there are only a few officials who are truly honest and righteous.

However, the central officials of the imperial court actually paid more attention to the reputation of the Qing Liu, regardless of what happened in private, at least on the surface, they obeyed the law and maintained the image of the Qing officials.

Even a despicable villain like Xia Zhu only does business on his own within the legal scope and never dares to be corrupt and take bribes.

Therefore, although Zhao Jun has a very poor sense of Xia Zhu, he really has no handle to dispose of him. Unless Zhao Jun directly thought that he had his own selfish desires to demote him, there was really nothing he could do about Xia Zhu in terms of law.

In this case, those officials who claim to be clean and clean, after learning that someone has done such evil things, will naturally be impeached all over the place, and they are bound to deal with these black sheep to demonstrate the justice of the imperial court.

With such a righteousness in hand, the Constitutional Yuan pushed the boat along the river and issued a decree to let the responsible persons of all walks of life detain all the criminals involved in the case and escort them back to Bianliang for trial.

Moreover, it was specifically mentioned that this trial will be jointly carried out by the Dali Temple, the Trial and Criminal Court, and the Yushitai, and it must be fair and just.

Hearing the news, the three yamen were overjoyed. They are all happy and celebrated.

Won, win, win.

They finally won.

Zhao Jun was not in Bianliang, and the judicial power of the Great Song Dynasty finally fell into their hands again, and they were no longer monopolized by the Imperial City Division as before.

As a result, the three judicial yamen immediately took action and jointly issued a circular to immediately arrest the officials who broke the law.

But they were still a step slower.

Except for those who are far away on the list, such as those in Hebei, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Shanxi and other places, as long as they are in the southeast region, they are basically arrested by Zhao Jun.

After all, Zhao Jun's action was in June, and the imperial court got the letter, and then announced the crimes of these people, which aroused the attention of public opinion, so that Zhao Jun's action occupied the name of the righteousness is basically July, with a difference of more than a month in between.

This time is enough for Zhao Jun to arrest people everywhere.

And although Yang Chongxun's Chenzhou is just south of Bianliang, a stone's throw away from Bianliang, it is not far from Huainan.

Therefore, almost when the joint law enforcement team of the three divisions and yamen went to fetch people happily, the magistrate of Chenzhou told the other party that Yang Chongxun had been arrested by the army a few days ago, which made people happy in vain.

Compared with Huang Wei and others, Yang Chongxun is a big fish who has been the prime minister, but unfortunately it did not fall into their hands, which makes the people of Dali Temple, the Trial Court and the Yushitai very regretful.

However, it is not bad to catch Huang Wei, and the trial will start immediately.

And Zhao Jun is here.

By July, he had arrested all the prisoners he could catch.

It didn't take much effort to arrest Yang Chongxun, he did have a small army in his hands, and he was responsible for the assassination of those county orders, but he still couldn't compete with the regular army.

In the eyes of the people, whether it is Yang Chongxun, Sun Wei, or even those local county orders, they are all high-ranking and untouchable big people.

These people are capable of killing them like pinching an ant.

What they give people is endless despair and oppressive power like a mountain.

But that's in the eyes of the people at the bottom.

At another level, it is naturally completely different.

For Zhao Jun, they are just a group of gutter rats that they disposed of by the way on the grassroots road to the south, and they didn't have much effort at all.

And Zhao Jun saw it, whether it was from morality or conscience, he wanted to eradicate the person.

No way.

Zhao Jun bragged to Zhao Zhen when he was blind, saying that if he was in ancient times, he would definitely be able to set off a revolution and make the Great Song Dynasty great again and become a powerful empire like the Han and Tang Dynasties.

As a result, after the eyes were restored, people were stupid, and they really appeared in ancient times.

Then the cow had already been blown out, and they were persuaded by Yan Shu to join the Great Song Group, so they could only drive the ducks to the shelves and start to reform matters.

Then there must be a direction for reform.

The improvement of productivity, which cannot be achieved in a short period of time, is the right way to put aside, find a way to alleviate the increasingly acute land annexation, and let the people of the Great Song Dynasty have a way to live.

So with the that was blown out, Zhao Jun embarked on a road to survive for the people of the Great Song Dynasty.

Go out and have a look.

Good guys, corrupt officials everywhere, scourge the people, and make the people's livelihood miserable.

If Zhao Jun doesn't do anything, wouldn't it be a slap in the face?

I said that I am a good chess player, and you said that you are Liu Qi.

Lifting the bar, right?

So to sum it up.

It's not that Zhao Junzhen likes to kill so much, but he has a reason why he has to do it.

The lofty ambition is to comprehensively reform the Great Song Dynasty, so that the Great Song Dynasty will show a realm of vitality and competition from top to bottom.

Since he made a great wish, he naturally had to do things, and these people were met by him on the road, according to the analogy of the immortal cultivation that Zhao Jun had seen before, it was to hinder his avenue.

These people don't die, who dies?

By August, Zhao Jun had traveled all over Huainan West Road and Huainan East Road, more than 20 states, and hundreds of counties.

At the same time, the joint examination department composed of Li Cambodia, Jiang Tang, Yang Xu, and others has also completed the collection of all the incriminating evidence of those people, and their homes have also been raided, and the evidence is sufficient.

Zhao Jun quickly cut through the chaos and signed his prefect's decree, the leader of which was the capital offense, and the rest of the executives, such as county officials, state officials, adjutants, greasy officials, clerks, officials, and hundreds of thousands of people, were sentenced to death if the circumstances were serious, and exiled those with less criminal responsibility.

And their charges were also announced throughout Huainan, and notices were posted in various prefectures, counties, and even villages and towns. Showing their crimes, the time of execution, and the court's attitude towards corrupt officials and corrupt officials, Zhao Jun's determination to eradicate these officialdom tumors was shown one by one.

For a time, the people of Huainan were all overjoyed, and Zhao Jun's fame spread almost all over the south at this time, and the momentum reached its peak. At this time, if he raised his arms and launched an uprising, it is estimated that many people would follow.

But that's not enough.

On August 10, Zhao Jun set out in February, stayed in Yingtianfu for a while, and entered Huainan West Road at the end of February, most of which were in Huainan except for the two months in Hangzhou.

He visited the countryside to investigate the people's situation, and in addition to dealing with those high-ranking officials, he listened to the people's opinions and judged the merits.

When he was in Yingtianfu, because he did not identify himself, the local people did not dare to tell him the truth, so Zhao Jun could only wander around the township from time to time, unless he met the kind of victim who was willing to open the conversation, otherwise there was really not much gain.

But now that the identity is revealed, wherever I go, there are people from I don't know how many places come to cry out for injustice.

There are all kinds of complaints, and there are all kinds of complaints. Some were oppressed by the officials, some were internal conflicts within the clan, and some were confused.

For example, when the villages compete for water sources, the villages on both sides fight, and the servants in the yamen can only come to adjust.

Both sides felt that the people of the yamen were in harmony with the mud and favored each other. It happened that Zhao Jun passed by and went to the countryside to investigate, and all of them came over to sue the yamen, which scared the local magistrate half to death.

Later, after Zhao Jun understood and investigated the situation on the spot, he gave a solution.

He asked the two villages to dig a new canal together, and distribute it according to the water demand and the number of people in the village, and the government supervised and strictly controlled it, and no more competition was allowed.

At the same time, Zhao Jun also harshly criticized the practices of the two villages, telling them that everyone is a neighbor, and if you grab water, others will have no water to irrigate the fields, and if the fields cannot produce food, the neighboring villages will starve to death.

Neighbors should have helped each other, not fought each other.

Is it possible that when the water source is still sufficient, barely enough to supply two villages, do you still have to cause deaths?

A little bit of knowing is emotional, moving is reasonable. Regardless of whether they listened to it or not, anyway, under the witness of Zhao Jun, they shook hands and made peace, saying that there would be no more conflicts in the future.

In fact, the contradiction between these two villages is not deep, although the local officials are with the mud, but every time the two sides fight, they will come to stop it as soon as possible, and no one will be killed, otherwise, I am afraid it will not be so easy to solve.

And this kind of thing, Zhao Jun can encounter many times every day. The existence of a political institute is comparable to the existence of a country's prime minister, but it is really painful to deal with these trivial things.

But there is no way to do it, grassroots governance is originally to face people's livelihood. If he wants to go down to the grassroots level to investigate, he must face these problems, and naturally he can only solve these problems.

That is, he himself comes from later generations, was born in the countryside, and has rich experience at the grassroots level, plus people of different status say the same thing, and the effect is not the same.

changed the local officials to persuade them, and the local people did not necessarily listen, but Zhao Jun was changed to criticize the education, and they were naturally obedient a lot.

Even if there are some scoundrels, at least in front of Zhao Jun, they will definitely not dare to disobey.

On the 10th, Zhao Jun just came back from Taizhou, went to Hailing County, which was under the jurisdiction of Zhao Luan, and saw that the governance was peaceful and peaceful, and the people could not be said to be worry-free, but it was also much stronger than other states and counties, which showed that Zhao Luan's governance ability was indeed good.

Moreover, I heard that Zhao Luan also had a hand in dealing with the powerful landlords in the county, and even forced them to hire people to work at a high price, and severely cracked down on slavery, forcing those powerful landlords to sign equal contracts for the hired people, greatly reducing exploitation and oppression.

This made Zhao Jun still have a good impression of Zhao Luan, and like Yang Xu, Wang Su, Yang Cha and others, it was recorded in the small book of talent selection. In this way, with Bao Zheng, he has at least five big talents available in the future.

Back in Zhenzhou, Zhao Jun is currently stationed in the Huainan East Road Transfer Envoy Yamen, borrowing Jiang Tang's office office. Now that the whole of Huainan has been walked, it is time to go south to Zhejiang, Fujian and other places.

It was only in the afternoon that Jiang Tang and Yang Xuan came over and reported to Zhao Jun on official business.

In the yamen, Zhao Jun sat on the main seat, and after Jiang Tang and Yang came over, Zhao Jun asked them to sit down, and asked people to make tea, before they started to talk about business.

"Governor, this is the result of local treatment. Many local officials participated, and the incumbent county magistrate accepted the bribe, and the current chief secretary and county lieutenant were tried. Those with high culpability were all sent to Xia Cai, and those who were exiled and those who were sentenced to death were all executed at the end of this month. ”

Yang Xuan told Zhao Jun about the situation.

Zhao Jun nodded and said, "Well, you did a good job." This trip to the Zhiyuan is actually to observe the people's feelings, and this major corruption case will be dealt with easily. But for a long time, I still walk in most places, and these things are left to you to do, and it is hard for you. ”

"Wherever it is, it's all within my own authority."

Yang Xuan and Jiang Tang hurriedly surrendered their hands.

Then Jiang Tang said: "In addition to these dirty officials, the merchants and landlords involved in the case have also been arrested, this is the list." ”

As he spoke, he handed over the official document in his hand.

Zhao Jun took it and glanced at it, in the Huainan corruption case, the officials were responsible for embezzling the grain, and the businessmen were responsible for raising the price, selling the grain at a high price, and the money obtained was divided into thirty or seventy.

Seventy percent are official masters, and businessmen can get three percent depending on the faces of Yang Chongxun, Huang Wei, Sun Wei and others.

Of course.

Even so, these guys aren't good birds.

Because strictly speaking, if businessmen want to make money, they must have their profits.

For example, officials were greedy for food, and due to the impact of the disaster, the rice, which was originally 200 wen and 1 stone, increased fivefold to 1,000 wen and 1 stone.

Then the officials will definitely give certain preferential treatment to the merchants who collect grain, such as the market price of 1,000 wen and 1 stone, and 7 or 800 wen to the merchants.

However, the merchant was naturally not satisfied with this profit, so he continued to raise the price, raising the market price of 1,000 wen and 1 stone to 2,000 wen and 1 stone in TM, and making a lot of money.

This is also the reason why it is often recorded in historical materials that once there is a famine, the price of food in the disaster area will often skyrocket several times or even dozens of times.

In addition to the volatility of the market itself, these merchants who hoard goods and inflate prices are also the main culprits.

Since Zhao Jun has bumped into this case, it is naturally more than just cracking down on corrupt officials.

These landlords and businessmen certainly can't let it go.

Therefore, long before arresting the officials, Yang sued them to continue to follow the vine and wipe out these landlords and profiteers.

"Well, well done."

Zhao Jun glanced at the list, and the crimes in it, including how to buy food from officials and how to raise prices, were clearly written, and nodded with satisfaction: "This matter, we must give an explanation to the people." ”

"Yes."

The two men answered.

Zhao Jun also said: "The local landlords, those who break the law seriously will be killed, and those who participate in it will also be exiled." It's up to you to decide the exact punishment criteria, but I want them to be punished as they deserve. In addition, the land under their names was confiscated by the local government. ”

"Taken back to the government?"

Yang Xuan was a little surprised, he thought that Zhao Jun would be distributed to the people, but he didn't expect it to be confiscated directly, and said curiously: "Zhiyuan, is it all attributed to the local county government?" ”

"Well, yes."

Zhao Jun nodded and said: "In the future, this will become a common practice, and all landlords who break the law will confiscate their fields and return the land to the local county government, which will be supervised by the higher-level state government and the highway administration department." ”

Jiang Tang wondered: "What should be done with the recovered land?" ”

"It's very simple, leased to the people for farming, the local rent is generally between five and seventy percent, and even those who only have to pay fifty percent of the land rent are considered good landlords, which is really ironic. The people lease the land of the government, and after deducting the normal taxes, they only need to pay about 20%. ”

Zhao Jun said: "In this way, one is to slow down the situation of land annexation. Second, in order to put pressure on the local landlords, as long as the government and the self-cultivated people own enough land, even if they only occupy two to three percent of a county, the majority of the people are more willing to lease the government than to the tenants of the local landlords, and the landlords will be forced to lower the land rent to benefit the people. ”

"Wonderful."

Yang Xue patted his ass and said: "In this way, wouldn't the government's taxes be more?" ”

"Hmm."

Zhao Jun said: "The 20% tax in this place can actually stay in the place and act as a servant of the officials, and it can also reduce the situation of the officials asking for bribes in order to make a living." ”

"Zhiyuan is really a man of God."

Yang Xuan gave a thumbs up and said: "This method is really good, it not only solves the difficulties of the people, but also benefits the local officials, which is really a good medicine." ”

Although he knew that Yang Xuan liked to tie up with the powerful and liked to be flattered, but for some reason, Zhao Jun did not feel disgusted, but felt quite comfortable in the face of Yang Xu's praise.

Maybe that's why in "Detective Di Renjie", Licking Ling Zeng Tai was able to go from a small county order to get promoted all the way to make a fortune, and soon became a deposed envoy.

"The fallacy of the Tao is praised, and it can't be said to be a good cure, it can only be said to be a helpless move."

Zhao Jun listened to Yang Xu's praise, smiled and waved his hand and said, "And there are still some drawbacks in this, and it is also a troublesome thing." ”

"Cons?"

Yang Xue wondered: "Is there any drawbacks to such a clever strategy?" ”

"Naturally, the rules are set by people, and then nature can be broken by people. Sometimes, the decrees at the top are well-intentioned, but when they are implemented below, they are distorted by the local government and become bad government that harms the people. ”

Zhao Jun remembered Wang Anshi's change and said: "For example, the land belonging to the county government is easy to be rented by the relatives and friends of those officials, and there may even be a situation where the landlord rents those lands by means, and then subleases them to the people at fifty percent of the rent, earning a profit of thirty percent of the price difference in the middle." ”

"This"

Yang Xuan was dumbfounded and glanced at Jiang Tang, who was also very surprised.

They really didn't think that much.

Like Wang Anshi, the idea is good, but unfortunately the executor is the world's officials.

It is impossible for these people not to think about their own interests.

In the distribution of these government-owned fields, it is reasonable to give preference to friends and relatives.

"So this requires the state government and the four departments to play a regulatory role."

Zhao Jun finally concluded: "The local county government belongs to the land, and the local county order must be personally distributed and issued to the people in need, not to the relatives and friends of the officials and the local landlords. This can be added to the assessment as a political achievement, and the effect may be much better if there is supervision by the state government and the four divisions. ”

"Yes, Xia Guan understands."

The two of them suddenly understood and bowed.

Zhao Jun nodded.

The Huainan corruption case was basically dealt with, and the rest of the matter was left to them to do, and he should continue to tour the south and go to other places.

(End of chapter)