When there was a lot of noise in the court, what was Zhao Jun doing?

He's slashing people.

Getting married is a big happy event, and Zhao Zhen gave him a vacation, in fact, to let him rest well.

Jiangsu and Zhejiang are very beautiful and prosperous, and Zhao Jun wants to inspect the trade with Japan, and he still attaches great importance to the inflow of a large amount of silver into Japan, so he took advantage of the newlywed honeymoon and came to Jiangsu and Zhejiang by the way.

As a result, I didn't expect that the transaction volume of the trade with Japan was booming, and it seemed that it was already on the right track, and soon there would be a time when Japanese silver would flow into the Great Song Dynasty frantically.

Liu Yong, the supervisor of Dinghai Salt, reported something to him, telling him that someone was secretly attacking Haiyan, and returning the state-owned restructuring that had already improved and made the salt people's lives a little better back to the dark rule of the past.

This made Zhao Jun's happy mood suddenly disappear.

In the past, the government controlled salt and iron, and private salt merchants could only obtain commodities through salt introduction, while officials could send people to do business, so that from the source, it was difficult for private merchants to compete with officials and businessmen, so that the government and businessmen became dominant.

Now the imperial court did not allow officials and merchants to set prices for salt, nor did they allow them to interfere in the purchase and sale of salt, and private merchants flourished.

But they also wanted to become exploiters and oppress salt farmers, so they began to collude with officials and businessmen.

To put it simply, in the past, it was the officials who oppressed the salt people, and the imperial court did not allow them to do this anymore, so they colluded with the merchants to oppress the salt people together.

Is this still worth it?

Zhao Jun did not have an attack at that time, but secretly sent someone to investigate, and asked the Imperial City Division in Jiangsu and Zhejiang to pretend to be salt people and mix in those problematic salt farms to investigate and collect evidence.

They saw with their own eyes that under the low prices of local officials and private traders, many salt farmers who used to be able to sell for seven or eight wen a catty, but now they have begun to drop to three or four wen again.

Although it has not yet reached the point where it was dark to one or two pennies and a pound in the previous official camp period, it is obviously not far from this step.

After the Imperial City Division collected evidence through several months of investigation and investigation, and handed over a lot of their incriminating evidence to Zhao Jun, Zhao Jun was furious when he saw the evidence and the people involved in the case, and immediately sent the guards to arrest people.

In October, a major earthquake occurred in the officialdom of Jiangsu-Zhejiang Road in an instant.

In fact, there are not many officials involved in the case, just three county orders, one is Liu Jinxi, the salt tax supervisor of Shayao, the other is Zhang Ning, the salt tax supervisor of Minghe, and the other is Wen Zhaocai, the salt tax supervisor of Zhang'an.

These people, like Liu Yong, are all salt supervisors of local salt farms, at the same level as the county order, plus a few deputies at most, and dozens of subordinate officials.

Of the three state capitals involved in the case, only one of the higher-level officials involved was promoted to the salt supervisor from Liupintai Prefecture.

It can be said that it is not a big case at all.

But what Zhao Jun can't tolerate is that it has only been a long time since the state-owned restructuring was made, and the people of Yanmin had only lived a good life for a few days, and then they changed back to the way they were.

Even before the good days have begun, they are over.

Therefore, at the meeting of the various supervision departments and state capitals of Jiangsu and Zhejiang Road, he severely criticized this situation, and punished the current Jiangsu and Zhejiang Road transfer envoys, shipping envoys, prison envoys, Changping envoys, and imperial history divisions.

The immediate superiors of the three officials in the salt system, as well as the superiors of these superiors, were all demoted to varying degrees.

The rest of the officials who failed to supervise in place were also reprimanded.

It can be said that at that meeting of the transfer envoy Yamen, more than twenty or thirty Jiangsu and Zhejiang Road officials were obediently trained, and the dogs passing by had to be slapped on the table and scolded by Zhao Jun.

Officials dare not speak out.

Fan Zhongyan is fine, anyway, Fan Zhongyan is at most leading troops to kill the Western Xia and Liao.

But if someone dares to scare Zhao Jun, keep your underwear and check it, once it is found out that it is a corrupt official, then you will have to kill your head and run away.

Even if you are a clean official, you are not corrupt, you don't break the law, and you don't do anything bad, people have a way to rectify you.

Just one for you to be exiled to Qiongzhou to be the governor is enough to bear.

The officials have fought before.

The emperor supports it, and many prime ministers in the Constitutional Yuan all support it, what can Zhao Jun do?

He's a real slasher.

So in the face of Zhao Jun's angry rebuke, they could only listen.

"Niang Xipi, you are fat-headed and big-eared, you know that you are not honest by looking at your face. The imperial court gave you the right to buy and sell salt, and let you stand on this outlet to make money, and you repay the imperial court like this? ”

After scolding the officials, Zhao Jun interrogated many salt merchants who committed crimes in the yamen, and everyone wore shackles, their faces were like ashes, and they felt that their lives were short.

How much they hope that they will not fall into the hands of Zhao Jun, even if it falls into the hands of the Jiangzhejiang Road Lifting Prison Division.

"It was at the time of the reform of the New Deal that when heavy codes were used, officials and businessmen colluded, bullied and dominated the market, all were executed, and all family property was confiscated. At this outlet, you still dare to commit crimes against the wind and crash into the hands of this hospital, I really don't know whether to live or die! ”

Zhao Jun waved his big hand, and in an instant, there were endless whines and wails below, some kneeling and begging for mercy, some were paralyzed, some couldn't speak, and even those who knew they would die and abused.

But soon Zhao Jun couldn't hear it, and the soldiers pulled people out, pulled them outside the city of Hangzhou, gathered many people, told the charges, and cut them on the spot.

For a time, the people applauded, many officials had relatives, and the salt farms in Jiangsu and Zhejiang quickly restored order.

These profiteers not only colluded with the government to buy salt at a low price, but also inflated the market price and raised the price of salt, which the people hated to the core.

As soon as Zhao Jun came, he cut down corrupt officials and profiteers, and the people were grateful to him again.

Coupled with the fame accumulated by Zhao Jun in the past when he inspected the world, it can be said that the people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang only heard about the Zhiyuan, and did not hear about the four prison divisions such as the transfer envoy, the shipping envoy, the criminal department, and the Changping division.

After Zhao Jun dealt with the salt case here, he made adjustments to the officials in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and then went to Yangzhou to inspect the Tongzhou port.

At this juncture, Zhao Zhen's eight-hundred-mile urgent message reached him.

Zhao Jun was quite surprised to learn about the current affairs in the court, but soon began to get angry, and in a fit of anger, he discussed with his wife that he would ride back to Bianliang to deal with affairs first.

Unexpectedly, his wife was fiercer than him, and said that he would ride a horse to take him back.

Then under the escort of more than 100 cavalry, his wife rode in front, he held his wife in the back, galloped all the way overnight, changed horses and did not change people in the counties along the way, more than ten hours a day on the road, and ran more than 600 kilometers from Yangzhou to Kaifeng in five days.

On the morning of October 24, the court was still in chaos, and Lu Yijian and Sheng Du were really ten years old during this time, and they didn't say a word every day in the court and the political system, like clay puppets.

They don't know what the end will be if they do this, but of course it doesn't hurt if the flesh is not cut on others, and the blood in their hearts is dripping when they are cut on their own bodies.

It's a dilemma.

In fact, they didn't really want to oppose Fan Zhongyan's new policy.

Instead, I hope that Lao Fan will open up.

However, Zheng Jian did too much and lifted the lid, so that the government and the opposition criticized it.

It is impossible for Lao Fan's side to turn a blind eye to Lu Gongxuan, Lu Gongbi, Sheng Shenfu, Zhang Yuxi and others, otherwise how will the new deal unfold?

Oh.

Your prime minister's son can know the law and break the law, and you are the host of a new deal and still shield them?

When the officials in the world saw it, they naturally followed suit.

The New Deal will be formalized immediately.

So in such a situation, Lao Fan's side can only resist.

The two sides are at a stalemate.

The early dynasty meeting is still like a vegetable market, you come and go, arguing with each other, and never stopping.

In the crowd, Xia Zhu watched coldly and became a neutral.

This time he's learned wisely.

Historically, he opposed the Qingli New Deal because the main purpose of the Qingli New Deal was to eliminate a large number of officials.

Xia Zhu himself is a man in the shadows, and he has to seek benefits for his heirs, so of course he refuses.

It can be said that even if he disagreed with Lu Yijian's politics, he was forced to come together because of common interests and became one of the main opponents of the New Deal.

But this is not the case today.

Because the examination law does not eliminate officials who enter the office, it only regulates the behavior of officials in a reasonable, legal and compliant manner.

To put it simply, it is like making a law that stipulates that officials are not allowed to be corrupt and pervert the law, not to harm the people, and should work hard and be positive, and then strictly require all officials to abide by this law.

Basically, as long as you work hard every day and don't fish at work, you can basically complete the requirements, and the superior leaders will not treat you badly, let alone lay you off.

Therefore, the New Deal at this time is actually something that can be reluctantly accepted by the vast majority of officials.

It's just that the common trait of people is that they want to live comfortably and don't want to be so tired, which is why there is so much opposition. But if it is reasonable, today's Qingli New Deal is much milder than the historical Qingli New Deal.

This is also one of the main reasons why Zhang Juzheng was able to promote the examination method.

Xia Zhu's character is not good, but his work ability is still worthy of recognition, and there are no mistakes in his daily work, so he remained silent in the face of this new policy, which is not harmful to his own interests.

The most important thing is that he has a bad relationship with Lu Yijian, and his relationship with Fan Zhongyan is like that, watching them eat dogs, Xia Zhu is naturally comfortable, so now he has become a neutral.

At this moment, the two factions in the court are seriously fighting, and there are countless people on both sides who impeach Fan Zhongyan and Lu Yijian, so that Zhao Zhen does not want to come every morning, and even has stopped the court discussion for four days.

"The examination law is so strict, and under the vigorous application of officials, the imperial court will eventually hurt its vitality. In this way, everyone is in danger, and no one in the officialdom dares to really do things, and it will hurt them even more if they deal with errands every day. ”

"That's better than before, if you don't do anything well, why don't you see, how many people are here at three or five o'clock in the yamen of the previous ministries? Do you look at the present? Could it be that the government's governance has become better, and the people of Bianliang are not everyone applauding? ”

"This year's Cingzi, the wind is strong and the day is dark, and the scriptures are restored. It was night, and there was black air several feet long to see the southeast. This is a sign from heaven that the country is changing and there are demons. Under the new policy, people's hearts are panicked, isn't the sky changing? ”

"Yes, in recent years, there have been many disasters and visions. In April, the shrine of Yanhongqing Palace in Nanjing caught fire. In May, there was a drought in the east of the river. In August, there was no rain in Xichuan from summer to autumn, and the people were hungry. Disasters have been changing year after year, and there has been no rain for a long time. This is a warning from heaven, please be cautious. ”

The opposition has recently begun to move towards celestial phenomena, which is pretty much the basic pattern of the opposition.

For example, Wang Anshi of the Northern Song Dynasty changed the law, and Zhang Juzheng of the Ming Dynasty reformed. They all attack the New Deal first, see that the attack does not move, then attack the rulers, and finally attack with the ancestral law and celestial phenomena.

The most famous of them is the sentence in Wang Anshi's change, "The sky is not enough to be afraid, the ancestors are not enough to be afraid, and the words of people are not enough to be compassionate!" ”

After all, there is a cloud in the "Analects of Ji": Confucius said that a gentleman has three fears: fear of the mandate of heaven, fear of adults, and fear of the words of sages, in the ancient Confucian classics, this sentence is enshrined as a guideline.

So at that time, the "three deficiencies" were a big political hat, and Sima Guang wanted to make Wang Anshi a deviant.

Historically, Fan Zhongyan stopped cooking at the second step of reform, and was rectified by the opposition with "friends". But now that Fan Zhongyan was immovable, he naturally started the third move, pushing the problem to the head of the natural disaster vision.

They told the emperor that the world was plagued by disasters because of the implementation of the new law, and now this was a warning from heaven to the Great Song Dynasty, and if the warning was not heeded, the Great Song Dynasty would be at risk of losing the country.

This corresponds to the fear of destiny in the three fears!

However, at this moment, the door of the Vertical Arch Hall suddenly made a loud noise, "Bang! ”

Immediately afterwards, the cold wind blew in, frightening the Manchu officials.

Everyone hurriedly turned their heads to look, and saw Zhao Jun outside the door, standing there with a tired face, scanning everyone indifferently.

In an instant, the room fell silent.

"No king's law? Yes? ”

Zhao Jun stepped in and scolded angrily: "What do they look like, they are all officials of the imperial court, and the vegetable market scolds the street?" ”

"Hanlong!"

On the dragon chair, Zhao Zhen burst into tears. You're finally back.

"Your Majesty!"

Zhao Jun walked through the crowd, walked in front of the hundred officials first, and bowed to Zhao Zhen.

When he passed by his colleagues in the Political Academy, he glanced at Lu Yijian and Sheng Du coldly, and the indifferent eyes made the two of them cold in an instant.

Lu Yijian opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but Zhao Jun had already walked below and bowed to Zhao Zhen first.

"Hanlong."

Zhao Zhen's tears flowed, and in the days when Zhao Jun was away, the ghost knew how much pressure he was under.

The palms of his hands and the backs of his hands are full of meat, and he feels uncomfortable when he cuts anyone.

Now that he finally saw Zhao Jun come back, he was able to handle this matter, which also made the big stone in his heart finally fall to the ground.

"Your Majesty, leave this matter to the minister."

Zhao Jun said in a deep voice.

"Hmm."

Zhao Zhen's face was solemn and said, "Since Hanlong is back, this matter will be handed over to you." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Zhao Jun turned his head, looked at the ministers below, and said coldly: "A hundred officials have the appearance of a hundred officials, and the court should have the order of the court meeting, now I count three times, if you haven't stood in line, those who are scheduled in turn will be dismissed and investigated!" ”

"One!"

Suddenly, there was a commotion among the officials below.

Some people wanted to fight, and some people didn't care about it at first, but as the first voice came out, everyone swallowed the words they wanted to fight after seeing Zhao Jun's cold eyes.

Because not to mention them, even the many prime ministers of the Constitutional Yuan and the secretaries of the ministries have immediately adjusted their positions and arranged them neatly, and they don't dare to say a word of.

Therefore, under the situation of herd mentality, all the departments below the Shangshu began to move around, and everyone returned to their positions and stood solemnly.

"Two!"

The second sound sounded, and everyone quickened their pace, crowded, and quickly returned to their positions.

Almost at the moment when the third sound fell, everyone in the court returned to their positions, and order was restored!

Only at this time did Zhao Jun carry his hands behind his back and look around at everyone indifferently.

(End of chapter)