Gyeonggi Road, Kaifeng Mansion, Tokyo Bianliang City.

In early June, around midnight, in a mansion, under the backyard pavilion.

Wang Shilong took advantage of the dark wind to enter this mansion.

It was too ostentatious to come in during the day, and now the city is full of spies from the Imperial City Division, and once discovered, it may be risky.

It's much safer in the middle of the night, enter through the side door of a remote alley, as long as you dress up in disguise, and then see that there is no one at the entrance of the alley on both sides, unless someone is specifically watching, no one will notice.

There is a rather large cherry blossom tree next to the pavilion, and at this time it has long passed the season of cherry blossoms, and a few green leaves have fallen under the porch, and a middle-aged man in his forties, close to fifty years old, is sitting majestically under the porch.

Wang Shilong walked over, bowed to him and said, "Big"

"Alright."

The middle-aged man hid in the darkness, waved his hand and said, "No need to be polite, you can sit down too." ”

"Yes."

Wang Shilong sat next to him, sitting cross-legged like him.

"How's it going?"

The man asked.

"They've sent out assassins."

"Do you think they might succeed?"

"There's little hope."

"Why?"

"I heard that Zhao Jun let the local government and the Imperial City Division guard along the way, and there is almost no time to start."

"But they had to go."

"yes, I thought they were going to report me."

"Hehe, reporting your little credit is not enough to make up for the bad things they did, unless it's that thing."

"That's why they were lured to attack the envoy in the first place."

Wang Shilong said with a smile.

lure them to attack the envoys of the Qincha, even if Ma Zheng reports them, it will be a big deal for Wang Shilong to die.

The question is, Ma Zhengju, can they really be lightly punished because of the report?

The bad things done by the sons and daughters of the generals are light and serious, and Wang Shilong specially picked a few of them to fool, there must be a reason.

First, the bad things they did were more serious, they were all capital crimes, and not only themselves, but there were so many children below, how could they keep so many people just by reporting Wang Shilong?

Second, and most importantly, Zhao Jun's reputation is too widespread, and they don't dare to bet on whether Zhao Jun will choose to open up after seeing what they did.

Zhao Jun himself is not afraid of the powerful, even if it is a civil official group, he is the deputy prime minister, and he will kill him when he says it, and there is even Zhao Zhen's "old man in the domain".

didn't even give Zhao Zhen face, let alone others.

Therefore, in the case that both horizontal and vertical are dead, and even if Wang Shilong is reported, they may not be saved, it is better to fight.

Unless that's the case.

"If the news of the failure of the attack on the envoy comes back, they must be terrified."

The middle-aged man said.

"This matter is the capital crime of the Yi people, so it must be so."

"Well, you continue to inquire about the news, and as soon as there is news, tell them immediately to increase their panic."

"Yes."

"When the time comes, we must persuade them, and we must involve them in this matter. Yang Huaimin of the Yang family and Deng Baoji, the nephew of the Ma family, are all in the palace as the deputy head of the internal guard. ”

"Yes."

"It's up to you to make or break it."

"The villain understands."

Wang Shilong raised his head and looked at the man in front of him, and arched his hand: "Da Zongzheng, that villain will retire first." ”

"Go ahead."

The man looked up likewise.

Just as the dark clouds dispersed, the bright moonlight shone down and shone on his body, revealing Zhao Yunrang's face.

Wang Shilong bowed and left.

He didn't have a choice.

Zhao Jun had hatred for expelling him before.

Now the imperial court is going to do something against the generals, and the illegal things they have done must not be a capital crime.

And just when he felt desperate, someone stood up and helped him plan a splash of wealth.

Once successful, the dynasty will change, and he will also be a minister of the dragon.

For the sake of wealth, you can only take a risk.

After Wang Shilong left, Zhao Yun narrowed his eyes and looked at the sky.

He didn't have a choice.

Zhao Zhen ascended the throne at the age of thirteen and was childless for fourteen years.

As a result, in the fourth year of Jingyou, he suddenly gave birth to a healthy emperor's eldest son, Zhao Fang, and sent his son Zhao Zongshi out of the palace.

At this time, Zhao Yunrang's dream of two generations of emperors was completely shattered.

So what can be done to salvage the situation?

Only Zhao Zhen, Zhao Fang, and Zhao Jun died together!

Zhao Yunrang looked at the sky and muttered, "Zhao Heng, this is what your family owes me!" ”

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In late June, the first batch of personnel who had set out to check the military registration in various places had already gained some results and reported to the Constitutional Yuan.

The ones that returned so quickly were basically the surrounding roads, including the Tokyo camp in Kaifeng Province.

The rest of the remote places are estimated to be half a year smaller.

Early in the morning of the 24th, Zhao Jun started the day's work after holding a regular meeting with everyone.

As the ruler of a huge empire, the affairs of the prime ministers can be said to be full of opportunities, not only to arrange future affairs, but also to review the work of various departments.

This has greatly increased the work tasks of the Constitutional Yuan, and fortunately, the Constitutional Yuan has now expanded, and there are 12 prime ministers, about 30 departments, each of whom is in charge of two to three on average, and it can probably be handled well.

It was raining moderately today, and the raindrops outside were falling on the eaves, on the windowsills, and on the leaves of the banyan trees outside the house, making a crackling sound.

Two round raccoon slaves walked into the house along the wooden corridor, they first came in to hide from the rain, shook their bodies, and then walked back and forth in the house, not afraid of people, their yellow eyes glanced around, and finally stared at Lu Yijian's table, jumped up, and squatted on the side of the small porcelain plate.

Lu Yijian and Wang Zeng are already sixty or seventy years old.

At this time in history, they are all about to grow grave grass, and they can hang their lives not like in history, after being demoted, they are transferred to various places and run around, and second, they have antibiotics to treat their condition.

As long as it is not a terminal disease that must die, ordinary inflammation, including pneumonia and other diseases, basically cannot die.

However, when I get old, my appetite becomes very poor, and I can only eat a little bit on weekdays, so I eat less and eat more often, and I will put some small snacks such as pastries and dried meat on the table.

The raccoon slaves in the palace have always been allowed to be raised, used to catch mice, and they have been spoiled everywhere, and they have long been spoiled, and they stretched out their claws to pull a piece of dried meat, and they did not bite and hide in a safe place to eat, so they swaggered on the plate and gnawed on.

"His grandmother's!"

As soon as Zhao Jun finished reading the first batch of official documents sent by the Qin messengers today, he felt that his liver was booming, and he was about to shoot the case, raised his head, and saw the two raccoon slaves on the table next to him looking at him.

They were lying on the plate in front of them, their two front paws still holding the dried meat, but their heads were looking at Zhao Jun's side, and their small eyes were full of doubts.

Seeing this, Zhao Jun had no choice but to put down the hand that was about to slap the table and swallow back the original anger.

"Whoosh!"

The two fat boys each bit a piece of dried meat, swished off the table, and slipped away through the side door.

Several prime ministers working around looked at him.

Yan Shu stopped the pen he was reviewing and asked, "What's wrong Hanlong?" ”

"The forbidden army on Gyeonggi Road and Kaifeng has been inspected, this is the sword just sent by the Ministry of War, these people are really breathtaking."

Zhao Jun threw the official document in his hand on the table.

The matter of military registration is handled by the Ministry of War, so the normal non-emergency report is first handed over to the Ministry of War, and then submitted to the Constitutional Yuan.

In the past few days, Fu Bi has successively sorted out and summarized the things he has collected.

After Zhao Jun finished reading it today, his nose was almost crooked.

Wang Zeng waved to the officials next to him, signaling them to go out first.

When everyone had gone, the crowd gathered around.

Lu Yijian took the official document and opened it and read a few pages casually, and then passed it to many prime ministers.

Li Di frowned and said, "Why is this Men Xungui doing so many dirty things?" ”

"It's not just the generals and nobles, but also the ordinary generals."

"But they still do it."

"Good fellows, eat so many empty quotas, aren't you afraid to hold them to death?"

"This is not too little, you look at this again, and resell the weapons and equipment of our Great Song Dynasty to Western Xia."

"With our fragile weapons and equipment, what high price can they sell?"

"There are always good ones, good weapons and equipment are sold, and the bad ones are left for our soldiers, and we also have firearms, otherwise the last big battle with Liaoxia wouldn't be bad?"

"They dare to sell grenades! The cloth issued by the imperial court to the soldiers was also deducted by them, and it was only a ragged shirt for the army before, but now the army is forbidden"

"This is even more heinous, the matter of killing the leftovers and fraudulently collecting settling-in and burial expenses is really hateful!"

Several prime ministers trembled after reading it.

In fact, the prime ministers are still very concerned about the leftovers.

Because what many people don't know is that Da Song has other work arrangements for those who are disabled and over 60 years old and have been transferred to leftovers in addition to living care.

Most of them will be arranged to be the honor guards of the imperial magnates, slaves, family members, grooms, palanquin bearers, and the like.

Especially after becoming the prime minister, most of the subordinates in the family are such leftovers, although they are always a little old, but they are still very diligent and quick to work, so the prime ministers take good care of these slaves.

As a result, I never expected that there would be such a terrible thing in the army. Even if the number of occurrences is very small, it also represents the dereliction of duty of the imperial court, and this is only found out, and I don't know how many have not been found.

"Let's have a meeting!"

Zhao Jun looked around, then stood up and walked towards the conference room.

He thought he was just going to eat the empty salary.

The more I investigated, the more worrying I became.

In the army, eating empty salaries, beating and scolding non-commissioned officers, and deceiving superiors and subordinates can only be regarded as trivial matters.

They dared to sell their ordnance, cloth, horses, and grain.

There were even fatalities.

I really don't know if I don't check, and I'm shocked when I check it.

The entire army of the Great Song Dynasty was almost rotten from bottom to top, and there were few good ones except for the elite troops trained by Lao Fan in the northwest.

This also means that the people who can fight in the Song Dynasty are the 200,000 or so soldiers that Lao Fan presided over and trained in the northwest.

The rest of the registered people are about a million people.

Among them, there are more than 600 forbidden military camps and more than 200 box military camps in Gwanggyeonggi Road and Kaifeng Prefecture, with more than 400,000 people, and the shortage has reached as much as 90,000.

This is still Bianliang, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty.

Locally, even more.

It is not an exaggeration to calculate the shortfall of one-third or even one-half.

I'm afraid that there are more than 1 million people registered, but in fact, about 700,000 is too much.

I really don't know what kind of people will be able to bring to Zhao Jun when the nationwide investigation is over.

"I knew that the Great Song Dynasty forbidden army was militarized and the box army was enslaved, but today I can be regarded as insight."

After Zhao Jun entered the conference room, he couldn't suppress his anger in the first sentence: "The army of the Great Song Dynasty is really rotten to the roots, how can you fight like this?" ”

"It is not for nothing that there are three battles and three defeats in history."

He continued: "Originally, the salary of the Xiang army was very low, only 500 wen a month, two stones of rice, a little salt, and they had to support a family, they were even greedy for this money, are they already crazy? ”

"It's really unexpected."

Lu Yijian also shook his head with a wry smile and said: "Every year, the imperial court pays a full amount of money, but this is actually the case below."

"He also killed people and pretended to lead, and the earliest time actually started from the Taizu period."

Zhao Jun frowned and said: "The disadvantages of the Great Song Dynasty for so long, you have never cared about it, and you are still the prime minister one by one." ”

Everyone didn't dare to squeak when they were scolded, but just bowed their heads and kept silent.

Joke.

The military power of the Great Song Dynasty has always been in the hands of the emperor.

Jiangmen Xungui was raised like this, which was also connived by the emperor, and as civil officials, what they had to do was to help the emperor clamp down on the generals, where would they dare to meddle in the military power.

"Alright."

Wang Zeng said: "Han Long, you should also understand the affairs of the Great Song Dynasty, it was impossible for us to meddle in the affairs of the army before, and even the Privy Council did not have the power to check the soldiers' names and make sounds. ”

"Ahem, ahem."

Zhao Jun glanced at everyone, coughed twice and said, "That's still your problem, the official family has every opportunity, won't you remind it?" Okay, let's get down to business. ”

As he spoke, he turned to look at Lu Yijian and said, "Old Lu Tou, what do you say about it." ”

"All those involved will be brought to justice."

Lu Yijian raised his eyebrows and said, "Kill those who should be killed, exile those who should be exiled, and never tolerate them." ”

"Yo, this time it's so decisive."

Zhao Jun turned his head to look at Li Di, pointed at Lu Yijian and sneered: "Retro Gong, look, it doesn't involve your own interests, it's just willing to do it." ”

"He's like that."

Li Di replied with a smile.

Lu Yijian has long been accustomed to Zhao Jun's cynicism towards him, and the relationship between the two sides has always been so faintly hostile and faintly cooperative, but he said lightly: "The old man has only made a judgment." ”

"Alas, I just wanted to give them a chance, but I didn't expect them to force me to do it after all."

Zhao Jun shook his head and said, "Retro Gong, your Criminal Department, Dali Temple, and the Criminal Court will jointly review this time." In the afternoon, we reported to the official family, first arrested the people who have been found out so far, and then continued to dig deeper. ”

"Hmm."

Li Di nodded, he is the prime minister and the secretary of the criminal department, although the current criminal department is only the law-maker, but as the prime minister, he naturally has the power to take the lead in organizing the three sessions.

Zhao Jun continued: "The country should unswervingly implement the three redundant reforms, originally I planned to start in February this year, but I was dragged by these generals, since they are shameless, it is no wonder that we are not ashamed." ”

Saying that, he added: "On the issue of redundant troops this time, I make two requests. The first requirement is that lawbreakers and criminals must not be treated lightly, and they must be severely punished and given back to the army on a sunny day. The second requirement is to do a good job in dealing with the aftermath, including the families of the victims, the rectification of military discipline in the army, and disarmament. Don't slack off, do you hear me? ”

"Hmm."

Everyone answered.

This is indeed a major matter, and it has a bearing on the policies to be pursued by the entire Constitutional Yuan.

"Alright, then the meeting will be dismissed for the time being, Retro Male."

Zhao Jun looked at Li Di and said, "I'll leave this matter to you, you can deal with it today." ”

"I see."

Li Di nodded.

The meeting is now about to adjourn.

Just then there was a knock at the door.

"Come in."

Zhao Jun looked at the door.

A lower-level official of the Constitutional Yuan came in and bowed his hand to Zhao Jun: "Zhiyuan, the Daimyo's Mansion is eight hundred miles urgent." ”

"Eight hundred miles in an expedited? Liaoguo called? ”

Zhao Jun was confused.

He took the official document handed by the official, opened it and glanced at it, and his face turned blue in an instant.

"What's wrong? What's wrong? ”

Seeing that his face was not very good, Fan Zhongyan hurriedly went up and asked, "Could it be that the Liao Kingdom really called?" ”

If this happens, he's afraid he's going to go out.

However, Zhao Jun shook his head, closed the official document, and said in a deep voice: "The envoy sent by the Ministry of War was robbed and killed, it was Wang Anshi!" ”

"Wang Anshi is dead?"

Everyone was shocked, and they all knew that Wang Anshi was the later reformist prime minister.

"No, he saw through it."

Zhao Jun looked at everyone with a serious face: "The other party is going to jump off the wall in a hurry, and even the angels of the court dare to rob and kill, it is simply lawless, how different from rebellion, I don't think there is any need to judge first, just arrest people, and control all the generals and nobles who may be involved first." ”

"Maybe the generals involved are all under control?"

Sheng Du wondered: "But it doesn't seem that there are many things found out at present, and before there is no evidence, it will not be good to arrest people for no reason?" ”

"Anti-corruption only needs evidence, anti-crime only needs lists, and counterinsurgency only needs coordinates."

Zhao Jun said: "Go and report to the official's house immediately, and then arrest it first!" ”

If the matter of the generals and nobles was only corruption or underworld forces before, then now robbing and killing angels is tantamount to rebellion.

The nature of the matter is different, and everyone naturally realizes the seriousness of the problem, and no longer deals with state affairs first, but immediately goes to the Middle Palace to find Zhao Zhen to play this matter.

(End of chapter)