"Bang!"

"This is no longer a simple protest by the landlords, it must be struck hard!"

On 25 March, the Liangzhejiang Road transfer envoy Yamen used the form of relay to change horses and people, and at a speed of 20 kilometers per hour, he ran 1,000 kilometers in four days to deliver the official document to Bianliang, leaving aside the time for people to eat and go to the toilet for a little rest.

Although the Grand Canal is convenient, it is still too slow, and under normal circumstances, it takes a month to arrive, so this kind of 300-mile expedited is already the fastest way for the government.

At this moment, in the Bianliang Political Academy, Zhao Jun looked at the official document in his hand, was furious, and said: "Do they think that the court is weak and can be bullied?" ”

"Amount"

Everyone in the room looked around and thought to themselves, isn't this what you want to see?

Why are you so angry?

Today, Lu Yijian and Wang Zeng are not there.

And not only them, Jia Changchao and Fan Zhongyan are not here.

Lao Lu and Lao Wang have taken leave for physical reasons, and the two of them have been in very bad physical condition recently, especially Wang Zeng.

After all, the grave grass of these two people is three feet high at this time in history, one has died of illness for eight years, and the other has died of illness for two years, and it is a miracle that they can survive until now.

After the beginning of spring this year, the flow of the Yellow River increased dramatically, and two years later in history, it flooded and tidal flowed, causing the Yellow River to be diverted, so he naturally had to supervise the construction of the river.

Fan Zhongyan went to inspect the Firearms Department after the morning meeting, and the Firearms Department has not been idle in recent years, and has already begun to study the rear-loading rifled guns after studying the front-loading rifled guns.

Historically, rifled guns and cannons were the first to be front-loaded, such as the popularization of front-loading rifled guns was the invention of the Nimi bullet. Front-loading rifled guns have not been mainstream, because they are more difficult to load, and the firearms division has to follow the example of Nimi bullets to use large lead bullets.

But the most convenient is the rear-loading gun.

This will increase the rate of fire of cannons and guns by leaps and bounds.

And the earliest rear-loading gun in history was called the "Dresser rifle", and the structure was actually very simple.

It is to wrap black powder in a paper shell to make a fixed bullet, fix a snap pointer with a spring, pull the trigger to let the pointer pierce the bullet case, ignite the gunpowder and shoot the bullet.

Nowadays, when there is no shortage of steel, the Firearms Division has carried out a lot of research and development, and has created this relatively advanced rifle, which is now in the experimental stage.

Therefore, Fan Zhongyan often went to the firearms division during this time to see if the experimental effect on their side was better than the current musket.

It can be said that the development speed of the Great Song Dynasty is still very fast.

Especially in terms of weapons manufacturing.

The only thing lacking is that the level of chemical industry has not yet been reached, and if thundermercury gunpowder can be invented in the future, then it will basically reach the level of modern firearms.

At this moment, there are only seven people in the Constitutional Yuan, including Yan Shu, Song Shou, Cai Qi, Li Di, Zhang Shixun, Jiang Tang and Zhao Jun.

Speaking of which, Li Di and Zhang Shixun are older than Lu Yijian and Wang Zeng, and they are both in their seventies and eighties, especially Zhang Shixun, who is eighty-two this year, but their health is better than that of Wang Lu and them.

Historically, one of them lived to be seventy-seven years old, and the other to be eighty-six years old, which was relatively long lived in ancient times.

Seeing Zhao Jun's anger, Yan Shuqi said: "Han Long, everyone is their own people, what is there to play, you said that you would send troops directly, but you didn't allow it, didn't you want to make things big and end them up by default?" ”

"No, I'm really angry."

Zhao Jun shook his head: "I'm angry and angry." ”

"Angry? Didn't you always say that the landlord class was a decadent and backward class? How can you still count on them? ”

"Everything must be viewed dialectically, and compared with the slave society, it is considered progress to collect only land rent, and not to treat slaves among the peasants who plough the peasants as landlords who are killed at will."

"So you want them to go further?"

"Yes, if the landlords can be transformed into the bourgeoisie and promote social reform and development, at least at this stage, it will be progress.

"But you've already given them a chance, and they don't cherish it themselves."

"Well, to be honest, I don't want things to get to this point myself, after all, it will also cause turmoil in the country."

"If you don't break it, you can't stand it, sometimes you should be ruthless or you have to be ruthless."

Yan Shu persuaded him instead.

It stands to reason that the ancient bureaucracy should have been on the side of the landlords.

But it just so happens that the Song Dynasty is a wonder.

Because many people in the bureaucratic class went into business, using power to seek huge profits, and directly combining government and business, the power of the landlord class in the bureaucratic class was not as strong as that in the Ming Dynasty.

In the Song Dynasty, the court did not loot the landlord class less than the ordinary people, and many officials simply fabricated charges to ruin the merchants and landlords, and then directly seized their property, without treating the landlords and merchants as their own.

Perhaps the landlord class also had spokesmen for the imperial court, but they must not have been the top prime ministers in the political system, so the Song Dynasty was a rare dynasty in which the bureaucratic class did not stand on the side of the landlord class.

Hearing Yan Shu's words, Zhao Jun nodded and said, "Well, one step to heaven, one step to hell." I've given them the opportunity, and now they've chosen the next policy, and I have no choice but to choose the next policy. ”

As he spoke, he raised his head and looked out of the door, outside the door in the spring of March, the sky was clear, and he sighed: "Alas, if I can, I really want to tell those landlords, why do you want to guard the land?" The world is so big, you can break through everywhere, even if you sell the land to the imperial court and use the money to form a fleet to go to sea, you are all contributing to the country. ”

"There will always be people who will do it, and the court will force them to go."

Li Di said lightly.

"Then push them."

Zhao Jun nodded slightly, and then knocked on the copper bell on the table.

"Zhiyuan."

The official of the Constitutional Yuan who was on duty outside walked in.

"Go and ask the king's chamberlain."

"Yes."

And the subordinate officer departed.

"Are you going to transfer the two Zhejiang Road forbidden troops over?"

Seeing that Wang Shouzhong was going to be invited, Jiang Tang turned his head and asked.

"Well, it's time to see blood."

Zhao Jun's eyes were deep, and then he frowned slightly.

He remembered something.

There is a box army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and he himself has the power to mobilize the box army.

The Constitutional Yuan can also be mobilized, if there is no need to send a forbidden army, in fact, there is no need to ask Zhao Zhen to issue an edict.

But this time he plans to kill a group of people to deter the landlords of the world, so he must use heavily armed forbidden soldiers.

For example, there is the Guangde Legion of the forbidden army on Liangzhejiang Road.

However, the Guangde Army nominally had ten battalions assigned to the country, but in fact there were three battalions in Bianliang, the other five battalions in Xijing, Henan Province, one each in Mengzhou and Cangzhou, and one battalion in the Guangde Army itself.

After the army restructuring in these years, the Guangde regiment was reduced to six battalions, of which four are currently in Bianliang, one in Hebei, and the remaining one in Guangde.

The 500-strong battalion of the Guangde Army was mainly to deal with the rebellion in the southeastern hills.

From the Qin and Han dynasties, many Han Chinese fled into the southeastern hills, that is, the part of the area that later spread south to the mountainous areas of Fujian with the Yellow Mountain in Anhui Province as the center.

The Shanyue people who attacked the Three Kingdoms and Eastern Wu lived here all year round, but in fact, they were all Han people who fled into the mountains to escape the war or were unwilling to pay taxes.

By the time of the Song Dynasty, the Shanyue people were almost extinct, and were attacked by the Eastern Wu and Eastern Jin dynasties that favored Jiangdong, and the Shanyue people have since become history, and this place has slowly become the inherent territory of the Han people.

However, the taxation in the Northern Song Dynasty was cruel, so many people in the south of the Yangtze River fled into the mountains again to avoid taxes, and even fought by force, and there were murder fugitives who ran in.

In addition, there are three legions, the Zhongjie Legion, the Xuanyi Legion, and the Weiguo Legion, with a total of more than ten grain battalions, which are distributed in various states to take turns to provide food.

That is to say, there are two battalions of 1,000 people from the Guangde Army and the Nankang Army stationed on the Liangzhejiang Road, and there are more than 10 grain battalions stationed in turn, so there is no problem in mobilizing 5,000 or 6,000 forbidden troops.

The problem was that these soldiers were not subordinate to each other, and it was impossible to hand over military authority to local officials.

On the one hand, there are no envoys on the southern roads, and the transit envoys have no military power, and it is taboo to be in charge of military aircraft.

Neither of the two can say whether the officials and landlords of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang are involved, and what if they fail to achieve the effect he wants?

So I still have to send someone.

Gotta find a ruthless man.

Zhao Jun thought about it, Di Qing killed foreign enemies very fiercely, but he may not be ruthless in suppressing the landlord.

What he wants this time is a river of blood flowing on the two Zhejiang roads.

"Who do you think will lead the troops? To be honest, if there was no one, I would have gone myself. ”

Zhao Jun looked around at everyone and asked.

He killed the underworld forces in Bianliang, killed corrupt officials and corrupt officials, killed nobles and generals, and died in his hands not 100,000 but 80,000.

However, in the past, it was to fight for power, to clean up the officialdom, and to solve the problem of redundant troops.

Moreover, the killing of underworld forces and noble generals are directly done in Bianliang, and the killing of corrupt officials and corrupt officials is also slaughtered when they see it when they inspect the world.

This time, I went to Zhejiang, which is really a waste of time.

He's a great resource.

"Can't Di Qing go?"

Yan Shu asked.

"To be honest, he really doesn't need this little thing."

Zhao Jun shook his head.

"Just let the Privy Council send a general at will, now that the Great Song Dynasty is star-studded, are you afraid that you won't be able to find manpower?"

Zhang Shixun said with a smile.

"No, I still have some things to explain, I'm afraid those people don't understand what I mean."

Zhao Jun said.

How to kill, to what extent, and how to deal with it in the end are all learned.

It can't be said that if you send someone to kill the Han people, you will be merciful, or you will ignore it and slaughter them first, then there will obviously be a problem.

Therefore, there must be measure.

As a result, the generals who go will have wisdom and cannot be without brains.

Li Di thought for a while, and suddenly smiled: "Han Long, who said that leading the troops to the expedition must be generals." ”

"Oh?"

Zhao Jun looked at him and said, "What do you mean?" ”

"I think Xia Wei is very suitable."

Li Di said lightly: "He was born as a military general, and he is a civil official, with both civil and military skills, so let's see how it is." ”

"Oh yes, then Xia Horror."

Zhao Jun understood in an instant.

Except that Xia Wei is ruthless and fierce, and he is known for his strategy and can understand his words.

The most important thing is that Xia Wei has already become Zhao Jun's lackey.

And he has been the secretary of the Ministry of Finance for five years.

From the Feng Shiyuan case that broke out in the first year of Qingli, which caused the fall of Cheng Lin, the secretary of the Ministry of Finance, Xia Wei immediately seized the opportunity to take refuge in Zhao Jun.

Under normal circumstances, the earliest group of people in the Constitutional Yuan, except for Yan Shu and Fan Zhongyan, who were only transferred from the alternate Tongzhi five years ago, the rest of the three ministers and three staff members at that time, such as Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng, Song Shou, Cai Qi, Wang Sui, and Sheng Du, should have retired.

And Wang Sui and Sheng Du have passed away, so in the second half of this year, Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng, Song Shou and Cai Qi will have to take a back seat, and they may get other idle jobs such as Taishi, Taifu, and Taibao.

However, Zhao Zhen is still more nostalgic, and Song Shou and Cai Qi are not too old, one is fifty-six years old and the other is fifty-eight years old. If Zhao Jun does not object, it is very likely that he will still stay in the Constitutional Yuan and continue to exert their residual heat.

But Lu Yijian and Wang Zeng couldn't.

There is indeed something wrong with their health, and the probability of regression is very high.

In this case, it is very likely that the 12 prime ministers of the Political Yuan five years ago will only be left with Zhao Jun, Yan Shu, Fan Zhongyan, Song Shou, Cai Qi, Zhang Shixun, Li Di, Jiang Tang, and Jia Changchao.

Lu Yijian and Wang Zeng added Sheng Du who died of illness, and it was reduced by three.

At present, there are many affairs in various parts of the world, and with the development of the economy, military, population, education, culture, and other aspects, there are also many things to be dealt with by the Constitutional Yuan.

Moreover, Zhang Shixun and Li Di are both old, and major events on weekdays are mainly handled by Zhao Jun, Yan Shu, Fan Zhongyan and others.

Therefore, this time there is a high probability that the staff will be expanded.

This time, Zhang Dexiang, Du Yan, Chen Zhizhong, Wen Yanbo, Song Zhen, Pang Ji and other talented Shangshu from various ministries had a high voice.

As for Xia Wei, he doesn't have many friends, and he is not friends with the opposition in history, but he is only against Fan Zhongyan in his position, and he does not have many supporters in the court.

But as Zhao Jun's younger brother, how could he not take care of it?

After all, if there is such a thing to use a knife in the future, you can't always let Zhao Jun do the knife yourself, you must have a black glove after all.

"Zhiyuan."

At this moment, Wang Shouzhong came over and bowed his hand to him slightly.

Zhao Jun nodded, and then took out an order he had just written and said, "Lao Wang, you go to the back garden and ask the official family for instructions." ”

"Yes."

Wang Shouzhong took the order and left without asking.

It is said to be a request for instructions, but in fact it is a seal.

Zhao Zhen has now become a ruthless stamping machine, after all, this matter has to be resolved quickly, and it is a waste of time to wait for a meeting in the afternoon or go to the back garden to find him, so it is better to cover it directly.

It didn't take long for Zhao Zhen to agree to the Privy Council's transfer of troops, and Zhao Jun also sent someone to the Privy Council to get another order.

In this way, the emperor can send troops with the order of the Privy Council.

At noon, Xia Wei, who was still working in the Ministry of Finance, received an urgent notice to go to the Constitutional Yuan.

Zhao Jun met him in the conference room of the Constitutional Yuan.

The office area of the Constitutional Yuan is now divided into the outer hall and the prime minister's office area inside, and the prime minister does not have a separate room, so he can only choose a place to be alone.

"Zhiyuan!"

Xia Wei bent down when he came in, and said with a flattering smile.

"Sit down."

Zhao Jun tapped his chin, and then said: "You know that the Constitutional Yuan will be re-elected in the second half of this year. ”

Xia Wei was ecstatic in his heart, suppressed the expression on his face, and said calmly: "I know." ”

"Hmm."

Zhao Jun said: "But you also know that now the government and the opposition say that you are the secretary of the Ministry of Finance because of my relationship, and many people say that you can't come in this year." ”

Xia Wei was shocked in his heart, but he still didn't show much expression on his face, he just said: "Obey the arrangements of Your Majesty and the prefect, and obey any deployment in the courtyard." ”

"Huh."

Zhao Jun smiled, this is very artistic, and he said to later generations of officials that everything is subject to the organization's decision.

He then said: "I naturally want you to come in, you are easy to use, and your ability is also very good, the country needs talents like you." ”

said again: "But although you have done a good job in the Ministry of Finance in the past few years, you have made quite a difference. But the Ministry of Finance itself is not a place where you can make great achievements, and your political performance is not much better than that of your colleagues. ”

The Ministry of Finance in the Song Dynasty was reorganized from the original three divisions, but the three divisions were decentralized, and now only financial power remains.

But today's finance is different from the finance of later generations.

In later generations, the Ministry of Finance could review the financial application reports of local municipalities and provincial levels, and then decide whether to allocate funds, and it also managed many central enterprises, so the power at hand was still very large.

Today's Ministry of Finance does not have subordinate central enterprises, and the appropriation power is in the Constitutional Yuan, so the actual power is much smaller than the original three divisions.

Xia Wei's political achievements are naturally not as good as other colleagues.

"Yes, lowly duty is also conscientiousness, as long as the country's finances do not go wrong, they are already satisfied."

Xia Wei said, the subtext of this sentence is obvious, that is, he has worked very hard, and the national finances have been well managed over the years, that is, no matter how well the finances are managed, you can't make any great contributions.

Unlike the Ministry of Industry, building the Yellow River, as long as there is no flooding, it is a proper political achievement. In addition, how many schools the Ministry of Education has built and how many talents it has cultivated, those are also political achievements.

As for the Ministry of Finance, it is not possible to calculate expenditures and revenues, and it is better to allocate money in accordance with the instructions of the Constitutional Yuan.

So it's not that he's incompetent, it's just that he can't show it.

"So you've got to come up with some results."

Zhao Jun said with a smile: "I just have something to do here, and when the matter is done, everything will fall into place." ”

"Listen to the orders of the Governor's Court."

Xia Wei listened carefully.

Zhao Jun continued: "The wealthy families of Liangzhejiang Road gathered to make trouble, and I plan to send troops to deal with it, but this matter has to be controlled, and it can't be killed, so it will become a massacre with no bottom line." But you can't take it lightly, there is a degree in the middle, and I don't feel at ease about sending generals to go, so I plan to let you go. ”

Xia Wei frowned slightly, but it was fleeting.

The reason for the frown is that this matter is an errand that offends people, so many landlords, many of whom have a relationship with the court, such as relatives of the same clan or close friends, kill a lot of people, and they will definitely offend a lot of people.

It was only a moment later that he understood that he was a military attaché, and that he was able to transfer to a civilian position only by figuring out his intentions, and he had no foundation in the DPRK and China, and he did not form a party for personal gain, so his superiors could use him with confidence.

So he is a knife in the hands of his boss, and his promotion or not has nothing to do with others, it is purely the mind of the Zhiyuan.

Therefore, as long as you do a good job of the knife in the hands of the Zhiyuan, then why care about what others think?

"Please rest assured, the lowly office knows what to do."

Thinking of this, Xia Wei responded again and again, expressing his willingness to be a pawn of the prefect.

"Well, that's good, you are ready to prepare, I have already gone to ask His Majesty and the Privy Council to issue an order, and you take the order to Liangzhe Road to mobilize the local forbidden army and the Xiang army."

Zhao Jun stood up and said: "What to do and what not to do, how to handle the degree in the middle, think about it carefully, and think twice." ”

"Yes."

Xia Wei also stood up, he knew what to do.

(End of chapter)