After meeting with Jiang He and Zhu Tuo, I had a general understanding of the current situation in Xia Yunzhou County.
Of course, it was Zhao Jun who allowed him to understand the situation in Yunzhou County.
The father and son did not stay at the county magistrate's office for long, and left the office directly to go back to Feiyun Restaurant.
On the way.
"I still feel that your methods of dealing with corruption are not mature enough. When everyone is involved, what you should do is to gradually figure it out, and pull one group to attack another. Your one-size-fits-all approach will not work."
On the way, Zhao Duan suddenly mentioned the matter of anti-corruption again, but Zhao Jun shook his head and said: "I think there are some things that I can do slowly, but anti-corruption absolutely cannot.
If I choose to compromise in the face of anti-corruption, then what awaits me is constant compromise, and things will get worse and worse. Only by cutting the knot with a sharp knife can we solve it in one fell swoop, so that we can suppress this matter from the source as much as possible. "
Strangely, in the face of Zhao Jun's rebuttal, Zhao Duan didn't say anything more. After the two walked some distance, Zhao Duan suddenly asked: "Do you have any ideas about that position?"
Zhao Jun was stunned for a moment, still a little unresponsive, and looked at him in confusion.
It took a while to realize which position my father was talking about.
He immediately shook his head and said, "No."
"Then why are you doing so many things? Whether it is to arrange talents to enter the court in advance so that you can have your own power and manpower in the court, or to develop your own power in Yunzhou County.
This is not what you would do if a vassal king who doesn’t want to fight for the throne would do this! "
In response, Zhao Jun shook his head firmly and said: "For freedom!"
"Freedom?" Zhao Duan muttered these two words several times.
He looked up at the sun in the sky and laughed at himself: "Is this thing so important?
You have been born into a noble family and have a noble status. You can get things that ordinary people work hard for a lifetime. Isn't it worth paying for the so-called freedom for these things? "
"not worth it!"
Zhao Jun said solemnly.
"Even though I am a nobleman from Tianhuang, I also have the right to freedom. I don't want to be controlled by you, become a tool to balance the government, and become anyone's pawn.
Even though I am a vassal king, there is an emperor above me. I don't want my life and death to be in the hands of others. This is not beneficial to suicide.
I need to have my own power, my own mouthpiece, and my own strength, so that I can do what I want to do. "
"But many people would rather lose your so-called freedom to obtain these things." Zhao Duan said again.
"That's them!"
Zhao Jun said unconcernedly.
"Then you really didn't expect that position? With your current strength, if you want to get that position, not to say 100%, but at least 70% to 80% sure. I'm afraid your Yunzhou County soldiers have already Is it more than 200,000?"
"I said, I don't want to sit in that position. I wake up earlier than a chicken and go to bed later than a dog every day. Only a fool would take that position!"
Zhao Duan, who was named, felt as if he had been shot twice in the chest suddenly. The corners of his mouth twitched and he didn't know what to say.
Finally, after holding it in for a long time, he could only say, "The future is still unknown. Who knows what you will think in the future." He brushed off the topic.
After the two were silent for a while, they had already reached not far from Feiyun Restaurant. Zhao Duan suddenly said again:
"Did you know? Only your eldest brother and the others know that I came to you this time, and I brought the rest of the people who knew."
Zhao Jun heard this but asked curiously: "Why did you come here secretly?"
Zhao Duan sighed, looked at the scene of people coming and going on the street, and explained:
"You also know how terrifying the Second Emperor's strength is. When he was in charge of the Huns, the Huns did not dare to come even to explore the border, let alone invade every year.
But why is the second emperor's uncle staying in the capital and not even taking a step outside? "
Zhao Jun nodded and said strangely: "Indeed, I have always been curious about this. Why didn't the second uncle let him continue to guard the border when he was so strong? Instead, he was transferred back to Beijing.
I originally thought it was Dad who was worried about his self-respect because of his support for troops outside, but now it seems that there is something going on inside that I don't know about. "
Zhao Duan nodded and began to speak slowly:
"I was as young as you when I just ascended the throne, and I was very ambitious to revive the Song Dynasty.
But then I suddenly discovered that someone in the world actually openly said that they wanted to elect a new emperor and create a new dynasty after seeing the unstable situation in the Song Dynasty!
The people who made such remarks were the hidden sects back then. They relied on their personal force far beyond ordinary people to actually want to support Xinlong when our Song Dynasty was in crisis and be the black hand after the rise and fall of the dynasty.
How could I, as the new emperor, endure this?
So out of anger, I directly ordered the Second Emperor's Uncle to lead the troops and start cleaning up the influence of these hidden sects in the secular world one by one.
The army crossed the border and slaughtered their clan directly!
Don't they want to support Xinlong and think that he has the ability to control the world and change the dynasty? Then I want to see if they can save themselves first!
Those actions directly caused the entire Song Dynasty martial arts to be almost bloodbathed. The strength of the entire Song Dynasty martial arts world plummeted, and it has not recovered even now.
However, the exposed forces of the hidden sect were wiped out by the Second Emperor's Uncle.
At this moment, we received news and found out the specific location of the ancestral land of the hidden sects, so the Second Emperor's Uncle led his troops there.
With the Second Emperor's uncle's strength, everything went smoothly. Ten of the eighteen hidden sects were directly slaughtered by the Second Emperor's uncle. The remaining eight sects also died under the Second Emperor's uncle's suppression. The remaining sects were crippled and had to be replaced. The inherited ancestral land is hidden in the deep mountains and old forests.
When I got here, I originally thought that from now on, the remnants of these hidden sects, the old and the young, would stop.
But since the second year, people have been coming to Beijing to assassinate me. If the Second Emperor's Uncle hadn't returned to the border, I probably wouldn't have been able to survive the several close calls.
The general masters of the sect and the royal family can resist it, but most of those hidden sects have been passed down for thousands of years, and there are old monsters one after another. They can't beat the second emperor uncle, but they are more than enough to beat others.
In the end, for my safety, the emperor's uncle had no choice but to evacuate from the border and stay in the capital to prevent the old guys from the hidden sect from coming to assassinate me.
With this defense, the Second Emperor's uncle has guarded me for twenty years! "
Zhao Duan's eyes were filled with emotion, sorrow and memories.
If it weren't for him, with the Second Emperor's uncle's strength, there would have been any Huns who would have been defeated by his army long ago.
Nowadays, a good generation of war gods spend all their time in Bianjing, running chickens, fighting dogs, and raising birds, which is exactly like a pension model.
"So the news that I am here must be kept secret, otherwise if those old guys know that I secretly ran out to look for the general, and the Second Emperor's Uncle is not here.
It is impossible to say that both you and me, father and son, will die. "
"Old man, you can rest assured. It's okay if those old guys don't come. If they come, I will deal with them on the spot to save you from worries!"
Zhao Jun immediately said confidently after hearing this, but Zhao Duan didn't believe what he said at all.
Those old guys all have deep accumulation and many trump cards.
Even though he had heard from the Second Emperor's Uncle that this boy had talent for martial arts, he was only so young. Even if he had talent, what strength would he have now?
Once someone came to behead him, he didn't think anyone in Yunzhou County could stop them.
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(End of chapter)
