In the Chui Gong Hall, hundreds of officials from various departments were already in place. San Xiang San Shen slowly walked to the front of the team. With Wang Shouzhong's high-pitched "Your Majesty has arrived," the officials bowed and saluted.
"No gift!"
Zhao Zhen waved his hand.
After all the officials were back on their feet, the head official of the palace shouted: "If you have something to do, please leave early. If you have nothing to do, roll up the curtain and leave the court."
"I have my heart and I want to report it."
Zhou Huairen, the censor of power supervision, said: "I am impeaching Fan Zhongyan, the secretary and young prisoner, for being lawless and absent from work many times. He has not been seen in the secretary prison for several days."
"I also have my own intention to report."
Liu Qua, the supervisory censor, said: "I impeached Yan Shu, the censor, and Yan Shu Tongtian became the head of the censorship station. He did not want to work hard on official duties, but he was never seen on duty all day long. As a result, the censorship station had a high accumulation of official documents and supervised the affairs of hundreds of officials. What a slacker."
The remonstrating officer Gong Dingchen said: "I impeached Tong Zhongshu's subordinate Ping Zhang for Lu Yijian's affairs. He ignored the government affairs and acted wantonly."
The right secretary admonished Han Qi and said: "I impeached Tong Zhongshu's disciple Pingzhangshi Wang and followed him. He served as prime minister for one year. He was mediocre and accomplished nothing. He was involved in political affairs and had a sinister and eccentric personality. He often excluded his colleagues!"
He Tan, the imperial censor in the palace, cupped his hands and said: "I impeach Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng, and Wang Sui, the ministers of Pingzhang under Tongzhongshu, and the political ministers Song Shou, Cai Qi, and Sheng Du. The corpses are eating nothing, and the flies are camping and the dogs are sleeping. There is no one in the political hall all day long. Now that the country is in ruins, he was even late for the last morning court meeting and is not worthy of being the prime minister."
"I second the proposal!"
"I also second the proposal!"
"I ask your Majesty to severely punish these people!"
Several imperial censors and admonishment officials below spoke out one after another and attacked Fan Zhongyan, Yan Shu, Lu Yijian and others with great momentum.
There were really too many officials in the Song Dynasty, and Lu Dang and Fan Dang were actually only a small part of them.
More officials are not just sitting on the wall or doing nothing, but they either have their own small circles, or they stay alone, neither clinging to the powerful nor flattering, and focusing on doing their own thing.
The most awesome thing about Fan Zhongyan and his friends is that the Qingli New Deal directly unified the originally disunited Song Dynasty officialdom to their opposite sides. They all opposed his New Deal, causing the New Deal to quickly fail.
Since the New Deal has not yet been launched, there is no such thing. After all, no matter how powerful Lu Yijian is, it is impossible for thousands of officials in Bianliang City to follow his lead.
In particular, the officials of the Admonition Court and Yushitai have never been afraid of offending the prime minister. Anyway, they dare to attack as long as the other party does something wrong, no matter who you are. Therefore, they all take the initiative to impeach. Once the impeachment is successful and the prime minister is dismissed, it will be a great honor for the official.
Seeing this big scene, Zhao Zhen felt a headache for a while.
Nowadays, both Yan Shu and Fan Zhongyan are stationed in Houyuan, accompanying Zhao Jun every day. Indeed, they rarely appear in their respective yamen and court meetings. It is understandable for the officials to impeach them on the pretext of absenteeism. According to Song law, at least they will be dismissed from office. .
And He Tan was even more heavyweight. He directly impeached the three ministers and three ministers. If the officials were really punished according to the impeachment, then there would be no need to deal with state affairs, and the prime ministers would go home and farm together.
He had to find a way to resolve this matter.
"You don't have to be so angry. I asked Fan Zhongyan to compile classics and just do it at home. I asked Yan Shu to do some things. As for the prime ministers."
Zhao Zhen paused for a moment, then found a reason and said: "The prime ministers are old, so I will allow them to arrive late for the court meeting."
"Since His Majesty ordered them to compile classics and do other things, why not go through Zhongshu and save the imperial edict?"
He Tan pressed forward step by step: "If it's just oral instructions, then they are still absent from work."
Zhao Zhen quickly looked at Lu Yijian.
Lu Yijian understood and winked at Li Min, the man from the Zhongshu House not far away. Li Min said, "This matter has been taken care of by the Zhongshu Province."
"Since the book has been sent to the province, why is there no announcement?"
He Tan asked again.
Lu Yijian said: "It is a trivial matter for the secretary to supervise the revision of the scriptures and for the censor Zhongcheng to investigate the case. Should it be announced to the world so that everyone knows about it?"
He Tan wanted to say something else, but Zhao Zhen interrupted: "Okay, let's let this matter go. From now on, Fan Zhongyan will be writing books at home. As for Yan Shu, he will be the Secretary of the Ministry of Hubu and the Deputy Envoy of the Third Department. The affairs of Yushitai will be left to Jia Changchao and Let Yu Zhouxun deal with it, where is Prime Minister Lu?"
"I'm here."
"Draft the edict and send it to Zhongshu Province."
"yes."
Lu Yijian responded.
Seeing that the matter was settled, He Tan and others could only retreat in anger.
Then the discussion in the court continued.
Zhang Yuan, a doctor from the Water Resources Department of the Ministry of Industry, reported that the Baiqu was in disrepair and was increasingly overflowing.
Zhao Zhen ordered the Xiang army to build canals and control floods.
Then Xu, the magistrate of Yidu Branch and the doctor of the Ministry of Industry, applied for the casting of new money. He suggested that it should be mixed with medicinal iron, with copper accounting for three parts and iron accounting for six parts, to make a copper-iron alloy and fill the treasury.
This suggestion actually led to serious deliberation among the officials. In the end, Cheng Lin, the Third Chief of Staff, and Sun Zude, the deputy director of Tianzhang Pavilion, strongly opposed it and sternly stated the harm and serious consequences that iron money would bring to the country. Give up.
Otherwise, if Zhao Zhen really listened to Xu Shen's lies and cast iron coins, it would be a lot of fun.
The main reason is that the national treasury is indeed short of money. During Renzong's period, the annual fiscal deficit reached more than 2 million guan, and a total of more than 30 million guan was accumulated.
Moreover, Li Shen was still working on money laws and was almost emptying the treasury, which made the imperial government's finances even worse. That's why some people came up with bad ideas, and many people agreed with them.
Later, during the Huizong period of the Song Dynasty, iron coins began to be minted. There were small iron coins and large iron coins. During the Southern Song Dynasty, iron coins directly became the mainstream coins.
But now that Zhao Zhen no longer needs it, he got the Jiaozi method from Zhao Jun. Naturally, he decisively refused to adopt the iron money. Instead, he ordered Shenzhi Zhengshi Shengdu, who had previously engaged in the salt and iron economy, to establish a "Jiaozi Service" as soon as possible. It was piloted in Bianliang and merged with Chengdu "Jiaoziwu" to form bank interconnection between Bianliang and Chengdu.
The matter of "handing over affairs" does not need to go through the court. Zhao Zhen directly issued the imperial edict and passed it through Zhongshu Province and Menxia Province. Now he controls the three phases and three ministers of Zhongshu Province and Menxia Province, even if they have different political opinions, they have been unified. The "handover" matter was therefore passed quickly.
Therefore, without the knowledge of the officials, Shengdu had officially started the process of establishing a bank.
Soon, the bustling court meeting came to an end.
It was already noon. Zhao Zhen asked them to stay in the palace on the pretext that he wanted to stay with the three ministers to discuss national affairs. Then everyone had lunch together and headed towards the back garden.
Normally, Zhao Jun would have lunch at this time, and then chat with Yan Shu and Fan Zhongyan, but Yan Shu was not here today.
Because he went back after taking the medicine from Zhao Jun in the morning and asked for leave from Zhao Zhen.
So now Fan Zhongyan is serving Zhao Jun.
"Have eaten enough, Uncle Nima, while Uncle Lari is not here, let's make some Zhao Guangyi jokes today."
When Zhao Zhen and the others arrived at the back garden after lunch, as soon as they arrived at the door, they heard Zhao Jun sunbathing outside the door and said with a playful smile: "After the Battle of Gaoliang River, the Song and Liao sides sent envoys to each other, hoping to discuss peace matters. In order to frighten Liao Jingzong, the envoys of the Song Dynasty told Liao Jingzong that the Song Dynasty had developed a new type of drug. After taking it, men could run around Bianliang within a quarter of an hour. So in order to see the power of the drug, Liao Jingzong decided to send The envoy went to find out what happened. After Zhao Guangyi learned about this, he couldn't help but became confused and asked the civil and military officials in the hall what should be done. He only heard a palace maid in the corner say faintly: "Your Majesty, the Liao army has reached the outside of the city." After hearing this, Zhao Guangyi , set up a donkey cart and ran to Fujian in the blink of an eye."
Zhao Zhen's face turned dark instantly.
King Lu Yijian Zeng and others covered their mouths, shrugged their shoulders, and tried to hold it in.
They almost laughed.
How could a guy like Zhao Jun stab an official's lung tube?
