"Old Cao."
After Zhao Jun made some arrangements in the Imperial City Department, he summoned Cao Xiu to meet in the backyard alone.
Cao Xiu bowed his hands to him and said, "I know that the magistrate is suspecting that my father is seeking revenge, but Wang Shilong is arrogant and domineering. He often suppresses the information about the wrongdoings of officials and government officials collected by the Imperial City Department, and refuses to report it to the officials. If Chiji keeps him, it will only be a disaster."
"Um."
Zhao Jun nodded and said: "If that's the case, then you did the right thing. And he was out drinking and having fun when he was on duty, so it's normal for me to leave him alone. The main thing is that you should have told me on the way here. It's true." I won’t refuse to agree to such a thing, there’s no need to be so petty.”
"yes."
Cao Xiu looked embarrassed.
He was also frightened by Zhao Zhen for doing so.
He reported what Wang Shilong had done to Zhao Zhen many times, but Zhao Zhen shielded him all the time, which made him furious.
So this time Zhao Jun took office, he simply did not report him, but used some tricks.
At that time, even if Zhao Jun protects Wang Shilong like Zhao Zhen, Zhao Jun will definitely want to lose face. Wang Shilong will be late for the first meeting and he will definitely be dismissed.
Although he was worried that Zhao Jun would be angry with him because of this matter, at least he felt that as long as he explained it clearly to Zhao Jun, there should be no problem.
As he expected, Zhao Jun still understood the truth and did not get angry because of this matter.
"I heard that the Cao family received a reward some time ago?"
Zhao Jun asked pretending to be casual.
He heard about this when he was traveling in Bianliang, and it made a big fuss.
Cao Xiu bowed and said, "Yes."
"Then do you know why the Cao family was rewarded?"
"Is it because the officials want to pay for Zipu?"
"I asked the officials to open Jiaozi Shop. Now you understand."
Zhao Jun also visited Jiaozipu before, and there was an endless stream of people going to save money. Obviously, this would provide strong support for the war in the northwest of the Song Dynasty.
But again, the existence of Jiaozipu can only speed up the circulation of money, not make the cake bigger.
And to completely destroy the old system, we must support the new system.
Although reforms will involve bloodshed, pure killing will not solve any problem. Did Lao Zhu kill less in the early Ming Dynasty? But killing so many people still didn't solve the problem.
Therefore, Zhao Jun had long made up his mind to learn from Pukaka and first support some emerging asset forces to combat the old and corrupt official monopoly system, so as to increase market competition and change the business environment of the Song Dynasty.
Later, through the influx of silver, accelerated circulation of goods, and improvement of productivity, the cake was enlarged to strengthen the national power, and then let the banner of the Song Dynasty expand overseas to further expand capital.
Finally, the great ideas of great men and leaders were used as the ideological program to curb the barbaric growth of domestic capital and build a better welfare system to benefit the Song Dynasty.
At this point, he planned to talk to Fan Zhongyan and Ouyang Xiu's gang later.
Because Ouyang Xiu supported this, he once asked to support businessmen, abolish state-owned monopolies, and abolish the monopoly rights of the bureaucratic class over goods.
In this way, bulk commodities such as tea, salt, grain and oil, which were originally monopolized by local officials, will completely enter the free market and will no longer be monopolized as before, leading to corruption, embezzlement, bribery, abuse of power, and other incidents.
However, these things cannot be solved overnight, and Zhao Jun does not intend to completely open up the free market. Some state-owned enterprises are still needed to ensure the bottom line of prices and prevent big businessmen from monopolizing prices.
Therefore, the current establishment of Jiaozipu can be regarded as paving the way for the future reform of the state-owned sales system. After Zhao Jun further gains power, systematic reforms will be carried out.
Hearing Zhao Jun's words, Cao Xiu looked at him in shock, and then said quickly: "Thank you, Chisi!"
"The Song Dynasty is now full of insects, corrupt officials are rampant, the princes and officials are acting recklessly, and the people are in trouble. The officials are determined to innovate and want to change all this, so they will greatly increase the functions of the Imperial City Department."
Zhao Jun said in a deep voice: "You are a capable person. I heard that the Cao family is also a little lonely now. Whether you can revive the Cao family depends on whether you are smart or not."
Cao Xiu said quickly: "My subordinates swear to be loyal to the official family and to the magistrate to the death."
"Ah, very good."
Zhao Jun added: "Since I am in charge of the Imperial City Division, from now on the Imperial City Division will have a new look from top to bottom and strictly abide by the regulations. I will add and revise the regulations in the future. You will send someone to distribute them when the time comes."
"yes."
Cao Xiu nodded.
"In addition, those things that the commander investigated must be sent to me within three days."
"yes."
"In the future, the Imperial City Department will not only have the duties of spying and inspection, but also arrests and interrogations. You will be responsible for building two town and government departments in the city, responsible for the east and west of the city respectively. They will have government offices and prisons."
"this"
"What's wrong?"
“To build a new government office, we need money.”
Cao Xiu looked troubled and said: "The official approved one hundred thousand gu before, which is only enough for half a year's salary, expenses and other expenses. He said that the next step is to rely on the magistrate himself."
"Well, I understand."
Zhao Jun rubbed his temples.
Zhao Zhen, a coward, obviously does not dare to fully support himself, and will probably use this as an excuse to deal with Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng and the others.
For example, tell them that they will be responsible for the expenses of the Imperial City Division in the future. Soon they will be out of money, and then they will be helpless and unable to do anything.
So I guess I will have to make money on my own in the future.
But it is better to ask for others than to ask for yourself.
It would be good to be able to force Zhao Zhen to give the Imperial City Division the power of arrest and interrogation. This matter is expected to cause an uproar in the court within two days, and objections will fly to the emperor's desk like snowflakes.
He can give himself a hundred thousand yuan, plus withstand the pressure from the court, which is basically his limit.
After all, the scholar-officials of the Song Dynasty were not the scholar-officials of the Ming Dynasty, and the emperor of the Song Dynasty was not the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Being able to obtain the power of arrest and interrogation from the scholar-officials of the Song Dynasty was no different from snatching food from the mouth of a tiger.
Therefore, Zhao Jun did not blame Zhao Zhen.
That is to say, if I had traveled through the early Ming Dynasty and met Zhu Di and his son, he would have become imperial masters long ago and reached the peak of his life. There would be no need to argue with Zhao Zhen for power, or with the imperial court. Swarms of insects vying for power?
"Then we won't build new government offices. We'll wait until we have money later."
Zhao Jun said: "Does our Imperial City Division have its own prison now? Or a place where prisoners can be held?"
Cao Xiu thought for a moment and said, "The only option is to borrow the military execution chamber of the Dianqian Division. The Dianqian Division is in charge of the Imperial Army. If the Imperial Army soldiers break the law, they will not be under the jurisdiction of the Kaifeng Mansion, but will be dealt with by the three yamen of the Imperial Army. They have their own cells."
"Can I borrow it if you come forward?"
"It should be possible. My second brother Cao Ren is now the front office of the palace, Zuoban Dianzhi. Just ask him to say hello. The torture chamber is behind our Imperial City Division."
"The relationship is good. When the time comes, I will ask Di Qing to escort the people here from the Yulong Direct Barracks. Those people are very important. In the future, they may be my means of destroying Wuyou Cave. I will imprison them in batches and interrogate them separately, forcing them to They drew diagrams of the interior of Ashoka Cave.”
Zhao Jun was very happy to hear what Cao Xiu said.
The Cao family is good. As the most famous generals in the Song Dynasty, a group of distinguished disciples occupy various yamen. There are people in the yamen who are easy to do things.
In fact, although Cao Xiu's younger brother was only a Zuoban Dianzhi, the commanders of the Palace Front Division, the Guards' Horse Army Division, and the Guards' Infantry Division's commanders were only nominal officers with no real power and could not mobilize the army.
Therefore, the actual power was in the hands of lower-level officials. This led to the fact that Zuo Ban, a small front minister of Cao Ren, was able to use the execution room of the front minister. This can be regarded as the result of the extreme decentralization of power in the Song Dynasty.
But there is a problem.
There seems to be a problem with the naming of the old Cao family. The eldest brother is called Cao Xiu and the second child is called Cao Ren?
Cao Xiu and Cao Ren?
Will there be Cao Hong, Cao Pi, Cao Zhang and the like?
Zhao Jun couldn't help but think about it.
"yes."
After hearing Zhao Jun's words, Cao Xiu nodded to express his understanding.
After that, Zhao Jun gave some other instructions.
Then he said: "During this period, I plan to carry out internal rectification first. What I need is a group of capable soldiers, not a group of idlers."
Cao Xiu scratched his head and said: "How does Zhisi plan to rectify the internal situation? There are indeed many shortcomings in the Imperial City Department. Even I, the Imperial City Envoy, have been hiding a lot of things. From what I know, many people have to be dismissed. .”
"If it's time to depose, then depose them. The Imperial City Department must not become a place harboring dirt and evil. These black sheep must be cleaned up."
Zhao Jun waved his hand and said: "Even if what I ordered today is an internal self-examination, it is also a test of the loyalty of these people. You should use your confidants to investigate their actions first, and report to me at any time if there is anything unusual."
"yes."
Cao Xiu responded and left.
Zhao Jun watched him go out, stroking his forehead and thinking.
He has arranged some things for his people to do.
One is to test their abilities, and the other is to find out the bad apples within the Imperial City Division.
Because he also heard from Cao Xiu that due to the special nature of the investigation in charge of the Imperial City Division, he was able to master a lot of dirty information about officials and dignitaries.
Although the emperor of the Song Dynasty was very protective of the wrongdoings of officials and dignitaries, the scholar-bureaucrat class also wanted to clear their name. If dirty information was exposed among the people and the officialdom, they would often be attacked by censors and admonishers.
For example, in the first year of Jingyou, that is, two years ago, Sun Miao was transferred from the central supervisory censor to serve as an official in other places. When he arrived at the local level, he quickly fell into corruption. When he was the magistrate of Chuzhou, Hangzhou and other places If you don't do anything, no one will know.
More than ten years later, during the Huangyou period, Sun Miao, who had been promoted to be the pacification envoy for Hunan and Jiangxi roads and the pacification envoy for Guangnan East and West roads, was transferred to the central government and became the deputy privy envoy for assisting Di Qing in pacifying the Nong Zhigao rebellion. .
After he was transferred back to the central government, all the dirt he had done in the past was quickly thrown out, and he was frantically attacked by Yushitai and Jiantai.
In the end, this senior official of the imperial court, who had committed crimes that would have killed him several times in any dynasty, was demoted to the deputy envoy of the Ningguo Army without real power after being verified by Song Renzong Zhao Zhen.
Although I don’t know if there is a political struggle in this, it also reflects from the side that the scholar-bureaucrats in the Song Dynasty must at least maintain the image of upright officials on the surface.
Therefore, once the Imperial City Division has the evidence of these corrupt officials, these people can only spend money to buy it from the Imperial City Division in order to prevent the black information from spreading out and being besieged by the Yushi and Jiantai, resulting in the same situation within the Imperial City Division. Totally corrupt.
The evidence and materials on the crimes of officials and dignitaries stored by the Imperial City Division are basically incomplete, and most of them were sold by that group of people.
If Lao Cao hadn't been quite capable and told him the inside story, he would probably be kept in the dark now.
Therefore, this time is the time to deal with these borers within the Imperial City Division.
After arranging things, it was already afternoon and it was time for Lu Yijian and the others to go to class.
At this time, Zhao Zhen had not yet issued an order to expand the authority of the Imperial City Division, so they still came to class as usual. Today it was Lu Yijian who came.
Zhao Jun returned to his residence under the protection of Di Qing and the other inspectors of the Imperial City Division. At midnight, Lu Yijian, who had gone home for dinner after a break, came over with his things.
In the room, Zhao Jun was still reciting the "Book of Filial Piety" seriously. This thing requires Mo Jing and Tie Jing.
The Mo Jing means writing down ten items silently, telling you the previous sentence and asking you to write down the next sentence silently. To post a sutra, you need to fill in ten items. In one sentence, you will only be given the middle part and fill in the front and back. So I have to recite the whole text.
Now Zhao Jun has no intention of completely falling out with Lu Yijian and the others. As long as he gives them hope and makes them think that he will still take the imperial examination and enter the officialdom, then the two sides will not have too much conflict, so for the time being, he will still follow the other party's wishes to learn these things.
This is also a strategy.
He needs time to investigate the situation in various places and gain a deep understanding of the actual situation among the people. As long as the investigation work is done and the facts are put in the faces of these people, I believe they will have nothing to say.
After Lu Yijian came in, his face looked a little ugly. He coughed twice and said, "Jun boy."
"Lao Lu."
Zhao Jun raised his head and glanced at him, stood up and said, "Have you eaten yet?"
"After eating, how did you learn?"
Lu Yijian came over with her things, sat next to him, and waved her hand for him to sit down.
Zhao Jun sat down again and said, "It's not bad. I can basically memorize it. It's just two thousand words, just divide it into short stories and read them carefully."
"Don't miss out on annotating, explaining, and studying. Although there are not many in this area in the provincial examination, you must be careful about being dismissed."
Lu Yijian reminded him, and then said: "There are other scriptures that you need to read as well. Although you often say they are dross, you still need to know more about the wisdom of our ancestors."
"knew."
Zhao Jun frowned.
These guys just want to recruit themselves into the group all day long.
The key point is that this guy Zhao Zhen sometimes wears the same pants as these people, which really makes my head hurt.
When will he wake up and realize that those in power must stand on the side of the people, not the side of the bureaucrats?
Lu Yijian sat down, and then pretended to say casually: "I heard that you sent Di Qing to arrest some people yesterday?"
"hehe."
Zhao Jun sneered: "The people from Wuyou Cave abducted the child in front of me and came to retaliate against me afterwards. Why can't I arrest them?"
Lu Yijian shook his head and said: "The country has its own legal system. If you catch them, they should be sent to Kaifeng Mansion. How can you take people to the barracks at Yulongzhi? Isn't this a private court?"
"How do you know I didn't send it?"
Zhao Jun said expressionlessly: "Guess how fast the Kaifeng government officials came after I caught them? After I handed the people over to them, a few days later when those people came with their troops to retaliate against me, I saw How do you feel about seeing them? Kaifeng Mansion is in a terrible state, and so is the officialdom of the Song Dynasty."
"Forehead"
Lu Yijian was speechless for a moment, and then said: "So this is why you need to study hard. After you take the imperial examination and become an official, you can reform the officialdom and eliminate these things."
"OK."
Zhao Jun responded, saying that he had only one attitude towards these guys.
You do your thing, I'll do mine.
As long as they are happy.
(End of chapter)
