The next day, early morning.
In the early dynasty, Zhao Zhen announced that he would restore the Taizu system and ordered the Imperial City Division to regain the power of arrest, examination and trial.
During the Zhao Kuangyin period, the Imperial City Division was still called Wude Division, but it was only called Zhen Wude Division at that time.
The Wude Inspector at that time was basically composed of elite soldiers who had just conquered the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms by Zhao Kuangyin, so they had great authority and could arrest people just like the Jinyi Guards of the Ming Dynasty.
But by the time of Zhao Guangyi, the Wude Division was severely weakened. It only had the power of arrest and examination, but no trial power. After the prisoner was caught, even if the evidence was conclusive, he could only hand it over to Dali Temple and Kaifeng Prefecture for trial.
Then during the Zhenzong period of the Song Dynasty, Wudesi, which was renamed the Imperial City Division, further declined. It even lost the power of arrest, only the power of review. It completely changed from the emperor's sword to the emperor's ears, and it was also a half-deaf ear. Intelligence Capacity is declining day by day.
This is why the Imperial Guards of the Ming Dynasty are famous in later generations, while the Imperial City Division of the Song Dynasty is rarely known.
After all, ears are not as famous as swords.
However, this is news like a bolt from the blue for the civil service group.
Because it was the efforts of generations of civil servants to wrest the power of arrest and trial from the emperor. How could it be taken back by the emperor again?
Therefore, as soon as Zhao Zhen's order was announced, it immediately caused an uproar, and civil servants throughout the dynasty stood up to oppose it.
Even Lu Yijian Wang Zeng and others were shocked. They all stood in the same camp for a rare moment, leading hundreds of officials to go out and ask Zhao Zhen to withdraw his orders and cancel the imperial edict just issued.
Their reason is simply that now that the world is full of talents and great sages are all over the Song Dynasty, the officials should use the sons of saints to help the emperor govern the world, instead of using these despicable people to act as minions and ears.
Why should the Holy Emperor be upright and should not do such sneaky things? In other words, the Imperial City Secretary peeled off the bribes and resented the people. They must not be reused and should be abandoned.
Basically, the Imperial City Secretary was belittled as a low-ranking official. This was also a tactic used by civil servants in the Song Dynasty to belittle and impeach the Imperial City Secretary.
For example, Lu Yuqing, Wang Zongsi, Xu Xiufu and others in Zhao Guangyi's era all used this method to take away the power of Wude soldiers from Zhao Guangyi's hands.
But Zhao Zhen remembered Zhao Jun's words (CPU) and remembered that this was a way to strengthen the imperial power. He gritted his teeth and insisted on this order. Moreover, he bypassed the three provinces and directly gave the Imperial City Division authority without the need for approval from the prime minister. .
After all, the Imperial City Division does not belong to the bureaucracy, but is semi-affiliated to the military, not under the jurisdiction of the bureaucracy, and its funding also comes from internal funds. Therefore, as long as Zhao Zhen gives the order, the officials have nothing to do.
Therefore, despite the opposition from the whole court, this order was still enforced.
After the disbandment of the dynasty, King Zeng of Lu Yijian and other insiders guessed that it was Zhao Jun's idea, so they quickly requested to meet Zhao Zhen alone, and then brainwashed and deceived Zhao Zhen.
Zhao Zhen was very annoyed and sent someone to ask Zhao Jun to come and talk to them.
At noon, the atmosphere in Guanjia Hall was slightly solemn. Except for Fan Zhongyang, the other kings of Lu Yijian, Zeng Wang, Sanxiang Sanshen and Yan Shu were all there.
Everyone was sitting on a chair, drinking tea from a cup, closing their eyes to meditate, or looking at their nose and heart, without speaking.
The only thing they all have in common is that their faces are as dark as water and they don't look good.
The breeze blowing slowly outside the hall did not bring any coolness to everyone as the Mid-Autumn Festival was approaching.
After all, they will be seized of power, and there may be a mountain like the Imperial City Division weighing on their heads in the future, which makes everyone feel uncomfortable.
After about an hour, Zhao Jun arrived late.
It's not that he is difficult to find, the Imperial City Division knows his location very well. The main reason is that he went out of the city to investigate the job fields today and was a bit far outside the city.
When Zhao Jun stepped into the Guanjia Hall, he suddenly felt familiar when he saw everyone's appearance.
Isn't this the scene in the past when everyone spoke freely in Guanjia Hall?
He couldn't help but laugh. Shi Shiran came in and said, "Hello everyone, we are all here."
As he said that, he got familiar with the situation and sat in the back.
Since these people are plotting against him behind his back, he doesn't need to give face to them, and everyone should treat them as equals.
Anyway, modern people have long been accustomed to not having imperial power and have received education in the new era. There is no need to kowtow to these people and become slaves.
Now he also started to realize that he saved the Song Dynasty to prevent the Mongolian Yuan and Manchu Qing from enslaving the Han people, not because of his ancestors and these old social systems.
So if these people continue to block his way, then he doesn't mind completely falling out with them.
Seeing Zhao Jun's attitude, Zhao Zhen felt a little helpless. He said: "Dasun, look at it. If you want to activate the Imperial City Division, all the officials in the dynasty are opposed to it. My desk is full of papers."
"Use it to burn as firewood, and treat their words as farts."
Zhao Jun said nonchalantly.
"Zhao Jun, you went too far this time!"
Song Shou couldn't hold back his anger. Hearing his words, he couldn't help but scolded: "I don't know how harmful the Imperial City Division is. How can we give them the power to arrest people at will?"
"yes."
Cai Qi also said: "These police officers do everything they can to steal and steal, and then spread rumors and slander others. Do you know how many innocent people were arrested by the Imperial City Division during the Taizu period? How many families were destroyed?"
Sheng Du shook his head: "Zhao Jun, you are too impulsive. You should think twice before doing something."
Everyone also looked at him.
Zhao Jun said with a smile: "Why are everyone so serious? So, I asked Prime Minister Lu a question. I want to know why the Song Dynasty wanted Sanyi to return to the river?"
Lu Yijian was named, he pondered for a while and said, "Didn't you say it was because the later governors wanted to stop the Liao army?"
"wrong."
Zhao Jun shook his head: "It is to make the people think that this can stop the Liao army. The leaders and the Liao army know that this will not stop them at all."
Everyone: "."
"You said how many innocent people were arrested by the Imperial City Division, but you don't know how many innocent people were harmed by those mediocre, bad and stupid officials? Sanyi returned to the river and harmed millions of people in Hebei. Corrupt officials all over the country It was rampant and harmed tens of millions of people in the Song Dynasty. Although the Imperial City Division had its shortcomings, the advantages must outweigh the disadvantages."
Zhao Jun looked at them and said seriously: "I still say what I said, the interests of the country come first. As long as the interests of the country can be guaranteed, no matter what method is used, it is the right method."
"Is it right to wantonly monitor officials and slander and distort them?"
Wang Sui frowned.
"How could this not be correct? Power needs supervision, and national security needs to be guaranteed. And you said slander and distortion are slander and distortion? As a secret service agency, the Imperial City Division has the right to investigate all intelligence, and it must be spread throughout the country , even all over overseas.”
Zhao Jun insisted: "Because only in this way can we understand whether the officials are corrupt and whether they are bullying the people. Only in this fish and meat village can we understand the lives of the people and their thoughts. The most important thing is that Xixia knows how to find traitors. We know our intelligence, but we have no spies in Xixia and Liao. Is this reasonable?"
"Then the Imperial City Division should not be allowed to arrest at will. Do you know how many people they will kill?"
"Yes, power does need supervision, but the censor and admonishment platform are enough. There is no need for the Imperial City Department! The existence of the Imperial City Department will only make the Song Dynasty more chaotic."
"If the Imperial City Division alone can solve all problems, then you said before that the Ming Dynasty had Jinyiwei, Dongchang, and Xichang, and they perished differently?"
"Yes, in my opinion, we should send more censors to all parts of the country. The censors and admonishers monitor all officials. This is enough."
Several people told each other word by word, but the core idea is still that they do not intend to give the Imperial City Division power.
This will have a huge impact on the original bureaucracy.
"hehe."
Zhao Jun sneered after hearing this and said, "Are you really interested in letting corrupt officials investigate corrupt officials and letting you supervise yourself?"
Wang Zeng said dissatisfied: "Zhao Jun, there are countless upright censors and admonishers in the court now. They have been performing their duties and impeaching illegal officials. How can they be said to be supervising themselves?"
"The case of Zhao Jian, the case of Cui Bai, the case of Miao Wen, and the case of Li Si"
Zhao Jun talked about more than a dozen major cases in one breath, and then said with a smile: "These are all the old cases I saw in the Imperial City Division, and they are still the tip of the iceberg. There are more cases that have not been read yet, and the censors and officials involved in them are still the tip of the iceberg." The admonishment officials involve hundreds or even thousands of people from Kaifeng Prefecture, local magistrates, general magistrates, push officials, and county magistrates."
He was talking about cases investigated in the early days of Zhen Zong's reign.
The co-governance of scholar-bureaucrats in the Song Dynasty was not like this from the beginning, but was a gradual process.
From Zhao Kuangyin's strict treatment of scholar-bureaucrats, to the early days of Zhao Guangyi and Zhao Heng, they were slightly looser, but still tight.
Therefore, Zhao Heng still did a lot of big things in the early days, such as investigating and punishing corrupt officials.
For example, in the Zhao Jian case, more than 70 officials were involved. A large number of censors, admonishers, and judges of the Kaifeng Prefecture were dismissed, and a few were even killed.
But in the late Zhao Heng and Zhao Zhen periods, the attitude towards officials became very relaxed, and even edicts were issued to openly exempt corrupt officials from their crimes.
Especially Zhao Zhen, who used to show off and demoted criminal officials, but later stopped even pretending. Even if the evidence was conclusive, he would always cover it up. Unless the government and the opposition made too much noise, they would generally let it go.
From this we can see why in historical materials, there are still many records of corrupt officials being investigated and punished during the Zhao Guangyi and Zhao Heng periods, but there are much fewer records during the Zhao Zhen period.
It's not because there are fewer corrupt officials, but because these corrupt officials are no longer investigated or protected by the emperor, and they are not treated as corrupt officials at all.
Therefore, when the officials of the Renzong Dynasty oppressed the people, and in the fish and meat village, it became the norm to use punishment to kill, exterminate families, and humiliate the people at will.
It is no wonder that when there are not so many detailed records in historical materials, upright people such as Fan Zhongyan, Su Shi, and Bao Zheng lamented that there are so many corrupt, traitorous, and evil officials in the world.
After Zhao Jun finished speaking, he continued with a smile: "These are nothing. Guess what I learned when I went to investigate Zhitian outside the city this time? Guess how many people, including you, in Zhitian Huangzhuang are working for You work like cows and horses, but you don’t even have enough to eat all year round?”
"this"
Everyone looked at each other. King Lu Yijian Zeng and others thought for a moment, then reorganized their words and prepared to counterattack.
But Zhao Jun no longer gave him a chance and shouted: "The high-sounding reasons you all have are just that you are afraid that there is an Imperial City Secretary above you who can investigate and deal with corrupt officials at will. But you don't know that if you really care about this country, you will do it for this country." If a country is good, it must have some special functional departments that play special roles."
"Do you know that the United States, the most powerful country in the future, has more than a dozen intelligence agencies such as the CIA, Bureau of Investigation, Intelligence Bureau, Security Bureau, etc.? Do you know that our country will also have its own intelligence agencies in the future? Even the most influential countries in the world , all have their own intelligence departments!”
"Intelligence departments are not only internal, but also external. They can investigate everything and eliminate any unstable factors. Internally, they monitor officials and understand the sufferings of the people. Externally, they spy on military intelligence, understand the movements of enemy countries, and even stir up trouble within enemy countries."
"Even future generations of powerful countries, with productivity and technology that are more than a thousand years ahead of yours, will need a large number of intelligence agencies to maintain their existence. Even our country, China, also needs a national security department. Why do you think it's not possible? Don't you think so? Your capabilities surpass those of all powerful nations in later generations? Or do you think you surpass the wisdom of future generations?"
"In the final analysis, you are actually selfish and want your group to take more power and be more unscrupulous. You don't want to have a pair of eyes staring at your head and a pair of ears listening around you. Many officials seem to be The Deputy Grand Duke has a selfless and upright appearance, but he does more extreme things secretly than anyone else."
"Do you know what Han Yuan, the current magistrate of Mizhou, did when he was an official in Kaifeng Prefecture? And do you know what Wang Yiwen, the magistrate of Xiuzhou, did when he was a supervisory censor? Don't tell me What is an isolated case? If there are a large number of isolated cases, then they are not isolated cases, but the norm in the officialdom."
"To be honest, Lu Yijian and Wang Zeng, you guys have left a good reputation in the history books. Don't force me to scold you. Please, please get out of your bureaucratic system and stand in the interests of the people. Think about it from a different perspective, think from the country’s interests and perspective, can you please stop doing it for your own selfish desires?”
At the end of the sentence, Zhao Jun almost shouted, and his saliva almost splashed on everyone's faces.
Although he had read a little about the history of the Song Dynasty before, he didn't know much about it and only knew the superficial situation. Therefore, when faced with the deception of these old foxes, he didn't think much at all and just believed it.
As a result, it has been more than 20 days since his eyes regained sight. When he really understood the situation, the information placed in the Imperial City Department and the information Fan Zhongyan gave him could make people dumbfounded.
Although there is nothing new under the sun, as long as Zhao Jun doesn't care about those things, and only thinks about having sex, having fun every day in Goulan, brothels, and toilets in the inner city, and not looking at the suffering in the world, then all these things will be ignored. I saw it and pretended it didn't happen.
Even further, Zhao Jun only cares about himself and does not care what the Song Dynasty has become. If he chooses to join in the same trap with these people, he can completely ignore his conscience and only care about his promotion and wealth.
But the problem is that Zhao Jun has his own ideals, and he is not interested in the Song Dynasty, a country that is poor and weak and has never been tough. All he is interested in is making the Chinese nation great again and preventing the Han people from being enslaved by foreigners.
That's why he went to learn more about it, to see the darkness of the Song Dynasty, and to dig in wherever there was a problem.
However, it doesn’t matter if you don’t look at it, you will be shocked when you look at it.
The pile of information Guang Fan Zhongyan gave was outrageous. Who would have thought that the entire Kaifeng Mansion would most likely be black. Looking at the pile of files from the Imperial City Department, it is even more exaggerated. There are many relatives of the emperor in them.
The most terrifying thing is that these are just the tip of the iceberg. The Imperial City Division has also been corrupted. It is common for insiders to buy and sell information. More things are hidden and never see the light of day.
Therefore, during the questioning of these people today, Zhao Jun became more and more angry as he spoke. He simply opened up these crimes, tore off their hypocritical masks, cut open these scholar-officials from the inside out, and exposed their evil hearts. On the bright side.
At this moment, hearing Zhao Jun's question, everyone looked at each other in silence.
The unspoken rule of the officialdom of the Song Dynasty was basically that I was greedy for my gold and silver, and you did your bad things, and there was a tacit understanding between each other. On the surface, you were good to me, and everyone was good to you. There was rarely any quarrel with each other.
Now that Zhao Jun is tearing apart the bloody reality like this, he is already severely slapping the faces of these scholar-bureaucrats who clamored that the Holy Emperor should "rule from the top".
To put it bluntly, these people are actually not corrupt officials. Anyway, the historical records do not say that they are traitors.
But now, in addition to the emperor's military power and the power to appoint and remove senior officials, bureaucrats and scholar-bureaucrats have almost seized all ownership rights.
In this way, the officialdom is only supported by a few people with good family backgrounds or honest people, and seven out of ten of the others are corrupt officials. How can we continue to do this?
So Zhao Jun told a lot of truth.
truth.
That's the hardest thing to say.
"Why, you're not talking anymore? To be honest, I don't know if I don't investigate. If we continue to investigate further, I believe that your faces will look very ugly."
Zhao Jun sneered and said: "You can neither be greedy nor take, but that doesn't mean others can't. I haven't done anything wrong, so why should I be afraid of being investigated? What I want to do is not to kill the entire officialdom, but the current situation does need to be rectified, otherwise even if Can you survive the Jingkang Disgrace? Do you have the confidence to survive the rise of the Meng Yuan Dynasty while the government continues to force the people to rebel?"
"Then what are you going to do next?"
Lu Yijian's face was as dark as water, and he finally asked.
Zhao Jun said without hesitation: "Reform is not only about the officialdom, but also about the outside world. I am ready to follow the example of the great sages of later generations. I will devote myself to the officialdom and understand the shortcomings of the officialdom. At the same time, I will support the officials to strengthen the functions of the Imperial City Division and spread the Imperial City Division throughout the country. All over the country and even abroad.”
"Okay, if that's the case, then you should work hard for the imperial examination."
"Well, Qiuwei will be here in a few days. I hope you can focus on your studies first."
"Read more books to increase your wisdom."
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they heard that Zhao Jun had no intention of giving up the idea of entering officialdom.
Because they had already felt that Zhao Jun was very murderous before Zhao Jun regained his consciousness. They were afraid that Zhao Jun would kill once he gained power after regaining his consciousness, so they hoped to lure him into the game.
One is to slow down the speed at which he takes power, and the other is to hope that the system will assimilate him. Even if reforms are implemented in the future, they should be more gentle and not kill corrupt officials at every turn.
But what they didn't know was that at that time, Zhao Jun was actually just a keyboard warrior having fun, and had no idea that he was in the Song Dynasty. But now that I have truly arrived in the Song Dynasty and seen this dark corner, I really want to kill someone.
Therefore, although the result is the same, the process is different. If they had chosen a gentler approach and fully supported his idea, Zhao Jun might not be so angry and fighting against them now.
"well."
Yan Shu let out a long sigh, stood up and said: "Nowadays, the officialdom really needs to be rectified. There are civil unrest everywhere. It is not a bad thing to seek changes. I just hope that you, Mr. Jun, can grasp the sense of proportion. If this Imperial City Division becomes A knife may hurt many innocent people.”
"Okay, I get it."
Zhao Jun said: "You know the situation of the Song Dynasty no less than I do. If you can sincerely support me in carrying out reforms and stop dictating me, the future of the Song Dynasty will be much brighter. I hope you can do the same. Recognize some things clearly and don’t sit on your butt all the time.”
Everyone had already stood up. After looking at each other, they bowed their hands to Zhao Zhen and said, "Officials and ministers, please leave."
This time Zhao Jun finally took the power of the Imperial City Division into his hands.
Although Sanxiang Sanshen and others only reluctantly agreed, the officials below would still make a fuss, but as long as Zhao Zhen and Lu Yijian remained silent, it would be useless for the officials below to make a fuss.
(End of chapter)
