At this moment, all the officials were calm and did not dare to make any move.
No wonder they are making up their minds.
The main reason is that the title Zhao Zhen gave to Zhao Jun is too exaggerated, and people can't help but think so.
Even the prince is not treated so well.
After all, when Zhao Zhen was the crown prince, he was only the envoy of Jiangning Yin and Jiankang Army, and he was promoted to king.
A Jiedushi envoy, a prince, and other casual officials such as the three divisions of Kaifu Yitong.
Although he has the title of prince, he is not the king of Song Dynasty. Song is the national title, and Zhao Jun is the only one who can use this title as a title.
Even if he is just a Duke, he is probably no more than a prince, and his treatment is quite shocking in the entire Song Dynasty.
Therefore, the officials almost instinctively thought that Zhao Jun was probably the son left behind by the late emperor. If he took a closer look, he actually had a slight resemblance to Zhao Zhen between his eyebrows.
"Forehead"
"Brother Chunqing, just now you were filled with righteous indignation and prepared to file a letter of impeachment. Now is the time for you to retaliate."
"Brother, you want to harm me, right?"
"Xiyan, what do you think?"
"Whatever you think, just wait and see what happens."
The officials whispered to each other.
Officials in the Song Dynasty had wings on the left and right sides of their hats, which made it difficult to talk.
But that means they only wear ordinary public clothes during court and office hours, and the hat has two wings.
Zhao Zhen issued an edict yesterday, and today the court meeting will be grand, with all officials wearing court uniforms.
So what everyone is wearing today is the court clothes that are only worn during large-scale festivals and solemn court meetings. There are no two wings on the head.
However, the people talking to each other were basically the third, fourth and fifth grade officials in the middle and back rows.
The first- and second-rank senior officials in the front row all stared intently, looked at their noses and hearts, and remained silent.
Compared with the officials below, they are all mature and prudent, and they will not immediately come out to make a show of themselves.
Even if they have something to say, they will only arrange for the censors and admonishers below to say it on their behalf.
Because the official is not guilty!
So after a few minutes of silence, a few minutes of commotion, and a few minutes of discussion, someone finally stood up.
Supervisory censor Zhang Zongyi walked to the middle, raised his hands to Zhao Zhen and said, "Official family."
"Um?"
Zhao Zhen looked down.
All the officials also returned to their standing postures in an instant, and their eyes fell on Zhang Zongyi.
Have you finally succeeded?
"I would like to ask if Zhao Jun is the son of the late emperor?"
Zhang Zongyi said.
Zhao Zhen said in a deep voice: "Zhao Jun's identity is not something you can discuss."
Didn't the officials say anything clearly?
Zhang Zongyi said reluctantly: "If you are not the son of the late emperor, how can you be named the Duke of the Song Dynasty? Please ask the officials to take back the order."
Zhao Zhen said dissatisfied: "As the emperor, I am conferred the title of minister. Do I need a reason? It is not that the Manchu Dynasty has no people who reward the prince. When have you ever criticized him? Isn't it just because you see Zhao Jun young and think he is easy to bully?"
Protect the calf?
The officials were shocked. They didn't expect the officials to protect Zhao Jun so much. Thinking of Zhao Jun's mysterious identity, they couldn't help but deepen their suspicions about the son of the late emperor.
If Zhao Jun is really the late emperor's surviving son, then why do the officials let him take charge of the Imperial City Department, or even the Constitutional Yuan?
This is not common sense.
If the official family feels that they are unable to give birth to a son and are in poor health and need an heir, then they can openly reveal Zhao Jun, make public the evidence that he is the son of the late emperor, and then enroll him in the clan and be named the crown prince. Just my brother.
There is no need to directly make him the head of the officials.
Could it be that the officials really wanted to reform the Song Dynasty, but they were afraid that the scholar-bureaucrats would unify their opinions and take power, so they sent trusted clan members to monitor Lu Yijian and the others?
This doesn't make sense either.
For surveillance, just assign a deputy, and there is no need to be in charge. In this case, wouldn't Zhao Jun be the leader?
Lu Yijian and the others were the ones monitoring him.
This situation is so weird.
The officials just felt confused, as if there was some kind of fog inside, which was puzzling.
However, despite their doubts, there were many foolish people who continued to write.
I saw Zhang Kui, the imperial censor in the palace, also stood up, raised his hands and said: "Officials, no matter what, we have never had anyone in the Song Dynasty who failed to pass the imperial examination and controlled hundreds of officials without going through the local area. How can national affairs be so ridiculous? "
Before Zhao Zhen could say anything, Prime Minister Wang Sui refuted: "The officials have their own intentions. We, all the ministers, have seen Zhao Jun's talent and are convinced by him. Do you think you are better than the officials and all the ministers?" Do you know how to recognize people?”
"I don't dare, but if you want to know what extraordinary people can do in the Constitutional Yuan, we want to know what makes Zhao Jun different from ordinary people?"
Liu Kui, the imperial censor, also stood up.
"Yes, although Zhao Jun has investigated a lot of filth in Kaifeng Mansion, it doesn't mean anything. What the government needs is a talent for governing the country, not relying on the hilt of the Imperial City Division to convince the public."
"Nonsense, how do you know that Zhao Jun has no talent for governing the country? In my opinion, he is better than any of you."
"Haha, just talking is useless? Even if you are really talented, you should first take the imperial examination and then go through the localities step by step before you can be ranked as the leader. You can go straight to the center without doing anything. How is it different from the treachery of ancient times? "
"Back then, Li Linfu asked Yuan Qianyao for a Langguan. Yuan Qianyao said that a Langguan should have talent and reputation, so can a brother be a Langguan? Sure enough, he later became the prime minister by flattering others, causing harm to the country and the people. The government newly established the Political System Yuan, If you want to control the world, how can you appoint someone who has no talent and reputation?"
"Zhao Jun is now well-known in Bianliang, and the people of Bianliang praise him. He wiped out the filth in Kaifeng Mansion overnight, and is preparing to clear Wuyou Cave and Ghost Fan Tower. This is something that none of the Kaifeng Mansion officials in Bianliang could do in the past. How come you don’t have the reputation for talent?”
"Everyone knows that Kaifeng Mansion has been unable to eradicate these things because of the protection of high-ranking officials and powerful people. Zhao Jun did these things without fear of the powerful, so what? If the officials want them to die, anyone can do it arrive!"
"I'm afraid you don't know that it was Zhao Jun who raised the issue about Jiaozipu. Now Jiaozipu has made the national treasury more abundant and can afford the food and grass for the border army. It also proposed tea methods to suppress prices and open up the central government so that merchants will no longer I falsely estimate my personal wealth and settle down in the middle, all of which depend on Zhao Jun!"
"Haha, there is Jiaozipu in Shu. The tea method and the Jiaoyin method are also credited to Prime Minister Li. Why are they all placed on his head?"
"You people, isn't it just because he has no talent and reputation among you that you are like this? What are you doing with these big words? If you have talent and reputation, then let the people of Bianliang praise you?"
The conversation started, and after someone took the first step, seven or eight of the censors immediately came forward to submit letters.
Prime Minister Lu Yijian and Wang Zeng did not speak. The other Wang Sui, Cai Qi, Sheng Du, Song Shou, and even Yan Shu and Fan Zhongyan were not willing to be outdone and stood up to defend Zhao Jun.
Although the Three Phases and Three Ginsengs are not all powerful in the court, they are still very powerful. Therefore, when the members of their group saw that their boss supported Zhao Jun, they did not refute. They even saw that the trend was wrong and immediately sided with Zhao Jun.
Fan Zhongyan is the leader of the Young Zhuang Faction, and Ouyang Xiu is just a collation of pavilions and pavilions, and is not qualified to go to court. The rest of them, Yu Jing, Yin Zhu, Wu Zunlu, Cai Xiang, Wang Zhi, Wang Zhu and others, were either low-ranking or only had official posts but no dispatches, so they could not go to court.
However, Li Hong, a direct bachelor of Longtuge, was of the third rank and was qualified to participate in the court meeting. Fu Bi of the Zhijian Yuan was promoted as an official in Kaifeng Prefecture and also as an admonishing officer in Taiwan. Although he was from the sixth rank, both the admonishing officer and the censor were of low rank and high authority, so he could still attend the court meeting.
At this moment, when the two of them saw Fan Zhongyan taking sides, they immediately realized that Zhao Jun was probably the expert that Fan Zhongyan had been talking about before.
And this expert once asked Fan Zhongyan to give them some documents.
They were very excited to read the contents of those documents. Now that they saw the master with their own eyes, although they couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. He was not the wise old man they imagined, but they also cheered up and joined in the arguments.
For a time, the faction headed by the prime minister's group, other factions in the court, and dissatisfied censors and admonishers came out to argue.
The court hall was completely in chaos.
Because the group of prime ministers was also divided and hostile to each other before. Unexpectedly, they are now united together, which is surprising.
As for the Yushitai and the admonishment officials, they were also divided. For example, Fu Bi was the admonition officer and Han Qi was also the admonition officer. But at this time, Han Qi was on the other side and did not defend Zhao Jun with him.
The result was that before Zhao Jun even opened his mouth to defend himself, the court was already quarreling over him, with everyone drooling and spitting.
That is to say, during the reign of Emperor Renzong of Song Dynasty, fighting in the court was not popular.
Otherwise, you have to practice.
Zhao Zhen just watched everyone arguing with each other below. Zhao Jun also looked at everyone with interest, and no one stopped them.
In fact, there is no point in stopping it. Taijiao does not have the power to refute the imperial edict. Only the prime minister and Zhizhigao can. But with the support of the prime ministers in the three provinces, how could the edict fail?
So their quarrel was a quarrel, but in fact it could not change the fact that Zhao Jun was in charge of the Song Dynasty.
After a while, everyone was exhausted from talking and their words were almost worn out. Only then did they realize that the real owners, Zhao Zhen and Zhao Jun, had not spoken.
It was Privy Councilor Li Zhen who came up and said, "Please ask the officials to clean up the court."
"allow!"
Zhao Zhen nodded.
Wang Shouzhong struck the bronze bell.
A clanking sound echoed through the Chui Gong Hall.
The officials gradually became quiet.
Because if you don't keep quiet, you will be kicked out by the guards outside.
Even if the emperor pursues the case, he will face the possibility of being dismissed from office, so everyone stays honest.
When the court was quiet, Li Shen then said: "I would like to ask, are the methods used by the officials to educate the ministers really what Zhao Jun said?"
"yes."
Zhao Zhen nodded.
Li Zhen then raised his hand to Zhao Jun and said, "I have met Duke Guo of Song Dynasty. He is a great talent. I am willing to support Duke Guo Zhizhiyuan!"
"Um."
Zhao Jun nodded with satisfaction and said: "Okay."
Li Zhen retreated.
Fu Bi and Li Hong looked at each other, stood up and bowed their hands to Zhao Jun and said, "Excuse me, Duke, did you say that the "Selected Works" was written by the Duke?"
"it's me."
Zhao Jun actually looked a little embarrassed.
It was written by the person he respected and loved the most, but in the Song Dynasty, the great man had not yet been born, so he could only pretend to be a young man.
Although the great man would not mind, and was even pleased that he could seek truth from facts in the Song Dynasty and take root in the grassroots aspirations of the people, after all, this was because of the great man's light, so he was still very ashamed.
Zhao Jun could only swear silently in his heart that he must inherit the great man's ambition. After a while, he will travel all over the Song Dynasty, go to grassroots investigations in various places, reform the shortcomings of the Song Dynasty, save the people of the Song Dynasty from dire straits, and return to China. People have a bright and sunny day.
"We support the National Intellectual Property Council!"
Fu Bi and Li Hong bowed their hands.
"good."
Zhao Jun nodded again.
Then other members of the Lu Party, Wang Party and other prime ministerial groups also came up to express their support.
Even Jia Changchao, Chen Yaozuo, Wang Gongchen, Zhang Dexiang, Song Xiang, Song Qi and others came to express their support for the decision of the prime ministers.
In an instant, it seemed that Zhao Jun was unanimously recognized by the whole court.
But in fact, Jia Changchao, Chen Yaozuo, Wang Gongchen, Zhang Dexiang, Song Xiang, Song Qi and others were all members of Lu Yijian Wang Zeng and others. For example, several members of the Jia Chang Dynasty were recommended by Lu Yijian, and Song Xiang and Song Qi supported Wang Zeng when Lu Yijian went to war with Wang Zeng.
There are more than ten people including Xia Song, Minister of Criminal Affairs and Deputy Envoy of the Third Division, Zheng Jian, Tongzhi of the Privy Council, Fan Xi, the Imperial Censor, Zhang Qi, the Privy Envoy, Cheng Lin, Deputy Privy Envoy of the Third Division, Wang Deyong, Deputy Privy Envoy, and Chen Yaozuo, the Privy Councilor who signed the letter. The senior ministers of the first, second and third grades said nothing and quietly watched the situation.
Although many people here later united to fight against Fan Zhongyan's new party, that was because they had to form an alliance of interests to defeat Fan Zhongyan. Before the Qingli New Deal, they had a relationship with Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng and others as political enemies.
For example, Xia Song and Lu Yijian had a bad relationship. Zheng Jian impeached Lu Yijian and Sheng Du. Lu Yijian deposed Fan Xi, Cheng Linju once presented the "Picture of Empress Wu's Appearance to the Court" to Liu E, but was disgusted by Fan Zhongyan, etc.
Therefore, they may not necessarily side with prime ministers such as King Lu Yijian and Zeng.
It's just that because the current situation is too weird, these old foxes don't dare to take sides easily, so they all remain silent.
Those who dare to stand up and speak now are either many censors or some iron-headed boys and stupid young people.
Such as Zhang Zongyi, Zhang Kui, Han Qi, Liu Yuanyu, etc.
At this moment, the supporters clearly accounted for the majority, and with many courtiers neutral, the twenty or so opponents became a minority.
For a time, the positions in the palace were clearly divided. There were at least thirty or forty supporters, and there were dozens of people who did not come forward rashly and waited to see what would happen.
"Zhao Jun, what do you think?"
All the opponents and supporters stood up. Only then did Zhao Zhen look at Zhao Jun.
He was looking forward to how Zhao Jun would deal with the current problem.
After hearing this, everyone naturally looked at Zhao Jun, including those in the prime minister's team who expressed their support for him, all with puzzled faces.
Since he was to be the head of hundreds of officials and the leader of the scholar-bureaucrats of the Song Dynasty, he naturally had to demonstrate his abilities.
Zhao Jun stood up, walked to the foot of Zhao Zhen's steps, turned his back to Zhao Zhen, looked at the officials, looked around, looked at the opponent at the front and asked: "What is your name?"
"Supervise the Censor Zhang Zongyi!"
Zhang Zongyi held his chest and head high, as if he was not afraid of the powerful.
Zhao Jun thought for a moment and said, "Why do you oppose my ruling?"
"How can you, a person of unknown origin, be worthy of being the Prime Minister of the Song Dynasty?"
Zhang Zongyi said.
Zhao Jun smiled and said: "I remember that during the Tiansheng period, someone in your family forged land deeds to seize the clan's land, and said that these clansmen were of unknown origin and were not your clansmen. You pretended to be deaf and dumb at that time, because the seal of the Dali Temple Prime Minister was broken. This case. You immediately cut off the relationship with your family, and now you have unknown origins. This is a relapse of your old illness, and you have the same moral character as your family."
"you!"
Zhang Zongyi was furious.
Zhao Jun said: "The officials know my identity, and so do all the gentlemen, but you don't know. Who do you think you are? I will be dismissed from office!"
"Zhang Zongyi allowed his family to seize the clan's land and dismissed him from office!"
Zhao Zhen took advantage of the situation and said.
Zhang Zongyi was horrified and quickly raised his hands and said: "Guan family, this is Zhao Jun's wanton revenge. I will never condone my family."
"Pull it down!"
Zhao Zhen waved his hand. He would never treat officials like this before, but now he has to do it for the sake of his ancestors.
Immediately, the guards came up and pulled the ashen-faced Zhang Zongyi away.
Then Zhao Jun looked at Zhang Kui and asked, "What is your name?"
"The imperial censor Zhang Kui!"
"Why are you against me?"
"It's just to protect the country's laws!"
Zhang Kui raised his head and said, "You are not an official in the imperial examination. As a rule, you will never be able to take on this important task."
"I've heard about you. You're a nice person. Some time ago, I asked the Imperial City Secretary to check those censors to see if they were connected with the Ma family and the Han family. When I checked you, I found that you are still a good official."
Zhao Jun said: "But you are wrong about one thing. The laws will change. In the Han Dynasty, there was no imperial examination, only the imperial examination. In the next few decades, there may be no imperial examination, only the college entrance examination. Confucius also said that he is smart and eager to learn, and he is not ashamed to ask questions from his subordinates. If one person’s talent exceeds that of everyone else, why can’t he lead everyone to a bright path?”
Zhang Kui wanted to say something more, but Zhao Jun waved his hand and said: "Don't cling to any laws. The rules are set by people and must be used flexibly. The same goes for being an official. People who are stubborn can't go far in the officialdom."
Fan Zhongyan's expression froze next to him and he glanced at Zhao Jun sadly.
After Zhao Jun finished speaking, he ignored Zhang Kui and looked at the next one.
The man stood up straight and said: "Taichang Liyuan Wu Yu."
"oh."
Zhao Jun looked around and asked: "Who is Liu Yuanyu!"
Liu Yuanyu stood up from the crowd and said: "I am Liu Yuanyu, deputy envoy of Salt and Money of the Third Division!"
Zhao Jun said to Wu Yu: "Are you out of your mind? Liu Yuanyu falsely accused you of being a loan shark in Henan, oppressing the people, and ruining your reputation. You still join him in opposing me?"
Wu Yu looked at Liu Yuanyu angrily and said: "It turns out that you are the villain who ruined my innocence!"
When he was the magistrate of Henan County, he originally had good political performance and wanted to be promoted. However, he was impeached in the court and was repeatedly unable to be promoted. Because there was no one in the court, he didn't even know who framed him.
Relying on his excellent political performance, he was promoted to Taichang Temple step by step. Now that he knew the real culprit behind the scenes, Wu Yu was very angry.
Liu Yuanyu said dissatisfied: "So what? Officials can already hear things and tell things!"
"Hearing about something doesn't mean you can falsely accuse someone of innocence out of thin air."
Zhao Jun smiled and said: "Wu Yu, I can't stand such a villain."
"Straight bitch!"
Wu Yu also had a bad temper. He punched Liu Yuanyu in the eye and kicked him hard.
Liu Yuanyu was caught off guard and was knocked to the ground, but he quickly got up and said viciously: "You dare to hit me?"
After saying that, he rushed forward, and the two of them struggled with each other, and the scene suddenly became chaotic.
"Fork out!"
Zhao Zhen didn't even look at it, and hurriedly waved his hand to take the person away.
Three of the opponents were taken away at once.
Zhao Jun then looked at the next person.
If it were anyone else, he would definitely not understand it so carefully.
But these censors are different.
At first, he checked many censors and admonishers to see if they had colluded with the Han family and the Ma family.
As a result, it was discovered that several people had financial transactions with each other.
The case between the Ma family and the Han family is not over yet.
The Kaifeng Mansion and the Imperial City Division worked together to arrest more than 40 people above the seventh rank in Bianliang, and more than 200 people below the seventh rank, which was more than four times the number of officials involved in the Zhao Jian case during the Zhenzong period.
Therefore, the Imperial City Division received a lot of information.
Zhao Jun only took a cursory glance at a lot of the information, but he was still very interested in those with relatively high official positions, so he took note of a lot of things.
Soon he destroyed at least twelve or three opponents. The rest were either those who had no black history and no handles, or who could not help even if they reasoned with the other party. Such as Han Qi, Zhang Kui and others.
But as the opposition was disintegrated, there were only a few remaining who still disagreed. There was no power in the court, and naturally there was nothing that could be done against Zhao Jun.
After easily dealing with these opposition groups, Zhao Jun looked around, and finally looked at the neutral faction with the largest number of people in the group, and asked: "Today, I want to be the political advisor (talker). Who else agrees? Who else agrees?" be opposed to?"
There was silence.
The centrists are all cunning people who neither support nor oppose. How could they still be willing to come forward after seeing Zhao Jun easily kill the opposition?
Even Xia Song, who deeply hated Lu Yijian, stood honestly in the crowd and said nothing.
Because they knew that there was only one reason why Zhao Jun could be so rampant.
That is the incredible trust of officials.
Official trust.
All the prime ministers support it, it doesn't matter whether they support it or not.
The future may be Zhao Jun's world!
(End of chapter)
