After Lin Zhu left, Zhao Jun still picked up the brush and wrote letters.
This is a document sealed to the emperor and the Constitutional Yuan.
The first half is about writing what I saw and heard along the way, and putting forward my own views on grassroots civil governance.
The second half is about a major corruption case involving disaster relief in Huainan, and he is starting to investigate.
Zhao Jun waved the brush gently, sometimes thinking deeply, sometimes frowning, and at the end, he stopped writing and let out a long sigh.
In fact, he only learned about the Huainan corruption case in the past few days.
But today alone we can already see the tip of the iceberg.
What can be seen on the surface is that there are already local transshipment envoys, shipping envoys, magistrates, and county magistrates.
I don’t know who the big names are hiding behind the scenes.
It can be said that this case involves a lot.
This may not be a matter of Guo Chengyou dying like in Bozhou.
Because Huainan experienced natural disasters, severe droughts, and plagues in the past few years, and many, many people died.
It was the corruption of these officials that turned the poor people who should have been able to survive into a skeleton.
The common people fell before the parents and officials they once regarded as their saviors.
These people are the culprits.
So they must die to comfort the souls of those who died.
However, the Song Dynasty had not executed officials for too long.
Every time Zhao Jun killed those who had committed heinous crimes, the government and the public were criticized, and the voice of impeachment was heard endlessly, which led to his very bad reputation in the officialdom.
It's just that the officials who committed suicide were not of high rank in the past. When they were in Bianliang, most of them were officials of sixth or seventh rank or below.
Even if the Salt and Iron Division is dismissed, Liu Yuanyu is not dead.
Because the crime Liu Yuanyu committed was only selling prohibited items, it was not a capital crime. If it had been before, the most he would have been was a demotion, or at Zhao Jun's insistence, he would have been dismissed from office and exiled.
Therefore, Guo Chengyou, the fifth-rank magistrate of the state, was the highest-ranking official who committed suicide, and it did not cause too much trouble.
What now?
The fourth-rank transfer envoy, who knows the state from the fifth rank, may also involve the original transfer envoy, the deputy transfer envoy, the original Huainan shipping envoy and other high-ranking officials along the way.
These senior officials are not only of high rank, but also numerous in number.
Although their political performance was poor due to the severe drought in Huainan, they were only transferred out without promotion.
But these are the real fourth and fifth grades. They are in charge of the civil affairs of a road or a state. Basically, if they take a step further, they can go to the central government to serve as high-ranking officials.
For example, Sun Mian later served as transfer envoy for Shaanxi Road, transfer envoy for Hedong Province, pacification envoy for Hunan and Jiangxi Roads, and pacification envoy for Guangnan East and West Roads. After assisting Di Qing in defeating Nong Zhigao, he was promoted to deputy privy envoy and became deputy privy minister.
So Zhao Jun was worried that when he solved the case and went on a killing spree, Zhao Zhen would fall into his old habits again. He felt that Zhao Jun wanted to kill so many senior officials this time, which was unacceptable, and rejected Zhao Jun's proposal to kill people.
In fact, there is no problem if Zhao Jun wants to kill the officials in Huainan.
However, judging from the current understanding of the situation, the Huainan corruption case began in the year before last year. It spanned three years and a large number of officials were transferred and circulated across Huainan. Many officials involved were transferred to various parts of the country or went to the central government to serve as officials.
If you want to deal with it, you must order from the Constitutional Yuan to take people directly from all over the country and bring them back to the central government to be tried by Yushitai and Dali Temple, and sentenced according to Zhao Jun's opinion.
Zhao Jun was worried that Zhao Zhen and Lu Yijian would get in the way and let go of all the damned people.
Therefore, after being silent for a long time, Zhao Jun wrote at the end: "Corruption of disaster relief food funds has caused countless deaths and injuries to the people. If we don't kill him, the people will not be angry. All the officials who are guilty of this kind of crime must not be leniently spared."
"Throughout history, we must learn to use history as a guide to understand the ups and downs, use history to correct people's gains and losses, and use history to transform turbulent times and make things clear. Instead of facing the current predicament, just muddle along and not think about making progress."
"History is full of regrets. It was Confucius who was born at the wrong time, and Han Fei, who was abandoned by his motherland. It was Bai Qi, a general with no defeats, who died in a war he never participated in. It was the old Qin people The Qin Dynasty, which took five hundred years of hard work to establish, collapsed in fourteen years."
"It's the young hero Huo Qubing who died young, it's Su Wu who was unyielding in the cold wind in the northern desert, it's Zhaojun who never returned to Chang'an. It's Cao Cao's dream of reunification that was destroyed by a fire in Chibi, it's Zhuge Liang who was blown away by the original autumn wind. San's ideal is Guan Yu's pride who was buried by Maicheng. Fu Jian was a good man but not a good emperor."
"It is Princess Wencheng who was buried on the plateau and could not see her motherland. She is the Anshi Rebellion that caused a dynasty from its peak to fall to the bottom overnight. It is Du Fu who rose from the top of the society to the stage alone after being sick for a hundred years. It is the hero of the world who cannot compete with her. Li Cunxu died and his country was destroyed."
"It's Yue Fei who served his country loyally when Feng Bo Pavilion was submerged by the wind and snow. It's Xin Qiji who went from being angry like a tiger to being pitiful in vain. It's Wen Tianxiang who has never died since ancient times and left a loyal heart to illuminate history. It's the generosity of Yashan's hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians who died. .”
"After the Song Dynasty, there were also many regrets such as Tu Mubao, Yu Qian, Zhang Juzheng, Wang Yangming, etc. There were also the backwardness of seclusion, the disastrous defeat of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1894, the fire of the Old Summer Palace, and the sorrow of the 300,000 bones in Jinling."
"Although history is always dominated by heroic epics, we must not forget that ordinary people are also a part of history, and they are even the protagonists of history."
"How innocent are the people of Huainan? Natural disasters are followed by man-made disasters. This is not only a regret of history, but also a regret created by oneself. How can the lives of thousands of people be compensated by the lives of these corrupt officials? Not enough?"
"Looking back at history, we sigh, we feel pity, and we grieve."
"The Song Dynasty had no shortage of wise kings, wise ministers, and fierce generals. However, it is disappointing that all three are different."
"Now that I have come, I must learn from history, find answers from history, change the destiny of the Song Dynasty, and prevent those regrets from happening again."
"Now I want to be a wise minister, and the officials want to be a wise king. If these two are combined, and supplemented by strong generals, the Song Dynasty will flourish."
"Because of this, the reform of the Song Dynasty started with me. I eliminated traitors and rebels at the top and made peace for the common people at the bottom."
"Kill the people who deserve to be killed, save the people who deserve to be saved, and govern the world well. Only then can we reduce regrets and stabilize the world."
"Remember, remember, remember!"
"Don't let down the people of the world, don't let down the Song Dynasty, and don't let down my sincerity!"
"Don't let regrets reflect into reality again!"
Zhao Jun stopped the pen in his hand and looked at this eloquent letter with more than a thousand words. He didn't feel much complacency in his heart, but only felt frustrated.
If a dynasty needs to deal with a group of corrupt officials, and it actually requires ministers to write letters to persuade, or even vaguely threaten the emperor before they can deal with it, then such a country is itself a kind of tragedy.
At this moment, Zhao Jun couldn't help but think of the ending of the Song Dynasty's punishment.
Presumably Song Ci was heartbroken when he saw the silverfish in the court, the ignorance of the emperor, and the corruption and darkness of the court, so he finally chose to resign and go home.
The world is in tatters, and everyone is just trying to mend it.
I hope my generous words will not go to waste.
Zhao Jun thought to himself.
Late at night.
A lamp is as bright as a bean, and only a lonely figure is reflected in the window.
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A few days later, Jinzouyuan took the official document from Zhao Jun and hurriedly sent it to the Constitutional Yuan.
Now Zhao Jun's official document has become the most important document in the Song Dynasty. Even if it is urgent at 600 miles or 800 miles, it is not as good as a letter from Zhao Jun.
Even if the courier arrives in Kaifeng in the middle of the night, to enter the memorial hall, you have to knock on the door of the prime minister's house in the middle of the night and deliver the letter.
The Constitutional Yuan is meeting today, and Li Zhen is among them, discussing the continued auction of state-owned assets.
During the meeting, an attendant interrupted and said that Zhao Jun had sent a letter. Lu Yijian, who was presiding over the meeting, asked someone to put the letter on the meeting table until the meeting was over.
However, due to Zhao Jun's letter, the meeting speeded up, and everyone finally agreed to auction off some mines, salt farms, and tea farms and hand them over to private businessmen for operation, but it was necessary to ensure that state capital had a certain share.
When the meeting was over and Li Zhen said goodbye, Lu Yijian opened the letter and everyone gathered around.
"Huainan Corruption Case?"
Wang Zeng saw the content in the letter and frowned: "Why is there no news about such a big thing?"
"It would be strange if you could get some wind about it."
Lu Yijian read through the document in his hand, and at the end it was as heavy as water.
Wang Sui said: "Prime Minister Lu doesn't seem surprised at all."
"What do you know?"
Wang Zeng asked.
Lu Yijian smiled bitterly and said: "Shouzhou is my ancestral home, how could I not know something."
"Are you involved too?"
Wang Zeng said with a little joy in his tone: "Okay, now that you're done, Hanlong won't let you go."
"What are you thinking about? I, the third generation of the Lu family, abide by the ancestral precepts and never do anything harmful to nature."
Lu Yijian rolled his eyes and said, "It's just that they approached their brother-in-law, but Zong Jian declined politely. At that time, a batch of low-priced grains did appear on the market, and Zong Jian bought some, all of which were used to relieve the victims of the disaster."
As he spoke, Lu Yijian sighed again: "The drought also caused heavy losses to our Lu family, but even so, our Lu family also put out a lot of food in stock and did our best for the victims of Shouzhou."
Wang Zeng looked at his appearance and didn't know whether to say that Lu Yijian's acting skills were superb or that he was speaking from the bottom of his heart. Anyway, he didn't believe that the Lu family had such a good heart.
But no matter what, one thing Lu Yijian said is right.
At least they were probably not involved, otherwise he wouldn't be so confident.
"Looking at what Han Long means, he is going to kill a lot of people."
Song Shou said.
"Well, Hanlong is angry. I'm afraid it won't be that simple. Many people will die, even his former husband."
"Former Prime Minister? Does Mr. Lu mean?"
"Think about it, Jing Youchu, who has ever been the magistrate of Shouzhou or Bozhou?"
"Yang"
"Go and report it to the officials."
Lu Yijian finally said: "This matter is still too involved."
Several people said nothing and stood up one after another.
Zhao Zhen is here at this time.
In ancient times when entertainment was scarce, the laptop brought Zhao Zhen too much impact.
The movies, games in it are probably something you will never get tired of playing for a lifetime.
After learning that the prime ministers asked for an audience, Zhao Zhen closed the screen and waited for them to come in.
After a while, everyone filed in and entered the study.
Zhao Zhen wondered: "Gentlemen, it's just before noon, when the Constitutional Yuan is working, why are everyone suddenly gathered here?"
Lu Yijian cupped his hands and said: "Han Long has just entered the post. The ministers thought that the matter was serious and did not dare to make the decision rashly, so they had to ask to see the officials and let them make a decision."
"What's the matter?"
Zhao Zhen suddenly became nervous. Zhao Jun's letter could allow them to find the palace regardless of working hours. It must be a big deal.
Lu Yijian replied: "There is a major corruption case in Huainan, and Hanlong is investigating it."
As he spoke, he handed the document in his hand to Zhao Zhen's desk.
Zhao Zhen immediately took it and scanned it quickly.
The first part was okay, it mainly talked about the situation Zhao Jun had found so far and the opinions he gave. In the second half, Zhao Zhen sat up straight with a solemn expression.
"History is full of regrets. Don't let regrets reflect into reality again!"
Zhao Zhen finished reading the last page and stood there in silence for a long time.
Because he suddenly felt very ashamed.
Dasun came from later generations. Even though he didn't like the Song Dynasty, he finally agreed to them and was willing to help save the Song Dynasty.
As a result, I used the computer to play games, watch movies all day long, and did not handle national government affairs well at all.
If the eldest grandson came back and saw himself like this, how heartbroken and disappointed would he be?
If the great grandson came from later generations, but because of his laziness, he could not change the future destiny of the Song Dynasty, wouldn't this be another kind of regret?
Zhao Zhen felt ashamed of Zhao Jun for a moment, with a look of shame on his face.
Lu Yijian and others saw that Zhao Zhen had been silent for a long time, so they asked: "Officials, how should we deal with this matter?"
"According to the wishes of the great grandson, you can deal with it as you want."
Zhao Zhen raised his head, looked around at the crowd and said: "The regrets of history cannot appear in my hands. These people have taken advantage of the people and even corrupted the money for disaster relief. They are hopeless. What's the use of them?"
"only."
"Just what?"
"Nothing."
Lu Yijian hesitated for a moment, but finally said nothing. He raised his hands and said, "I will obey the imperial edict."
Zhao Zhen said: "My eldest grandson is running around and working hard outside, all for the sake of national peace. From now on, all such matters will be based on my eldest grandson's opinion, and there is no need to report it to me. I must not let my eldest grandson feel cold."
"yes."
Everyone's hearts tightened.
Zhao Zhen probably thought that he was at most the county magistrate and magistrate of Huainan Road.
Little did he know that the former Privy Councilor was most likely involved.
But since Zhao Zhen had read the letter and chose to unconditionally believe Zhao Jun's words, then naturally it was hard for them to say anything else.
After everyone left, Zhao Zhen picked up the letter again and felt that every word in it was heartfelt and every line was heartbreaking.
If this continues, even if there are grandsons, this historical regret will come.
Zhao Zhen rubbed his temples and told himself in his heart.
We can no longer continue to play with things and become discouraged.
Must cheer up.
He reopened the notebook, glanced at the contents with a little nostalgia, and then closed it resolutely.
"Wang Shouzhong!"
"Official family."
Wang Shouzhong who was outside the door quickly came in.
"Bring me the memorials I have accumulated over the past few days. I want to take a good look at them."
"yes."
Although Wang Shouzhong didn't understand how the official changed his gender, at least it was a good thing.
The most uncomfortable thing was that the left nostril was always blocked. It made me unconscious. It was really uncomfortable.
(End of chapter)
