Just as Han Dewei was preparing to raise his troops to move west, the Song Dynasty's officialdom ushered in a huge change.

Wang Mian jumped up and down, and Song Jiu did not take it seriously. Compared with Zhao Pu, Wang Mian was too young.

But some people are very unhappy.

Jiang Zheng came to the branch office of the Sansidu branch. Wang Huaji recommended it. Jiang Zheng wanted to express his gratitude, so Wang Huaji explained the interests in it in a vague way.

Success is Xiao He, failure is Xiao He.

But you must not blame Song Jiu. Without Song Jiu, there would be no academy. Even if Song Jiu's banner fell, the children of the academy might not be able to rise to power. There were more and more officials in the Song Dynasty, and the phenomenon of redundant officials was serious, and many ministers noticed this phenomenon.

The relatives of officials should be compensated, the soldiers who have made meritorious will be promoted, and the Jinshi will be even more important. Every year, the number of officials vacant will become increasingly tense. Without Song Jiu, who would be the most vulnerable? They must be the children of the academy. Even literati will gradually occupy the field of military officers.

Jiang Zheng has also been a local official for many years. When Wang Huaji said that, he understood everything.

Then he said nothing and silently entered the Sansi to do things.

The branch office, therefore, is mainly in charge of cashiers.

Then he discovered something. When Wang Mian's younger brother Wang Zhun was in charge of the incense medicine, he embezzled tens of thousands of dollars.

This is a huge corruption figure.

It has not yet entered the era when the prime ministers of the two governments insisted on paying tens of thousands of yuan a year. Song Jiu and Zhao Pu, who received the most salary, only had about ten thousand yuan a year in each salary and subsidy. However, both families didn't care much about this.

Or the fiscal revenue of the entire Song Dynasty was only about 60 million yuan in total. This number is quite amazing, almost twice and a half to three times that of the beginning of the Song Dynasty.

But it is not two taxes. Among them, the Hedu of the Fangchang is not only the workshops opened by Song Jiu. Most of them are workshops run by the imperial court, but the profitability is slightly worse. As well as the money from auction contracts, the income from each mine, and the income from several prohibited franchise revenue, it is close to 40 million yuan. There are also commercial taxes and other ones, which account for nearly 10 million yuan. That is, the two taxes seem to be large in quantity, but in terms of money, it is only about 15 million to 178 million yuan. If it is tax exemption or disaster relief in the previous two years, this number will drop sharply.

In other words, the Song Dynasty had more than 300 state and prefecture troops. One state and two taxes were converted into two, and it was only 50,000 yuan in total.

Wang Zhun alone kept greedying for two taxes in a state for a year.

Fearing the power of Wang Mian, the court found out that it was just a perfunctory matter. The three officials had to continue to fill this black hole, but no one dared to say it.

Jiang Zheng didn't dare to say it, after all, he had just arrived in Sansi.

Song Jiu and Zhao Kuangyi began to implement the long-form plan, and Wang Mian jumped even happier.

Of course, he also had reasons to jump. After all, the court seemed to be carrying out some major actions. As the second prime minister of Xifu, he was kept in the valley and did not conform to the system of the Song Dynasty.

Jiang Zheng couldn't stand it anymore. After all, he had received favor from Song Jiu back then. It can be said that without Song Jiu's elementary school, he would not have his current status.

Therefore, when he was reporting on his affairs at Zhongshu, he reported these documents to Chen Shu.

Chen Shu didn't give Wang Mian face, so he wrote a note to hand it over to the inner palace.

After seeing it, Zhao Kuangyi called the prime ministers of the two prefectures to the Political Affairs Hall to discuss matters. He said first: "Let's talk about it, what mistakes have been made in the state's government affairs that have led to locust plagues from the sky?"

Compared with the spring locust plague, the current locust plague is better, but there are still serious food production in some areas.

But compared with the major disasters in the previous two years, the disaster situation this year is much better. As long as it is not a major disaster or a major war, with the current financial situation of the Song Dynasty, it is not a crisis.

Many people knew about Wang Zhun, but no one said anything.

What is fairness? At this point, some people believe in the fairness of God?

Then Kou Zhun took the initiative to stand up and said, "According to Hong Fan, I speculate that locust plagues and droughts were caused by unfair punishment. Zuji and Wang Zhun were both people with serious corruption and abuse of power. However, Zuji executed him and confiscated his property. Wang Mian's younger brother Wang Zhun only accepted the punishment in his private room and continued to be an official. The two of them had the same crime, one was sentenced to extremely severely and the other was sentenced to lightly. How could God not give a warning to the disaster?"

Zhao Kuangyi looked at Wang Juzheng, a little dissatisfied.

What is a person who speaks of a minister? It means not avoiding relatives and enemies.

Song Jiu did something wrong and still impeached. Wang Mian also wanted to impeach him if he did something wrong. This is a good slogan.

Wang Juzheng was helpless and said five things the next day.

One abolished the Three Sessions and restored the Shangshu Province. The Song Dynasty had the Shangshu Province, but a false agency had no real power. It was to restore some official systems of the Tang Dynasty, allowing the Shangshu Province to replace the Three Sessions and become a new executive agency. The Secretariat and the Privy Council continued to become a decision-making agency. The Two Systems and the Censorate retained the right to review. Improve efficiency and reduce redundant officials.

I was very cautious about the imperial examination. The court wanted to avoid losing talent among the people, so I issued an edict to ask for help. However, the people mentioned were of varying quality. Therefore, further implementing the recommendation system, I did recommend talented people as rewards for the court, but the recommendations were not appropriate, so officials at all levels would be cautious.

Punish corrupt officials and do not wait until the matter happens before handling it. The name of the chief and deputy envoy of the various routes is also interviewed. Now, the corruption of the chief officers of the Ministry’s Neizhou Prefecture Army is investigated, and the local government will directly stop the corruption of officials at all levels.

Fourth, it is a cliché and it is redundant to avoid redundant officials. Fifth, it is necessary to choose distant officials. The distant officials used by the court mostly use criminals to serve far-reaching people, but the farther they are, the more difficult it is to manage them. After these officials go down, they are not good people, even if they are poisonous and disabled, and distant people are not allowed to appeal, it is not because the court has the intention of distant officials. In the future, the court is asked not to be allowed to be guilty people to go to Sichuan and Guangnan to be the chief officials.

Zhao Kuangyi may not accept it. If the transferee is given the right to interview, the rights in the transferee's hands will become larger and larger, and the jurisdiction is wider, and the development is not good, and it will become disguised various vassal states of the Tang Dynasty.

But these five points hit the current shortcomings of the Song Dynasty. Zhao Kuangyi issued an edict to reward him and officially appointed Wang Juzheng as the chief censor, rather than the chief censor.

Then Wang Mian was sad and stopped the prime minister soon. After hearing the imperial edict, Wang Mian went to find Zhao Kuangyi and cried bitterly. He had been too rampant in the past two years. Once he left the prime minister, there were no guarantee that many people would take advantage of the situation to retaliate. He was not Zhao Pu and Song Jiu. He was more resistant to the fight...

So I hope Zhao Kuangyi will show mercy.

But Zhao Kuangyi was driven out.

Within a few days, Wang Mian, who was only in his forties, had white hair and beard. In the mood of melancholy, Wang Mian passed away the next year.

In fact, it was not Wang Mian's fault. The older generation of ministers immediately withdrew from the stage one after another. Most of these newcomers came up with Jinshi. No matter who they were, they were all more or less enthusiastic about scholars. This is completely different from what Wang Ming and others came from clerks. Perhaps they had their own advantages and disadvantages, but they lacked the calmness of clerks' affairs and were more impetuous.

However, it is not over yet.

After Chen Shu was transferred to the East Prefecture, the court asked Fan Zhigu to serve as the envoy of the Third Division. This man used a small boat to measure the width and narrowness of the Yangtze River, which was also quite talented.

When Song Jiu was in the East Prefecture, he communicated with him several times for the current affairs of Jiangnan.

Because of pressure, Fan Zhigu was not as good as Chen Shu and others after arriving in the Sansi, and some of them did not do well, so Zhao Kuangyi often criticized him.

The more Zhao Kuangyi criticized Fan Zhigu for being nervous, the more likely he made mistakes.

Chen Shu and Fan Zhigu were not fellow villagers, one was from Chizhou and the other was from Hongzhou, but they both came from Jiangnan. They usually had a good relationship. Whenever they heard that Zhao Kuangyi was dissatisfied with the Three Sessions, Chen Shu was a little anxious. Chen Shu, who was eager to protect his friends, often found Fan Zhigu. He leaked the emperor's dissatisfaction, and he came from Sansi. He was also capable and was very familiar with Sansi. Therefore, he often made some suggestions.

However, Fan Zhigu didn't know the importance of it. Every time he went to report to Zhao Kuangyi, he would explain the dissatisfaction of Zhao Kuangyi one by one. Once Zhao Kuangyi didn't pay attention, and Zhao Kuangyi was puzzled after more times, and asked, "How do you know that these are not done well?"

It was awful. Fan Zhigu might have been excited and said without thinking, "It was Chen Shu who told me."

This involves the system of the Song Dynasty.

First of all, officials of various departments must keep it confidential. Not only in the Song Dynasty, but also in the Han Dynasty, they make mistakes to leak government affairs to irrelevant people.

The second is the decentralization system of the Song Dynasty, and various departments were not allowed to interact casually, so Song Jiu supported the Privy Council, which Zhao Kuangyi liked, and could also say that in the Ming Dynasty, Chen Shu was originally the deputy prime minister, summoned Fan Zhigu to the East Mansion, and did something wrong and did it right, which was not excessive. However, it cannot be said privately that this was one of the taboos of the Song Dynasty.

He made two serious mistakes in a row. Although Chen Shu was a capable minister, he was still dismissed from prime minister. Fan Zhigu was demoted to Sichuan as a transferee, which was fine. He was still a big official position. But...

His tragic sanctions are no less than that of Wang Mian.

But before it ended, just as Zhao Kuangyi was thinking about who to replace these two vacancy, he came again.

Zhao Kuangyi's leg injury was serious, and many officials knew about it.

It just so happened that Zhao Yuanxi had been the prime minister of Kaifeng for five years, and he had no shortage of political affairs, so he did a good job. Five officials from Song Han, Yin Huangshang, Feng Zheng, Wang Shize and Hong Zhan jointly submitted a memorial, and they asked Zhao Kuangyi to make Xu Wang Yuanxi the crown prince.

There may be two reasons. One is in the Ming Dynasty. The second prince did a good job and was a qualified heir to the empire. If the crown prince is not established, the reputation of the Eastern Palace of the country will never be correct. If Zhao Kuangyi comes to power, if Zhao Kuangyin makes Zhao Dezhao or Zhao Defang a person, and gets the right to be corrected, Zhao Kuangyi will have a headache and even has to wait for death in tragic silence.

There is another reason in the darkness. Zhao Yuanxi also wanted to take office. It was not that he wanted to be the emperor, but that he wanted to set the title of crown prince. Therefore, he had a hookup with Zhao Pulu Mengzheng and even wanted to win over Song Jiu. These people were all attracted by him, so he created momentum for Zhao Yuanxi.

But they were wrong!

Zhao Kuangyi really doesn’t know the little movements his son was memorizing?

As long as it is not too much, it is acquiescent. However, once the crown prince is established, it is necessary to formally establish the Eastern Palace like the Han and Tang dynasties. A small court that is opposite to the court, and his son is not small. How can Zhao Kuangyi feel at ease?

Don’t be as vigorous as Li Longji. As long as you learn from him, after drinking a glass of poisonous wine, I will go to see King Yama.

After seeing the edict, Zhao Kuangyi was furious and said, "The princes are still young, their habits have not yet been formed, and their academic studies have not been thorough. When they become adults, I have their own opinions. Why don't these censors understand my difficulties?"

All five were wandered away.

This matter ended here, but at this time Wen Zhongshu decisively raised the banner of destroying his relatives for justice, saying that Song Han was recommended by Lu Mengzheng and his clan brother of Lu Mengzheng's wife. Then he criticized Lu Mengzheng for intimacy and stealing wealth and peace.

After the book was written, Lu Mengzheng also went down.

But think about everything Lu Meng did for Wen Zhongshu...

Therefore, when Yang Zheng, a famous minister, saw Kou Zhun and Wen Zhongshe riding a horse in the capital together, he was proud of his youth. Yang Zhengzhi said with a heartache: "Wen Zhongshu and Kou Zhunbo took their direct names to obtain noble positions, setting a bad example for the younger generations, and causing the world to decline."

Therefore, the two were named Wen Kou!

It's not a good thing. Although Wen Kou was the result of Zhao Kuangyi's hands, he said how much I hope Jia Yi will appear in my court.

He said that Wei Zheng was okay, was Jia Yi really a good minister? Look at the best dynasty in Chinese history during the reign of Emperor Wen of Han. When he talked about politics, he sighed and cried, so people called him a crazy monster.

Yang Zhengzhi was also a big mouth. He had repeatedly advised Chai Rong to kill Zhao Kuangyin.

However, is Yang Zhengzhi's statement wrong?

You are not afraid of big mouths, but you have to speak reasonably, virtuously and righteously.

Look at what Wen Zhongshu did!

If this continues, who else is willing to be kind and fulfill the favor?

And he also made the case. If the development continues, the Song Dynasty court will become more and more impetuous. First, there will be chaos, then the formation of cliques, and then there will be no future.

Including Kou Zhun, it is really hard to say that Kou Zhun actually deducted the shocking contributions made by the Chanyuan Alliance in history and assigned the remaining Kou.

But now it is different. Song Jiu covers up, the emperor appreciates, Zhao Pu strongly recommends, and Yang Zhengzhi has to watch Xiao Kou's daily luxurious night banquet, enjoy the beauty and have fun, and stand by the side and stare at him.

However, the truth may be slightly wrong with what Yang Zheng thought. What Wen Zhongshu did is too shameful. However, Lu Mengzheng himself was also wrong, not Song Han, but himself. He has always been unclear with Zhao Yuanxi. You are both prime ministers, and you still have to make friends with the future crown prince. What do you want to do? This is the reason why Wen Zhongshu dismissed Lu Mengzheng from the prime minister as soon as he submitted a memorial.

It seems that Zhao Pu and Song Jiu have no choice but to find someone to choose.

First, Zhang Qixian was promoted to Pingzhangshi.

He also mentioned Jia Huangzhong and Li Heng to join the Secretariat as the Chief Secretary. However, Zhao Kuangyi was afraid that the Secretariat would cause another monster, so he transferred Li Fang to the Secretariat again, not expecting that the Secretariat could become a famous minister, but hoped that the Secretariat could suppress everyone's impetuousness, stabilize these underage students, and bring them to the area.

However, Song Jiu was a little worried when he saw this list. Old Li was definitely not capable. Zhang Qixian was in military affairs and served as prime minister in the East Prefecture. He was not the director of Zhang Qixian. Although Jia Huangzhong was not a good candidate, he was cautious and lacked responsibility. He might have done a good job in the local area, but obviously he was not a good candidate for the priests of the two governments.

Too big mouth, a strong sense of power is not good, and it is not good to dare to take responsibility. Not bad, this is the prime minister of the two governments, so what is that easy to be a good person?

As for the future holy prime minister Li Wen, Song Jiu did not know, so he did not understand or pay attention to it. He was a Jinshi in the fifth year of Taiping Xingguo. He was appointed as the chief of the general and the chief of the governor of Tanzhou, and then summoned the Zhishi Museum, quickly entered the two systems to be the master of imperial edicts, and then was awarded the Hanlin Bachelor, and then came up.

Such a resume made Song Jiu even more worried.
Chapter completed!