In this summer, Xu Churen was soaked in cold sweat.

"Your Majesty, the criminals are relatives from afar from afar and distant family in Qingzhou. Now that Xu Huaishan has committed a heinous crime and was arrested by the court, he deserves the crime. Although I have nothing to do with this matter, I have a relative of Xu Huaishan. Please give the guilty minister to death!"

Zhao Huan was silent for a while, but Xu Churen felt that this moment was as long as a thousand years.

"Get up."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Zhao Huan said: "What is the crime of the Xu family in Qingzhou?"

Xu Churen hurriedly said, "There are three crimes: one does not comply with the court's laws, does not reduce taxes, and does not reduce labor service; two does not corrupt and abuse the law, kill people in the street; three, collude with the court's officials and fish and meat for the people!"

Zhao Huan stared at Xu Churen like a sword, which made Xu Churen's whole body frightened.

"Since you know this, why don't you bring it to justice?"

The emperor's words left Xu Churen speechless. The prime minister had the highest administrative power and managed local officials of all sizes. Xu Churen was obviously very familiar with the situation in Qingzhou, but he did not make any noise.

Zhao Huan's tone was very calm, but there was anger hidden in the calm: "Your crime is not that you have the same ancestor as Xu Huaishan, or whether you are a distant relative. I think you have nothing to do with the Xu family in Qingzhou, and I will not be punished for it. However, as the prime minister, you know that someone below poisons the people, but choose to protect yourself, which is a dereliction of duty!"

Xu Churen hurriedly said, "Please punish your majesty!"

Zhao Huan said a little annoyed: "As the prime minister, you will only let me punish you? Then what's the use of me asking you?"

"Please give the guilty minister a chance, and the guilty minister will make up for his merits!"

"How to make up for the mistakes?"

"I am determined to implement Your Majesty's strategy."

After a moment of silence, Zhao Huan said, "I will give you another chance, but you will be fined for half a year. All supplies this year will be cancelled as a punishment!"

"Thank you, the emperor!"

Xu Churen breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. He thought that this disaster was coming. Even if he did not die, he would be expelled from the prime minister and exiled to the frontier. That would be worse than death.

But unexpectedly, the emperor only fined himself half a year's salary and this year's welfare supplies.

Xu Churen, who came out of the palace, thought to himself that these damn guys turned a blind eye to them on weekdays and were already very tolerant, but they all caused trouble for me. They deserved to die!

From today on, don’t blame me for being ruthless. If you don’t die, I will be dead!

Zhao Huan also believed that after sending Xu Churen away, after these few deterrences and punishments, Xu Churen should have completely awakened from the bottom of his heart what to do next.

Of course, Zhao Huan wanted to kill Xu Churen. As the prime minister, this guy did nothing and turned a blind eye to many things below, unwilling to offend others. During his tenure, he did not make any big mistakes. This was not the prime minister Zhao Huan wanted.

Originally, I planned to replace Xu Chu-in through this matter, but after replacing Xu Chu-in, who can find a powerful faction for the emperor to firmly implement the emperor's policies?

Liu Yanzong was not good. Liu Yanzong had an incorrect background, so the people below would definitely not obey him. He was the most suitable for being the emperor's counselor and the judicial evildoer like the inspector.

Qin Hui had more important things to do, and Shi Ziming's Hanlin Academy was even more important.

At present, taking this opportunity to hit Xu Churen well, which made him feel deeply fearful and even the threat of death. He would naturally distinguish that this threat of death did not come from the emperor, but from below.

Xu Churen also knew very well that he had only one chance and must be on the same mind as the emperor until he died, which means that he must now resolutely start implementing the emperor's policies.

For Zhao Huan, it would be more cost-effective to make such a change in Xu Churen than to struggle to find a prime minister.

After Xu Churen left, Wang Kui'an continued to report to the emperor about the situation in the northwest.

Overall, the Song army drove Dangxiang out, and Yao Pingzhong also pressed Dangxiang's main force to the ground and rubbed it a few times, but it did not cause huge losses. This war lasted for two months, and the two sides ended in a tie.

Judging from this battle situation, Zhao Huan believed that the Song Dynasty's army should be further improved. In Zhao Huan's plan, the northwest land should be within easy reach.

Of course, he also knew that this matter was not urgent. The Song Dynasty had too many problems. In history, it was called "weak Song" to refer to military affairs. Weak military affairs naturally did not mean that the Han people really could not fight. In Zhao Huan's view, the reason for military weakness was related to the overall emphasis on culture and military affairs of the Song Dynasty. Only by first changing these from the inside can we build a powerful army.

Now Zhao Huan does not expect to destroy the Jin Kingdom and Dangxiang immediately. The north only needs to stabilize the national border. Zhao Huan raised his butcher knife in the country and made a big restructuring, and uprooted all the forces that dared to stop the sharp transformation of the Song Dynasty and completely released the vitality of the Song Dynasty from the bottom.

Zhao Huan believed that this nation only needed to give it a chance to rise into an unprecedentedly powerful country, both in the Han and Tang dynasties and later generations.

Early the next morning, both the Song Dynasty newspaper and the Tokyo Express newspaper published the Qingzhou murder case, and at the same time, he criticized the Qingzhou prefect He Liren, further excavated the Qingzhou richest man Xu Huaishan, and dug out the Qingzhou Chamber of Commerce's numerous crimes over the past few decades.

There is also a section that describes Gu Shun and Zheng Erniang who have been killed by the Xu family in a very detailed description. The couple also has a ten-year-old daughter. The daughter would have been killed by the Xu family. The couple hid him in the field, escaped the disaster, and were found by the Imperial City Department.

The Qingzhou case was immediately arranged into a tragic story and began to spread on Jingji Road, Jingxi and Jingdong Road.

In addition to the Qingzhou case, there is also a key report from the Song Dynasty Di Daily News: In the Song and Xia War, the Song army won a great victory and expelled Dangxiang from the territory of the Song Dynasty.

This past six months has been a very troublesome time, and every month there are major events that shock everyone.

From the Kong Mansion case to the Confucian scholar case, to the Luoyang case, in just one month, countless interests were involved. The emperor also used a butcher's knife to tell everyone in the world that the world is the emperor's world. The emperor firmly stood on the side of the people. No matter who dared to stop the emperor, he should die!

The emperor killed so many people one after another, so it was time to take a break. Many people originally thought so, but as soon as the Qingzhou case came out, the entire Qingzhou would be destined to have a lot of people again.

There are thirteen problematic wealthy merchant families involved in the Xu Mansion's corvee and tax case, and the total number of people affected was more than 700. In Liu Yanzong's words, after the imperial court's corvee and tax laws were promulgated, the emperor had long wanted to find an opportunity to start killing people, and it depends on who came first.

Look, the Qingzhou Chamber of Commerce was almost taken down, all the wealthy businessmen's homes were kicked out of the door and were imprisoned by the Imperial City Office. Then all the crimes were announced to the public, and Jingdong Road was shocked for a moment.

Only then did people realize that the Qingzhou magistrate He Liren's family was rich. Not only did the imperial court receive a generous salary every year, he also joined forces with the Qingzhou Chamber of Commerce to monopolize business in Qingzhou and all prefectures and counties in Qingzhou, plundered a large amount of wealth, and privately forcibly purchased a large amount of land, making more than 100,000 people in Qingzhou become tenant farmers.

To put it nicely, it is a tenant farmer, but it is actually a serf!
Chapter completed!