People in the Song Dynasty were lawless

Chapter 283 Counterinsurgency only requires coordinates

Gyeonggi Road, Kaifeng Prefecture, Bianliang City, Tokyo.

In early June, around midnight, inside a large mansion, under a pavilion in the backyard.

Wang Shilong took advantage of the dark and windy night to enter this mansion.

It would be too ostentatious to come in during the day, and now there are spies from the Imperial City Division all over the city. Once discovered, it may be risky.

It's much safer in the middle of the night. If you enter through the side entrance of a remote alley, as long as you disguise yourself well and look around for no one on both sides of the alley, no one will notice unless someone is specifically watching you.

There is a large cherry blossom tree next to the pavilion. The blooming season of cherry blossoms has long passed at this time. A few green leaves have fallen from the corridor. A middle-aged man in his forties or close to fifty is sitting cross-legged majestically. Corridor.

Wang Shilong came over, bowed his hands and said, "Big"

"All right."

The middle-aged man hid in the darkness, waved his hand and said: "No need to be polite, you can sit down too."

"Yes."

Wang Shilong was sitting next to him, sitting cross-legged like him.

"How's the situation?"

the man asked.

"They've sent out assassins."

"Do you think they might succeed?"

"There's little hope."

"why?"

"I heard that Zhao Jun was guarded by local officials and the Imperial City Department along the way, so he had almost no chance to make a move."

"But they had to go."

"Yeah, actually I thought they would report me."

"Haha, the merit of reporting you is not enough to make up for the bad things they did, unless it is that matter."

"That's probably why we lured them to attack the envoy first."

Wang Shilong smiled.

Lure them into attacking the imperial envoys, and even if Ma Zhengju and the others report it, the worst possible outcome will be Wang Shilong's death.

The question is, can Ma Zhengju and the others really be given a lighter sentence for reporting?

The bad things done by Jiangmen Xungui's children ranged from minor to serious. Wang Shilong specifically singled out a few of them to deceive them. There must be a reason.

First of all, the bad things they did were more serious, and they were all punishable by death, and it was not just them, but there were so many disciples below. How could they save so many people just by reporting Wang Shilong?

Secondly, and most importantly, Zhao Jun's reputation was so widely spread that they didn't dare to bet on whether Zhao Jun would choose to spare them after seeing what they did.

Zhao Jun himself is not afraid of powerful people. Even in the civil service group, he will kill as many as deputy prime ministers. There are even Zhao Zhen's "old people from the vassal residence" among them.

He didn’t even give Zhao Zhen face, let alone others.

Therefore, when there was always death, and even if Wang Shilong was reported, they might not be saved, it was better to take a chance.

Unless that's the case, it's a different matter.

"I think the news of the failed attack on the envoys must have frightened them."

The middle-aged man said.

"This matter is a capital crime for the Yi people, so it must be so."

"Well, you continue to inquire about the news. Once there is news, tell them immediately to increase their panic."

"Yes."

"When the time comes, we must urge them and let them participate in this matter. Yang Huaimin of the Yang family and Deng Baoji, nephew of the Ma family, are all serving as deputy chiefs of the inner guard in the palace."

"Yes."

"Success or failure is here."

"The villain understands."

Wang Shilong raised his head and looked at the man in front of him, cupped his hands and said: "Da Zongzheng, that villain will leave first."

"Go."

The man also raised his head.

Just as the dark clouds dispersed, the bright moonlight fell on him, revealing Zhao Yunrang's face.

Wang Shilong bowed and left.

He has no choice.

Zhao Jun had a grudge against firing him before.

Now the imperial court is going to take action against the noble generals again. The illegal things they have done will definitely not lead to the death penalty.

And just when he felt desperate, someone stepped forward to help him plan a plan to make him rich.

Once he succeeds and the country changes dynasties, he will also become the minister of the dragon.

For the sake of wealth, one can only take risks.

After Wang Shilong left, Zhao Yunrang narrowed his eyes and looked at the sky.

He also had no choice.

Zhao Zhen ascended the throne at the age of thirteen and was childless for fourteen years.

As a result, in the fourth year of Jingyou's reign, the healthy eldest son Zhao Fang was suddenly born, and his son Zhao Zongshi was sent out of the palace.

At this time, the dream of two generations of Zhao Yun's family to be emperor was completely shattered.

So what can be done to salvage the situation?

Only Zhao Zhen, Zhao Fang, and Zhao Jun died together!

Zhao Yunrang looked at the sky and murmured to himself: "Zhao Heng, this is what your family owes me!"

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In late June, the first batch of personnel who set out to check military status in various places had achieved results and reported to the Constitutional Yuan.

Those who reported back so quickly were basically from the surrounding roads, including the Tokyo Camp in Kaifeng Prefecture.

For other remote places, it is estimated to take less than half a year.

Early in the morning on the 24th, Zhao Jun started his day's work after holding a regular meeting with everyone.

As the people in power of a huge empire, the prime ministers can be said to have a lot of affairs on their hands. They not only arrange future affairs, but also review memorials from various places and check the work status of various departments.

This has greatly increased the work tasks of the Constitutional Yuan. Fortunately, the Constitutional Yuan has expanded now. There are twelve prime ministers and about thirty departments. Each person is responsible for an average of two to three, so they can probably handle it well.

It started to rain moderately today, and the pattering raindrops fell outside, hitting the eaves, the window sills, and the leaves of the banyan trees outside, making a crackling sound.

Two chubby raccoon slaves walked into the house along the wooden corridor. They first came in to hide from the rain, shook themselves, and then walked back and forth in the house, not afraid of people. Their yellow eyes glanced around, and finally stared at him. He grabbed Lu Yijian's table, jumped up, and squatted beside the small porcelain plate.

Lu Yijian and Wang Zeng are already sixty or seventy years old.

At this time in history, they were almost dying. If they could hang on to their lives, they would not be like in history. After being demoted, they would be transferred to various places as magistrates and travel around. Secondly, they would have antibiotics to treat their illnesses.

As long as it is not a fatal disease, ordinary inflammation, including pneumonia and other diseases, are basically incurable.

However, as I get older, my appetite becomes very poor. I can only eat a little on weekdays, and I eat less often. There are some snacks such as pastries and dried meat on the table.

The raccoon slaves in the palace have always been allowed to be kept to catch mice. They were pampered everywhere and they were spoiled a long time ago. They stretched out their paws to pull out a piece of meat breast, but did not bite it and hid it in a safe place. To eat, just lie down on the plate and start chewing.

"His grandma's!"

As soon as Zhao Jun finished reading the first batch of official documents sent by the imperial envoys today, he felt very angry and was about to start a fight. When he raised his head, he saw two raccoon slaves on the table next to him looking at him.

They were lying on the plate with their front paws still holding the meat, but their heads were looking towards Zhao Jun, their small eyes were full of confusion.

Seeing this, Zhao Jun had no choice but to put down the hand he was about to slap on the table and swallow back his original anger.

"Whoosh!"

The two fat guys each bit a piece of meat, jumped off the table and slipped out of the side door.

Several prime ministers working around looked over.

Yan Shu stopped what he was reviewing and asked, "What's wrong, Han Long?"

"The Forbidden Army in Gyeonggi Road and Kaifeng have been thoroughly inspected. This is the letter just sent by the Ministry of War. This group of people is really amazing."

Zhao Jun threw the official document in his hand on the table.

Military registration matters are handled by the Ministry of War, so normal non-emergency reports are submitted to the Ministry of War first and then submitted to the Constitutional Yuan.

Fu Bi has been sorting and summarizing the things he collected in the past few days.

After Zhao Jun read it today, his nose almost became crooked.

Wang Zeng waved to several officials nearby and motioned them to go out first.

After everyone left, everyone gathered around.

Lu Yijian took the official document, opened it and read a few pages, and then passed it on to many prime ministers.

Li Di frowned and said, "Why does General Men Xungui do so many dirty things?"

"It's not just generals who are distinguished, but ordinary generals as well." "But they still do the bulk of the work."

"Good guy, you're eating so many empty spots, aren't you afraid of suffocating them to death?"

"This is quite small. Look at this again. We have resold the weapons and equipment of the Song Dynasty to Xixia."

"How much more can they sell our easily broken weapons and equipment?"

"There are always good ones. The good weapons and equipment are sold, and the bad ones are left to us soldiers. Fortunately, we have firearms. Otherwise, wouldn't the last battle with Liao Xia be broken?"

"They dare to sell grenades! They also withheld the cloth and silk issued by the imperial court to the soldiers. In the past, it was just the Xiang soldiers who were in rags, but now the soldiers are banned."

"This is even more heinous. The matter of trapping and killing the remaining members and pretending to receive resettlement and burial expenses is really abominable!"

Several prime ministers were trembling after reading this.

In fact, the prime ministers still care about the remaining members.

Because what many people don’t know is that in addition to living care, the Song Dynasty has other work arrangements for those who are disabled and over sixty years old and have become leftover workers.

Most of them will be arranged to serve as honor guards, servants, servants, grooms, bearers, etc. for the dignitaries of the court.

Especially after becoming the prime minister, most of the servants in the family are such leftovers. Although they are always a little older, they are still very diligent and quick at work, so the prime ministers take good care of these servants.

As a result, I never expected that such horrific things would happen in the army. Even if it happens only a few times, it still represents the court's dereliction of duty, and these are only the ones that have been found out, and it's unknown how many have not been found out.

"Let's have a meeting!"

Zhao Jun looked around, then stood up and walked to the conference room.

He originally thought that it would just be free money.

The results became more and more disturbing.

Eating empty pay in the army, beating and scolding soldiers, and deceiving superiors and subordinates can only be regarded as trivial matters.

They even dared to sell arms, cloth, horses, and grain.

There were even deaths.

You really don’t know if you don’t check, and you’ll be shocked if you check.

The entire Song Dynasty's army was almost ruined from bottom to top. Except for the elite troops trained by Lao Fan in the northwest, there were only a few good ones.

This also means that the only people in the Song Dynasty who can fight are the 200,000 soldiers trained by Lao Fan in the northwest.

The remaining 1 million or so people are registered.

Among them, there are more than 600 forbidden army camps and more than 200 Xiang army camps in Guangjingji Road and Kaifeng Prefecture, with more than 400,000 people, and the shortfall has reached 90,000.

This was Bianliang, the capital of the Song Dynasty.

Even more so locally.

A shortage of one-third or even one-half is not an exaggeration.

I'm afraid that there are more than one million people registered, but in fact around 700,000 is considered too much.

I really don’t know what kind of human-like star Zhao Jun will be able to shine when the nationwide investigation is over.

"I knew earlier that the imperial army of the Song Dynasty was transformed into a Xiang army and a Xiang army was transformed into slaves. Today I have seen it."

After Zhao Jun entered the conference room, he could no longer suppress his anger in his first sentence: "The army of the Song Dynasty is really rotten to the core. How can we still fight like this?"

"Historically, three defeats in three battles are not without reason."

He continued: "Originally, the salary of Xiangjun was very low. It was only five hundred cash a month. They were given two shi of rice and a little salt, and they had to support a family. They are greedy for even this little money. Are they crazy? ?”

“It’s really unexpected.”

Lu Yijian also smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Every year, the imperial court pays a full salary, but here it is actually like this."

"Killing people and pretending to claim it actually started as early as the Taizu period."

Zhao Jun frowned and said: "You have never paid attention to the shortcomings of the Song Dynasty for so long. You are still a prime minister."

Everyone didn't dare to say anything after being scolded, they just lowered their heads and remained silent.

joke.

The military power of the Song Dynasty has always been in the hands of the emperor.

It was the emperor's connivance that the generals and nobles were brought up like this. As civil servants, what they wanted to do was to help the emperor control the generals. How could they dare to interfere with military power.

"All right."

Wang Zeng said: "Hanlong, you should also understand the affairs of the Song Dynasty. It was impossible for us to intervene in the affairs of the army before. Even the Privy Council did not have the power to check the status of soldiers and make noise."

"Cough cough cough."

Zhao Jun glanced at everyone, coughed twice and said: "That's still your problem. The government has many things to do every day, won't you remind me? Okay, let's talk about business first."

As he said that, he turned to look at Lu Yijian and said, "Old Lutou, tell me how to deal with it."

"Those involved will be dealt with accordingly."

Lu Yijian raised his eyebrows and said: "Kill those who deserve to be killed, and exile those who deserve to be. We will never tolerate them."

"Oh, I'm so decisive this time."

Zhao Jun turned to look at Li Di, pointed at Lu Yijian and said mockingly: "Mr. Xiu, look, if it doesn't involve your own interests, you are willing to do it."

"That's what he is."

Li Di responded with a smile.

Lu Yijian had long been accustomed to Zhao Jun's cynicism towards him. The relationship between the two parties had always been vaguely hostile and vaguely cooperative. He just said calmly: "I just made a decision."

"Oh, I just wanted to give them a chance before, but I didn't expect that they would force me to do it after all."

Zhao Jun shook his head and said: "Mr. Fuzhu, please let your Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple, and the Sentencing Court conduct a joint investigation this time. We will report it to the officials in the afternoon and arrest the people we have found so far. Then we will continue to dig deeper."

"Ah."

Li Di nodded. He is the Prime Minister and the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment. Although the Ministry of Punishment is currently only the law maker, as the Prime Minister, he naturally has the power to take the lead in organizing the three-party trial.

Zhao Jun continued: "The country should unswervingly implement the three-redundant reform. Originally, I planned to start it in February this year, but these noble generals made it so that I am still delaying it. Since they are shameless, then No wonder we are.”

As he spoke, he added: "I make two demands on this issue of redundant troops. The first demand is that illegal and criminal elements must not be treated lightly and must be severely punished, so as to give the army a clear and sunny day. The second demand is that The requirement is to do a good job in dealing with the aftermath, including the families of the victims, the rectification of military discipline, and disarmament matters. We must not slack off, do you hear me?"

"Ah."

Everyone responded.

This is indeed a major matter, related to the policies to be implemented by the entire Constitutional Yuan.

"Okay, let's break up the meeting for now, Mr. Xiuxi."

Zhao Jun looked at Li Di and said, "I'll leave this matter to you. You can handle it today."

"I see."

Li Di nodded.

We are preparing to adjourn the meeting now.

Just then there was a knock on the door.

"Come in."

Zhao Jun looked towards the door.

A lower-level official from the Constitutional Yuan came in, raised his hand to Zhao Jun and said, "Zhiyuan, Daming Prefecture is urgent."

"Eight hundred miles urgent? Is the Liao Kingdom calling?"

Zhao Jun was confused.

He took the official document from the official, opened it and glanced at it, and his face turned livid in an instant.

"What's wrong? What happened?"

When everyone saw that his expression was not good, Fan Zhongyan hurriedly went up and asked, "Is it true that the Liao Kingdom is coming?"

If this happened, he was afraid he would take action.

However, Zhao Jun shook his head, closed the official document, and said in a deep voice: "The envoy sent by the Ministry of War was robbed and killed, and it was Wang Anshi!"

"Wang Anshi is dead?"

Everyone was shocked. They all knew that Wang Anshi was the later reformist prime minister.

"No, he found out."

Zhao Jun looked at the crowd with a serious face and said: "The other party is so desperate that they dare to rob and kill even the angels of the imperial court. It is simply lawless. It is no different from rebellion. I don't think there is any need to interrogate first and just arrest them directly." People, first control all the generals who may be involved."

"Maybe the generals involved are under control?"

Sheng Du wondered: "But it seems that not much has been discovered so far. Wouldn't it be bad to arrest people for no reason before there is evidence?"

"Evidence is needed to fight corruption, lists are needed to fight crime, and coordinates are needed to counter insurgency."

Zhao Jun said: "Go and report it to the officials immediately, and arrest him first!"

If the previous matter of feeding nobles and nobles was just corruption or evil forces, then now the robbery and murder of angels is tantamount to rebellion.

The nature of the matter was different, so everyone naturally realized the seriousness of the problem. They no longer dealt with state affairs first, but immediately went to the Central Palace to report the matter to Zhao Zhen.

(End of this chapter)