pit, this wedding banquet turned out to be another sinkhole.

When Liu Xing walked away, boarded the airship with a kind of wild goose, and slowly lifted into the air.

When the Tiance Guard and the female soldiers who were originally in charge of guarding outside the mansion rushed in, looking at the bills, they began to arrest one after another officials who originally dared to come to give gifts.

Zong Ze looked at the distant airship in the sky, and clearly understood that Liu Xing's wedding banquet was actually a sinkhole dug to combat the unhealthy tendencies that breed corruption in the imperial court over the past dynasties.

This time it was a sinkhole, and it was not just a certain person, but a group of people, a group of people who wanted to use Liu Xing's coronation ceremony and wedding to tie up hundreds of officials large and small with Liu Xing.

This time it was a sinkhole, and not many of the people who were caught were generals. Because except for Liu Ziyu and others, all the generals of the Great Song Dynasty did not send anything that was bought with money. The main targets of the pit are the civil officials who came from all over the country, and this time they are destined to be severely pit by Liu Xing.

Looking at the airship that had turned into a small black dot in the sky, Zong Ze understood: Liu Xing didn't find out what the three fathers and sons of the Hu family were doing, and they were very small, and they knew very well that the Hu family's father and son were forming a party. Although he was not selfish, he must have done so in order to seize the dominance of the imperial court.

In the face of the formation of a partisan party, it will be competitive with the dominance of the imperial court. Liu Xing doesn't lift the lid and doesn't go directly to his husband to turn his face. This is a kind of forbearance, a kind of forbearance that only politically mature people have.

Because if Liu Xing found out what the Hu family father and son did, he would immediately take action against them. Then the Confucian group recruited by the Hu family father and son with the help of Liu Xing will either face annihilation, or it will turn into a great internal struggle between the civil and military for the dominance of the imperial court.

The Jurchens have not been destroyed, and the Southern Dynasties have not been peaceful. Infighting occurs before the external enemy is completely eliminated. The result is likely to be the Northern Dynasty, which was already in crisis due to the return of the two emperors to the south. Collapsed instantly after the infighting began.

Mature political skills are forbearance, and Zong Zexian was in awe of Liu Xing's forbearance.

The soft knife kills people, this is Liu Xing's second mature performance that does not match his age.

Although he did not lift the lid and caused civil and military infighting, Liu Xing did not continue to condone the Hu family's father and son, but chose this kind of ruthless method that seemed to have little to do with Hu Anguo, but was actually aimed at him.

Aren't your old Mr. Hu's protégés and disciples all Confucian? Aren't you a friend who is also dominated by Confucianism? Confucianism is a master of these "courtesy exchanges", and "courtesy exchanges" are also the habits of Confucian scholars.

Wow, then Liu Xing will take this opportunity. Knock your friends first.

Who are the main givers of heavy gifts? They are all Hu Anguo's friends and Confucian scholars who have not yet joined his friends. Liu Xing dug the big pit this time, and ninety percent of the hundreds of people who fell into it were Confucians.

Didn't you, Mr. Hu, move out of the ancestral law at every turn to talk about things? Wow, this time, Liu Xing will follow the ancestral law of the Great Song Dynasty and first give your friends and other Confucian groups who like to give gifts and fight with each other to knock a stick on the head.

Hu Anguo's etiquette is not heavy, just a calligraphy and painting written by himself. Hu Yin's is not heavy, it is just an ancient scroll of "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", and the folk things are all stalls. It's an antiquity, but it doesn't cost a few bucks to get it.

Hu Hong's gift was also very light, and the family heirloom "Spring and Autumn" and a "Spring and Autumn Biography" written by Hu Anguo could not be measured by money at all. Junin's gift, even a little dismissive. He sent it. It's just a pair of four treasures in the study, and it is the old four treasures that have been in his study for decades.

In such cases. The heavy salute officials are demoted to three levels, and naturally they will not directly hit the Hu family father and son.

So who will be the focus of the demotion and demotion? It is those squires who earn a few hundred stones of grain a month, political envoys who are outside, and envoys who are inspected.

This time, one person from Shandong sent gold, silver and jewelry worth 3,000 stone of grain, and the political envoy from Hebei sent more than him, and it was all kinds of treasures worth 5,000 stone. Those who are destined to be severely punished have to belong to Dongchuan as an envoy. He actually brought five carts of gifts, with a total value of at least 10,000 stones.

Okay, Liu Xing gave this order, and asked the Three Law Divisions to review and find out where they got the money and bought so many gifts to give. A few thousand stones may not seem to be much, but according to the new law, those who are greedy for sixty stones will not be killed. Those three people are afraid that the demotion of the official is light, and it is not good that the horse's fart slapped the horse's leg and was directly kicked off the neck's head......

Once these Confucian scholars who hold great power, and even the henchmen of the Hu family, are convicted after being tried by the Three Law Divisions, they will be seriously and directly beheaded. Liu Xing was tantamount to not hurting his face, he didn't lift the lid, and just used the law to cut off a group of backbones of the Hu family's party.

With such a sinkhole as a lesson and a warning, Zong Ze believes that from now on, even if the three fathers and sons of the Hu family go to pull people to form a party again, those scholars will have more eyes.

Why? Because it is a person, it can be seen that none of the people severely punished by Liu Xing this time are members of the party led by Zong Ze and dominated by military generals. The vast majority are his Hu family's henchmen. Who will follow him in the future, unless he is not afraid of being pitted by a master of digging pits like Liu Xing......

"Okay, boy, this is doing, this is doing."

Just as Zong Ze watched the airship disappear into the sky from afar, thinking of these in a daze, the planter came to him angrily and beat his chest and said: "As the old saying goes, if you don't hit the gift giver with your hand, how can this kid not only fight, but also fight with more than a hundred officials, big and small." It's too much, too much. ”

"Is it excessive?"

Seeing and hearing this, Zong Ze smiled strangely: "The crooked atmosphere originates from officialdom, I don't think your master and nephew have done too much." On the contrary, hehe, what he did this time, I am afraid that the Southern Dynasty would not have imagined it at all, and the undercurrent within my court will also end. With one stone, one knife with many holes, haha, he is a small ghost, and he is afraid that no one in the world can compete with him in the wisdom of the government! ”

"Undercurrent?" Hearing this, he was first surprised, and then the seed master asked in surprise: "What does this have to do with the Southern Dynasty?" ”

Seeing that he still couldn't understand, Zong Ze smiled weirdly again: "You have also been on the battlefield for a long time and have been mixed in officialdom for many years. Don't you even notice the rise of my cronies? On the side of the Southern Dynasties, from King Kang from below, except for Li Gang and others, they all had the opportunity to receive gifts, and if they didn't have the opportunity to create opportunities, they had to do something to collect money. ”

After a pause, Zong Ze became heavy: "And I am in this court, Mrs. Liu is making it clear to the world, and whoever dares to engage in unhealthy practices and evil spirits in my court will definitely be severely punished." Think about it, who will the hearts of the people of the world lean towards in such a comparison? Even if the two saints return to the throne, will the people's will still be the reason for the major threat to our dynasty? (To be continued.) )