If it was usual, this time the king was also a big deal. But now even Sima Guang didn't dare to make a sound.

Zhao Ji deliberately asked Han Wei about the case at the court meeting, and then said four words: "Crazy." ”

After the dissolution of the court, Zhao Ji deliberately wrote an edict to deprive more than 20 suspects, that is, the more than 20 people who made the most trouble, that is, to take down all the bad officials and high-ranking officials on their bodies, and completely became ordinary people.

However, Sima Guang didn't know that there was an inside story behind it.

It turned out that the quality of the armor weapon was still fresh in Zhao Ji's memory, and in fact, in history, Wang Yan also proposed to put the ordnance superintendent, but the quality of this ordnance still did not improve. Of course, this Zhao Ji doesn't know. Therefore, Wang Ju went to the ordnance prison and began to reorganize and reorganize, and Zhao Ju was also very concerned.

After the Xuandemen incident, Zhao Ji discussed Wang Ju's reform with Lu Huiqing in the Ying Pavilion.

Lu Huiqing said the pros and cons, and if the disadvantage is not done well, it will cause great trouble. But there are also a lot of benefits, laying off nearly 10,000 people, and the salary alone can save more than 400,000 yuan a year. But this is still secondary, after the reorganization, the personnel has become concise, and the books have also become concise, if Wang Ju continues to stay in the Ordnance Superintendent, then the Ordnance Superintendent will maintain an efficient and honest state, and the cost savings in this year will be unimaginable. Even if Wang Ju leaves, the waste of greedy ink will be much better than before. Finally, the quality of ordnance will increase significantly. :

The first two Zhao Ji also attach importance to it, but the most important one is the latter one.

In fact, Wang Ju's reform is also rare in the entire history of the Song Dynasty, if history does not change, only the quality of the weapons of the Yuejia army can be comparable to it (the time of the two Song Dynasty. In order to maintain the combat effectiveness of the army. Some of the models of the Tang Dynasty were adopted. In addition to the imperial court appropriations, Yue Fei also owns the Ezhou wine library, the minister's library, the reward library, the Beibian library, the Huiyi library and other fourteen libraries, which are operated by the military assistant Li Qi, and can get more than one million yuan a year, which is mainly used to reward military merits and build armor, but that's it, Yue Fei also took out his own income to supplement the production costs of weapons. However, Liu Guangshi and Zhang Jun are not good, more of them fall into their own pockets, of course, the morale and combat effectiveness of the two armies are not very different, and in the entire Song history, only the armor produced by the Yuejia army during that period is quite sophisticated, even if the quality of military production in the Song Taizu period can only be said to be so-so, not as good as the Western Xia and later the Jin State, or can only be compared with Tubo), not that the money is insufficient, let alone that the technology cannot keep up. It's all redundant.

This is only the Armament Supervisor, and there is more. Zheng Baiqu, presided over by Wang Ju, began to calculate.

and Wang Ju's military reduction reform, Fangchang River crossing, 28-point system, and Wang Ju's kapok division and sugar workshop.

Directly and indirectly, Wang Ju will bring more than 20 million yuan of income to the Song Dynasty in a year.

Others, such as the transfer technology of sorghum and cotton per plant nutrient bowl, the appearance of coulters and iron hammers, will virtually increase the grain production of the Song Dynasty in a year.

The development of Liangguang has loosened the pressure on the densely populated Fujian Road and Jiangnan West Road.

The improvement of simple carbon tempering and water pressure cold punching and cold forging on the armor.

As well as the improvement of the gunpowder formula, not only the emergence of more powerful gunpowder weapons, but also the role in the pit and open roads, gunpowder is not profitable, but its appearance, increase the output of various pit mines, save the cost of opening up mountain roads, in fact, is equivalent to increasing the national income. It's hard to count, but after a year, it's not a lack of money.

It's just that Wang Ju's evasion of the change made Zhao Ji a little unhappy.

Therefore, Zhao Ji supports Wang Ju's approach, and Wang Ju is also an "insider", the quality of the armor keeps up, and the morale improves, so that his dream of becoming a strong country can be realized.

Many ministers don't understand, and they go back to the Central Plains to pay tribute to Fanyi, and even call them nephews to the north! This shame made the high-spirited Zhao Ji unbearable.

Therefore, after a few days of delay, Han Wei did not have an eyebrow, Zhao Wei asked again, and Han Wei even tortured these dozens of suspicious Yanei.

Under this general trend, Wang Ju finally carried out the last step of the reform of the military weapons superintendent, and personally went to the various institutes to formulate a rough assembly line production model.

Moreover, after the large-scale reduction, Wang Ju slightly increased the salary of the official craftsman, and in fact, the Song Dynasty gave the official craftsman a lot of salary, which used to make the officials above greedy, but now under the management of Wang Ju, everyone is relatively honest, which is equivalent to increasing the income.

With the right mode of production, with income, the production of the entire armament immediately becomes efficient. In fact, the Song Dynasty did not give many tasks to officials and craftsmen, but the income was low and there were many idlers, so they didn't even take other people to work.

It's getting colder.

Wang Anshi started the farmland water conservancy law, and asked Yang Ji and Hou Shuxian to focus on silting the fields, and Liu Yi and Cheng Fang to control the Yellow River again.

In addition, Zeng Bu also began to take the position.

Zu Wu chose the case to begin.

On the eighth day of the first month of the leap winter, the prince of Yushi Lixing Shaojie Mingzhou Miao Zhen and Zhixiu Zhou Zu Wuxuan had illegal acts when they knew Hangzhou.

Miao Zhen just forget it, the main thing is that this ancestor has no choice.

It is said that when the ancestors and Wang Anshi knew the same system, according to the previous practice, all princes, envoys, princesses, concubines, and jiedu envoys were removed from the award, and the grass system was made by the Hanlin Bachelors of the Academy. Someone gave Wang Anshi a gift, and Wang Anshi hung it on a beam. Wang Anshi Ding was worried about going home, and before Zu Wuxuan, Wang Anshi pretended to be high and sold his reputation and reputation, so he took it down and used it for public expense. Wang Anshi heard that he was evil, and he won the government, and insinuated that Yousi had no choice to find the trouble of the ancestors. It happened that Miao Zhen was corrupt and dirty in Mingzhou, and Wang Zishao reviewed the case, catered to Wang Anshi, and exposed Zu Wuxuan's affairs in Hangzhou.

There is also a saying that after Wang Anshi took the throne, he was also looking for friends, because Zu Wuxue was famous, Wang Anshi also deliberately wrote two letters to Zu Wuxue, and put down his body to show goodwill, but Zu Wuxue did not give Wang Anshi face, on the contrary, he had close contacts with the main ministers of the opposition, Wen Yanbo, Sima Guang, Fu Bi, Ouyang Xiu, Chen Xiang, Zheng Zheng, and Qian Gongfu, and usually interacted with each other by letter. Sima Guang secretly instigated people to stink Lu Huiqing, so Wang Anshi used Zu Wuxuan to start the knife.

There is another way of saying it. When Wang Zishao's father-in-law Shen Fu lived in Hangzhou. He once borrowed private soldiers from his ancestors to repair his house. was rejected by Zu Wuxuan, which made Wang Zishao hold a grudge, just when he went down to investigate Miao Zhen's corruption case, and vaguely learned that Wang Anshi was dissatisfied with Zu Wuxuan, so he took Zu Wuxuan by the way. Because he was strict in his recital, Wang Anshi ordered Shen Heng to write an edict to arrest Zu Wuxuan from Xiuzhou and arrest him in the capital for Zhang Zai's interrogation. But Wang Anshi originally did not insinuate that Si Kengzu had no choice. but was also pitted by the prince.

"Teacher, what crime did the ancestor have no choice committed?" Wang Ju asked Zhang Zai after hearing this.

This is not a forbidden matter, Wang Juneng asked.

Zhang Zai replied: "It is said that Zu Wuxuan gave the minister's wine to relatives and friends. ”

According to the regulations, the money and wine in the Song Dynasty's treasury were used exclusively for entertainment expenses for the exchange of dismissed and transferred officials, but they were not allowed to be used in private. In fact, Zu Wuxuan later admitted that he used 300 bottles of wine and gave them to relatives and friends.

In addition, the boat ride exceeded the standard he deserved. embezzled official money and borrowed money without permission, and obeyed the illegal demands of subordinate officials Ren Zao, Wang Jing, Qian Lamb, and Zhang Yingyan.

These ancestors later admitted that the boat crossing system was his carelessness and lack of attention, embezzlement of official money and loans, and the amount was not large, and the illegal demands of subordinate officials. But not too much, he agreed.

The other is to have an affair with the official prostitute Xue Xitao. According to the regulations, officials can let official prostitutes sing and dance with wine, and they can't have private pillows, but this ancestor did not admit it, so he later arrested this official prostitute and flogged him to death, and Xue Xitao did not admit it. However, Wang Ju suspected that there might be, because Xue Xitao had feelings for Zu Wuxuan and desperately kept Zu Wuxue's reputation.

In the end, Zu Wuxuan gave gifts to Zhang Xian, an official and famous minister, and at the same time built a lot of buildings and pavilions, but did not pay for materials and wages. Later, when interrogated, it was also true, although Zheng Zheng said that it was just a trivial matter when he rescued him, that is, Wang Zishao did not completely catch the wind.

But this matter immediately caused controversy, first Zhang Zai's younger brother Zhang Jian and Su Song, Chen Xiang, and Zheng Yan wrote to him, saying that Zu Wuxuan was a scholar doctor, and he used to be a close minister of the emperor's side, not those entrenched gangsters in the ordnance prison.

Su Zheng also said that Zu Wuxue's crimes were unknown, and some of his crimes were not strict, and that there were many officials who were greedy for ink far more than Zu Wuxuan, but they were not arrested and interrogated.

Zheng Zheng also said that before the ancestor was not imprisoned, the guest house monk temple, the only servant with him, the money and silk were exhausted, so he used the silver spit pot to pledge the money, and the people did not dare to hostage, so they had to borrow hundreds of money from the monk for the day and night. And the ancestor has no choice to govern Hangzhou quite a political achievement, the pity for the food, the prisoner saw the cry, after the prison Hangzhou scholars and the common people led the floating map to set up a fast, to pray for it.

Chen Xiang also said that Hangzhou is a huge mansion, which has always been difficult to govern, and the former and former ministers are more violent and carved the people, but the ancestors have no choice to rule, and the people are safe.

Wang Ju didn't believe it, Wang Ju hadn't been to Hangzhou once, but the bamboo paper workshop was in Hangzhou, which meant that half of his foundation was in Hangzhou, so he heard a lot of news from Hangzhou, if it was about violent carving, there was one person before Zu Wuxuan, that is, Sun Wei recommended by Ouyang Xiu, and after Sun Wei, he Zhongli, Mei Zhi, Tang Xun, Shi Changyan, Shen Yu, Wang Qi, Cai Xiang, Hu Su, this is to Zu Wuxuan, and then Zheng Zheng.

There are no famous ministers in the middle, that is, Shi Changyan's reputation is slightly worse, but his governance in Hangzhou is not too bad, including Zheng Zheng's own political achievements in Hangzhou.

Speaking of salary, Zu Wuxuan went down with a large number of real officials, an income of at least more than 1,000 yuan, to be honest, I believe that Zu Wuxuan is not as good as Fan Zhongyan, but after Fan Zhongyan fed a large family, he also relieved many people, and in addition, he also had the remaining money to buy a large piece of fertile land for the clansmen, why can't he even support three people, so where did Zu Wuxuan's salary go, did he travel to Macau and spend it in the casino?

Therefore, Wang Ju wrote a letter and asked his eldest brother Li Zhen to inquire, Li Zhen quickly replied to a letter, saying that Zu Wuxuan had not stayed in Hangzhou for a long time, and he was not deeply impressed, as for what he loved the people, Li Zhen did not feel it, maybe Zu Wuxuan loved the people, but there were two, the first one was that Zu Wuxuan had lived in a monk temple for a period of time, but soon built a more luxurious house, and secondly, ordinary people may not know the inside story, but Li Zhen stayed in Hangzhou for so long, but he found out the truth, and prayed for blessings. But the current Hangzhou governor Yin Zhengzhi initiated.

This is the later story.

Now Wang Ju doesn't know, he listened to Zhang Zai's words, and said slowly: "Teacher, you fell into the pit." ”

"Why?" Guo asked.

"Maybe Zu Wuxuan didn't do much in some aspects, but does it matter? If the teacher judges that the case is too serious, Jiefu Gong will definitely be happy, but there are not too many people who hate the teacher. If the teacher judges the case too lightly, then there will be many people who rejoice in the teacher, but Jiefu Gong will hate the teacher. ”

"I'll judge the case."

"Teacher, I don't know the truth of this case, but I believe that the selection of officials based on Zu Wuxuan is a high standard, if you can't bear it, then where is the national system? If you seek refuge, you will be hated by all. In fact, this case is not in the case itself, but outside the case. Let me make another analogy, although the teacher has made great achievements in Confucianism, but in the officialdom, the teacher has no choice but to reach the ancestors. ”

Zhang Zai shook his head, he has served as an official of the two systems, the real emperor's close ministers, what is Zhang Zai, a petty official, not as good as Wang Ju.

"On the talent of the article can reach Su Shi? On whimsical and obscene, he was trusted by the emperor and his disciples. However, the three of us are almost on the running line together, Su Shi may be a little worse than the disciple, but Zu Wuxuan is better than the disciple. That's the case, Zu Wuxuan also became a victim, and he was a teacher. ”

"It's really not good, I resigned and returned home."

Wang Ju was speechless, I won't be an official anymore, so what else do I say.

Zu Wuxuan can also be regarded as Wang Anshi's counterattack, otherwise it is impossible to be beaten passively, which means that the cruel political struggle has finally begun.

After the snow, Wang Ju picked up the concubine from Songshan.

The concubine in front had just returned home, and a woman came behind her, who was Ye Mo's wife, Wang Ju felt guilty about Ye Mo, and after hearing the report from the porter, he immediately greeted him at the door in person, took Ye's wife to the house, and asked his subordinates to make tea.

"Ming Gong, that's too polite." Wife Ye said, this woman is only in her early thirties, and she looks quite pretty, but her eyes still flashed with infinite sadness when she spoke.

She also said: "Before the official left, he probably knew that something would happen, so he left a letter to the people's women, and repeatedly told the people's women not to let anyone see this letter, but before the year, let the people's women send it to Ming Gong." ”

Wang Ju immediately took the letter, opened the fire paint and watched, it has been almost two months, and so far Han Wei has not found out the truth of the case, maybe this letter is an important clue to the case.

However, when he read the letter, his face was full of regret and pain...... (To be continued......) R1292