Soon, the province immediately began to select and promote virtuous and capable gentlemen in accordance with the government's wishes... This cannot be achieved overnight, and I don't know how long it will take for the Shuimu party to reach a compromise on this personnel matter.

But almost at the same time, the case of the foreign temple in Fujian was finally brought to the imperial court...and to everyone's surprise, Emperor Zhao issued an edict with almost no hesitation, fully supporting the Minister of Justice Ma Shen, dismissing the county magistrate, reprimanding the governor of Fujian, and ordering local officials to immediately demolish the foreign temple that affected the county school.

It was only after Prime Minister Zhao Ding's strong persuasion that he agreed to allow the foreign merchants to rebuild the foreign temple elsewhere.

Without mentioning some other twists and turns of this matter, let's just say that after this incident, Gou Longruyuan, a senior official from Sichuan who was in charge of Quanzhou affairs, officially entered the sight of the ministers in the court, and was immediately recommended by his fellow villager Zhang Deyuan. Then, without any effort, this person became the first beneficiary of this reform - he was transferred to the Minister of the Ministry of Works and came to Beijing.

In late March, the war in Shanzhou broke out again, and tens of thousands of troops, including Wang De's troops in the imperial camp, once again surrounded Hezhong Prefecture.

In early April, the first batch of promoted officials including Gou Longruyuan arrived in the capital. Almost at the same time, the Song army withdrew again because Wanyan Balisu and Yelu Mawu led the vanguard to cross Jishan first.

In late April, as Wang De returned with his troops, Emperor Zhao personally led all officials out of Yuetai to review the troops.

PS: Thanks to the Silver Alliance leader, Hilla, and the new leader, Sima Liao. This book is already 163 cute.