"Okay, I promise you, you're the one who killed someone anyway, it's none of my business."

Fan Zhongyan agreed.

He thought it would be better to let Zhao Jun make trouble.

No matter how excessive Zhao Jun's actions were, Zhao Zhen would not dare to do anything to him.

As long as the scholar-official class focused their attention on Zhao Jun, he could carry out reforms calmly.

After all, if Zhao Jun really went crazy and started killing people everywhere, it would be better to dismiss him from his post, investigate him, and exile him to Lingnan than to be investigated by the Imperial City Bureau for corruption and then beheaded.

In this way, if the old officials like Lü Yijian and Wang Zeng could be driven out of the court, he, Fan Zhongyan, as well as Fu Bi, Han Qi and others would take control of the power. Zhao Jun would work from the bottom up, and they would work from the bottom up, and together they would attack the officialdom from both sides. He should be able to fulfill his lifelong dream.

But then Fan Zhongyan seemed to remember something and asked, "Are you still going to take part in the imperial examination?"

"Yes."

Zhao Jun laughed and said, "Why not join in? I came to see you this morning and then went to Zhao Zhen to make trouble. That's how I should behave."

Fan Zhongyan was stunned for a moment, then laughed and said, "You are smarter than I thought."

Zhao Jun also smiled.

The current situation is that the emperor and the group of prime ministers are begging him to do things, but they don't want him to go too far and create a huge hole in the officialdom.

So they planned to pull him into the system, hoping to use the system to assimilate him and prevent him from revolutionizing himself.

Therefore, the most important thing for them was to let Zhao Jun take the imperial examination, or to let him be granted the same status as a Jinshi so that he could successfully join the officialdom.

As for the rest, including whatever he wants, the emperor and his ministers will give it to him. Even if he goes too far, as long as he does not affect the basic support of the scholar-official class of the Song Dynasty, he will be left alone.

Obviously, these idiots are determined to use tricks and take advantage of him for free, trying to give him permissions step by step and make him feel that this is the path he should take.

Then the knowledge in his head will be squeezed out, and once he enters the system, won't he still be wasted by the system in the end?

By then, even if Zhao Jun was promoted very quickly, rising from the local level to the prime minister like a rocket, he would already be in his thirties or forties and would be unable to do anything.

But how is this possible?

Since Zhao Jun agreed to come out and change the Song Dynasty, it was impossible for him to allow the common people to continue to be burdened by the heavy mountain of bureaucracy and scholar-official class.

He needs to eradicate all ills and crush the bureaucratic and scholar-official class into the ground.

But if you don't have power, you naturally have to seize it.

And now there was an excuse.

However, in order to prevent Zhao Zhen and the ministers from seeing that he had seen through their thoughts, he could not immediately say that he would not take the imperial examination.

After all, letting him take the imperial examination and become an official was the top priority for that group of people. As long as Zhao Jun agreed to this matter, everything else could be discussed, even if he poked a hole in the sky.

So Zhao Jun decided to play along and take part in the provincial examination for the time being to fool those people. After he got the power, he would not bother with the Jinshi spring examination. Even if Lu Yijian and others begged him to take the top spot, he would ignore them.

After discussing with Fan Zhongyan for a while, it was already the beginning of the morning hour. They talked for two hours and the two sides decided to reach a cooperation. In the future, Zhao Jun would firmly support Fan Zhongyan's reforms.

The content of the reform was also very simple. Fan Zhongyan planned to carry out a large-scale purge of the entire officialdom, eliminate the bad apples, and solve the problem of redundant officials at the same time, killing two birds with one stone.

But he would never have thought that Zhao Jun had already had the idea of ​​breaking the entire bureaucratic system and launching a great revolution, so he decided to make other plans.

Lao Fan hopes to get his help, not to mention taking advantage of him, but Zhao Jun is already considering taking advantage of him.

This was the first lesson Lao Fan taught him, and he put it to good use.

"These old men are plotting against me. The scholars and officials of the Song Dynasty, including Emperor Zhao Zhen, are truly hopelessly stupid."

"It seems I was too naive at first, thinking that with the support of these people, I could accomplish great things. In fact, Zhao Zhen was afraid of these scholars, and Lü Yijian and Wang Zeng couldn't overthrow themselves, so they wanted to drag me into it."

"I don't want to be dragged into the quagmire of feudal bureaucracy by them. What revolution will that bring? Ultimately, I must remember my identity: I'm an outsider, but also a revolutionary. I can't become accomplices to their corrupt practices."

"Lü Yijian, Wang Zeng, and the other old men. I used to think they were good people, but I didn't expect that they only had some personal ethics. In reality, they are still the defenders of the feudal bureaucracy. We still can't think too highly of them."

"Zhao Zhen is dishonest and hasn't yet recognized reality. He still believes the scholar-official class is his greatest helper, but he doesn't realize that the more power he gives to the scholar-official group, the more harm he will do to his country."

"This guy is such a jerk. When I become powerful, I must establish a constitutional monarchy and sideline him. But I can't do that now. I have to pretend and pretend that I'm sincerely doing this for his own good."

"Well, I'll go give him a good scolding later and try to reason with him. If absolutely necessary, I might even resort to treason and resort to violence against the ancestors of the side branch."

On the way back, Zhao Jun quickly organized his thoughts in his mind.

I really want to curse Zhao Zhen for cooperating with the civil service group. He is obviously a member of the Zhao family and came here to save the Song Dynasty from disaster, but he only wants to get something for free. He is so useless that he makes people so angry that they vomit blood.

So since Zhao Zhen was such a jerk, he couldn't blame himself. He had chosen the wrong path, so he couldn't blame Zhao Jun for turning the table.

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