Chapter 108: Life goes on, CPU goes on
On the afternoon of September 2nd, Zhao Jun went to the palace.
He had been in Song Dynasty for half a year, and his eyes had recovered for three months, so he had realized a lot of things.
The improvement of productivity inevitably requires changes in production relations.
So change is imperative.
From a macro perspective, there has actually been only one force that has obstructed his reform efforts, and that is the entire scholar-official class.
The later Qingli New Deal and Wang Anshi's reforms were ruined by this class.
Wang Zeng, the King of Lü Yijian, was the current leader of this class, so they tried every possible means to bring him into this class.
But this does not mean they are enemies.
Because the three ministers and three representatives as well as Yan Shu and Fan Zhongyan knew Zhao Jun's identity, they were already tied together from another perspective.
Zhao Zhen would not allow them to leak Zhao Jun's affairs. In order to stabilize the military morale, it was necessary to consolidate their rights and interests. Therefore, the three prime ministers and three ministers today would definitely not be dismissed as arbitrarily as in history.
In other words, because of Zhao Jun's existence, their position has become more stable.
Unless Zhao Zhen had murderous intentions and wanted to kill all those who knew about it, as long as Zhao Zhen was still the soft-hearted official, their position as prime minister would be as stable as Mount Tai.
This is also the reason why they only dared to play some small tricks behind Zhao Jun's back, but did not dare to really turn against him.
However, these people are representatives of the old forces after all. If he wants to achieve something, he must not be led by them. Therefore, Zhao Jun took another path and seized the imperial power from Zhao Zhen.
He came here today just to continue to CPU Zhao Zhen.
At this moment, in the Guanjia Hall in the back garden, gold and silver are piled up like mountains, and all kinds of rare treasures and precious calligraphy and paintings are also available. The most eye-catching thing is a painting, which is placed in a golden nanmu box and placed in the most conspicuous position.
Zhao Zhen glanced at these things casually. Zhao Jun kept looking at his face and found that his expression was rather dull, neither too happy nor too angry.
I think the emperor has seen all kinds of precious things, but these things may not catch his eye.
But Zhao Jun said, "These things were seized from the homes of the officials in Kaifeng Prefecture. The cash alone is over one million strings of cash, not to mention the land deeds, gold, silver, jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and other valuables. Adding it all up, I'm afraid it's no less than four or five million strings of cash."
"How could they be so rich?"
Zhao Zhen was shocked. He grew up in the deep palace and had seen all kinds of money. So seeing so many gold, silver and jewelry on the table made him have no concept of money, and he didn't know how much these things were worth.
But when he explained it in detail, he was surprised.
Because there is not much money in the national treasury now, the internal treasury is only more than one million strings of cash. Now that the war in the northwest is approaching, in order to stockpile food and grass, they rely entirely on embezzling money from the Jiaozi Shop to support themselves.
Unexpectedly, Zhao Jun was able to confiscate four or five million strings of cash from the property of some corrupt officials in Kaifeng Prefecture. This was truly spectacular to him.
"normal."
Zhao Jun laughed and said, "Because these people not only protect underground evil forces like Wuyou Cave and Guifan Tower, they also engage in business themselves. The Song Dynasty only prohibits officials from doing business themselves, so they can easily ask their relatives to do it for them. This only tracks down their personal assets, not the large number of shares they own."
Zhao Zhen became interested and pointed at the things on the table and asked, "Grandson, how much is this worth?"
"About eight hundred thousand strings of cash."
Zhao Jun glanced at Yan Liben's painting and said, "But this painting hasn't been included yet. It should be worth hundreds of thousands of strings of cash."
Yan Liben was already extremely famous in the Tang Dynasty and was hailed as the "god of painting". His paintings were extremely valuable in the Song Dynasty. For example, his painting "Emperors of All Dynasties" remained a famous court painting until the Southern Song Dynasty.
His paintings were the most popular objects for copying in the Song Dynasty. Later, a large number of Yan Liben's original works were destroyed in history, and the ones that survived in later generations were basically copies from the Song Dynasty.
Therefore, Yan Liben's original paintings are not only extremely valuable in later generations, but also in the Song Dynasty. Once they were spread out, countless people would be willing to spend all their money to buy them.
When Zhao Zhen heard the value, he was stunned and asked, "That's over a million strings of cash?"
"more than."
Zhao Jun shook his head and said, "I plan to organize an official sale to auction off all their land deeds, farm deeds, and other properties. I think there will still be more than two million strings of cash left."
Zhao Zhen immediately said sourly, "Grandson, congratulations! You will be rich soon."
"Not at all."
Zhao Jun waved his hand and said, "Without your support, how could I, your descendant, have taken down so many corrupt officials and seized so much wealth? These things were prepared for our ancestors. Spend them to support the war in the northwest and maintain our Zhao family's rule!"
"Are these all for me?"
Zhao Zhen was even more shocked.
In fact, when Zhao Jun sent all the things to the palace, he already had a vague feeling that they were sending things to him.
However, at the beginning, because he didn't know the specific value of these things, he only looked at the jewelry, gold and silver utensils on them and thought they were only worth 300,000 or 400,000 strings of cash, so Zhao Zhen didn't take it too seriously.
However, they did not know that there were a large number of antiques and valuable calligraphy and paintings inside. If Song Huizong came here, he would definitely be able to recognize the value of these calligraphy and paintings.
However, Zhao Zhen was not very interested in calligraphy and painting, so he felt that giving himself things worth 300,000 or 400,000 strings of cash would be better than nothing in terms of filling the national treasury and the private treasury.
But if Zhao Jun gave him something worth more than one million strings of cash, and then auctioned off the real estate of those corrupt officials and got more than two million strings of cash for him, then that would naturally be a different matter.
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