"Everyone knows that Kaifeng Prefecture has been unable to eradicate these people because they have the support of high-ranking officials. Zhao Jun is not afraid of the powerful and has done these things, so what? If the government wants them dead, anyone can do it!"
"You may not know that the Jiaozi Shop initiative was initiated by Zhao Jun. The Jiaozi Shop now ensures a surplus in the national treasury, enabling us to provide rations for the border troops. It also introduced the tea policy, curbed commodity prices, and opened up the Sino-Japanese trade agreement, preventing merchants from inflating prices and profiting from their profits. All of this is thanks to Zhao Jun!"
"Haha, there are Jiaozi shops in Shuzhong. The tea and Jiaoyin laws are also the work of Prime Minister Li. Why is everything being attributed to him?"
"You guys, aren't you acting like this because he has no talent or reputation among you? Why are you spouting these big words? If you had talent and reputation, would you let the people of Bianliang praise you?"
Once the conversation started and someone spoke first, seven or eight officials from the Censorate immediately stood up and wrote a letter.
Prime Minister Lu Yijian and Wang Zeng did not speak, but the others, including Wang Sui, Cai Qi, Sheng Du, Song Shou, and even Yan Shu and Fan Zhongyan, were not willing to be outdone and stood up to defend Zhao Jun.
Although the three ministers and three counselors were not the most powerful in the court, they were still quite influential. Therefore, when their faction saw that their leader supported Zhao Jun, they did not object, and some even immediately sided with Zhao Jun when they saw the wind was blowing in their favor.
Fan Zhongyan was the leader of the Young Warriors faction, while Ouyang Xiu was only a proofreader in the imperial library, not qualified to attend the court. The rest, like Yu Jing, Yin Zhu, Wu Zunlu, Cai Xiang, Wang Zhi, and Wang Zhu, were either of lower rank or were merely temporary officials with no official duties, and therefore could not attend the court.
However, Li Hong, a direct scholar of the Longtu Pavilion, was of the third rank and qualified to attend court meetings. Fu Bi, the head of the Censorate, was a magistrate of Kaifeng Prefecture and a censor. Although he was of the sixth rank, censors and imperial censors were both low-rank and powerful, so they could also attend court meetings.
When the two saw Fan Zhongyan standing in line, they immediately realized that Zhao Jun might be the expert that Fan Zhongyan had been talking about before.
This expert also asked Fan Zhongyan to give them some documents.
They were very excited after reading the contents of those documents. Now that they had seen the master in person, although they were a little disappointed because he was not the wise old man they had imagined, they still cheered up and joined in the argument.
For a time, the faction headed by the prime minister's group, other factions in the court, and the dissatisfied censors and censors all came out to argue.
The court was in complete chaos.
The prime ministers' group was previously divided and hostile to each other, but it is surprising that they are now united.
As for the Censorate and the censors, there was also a split internally. For example, Fu Bi was a censor, and Han Qi was also a censor, but at this time Han Qi stood on the other side and did not join him in defending Zhao Jun.
The result was that before Zhao Jun could even open his mouth to defend himself, the court had already started arguing over him, with everyone spitting and spitting everywhere.
That is to say, during the reign of Emperor Renzong of Song Dynasty, quarrels and fights were not popular in the court.
Otherwise you have to practice.
Zhao Zhen just watched the people below arguing with each other, and Zhao Jun also watched everyone with interest, but no one stopped them.
In fact, there is no point in stopping it. The censors do not have the power to refute imperial edicts. Only the prime minister and the editor of imperial edicts can do so. But with the support of the prime minister among the three ministries, how could the edict not be passed?
So no matter how much they quarreled, it could not change the fact that Zhao Jun was the ruler of the Song Dynasty.
After a long while, everyone was exhausted from talking and their lips were almost worn out. It was only then that they realized that the main characters Zhao Zhen and Zhao Jun had not spoken a word.
It was Li Zi, the Privy Councilor, who came forward and said, "Your Majesty, please clear the court."
"allow!"
Zhao Zhen nodded.
Wang Shouzhong struck the bronze bell.
A series of tinkling sounds echoed throughout the Chuigong Hall.
All the officials gradually quieted down.
Because if you don't keep quiet, you will be driven out by the guards outside.
If the emperor investigated, they might even face dismissal from office, so everyone just kept to themselves.
After the court was quiet, Li Zi then said, "I would like to ask, were the methods your Majesty used to teach me really what Zhao Jun said?"
"yes."
Zhao Zhen nodded.
Li Zi bowed to Zhao Jun and said, "Your humble servant greets the Duke of Song. You are a man of great talent. I am willing to support you in taking charge of the Political System Council!"
"Um."
Zhao Jun nodded with satisfaction and said, "Okay."
Li Zi retreated.
Fu Bi and Li Hong exchanged a glance, then stood up and bowed to Zhao Jun, saying, "Excuse me, Duke, does the 'Selected Works' claim that it was written by you?"
"It's me."
Zhao Jun's face actually looked a little embarrassed.
That was written by the person he respected most, but in the Song Dynasty, the great man had not yet been born, so it was only possible for a scoundrel like him to impersonate him.
Although the great man would not mind, and was even pleased that he was able to seek truth from facts and take root in the grassroots of the people in the Song Dynasty, this was after all borrowing the great man's glory, so he still felt very ashamed.
Zhao Jun could only swear silently in his heart that he must inherit the great man's ambition. After a while, he would travel all over the Song Dynasty, go to the grassroots level in various places to conduct research, reform the Song Dynasty's shortcomings, and help the people of the Song Dynasty escape from the dire straits and give the Chinese people a bright and sunny day.
"We support the National Institute of Political Science and Law!"
Fu Bi and Li Hong bowed.
"good."
Zhao Jun nodded again.
Then the rest of the prime minister's group, including the Lu Party and the Wang Party, also came forward to express their support.
Even Jia Changchao, Chen Yaozuo, Wang Gongchen, Zhang Dexiang, Song Xiang, Song Qi and others came to express their support for the decision of the prime ministers.
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