Under Zhao Jun's pressure, the court, which had just been as chaotic as a vegetable market, rearranged itself in just a few seconds.
In fact, some officials were also dissatisfied with Zhao Jun's dominance. Even when Zhao Jun was the director of the Constitutional Yuan, he was always impeached, but he was too lazy to pay attention to it and just treated it as nonsense.
If Zhao Jun had yelled at the officials like this in the past, there might have been some troublemakers who would have stood up and argued with him immediately. In fact, the Song and Ming dynasties were not short of upright and tough people in their party struggles.
For example, Wang Anshi and Sima Guang, both of them were not greedy or possessive, and were very honest. They admired each other's character and morality.
However, the political views are at odds.
This has nothing to do with whether they are corrupt or upright, it's simply a matter of different perspectives. They all have their own perceptions and ideas, and their stubbornness has led to this situation.
The existence of Zhao Jun actually helped many prime ministers of the Constitutional Court to unify their political views, because he came from later generations and history has proved many things.
For example, the New Deal of the Qingli Period was correct, and Wang Anshi's reforms were also correct. There was nothing wrong with the direction, but there were some errors and omissions in the methods.
Therefore, only after he had proved many things to the emperor and many prime ministers and achieved the unification of their political views, was he able to gain the support of the emperor and the prime ministers and sit in this position.
However, he could unify the opinions of the prime minister of the Constitutional Council, but he could not unify all the officials.
After all, except for the people in the Constitutional Council, no one else knew that he came from the future and could clearly distinguish right from wrong in history, so naturally he could not make all the officials believe in him.
It is just like the ancients’ unwavering faith in the supremacy of the emperor, abnormal celestial phenomena, Confucius’ Confucianism, and beliefs in ghosts and gods.
Ultimately, it's a matter of perception.
Their understanding of everything is distorted, resulting in them only believing in their own world view and values.
Zhao Jun completed the adjustment of the three views of the emperor and prime ministers, but failed to reshape the three views of the officials. Therefore, many officials expressed dissatisfaction and disagreement with Zhao Jun's ability to sit in the position of director of the Constitutional Council.
But now no one stands up to oppose him.
There are three reasons.
One reason was that Zhao Jun's influence was still there. Because of a disagreement, hundreds of officials from the Salt and Iron Bureau were all dismissed. The guilty ones were arrested and the innocent ones were also dismissed, which shocked the entire court.
Second, the court meeting did have its own order, and the prime minister had the power to maintain the order. There was nothing wrong with Zhao Jun asking everyone to stand up again.
The third and most important point is that no one, including the opposition and the reformists, dared to offend Zhao Jun.
Because it was Fan Zhongyan who presided over the new policy.
Everyone naturally focused the source of the conflict on Fan Zhongyan.
Zhao Jun holds the highest position and has the greatest influence in front of the Constitution Council and the emperor. Therefore, before Zhao Jun makes his position clear, everyone is afraid of pushing Zhao Jun to the other camp.
This is the smartest thing about Zhao Jun. He did not preside over the reform himself, but let Lao Fan take over. In this way, everyone shifted the conflicts, and naturally no one would bother him anymore.
So, considering all the factors, seeing that their boss did not show up, the troublemakers below were intimidated by Zhao Jun's authority and naturally obeyed him.
But that’s all.
Once everyone discovers Zhao Jun's position, I'm afraid they will also attack him.
At this moment, everyone arranged themselves into classes and remained silent.
Zhao Jun turned his back to Zhao Zhen, looking down, and bowed to the back, saying in a cold voice: "The court is the place for the morning court meeting, for everyone to report matters to His Majesty. It should be solemn and respectful. It is not your backyard. Noisy and noisy, how can it be disgraceful! Anyone who ignores the rules and wantonly disrupts the venue will be held accountable!"
Zhao Zhen immediately stood up to defend him and said, "Han Long is right. Order in the Chuigong Hall must be maintained solemnly. Even if there are petitions to be made, they should be made one by one. Arguing with each other is simply a disrespect for state dignity. Where are the guards in front of the hall?"
"exist!"
The commander of the Palace Guards stepped forward and bowed.
"Anyone who disrupts public order again may be arrested and expelled by order of the court."
"yes."
The commander of the Siwei responded sternly.
In an instant, all the officials were in awe and no longer dared to speak at random as before, making the morning court a mess and full of smoke.
"Your Majesty, I have a report!"
Zheng Jian stepped forward, looked at Zhao Jun, and said, "Master, the Censor is responsible for supervising all officials and enforcing discipline. This is not considered a disruption to the meeting, right?"
"Um."
Zhao Jun walked aside without saying anything.
Zheng Jian then said, "I impeach Lü Yijian, Sheng Du, Cheng Lin, and Li Zhang for colluding with Feng Shiyuan, a minor official in Kaifeng Prefecture, for corruption, perverting justice, collecting banned books, and selling official positions and titles."
Now we are back to the starting point. Zheng Jian has been impeaching officials every day these days, but all the officials have obviously ignored him and are talking about the performance evaluation system. This makes Zheng Jian very unhappy, and he takes this opportunity to stand up and take action again.
But as soon as these words came out, all the officials were ready to act again, but they were intimidated by Zhao Jun's power and did not dare to speak immediately.
Zhao Zhen looked at Zhao Jun and asked, "What does Hanlong think should be done?"
"I've repeatedly said that a country should uphold the rule of law and adhere to the rule of law. If it involves the powerful and wealthy, and we take it easy, then the law will be nothing but empty words, and the world will be in chaos. This matter should be handled as it should be handled."
Zhao Jun looked at Lu Yijian and Sheng Du and said, "As a prime minister, you wouldn't think of shielding your son and son-in-law, would you?"
Lu Yijian and Sheng Du's faces turned pale instantly.
Cheng Lin's eyes widened. After all, it was Lu Yijian and Sheng Du's sons who were in trouble, and it was none of their business. Furthermore, once a person entered the Constitutional Court, they would often receive the privilege of being presumed innocent.
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