In the Song Dynasty, there is no law. Chapter 269 of the main text: The imperial envoy was assassinated, and this matter can be solved. The next day was Zhao Jun’s 30th birthday.
Zhao Zhen held a grand banquet for him, and everyone in the Council of Political Affairs attended, and all officials gave him gifts.
Today, the Constitutional Yuan has extraordinary power in the court, and it can be said that the entire court is full of supporters.
Although they seem to be divided into different factions, they are actually united as one.
For example, in addition to Lu Yijian, Song Shou and Jia Changchao in the Political System Council, the Lu Party also included Chen Yaozuo, Wang Gongchen, Zhang Dexiang, Chen Zhizhong and others.
In addition to Wang Zeng, Cai Qi and Han Ju who died of illness, Wang's party also included Zheng Jian, Ye Qingchen, Song Qi, Song Xiang and others.
Zhao Jun's followers included Li Di and Xia Song.
The others, including Fan Zhongyan, Yan Shu, Sheng Du, Zhang Shixun, Jiang Tang and others, only seemed neutral, but in fact they were still willing to follow Zhao Jun.
In addition, there are more than 20 or 30 ministers in each department, such as Du Yan, Hu Su, Li Ruogu, etc., who only have power in their own departments. When it comes to formulating national strategies, they can only obey the arrangements of the Political System Council.
In this way, as long as the Lu Party and the Wang Party do not have too much objection, the policy can be easily passed.
In fact, Zhao Jun’s main opponent in the Constitutional Council was Lu Yijian. Wang Zeng would only raise objections occasionally when he thought something was inappropriate.
As long as it was beneficial to the country, and Zhao Jun persuaded Zhao Zhen, Lu Yijian would have no way to obstruct it. For example, under the Kaocheng Law, even if his son was arrested, he would be finished as soon as Zhao Jun returned.
Therefore, most of the civil officials in the court have now accepted the reformed new official system and, under the leadership of the Political System Council, have begun to move towards vigorous development.
After his birthday, Zhao Jun dealt with state affairs while asking Fan Zhongyan to prepare to cut off the source of the problem.
Starting from January, the imperial court gradually withdrew the sons of nobles and generals from the army under various pretexts, transferring them back to Bianliang or giving them idle positions.
Among them are Ge Huaimin, Xu Huaide, Zhe Jimin, Gao Jixuan and other generals who were relatively famous in the Song-Xia War in history.
At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, there were only one or two hundred generals and nobles, but after decades of reproduction and development, there are now almost three or four generations, and their descendants have increased exponentially to tens of thousands.
Among the tens of thousands of people, there are actually not many people in the army. Many of them are from declining families and have even become beggars.
For example, "Zizhi Tongjian" records that in the 30 years after the death of Cao Han, a famous general in the early Song Dynasty, his ten sons quickly squandered the Cao family's property, and many of his grandsons became beggars.
But even if it's not many, there are still one or two thousand people.
Most of these people served as middle and lower-level officers in the army, and many directly served as battalion commanders or even held higher-level military positions. It would be difficult for ordinary people to be transferred easily, even by the emperor.
However, when Lao Fan came forward, there were almost no setbacks.
No matter whether you are a proud and brave soldier or the son of a military noble, you must obey the transfer order without any room for rebuttal.
In the final analysis, Lao Fan has defeated the Western Xia and repelled the Liao Kingdom in recent years, and his prestige in the army is very high, even higher than that of Wang Deyong, who has been promoted from Deputy Privy Envoy to Privy Envoy due to his military achievements.
Even many civil servants felt that although he was a civil servant, he was suspected of being more accomplished than his superiors, and often impeached him for possible rebellion, which shows how famous he was in the army.
After he took action, a large number of middle and lower-level noble children were transferred away with almost no disturbance.
In April, Lao Fan began to form an examination team. After the former Minister of Works Han Ju died of illness, he was replaced by Minister of Education Jia Changchao, and the Minister of Education was replaced by Fu Bi.
However, the court made another replacement, changing Fu Bi to the Minister of War, and the former Minister of War Zhang Dexiang was transferred to the Ministry of Education, and ordered Fu Bi to preside over the inventory of the number of soldiers.
Fu Bi then formed another professional team, including Zeng Lin, the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of War, Sun Kang, the Doctor of the Ministry of War, as well as Wang Anshi, Huang Shu, Su Xun and others who had just completed their three-year term as local county magistrates.
These newly admitted Jinshi are the same as the censors. They are young and energetic, and it just so happens that they have political achievements, so it is naturally more appropriate to give it to them.
As the number of officials who came back from local surveys was insufficient, Fu Bi drew troops from various departments and formed a team of more than 300 people. They set out in May of the fourth year of the Qingli period and went to various parts of the country to check the number of soldiers.
In fact, if we really want to investigate someone, there is no need to make such a big fuss. Now soldiers are stationed in various places. Except for local garrison troops, most of the soldiers are concentrated in Bianliang, Shaanxi Road and Hebei Road.
Just let the local authorities do it.
However, Zhao Jun suspected that there was more than just the problem of eating up the vacancies, and was afraid that there were other inside stories. Therefore, this team was equivalent to the court inspection team. On the surface, they were investigating people, but secretly they were investigating whether the generals and nobles had done anything bad in the army.
Their duties are equivalent to those of imperial censors. There are about two thousand battalions in the country, and each person has to check six to seven on average. After entering a battalion, not only must the higher authorities fully cooperate, but they also have the command of the battalion.
This means that if the original battalion commander is the son of a noble who has been transferred, the battalion will be directly taken over by the supervisory team.
If not, the battalion commander will also be under the command of the inspection team, and may even be isolated and detained for a period of time. He will only be released after the investigation is clear.
In order to prevent the army from becoming restless and causing internal unrest during this period, which would lead to the Western Xia and Liao seeing an opportunity and taking advantage of the situation, the court ordered the Deputy Privy Councilor Zhang Kang to lead four firearms armies to Hebei Road and ordered Wang Deyong to lead three firearms armies to Shaanxi Road.
In this way, Hebei Road and Shaanxi Road had a pure firearms team of 35,000 people, including 31,500 musketeers, 2,500 artillerymen, and about 15,000 logistics troops escorting cannons, grenades and other firearms.
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