The emperor and his ministers of the Song Dynasty held a meeting in Guanjia Hall for an entire afternoon. Although most of the work could only be done after Zhao Jun's eyes recovered, it was not true that nothing was accomplished.
For example, they have made a rough plan for their future development direction.
The first thing is to wait until Zhao Jun's eyes recover, and then see if he can help the Song Dynasty solve the three redundancies, strengthen the country, and develop the Song Dynasty's military power.
As long as the Song Dynasty's military force can withstand the attacks of the Liao Kingdom and the Western Xia, there is no need to expect to destroy the Xia and Liao immediately. In this way, they will have enough time to free up their hands to solve internal problems.
Such as the harm of the three redundancies, the tax system, fiscal expenditure, education reform, etc. At that time, we can send a fleet to sea to look for rubber and oil, and ask Zhao Jun to help fill in the missing scientific system problems and find the missing deduction parts in science.
After that, it was a natural progression. The Industrial Revolution began, and the country rose rapidly, dominating the East, kicking Xixia and punching Liao. They conquered a vast territory, then colonized the world, becoming the world hegemon, with a red flag full of blue stars!
certainly.
These people have some beautiful ideas about the future.
In fact, if Zhao Jun heard the grand blueprint he painted for himself, he would probably be so happy that his stomach would hurt.
However, they are not just talking big, and they still put forward some constructive solutions.
For example, the Jiaoyin method is one of the redundant methods. The three ministers and three representatives all believe that they should fully support Li Zi's Jianqian method and carry out effective rectification.
As for the problem of lack of money, Shengdu needs to increase its efforts to get the Jiaozi business done as soon as possible, quickly absorb cash into the national treasury, and solve the treasury's losses.
In addition, since the problem of redundant soldiers cannot be solved in a short time, we should promote capable generals first.
For example, let Di Qing lead a small number of troops and train a group of elite soldiers so that he will not be too passive when going to war with Western Xia in the future.
So in the next few days, Zhao Zhen and others, apart from attending Zhao Jun's lectures, basically spent the rest of their time busy with these important matters. On the contrary, Yan Shu took a few days off because of his wife's illness and did not come.
Soon, by mid-May, one and a half months had passed since Zhao Jun arrived in the Song Dynasty, and some small changes had taken place in the court during these few days.
First, Yan Shu was dismissed from his post as Minister of Punishments and Chief Censor, and was changed to Minister of Revenue and Deputy Envoy of the Three Departments.
The Three Envoys are not able to control everything on their own, but are restrained by deputy envoys.
Officials in the Song Dynasty were countless. In later generations in my country, a county, a city, or a province generally had one chief and six to ten deputy officials. Under normal circumstances, there was about one chief and six deputy officials.
The Song Dynasty was very strange. It was not a question of one principal and several deputies, but more than a dozen principals and dozens of deputies.
For example, there were probably hundreds of such officials as the Chief Secretary of the Imperial Household Department and the Judge of the Dali Court in Bianliang.
Every year, new scholars who pass the imperial examination are basically awarded these two official positions.
There were also many judges and prosecutors in Kaifeng Prefecture, but many of them were part-time officials, just in name only, and the division of responsibilities was not clear.
The current head of the Three Departments is Cheng Lin, and under him are the deputy heads of the Salt and Iron Department, the Ministry of Revenue, and the Ministry of Households. The deputies have deputies themselves. It can be said that there are more than a dozen senior ministers in the Three Departments alone, and the order in the officialdom is very chaotic.
Originally, the brothers Zhao Da and Zhao Er wanted to rely on this method to reduce the power of officials and increase the imperial power. In this way, combined with the military power that was tightly held by the emperor after he founded the country, the officials' governance power and military power were greatly weakened and all were held in the hands of the emperor, which greatly increased the central power.
But the emperor alone certainly could not handle so many things. As a result, there were too many officials and the division of powers among those in charge was chaotic, resulting in two major problems: redundant officials and redundant soldiers.
However, thanks to this broken system of the Song Dynasty, the deputies of various departments and the deputies of the deputies often have little power. For example, the financial power of the Three Departments is basically in the hands of several prime ministers and the Three Departments Envoys. The Three Departments' deputy envoys and others are more of a decoration. If you want to lie down and do nothing, it is a good choice for you.
So Yan Shu had some free time.
There was not much surprise in the court about this.
The main reason was that Yan Shu had been elusive during this period, and he had not done his job as Chief Censor at all. He was nowhere to be seen all day, and was unanimously impeached by the Censorate and the Court of Remonstration. It was normal that he was demoted to Deputy Envoy of the Three Departments.
What's more, this is not a demotion, but a lateral transfer or even a promotion.
Because in terms of rank, Yan Shu's official positions were second-rank Minister of Punishments and Minister of Revenue, Chief Censor, and Deputy Envoy of the Three Departments, all of which were dispatched officials without specific ranks.
So, in terms of rank, he was transferred from the second rank. In terms of assignment, because the Deputy Envoy of the Three Departments was a senior official second only to the Prime Minister, Vice Prime Minister, and Minister of Finance, he had certain financial power. Furthermore, he no longer had to work at the Censorate, so he had more time to slack off.
The court officials thought that this was another great victory for the Lu Party and that it was a clever move by Prime Minister Lu Yijian to place someone in the Three Commissioners position to control power.
But no one could have imagined that Yan Shu was promoted to Deputy Envoy of the Three Departments entirely because Zhao Zhen needed him to have more time to slack off, stay by Zhao Jun's side every day, and not have to worry about the trivial matters in the court.
This led to the court officials misunderstanding some things. Some time ago, the Fan Party was in power and had defeated some people from the Lu Party. Many officials wanted to be fence-sitters and were ready to follow the Fan Party to deal with Lu Yijian.
As a result, with Yan Shu's promotion, the wind suddenly turned back. Many people thought that the Lu party had become powerful again, so they turned their guns on the Fan party. The memorials impeaching Fan Zhongyan flew like snowflakes onto the desk in Zhao Zhen's imperial study, which was unexpected.
But these are all small things.
The censors in the Song and Ming dynasties had great power. They didn't necessarily care who was in power, nor did they care who was loyal and who was treacherous between Fan Zhongyan and Lu Yijian. It was just that some people acted like fence-sitters during this period, and together with the original members of the Lu Party, the Lu Party seemed to be more powerful because of everyone working together.
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