Most of the people who should be impeached were impeached. Except for Fan Zhongyan, the three prime ministers and three envoys, including Lü Yijian, Wang Zeng, Wang Sui, Song Shou, Cai Qi, and Sheng Du, as well as the three-commissioned envoy Cheng Lin and the Privy Councilor Li Zi, were impeached several times every day. It was very common.
Therefore, this little commotion in the court did not cause any trouble.
To the emperor, if you can use it smoothly, then the memorials impeaching you are no different from the paper used to wipe your butt. If you can't use it smoothly and are disobedient, then it's another matter.
In addition to Yan Shu, there was another small matter.
For the first time, the emperor inspected the imperial guards, and even went to the outermost Imperial Dragon Guards, saying that he wanted to see the might of the Song Dynasty's Imperial Guards.
The Imperial Guard was divided into five layers. The first layer consisted of the Imperial City's personal guards. The second layer consisted of the Kuanyi Tianwu (Tianwu) (Kuanyi Tianwu). The third layer consisted of the Imperial Dragon's bow and arrow officers and crossbow officers. The fourth layer consisted of the Imperial Dragon's bone and flower bud officers. The fifth layer consisted of the Imperial Dragon's guards. These five layers of guards, from the inner to the outer, protected the Emperor in the center.
In the past, the Song Dynasty emperor relied more on the imperial city officials, but after the emperor went to the Imperial Dragon Guard, he praised a random officer, saying that his team was well-trained and very powerful, and promoted him to the third shift, palace attendant and camp commander.
This string of official titles sounds quite majestic and impressive, but in reality, they are just like that.
Because the three shifts and palace attendants were military positions without rank, they served as security guards in the imperial palace, and were referred to as sword-bearing guards in front of the emperor.
Among them, the commander of the Yulong direct camp is the best. He is a low-level officer, equivalent to the commander of a battalion of 500 people.
The problem is that he was a dragon rider before.
What is Sanzhi?
He was a small team leader of soldiers, with five subordinates, and was later commonly known as the squad leader.
What does it mean to be promoted from a random helicopter to a battalion commander?
A conscript squad leader of the Capital Military Region was appointed as the battalion commander of the Zhongnanhai Guard Battalion. This is a very high level of promotion.
Besides, everyone knew that the emperor was coming to inspect. Even if the imperial guards were terrible, everyone would put on a good show during the inspection. They would stand straight with their chests puffed out, and their appearance was no worse than that of the small casualties.
But the emperor only praised the young and independent man named Di Qing, and made him the commander of the camp at a young age, which reached the ears of the emperor. What does this mean?
All of a sudden, all the powerful people heard the news and started to inquire whether this kid named Di Qing had any amazing background and whether he was a relative of a general.
However, the Song Dynasty's Bianliang City was always a place full of surprises. The story of Yan Shu and Di Qing was not a big deal at first, and it was only circulated in a small range. A few days later, the government came up with something else that became a big deal.
Your Majesty must resolutely refuse the repeated requests of Li Zi, the Privy Councilor, to resign, and must intensify the efforts, or Cai Qi, Cheng Lin, Du Yan, Ding Du and others must fully cooperate to implement the law of seeing money as soon as possible.
At the same time, he announced to all the ministers that the court would set up a Jiaozi shop in the city, and any high-ranking official or wealthy businessman with a net worth of more than 200,000 strings of cash could deposit their money in the Jiaozi shop for use in business.
This matter was presided over by Sheng Du, the Vice Minister of State Affairs. All those who deposited money, regardless of their status, had to undergo a screening process. Not only was their wealth considered, but also their fixed assets and the size of their businesses. Moreover, if they deposited money into a Jiaozi shop, they had to pay a considerable deposit.
Jiaozi shops had been around for over twenty years, and all officials knew about them. However, until then, they had always been run by private individuals or local government officials in Sichuan Province. This was the first time they had been established in Bianliang, the capital of the Song Dynasty.
So all the officials were confused about what was going on and just waited and watched.
However, soon as Shengdu organized the "Jiaozi Office", which included the "Paper Copying Office", "Storage Office", "Seal Office" and other institutions, and learned about the actual use of Jiaozi, they began to clamor.
Since the Song Dynasty only restricted officials from engaging in commercial activities and did not suppress government offices and their families from doing business, all high-ranking officials became extremely wealthy.
Many business tycoons were simply relatives of high-ranking officials. Therefore, after Shengdu began to prepare for the Jiaozi shop, he immediately asked the government to send people from the Imperial City Bureau to get a list of officials whose family businesses were rich and talk to them one by one.
Those with abundant family wealth, such as Lu Yijian, Song Shou, and Wang Zeng, immediately sent their family members to sign up, dug out the copper coins hidden in their home cellars, and sent them to the Jiaozi shop to exchange them for silver notes.
For a time, the Jiaozi Shop incident became a hot topic in recent days, and many well-informed officials immediately asked their families to withdraw the money and deposit it in the Jiaozi Shop.
Although a considerable deposit had to be paid to deposit money in the Jiaozi shop, doing business was indeed much more convenient with the silver bills, and the reduced costs were much greater than the deposit. Therefore, all Bianliang merchants who had business dealings with Chengdu went to the Jiaozi shop to deposit money.
However, those who came were either like Lu Yijian and Song Shou, who deposited their money there just to show off, or those who had business dealings in Chengdu. There were countless commercial tycoons in the entire Song Dynasty, but the people who came here accounted for less than one percent of them.
After all, business was extremely prosperous during the Northern Song Dynasty.
In addition to Bianliang and Chengdu, the two most prosperous commercial centers, there are also Luoyang, Fuzhou, Jiangning (Nanjing), Chang'an, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Jiangling, Mingzhou (Ningbo), Quanzhou, Mizhou (Qingdao) and other places, all of which are large cities with extremely developed and prosperous commerce.
Especially in the southeastern coastal areas, such as Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Mingzhou, Quanzhou and Mizhou, there are overseas shipping offices, which are trading ports on the Maritime Silk Road.
There was an endless stream of merchants coming and going from all over the place. Opening only Jiaozi shops in Chengdu and Bianliang only covered the Jiaozi routes between Bianliang and Chengdu, which was of little significance to merchants on other commercial routes.
Therefore, in the entire business community of the Song Dynasty, the establishment of Jiaozi Shop did not cause any waves.
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