The first emperor of the Song Dynasty

Chapter 48
"You actually think things are too complicated. What I mean is not that the court should support these people, but that our court has set up a special institution to provide these wounded and disabled soldiers with a money-making activity to support their families. People can’t do heavy farm work, so let them raise chickens and pigs, all of these can be done.” Zhao Huan suggested.

There are many welfare enterprises in later generations, and the state will give these enterprises corresponding preferential tax policies. Now Zhao Huan has obtained corresponding inspiration from this aspect.

Hearing what Zhao Huan said, the eyes of the two couldn't help but brighten up, especially Zhu Shengfei, he was even more happy. Now, as long as he is not allowed to spend money, he is happy.

"Your Majesty, I think this is feasible. In this way, on the one hand, the frontline soldiers will have less worries, and on the other hand, it can increase the government's financial revenue. It really kills two birds with one stone." Zhu Shengfei agreed.

Li Gang didn't even have any opinion. As Minister of the Ministry of War, he was able to obtain such benefits for his subordinates, so he naturally agreed with both hands.

"Okay, let's discuss the specific details again. What I mentioned just now is just an idea. You can continue to refine it. For example, let them do different jobs according to the condition of the disabled. When the time comes, you will write a booklet and bring it up to the public. Let me take a look, if there is no problem, go to Su Weikang to approve a piece of land, and then start planning the matter." Zhao Huan ordered.

Li Gang and Zhu Shengfei took orders and left.

After Zhao Huan became the emperor, he really realized that when doing one thing, if the leader pays attention to it, the efficiency is really high, but if the people below want to promote one thing, the difficulty It's really surprisingly big, but now it's a troubled time. Although Zhao Huan discovered many shortcomings of the Song Dynasty, such as the complicated organization and serious problems of buying and selling officials, he has never had time to solve it. Everything has to wait until the end of the war. , Let's settle accounts after another autumn.

Let’s talk about Cai Jing on the other side. After leaving Bianjing City, he felt a little sentimental in his heart. Unwilling Cai Jing wrote a memorial to Song Huizong Zhao Ji: "In 81, there was no home three thousand miles away. Looking at Shenzhou from a distance, I shed tears. The Golden Palace paid homage five times, and the Jade Hall preached hemp ten times. Reminiscing about the prosperity of the past has turned into a dream here."

Cai Jing hoped that he could ask for Zhao Ji's mercy through this poem, but it was a pity that this poem could not be delivered to Zhao Ji in the end.

The so-called tea is cold, and the news of Cai Jing's resignation and return to his hometown spread like wildfire. Soon, in the early morning of the next day, a large number of speech officials and imperial officials began to impeach Cai Jing, and the imperial servants Sun Zhi and others began to write letters Trying to state Cai Jing's treachery, Tai student Chen Dong directly wrote a letter, calling Cai Jing "the head of the six thieves".

Zhao Huan looked at the thick pile of memorials denouncing Cai Jing in front of him, and shook his head helplessly. This group of people is really powerful. Why did they go so early? They waited until they lost power before submitting the memorial. It will really make things worse.

"Look, this thick stack of memorials, do you know what it is?" Zhao Huan asked many ministers, pointing to the half-person-high memorial in front of him.

The ministers who can stand here are all good people. Naturally, they know what the memorial in front of Zhao Huan is, but they don't understand the meaning of Zhao Huan's question at this time.

Shi Yushi Sun Zhi stood up and said: "Your Majesty, this is the memorial to the impeachment charges against Cai Jing."

"Hmph, you also know that this is a memorial to the impeachment of Cai Jing? I looked at it and found that the earliest charges were 20 years ago, and it was all 20 years ago. You are only now writing a letter to impeach, 20 years ago. What have you speech officials been doing before? In the past 20 years, do your calculations, how much loss have you brought to the court and the people? Can you afford this responsibility?" Zhao Huan threw a memorial heavily go down.

All the ministers hurriedly knelt down and confessed.

"Plead guilty and plead guilty. You are indeed guilty. What is the purpose of the imperial court to support you speech officials and imperial officials? You are idlers?" Zhao Huan reprimanded sharply: "You are my eyes and ears. What you hear and see, and report it to me in time, is to serve the court and live up to the country’s grace, and it’s not like this, wait until the person is gone, and then you come to impeach, do you think it’s too late?”

Many imperial historians dare not speak out to refute. In fact, they are also suffering in their hearts. In the past, Cai Jing was an extremely human minister, and the Supreme Emperor Zhao Ji relied heavily on Cai Jing. At the beginning, someone wrote a letter to impeach Cai Jing, but in the end it was all over. Instead, Cai Jing retaliated against this person. After a long time, these people naturally did not dare to touch Cai Jing anymore.

Zhao Huan naturally knew this truth. The reason why he said this now was not to blame these people for anything. The so-called upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked. Huan is doing this now to show that he wants these censors to fulfill their duties of supervising all officials.

Cai Jing came all the way to Tanzhou, but he couldn't go any further.

In Chongjiao Temple, Cai Jing has long lost his former style. The 81-year-old Cai Jing is skinny and skinny.

"Cai Gui, haven't you got something to eat yet?" Cai Jing's voice was exhausted.

"Master, the common people heard that it was the Cai family who wanted to buy something, but they didn't sell it. Master, we have used up our last bit of dry food, what should we do now?" Cai Gui said helplessly. It was quite a year, and the Cai family was prominent for a while, what? He received such treatment back then, but now, he actually pulled ten carts worth of money, but he couldn't even buy a little food.

Hearing what Cai Gui said, Cai Jing couldn't help laughing, smiled and laughed, and burst into tears again, and couldn't help but sighed: "Jing loses people's hearts, why did this happen, why did this happen! Sad! Sad Huh! Sad!"

Cai Jing yelled "Sorrowful" three times in a row, closed his eyes, and died!
The final fate of a generation of traitors turned out to be to die in a foreign country, and finally starved to death in Tanzhou, which is what they deserved.

Afterwards, Zhao Huan issued a statement denouncing Cai Jing as "the head of the six thieves" and confiscated all the gold, silver and jewelry in Cai Jing's family. This time, Zhao Huan's pockets not only swelled up again, but the six cancers of the cheap daddy era have also been suppressed. He got rid of three.

The war between Song and Jin was still in a stalemate, but the Song army had faintly changed from a disadvantage to an advantage, especially after Zhending's great victory, at least in terms of numbers, the Song army was already comparable to the Jin army.

(End of this chapter)