In the Song Dynasty, there was no law or order.

When Zhao Jun saw the human trafficker again, an emotion so angry that he couldn't attach it surged to his forehead.

Human trafficking, just released in two or three days?

Maybe not even two or three days, but released on the spot. At that time, they were not sent to the Yamen, but to the drug store.

The righteous and awe-inspiring government official heard that they didn't seem to know each other, and the government official was quite resentful of Wuyou Cave, so he believed what he said.

After all, Zhao Jun believes that even if there are a large number of officials colluding with local forces, not everyone can be like this, there must still be righteous people.

Now it seems that Zhao Jun was naive and overthinking.

Not only did they come out quickly, they even came boldly to take revenge on themselves. The gangs and government officials in Bianliang were basically rotten to the core. They didn't even act, and they were extremely arrogant.

At that moment, Zhao Jun felt that anger surged into Tianling Gai, and said to Di Qing and the others: "Just do whatever you want."

"call out!"

Di Qing blew the whistle.

In an instant, the alleys and alleys were in chaos.

I don't know how many policemen from the Imperial City Department walked out of the crowd and started to clear out these people.

Things went away as quickly as they came. The night market crowd who had noticed something was wrong had just retreated away from the alley, and the people in the alley had already been cleared away.

But at this time, Zhao Jun was no longer in the mood to visit the night market. He asked Di Qing to capture these people at the Yulong Direct Camp, torture them and interrogate them, and collect a large amount of evidence from these people.

That night he wrote down what he had seen and heard in Bianliang in the past twenty days. He also sorted out the evidence of collusion between gang members and officials, including both witnesses and physical evidence.

Early the next morning, with a pair of panda eyes, he angrily headed straight to Fan Zhongyan's mansion.

Fan Zhongyan has stopped going to court recently.

In the past, he had to go to Houyuan to find Zhao Jun every day, but now he stayed at home all day long to study the situation in the northwest, waiting for Lu Yijian to recommend him to go to Shaanxi in the future, so he lived a leisurely life.

Before dawn, Zhao Jun rushed outside his house and knocked on the door "dong dong dong".

"I'm coming."

The housekeeper hurriedly came over to open the door, stuck his head out to take a look, and asked, "Excuse me."

Zhao Jun barely suppressed his anger and said: "Tell Mr. Xiwen that Zhao Jun is visiting."

"OK."

The housekeeper saw that these people outside were holding weapons and felt a little weak, so he immediately closed the door and went to report.

But he quickly came over to open the door and respectfully invited them in.

Because Fan Zhongyan was in the main hall at this time, not far from the door, he immediately asked the butler to welcome them in.

At this moment, the Fan Mansion had already lit lanterns. Zhao Jun walked in quickly and saw Fan Zhongyan drinking tea leisurely. He said angrily: "Mr. Xiwen is so leisurely."

Fan Zhongyan put down the tea and the map of northwest China he was looking at, and said with a smile: "What, is there something wrong?"

"Of course there is something."

Zhao Jun slapped what he had written on his desk and asked: "Weren't you the governor of Kaifeng before? Is this the Kaifeng mansion under your rule? We met an individual trafficker on the street a few days ago. I stole someone else’s child, and the government officials came and took it away. They came to take revenge on us last night!”

"You guys go out first."

Fan Zhongyan glanced at the housekeeper and Di Qing who were staying close by, and said, "I have something to tell Zhao Jun."

Di Qing looked at Zhao Jun, who suppressed his anger and said, "You guys get out."

"Yes, Xiao Lang."

Everyone went out, and soon only two people were left in the hall.

"Sit down first."

Fan Zhongyan gestured to the seat next to him and said with a smile: "You are just a little impulsive and can't hide things."

Zhao Jun glanced at him and said, "Aren't you the same?"

"That was when I was young. It's much better now, but I have definitely made sure of some things and won't look back."

Fan Zhongyan said.

Zhao Jun sat down and said, "Give me an explanation."

"What's the explanation?"

Fan Zhongyan glanced at the paper Zhao Jun put on the table and said: "To be honest, I don't even want to read these things of yours, because I know countless times more than you do. The dirty things in Kaifeng Mansion are far worse than you think. Be wonderful.”

Zhao Jun laughed angrily and said, "Is this your attitude towards the people?"

"It's not you, it's them."

Fan Zhongyan shook his head: "I want to change some things, but do you know who is standing behind them? Do you know that the countless memorials I wrote to the officials were like mud and nothing?"

"Do you know that the people I arrested in the morning were released by the government officials at night? I punished the government officials and officials, but they started to do nothing and made countless excuses? Even if the people were replaced, the new ones would not be able to do anything. People are still like that.”

"Also in the first year of Jingyou's reign, I called Suzhou to impeach "officials big and small in Suzhou, doing their best to embezzle and enrich themselves." As a result, none of the impeached officials were dealt with, and all of them were promoted step by step."

"Starting from the Zhenzong Dynasty, the regulations of the previous dynasty regarding the removal of corrupt officials and their names and distribution to various states were changed. Not only could they be released, but they could also be "reasoned" and promoted in different grades."

"And starting from March of the seventh year of Dazhong Xiangfu, Zhenzong issued an edict. From now on, if officials in various states are guilty, as long as they surrender before being exposed, they can be ignored. It is precisely because of the imperial court's appeasement and connivance that many corrupt officials The dirty officials will become more emboldened and unscrupulous.”

"Nowadays, the government's leniency in government affairs is even worse than that of the Zhenzong. Among the officials in the world, eight out of ten are corrupt. To put it bluntly, it would not be too much to dismiss all of these tens of thousands of officials. But can I do it? ?I can't do anything."

At the end, Fan Zhongyan let out a long sigh and said: "No matter what happens with your appearance, it will not change the fact that the officialdom is what it is now."

"I"

Zhao Jun was stunned for a moment, as if he had figured something out in his mind, his eyes widened and he said, "You mean, I can't actually do anything?"

"No."

Fan Zhongyan said: "You can help them create thermal weapons, help them with the industrial revolution, and help them increase productivity. But if you want to change the officialdom, change the land annexation, and change the current situation where corrupt officials are rampant, you can't."

"Why?"

Zhao Jun couldn't help but said: "The officials have promised me to change everything."

"Do you remember what you said? As long as productivity continues to expand indefinitely, the people will always have a way to survive and will not rebel. What's more, you also said that as long as the Song Dynasty existed, peasant uprisings would not pose much of a threat to the Song Dynasty. "

Fan Zhongyan sneered and said: "Zhao Jun, I find that you are as naive as I was when I was young. You naively believe in everyone's words, but you don't know that sometimes, you still need to be more careful."

Zhao Jun felt blood rushing to his forehead for an instant, and then his anger could no longer be suppressed, and he shouted: "That's why they gave me Tong Jinshi's birthplace? I stupidly believed it, and I thought that Tongjinshi's birthplace was My official status is low, I want to take the first prize! It turns out it’s all fake.”

"It can't be considered fake."

Fan Zhongyan shook his head and said: "What they need is for you to join them. Maybe you were ambitious when you first joined and wanted to change the officialdom. As a result, it took decades. The more you know, the more desperate you feel, and you have long since lost your original enthusiasm. So when they ask you to join, they don’t ask you to do nothing, they just ask you to do things that are good for them, not things that are bad for them.”

"Then let them help change the difficulty of the imperial examination, and they still push back and block?"

Zhao Jun was puzzled.

Fan Zhongyan smiled and said: "If you don't do this, how can you know that this official position is hard-won? Only by doing this can you know that you can become an official because of their charity, not because they are begging you."

"Then you still opposed it with them?"

Zhao Jun looked unhappy.

He was among the people who advised me at that time. Why didn't I tell him in the first place?

"I couldn't say anything to you at that time. I might as well be with them and let them feel that I am on their side."

Fan Zhongyan shook his head and said: "And you actually don't know much about the Song Dynasty. Only if you have a deep understanding of the situation in the Song Dynasty will you know how difficult the reform in our history was. Now that you have looked around, you can understand the tip of the iceberg. To be so angry and come to me angrily, isn’t this what I want to see? To be honest, if you didn’t come to me, I still wouldn’t tell you this.”

"It turns out it was all a conspiracy."

Zhao Jun has a big mouth.

"It's not a conspiracy, it's their instinct."

Fan Zhongyan sighed: "Your existence has seriously threatened them. They are afraid that if you really gain power, you will change the entire official order, so they can only let you enter this order."

Zhao Jun understood a lot instantly.

No wonder Zhao Zhen gave him the same background as a Jinshi when he opened his mouth.

What he considered at that time was that the Song Dynasty was not like the Ming Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, you did not need to be an official. You could follow the Jinyiwei system, have jurisdiction over the officialdom, and have the power of life and death.

But that didn't work in the Song Dynasty. The power system in the Song Dynasty had one and only one, and that was officialdom.

Military generals and imperial officials are nothing in front of the civil servant group.

So he didn't think too much about it at the time, and felt that there was nothing wrong with joining the bureaucracy, first understanding the bureaucracy, and then reforming the bureaucracy.

But if you think about it carefully, as an outsider with knowledge, it is easy to make people inside the system deeply afraid, so the most reassuring way is to pull people into the system. First, it is controllable, and second, the system is the easiest thing to subtly intimidate people. Assimilate away.

As long as Zhao Jun does not move the official base, the emperor and ministers can feel at ease, then reform thermal weapons, carry out the first industrial revolution, and spread the mathematical, physical and chemical knowledge in his mind.

After that, the productivity of the Song Dynasty increased, and with hot weapons such as flintlocks and cannons, they were able to form a weapon-dimensional reduction blow to Xixia and Liao. Then they no longer had to worry about foreign enemies before, and could just muddle along and maintain themselves. To rule the country, as long as you don't panic in your heart.

Fortunately, I listened to Yan Shu and thought of helping Zhao Zhen and the others. Then I felt that what they said was right, you should enter the system and understand the system in order to change the system.

It turns out that all this is their conspiracy, or that this is all what they are doing instinctively.

They say they support their own reforms.

In fact, when I enter the system and reach that position, where my butt determines my head, then I will probably have a lot more worries and will not dare to be as ruthless as I said before.

After all, no one would take his own life.

They want to become theirs and join in their evil deeds!

Zhao Jun understood everything in an instant, figured out many things at once, and his mind was much clearer than when he was admitted to the National People's Congress.

Fan Zhongyan didn't speak, and continued to drink tea and wait quietly.

"Got to kill someone!"

After a while, Zhao Jun suddenly said.

"Have you figured it out?"

Fan Zhongyan asked.

"I figured it out."

Zhao Jun nodded: "I'm very angry now, so I have two options. One is to screw up and I quit."

"What about two?"

Fan Zhongyan asked.

"If you want to break this officialdom, you must kill people, you must get the authority to kill people!"

Zhao Jun thought of the insensitive expressions he had seen in the outer city these days and the hateful face of the human trafficker.

What caused all this was not that the common people did not work hard and make money to support themselves, but that their efforts were taken away by the people above and nothing was left for them.

He suddenly thought of "Ma Zhe" and "Selected Works" again.

It turns out that this is called theory and practice. I used to just read about it in books, but I won’t understand it until I actually see it.

"I'm afraid it will be difficult to kill people. Let alone killing people, it's not easy to even guess what they say."

Fan Zhongyan laughed at himself: "It turns out that there is a promotion official in Kaifeng Mansion. The crimes he committed are not excessive even if he is cut in half. Do you know what he did?"

"What have you done?"

"In order to solve the case, this man arrested an innocent beggar, cut off his fingers in front of everyone, and forced him to admit the crime. In order to seize a family's ancestral painting, he fabricated charges and locked them up. Then he ordered the government officials to beat people to death, and also asked the people from Wuyou Cave to capture some fifteen-year-old girls for him to have sex with. Do you know what the officials did after I impeached him? "

Zhao Jun was shocked by the crime committed by that man and wanted to know how Zhao Zhen would respond, so he quickly asked: "How?"

"He was sent to another place to be a county magistrate, and soon he was transferred to another place and became a magistrate."

Fan Zhongyan smiled: "Such examples are everywhere in the Song Dynasty. Officials actually wanted to change, but every time they wanted to do it, everyone was in danger. The initial handling of Xia Shou'en triggered a wave of opposition from both the government and the public. In the end, when the evidence was conclusive, he was reluctantly dismissed from office and exiled, but that was all. This was because Xia Shouen was not from the imperial examination. If he had been a Jinshi, nothing would have happened. "

At this moment, Zhao Jun only felt anger gushing out, and a deep sense of powerlessness. He leaned back on the chair suddenly, raised his head and looked at the ceiling, his eyes were blank and said: "Such a great Song Dynasty, it is better to be destroyed and start again." Come and have a good time!”