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

"Defeat Liao and Xixia? This is not easy."

When Fan Zhongyan heard Zhao Jun's words, he laughed to himself and said: "Even if we are fully prepared, we can only deal with Xixia. How can we fight for supremacy over the Liao Kingdom with strong soldiers and horses?"

Zhao Jun glanced at Fan Zhongyan and said coldly: "If you don't think you can beat him, then you really can't."

"this"

Fan Zhongyan was stunned for a moment, then hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth and said: "Okay, even if Fan dies, he will never let Liao Ma go south."

Zhao Jun smiled and said: "It's not that serious. There are many cavalry in the Liao Kingdom. Now the Song Dynasty actually has gunpowder. I don't plan to make muskets and artillery for Zhao Zhen and the others right away, but I can get you granular gunpowder and grenades. This comparison Simple."

If muskets and artillery were built, the Song Dynasty would indeed be invincible in foreign wars, then Zhao Zhen and the others would lose the courage to reform, so sometimes they must be forced, otherwise they would not be able to achieve great things.

"Grenade?"

Fan Zhongyan wondered: "What is this?"

"You don't have to worry about it. I'll just make it for you when the time comes. As long as you can defeat Xixia and Liao, and make the Song Dynasty jump from the lowest position to the boss of the Three Kingdoms, you should be able to give Zhao Zhen some courage."

Zhao Jun said: "As long as we can fight for a few years of peace and prevent Xixia and Liao from going to the border, we can win over Zhao Zhen to support the reform. But Zhao Zhen is unreliable, so you can only rely on me."

"On you?"

"Yes, I guess Zhao Zhen will pretend to support your reform after he defeats Xixia and Liao. But is that really the reform you want?"

"you mean?"

"This group of people dare not openly ask me not to attack the scholar-bureaucrat class. They can only use conspiracy to lure me into the trap secretly. This shows that they themselves are weak and incompetent. They not only want me to keep the Song Dynasty, but also hope that I will not cause too much trouble. Big social changes are needed to maintain their power, so they hope to assimilate me.”

"Yes."

"Zhao Zhen does not dare to kill people. At most, he will depose some corrupt officials. It will be difficult to change the system without completely changing the system, so I will kill the people and you will do the work."

"You kill people and I do the work?"

Fan Zhongyan frowned and said, "It's okay if you kill one or two, but if you kill too many, will they?"

"Won't."

Zhao Jun shook his head: "Maybe they just want me to kill a few people to satisfy my desire for reform. Otherwise, do you think I can see the shortcomings of Bianliang and the world so easily?"

"you mean?"

Fan Zhongyan thought for a moment and then said: "Were those deliberately made for you to see? It should be impossible. How can they control the lives of millions of people in Bianliang?"

"They really can't control it, but they can control it and change some things before I go. It's just that it's too deliberate. I'm not stupid enough not to see it, so they decided to let it go."

Zhao Jun smiled and said: "My legs are on me, and they can't control where I go. Then why not just let me see it? After all, I have also seen the disadvantages from the history books. Why don't you go with the flow and let me kill some people?" Do something.”

"Well"

Fan Zhongyan pondered.

Zhao Jun continued: "In this way, in the future, I will find some officials who are full of evildoers and ask me to kill them. They will pretend to kill you and reform them. That will be equivalent to rectifying the officialdom, and won't it save the entire government?" Bureaucracy?"

"What you said makes sense, why didn't you think of it before?"

Fan Zhongyan was shocked.

Zhao Jun seemed to have changed a lot this night.

"Didn't I understand it before? In fact, I don't understand it now either. I only have a partial understanding of the social class situation in the Song Dynasty and the degree of corruption in the bureaucracy. The only thing I know is that they want me to go into the mountains."

Zhao Jun shook his head: "As the saying goes, "I don't know the true face of Mount Lu, it's just because I'm in this mountain." I've been deceived by too many things. I still need to see more of this world."

"Then what are your plans next?"

Fan Zhongyan asked.

Zhao Jun smiled and said: "I plan to go to Zhao Zhen first to make trouble and force him to release the authority of the Imperial City Division to the whole country, like the Jin Yiwei of the Ming Dynasty."

"Do you want to open a royal guard in the Song Dynasty?"

Fan Zhongyan was extremely shocked, and then said quickly: "You must not open this hole."

After all, he is also a member of the civil service group.

Although he dared to kill people, he did not want the judicial power of the civil service group to be taken away by the Imperial City Division.

Zhao Jun said: "Since power can be relinquished, it can also be taken back. The establishment of the Imperial City Division is just a temporary measure. We can only gather the Imperial City Division after the officialdom abuses are eradicated in the future."

"Well."

Fan Zhongyan had no choice but to say: "Then just do what you want."

"Lao Fan, it's good that you have such an awareness. You are a person who can do great things."

Zhao Jun gave a thumbs up and said: "From now on, if you continue to be a member of the scholar-bureaucrat class, pretend to have learned the lessons of history, and reduce the intensity of reform, it is best for us to become a hostile force in the future."

"Hostile force?"

Fan Zhongyan thought for a moment, lowered his head and said, "You mean the government wants us to be a hostile force?"

"Yes, I will force Zhao Zhen to reform and force him to put you in power. You only need to compromise with Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng and others, and then pretend to be good, and then bring your own people up. Zhao Zhen is afraid of cronies, so you and I Hostility will create a balance. When one day the upper echelons are all yours and I can take charge of the Imperial City Division, I will coordinate with him from the inside out and kill him to turn the world upside down and catch that guy Zhao Zhen off guard."

Zhao Jun laughed loudly. He was indeed called Old Fan. He was a little too straightforward, but that didn't stop him from being smart.

"Okay, I promise you. You're the murderer anyway, it's none of my business."

Fan Zhongyan agreed.

He thought it would be better to let Zhao Jun make trouble.

No matter how much Zhao Jun went too far, Zhao Zhen wouldn't dare to do anything to him.

As long as the scholar-officials focused their attention on Zhao Jun, he could calmly carry out reforms.

After all, if Zhao Jun really went crazy and killed people everywhere, it would be better to dismiss him from his post and exile him to Lingnan than to be investigated by the Imperial City Department for corruption and then beheaded.

In this way, if Lü Yijian, Wang Zeng and other old officials could be driven out of the court, he, Fan Zhongyan, Fu Bi, Han Qi and others would hold power. Zhao Jun would attack the officialdom from the bottom up, and they would attack the officialdom from the bottom up together. He should be able to fulfill his lifelong dream.

But then Fan Zhongyan seemed to remember something and said, "Are you still going to take the imperial examination?"

"Yes."

Zhao Jun laughed and said, "Why not? I came to see you in the morning and then went to Zhao Zhen to make trouble. That's how I should behave."

Fan Zhongyan was stunned for a moment, then laughed and said, "You are smarter than I thought."

Zhao Jun also laughed.

The current situation is that the emperor and the group of prime ministers beg him to do things, but they don't want him to make too much trouble and poke a huge hole in the officialdom.

So they plan to pull him into the system and use the system to assimilate him and prevent him from revolutionizing himself.

Therefore, Zhao Jun's participation in the imperial examination, or letting him agree to be granted the same status as a Jinshi and smoothly join the officialdom, is the most important thing for them.

The rest of the things, including what he wants, the emperor and the group of ministers will give him, even if he makes too much trouble, as long as he does not touch the basic base of the Song Dynasty scholar-official class, he will be left alone.

Obviously, this bunch of idiots are determined to use routines and freeloading, trying to open up permissions for him step by step, so that he feels that this is the path he should take.

Then they will squeeze the knowledge in his head. When he enters the system, won’t he still be wasted by the system in the end?

By then, even if Zhao Jun is promoted very quickly, from the local to the prime minister like a rocket, he will be in his thirties or forties and can’t do anything.

But how is this possible?

Since Zhao Jun agreed to come out and change the Song Dynasty, it is impossible for the people to still have the mountain of bureaucratic scholar-official class on their heads.

He needs to get rid of all the ills and press the bureaucratic scholar-official class into the ground.

But without power, he naturally has to grasp power.

And now there is an excuse.

However, in order to prevent Zhao Zhen and the ministers from seeing that he has seen through each other's ideas, he can't immediately say that he will not participate in the imperial examination.

After all, it was the top priority for those people to let him take the imperial examination and become an official. As long as Zhao Jun agreed to this, everything else could be discussed, even if he poked a hole in the sky.

So Zhao Jun decided to take advantage of the situation and temporarily take the provincial examination to fool those people. After he got the power, he didn't bother to care about the spring examination for Jinshi. Even if Lu Yijian and others begged him to take the top prize, he would abandon it like a worn-out shoe.

After discussing with Fan Zhongyan for a while, it was already the beginning of the morning hour. They talked for two hours. The two sides decided to reach a cooperation. In the future, Zhao Jun would firmly support Fan Zhongyan's reform.

The content of the reform was also very simple. Fan Zhongyan planned to carry out a large-scale cleanup of the entire officialdom, eliminate the bad apples, and solve the problem of redundant officials by the way, killing two birds with one stone.

But he would not have thought that Zhao Jun had already had the idea of ​​breaking the entire bureaucracy and carrying out a great revolution, so he decided to make other plans.

Old Fan hoped to get his help, not to mention using him, but Zhao Jun was already considering using him.

This was the first lesson that Lao Fan taught him, but he put it to good use.

"This bunch of old men wanted to plot against me. The scholars and officials of the Song Dynasty, including Emperor Zhao Zhen, were really hopelessly stupid."

"It seems that I thought too simply at the beginning. I thought that I could accomplish great things with the support of these people. In fact, Zhao Zhen was afraid of these scholars and officials, and Lu Yijian and Wang Zeng could not revolutionize themselves, so they wanted to drag me into the water."

"I don't want to be dragged into the quagmire of feudal bureaucracy by them. What revolution can we talk about then? In the final analysis, I must remember my identity. I am an outsider and a revolutionary. I can't go along with them."

"Lu Yijian and Wang Zeng, these old men, I thought they were a group of good people before, but I didn't expect that they had some private morals at most, but in fact, they were not good people. They are still the defenders of the bureaucratic system of feudal society, and we still can't think too highly of them. "

"Zhao Zhen is not honest either, and he hasn't recognized the reality. He still thinks that the scholar-official class is his biggest helper, but he doesn't know that the more power he gives to the scholar-official group, the more harm he will do to his country."

"This guy is too pitfall. When I become stronger in the future, I must establish a constitutional monarchy and sideline him. But it's not possible now. I have to pretend to be sincere for his good. "

"Well, I'll scold him later and give him some "reason". Even if it's a last resort, I may really be rebellious and have a full-scale fight with the ancestors of the side branches. "

On the way back, Zhao Jun quickly sorted out his thoughts in his mind.

Zhao Zhen cooperated with the civil service group and really wanted him to scold his mother. He was obviously a member of the Zhao clan and came to save the Song Dynasty from disaster. But in the end, he only thought about prostitution for free. He was really indifferent and could make people vomit blood.

So since Zhao Zhen is not a human being, I can't blame myself. He chose the wrong path, so he can't blame Zhao Jun for deciding to overturn the table.

After coming out of Fan Zhongyan's place, Zhao Jun asked Di Qing to summon two inspectors.

He asked Cha Zi to find Cao Xiu and tell him that he wanted to enter the palace.

When the policemen went to report, Zhao Jun went home.

He put his laptop on his back, and under the protection of Di Qing and others, he arrived outside Xihua Gate not far from Qingtai Street.

At this time, Cao Xiu was already waiting outside Xihua Gate. When he saw him coming, he wondered: "Xiao Lang, why are you suddenly going back to the palace today?"

Zhao Jun said: "I remembered something, please take me in."

"Okay, the officials have told me that if Xiao Lang wants to come back, he can come back at any time, but the officials are still in court."

After Cao Xiu said this, he hesitated and said: "What Xiaolang did yesterday has been spread out. Today, the imperial censor impeached Yu Longzhi for arresting people at will. He set up a private court and asked the officials to kill him. Di Qing, serve as a warning to others."

"hehe."

Zhao Jun sneered and said nothing.

In the past, he definitely wouldn't have thought too much. But now that I have figured it out, coupled with my previous understanding of history, I suddenly have a sense of God’s perspective.

Whether these censors were impeaching or arresting people at will, it was clearly because Di Qing and others took people to the Yulong Direct Camp and tortured them, which made the civil service group feel that the judicial power they controlled was threatened.

Therefore, they had to take action on Di Qing to prevent Zhao Zhen from having the power to assign trial rights. Let alone Di Qing being his, even if he wasn't, he still gave the order. What can Zhao Zhen do to him?

Soon, with Cao Xiu's sign clearing the way, Zhao Jun arrived at the Houyuan Guanjia Hall by following the familiar route.

Wang Shouzhong hurried over as soon as he arrived. He was accompanying Zhao Zhen at the court. When he heard the report that Zhao Jun was back, he came over immediately to inquire about the situation.

"Xiao Lang, why do you have time to come back and visit the official family today?"

Wang Shouzhong said with a smile on his face.

Zhao Jun smiled and said: "Where are those books that were left to the officials before? I plan to take some photos and reorganize the contents when the time comes. The knowledge points in these primary school textbooks are still not enough."

"this"

Wang Shouzhong hesitated for a moment.

Zhao Jun's face instantly darkened: "What? That's my thing, can't I even come back and take a photo?"

Wang Shouzhong shook his head and said: "No, it's just that these things are placed in the Guanjia Hall, and the officials have to watch them every day, but do they need to say hello to the officials?"

"Good guy, I took my things to take pictures, and I also wanted to say hello to the officials. Is there anything wrong with you?"

Zhao Jun said angrily: "You don't have to worry about this, I just took a photo."

Wang Shouzhong saw that he was really angry, so he had to shut up.

He doesn't know what taking pictures means.

Zhao Jun walked straight into the Guanjia Hall. He saw that all the books were placed on the table. It was obvious that Zhao Zhen was reading and studying every day.

Zhao Jun walked over and turned on the computer, and when he saw Wang Shouzhong watching from the side, he said, "This is a secret. Only the officials and I can see it. Do you want to be beheaded?"

Wang Shouzhong shrank his neck and left in a hurry, even closing the door when he left.

After he left, Zhao Jun used the high-definition camera that came with his laptop to take pictures of every page of all the textbooks, saved them as pictures, and then set a password for his laptop.

Then Zhao Jun searched around and found a spittoon in the Guanjia Hall, and took out the fire sickle he had obtained from Di Qing from his pocket.

He threw the book on the ground, tore each page into pieces, and threw it into the spittoon. Then he lit one of the pages with a fire sickle and threw the fire in. He didn't shout to Wang Shouzhong outside until he saw the flames rise and burn to ashes. : "Old Wang, bring up the water."

Wang Shouzhong didn't know why, and thought he wanted to drink tea, so he quickly asked the palace maid to get water.

Since Zhao Zhen now lives in the back garden, he has already carried the water on his back. Soon Wang Shouzhong took a pot of tea and hurriedly opened the door. Seeing Zhao Jun burning something, he was frightened and said: "Xiao Lang, are you there?" What to burn?"

"What do you think?"

Zhao Jun sneered.

He thought too well of Zhao Zhen before, but now that he has realized that Zhao Zhen is cowardly and incompetent and can only compromise endlessly with the scholar-bureaucrat class, he plans to put all the trump cards in his own hands without any chance. to each other.

Wang Shouzhong ran over in a hurry and poured water into it to put out the flames, but when he rescued the things from the spittoon, there was only ashes inside.

"Xiao Lang. This."

Wang Shouzhong's face turned pale.

Zhao Jun said: "It's none of your business. What are you afraid of? I have backups and I haven't destroyed them. I'm just worried that if these things get out, spies from Xixia and Liao will learn about them, which will harm the Song Dynasty." I'm afraid you don't know that Xixia and Liao have already had internal contacts in the Song Dynasty palace. "

"impossible."

Wang Shouzhong was shocked and said: "Absolutely impossible!"

"The official knows about this, you can just ask him when the time comes."

Zhao Jun sat lazily on the chair and said, "You go find the official. I'll wait for him here."

"yes."

Wang Shouzhong had no choice but to leave the hall.

He really couldn't afford to offend Zhao Jun now, so he could only let it go.

After about a quarter of an hour, Zhao Zhen barely dealt with the civil servants and hurried back.

He had heard about Zhao Jun burning everything, and asked as soon as he entered the door: "Grandson, what's wrong with you? Why did you burn all my books?"

Your books?

Zhao Jun sneered in his heart, and then said: "Your Majesty, I remembered that Xixia had so many spies in the palace. If you put the books in Guanjia Hall and they were stolen, do you know what the consequences would be?"

"This"

Zhao Zhen was dumbfounded, because he remembered that Zhao Jun did say this.

Then he could only say: "Then these things can't be destroyed, so it's better to hide them."

"Don't worry, I hid them all in the computer."

Zhao Jun pointed to the notebook and said: "By the way, I came here today to find the emperor. Cao Xiu should have told you about the Wuyou Cave."

"Alas."

Speaking of this, Zhao Zhen sighed: "Grandson, you are too impulsive. How could you let Di Qing and others set up a private court? Do you know that more than a dozen censors impeached me this morning and forced me to execute Di Qing!"

Zhao Jun looked at Zhao Zhen with a bad face. Zhao Zhen was a little scared by being stared at. He was confused and said: "Grandson, is there something on my face?"

"Yes, there are three words written all over your face, you are seriously ill!"

Zhao Jun stared at him and said word by word: "Grandson, are you, what is seriously ill?"