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Chapter 8: One Family Cries and One State Cries

In the hall, Zhao Lei formally requested the right to take back the Tie Case and the Zhou Case. Ye Qingchen agreed so easily, but the matter was expected by everyone. Ye Qingchen agreed directly to Zhao Lei's request without even thinking about it. In this way, Zhao Lei easily took back the Tie Case and the Military Arts Institute, merged with the State-owned Assets Agency, officially grasped the power and became the veritable ninth official.

Under the slanting wind and drizzle, the construction site of the State-owned Assets Agency's yamen is still in full swing. Since Zhao Lei asked Ye Qingchen, the Sansi to meet the Iron and Zhou cases a few days ago, he finally had financial power. With the confidence in his heart, he waved his hand to add 30% of the construction workers. With the stimulation of money, the construction efficiency of the State-owned Assets Agency's project has improved by leaps and bounds, and there is a sign of overnight completion.

In the most secret courtyard of the State-owned Assets Academy, Zhao Lei, Zeng Gongliang and others were planning to establish a steel plant. The steel plant was no more than other workshops. Steelmaking blast furnaces needed hydraulic support. Although the State-owned Assets Academy was close to the Bian River, it was not by the river after all, and the digging of canals was too slow, so Zhao Lei had to expand the State-owned Assets Academy and prepare to enclose the empty place near the Bian River in the north of the State-owned Assets Academy into the State-owned Assets Academy.

Behind Zhao Lei, Su Xun, Qu Xifan and Pang Bai were facing a bunch of copywriting, looking through the bitter and revengeful look carefully.

"What are Mr. Su and the others doing?" After discussing the site of the steel plant, Ding Du finally found out the abnormality of Su Xun and others, and asked Zhao Lei in confusion.

"Check the account, the account of the coal case." Zhao Lei explained to Ding Du with a smile.

"What's the use of checking that?" Ding Du asked in confusion.

"When the New Army Logistics Office was in the Song Dynasty, the use of coal was saturated. Basically, every household in the Song Dynasty used coal stoves. The burning material such as firewood had almost disappeared from the people's homes, so the monthly coal sales volume of Song Dynasty was roughly digitized. Comparing the accounts of the New Army Logistics Office and looking at the accounts over the years, we can clearly know where private coal is used. With a goal, we can clearly find out those people who mine coal privately, find them, and search for home property. The problem of temporary shortage of funds in the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Institute will be solved." Zhao Lei said to Ding Du with a sneer.

"Where is Lord Ye?" Ding Du suddenly thought of Ye Qingchen, the backstage of the coal case, and said hesitantly.

"Why did Ye Qingchen hand over the iron and Zhou cases so easily at the last court meeting? It was because I had compromised with him on the issue of coal cases, and his hands and feet on the coal case were clean. I would not go to get old accounts for the families with deep relationship with him, but no one else could be let go of." Zhao Lei continued to sneer.

"What are you using to detect those people who mine coal mines privately?" Ding Du asked in confusion.

"The official has promised me to use secret guards to reconnaise those people." Zhao Lei said with a confidential smile.

Ding Du pondered for a while and felt that there was no problem with this matter, so he took the initiative to join the account checklist. Zhao Lei, Xue Xiang and Zeng Gongliang were not idle either. For a moment, several people in the room began to fight with the account book.

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In the evening, the sky was filled with fire. In the study in the district of the State-owned Assets Hospital, Zhao Lei, who had been working hard for a day, sent Ding Du away, Zeng Gongliang and Xue Xiang were about to leave the State-owned Assets Hospital. Suddenly, Ding Du and the other two returned to the yamen.

"Why are you back?" Zhao Lei looked at Ding Du and the other two in confusion and asked.

"The official documents sent by the Secretary of the Central Committee were sent by the Censor of the Three Prefectures. Lord Fan asked the clerk to copy them to various yamen. He had just sent them to the State-owned Assets Academy, so we came back together." Ding Du said after taking out a document and handing it to Zhao Lei.

After taking the official document and reading it carefully, Zhao Lei shook his head and said to others: "There are all prefectures around Bianjing. There are 31 officials in the places where the political review is not qualified this time, including one magistrate, one hundred and thirty prefectures in the Song Dynasty. If ten people fail the political review in a state, the new policy will dismiss the official positions of 1,300 officials. The entire Song Dynasty court has only more than 4,000 actual positions. If one third is removed, the government affairs in various places will definitely be in chaos for a while."

"It turns out it was him. I know this magistrate and is well-known in the literary world. In the seventh year of Tiansheng, he was of the same age as Song Yang. He heard that the relationship between them was quite good. Fan Zhongyan would do nothing but do not practice. The magistrate committed 17 unjust cases and 29 unjust cases in the magistrate. No way! There are more magistrates than magistrates. In theory, the magistrates have tried far fewer cases than magistrates!" Xue Xiang looked at the official document that Zhao Lei came over and said in surprise when he saw the name of the magistrate.

"The cases in the state are more complicated than those in the county and are more likely to be deceived. This magistrate is definitely not very smart." Zhao Lei said with a sarcastic smile.

"Even if he is not smart and deceived, he will be demoted at most. Will it be a bit serious if he is directly removed from fame and dismissal from office? I heard that this magistrate was nearly 40 years old and was admitted to Jinshi. After working hard for so many years, this family should be crying now!" Xue Xiang shook his head and said, disagreed with Fan Zhongyan's behavior.

"Mr. Xue actually thought of it with Lord Fu Bi. I just heard from the clerk who said that when Lord Fan was flirting with the prefect of this prefect in the Ministry of Revenue today, Lord Fu was begging for justice and saying, "It is easy to get rid of the name with one stroke, but with one stroke, his family will cry bitterly!" Guess what Lord Fan said.

This stupid official misjudged dozens of cases

It is better for an innocent family to be destroyed by him, and the family will cry than he continues to do it!" Zeng Gongliang said indignantly in his tone of Fan Zhongyan.

The family cried with a state crying! Fan Zhongyan's words made Zhao Lei and others feel deeply moved. If you really calculate it carefully in the officialdom of the Song Dynasty, who has never done anything against your will, politics is an activity against your will. How many people who are as straightforward as Bao Zheng can find in the entire history?

"Sir, I heard that after Lord Fan investigates the surrounding states, he will then review all the officials in the yamen in Bianjing. Except for those officials above the fifth rank, all the 800 officials in Bianjing must undergo political performance review. The scope of this political review is a bit too wide!" Ding Du pondered for a while and said in a deep voice to Zhao Lei.

"No matter whether he is broad or not, you are not within the scope of political review. But the others are just dismissed from office, so why should they pay attention to so much?" Pang Bai said in a deep voice at this time.

Yes! I care about what others do. The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Institute still has so many things to do. The political review cannot be investigated by them. As for others, it is fine if they are dismissed from office, but what should I do for myself! Pang Bai's words made Ding Du understand immediately and thought to himself.

"Okay, everyone has read the official documents. Anyway, we have nothing to do with it. The coal case account has not been investigated yet. Let's go to bed early today and ask a few more clerks to continue investigating every day." Zhao Lei waved his hand to Ding Du and others and said.

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After five days of account comparison, Zhao Lei found out that the coal consumption of more than 20 states in the Song Dynasty fluctuated greatly. In recent years, he had almost never purchased coal from the government. After clarifying the situation, Zhao Lei reported the names of these states to the official Zhao Zhen, and the official Zhao Zhen sent the names of these states to the Prince's Mansion of Boping County. The secret guard system of the Song Dynasty quickly turned and a large number of secret spies went to these states to inquire about the mining of private coal.

However, these things cannot be found clearly in a short while. When Zhao Lei, who was idle, turned to pay attention to Fan Zhongyan's new policy, it was revealed that Fan Zhongyan's new policy had begun to be hindered by the powerful class.

It has been a month and a half since Fan Zhongyan sent a censor to the Censorate, and the situation in the prefectures near Bianjing has been investigated. A large number of imperial worms with no body position were removed from fame and dismissed from office as the people. At the same time, many talented personnel were promoted. In a while, the inefficiency of the Song Dynasty's canal transportation and finance systems have improved a lot. The Song Dynasty's officialdom, which was originally in a dull, blew a fresh wind due to the arrival of the new policy, but the sharp blade contained in this fresh wind has arrived in Bianjing.

In the Imperial Palace of the Imperial City, it is another regular court every three days. The officials of the Song Dynasty who attended the court met the rarest scene when the founding of the Song Dynasty was held.

The official Zhao Zhen sat on the dragon throne with a gloomy face. A hill-like memorial book was piled up on the dragon table beside him, and there were still many memorial book scattered on the ground, but no one cared about it.

"One book, two book, three book..." Ouyang Xiu stood behind Zhao Lei, counting the memorials like a dragon's desk up the hill.

"Are they all memorials for the new impeachment policy in various places?" Zhao Lei asked Ouyang Xiu behind him in shock.

Zhao Lei never expected that the rebound caused by the new policy would be so fast, so violent, and so many comments, and it seems that officials from all over the world have begun to confront the new policy.

"Brother Sanshi has been busy with the affairs of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Institute recently, and he is not concerned about the matter of the new policy! The Bianjing News has been very popular recently! It has been added three times, but it is still not enough to publish the literati's evaluation of the new policy. He should also thank Brother Sanshi. If you didn't start the Bianjing News and report to the official, I will be the editor-in-chief, this new policy would not have had such a big impact and would have reacted so quickly." Ouyang Xiu looked at Zhao Lei with gratitude and tears and said jokingly.

"What's going on?" Zhao Lei thought that he hadn't read the Bianjing News these days, and he didn't know what happened. He immediately asked Ouyang Xiu in confusion.

"Before the new policy, I published news about the new policy in the Bianjing newspaper, strictly enforcing the benefits of the new policy to the Song Dynasty. At the same time, I joined forces with Han Qi, Fu Bi, Yan Shi and others to jointly call on promising people to support the new policy. At the same time, I published the Bianjing newspaper day and night, and sold the Bianjing newspaper to every corner of the Song Dynasty. As expected, I received a lot of help from Xiwen. When the new policy began, those who agreed to the new policy and opposed the new policy submitted the Bianjing newspaper, which was a mess. The news spread and the reaction was quick, and there were too many of these memorials." Ouyang Xiu casually explained to Zhao Lei.

Ouyang Xiu's words made Zhao Lei stunned, and he kept making mistakes in his heart. He actually forgot the mouthpiece of the Bianjing News, the mouthpiece of the court. Ouyang Xiu's editor-in-chief of the Bianjing News, but he wouldn't fool the young scholars to death! Those scholars who had not entered the government are probably the most passionate class in the Song Dynasty. Even if they were deceived by Ouyang Xiu, even if they were deceived by the court, they could not be compared with the powerful and powerful people who had been officials for many years, this help is quite large. Using appropriate words is enough to turn the world around. Ouyang Xiu's best attitude is to incite emotions. In addition, he served as the editor-in-chief of the Bianjing News and the strength of the young scholars, it seems that Fan Zhongyan's new policy is probably longer than in history.
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