Chen Lin looked stunned.
Unexpectedly, Zhao Zhen would actually say this.
"Hundred officials..."
Chen Lin thought about why Zhao Zhen suddenly became so stingy, and whispered a reminder.
But before finishing the words, I heard Zhao Zhen say indifferently: "If anyone has objections, he will be deducted from his salary and used as a personal gift to the Korean envoy. If he is dissatisfied, let him go to Li Aiqing.
I believe that Li Aiqing will persuade them. "
Chen Lin stood there blankly, not knowing how to talk.
Zhao Zhen did not speak, Li Di had already tried every means to deal with the salary of some officials.
Since Li Di took up the role of Ping Zhang in Tongzhong Shushu, he has removed more than ten important officials from their part-time vacancies and reduced their salary.
Now that Zhao Zhen has spoken, Li Di still hasn't stripped away the vacant duties of the important ministers in the court.
When did the generous Song Dynasty become so stingy
Chen Lin thought in secret, and Zhao Zhen replied: "Pass the decree to the inner court and tell them that after the countries and subordinates have made the tribute this year, the court should return a value according to the value of the tribute they offered. The equivalent gift.
Except for some of the subordinates who asked for my Da Song. "
Chen Lin's mouth grew slightly, shocked.
Zhao Zhen glanced at Chen Lin, "Don't you go?"
Chen Lin hurried back to her senses, "The slave and maidservant will go now..."
After Chen Lin gave the ceremony, she hurried out of the pavilion.
When he arrived outside the pavilion, he had already figured out that Zhao Zhen suddenly became so stingy, what was the reason.
It must be Kou Ji who entered the palace today and said something to Zhao Zhen.
Chen Lin walked a few steps outside the pavilion and heard Zhao Zhen's voice sound from behind.
"When you go to the inner court and finish my oral instructions, then help me call Liu Heng over. I urgently need some people to tell me the truth. I don't want to listen to the flattery of the officials in the court.
I want to get a good understanding of what my Da Song is like. "
Chen Lin took a meal and hurriedly turned around to listen to what Zhao Zhen said.
Zhao Zhen continued: "Go and help me pick some martial arts that are comparable to me, and help me hone my martial arts. I want those who can really fight against me, not those that will only coax me to play.
I believe that you will find such a person.
Also, go to the history museum and fetch some history books. In my spare time, I have to read them through.
By the way, the memorials that need to be reviewed by me in the court today are also brought over. "
Chen Lin bowed and said: "Here..."
Zhao Zhen waved his hand, "Go down."
Chen Lin bowed again and left the Royal Garden.
And Kou Ji, who had already left the imperial garden, had already stepped out of the palace gate.
Kou Ji left the palace gate, and threw the big and small bags in his hand to the servants of the Kou Mansion who was waiting for him outside the Donghua Gate. He asked the servants to drive back in the carriage first, and he took two guards with him, dangling around. He arrived at Li Mansion.
The reason why the servants were sent back in the carriage first was because they were afraid that Li Di would see the precious medicinal materials given to him by Zhao Zhen and start to grab them.
After Li Di was promoted to Pingzhangshi under the school of Tongzhong, in order to help the treasury collect money, he achieved the ultimate by using the words "extremely vicious".
Today, officials of all sizes in Bianjing City met Li Di outside the palace, and they all took a detour.
For fear of doing something unsatisfactory, Li Di caught him and turned his head away from the false job.
When I arrived at the door of Li's mansion, I saw the door of Li's mansion, sitting in the concierge with a sad face.
After seeing Kou Ji.
The door of Li Mansion is very enthusiastic.
"Master Kou, you are here, please quickly please..."
The door of the Li Mansion warmly invited Kou Ji into the Li Mansion.
After entering the Li Mansion, Kou Ji stopped for a while in the front hall, and was slightly surprised to see the door following him, motionless.
"Where's the housekeeper?"
Li's mansion nodded and bowed his waist and said, "It's true that from now on, all guests at the mansion will be received by villains."
Kou Ji wondered: "Why?"
The man of the Li mansion smiled bitterly: "The master asked to resign several vacant positions in one breath, and his salary was reduced by more than half. He also dismissed nearly 60% of the servants and handymen in the mansion.
Now there are less than thirteen people left in the mansion to wait on them.
The three supervisors in the front yard, the middle yard, and the back yard were dismissed because they had too high a monthly schedule.
Now there is only one big housekeeper left in the house to take care of things, and he is always by his side on weekdays. "
Kou Ji gave a wry smile, "Where is this?"
Li Fumenzi gave a dry smile, but did not speak.
Kou Ji could complain about Li Di, but the door of Li Mansion could not.
Li Mansion brought Kou Ji to the backyard of Li Mansion, and saw Li Di with a gorgeously dressed man pointing in the backyard of the house.
After Kou Ji got closer, he listened carefully and found that the gorgeously dressed man was the steward of Yaxing, and he was talking to Li Di about the sale of the Li Mansion house.
"Grandpa Li wants to sell the house?"
Kou Ji paced to Li Di's side and asked for a question.
Li Di turned around, saw Kou Ji, laughed, "Why did your kid go to the old man's house?"
Just as Kou Ji opened his mouth to talk, he saw Li Di approaching, pulling him, and walking to the side of the Yaxing manager.
"Your kid is very savvy in business. Help the old man to talk to the steward of Yaxing, and see how much the old man's house is right..."
Kou Ji was stunned by Li Disse to take care of the tooth.
The Yaxing manager knew Kou Ji, and after seeing Kou Ji, he bowed to Kou Ji.
Kou Ji bit his scalp, chatted with Yaxing's steward for a while, and finally set a reasonable price for Li Mansion.
Li Di listened by the side the whole time, and when Kou Ji had negotiated the price with the manager of the dental office, he asked the dental office to hang up the house for sale at the fixed price.
After sending away the steward of Yaxing.
Kou Ji followed Li Di to the pavilion with a face full of doubts.
"Grandpa Li, what kind of medicine do you sell in the gourd? A good house, why do you sell it?"
Li Di picked up the big teapot on the table and poured himself a cup of tea, signalling Kou Ji to drink it himself.
After he was full, he took a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "The old man is going to do something. It's not appropriate to live in a big house."
Kou Ji thoughtfully said, "Grandpa Li is going to sell the house and donate the money to the court?"
"fart!"
Li Di yelled, curled his mouth and said: "The old man has worked so hard for decades, and he has obtained such a house. How can he donate it to the court."
"Then you..."
"Zhumen wine and meat smelly, there are frozen bones in the road, have you heard of it?"
"natural."
Li Di stroked his beard and hummed: "The court caretakers have not raised many people who are useful to the court for decades. They have raised a bunch of wine sacs and rice bags, but the people are still poor. Now these wine sacs and rice bags are eaten one by one Their belly is full of intestines, and the old man must beat them well.
Since the old man wants to beat them, he can't live in a big house, nor can he live in extravagance, otherwise the wine and rice bags will definitely impeach the old man. "
Kou Ji was slightly taken aback, and asked, "Grandpa Li is preparing for a clean government?"
Li Di nodded solemnly, "Yes..."
Kou Ji pondered: "Grandpa Li has the heart to maintain a clean government, which is naturally a good thing. But will you be a factionist now, will it be counterproductive?"
Li Di raised an eyebrow, "How could it be counterproductive?"
Kou Ji hesitated and said: "Grandpa Li, you are selling the mansion and dismissing the servants. It has been miserable, but the money in your hand has not changed. It is just that you put the money on the surface in It's only secretly.
Those officials in the courtroom can also eat and drink in the dark.
When they do things on the bright side, they will be somewhat restrained.
But when doing things secretly, they become unscrupulous. "
Li Di was taken aback, and said in a deep thought, "You reminded the old man. When the old man turned around, he discussed it with Lu Yijian, and secretly sent someone to stare at him."
Kou Ji was stunned, "Gong Lu also intends to clean government?"
Li Di glanced at Kou Ji and said strangely: "The first person who proposed to beat the group of wine and rice bags was Lu Yijian, don't you know?"
Kou Ji was taken aback for a moment, and smiled: "Gong Lu should have been irritated by something when he was patrolling the world, right?"
Li Di solemnly nodded, "According to Lu Yijian, when he was patrolling the world, there were so many flying dogs and dogs that he saw, and each and every piece was unsightly.
He also said that corruption and bribery prevailed in the localities.
From top to bottom, no one is greedy.
Everyone took corruption and bribery as a matter of course.
After he investigated and dealt with the corrupt officials in the local area, it didn't take long for the corrupt officials to reappear.
He deeply felt that patrolling the world would not have the effect of eradicating corrupt officials.
Therefore, we intend to implement a clean government from top to bottom.
The imperial court first, then the local government, completely kill the corruption trend.
After listening to his words, the old man took it seriously and decided to join him to kill the corruption. "
Kou Ji nodded thoughtfully.
He thought about it, and said: "Grandpa Li, I don't think that clean government can be done by killing corruption. The court should perfect the corresponding laws and implement them in localities.
If you just shout, or kill a few corrupt officials, it won't work at all. "
Li Di nodded and said, "The old man naturally knows what you are talking about. The old man has decided to work with Lu Yijian to revise the laws of the Song Dynasty."
Kou Ji frowned slightly.
Kou Ji agreed with the revision of the law.
The law needs to follow the continuous changes of the court and make certain changes.
Only in this way can the imperial court develop in a favorable direction.
He didn't foolishly scream out such things as immutable ancestral system.
The ancestral system is only part of the law, and not all laws are ancestral systems.
Since Li Di and Lu Yijian intend to revise the law, they will definitely revise other laws on the basis of the immutable ancestral system, or add many provisions to the law.
If the amendment of the existing laws touches the interests of some people, some pedantic veterans will stand up and use ancestral rhetoric to stop it.
However, if new provisions are added to the law, they can be implemented as long as the inner court discusses the customs and obtains Zhao Zhen's consent.
It's just that no matter whether it is to revise the law or add new provisions to the law, it will touch the interests of many people.
If there are too many new provisions, then this amendment to the law will be tantamount to a reform.
Reform is a very difficult thing.
If you are not careful, you will be overwhelmed by opposing voices, and eventually you will die.
Kou Ji frowned and groaned: "Grandpa Li and Gong Lu are planning to amend all the laws, or do they only move some of the corruption laws?"
I heard Kou Ji's question.
Li Di was silent for a while, and said in a deep voice: "Lu Yijian wants to move all the laws."
Kou Ji frowned tighter.
Li Di seemed to have guessed Kou Ji's thoughts and continued: "Lv Yijian was probably stimulated by your grandfather's actions, so he is ready to fight."
Kou Ji pondered: "Lv Yijian wants to ask for a fame?"
Li Di nodded.
Kou Ji stared at Li Di and asked: "Then what do you think of Grandpa Li?"
Li Di sighed, "The idea of the old man is similar to that of Lu Yijian. But the old man is not seeking a name, the old man just wants the people to live better."
Kou Ji said in a deep voice: "Listening to your tone, it seems that you are not optimistic about the revised law?"
Li Di hesitated and sighed.
"The old man knows his own weight. The old man does not have the fearless spirit of your grandfather, let alone a capable grandson like you. Facing the resistance of hundreds of officials and the impeachment of hundreds of officials, the old man can't do it calmly. There is no way to suppress it strongly.
The old man is likely to be swallowed by those who oppose him, and there will be no bones left. "
Kou Ji said anxiously: "Why would you do this even if you know it is dangerous?"
Li Di faintly said: "When your grandfather took up the post of Ping Zhang Shi under the school of Tongzhong, he successively dismissed the criminal division, dismissed the general as a prisoner, streamlined the hundreds of thousands of Xiangjun, and dismissed the third division.
A large group of wine and rice bags were therefore abolished.
For me, Da Song left nearly 10 million wasted money every year.
If it weren't for the suppression of the rebellion in various places, money would be needed to appease the people.
If it weren't for Zhu Neng's expedition to Shazhou, he would need a lot of food and payment.
The amount of money saved by the State Treasury of Song Dynasty this year will exceed 13 million yuan.
A record high over the years.
As your grandfather's successor, the old man has to do something. "
Kou Ji advised: "You don't have to compare with my grandfather..."
Li Di shook his head, "The old man is not compared to your grandfather. The old man just thinks that in this life, maybe there is only one chance to serve as an undergraduate of the same school. He always has to do something for the people."
"But you... it's possible that if you didn't do anything, there will be no bones left to be swallowed by the opponents."
Kou Ji said in a deep voice.
Li Di smiled and said, "That's okay... Lu Yijian's mind is the same as that of the old man. After the old man falls, Lu Yijian will follow.
After they brought down the old man, they had to converge one or two times.
By then, Lu Yijian will do things more easily.
Even if Lu Yijian fell, there would still be Wang Zeng.
Even with the power of the three poor old men, even if they were unable to revise all the laws of the Song Dynasty, they could always revise some of them.
As long as some of the laws can be revised, the people's lives will be better.
Even if the old man died, he died without regret. "