The new army was in full swing, with uniform steps. The bright armor flowed with cold and cold light in the late spring sunshine. They tightly grasped all the five-chao gates, allowing the people to watch from a distance.

The young emperor sat in the middle, watching the officials kneeling on the ground from the stage and still yelling at the wronged.

Among them is the famous Zhang Shaohan, who belongs to several famous brothels in the Tokyo city. Legend has it that Li Shishi, who had an affair with Song Huizong, was his. He deliberately arranged for Li Shishi to meet Zhao Ji, and he was in a prosperous state all day long.

People can't help but sigh that the emperor and his ministers were said that there were not many favored ministers of Song Huizong Zhao Ji, and that those who could live had already been separated from each other.

The emperor shouted: "You still dare to have the face to shout for injustice! Do you know that all the ministers in the court are going to kill you now? The ministers of the two palaces hate you deeply. If I don't kill you, why do you explain to the people of the world? Why do you explain to the soldiers who died in Hebei and Hedong in battle!"

When the prime ministers standing aside heard that the emperor brought them in, they felt uncomfortable. This time, the large-scale killing of officials was probably going to shock the world. The officials below just thought that the prime ministers jointly wrote a letter to kill. The pressure from the two governments naturally had to bear the pressure below. The emperor sat high in the ninth heaven, and seemed to be doing this and that labor and capital had to do that. No matter how hard or tired the prime ministers were, they had to serve them.

The Zhang Shaohan cried and said, "Your Majesty, don't listen to the villain's slander!"

The doctor of the Ministry of War also cried and shouted: "Your Majesty, we are all wronged!"

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Zhao Huan's eyes were filled with cold light, and he threw the token: "Execution!"

The scene was quite magnificent. The executioner raised his sword and fell. His heads outside the door rolled down one by one. Blood gathered into a stream, turning the grass into a puddle.

The laws of the Song Dynasty were as if they were arranged since Taizu, which made the civil servants become more and more presumptuous and have the mentality of not ruling the public. It is natural to form cliques and make money for private purposes.

Back then, Fan Wenzheng's reform of Qingli and Wang Jiefu's reforms failed to shake the people below. Qingli reforms soon died, and Wang Jiefu's reforms made a mess. Good ideas also changed from uploading to the bottom.

This chain of interests has been rooted too deeply and extended to the two governments. Even the ambitious prime minister is powerless. Wang Anshi can only set up his own team to reform the law, which has formed the new party and the old party, and its role is counterproductive.

Zhao Huan believed that it would be better to clean up all of them than to establish a newcomer.

How to clean it? Naturally, let all contradictions emerge!

There was nothing new in the sun. Zhao Huan went north to fight, established prestige in the army, stationed heavy troops in the northwest and Yanyun, nailed the national border there first, closed the door, and dragged the new army to the capital. Seeing who dared to make any abnormal moves, one to kill the other, the prime ministers were responsible for re-replenishing people.

Of course, killing people is not as simple as killing people. Just like in later company teams, expelling people is not as simple as expelling people. Expelling people is to set standards for the team and tell others that they cannot do this, otherwise they will be fired. Therefore, you cannot hesitate to expel things like this, because everyone else is watching, if you compromise, they will trample on your bottom line even more!

Therefore, Zhao Huan will never waver in the matter of killing people. If the official spirit of the Song Dynasty is not good, all the new policies will be in vain!

After beheading these hundreds of officials and killing them, even the prime ministers of the two prefectures turned pale, but the emperor did not change his face and sat high in the center.

Afterwards, the emperor ordered people to send the heads back to their respective prefectures and counties, hung them on the top of the city, and announced the world to serve as a warning to others.

It was not over. Before the emperor was executed, the Imperial City Office had tortured and questioned more than 300 other officials. When the more than 600 officials' heads fell to the ground, the Imperial City Office had already gone to various places to pick up people.

The emperor issued another order to search the more than 600 people and sent everyone to the Lingnan area.

After the emperor personally executed more than 600 people, the officialdom of the Song Dynasty was in chaos and panic. Within five days, many officials resigned because of illness. Countless documents flew to the two palaces like snowflakes, and the prime ministers were busy.

In the early years of the Song Dynasty, the official team in the imperial court was still relatively capable, with only more than 200 people. It doubled 20 years later to more than 400 people, and in another 20 years, it exceeded 1,000 people.

After another 20 years, the official team broke through the 10,000 mark.

As the number of officials is increasing and the actual positions and work content is limited, many of these officials have become empty positions. As described in "History of the Song Dynasty: Official Records": "There are eight or nine out of ten people who hold their official positions and do not know their duties."

It means that there are eight or nine out of ten people who occupy an official position but have nothing to do all day long.

By 1071 AD, 110 years after the founding of the Song Dynasty, the court had more than 500,000 officials, and the number of officials increased by 2,500 times.

The number of official apes is increasing, so there is a "problem of official affairs".

According to the "History of the Song Dynasty: Official System of Officials" records: the annual expenditure of the central government is about 16.96 million jin, 14.870 taels of gold, and 6.220 thousand taels of silver. Not to mention the official consumption, just the salary paid to officials regularly has brought great pressure to the national finances.

Why did the emperor make up his mind to kill someone?

Why did the Zhou Dynasty ask Wang Boyan to protect himself when he went to Wang Boyan's mansion to report? Even the prime ministers of the two prefectures did not stand up and firmly oppose this time?

In addition to their own cowardice, they themselves also knew that the number of officials in the Song Dynasty was too large.

Especially the Zhou Dynasty, he was in charge of finance. He was afraid of the annual salary payment. The number of officials was still increasing every year, and those retired officials also enjoyed various subsidies and salaries, which was simply a bottomless pit.

Not to mention being fucked to death by the Jin people, Da Song himself would soon be dragged to death by himself.

So there is a saying that says: I haven’t seen the financial statements and I’m not qualified to speak!

Five days after the prison was executed, more than 300 officials were taken to the capital. Tang Weilin, who was not dead in the prison, was stunned for a moment when he learned about the bloody storm outside. The emperor really took action, and even the tyrant Ying Zheng had never killed officials like this!

The more than 300 officials who were taken to the capital have already resigned, some even fled back to their hometowns, and some have planned to escape from the mountains and fields, but have been arrested.

In Zhao Huan's words: One cannot be missed. If the people in the world know that those who harm the country and the people will be caught and killed even if they are in the vast land of the country! This is the bottom line of the country. Anyone who dares to transgress will be executed, and the royal relatives are no exception!
Chapter completed!