No matter what Su Song or Han Zongdao thinks, with Zhao Xu's words, the Political Affairs Hall has to do things.

Su Song, Cai Bian and Han Zongdao were silent for a long time, and Cai Bian said, "Grandpa Su, let's start."

Su Song glanced at him and nodded.

The three of them discussed the wording and wanted to pursue Sima Guang, they would inevitably make the "final conclusion" in the form of an edict, and the wording was very particular.

They agreed and waited for Zhang Dun to come back to sign.

At this moment, Zhang Dun had already arrived at the Ministry of Personnel and was talking to Lin Xi, the Minister of Personnel.

Zhang Dun held the teacup and said less scruples, saying: "After the serious illness of the government, the court showed signs of greater unity, but it was not enough. The officialdom of Kaifeng Prefecture should be supervised more rigorously, and the 'new policy' is in the law. Kaifeng Prefecture is just a pilot project, and then all walks of life in the north. We must prepare for the future and make arrangements in advance..."

Lin Xi and Zhang Dun were close comrades in the army for many years, and thought, "Kaifeng Prefecture is not difficult, but if it is expanded to various northern routes, the situation will become complicated. In such a large place and so many people, it is impossible to cover everything. Once a mistake occurs, the government and the people will definitely hold on. You are shaky now. If something happens again, I am worried..."

"The official will not waver."

Lin Xi wanted to speak but stopped, but Zhang Dun directly said for him, saying, "I still have this tacit understanding with the official family. You can be bolder in the north and slower in the south. This time, we must go steadily and thoroughly, and we will never give them a chance to repeat it!"

Lin Xi looked at him and said, "It's okay to say these things. Cai Que is dead, and Zeng Bu and others are there. Do you want to keep suppressing them?"

Zhang Dun picked up the teacup and drank a sip of tea, his eyes were serious, and he did not speak immediately.

In the "New Party", Zhang Dun's status is actually not high. Cai Que, Zeng Bu, and Cai Bian are far higher than Zhang Dun. Now, Zhang Dun has a high position and a powerful position, but has blocked the path of advancement for others, including these people's disciples and former officials.

Cai Que's death once caused quite a stir. Now, the court is taking advantage of the matters of Cai Jing and Yang Wei to purify the reform team and identify the inside and outside of the "New Party". Zeng Bu and the "New Party" who are in the opposition will inevitably get involved.

Zhang Dun glanced at him and said, "Don't move anything for the time being."

Lin Xi understood and said, "The Ministry of Personnel now has three key points. One is the implementation and supervision of the examination method; the other is the Beijing inspection; the third is the reconstruction of the system of Kaifeng Prefecture. The first two are fine things and need to be cooked slowly on low heat. The third is the Baojia Law. Under the Baojia Law, the court must build a system of villages, towns, county governments. Village chiefs must have fame and reputation, and also establish village guards. Each Jiajia and Baojia under the village must manage it carefully. These things will be very energy-consuming..."

Since ancient times, the imperial power has not gone to the countryside, but at Zhao Xu's request, the reform of the "New Law" was quite thorough, almost reaching the bottom, and it must solve the land ills and social structure of the Song Dynasty from the root.

Such drastic changes are no less than a huge battle. Even if it is just a small Kaifeng City, the manpower and material resources that the Song Dynasty court had to invest are unimaginable.

Zhang Dun was calm. He talked with Zhao Xu. As a person who has experienced the reform in Xining, he knew the difficulty of reform. His eyes were stern and said lightly: "No matter how difficult it is, we must continue. If we do not solve the bad policies, there will be endless troubles. We have worked hard for generations to benefit thousands of years, and we must never give up halfway!"

Lin Xi is the one who can most feel that Zhang Dun is determined and passionate about the "new law". Such difficulties will not make him retreat.

Lin Xi paused and said, "The Political Affairs Hall is very controversial about Sima Guang, right?"

Zhang Dun looked calm and said, "Su Song can't see the general trend clearly and will retire at the end of this year at the latest. Sima Guang abolished the new law that year, and now he must be liquidated to rectify the new law!"

Lin Xi hated such party struggles, but he couldn't escape. He was silent for a while and said, "What do you want me to do?"

Zhang Dun looked up at the door and said, "You don't have to worry about this matter. My purpose is to do two things, one is the syllabus of the Imperial Academy and the other is the test questions for this year's spring exam. I know you have already made it, give it to me, and I want to do it again."

Lin Xi remembered some past events and suddenly said, "Do you want to reform the imperial examination?"

Zhang Dun said: "If the official family wants to strengthen the army and the country, talent is the most important thing. The imperial examination is the top priority, so it will naturally be changed."

Lin Xi looked serious and stared at him and said, "You have done so much, and you may not have a good end in the future. The official... can't protect you."

Zhang Dun looked serious and calm, and said lightly: "Don't you think of a good ending like that?"

After Wang Anshi was dismissed from prime minister, although he was not pursued, he was slandered by the government and the people. Even if the court cleared his name and allowed him to enjoy the Shenzong Temple, he still could not change Shi Lin's view - he was still a traitor and evil person!

Is this considered a good ending?

Lin Xi thought to himself and looked at Zhang Dun silently.

Zhang Dun did not say much about this topic, saying: "Send the test questions to the Green House and the Imperial College exam questions to the Chuigong Hall. The chief examiner of the Spring Examination is Li Qingchen. Let him be careful and not give anyone an opportunity to take advantage of it."

Lin Xi responded and began to talk about the Spring Examination.

The court had a lot of complicated affairs, and the pilot project of Kaifeng Prefecture was ignited like a fire, which quickly started to burn.

The magistrates returned to the county magistrates and began to mobilize officials of all sizes and big areas in their jurisdiction. Some magistrates even invited big and famous people from the county to help.

Then, various tasks in each county were issued one after another. Whether it was building villages and towns, measuring the land and checking the population, various places quickly caused huge noises and waves of opposition suddenly surged.

The gentry and wealthy families naturally opposed the clearance of land and the calculation of population; Baojia from all over the country also had a deep resistance to the government reaching their territory.

This was just a plan, and the counties faced a huge rebound, and some people began to hesitate and retreat.

These pressures surged up, returned to Kaifeng Prefecture, and then went to the Political Affairs Hall.

Zhang Dun came back from the Ministry of Personnel and looked at Su Song's draft edict to pursue Sima Guang, so he naturally disagreed with it. He expressed it straight in front of Su Song.

Su Song stood aside, looking at him frowned, with a serious expression.

Zhang Dun's writing quickly wrote: "The former prime minister Sima Guang, yesterday, was aware of the previous emperor and advanced to the Shuting Court. Guang asked not to use his words, so he asked to return to the history. The last emperor was very kind and generous, and followed his desires... It is not said that Guang was deeply troubled and angry with the previous dynasty. Everything he did was wrong... Sima Guang used Yuanyou's policy to change his mother and son to change his son, and lost the plan of the ancestral temple. The government of the court must correct the righteousness of the monarch and ministers, and determine the relatives of father and son. How could he depose the monarch and son and use the father and son as a way to depose the monarch and son and use the mother and son as a saying... he falsely slandered the previous emperor and all his laws... He asked Sima Guang to entrust Sima Guang, and Lu Gong wrote the posthumous officials and posthumous notices and the stele of the gods he gave, and he still went to Shanzhou. The officials in Zhengzhou planned to carry out the plans of the county to demolish the official tombs and repair the stele building, and then crushed the inscriptions written by the imperial edict.'

Su Song had a calm face and said in a cold voice: "Wang Anshi's tomb is all good. You want to dig Sima Junshi's tomb! How do people in the world view the court and the officials? Do you want to add the word "meaning" to the officials in later history books?"

Zhang Dun was aroused by anger, his eyes were full of sharp expressions, and he said coldly: "Can you still think Sima Guang is a wise minister for all ages?"

Su Song leaned on crutches, his face was as deep as water, and he was a little angry, shouting: "Is this good for you to do it for you and the 'New Policy'? Don't you understand the overall situation? You are young and have you ever thought about liquidating the future?"

Zhang Dun was tired of Su Song, who was always in the way, and was too lazy to pay attention to him, saying, "The 'new law' has begun, you can all prepare to resign."

Su Song had a headache, his old face was tense and he couldn't speak.

Seeing Zhang Dun getting up with the draft edict that had just been written, his expression changed slightly and said, "What do you mean?"

Zhang Dun did not speak, but turned to the imperial edict room.

Su Song's face became darker and even a little gloomy.

He heard something from Zhang Dun's words. Yang Wei and Cai Jing were executed to clean up the reform team. Once these two people left, the only ones in the court were called "unexistent intentions" - Prime Minister Su Song, and Han Zongdao, the deputy governor of Kaifeng Prefecture.

Su Song slowly walked out of the Political Affairs Hall, looked at the gray sky outside, sighed lightly, and said, "Is it our turn?"

Despite being prepared, Su Song's current mentality is still very complicated.

The court that he wanted to stabilize was ultimately unable to do as he wished. The current official family is not Emperor Shenzong, nor Zhang Dun is not Wang Anshi.

Now is not the beginning of Xining. According to the personality of the officials and Zhang Dun, the "new law" will be implemented with a tough attitude. The chaos in the future will inevitably be ten times, or even a hundred times, as in the Xining period!

Su Song looked at it for a while, and saw Zhang Dun turning to the direction of the Chuigong Hall with the draft edict, he ignored it. After a long time, he sighed softly: "Forget it, forgot..."

Su Song looked depressed, slowly turned around and returned to the pay room.

Zhang Dun went to Chuigong Hall. Not long after, Chen Pi ran to Chuigong Hall and Funing Hall, and Zhang Dun got the edict with Zhao Xu's seal.

"Immediately promulgate, and report to the whole country!" Zhang Dun ordered the civil servant in the green tiled house.

The civil servant did not dare to neglect and immediately took the edict to the government affairs hall. Su Song did not stop him and was quickly promulgated and sent a residence to report to the whole country.

Therefore, on the day the final trial of Dali Temple, the edict to liquidate Sima Guang was issued, basically according to Zhang Dun.

The general idea is: Sima Guang is unfaithful and unfilial, and usurps against the late emperor, and pursues all the honors.

After receiving the order, the Ministry of Justice quickly began to take action. First, it seized books written by Sima Guang such as "Zizhi Tongjian", and other books were carried out in a tense and orderly manner.

Such speed was so fast that the government and the public could not react. Before they could do anything, the edict had been issued.

However, even though the edict was issued, it still caused huge disturbances. The disciples and officials related to Sima Guang launched huge lobbying and various defenses against the court, and the memorials demanding that Zhao Xu take back Cheng Ming emerge in endlessly.

Zhao Xu didn't care about these things, and Zhang Dun ignored them and focused on the implementation of the "new law".

A few days later, Zhao Xu was in good health and arrived at Dali Temple on his first stop after leaving the palace.

At this time, Dali Temple was under trial. The Dali Temple Shaoqing Geng Rujie sat in the main hall, and the former Dali Temple Minister Qian Sheng murdered Su Che, the envoy of the Three Sessions.

This case has been tried long ago, but now it is just a statement from the Qian family and demands that Dali Temple be retried.

Zhao Xu brought the man to the door quietly and looked at the court hearing inside.

A young man knelt on the ground and said in a trembling voice: "As the minister of Dali Temple, my father participated in the investigation of the corruption case of the Three Secretariats. He worked diligently and never exceeded the rules. After Su Xianggong was killed, all the charges were passed on to his father. I asked Dali Temple to restore his father's innocence."

Outside the hall, he whispered and pointed at Qian Sheng's son.

Qian Sheng’s case has actually been more than half a year, but I didn’t expect it to be revealed again.

Zhao Xu listened and looked at Geng Rujie, wanting to see if there has been any changes in Dali Temple now.

Geng Rujie looked motionless, listening to the noise outside, slapped the agglomeration, and when the outside calmed down, he turned to the young man and said, "Your father has confessed his guilt, and the evidence is conclusive. Do you have any ironclad evidence to overturn the case?"

The young man knelt on the ground without raising his head, saying, "The yamen runner who testified at the beginning committed suicide afterwards. Su Xianggong hanged himself again. The villain transported his father's body and found many scars, which were obviously torture. The villain asked Dali Temple to investigate thoroughly."

Zhao Xu tilted his head and said to himself: "How come this sentence feels like reading the script?"

Chenpi listened, glanced at the people around him and whispered: "It should have been memorized in advance."

Zhao Xu nodded, and he thought of it, thinking in his heart: So soon, someone is trying to overturn Qian Sheng. Is the next step to Lu Dafang and others?

Geng Rujie said: "I am asking you if there is evidence to overturn the case. It is not enough to ask me to order another investigation."

The young man knelt on the ground and continued to say word by word: "My father is the disciple of Mr. Lu. Mr. Lu was attacked, and his father is just their chess piece to test the water. The villain didn't know how Mr. Su died. But the villain knew that Mr. Su's body and lips were purple, and he was obviously poisoned first, and his father was wronged..."

Geng Rujie slapped the aggro and shouted, "Don't mess around! What I asked is, do you have any evidence? After you complain this time, you can't appeal within two years, do you understand?"

The young man trembled, hesitated, and continued: "My father is not really guilty, but just Kogong Lu's man. He is trapped in a party struggle, and the party fights against different people. My father is not guilty..."

Geng Rujie snorted coldly and said, "I'm just making trouble, come here! Pull it out!"

Immediately a yamen runner stepped forward and pulled the young man out.

The young man didn't say a word and was dragged out very stiffly.

"Party struggle?"

"Does Qian Tong want to use 'party struggle' to get rid of his father?"
To be continued...