Alliance of the Heavens and Ming Dynasty

Chapter 278
"We will send someone to help you, you just need to do what you should do!"

Zhu Houzhao said flatly, with the degree of corruption of Song Ting, penetration is not too simple.

With Jia Sidao's efforts and the help of Jin Yiwei, it is not impossible to win sixteen important official positions.

After grasping Jia Sidao, he sent him back and arranged for him to be protected by a sword guard.

It's called protection, but it's actually surveillance. Once Jia Sidao is disobedient and doesn't follow the wishes of the old Zhu family, that sword guard will be his death talisman.

With the help of the traitor Jia Sidao, everyone in the old Zhu family ordered Jin Yiwei to follow suit. Under the internal and external attacks, the effect was immediate.

Officials sitting in official positions that were watched by everyone in the old Zhu family were arrested one after another, and they were arrested for almost the same crime, that is, "corruption".

Throughout the Song Dynasty, corruption has always been a very serious problem. Nine out of ten officials were corrupt. Honest officials like Bao Zheng are even rarer than Zhu Houzhao's bear son A Bao.

More than a dozen high-ranking officials fell, and there must be someone who coveted the position of the fallen officials, but this time Jia Sidao seemed to have gone crazy, and he would kill anyone who stared at those vacant officials.

It was done by unscrupulous means, which made Song Ting panic. In the end, everyone in the old Zhu family succeeded in taking the position under the recommendation of Jia Sidao.

A family has taken over [-] important official positions, and many officials who still have hope in the Song court can't help but worry a lot. This is not a patriotic family, it is clearly a pack of wolves.

Jia Sidao is a traitor, and the Zhu family are wolves. If these two groups mix together, it is unknown how much trouble will be caused.

Facts have proved that those officials were right to worry. As soon as the members of Lao Zhu's family came to power, they took control of the government with extremely forceful means.

Lao Zhu, Zhu Di, Zhu Zhanji, Zhu Qiyu, Zhu Jianshen, Zhu Houzhao, and Zhu Youxiao, based on the Privy Council, have continued to get involved in local military power and win over generals.

Zhu Biao, Zhu Gaochi, Zhu Qizhen, Zhu Youxuan, Zhu Houcong, Zhu Zaiyi, Zhu Yijun, Zhu Changluo, and Zhu Youjian control the government, and all government affairs are decided by them.

The Zhu family controlled the government and had great power. Those officials who were loyal to the Song court didn't want to go to the Emperor Song, but the Emperor Song indulged in sensuality and had no intention of governing the government at all.

And with Jia Sidao guiding and bewitching, Emperor Song didn't take the officials' advice to heart.

After a period of time, the officials could not even see the Emperor Song at all. The Jinwu Guards on the left and right, and the commanders in front of the palace were all from the old Zhu family. Whether they could see the Song Emperor was up to the old Zhu family.

Once you have controlled the government and the palace, it's time to do whatever you want.

The members of the old Zhu family began to murder the officials. The officials of the Song court liked to be greedy, and each family had rich wealth, which was very attractive to the members of the old Zhu family who were extremely short of money and resources.

Under the manipulation of the members of the old Zhu's family, an anti-corruption storm broke out in Lin'an, a large number of officials were killed and the entire Lin'an city was shrouded in darkness.

According to the laws of the Song Dynasty, punishments cannot be applied to scholar-bureaucrats, sorry, but it doesn't work here at Lao Zhu's house.

Everyone in the old Zhu's family went on a killing spree, although they got a lot of resources, everyone was well fed, and they were busy collecting money every day, or sending back the money they searched, but their reputation was completely stink.

In the eyes of Song Ting officials, Lao Zhu's family is the second Wang Mang and the second Cao Cao.

No, the old Zhu's family is more hateful than Wang Mang and Cao Cao. They colluded with traitors, imprisoned the emperor, and murdered scholar-bureaucrats indiscriminately. One by one, it made the Song court officials who were used to a good life extremely uncomfortable.

Hate it, hate it, but they can't do anything about the old Zhu's family. The old Zhu's family has soldiers and power, and they don't follow the rules. They kill people when they say they want to.

Even if they want to act as a second or fifth child, they can't find a way to attract other countries to deal with Lao Zhu's family.

Xiangyang, Shuaifu

"Using the emperor to order the princes, I really didn't expect that they turned out to be such people."

Guo Jing, who is well-known all over the world and has an upright personality, was very angry when he learned what the old Zhu family had done.

He was deeply guided by the Confucian thought of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, and it was really difficult for him to accept the rebellious behavior of the old Zhu family.

At the beginning, he was gratified and appreciated that the old Zhu's family spent all their wealth to fight against Meng Yuan. After all, there are still benevolent and righteous people in this world who know the righteousness of their family and country.

But now he understands that everything that the old Zhu family did before was just to pave the way for the princes to coerce the emperor.

From gaining fame, defeating the Mongolian and Yuan iron cavalry, to surrendering to Song Ting, every step was calculated.

It's just that he couldn't understand how the old Zhu's family managed to control the government in a short period of time even though they had evil intentions.

Guarding Xiangyang for many years, dealing with all kinds of people, Guo Jing is no longer the simple and honest boy of the past. After the accumulation of time, his wisdom is not inferior to anyone else.

"Brother Jing, let the court solve the matter in the court. Let's keep Xiangyang safe."

Huang Rong, a beautiful woman with a mature and gentle temperament, said that the intelligence and agility of her youth had faded away, like a ripe peach.

She doesn't care how the court changes, if it wasn't for Guo Jing, she wouldn't even set foot in Xiangyang.

Moreover, in her opinion, there is nothing wrong with having the Fengyang Zhu family in charge of the government. At least since the Zhu family took over, there has been no shortage of food and grass supplies for Xiangyang.

For this alone, the old Zhu's family is much stronger than the princes of the imperial court.

The previous imperial courts were not so easy on Xiangyang. The food and payment were either deducted layer by layer, or they were simply delayed. It is a miracle that Xiangyang can persist until now and still not be broken by Meng Yuan.

"Ugh"

Guo Jing heaved a long sigh. Although he couldn't accept what the old Zhu family had done, he also knew that with his own energy, he still couldn't affect the running of the government.

In Jianghu, in Xiangyang, he is a famous and respected Guo Daxia, but in court, he can't speak at all.

He can only complain about the old Zhu's behavior of coercing the emperor to order the princes, and he can't do anything else.

"Brother Guo, there are some things that are beyond my control, please be careful!"

Having just received a batch of grain, grass and weapons, Lu Wende, who was in a very good mood, patted Guo Jing on the shoulder and said meaningfully.

At his home, he also received several letters, all from the adults of the Zhu family.

Being bullied by civil officials for a long time, and suddenly being valued by others, this feeling is really not an ordinary pleasure.

It's just that there are several adults who wrote to him, who should I send to?
In a quiet mansion in Lin'an, Zhu Houzhao sat face to face with a skinny old man in Tsing Yi.

"please"

Zhu Houzhao personally poured a glass of wine for the skinny old man.

"My lord must know that Pindao never drinks alcohol."

The old man didn't give Zhu Houzhao any face at all, his face was as indifferent as ice, his whole body was like an iceberg, his face was cold, his eyes were cold, and his heart was cold.

From the inside to the outside, there was a sense of coldness, and even gave people a feeling of isolation from the world, as if he was no longer a living person, but a dead person, a living undead.

If a person is alive but his heart is dead, he is not a living dead.

　Guess who the skinny old man is?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)