After Guo Haochu learned that his father had passed away in the prison, he scolded Jiang Chen for several hours, left a blood letter of self-defense, and chose to hang himself.

In the blood book, he confessed to the collusion between the old Han Hu with King Rui Zhao Jin and King Fu Zhao Yi.

But he denied the rebellion and pointed out that the jade seal, the imperial robe and the so-called dead men were framed by Jiang Chen. He hoped that Song Huizong could go online for the sake of the achievements of the Guo family's ancestors and spare his uninformed family.

Unfortunately, Jiang Chen, Nie Shan, Yan King Zhao Ya and Yue King Zhao Wei erased and torn down the list of sons and nephews and confidants of the important officials of the dynasty, including the Privy Council, and most of the remaining old conservatives were not favored by the court officials in power.

This made the important officials of the dynasty completely lose their worries.

For the sake of their own interests and further suppressing the old conservative forces, they all wanted to do the bigger the case, and they didn't believe in the so-called blood letter at all. Not only that, they also pointed out that Guo Haochu was silenced.

The primary target of murder and silence is Zhao Zhongle, the chief king of Si Qiong.

King Zhao Zhongle of Qiong had fourteen princes and brothers, each of whom gave birth to more than a dozen or twenty little marquises and governors. The male rank accounted for almost one-third of the entire royal membership. It can be said that the royal force that Song Huizong was most afraid of.

Everyone knew this well and understood that the promoter behind all this was Song Huizong. However, suppressing members of the royal family would benefit all officials and families without any harm, so they all actively cooperated.

In order to protect Jiang Zhiqi and Wei Bozou, and to suppress the conservatives through this matter, Cai Jing reached a tacit understanding with He Zhizhong, Zheng Juzhong and others after several debates, denied the authenticity of the blood letter, and characterized the matter as a major case of rebellion.

In addition, he and Cai You also wanted to protect the new Minister of Revenue Song Yunheng. Unfortunately, when Song Yunheng was captured, Cai Su, the censor Deng Yu and Ji Zhong both saw it with their own eyes, and there was no way to protect it.

So, with the credit for privately presenting the account book, Cai Xie finally got the position of Minister of the Ministry of Revenue as he wished.

Cai Jing and Cai You didn't know the little movements behind Cai Xie, and thought that Song Huizong was comforting them. They were quite happy. They felt that this wave was not too much loss. After all, the rights obtained were far greater than those lost.

Nie Shan was also very happy. Since most Kaifeng prefects are changed every year, or even every six months, he does not have strong control over the Kaifeng prefecture.

After taking this opportunity to take down Deng Lun and Deng’s remarks and countless officials who violated the law, he felt very comfortable with the power and the government orders being smooth.

Yang Jian and Gu Hongfei, who were scattered, were happier than them because they had too much money to pile up.

And the happiest person in this matter is Song Huizong!

Under the hint of King Zhao Ya of Yan and King Zhao Wei of Yue, although Cao Guo and other nobles knew that they had been cheated, they learned that Gao Qiu had successfully controlled the Xidaying and the Infantry Division, they still accepted their fate and asked Song Huizong to plead guilty, and voluntarily requested to hand over military power and reduce their titles and punish them.

After pretending to comfort him, Emperor Huizong of Song pretended to be comforted, he sent all these people to Nanjing. Although he took back his military power and belittled his title, he was not guilty of the property of these people, which was quite interesting. After all, those families could not spend all their money in ten lives.

However, King Qiong Zhao Zhonglei was not that easy to talk to. No matter how King Yan Zhao Ya and King Yue Zhao Wei hinted, they just pretended not to understand and refused to admit a word about colluding with Lao Ganzi to rebel.

It was not until he was banned in a yard and hungry for three days and three nights that he could not hold on anymore that he realized that Song Huizong was definitely not a joke with him.

In a frightened state, he could only express his grievance that he was willing to resign from his position as Chief Secretary and go to Nanjing to retire like Duke Cao and others.

However, what King Qiong did not expect was that things were not that simple.

Song Huizong did not agree directly. Instead, after appeasement, he tactfully stated that he would "make meritorious service" to help clean up the perpetrators in the royal family.

King Qiong finally understood Song Huizong's suspicion and knew that if Song Huizong could not be completely at ease, his family's lineage would have ended.

So, after he was free, his first thing was to deprive the fourteen brothers and his family of more than a hundred nephews, and then he sacrificed a butcher knife to the members of the royal family.

More than 200 members of the royal family were directly demoted, and King Rui Zhao Jin and King Fu Zhao Yi were demoted to common people and their property was confiscated.

It was not until Song Huizong was satisfied that he offended the royal family and was able to resign from his post as Chief Secretary and hand it over to King Yan Zhao Ya.

At this point, Song Huizong completely completed the purge of old nobles and royal members, and the imperial power reached an unprecedented peak.

In addition, Yang Jian, a young master of the house search, also presented him with more than 70 million yuan of stolen money, and countless deeds of fertile land, which was more than 10 million yuan more than the total financial sum of the Northern Song Dynasty last year.

This made Song Huizong very excited and proud. With the boasting of Jiang Chen and others, he felt more and more that he was a wise leader of Zhongxing, and at the same time he strengthened his identity as the minister chosen by Jiang Chen.

After all, since Jiang Chen entered the court, he has brought him too many surprises.

But what he regretted was that his good wish to use this matter to solve the redundant officials and redundant officials was disappointed.

At the first dynasty meeting when moving back to the palace, Song Huizong saw the Zhumi Court handing over the dense list of recommended personnel, and felt dazzled and his head was buzzing.

He knew that the problem of redundant officials and redundant officials was initially caused by Song Taizu deliberately in order to strengthen the rule of imperial power.

The essential purpose is to allow all officials to fight for power and profit, supervise and suspicion, thereby dividing the rights of officials, allowing officials to waste their main energy on internal struggles, and avoiding the recurrence of the history of wearing yellow robe.

But this is a big pit. As more and more officials, without waiting for Mr. Gao, they made a clever name for each family and arranged an additional organization to enter the court to eat imperial food, which has expanded the bureaucracy to an extremely terrifying number.

He allowed the officials to frame the blame and make a big mistake. All he wanted was to reduce this number.

But now...

Song Huizong looked at the list in his hand with a worried look on his face, and said to Cai Jing and others in a negotiated tone:

"My dear friends, the problem of redundant officials and staff has troubled our dynasty for a long time, and it is also a major reason for the tight financial situation of the court. Now King Qiong, Duke Cao and others have successively become seniors, which is a great opportunity for us to continue to implement reform.

Why not take the opportunity to streamline redundancy and govern the Qingming government?"

Song Huizong meant that now that Duke Cao and King Qiong were gone, many Conservatives were also arrested by you, so there was no need for the court institutions responsible for supervising and dividing them.

Cai Jing and others understood what Song Huizong meant, and they all looked at the Shangshu Youcheng and the Minister of the Secretariat Bai Shizhong.

Because the British Duke, who had previously been under the title of Minister of Personnel, was conquered by this rebellion case, Bai Shizhong, who also served as the Minister of Personnel, became the chief official of the Ministry of Personnel.
Chapter completed!