Zhao Ruyu was also prepared for this, and said: "My Great Song Dynasty's cultivated fields are divided into middle and lower three grades, and naturally taxes are formulated according to the grade of the acre, and the good fields are paid more and the secondary fields are paid less. Since then, the level has been reclassified every three years. ”

Chen Junqing shook his head and said: "If taxes are set according to the level of the acreage, and the good fields are paid more and the secondary fields are paid less, then won't it make the farmers in the world deliberately reduce the yield of the acres in order to reduce the taxes paid?" ”

Han Yanzhi also asked: "If there is no land and no tax is paid, will the farmers sell all their fields and then rent other people's land in order to seek tax exemption?" ”

Zhao Ruyu was stunned for a moment, he really hadn't thought of these points. But what Chen Junqing and Han Yanzhi said is also very reasonable, and this problem will definitely be encountered in the implementation of the mu tax law.

Liang Kejia also came out and said: "Your Majesty, there is another point, although the grade of the acres is divided according to the output, but it is still verified by officials at all levels, and the farmers pay less taxes, and officials at all levels charge more taxes, which will inevitably cause private evils. ”

Zhao Chen listened, and couldn't help but be a little discouraged, originally he thought that the mu tax law was a good law, which could completely solve the problem of unfair taxation and difficult to collect counterfeits, but now it seems that there are still many loopholes in it. looked at Zhao Ruyu again and said, "Zhao Qing, Chen Xiang and Liang Xiang's words, have you heard clearly?" Do you think what they say makes sense? ”

Zhao Ruyu said calmly: "Emperor, Weichen listens to it, what the two ministers said is reasonable, but it is the crime of Weichen's inconsiderability, please go back and think about it, and you will definitely be able to amend and improve the mu tax law." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Hong Shi came out and said: "Your Majesty, the implementation of the new law is a matter of great importance, and the ancestral system cannot be changed lightly, and I hope Your Majesty will think twice." ”

Zhao Chen said with a smile: "It is precisely because of the high stakes that I am here to discuss the new list of Chen Shan and brainstorm ideas, although the ancestral system cannot be changed lightly, but it is not perfect, it can be changed, and it can be changed, and it is not necessary to follow it." What do you think? ”

In fact, Hong Shi's original intention was to ask Zhao Chen to stop implementing the new law, but he was lightly brushed aside by Zhao Chen.

Liu Yuanying came out of the list and said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the new law listed today will completely change the system of the ancestors, give up the saint's benevolence and righteousness, exercise the art of power and deception, the messenger will go down, the left will be right, the former will follow, and the one who will destroy ......it will destroy it."

Before he finished speaking, Zhao Chen interrupted him and said: "I am asking Zhu Qing what are the flaws in the new list and correcting them, if Qing has any suggestions on this, although he said bluntly, if you want to do a Taoist article, you might as well go down to the palace and write it slowly, don't recite it in the court." ”

Some ministers below couldn't help laughing when they heard this, Liu Yuanying was blushing with shame, so he had to retreat into the train and couldn't speak.

At this time, Guo Weizhong, the Ministry of Rites, came out again and said: "Your Majesty, since ancient times, the survival of the country's society lies in the depth of morality, not in the strength or weakness, the length of the royal road, and the thickness of customs, not in the rich and poor. I am a great country in the Song Dynasty, how can I say that it is profitable, only if the Lord adheres to the holy virtue, then the financial self-sufficiency, the people's livelihood is self-sufficient, China is self-reliant, and the enemy is self-defeating. Now His Majesty abolished the old system of ancestral law, practiced the way of Yao Shun to know the people and the people, took the five hegemons to enrich the country and strengthen the army, emphasized profit over righteousness, and took advantage of financial gains, and gave up the capital. ”

Zhao Chen's brows furrowed, obviously a little annoyed, Liu Heng, Chen Junqing, and Han Yanzhi Liang Kejia could also be said to be correcting the shortcomings of the new article Chen. can help improve the new law as much as possible, Zhao Chen can not only listen to it, but also encourage his speech attitude, but later Liu Yuanying, Guo Wei and others spoke directly accusing that the new law should not be implemented, and they are all empty words, which have no substantive meaning at all, and Zhao Chen naturally can't listen to it.

After listening to what Guo Weizhong said, Zhao Chen snorted coldly and said: "'Adhere to the holy virtue, then the financial self-sufficiency, the people's livelihood is self-sufficient, China is self-reliant, and the enemy is self-eliminating', if the court does not seek profit, where do these uses come from?" Guo Weizhong, if according to what you said, shouldn't I stop all the officials from making money, lest you are also seeking profit, which is against the way of the saints?"

Guo Weizhong was also startled when he heard this, only to see that the eyes of all the officials were focused on him, and he couldn't help but secretly complain in his heart, he just saw the speeches of Liu Hui, Chen Junqing and others, the emperor was not angry, but still had the meaning of approval, so he pretended to be clever and came out to talk about a sage avenue. I didn't expect the emperor to attract the hundreds of officials at once, in case this young emperor was willful for a while, and he really had to do a desperate job and stop all the officials' money, then wouldn't he be torn apart by them? Hurriedly knelt on the ground and said, "That's not what the minister meant. ”

Zhao Chen stood up from the dragon chair, took a few steps back and forth, and said: "It is good to stick to the holy virtues, but how can the great plan of the country be judged by morality. You say, can you talk about morality with the Jin people? Now that there is only half of the Great Song Dynasty left, can we use morality to recover all the land occupied by the Jin people? ”

Seeing that the young emperor was angry, the ministers did not dare to speak up for a while. After a long while, Chen Junqing said: "Your Majesty, please calm your anger, the mu tax law is still being discussed, and the ministers are still asking Lord Zhao to go back and think about it, and then improve it." ”

Chen Junqing Bi Jing is an old minister of the Four Dynasties, and the question just raised is also very pertinent, not indiscriminate accusations, Zhao Chen can't help but give him a face, and was about to speak, at this time Xin Qiji came out of the queue and said: "The minister just thought of a method, I don't know if I can improve the mu tax law, and I ask Your Majesty to consider it with you." ”

When Zhao Chen heard that he had a way to improve, he was not angry, and said, "Xin Qing said quickly, what can you do?" ”

Xin Qiji said: "In fact, what Chen Xiang and Han Shumi just said, it should be rare, deliberately reducing the output, although you can pay less taxes, but the farmers' own harvest will also be reduced, and renting other people's land is always not as good as cultivating your own land, so most farmers may not be like this." However, just in case, you might as well add the law of rewards and punishments, there is a lower limit for the division of cultivated fields, if you can exceed the limit, you can reduce the conscription as a reward, if it is lower than the lower limit, then increase the conscription as a punishment. In this way, farmers will not deliberately reduce production, and officials will not dare to deliberately increase production. And landless farmers should also collect some taxes accordingly, not to reduce a lot, I don't know what you think? ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Junqing also nodded slightly, with a lot of approval in his eyes. Zhao Ruyu gave Xin Qiji a salute and said, "In the opinion of Lord Xin, Gao Ruyu is ten times more foolish. ”

Xin Qi hurriedly said: "It's all for the imperial court, why should Lord Zhao say thank you." ”

Zhao Chen was also overjoyed to hear it, rewarding farming, which was originally a reward and punishment measure implemented in all dynasties, and no one could raise any objections. In this way, the first batch of the five new articles were adopted.

At this time, Chen Junqing came out and said: "Your Majesty intends to sweep away the old evils and bring out the new, although the intentions are good, but the implementation of the new law, I don't know whether it is good or bad, it is better to act cautiously, not to mention that the national strength of my Great Song Dynasty has just been restored, the treasury is empty, and everything is waiting for the new." If the new law is not implemented conveniently, I am afraid that it will cause chaos. In Yichen's view, it is not appropriate to immediately implement the new law throughout the country, and choose one or two ways without visiting, implement it for a few years, see the results, and then implement it throughout the country. In this way, even if the new law has shortcomings and limited impact, it can be supplemented. ”

Liang Kejia also came out and said: "What Chen Xiang said is reasonable, Weichen thinks that it might as well be implemented in Lianghuai first, and after five years, the effect of the new law will be seen before making a decision." ”

Zhao Chen nodded, what Chen Junqing said, although he was a little conservative, it was not a prudent plan. After all, now Da Song can't afford to tear it down anymore. However, according to Liang Kejia, it will only be tried in Lianghuai first, and then five years later, it will be too slow to make a decision.

Xin Qiji said: "Although the new law is not suitable for immediate implementation in the whole country, but it is too conservative to only try it in Lianghuai, Weichen thinks that such as the Jingjie Law and the Farmland Water Conservancy Law, can be implemented in the whole country immediately without trial, and the two Huai, Liangzhejiang, Liangjiang, Lianghu, and Liangguang have just resumed production, and the Exemption Law, the Shecang Law and the Mu Tax Law can all be implemented in these roads. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Liang Kejia immediately retorted: "My Great Song Dynasty now has a total of seventeen roads, if the new law is implemented in the ten roads at once, it is better to implement it in the whole country." ”

At this time, Han Yan came out and said: "Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that if Liang Xiang's words are too slow, but if you are like Master Xin's words, you are too anxious. The five new laws cannot be generalized, such as the meridian boundary law and the farmland and water conservancy law, which are all mandatory laws, and they can indeed be implemented throughout the country without trial. However, it is not a one-day task to check the household registration of land, register and build water conservancy projects, and it is impossible to carry out the work of the whole country at the same time. The Exemption Law, the Social Warehouse Law, and the Mu Tax Law can also be tried out in these six ways first, and then a final conclusion can be made. ”

Zhao Chen nodded, what Han Yanzhi said was indeed reasonable, not in a hurry, but gradually, which was also in line with his intentions. So I was very satisfied. However, suddenly Zhao Chen asked again: "As Han Qing said, judging by its effectiveness, should it be limited to a few years?" ”

Han Yan said straightly: "Five years is indeed too long, the mu tax law delineates the level of the acreage, isn't it limited to three years, the minister thinks that it might as well be limited to three years, and after three years, if it is indeed effective, it can be promoted to other places, if there is a problem, or change or abolition, or change or establishment, and then make a conclusion." ”

Zhao Chen looked around at the ministers and said, "What Han Shumi said is very agreeable, what do you have any opinions?" ”

Xin Qiji said first: "The minister has no discussion. In fact, he also knew that it was impossible for all new laws to be popularized throughout the country at once, but if they were only tested in two ways, it would be too slow, and it would be difficult to see results, so he deliberately proposed to implement them in ten ways at once, which was a strategy of advancing and retreating. Now it can be implemented at the same time on the six roads at once, and the meridian boundary law and the farmland water conservancy law do not need to be tried out, and it will gradually be extended to the whole country. Naturally, I was very satisfied.

Zhao Ruyu also came out and said, "The minister also thinks that Han Shumi's words are very good. When you follow this. ”

Although Liang Kejia and Hong Shi were unwilling, they also knew that the emperor had decided in his heart that it would not be useful to say anything more, so they did not raise any more objections?

Zhao Chen was about to give an order to withdraw from the dynasty, Chen Junqing came out again, and said: "Your Majesty is to enrich the country and strengthen the army, and implement the new law, with good intentions, but we must also beware of villains using the new law to seek their own selfish interests, not only helpless with the country, but also suffering the people, and also mistakenly changing the law. ”

Zhao Chen woke up suddenly and said, "The old prime minister said yes, if it wasn't for the old prime minister's reminder, I would have forgotten it." Then he looked around at the ministers and said, "Spread my will, and whoever uses the implementation of the new law to bend the law for bribes, engage in irregularities for personal gain, and harm the people will not be spared once it is verified." ”

Three days later, Zhao Chen issued an order to promote Zhao Ruyu to the position of governor to fill the vacancy left by Shi Hao's resignation, and specifically assigned to preside over the implementation of the new policy in the DPRK. Then Xin Qiji was appointed as the envoy of the Lianghuai system, Yue Lin was the envoy of the two Zhejiang, Shi Miyuan was the envoy of Jiangnan East Road, and Ye Shi was appointed as the envoy of Jiangnan West Road. Each is responsible for the work of the new law in their respective places.

Lianghuai is now the border of the Great Song Dynasty, and a large number of troops are stationed, so the implementation of the new law must also take into account the problem of the army, so as not to cause a big impact on the border defense. Xin Qiji has served in Yang Yan's army for many years, and he has a good relationship with most of the border generals, so he can take measures to help coordinate the relationship between the law and the army.

When the Jin army invaded the south, Yue Lin served as the transfer envoy of the two Guangzhou, the work was very relieved, and he was conscientious, although he did not kill the enemy, but he provided sufficient Houle preservation for the Great Song Dynasty to repel the Jin army, and it was also indispensable, so it was quite praised by the ministers of the DPRK and China. Liangzhejiang Road is the place where the two capitals are located, and it is also the top priority of the law reform pilot. If there can be some results in the two Zhejiang roads, even if there are some troublesome problems in the other four roads, they can also be explained. Therefore, the Liangzhejiang Road was handed over to Yue Lin to pay the responsibility, and Zhao Chen was also quite relieved.

Shi Miyuan and Ye Shi both had low official positions, so they could only serve as transit envoys along the way. Among them, Shi Miyuan was noticed because of the persuasion of Li Quan, and it was quite unexpected that he could take the initiative to propose a new law this time, and Zhao Chen also planned to take this opportunity to try Shi Miyuan's ability. And everyone knows that Shi Hao's resignation was because he had participated in framing Yang Yan before, and Zhao Chen's activation of Shi Miyuan also showed a signal like a group of ministers, that is, the emperor will not remember the previous hatred, as long as he does things faithfully for the court, he will be reused.

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