This contradiction is not a day or two, and some things can be solved early, but Sishang has been hindering and stirring up, and there is no chance at all.

The cause of the civil strife in the Song Dynasty this time, that is, because of the problem of taxation, was actually only a fuse, but a general outbreak of contradictions that had accumulated for twenty years.

It all started seven years ago, during the period of peace before the outbreak of the Qi-Mo War.

The emperor's father, Yue Ling, wanted to use the peasants and industry to curb the rest of the nobles, and even guided the common people to borrow the power of the common people to suppress the rest of the nobles, so he asked people to spread rumors.

It is said that in the world of great strife, there must be no army, and if there is no army, the society will not be defended, but there will be no army if there is no money.

The people of the Song Kingdom, who were outside the fiefdoms of the nobles, bore taxes, and the nobles did not pay taxes and still maintained feudal rights, which the people were very dissatisfied with.

The emperor's father, Yue Ling, wanted to take advantage of this dissatisfaction to incite the people to support him to complete the centralization of power, so he said that the fiefdom nobles should be allowed to bear the taxes and pay according to the size and quantity of the fief to form a standing army.

He said that one could allow many peasants who had lost their land to work in Shangqiu to join the army, and the other could reduce the burden on the people.

After building momentum, the people of the common people's court were very happy about this, and felt that the emperor's father Yue Ling had finally done a job, and many people felt that this might really be a good nobleman.

The emperor's father, Yue Ling, said that he could take the lead, and his fief also needed to pay taxes, but the military power must be in his own hands.

The rest of the nobles are not stupid, they pay for themselves, and then those farmers who have lost their land and no jobs join the army, and the royal father's family gets a good reputation, and they also expand their military power and power, and they will clean themselves up in the future?

Therefore, the nobles of the Junziyuan expressed their opposition, believing that "soldiers are also murder weapons", and that raising a standing army was a waste of money and would lead to war, so it was better to continue to adopt the system of conscripting peasant soldiers to serve in accordance with the original rules.

Not only did he refuse to pay military expenses according to the fiefdom, but he also spread the word that under the original public land system, the income of the Song State was enough to cope with military taxes and sacrifices, and now the yield of one mu of land has increased several times and the wealth has increased several times, so why should taxes be raised?

From the point of view of the aristocracy, not only should taxes not be raised, but they should continue to be reduced, so that the people can also benefit.

This kicked the ball back to the Imperial Father, Yue Ling.

There are also high-ranking people among the nobles, who not only kicked the ball back to the emperor's father, Yue Ling, but also instigated the contradictions among the people.

It is said that many Daze can actually be cultivated because they have iron tools, and you can see that the government also pays for the people to reclaim the land and have cattle.

In this case, it is advisable to let the yeoman farmers and industrialists pay more taxes, and as a cost of helping the farmers who have lost their land, these additional taxes can be used to buy seeds, iron tools and cattle, and organize the landless people to go to some uncultivated Daze to reclaim.

Homesteaders and businessmen are certainly reluctant to pay, and they can't bear to see the landless peasants in misery, but they are unwilling to pay if they are asked to pay.

Seeing that there was about to be a contradiction at the bottom of the common people, and the emperor's father Yue Ling could use the power of the people to oppose the aristocracy, the Sishang Mo family decisively chose to take action.

At that time, the city in charge of money and finance, Jia Dolphin, immediately came to Shangqiu and made a big announcement, saying that the Mo family was willing to give this money to help the people who had lost their land, and lent them seeds and iron tools for cultivating cattle.

However, one is that the land in Sishang is insufficient, and the other is far away, so it is best to arrange it in the Song land.

By the way, the Mo family needs to send someone to help govern, because many planting techniques need to be taught, and it is also necessary to supervise whether someone is using this rescue for personal gain.

The people cheered, but the emperor's father Yue Ling and the nobles immediately objected.

Back then, the Mo family went to Sishang to do righteousness, and now the shores of Surabaya belong to the Mo family, if the Mo family is allowed to extend their hands to the Song Kingdom, how can it be done?

The emperor's father, Yue Ling, wanted to deal with the rest of the nobles, but he didn't want to make himself a powerless plaything like Tenghou and Marquis Xuan, and he was far more vigilant about the Mo family than the rest of the nobles.

The rest of the nobles were even more afraid that the Mo family would gradually encroach within the Song Kingdom, and their fiefdoms would be completely chaotic at that time.

The city stayed in Shangqiu with great fanfare for more than a month, but the aristocracy unanimously opposed it, so that the yeoman peasant class and industrialists and merchants of the entire Song Kingdom saw through the so-called love of the people of these nobles.

In terms of propaganda in the people's family, the nobles are not as good as the Mo family.

This matter did not come to an end, Shi Jia Dolphin said, then in this case, we will first pay to establish the standing army of the Song State, one is for non-offensive peace, and the other is to allow the landless people to have a career to engage in.

Money, guns, and artillery were all sent out from Si, and officers were also trained by Sishang, and each company had to be represented by inkers.

Money is not a problem, guns are not a problem, as for the money can be repaid slowly, all for the benefit of the people, to solve the three troubles of the people.

The people felt that there was nothing wrong with this, the righteous teachers of Sishang were so capable of fighting, and the treatment was good, and everything according to the military system of Sishang could not only solve the problem of landless peasants gathering in Shangqiu, but also enable the Song State to fulfill the non-offensive alliance signed with the Mo family.

The emperor's father, Yue Ling, was not stupid, if he could agree to this matter, he thought that the Song Kingdom would be blackened by the Mo family in the future, so he flatly refused.

After two consecutive refusals, Shijia Dolphin left after establishing two shelters in Shangqiu.

Originally, the emperor's father, Yue Ling, wanted to use the people to achieve centralization, while the nobles instigated conflicts between yeoman farmers and handicraftsmen and landless peasants.

The Mo family intervened at a critical moment, destroying the ambition of the emperor's father Yue Ling, so that the people recognized this person; Pushed the question back to the nobles: If you really want to be for the people, then you shouldn't refuse the Mo family's proposal, and now that you have refused, then you can figure it out yourself.

The Gentlemen's Court was idle about this matter, and the Commoners' Court protested and preached the morality of the Mo family all day long, and many people came forward to ridicule the emperor's father Yue Ling and the rest of the feudal nobles.

Not long after this incident, the Central Plains War broke out, and the Mo family sent troops to Feiguo on the grounds of "respecting the will of Feidi and benefiting the people", directly controlled Feiguo, defeated Qi, made laws for all people, and Heze would be alliance......

The nobles of the Song Kingdom were even more nervous, especially the imperial father Yue Ling, for fear that one day the Mo family would deal with the more influential Song State like the paying country.

He needed an army, an armed standing army, not a people's army that had been organized by the people themselves after the coup d'état of twenty years earlier.

The standing army needs money, and the nobles will not give it, because the rest of the nobles can choose to ally with Wei and Chu, and they can also be feudal kings if they defect to Wei and Chu in the future, and they may not have to hang themselves on the tree belonging to the imperial father's family in the Song Kingdom.

Subsequently, the Mo family cut off the loan to the imperial father Yue Ling, believing that the policy of the imperial father Yue Ling was not conducive to the people, and began to ask for debts, changing the previous intimacy between the Song State and the Mo family.

The emperor's father, Yue Ling, has no money.

Ask the merchant to borrow, the merchant does not borrow, because this is obviously a money-losing investment, it is better to invest this money in the South China Sea Chamber of Commerce, and the fool will lend the money to the imperial father Yue Ling, who obviously can't afford to pay it back.

Besides, when he lent money to Zhongshan Jun, it was pledged by Zhongshan Jun with the domestic salt industry iron franchise, what did the emperor's father Yue Ling pay back?

Businessmen are not charitable.

Fighting a war to open up the land, surrounded by either Sishang or Wei Chu, and no one can be defeated, this is obviously a money-losing business.

Moreover, with the opening of the South China Sea long-term industry trade, the return rate of money invested in the South China Sea was obviously higher, and the merchants of the Song Dynasty refused to lend money to the emperor's father, Yue Ling.

The main thing is...... The Song Kingdom was too close to Sishang, and the Mo family had infiltrated too much, so even if the merchants wanted the franchise of various goods in return, they had to think about the consequences.

One is that the Mo family really wants to smuggle, can they stop it?

Again, the people are already quite dissatisfied with some things, if this is done, it will be tantamount to adding fuel to the fire, and if it is really uncontrollable at that time, I am afraid that I will have to bury the emperor's father Yue Ling.

The merchant can't borrow it here, so he asked Qi Guo to borrow it, and Qi Hou said that I don't have any money, I just finished the war, and I am poor; borrowed from Wei Guo, Wei Guogang lost Zhongshan and was defeated by Zhao, and he had to tighten his belt to live.

Then send someone to talk with the king of Chu, one is to borrow money, the other is to form an alliance, the king of Chu immediately refused, the king of Chu has no money, and the other is worried that it will cause dissatisfaction in Sishang.

If you can't borrow money, you can't do anything other than raise taxes, and you can't make money yourself.

This is exactly what a penny is difficult to defeat a hero, Rao is quite wise, but there is no way without money.

The emergence of a large number of yeoman peasants ruined the feudal military system of the Song State, and without the hierarchical system and personal dependency system of the monarch, doctors, scholars, and peasants, there would be no military system under the law of etiquette, and even the army could not be raised.

The appearance of firearms destroyed the original peasant and soldier system, and the peasant soldiers were vulnerable in front of the standing army of firearms and cavalry.

If you want to transfer the contradictions, you need to have land.

But the extra land is in the hands of those feudal nobles, and they refuse to hand it over, and if they don't hand it over, there is no way to reform and alleviate the internal contradictions.

Take the opportunity to start a war with the nobles and incite public opinion, the Mo family is watching from the side, once there is a chance, the Mo family will definitely want to "benefit the people of the Song Dynasty and send troops to help the emperor father order Yin Zhi to benefit the people of the people", when the Mo family sends troops, the consequences can be seen, once the public opinion is instigated, the imperial father Yue Ling understands that he is afraid that he will also be swallowed by this raging flame.

Moreover, at that time, the countries had just finished the Central Plains War, and Sishang was the least damaged, and the rest were all seriously injured. The states of Wei, Chu, and Qi were all powerless to interfere with the possible entry of the Mo family into the Song Dynasty.

Foreign wars and land plundering cannot be defeated by any of the surrounding areas.

The productive forces of the old military system under the feudal system have been completely changed, and the new military system has not yet been established.

In the end, he had no choice but to take the most reluctant step: to liberate the peasants in his fiefdom and grant them the land that was originally his own, at the cost of their service, in order to build a standing army of his own.

If you have people, you can't do it without money.

Moreover, if his fiefdom was changed first, and his own money was less, he had to choose to compromise with the nobles: the Junziyuan unanimously passed a tax increase on yeoman farmers and industrialists and merchants.

Because yeoman farmers and industrialists and businessmen believed that the existence of the Song-Mo non-offensive alliance, the Song State did not need a standing army at all, only needed the people's spontaneous defense of the city, and if something happened, the field troops of the Mo family could help, so they thought that there was no need to raise taxes.

Of course, this is also guided by the Mohists who have strong propaganda ability at the bottom, and they are very noisy.

What the emperor's father Yue Ling needed was a military force in his own hands, and he did not dare to let the people's power be too strong, so he adopted a system similar to that of the government soldiers, granting land to the people in his fiefdom, tax exemption, and service, so as to form a special military group as the pillar force of his rule.

It is impossible for the nobles to pay taxes, and if they continue to oppress the nobles, they will incite public opinion, and it is likely that they will not be able to control it, so it is better to choose to compromise with the nobles who have a sufficient number of nobles in the Gentleman's Court, and let the yeoman farmers and industrialists pay taxes to support the private army of the emperor's father, Yue Ling.

The emperor's father, Yue Ling, has his own plans, even if something really happens to the Song Kingdom, Wei Chu will not let it go, especially after the ambitions of the Mo family are revealed after the Heze Alliance, if there is a rebellion in the Song Kingdom, Wei Chu can be immediately pulled into the water to fight against the Mo family and the domestic people's rebellion.

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