[The third update, ask for red tickets, collect]

Who doesn't know Sima Guang's intelligence in the world? In the matter of Renzong's heir, Sima Guang only wrote a few chapters and spoke twice, so that Renzong finally nodded. Before Sima Guang, Bao Zheng, Han Qi, and Ouyang Xiu didn't know how many times they had urged them hard, but they all returned in vain. With such vision and intelligence, how could he not see the benefits of the Seedlings Loan?

The green seedling method was pioneered by Li Shen in Shaanxi, and it has been implemented for many years, and it has been highly evaluated, so Wang Anshi will now try it out in the local area, and now he is ready to implement it nationwide. However, Sima Guang insisted that the Qingmiao method he saw in Shaanxi 'only saw its harm, not its benefits.' ’

Sima Guang's heart, Lu Huiqing knows.

Lu Huiqing set the tone, and in front of Wang Anshi and his assistants, Han Gang didn't mind patting Sima Guang's face: "If you borrow one to repay one, the bankrupt will be a few Xi." It is precisely because the world's loans are mostly multiplied for the benefits, and the lower households have the misfortune of bankruptcy. Nowadays, as long as the seedlings do not force people to borrow, where will the people still complain? If the rich people want to borrow money to earn interest, they have to reduce the interest to the same interest rate as the seedling loan. Therefore, the people have more choices, whether public or private, let them choose for themselves. Isn't this a favor?

As the saying goes, shop around, you don't have to teach this, even women know it clearly. In the past, there were only usury for the rich, and the poor had no choice but to be deceived by them. If both the government and the rich people have loans, the people will have a choice, and they will choose one that is beneficial to them. There are inevitable problems in the process of implementing the Seedlings Loan, and there are any edicts in the world that will be implemented flawlessly, but the benefits of the Seedlings Loan are even greater. ”

Zhang Dian clapped his hands, and Ha Luha smiled: "It's good to shop around." Han and Wen Zhugong did their best to compete with the people for profit, but their vision was not even comparable to that of women. ”

Zeng preached: "I wonder if they are pretending!? ”

Zhang Dian laughed disdainfully: "Wen, Lu, and Ma are naturally pretending, but there are some people who are really confused. ”

"Sima Junshi is never confused, except for military affairs, he is smarter than anyone else." Wang Anshi is an old friend of Sima Guang, and of course he knows Sima Guang more deeply than anyone here.

"Speaking of military affairs, didn't you hear that Sima Neihan is going to be a privy deputy envoy?" Han Gang suddenly asked.

Zeng preached: "Sima Junshi resigned. In addition to the one time the day before yesterday, the post of privy deputy, he has already resigned three times. ”

Zhang Dian sneered: "Sima Twelve didn't dare to do it." He knew all the things he had done in Linzhou in the past. Tired of Pang Yinggong moving to Qingzhou, without Ying Gong to protect him, he would inevitably have to be demoted a few levels. ”

A few days ago, Han Gang heard that the Son of Heaven intended to make Sima Guang serve as the privy deputy envoy and be included in the ruling list. But at the same time, he also heard that Sima Guang had no credit to boast about in military affairs, but had the defeat of losing his armor.

The Pang Yinggong mentioned by Zhang Dian refers to the famous minister of the Renzong Dynasty, Pang Ji - he is also famous in later generations, and after Han Gang learned about Pang Ji's deeds, he was very strange to know why he became a traitor in later generations. Pang Ji did not be the daughter of the concubine, and he was not a princess, only the name of the prince and the Taibao, and after his death, he was posthumously crowned Sikong and Shizhong, except for the royal majesty was very strict, the official reputation was not bad - Pang Ji's son and Sima Guang were brothers-in-law. In the second year of Jiayou, Pang was the governor of Bingzhou and was in charge of the border military affairs in the northeast of Hedong. For the sake of convenience, Pang Yi took Sima Guang to the state and made a general judgment.

Pang was also in charge of the defense of Hedong, but because he was too old to inspect the place, he asked Sima to patrol the border on his behalf. When Sima Guang went to Linzhou, he accepted the proposal of the local governor and the general judge, and suggested to Pang Ji that two military forts be built on the Western Xia side of the border. But the worst result was that the whole family of the fort building army was wiped out, and the general Guo En was killed in battle.

After the war, Pang Ji hid the documents suggested by Sima Guang to build a fort, and he took the charge himself. Then seeing that Pang Ji was cut off from the position of the envoy of the festival, Sima Guang felt uneasy, and wrote a letter to confess his mistakes, but in the end he did not receive punishment. Because of this, Sima Guangshi Pang was like a father, and at the same time, he also accepted the lesson, did not want to talk about military affairs anymore, and opposed any decision to expand the army and war. Zhao Ji made Sima Guang the deputy envoy of the privy council, which can be regarded as ironic.

"However, no matter what kind of official Sima Twelve is, he is always qualified to discuss the change of the law. And the new law ...... In particular, the Qingmiao Law, in the implementation of the law, there will inevitably be some problems, and it has become the target of Sima Twelve's attack. Lu Huiqing asked Han Gang, looking serious like an examiner: "I wonder what Yukun thinks?" ”

Han Gang shook his head, but his spirit was secretly lifted, he was also prepared for this question. He immediately replied: "I don't have any ideas, and the major affairs of the court are not something that such a contemptuous minister can discuss." But...... No matter how the major events in the court are decided, what strategy is used, after reaching the most important, it must be sent to the localities, to the state, the county and even the township, and to the hands of the people selected from the nine products, so that we and the officials at the lower levels can do things. ”

Zeng Bu pondered for a moment and asked, "...... Yukun wants to say that Sima Junshi, and of course Han and Wen, will encourage the petty officials and officials in the state and county, * the new law? ”

"That's one reason." Han Gang replied casually, influencing the direction of the conversation by grasping the topic, which is his forte, but he will not let Zeng Bu lead the nose, "I and other ministers and officials have always been very bitter, and they have a lot to do, and if they don't do it well, they will be reprimanded and even punished by the officials." Just a few days ago, in the post house, I saw a person who came from Lushan County to be selected. He worked for two years in Sanya Town, under Lushan County [now Lushan, Henan], to manage fireworks and catch thieves in Gou Town, that is, to supervise the town.

In the past two years, he has lived a very hard life, and when I look at his clothes, they are all patched. I also heard him recite a poem he made when he was in Sancrow Town, 'Two years of haggard in Sanya, how to support the family without money and rice, two meals a day must be lotus root, look at the lotus blossom in the mouth." ’。 ”

After Han Gang finished speaking, several people present fell into deep thought. Han Gang said that these were naturally useful, whether it was Wang Anshi, Lu Huiqing, Zeng Bu, or Zhang Dan, he would not think that Han Gang was just casually telling a joke. However, Han Gang's intentions are not difficult to guess, and with their intelligence, it is just a matter of the blink of an eye.

Lu Huiqing was the first to react, and he also laughed for a while: "Yukun said it well, I don't know if Lian Xi can make his song "Ai Lian Said" when he eats lotus flowers in his mouth." ”

took Zhou Dunyi and made a joke, and Lu Huiqing continued: "Speaking of which, when I was a magistrate in Zhenzhou in the past, I used to be the candidate for the liquor tax who moved from Suzhou, and he also wrote a poem and sighed, 'Suzhou 911 sheep, how dare you buy and taste it, fish and shrimp are filled with two meals a day, and the belly is now a small pond'." ”

Zhang Dian also understood, and he also said: "Speaking of crying poor poems, I have also heard of a poem, which was written by the idle officials of the third class courtyard, 'The third class is really sad to serve, and it can be known that it is humble and lonely. When will you get rich with 700 dollars, and when will you get fat with half a catty of mutton? ’”

Lu Huiqing shook his head, he had also heard this poem, and he had been for a long time. "That is the old yellow calendar of the year, and it is still a poem made by the Zhenzong Dynasty. Today's three classes of servants are not bad. ”

"It's not bad, didn't you say 'the third class is popular, and the herds are ......'" Zeng Bu suddenly stopped, because the next sentence was to mock Wang An's stone.

"'Herds eat dung', right?" Wang Anshi smiled and helped Zeng Bu make up the next sentence, but he didn't care. Although he was a herd judge, he never mixed in the matter of eating dung.

The Sanban Yuan is relative to the military attache Quanquan of Liunequan, and the Yamen is in charge of low-grade military ministers, such as Liu Zhongwu, who is under the management of the Sanban Yuan. Just as there are always hundreds of idle people who have not been sent at any time inside and outside the stream. In the courtyard of the third class, there are always two or three hundred envoys and envoys who have not been sent. In addition, on the day of the holy birthday, the monks participate in the ceremony of eating and incense. After the ceremony, the remaining incense money will be distributed to these poor and idle officials, who will gather together to eat and drink.

The herd supervisor is in charge of the world's horse farms, although he can't raise a few qualified war horses every year - as a regular business of the fifth house inspection of the middle book, Zeng Bu once looked at the account books of the herd department, last year, the country's pastoral supervisors slaughtered a total of 1,640 horses, of which 264 can be used as war horses, and the rest can only be placed in the post station to run errands. But by peddling horse manure, the herdsmen never made much money. The small treasury saved by the dung money was used for the officials of the Herd Division to eat and drink.

So there is a joke in the world - the third class eats fragrant, and the herd eats dung. Although one is clear and the other is pickled, how can the chilling cicada drinking wind and food dew be as comfortable as the Qiang mantis rolling with dung balls?

After talking about jokes for a long time, the topic is also going around and around, and it can't be to the point at all, but in fact, everyone here is clear from the bottom of their hearts, Lu Huiqing, Zeng Bu, and Zhang Dian are not characters who have eight tricks in their hearts and nine twists and turns; Although Wang Anshi has a difficult personality, he is even more intelligent, how can he not see through what Han Gang wants to say under the twists and turns. It's just that they won't say it clearly.

- Han Gang is asking for a boost to low-level officials!

Raise the salaries of civil servants, this is a bag of poison wrapped in sugar. Originally, the imperial court was in deficit every year because of the three redundancies, and at most it even reached 15 million yuan, among them, there was a credit to the officials - redundant officials! And it is a great credit, just the official team of more than 20,000 people in the civil and military classes, almost accounts for more than 20% of the court's finances! But the court doesn't need so many officials at all!

Now that the low-level officials are being raised in a state of earnest—if necessary, according to Han Gang's words, they are to be paid to the officials—the huge expenses caused by this will be saved by the Seedling Loan, and the newly opened up by the Farmland and Water Conservancy Law, and all this financial revenue will have to be filled into the newly dug hole.1]

Note 1: Don't think that this policy is unreasonable, in the fifth year of Xining, Wang Anshi took the initiative to increase the amount of money for low-level officials, so that they could do things with peace of mind and not harm the people - that is, the Northern Song Dynasty version of * - here just let Han San advance it by two years.