"Maybe it's because the old man is a little anxious, and he asked Bo Shi to talk to the lieutenant in detail, and the old man is not good at commenting on the gains and losses of the new deal on his own." Wang Anshi was also confused, and when he heard that someone had analyzed his new policy so thoroughly, he immediately forgot the identity and actual situation of the other party.

Let the horse wake up as soon as he says it, let alone a captain who doesn't care about political affairs in such a big matter, even if he is the prime minister, he is still anxious.

But I have to say that this prime minister really has a character, and even in private, he is not willing to boast, and handed over the right to evaluate the new deal to Li Gonglin. The reason is also very simple, to find faults, what can be more than the opponents.

Li Gonglin felt bitter in his heart, as a conservative sympathizer, he found fault with the New Deal in front of the reformist bigwigs, how can he think about this job and how he is not a person inside and out. Pick too much, who knows what this big guy thinks; Pick less, and it seems that there is a problem with your character.

The most headache is not Wang Anshi, but Wang Xu, the colt. You said that you just listened honestly, but you can't let me get through it. He has to interject in everything and ask this and that, and he will not stop asking the most critical questions.

This conversation was an afternoon, and the two of them said goodbye when the sky was getting dark. Hong Tao originally wanted to keep the two adults to have a meal in his own home, but Wang Anshi's strange temper was committed again, he said that it was not suitable for the court officials to eat and drink in the horse's house.

But he didn't say that he would not bother the horse anymore, and asked the horse captain to quickly recover the stupid head that was kicked by the horse, so as to contribute more to the new policy.

And he also said solemnly that if the horse can really come up with a solution, and can be approved by him and the emperor, then he can resign from the position of the left servant again. As long as it is beneficial to the court and the country, any false name can be discarded.

"It is said that traitors are hateful, but in fact, patriotic thieves are sometimes more destructive and deceptive." It's a pity that Wang Anshi's confession didn't have any effect, Hong Tao really didn't take it to heart at all, and he didn't even feel the slightest emotion.

In his ears, these words are basically, as long as the new deal is successful, no one can erase his old king's merits, and it has to be the first credit. In that case, does it make a difference whether you should be the first assistant or not? Except for making people feel that you are of noble character, it has no practical effect at all.

No matter what the character of this awkward minister is, Hong Tao really can't help him find a way for the time being. The most important thing now is to hurry to the back garden to see how the results of the Flying Eagle competition are and whether they can achieve their expected results.

The New Deal reform did not succeed overnight, and naturally it was not deposed in a day and a half. But his career is about to start, and success or failure is here!

The game is definitely over, but the back garden is still full of people and candles. The emperor and his concubines not only didn't leave, but actually set up a banquet in their own home, and they were pushing cups and changing lamps to drink lively, and their own dancing girls were cheering up.

"Wang Xiang is gone?" Before Hong Tao's ass sat on the chair, the eldest brother's thoughtful little problem came.

"Gone, but he won't have to come one day, and he is not satisfied with the minister's answer." It seems that it makes sense that Wang Anshi does not stay for dinner, and the emperor of the Song Dynasty really cares about his relatives, for fear of colluding with officials to make trouble behind each other's backs.

"I heard Sanniang say that you want to sell flying eagle equipment, but is it true?" The emperor was noncommittal to his brother-in-law's answer, and asked about something else.

"Back to Your Majesty, what the princess said is true. The court did not restrict officials from doing business, and the ministers wanted to support themselves, so that the princess would no longer have to worry about daily expenses. The main reason is that the minister was too wasteful in the past, and he owed a lot of deficits to his colleagues...... "The drama meat is here, this is what Wang Shu is most concerned about, so hurry up and say it pitifully."

It can't be said that it is making up nonsense to deceive the emperor, the horse mansion is indeed not rich, mainly because the previous Wang Shu was too able to spend money. Not only was his own salary insufficient, but he also lost the princess's private money. Even if the emperor often subsidizes his sister in private, it is not enough to toss the horse.

The grade of General Zuo Wei is not low, and it is the fifth grade, but it is a false position, and the monthly salary is only about thirty. The princess has no position, and only has a royal allowance every month, less than ten times. If you don't count the money that the emperor secretly stuffed to the princess, the monthly salary income of the Horse Mansion is about forty yuan.

Is this more or less? It depends on the current price level and how you want to spend it.

What can be bought with forty guan money Hong Tao still has no clear understanding, but he knows that the last time he went to Bailu Lou with Wang Anshi and Li Gonglin to eat, a banquet that was not extravagant cost Li Gonglin more than five guan.

Even if Li Gonglin is a real civil official, he is more popular than his own five-grade virtual military position, but his salary is not much higher. It won't be higher than 30 per month, and a meal costs one-fifth of his income, so it's no wonder he's always crying poor.

Speaking of the currency of the Great Song Dynasty, it is really not very worry-free, not to mention the types, just the copper coin, which is the most popular and hard-hitting currency, the currency value is not very uniform. Only these days I have heard of small flat money (one penny money), two money, three money, two money, three money, and so on.

If you want to say that the currency value is a little messy, it can be calculated, but the Song Dynasty government seems to be deliberately cultivating the mathematical foundation of the whole people, for fear that everyone will be rusty if they don't practice every day, so they came up with two kinds of Mo systems, Provincial Mo and Zu Mo.

The province is to discount the consistent money to 770 Wen. For example, the payslip says that you have a consistent salary for a month, and you can only receive 770 wen when you pay your salary at the end of the month. In other words, in this period, 770 Wen Qian is consistent!

Zumo's meaning is relatively simple, no discount, and the money is always a thousand Wen.

As for why he made these regulations, Hong Tao didn't quite understand, so he could only guess that it was to deal with the ups and downs in the value of coins.

But in this way, it is a bit troublesome for people who are not used to it to settle accounts, and they have to make a seven-seven discount when counting money.

But the common people of the Song Dynasty were really studious, and they felt that it was not enough for the court to exercise the level of oral arithmetic well, it was too simple, so they spontaneously made a market out of the city. Consistently, the money varies from 772 to 775 according to different industries and regions.

According to the current wage level, the daily wage of an ordinary resident in Bianliang City is about 150 to 200 wen. My friend Su Shi wrote from Huangzhou that he divided his salary of more than 4 guan into 30 shares at the beginning of each month, and hung them on the beam, and took one expense every day, and could not exceed 150 wen a day.

In fact, the income of officials in the Song Dynasty was not too high, and only by mixing with the fifth-grade officials and above could they reach the level of worry-free food and clothing by their salaries, and most of the low-grade officials were like ordinary civil servants in later generations, who had to count their salaries on their fingers to live.

What is the concept of Wupinguan? You have to be a doctor or above, which is roughly equivalent to the bureau level of later generations, and then you can get more than 30 yuan per month.

Wang Anshi's reinstatement this time was not the prime minister, but the left servant, and he should get a salary of 90 yuan as usual. But what he does is the prime minister's job, so he takes the prime minister's salary, 300 yuan a month!

This is the particularity of the officialdom of the Song Dynasty, and their ranks are all imaginary, called Jilu officials, which are official positions that are used to calculate salaries. The actual position is called a deacon, and the two are often very different.

At present, there are about 13,000 official civil servants in the imperial court who receive salaries, and there are only more than 200 who can mix with more than five grades. That is to say, only these more than 200 cadres at or above the bureau level can live a well-off life on their salaries, and the other officials are not even considered to be the middle class, just ordinary civil servants.

Of course, like later generations, the officials of the Song Dynasty did not only get by with their dead salaries, but their benefits were relatively high. In addition to wages, the imperial court would also distribute various amounts of corn every month according to the rank, that is, grain.

Like Hong Tao, you can get 5 stones of millet, and Wang Anshi can get 100 stones, a difference of 20 times! Every year, the imperial court will also issue a New Year's gift, which is cloth. There are Aya above the director, and there are only Juan, Nishiki and Luo below the director.

Generally speaking, it was not bad to be an official in the Song Dynasty, if the family population was not too large, the welfare of one person alone could meet the food and clothing of the whole family. The wages are all vegetables, meat, and daily expenses. You can't be rich and you can't be poor, much like the state of Western civil servants in later generations.