Chapter 448: Old Man
Everyone was trampling on Xia Zhu, but Zheng Lang was watching one thing.
Wang Yaochen moved to the envoy of the three divisions of Hubu Lang Zhongquan, and said to Zhao Zhen: "The country and the people are all disadvantages, please let Your Majesty choose your own subordinates." β
Zhao Zhen Zhunzhi, Wang Yaochen personally selected some reliable staff, began to check the accounts, check the state financial revenue and expenditure, the entire Song Dynasty's account income and expenditure is very huge, will not be found out for a while and a half, Wang Yaochen only checked the number of money in and out of the three roads of Shaanxi, Hebei and Hedong before and after the use of troops. In the first year of Baoyuan, that is, five years ago, when the Song Dynasty did not use troops, Shaanxi imported more than 19 million yuan, more than 15 million yuan, Hebei imported more than 21 million yuan, exported more than 18 million yuan, and Hedong entered more than 13 million yuan, and exported more than 13 million yuan. Hedong is flat, Hebei has a slight surplus, after all, it is necessary to defend the Khitan externally, and it is a place heavily guarded by the state. Shaanxi has a large surplus.
This does not mean that there will be a large amount of surplus in the whole country, the capital is the main one, the salary of the Beijing officials, the salary of hundreds of thousands of forbidden soldiers, even if there is sufficient surplus in the locality, the whole country may not have a surplus.
However, after the use of troops, Shaanxi has entered more than 36 million yuan and exported more than 47 million yuan, Hebei has more than 27 million yuan and more than 25 million yuan, and Hedong has entered more than 11 million yuan and exported more than 13 million yuan. It doesn't mean that Shaanxi's income has increased, a large number of garrisons, the inflated price generated by the delivery of materials, the soldiers' drinking and the taxation of supplies, and a little bit, collecting money! Except for Hedong 1st Road, the other two roads have carried out a large amount of heavy and harsh tiger restriction.
Wang Yaochen also made a rough statistics on the inflow and exit of gold and silk in Gyeonggi, five years ago, 19.5 million yuan was in, and 21.85 million yuan was out, because Zhao Zhen made a big suburb this year, so there were more cashiers than in previous years. However, in the second year of Qingli, more than 29 million were entered, and more than 26 million were out. Gyeonggi alone has increased taxes by more than 3 million! There are more than 3 million in one Gyeonggi, how much tax has been increased in the country?
From the analysis of fiscal expenditure and revenue, only the three roads have decreased by more than 10 million. Not to mention the overall expenditure of the imperial court and the pension of soldiers. Then that number will be magnified by three to four times!
Zheng Lang looked at this report in a daze. Shaanxi's numbers are larger than in history, and the reason for this is probably related to the fact that it launched two large-scale battles.
Without looking at real data, you don't know the dangers of war.
In fact, it is still the system of the imperial court, as well as the catastrophe of the past few years, otherwise the imperial court has a large amount of surplus, even if it is to leave all the surplus brought by the peace prison initiated by itself and the opening of the south of the Yangtze River, it will not make the country come to the point of embarrassment today.
You can't mention making money, the more you earn, the more you spend!
Zheng Lang couldn't help but think of the three redundancies again, if he didn't solve the three redundancies, no matter what kind of open source he initiated, he still didn't think about how much surplus there was in the treasury.
But he vaguely knew that it was not as simple as he thought.
He immediately came to his senses and was inspired by Lu Yijian.
Everyone thought that Xia Zhu had been slapped to death, so they stared at Lu Yijian again. Lu Yijian dismissed the prime minister, but Zhao Zhen also gave him a right to guard Situ, and discuss major military affairs with the Zhongshu and the Privy Council. Lu Yijian didn't discuss any major military affairs, his body collapsed, and he fell on the hospital bed with three heads and two heads, what kind of national affairs were he discussing?
However, the gentlemen's party was not very relieved, and they were afraid that Lu Yijian's body would recover and resurge, so they admonished him again.
When impeaching Xia Zhu, Ouyang Xiu, Yu Jing and others made great efforts, so this time it was Cai Xiang's turn. Cai Xiang said that since Yi Jian was sick, the ministers of the two provinces were tired of Yi Jian's family counselor, and when he heard that Yi Jian was sick, His Majesty prayed for it in the forbidden. The ministers of the two provinces are poor, and the ministers who assist His Majesty to rule the world are now subject to the gate of Yijian, and the people in the alleys are pointing out the poor smile.
Your Majesty, is this minister of the two provinces assisting you, or assisting Lu Yijian?
At the beginning of His Majesty's accession to the throne, Yi Jian was to participate in political affairs, and then to the prime minister, more than 20 years at the beginning of his majesty's accession, and his majesty listened to the letter and implemented it...... Giving small favors, mostly and inclusion, corruption and corruption, there is no difference between good and evil.
The country is like this, which is exactly the result of Lu Yijian's work.
The fact is that if there is no Lu Yijian, especially if there is no Lu Yijian after the use of troops in the northwest, the Song Dynasty will inevitably have a big mess!
Since the rise of the Guanshan army, the city fortress has been repaired, the corn has been fed, and the department has been allocated with hundreds of ends...... However, it is necessary to receive favors and use them as qualifications...... The country is like this, and it is still selling favors, making the rule of officials even worse. But the fact is that Lu Yijian doesn't want to increase the science allocation, but if he doesn't increase the science allocation, where does the finance come from, or directly reweight it to the people, and the poor people have already brought a heavy burden because of the war, and then directly raise taxes, will the people still have a chance? The addition of science and technology affects the daily life of the people, but the majority of it is still from the rich businessmen, which is equivalent to reducing the burden of some poor people in disguise. This is also the last resort.
What did you do wrong? Don't the soldiers of the Northwest want money, food, weapons, or pensions to fight in the Northwest?
After Yiyi became the country, the defeat outside the mountain, Ren Fu was below...... violated the alliance of the first emperors, vainly asked for the land of Guannan, and increased the gold and silk by 200,000 yuan, and the Yule soldiers pressed the border, insisted on accepting the word, and insulted China...... Yi Jian in and out of the book, and twenty years, not for His Majesty's benefit and harm, and tolerate, everything is corrupted like this, now to the disease, still greedy, incapable of resignation, or begging only to make the political axe one or two to the family to discuss major matters, enough to test the heart of Yi Jian retreat and not stop.
Nazi Lu Yijian made a mistake, and his performance was soft, but he didn't need to impress the Khitan with the golden silk, the consequences of the Khitan and the Western Xia joining forces, Cai Xiang, have you thought of it?
The imperial court sometimes sent people to LΓΌ Yijian's house to inquire about state affairs.
Although Lu Yijian has the right to ask about military affairs, he resolutely does not go to court, and some of the great politicians Zhao Zhen can't make up his mind, or Yan Shu and Zhang Dexiang. Zhang Dexiang is okay, but it is enough to be a peaceful prime minister, at this time, everything is going on, it is beyond the ability of Zhang Dexiang, as for Yan Shu, it is better to write words! Helplessly, the flowers fell, and the familiar Yan returned, how well it was written. As for state affairs, old man, you'd better not interfere!
It was at this time that Zheng Lang also felt very difficult to deal with some things. Inexperienced also.
Therefore, Zhao Zhen also has to rely on Lu Yijian's experience.
It is precisely this that the gentlemen party cannot tolerate.
After hearing this, Lu Yijian took the initiative to write a resignation, Your Majesty, or let me rest, what is this Shou Situ, the military affairs and the Zhongshu, the Privy Council do not want to support it, please dismiss the right to discuss military affairs.
Zhao Zhen was reluctant.
This is not for the sake of nostalgia for Lu Yijian, it is the need of the country.
So the ministers once again admonished and asked Zhao Zhen to allow Lu Yijian's self-dismissal.
It was only at this time that Zheng Lang fully understood why Lu Yijian immediately asked for the resignation of the prime minister after Sun Wei played, and then took the initiative to return all kinds of rights. If he doesn't pay it, if he doesn't get sick, he still has the energy to continue fighting. is sick and has no energy, continue to fight, and finally let this group of gentlemen who are about to gain power gnaw until they don't even have bones. At least a few sons will be completely doomed from now on! So he retreated step by step, causing a huge contrast between the front and back.
He is not himself, he has a cheat, but he just relies on an intuition to come to such an astonishing conclusion, what wisdom.
Suddenly, I thought of Lu Yijian's life, and worked with Wang Zeng to bury the Book of Heaven, and by burying the Book of Heaven, he suppressed the five ghosts, so that the young Zhao Zhenchao would no longer toss. There was a fire in the interior, and Zhao Zhen had to raise the curtain before worshipping, lest he worship the wrong person, and the city head changed the king's flag, so be careful. asked Liu E to bury Concubine Li Chen, Zheng Lang always thought that Lu Yijian was showing favors, and it was not until today that he remembered a terrible truth. If Liu E didn't bury Concubine Li Chen that time, what kind of anger would Zhao Zhen have when he learned the truth, what kind of purge would he have carried out, and what kind of turmoil would the country have become?
Shallow, shallow, I am so shallow!
In fact, Lu Yijian unknowingly has secretly turned huge risks into danger for the Song Dynasty. There were also bold times, when the tea government was corrupted, and the income that could bring more than 7 million guan to the country a year was reduced to hundreds of thousands. I thought that it was not the mainstream that was offended, so I replaced the tea method with the sticking method.
The only bold action, in the end ended up disgraced, it is so, Zhao Zhen pro-government, Lu Yi Jian hand Chen Bashi, Zheng Chaogang, plug the evil path, ban bribes, distinguish Yu Ren (annihilate evil), absolute female advice (put an end to the palace pet interfere in politics), close to Xi (away from villains), strike hard labor, save redundant expenses. Put the most important savings last.
It's not that he doesn't change, but the tea politics turmoil scared him, just the tea law, if it is the reform of redundant soldiers and bureaucrats, what kind of turmoil will it produce? So reform, but it is also the kind of reform that can be seen in the invisible broken step.
But later, at war with the Gentlemen, he had no energy and no courage to carry out drastic reforms.
It can't be said that Lu Yijian was too cautious, that is, he introduced the improved exemption method by himself, and there have been some bad signs, and he is thinking hard about a good way to solve it. But when the power was changed in the court, no one paid attention to it.
This is already a very modest, very comprehensive and small-scale reform, and I am still thinking about it from the height of history, but there are problems, and I am in the middle of the game...... Thinking of this, he looked at Zhao Zhen on the dragon chair again.
It should be said that if you can clearly see through Lu Yijian, I'm afraid Zhao Zhen is the first person. As for himself, he felt ashamed when he thought of this. It was also the first time that Zheng Lang commented on Zhao Zhen's wisdom. Why does the history books say that he will not do anything, only be an emperor. Just in terms of vision, Fan Zhongyan is far behind...... A few ministers were chattering, and Zheng Lang couldn't help but stand up and say, "Your Majesty, Lu Yijian is already old, and he is sick again, let him rest." β
Fu Bi, Cai Xiang and others are incomprehensible, it seems that Zheng Lang is speaking for himself, but it always sounds so wrong.
I'm afraid that only Zhao Zhen can understand the meaning of this sentence.
It's not to help Cai Xiang, but to say that Lu Yijian is old and sick, why can't he be let go!
Even if Lu Yijian is wrong, there is no credit, there is hard work. A person who is about to enter the coffin will also be suppressed like this, where has the gentleman's grace and generosity gone. If all the gentlemen have this virtuous surname, they can make Confucius angry to death!
Zhao Zhen said expressionlessly: "According to Zhu Qing's wishes, I will allow Lu Qing to play." β
After winning a big victory again, everyone dispersed and walked out Cai Xiang said: "I want to thank Xingzhi." β
Zheng Lang was also expressionless, and said coldly: "Among the so-called gentlemen, I respect three people, Fan Zhongyan, the reason is needless to say, there is no one in the world who is unparalleled in the world, Brother Yanguo, and has very little selfishness. And you, because your surname is the most peaceful and elegant, not as angry as other gentlemen, and your calligraphy is also very good. But if you continue to present these completely upside-down black and white nonsense in the future, don't blame me for breaking off my friendship with you in the future. β