Behind it, Zhao Zhen's IQ still can't be underestimated.

He also knows the secret, the new canal is the main body of the river control project, but it is very difficult.

The first difficulty lies in the project, a large number of surveys of the steep gates, several sand storage ponds, and the final direction of the canal. The most difficult thing is the river embankment, it is impossible to repair the river embankment in all places, so down, not to mention 200 million yuan, 300 million yuan may not be enough, and it also slows down the progress of the project.

The embankment is to be repaired, it has to be built according to the specific situation, some places are like the river of the Yellow River, it must be built tall and thick, some only need to be hastily repaired, and some places do not need to be repaired, not only to see the topography, but also to see the convergence of the rivers around the river, and the possible future water flow of each section.

This difficulty alone will make the relevant officials brainless.

But it doesn't matter, whoever goes down will definitely prefer to build more embankments and make them a little higher than to have an accident with them, as long as they don't do too much, will the officials hold them accountable for the waste in the future? After the water is released, a moderate repair will be carried out, and the error will not be large, and there will be no officials to hold them accountable.

The key is the second difficulty.

A new canal up, down to Yangzhou, up to Cangzhou, passing through more than 1,000 miles, are the economically developed areas of the Song Dynasty, this canal has promoted economic development more, but also convenient for the people on both sides of the river to irrigate, water conservancy regulation, but the various cultivated land will produce serious disputes.

Don't say that such a long canal is a small Jiangdong Wei, merging the small Wei, or forcibly demolishing the small Wei blocking the river, which is conducive to the safety of the polder, and also conducive to the smooth drainage of the waterway, which is good for everyone, but what about the actual implementation? Many of the lords did bad things, or directly confronted the government, or united to fight against the officials, or fought lawsuits to the capital, which was full of ugliness. Just a Jiangdong Wei, think about it, how many similar disputes will there be in the Grand Canal, which is more than 1,000 miles long?

But why does Zhao Zhen think that Zheng Lang knows how to make good use of it?

Who is Ouyang Xiu, that is the sudden entry of the Manchu Dynasty ministers, not even Western Xia. How can they care about these powerful households? The mill also grinds them to death.

Moreover, Ouyang Xiu's current reputation itself has a suppressive effect.

However, he obviously saw Ouyang Xiu's unhappiness and hesitation after hearing about the appointment.

This made Zhao Zhen feel strange, Ouyang Xiu understands water conservancy, and has always been very concerned about the Yellow River, one understands and two cares, three merits and four benefits for the people of the country, why are you not happy, look at the two eyebrows.

Zheng Lang continued to give orders, because the new canal project was huge, and all the officials appointed were relatively large, including He Tan, Hu Su, Xiang Chuanshi, Sima Guang, Wang Anshi, and Zheng Lang as deputies, and the four students were all bet on the new canal.

More than a hundred officers were distributed.

There are many more officials, but they are not qualified to enter here, there are appointments, they are just an order.

The crowds dispersed one after another, but Zhao Zhen did not leave.

Zheng Lang smiled slightly and asked, "Your Majesty, what else do you have to order?" ”

Zhao Zhen said worriedly: "I saw that Ouyang Qing was a little displeased. ”

"Your Majesty is busy today?"

"Not very busy."

"Well, the minister will tell your majesty a story."

"What?"

"It's called Life of Pi."

Because of the great development of navigation, it will not be too difficult to listen to this story now, and everyone has heard some of the countries of Yaozhu, but they are not familiar with it, and with a little modification, it seems that it can become a real thing that happened at this time.

Zheng Lang said that the question of religion in the movie can be talked about, but it can't be about the United Kingdom, and it can't be about the investigators, but just change it.

Everything else is faithful to the original movie and is told one by one.

Zhao Zhen listened to the fantasy story with relish, but when he heard the second truth, he felt a little melancholy. After speaking, Zheng Lang asked, "Your Majesty, do you believe that one story is the real truth?" ”

Zhao Zhen sighed: "The second one." ”

Although the first one is full of magnificent imagination and beauty, it is not quite in line with reality, and the second is close to the real escape experience. Then he said: "Although the Ping'an Prison brings a lot of money to the country every year, it is too bitter. ”

Zheng Lang won't tell him a story, it's not Zheng Lang's. Thinking that Zheng Lang was admonishing, although the Ping'an Prison brought a lot of money to the imperial court, every year there were shipwrecks and deaths. This money must be cherished.

Zheng Lang shook his head: "The minister didn't say that he was in peace, but only a story, in fact, the two stories told by the lord are not true, and there is a third story." ”

"Oh."

At the beginning of the story, the minister repeatedly said that the young people believed in three religions, so his father said that if you believe in everything, it means that you believe in nothing. The Juvenile Pie were not devout believers, and religion was only a safe haven for him, and could even be used as an excuse to kill.

"The floating island is too illusory, the Ping'an Prison has discovered thousands of islands, all kinds, there are all kinds of strange animals and plants, and some islands are inhabited by the food tribe, but there will be no clear lake in Baiyao, and at night it will separate the acid that has been eroded, and there will never be such an island in the world, and its outline is like the body of a female xing, which is actually a metaphor, the corpse of the mother!

"The second story is that the chef threw his mother's corpse into the sea, it was too wasteful, he had already eaten the sailor's corpse, why not eat the corpse of the boy's mother. The tiger does not refer to any of them, but to the latent beast Xing in the heart of the young pie, and when he sees his mother die tragically, he pounces fiercely and kills the cook.

When Pi was left alone at sea, his supplies were struck by a whale, and he had to reach for the bodies of the sailor and the cook, and when the two corpses were eaten, Pi experienced painful torment and starvation, and his faith was destroyed by the storm, and he had to feed on his mother's corpse. The floating island is a metaphor for the mother, who protected her son with her life and continued to feed her son with her corpse after death.

At the beginning of the story, his love for Anan Pu danced a very beautiful dance, which is a metaphor for the forest is a lotus flower, in the floating island forest, the truth is revealed, the lotus flower opens, and inside is the mother's teeth, which is maternal love and vitality...... When Pi saw the teeth, he resolutely pushed the remaining body of his mother into the sea, even if he was buried in the sea. He also tied a bracelet to his mother with a gift from Anandi, which represented a farewell to the past. After going ashore and being rescued, the tiger was gone, and the beast xing in his heart really disappeared. In fact, he didn't dare to tell the truth, which showed that it was still there, and it had been buried in his heart, so there was a scene of a tiger roaring at the end of the story. ”

There are thousands of good movies, as an otaku, only two movies moved him, one is the pianist at sea, and the other is Youth Pi, who has been on his hard drive, but at this time in his mind, so it is exactly the same as the movie.

Zhao Zhen carefully recalled the story that Zheng Lang had just said.

Hearing the third cruel truth, and the fantastic and magnificent description just now, suddenly a cold war broke out all over my body.

said in a low voice: "Mother." ”

Zheng Lang drank tea, and he also regretted Zhao Zhen, the biggest tragedy was that several sons died young, and he did not see his biological mother in his life.

After a long while, Zhao Zhen woke up from his aftertaste and said, "Zheng Qing, what do you want to say?" ”

"Your Majesty, Lu Yijian's article is very well written? Lu Zongdao's article is well written? ”

"It's good."

"It can also be regarded as good, but compared to the current court ministers, can they be regarded as the top?"

"No," Zhao Zhen replied without hesitation.

"Because of His Majesty's conscientiousness, leading by example, and being able to accommodate ministers, now the Song Dynasty is prosperous and powerful, and the articles of the ministers in the court are even more flowery, Ouyang Xiu ridiculed Bao Zheng for being less knowledgeable, but at least in writing articles, Bao Zheng is far inferior to Ouyang Xiu. The country is rich, the people live and work in peace and contentment, the ministers write well, the stars shine, and the beauty is like a fantasy world, like a dream. But what would it be if the veil of beauty were lifted? It would be a brutal truth. ”

"Where's the cruelty?"

"In a few years, when the minister is about to leave the capital, His Majesty will know the answer. However, the minister has a request, can he lead the ministers of the two provinces to visit the minister's house again, of course, the minister will not take His Majesty to the people's homes to actually inspect. ”

"What's the matter?"

"Yes, there will be an interesting experiment."

Speaking of this, there is nothing worth talking about anymore, but Zhao Zhen is still sitting there, carefully recalling the story that Zheng Lang just said.

Zheng Lang will not tell him stories for nothing, nor is he a courtier, telling stories has his metaphors, although Zhao Zhen has not yet understood what the cruel truth Zheng Lang said.

After sitting for a long time, I returned to the palace.

In the evening, Zhao Zhen brought his ministers to Zheng's house again.

Zheng Lang had already prepared, and this time he didn't deliberately ask for ingredients from Fan Lou, ordinary ingredients, so that Zhao Zhen would eat more comfortably.

However, Zheng Lang deliberately invited some guests to visit, some Taoist priests.

Han Qi was angry and said, "Xingzhi, what are you asking them to do?" ”

These Taoist priests are all famous immortals in the capital, but they are immortals in the eyes of the people, and they are nothing in the eyes of Han Qi. Han Qi was furious, and more than a dozen Dao Elders and Immortals did not dare to make a sound.

"Childish, trust me." Zheng Lang said lightly.

Han Qi held back his anger and sat down.

Zheng Lang looked at more than a dozen Dao Masters and said, "Fellow Dao Masters, the alchemy of ancient monks will lead to longevity and immortality, which will cause Emperor Qin and Han Wuyi to delay government affairs and harm the country, and even Li Shimin mostly died by eating Hu Seng's elixir. I don't believe in this elixir either, but can there be a harmless elixir to strengthen the body? ”

Most of the Taoist leaders nodded.

Immortality, no one dares to say o.

However, it seems that it is not difficult to strengthen the body and enter harmless pills. Moreover, Zheng Lang looked at Zhao Zhen worriedly while speaking, and there was a misunderstanding, Zheng Lang wanted to ask for pills for the emperor. In fact, I also heard some rumors that the emperor begged a Taoist priest to alchemy in the palace to eat. But he didn't have a way to get through the joints, and he couldn't offer the pill to the emperor, and he was even more afraid that the ministers would be verbose, so he had to blush at those royal Taoist priests.

The opportunity is rare, first some Taoist priests nodded, and then all Taoist priests nodded.

Be a fairy, get rid of the grains, support the bold, starve the timid, who is afraid of whom, besides, is it helpful to enter, who is good to verify?

Zheng Lang said again: "I'm about to leave the capital, and I still have a few days to go, can you provide me with a half-year pill to consume?" ”

Seeing different things means thinking about different levels of questions.

Several prime ministers had already vaguely felt that Zheng Lang had useful intentions, and looked at Zhao Zhen. But these Taoist priests didn't know Oh, and they had a misunderstanding, and they thought that the opportunity was rare, so they said one by one: "I'm afraid the time is too tight." ”

It's not easy to refine the pill, but it also has to be colorful, you have to refine the mercury, so that the face can look good, or refine some inexplicable alloys, so that the pill becomes golden sè, then it is called a good pill.

"I know that time is tight, so I will give you 5,000 yuan immediately, you set up more Dan furnaces, increase your hands, I am even more short of time, I can't delay."

Five thousand is not a small number, and there is a greater meaning behind it, once the pill is selected and eaten by the emperor, he will soar.

At first, some Taoist priests felt embarrassed, and the time was too short, but they said one after another: "Dare not obey orders." ”

"Okay, I'll wait for your good news." Zheng Lang asked Cui Xian to take out 5,000 Jiaozi and hand it over to the Taoist priests. Those who know the inside story, five thousand is not a small number, and Cui Xian is faintly a little painful.

When the Taoist priest left, Zhao Zhen asked strangely, "Zheng Qing, what are you going to do?" ”

"An interesting experiment." Zheng Lang said.

I don't want to uncover the answer for the time being, and I'll talk about it after the experiment.

This was also Zheng Lang's temporary idea when he heard that Zhao Zhen began to eat small balls.

There must be consequences if there are antecedents, the inner palace cuckolded Zhao Zhen, and Zhao Zhen didn't dare to take c520xs medicine to eat too much that was harmful to the body, so he ate the small pills refined by the Taoist priest, not seeking immortality, Zhao Zhen did not come to this step, but sought to strengthen his body. When the body keeps up, so does the quality of intercourse.

But what does it lead to?

In the second year, I ate a lot of pills, and I didn't even want to speak, and the ministers did things, just nodding their heads. Yanchen Wang Tao is right, seeing this situation is a little anxious, so he played: "The words of the king, the ministers are all endowed with the help of the young, today's political affairs are no small and big, all are determined by the privy secret, Your Majesty has nothing to do, is it the way to enter the master?" ”

The situation is very similar to the constitutional system of the monarch in later generations, the emperor withdraws from it, and all the ministers are doing things. Whether it has been done or not, Zhao Ji's fainting can see whether it has been done or not.

It's not Zhao Zongshi's fault, except for that crazy thing, Zhao Zongshi is okay in other aspects, he also wants to reform, and he has done some positive things, but the accumulated shortcomings have been accumulated since the late Zhao Zhen, and there is no way to change it, causing Zhao Ji to see that the country's revenue and expenditure are seriously unbalanced, and he is anxious, and Wang Anshi is also anxious.

The role played by the balls in the middle is indispensable.

The feast was gone.

Zheng Lang hasn't left yet, and he has to arrange them one by one.

However, he also wants to go down and go south to Chuzhou, one for the new canal, and the other for the Huai River. This time is urgent, and construction will start this year, unlike other projects, there is still time to slowly investigate and slowly revise the plan. Zheng Lang must be on the front line.

Just as he was leaving, news came out that Ouyang Xiu was ill and couldn't go south.

Not to mention that Zhao Zhen couldn't think of it, Zheng Lang deliberately told a long legendary story for this, so he came to the River Governance Division to ask.

Zheng Lang smiled.

As early as he expected, after the Six Towers River, Ouyang Xiu saw that his words were not echoed, and even Zheng Lang came to Beijing in person, but he only did to prepare for the aftermath and did not dare to stop it, so he degenerated.

One thing can be seen, tea.

The tea law changed greatly in the Song Dynasty, and the trade law was first pushed out by Lu Yijian and Li Zheng, and then to Zheng Lang, but it was not the whole country, only in the Hangzhou area, and then in Liangguang, although the two regions did not benefit from the government, but increased the tea tax by more than 200,000 yuan in disguise. Therefore, the loosening of the tea monopoly was further promoted.

The main profit is too small, and the state only gets hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, which is run by officials, and it has also caused many small and medium-sized tea farmers to resist, and the gains outweigh the losses. Therefore, last year, Han Jiang, Chen Shengzhi and Lü Jingchu wrote many times, asking the imperial court to abolish the tea monopoly and change the trade law of Lü Yijian, Chen Shi and Li Zheng. This year, Fu Bi, Pang Ji, Han Qi and Zeng Gongliang began to implement the Trade Law. The main idea is the same as Zheng Lang's, it is not the kind of previous kind of loan to tea households and then monopolization, only collecting rent money from tea households, that is, a tax on tea planting, and leviing commercial tax on merchants and tea sellers, allowing them to enter directly to the tea mountain, trading with tea households on their own, and selling ziyou. It is called trade law.

As a result of the implementation, the imperial court will inevitably produce some deficits, although taxes are levied, but taxes are so easy to collect.

But no matter how much you lose, where can you lose?

However, it has a great significance, although the imperial court no longer gives tea books, but it will not give the "false estimate" to the wealthy businessmen in vain, which is conducive to the production and circulation of tea. That is what Zheng Lang said, which will create a large number of small and medium-sized classes for the country, and produce more second, third and fourth class tea households and tea merchants.

After the implementation, tea farmers and small tea merchants all thought it was convenient, but it caused many dissatisfaction with vested interests, especially those wealthy businessmen. They don't have the right to speak, but there are ministers in the court who can be used as their white spoon pronouns.

Hearing the voices of the people, many scholars and doctors agreed, such as Wang Anshi.

But there is strong opposition, the first is Liu Chang, the first reason for opposition is that the people used to pay money, but now they are paid by the government, one out and one in, and the quality of xing is different (as for the price of tea farmers is enough to make up for this entry and exit, rather than handing over the price difference to the big businessmen, Liu Chang automatically ignored it). Article 2 is now given to the people, and if the money is not handed over in time, the punishment is also involved, and it is the person who violated the tea ban before the good people (why did they not pay the tax, did the government make mistakes, or was it harsh, or ignored the disaster, although both of them violated the criminal law, the treatment of xing was completely different, and Liu Chang automatically ignored it). Article 3 In the past, the big merchants moved to the state and county for the national trade and collected their taxes, but now the big merchants can't do it, so the annual amount is not paid, and there is no state use (it is actually said that the country's commercial taxes are obtained from the big businessmen).

In the book, of course, he did not report his vexatious trouble.

Then came another unexpected entry, Ouyang Xiu.

You must know that Liu Chang's family background is very good, and he is a wealthy family, so it is quite normal to be able to play this book.

What kind of background is Ouyang Xiunai, a real son of a poor family.

The book on the Trade Law also objectively said that since the new law on tea, there has been no crime of private peddling, and the punishment has been very large.

It seems to be very good, so he writes really well in his article, look at the impeachment of Di Qing and Bao Zheng, every word is beaded, and you can't see blood when you enter it. After some suppression, the conversation changed, although there is a benefit, there are five harms, the people 1ri tea tax, now it has become rent, a harm. At least, small traders will never pass through big merchants (if they don't pass well, the more middle class will be created, the less obvious the gap between the rich and the poor in the country will be, and the contradictions will not intensify, no matter what), two evils. If the tea tax is not paid, it will be a loss to the country (the country is worth forcing many tea households and small and medium-sized tea merchants to ruin for less than three or four hundred thousand dollars), three evils. Today, the people buy and sell themselves, they must use real tea, there are not many real tea, and its price is expensive, and there are four evils (was it not expensive to have good tea before, or every household can afford to eat high-quality Jianzhou tea cakes). Hebei and Lian, really want to see money, not only business travel money is difficult to transfer, but also since the Beijing division years of money in Hebei, it must not be, five evils (what kind of grain and grass is provided to the soldiers, not to mention). One benefit is not enough to make up for the five evils, please remove the previous order, Xu into the dedication said, set the jing dang in detail, do not lose the ancestor 1ri system.

is still unreasonable and does not report.

But the wealthy businessmen have always been undead on the tea, so there is Cai Jing's re-official law, but this time the official system is stricter, and Cai Jing's salt law is the same, except for a few powerful wealthy families, other big businessmen into the middle and small merchants are all swept away. It's official, but it attracts a fiercer and hungrier tiger.

It hasn't been on yet, the new tea law is still being discussed, and it has not been implemented, but it will be implemented soon, for which Fu Bi also asked Zheng Lang. Once it is implemented, causing opposition from the wealthy giants, Ouyang Xiu will stand up and cheer for them. It's almost there.

This is the change in Ouyang Xiu's mentality, it is not obvious, a few years later, one thing can see Ouyang Xiu's true face in his later years.

Presiding over the Grand Canal will not only offend many big families and wealthy families, but once Bi Jing repairs to the territory of Hebei and Jingdong Road, the wealthy families will gradually increase, and it is inevitable to offend.

There is another reason, Bao Zheng is in control of the economic cashier, because of the relationship between the two in, even if Ouyang Xiu wants to make additional compensation, it will not be possible.

Combining the two, Ouyang Xiu could only choose to escape this path.

Zhao Zhen asked, "This is the truth behind beauty?" ”

Zheng Lang smiled and said nothing.

Zhao Zhen said: "Why? ”

"Six Towers River!"

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