Chapter 573: Advance as Retreat
The official hasn't left yet, and he is not Wang Ju's disciple, so he has to wait for Wang Ju's warrant.
Therefore, Wang Ju said again: "It's just right, bring another order for me to Zhang Tong to sentence, and let him show the whole state." ”
As he spoke, he began to write the cloth.
The first is that from now on, no form of taxation or apportionment shall be carried out on good households, filial sons, martyrs, female households, and widows below the fourth class in the two prefectures of Huanqing.
A female household is a family that has no male in the family, and a good household is a family that has done a lot of good deeds.
But there is a limit here, that is, those below the fourth-class household, and those above the third-class household, do not care about the apportionment and tax, and forget it.
This is in response to the imminent apportionment of more exempt money.
The second is to make some adaptations according to Wang Anshi's Qingmiao regulations, which stipulate that if there is a famine year, it will be returned in the next harvest year. Another regulation is that except for the floating people (those who are idle in production), urban and rural households can borrow money, mainly in the countryside, and the rest is apportioned to urban households, so that in order to prevent the government from losing money due to the flight of people, five or ten households are taken as one guarantee, and households above the third class are the first heads, and each other is supervised. If the tenant borrows money, it is insured with the main household (the main household) and the loan is made according to the assets of the main household.
In addition, there is an invisible regulation, that is, below the fifth class household, there must be a guarantee before they can borrow, poor, poor will not be able to pay back, where will the government borrow.
Therefore, the Seedlings Method is definitely not a great and good method.
Therefore, Wang Ju issued an order that those below the fifth class household should not be apportioned in any form. It's not just BIBS. Also includes the upcoming deductible money.
What is a fifth-class household? Most of them are poor people who eat in the morning and are not late, Wang Anshi, are you embarrassed to collect and apportion? I'm sorry, but it's really apportioned. The Seedlings loan was a little better, and later there was a free-duty money to spare the money, and the two were superimposed. The pressure on these destitute people immediately increased, so they led to even greater opposition.
However, in order to save the emergency, Wang Ju made a few more additions.
Those below the fourth class household do not need any guarantors as long as they are willing to borrow, and the government must lend to these people on the premise of five yuan of money or five yuan worth of grain.
These poor people will encounter difficulties at any time, and often have to sell their sons and daughters because of a stone of grain and grass, according to Wang Anshi's green seedling law. Where did they go to find a guarantor, so they had to borrow usury. Or really go and sell your sons and daughters.
This rule is the real emergency!
If the households below the fourth class are unable to repay within half a year, they can repay the remaining half a year without increasing the interest, and the government cannot levy a loan interest rate higher than half a cent per year for any reason.
What three points and four points, to hell with it.
If the person is unable to repay after a year, he can repay the government in the form of labor substitution, and his service will be paid between 50 and 100 yuan per day according to the severity of his service, and the repayment will be completed and his service will be terminated.
Even if the annual interest rate does not exceed two cents, there will be poor people who can't afford to pay it, so what to do, this is the way.
In the Song Dynasty, the number of all kinds of errand soldiers, such as yaqian, stickers, loose officials, archers, hand power, etc., reached more than 536,000 people, and the number of troops in one state was evenly distributed to 1,700 people!
These officers have long servants, such as the former officials and so on. There are short servants, such as hand power and so on.
Therefore, the exemption law also gives different treatment according to different circumstances.
For long service, special personnel should be hired to do it, and short service can be flexible, but it is also necessary to hire people to do it.
Now it is just right to use these poor people who cannot afford to pay it off, first, it does not bring a burden to the state, and second, it reduces unnecessary lawsuits.
Even those destitute people who encountered difficulties and really took out a loan of five yuan were willing to put down their bodies and do two months of hard work, and they paid off the Qingmiao loan.
If you don't want to pay it back, you just want to be lazy and wait for the government to feed you, do you still need to be polite?
The official brought these two warrants to Zhang Ji.
Zhang Qi looked at this new green seedling method and sighed slightly.
On the surface, it looks very good, a really improved seedling method.
But it's not that simple, is Wang Anshi really a fool?
The first one is that it does not really save the emergency, when the poor people are really in urgent need of money, there are mostly six major events, marriage, funeral, sickness, life and death, especially the first four, if you encounter difficulties, the five green seedling loans are not enough at all.
Second, there will be a lot of trouble in substituting debts with service, which looks very beautiful, but these services are different from service, some are heavy, and some are light, so Wang Ju said that fifty to one hundred wen daily salary, but because of the difference, there will be problems in implementation, and new disputes will arise.
Third, the dissatisfaction of the usurers did not really prohibit usury, such as gambling, or engaging in illegal profiteering industries, and the government would not lend, but still borrowed usury. However, that is to find their own death, can the government manage it? But in this way, half of the usury was knocked out. Generally speaking, those who can engage in usury are powerful people in the local area.
Will these people be happy?
But these three are still not the places that make Zhang Qi sigh, after all, it was Wang Anshi's change of law that began, and Wang Ju just expanded it.
What made Zhang Ji sigh was that Wang Ju was not allowed to make any form of apportionment to fifth-class households, as well as to good households, filial sons, martyrs, female households, and widowed households below the fourth class.
Isn't that right?
It's a little bit wrong.
Take the seedling method as a comparison, it seems that the amount is not large, one household is consistent, but the number of households is large. If these households are removed, at least more than 15,000 households and 20,000 green seedlings will be removed from Huanqing Prefecture, but these numbers are allocated, and they will be removed here, so they have to be increased there.
The Seedlings Method is a little better, although it is 20,000 guan, the actual interest paid is only 4,000 guan.
There is a bigger big head coming later, that is, free money and spare money. Huanqing is not a large economic state and a large population state, but a military state, so the number of related errands is not small, more than 2,000 people. I plan to pay 30 yuan for one person, which will cost nearly 80,000 yuan, and there is still a wide amount of money. When Lu Tao was in Shuzhou, he wrote a book "Playing the Begging and Waiver of Leftover Money and Serving the Money", and he was in the four counties of the state. There are more than 487 million dollars leftover.
Shuzhou is not far from Chengdu. However, it is on the west side of Chengdu Province. The east is a little better, close to Chengdu, there are big rivers and rivers, the west is full of vast mountainous areas, and the westernmost is the border area of the Song Dynasty. And the area is small, only one-third the size of Chengdu Fu Road.
It is this small state that has more than 48,000 yuan in surplus money.
Therefore, a young seedling loan is not afraid, what he is afraid of is the surplus money in the back. Wang Ju said that these fourth-class and fifth-class households can be apportioned at least more than one-third, and even these extremely poor people are apportioned, what can you rich people say?
But if these people are removed, the rest of the people may have to pay an extra 30,000 or 40,000 yuan.
What would be the result?
It is right to be merciful to the poor, but robbing the rich and helping the poor is only a good wish of the common people, and if the magistrate really does this, it will be a great trouble.
"I hope that black hole will be filled soon," Zhang Qi said silently in his heart.
I have food in my pocket, and I don't panic in my heart.
The state is in deficit. It's not always the same thing.
Just like this time to send troops, if the finances are good. Wouldn't it be possible to achieve greater results? It was precisely because of the financial problems that the army arrived in Yanzhou and stopped together.
It can't be said that the timing is not good, at least before Zhao Tuo replaces Guo Kui, the timing is still good, Weizhou is Cai Ting, Qinzhou is Han Wei, I heard that this person also admires Wang Ju, Yanzhou is Guo Kui, although it will not be as strong as Cai Ting's support, but it will not be from it, and there is Han Jiang.
"It seems that I had a good talk with Wang Ju that day." Zhang Qi thought again in his heart.
So nothing is that simple.
Wang Anshi is not crazy to accumulate wealth, and even the money of the desperate people has to be collected, which is a kind of reluctance in exchange for Haoqiang. However, as a result, under the premise of accumulating wealth, the desperate people complained, and Haoqiang was even more hateful, and neither end was human......
In this way, by the time he stepped down for the first time, when the super drought came in the future, the hole had not yet been filled.
However, the treasury is gradually full, Zhao Ji reserves these goods, a disaster prevention, the year he ascended the throne of Hebei drought, the treasury is empty, can not be relieved, leaving him too deep a shadow, the second defense war, the Song Dynasty to fight the war special money, but Zhao Ji did this, but pushed Wang Anshi to the abyss.
Wang Ju did this, which seems to be kind, but it will make the contradiction more intense.
Of course, Wang Ju is also thinking of a way, if he really robs the rich and helps the poor, he is not a chivalrous man.
However, some of Wang Ju's practices have also brought negative significance, not this enhanced version of the Qingmiao Law, but his reward.
The three armies worked hard and died so many soldiers, is it wrong to find a way to get them a little more money? It seems to be a huge amount, but in fact, it is evenly shared, and each person has less than 50 yuan.
But how will the Song Dynasty use troops in the future?
Then in order to win, the imperial court had to increase the reward, which would force Zhao Ji to further accumulate wealth in order to realize his dream of becoming a strong country......
Well, from everyone's point of view, they have their own ideas, but as long as each idea is under the premise of change, there will be a positive side and a bad side, unless it remains the same. Or like the medical reform, housing reform, and education reform in later generations, which have driven economic development, but they are really cheating.
These troubles can be solved later, and Zhang Qi continued to lobby the people in the three forts.
The battle of Hexi over there was also over, and the Dong Yu Hehuang soldiers were not jealous, and Renduo Lingding would also use soldiers, and became mourning soldiers, and the two fought to the point of bleeding.
Dong Yu finally returned to Huangzhou with the three armies.
This time, Dong Yu had a little credit, so Zhao Wei was ready to give Dong Yu the history of Jinzhou Thorn.
However, Wen Yanbo led the ministers to write a letter, saying that if there was no Dong Yu to send troops to Hexi, the Western Xia army would not be in turmoil, and there would be no Wang Ju in Gyeongju's great victory.
Lu Huiqing was mad, and they quarreled on the spot, saying that Dong Yu just wanted to reap the benefits, so the Western Xia army only sent troops to Hexi to plunder after going deep into Qingzhou, where was the heart to rescue the Song Dynasty? And Wang Ju expected this matter before leaving the capital. Even so, Dong Yu sent troops to Hexi, but Western Xia did not withdraw his troops, but increased his troops in Huanzhou. However, after Cai Ting sent troops to Tiandu Mountain, he finally made Western Xia retreat. The officers and men of the three front-line armies fought bloody battles to achieve such a great victory. His own army is not rewarded, but attributed to a foreign army, so how do the officers and soldiers of the three armies think?
But Lu Huiqing couldn't scream alone, and soon his voice was drowned in a voice that wanted to reward Dong Yu in a big way.
Zhao Ji was so angry that he sat on the dragon chair and said: "It's rare to win ahead, I didn't expect the court to be so ......."
This sentence was said very seriously, and finally made Wen Yanbo and Sima Guang shut their mouths.
Only two days later, Zhao Ji made up his mind and let Sima Guang go to Luoyang.
The reason why he made up his mind was that Gao Tao repeatedly blocked it from behind. So sometimes Wang Ju is very suspicious that Gao Taotao and Sima Guang really have a leg, and this leg does not refer to that kind of physical leg, but some kind of tacit understanding.
Wang Ju retreated the second group of troops at the front, that is, the Baojie army, the Fan army and the strongmen among the armies, as well as some edge archers.
There were also generals such as Gao Yongneng, Liu Shaoneng, Zhao Pu, and Gui Niang Langbury who retreated, leaving only one young general, Guo Cheng. As for Wang Wenliang, he had already asked Zhang Mao to invite him back to Yanzhou for tea.
With this withdrawal, the Song army on the front line was reduced by two-thirds.
Of course, this is the time when Wang Ju is most worried and most worried.
In order to speed up the speed of salt transportation, he was transferred to the place of green salt trading from Huai'an Town to Mengmen Sancha, this fort was built, and it took the same name as the history, Ningqiang Village.
However, Wang Ju didn't remember much, most of the forts had different names, and many of the forts had different locations. And unlike in history, this time Wang Ju paid more attention to the geographical location of Ningqiang Village, so it was built relatively large, covering an area of more than 400 acres, which is twice the area of Ningqiang in history.
This reduction in the distance was more than 60 miles.
Then Wang Ju mentioned the trading location of White Leopard City and mentioned Dingbian City.
Wang Ju knew that in history, the Song Dynasty set up a military city here, so he was also ambitious and deliberately built a large fort, which was almost the same size as Dashun City. Of course, having occupied so many Yokoyama areas, there must also be a central area.
However, there was an error in Wang Ju here, although it was also built by leaning on the Shilu River, but the historical Dingbian Military City was a little more north, and the area was larger, more than 2,000 acres. And on the other side of the Shili River, a small fortress was built to confront it and guard the river.
This one doesn't matter.
The main mention is almost a hundred miles of roads, and most of them are mountain roads, which are closer to Yanzhou, which undoubtedly speeds up the speed of salt transportation.
For this reason, Wang Ju also reduced the price of salt for one penny per catty of merchants.
These various signs inevitably made some people in Western Xia want to be in trouble again. However, they were a little hesitant, after all, Wei Ming Kerong had successfully reached the capital of the Song Dynasty.
If he did it again, the efforts made by Wei Ming Kerong in the Song Dynasty would be in vain.
And whether you can win or not, shame before the snow, is still two different things.
But at this moment, suddenly news came from the front, saying that the Song army was attacking Shrimp Toad Village with all its might. Shrimp and Toad Village, the name is not good, but for Western Xia, it is really important, so important that it is as important as Dashun City. (To be continued......)