For Sima Guang and Wang Anshi, some people fall, some people stand up, to be fair, the intentions are very good, but they all did the wrong thing, more seriously, they are the sinners of the Song Dynasty towards decline, far better than Han Qi and Ouyang Xiu in peacetime.

But Zheng Lang is still very grateful to this student.

Wang Anshi's reform allowed him to absorb many beneficial aspects, such as the warehouse method, the farmland water conservancy method, and the two-eight-point system of pits and mines, but Zheng Lang turned it into a three-seven-point system, and the imperial court benefited even more. The Exemption Law and the Armor Protection Law are also improved from the historical Exemption Law and the Armor Protection Law.

The first reform changed the system, which had nothing to do with Wang Anshi's change of law, and the new commercial tax law had nothing to do with it, but the reduction of officials was also based on some measures taken by Wang Anshi and Song Xiaozong.

In the second reform, the military system was changed, and the regimental system and the selection and allocation system also had nothing to do with Wang Anshi, and the reduction of troops also borrowed some from them.

Most of the third reforms below have nothing to do with Wang Anshi, and they still supervised the Fangchang River crossing money system.

After reading it, Wang Anshi looked at the equalization method and the market law again.

Since the emergence of the equal-loss law, the change of the law has begun to be opposed by everyone, but Wang Anshi's opposition is not the equal-loss method, the first is the Qingmiao Law, the second is the Shiyi Law, the third is the exemption law, and the fourth is the Baojia Law. Because there are indeed some shortcomings in the supply of the shipping division, the shipping department does not have much authority, and it cannot understand the storage and material needs of the Jingshi library at the first time, and there is no power to grasp the supply of goods on the road, resulting in a disconnect between supply and demand, forming a serious waste.

The equalization method is aimed at this time and the disadvantages of the time, strengthen the authority of the shipping department, let the shipping department take charge of the southeast six roads (Liangjing, Liangjiang, Huainan and Liangzhejiang) financial endowment, and also manage the tax revenue of tea, salt and alum, centralize the power and management, and can know the situation of the production of materials and the demand of the Beijing division of the six roads. Mobilize to buy some supplies from the people. First, it can meet the supply needs of Beijing. Second, you can make money for the imperial court.

Mainly grain, as well as some daily necessities of the common people, not all commodities, so the capital allocated by the imperial court from the inner treasury was 5 million yuan and 3 million stone rice.

The interests of some businessmen have been infringed. But not seriously.

Moreover, it is not a pioneering achievement, but the continuation and expansion of the purchase system and the conversion system of the ancestors' law.

Therefore, there were many objections at the beginning of the implementation, but after the implementation, the opposition became smaller and smaller.

Not in the Renzong Dynasty, the crisis is not so serious. There is no room for support, so it can be considered at this time.

Zheng Lang is worried about the latter law, the city easy law!

At that time, he solemnly stated to Zhao Zhen that it could only be executed under special circumstances in Weizhou, and even Weizhou could not be enforced for a long time, otherwise it would have bad consequences.

What is the City Change Law, there are many measures in the history of implementation, in fact, to put it simply. It is a super comprador company run by the state, and how much capital there is in history. The investment before and after reached more than 12 million yuan, the total national income of the Tang Dynasty for half a year, the total national income of the Khitan for more than two years, and the total national income of the Western Xia for many years, as capital, involving various commodity fields, the state is monopolized as soon as it intervenes, and the people of the earth may know that once it is monopolized, it means that it is a huge profit, but does it make money?

earned, fifteen years of interest of 9 million, lost 78 million yuan, actual income of 1.2 million yuan, less than 100,000 yuan a year, so large-scale, I don't know how many powerful people have been offended, how many officials have been used, and the income in a year is not as good as the income of a fanlou!

Wang Anshi passed on the fold and asked, "Gong Zheng, isn't it right?" ”

Zheng Lang said: "Don't worry, I'll talk about the Ordinance Department first." The ancestral legal system, the division of government, military and finance, so as not to produce power, but because of the division, there are many inconveniences, so that Fu Bi once asked the two governments to join forces during the Qingli War. If there is a Ming monarch and the prime minister is capable, such as Renzong, the prime minister is Lu Yijian and Pang Ji, and the power is centralized, and the government decree will be smoother. But what if it was Emperor Tang Ming's later years, Li Linfu and others? ”

This is very important.

On the basis of Han Qi, Wang Anshi further concentrated the power of the prime minister, and the reform was easy, Sima Guang came to power, the power was centralized, and it was easy to abolish the law, and then came in batches, and then changed and abolished and changed, until Cai Jing, everything was over, and they fled to the West Lake to make Hangzhou Bianzhou.

A hint of vigilance also flashed in Zhao Ji's eyes.

What he and Gao Tao appreciate most about Zheng Lang is not only his financial management skills, but also his ability not to be greedy for power and take the initiative to decentralize power. The imperial power must be ceded partially, but the prime minister must also be conceded, otherwise the royal position will be very dangerous.

Zheng Lang said: "The system of our dynasty is different from that of the Tang Dynasty, it has been established for a long time and has become a system of its own. Jiefu, your intentions are good, let the two governments manage the financial power at the same time, so as to facilitate the transfer at the first time. But because of this leverage, it will lead to the collapse of a series of systems. Let's talk about the two governments first, you propose to let the east and west governments participate, and the west government only has military power, and has nothing to do with civil power or financial power. There is no point in Xifu meddling in at all. Sooner or later, this wealth will be concentrated in Dongfu. Dongfu is just such a few ministers, it is impossible to let the Zai Zhi participate one by one, according to the system can only be attributed to Sinong Temple, Sinong Temple and the three divisions stand, the result is useless, because behind him is the East Mansion, the three divisions will be hollowed out sooner or later, and lose the meaning of existence. Since it is no longer effective, it is impossible for the state to leave a huge and bloated institution to exist and sooner or later cut off. Once the three divisions were abolished, there were many inconveniences in the eastern government, and the imperial court could only restore the Tang Dynasty's system of three provinces and six ministries, and restore the functions and powers of the household department. ”

Zeng Gongliang and others have foreheads, this is not a hypothesis, careful reasoning is inevitable.

"There is no problem with the functions of the household department in the Tang Dynasty, and there will be many shortcomings in our dynasty, such as the internal treasury mechanism that existed since the beginning of the country, as well as a series of money and material systems of the imperial court. Put it in the household, can I go to the household that has been emptied? The household department cannot be controlled, and the interests and rights are divided, and the use of wealth must be uncontrolled. Could it be that there was another institutional reorganization, a complete restoration to the same mechanism as in the Tang Dynasty, including the abolition of the Inner Treasury? Your Majesty, do you want to let the Inner Treasury be revoked? ”

"Haha!" Zhao Ji didn't know how to answer, so he could only laugh dryly.

This problem is a serious problem that almost most historians ignore, and the fact that it does exist, and other changes may be good and bad, but in this regulation department, Wang Anshi's reform has brought about a series of vicious circles.

"In fact, the year before last, the restructuring strengthened the responsibilities of various departments and departments. It is aimed at redundant government. Improve the efficiency of handling government affairs. Let the decree be unimpeded, and further improve the ancestral family law. The three divisions have some drawbacks, and the regulations department also has its beneficial side, but it cannot implicate the two governments. It is necessary to maintain the independent financial management mechanism of the three divisions. If you are afraid of redundancy and waste, you can use the three divisions of the Gou Yuan (the cashier account of the three departments of the Golden Valley), the Du Mo Survey Division (the entry and exit of the three departments), the Metropolitan Revenue Division (the official property that has been disbursed and not removed, and the registration report has the division to remove it), the Detention and Revenue Division (the collection of financial profits is not settled, and the name of the department is supervised), and the Division of Demolition (the rich and the states are not false). In order to put the gouge and urge the trouble), the distribution division, the gouge division (the three account books of the school), the urging division, the subject division, the government division, the three divisions of the survey, and the collusion of the divisions are integrated again, so as to eradicate the internal stagnation of the three divisions and the phenomenon of financial uncertainty to the greatest extent. But it can only be done within the three divisions. ”

Wu Chong said: "This is a feasible strategy. ”

It is also impossible to completely reject all of Wang Anshi's proposals, there are too many departments in the three divisions, in addition to the general jurisdiction of the three divisions above, there are also three departments, and there are many officials under each department, plus more than a dozen departments that hinder supervision, even though Zheng Lang further clarified the responsibilities of each department. It's still dizzying.

This is the result of the further constraints and overlapping of the Song Dynasty, and after the establishment of the three divisions, many divisions were successively stuffed into it from Song Taizong to Renzong. In fact, many of these dozen divisions have overlapping powers.

Zheng Lang's restructuring still allowed the Song Dynasty to decentralize power, but on the one hand, it was clear that it was concentrated to the maximum extent under the premise of division, so as to reduce redundant government and redundant officials.

However, if these dozen divisions are grouped into one department, major surgery will be required.

Zhao Ji thought for a moment and said, "Quasi, Wang Qing, you come up with a plan." ”

At least it is better than re-assigning the financial power to the Zhongshu, but it is still handed over to Wang Anshi to deal with.

"Oh," Wang Anshi replied, and asked Zheng Lang again: "Gong Zheng, what else?" ”

"If you lose evenly, there are not many commodities moved, but you can negotiate, if it is a market, it is absolutely impossible."

"Why?"

"How much will the implementation of the new business tax increase? What is the geometry of tea? Zheng Lang didn't answer, but asked two questions.

Zhao Ji was a little confused, looked at Zheng Lang, Zheng Lang took a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, wrote a line of words, and handed it to Zhao Ji. Zhao Ji glanced at Zheng Lang in confusion, got up first, and ran to the harem. Wang Anshi is pondering, Zheng Lang's edification may not work.

It was only as a conscientious scholar that he was anxious when he saw that the country was in such a predicament, so he threw out the idea of making regulations and similar laws and changing the law.

I only thought about it for a while, and then I understood.

After Zheng Lang reformed the law on exemption from military service, it brought about the rise of some small and medium-sized businessmen, as well as some other good governance, and the peace was only three or four years old, and the main damage was to the state finances, and the private finances were not harmful. Subsequently, the imperial court issued a decree acknowledging the previous arrears. There is also a key in the middle, that is, banks, with the bank's low-interest lending function, which further creates business prosperity. In fact, there is no new commercial tax law, and if the government is clear and the government decree is smooth, it will not be difficult to collect 17 million yuan. That is, the new commercial tax law only bites about 2 million taxes from the hands of large and powerful people. If the steel supervision develops, it will not even be as good as the market value of 300 percent of the steel supervision. In order to appease these people, the steel supervisor did not take half of the share deed and let it out. Moreover, there are also previous data supervisors, how much benefit has been brought to these elites.

It was two million and hundreds of thousands, but it was met with strong opposition.

But reform will inevitably bring harm to some people, and it is impossible to take into account the interests of everyone. Even when it was implemented, in order to suppress the opposition voice, a large number of violent measures must be used, just like Sima Guang also used some violent measures, but Zheng Lang believed that it was far from enough, resulting in more profiteering moves in the second half of this year, so as to consolidate the results of the previous year's inventory of Yintian.

Therefore, with the latter sentence, the tea geometry!

100 million people in the Song Dynasty, how much tea was consumed in a year? And the Song people also like to drink tea, and the amount of this tea is immeasurable. Moreover, it is also exported in large quantities, to neighboring countries, to eat Europe! If all the franchises belong to the imperial court, it may be a bit difficult to say that 450 million is a bit difficult, and 20 or 30 million will always be there, but in fact, in the future, there are only a few hundred thousand yuan a year. If the expenses and miscellaneous expenses of various officials are deducted, the state is operating at a loss!

This is a relatively simple way of doing business, the government sends small officials to transport tea leaves to tea households, and then transport them to the point of sale to wholesale to tea merchants, OK. If the imperial court comes to a comprador company. That's the real business. Is it easy to do business?

There may not be a few officials who really understand business. But it's okay to put money in your pocket. When the time comes. The imperial court may not be profitable, on the contrary, the merchants, especially the small and medium-sized merchants who are real taxpayers. There will be many people who will go bankrupt under the oppression of the behemoth of the imperial court, and use their losses on waste, on corrupt officials and ink officials, and the world will be turbulent. The imperial court may not be profitable.

In fact, among Wang Anshi's various changes, the most failed ones were the Shiyi Law and the Baoma Law.

Not to mention that it goes against the advanced commodity free economy, from the standpoint of the state, the country does not benefit much from the commodity free economy. But with such a large cost, is it worth making a profit of only 100,000 yuan a year? Even those bankrupt small and medium-sized businessmen pay at least hundreds of thousands of business taxes a year. And once it is executed, what will those elites think? Thinking of this section, can Zheng Lang's face not turn pale?

Not only Zheng Lang, unless the officials of the National Development and Reform Commission, unless some officials who are left to their children and grandchildren, as long as there are officials with a conscience. The thought of this section makes my heart nervous.

Zheng Lang's new commercial tax law is very different.

It's not a small controversy either. But if you want to make a profit, you order the officials below to tighten up, and the income will be immediately effective, and the court has not used any costs. Secondly, it effectively protects some small and medium-sized businessmen and reduces their chances of being blackmailed by cool officials. Simplifying the decree would reduce even the presence of some non-essential offices in the states and counties, and also reduce the number of petty officials.

Slowly, there are other ministers who will understand.

Lu Gongshu said: "Jiefu, think twice. ”

Wang Anshi's face also dripped, and he asked, "Is it wrong?" ”

"It's not wrong, for example, although the three divisions are restructured, they are still redundant, and it is a good clause to set up a regulation department within the three divisions to simplify it. There is also the law of equal loss, which does not decentralize power to the Department of Regulations, which is responsible for supervising the three departments, and delegates the power to the Department of Shipping, mainly with food, supplemented by other livelihood supplies, there will be disputes, but the people take food as the sky, and you can buy cotton cloth when silk is expensive, and you can buy hemp when cotton cloth is expensive, but no one can go without food for a day, and the opposition will gradually subside. In the end, it can save less money for the country, mainly to save more redundant expenses. One in and one out, very impressive. ”

Karasuke wanted to speak.

Zheng Lang waved his hand and said: "Zifang, the governor is the deputy prime minister of the Chinese book, not the middle of the imperial history." ”

Don't argue all day, do something practical.

Several of the younger courtiers all lowered their heads and snickered.

Tang Jie originally made Wang Anshi's words at the court meeting so angry that he wanted to have his heart blocked, and then let Zheng Lang be ashamed, but the next day he was so angry that he had a back attack and died soon after. It has nothing to do with Zheng Lang, mainly because Wang Anshi counted his anger over the years.

Zheng Lang said: "Although I have thought about this equal-loss method before, I am afraid of controversy, and at the time of Qingli, the country's shortcomings were not so serious, so I didn't think about it." Ladies and gentlemen, how to implement it is not only beneficial to the country but also avoids unnecessary controversy, and you can contribute your ideas. ”

Zhao Ji also came back, looked at Zheng Lang with puzzled eyes, and Zheng Lang wrote a few more words and handed them over.

Zhao Ji is not very interested in the Ordinance Department, but he has become interested in both the Equalization Law and the City Change Law, as for hurting the interests of powerful businessmen, what does it have to do with him, what he wants is that the country is rich and powerful, not Zhang Wang, Li Zhao, and Liu's family are rich and rival the country.

So Zheng Lang handed over a small note and asked Zhao Ji to go back to the inner palace to ask the empress dowager, the queen mother, and the queen, and tell the details of the equalization law and the city law to see how they reacted.

Zhao Ji didn't react for a while, and ran to the inner palace to talk about it again, and made an optimistic deduction, think about it, how much commercial surplus there is in the country in a year, Zheng Lang said that if the commercial tax is levied well, you can levy 70 or 80 million yuan, so you can earn at least 120 million yuan, as long as you collect a small half of it, the state will be abundant immediately.

Before they could finish speaking, the three women shouted. The Xiang family has no right to speak now, and the Empress Dowager Cao can only persuade her, but Gao Tao has no mercy, and splitting her head and covering her face is a reprimand. And ask if it was the bastard minister's bad idea.

After a while, he couldn't explain clearly, and Zhao Ji was scolded and fled back.

Zheng Lang wrote two names on the second note, the first name was Xiang Jing, the queen's father, and the second name was Cao Tong, one of the famous Eight Immortals! (Not an exaggeration, but a historical fact)

Relatives, Zhao Ji still didn't understand, thought about it, and called an old eunuch next to him to the side to ask. The old eunuch has been standing until now, of course, he also vaguely guessed five or six points, and said in a low voice: "The two national masters have their own businesses. ”

Zhao Ji's face turned gray.

Cao Gao had business with all three companies, so when Zheng Lang implemented the market change law, he deliberately used the share deed to make concessions to the three companies.

In this process, it is impossible for Zheng Lang to go to the inner palace to talk to Gao Tao face-to-face, and he is all lending to Zhao Ji to convey to Gao Tao behind the screen when he speaks, and Zhao Ji is very clear. But if Zheng Lang can mention it, ask the eunuchs around him casually, how big these two businesses are, you can imagine.

In other words, if these top tycoons and wealthy families are the silverfish of the country, the father-in-law and Uncle Cao Guo are the two fattest among them.

Zheng Lang smiled again and said, "Your Majesty, there are still all the workers, since this is the decision, everyone will disperse, how to make a resolution, if there is a good plan, please submit it." ”

There's a lot of work to be done in the middle of the book.

Zhao Ji looked up at Zheng Lang again, what kind of decision, he left just now, I don't know. Zheng Lang said: "Your Majesty, please come down and report to Your Majesty." ”

Wang Anshi stayed behind to explain.

Zheng Lang breathed a sigh of relief. I don't blame Wang Anshi, I want the country to be good, and I am in a hurry. But what I am most afraid of is that Wang Anshi is stubborn, even if he is himself, he may not be able to persuade him. Fortunately, the results were not too pessimistic. is also glad that the decision he made when he was a teenager was wise, otherwise now there is a Wang Anshi and a Sima Guang in the court, even if it is himself, it is enough to drink a pot.

The capital began to have some controversy over the equalization method.

This problem is not serious, although the opposition to the law in actual history is loud, there are also many people who support it, including the conservative Xiao Su Su Zhe and the conservative Da Cheng Hao. When it came to the Seedlings Law, the Reform Party was further diverted, and then to the City Change Law, there was very little left of the Reform Party, and only a few lonely people remained. Moreover, because of the drought in the north, grain prices have risen somewhat this year, which has also given a good opportunity for the equalization of losses to be passed. At this moment, bad news came from the northwest again.

Zheng Lang's "Gou He" won the approval of most scholars.

Harmony is precious.

However, it was slightly less than Liang's intentions, Liang wanted to use a Tumen to exchange for the entire Suizhou, Zheng Lang also compromised, the price of a Tumen was too small, and the more than 20 forts occupied by the Western Xia around Tumen were returned to the Song Dynasty, and Suizhou you take back. Sincerity can also be said to be full, but Liang is dissatisfied.

Secretly mobilized thousands of elite soldiers into the Western Envoy City and raided Liugou Fort in the middle of Gangu City and Jichuan Village. Dissecting the historical truth, the soldiers of the Song Dynasty were really not weak, and they won more with less many times, but they were reluctant to reconcile and took the initiative to attack less, which seemed to be very "weak", which created a situation of blind passive defense. However, the border is so long, and it is only for defense, and it is destined to become a situation of fewer enemies and more battles. Not every general is like the three Yang Wenguang. Fan Yuan, the defender of Liugou Fort, was not, in the face of several times his own enemy soldiers, defeated, Liugou Fort, more than 1,000 Song Dynasty soldiers were slaughtered by the Tangut together, and the captivity was innumerable.

After receiving the front-line recital, Zhao Ji was furious, and kept knocking on the table with this recital at the court meeting: "Is this the result of the imperial court spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to get it back?" Could it be that the Xia thief is stronger than the Liao State? ”

gave the Khitan money, and the Khitan can also be regarded as honest, although he blackmailed once in Qingli, he did not really send troops to each other. But what about Western Xia?

Some people wanted to say that as long as Suizhou was exchanged for Western Xia, it would be safe, but under Zhao Ji's anger, none of them dared to make a sound.

Zhao Ji looked at Zheng Lang again and asked, "Zheng Qing, where is the general you sponsored?" ”

"Your Majesty, he is not a general, but also a scholar, and he was born as a scholar." Zheng Lang raised his teeth and replied. Zhao Shao can't be allowed to set Wang Shao into the ranks of military generals, otherwise Wang Shao will be very sad in the future.

"Whether he is a scholar or not, does he have military talents?"

"The minister thinks he has."

"Where is he?"

"At this time, I am in Linzhou."

"Edict, let Wang Shao lead 5,000 soldiers to attack Yinzhou, no matter which fortress he attacks, I want him to take this fortress, kill all the thieves, and return the majesty of my Great Song Dynasty!" Grandma's, why are the Western Xia only allowed to invade the Great Song Dynasty, can't we fight back? Repay grievances with straightforwardness, and return teeth with teeth! (To be continued.) )