Chapter 861: Yao Shun (II)
Jia Yi wrote to say that Su Dongpo was rebellious, and actually said that Renzong was reluctant, Wuzong was completed, and the first emperor had just died. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Su Dongpo retorted, am I wrong, now the Song Dynasty is at a fork in the road, some people want to continue the national policy of the first emperor, some people want to overthrow the national policy of the first emperor, how the Song Dynasty will go on, is the most critical proposition now, and the members of the pavilion are the reserve of senior state officials in the future, why not?
And this was also approved by the emperor.
It was not approved by Zhao Xu, but approved by Gao Taotao, and Zhao Xu is now also in the court and reads things, but he is just a puppet and does not have any decision-making power.
As Gao Taotao, although he listened to many slanderous rumors and was ready to overturn some national decrees, the situation in the Song Dynasty was far better than that of another time and space, so it was inevitable that some decrees would be retained, "go to the turnip and extract the essence", God knows that she has to take that essence, so she agreed to Su Shi's test question.
Jia Zhu was not convinced, another minister came forward, Lu Tao said that the Song Dynasty has never been guilty of words, do you want to repeat that mistake more than ten years ago? This refers to Su Dongpo's Wutai poetry prison case. And you are all Cheng Xi's students......
Oh, everyone understands, it turned out that Su Dacang made that satirical poem, which made Jia Zhu and the others hold a grudge, so they desperately went online.
But at this time, Wang Yansuo came out, even if I am going to talk to many ministers, but you are not a minister, and second, you should not put the two emperors in the examination room and let everyone discuss their rights and wrongs, not right, but their shortcomings.
Many people applauded.
Su Dongpo aroused the anger of the public this time, everyone was preparing to overthrow the new law completely, but you did one or two on the test questions, which is unbearable.
Zhao Xu listened to everyone's discussions, in fact, under the influence of Wang Ju, he was far more mature than in history, but he didn't want his ancestors to be above the public and let everyone judge their character, so he ordered to ask.
Su Dongpo replied, and then the imperial court suddenly withdrew the edict.
Wang Yansuo was furious and directly asked Zhao Xu, Your Majesty, you can't confuse right and wrong because of the preferences of some people who can influence you, this is the blessing of the world.
Although your grandmother likes Su Dongpo, you are the emperor.
Gao Tao almost jumped like thunder behind the curtain, and said directly behind the curtain, what do you say!
Then it became a vegetable market, the honorable Empress Dowager and a group of ministers separated this curtain, you say a word, I say a word, Fan Chunren and Lu Dafang persuaded for a long time before they calmed down.
Zhao Xu covered his head, and even said that my grandmother and Su Dongpo had a leg, and he ...... This is what you are saying to respect your fathers,
But this matter is not over, Jia Yi and Zhu Guangting went down, and then compiled a list.
The Song Dynasty had the strongest cultural atmosphere, and the most important places to pay attention to education were Jiangnan West Road, Fujian Road and Chengdu Fu Road and the surrounding areas, so these three areas had the most Jinshi.
The two made a list, mainly the Su brothers and Lu Tao, saying that they were the Shu Party.
Fan Chunren was in a hurry, what were the consequences of the Xining party struggle?
But that's still good, but it's a battle between the old and new parties, or the reformers and the conservatives.
If the party is judged by region, the Song Dynasty will be divided into Shu Party, Jing Party, Guang Party, Jiangxi Party, Jiangdong Party, Huaidong Party, Huaixi Party, Fujian Party, Zhejiang Party, Shandong Party, Hebei Party, Hedong Party, Guan Party, and Beijing Party.
So he went to mediate in person, and the matter was settled.
The country finally settled down, and there was no war on the border, so everyone had fewer disputes and worked hard to make the Great Song Dynasty better.
However, when Jia Yi heard that there was no war on the border, he became even more angry, oh, I understand, you are not the Shu Party, but the Wang Party, which belongs to the Wang Ju faction, otherwise how can you Fan Chunren stand tall in the Zhao Dynasty where the new party is full of new parties, but instead rise higher and higher and become Zaifu.
Cai is indeed from this department.
Not to mention Zhang Dian, he has always had a good personal relationship with Wang Ju.
Lu Dafang and Wang Ju have the same friendship, and they are also ministers of this faction, so they entered the ranks of Zaifu.
Xiao Su is also a friend of Wang Ju, although Da Su is below, but since Wang Ju first entered Beijing to serve as the governor, Da Su has been floating in the three states of Suzhou, Hangzhou and Yang, you must know how many state capitals in the world can match the wealth and prosperity of these three states?
In this way, the list is longer, Cai Bian, Zhang Shangying, and so on.
No, there is another place, that is, in the northwest, this faction also has a group of border marshals such as Kumamoto and Zhang Kai and many generals.
The power of your people can subvert the country.
Fan Chunren almost wanted to slap his big mouth, Wang Ju did not subvert the country in the northwest, but after arriving on the other side, he wanted to subvert the country, this is the truth.
Jia Zhu and the others were outraged.
Of course, Liu Zhi, Wang Yansuo, and Wen Yanbo hate Wang Ju to the core.
But it's just these dozens of people, including the moderate old party ministers, and their views on Wang Ju's current situation are relatively objective.
One is that Wang Ju went to the other side and never came back, just like a person died, he could close the coffin, and he couldn't involve Wang Ju.
Second, this year, because various systems have not been completely overthrown, the Song Dynasty began to live and work in peace and contentment, prosperous, many people miss Wang Ju, and even ninety percent of the people think that the Song Dynasty owes Wang Ju, at least one prime minister.
It would be too unwise to involve Wang Ju in it, it would provoke the anger of the public, even Wen Yanbo would not do it.
The two were demoted from the court.
But the two of them didn't let go, and when they got to the place, they wrote a book a day, and the trouble was known to the world. And someone is behind the trouble, in their eyes, not only the Su brothers, but now also Fan Chunren.
Last year, he didn't dare to move, but this year his strength is stronger, and he wants to overturn Wang Ju's decree.
What laws does Wang Ju have?
First of all, the law on exemption from military service, the law on protecting armor, and the law on protecting horses, and the law on farmland and water conservancy were further promoted. In terms of system, the original function of the shipping department has been continuously strengthened, and the responsibilities of the promotion department have been retained.
As for the art of military reduction and the Fangchang River crossing system, it was proposed by Wang Ju when he was young.
Also, Wang Ju's own laws and policies.
A strong economy has a banking division.
The ethnic policy has been changed and the land has been reflowed.
There is a purple vermilion banknote system in commercial taxation.
There is another side of trade, and the further growth of the city's shipping division.
At the same time, the development of industry and commerce is encouraged, infrastructure is overhauled, including roads and bridges, and the ratio of the two taxes is reduced. These policies are very different from the nature of the original Seedlings Law and the Municipal Law, just like the Banking Division, you say that it collects wealth and harsh the people, but it is still the same as the Seedlings Law, the Seedlings Law is a forced apportionment, and the Banking Division is that you are not willing to lend money and will not force you to lend. There is no one in state A to take out loans, and there are still people in state B to take out loans, so just transfer the money to state B. But if you want to take out a loan, there are many restrictions and reminders, can it be said that it is a malpractice?
Therefore, in Fan Chunren's thinking, it is not to overturn these decrees, but to try to be as gentle as possible, so as to reduce the intensification and occurrence of more contradictions.
Therefore, Fan Chunren has also become a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh of some people.
Seeing that the voice of public opinion was getting louder and louder, Fan Chunren understood that it was not Wang Ju who was fierce and could not tolerate people, but his original good partners......
He took the initiative to ask for release, but he was the boss of the old party, and he should be treated differently, and the imperial court issued an edict to sentence the Yongxing Army and the pacification envoy of the South Shaanxi Road, and sent him to Jingzhao Mansion.
Fan Chunren couldn't stand it, let alone the Su brothers, the two brothers asked for release respectively, Xiao Su was released to Qingzhou, and Da Su returned to Hangzhou. With Gao talking, Su Dongpo will not suffer much......
got rid of the three big guys, and Zhu Jia and the others closed their mouths.
But Shen Kuo came again.
It took almost two years for that "railway" to finally be repaired.
This time is very slow, it is not the kind of railway of later generations, the so-called carriage is just a large carriage carriage, the difference is the wheels, the cost is higher, the technical content is also higher, the carriage has made some reinforcement measures.
The heaviest was the front of the car, but in order to reduce the pressure on the road surface, the front of the car was lengthened to almost one and a half times the length of the front of the car in later generations, and a number of coal supply points were set up along the way to reduce the weight of the front of the car loaded with coal.
There is no big river on this section of the road, and the undulating slope of the road is not large, and now it is most afraid of bridges and roads with large slopes, after all, the power is insufficient, and the technical content of each wheel is low, and the friction and resistance are high.
However, the change in the political situation in the court made Shen Kuo realize that it was not good, so he deliberately slowed down the process, and there was another advantage to slowing down the process, he would not work too many people, so as not to attract tongues.
But when it finally ends, Shen Kuo also knows that his father is not in pain, and his mother is not loved, what should he do next?
Therefore, with this movement, this road is not simply from Huai'an Town to Lingzhou City, after returning to Tokugawa, a fork in the road goes straight to Yanzhou, in order to transport green salt, at the same time, this area is sandy, lack of food, with this road, can solve the problem of food supply in the future.
Shen Kuo wrote in the chapter that although the road was being built in the past two years, Shen Kuo was also leading the craftsmen to further research and development, and now each carriage can increase to 25 stone weight, and the maturity of the technology also means that the cost has decreased, so he asked the imperial court to support some more materials and money to extend the railway along Yanzhou to Youzhou and Xiazhou, and then along the flat arid plain area on the edge of Fulin Road, all the way to Shengzhou. With the waterway, the entire northwest forms a whole.
When the technology is improved again, you can follow Huai'an Town, along the Yanqing River to Yunyang, and no longer have to bother the people to push goods with small cars in the future, and the cost of transporting materials to Montenegro is also compressed to within the consistent money.
In fact, this freight is still very high, one stone is the same money, one ton is twenty guan, this is a new run, if it is placed in the future generations, everyone will faint together. This does not take into account the usual maintenance and repair costs of railways, docks and ships, and if they are included, the costs are even higher.
But it turned out that the freight of each bucket of materials in the Song Dynasty to the front line of Hengshan reached 300 Wen, and if the officials were not honest, it could even reach more than 1,000 Wen, and if it was transported to Montenegro, even if the officials were honest and honest, and the cooperation of the Yellow River waterway, the freight cost of each bucket would not be less than 700 Wen.
Therefore, in the Song Dynasty, it is a very great progress, especially military significance, if the Song Liao launched a general war in this area, as long as the scale of the Song Dynasty troops participating in the war reached more than 100,000, then the various grains, grasses and materials needed for the front line would reach one million stones.
If it is the original method of transportation, it is not a question of how high the cost is, but it is simply impossible to transport so many materials to the front line in a short period of time, so it is often a lonely battle, and the front line is lost one after another.
This is also the reason why some ministers opposed the opening of the border Yinshan, in order to solve this problem, Wang Ju repaired the water conservancy, placed the border army, and opened the tuntian, but if the general battle broke out, it still could not solve the logistical difficulties well, although a large number of officers and soldiers were stationed on the five roads of the edge.
The battle of the year before last could not be counted, because for this battle, the imperial court had been preparing for several years, and the waste was indeed serious, and the grain sent from Sanmenxia was transported to the front line, often forty or fifty stones, and only one stone remained, all of which were consumed halfway.
But it doesn't matter, many materials and grain and grass were transported to the front line of Hengshan and Lanzhou in advance, and later the right to grain and grass was relieved, and the entire territory of Xixia was almost destroyed, and all the soldiers and civilians of Xixia could not be killed together, so let them work, let them be people's husbands, and distribute grain and grass and materials with work, including some people in the Guannei, the same production was destroyed, and the nature was different.
In fact, not only in the military, even if there is no war, if there is this road, it will also have great civilian value, which is conducive to the prosperity of the northwest.
As long as it does not harsh the people, it can create a lot of industrial value.
Shen Kuo will not be so selfless, his idea is that you fight for it, and I just need to build roads. It will be at least five or six years after such a large-scale railway is repaired, and at that time, the little emperor will already be in power, can you still be so rampant?
But he was wrong, and no one really paid attention to him. But Shen Kuo took the initiative to jump out and pay attention to Shen Kuo together.
Do you still want to use soldiers, isn't it enough for Yongle City to be ruined by you for 300,000 people!
The imperial court issued an edict and demoted him to the Zunyi army.
Don't take it seriously, the Song Dynasty didn't operate here at all.
In that year, the Song Dynasty used troops to Juzhou and other places, and the barbarians in the depths of Kuixia were shaken, and they came to the court to ask for attachment, so the imperial court placed Banzhou, Zhenzhou, Sizhou and other confined states, and then placed the Zunyi army in the south of Banzhou.
Then Wang Ju's strategy was adopted, and many counties were divided into subordinated counties, and often dozens of counties could be placed in one state, which was used to divide and prevent situations like Nanzhao and Nong Zhigao. and then assign the heads of various ministries, such as the governor of the prefecture and the county, and the imperial court will also take out some money and materials as their salaries, which is still a policy to buy security.
You are officials of the imperial court, and you have to accept the control of the imperial court, so under the leadership of the imperial court, let them mobilize the people to build roads and open up trade and commerce, so as to improve the backward appearance of this region. Otherwise, even if it is handed over to the Song Dynasty for governance, there is no way to govern.
Even if it doesn't work, I just ask you not to make a mess, and that's Amitabha.
That is to say, although the imperial court has placed so many states and hundreds of counties, there are no officials and officers and soldiers stationed at all.
And the Zunyi Army is in the deepest part.
Cai did say to Gao Taotao, the Empress Dowager, this is not a debasement, but to send Shen Kuo to death, which is inconsistent with the Song Dynasty system.
Gao Tao immediately reprimanded loudly, Liang Tao and others can go overseas, what America can Cheng Xi be distributed, why can't Shen Kuo be demoted to the Zunyi Army.
Not only was Gao Tao, but countless ministers began to besiege Cai Qu.
Zhu Jia is done tossing, and now he can move his hand to deal with Cai Qu, after all, Cai Qu is the real prime minister, and he is also the prime minister without saying a word.
Cai did sigh in silence, he got to know each other, and if he didn't know each other again, he was not the Zunyi Army, and he didn't know that he would be degraded to that bad place. Moreover, the northwestern frontier defense has also been built and perfected one after another, and there will be no major problems. So Cai was indeed "seriously ill", and then made a request to Shi.
You can't kill Cai Qu, just let Cai Qu go home.
In the first year of Yonghe (not the Yuanyou in history), on December 13, Cai did quit the prime minister, Cai did escape by luck, but Shen Kuo won a tragic fate, the imperial court issued an edict, and Shen Kuo was forced to be cornered, so he had to reluctantly go south. It was delayed until June next year to reach the Zunyi Army, but this delay came, and he had not yet arrived at the Zunyi Army, and suddenly it was rumored that the imperial court intended to send officials to change the land and return to the stream.
It was very beneficial for the common people to change the land and return to the stream, but the heroes and powerful were bad, so the barbarian chieftains gathered their subordinates and killed Shen Kuo and several servants he brought on the northern state border of the Zunyi army.
It hasn't happened yet, Cai did fall, and even Fan Chunren, who was instigating, left the court and started to carnival.
First, an edict was issued to ban purple banknotes.
In fact, from now on, the powerful and powerful merchants will no longer have to pay commercial taxes, as they did before.
In fact, this edict really can't be issued, it is unfair for the powerful to do business, the purple money system only levies half of the commercial tax, and Wang Ju has given some preferential policies, what else?
However, it is not bad to be able to collect taxes, it is these systems, as well as the stimulation of commerce, now the two revenues of the banking department and commercial tax have reached more than 30 million yuan, if it is not for Hu Lai, plus the stability of Shaanxi Road, the opening of the western trade road, these two incomes can exceed 40 million yuan.
As well as the increase in the income of the Fangchang River Crossing System and the City Shipping Division, and the help of gunpowder to the pit mines, they together made the income reach more than 80 million yuan. The rest are the five major incomes, the two taxes, and some other income.
Therefore, the state revenue was increased without much harshness on the people, and at the same time, the imperial court was able to implement various good policies, including a step-by-step reduction of the two taxes.
However, everyone didn't care, especially the various elites of the merchants, praised the measures of the imperial court, so soon the commercial tax returned to the original situation, that is, the old 8 million and 600 new.
Wen Yanbo and others didn't know that it would be so bad, but they knew that the commercial tax would inevitably be sharply reduced, but they also had a way to ban the Baojia Law, the Baoma Law and the Exemption Law again.
The original armor protection and horse protection law has many drawbacks, but after Wang Ju's improvement, their nature has changed, mainly becoming a relief and poverty relief move, so the drawbacks are reduced, one is to exempt many poor people from half of the tax, the other is to increase some local armed forces, maintain law and order, prevent thieves, and the third is to encourage the raising of large livestock in various places. Of course, the imperial court also had to come up with some real money to subsidize it, or reduce its taxes.
Originally, the law used the surplus money to make up for the service money of poor states and counties, but in the end, the poor states and counties did not see any subsidies, but the surplus money became a new way to accumulate wealth. Therefore, Wang Ju successively banned harsh policies such as leniency and surplus money, and then forcibly took out millions of yuan from the state treasury to subsidize poor states and counties.
If these laws are abolished, the state will reduce its expenditures by a lot......
Throttling...... Well, even the Kura Law, which was carried out in accordance with the exemption law, was also outlawed. The lifting divisions in various places have also been banned, but fortunately, the shipping divisions have not been banned, otherwise there will be a big chaos next year.
Then restore the original imperial examination, Wang Ju has not paid much attention to this, it seems that Wang Anshi attaches great importance to the imperial examination, light poetry is good, can you be a good official if you write poems well? Then if you combine reading with a focus on national politics, you will be able to choose a good official. However, Mao Yong, if this is the case, future generations will not need the civil service examination, and they will directly find out those great gods on the Tianya Forum, China.com and the Iron-Blooded Military Forum and serve as officials.
Easier said than done!
Only by looking at their performance through these grinding processes can we find out the talents who are really good at government affairs, military affairs, and business.
The Fangtian Tax Law is also gone.
In the second year of Yonghe, everyone faced Wang Ju's other decree, the Fangchang River Crossing System, and now there is basically only the Shuo Party left in the court, but when Sun Gu proposed to ban the Fangchang River Crossing System, it almost caused a split within the Shuo Party.
Now the largest part of the income of the Song Dynasty is not the two taxes, although it is huge, but the actual income is not as good as the original income of the commercial tax, can only be similar to the income of the pit mine, can not underestimate the pit mine, all kinds of gold, silver, copper, iron, tin copper and other mineral materials, together, the income can be a lot, and now there is a bonus of gunpowder and even steam engine.
With the income of the city, the income of the city division is divided into two, and part of it enters the inner treasury.
Next is the income from the banking department and the Fangchang river crossing system.
Then there is wine and salt.
and others, including the remaining figures, kapok divisions, official fields, housing rentals, etc., but only a few million or hundreds of thousands of yuan of income.
In fact, in history, the Song Dynasty's Fangchang River Crossing also accounted for a large amount, with an annual income of almost more than 5 million guan, but in the hands of Wang Ju, it was further expanded, especially the construction of roads, many new fangchang appeared one after another, and the gunpowder mining also gave Fangchang Hedu a further bonus, so its annual income almost reached 13 million guan.
Now that the state ownership is recovered, can the officials run it well, or how much can go into the pockets of the imperial court through their hands?
Headed by Lu Dafang, Li Qingchen, Fu Yaoyu and others resolutely opposed it.
Led by Sun Gu, Liu Zhi, Wang Yansuo and others insisted on banning it.
Wang Cun, Hu Zongyu and others were silent, but they themselves did not have much right to speak.
There is also a group of people who are also silent, that is, the few lucky survivors of the New Party, such as Zhang Dian and Han Wei.
Don't be noisy, something big has happened.
At the end of the first month, the bank division got dividends, in fact, the nature of the banking department is really different from the original green seedling law, the main target of the banking department is still businessmen, and even forced Wang Ju to be helpless, using the exemption law and the banking department to combine the loan to the poor people with a certain limit, really can't afford to pay it back, and do service for the government, and then the government will deduct the service money and return it to the various businesses. Although there are some city benefits, it does save the anxiety of many poor people.
Now that the law on exemption from military service is gone, all the loan recipients are merchants, and the imperial court has repeatedly issued edicts for "benevolence" to minimize some ugly phenomena in forced debts.
This is a signal, the court is no longer collecting debts, why should we pay it back? Some tycoons even borrowed these low-interest money and issued usury in the local area.
Also, the interest is two percent less.
As a result, the profit of the banking department in this year was not even three million yuan.
Don't worry, more exciting shows are about to be staged.
If it is completely a court industry, then it is fine, Guan Jian is a "joint venture", and most of the shareholders are real powerful and powerful, and even many relatives.
Now that the income has plummeted so much, everyone is in a hurry, and then the bigwigs in the court forced Sun Jue to ask.
Sun Jue was extremely embarrassed, but after a few days, Sun Jue suddenly offered a strategy.
The party has gone against the grain, and the country's economy has begun to deteriorate rapidly, but it has not yet been seen. Although the income of the banking department has plummeted, the credit is still good, and in addition to the constant lack of currency, the value of each silk is still higher than the face value.
Sun Jue said that the state can issue another 100 million guan silk crossing, in addition, cotton began to popularize, cotton prices plummeted, can use some methods of Li Man, silk cotton mixed with mixed, to create a new silk crossing, if the large denomination silk cloth is the mainstay, the cost can be controlled at more than 30 million.
With enough silk payments, the bank's earnings will increase.
Moreover, these silk payments themselves can also be profitable, and even the remaining national debts will be repaid in full, and the country can easily go into battle.
There is another one, which Sun Jue did not say, that is, these deed shares can get a large amount of dividends to fill their grievances.
Lu Dafang felt that it was inappropriate, so he asked Zhang Dian, and Zhang Duan replied tactfully: "In the past, Prince Anning did not rely on the issuance of silk bonds to make profits, so it is better to write to ask Wang Zi'an." ”
mentioned Wang Ju, everyone's expressions were unnatural and displeased, and they couldn't wait, so they forcibly issued it.
It took a while, and a lot of cotton had to be brought in from all over the country, as well as raw silk and other materials.
Those deed stocks didn't make a fuss when they heard the news.
Everyone's attention turned to Zhang Dian, Cai Bian and other new parties, and found a reason to take Cai Bian out of Chaozhou. Zhang Dian looked bad, I was sick......
Then I'll deal with you when you're well.
At this time, everyone looked around blankly, okay, there is no enemy, you can't deal with Lu Dafang, he is a good comrade-in-arms after all.
How uncomfortable this is, our combat effectiveness has not yet been exerted, so we searched and searched and found the little emperor. (To be continued.) )