"The rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband, and patriotism does not necessarily have to be a doctor, a soldier of the three armies, a pawn of a peddler, or a farmer or a businessman. Let's ask, if a businessman has reached this point, how can the country not protect him, and how can His Majesty not protect him! ”

"What the imperial court is rewarding, who is maintaining the country, not qualifications, if it only refers to qualifications, everyone does not do things together, and mixed qualifications."

Okay, Wen Yanbo is qualified, but far less patriotic than these maritime businessmen, so the country's verdict is to further demote Wen Yanbo.

Not to mention the banking department, from this point of view, it is also worth Wang Jumi's trip.

Because it is still very aggrieved and unfair to maritime merchants.

This is also equivalent to answering Sima Guang's statement that the imperial court overshielded the seafarers.

"There is also the banking department, Sima Guang, you have seven points directly or indirectly at the banking department, saying that it is to lure the world and to compete with the people. Of course, if the imperial court did not levy any taxes, the people would naturally be happy, but in that case, what about the salaries of so many officials? What do the officers and men of the three armies rely on to feed? ”

"If it's the Seedlings Law, it's fine, but the bank department didn't force the apportionment, and the second interest is not very heavy, if you are willing to lend, you will lend, and if you don't want to lend, no one will force you, I don't know that I fought with that people. On the contrary, because the bank department is about to be executed, so the imperial court immediately abolished the bank department, non-commercial houses and large livestock are not counted households, etc., with this further leniency to the people, this is the beginning, the future will gradually cancel the surplus money, and even take out some profit subsidies to exempt money, the court took the initiative to buy horses for the people to raise horses, instead of giving a little money to let the people forcibly buy horses, Bao Ding will be half exempt from his family's taxes. and other benefits and benefits. The curtain is about to kick off one by one. Is this also called the temptation of the world with profit? ”

"Sima Gong. Why do you say the opposite? ”

Zhao Ji was amused by this cold joke.

In fact, Wang Ju can not distinguish between right and wrong, but Sima Guang's plausible words are quite confusing, and he must explain it, and then throw out a killer idea!

"By the way, it's true that you're competing with the people, at least with you squires, but let me see what kind of people you are. Your name is Kazeyoshi. Wang Ju looked at a group of squires in Shaanzhou. looked at the pockmarked man again, came to Zhao Ji, moved those wolfberries down, picked up the top zigzag, and said to the guards: "You go to Duodian and bring up Niu Er, Shen Zhang, Cao Xiaoli, and Xu Youfu, the people of Shaanzhou." ”

This hall refers to the hall on the side of the Daqing Palace, the original two halls, one was changed to the Yanhe Palace. There is also a place that is reserved and used as a place for Zhao Ji to rest in front of the court.

Since last night though. Li Ding secretly used many carriages to load more than 300 people, loaded them into the palace, and was placed in this palace.

This matter was done very secretly, and no one, including Lao Wang, noticed it.

Some people know that Li Ding went on a business trip, but they don't know what Li Ding's business trip was.

In addition, Beijing officials often go to work on temporary assignments, such as disaster relief, inspecting people's conditions, local official business, tax cases, military affairs or disputes, and so on. So when Li Ding left the capital, no one paid attention.

Therefore, everyone continues to be confused and confused.

But this squire named Fengji, after hearing these four names, trembled with fright, and kept touching the ground with his head: "Your Majesty, the grass people should die, the grass people should die." ”

"There's a problem." Many people think in their hearts.

"Shut your mouth!" Wang Ju shouted.

Not far away, the guard brought in three men and one woman, ragged, yellow-faced, hungry and thin, but it was also normal, all of them belonged to the destitute people, malnourished.

Fortunately, Zhao Ji had already comforted him personally last night, and of course, he was still a little nervous.

The four men came in and immediately knelt on the ground and said, "See Your Majesty, see the ministers." ”

It should be to see Your Majesty and the Princes, but what do these four people know, and no one will care about it.

Wang Ju pointed to Fengji and asked, "Do you know him?" ”

"I know, he's the winder."

"Turned to ashes, the women know it," said the woman named Shen Zhang, gritting her teeth.

"Okay, you tell me how to know him, come one by one, first you Wang Niuer."

One of the four told the truth.

First of all, Wang Niuer, he borrowed a loan shark from Fengji, and then he repaid it, but he couldn't afford to pay it back, so he had to use his beautiful daughter to pay off the debt. Wang Xiaoniang became the slave of the Feng family, if it was just a slave, Guan Jian, Feng Ji, took a fancy to Wang Xiaoniang's appearance, so he insulted Wang Xiaoniang. It's normal to insult, slave maid, but the problem is that Fengji's wife bumped into this scene, so she was not happy, stripped Wang Xiaoniang's clothes naked, and paraded in the township.

The Song Dynasty was not so disdainful of chastity, but it was not so casual, and Wang Xiaoniang was ashamed and angry and hanged herself.

Then to this Shen Zhang family, that was even more wronged, that year was not accepted, her husband saw that the family was hungry, so he went to the village to pick elm leaves and came back to satisfy hunger, but was knocked down by the house slave of the Feng Ji family, saying that this elm tree is the elm tree of the Feng family.

Obviously, it is an ownerless wild tree, so Shen Zhang's husband collided with a few words, and was rushed up by the house slaves of the Feng family, breaking his legs. The husband became disabled, and the family was dissolved, and soon Shen Zhang's youngest daughter starved to death due to lack of nutrition. There was only one nine-year-old eldest son in the family, and her disabled husband, who was brought to the capital by Li Ding this time, and that son stayed to serve her husband.

"A few elm leaves will break people's legs, rich man, you said that your majesty can not be angry with such a diao people?" Wang Ju asked Fu Bi sarcastically.

But that's just the beginning.

Wang Ju asked Cao Xiaoli to speak again, his name was Cao Xiaoli, and the actual people were in their fifties.

He was also wronged, also because of the emergency, borrowed 65 yuan from Fengji for usury, and when the summer harvest came up, he sold the wheat to repay the usury, but it was only more than two months, I don't know how Fengji calculated, and it became more than 860 yuan.

Many ministers almost screamed, I poured! What kind of interest is this?

In fact, the Cao family was still good, but now it is sad, in order to repay this usury, Shengsheng will have a house in the family and 50 acres of arable land. I gave it to the Feng family together. But it's not over. Now Cao Xiaoli still owes the Feng family more than 4,600 usury.

After Cao Xiaoli finished speaking, he was quite puzzled: "Your Majesty, ministers, the grass people don't understand, why sixty-five guan money has become more than eight hundred and sixty guan in just over two months, but after mortgaging the house and arable land to the Feng family, there are still more than four hundred guan left, which is more than three years." Why did it only rise to more than 4,600? I don't understand this account. ”

Who can figure it out, it's no wonder!

But fortunately, the Cao family has not been killed yet.

Then came to Xu Youfu, who also borrowed usury, and soon after, the house and land were mortgaged together, but Xu Youfu had a pair of children and couldn't afford to repay the loan shark, so the Feng family sold his son and daughter, I don't know where to sell it.

The four of them finished speaking. Tao cried.

Wang Ju comforted: "Ladies and gentlemen, since the imperial court has sent an envoy to investigate. He will bring you to the capital, and His Majesty will give you justice. ”

After saying that, he asked the guards to take the four of them down, and said, "Bring the rest of the people up in batches." ”

Fan Chunren asked, "Taibao, what's going on?" ”

"Fan Youcheng, all the princes, everyone, when I returned from Mizhou, I heard that the rich public security prince brought more than 200 squires from Henan Mansion and Shaanzhou to ask for the people's lives. Although I am about to say that the only thing that the banking department is fighting is usury, even if the business tax is all and some of the powerful people of the business business start to pay the business tax, but in the end they will benefit far more than these taxes. But there are still objections. However, this is the capital, and the imperial court is very cautious about the banking department, and ordinary businessmen dare to come to the capital to protest? ”

"So I quickly came to the conclusion that these squires were not ordinary squires, but were mostly usurers, and that it was usury that the banking department was fighting against. Therefore, I have met with Your Majesty and ask for Your Majesty's support. Then I asked Li Shilang to secretly go to Shaanxi with some people from the Imperial City Division, and at the same time let Cai Jing know Shaanzhou and cooperate with Li Shilang, and at the same time the news must be blocked. ”

"Li Shilang's trip has only been for more than ten days, and half of the time is on the road, but in a short period of time, the situation found out is unimaginable." After Wang Ju finished speaking, he pointed to the outside with his finger.

The guards outside brought in a dozen more people.

There are more in the Duo Palace, but they are approved, otherwise they will come in a hurry, and they can't tell.

Wang Juyi asked one by one.

In fact, among the nearly 100 squires from Shaanzhou, there are some people who are still good.

However, this time Wang Ju has the intention to kill the chickens and monkeys, not to mention Li Ding, if he finds faults, even Fan Chunren can find a handful of lice on him!

Therefore, under the accusations of these people, these nearly 100 squires immediately turned into evil demons.

It was pointed out until the third watch.

But listening to the sad accusations of these people, no minister dared to fall asleep.

Finally, after the accusation, Wang Ju said: "Yes, the banking department is competing with the people, if these inferior gentry are also the people." But they are the people, Fu Gong, Sima Gong, Liu Gong, Cheng Gong, Zhang Gong (Zhang Wen), Feng Gong (Feng Shenji, the son of the former Prime Minister Feng Zheng), An Gong, do you want to ask for the life of such a people? ”

"Fu Gong, in the past, I worshiped my mentor, and my mentor saw that I was grumpy and didn't want to accept it, but fortunately, I was prepared and deliberately tempted my mentor with six questions. The teacher has a headache, take it, my temper really can't satisfy him. Don't accept it, think I'm talented, it's a pity that a talented person has no one to teach. ”

When many ministers heard this, they all smiled.

This was also an elegant event back then, but as the court became more and more secretive, many people forgot about it.

Even Zhao Ji's face relaxed when he heard this, revealing a strange smile.

Wang Ju said again: "The teacher had a headache that day, and then he sat there and thought about it, actually, looking at his expression at that time, I wanted to laugh in my heart." ”

"Hahaha," Zhao Ji heard this, thinking about Zhang Zai's appearance back then, he was completely tired, and finally became happy.

Wang Ju waited for him to finish laughing, and continued: "Finally, the teacher took out the ring ruler and hit my palm, and every time he hit, he said a word, benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, faith, gentleness, kindness, courtesy, thrift, letting, loyalty, filial piety, bravery, humility, and honesty. The second sister said, this person is really bad, the teacher glanced at the second sister, and was silent, but I was very happy in my heart at the time, there was a door, and the teacher finally accepted me. But Your Majesty, the minister's hand was really painful at that time. ”

Zhao Ji couldn't help but be happy again.

In the end, the teacher said again, the gentleman is gentle, warm and moist like jade. Your Majesty, however, the minister was born in a wasteland, and he has been covered with a bloody career since he was a teenager, and he can't be warm, and the teacher finally sighed and said, I want you to be a gentleman, it seems difficult, so I will be a good minister of the Great Song Dynasty in the future, or like Zhang Kanggong, use your military talent to guard the safety of the people in Shaanxi, and I will be satisfied. However, over the years, the ministers have become bigger and bigger, and they have also fulfilled the sustenance of their mentor far away, but they are getting farther and farther away from this gentleman's warmth and warmth. Therefore, when I see people with gentle tempers, I especially admire them, including Fan Youcheng and Fu Gong. To tell the truth, among the five gentlemen of Qingli, the rich prince is not as noble as Fan Gong, nor is he as good at government affairs as Pang Gong, nor is he as domineering as Han Gong, nor does he have the yin owl methods of Wen Gong. But because you are gentle and upright, I have always admired you in my heart, thinking that the last two half-gentlemen of Renzong, Renzong occupies one, and you, Fan Gong and Enshi each occupy half of it. ”

Speaking of this, Wang Ju began to shake his head: "But today, you not only disappointed Your Majesty, but also broke my admiration for you. To protest with this kind of people, to disgust Your Majesty, can it still be regarded as a gentleman's act? ”

Fan Chunren sighed.

It's over, Fu Bi, Sima Guang, Liu Ji, Cheng Hao, Zhang Wen, Feng Shenji, and An Tao were trampled into the pit together, and they never wanted to get up in this life. (To be continued.) )