"Your Majesty," Fu Bi was originally standing with a sore back and legs, but this time he couldn't help it and walked forward again. What's the matter, you are the emperor, not a rude Wang Ju, how can you smash the people who came to petition with a tea cup in the Daqing Palace?

Wang Ju came out at this time, came to Fu Bi and said, "Fu Gong, don't worry, why Your Majesty is angry, you will know immediately."

As he spoke, he moved the soft bed and sat down with Fu Bi.

Don't fight for that, please sit down. Sima Guang said so much in one breath, Fu Bi couldn't stand it anymore.

Fu Bi sat down helplessly, still unconvinced: "What do you know!" ”

Wang Ju signaled to Zhao Ji, Zhao Ji also made a gesture to the eunuch behind him, the eunuch retreated, and after a while, the guards brought up many low benches.

It's not a proper way.

Fan Chunren walked out and just wanted to speak, Zhao Ji said: "Zhuqing, because this court meeting is a bit long, and it may not end until the second and third watches, so I will make an exception." ”

Everyone was puzzled.

At most, Sima Guang is impeached, and Wang Ju refutes it again, no matter how long it is, can it grow to the second and third watches?

But when it comes to the second and third watches, who can afford to stand like this all the time?

So they sat down one by one.

However, everyone quickly discovered the accident, and the guards also moved the bench for An Tao to sit down, no matter what, they were the ministers of the Song Dynasty after all, but those people who petitioned, then stand!

Everyone sat down, and Wang Ju said: "Your Majesty, everyone, just now Sima Guang said Qi people, I will talk about this Qi people first." ”

According to Sima Guang's interpretation, that Qi person is too disgusting and too easy to confuse.

Therefore, Wang Ju is the first to say it.

"What is Qi? Alignment. Equal. It seems to be a bit of a taste of the Son of Heaven and the common people, if so, why did Taizu Taizong and Zhao Pu Xianggong propose Qi people? You must know that a snake cannot be without a head, and the country is bound to be in turmoil without a leader. But what's the problem? ”

"Sima Guang, you have written a history book, starting from the division of the Three Kingdoms and the Jin Dynasty, and going down to the founding of our dynasty. The same tells the rise and fall of many dynasties. It seems that there are many reasons for the rise and fall, the dictatorship of foreign relatives, the interference of eunuchs, the mediocrity of the monarch, and the lawlessness of the generals, but they are not the reasons for the real fall of the Qin, Han, Sui and Tang dynasties. Of course, these are important, and it is precisely for these reasons that the country's politics are not clear. Coupled with factors such as population, the merger of the powerful is serious. The people couldn't survive, and they rose up, Qin died in civil unrest, Han died in civil unrest, Sui died in civil unrest, and Tang died in civil unrest, which is the real reason for the demise of several dynasties. Why civil unrest, annexation! ”

Therefore, the ancestors proposed that the richer should pay more taxes and even bear forced labor, and the poorer the poorer the less taxes they would pay, and even no forced labor. There are also various pit mines, which were mostly borne by wealthy people from all over the world at first. ”

This system is really rich.

The Tang Dynasty used criminals to mine, but many people thought it was unkind, such as some criminals whose crimes were light and could be reformed, but because they went down the mine, they were criminals and lawless, resulting in criminals dying of exhaustion in the mines.

Therefore, at the beginning of the Song Dynasty, a system was formulated, that is, it was handed over to these rich people to contract, but it was not the current contract of the Fangchang River crossing system, but forced contracting, such as this iron pit, which can only produce 10,000 catties of iron a year, but after handing it over to the rich to contract, it must be paid to the court every year 15,000 catties of iron, as for the cost, it doesn't matter what the cost is, as for the output can't keep up, buy 5,000 catties of iron out of your own pocket and come back and hand it over!

In fact, these systems are intended to suppress wealthy landlords and businessmen and reduce the gap between the rich and the poor.

Including the imperial examination, large-scale imperial examination employment, and even the children of high-ranking officials and nobles are not allowed to participate in the imperial examination, then all the children of poor families will pour into the officialdom and push new people out, and the country will not have a serious monopoly.

Of course, the system is one thing, and the implementation is another.

"Actually, these are also Qi people, everyone, some of you have seen or heard of the twenty cadre rules on the other side, and it is also a kind of Qi people. Its intention is the same, to reduce the lawlessness of mergers and acquisitions, and to give the people at the bottom a glimmer of life. As long as they can live, that people are willing to rise up? Only then can the country be governed for a long time. ”

"But the ancestors are like this, have they really been aligned? In fact, the other side cannot be truly Qi people. I only use two metaphors, one is the career and the other is the business. The other side is still the allocation system, but began to promote the layer by layer grinding system, villages and towns are elected by the people, in order to be re-elected, after the re-election can still be recognized by the people, in order to be promoted, into the city, to the city level, is far away from the people, then can only use the elite appointment system. However, after grinding at the village and town levels, and being recognized by the majority of the people, at least at this time, the essence of each cadre began to be good. Your Majesty, do you hear the difference? In fact, it is the same as my dynasty, except that our dynasty is a three-level imperial examination system, and one out of a hundred is selected to pass the jinshi, and then the grinding is carried out. Because the other side could not carry out the imperial examination, it directly from the village level administrative grinding. ”

"There is no imperial examination on the other side, and there is no grace and shade, but if the children want to enter the official career, they must start from a certain village. So what is the treatment of the village chief? Exempt from the tax on his family's land, and have an additional subsidy of more than a dozen per year. However, if the children of cadres want to serve as village heads, they only have a dozen subsidies a year, which means that they still need to bring some money from the family to make ends meet. And the same village chief, they came from the airborne and are not familiar with the relationship with the villagers. So is it too harsh? ”

"Wrong, it's not harsh, if you really have the heart to enter the official career, and you really want to be a good cadre, then put down your body and mingle with the villagers, which is also a political achievement, how many people can pay attention to the political achievements of an ordinary village head? But how many people pay attention to a mayor's son who is the village chief and has made political achievements? The reason for doing so is to eliminate the children of those cadres who think that being officials is to seek glory and wealth, and to screen out those who really want to be good cadres and to promote them for reuse. This is just the beginning, once they reach the town level, these people stay by their father's side when they are young, and their understanding of officialdom and official affairs, as well as their father's personal relationship, will have a greater help effect on them, then the same town-level cadres, the children of these cadres will get out of the way faster. Hence the so-called Qi people. It's not really Qi people yet. ”

"Let's talk about the merchants. Let me give you another example. If my son grows up and is now with me and knows that I am going to start a bank, he wants to make a fortune in business. Then from now on, I can use this news to plan, one is to arrange the address of the brick kiln in advance, and the other is to use my house to prepare a loan. The banking department has just been set up, and others are still curious. He began to mortgage the house and prepare for the construction of a brick kiln. If the ability is a little bigger, plus he is my child, the local officials will give some care, and the brick kiln can quickly make a profit. If you can make a profit, you can use this brick kiln to borrow new money. Then, as long as it is properly managed, within a year, hundreds of brick kilns can be built just by using the loan of this house, and maybe it is only a mortgage for one house. Let him make hundreds of thousands of profits in a year. But what about ordinary businessmen? It's just starting to imitate it. So it seems to be Qi people, but where do Qi people actually come from? ”

Hear here. The eyes of many clever and well-informed officials lit up together.

That's a good idea......

Of course, they won't let their children go into business directly, but they have stewards, economic people, and tooth officials in their families.

"And then to the Qi business tax, although the future will be Qi business tax, but it is only theoretically Qi, the same commercial goods, if it is the commercial goods of the common people, Xu officials may overestimate a little, I believe that slightly overestimated, these businessmen can not litigate. However, if it is a commodity of a dignitary, the officials can only assess and tax at half price, can it be the same? ”

"Sima Gong, the Qi people I am talking about are just such Qi people, and they are not even as strict as the other side, is this also wrong? I don't know where you got what you said about the unity of scholars and soldiers, the unity of parents and children, and the unity of the Son of Heaven and the common people? Didn't you come out for activities these days, which made you have serious cranky thoughts? ”

Some officials couldn't help but laugh under their breath.

Wang Ju gave them a blank look.

This is not a joke, if Sima Guang's words are spread and everyone believes it, it will be very, very bad!

But Zhao Ji was thinking deeply.

This official system is good, the imperial court uses grace and shade, and the second is the imperial examination, but the end of grace is that the good and the bad are uneven, and there are more bad than good, as for the imperial examination, don't take it seriously, if you really read the scriptures, you are a good official? Look at these old guys, which one is not familiar with the scriptures, but what about it......

But when you think about it, I feel dazed.

Not only is this dazed, there are really a lot of good things on the other side, but it doesn't work on the other side, and it doesn't work in the Song Dynasty.

Could it be that there is really a serious problem with the system of the Great Song Dynasty?

In fact, this system is an unprecedented hybrid system, and in fact, the so-called elections at the top are really a joke. For example, Ah San and Wanwan, the more they are selected, the more chaotic they become.

Therefore, Wang Ju mixed and matched feudal centralization, the semi-centralization of the Celestial Empire, and the democratic separation of power and elections. However, in his memory, the Celestial Empire in his previous life seemed to be marching in this direction.

It took time to test, and even when he died, it wasn't tested.

But in any case, it is stronger than the current system of the Song Dynasty.

"As for Duke Wen beheading or intentionally killing Zhang Mu, yes, Duke Wen and Duke Fu are the only remaining prime ministers of the three dynasties in the court, the Great Song Dynasty giants. If Zhang Mu is an ordinary businessman, then it will be forgotten, and it will not be worth me to put down the busy government affairs in my hand and deliberately ride a horse to Mizhou for comfort. But is Zhang Mu really an ordinary businessman? ”

"In the seven-year drought in Xining, the maritime merchants donated millions of stone grain and saved many people, you know. But ladies and gentlemen, these grains are not conjured, some are bought from the other side thousands of miles away, and some are bought from Champa and Jiaozhi at a high price, and from Liangguang. At that time, there were not many ships on the other side, and the economy was also very tight. This is the beginning, ladies and gentlemen, in just a few years, I have destroyed Jiaozhi, leveled Dali, and occupied the city, and the imperial court provided five million small silks, and the rest is only from the financial revenue of Liangguang, but how much financial revenue can Liangguang have. Not to mention anything else, I have collected more than 100,000 troops in the south, and I want to support so many soldiers, as well as rewards and pensions, as well as the cost of their respective armor and war horses, can this money be paid? So where did the rest of the money come from, the merchants on the other side, who supported more than 20 million money and silk goods, so that I was able to maintain the huge war expenses. Therefore, the country has not been financially tightened because of this, and the people have not increased their burden. Not only that, Zhang Zhifu was in Dali, and they took out nearly 8 million yuan of money and commercial goods to support. ”

"But why don't I dare to mention it, I'm so afraid. If the rumor comes out, someone must make a fuss, from Liangguang to Dali and then to Jiaozhi, such a large territory, more than 10 million people, 100,000 elite soldiers, and the strong support of the other side of the finance. Someone must have said in front of Your Majesty at that time, Your Majesty, it's not good, another An Lushan. ”

Zhao Ji sighed.

What Wang Ju said meant was that he was desperate in front, but the court was pulling his hind legs.

In fact, this is what Wang Ju deliberately said, I will not rebel in the south, and I will not rebel in Shaanxi.

Otherwise, when someone makes a fuss, Zhao Ji becomes suspicious again, it will not be easy to do.

Of course, now that Wang Juzheng is speaking out brightly, it is difficult for everyone to make a fuss.

"And after removing the 300,000 taels of gold in the first two Chinese New Year's Eve, in these six years, the maritime merchants on the other side promised to donate 3 million taels of gold and 20 million taels of silver to the imperial court, and even if it was Xinguan, it would reach more than 140 million yuan." Think about how much tax revenue I have a year now. ”

"Don't worry, also, over the years, with the growth of the other side, every year the city has gradually approached seven million yuan in the extraction and incense that the city has obtained from the other side, think about the prosperity of the Kapok Division and the salt of the people, how much net profit can be made in a year?"

"Fugong, Renzong, Emperor Xian and Your Majesty, can be regarded as a favor to you, but over the years, how many droughts, locust plagues, waterlogging, and military disasters have occurred, and you and Wang Gongchen have built a manor mansion in Luoyang, which is more magnificent than the imperial palace, but how much money has been spent to help the victims of the disaster?"

"Sima Gong, I have heard that you live frugally, and Fan Youcheng lives frugally, so he disagrees with my political views, I have always respected him, why, it is not the low salary issued by the imperial court, but that Fan Youcheng uses these salaries to help the clansmen, or the related widows and destitute people. So although the imperial court paid a lot of money, Fan Youcheng could only live a simple life, and he was usually reluctant to eat meat. In today's more and more extravagant world, can such a simple and honest official not be respected? But Sima Guang, you are different, remember when I was a teenager, I was so poor that I couldn't survive, and then risked killing my head to be a mule, I was really helpless, in those days, whenever I hunted with my second uncle to a little meat, I used it and soybeans to simmer in a crockpot, because salt was expensive, and I was reluctant to put salt, but that's it, my second sister and third brother couldn't help dripping saliva after smelling the fragrance. ”

In fact, Wang Ju continues to use means here.

There is no sad card to call!

There are also a few officials present who have a very low starting point, but no matter how low they are, they are not as low as Wang Ju.

"So I had no choice but to come up with the Taoxi Sword and come up with the snow salt, but the power of the merchants in Yanzhou is limited, with the promotion of snow salt, many stewards and nephews of noble families asked to join, including your Sima family, one day, a person found the merchants in Yanzhou and said, my uncle is Sima Junshi, what else can the merchants of Yanzhou say, join it." What's that called...... In those years, about 3,000 yuan of profits were shared, and the cost was a small amount of capital, as well as the name of your Sima Junshi. Although you live a frugal life, but your Sima family is not frugal, the family property is millions, thousands of acres of fertile land, with your prestige in the Sima family, have you called on them to donate? ”

"Your Majesty, ladies and gentlemen, I don't understand that Sima Gong and they have repeatedly said that the country should be moralized, and it cannot be tempted by profit. Could it be that the morality in the eyes of Sima Gong and the morality in the eyes of the ministers are two different things? ”

Sima Guangqi went crazy.

In fact, Wang Ju said that it was equivalent to saying the reason why Sima Guang and others opposed the reform of the law and opposed the banking department.

The reason why these people oppose it is not only because of its shortcomings, but also because they are afraid that it will harm the interests of the powerful. Because they themselves are powerful people, and they are the ones who gain benefits!

In fact, Wang Ju was speechless, his bank department was not a local tyrant.

Although the Qi merchant tax will force some powerful people to pay commercial tax, once the economic environment of the Song Dynasty improves, these powerful merchants will have greater profits.

I really can't explain this.

However, Sima Guang did not speak, because he noticed it, this time he invited them to the Daqing Palace, and moved the bench for the ministers to sit and watch, and the emperor smashed the wind and auspiciousness with the tea cup, as well as the zizi in the table cabinet next to the dragon chair...... It is by no means a reasonable arrangement.

If you can't figure out today's court debate, it's a Hongmen banquet! (To be continued.) )