Chapter 594: The eldest son
"Ming Gong's development fund is only limited to one year, and the one-year period is coming, and Ming Gong has no remaining measures, so I dare to guess ......"
"It's not what you think," Wang Juyi said, "At that time, there were actually three intentions for setting up this development fund, one was an experiment carried out by the Seedlings Method. ”
What exactly is the experiment, Wang Ju didn't say, although Zuyang is good, but he is an "entrepreneur" in the end, there is no need to participate in this state affairs.
"The second is that the front line has moved to Hengshan, including Huai'an Town, Rouyuan Village, Dashun City, and even Jintang City, which was occupied by Western Xia, has become the rear, so most areas of Gyeongju and Huanju must enter the internal governance from war and defense. If you want to govern, one is to let the people slowly recover by themselves, and the other is to take the initiative of the government to promote, the latter can be quickly transformed into chaos and order. But in this way, there must be a large amount of money to be injected. ”
"Thirdly, the salt was transported, and the people got a sum of money, why did I start to let the salt merchants trade by materials instead of money, this is because the money has always been very tight, even if the merchants do not have enough money in their hands, and the amount of green salt obtained is relatively large, so it is replaced by materials, which is conducive to the sale of green salt. Officers and soldiers themselves also need all kinds of materials, some of which are inconvenient to buy in normal times, but now because of the large quantity, they can be transported to the people together. However, supplies are ultimately limited, and ultimately have to be traded in large quantities of money. When these currencies are in the hands of the people, there will be two situations, one is to bury them, and the other is to get rich and spend them indiscriminately, such as prostitution and gambling, which does not help them, but harms them. ”
"So I set up a development fund, and when I have the capital, I will lend it to good businessmen like you. You will be able to promote the economic development of Gyeongju. and taxes. Secondly, let the people cool down, and also paid some interest to them. ”
"As for how long this official will stay in Gyeongju, it is not clear, but it may be like Cheng Gong (referring to Cheng Kan in Yeonju) and Cai Gong (referring to Cai Ting in Weizhou), who can stay for several years. But it is also possible that you can only stay for a short time before you are transferred. However, Hengshan is new, the defense line needs to be stable, and the Hengshan Qiang people need to be governed and pacified. Even if it's short, I'll be in office for more than a year. This one-year period is the safest time. ”
"But in fact, there are many risks in this kind of development fund, if officials do not act, or lack capacity, it is not a government that benefits the people, but a real harm to the people." Originally, I was going to make it a system, so I also wrote a Lubu script, and Lubri said that it was five years and ten years. But in the end, after thinking about it, I felt uneasy. So he took back the cloth and made it a temporary government. So don't be cranky. Maybe I'll leave Gyeongju this year, maybe I'll stay for a few more years. Whatever one it is. I am a courtier of His Majesty, and I will obey the edict of the imperial court. ”
Some Wang Ju didn't say anything.
Why Gyeongju has changed a lot, Bacheng is brought about by this development fund.
The development fund has supported a number of workshops, but in fact they are all primitive factories, and nearly 400,000 low-interest loans have been disbursed, and only in Huanqing and Erzhou, how much will the economy be boosted?
This economy is not only about how many people are fed, but also about business taxes.
The largest commercial tax is the salt tax, the amount is too large, but this salt tax is mostly used to build roads, and even in the rear of the Huanqing Road, some roads have been built, as well as the purchase of grain and grass materials, no way, Wang Anshike deducted the grain and grass materials on the front line, Wang Ju had to use his own money to buy, otherwise how to survive until the autumn to receive? There are so many forts being built.
The revenue from the salt tax seems to be huge, but in these few things, it is just a small wave.
So the salt tax cannot be calculated.
However, the real commercial tax has also increased.
In the Song Dynasty, the commercial tax was only more than 8 million yuan a year, and Huanju was almost negligible, and Gyeongju was also not better.
It is not that there is no business in Huanqing and Qingzhou, but most of them are private businessmen, and either the smuggled goods have been confiscated, or they cannot get a penny of commercial taxes.
So it turns out that the commercial tax of the two states is only about 30,000 yuan, but it doesn't matter, these two states are both military states, and the imperial court is expenditure, not income.
But after Wang Ju's adjustment, not only these workshops are paying commercial taxes, but also the Qi tax.
Then he secretly promoted on the front line and developed three mutual markets, Wang Jujie ordered the officers and soldiers not to stop it, and secretly protected the transactions of merchants, but these commercial goods became clear goods, and they also had to pay taxes.
Of course, businessmen are eager to do it, at least better than bribery and layers of deductions.
But this also requires officials to be impartial and not to accumulate wealth, just like the two official mutual markets in the Song Dynasty, officials and officials withheld layers of deductions, although the mutual markets were set up, but many merchants continued to trade secretly, or because of the collusion of officials and merchants, concealed the quantity of goods traded, in order to evade legitimate taxes. Therefore, the two large mutual markets and the two countries traded large markets, but they did not bring much income to the imperial court.
However, under the governance of Wang Ju, the commercial tax of Huanqing Erzhou surged to 180,000 yuan this year!
Just like Zu Yang in front of him, he borrowed more than 60,000 yuan of money and silk, but he sold more than 30,000 felt carpets in this year, and the direct commercial tax paid reached 15,000 yuan, and nearly 5,000 yuan of indirect commercial tax will be generated.
If interest income is included, the actual income of the government is close to 40% of the profit.
Wang Jufei is Wang Anshi, four percent of the profit, how many industries in the Song Dynasty can reach four percent of the profit in a year?
It's almost a money grab.
Moreover, it is not only actually robbing money, but also almost empty-glove white wolf style robbing money.
So Wang Ju only withheld 40,000 yuan of commercial taxes, and invested the rest on the people.
The first is to help widows and widows, not only wars, but also various natural and man-made disasters in this era, but also many widows, they are not martyrs, but their lives are very pitiful, so Wang Ju allocated some funds for relief.
The second is to let the good households guide the people.
There were two jokes in his previous life, one is that when he first started the reform and opening up, the state publicized 10,000 households every day, and there was a 10,000 yuan household raising ducks next door to his relative's house, and then the state desperately borrowed from him, so he desperately raised ducks, raised thousands of ducks, and finally raised more because he was illiterate. The questions came out together. Bankrupt and ran away. At that time, Wang Ju was very small. I only heard relatives say that the country is stupid.
In fact, when I came to the Song Dynasty, I was in a high position, and I slowly thought about it, no.
Why, the country seems to have made a joke, at least the bank has generated a dead debt, and it has also killed a person who originally went to a well-off home.
However, at that time, driven by this 10,000-yuan household, many people in the vicinity started the breeding industry. Although it has not created many 10,000 households, it has created tens of thousands of households. From this point of view, has the country done anything wrong?
It is precisely under this seemingly silly move that the people are stepping towards the road to prosperity.
The second joke is the most tragic composition in history, the leader spoke, not that we didn't care, bought livestock to teach them to breed, well, all slaughtered and eaten in less than a month. Fertilizer was bought and taught them to fertilize their fields. Increase in food production, as a result of which the common people will throw away fertilizers. Leave snakeskin bags for things.
Of course, these leaders also tried, but they went in the wrong direction. Why do you see merit in the front and sigh in the back?
In fact, it's just a sentence, it's better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish!
Therefore, except for widows, Wang Ju never directly distributed material relief, or made them work, or exchanged for this relief in other ways.
Now that it is time to govern, there are also many mountainous areas in Huanqing Prefecture, and there are many mountainous areas that are really closed and backward, and it may not be effective to build roads.
Wang Ju started from the good households, and each village selected some poor good households, and then Wang Ju sent Xu officials who knew how to produce and operate to go down to issue loans to these good households, and then according to the situation of each village, let these good households plant, breed, or engage in other industries.
In fact, these mountainous areas are mainly backward caused by closure, but these places are not really difficult to survive in the desert snow fields.
was guided by these officials, and even Wang Ju personally came down to guide and think of a way for them.
As for the loan amount, it is divided into 1 year, 3 years, 5 years, and in the case of forestry, it is 10 years.
And it's an interest-free loan with no interest.
So Qian Dongchun saw that many people in Gyeongju were doing good deeds, because as long as they were classified as good households, maybe the gold bricks would be smashed from the sky.
However, it is not what the people think, some of these good families will fail in the future, but there will also be people who succeed, and one person who succeeds can pull a large number of people to imitate.
In addition, the road is still repaired, the avenue is repaired, and the trails are continued to be repaired.
If the roads are impassable, the villages will not be able to get better.
Education, but unlike other private schools in the Song Dynasty, Wang Ju added arithmetic classes, and everyone wanted to be a jinshi, which was so good, so the purpose of these private schools was directly pointed out, so that the children of various villages in Gyeongju could learn to read and count, and no longer be ignorant, rather than a middle jinshi.
The last is afforestation, whether this can be effective, Wang Ju dare not say, can only say that he has worked hard.
Some officials in the Song Dynasty were more concerned about the people's livelihood than Wang Ju, but because of their different knowledge, Wang Ju induced the people to get rich on such a large scale, which can be said to be the first time that the entire Song Dynasty broke the wasteland.
However, in doing so, you have to have money in your hands.
Without these commercial taxes, Wang Ju even thought of it, and there was no way to do it.
Or allocate money from those workshops, not to mention that those workshops still have to work hard to pay the two million promised by Wang Ju, even if they don't have these two million, they can't be allocated, it's pure death.
It's just that under the promotion of Wang Ju, there was a strange scene in Gyeongju, in order to gather 10,000 to 50,000 guan of commercial goods to reduce commercial taxes, the merchants often gathered the commercial goods but did not send them. Once it is issued, it will be a huge caravan, incomparably spectacular.
So Gyeongju got better unconsciously.
And the officials of Gyeongju, big and small, are also like dreaming.
180,000 business tax. Maybe there are more commercial taxes on the Hangzhou side of Ezhou, but this is Gyeongju. Although Wang Ju spent it again, the 180,000 guan was collected.
If the Song Dynasty could guarantee this amount, wouldn't it be just like the commercial tax, and it would be able to get 30 million yuan?
Zuyang's wife brought tea.
Wang Ju took a sip and said, "Not bad, good tea." ”
Then he looked at the row of onlookers and said, "Don't look, I'm not a star...... Like you, you are human beings, flesh and blood, and you are also afraid of death, so Xixia paid thousands of dollars to buy a certain head, and a certain person can only take a large group of guards with him, which is very inconvenient. ”
With that, he put down the tea bowl and got on the horse and went back to Gyeongju.
Zu Yang stood there and sent it silently for a long time, and finally said to the weaver girls who were nymphomaniac: "Ming Gong is a good official, but you don't have that blessing." Let's get to work. ”
The second eldest son said on the horse: "Ming Gong." You're probably the best governor in Gyeongju. ”
"It's not. Compared to Fan Zhongyan, I am far behind. Wang Ju said.
In fact, in terms of intentions, Wang Juzhen is not as good as Fan Zhongyan. It's just that he has a big finger.
If Fan Zhongyan also has this big finger, I don't know what it will become of Gyeongju.
The second eldest son didn't believe it.
He was the first person to follow Wang Ju's side, although in this era because of the pressure of life, the people were sensible early. However, at that time, Wang Jubiao was far beyond his peers.
Therefore, including the second eldest son, it is inevitable that Wang Ju will wonder if Wang Ju is descending from the stars.
Not only the eldest son, but I am afraid that ninety percent of the people in Gyeongju will not agree with Wang Ju's self-evaluation.
One thing can be seen. When Qiongniang was about to give birth, Wang Ju sent someone to find a midwife, and suddenly the entire Gyeongju City was a sensation, and they all spontaneously found the best midwife for Wang Ju. At once, six or seven midwives came.
Wang Ju scratched his head, said some words of thanks, and they are all here, so let's go into the house to deliver the baby together.
Then Wang Ju sat outside nervously waiting, the medical technology in this era is too backward, a difficult birth, the mother and child will be all finished.
Especially in the Song Dynasty, thin is beautiful. The important person is thinner than the yellow flower, and the specific thing is the small feet, thin waist and poor breasts. The rate of dystocia is particularly high. Therefore, when his wife was in labor, Wang Ju was like a great enemy.
Fortunately, although it was not as smooth as the concubine's time, but in the end, the mother and son were safe.
And he was also born prematurely, but including Wang Ju, who knew if he was born prematurely, so the child he gave birth looked relatively small, weighing only four pounds, and he didn't cry.
So the family is still a little nervous.
But he was a baby boy, so none of the midwives immediately left to see if there was anything they could help. After more than an hour, the child finally cried a few times
Quick, let him feed, a midwife said.
Qiongniang fed the milk, and the child opened his eyes while feeding.
It's okay, it's okay, Ming Gong, it's okay, the other midwife said happily.
Wang Ju was also very happy and said, "Hurry up and get the reward money." ”
Several midwives pushed it for a long time before accepting it and left happily.
After a while, the entire city of Gyeongju heard the news, and countless people set off firecrackers. After all, there are three unfilial pieties in this era, and no queen is greater. With this boy, Wang Jucai officially has offspring.
Just giving birth to a son caused a sensation in the whole city, but you can imagine Wang Ju's prestige in the hearts of the people of Gyeongju at this time.
Qiongniang hugged her son and said, "Official, so small, let's call it a mouse." ”
"No, it's too ugly," the concubine protested.
Ancient aristocrats liked to choose lowly names for their children, which were said to make them easier to raise. For example, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty has a nickname of 彘, that is, a little pig. Cao Cao's nickname is Ah Pu, Liu Bei's son is called Ah Dou, Houyan Murong Yun's nickname is Bald, Wang Dao's two sons' nicknames are Danu Xiaonu, Xie An's younger brother Xie Shi's nickname is Shi Nu, and Liu Yu's nickname is Jinu.
But it's a bit too ugly to call a mouse.
Wang Ju stood on the side and said: "Qiongniang, don't think too much, what happens in other people's families, I won't let them happen in my family, and all children will look at it the same." ”
The concubine also understood, and said angrily: "Qiongniang, I won't rob your son." ”
What is the situation, that is, the son born to the concubine in this era, let the master mother take it away, it is the son of the master mother, not the son of the concubine, and even a little more miserable, the mother and son cannot recognize each other for life. Let's look at the future of Song Zhezong, Empress Dowager Xiang, and Zhu's ......
Besides, this son is still Wang Ju's eldest son.
But why is it named Mouse, the mouse is the mouse, the head of the zodiac, that is, this son is not only the son of Wang Ju, but also the eldest son of Wang Ju.
Wang Ju said again: "Qiongniang, your name is Ping'er." ”
His word is called Zi'an, and his son is called Ping'er, and together they are peace. Of course, Qiongniang was embarrassed to say more, but happily hugged her son and continued to breastfeed.
Wang Ju stared to the east, in fact, there are no such miscellaneous historical products, and he can't take the name of the mouse...... (To be continued......)