Zhang Jian said in the book that he had recently begged to dismiss the division and the envoys from all walks of life, and said that he would scatter money for profit and harm; and Anshi's perverseness, designed for gathering, competitive, and very embarrassed; Lu Huiqing is dangerous and treacherous, and he still stays on the side of the king; And Zeng Gongliang, Chen Shengzhi, Zhao Luan, etc., knew what was wrong, constantly disobeyed, waited and watched, feared, helpless, and ignorant and misunderstood, all of them were guilty, and they were punished severely, and they were not implemented. Now the great evil has not gone, the rampant has not been eliminated, the unrighteous department still exists, the nameless envoy is disturbing, and the ministers dare not go to Taiwan to serve from now on, and stay at home to treat the crime.

He also said that Han Qian led the Ordinance Department on behalf of Chen Shengzhi, and left and right favored Anshi, and was a dead party, so he participated in politics. Li Ding was heretical and promoted from the shogunate. His Majesty is only Anshi is a letter, now supplemented by the trick of the silk, and the Taichen has Li Ding's ratio, and then succeeds him, the tooth tiller is gradually flourishing, how dare the minister love death without saying anything?

After the book was published, Zhang Jian ran to Zhongshu again, arguing with reason, saying that the four phases of Zhongshu were not doing it right.

Wang Anshi covered his face with a fan and smiled.

One laughed that Zhang Jian didn't know the current affairs, and the other laughed at Zhang Jian who criticized Zeng Chen and Zhao.

Zeng Gongliang, Chen Shengzhi, you want to compromise, have people given you the opportunity to compromise?

And you Zhao Luan jumped around, this time you saw the true face of the so-called gentleman.

This laugh embarrassed all three phases. Zhang Jian didn't know, and continued: "Participating in politics and laughing at Jian, Jian also laughing at participating in politics, how can you not laugh at Jian, who in the world does not laugh?" ”

Chen Shengzhi persuaded on the side: "The procuratorate doesn't need to be like this. ”

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Zhang Jian looked at it and said, "Chen Xianggong, aren't you wrong?" ”

Chen Shengzhi couldn't answer.

Of course, Zhang Jian quickly degraded out of the capital.

Also demoted was Wang Zishao, who originally wanted to echo Wang Anshi. Seeing that the conservatives are strong. After Sun Jue and Lu Gong gave their orders. Do your best to save them. However, the conservatives did not accept his affection, and Chen Xiang wrote that the prince Shao was at both ends of the mouse, and he returned to evil again and again. The two of them degraded together.

After hearing this, Zhang Zai put down Zu Wuxuan's case and hurriedly returned home.

Zhang Jian came to Wang's house, first, to say goodbye to his brother, and second, to question Wang Ju.

This is Wang Ju's biggest embarrassment.

Li Ding's incident will not affect Wang Ju for the time being, because Wang Ju's mother is not dead. Could it be true that Wang Ju brought the old Jiang family to the capital to be a grandmother? It can only be said that it may bring some troubles to Wang Ju in the future.

But at the moment, Wang Ju can't get off the stage.

Maybe Zhang Jian is just a petty official, because of the change of law, there are not many officials who have come up in the past two years, and there are not many officials who have gone down. However, Zhang Jian's brother is Zhang Zai, and Zhang Zai is Wang Ju's teacher.

Zhang Zai, like Wang Ju, rejected some of Wang Anshi's changes, but did not reject the changes themselves, so Zhang Zai and Wang Ju both adopted a silent attitude.

However, Zhang Jian made a fuss, not only Wang Ju was embarrassed. Jang Jae was also embarrassed.

In the face of Zhang Jian's accusations, Wang Ju was not easy to say anything serious. At least in his personal view, he was a little opposed to Fan Zhongyan putting Du Yan into the ranks of villains back then, not to mention Zhang Zai's kindness to Wang Ju, respect for Zhang Zai, and respect for Zhang Jian. Moreover, Zhang Jian's personal morality is also impeccable.

He first asked Qiongniang to make tea, and then said slowly: "Uncle Zhang, let's not talk about changing the law first, the younger generation will talk about the pattern of the court first." One is the Changer, the second is the Changer, and the third is the Neutral. However, the neutral faction was caught in the middle, and in the face of the pressure of the ministers of the two major factions, they had to take sides, so there were fewer and fewer neutral factions. ”

"Wang Zi'an, why stand in line, this is not the party, but the future of the country!"

"Uncle Zhang, I'm just a faction, don't talk about the party, and listen to me finish it. The neutral faction doesn't care first, I say the law-changing faction, regardless of whether this law is good or not, but there are some people who have good ethics and are also well-intentioned for the country, such as Jiefu Gong. ”

"This kindness is not for the country, but for the country."

"Uncle Zhang, don't worry, I'll talk about the second group of the law-changing faction, these people also want to be good for the country, but their ethics are questionable." For example, Lu Huiqing, such as Zeng Bu, but Wang Ju did not name him, and said: "There is also a part that is completely speculative, the first rat at both ends, echoing the change, and wanting to be promoted to a higher position and make a fortune." ”

"Shame, shame!" Zhang Jian was furious when he heard this, so he demoted the official, why did he let him demote the official with Wang Zishao.

"Fan Wenzheng's life is far inferior to Lu Yijian, why is he being made a moral idol by others? It's not to be happy with things, not to be sad with yourself, Uncle Zhang, you're in love. ”

"Okay, you go on," Zhang Jian was amused. However, he is still very optimistic about the protégé of the eldest brother.

"Uncle Zhang, let me talk about the Immutable Law Sect, it is true that some of these people are well-intentioned, but how many people opposed the Immutable Law at the beginning?"

"Hmmm......"

"This is the problem, everyone feels that my court is strict with its ills, and the Jiefu Gong is not good, so Uncle Zhang, what do you think is the law that will reduce my court's ills? Could it be the Ida method? If the seedling method doesn't work, how to implement the well field method of Juntian? ”

Therefore, before Jiefu Gong changed the law, there were many people who expected it, and why they opposed it later was because some of Jiefu Gong's strategies did produce new drawbacks. As a result, many ministers defected and became a group that opposed the change of the law, and there were still many of them. There are also some people who are also fishing in troubled waters and want to echo the superior. ”

Zhang Jian is silent, and there are also many "villains" in the conservative faction, which is also a fact.

"In addition, there are some people whose intentions are very questionable, and I have heard that many important ministers advise officials not to open the border, not to re-army, and not to cause trouble at the border. I won't mention others, but we are all from Shaanxi, very close to the border, especially the younger generation, who grew up at the border. Let me ask how many generals in our dynasty dare to cause trouble on the border, do you sit back and watch the Western Xia send troops to burn and kill and plunder again and again, and the people in the Shaanxi border area are not the people of the Great Song Dynasty? ”

Zhang Jian couldn't answer again.

But the question also comes, either with a wipe of the eyelids, casually plundered by Western Xia, but is this a thing? Even if you can wipe off this eyelid, even if the people in the Shaanxi border area are not people, but the Western Xia is getting more and more bold, and in the end, it is not plundering, but invading.

If you can't bear it, you have to use soldiers, and once you use them, you need huge military spending, but the country still has huge debts. What to do?

"There are also some people who say that the official family should reduce it, but several generations of official families have been saving money, so it is difficult for the official family not to eat. No clothes. That's it. How much money can you save? ”

"Downsizing."

"A lot of soldiers have been laid off."

"In recent years, there has gradually been a surplus in the country's revenue, and after a few years of endurance, the country's arrears can be repaid, and then the army will be used."

"Who said that? The enemy is not a fool, can it be that he will sit back and wait for me to slowly repay this debt? And how many years will it take to repay this surplus? As soon as a large-scale battle is used, tens of millions of dollars will be paid. Can you save so much money without changing the law? Again, the law is immutable. What can I do about these ills? Therefore, there is another group in the Immutable Law faction, who do not insist on the Immutable Law, but also see the embarrassment of the country, and only because of the influence of others that they join the ranks of opposition. ”

This refers to Zhang Jian, he is in the Imperial History Terrace, Lu Gongshu and several Imperial Historians, they are all conservatives, and Zhang Jian must be brainwashed by them.

"However, the Seedlings Law is indeed apportioning."

"The Seedlings Method is apportionment, and there are many disadvantages. Otherwise, I would not have been silent, or even disappointed the officials. But it has an important significance. It will make me richer. ”

"Do you make money on millions?"

"No, it has nothing to do with accumulating money, but I haven't thought it through yet, and the time is not ripe, I'm planning and arranging, so I didn't say it, but once it is implemented, it will severely crack down on the usury of the lawless rich, so the opposition will not be weak, and I will also become a traitor."

"No, if there is such a method, I will raise my hand in favor of it."

"Uncle Zhang, I only say one thing, are you happy to do it, the state is strict with the hidden fields, but the state uses a huge amount of money, so the officials in various places do not dare to reduce the two taxes, but the hidden fields are all strong, so the two taxes can only be apportioned to the poor people, and the poorer the poorer. At the time of Renzong, he sent people down to check the hidden field several times, but they all ended up because of the huge opposition. If these hidden fields are found out, the two taxes of the state will increase, and it will also give more life to the poor people. Uncle Zhang, can you go to the book and ask the official family to strictly investigate Yintian? ”

"This, this ......"

"Uncle Zhang, do you know what the problem is? If it is not for the poverty of our dynasty, in the Han Dynasty, a family with tens of thousands of guan is called a giant, but in our dynasty, it can only be regarded as a small rich family, and the rich family can reach one million guan in money. Now the problem is polarization, one is that the country is getting poorer and poorer. ”

"No, I'm paying higher and higher taxes."

"Really? I will only mention one question, the tax at the time of Renzong was quite similar to the tax revenue now, but the number of households at that time was only about 10 million, and now it has reached more than 14 million. Population growth means that taxes can increase moderately, but have national taxes increased? At least the increase in the number of households also increases the cost of management. Therefore, even if the country's taxes remain unchanged, it is actually getting poorer and poorer. ”

This number of households is not very accurate, the ancient people were reluctant to divide the family, but because the Song Dynasty counted the taxation of other households, so the people with many children were forced to immediately divide the family, so as to lower the households. At the same time, there are also false name households, that is, some places divide the property under their names under a few or even dozens of fictitious households, so as to avoid more taxes. Therefore, some people say that the actual population of the Song Dynasty was far less than that of the Tang Dynasty.

However, the number of households in the Song Dynasty is still much larger than the actual number of households, because there is another group, that is, hidden households, when Zhou Zhan of Song Renzong, the people of Jiangnan West Road were skillful in hiding because of uneven endowments, so they searched and found out 30 hidden households. Li Cong, the judge of the Li Division's household department, checked the escaped households on Liangzhejiang Road and found 400,000 hidden households. There are hundreds of thousands of hidden households along the way, and how many do you have to zoom in to the whole country?

Besides, there are barbarians who are not counted in the household register, but that doesn't matter, most countries don't tax them anyway.

This is not important, what is important is Wang Ju's following question: "The population is infinite, and the earth is limited, so every dynasty and generation, once the population reaches 60 million, there is a crisis one after another." However, the population of our dynasty has already exceeded 60 million, Uncle Zhang, what should I do? The country is getting poorer and poorer, the poor are getting poorer and poorer, and they call themselves gentlemen, especially the important ministers above the temple, many people have salaries of tens of thousands of yuan, and their families have countless fields and houses, but how many people take out a part of it to help the poor people? Why did so many people oppose the migration of the people of Kapok Division to Fujian Road? The reason is simple: the poor people moved to Liangguang and gave them a livelihood, but the local tycoons could not hire enough tenant farmers and craftsmen. Uncle Zhang, why didn't you point it out? ”

"What is a good change, one is to find a way to reduce state spending, and the other is open source, and the so-called open source is divided into two kinds. One is true open source. For example, Kapok Division. But who can come up with many good ideas for this kind of open source? That's it, each Haoqiang still wants to take a bite hard, and it will inevitably be carved up by Haoqiang sooner or later, and the country's income is getting less and less. The second is to divide equally, deprive Haoqiang of a part of the wealth, and alleviate the difficulties of the poor people. For example, it is Qingmiao Loan, the real poor people, Uncle Zhang. Do you think that a few officials will release it to them, but I am afraid that they will be so hungry that they will die soon, and the officials are worried that they will not be able to collect the green seedling loans, so they will not let them go. Uncle Zhang, this time you understand the reason for the opposition, it is not that Qingmiao Loan disturbs the people and harsh the people, but forcibly plucks a hair from Haoqiang in disguise, so they are dissatisfied. This is just like the innovation of tea in the past. ”

After Wang Ju finished speaking, Zhang Jian was also dumbfounded.

This is Wang Ju's persuasion of Zhang Jian as an adult.

But Zhang Jian is a gentleman. The heart is bright, so before parting. and threw out Wang Ju's questions.

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Another great pilgrimage begins.

An unquiet court meeting, anyway, there was a quarrel at the court meeting during this time, and the court meeting was still noisy after it was dispersed.

Many ministers in the east and west classes looked at each other hostilely, and it seemed that the air was also full of swords and swords.

However, Wang Ju was very quiet in the crowd, and he seemed to disappear during this time. In fact, Wang Ju's reduction of the ordnance supervisor also offended many people, but his splash made many ministers also feel cold, and ordinary ministers were not willing to trouble Wang Ju.

Zhao Ji sat on the dragon chair without saying a word, listening to the minister's argument.

At this time, Chen Xiang stood up, held his tooth wat and said: "Your Majesty is to seek governance with benevolence, and all those who want to change the law are thought to be the people, and An Neng has taken the people's ointment as a loan interest, and it is said that Zhou Gong Taiping has tried the law." ”

Chen Xiang is also a famous old minister in the Song Dynasty, one of the famous Confucians in the world, and he also writes well, and when he was an official, he seemed to have good political achievements, and this time he also became the main force of the conservatives. What's worse is that he is from Fujian, so he seems to have more right to speak. I am the minister of the southern faction, and I also do not support the change of the law!

Wang Ju didn't pay much attention to it, and Chen Xiang also wrote a lot of notes before, and Wang Ju used some channels to get some of the content of his songs, one is against changing the law, and the other is against Wang Anshi. But if the law is not changed, what will the country do.

Chen Xiang wrote: The disadvantage of today lies in the fact that the country follows the system, the system has not been established, and the extravagance is becoming more and more extensive. His Majesty but the selection of the chief accountant, pay and the handle, take the nationality given by the world, the number of county officials dispatched, and use it for all kinds of festivals, and return to the arts, then the floating fee is saved and the wealth is sufficient. Provincial conscription, thin endowment, the levy of Kuanguan City, the prohibition of relaxing the mountains, the teaching of the order of repair, persuading them to be loyal, faithful, filial piety, and loyalty, respect for the virtuous and enabled, the talented advance, and the unscrupulous retreat. The peasants have surplus wealth, the people obey their teachings, and the officials call them governed, but the country is not rich and the government is not the king.

The current problem of the Song Dynasty is indeed the huge expenses.

The first is the military expenditure, after Wang Ju raised yì, he cut it hard, and from next year onwards, there will be no need to pay resettlement costs, so it will save more than 10 million yuan a year. But it doesn't have an immediate effect.

Unless half of the army is cut, but in the face of the threat of Western Xia and Liao, who would dare to cut it like this?

The second is the cost of officials, the number of officials is too huge, if the salaries of senior officials are cut by half, and then 10,000 officials are cut, more than 10 million yuan will be saved. However, even Wang Ju didn't dare to say it, did Chen Xiang dare to say it?

The third is that there are more and more children of the clan, this part of the cost of the three divisions has not appeared, and the expenses are allocated by the inner treasury, but if there are no these expenses, can't the inner treasury be allocated to subsidize the three divisions? But does Chen Xiang dare to say that the children of the clan do not support him?

The fourth is redundancy, that is, the redundant government mentioned by Wang Ju and the floating fee mentioned by Chen Xiang.

The simplest example is that during the Qingli War, the cost of a bucket of millet in the rear was less than ten wen, but when it came to the front line, it became more than three hundred wen, more than a thousand wen, and there were many moldy old millet in it, or it was mixed with too much sediment, and the soldiers could not eat it.

Why, it is precisely because there are so many institutions involved that there is no way to hold accountable officials who fail in their duties that these ugly phenomena have arisen.

This is the floating fee.

If the decrees are smooth, the state institutions are efficient and concise, and the officials are honest and conscientious, these floating expenses will naturally disappear.

But this is even more distant than the realization of Confucian unity, or it is simply impossible.

Besides, who is a sage and who is a talent, at this time, the words "sage" and "talent" have been strictly distorted. Therefore, the strategy mentioned by Chen Xiang has no reference value at all except for rhetoric. Not to mention provincial conscription and small wealth, that king doesn't want to? If the Song Dynasty's annual financial revenue is compressed to less than 50 million, it will ensure that the world will be happy, but what about the consequences, well, as long as it takes five years, the Song Dynasty will perish. Either continue to borrow, then what consequences will it lead to borrowing, please see why the Ming Dynasty perished! If the Ming Dynasty treasury had enough money, grain, and grass, could it sit back and watch so many people starve to death in Shaanxi? So can Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong have the soil for an uprising and rebellion?

"I am not the king of the dead country," this is what Chongzhen said before committing suicide in the coal mountain, thinking about how wronged Chongzhen was in his heart at that time!

Therefore, after Wang Ju heard it, he commented: "Nerd! ”

Chen Xiang didn't care what Wang Ju thought, and continued: "The minister's heart will not be like this if he wants to come to His Majesty, but everyone in the world knows that Wang Anshi is the one who misunderstands His Majesty, and Lu Huiqing is also the one who misunderstands Anshi. ”

Lu Huiqing trembled with anger, I supported the change, but I am not the leader, you old guy is talking nonsense.

But Chen Xiang is a minister, what should I do.

Chen Xiang continued: "With His Majesty's wisdom and the discussion of the world, the interests of its legal system have been scorched. However, An Shi insisted on distinguishing in front of the bewitchment, Huiqing painted trickery to help the back, and repeatedly waited and watched at any time than Zhou villain. Although this is the most right, it cannot be confused, although the ministers are loyal, they are inevitably referred to as friends. Closely, the counselor Li often treats the crime with words and deeds, and still orders to analyze; Sun Jue played the right thing repeatedly, and moved out; In the imperial history, Cheng Lu Gong wrote down, all of them were said to be unscrupulous, and they begged to surrender. And those who did not dare to invite the ministers and independent districts still hoped for the sincerity of dogs and horses, and once they understood the holy will, they were allowed to discuss hundreds of officials with the law of green seedlings. One Lu and two kings, the world will perish. If the minister's words are wrong, he is willing to run away from afar, so as to refrain from lying words; If the minister said yes, then An Shi and Huiqing also begged to beg for a derogatory reprimand to thank the world. ”

Wang Qi said angrily: "Chen Xiang, what's the matter with Guan Mou!" ”

This two kings, one king Anshi, what about the other king? There are many officials surnamed Wang, but in addition to Wang Anshi, the only heavyweight "Wang" is Wang Qi.

"I'm not talking about you, but Wang Ju."

Zhao Ji finally opened his eyes and asked strangely, "Why Wang Ju?" ”

Regarding the pros and cons of the Qingmiao Law, there are many ministers involved, but Wang Ju has not said a word from beginning to end, isn't it very strange that this king is not very strange? Not only him, but many people also wondered, including Wang Ju himself. (To be continued......) R1292